Voyage Of The Unforgotten!
Chapter 14- The Music Box!

Rainbow Dash's P.O.V

The sun arose the next morning, a bright orange and red glow glazed through the curtains. I opened my eyes slightly and gave a little yarn and uncovered myself from the bed and walked to my mirror. My hair always looks like a lion's mane. Or as Rarity would say “Darling, you have bed head and a bad case too.” I scratched the surface of my head and smacked my lips a couple of times. I collapsed on my bed again and snuggled in the bed more. A knock came on my door and I went out and didn't see anyone. I looked left and right and didn't see anyone and when I looked down I saw a bag. I picked it up and closed my door. I placed the gift on my bed and opened it myself. It was a beautiful red and pink music box. It was beautiful and also had golden flowers on the side of it and when I opened it, it had a beautiful Indian apsara* clothed in a red and pink attire.

*Aspara is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

“Awwww who gave this to me?” I asked. I placed it on my drawer and grabbed my mom's diary and read a few more chapters. Something interested me until I heard music. Classical music. It was coming from the music box. It was playing “Spring: The Four Seasons” which was a very beautiful classical piece my mom used to play on the piano. I looked over and wondered: “How did it play on it's own?” Hearing the music play louder and louder, the little figure spun around in rhythm. As I sat back down on my bed, the box shut. I gave a perplexed expression as I opened the page of my mom's diary and the music played again and the box opened. When I closed the book, the box shut. I grabbed the music box and shake it rapidly.

“What's wrong with you?”

“Hey watch it!!” I heard a voice. I grew scared and looked around.

“Who said that?!!”

“Um, hello? I'm in here! Somehow I got locked in here.” The little voice said while trying to crack open the box.

“AAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!” I exclaimed as loud as I could a threw the music box across my room door and it hit the wall.

“Ouch!!” The voice shrieked. “Did your mom ever tell you not to throw things across the room? Geez, humans are like animals. Some of them aren't tamed.”

“G-Get back! And don't move! Whatever you are!!” I replied as I grabbed a blow dryer and was holding it out and walking around the music box with it.

“Um, I'm sorry. I'm assuming we got on the wrong foot.” The voice said and the music box cracked open and out came a tiny little apsara like the one in the box I saw before. Now that I was taking a look at her, she has long black hair and a jewel on her forehead and a red scarf slightly tied around her head and was wearing a cream silk shawl and a pink silky skirt and she narrowed her way to me. She didn't have wings or anything. But she did have a jar with her. A very tiny jar filled with crystallized water. She gave me a smile and bowed.

“Greetings Master Dashie. How may I assist you?” She smiled. “My name is Crystal. I am an apsara. I have been sent here from your ancestors. And they said it's time to fulfil your destiny!!”

“Um, hi um Crystal. Who are you and why are you here?”

“I don't think you heard me, I said my name is-”

“No no no. I heard what you said I'm just completely shocked.”

“Why? I'm sure in another universe you meet a little encounter before. But she was an animal. Ooohh cookies!!!” She beamed and landed on the drawer with a plate of chocolate chip cookies. She grabbed a huge one and sank her teeth into one of them.

“Yum.” She said but it sounded more like “yam” to me. She zoomed around a few times and flew all around the room with her little magical carpet. I stopped her and she kept gigging.

“Your fingers are so soft. Do you know how tall I am? I am 4 inches. I'm like a travel buddy!”

I covered her mouth with my index finger.

“No travel buddy!! I don't know how you came here and I don't know how to make you leave.”

“Oh no Master Dashie, I have to guide you to your destiny! Your ancestors are calling you to fulfil the prophecy!”

“What prophecy?!?!”

“The prophecy of becoming a warrior!!” She gave a laugh then coughed afterwards. “Oh, did I mention that my name was Crystal?”

“Yes you did.”

“Okay great! What's your name?”

“My name is-”

“Dashie? Cause I'm calling you Master Dashie all the time.”

“My name is Rainbow Dash and stop calling me your master.”

“But you are! I'm at your service! Your wish is my command.”

