A PIRATE'S LOVE
CHAPTER 11 A Dragon's Fire.
Fluttershy stirred, her eyelids flickering as a small groan escaped her lips.
The princess forced her aching body upright, the muscles burning in protest.
Had she fallen asleep?
The mare blinked away the sleep in her eyes that had made it's presence known.
She lifted a hoof to her face and removed some dried up tear stains.
Had she cried herself to sleep?
Last night flooded back to her, the dinner, the questions, the fear... Oh how she couldn't wait to get out of here. Sure she hated her home, but it was the only home she had ever had, and it was certainly better than this mouldy old ship.
A yawn passed her lips and the Pegasus glanced around the room confusedly. It was small, with an old dresser next to the creaky bed she sat on and a small candle atop it. There was something missing...
Oh that's right, she could see.
A knock sounded at the door across from the bed.
"Prisoner, are ye' awake?" The familiar voice of Twilight rang through the small room and Fluttershy replied with a small squeak.
The door opened and light flooded through the room, casting the shadow of the pirate across the floor.
"Oh good you're awake! the captain sent me, he said the message about your ransom will soon be sent to your parents!" Twilight dropped her voice to a whisper and Fluttershy noticed the unicorn had adorned the fake eyepatch once more.
"Oh?" The prisoner couldn't quite figure out how to respond and instead twiddled with a stray string that frayed from her crinkled green dress.
"The captain also said you won't be needed for much longer and you can choose where to stay for the day." The lavender unicorn lifted a hoof to fiddle with her eyepatch causally, as if the material was always annoying her.
Another choice for her to make. Something that would happen never back at home, yet surprisingly was popping up everywhere where she least excepted it to.
Fluttershy glanced around the room, it was small, but cozy and from where she sat on the bed she could barely feel the waves crash against the side of the boat.
She opened her mouth to reply, but an image of three desperate foals with showing ribs and tears streaming down their faces stopped her.
"I would like to spend the rest of the day in the dungeons please."
Twilight's visible eye widened in surprise and she cocked her head in confusion at the mare across from her.
"Are you sure?" She questioned.
"Absolutely." Fluttershy responded immediately with a firm nod.
"Well, you know what this means." Twilight joked with a teasing tone as she revealed the black cloth that Fluttershy had gotten so accustomed to lately.
"Sure do." The butter coloured mare trotted towards the mare as the unicorn fitted the blindfold with a simple wave of her horn.
The black fabric tightened itself around the mare's head, bunching her mane in it's knot at the back like usual.
"Princess why are you doing this?" Twilight curiously whispered and Fluttershy froze, why was she doing this?
After a moment of silence she responded with a simple
"Sometimes you just have to show a little kindness."
"SPIKE!" roared the captain from his humble bedroom, his voice echoing throughout the ship and scaring away a few gulls who had taken refuge on the ship's mast.
The cabin boy almost instantly appeared, sweat drenching the red bandana that lined his forehead.
"Yes captain?" The dragon made a bad attempt at smiling casually as his claws shook from working all day.
"Send this letter to the King and Queen of Canterlot at once!" Discord handed a scroll to the drake, the reptile glancing at the parchment almost hesitantly.
"I don't have all day, and by glancing at the position of the sun in the sky, I'm going to say you don't either."
Spike gulped at the threatening words of his superior before holding the scroll in front of him.
His chest bubbled with the familiar feelings, and for a split second it felt like acid was sliding up his throat. With an almost burp like sound green fire erupted from his jaws, enveloping the scroll in front of him. The parchment was whisked away along with the green flame.
"Thank you, now get back to work cabin boy!" The pirate barked orders and the dragon shrunk out of the room.
"And don't forget to have a halfhearted attempt at cleaning the dungeons!" Discord called out after the drake.