Seven days at sea to sailors was more or less a walk in the park but for inexperienced ponies, the trip was daunting. Two day into the trip both Emerald and Lizz got sea sick, the constant movement had them hanging their heads over the railing in an attempt to easy their suffering, which only added to it.
Their trip was peaceful, nothing was seen for miles as Tidal Waves steered the boat to its destination. After getting used to the motions Emerald help around the ship swabbing the deck. It wasn’t long before she was learning how to steer the ship as well, even Lizz took an opportunity to learn.
On the morning of the seventh day as the sun rose Emerald was up on the deck looking at the sea when in the distance she noticed a small black mass. She raced below deck and immediately woke the old stallion up.
“Tidal, I see something.” She said excitedly, the ruckus Emerald made woke the sleeping Lizz as well
“Emerald, is everything ok?” Lizz asked sleepily
“I see something.” Emerald repeated excitedly, Tidal opened his eyes, looked at Emerald and yawned; he rose from his bunk bed and slowly walked out onto the deck
“What’s wrong?” asked Tidal Wave looking to the mare who pointed to the front of the ship “Well I’ll be, I thought we would make it by evening but this is just wonderful.”
“Is that white island?” asked Emerald
“Yes it is, we had an amazing wind last night.” Said the stallion stretching “You go take some rest young mare, I’ll take over from here.”
“But I’m wide awake, I don’t feel sleepy at all” complained Emerald
“There a time and a place for everything Emerald Forest,” Tidal Waves stated “you need rest, so take the time and rest.”
“I agree with Tidal.” Syrreth said “You’ve been awake all night, rest will do you good.”
“Fine,” Emerald said defeated, she trotted out the bridge and made her way to the bunk beds, she didn’t realized how tired she was until she laid on the bed looking at the ceiling
Lizz had fallen back to sleep her soft snores filled the room along with the sound of crashing waves against the exterior of the ship, gave the unicorn a soft melody. Closing her eyes she allowed herself to drift to sleep.
“I’ll sleep only for an hour or so,” she said as she gave into sleep
Time flew and Lizz awoke from her slumber, the sounds that reached her ears first were the soft sound of a snoring pony. Cautiously she got to her hooves, not wanting to make any noise she crept to the stairs leading to the ship deck. She released a breath of relief as she reached the top of the stairs, proud of herself for being sneaky enough not to wake the very ear sensitive Emerald Forest.
As she stood on the deck feeling the warm sunlight on her fur, Lizz listened, the sounds of crashing waves wasn’t evident nor was the usual motion of the ship on open water. Instead the sound of bird cawed above her. She heard voices of stallions shouting commands at each other. Confused, the mare by memory alone walked through the ship to the cockpit.
“Tidal are you here?” she asked
“Oh, lassy you’re awake.” Tidal replied turning to her “I didn’t want to leave you mares alone and asleep on the ship.”
“Where are we?” asked Lizz
“We’re in the white island docks.” Replied Tidal Waves
“Oh Celestia, I need to wake Emerald up.” Exclaimed the young mare turning to run out the cockpit, the feeling Tidal Wave biting her tail stopped her in her tracks “Ow!”
“Don’t wake that mare.” Tidal wave said in a low commanding voice “she is very tired and needs this rest.”
“But”
“No buts,” Tidal Wave said “Can I trust you to allow your sister to sleep?”
Lizz nodded reluctantly, Tidal wave released a sigh of relief and trotted the door
“I’ll be going to organise you girls a transport to the mainland.” He said “remember let her sleep, she needs the rest. Food is right where it was help yourself.”
With that the stallion was gone; Lizz sat alone in the cockpit listening to the sounds of the stallions on the docks as they shouted at each other in the most vulgar manner she has ever heard. It intrigued her to the point where she gathered the food she wanted and sat on the deck of the ship and listened to them insult each other and tell their many, many stories.
Time flew swiftly and Emerald awoke on her own, groggy she opened her eyes at the ceiling.
“How long have I been out?” she asked out loud
“A few hours give or take.” Replied Syrreth
Emerald flew out of bed “What, I should’ve been awake ages ago.” She shouted as she leaped up the stairs skipping a few in the process, once outside she shielded her eyes from the bright sunlight and waited for them to get adjusted. Once they were she found that they were docked on an island port, Lizz was sitting on the deck of the ship her ears were perked up and twitched ever so slightly.
“Lizz” Emerald called
The young mare jumped “Bucking Tartars!” she exclaimed turning to the source of her fright “you scared me.”
