Aqueous Pony: Aria Blaze

The Night was Stormy and dark, except for the sparks of lightening flashing across the sky. The ocean was in constant turmoil, the wild waves lapping up at the sea caves where a pregnant Aqueous Pony lay, sprawled out across the cold stone floor, breathing heavily with pain with light ocean spray hitting her back. The mares name was Allegretto Blaze and she was preparing to give birth.[hr

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Tears welled in the corner of her eyes. There was no medication to ease her pain, No doctor or nurse to guide the foal out of the birth canal and make sure the birth went smoothly; No warm hospital bed for her to lie in. she struggled to push herself upright. She moved slowly to get to a dryer area of the cave, her tail swishing back and forth. She felt a sharp pain as her contractions sped up and her water broke. She barely made it to the back of the cave, before blood began to drip from her vagina. Sweat already covered her body and she wasn’t even through the worst of it yet. The birth canal began to dilate and grow in width. She collapsed with a sharp inhale and attempted to push the foal out. The pain was overwhelming. She trembled and felt it difficult to push. She gritted her teeth. It was hard to concentrate on the task at hand with intense pain. With a frustrated cry, she squeezed her eyes shut and focused all her energy into her pelvic region.

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Push, she internally screamed. Slowly the contractions started becoming more frequent. Time seemed to pass by slowly. Finally, after an agonizing hour, the foal was out. Allegretto lay there exhausted, almost forgetting she had just given birth until she heard a small whimper. Turning slowly, she reached out with her hooves and gently picked up the small newborn Aqueous Pony. The foal’s eyes were closed. It was female with a light purple body, with a darker purple tail with green fins and small patch of mane, a mixture of blue-green and purple in color.

The mare held her newborn daughter to her chest to provide her warmth in this chilly cave. The newborn whimpered again, as she tried to snuggle deeper into her mother for warmth. With nothing to keep her child warm, but her own body heat, Allegretto curled up as tight as she could around the cold foal and spread her wings out onto block any cold breeze and to try and contain the heat in one area.
She nuzzled her daughter gently as the warmth made the foal sleepy and the newborn let out a big yarn and moved a hoof to her mouth to suckle as she slept. The new mother smiled and gave a yawn as well, and as she laid her head down to sleep as well. she decided to name her daughter Aria.

Being a single mother was hard for any female, but it is even harder when Pony’s want your species gone and because of that, you have to necessities and no way of getting help. All Aqueous pony towns were pretty much destroyed, so there were no communities of water ponies living together, a least to her knowledge. The water pones that were left had been separated from each other. If her species didn’t die out from being hunted, they would die out from not being able to breed and reproduce.

Allegretto wanted what was best for her child, but wasn’t completely certain she could provide everything that was needed on her own. The first year was difficult. She couldn’t leave very often or be out for very long to hunt fish and gather edible grasses and seaweeds. She could only go down the rocks below the cave to gather plats. There were no opportunities for fishing and with no adequate protein her body could barely produce enough milk for her little Aria. There were times when her daughter would try to suckle her nipple for milk and there would be none. With no formula, her mother didn’t have anything else to feed her.

Allegretto resorted to using her voice. She had sworn to never use it to manipulate any living creature, for that’s what made ponies hate them in the first place. But now, it might be the only option to obtain enough nutrients for lactation production for Aria.
It’s easy to manipulate a small animal with a simple sweet song. It was practically child’s play. She had to be careful not to draw attention to herself with animals coming and going. Using a group was out of the question. Only 1 or 2, perhaps even 3 individuals would have to be enough. She was able to sit at the mouth of the cave, with Aria wrapped by her tail dozing lightly, and sang softly.
The tune had no words, just a simple pleasant melody. It was the middle of the night, the only light coming from the moon and stars. Who was it that raised the moon now? She couldn’t quite remember. It wasn’t long till a small seal took to her song. He bobbed around in the water listening to the song for a few minutes before diving down into the ocean to start catching fish.

Aria yawned and rolled onto her back and smiled up at her mother with her right hoof in her mouth. The foal made gurgling sounds, trying to copy the sounds her mother was making, without much success. It did make her mother smile at her attempt however. At the end of an hour or so, there lay a small pile of fish atop a flattish rock. The song stopped and the seal disappeared. Allegretto turned and picked up aria and put her at the back of the cave, and then hurried back to the mouth of the cave to get the fish before Aria could follow her out.
Aria whined in protest as she was put down and her mother ran away from her. The mare pushed up of the rock floor and glided swiftly out of the cave and down to the rock where the neat pile of fish sat. Quickly scooping up the fish in her arms she turned back to the cave. Aria had finally managed to crawl to the entrance and let out a neigh when she didn’t see her mother right away.

Allegretto flapped her wings and rose of the ground and flew the short distance back. Aria let out a squeal of excitement as she found her mother. As soon as she had landed her daughter grabbed her tail and clung to it, afraid her mother would leave her again. She hushed her child before she could cry and adjusted the fish to on arm and stroked her daughter’s mane soothingly. The foal buried her face into her mother’s fins and whimpered lightly.

The mare set the fish tidily by the wall of the cave and lifted Aria up and nuzzled her lovingly. The small aqueous pony perked up and nuzzled her mother back.

The nutrients from the fish almost instantly helped the lactation start up again. Aria fed greedily and started to gradually put on more weight. The system worked great. At the beginning of each week, she would sing to the seal to gather fish. The fish would last for 2-3 days.

It was easy to keep Aria entertained. Simple games and activities would keep the foal busy. After a few more years Aria started to become more curious about the outside world. She wasn’t aloud out of the cave and couldn’t understand why. Her mother said it was dangerous, but she couldn’t ever find any danger in sight. There was only the rocks, lining the cliff that held their cave and wide open ocean with sky. She hadn’t even been in the ocean before. The only water she had experienced was the rain and the small crook that ran through the cave during the rainy season.

When her daughter had turned 3, Allegretto decided it was time to explain to her why the outside world was dangerous. Aria listened to her mother inventively while she explained why she wasn’t allowed outside.

“Long ago our kind was plentiful and happy. Life was good. Food was readily available and there were friendships between us and the land pony. There are 3 kinds of land ponies, Earth Ponies, who grew food on the land, Unicorns with a single horn protruding from their forehead and gifted in magic. Then there were the Pegasi, ponies with wings who controlled the sky and its weather. We all lived in harmony with one another. There was a small group of Aqueous Ponies that wanted more. They wanted power and ponies to adore them. They used their voice to take advantage of the ponies. They tried to twist the ponies minds to love them above all else. They did this so fast and secretly that we had no time to even respond to the problem and arrest those mad water ponies. By the time we got involved, it was too late. Already, ponies were beginning to turn against us. They slaughtered those power hungry Aqueous Ponies. Their action upset many of our kind. That small group was supposed to be taken by us, put on trial and then punished. Those ponies never gave them a trial. They got nothing. Friends and family of those Aqueous Ponies became outraged and lashed out at the ponies that had harmed their loved ones. Everything turned into a mess. Things got worse and a war started. The ponies won that fight, making the small amount of our kind go into hiding. If one ventures out too far and is seen then they were killed on the spot. Every time I leave this cave I run the risk of being caught.”

Aria’s eyes were wide.

“But isn’t killing and hurting each other wrong?”

Allegretto nodded.

“Yes, but anger clouded their judgment. Maybe one day we can make amends, but it will take time.”

Aria never asked about going outside again and would grow worried whenever her mother left. What if she never came back?