Hmmm hmmm...why didn't the ponies come back from the party last night? Why is it so quiet? So many questions, you'll just have to read and find out!
Disclaimer: Please...do I look like Hasbro?...I might sell this story to them though....anyone you don't know, like DarkHeart, is mine.
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DarkHeart peeked her head in cautiously looking around to make sure no-one saw her or Rattles enter. To her suprise, there was no-one, at all around! The castle was as silent as the valley.
'Maybe, they're all asleep in various rooms?' DarkHeart thought to herself as she entered to lonely grand hallway. She wandered into the grand ballroom, and guessing from the looks of it, it was the place the party had been held. Various delicacies laid out along tables, covered in white sheets, lining the walls. "Why did they throw this dang ball anyways?" DarkHeart muttered to herself.
"Mama says you shouldnw't use dose wowds DawkHeawt." Rattles chidded to her sister when she hear her curse.
"Oh..yeah, sorry...but Mama's not here right now is she?" DarkHeart asked, then instantly regretted when Rattles began crying again. "Sorry! Sorry! Rattles, please don't cry! You know I didn't mean to be nasty to you!" DarkHeart tried to calm the tiny pony down.
"Hello? Is someone there!?" A voice cried out from under one of the tables. DarkHeart blinked, turning her head around, Rattles' crying ceasing in curiousity. "Uhm...yes, you mind coming out?" DarkHeart called.
The sheets hanging over the side of one table fluttered as a blue colored, white haired baby dragon stepped out. He was a strange looking dragon. He looked like a blue kitten made of scales, and had creamish white hair flowing down from the top of his face down to near the middle of his back, and then at the end of his long whip-like tail, it fluffed out like a lion's tail. His eyes were green like a cat's, and he only reached the size of a kitten, of course he was just a baby. He also had some blue wings, tucked at his sides, but unfortunatly, he probably couldn't yet use them. "My goodness! How did you escape her!?" The dragon asked, staring at them incredulously.
"What are you talking about?" DarkHeart asked.
"The witch of course! You were here weren't you?!" The dragon cried out.
"No...no I wasn't here, I'm not usually welcomed by other ponies. Notice my coat?" DarkHeart asked. The dragon blinked, "Oh...oh a dark pony..." He said softly, DarkHeart looked away. "I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, honestly!" The dragon tried to explain. "It's alright...I'm use to it." DarkHeart replied.
"Now wha about dis witch?" Rattles asked, popping her head out from behind DarkHeart's neck so she could be seen. The dragon jumped, "Oh my! Oh Oh sorry, I'm still just so jittery." He calmed himself, and decided to tell them the story.
"My name is Flicker, I was invited here with my father, Spike. It was Majesty's birthday-"
"So that's why they threw it." DarkHeart interrupted. Flicker gave her a look, "Oh..sorry." DarkHeart apologized.
"As I was saying, it was Majesty's birthday, and so she of course invited everyone under her rule and her friends. Spike is a close friend to Majesty, so we were invited. It was a grand party! Music, food, dancing, socializing..." Flicker slowed at the sight of DarkHeart's look turning icy.
"It's not you, Flicker....it's just, my life hasn't been the greatest here being a dark pony." DarkHeart explained when she heard him slow down.
"Oh..." Flicker tried to stifle a cough. "Well..uhm...Anyways, it was about midnight, and the ponies were still having the time of their lives...when the clock finished it's last chime however, there was a sudden chill that ran through all of the ballroom, I of course dashed under the table to find some warmth. I heard strange cackling and a horrid sounding woman's voice speaking in this strange language. I peeped my head out to see what was going on, only to see all of the ponies looking like they had just been put into a trance. I stuck my head back under the table, remembering my father had told me trancing spells can only affect you if you look at the one doing the trancing, and hear the spell. When the woman's chanting was done, and I had enough courage to peep out again, no-one was here."
"So you say there was a WITCH here?....And now everyone's gone? HALLELUJAH! I finally get some peace in my life! WH00T!" DarkHeart rejoiced, finally thinking now those that caused her to suffer were gone.
"But DawkHeawt! Mama's gone too!" Rattles began sniffling, her pink eyes turning red as tears welled up.
"Oh no, no please Rattles don't cry!" DarkHeart begged, she hated how her sister could make her fall to her knees asking her to not cry. Rattles didn't hear her sister's plea and started bawling. "Please Rattles! Please please stop!" DarkHeart begged more, Rattles only cried more.
"Alright! Alright! If it will make you stop crying, we'll go find them!" DarkHeart said, growing desprate. Rattles sobs slowed as she blinked looking up at her sister, "Pwomise?" Rattles asked.
DarkHeart bit her lip. Go and save those who had caused her so much loneliness in the world? Those who condemned her because of her coat!? Help THEM!?
...But...
Rattles was right, Mama was with them. She had been the one there for her most of her life, the one she had always run to crying when those hurt her. She had been the one to show DarkHeart that there was some good in this world...even though it was small, it was still there. And besides, even though Rattles would cry awhile she would finally not be able to cry anymore...but that guilt of not helping their mother would still be in DarkHeart's heart, no matter how dark it supposedly was.
Fine. She'd do it. Not for those that had hurt her, not because she was a saint, not because she wanted to be a hero in anyone's eyes.
DarkHeart would do it for the only one other than Rattles that cared, for Gardenglow, her mother.
"Yes, I promise." DarkHeart answered after a few seconds.
"Gud!" Rattles smiled.
"I'll come with you, we should go see the sea ponies, because the most wisest things live in the sea." Flicker said, jumping onto DarkHeart's back as she put Rattles back on her.
"Hey! No hitchhicking!" DarkHeart said indignatly.
"Ehehehe, I'm alot smaller than you, we can get their faster if we both ride on you." Flicker said logically.
"Lazy dragon...." DarkHeart mumbled, gallopping out of the Dream castle towards the sea.