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DarkHeart was growing tired, galloping all day with your little sister and a dragon on your back could make you that way. She started to slow to a canter.
"Hey, don't slow down now! We're almost there!" Flicker said, gaining a nasty scowl from DarkHeart.
"Oh be quiet, you said that an hour ago!" She huffed. Rattles was asleep from the ride, well, the kid always did like to sleep.
"No no, I'm sure now, can't you hear it?" Flicker asked, flicking his cat-like ear around. DarkHeart grumbled, but started to listen. He was right! She was starting to hear the sound of waves washing against the sand. Neighing loudly, DarkHeart forgot her tired body and galloped ahead. The dark trees began to let light through as they became set less and less together and the ground became more sandy and soft.
The sea spread out calmly infront of the three, no clouds or winds made the sea stir up, and the day was just perfect for surfing and such. "So uh...how are we gonna get the sea ponies?" DarkHeart asked, looking back at Flicker.
"You're gonna have to go out into the water as far as you can without us drowning, and someone had to blow a conch shell."
"You have a conch shell?" She looked back at the sea warily.
"Eh...well I know where one is hidden...Hold on." Flicker jumped off DarkHeart's back, dashing off.
He didn't return until near sunset...DarkHeart looking pretty peeved at the panting dragon. "What took you!?" She barked down at him as she stood up from the little bed in the sand she had made when he didn't come back right away. Rattles was giggling and running around the water, following it when it retreated, and running away from it giggling when it rushed forward.
"Hey pant It was pant a ways off! pant Geez...give me a pant break." Flicker wheezed.
"Yeah yeah, you get a break when I get my Mama back. Rattles!" DarkHeart called. Rattles gallopped up on her tiny legs, then giggled wildly as DarkHeart picked her up and put Rattles on her back, Flicker leaping on behind Rattles.
DarkHeart took a deep breath, "Alright...here we go." 'I really hope there aren't pony-eating-sharks out there.'
DarkHeart started to gingerly step into the sea, going out further and further, until it reached to about the middle of her body. "I think this is as far as I can go Flicker, blow the hor-er-shell."
Flicker snickered lightly at her little mess up but raised the conch shell to his lips. Taking a deep breath, he blew hard, sending out a bellowing sound. DarkHeart resisted the urge to cover her ears as Rattles clung to her neck in fright, even though she had been warned...kinda.
Nothing...just waves.
"Uhhh....Flicker?" DarkHeart looked back at him irritably. Flicker gulped, "I swear it worked last time me and my Dad were here! Just wait alittle longer!"
DarkHeart huffed but waited. As the sun slowly began to dip below the horizon, she saw something riding on the waves. Strange forms in various pastel and some wild bright colors. When she heard the laughter and giggling, that confirmed it, the sea ponies had come!
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They surrounded her at all sides, looking at her very untrustingly. Great, not only discriminated by air or land, but also by sea! "What do you want?" One of the yellow ones asked. She was a dark golden yellow with pinkish white curls, and a star on her chest like some kind of necklace, but this was her marking.
"Calm down sea ponies, she's not a bad pony, despite her coat. We're trying to find help to save the ponies of Dream Valley." Flicker explained. The sea ponies narrowed their eyes for a moment, but trusted Flicker's word. A blue one with green mane and a shell for a marking swam forward abit, "What happened to them Flicker?" She asked.
"Remember that yesterday was Majesty's birthday? Well, at her party, some witch crashed it and stole all the ponies!" Flicker exclaimed, all of the sea ponies gasping and then starting to murmur panically between each other.
A purple colored one with blue mane and a ocean wave as a marking looked at DarkHeart suspiciously. "Why wasn't she or that baby caught?" She asked, making the other sea ponies turn and look at DarkHeart and Rattles suspiciously too.
"Hey hey! Why would I steal the ponies? I live with them darnit! And for goodness sake, I'm only saving them because my Mama's with them, I don't like them, we weren't at the party because I'm not invited to those things because of my dark coat, happy Fish Breath?!" DarkHeart snapped angrily.
"DarkHeart! There's no need for name calling. But really guys, she wouldn't have helped this witch, I doubt greatly that she would be saving them since they pretty much treat her like you all are. She's probably only in it to save her Mama." Flicker said, looking at DarkHeart, who threw her head hauntily in the air.
"Darn right."
The Blue one shushed all the suddenly gossipy ponies, "Alright alright, that's enough of that. Alright, if you trust her Flicker, I trust her. Besides, I doubt a cute little pony like that would stick around a bad person." The blue sea pony smiled fondly at Rattles, who giggled at hid her face in her sister's red hair. "Okay, we can't really help you, since we're stuck to living in the sea, but we can tell you of this jewel that might be able to help you, but you must be pure of heart to wish on it. It grants any pure of heart one wish. It's on MangoTango island, just off the coast aways. C'mon sea ponies, let's get a ride for these three, I don't think they can swim there." She looked over at the purple and a pink sea pony, who both dived into the water and disappeared.
"Uhm...where are they going?" DarkHeart asked.
"To call up an old friend of ours, just wait a few minutes." The blue sea pony said.
After a few minutes, the purple and pink sea pony appeared again, and a huge hump of green followed behind them. DarkHeart stared at it for a few minutes, "Is that a..?"
"Yup, this is our friend Monty, the giant sea turtle. You told Monty about the trouble right Wavechaser?" The Blue one asked looking at the purple. The purple nodded in answer. "Good, looks like you three have a ride. Though turtles are pretty slow on land, Monty is a very fast swimmer, he'll get you to MangoTango island before the moon sets." The Blue said, swimming over to DarkHeart and plucking Rattles off gently and putting her on the giant sea turtle's back. DarkHeart came closer to the turtle's back, and let Flicker get off onto Monty. Then looking at it, she looked at the Blue sea pony, now at her side. "Uhm...I don't think I can get on."
"Sure you can." The blue sea pony smiled, and before DarkHeart could ask, she was suddenly pushed up on the back of the sea turtle, face forward, her chest laying flat on the ground and rear in the air, back legs stuck up in the air, gently falling back down as DarkHeart started to get back on her feet.
"Just tapp on his back three times when you're ready! Good luck!" With that, the sea ponies dived back into the water and vanished.
Now standing on all fours, DarkHeart looked around at the emptiness, feeling like she was on some itty bitty island. Looking down at the strange patterns on the turtle's back, she gently tapped Monty's shell three times with her hoof, and almost fell off when he lurched forward, in the direction of MangoTango Island.