Light Angel was flying around, trying to avoid the whale as it tried to eat her.

“Stop it! Please go away!” shouted the sunny pegasus, scared. “I’m not food! Yipe!” She had to quickly dodge as the whale had jumped up high up into the air above her and was heading down right towards her.

After the whale had missed, it crashed into the water.

SPLASH!!!

There was a big splash as a small column of water shot out where the whale had crashed. Light Angel put the pedal to the metal as she tried to fly even faster as there were only a few miles of water left until the sunny pegasus made it to land, the whale still chasing her.

Light Angel was starting to look tired as the sunny pegasus had been using up a lot of her energy flying fast. “I just hope I make it in time. I’m losing a lot of energy flying fast and my wings are feeling tired,” thought the sunny pegasus. “It’s only a matter of time until I slow down completely. I need to get to the beach before it’s too late.” As soon as she was close, something caught Light Angel’s eye. “Huh?”

In the distance, there was a crowd of ponies and other species in the town looking from afar by the railings. It seems that all of that splashing had gained some ponies’ attention as they were all wondering what was going on, believing that the sunny pegasus was playing with the whale.

“Somepony, please help me!” called out Light Angel.

Unfortunately, the sunny pegasus was too far away for them to hear her. What Light Angel didn’t know was that inside one of her saddlebags, the cloth that was carrying the seashell started lighting up as its inside glowed with a dazzling light.

Meanwhile-At a Random Library

At a random table where there were stacks of books and written papers on it, there was a stallion sitting there reading a book, but was looking annoyed.

After a few seconds, he got up and trotted away from the table at a fast pace, heading for the library’s entrance door.

“Who in Tartarus is making all sat noise? Seriously, I’m at se important part of my research about se Five Ancient Civilizations and I can’t even concentrate,” complained the unknown stallion in a slight French accent.

He eventually passed by the desk of where the owner/librarian pony, Bookworm, was.

The librarian stallion was impressed. “You finished reading already, Coquillage Méduse? That was fast,” he commented. “You’re usually here a lot longer than you usually are.”

Bookworm meant that Coquillage Méduse is usually in the library for so long that he usually has to go around the library until the librarian pony eventually finds the unknown stallion with his nose in the books or writing a paper, and would have to wake him up and inform the unknown stallion that it’s almost close to the library’s closing time and to put all the books back where they belong before leaving.

Coquillage Méduse shook his head. “No, I’m just going to go see what all that noise is about. If it continues any longer, then I’m just going to have to put off my research for tomorrow,” the unknown stallion informed. “Also, I told you to call me ‘Jellyfish’ to make it easier since ponies here have a hard time pronouncing my name-”

Bookworm grinned mischievously and was about to open his mouth.

Jellyfish stopped and looked at Bookworm, angrily. “-And don’t you dare call me Shelly. I hate that nickname,” he warned.

The librarian pony only smiled innocently in response like he wasn’t actually going to do that.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you should go see what all that noise is before you miss it,” said Bookworm innocently.

SPLASH!!!

The unknown stallion would’ve said more, but he only snorted and huffed before continuing on, causing the librarian pony to chuckle in response. Meanwhile, over at the table where Jellyfish’s books and papers were, a shadowy unicorn figure stepped out of their hiding spot from behind a bookcase. They approached the table and looked at all the pages before their horn lit up with a jade green magic aura, and the unknown stallion’s papers floated off of the table and over to them.

The mysterious unicorn looked at the current paper. “Hmm. I see,” said a female voice. “It looks like he’s gotten far with his research on the Ancient Forest Civilization like our leader said he would-” She glanced at the tons of books on the table. “-but from the looks of it, it seems that he’s having some trouble with his research.”

SPLASH!!!

The mysterious unicorn looked in the direction of the splash sound. “Only one creature in the ocean can make splashes that loud, but he’s supposed to be at his post far away from this town until I call for him for transport,” she said, in an annoyed tone. The mysterious unicorn growled. “If Wally keeps making so much noise, then our enemies will be alerted and realize my presence in this town.” Her saddlebags opened up on their own, and out floated some papers in the mysterious unicorn’s magic aura. “I need to hurry and copy the current information right now before it’s too late. I’ll have to give this to our leader and then copy the completed information later once it’s finished. Afterwards, I’m going to have a talk with that whale.”

