5. A disastrous mistake
After a while, which seemed to be endless for Firefly, they arrived at the beach. And really: a green pegasus sat squatted in the soft yellow gold sand and sobbed heartrending. "MEDLEY!" Firefly cried, happy to see her friend.
She ran to Medley. With tears in the eyes Medley looked at her friends. "Medley!" Firefly nuzzled her. "What was the matter, sweetie? I was so worried about you." "I'm... I'm sorry that I'm simply run away..." Medley answered.
"But why have you done that?" Sweet Stuff wanted to know. Medley looked at her friends sadly. "It has something to do with this ruin... With that, what has made it into a ruin...What happened to the humans and their animals..." "Where will you know that from?" Sundance asked. "I've... I've seen it!" "What? What have you seen?" Fizzy asked. She didn't understand anything at all. "Will you indicate us with this, that you've got a vision? A vision of that, what happened with the occupants?" Wind Whistler asked. Medley nodded. The others only looked at each other incomprehensible. "What was the content of your vision?" Wind Whistler asked further. "It... it began all so peaceful... These humans lived happy together here. There were a couple with two children, a girl and a boy. They were not much older than ten. Besides, their grandmother lived on this farm, too. They had cows, horses, pigs and a few chicken. They were happy and all right. But suddenly everything turned. Suddenly a big dragon appears. A flying dragon with five heads and..." "Was that perhaps this one there?" Twilight asked and pointed into the sky.
All screamed when they noticed the big flying red five-headed dragon. "Oh no, he is it..." Medley gulped and jumped up. The ponies looked nervous at the dragon, which came closer to them. Of course he had noticed them, what wasn't difficult with five heads. "What are we going to do now?" Sundance asked. "What about running away?" Fizzy suggested and began to run. But the dragon noticed her attempt to escape. He spat fire in her direction so that she had to stop directly before a firewall.
Firefly and North Star raised and flew around the dragon to confuse him. "No, North Star, Firefly! Don't! Come back! That's too dangerous!" Gingerbread yelled at them. The dragon got more furious and beat with his strong big paws after both.
"This way!" Gusty shouted. And the others followed her. Twilight turned around to see how both did. She saw how the dragon swung back and wanted to beat her with one of his enormous paws. Twilight closed her eyes and murmured, "I wish... I wish... I wish..." And now she was gone. Just in time, because in this moment the paw came to the place where she has stood. She appeared near her friends, which fled from the dragon. But there the dragon obstructed their way again with a fire ray.
"Well, you will tangle with us? Come on!" Gusty placed herself in the dragon's way and wanted to blow the dragon away with her horn. Fizzy prevented her from doing that. "No, Gusty, he's too strong for you. Come on, we have to disappear from here!" So both unicorns turned around and ran behind the other ponies, which were searching a way out of this fire inferno.
"Firefly! He's too strong! We can't stop him. Come on! Let's disappear from here, too!" North Star advised to her friend. "All right." Firefly replied and she came back to the others with North Star.
"Well, we unicorns could teleport us out of the fire walls and the pegasi could simply fly over it. But what about the earth ponies?" Fizzy thought aloud. "I advise you better to run. We can discuss about these facts another time, because the peculiar dragon comes closer more and more!" Wind Whistler answered her. She ran next to Fizzy. And as proof the dragon gave another fire ray.
"Ohhh, that's really a..." Fizzy replied, but became silent when she heard an "Ouch!" behind her. She and Wind Whistler were the first. So it could come from everybody of the others. When she turned around to see from whom it came, she noticed that Sundance lay on the ground. She was stumbled. Normally nothing unusual, but in such a moment this clumsiness was very dangerous.
"Sundance! Get up!" Gusty yelled to her. With a distorted face Sundance got up. Then she turned around to the dragon and noticed with fear that he was already dangerous near to them. With a leap she turned around again and kept on running. But the dragon was faster. He had almost reached her. "Oh no, Sundance! Run..." But that was too late for Sundance. The dragon flew towards her directly. He reached out one of his paws and grasped at Sundance. The paw surrounded Sundance hard and raised her up. "No, he has Sundance!" Sweet Stuff said.
"HELP! Help me! Let me go, you stupid dragon! Help! NOOOO..." Sundance shouted and tried to free herself desperately. "Let my friend go right now!" Firefly called towards the dragon and rushed at him. "No, Firefly!" The dragon blew furiously a fire ray in Firefly's direction so that she was forced to get out of the way of the ray and not to attack the dragon. Then the dragon turned around and flew in this direction from who he had come from, with a crying for help Sundance. "SUNDANCE..." Firefly shouted and flew in the sky and looked desperate behind the dragon which was too fast to follow.