Flowing Waters and Winds

The Mane 6 were talking about yesterday as Spike and Starlight joined in.

“So, did you girls notice anything odd with Silverstream?” Twilight asked as the rest of the Mane 6 and Starlight Glimmer nodded.

“Well, she seemed to be in love with Zak.” Fluttershy answered as the group wondered if there’s a way to help the two love eachother

“*Giggle* That gal is more lovesick than a puppy.” Applejack smiled.

“Indeed, it’s so beautiful.” Rarity agreed.

“You should’ve seen her in her match against Smolder, one look at Zak, and Silverstream was wide open.” Rainbow Dash remembered.

“Hmm… What would Cadence do? Normally, I’m send her a letter, but I don’t think we should make it obvious.” Twilight wondered.

“Thing is Silverstream came to me after school and told me everything about her friendship with him.” Starlight noted.

“Anyone else noticed how hungry she was?” Pinkie asked.

“Hmm, that is true now that I think it about.” Twilight admitted.

“Heehee! Maybe she gets the munchies thinking about him.” Pinkie giggled as Spike noticed a portrait of Discord.

“Uh, Twi? When did you get that?” Spike asked.

“Discord, we all know it’s you.” Twilight deadpanned before the portrait started moving and talking. “Well excuse me for wanting to listen to gossip every now and then.” The portrait said as it transformed into Discord as he started floating around. “So, what’re you all chatting about?”

“Two new students who enrolled yesterday, Zak Hurricane and Beetlo the Beetley.” Spike answered.

“Really?” Discord asked.

“They even had letters of recommendation for here.” Starlight said, bringing the two letters out.

“Hmm, let me peruse.” Discord requested while putting on bi-focal glasses, reading the letters while he snapped his fingers, playing audio from the letters.

“Hello there, Princess Twilight Sparkle. Or is it Headmare Twilight Sparkle? Oh well, I’ll call you Twilight or Twi. Anywho, news of your adventures with your friends reached far and wide, enough to reach my neck of the woods. I even heard about your School of Friendship, well done, especially on making it an independent school. Tales and resumes aside, I made these letters and sent two citizens of my hometown to you as a test drive. They should be the same age as students coming here. And if you’re already starting an interspecies education, that’s wonderful. If all goes well, I’ll be sending more your way, after all, friendship is a great treasure, if not, the greatest of all. BTW, sorry I couldn’t be there to introduce them personally, but duty calls.

See you later, Sumarda” The voice spoke as Discord was so shocked, his glasses were sent flying by his eyes suddenly bulging out and growing big like a wild take in a cartoon.

“SUMARDA?!” Discord gasped in shock, much to everyone else’s confusion.

“Discord? You know who that is?” Fluttershy noticed.

“Well… It’s surprisingly complicated, but Sumarda is the Spirit of Goodies, as in food and meals, and Love. I wouldn’t be surprised if Celestia, Luna and Cadence know her quite well. But the reason why I know her is because she’s my… cousin.” Discord confessed, which was a real truth bomb.

“WHAT?!” The Mane 6, Starlight and Spike gasped in absolute shock.

“You have a cousin and never told any of us!?” Rainbow yelled.

“Why?!” Pinkie cried out dramatically.

“Well, chaos is unknowable and unpredictable. I mean, I was going to let you figure it out if the subject ever came up.” Discord explained.

“Then where do we find her?” Rarity asked as Discord saw a tiny door flying in before it knocked twice while saying, “Knock, knock!” spooking everyone else a bit at the sudden noise.

“Who’s there?!” Rainbow Dash growled as Pinkie noticed the tiny pair of floating doors. “Ooh! A running gag?”

“You’ve got it backwards. You don’t find Sumarda, Sumarda finds you.” Discord clarified as the pair of doors bursted open with an explosion and fireworks, causing smoke to envelop the room before something big and monstrous started emerging.

