The Jolly Sailor Bold

by K_and_REDACTED

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Human, Sad, Romance, Comedy
Length: 1958

Rarity begins to have dreams of a strange song, with magic poweres

When Rarity has a dream of a song, which drifts mystically across a vast ocean, sung by a chorus of beautiful feminine voices, strange things start to occur. When she relays the song, the words flow from her lips like silk. But it’s more than just a song. It hos powers over those who hear it, and what’s more, when she gets near water- well, if I told you that much, it would ruin the surprise. (please keep in mind, the 'human' tag, is more of a 'huminoid' thing)

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-03-27 19:03:17 UTC

(chapter 1): The thing before, the thing that ruiend her life

It was sunny. Warm. And normal. All day. This is because, nothing was about to happen. But something did.

"Twilight!" called spike.

"I’m down here!" she called in response, not taking her eyes off the book she was reading.

she sat half in a chair, her legs dangiling over the side, her back up against the arm.

"Twilight, it’s a message from Princess Celestia!" he said handing her a scroll.

"thank you spike," she began to read aloud " 'My dearest student, Twilight, I have distressing news; the devil-fish have begun to spawn a new generation! My sister Luna and I will be visiting town incase one has been spawned in ponyville... Seined, your teacher, Princess Celestia.'."

"what's a devil fish?"

"hmmmm, well, I have a book on fish," she said picking a new book from the shelf. "let's see... D...d, d, d... Hmmmm nothing."

"oh wait! I know! Look here!" spike said, thrusting the book infront of her face

"sea fables, every sailors worst nightmares...? Spike! this is a fiction book!"

"yeah, but look, devil fish, page 225."

They read

(chapter 2): The visit

The princess' were quick, they arrived within the hour.

"I trust you studied up on the topic twilight?" Celestia asked, her younger sister stayed quiet and looked nervous... As usual.

"I did what I could with what I had about the vile beasts."

"no twilight, they are beautiful creatures. That use their looks for evil."

"oh"

"twilight," Celestia whispered softly "I notice you looking at her"

"who?"

"luna, you stare at her, why?"

"oh... I-I uhhhh... I um... Uh I... I..." twilight stuttered in vain

"you have an 'intrest' in her, do you not?"

"w-what!" twilight began to acquire a faint blush. "I-I don't! S-she is a... A-a princess! And ontop of that s-she is also a-a wo... Woman."

"do not lie to me child, I can see straight through you."

"oh alright, she is quite fair, I must admit."

"indeed," Celestia replied, contemplating for a moment. "indeed" she repeated

"perhaps we could get back to the devil-fish then?"

"yes," Luna finialy spoke up, starteling them all "perhaps we should"

(chapter 3): the thing that ruined her life

Rarity slept soundly, dreaming of fine silks, and boys, lots of boys that were touching her in the most plesant ways. Then her dream was interrupted... No... it was a new dream... she sat, her feet were bound together, but she did not mind. she sat on the edge of a cliff, overlooking the ocean, she heard her sisters begin to sing... Sisters? What an odd dream... She began to add her own voice to the tune, a song she had never heard before:

"M-y heart is pierced by Cu-pid, I disdain aall glit-tering gooold,

There is nothing that can console me, but my jooolly sailor booold.

Cooome all ye pretty faaair maids, whoever you may be

Who love a jolly sailor bold, that ploughs the rag-ing seeeea.

M-y heart is pierced by Cu-pid, I disdain aall glit-tering goooold,

There is nothing that can console me, but my jooolly sailor booold.

M-y heart is pierced by Cu-pid, I disdain aall glit-tering goooold,

There is nothing that can console me, but my jooolly sailor booold."

She sat upright, what an odd dream, she had not known that song before... Had she?

She didn't know it yet, but she had just been chosen, for something; something horrible, that would mostlikely ruin her life. And she had no way to stop it.

(chapter 5): the sirens song

Rarity was surprised to find Twilight siting outside a café, asleep at her table.

"Twilight!" Rarity said, shaking Twilight with her right hand, holding a soda in her left.

Twilight slowly opened her eyes and sat up, and then she yawned.

"-ahhhhhh- sorry rarity, I had a long night." she said, full of fatigue.

"Studying hard?"

"No I- uh" twilight almost forgot, the princess had said not to let anypony know about the devil-fish "I was... uh... helping spike read a book..." she said unconvincingly

"Oh, well that’s nice," she seemed not to even care that Twilight had spoken, "yes... nice" she said again

"Rarity, are you ok? You seem a little off."

"What? Oh, yes, I was just thinking..."

"What about?" twilight had never seen rarity look so... distant

"Just a song that I heard in my dream... would you like to hear?"

"Shure." it had to be a good song to make rarity behave so strangely

As soon as the first word spilled from her lips, all eyes were on her.

(chapter7): a shocking development

(this chapter does not continue from the last one so as to increase the suspense of the cliffhanger, I apologies to no one)

Twilight burst into her room, causing spike to jump, spilling all of his scrolls.

"SPIKE! drop what your doing!"

"I just did." he said, annoyed.

"SPIKE, WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOUR SAD ATTEMPTS AT HUMOR!"

"whats so important?" he groaned.

"I need you to sen princess Celesta a scroll, NOW!"

"alright, alright, don't get your panties in a twist."

"just get a scroll!"

"OK, what do in need to write?"

