Ponies of Fayra — Legend of Harmony

Cozy glided down and landed next to the trot glider she had spotted from above. Looking down at the ground, Cozy raised an eyebrow.

“One set of normal sized hoof prints, a few bunny prints, and one set of rather massive hoof prints. Interesting, so at least one earth pony is on this island too.”

After studying the prints for a moment, Cozy had mixed feelings about what could have conspired. There were a set of clean prints leading into the jungle, but there were also some troubling looking mangled prints as well. Deciding to be cautious, Cozy flew low to avoid leaving her own prints until she reached the harder dirt of the jungle.

Following the prints through the jungle and up to what she assumed was some kind of dwelling, Cozy’s attention was caught by the dragon statue in the center of the garden.

“Not in nearly as good of a shape as the last one.” Whispered Cozy under her breath before moving forward.

Reaching the house, she kept to the shadows and out of view of the open door. As she slinked around the outside of the building, her ears picked up a male voice that no doubt belonged to the earth pony.

“That wraps things up.”

“Is there anything else you want to do before you leave?” asked a female voice Cozy recognized as belonging to Zeph.

“Nope, I’ve done everything there is to do here more times than I’d care to try and count.”

As Cozy carefully listened to the two pairs of hoof steps echoing through the house, her mind suddenly turned to a feeling deep within her that told her that there was a strong magic power nearby. As it seemed Zeph was safe for the moment, Cozy snuck around the outside of the building towards the feeling of magic.

Following the magic, she came to a stone building away from the main house hidden beneath a thick layer of vines. If it hadn’t been for the magical energy radiating from whatever was inside, it would have been impossible to find.

Analyzing the surrounding magic, Cozy realized that it was a rare form of pure magic, one she could use to amplify any other magic. Concentrating the ambient magic, she funneled it into her bracelet and used it to levitate away the dense layers of vines just high enough for her to enter the building.

Once inside she let the vines fall back down and took a cluster of glow berries from her saddlebag. Making her way down the staircase, she found herself inside what she assumed was the remains of an old root cellar. Every surface was dense with dust and spider webs.

As cozy made her way to the back of the cellar, she used her newfound enhanced levitation magic to clear the way of webs and debris. Reaching the back wall, she noted a block that had a slightly distinct color compared to the other around it and used her magic to pull it from the wall.

Hidden behind the block was the source of the magical energy, an apple sized brown cube shaped gemstone inscribed the four seasons along the sides, the sun on top, and the moon on the bottom. A series of symbols she recognized as representing the royal earth pony family.

“I haven’t seen these symbols in a long while. But, since when did the earth ponies care about magical artifacts? Suppose it doesn’t matter, this will be helpful. Though too dangerous to carry around, as is.”

Cozy took a moment to calm her mind as she thought about what she was willing to sacrifice in order to conceal the cube. Thankfully, it was small, so she wouldn’t need much. She decided on a bit of the lower part of her mane as it would only seem as though she got a mane cut.

Running her hoof along the back of her mane, she took a piece of it off. Using her magic, she warped the former piece of hair into a tight fitting container around the cube. When she was done, she examined her work and smiled. With the cube sealed, she’d be able to control its output of ambient magic. Allowing her not only to conceal it but also use it herself. Of course, its output of ambient magic was far lower than what was around her now, as the dense magical energy in the cellar was the result of the magical particles pooling for decades. Still, it would be enough to enhance the levitation magic of her bracelet by enough to say make a moderately sized boulder light enough to push out of the way.

Placing the cube at the bottom of her saddle bag Cozy made her way back outside and followed the newest set of hoof prints back to the beach where she saw an orange earth pony standing atop a mostly submerged trot glider while Zeph and Argon floated nearby.

“Apparently they had no concept of how much earth ponies weigh…” Cozy muttered to herself.

Flapping her wings, Cozy took off and glided towards the trio, who only seemed to notice her moments before she landed atop the masthead.

“Detective Zeph, it looks like you have taken on more than you can handle, or at least your stolen trot glider.” Snarked Cozy.

“Cozy? You can fly?” Exclaimed Zeph, seemingly ignoring Cozy’s snarky comment.

“All pegasi can’t fly?” Asked the earth pony.

“No, no, they can’t. In fact, Cozy’s the only one that I know could glide.” Remarked Zeph.

“If you take a look at my leg, you’ll see a rather helpful bracelet. I found it a while back in the deeper chamber of the caves. It’s imbued with a levitation spell. Not enough to fly with, but enough to make me light enough to fly since I could already glide.“

“Ah, so that’s why you can suddenly fly.“

“Big pony, what’s your name and can I jump on your back?“

“Ceder, and I guess so?“

Cozy jumped from the masthead to Ceder’s back. Once atop him, she channeled the energy from the bracelet into him until he was light enough that the trot glider was floating normally again before jumping off his back onto the trot glider’s rather crowded deck.

“I’ll need to touch you every couple of hours to keep the spell active. Hopefully that’s not going to be an issue.“

“Nope, not a problem.”

“So, Cozy, really, how are you here? Even if you can suddenly fly, we’re in the middle of the ocean.“

“You can thank Emmy for that. She gave me a compass that points to you. So I was able to fly straight to you, which made it a quick trip. Through an unnerving one. Seeing giant whirlpools from above is kind of off-putting, especially when a compass that’s supposed to be pointing towards your friend is pointing directly at the whirlpool.“

“Emmy did say she had two compasses, but why does it point to me?“

“I’ll tell you the whole story once we get going. The thing you need to know now is that your compass may not work, so I’m going to be guiding you through the whirlpools. So, I’m going to fly up and find a safe path for us first, after that we can talk.”