Deep Trouble
Sunny days and Blue waters. However it ain't so quite in the secluded section we find a certain two-tailed orange fox who gave a smirk as he was high in the air. "LOOK OUT BELOW" He shouted before splashing down into the water getting some of the others wet they all found it to be funny while others start to splash water at him back. Though Sonia wished to disagree, "TAILS KNOCK IT OFF!" She called out as Tails popped out of the water and smiled. "Oh come on Sonia you know a guy's gotta enjoy his fun here" He said. "Well try to have fun where it doesn't splash me." She said. Tails rolled his eyes as he dove under the water. On the beach, Silver was making a back massage for Rarity, Shadow, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, AJ, Knuckles, Sonia, and Pinkie Pie all were enjoying a nice tan while Sonic, Manic, Shining, Cadence, Twilight, and Sunset threw a frisbee to each other and Aleena, Celestia, and Luna were operating the grill with the two sisters bickering at who's placing what where. Aleena just giggled at the two since she knew they would get like this. "HEADS UP!" Sonic called as the frisbee was coming at them however Aleena looked up and jumped to catch it before it did any damage to the food. Sonic came up to her.
"Sorry about that mom." He said. Aleena sighed. "Sonic, why do you always do something to cause a problem?" She said sounding a bit worried about that. "Heh sorry. I'll try to be better about that." He said with a smirk and then he hears Manic. "Yo bro can you toss the frisbee back." He called out as Sonic then threw the frisbee at Manic and catches it. Sonic then turned to her. "By the way thanks again for taking time off to come down to the beach to hang out for a bit." Aleena smiled as she laid her hand on her son's head and rubbed it. "Oh Sonic I maybe a queen and have royal duties, but I'll always make time for my family." Sonic smiled and nodded and then ran back to them.
Rainbow then stirred and lifted up her shades to get a good look at the water and then stood up as she stretched and then turned to Shadow. "Well I think a nice swim wouldn't kill anybody. You up for it?" Shadow though grunted. "No thanks. I'm not a swimmer." He said. Rainbow smirked as she laid closer to him, and started to run her left-hand index finger over his chest, "Oh come on. What's the matter? Are you afraid of water?"
Shadow then took his shades of and spoke. "Don't be ridiculous Rainbow! I'm just not one for this type of foolishness that falls to them. Now if you'll excuse me!" He snapped as he put his shades back on. Rainbow was about to argue until. "HEY GUYS! CHECK THIS OUT!" Manic called as he used his drums to create some rock structures. He then ran up and then jumped straight for the water causing a huge splash that even got Shadow's attention. He then popped his head out of the water and spoke.
"Oh yeah that's what I'm talking about. I'd like somebody to try and top that." He said. Rainbow then turned to Shadow to see his annoyed look on his face. The dark Mobian soon stood up, and took off his sunglasses and handed to his girlfriend, "Can you keep it for me?" He said, before his eyes formed a deep frown, and looking at the green hedgehog's side, "Alright then if that's how he wishes to play." He then vanished in a flash which caught Rainbow, AJ, and Knux off guard. "Where did he go?" AJ asked. Knuckles looked up and then spoke. "I think I know where." He said. Shadow then appeared and dove straight for the water as the water grew close he then turned and splashed straight down and then muffled under the water. "CHAOS BLAST" He muffled as he caused a huge wave to appear and splash down that got everyone wet both in the water and on the beach however thankfully Luna and Celestia created a shield to cover the food up. Shadow then appeared back on the beach a little soaked but grunted.
"Hows that?" He asked as he placed his sunglasses back on his nose. Rainbow almost squealed a little at Shadow and spoke. "That… was… SO AWESOME!" She squealed. Shadow smirked and then sat back down while Rainbow then went and dove straight into the water while Sonic gave a whistle and then Celestia spoke. "Well I will say that was…"
"Impressive?" Luna suggested the answer. Celestia nodded in agreement while Aleena smirked, "Alright if you two are done being impressed now please help me wrap up with the food… then we'll have some fun." She said with that smile. Celestia and Luna looked at each other and nodded. Shortly after that, the three ran off to the water.
In the meantime, Silver was massaging Rarity's shoulders, what caused a smile and seductive moans to come out of the girl's mouth, "Mmmmmm…" She moaned quietly, though, Silver took her moans calmly and his face was still wearing a smirk.
"Rarity, can you please stop these moans of yours?" He asked, a macho tone in his voice, before he leaned down to her ears, "I am keeping myself with last efforts." He whispered, what prompted her to giggle. She then opened her eyes, and looked up at him, smiling playfully, "What's stopping you?" She asked, playing as well, as she bent her leg. Silver took her leg in his left hand, before he looked at their friends, "They." He said as he was somewhat disappointed. Fluttershy, who heard their conversation, raised up into a sitting position, and looked at them with a smile.