Twilight sucked in a breath, "dearprincessibeleiveihavefoundwhatwefailedtolocatelastnite,howeverinowseemtohavefoundoneandnowirequestyourpreasencetoaidmeinaprehendingthecreature" she sucked in another breath "y-your faith...faithful student, t-twilight" she gasped, still sucking in air.

"okay... can you repeat that?"

"which part?"

"lets see, uh... all of it."

"alright, how about; 'I found one'?"

"o...n...e. done!"

"good, send it immediately"

with a puff of smoke, it was gone

30 seconds later, they received a reply, three simple words: come at once

(chapter8): a tail of surprise

The two pones looked down, and they too, screamed at what they saw: they had no legs! instead, they saw, they had... tails? there was more: Rarity's horn had disappeared, and Derpy's wings ware also gone, but so was something else... she blinked a few times, and waved her hand in front of her face.

rarity was confused, because Derpy was confused... why was Derpy confused? she watched as she stared at her hand... then she saw it, she was staring at her hand... with both eyes, as if her lazy eye had never existed. they pulled their leg- tails out of the water to inspect them. as they began to dry, they started to glow. first it was Rarity's forehead, then Derpy's back, then their tails, and very faintly, Derpy's eye. Their bodies fully dry, they shifted back to normal.

the two mares stared at each other... what the hell was going on!?!?

The princess' had ordered that the guards and servants stay away from the makeshift meeting room they had put together in the castles library.

"so, you found one?" Celesta asked?

"yes." Twilight said quietly

"and where there is one, there are sure to be more." Luna added.

"indeed, so twilight, who is it?"

"it's... r...r..."

"well child, speak up."

"its... r-rarity..."

"your seamstress friend?" (a seamstress is basically a female tailor, but with dresses)

"yes..."

"well, i suppose the hunt is on."

i hope...

i hope on hatis means what i think it does, but just in case it dosent, the story is on hold, i am trying to write 3 other stories, so ill get back to this whenever. this chapter will be deleted once (if at all) i continue wrighting this.

Prolouge: secrets

There are many secrets in this world, some small, some very, very, very big. There is one secret, passed on to a select few women. The song, of the Jolly Sailor Bold, said to be heard by men at sea, just before being attacked by... well, nopony really knows, nor do they want to find out. And very few have lived to tell the tale; the song was the most beautiful ever heard. Men fell weak, and had love struck smiles on their faces. Then silence, then a defining screech, then screams, and then silence, dead, unholy, supernatural, silence.

over the years, there has been only one account regarding the lyrics, but lost to time, only known to the creatures that sing.

it is unfortunate, that those who are told the secret of the song, are often shuned, and forced to live with their own kind.

and it is worse, that it had to happen... to Rarity.

(Chapter4): a familiar tune

Rarity could not work the next day, she was desperate to go swim for no apparent reason, and she couldn't stop humming that song. She didn’t even know what song it was. She decided to take the day off to find out more, and to go swimming. She hung a 'closed' sine on the boutique door. She pulled the door tight and locked it.

She wore a large hat, to protect her perfect skin from the sun, a pair of sun glasses, a pink top, with purple shorts. She was the image of fashion, as usual.

She began her walk, passing by other ponies that trotted to various stores, and occasionally, one would stop to have a conversation with another.

She stopped to look at some jewelry behind a window when -WHAM- Somepony walked into her, knocking her to the ground. Envelopes flew through the air, having been dropped by the pony that had walked into her; Derpy.

"Ops. Sorry Rarity!" she said, trying to grab the letters out of the air

"It’s really not a problem" she replied, though she was fairly annoyed that her top was now dirty.

After rarity helped her collect the letters, she was off humming an odd tune... was it... no it couldn’t be... could it?

(chapter6): The devil-fish

As rarity sung, waiters dropped platteres, and people stopped mid-chew. Staring at the beautiful pony, who now looked more beautiful then usual. At the conclousiin to the song, twilight shot out of her chair, eyes wide with horror

"stay away form me..." she said softly, rarity made an attempt to grab twilights wrist, in an effort to calm her down. Despite her attempts to calm her, twilight interpreted them as attacks.

"stay away from me!" she shouted, then she ran.

Everypony else either looked love-struck, or dumbfounded.

rarity got up, and ran, beginning to fear herself. she ran... and ran... and ran... and ran... and -wham- once again she ran into the lazy eyed mailmare, she too was running from something.

"GAH! oh, its just you rarity." she said, sounding out of breath.

"Derpy, why are you running?" she was equally winded.

"well, I was just..." she looked distressed for a moment, then continued, "I was just... uh... o-on my way to the public pool, and you?"

"uuuh, s-same"

they decided to walk together. Rarity had almost completely forgotten her desire to go swimming, but now that she remembered it, she was just as anxious as ever.

as the two walked, they hummed, they both hummed the some tune, neither said a word about it.

When Rarity and Derpy finally reached the pool, they were itching to dive in to the crystal clear water. Rarity lent Derpy her spare swimsuit (she always took extra closes just in case). and they dived in.

both the lifeguards and the people swimming, stared in awe at the two. They flew trough the water, their speed challenging that of Rainbow Dash.

they swam, at least, 15 laps (in under a minuet) until finally they sat on the ledge of the pool.

somepony screamed.

some stared in fear, others ran for the exit.

The two pones looked down, and they too, screamed at what they saw...

(you think I write bad and then -BOOM- I slap a cliffhanger in your face and -BANG- your hooked!)