Dream Valley
It was Clover that came to first. Sitting up slowly, she moaned. She was in a forest that looked like the Old woods but fresher, with more green. She looked around.
"Guys! Wake up!"
One by one her friends came to.
"What happened?"
"Where are we?"
"I'll bet my hair looks terrible."
"Where are Gusta and Ribbons?"
Starlight's words chimed the rest of them to action. They found the two not far away, unconscious but atop one another. Starlight and Bright Eyes each gathered one and waited for the sleep to fade. It did so swiftly with Gusta. The girl's deep eyes fluttered open and she looked around.
"Ribbons! You did it!"
The girl came to and shook her head hard. She finally saw what the others had seen and her mouth dropped.
"I…I did."
She climbed to her feet slowly. The two unicorns turned to their friends,
"You've shown us your home." Ribbons began.
"Now it's our turn to show you ours," Gusta finished.
* * *
Baby Lofty had been scanning the trees for hours. The witches had claimed that since Baby Ribbon was out of the way there was no longer a threat and yet so far they had done nothing. She flew on.
Her blond mane and tail whipped past her. She sighed and stopped for a moment to rest.
"Baby Lofty!"
She lifted her head and smiled. Her best friend, Baby Surprise was heading towards her. The girl stopped on the same branch that Baby Lofty was resting on. She stretched her wings and then said,
"You didn't see anything?"
"Saw lots of stuff, anything useful? No."
The two sighed and after a brief pause once again took to the air.
* * *
"Slow down, girls!" Bright Eyes managed to call through her gasps for air.
The two unicorn foals slowed and waited for their friends to catch up. Then they took off again, although at a slower pace.
Every piece of Ribbons' heart was screaming for her mother. But she wasn't about to leave her friends. As it was, she could barely keep up with Baby Gusty. She had never felt so exhausted or tired in her life.
"Where are we anyway?" Melody asked as they jogged along.
"Right outside of Dream Valley, our home. After we get through the woods we'll be in our home."
Starlight sensed their despair and tried to make conversation.
"You sure that we'll be welcome?"
Gusta smiled brightly, "Of course, we've got a huge family."
"How so?" Bon Bon asked. Ribbons answered,
"Well, we have our mothers of course and the other unicorns who were consider aunts. There are five unicorns, not counting our own mothers: Fizzy, Mimic, Buttons, Galaxy, and Gusty for me. Same for Gusta except she looks up my mother as an aunt, not her own mother. Then there are the fifty or so earthlings, the thirty or so pegasi and then the twenty sea ponies that live in the rivers and ocean."
The seven teenagers were stunned.
"Wow, that's a ton."
The girls nodded. The two unicorns parted the branches in font of them. Bright Eyes gasped and her friends echoed her. Starlight spoke.
"Wow."
They were looking onto a lush valley full of fresh grass and a fresh running river. They saw fields of flowers and thick patches of rich clovers. Trees with heavy red apples hung around the whole valley, the plumpest fruits by the wide slick river.
In the direct center was a pink estate with a blue gate. It looked tremendous. Half of their town could have fit in it. To the side was another building, designed to be a nursery from the appearance. To the far side, was what looked to be a stage.
But it was the scenery, the beautiful nature that took the teenage ponies' breaths away.
Bright Eyes broke the silence,
"What is…where are…what is this beautiful place?"
The two unicorns smiled,
"This is our home. This is Dream Valley."