"You guys, can always walk somewhere, where you can stay alone, you know…" She said with a joking tone, though, her friends chuckled over her words simply, as if not taking her words seriously, and Rarity them laid her her right side, by turning to her friend, and took her boyfriend's arm, "If we had to leave you, it would be disrespectful to you, boys and girls." She said, joking as well. Silver then laid down beside her and cuddled to her from behind, as he wrapped his arms around her and tickled her, what caused some giggles from Rarity, "Yep, that's right." He said, before he stopped tickling his girl, "And now the boy wants his girl to massage his back. Can you do that for me?"
Rarity winked at him, smiling, "I'd love to." She said lovingly. Silver then laid down on his stomach, and rested his head on the top of his arms, while Rarity sat on his back, still wearing that loving and playful smile. She then started to massage his strong muscles gently, what prompted him to moan. Fluttershy giggled, by watching the two while Tails got out of the water. As he walked over to his girl, he sat down beside her, and took the towel. He wiped his head to dry, and then he phew'd in relax and looked at Fluttershy.
"Why don't you go to the water, guys?" He asked with his voice full of enthusiasm. Though, Silver and Rarity were too busy with massage and might not even heard his words. Much to Tails uttered a disappointed sigh with narrowed look on his face. He then looked at Fluttershy, and motioned her to go to swim. Fluttershy suddenly blushed by his offer, and even tried to turn away.
"Um… I…" She muttered, a shy tone in her voice, what prompted Tails to chuckle easily, "What?" he asked amiably. Fluttershy then looked at him as her face still wore that smile, "I was wondering if you… well…"
"You want me to massage your back?" Tails asked as he guessed her request. Fluttershy nodded at him and smiled nicely. Tails sighed, before he took suntan cream, and squeezed out several drops on his left hand. He then started to rub the cream over his palms and looked at her again, "Lay down, please." He asked nicely. The yellow pegasi girl did what he asked, and laid her belly on the sand. Tails finished with rubbing the cream, and nodded to himself, before he looked at his girl again, and sat closer. He then untied her swimsuit top, what prompted her to gasp deeply, and blush.
"M-M-Miles…" She uttered, embarrassed, though Tails chuckled simply over her behavior, and placed his both hands over her shoulders, "Don't worry, Fluttershy." He said amiably, "I am not meaning on what you just thought." He then started to massage her shoulders, "Relax.", Fluttershy tried to relax, and closed her eyes as she took a deep breath. But soon she melted into smile and a loud sigh of relaxing escaped out of her mouth, "Aaaaaahhhhh…" She felt the tension slowly leaving her body, and soon enough her smile shone brightly as she felt how she flying over the perfectly green field, saw the animals playing on grass and birds chirping in the trees. At least that how she felt. Tails simply continued to massage her exposed back, however, his girl's moans prompted a somehow sly grin on his face, and perhaps he was thinking about something completely different.
That's when Aleena walked out of the water and spoke up, "Alright who's hungry?"
Later as the sun was setting.
It was a dark night as everyone gathered around a bonfire enjoying the food Aleena, Celestia, and Luna made. Sonic then just moaned as he tasted his mother's chilly dogs. "MMMM Oh man Mom's chilly dogs are the best." He said. Manic nodded. "For real these things are the bomb. No one is better at making these then her." He said. Sonia then turned to Aleena. "Mom you seriously need to tell me what your secret is." She said before taking a bite. Aleena smiled. "Now if I did that it wouldn't be much of a secret now would it?" she said. Sonic then turned to Twilight. "Twi you have got to try this." Twilight gave a look at the food and kinda ugh'd a bit and then turned away. "I think I'll just stick with my fruit thank you." She said. Sonic then shrugged. "Eh... more for me and my pals." He said. AJ though gave a dog a taste and to her it felt like her taste buds exploded with the flavor. "Whew wee this is might fine… what did you call it partner?" She asked. Knuckles then turned to her. "Chilly Dogs." He said. RD and Pinkie took a bite and then mmm'd as well. "Twilight come on you have to try these." Rainbow said. Pinkie nodded in agreement, "Yeah they are just as good as cupcakes even better…" She then scratched the back of her head, "... Well maybe not as good as cupcakes… *smiles*... but still very very tasty.", she then took another bite and enjoyed the taste. Fluttershy though was then curious and approached Tails. "Miles may I have a try?" She asked nicely.
Tails then went wide eyed, "Oh Sh*t! I can't let her find out, she is not only going to kill me, but she'll be devastated. Oh think Miles what can you do?" He thought, by thinking about a plan on how to avoid Fluttershy from eating a chili dog. Though, while he was thinking, he suddenly choked his chili dog and started to cough hard. He then fell down on his knees, as his coughing grew stronger. His face then turned to blue as he started to lost his air. Fluttershy gasped deeply, and then she hit him hard on the back. Tails then uttered one last cough, and a piece of chili dog flew out of his throat. After that he started to breath deeply, and his face returned back to normal. After he recovered his breath, he looked up at Fluttershy with a thankful smile.
