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// Chapter 19: Jolly Sailor Bold 
// Story: A Shattered Rainbow Rock 
// by FourShadow 
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Wednesday; 4:00  

After another day of school, the girls instantly knew where to go next. The Dazzling's apartment over in Canterlot City. They wasted no time trying to go and find them. 

Once the elevator dinged, opening up the doors for them up on the top floor, they all stepped off the elevator allowing the door to close. They huddled together, walking to the front door; still shiny and clean as ever. Octavia was about to move her hand up to try and knock, but she froze. The fear of their anger still lingered in her mind. What if they wouldn't let them in? What if they yelled at them? 

Octavia's hand retracted away, but she felt a hand touch her shoulder. Looking next to her, she found Vinyl's warm smile. She gave her a nod, and hugged her by the side. Octavia felt a little better, knowing she had her friends with her. With no fear, she knocked on the door, loud enough for them to hear. 

The door did open up slightly, but not all the way. They could see the chain on the door, enforced so they couldn't get in. But they were a little relieved to see a familiar blue face they came to love. However, that blue face was scowling at them.

"What do you want?"

"Hey, Sonata." Vinyl said, moving in front of the group. "Are... are you okay?"

Sonata rolled her eyes. "Well duh! I'm not in physical pain." 

Vinyl felt some animosity come from her tone.

"Well... may we come in?"

"No." Sonata just said with no remorse. 

"But, we just want to talk--"

"Why should we talk to you? You girls said it yourself, you wanted nothing to do with 'monsters'." 

"Sonata, we overreacted. And what we said was wrong, there's no denying that. But can't we talk this out?" Vinyl asked.

"No! I don't care if you bribe me with tacos, it still won't work! I'm not that stupid!" 

The girls blinked. 

"None of us said you were..." Octavia hesitated.

"You know what I mean!" 

They all flinched back.

"Well, can we talk to Aria?" Octavia asked.

"No!" Aria's voice yelled from behind. "I don't want to talk to you! What you said to us was just... the worst." 

"It can't have been that bad, can it?" 

Aria poked her head from above Sonata's, pushing her head down a bit. 

"Yeah, it is. And guess what, we're not letting you in." Aria snapped.

"No, Sonata made that clear," Amethyst shrugged. 

"But, can't we talk to Adagio?" Trixie asked. 

Both Aria and Sonata looked at each other, and then glared back at the girls with their heads slowly shaking no. 

"But, we have to--"

"No, you don't!" Aria yelled. "You hurt Adagio! You hurt her really bad. She hasn't left her room since you girls lashed at her, and she never stays in her room for that long. You broke her!" 

"Then we need to talk to her. We got to get her out of her funk." Trixie said.

"Well not you girls, you hurt her bad. Adagio's not going to forgive you so easily," Aria said. "Besides, I don't think she wants to talk... oh hold on a second." Aria stepped away from the door, leaving Sonata to just glare at them in awkward silence. 

"You sure?" Aria said, her voice echoing. "You sure that's gonna be okay? Well, okay then..." 

Aria poked her head back out again, glaring at all of them.

"So... you girls said you wanted to talk to us?" 

All of them nodded.  Aria looked back in their main living room, and then back to the others.

"Go to the Canterlot Beach. 8:00. We'll give you an exact coordinates of where we want you all to meet us."

"Wait, when?"

"Tonight!" Aria yelled. 

Immediately the door slammed in their faces. They were left bewildered for a moment, but it didn't last long. Sure, they were mad, but on the other hand they got them to talk for a bit. 

And hey, they were going to see them tonight! Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all.





7:40

The girls arrived at the exact location they were requested to go; the Canterlot Beach. And in addition, all of them were dressed in bathing suits just in case. All of them drove in Amethyst's SUV, and in addition, she hitched a trailer on the back of the car. Coming with her was a cabin boat, big enough for all six of them to ride in. 

Surprisingly, there didn't seem to be many people on the beach at night, and thankfully no adults to tell them to get away. All the more for them to pull out the equipment and things they needed. Once the car went onto the sand and its engine had turned off, the girls helped Amethyst move the boat carefully from its trailer and carefully set it into the water, everyone climbed aboard and got into their seats.

"You know something girls, as a little hesitant as I am to why they're asking us to come out into a specific part of the sea," Amethyst said, looking at a few of them in their seats, "I'm a little excited! Its been so long since I took this bad boy out, and I'm gonna clock some miles!" 

Amethyst raised her arm out, and swayed it around as if she was dancing to a beat.

