In a Sea of Madness

I was at a slumber party with the girls when the moon started to melt.

It’d been a busy week. I’d been super busy lately preparing for Celestia and Luna’s upcoming retirement, studying reams upon reams of legal texts, and reviewing the Equestrian legal code After all that, it was good to just hang out with my friends, just like the old times.

We’d been chatting about the latest Daring Do novel, sharing a bowl of popcorn, occasionally I’d scribble something down in this journal. Spike was out with Mac and Discord with their weekly O&O session, so it was just me and the girls.

That’s when Rainbow shouted for us to look outside. We’d dropped whatever we were doing and rushed to the window. Our jaws had dropped. The moon was melting. The pristine silvery orb was smearing itself across the night sky, basaltic rock flowed like soft wax across the void.

For a moment, we’d just stood there, staring at the night sky, watching the moon become a gelatinous glob, and trying to comprehend what we were looking at. This wasn’t real. This couldn’t be real. It has to be some sort of shared hallucination. That was it, a hallucination.

There was a flash of light and a loud “pop” behind us. We’d turned to see Discord standing in the middle of our circle of sleeping bags, a look of utter panic plastered on his face. Before we could react, he’d muttered something about “No time to explain” and snapped his fingers. The next thing we knew, we were all lying on the shores of some distant tropical island, the tide lapping at our hooves. Off on the horizon, we saw the sun slowly poke over the horizon, only to melt into a swirling, golden cloud

That’s when Rarity started screaming.