"Thanks." He said weakly. Fluttershy sighed and helped him to get up, "I think… I'll better pass… If it's okay for you." She said as she refused her own idea of trying chili dog. This was enough to Tails sighed deeply in relief, and then he collapsed in his chair. He looked up at the skies with a happy smile on his face, "That was so close…" he thought to himself. Sonic though chuckled knowing why Tails did it and how funny it is to see his own pal acting that way. It looked like things were going well, but then Sonia looked up at the sky to get a good look at the night. She was then left in wonder. Sonic turned to her. "Sonia?" Sonia however didn't notice as her mind was somewhere else. "Sonia?" He asked again.
Sonia once again ignored him and then Sonic got annoyed and then shouted. "HEY SIS!" This spooked Sonia so bad she tossed her food into the air where it then came back down and landed on Sonic's head where it then slipped off as Sonia turned to him. "Uh… oops sorry Sonic." She said. Sally and Sunset giggled a little. "Hehehe that's a good look for you Sonic." Sally said. "Yes I would have to agree with her" Sunset said in agreement. Sonic then wiped off the slice from the Apple pie that AJ bought and turned to his sister. "It's fine, but what exactly are you looking at?" He asked. Sonia then turned back to the sky. "I was looking at that." She said as she pointed to the sky. To be more specific a strange constellation surrounding it. Two fish, each different however. One was a sword Fish with a star on its head and the other and angel fish with a sun on it. Though this was knew to everyone as they looked. "Huh that's something you don't see everyday." Manic said. Rarity spoke. "Twilight darling do you know anything about this?" She asked her. Twilight gave it a thought and like a lightbulb turning on she had an idea. "Actually I do Rarity. Hang on I'll be right back." She said as she set her food down and teleported away for a second. She then came back with a book about stars and constellations. As she sat down beside her friends, she opened it and started to observe one page after another to figure out what constellation is that.
"Hmmmm…" She muttered under her breath, "Let's see…" She looked up in the skies to take a better look on the constellation. She then smiled and threw her geeky gaze back inside her book. She flipped about a couple of hundreds of pages, before she find the picture of the one she was looking for. When she found it, she stopped flipping and smiled excitedly.
"Ah, there it is." She said, before she pressed her left hand index finger on the book text and slipped it down slowly, "It says, that according to the old legends, this constellation is known as "The Great Creatures of the Sea". It says that once appears gives land dwelling pony's the ability to enter and commune with the world of the sea and it's sea dwelling counterpart the merponies." She stated, "It says: When the wiser and the warrior stand on either side of the moon, they will show to the disciple his way to the underseas world." Twilight then shrugged herself, "And a little part about understanding their language, a little part about their culture, and so on."
Shining Armor suddenly laughed himself out loud, what of course, attracted everyone's attention. Everyone looked at Shining with wide eyes, wondering what lead to his outburst. Though, when he stopped laughing, he took a deep breath and looked at the others and flashed a smirk toward them.
"Mere Ponies, really? Come on, don't tell me you still believe in that old wise tale of undersea ponies with fishtails." He stated as he tried to recompose himself. Though his wife Cadence gave him a disapproving glare for his actions. His laughter then was stifled into nervous chuckle at his wife's evil glare as he rubbed the back of his head.
Though, thankfully for him, a certain orange fox let out small chuckle as he flashed his trademark skeptical smirk towards the others, "Actually I have to agree with Shining on this." He commented, what prompted everyone to look at him and to made their eyes wide again, while Tails rested his head on his right hand, "There's not any proof, or any documental testimonies on things like that. The the inhabitants of the seas, usually silent, if we won't take a look the whales, or dolphins, or the others sea mammals, they all have a short memory, no vocal chords, and the most of their living technique is built on filtering the oxygen from the water with the help of their gills." He then raised his left hand to the eye level and started to unbent his fingers, "So, there's three things they are living about: the air filtering, feeding and present day." He then dropped his hand on to his knee and crossed his legs, "Moreover, it's just impossible to built life underwater at least for smart living beings without a special equipment." He said. Sonic then smirked.
"Says the fox who didn't believe in Unicorns, Pegasus, or Dragons and yet look at things now." He pointed out. Tails turned to him still smirking and still calm, "This is different Sonic. To actually believe something you need proof, or al least to see it. Real life proof for that matter. So unless one just pops up now I stand by my reasons." He said as he took Fluttershy's hand and squeezed it gently.
