//------------------------------// // Peace and Bullying // Story: G 4mat- The Island // by AmpUpHeart //------------------------------// "Look out below!" Honolulu cried. Everyone dodged as coconuts fell to the ground. They were harvesting again, and since Honolulu wasn't strong enough to buck, she resorted to flying up to trees and shaking down the fruits. "We need to well stock the cart today!" Grove said. "How come?" Sweetie Bell said. "We're having a luau tonight!" Cream said. "A what?" Scootaloo asked. "A Haywiian party!" "Oh." "Twilight," Skywishes said, "Did you write to your other friends to come?" "Yep," said Spike, "I wrote to them for her." "Great!" Grove said, "I also wrote to my friend Minty, who actually lives in Canterlot." "Really!?" Twilight exclaimed. "She moved there after you moved to Ponyville. She's helping Donut Joe with his bakery. She's also a great help with the holidays." "Speaking of which, Starcatcher said that she wrote a long-time friend of hers that she wants us to meet at the luau." Grove brought out a bunch of smaller carts designed for fillies. "An extra large order!" She said, "I'm going to need your help." Soon everyone was loaded up and on their way to the Sweet Shoppe. .............................. "Look at them," Gem said. "Yeah," Pearl said, with a hint of hesitation, "All naïve and everything." "Time to see how naïve they can really be," Gem said. Pearl swallowed, and fired a beam of magic. It hit the largest cart, causing it to break and all of the coconuts to fall off. "Aren't you going a bit hard?" Pearl asked. Gem simply shrugged. "Oh, hayseed," Applejack said, "What in tarnation?" Gem snickered. Apple Bloom turned to the sources of the sound. "You girls!" She yelled angrily. Pearl, terrified, took off with Gem close behind. "Ya get back here!" Apple Bloom said, chasing after them. "Apple Bloom, wait!" Scootaloo said, detaching her cart, grabbing her scooter, and riding after them. Soon, the other fillies were behind them. "GIRLS!!!" Twilight yelled, but they were already out of sight. The ponies had ran into the forest inland. Gem was laughing. It infuriated Apple Bloom. The others caught up except for Honolulu. But they came to a five-hoof-high ledge. Gem carried Pearl up, but the others were stuck. "Hey, Scootaloo!" Gem said, "Fly up here and get us!" Scootaloo, enraged, threw down her scooter and flapped her wings. They beat at almost a hummingbird's speed, but she couldn't get higher than a few inches above the ground. "Wow. Diamond Tiara was right! You are a chicken!" Gem teased. "What would your parents think of this?!" Twinkle Twirl said, angrily. "They don't have to know," Pearl said, out of fear. "Exactly!" Gem added, "Do you want to be snitches?" "That's not going to work!" Sweetie Bell said, "We learned that lesson the hard way a few years ago! Call us snitches! We don't care!" "Oh yeah? How would you react if we told you that we invited Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon to the luau? And believe me, we told them about you. And we don't want any blank flanks ruining our party." "Who said it was YOUR party!?" "She's right! It's everyone's party!" "Oh, I can change that. Pearl, would you help me please?" "Uhhhhhh...." ...................................... Honolulu lost them. Now she was lost herself. Too tired to fly, she was going at a full run. Tears streamed down her face. She wasn't even looking where she was going. She could only run. And she ran. Right into someone. The pony turned around and faced her. Honolulu turned and looked up at her. The pony had a light purple coat with a dark purple mane and tail. But her eyes. Her eyes were green, but they were also relatively thin and a bit slanted. The strange pony looked down on her with an unreadable expression. A filly walked up from behind her. The filly was a unicorn who was pale pink with an even paler flower for a cutie mark. It contrasted greatly with her dark brown mane, tail, and eyes. The eyes were also slanted like that of the purple pony, and they were focused on her. .......................................... The CMC now were covered with minor scratches. "If words won't hurt you, then sticks and stones will have to do!" Gem said. "Gem, don't you think that this is going too far?" Pearl asked. "WHAT!!!?!?!?" Gem screamed, causing Pearl's horn to fire. Gem immediately grabbed Pearl and aimed her horn at the CMC. Beams of light flew everywhere, narrowly missing the girls. "Run!" Pearl yelled, "I can't control my magic! And Gem can't control her anger!" "Hiyah!!!" A voice rang out. A pale pink unicorn with slim, brown hair leaped into the spot beneath the ledge. She dodged the beams with leaps and turns that Apple Bloom didn't know was possible. "Why you little..." Gem growled. The pony paid no attention. She climbed up the ledge without any hesitation. "Yah!" She yelled with a swing kick. The force of the blow made Gem lose her grip on Pearl. "Go ahead," Gem growled as she got herself off of the ground, "Fight me." "I did not come here for a fight," the pony replied, "I came here for peace." Honolulu raced up behind her. "Are you guys okay?" She asked. "I honestly have no idea," Pearl answered, shaking as she stood up. "I'm sorry if I startled you," the pony said, helping her up. "One minute you hate us, and the next, you're helping us?" Gem said, with hatred still simmering. "I never said anything about hating you. What made you attack them like that? And why did you use your friend the way that you did?" The pony said, calmly, yet sternly. "Forget it," Gem said, spreading her wings. "Wait!" The pony cried out as Gem took off. She sighed. "I must say that I've taught you well," a serene voice said. The violet pony walked up behind them, followed by Twilight, Applejack, and the other mares. "You guys are okay!" Grove cried, embracing her sister. Applejack did the same thing with Apple Bloom, before whacking her on the head. "What in tarnation were you thinkin'!?" She yelled. "I wasn't," Apple Bloom said guiltily. "We thought that something like this might happen so we rushed in to defend her," Sweetie Bell said. "I understand what you did," Grove said, "But you shouldn't have run off like that. We were trying to catch up to you guys but we lost you." "If I hadn't fallen behind and bumped into these two," Honolulu said, motioning toward the two ponies, "I don't know what could have happened." "Who are y'all, anyway?" Apple Bloom asked. "I'm Kimono," the purple pony said, "And this is my sister, Sakura." "We come from a place known as 'Tameura.' Our people have lived there for generations," Sakura said. "I actually have ties with Starcatcher," Kimono said, "She invited me here in secret." "Why secret?" Scootaloo asked. "I'm what my people call a Zen Master. I'm actually training Sakura in my ways. We are secretive in our ways, primarily because of our knowledge. All too often I see ponies abuse knowledge, turning it against its purpose. Think of Zecora. I've spoken with her on more than one occasion. We both share only fitting advice to others. No more. No less." "I see," Spike said. "Oh, wow!" Sakura exclaimed, "I didn't see you there." She examined him a bit. "Are you a western dragon?" She asked. "I.... Guess so," Spike said, "Why?" "You'd get along well with Ning Jing," she said. "Who?" Applejack said. "She's an Eastern dragon and a close friend of ours. She actually took us here," Kimono said, "She's at the observatory. We were about to meet up with her there." "But if she's a full grown dragon," Spike said, "How can she fit in the observatory?" "Eastern dragons are smaller than western dragons," Sakura said, "You'll see."