Emerald looked at her confused, the language she used was new to her yet it seemed not to fit the blind mare. “How long have we been docked here?” she asked
“You’re going to get mad.” Lizz said
Emerald took a breath “I’m not going to get mad,” she said though her throat was dry and she felt the anger building up inside her
“Promise.” Lizz asked
“Promise,” Emerald replied
“We’ve been docked for almost five hours.” Lizz replied, instinctively she dropped to her stomach and covered her head with her hooves her eyes were shut tight waiting for the outburst from Emerald
Emerald was standing there unmoving, her eyes were closed, she took slow breathes as she tried to calm the anger within her.
“Emerald?” asked Lizz
“I’m okay Lizz, where’s Tidal Wave?”
“He went to organize another ship to take us to the main land.” Lizz replied still cowering
“Get up Lizz, I’m not going to do anything violent,” laughed Emerald “that’s a promise.”
The unicorn sat and took one of the many muffins Lizz had lying around and took a bite as she watched the clear sky. Lizz got up from where she was and took a seat next to Emerald.
“I can feel it you know.” said Emerald “we’re close.”
“How can you tell?” asked Lizz
“I don’t know it’s just a gut feeling,” Emerald smiled “soon my dad and all the other dragons will be free and we can go back to the way we were before all this.”
Lizz hung her head visibly sad, shaking her head Emerald wrapped a hoof around the young mares neck “Well, not completely normal,” she said “we’re going to have a third pony in our messed up family.”
“Our family isn’t messed up little filly.” Syrreth said with a growl that made Emerald laugh
***
The darkness of the ever changing castle, the buzzing of wings could be heard from deep within. The screams filled the corridors. Standing above the Queen stood above her subjects her glowing green eyes filled with rage.
“How could you have lost them.” She roared angrily “you had one job”
“I’m sorry my queen, we have failed you.” The changeling cowered
“Failed, Failed, FAILED!” screamed the queen “You have done far worse than fail, all our work for naught.”
“Not for naught, my queen.” A changeling walked up behind his cowering comrade, the queen looked at the intruder of her subject’s punishment, the changeling bowed “forgive my rudeness.”
“You shall speak.” The Queen commanded
“He may have lost the gem, but from what he said it’s in the hands of just a pony.” The changeling stated matter-of-factly
“And what of it?” questioned the queen “without the gem the power it holds will be useless.”
“Not so my queen.” The changeling smiled showing its fanged teeth “the pony can be corrupted.”
The Queen smiled, the rage slowly vanishing from her eyes “Corrupting the ponies soul.” She laughed “that’s marvellous.”
She jumped over the still cowering subject and loomed down at the changeling before her. Her smile was cold yet held a strange love for the changeling before her.
“Can you actually pull that off.” she asked
“We can my queen, we are already standing by” said the changeling “all we need is for you to spare his life we need him to point out that pony for us.”
“If you fail, you shall share in his fate,” the Queen said turning she trotted around the cowering changeling, raising a hoof she rested it on his head “your life is spared for now, follow him, do what he says.”
The changeling got to his feet bowing continuously as he backed out the room “Thank you your majesty,” he repeated
“Do not fail me again.” The queen commanded once they were out the room, with a sigh the queen walked through the castle, the ever changing passageway seem to only appear once she was near. Soon she stood in a large room, a lone chair stood at its centre, green veins lined the chairs exterior pulsing, as if it were alive The queen trotted over to the throne and sat down, allowing herself to rest for a brief moment.
***
Twilight and Spike waited in the library, they were enjoying a board game together when through the window a glowing light appeared. It bounced all around the library before stopping above Spike’s head. In a small burst of light a pink pony dropped unto Spike’s head and looked down at his eyes.
“Spike you grew!” Exclaimed the energetic pony
“Pinkie, would you tell me that every time you see me?” asked Spike, as Pinkie jumped off his head and landed on top of Twilight bear hugging the princess
“Good to see you too Pinkie.” Twilight laughed
“So, what are we doing today?” asked pinkie releasing the princess, she bounced around the room looking at the books “is there an unspeakable evil only we can help you with, is there a party that needs planning….I’ll get the cake!”
“No pinkie it isn’t a party, but we’ll have to wait till the rest of the girls are here, that way I won’t have to repeat myself.” Twilight said
They didn’t have to wait long as orange, white, blue and yellow spheres began entering the library; they each formed into ponies which hugged each other spike and twilight.
“So darling, your call to us was quite… forceful.” Said Rarity ‘what seems to be the problem.”
“Alright girls, we got a problem,” began Twilight

Author's Note

It's been a while I've been out of it just trying to get my bearings a little... The stress of life and all.
Hoping to finish my arc soon enough atvlrast the mane six has appeared... Thanks to all the readers your comments drive us to write this.