Silver then took his glass of drink, and decided to put on his own argument, "Truth be told, I never believed in time travels until I got myself into it, so be carefull with your words, Tails." He said as he winked at him, "Words always come back to the one who said them." He then took a sip of his drink, though Tails was still very skeptical, and just shook his head slowly, "I know the proverb, Silver." He said still calm, "I still stay firm to my beliefs on what I said earlier." He then took his glass of drink and took a sip. In the meantime, Shining flashed a proud smirk, obviously glad that someone is stands on his own opinion. He then looked at Cadence with his "You were saying?" look on his face, but Cadence just sighed as she decided to shrug it off for a short moment. She then looked at Knuckles.
"Knuckles." She called out to him. Knuckles finished with his chili dog at this moment, and looked at her, "Yes?" He asked, wondering what she needs. Cadence then smirked, "Do you have something to add?" She asked. Knuckles suddenly gave a thoughtful look, as he pondered her words, "Well…" He spoke, "On the Angel Island's caves i've seen a lot of ancient drawings of various ancient creatures." He then looked at Twilight, "Some of these were pure truth as we figured out lately. So I am not going to say if this legend is true, or false… *shrug*... Who knows?"
"That and we might say that we saw these mere ponies with these eyes." Applejack added a couple of words as she smirked smugly and placed a hand on Knuckles' shoulder. However, the Mobians, the Princesses, The Queen, and especially Shining formed dumbfound looks on their faces, and looked at her. Though the only thing they could only see was AJ's proud smirk.
"Yep, you just heard it." She said, as if insisting her words, though her voice sounded mockingly. Rarity decided to join her friend, and when she finished drinking her punch through the straw, she placed her glass on the table, and looked at the others, "That's a whole truth, darlings." She said, as she sat closer to Silver and took his arm, "Sometime ago we faced with these creatures."
"And they all were like in these legends." Fluttershy added a couple of words, what prompted even more skeptical look on Tails' face, as he fixed his eyes on her, "They have tails instead of legs. They can breath underwater, and…" She then silenced as she felt her BF's look, and felt awkward somehow, but when she looked at him and saw his skepticism, she became nervous and even blushed, "Miles? Why are you looking at me like that?" She asked nervously. Tails chuckled slightly, and shook his head over her nervousness, and took her arm to calm her down, "Nothing." He said calmly, "I am just listening to you."
"So… You believe me?" Fluttershy asked as she looked at him with her face so cute, that it's was impossible to say no. Tails melted into smile again, and nodded at her simply, though he remained silent to not disappoint his girl. Fluttershy smiled at him softly and rested her head on his shoulder as she closed her eyes. Tails then sighed deeply, and looked up at the skies. Outside he absolutely believed in her words, though inside he had only one thought in his mind, "Pfft… Mere ponies… What a joke."
Sonic, though new his old pal perfectly well, and knew what is in his mind, at least at this time. He then sighed and turned his eyes to the only person who was silent all the time. Glancing at dark hedgehog who was enjoying his punch, he smirked and spoke.
"Hey, Shadow." He called him out. Shadow sipped his drink and looked at Sonic with annoyed look on his face, though he decided not to showing his annoyance before the Princesses, and Aleena, as he respected them a lot, "Yes, Sonic?" He asked. Sonic then flashed a smirk at Shadow, and rested in his chair completely as he hid his both arms behind his head, "You were silent for the whole time." He said as he sounded surprisingly calmed, "What do you think about this mere ponies legends?"
Shadow just shrugged, "Nothing." He said, "I am not really into the legends." He then resumed his drink. Rainbow Dash then groaned in annoyance over her boyfriend's indifference, and then she turned to him and shook his slightly, "Oh, come on, you mister I-Don't-Care." She moaned by trying to bring him into the conversation, "We're all know that you're interested. Please tell us."
Shadow placed his glass on the table and looked at her with his eyes narrowed deeply, "Rainbow, I…" He said as he was ready to tell her off, but suddenly.
"Mister Shadow." He heard Luna's voice called him out. This caught him off the guard, and he looked at her with his left eyebrow lifted up, "Princess?" He asked simply, as he saw Luna's trademark playful smile and how she crossed her legs, "Share with us, please." She asked him nicely. Shadow couldn't resist at this, and sighed himself in defeat, as he rested in his chair. He drummed his fingers over armrests, "We are knowing each other for a long time." He spoke, referring to his Mobian colleagues, "And through this time we've seen a lot of… things, we couldn't even imagine to be real. We've seen how millennial guard made of water raising up the sea level. We've seen the member of the ancient tribe come out of a giant gem. We've seen the alien races. We've seen Chaos powers in action. We've seen a giant piece of rock floating in the air." He then looked at Twilight who was looking at him with a thankful smile, "Truth be told, I've seen so many things that ponies with fishtails will not surprise me. So yes, I believe in this legend."
