2. The mystery in the ruin
And so North Star and Wind Whistler led the other ponies to the meadow with the ruin.
"Wow!" Sweet Stuff and Gingerbread were astonished at the same time as they caught sight of the ruin. With amazement they stood in front of the ruin. "This isn't sooooo big at all how I thought!!!" Fizzy said disappointed. "Come on! Let's look around here a little!" North Star suggested and she went towards the ruin. Only Wind Whistler wasn't so keen on this idea. "But that's too dangerous! The roof of this ruin could collapse and hurts you or you could fall and break something! Don't go into the ruin! We even don't know what is located here! Let's go again! North Star, please come back!" But North Star didn't listen to the warning of her friend! She was just too curious! And also the others didn't pay attention to her comment!
Sundance and Firefly looked at each other. "Well, what about a race, Firefly? Who's there at first, all right?" Sundance asked. Firefly nodded to her friend enthusiastically and yelled, "Ok. Let's go!" Then both already began to run. Firefly called to Medley, "Medley! Come on!" But Medley was left behind and murmured, "Maybe we should really disappear again from here..." She had a strange feeling what this ruin concerned. Fizzy and Gusty walked behind North Star. Sweet Stuff and Gingerbread followed their example and Twilight also left the others and went around the house. Now only Wind Whistler and Medley were left. "Please, Medley, stay here at least!" Wind Whistler begged. Medley looked at her and thought, "Whatever! What should already happen here, huh?" Then she shook her head and also went away. "Stay here, please..." Wind Whistler was nearly desperate over it that her friends wouldn't simply listen to her. So she sat down in the grass and waited longing for that the others came back soon again. But these were so busy with the ruin which they thorough inspected.
Firefly won the race against Sundance and got applause from Fizzy and Gusty. "Well, Sundance, you even haven't any chance against me." Firefly looked at her friend with a grin. "Admit it, you were flying!" Sundance laughed. "No, no, I win honestly! I don't have to stand for that to cheat!" she replied with a glance at Fizzy and Gusty. They understood the insinuation. "Oh Firefly! Just wait!" Fizzy called angry acted and ran towards Firefly. She laughed and ran away from Fizzy and Gusty, Sundance behind them. And so an exciting persecution chase began which Firefly seemed to win. "Boy, oh boy! Where you take this endurance from, Firefly? I'm totally whacked!" And so Gusty gave up and let drop herself in the grass. But Sundance, who galloped behind Gusty, noticed too late that this one had dropped in the grass and now she couldn't stop. So Sundance tumbled over Gusty and landed also in the grass. But more involuntary! Fizzy and Firefly turned around and began to laugh about the embarrassed face of Sundance and the surprised of Gusty. Firefly rolled about in the grass with laugh. "Ha-ha, very funny!" Sundance sulked. She sat up again and shook her mane to free it from grass. Then she turned to Gusty which still lay in the grass. "I'm sorry, Gusty!"
During that Sweet Stuff and Gingerbread had tried to go inside the ruin. "Uh, it really looks like wild here!" Sweet Stuff said when she roamed with her friend through the former house which was already covered with moss and other plants. "Look, once there certainly was the kitchen!" Gingerbread called and pointed at the sooty black wall. "You could be right, Gingerbread." Sweet Stuff answered and pushed a door open. It opened with a crack and a squeal. "Here have to be the bedroom." Sweet Stuff said after they looked around the room. "Well, if we'll maybe find here a treasure?" Sweet Stuff asked and giggled. "I wonder who have lived here. Maybe it was a rejected princess like Snow White... or a noble knight or a real hero like Robin Hood with his beloved Marianne... how romantic!" Sweet Stuff sighed. Gingerbread took a step forward, pushed a beam away, which had already removed from the roof, and picked up something very dirty. It was a filthy little doll. Both ponies looked at each other. "What had probably happened here?" Sweet Stuff asked.
North Star had climbed the already broken steps and now she stood astonished on one roof beam, which lay open like all the others, which weren't fallen down. From there she had a very far view. Below herself she saw and heard Sweet Stuff and Gingerbread talking.
Twilight had found a nice flower garden behind the ruin. And with a delighted look she walked through the flowers. A butterfly had joined her and high-spirited she ran after it playfully.
In the meantime Wind Whistler had fallen asleep.