Diamond and Silver found Fluttershy walking by the river, she was checking for tracks or prints along the shoreline.

“Miss Fluttershy are you busy?” Silver asked first.

“Yes very busy, I am looking for clues,” She said, sniffing the grass and comparing her hoof with tracks in the grass.

“Silver saw something in the river by the park,” Diamond spoke up and pushed Silver ahead of her.

Fluttershy stopped what she was doing and looked at Silver.

“I almost got a picture of it,” She said tried to describe it. “It was huge, big yellow flipper and orange fins, found it swimming away when I saw it.” Silver finished explaining.

“Interesting, but there are many creatures in Equestria, that have flippers and fins. If you can draw me a picture,” Fluttershy said and then spotted a uneaten fish tail. She touched the tail with her hoof.

“Eeewww, don’t touch it,” Diamond and Silver said together trying not hurl.

“It is definitely a water-bearing creature, and it has only been eating fish, that’s a relief,” She said and looked back at them with a smile.

“Why?” Diamond said curiously.

“Oh no reason,” Fluttershy said and continued to walk along the shore.

“Let's go, Silver,” Diamond suggested and they started to walk away.

“Good idea, please stay in town away from the water,” Fluttershy said as she spotted a large impression in the mud. It was much larger than a hoof print and it also had claws. She let out a gasp realizing what it is.

*****

Adagio didn’t remember much about what happened after being captured. It was a blur of images and sounds. She was placed into a large fish tank that was just big enough to hold her. The tank was on a frame of a wagon with wheels. A large stallion with brown fur, black mane, and tail was pulling the wagon by the yoke. She looked behind and could see an angry crowd of ponies yelling at her as they followed.

“Where is my daughter you monster?” Was the most common question that was yelled out.

Two doors opened to a large hall and the tank was pulled inside and then the doors closed preventing the crowd from entering. She still could hear the yelled and items being thrown at the large doors.

There was a light green pony with an orange mane and her tail curled into a bun. Her cutie mark was a wood hammer. Also, there was a pony wearing thin reading glasses, her fur was a shade of golden-gray mix and her mane and tail was a light gray. The cutie mark on her was a scroll.

“Thank you, Mr. Clydesdale you can go now.” Mayor Mare said.

Adagio turned quickly to see the large pony unhooking his straps. The colors or his eyes and mane matched. It’s him or, at least, his pony version. She stuck her head out of the tank splashing some water out.

“Kevin,” She said out loud which surprised him and he looked up at her and their eyes met.

“How do you know my name?” He asked, feeling a strange sensation of Deja Vue.

“Do you know this creature?” Mayor mare asked, looking at him.

“No, I don’t,” Kevin said with a confused look and walked out of the room.

Adagio watched him leave and kept looking in the direction he went.

“I’m Mayor Mare of Ponyville and this is Lady Justice,” She said, introducing themselves.

Adagio started laughing splashing in the tank looking down at them.

“Why do ponies has such stupid names?” She asked, not expecting them to answer. “Oh hi my name is Grass Eater because I eat grass, Or my name is House Builder because build houses. Rainbow Dash, I got rainbow colors in my mane and I dash around at high speed.” Adagio said, still laughing.

“ORDER I SAY, SILENCE!” Lady Justice yelled and pulled out a wooden hammer, smacking it against a wooden desk.

“Very well Judge Judy,” Adagio said, laying her hooves over the edge of the tank looking amused.

“I represent the citizens of Ponyville,” Mayor said, looking serious.

“I represent the law of Ponyville,”, “You have been accused of ponynapping are young,” Lady said and started reading of names of the missing ponies.

Adagio listened to the list. That dragon has been busy. She thought.

“Wait a minute, I know my rights, I have not even been officially arrested, where's the proof?” She said crossing her hooves and floating in the water.

“We don’t have a Sheriff here, never needed one before, Princess Twilight and her friends usually resolve issues before they get out of hand,” Mayor said with a sigh remembering the number of times Ponyville had to be repaired or rebuilt.

“What is your name?” Lady asked, looking at the Siren.

“Why should I tell you?” Adagio said, turning around and started to submerge into the tank.

“Adagio,” Willy said as he rolled into the room from the back entrance.

Lady was surprised to see him and then frowned, “Willy didn’t I say stay home,” Lady said, looking disappointed.

Adagio turned around and looked at the young pony as he rolled up next to the tank.

“Willy get back here, that creature is dangerous,” Lady said, dropping her papers and walked up to him quickly.

“Her name is Adagio Dazzle, mom and she didn’t do it,” Willy said protesting as Lady got behind his wheels and pushed him away.

“I’ll be the judge of that young man,” She stated and wheel him out of the room.

“It was a dragon,” He said just as the door closed.

*****

Apple Boom spotted Applejack walking with Sunset and the others. She ran up with a gallop and stopped in front of Applejack breathing heavily with a panicked expression.

“Apple Bloom what's goin on?” Applejack asked, trying to calm her down.

“Babs Seed is missing! she promised that we would play today, but no one has seen her,” She said sounding frantic.

“Did you ask Diamond or Silver?” Applejack asked, looking worried.

“Not yet, but Babs always keeps her promises. Do ya think that the Mokele-Mare got her?” Apple Bloom asked, not sure what to do.

“For now, ah think it is best that ya go into town, keep away from the water and don’t walk home alone,” Applejack said and hugged her, then sent her on her way.

“Who is Babs Seed?” Sunset asked not recognizing the name.

“She is Apple Bloom's cousin and was staying here the week. Oh good gosh we gotta get moving. Her folks will kick my behind across Equestria if we don’t find her soon.” Applejack said, walking faster.

“Hey, Fluttershy!” Pinkie said, spotting her by the river and waved to get her attention.