Everyone, including Tails let out a small chuckle, when Shadow put a dot in this conversation. Twilight then finished her chuckle, and looked at the Dark Hedgehog with, still smiling friendly, "Thanks Shadow." She said with a thankful tone in her voice. Shadow was only about to wink at her, and then he took his glass of drink and prepared to take a sip, but before his own lips touched the glass, his girlfriend's lips touched his cheek. Rainbow Dash rested her head on his shoulder, and fluttered her rosy eyes.
"Always tough and laconic, aren't ya?" She asked, a loving whisper in her voice. Shadow was only about to smirk at her, before taking a sip of his drink.
"I believe Twilight as well. After everything you I went through in the past I believe it to be true." Sunset said as she placed her hand on Twilight's shoulder. Celestia then looked at the clock standing on the table and let out a small yawn. She then looked around the others and stood up.
"Alright." She said, "I deeply apologize for my departure, but it's late and I'd love to take some rest.", though, suddenly for everyone, Pinkie Pie let out a gentle yawn, and looked up at her with a sleepy smile, "That's actually good point, Princess." She commented, "I think that all of us needs some rest." Aleena then smiled. "Well its a good thing we set up some tents out here for the night. Huh?
"Yeah Mom... *Yawn*... Let's get some shut eye" Sonia agreed, and stood up as well. Soon enough, everyone started to stand up and yawning themselves. They then approached to the tents, to take a good night's rest. Seeing them walking away, Rarity flashed a naughty grin on her face and sat on her boy's knees just a moment, before he stood up. Silver, though, knew what she wanted and simply smirked at her in response, before picking her up and heading to the tents with everyone. The couples were walking by holding each other's hands. Shadow was walking with Dash on his right, and Luna on his left, as these three were spending a conversations about trainings and missions. Sonic was holding Twilight's waist and holding her closer to him, as he felt how tired she was. Twilight smiled when he hugged her, and rested her head on his shoulder. Though, soon she opened her eyes wide and her smile faded away when she felt that something was wrong in here. She threw her gaze at the sea as she felt that someone was screaming for help there. Though she saw only the sea waves over there and nothing more. Soon Sunset's worrying face looked inside her eyes.
"Twilight?" She called her out. Twilight snapped out of her trance and smiled, "I'm fine, Sunset." She said calmly. As soon as everyone rested inside their tents, the silence reigned over the camp. The day was over, and the night began.
Two hours later.
Everything was nice and peaceful as the night blew by. Everyone was enjoying their sleep and as it was shown they did not want to be disturbed. Especially the couples, however that wasn't possible as there were sounds coming from the ocean as it arose. It walked along the beach, but kept it quiet as it walked into a tent where Luna, Celestia, and Aleena were sleeping in. It then looked around and looked at her as it then grabbed her. Aleena then awoke and turned to see someone in a cloak had grabbed her. She tried to struggle out and wanted to shout, but whoever it was covered her mouth and then grabbed a pressure point to knock her unconscious and then produced a light blue shield and entered the water carrying her bridal style and just like that vanished without a trace.
In another one of the tents Twilight was resting close to Sonic. However she was struggling and whimpering at something. She then was dreaming she was swimming in the great big blue and smiling. Hehe the ocean is so beautiful. She thought as she swam around. At first she was enjoying herself as if everything was ok, but that's when things started to go south. As she was swimming she started to hear something. "Help." Is all she hears, but she chooses to ignore it thinking it was her imagination, but then the call got louder and louder as it echoed through her mind. AGH MAKE IT STOP! She complained not wanting this to get out of hand. Though that's when she found herself being pulled by something. She noticed and tried to pull away but whatever it was had a good grip and just like that pulled her into a deep undersea cave. She then found herself in darkness and felt alone.
"Twilight?" She heard. She then turned to find Sonic standing their. She then turned to him. "Sonic? Oh thank goodness. There's something going on and I don't know I just….." Before she could finish she then heard something collapse. She then turned to see Sonic laying on the floor. However that wasn't the worst of it as she then could spy a blood starting to form. As she looked she then ran to him. "SONIC!" She then inspected him as she didn't feel any pulse. There was nothing to give an answer that he was alive. He was gone. She then started to tear, but then that's when she heard something that sounded like mechanical whining approaching her and him. The only thing she could see was a red eye that looked right at them and then out of nowhere a blast blew and ran straight at Twilight.