“RAAAAAARGH…!” The monster roared before… “Oi!” The being groaned with a female voice as it shrunk, revealed to be a Draconequus like Discord. She had the head and mane of a beautiful pony mare, left arm of a common ostrich, right arm of a tiger, left leg of a hippo, right leg of a painted tree frog, left wing of a wild turkey, right wing of a golden-crowned flying fox, and the serpentine body of an African twig snake, the tail of a gecko and antlers that are the mix of a fallow and a white-tailed deer. “Doing a big entrance through doors like that can give ya such a crick in the neck. Hold on a sec.” The female Draconequus said before taking her head off and spun it a full 360, then placed her head back on her neck. “Boy, does it feel good to be TRULY BACK!”

The Mane 6, Starlight and Spike were confused, speechless on what to say.

“Hey, had to make my official return grand, ya know. Anyway, Mane 6, Starlight and Spike, good to meetcha! Name’s Sumarda, spirit of goodies and love!” Sumarda introduced herself as Discord chuckled.

“Always good to see you, Sumarda.” Discord smiled.

“You too. SUMO SLAP!!!” Sumarda shouted with an open-palm thrust slap with her right arm suddenly being as big as Discord, hitting him while sending the Draconequus flying to the wall with a huge paw print on his face. “Now we’re even after the stunt you pulled while Pandora and Yui were on that interdimensional mother-daughter cruise. Seriously, you almost gave Draconequi a bad name.”

“Fair point.” Discord admitted with a cough before getting himself off the wall with Sumarda’s tiger arm shrinking back to normal.

“So what brings you here, Sumarda?” Twilight asked.

“Just popping in for a quick look since you mentioned finding me.” Sumarda said she suddenly transforming into a golden-crowned flying fox. “Don’t mind me even if I’m watching Zak and Beetlo’s first day.” Sumarda assured before flying out through a window.

“She seems so upbeat.” Pinkie smiled.

“Heh, like you. Can’t argue with that.” Spike agreed.

“To be honest, I like her more than Discord.” Rainbow Dash admitted.

“Hey!” Discord pouted.

“It’s okay, Discord.” Fluttershy assured.

“Oh, alright.” Discord said, crossing his arms.

“Well, class will soon start.” Starlight noticed.

At the dorms, Silverstream was in the top bunk, giggling and blushing while tossing and turning. “Oh, Zak…”

But then two really loud simultaneous belches were heard, rattling the building while waking the Young Six up in their three separate dorm rooms.

“Whoa! What was that?” Silverstream asked Yona.

“Yak not know.” Yona responded, just as confused as she was before they headed out, meeting up with Sandbar, Gallus, Smolder and Ocellus. They had no idea what that was either as a door opened, revealing Zak and Beetlo as they laughed.

“That was awesome, man!” Zak whooped, high-fiving Beetlo as the beetle knight returned it while wearing his gloves.

“That was definitely amazing, bud!” Beetlo chuckled.

“Um, do either of you know what that was?” Ocellus asked.

“Oh, we made ourselves some breakfast and enjoyed it.” Beetlo answered.

“Then we letted her rip!” Zak added, giving a burp as a demonstration.

“Well, you two woke us up alright. Let’s see if we can get to class.” Gallus said before the eight started heading to their first class of the day, which was Twilight’s class of Magic as Zak saw Sumarda in the form of a mouse.

“Now, before we begin, class. We have two new students. Zak Hurricane and Beetlo, please come up and introduce yourselves.” Twilight called out as the duo headed up front and faced the class.

“Hey, everyone. Name’s Zak Hurricane. I’m a good creature, strong eater and a tough hippogriff.” Zak introduced himself.

“Hello, my name is Beetlo. And looks like I’ll have to get your trust since I’m new especially with this armor, so I’ll take it off.” Beetlo noticed as he took off his armor, piece by piece, even the gloves before his real form was shown, surprised the rest of the class.

