From Mythos to Logos

Limestone Pie was one who knew greatly of the benefits of trust. After all, she was the Bearer of the Honesty Element for a reason. She never embellished upon her abilities, always gave her true opinion, and was dead blunt about her wares.

Trust was a rather picky thing, with there being many different ways as to trust. To put trust in another was most commonly what the word was associated with, yet there was a secondary trust that was often forgotten: trust in oneself.

To trust oneself was far different. It implied that you believed in yourself and your abilities, something that her sister greatly lacked. Yet Pinkie trusted her, and therefore it was something she did not speak of. It was Pinkie's choice as to if she wished to tell others.

So what is it that you can't trust yourself with, Sparkler? she pondered as she packed her ash black saddlebags with supplies. Something involving the storm in Manehattan, and from how to speak about Twirly, it sounds like it involves your family... She sighed. This isn't something for me to ask. If you want to tell us what happened, go right ahead. If you still don't, I can't say that I blame you.

"Ssay hello to The Aerial Wonder!" declared Fleetfoot proudly. "The first ever airsship that can land on cloudss!"

Amethyst and her friends stared at the ship in awe, none of them having seen something like it before. The ship was large enough to fit about ten ponies comfortably, and had a lower deck for storage. The deck was made of white cedar, and the sides were painted light blue with clouds. The sails were a deeper blue, with bright yellow lightning bolts across them. The flag at the very top was the Equestrian national flag, showing Celestia and Luna flying around the sun and moon.

"We get to be pirates!" cheered Flitter in excitement.

"If we were going to be pirates, that would mean that we were going to do illegal things," commented Limestone.

She grinned mischievously. "Oh, really? Then maybe..."

With a complete deadpan stare, "No."

Fleetfoot zipped over to her saddlebags, and pulled out a glass bottle with a dark liquid inside. "We can't keep alcohol on basse, so I thought that grape ssoda would work well enough for a ssend-off."

Lotus couldn't help but giggle. "Zat's quite clever."

"Yeah, but Ssurprise might be a bit annoyed that I took her drink..." She shrugged. "I'm ssure sshe'll be fine with it once I tell her why."

"Send-off?" questioned Saffron. "So this is the ship's first flight?"

"Yep!" Fleetfoot grinned broadly. "Has anypony ever captained a boat?" She held out a blue book in her other hoof. "I've got the manual!"

Amethyst took the manual in her magic. "Well, I haven't steered a boat by myself, but my father showed me how to when I was a filly."

"Well, that'ss more experience than I have! Let's board!"

Twirly eagerly took the manual from Amethyst as the unicorn went to help bring their supplies onto The Aerial. There was a neat pile of their saddlebags (in light blue, ash black, bright pink, ice white, shiny gold, and pale yellow) beside a few plain brown barrels, a crate with a blue stripe across the top, several bundles of rope, and, much to Amethyst's distain, a crate of apples.

As they tucked nearly everything below deck, a crowd began to form around the ship in interest. Twirly flipped through the manual while perched on the side of the ship, and Rainbow Dash chose to fly right over to the breezie.

"Hey, Twirly! What're you guys up to here?"

Twirly glanced up at Rainbow. "Big adventure." She looked back down. "I'm learning how to fly the ship."

Rainbow scoffed. "You don't need to read a book like some sort of egghead! Just grab the wheel and set off!"

She scowled in response. "Easy for you to say. I probably can't even turn the stupid wheel, let alone steer."

Rainbow rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly. "Eheh..." She glanced around to make sure nopony was listening in, and lowered her voice to a whisper. "Listen kiddo, I know that you're just a breezie, but don't you let something like biology of all things get in the way of who you want to be. I mean, considering how the whole world works off of magic, there's got to be someway for you to really fly. Eos wouldn't have made somepony with the sole intent of them being weak, after all."

Twirly looked at Rainbow in surprise, and recieved a wink before the pegasus zipped off into the air. She glanced back at her wings, and her eyes narrowed in anger. "Then why can't you let me try?" she sniped in Breezan.

Amethyst climbed out onto the upper deck, and quickly scampered up a ladder on the middle mast. She held a rather large yellow gemstone between her teeth, making Twirly wonder why she wasn't using her magic, and placed it a pouch that seemed to designed for that exact purpose. She slid back down, went beneath deck, and came back up with a large turquoise gemstone.

"Amy, what are you doing? questioned Twirly as the unicorn climbed up the back-most mast.

"Putting the power-sources in place," she replied as she climbed down. "The flight magic is infused into gemstones. So far I've put up a citrine and a turquoise."

"What's with the specifi-ci-ci-ty?"

"Specificity," she corrected quickly. "They're gemstones that can best react with spells revolving around air." She went below deck once more, and came back up with a purple gemstone in her hoof. "This one is the more reactive out of all of them, so it goes up by the sail in the front."

Twirly stared at the gemstone for a few seconds, in which Amethyst walked over to the front-most most and quickly climbed up. "Isn't jat... an amethyst?" she muttered softly.

Amethyst turned on the ladder, holding on with only two hooves. "You say something, Twirl-" One of the screws on the piece of wood that her forehoof was holding onto suddenly came loose, and she completely lost her grip. "Crosswinds!"

Her horn instantly flared up, and she whipped her head to the side. Not particularly thinking through what she was doing, Amethyst launched off a sunbeam as a tactical response, it just barely missing the ship and instead slamming into the ground.

"Wrong spell!" yelped Amethyst, just as she was launched backwards through the air from the force of her sunbeam.

Due to her panicking and not having done any significant acts of magic for most of the day, Amethyst had put far too much power into her sunbeam. She tumbled through the air, having gone high enough to even burst through a cloud, and manged to get a glimpse of evergreen before painfully crashing headlong through a large thicken of trees. Since she had fallen at an angle, she rolled and skidded across the plant-infested ground before finally crashing into another tree as to stop. She crumpled to the ground covered in various scratches, barely even aware that she was in the Everfree Forest, and simply shaking out the blue petals that had gotten stuck in her tail.