Twilight then gasped and raised her head from the sleeping bag scared stiff as her heart pumped to something fierce. She looked around finding herself inside the tent and right next to Sonic. She could hear him snoring and then cuddled close to him for a bit and sighed in relief knowing it was just a dream. Though after a few seconds she then sighed as she let him go and then decided she needed to walk outside for a bit though she was only in her undergarments she felt she wouldn't be out long. Though this caught someone else's attention as Twilight walked out. She sat on the sand and watched as the waters splashed done on the dry land. She couldn't sleep as that nightmare left her scared to try and go back to sleep. She knew it was just a nightmare, but that didn't mean it had the probability to come true, not only did they have close encounters with that being the likely outcome and that it almost did when Fiona poisoned Sonic two to three weeks ago, and with that nightmare she just had, she wasn't sure if she could handle her beloved husband being taken away from her, or what was worse witnessing his death and feeling powerless to do anything or someone knocking at the door saying he would never come home again to her. Twilight couldn't help but she a tear in dread of those possibilities and quickly wiped her eye and tried to recompose herself.
"Get a hold of yourself Twilight, It was just a stupid nightmare, letting your fears and anxieties get the better of you isn't exactly healthy either, just think how it would affect Sonic?" Her demeanor then changed to a softer one when thinking about Sonic. It was bad enough that something like that happened to him before and she couldn't also bear to see her husband heart broken if she threw him out of her life for that very reason, especially when he needed to not only defend the lives of the innocent but they're friends well being too and if she held him in ill will because of that and found out that he was killed later on well…. that would make her feel worse. She knew she had to be strong not only for both they're sakes, but the sake of the entire kingdom, and she couldn't help but think if she was cut out for this.
That's when Twilight heard the sound of footsteps in the sand as someone was approaching behind her as she turned around to find Sunset Shimmer in a white knee-length bathrobe for modesty walking up to her.
"Hey Twilight, what are you doing out in your underwear?" She said, but then put a teasing smile on and said. "I know it's the beach and everything, and there might be a thin line comparison to this and a swimsuit, but at least a swimsuit doesn't have a support wire that would rust up in sea water and it probably would look as embarrassing as it would feel uncomfortable if you're walking around in a rusty bra top. Also if you remember rust isn't the most sturdy of things so it could kinda snap and… you know." Twilight then smikred.
"Is that why your out here in a bathrobe and nothing else. Because enough wind and well you know." Sunset smirks at Twilight's remark as they both giggle at each other. Sunset looked at her. "Tell me though and this is serious. Why did you come out here?"
Twilight then donned a sad smile as she looked out of the ocean, and said. "Y'know it's funny, I have things that girls could only dream of. I"m a princess of a land I'm married to a handsome hero from another world and yet with all that, I still feel I'm not measuring up to any of it. They don't seem to tell you all the pressures of being a princess until you've lived them. And with all our enemies seem to be cropping up everywhere, and right after our wedding I can't help but feel something horrible is on the horizon?" Twilight said in concern to Sunset, "My life is too good to be true. Maybe this is not real? Maybe I'm just sleeping, but still don't know if I am sleeping, or not." Sunset looked at her unsure and then placed an arm on her. "Twilight that isn't how I see it. Listen things happen ok? Some are good, some are bad, but if you taught me anything is to not give doubt so easily."
Twilight turned to her. "Look so this whole princess thing is tougher than it looks, but think about what Celestia and Luna had to go through. They both had to learn some things the hard way about being a princess. However there's something that you have that they didn't have when they were learning to be rulers. And you know what that is?" Twilight shook her head not knowing the answer. Sunset smiled. "It's your friends. Twilight. They are their when you need them most. Always have always will be. Just remember that ok?"
Twilight's eyes became narrowed in somewhat annoyance, as she gave a smirk to Sunset, "Stop being Miss Obvious." She said joking her words in a friendly way what prompted her orange friend to giggle. When they stopped their giggles, they fixed their eyes on the sea horizon. The full moon shone brightly over the mighty ocean's waves, and reflected itself on the water. The stars sparkled with millions of lights, and even the falling star flashed somewhere far away. The sound of waves crashing on the sea shore caressed the ears of the two mares, and caused a relaxing sighs to fly out of their mouth. Speechless from such a stunning landscape, the girls exchanged glances at each other and nodded before departing back to their tents.
Twilight was only about to make just one single step, before her ears caught the call again, what prompted her to froze. Her facial relaxation and glee gave a way to anxiety. Sunset noticed that Twilight is stopped her movements, and looked at her over her shoulder by being in question because of her behavior.
"Twilight?" She asked. Twilight heard her question, and turned her eyes at Sunset, "Did you hear that?" She asked. "Hear what?" Sunset asked. Twilight then gently grabbed Sunset arm and shushed her with her index finger to her mouth and said. "Listen." She said. Sunset was still confused until they heard what sounded like a whale's cry for help. After that Sunset turned to her "Yeah, I heard it too, what is that?" She said. Twilight then responded by saying. "I don't know but before we went to bed I heard it, and again in my nightmare." She said. Sunset was confused. "Wait what nightmare?" Twilight looked uncertain if now was a good time to relay all that on Sunset when there was someone or something in peril. Twilight then said to her. "I'll tell you that later, but…" she then looked back to her tent where her husband Sonic was sleeping not sure if she should wake him. She knew Sonic wouldn't be happy with her disappearing off to somewhere possible dangerous without him. But then she had a flash of her nightmare started to occur and thought maybe this time he should hold back on this one, plus he hated the water though she knew he'd still brave it for her, she still thought maybe this one time she'd go off without him for his own sake.
