Take to the seas.

The sea billowed, crashed, and roared as waves fiercely pounded the boat. Water was flowing over the sides and cargo of the multiple journeys was lost to the bucking of the sea against the vessel.  Stallions were thrown over the guards of the boat as it rocked in the opposing direction of the waves. The two ponies that acted as the leaders of the group stayed down in a room that was made to handle more extreme conditions in the case that its needed.

" What do we do now?," the younger, and son to the older pony asked. He had a tanish gold coat and light pink eyes that helped his grayscale rainbow main stand out. His cutie mark was a compass and map.

" We wait, and we hope," the father told his son. He had a black and green main and a tan-brown coat with extremely light pink eyes. His fathers cutie mark consisted of a map with a needle through it.

At that moment of time, the wood split, letting in hundreds of gallons of water into the safe room. Sudden impact and pressure forced the two to lose all the air in their bodies, forcing them to both black out.

....

Chasing had found himself lying on the what seemed like a shore line in an unfamiliar place. Sweat from the intense heat beat down on him and rolled in his eyes as the summer days took their toll into his physical ability to any kind of energy required activity. His vision blurred and blackness took over the corners of his eyes as he took his final look at the hooves of an approaching creature.

....

Pink lights filled Chasings mind as his vision slowly returned to him from his black slumber. " where... where am I?," he asked himself as he started to sit up. He instantly lost my balance to the bed and was flung from it unto the floor. "Ouch." pain went up his arm that he fell on." Is that a water bed?" He could feel pins and needles going up his arm which was all he needed in a time like this."Just ignore it," he told myself, he then got up from the floor and took in his surroundings. The room was pure pink, the carpet, the bed, the walls, and even the pony in the picture on the wall was pink. The dominating color was making him feel nauseous. He soon heard steps and strange yet constant thud outside the door to the room.

" Please do not scare him when we go in dear, we don't want to scare the poor boy," The fist voice was very soft and soothing at the very sound," And if he isn't awake don't wake him up, he clearly needs his sleep."

" Well of course he's awake silly I mean duh, no sleeping pony could make so much noise" The second voice was very high pitched and contained a lot of energy yet very capable of getting accustomed to.

A magic aura encased the doorknob,opening the door and allowing the two ponies outside the room in. The pink mare joyously hoped into the room first and gave Chasing an excited look while the other pony walked in slowly. She was clearly as uncomfortable with the pink as he was.

" Hi, Im Pinkie Pie, whats your name?," The pink mares words spilled out at an incredible rate and an even bigger smile covered he face. He had never seen someone capable of talking so fast.

" Um... my name is Chasing,"  he told Pinkie, who at the moment was eying him down, trying to take in his full composition.

" You know, you look familiar, almost like I've seen you somewhere," Pinkie said." I just can't put my hoof on it."

"Well thats strange," the other mare said " Pinkie never forgets anyone. You must have her fooled if you can pull that off."

Chasings' eyes left Pinkie and fell upon the other mare. Her mane was a very beautiful purple color that complemented her fine white coat. She was the most beautiful mare he had ever laid eyes on. " So what may your name be," he asked the second mare in a voice that clearly gave away his attraction to her

She shot him a glance having clearly caught the tone that he was carrying with his voice, which made him blush. " My name is Rarity." She then caught his eyes moving with her body. " and you best will keep you eyes of of me, Im way out of your league" Her voice carried a playful attitude that made him want to ignore the last sentence and go for it anyway.

Chasing was completely unaware of Pinkie who had her head pushed up against his stomach. " You know, you reeeeally sound hungry and I know what will take the munchies away. CAKE!,"  An even larger grin passed over her face and she started to squel. " I have a special flavor just for you too."

Chasing decided not to let the mare keep near his stomach and pushed her away. A small blush passed over his cheeks as he was trying to pull himself together. " Um... Ok, if you tell me where my bags are I will gladly come along.

Pinkie and Rarity shot a quick glance at each other and giggled," There on the bed silly, you slept on them all night. I mean you don't think we would separate you and your stuff do you," Pinkie was laughing insanely at this point and fell on to her back while Rarity sat back and watched while hiding a smile with her hoof.

Chasing looked over to find that his bag was indeed on the bed and took it. " I hope everything is in here," he said as he was opening the bag." There is a lot of value...," He slowly dropped his smile as he found that there was a very small amount of items in the bag compared to what there was originally." Well, there was a lot of valuables in here. I also had a far sum of money in the side pockets. Over 50 pints."( 1 pint = 100 bits)

" Over 50 pints!," Rarity squealed. " who would ever carry so much with them?"  To her dismay she had found herself blushing at the sudden out lash and proceeded to cover her mouth with her hooves.

" Yes, thats relatively a small amount compared to what we have collected over the years. Me and my father adventured together and found several artifacts that were not supposed to even exist. We once heard about an artifact so old that It its self could bare enough worth to support a single family for generation. We decided that that was going to be our next adventure but reality hit my father we never took off to find it." A small look of disappointment went through Chasings' face and Rarity started to fan herself like she was overheated or being baked by the sun.

" So. Much. " Rarity started muttering to herself.

" Well thats nothing really." Chasing started to look down upon the floor," My father and I had an estimated the value of our treasures to over... thousands of pints." At that point of time, Rarities face started to brighten and stretch with the smile her face was holding."It took us years to collect it all. We started when I was around ten years old too. My mother died on one of her own adventures when I was five though." Tears were starting to form in his eyes as he dug deeper into his past for the few memories that he had of his mother. " When she died... she was after one of the most valuable artifacts to have ever existed. The thing is... after three years she never came back. When... when my father lost all hope he decided that he would never go on another adventure again. Like I said, thats the year my father lost hope and we stopped adventuring for a while.

" If that is so then how did you get here?" Rarity asked still a little embarrassed from her outburst earlier

" Ya," Pinkie exclaimed" you cleeeearly are here right now so something changed his mind about that." Pinkie still had a bright smile on her face. She almost seemed immune to any kind of sadness. It was almost as if she was taking this as some random bedside story.

Chasing looked up at pinkie and gained a glimmer of hope from her happiness, tears started rolling down his eyes as he continued in his mind with his thoughts," Well, maybe ill tell you some other time, but right now i'm hungry, so lets get a little to eat.

....

Chasing had started to feel better the more he ate the savory pink cake.. " You know Pinkie, I've never had cake before." Pinkie immediately spit out all the food from her mouth out.

" WHAT!," she screamed," How have you never had cake?" Pinkie stare at him was baring holes into his head as it intensified. " If you've never had cake, you have NEVER lived. Has your dad never let you live!"

Chasing was put into his thoughts by over dramaticness of Pinkie. " Nope, never had cake. The sweetest thing I've had was salt. When you live on a boat, sugar isn't something you need to have around." Pinkies jaw dropped at the latest information and she looked like she was about to break into tears " Well, since I forgot to ask you earlier, have you seen my father. If you found me he was probably pretty close by."

Pinkie was still stuck with her mouth wide open so he averted his eyes to Rarity, which of whom he was trying not to look at so he wouldn't stare. He noticed that the look she was giving him wasn't very encouraging. It was something between feeling sorry for somepony and being scared to say something. " Well... we found him."

"Oh, thats good. Where is he now," Chasing had a newfound proudness that he was going to back to his adventures so soon yet felt hazy about the look that Rarity had .

"Well he wasn't exactly... um, how do I put this, okay."  Rarity was looking at the tiled floor now and was suppressing a scared look

" What do you mean by him not being okay," He asked