Fluttershy flapped her wings and quickly joined them with a concerned look on her face.

“Did you find something dear?” Rarity asked, noticing the look on her face.

“A dragon,” Fluttershy said, showing them a green scale stuck to the bottom of her front hoof.

“Spike?” Rarity asked, looked closer at the scale.

“No this one is very big,” She said and sniffed at the scale. “I think I can track it, but my nose is not as good as Spike’s,” Fluttershy said looked toward the Everfree Forest.

Sunset noticed some activity in town, there were ponies gathering around building holding signs like there were protestings. She noticed one sign that had an image of yellow Siren hanging from a tree. Fluttershy gasped when she saw it also. Applejack and Rarity started heading towards town when Sunset quickly stopped them.

“Please stay right here I’ll check it out,” Sunset said, as her horn glowed and she disappeared in a flash.

“There was something else I found,” Fluttershy said pointing to the river.

*****

“Are we supposed to believe that?” Mayor asked, looking at Adagio with suspicion.

“I am telling you the truth that I saw a large green dragon in the forest. That dragon has been the one ponynapping your children.” Adagio answer back in a loud voice.

Lady Justice looked conflicted because she knew that Willy doesn’t lie and now the Siren was saying the same thing. The problem now is that the ponies outside have already made up their mind that the Siren was guilty. The sound of pounding on the door was getting louder as the crowd was losing their patience.

Sunset pushed her way through the crowd of ponies and tried to look inside the building through the window but could not see inside.

“I found a book about those creatures, it says that they eat ponies.” Someone said in the crowd which caused others to talk louder and caused some to cry out.

“That creature ate my baby!” One frantic mother yelled out.

The crowd started pounding on the door, their hooves gouging out pieces of wood if this kept up the door would not last long.

Sunset shook her head.This is getting out of hand. She thought and decided to try and stop this. Pushing herself in front of the door between her and the crowd.

“STOP ALL OF YOU!” Sunset yelled out which caused some of the ponies to quiet down.

“Who are you? you're not from around here.” One angry pony called out.

“You are right I am not from here, but I know a mob when I see one. Before everypony starts jumping to conclusions maybe we should let the Mayor and Lady Justice do their job.” Sunset said trying to reason with them.

“But what about my kids?” One said.

“Where is Princess Twilight?” Another one asked.

“I want answers now!” One pony said, starting to push causing the others to argue louder.

“Seriously?” Sunset sighed and rubbed her face in frustration. Then her body started to glow causing the ponies to back off. Suddenly wings appeared on Sunset body spread open.

“Princess? it’s a princess!” A pony said and some of them bowed.

Everyone was now quiet looking at Sunset who looked at her wing’s with an annoyed look on her face as she folded her wings back against her sides. Taking a deep breath she looked at everyone.

“Please, princess help us find our children.” One of them asked.

“Listen good everypony, I am going to ask the Siren a question and then I am going to look for your children. Until this is resolved I want everyone to go home,” She said, pointing her hoof away from the building. They looked at her not entirely convinced.

“I promise,” Sunset added and then one by one the ponies started dispersing each heading in a different direction back to their homes.

Mayor and Lady noticed that it became unusually quiet outside. Then there was a knocked on the door.

“It’s safe now can I come in?” Sunset asked looking at the large door.

Mayor slowly opened the door and then saw Sunset and noticed her wings.

“Princess, of course, come in.” She said holding the door open as Sunset walked in.

“Princess Sunset... oh this is too much, you look ridiculous,” Adagio said and laughed out, spinning around in the tank.

“Adagio didn’t I tell you to stay out of sight,” Sunset said frustrated.

“Princess do you know this creature?” Lady asked surprised.

“Yes it’s a long story,” She said. “Adagio what is going on how did this happen?” Sunset asked looking up at the Siren who stopped and looked back.

“Fine but this will be the last time,” Adagio said and took a deep breath. ”I saw a large green dragon in the forest, it was holding on to a cage that had a small pony inside.”, “It headed into the forest and I lost sight of it, after that I headed back in town looking for you when I got captured,” Adagio said and submerged blowing bubbles.

“Mayor I apologize for this. Please watch over her until I get back. Me and the elements of harmony are going to look for your children.” Sunset said and turned around heading to the door.

“Hey, what about I need to do?” Adagio yelled out as he hoofs made a dull thump against the glass.

“You only told me that you wanted to go home. I will help you get there when I got back.” Sunset closed the door and left.

“That’s not the only reason.” She said sinking into the water.

***

Sunset was about to walk when she spotted Diamond and Silver approaching her.

"Princess is true that the Mokele-Mare was capture?" Diamond said, holding a microphone that was connected to a tape recorder strap around her neck.

"There is no Mokele-Mare young lady, Just like there is no Loch Ness monster," Sunset said sounding annoyed.

"Loch Ness?" Silver asked, never heard that name before.

"Then what was captured? Can it talk? Does it know where the children are?" Diamond said, asking more questions.

"Listen, kid leave Adagio alone and let the elements of harmony find the missing children," Sunset said, having enough and pushed Diamond aside walking away.

"What kingdom are you from?" Diamond asked in a loud voice.

"Earth." Sunset said spreading her wings and flew away.

"Where is earth?" Diamond asked in frustration and tossed the microphone to the ground.

"Maybe we should go home Diamond." Silver suggested.

"Not yet," Diamond said and started sneaking around the large building. She looking in each window until she spotted a tank of water. There was a large yellow tail in the corner but she was not able to see everything.

"I think my father would be very interested in this," Diamond said started walking with Silver who followed her.

Author's Note

Another chapter done.

Next up into the Forest and Filthy Rich's interest in collecting the exotic.

Thanks for reading.