An Equestrian Journey

Purple and Blue traveled through the sandy passage that was revealed after viewing the White’s lesson of the past. Once they made it through to the other side they noticed that they were once more in the desert. The thought of traveling through the hot and dusty sands again filled Purple with dread. Her last trek through the desert before she reached the bridge had got her stuck in a sandstorm and thrown off course, though she somehow still made it. Breathing a sigh her and Blue began making the trek through the sands.

They made their way though the dunes as they always had though after three dunes of walking, they noticed something that hadn’t been there before...singing. They heard a faint hum and a simple melody and coming from the Northeast. After listening to the music to discern it’s location, they realized something interesting, whatever was singing was making the same noises they made when they communicated. They quickly started running towards the sound, completely ignoring the mountain in the distance, as they were more interested in perhaps finding another companion.

They traveled towards the sound across several dunes and reached another ruin. They searched around for the source of the singing yet, they could not find it anywhere in the ruins. Blue used her wings to search the top of the destroyed building while Purple searched the ground. After thoroughly searching the entire area they reconvened in the center of the area, only to find nothing. The sound of the music seemed to be coming from nowhere, just a disembodied sound floating on the winds.

Assuming the music was just sound carried on the winds, they moved to collect the glyph that blue had found while she was surveying the are. She carried Purple up to the ruined wall where it resided and after their scarf were lengthened again they turned their sights to the mountain and began walking once again. They could still here the music even as they began walking over their first dune in front of the mountain.

While climbing the dune Purple began to feel extremely exhausted and drained. She thought at first tha she might be tired again, though she and Blue had taken a chance to sit down and relax earlier after the cleared the bridge together. She also noticed that her mouth was much drier than normal and she felt like she hadn’t had a drink in forever. That was when she realized, she truly hadn’t had a drink...ever. Since her journey started there had never been any source of water or other drinkable fluids. When she combined that with the symptoms she was feeling, she was probably severely dehydrated. Given that she had not seen Blue drink anything either, she was probably suffering from the same problem. As the dehydration overtook her Purple began to slow as her steps up the sand dune became harder and harder to take. Blue began calling to her, wondering why she was slowing down. Blue began walking over to Purple to see what was wrong, only to keel over and fall right into the sand unexpectedly. Purple tried to move over to her, though she feel to her knees at Blue’s side and feel down into the sand, unable to move. Blue was already unconscious and Purple was fading fast. She silently prayed to the deity she had seen in the dreams, hoping for something to save her and her friend. As her eyes closed for what she thought was the last time she thought she saw a faint white blur of a creature approaching them, though she assumed that this was the just the heat, that such a rescue could never truly happen. Then everything was black…

Purple awoke feeling cold...cold and wet, two sensations she had never felt before. She also felt the desert breeze against her coat, meaning she must not be wearing her cloak. She slowly began to open her eyes and readjust to the light of the desert, when she remembered everything, the storm, the dehydration, her and Bl–BLUE! She had keeled over as well, and for all she knew Blue could still be out there slowly dying of thirst as the sands slowly buried her. She quickly searched the are around her through still half-lidded eyes, her fears allayed when she saw Blue’s face next to her.

With her immediate fears calmed, she returned to the task of finding out what had happened to them. When her eyes had fully readjusted she noticed that she was lying down in a small oasis and Blue was lying next to her. Their cloaks had been hung up on the solitary tree next to the oasis, hanging on a branch while the two rehydrated their tired, worn-out bodies.

While osmotically absorbing water from the pond was nice, Purple still felt thirsty and her throat was very dry. She cupped her hooves and scooped up some of the water and lifted it up to her mouth. The cool water felt heavenly and it slid down, a cool breeze caressing her parched throat.After three more hoof-fulls of water she felt her strength returning and her vigor restored. She felt as energized and able as she had at the beginning of her adventure.

It was then that Blue began to stir. She slowly awoke from her slumber in the oasis and began to look around frantically, searching the new environment, though calming down once her eyes saw Purple. She then looked down at the water she was currently relaxing in and began to eagerly lap up the water as if she had never drank anything in her entire life. While watching Blue drink, she realized this was the first time she had ever seen one of her kind without its robe. She noticed that their kinds bodies under their robes looked almost pointy, with many edges and points, though except for the head there did not seem to be any curves on their bodies.

Now that they were refreshed, they emerged from the oasis and re-donned their robes, readying for the continuation of their journey, when a thought struck Purple…How did they get here? Last things she remembered they had collapsed from dehydration in the middle of a sandstorm, yet somehow they ended up safe in an oasis.

As Purple was pondering who could have helped them, Blue saw something moving beneath the sands. From the mound it made as it moved, she guessed that it wasn’t the same kind of creature as her and Purple were. As the sand-swimming creature moved closer she prepared to do whatever it took to protect her friend. Once the creature reached them it burst from the sands sending a small spray of sand particles in every direction. The creature’s emergence has snapped Purple out of her pondering as both got a full view of the new being.

The creature was indeed strange looking to the two adventurers, it was flat and wide, and even stranger, it seemed to be made of the same cloth scarves the machines used, though unlike the red scarves that powered the machines, this creature was almost entirely white save for the violet runes that adorned it’s body. From the way the scarves were arranged it almost looked like a fish or some sort of shark. It slowly approached them as they prepared to fight it off if need be. Their fears were calmed when the beast stopped near the pair and simply floated there as if it was waiting for something. Then it did something they had not anticipated...it called to them, using the same chirps they used to talk with each other, it called out to the pair.

For several seconds it simply floated in front of them, as if it was waiting for an answer. Seeing that the creature did not mean any harm, Purple took the initiative and attempted to converse through her own call. She figured the call that she used with Blue might not work due to differing species she infused some of her magic into the call, in an attempt to create a mental link between the two. When the magic infused sound wave reached the creature, it created a bridge between its mind and hers and she was able to converse with it through memories. She saw her and Blue collapse in the desert, after which the creature emerged from the nearby sands, and floated over to them. The creature dove under the sands and surfaced underneath them, carrying them as it glided slowly over the sands. It carried them to the oasis and deposited them in the water to help speed up the re-hydration process. That was when the memories stopped, as there was nothing new to experience.

Returning from her mental conversation, she waved a hoof towards Blue indicating it was safe, after which she began to try conversing with the creature again, trying to thank it for saving their lives. She turned to Blue and indicated that it was time to continue towards the mountain, though as soon as they tried to leave the creature moved in front of them, chirping and waving it’s head. They assumed it did not want them going anywhere, or at least not going that specific direction. When it realized that it was having trouble communicating it’s point to them, it simply dove under the sand again and scooped them up from below. With its two new passengers it began hovering a few feet off the ground and started searching for something in the distance. It’s apparent target was a massive ruin to the northwest of their location. While the creature made it’s way towards the ruins, Purple and Blue collectively pondered what could be so important to distract them from their mission and ignore the mountain. Purple thought that perhaps this creature was leading them to some kind of secret passage that would lead to the mountain without the chance of dehydration and heat. Whatever the case, this creature seemed welcome to help them and flying on it’s back was much preferable to walking through the dunes.