Twilight then spread her wings and took off floating ten feet in the air from where Sunset stood and said. "N-Never mind, I'll go fly ahead and check it out you-" But Sunset cut her off by saying. "Wait Twilight you can't go alone, I'll come with you." Twilight widened her eyes on that suggestion, but then turned to a quizzical gesture as as she said. "N-Not that I'm grateful for the suggestion but, how are you going to come with me since you can't fly?" She questioned. But sunset smirked and said. "I've got that covered." She said as her tangerine gold horn glowed with green aura. Soon her entire body was surrounded by the green radiance as she levitated to Twilight's height and floated around in a circle right next to her. She then said in a snarky manner. "What, don't tell me you forgot I used to be Princess Celestia's prized pupil way before you came on the scene?" Twilight then smiled at that and said. "Alright, let's go!" She said as she flew ahead with Sunset in tow. It looked like it was quite peaceful as there was no signs of anything. Sunset then turned to Twilight. "Twilight are you sure you heard something." She asked her. Twilight nodded.
They continued looking. As they were about to throw in the towel Twilight then noticed something. "Hey Sunset look." She said as she pointed at a figure looking at the moon. The two then flew towards it. "HEY YOU!" Twilight called. The figure turned and showed two blue eyes. It then dove down under the sea. Twilight and Sunset then floated over the spot where it dived. "Great. Now what?" Sunset asked. Twilight was thinking, but as she was something came out of the water and grabbed Twilight by the foot. She then gasped as it pulled her in. She tried resisting and pull back. But the force was too strong as it pulled her into the water. "TWILIGHT!" Sunset said. Before she knew it Twilight was gone. She looked down at the seafloor seeing if she could spy Twilight. No such luck, but then that's when the same thing came and grabbed her. Sunset tried pulling back, but it still pulled harder, but then that's when something else came out and grabbed her robe trying to pull her in. They succeed in pulling her in the water, but only so far before Sunset slips out of its grasp, but in term slipped out of her robe as well. She then turned and watched as the robe fell deep into the waters while she looked at herself and blushed. Now not only was she without any cover, but was now stuck in the middle of the ocean.
"Great as if this couldn't get any worse" She thought as she held her hands trying to cover herself and gave an annoyed look. However that's when something came out and smacked her knocking her lights out for a few seconds.
As Sunset started to come to, she saw the dark blue surface of the ocean, though oddly enough she also saw bubbles rising up to her field of vision. She then wandered as she blinked why everything seemed so, wavey. As she began to get her bearings, she realized to alarmingly that she was underwater as she set up right as she felt the resistance of the water around her. But then she thought. "Huh, that's strange, why am I not drowning, not that I'm complaining?" It was true she felt as at ease in the water as she would feel on land strolling through the the proverbial park. She then took a gamble and opened her mouth and though she felt the presence of water in her mouth she wasn't drowning at all, as if it were like air to her. She then quickly remembered the last thing she remembered was that she was stuck out in the middle of the ocean… naked. But as she looked at herself she saw that a sea shell bra had already been placed on her. "Okay, I guess that's better than nothing I guess but who…"
But as she looked around she found Twilight had just come up to her. "Oh good, you're awake, when you didn't come to I was worried for a moment!" Twilight said in relief. Sunset looked a bit perplexed but was glad to see a familiar face. "Hey, Twilight…. where are we and why are we underwater….. and not drowning." She asked, but as she did Twilight was about to answer until she looked down and noticed something very different about Twilight, besides the clam bra she looked down where her bottom half was, but instead of seeing her legs she saw a lavender scaled tails with her cutie mark stretch almost to the point where it touched the fin. Sunset then went wide eyed. "T-T-Twilight… Y-Y-You have… A TAIL!" Sunset shouted. Twilight looked at her confused a bit, before she looked down at her fish tail and spoke as if it was normal to her. "Oh yes you are correct." She said. Sunset just looked at her like she lost her mind. "How are you not freaked out by this Twilight you have a stinken TAIL rather than FEET!" She exclaimed.
Twilight then giggled. "Well one because it's kinda like getting changed to a human and because you have one as well."
"WHAT?!" Sunset then turned to look at her full form and saw Twilight was right as she had a tail that was Red and Yellow. She then freaked at she jumped up and swam for a few seconds and then looked at Twilight. "H-H-How is this possible. How did this happen." She asked as she was about to start hyperventilating until Twilight placed both hands on her shoulders. "Sunset would you relax ok?" She said. Sunset just looked at her and then started to calm herself. Once in a state where she could clearly hear Twilight, Twilight started to explain. "Now do you recall what I said earlier when we were at the bonfire?" She asked. Sunset gave it a thought and then recalled what Twilight said about the constellation and then gave a look saying a lightbulb went on in her head.