“Ohhh, you're like the genie in the lamp!!”

“You can say that.”

“Okay great! My wish is for you too leave!”

“Oh, that can't be granted. You see, your ancestors made me come to seek you to fulfil your destiny.”

“I can't fulfil it!”

“Why not?”

“My dad won't let me fulfil it.”

“Oh yes he will. By the time you realize who you truly are, then he will help you. For now, we must find who you are in your ancestor's eyes.”

“Right now, I need to get ready and help the mango cove with my friends.”

“Okay then! If you need me, I'll be right here in the music box waiting for your approval!!” She smiled as she did her aspara position which was to cross your legs and clasp your hands together. She did that position and then the music box closed on its own.

I grabbed my shoes and wore some jeans and a random t-shirt and all my friends met me at the plaza.

“There you are!!! I was wondering when you would've shown up.”

“Yeah, I kind of got sidetracked. Anywho, let's get down to business. So, I told my dad that we would be helping him with the coves for the ancestral festival. So, we're going to use our strengths. So, we have a fishing cove, protectors cove, dancing cove, clothing cove, and the mango cove.”

“You already know I'm taking the clothing cove!” Rarity said as she spun around and smiled happily.

“Okay Rarity, you have to take the blue t-shirt.” I replied giving her a t-shirt and it was size small. She clutched onto it and she wore the t-shirt.

“I'll guess I'll take the fishing cove, it seems fun.” Fluttershy smiled as she grabbed a green shirt. I nodded my head and told her that green was the fishing cove.

“Awww shoot! I'll help as well! Wrangling these critters will be easy as pie.” Applejack exclaimed as she grabbed a green t-shirt and she wore it and gave a high five to Fluttershy.

“Oohhh!!! I wanna do the dancing cove!! Use my amazing samba skills! Samba samba samba!” Pinkie exclaimed as she started dancing a bit.

“Okay, you can help Radiance out with the dancing cove. Take a yellow t-shirt!” I smiled.

Pinkie didn't hesitate. She quickly grabbed a yellow t-shirt and wore it proudly.

“Sunset, you don't mind helping the protectors cove right?” I asked her giving her a red t-shirt.

“Haha nope, not a problem. I'm sure Twilight can help me too. Right Twilight?” She asked as she nudged Twilight. She blushed and nodded her head. I gave them both red t-shirts and they both smiled.

“And what about you darling?” Rarity looked at me perplexed. “What cove are you going to be working in?”

“The mango cove!!!” I squealed. As I wore an orange t-shirt. “Since Chief Akelo is waiting for me there and my dad told me to help assist them anyway.”

“And I'm also guessin’ you want to be there cause Soarin works there, huh?” Applejack smirked. I blushed deeply and scratched the back of my neck.

“Uh, hehehehehe.” I blushed and cleared my throat.

“Okay, so, we each take a cove and start working right?” Sunset replied as she was fixing her shirt.

“Mhm! Well, you guys will find each cove, they each have signs on them. So, let's go!”

We all started to walk along the grass and heard kids giggling and laughing and having fun and one of them bumped into me.

“Morning Princess Dash! How are you today? It's good to have you back and help us out!”

“Awwwwwww thank you so much little one!”

“You're welcome! Nice to meet you again!!”

We saw the little girl run away and we all smiled.

“Wow, everyone's so nice here! And the fresh air here is lovely!” Twilight spun around and laughed.

“Yup, it's better at night. The stars really twinkle.” I smiled looking at the sky and then bumped into someone.

“Soarin?!”

“Hey Dash. Woah, I see that you have an orange shirt huh? Wanna help the mango cove?”

“Well, that was my job anyway. Chief Akelo is expecting me today anyway. My friends and I are going to make sure this ancestral festival is the best one!”

“Haha I'm sure you guys can. We need the extra help. Things aren't looking too good with the preparations from where I'm standing.”

“Yeah, things are running a bit slow.” Pinkie looked around and we saw little bit of people around each cove. I bit my lip and then looked around and saw the slow service. I sighed and then thought of an idea.

