Ditzys secret

7 years old, 2 years since left home...

"Come on Ditzy! You can do it!" Raindrop cheered Ditzy on as she raced to beat her record time. So far she had gone up to 20 MPH wing power without her wings cramping us like usual. (Just between you and me, it's so much easier to swim than fly!

-Ditzy)

"I think I'm done for now Raindrops." Ditzy slowly landed next to her adopted sister. They had been at it for an hour now ever since school ended for the day. The two friends trotted through town.

Ditzy was now nine years old and had just started fourth grade. She was still the only one in her class to be a blank flank, but she was still accepted by her one friend Raindrops. The only problem was, Ditzy never could come to tell Rain about her love for swiming or how she was different in the water. By then she had found that no other filly of colt had the same things happen.

"Hey looser, blank flank." Shining Star stopped the duo, knocking Ditzy out of her thoughts. Shining Star was a short colt, but had a big mouth.

"Shut up Shorty. You know what happened last you tried your stupid bullying on me." Raindrops stood up tall. Last time star had in countered them he got a good buck in the face.

"Just be prepared. I'll get my vengeance for that." star threatened, sulking away to pounce on his next victim.

Once he was gone, Raindrops brightened back up instantaneously.

"Okay. I have a surprise for you! Close your eyes!" Raindrops lead Ditzy through a crowded street, through some grass, and into some sort of outdoorsy place. When Ditzy opened her eyes, she was surprised to see a beautiful clearing with a large pond and a white poufy cloud hanging above it. The grass was the most greenest thing in the world and the pond a sapphire blue. Looking at the cloud closer, Ditzy noticed that it was a sort of house.

"Our very own playhouse. Just like the one Applejack and Big Mac told the class about. The only difference is that ours is a cloud.”

A fluffy, changeable, compatible cloud. Ditzy gasped and flew up to it, Raindrops right behind her. A damp layer of cloud dew covered her body. (it didn't completely penetrate my coat so I had no worries of changing. -Ditzy)

The inside of the cloud was gorgeous. It had large pillars and was two stories. It even had a slide going from top to bottom floor.

“this is so cool!!!" Ditzy had a grin across her face.

"Last one to the pond wins!!!" Raindrop burst out of the hideout in a hysterical energy frenzy and dove into the pond. The splash went at least five feet up in Ditzys perspective. (Which is hard to tell considering my eyes!-Ditzy)

Raindrops resurfaced and shot out of the water, racking towards Ditzy. All Ditzy noticed was how wet her friend was.

Ditzy flew up and dodged her friend who plummeted towards the pond once again. When she again came up her face had disappointment written all over it.

"Come on Ditzy! You’re not afraid of water, are you???" Raindrops shouted from below.

"Sorry, but I ...um...don't know how to swim!!!" This wasn't completely true, seeing that Ditzy practiced in the bathtub. It was practically second nature to her. On the other hoof, she never had taken true swimming lessons.

"Now’s better than never!" Ditzy was shocked as Raindrops grabbed her tail. She hadn't even noticed her friend coming up behind her.

"N...n...No! Wait but Rain!" Ditzy tried to pull out of her friends grasp to no avail as she was pulled to the water’s edge. All those years of hidden secret gone to waste.

"Please rain!" Ditzy whimpered. Raindrops just shook her head and tsked, all the while getting closer to the pond.

"We need to get rid of that fear before it grows into a phobia. You know what Doctor True Colt said about that stuff. If you get it you could get paranoid. Then you'd go crazy!" Raindrops kept rambling and Ditzy finally gave in.

She knew she loved the water. Maby it was time to show some pony else her love for it to. As soon as this realization struck her, so did water. When she felt it, she swam as fast as she could to the bottom of the pond, approximately 8ft. As soon as she was down there she waited for the changes to take effect.

She opened her eyes. They where no longer cross-eyed but completely straight. She could easily see underwater. She looked down to see that her whole body had taken a greenish flare to it and her tail was now skin, bone, and muscle instead of hair. At the end of it was something like a giant fin. Her hoofs where the same other than the frills on them. Her ears sharpened as they grew in to Mach the rest of her body. Finally she turned her head and watched her wings changes as she was accustom to.

Slowly the feathers melted away as membrane grew over. At three spots bone muscle and dark green skin rose up over the leathery span. She felt her gills flare and relax each time she took a breath of the water. It was like breathing pure oxygen. She relished the feel of no gravity.

Then she noticed a faint glow from her flank. She looked down to see seven bubbles glowing there. A smile burst from her face. Finally she had gotten her cutie mark! But her excitement soon changed. A frantic Raindrop had finally grabbed onto her friends mane. She pulled Ditzy above the water and pulled her onto shore, not stopping her talk to breath.

"O my god, o my god, o my god. What do I do??? I can't look. What if she’s dead? Of course she is! She can't be alive! She was under there for a minute at least! Its all my fault! I forced her in when she couldn’t swim!" It took Ditzy a moment to catch her breath in the vicious air. Water was so much easier to breath. Had she been under there a full minute? It felt like seconds to her. Of course Raindrops can be a bit dramatic sometimes.

Talking about Raindrops wasn't she just...

"Oh." Ditzy looked up from her thoughts to find Raindrops looking at her, her face filled with shock.

"You’re a..a..a.."

"Ya. I know." it had first occurred to Ditzy in school when they talked about mythical creatures. It was quite shocking at the time but she eventually got over it. She hoped Rain would to.

"But how can you be.... I thought..They were just a legend... But a...a mermare?" at this realization, Raindrops fainted.

"Eh. Shell come to eventually." Ditzy hopped back into the water to swim around.