"Now I recall. Ok that explains that, but where are we? And who dragged us down here" She asked. Someone then spoke. "Perhaps I can be some of service." the voice said. Twilight and Sunset turned to see a merpony. She had pink skin, her tail had a rose color scaled tail, A green hair style, and of course a clam bra. Twilight recognized her. "Jewel? Is that you?" She asked. Jewel smiles and speaks. "Hello again Twilight. It's so good to see you after so long." She said as she hugged her friend. Sunset however was confused. "Twilight do you know her?" She asked. Twilight turned to her as she and Jewel relieved each other of the hug. "Oh yes Jewel this is my friend Sunset Shimmer. Sunset this is Princess Jewel. She's the daughter of the queen of the merponies. We met a while back when me and the girls went on a little vacation." She said. Jewel turned to Sunset and spoke. "I apologize for the sudden turn of events. I didn't realize Twilight had a friend with her."
Twilight had a thought. "Which brings me too a question. Were you the one who was calling for help? The call I heard." Twilight asked. Jewel's sighed. "Yes Twilight. I was watching the view using a special call that we merponies use to send for help. However when I saw you I knew you got my call." Sunset however was a little annoyed. "If that's the case then why did you dive down into the ocean and pulled us in?" She asked. Jewel then gave an annoyed look. "Sigh that was not my intention, but unfortunately someone saw you two as ones who were trying to take me. That's why he pulled you in and knocked you both out." She said. Sunset looked at her with the annoyed look still, but a curious one as well. "And who is *he*?" She asked. That's when a merpony in armor came out. Jewel's sighed. "That would be my protector. Coral Drakkar." She said. The merpony looked at them. "Forgive me for the intrusion I was not fully aware you were friends of the princess." He said as he took his helmet off. Jewels swam up to him and turned to the two. "He can be overprotective but he has a good heart. Once I confirmed it was Twilight and gave an assumption you were her friend I convinced him to bring you two back with us here." Sunset however was a little mad hearing this. "So you were the one who pulled us into the ocean?" She asked. Darkkar nodded. She hadn't forgotten what occured a few moments ago. She then went up to him and gave him a dirty look on her face, and jabbed a finger on his nose, completely disapproving his actions.
"NEXT TIME IF YOU WANT TO DRAG ME TO THE BOTTOM, JUST GIVE ME A CALL YOU… YOU… PERVERT!" She exclaimed with her voice having a strong hint of annoyance and some rasp in her throat, but Drakkar didn't give any signs of emotional reaction to her outburst, and remained the same confident look of a soldier. He then just gave her a nod, but didn't utter even one word. Much to Sunset's surprise, but she then just sighed in annoyance, and turned away from him. Seeing this, Jewel sighed and approached closer to Sunset, before she placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Sunset do not be angry. I know his method was… a bit much, but he was just doing his job. Protecting me." Sunset's expression softened slightly though she was still mad at her little 'inconvenience' and she still looked away for a bit. Twilight then decided to take the situation into her own hands as a Princess of Friendship and spoke to Jewel. "She'll be fine, she just needs some time to cool down a bit." Jewel then looked to Twilight and shook her head in understanding of Sunset's trauma. She then moved to her bodyguard to discuss about what happened, while Twilight looked into Sunset's eyes with a look of disapproval on her face.
"Sunset." She called her out, what prompted Sunset to look into her eyes, "I know what you feel, but can you keep your emotions under control? That wasn't so nice…"
Sunset's eyes then widened, "Wasn't so nice?" She asked in surprise, "And what do you think I should do? To leave it just like that, or maybe even to give him a date?" She then frowned, "Twilight, with all my respect to you, he dragged me naked into the bottom of the ocean."
Twilight frowned in response, "So was I." She said with a confident, but still quiet tone in her voice, "But as you see, I am not shouting at him. We are guests in this world, Sunset, and we should show our respect to them. And moreover, you could say to Jewel about his actions, she will never leave it without attention and will scold him for this." Sunset then sighed deeply, and nodded as she knew that Twilight was right about this, "Alright." She said quietly, "You're right, Twilight. Sorry for this." Sunset said. Twilight then responded by saying. "It's alright, I understand perfectly."
Twilight then appeared a smile on her face again, before she patted Sunset's shoulder, "Now why don't we find out the details of the cause of their call… Are you with me?" She asked. Sunset smiled. "Yeah you know I am." She said as she swam back into the building. Twilight then had a thought. "I hope Sonic hasn't noticed yet." She thought to herself.
To be continued.