She placed down one of the papers onto the table next to a blank sheet. Both papers glowed with the mystery unicorn’s magic aura before an exact copy of all the information from Jellyfish’s written paper had appeared onto the blank sheet. Afterwards, she moved the paper on the left back to exactly where it was on the table while the copied paper was moved over to the side, and then the mysterious unicorn started to do the same thing repeatedly with the other papers.

Meanwhile-Light Angel

Luckily, Light Angel was nearing the beach as she had only a few more feet left, which also meant that the whale, Wally, wouldn’t be able to follow the sunny pegasus once the water area became shallow.

“Almost there…Almost there…” said Light Angel. She dodged out of the way again. “Whoa!”

SPLASH!!!

The whale missed once again before continuing to swim after the sunny pegasus, determined to catch up with her. Wally looked up ahead and saw that Light Angel was almost at the beach as she was now in the shallow part of the waters. The whale would’ve stopped, but he needed to catch the sunny pegasus, so there was only one thing for him to do.

As for Light Angel, she had finally made it as the sunny pegasus landed on the beach sand right in front of the waves, panting from an exhausting flight. “Phew, I finally made it. Now that whale can’t get–” said the sunny pegasus, before being interrupted.

SPLASH!!!

The sound had attracted the pegasi’s attention as she looked up and realized that it wasn’t the sound of something splashing into the water, but more like something was coming out of the water as the whale had jumped high up into the air, heading down straight for the sunny pegasus, mouth wide open.

Her eyes widened in fear. “Oh, Tartarus,” said Light Angel.

She was unable to move as the sunny pegasus couldn’t muster the energy to fly away as her wings were too tired, and even if the pegasus was to gallop away, she wouldn’t be able to get far away enough to avoid him. Everyone watched as the whale was trying to eat the sunny pegasus, but couldn’t do anything to help her as he was closing in.

“Somepony, please help me,” Light Angel pleaded with her eyes clenched shut.

SPLASH!!!

After a few seconds of nothing happening, the sunny pegasus opened her eyes to see that the whale was gone and that there was a big splash in the water. She was both confused and relieved at the same time.

“Light Angel! Are you okay?!” shouted a young, familiar female voice.

The sunny pegasus, recognizing the voices, looked up to see Corrosion Abyss with Little Fraise in his arms, floating down toward her, shocking the onlookers at seeing the void creature.

Once the filly was let down onto the sand, allowing her to approach, and then hug, Light Angel. “Sorry that we didn’t come sooner. There was a long line at the last gift shop we were in,” said the filly.

Corrosion Abyss nodded their body. “Yeah. The one ahead of the line was trying to decide on which gift basket they wanted to take with them back home to give to their sister and brother-in-law,” explained the void creature, sounding annoyed. “Luckily, there was a service that allowed one to have their own gift basket made, and everything was taken care of.” He then looked out towards the ocean with a thoughtful look. “But anyway, that was really weird.”

She nodded, agreeing with the void creature. “Right? That whale had just come out of nowhere, trying to eat me and it wouldn’t stop,” said the sunny pegasus. “It was like it was chasing after me for some strange reason.”

“I think we should investigate the cause first. Can you tell us what you did when you were making seashell flowers before the whale started chasing you?” asked the void creature. “Maybe whatever you did had caused the whale to start chasing you?”

Light Angel nodded. “Of course. Here’s what happened…” she said.

The sunny pegasus then began explaining what happened.

Meanwhile-Over at the Crowd

Everyone was talking amongst each other about the shocking thing that had just happened.All save one: the unknown stallion. He had arrived when Wally had jumped up into the air to try and capture Light Angel.

He looked shocked. “Oh no, that was Wally. That means they’re here, which also means…” thought Jellyfish. The unknown stallion turned around and galloped away. “I have to finish my research, and quickly. Before they find out about it.”

Jellyfish hurried towards the library, not knowing that his research was being copied while he was away.

Author's Note

That was weird. That whale was chasing Light Angel for some reason. I hope the three can figure out why that happened. Also, I wonder who that mysterious unicorn was that copied Jellyfish's research notes? I guess we'll find out soon later in the future.

Coquillage Méduse is French for "Shellfish Jellyfish". Creatures who can't pronounce his name calls him "Jellyfish" since it's easier for them, which he's okay with. Also, if you're wondering what kind of creature Jellyfish is, it'll be revealed on a future chapter. Also, he was drawn by burnt-cheese-toastie.

Bookworm was drawn by my friend, chaosborb.

The Psychopath proofread this chapter.

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