“I think I know what we can do to make this ancestral festival the best one anyone has ever seen!!” I smiled while putting my hands around Soarin. He sort of blushed and gave me an unsatisfied look.

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“Well, what's your idea?” Fluttershy asked with a smile.

“I was thinking of doing something that ties with everyone's ancestral background. My background is Indian and Polynesian. And Soarin's is-”

“Italian.”

“It is?!”

“Yup, my great grandfather was from Italy and his whole family was too. I may be born in India but my family background is Italian.” He winked at me and made me blush.

“Anyway, as I was saying, doing a festival with one another's background is the perfect solution. Instead of the festival just being about Indian background. So, what do you say? If we finish helping the coves out before the festival begins we can start making things for our own culture.”

Everyone smiled and cheered. Soarin gave me a thumbs up.

“That's a perfect idea! Also, what is your cultural idea Dashie?” Rarity asked.

“Well, an Indian tradition is always mentioned but I wanted to acknowledge my mother. The Polynesian culture.” I smiled.

“Well, if you're doing a dance about the Polynesian culture, count me in!!!” Pinkie did a little dance. All of my friends hugged me. I'm guessing they all wanted to join the dance I had in mind after all.

“Well, we better get to working if we wanna accomplish our goal.” Soarin cleared his throat. “Not that your idea isn't a great one.”

“Soarin's right! We'll meet back at the plaza at sunset. See ya later!”

We all walked our separate ways and Soarin leaned on my shoulder.

“Nice motivational speech princess. I for one thought that you were going way into it.” He laughed. I laughed and punched him slightly on the arm.

“Well it wasn't too motivational. I tried to make a valid point.”

“And you did. Anywho, welcome to the mango cove!”

I couldn't believe my eyes! Everything was totally organized! People climbing up trees and knocking down the fresh fruit and people at the bottom catch the fruit in woven baskets. Some people were walking around carrying heavy loads of mangoes. I was just looking around and then I started smiling and saw someone carrying a loaded basket.

“Woah, watch your step!” A girl said as she was carrying a basket and before I got hit, I ducked underneath the basket. I laughed afterwards and Soarin caught up to me.

“You like it?”

“I adore it! This place is beautiful! Now I see why so many people want to apply here.”

“Hahaha, you think that's the true reason? The real reason behind it is because we all treat each other like one big happy family. Even if we fight, we still resolve it like a huge family would do. It's a great place here.” He smiled and put his hands in his pocket and gave a shy chuckle.

“Yeah it looks like a great place. And I believe that I'm a new addition to the family.” I smirked.

“Yeah, we'll see. Well, you know the basic part of the mango cove where we work but do you wonder how we get to be this organized?”

I nodded my head and he grabbed my arms and pulled some huge palm leaves as like a door to other part of the cove. When I walked inside, my jaw was wide open.

“Welcome to the homing place of the mango cove. We call it the “Hut Hut!” Reason being it's a huge hut built from bamboo stick and a little bit of straw here and there. Don't worry, this place will never fall apart. The bamboo sticks we have are very secure and are strong enough so don't be afraid.”

“Wow Soarin! You know so much about this place and here I thought I knew a lot about India.”

“Well you do. It's just of a matter of time. Anywho, we're done with the tour.”

“That's it?”

“Yup, pretty much. Oh, I got to show you the most important thing here.”

He showed me to a huge board that had names of every mango cove worker. I looked around and saw Soarin's name.

“Hey look, there's your name!”

“Haha yeah. This is the board that tells you what your job is for the rest of the week. See? Today is Monday and I have-”

“To feed the chickens.” I finished his sentence while reading his status. He jumped up and took a close look at the board.

“What the?!?!?!?! Ugh, Fleetfoot.” He grumbled under his breath.

“Um who?”

“Hiya Soarin! Didja call me?!? I heard ya grumble from a mile away or was it just my good hearing senses. Anywho, who's ya little friend-”

“You little devil! You switched my job with yours! I was supposed to be weaving baskets!!”

