Sapphire Glow: A New Day?

“What do you mean Sapphire hasn’t come back yet?” Speaks a sad looking though very happy Starswirl the Bearded.

“Yeah she hasn’t come back for a few days now, and it’s not that far really.” Rough Ground said.

Near when all the ponies said “umm” Starswirl came up with an idea, “We’ll need to find a replacement then…… I know how about me I have no other duties for a while and until we find someone more qualified it would be a good idea. All in favor, say I!”

The council room howls, “I.” With only one who said, “Nay” being Sapphires attendant, who is sitting in for Sapphire. “This is an outrage, how can you declare her missing so early on we don’t know what actually happened out there.” Sapphire’s attendant Blue Dust cried.

“I have sent Brave Buster to go search for her, and he is the fastest flyer in the entire kingdom, if he doesn’t find her no one can. Suggest you sit down, Miss Dust you are here simply on courtesy you don’t have any power to make demands.” Starswirl stated with a small grin.

Now this was when Blue Dust had enough, she took drastic measures in saying what only Sapphire would dare say to the council. “F@&* that, you know as well as I, that she is one of the most powerful unicorns in Equestria, and if you disagree fine, I’ll just take it to the princesses.”

“You can’t do that, they aren’t back from they’re trip yet,” Said one of the ponies that are watching, the meeting.  That just made her angrier, after that she stormed out of the council chambers to get ready for a long and dangerous journey to the outskirts of the Badlands.

“Water check, Light weight equestrian chain mail check, Most of Lady Sapphire’s expensive goods (Which were few) check.” Soundly as Blue Dust checks through a check list, which was the very first one she made, “It looks like I have everything I need to get going, I hope my Lady Sapphire comes home soon.”

Hesitantly sending herself off to Badlands which are around a 20 days walk from here, Sapphires looks with hope towards finding the Princesses before it’s too late.

Right after Blue Dust left, she just had to get some sweets, her sweet tooth was immense and she knew that she would, never be able to make it without her favorite cookies. So after buying 3 dozen cookies she went on her way.

Blue Dust started her trek towards the southern forest, where she would begin her search at the castle of the Princesses, if they were not there she would continue her way towards 'The Bad Lands.'

The castle was almost empty, with the exception of a few spiders and snakes there was almost nothing in the castle. Since the castle was safe enough she decided to camp out for the night. What she didn’t know was that, she was being watched and followed all through the night.

On foot even with her best spell, “Quick Hoof,” she only made it to a large open prairie like area, with small bushes and critters in four days. This meant she was going ever so closer to the rocky desert, where the mountains laid close. For her this felt like she wasn’t making any progress since, she hasn’t encountered the Princesses yet, and hasn’t found any trace of Sapphire.

“If I can’t find the princesses, Sapphire might as well never come back…. But I can’t give up now even if I haven’t come very far.” This is what sapphire kept thinking in her mind as she travelled across the flat land, as the stranger kept getting closer and closer to her. Until Blue Dust grew tired of walking at a pace that some couldn’t even run, she set up camp and noticed the figure that was following her. Thinking it was someone of either great importance or even just lost, she asked where she saw the shadow.

“Would you like to come sit down and have a bite to eat?” The Shadow confused since its stalked prey was now asking it if it was hungry, it came out this was a small but very cute fox, which simply wanted some food.

At night the fox began to stir from its slumber near Blue Dust and decided to go search for that delicious smelling food that was emanating from her bag. It found the cookies that Blue Dust had kept and scurried off after eating them.

In the morning she awoke to find the fox gone and all of her favorite cookies. ‘Why is life so cruel’ she ponders.

Now she is even more in a hurry casting “Quick Hoof as fast and as powerful as she can muster. At this pace she thought, “I could reach the badlands at any time now.’

Around three days pass, and Blue dust makes it to the outskirts of the Badlands, now this was a problem since it is quite well known that dragons like to gather near here. So she calmly made it across the rocky crags. Finally with her breath almost extinguished she finds two, blue and white figures with manes that rival the sun and moons beauty. Now most of this is because she was exhausted from all the running she had to do to get here. They were actually two young dragons that were looking for a meal, and Blue Dust calls to them, the Dragons now have a new meal.