“I know I look small but I’m tough.” Beetlo informed.

“Don’t worry, he’s harmless.” Zak added before the Magic class soon went underway as Silverstream looked with smitten eyes. Later, they were in Rarity’s class of Generosity as Zak smiled at Silverstream. Silverstream was lost daydreaming as Beetlo wrapped a thread around his horn before flying around, making quick a large outfit as that impressed Rarity.

“Oh my, that is quite skilled.” Rarity noted.

“It helped for me when I mix flying with horn and wrestling attacks.” Beetlo said as that performance unknowingly caught Ocellus’ attention with her blushing. Later, Applejack's class of Honesty was in session, as the students were testing their strength on bucking an apple tree as Zak was up, delivering a strong kick with both back legs, making all apples fall as he caught and ate one with his beak.

"Dang..." Applejack awed, surprised by the strength.

“Well, let’s just I know how to deal with some things.” Zak shrugged.

"Wow..." Silverstream cooed in amazement as lunch time soon happened. The Young Six were still surprised by Zak and Beetlo's appetites as Silverstream and Ocellus found themselves blushing and a bit more hungry than usual.

“Whoa, I feel so hungry.” Silverstream noticed.

"M-Maybe we should get a bit more." Ocellus agreed as she and Silverstream got a few more food. Later, Fluttershy's class of Kindness began as Beetlo used his wings to communicate with the other insects perfectly, surprising Fluttershy.

“Oh my! How did you do that?” Fluttershy asked in curiosity.

“Well I am basically like a beetle so it makes sense for me to understand other insects.” Beetlo shrugged as Ocellus started blushing more before keeping her wing covers closed to prevent her wings from going crazy. After that class, it was Rainbow Dash's class next, doing sports and active sessions as Zak was up against Yona before they clashed, trying to push each other. Yona seemed like she was gaining the upper hand before Zak managed to turn it around and pushed Yona far, defeating her.

"Whoa, pretty tough." Rainbow Dash noted.

“Wow, Zak is so amazing!” Silverstream fawned with a blush.

Soon, it was Pinkie's class as everyone was trying to bake something as everyone soon finished. Pinkie tasted 'em, saying they were all good before tasting Zak's and Beetlo's, freezing in place before she blasted off into the air and whooped.

"WA-HOO!!! Everycreature, you gotta try these cakes!" Pinkie said as everyone else in the classroom each tasted the two cakes, finding them irresistibly delicious.

“Gotta admit this is fun, and Silverstream, I need to talk to you after school.” Zak informed.

"O-Okay." Silverstream responded with a blush before she went back to eating the cake Zak made. Throughout the day, Sumarda in her disguises, noticed a pegasus filly with chess pieces for a cutie mark, seeing that there was darkness in her heart, but also a spark of light struggling to break free.

"Hmm... Setting this little filly on the right path will be tough work, just like that one." Sumarda mentally thought to herself.

Later, the Mane 6, Spike and Starlight reunited as Discord and Sumarda showed up.

"Seems like they're having fun at this school. That's definitely good." Sumarda noted.

“So how did everyone classes go?” Twilight asked.

"It was great!" Rarity smiled.

"Somethin' surprisin' fer sure." Applejack added.

"It really was amazing." Fluttershy agreed.

"Awesome!" Rainbow Dash cheered.

"The cakes! They were so good!" Pinkie whooped.

"Heehee, glad things are going off on a great start." Sumarda giggled.

“So Sumarda, is there a reason why you decided to have Zak come back?” Twilight added another question.

"Yes, what IS the reason?" Discord noticed.

"Well... I noticed Zak looking lovesick AND homesick. That led him to eat quite a lot." Sumarda explained, much to the confusion of everyone else except Discord.

“Ah, so he and his family were in your dimension, eh cuz?” Discord asked.

"Yeah, where else after I saved them from the Storm King?" Sumarda responded as Starlight shook her head, snapping herself out of her stupor.