“Well, you'll do that tomorrow! The chickens are waiting to be fed, or else you're a chicken about it.” She smirked at him. He looked at me and blushed.

“Can you excuse us for just a minute?”

“Mhm!”

A little far from the board....

“Why did you do that?!”

“Look Soarin. Either you tell your little girlfriend about your fear of chickens or else Chief Akelo is going to have your head.”

“Number 1, I'm not telling anyone! Number 2, she's not my girlfriend!”

“Hmmm, you want her to be.”

“UGHHH!!! Just leave, please?!”

“Fine fine. But those chickens aren't gonna feed themselves!”

Back to the board....

“Hehe, sorry about that. Some little error.”

“Okay. But feeding the chickens sounds awesome!!” I smiled.

“Well, ya to you.” He sighed. He sat down on a rock and I sat on the grass.

“What's bothering you?”

“Nothing Dashie. I'm okay.”

“Na-uh! Something's bothering you and I'm not leaving or starting work without you telling me what's wrong.”

“Okay, look, I don't want you to think of me as a geek or a dork because what I'm about to tell you, seems a bit goofy. I have alektorophobia.”

“Alekto what now?!?”

“It means I have a phobia of chickens.”

There was a long pause and my cheeks turned slightly pink and I giggled softly.

“Awww Soarin. That's nothing to be ashamed of. There's lots of things we're all afraid of. Take me for example.”

“You're afraid of something? Knowing you, you'd probably lie about that.”

“Yeah that's true. But there's one thing I'm afraid of.”

“And that is?”

“I'm afraid of losing you again.” I replied softly as I snuggled him against his chest. He looked down on me and blushed deeply and scratched the back of his neck and smiled.

“Awwww Dashie. That's never going to happen again.”

“I don't ever wanna use you again. What if we get separated?” She looked into my eyes while her voice cracked and tears rolling down her face. I wiped her tears with my finger and kisses her forehead.

“Nothing's going to separate us. And I'll make sure of that. Whatever happens, you'll always be my Dashie.”

We gave one another a hug and we found that the mango cove area that we were in was a little bit quiet. We looked around and saw people staring at us and then they got back to work.

“Hehehe, I guess we caused a lot of attention to ourselves.” She laughed as she wiped more of her tears.

“Yeah, I guess so. Ugh, now I got to go and feed these dumb animals.” He sighed while walking towards the gate where the chickens were kept. I bit my lip and ran after him.

“Ya know, I can take over your job for you. Even if I'm new.”

“Dashie are you sure about this? Feeding these chickens are like a military field. Ya sure you're up for it?”

“Hell yeah!!! Now! Where dem chickens at?!”

“Um, you sure about this?” He asked while pouring some of the chickens food in a bucket.

“Yes sir! Now step aside brother! I got some chickens to feed.” I replied while snatching the bucket away from him as I went into the gate. It was a bit quiet where I was standing and the chickens were in the coop.

“Well, call them out here.” Soarin said.

“What do you think I'm trying to do genius?”

I placed the bucket on the floor and bent my knees a bit and patted my legs. And I started sounding like a chicken. I started walking around like one and when I was trying to do the chicken dance, I heard a couple of giggles.

“Soarin, I know you find this very entertaining. But I'm really trying to get these chickens out of their coop and they aren't budging!”

“I'm so sorry, I just can't take you seriously!” He doubled with laughter as I rolled my eyes.

After the next 35 minutes, I found myself sleeping against the chicken gate. Snoring away, I happen to find Soarin above my face out the outside the gate.

“Enjoy your nap princess?”

“Oh don't make any jokes with me Soarin. Those chickens are as dumb like ya said. I've been doing the chicken dance and sounding like a chicken for the last 35 minutes. It's time we do this the hard way!”

“Uh Dash? I don't think that's a-”

Before he could've finished, I stuck my head into the door of the chicken coop and saw all the chickens clucking away.

