Ponies of Fayra — Legend of Harmony

“Cozy!?” Zeph yelled at the top of her lungs into the dense fog that had suddenly surrounded them not long after Cozy had left.

“You’ve been yellin for quite a while now.” Remarked Cedar.

“I have to keep calling out to her, how else is she going to be able to find us in this fog?” Zeph felt a tap on her leg, which caused her to look down at a lavender blur that she was fairly sure was Argon. A moment later she got the image of Cozy holding a compass in her hoof that was pointing to herself. “You’re right, she has the compass she used to track me in the first place.” Feeling another tap Zeph soon got another mental image of the compass Emerald had given her. “Also true, we should follow the compass Emerald gave us. Cozy said the path was clear now.”

“You must be an expert at charades. I can’t even see your little bunny friend anymore. The fog’s so dense.”

“I’m not bad at it, but with Argon, I don’t really need to be good at it, either. It’s probably going to sound crazy, but I can see what he’s thinking.”

“I don’t understand.”

“When he talks to me, I can see images in my mind about what he’s thinking about while he’s talking. Or rather, while he’s directing attention towards me. He doesn’t actually need to be talking at me, he just needs to be focusing on sharing information with me.”

“You’re right, that does sound a might bit crazy, but cool. Can he do that with me?”

“I don’t know. Argon, you want to try sending something to him?” Zeph felt an affirmative tap on her leg. “You getting any mental images?”

“Nope, not a thing.”

“We can experiment more later. For now, I’m going to grab the compass and start trotting that way. If you wouldn’t mind, could you call out for Cozy every so often? I know she has the compass, but still…”

“I’m on it.”

Zeph felt out the compass from her saddlebag, then began doing her best to follow the needle while Cedar shouted out into the fog. After a couple of hours, Cader stopped shouting.

“I have a really bad feeling.” Remarked Cedar in a low voice.

“Care to share?”

“I’m starting to feel kind of—”

Before Ceder could finish his sentence, in an instant Zeph found herself plunged into the water as the trot glider seemed to suddenly pull out from beneath her. Caught up in a frenzy, Zeph looked around for a Lavender blur and made her way over to it. Once she had Argon holding onto her tightly, she looked around and pulled herself onto a piece of lumber that was floating nearby.

“Cedar!? You okay? What happened?”

“I’m fine, just floatin… Sorry about that. I think I just returned to my normal weight all of a sudden and destroyed the boat.”

Following Cedar’s voice, Zeph made her way over to him. Along the way, she found the Compass Emerald had given her. “Can you swim?”

“I’d say I’m a pretty good swimmer.”

“Alright, then would you mind stepping off of what’s left of the trot glider so It’ll float back up?”

“On it, or I should say, getting off it now.”

A moment later, Zeph felt the deck of the trot glider collide with her legs as it shot back up out of the water. The fog was still so dense she could barely see anything, but she was fairly certain that what was once a trot glider was now, at best, a wing glider with a lock box on it.

Making her way to the lock box, Zeph pulled out some soggy rope, which she used to anchor Cedar to the glider. Once he was secure, Zeph used the sail along with her wings to stir the remains of their vassal forward, while Cedar did his best to push from behind.

After what felt like several hours, Zeph could see something glowing ahead of her. Pushing forward, the trio found themselves at the mouth of a mossy cave filled with glow berries.

“Well, boys, I think we made it. Still no Cozy though…”

“We could go back and look for her.” Remarked Cedar in a tone which seemed to indicate he was genuine in his words, despite the fact they could still barely see anything.

“I’ll go looking for her once the fog clears…” Zeph trailed off as her eyes caught motion in the water. Looking around her, she could see several shadows swimming around them. “Cedar, I think you need to make a run for the shore.”

“Lucky for me my hooves are actually on ground at the moment.” With that, Zeph watched as Cedar bit through the rope anchoring him to the gilder. As he made his way towards shore, Zeph noticed none of the shadows seemed to have interest in him and instead stayed circling around the glider.

Zeph’s eyes widened as one of the shadows rapidly grew in size until a large stone mouth opened out of the water and chomped down on the glider, taking a bite out of it as if it was nothing more than pizza.

Seeing the other shadows approaching, Zeph grabbed Argon and leaped off the glider and onto Cedar’s back.

“Keep running!” Zeph shouted as she flapped her wings, trying to speed Cedar up. Upon reaching land, Cedar turned around just in time for Zeph to see the last bit of the glider get eaten. “So much for going to look for Cozy… and also all our coconuts… At least we have all the glow berries we can eat.”

“I guess rocks with teeth like eating wood? Didn’t even realize there were sentient rocks. Do they exist back in the Lost Isles, too?”

“No. We have some strange plants, but all our rocks are pretty normal, and I'm pretty sure none of them are not alive. At least I hope not. I’ve kicked an awful lot of them over the years.”