Aqueous Pony: Aria Blaze
Chapter 1
Previous ChapterNext ChapterNames meaning in music
Aria’ Mother: Allegretto Blaze—Light, graceful and moderately fast in tempo
Aria Blaze—an elaborate song for a solo voice
Sonata Dusk: music of a particular form consisting of four movements. Each movement differs in tempo, rhythm and melody, but is held together by subject and style.
Adagio Dazzle: A tempo having slow movement, restful, at ease
Do You Know what it feels like to be unwanted; to have everyone fear you and you in turn fear them? Do you not know why I became who I am today? Does anypony care about my story, about what I have to say? The world is a cold cruel place and if you don’t learn how to play by its rules or overcome those rules you die. Such was the outcome for my kind. All of them gone, except for us 3, Adagio, Sonata, and I, Aria; the last Aqueous Ponies, or Water Ponies as we were sometimes called. My story began long before I was even born, when Aqueous Ponies were plentiful, when we and other ponies actually got along and lived peacefully together in the land of Equestria.
The Aqueous Pony originates from the water, more specifically the ocean; as our name implies. With the front of a pony and hind of a sea serpent as well as a pair of delicate butterfly wings, we looked quite odd to the Land Ponies. We always knew they existed, but they didn’t always know that we existed.
We used to watch them from afar, until one night when there was a terrible storm. A fishing boat full of Fisherponies was struck with lightening. The lifeboats were small and the large wild waves threatened to overturn them. A group of Aqueous Ponies swam into action. They guided the lifeboats to safety, one of each side of the boat to keep it upright. The Land Ponies were very grateful and a friendship was made.
Water Ponies differ from land ponies in many ways besides appearance. Music is in our blood. All Water Ponies have a special unique singing voice. Our voices are so enchanting that we can even use it to manipulate weak minded ponies. Most of our kind had a bit of arrogance. They sought out love and attention. All wanted to be recognized for our special talents, that eventually, overtime, drove some mad in their quest for adoration and power. A group of Aqueous Ponies were finding ways to make their sweet songs stronger, to the point that they could control ponies’ attention for longer periods of time. There were no Alicorns then, No Princess to protect them. Earth ponies especially, were practically defenseless against our melodies. Pegasi weren’t much better, but the unicorns were different. They found ways to elude us.
Of course not all Aqueous Ponies were bad. There were plenty that Disapproved of their brethren taking control of ponies. Ponies eventually didn’t care if we were good or bad; in their minds now, we were all bad and our species had to be controlled. Once the slaying began most good Water Ponies turned on the ponies. They had believed Power hungry Water ponies needed to be stopped, but killing them, especially with no trial was wrong. It angered my kind and an all-out war started. By the end, there was only a small population left of us, maybe about 100. I was born several years after the war.
Next Chapter