Sunset Shimmer's Time to Shine by Perdita Finn

Author:Perdita Finn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

Out of the Blue

Kids were spread out all over town. They were searching the Sweet Shoppe and the athletic fields. They were leaving trails of catnip back to the shelter. “Here, kitty, kitty, puppy, puppy,” they were calling. Some were blowing whistles, and others were making high-pitched clucking noises. But none of it seemed to be working. No one had found the missing animals.

Sunset Shimmer had no idea where to start. She felt helpless. Probably the best thing to do, she decided, was to find Fluttershy and ask for directions. If anyone knew how to rescue pets, it was her.

She ran up and down the streets until she saw Fluttershy standing by herself in a vacant lot. It was not that far from the shelter. Fluttershy was standing very still as if she were frozen. And she wasn’t making a sound.

“Hey, Fluttershy!” Sunset Shimmer called out.

But Fluttershy didn’t move. She held her finger to her lips and motioned for Sunset Shimmer to come close.

“What are you doing?” whispered Sunset Shimmer when she was right beside her.

“Listening,” Fluttershy said softly. “They are lost and lonely, and they want to be found. That’s what you need to know. If we are very, very quiet and listen, I’m sure we’ll find them not far from here.”

“That’s all we have to do?”

“That’s it.” Fluttershy smiled. “Listen.”

“Why don’t you use your whistle?”

“Outside and far away from me, it would only confuse them. That’s just for tricks, not finding their way home.”

“Okay, then I’ll go looking… and listening.”

As quietly as she could, Sunset Shimmer began walking up the street. She stopped by trees and garbage cans. She tried to make very little noise. She heard birds singing and cars honking and the kids calling in the distance. But she didn’t hear the kittens or the puppies. Where could they be? It was her fault that they had gotten lost. She had forgotten to shut the door. If only she could make it up to everyone.

She paused. Her heart was beating very loudly. She tried to think where she would go if she were a lost kitten. Not far was her first thought. Not far at all. It must seem very scary out in the world to those little ones. She started walking back toward the shelter. And that’s when she heard a little voice crying out. “Meow, meow, meow,” it squeaked. “Yip, yip, yip,” cried someone else from a scraggly bush by the sidewalk.

Gently, carefully, so as not to frighten them, she pulled up a branch. Huddled together in the dirt were the kittens and puppies. Oh, thought Sunset Shimmer, you poor, scared things.

“Come here, sweethearts,” she called to them, bending down. But they didn’t really know her, and they scooted farther into the bush as she tried to reach for them. “I’m getting Fluttershy,” she told them.

She raced back to the vacant lot and told Fluttershy that she’d found the animals.

“Oh, thank you!” said Fluttershy. “I knew you would!”

When they got to the bush, they could hear the kittens and puppies meowing softly.

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