"Anyway, does anyone have plans for the weekends tomorrow and the day after?" Starlight asked as Spike and the Mane 6 said no.

"Hmm... I may have an idea. Maybe I could take you eight on a tour of my hometown." Sumarda offered, surprising everyone else. "You can bring anyone you want along too."

“Hmm… I always wondered what another dimension ruled by a powerful creature is like.” Twilight admitted.

"Oh, maybe it's like Discord's?" Fluttershy wondered, remembering that tea party.

"Going into new uncharted territory?! Count me in!" Rainbow Dash smirked.

“I wanna go!” Pinkie cheered.

“Maybe I’ll come along as well.” Rarity noted.

“Ah, what the hey, Ah’m in too.” Applejack said.

"Alright, tomorrow morning then." Sumarda smiled.

Later, Zak was waiting, watching the sunset as Silverstream showed up.

“Hey Zak. Watching the sunset, huh?” Silverstream noticed.

"Yeah. Back at where I stayed thanks to Sumarda, at the beach, I heard that if the sun hits the ocean just right, it flashes green." Zak answered.

“So Zak I been getting a lot more hungrier why is that?” Silverstream asked, confused by that.

"Huh? Are you saying I did something?" Zak checked.

"N-No! That's not what I meant!" Silverstream stammered with a blush.

"Well, it might have something to do with how you're feeling." Zak noted as he knew he had to show Silverstream what he got from Sumarda’s dimension.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Silverstream asked, totally lost.

"Last I checked, my weight right now's between 100 and 200, which is pretty good. But watch." Zak said as he looked like he was focusing energy like he was preparing a spell, making Silverstream excited before she noticed something. Zak's barrel was getting bigger and rounder, but then the rest of his body started getting bigger and fatter, even his wings, neck, head, legs, talons, hooves and tail. After a minute or two, Zak became incredibly fat, as big as a full grown yak, weighing about 800 pounds as Silverstream's jaw dropped at that before Zak began to explain. "My family and I gained the ability to shift our weight and body fat, able to change between our restraint forms and unbound forms. Right now, I'm 800 pounds, which is the minimum weight of my unbound form as I am now. So I'm okay if you don't take this well, go ahead, be honest and straight with me. I can take it."

Silverstream's eyes suddenly had stars in them and she squealed in excitement before hugging the now fat hippogriff, surprising Zak.

"Uh... You okay, Silverstream?" Zak asked in surprise, having a bead of sweat.

“You're so cute and huggable like this! Oh, I wish I was that fat and big too!” Silverstream gushed as she kept hugging Zak.

"Wait, you're serious?" Zak noticed, completely caught off guard.

“Of course I am!” Silverstream smiled, leaving Zak beyond shocked as he fell flat on his flanks, causing his entire body to jiggle. "No way... You're actually want that?" Zak asked as Silverstream nodded excitedly. "...Well, I'm free tomorrow and the day after. How's that sound?”

“Sounds like a plan!” Silverstream answered.

"But... Let's see if you can handle this!" Zak quipped with a smirk as suddenly hugged Silverstream with his upper and lower legs, along with his wings, covering her entirely in his flab. "What will ya do about this portly prison, Silverstream? Escape or endure it?"

Silverstream smiled as the fat felt warm and cuddly. "Bring it on! I bet I'll stay up all night while in here!" Silverstream responded, accepting the challenge.

"Hehe, your funeral, Silv!" Zak said as he started rolling around like a blubbery boulder, causing him and Silverstream to laugh at the fun they were having. Meanwhile, they were unaware of Beetlo watching them from behind a tree. Despite not having a mouth, he was happy for his friend.

"Man, am I glad that Sumarda saved me from that corrupted shell of a spider turned to a queen bee. Who knows, whatever happens tomorrow will be quite interesting." Beetlo said to himself, looking forward to the future before heading out back to his dorm.