“HEY!!!! You don't see me trying to call you out to get some food?!?! I've been clucking like a chicken and dancing like a chicken for 35 minutes and this is what you dumb animals do to me?!? Now, if you don't get your little fluffy butts out of here, so help me, I will cook one of you tonight! Capiche?!”

They all gave me a dumbfounded look and one of them dumped the leftover food on my face. I spat some out my mouth and they all stared at me. I tried to escape before anything else happened but my head got stuck in there.

“You've got to be kidding me!!”

I looked up at all the chickens and then they all flew at my face and started pecking at my face and eating the leftover food. I gave a huge holler and screamed Soarin's name loudly.

“GAHHHHHHHH SOARINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!”

He came instantly and started giggling at bit. He went inside the gate and pulled me by the leg.

“How’d you get your head stuck in there?!”

“It's a long story and ouch! Not so hard!!”

“Oh sorry! I told you not to do that!”

“Well, it was the only solution- OW!! Hey no eating of the hair that's off lim-ouch!!! Stop-ow!! Hey-ow!! OWW!!! Make them stop!! Hurry up!!!”

Soarin finally pulled me out the coop and some feathers were in my hair and some marks on my face. I fell on something and when I got up, I felt some cold mushy thingy on my butt. It was the bucket of new food and all the chickens came out the coop. And when they saw the mushy food smothered across my butt, they ran after me for it. I made a run for it all around the gate and was screaming my head off while Soarin was doubling of laughter.

Next scene....

“Awww Dash, it wasn't too bad..”

“Well Mr. Laughing the Whole Time, you weren't there cause you're afraid of chickens. I bet you're afraid of feathers.” I said angrily while placing a feather from my hair on his nose. He jumped up in fright and was brushing off his nose which made me laugh hard. I saw all my friends at a table near the plaza, laughing and having fun. Once me and Soarin showed up, everyone looked shocked.

“What happened to you darling?! You look dreadful!!” Rarity exclaimed. I wasn't really paying attention to her but I did lean on her and gave a tired sigh.

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“Why does she look so dirty?” Twilight asked.

“Well, long story short, Rainbow Dash decided to do my job of feeding the chickens since I have a phobia of them. So, she decided to feed them but it took longer than expected. So, after a little nap, she grew upset and confronted the chickens herself by putting her head in the chicken coop and somehow, I'm guessing the chickens pecked her face and her head got stuck and so after I pulled her out, the new batch of food splattered on her butt and so the chickens followed her all evening long until we both left that is.” Soarin said while shrugging his shoulders.

Everyone was speechless while Pinkie and Applejack were laughing so hard. I blushed and rested my head on the table.

“Awww the poor thing looks so tired.” Rarity wailed.

I got knocked out cold and Soarin carried me on his back and we all walked back to the palace. Soarin brought me upstairs to my room and placed me on my bed. I woke up and realized that I was at home. I took a shower and washed off all the chicken food and the marks off my body. When I got out the shower, I went to my room and changed into my lavender short dress which was my pajamas. And I plopped onto my bed and there was a knock on the door. I opened it and saw Ramõn smiling sheepishly.

“Hello princess. Can I come in?”

“What do you want Ramõn?”

“Nothing, I just wanted to check on you to see how you're doing.”

“I'm fine Ramõn.”

He looked down on my body and did the head nod and smirked.

“Nice~!”

I looked down and saw that he was talking about my, ahem, my boobs, and then I covered my body.

“What do you want?”

“Nothing just making sure you're safe tonight. You want some company~?” He replied as he pulled my leg onto his leg. I blushed deeply and pushed him away from me.

“Stop it!!!” I yelled. He chuckled and winked at me.

“G'night chica.” He blew a kiss and walked to his room. I rolled my eyes and slammed my room door and went on my bed and then was pretty pissed at what Ramõn did. He needs to leave and he needs to leave now!!!

Author's Note

I looked down and saw that he was talking about my, ahem, my boobs, and then I covered my body.

I'M SO WEAKKKK I'M SORRY BEST LINEEEEE

Oh, uh, ahem, I hoped you loved the chapter!!