"Octavia! Hype music!"

"Got it Amethyst!" 

Octavia pressed the play button on the little music player on the dashboard, which started to play. 

Take my breath away...

Octavia's head slowly bobbed to the beat, but Amethyst stopped moving and just froze.

"No! WHAT!? Octavia, that's the wrong one! How is that hype music!?"

"Sorry, my bad!" Octavia pulled out the cassette tape, and put in another one. "There we go, that should work."

A strumming guitar started to play, and Amethyst bobbed her head to the music. "Oh yeah, that's the stuff! Lets kick it!" 

She pulled on a lever, and the boat started to turn on, and start moving out into the open water. Everyone hanged on for dear life as they boat shook them all about, Amethyst holding onto the wheel and taking them out to the sea. 

Highway to the danger zone!





After ten minutes of driving, Amethyst parked the boat over a portion of water that was only a few miles off the coast of the beach. Thankfully they were only a few feet away from the giant cliffs and mountains that dug into the sea. 

"Okay, so, what now?" Lyra asked.

"At the most, all we can do is wait." Amethyst said, holding onto the wheel.

"Didn't they give us instructions?" 

"Actually, they did send me some more info." Trixie said, pulling out a sheet of paper. "They said, 'if you want us to appear, play something nice and loud for all of us to hear'." 

Amethyst grinned. "Good thing I've got some rockin stereos that are loud enough!" 

Amethyst flipped a switch, and music began to blast from her speakers on the boat, loud enough to send echoes throughout the area they were in. But that only made everyone cover their ears from how loud the music was.

"TURN IT DOWN!!!" Vinyl yelled.

"What!?" 

"TURN THE MUSIC DOWN!"

"MOVE THE SPURNING CLOWN?" Amethyst yelled back.

She hit the button to turn it off, and everyone sighed in relief. 

"Thank you, I don't think we could have taken much more of that." Vinyl said, sighing. "Any more, and I think all of us would have been deaf permanently." 

"Oh come on, you wouldn't have gone deaf from that..."

Trixie did even pay attention to the group's conversation. She was too busy staring out into the water, looking at the moonlight reflecting on the crystal clear water. It was such a nice sight. She let out a sigh and looked down into the water. She could see her reflection in front of her; that same little dork. 

"Well, hopefully Adagio will come out now." 

She smiled at herself looking in the water. Without even a second, a pair of glowing red eyes reflected from under the water, making her shriek and fall back, landing on the floor of the boat. 

"Trixie, are you okay?" 

Trixie slowly nodded and got back up. "I really hope I didn't see what I thought I was seeing." 

"What?" 

"Well--"

"Look!" Vinyl said, pointing out into the water. 

Everyone moved to one side of the boat and looked at where she was pointing at. Nothing.

"What?" Octavia asked.

"I swear, there was something out there. Or, it was out there." 

Pop. 

Everyone stopped. 

Pop.

Their eyes slowly meeting each other, went down to gaze into the water. A few bubbles were seen rising up and popping above the water.

"That's not supposed to happen, is it?" 

Lyra and Bon Bon turned their heads and gasped. Everyone turned to where they were looking at and let out a gasp as well. What appeared to be a giant fin was snaking its way through the water. And it was massive! It looked a little bigger than their own boat! 

But what they noticed was the fin was of a dark scent of purple, and as soon as it snaked past them, it went straight back into the water. 

"G-G-Girls... I'm not sure we're alone out here." 

While everyone gathered themselves together in the middle, none of them looked back into the water again. Something in a dark shadow was swimming right under them. Something more massive than a Great White, or a whale! Worse, none of them even saw it swim right underneath them. The only thing they noticed was a strange growling sound that was coming from the water.

"Y-You heard that too, right?" Bon Bon shivered.

"We all did!" Lyra quaked.

"Girls, lets try to stay calm... I'm sure we're just above some busy reefs, they're home to many forms of marine life. Maybe we're hovering over a home of a creature who's not really happy." Octavia said, trying to lighten the mood, but not even her words could make them feel relief.

Trixie turned her head again, and she froze. A girl was found hanging on the side of their boat, looking at them. This would have been a complete surprise, but thankfully this girl was someone they knew. Her orange puffy hair was now wet and laid limp against her bare body. Only her bare arms and shoulders could be seen as she clinged onto the side of the boat. 

"A-Adagio?"

The eldest sister didn't say a word to Trixie, and instead just stared at her and her friends with a neutral face. Everyone else eventually turned around, and caught on too. But all they could do was hold themselves against the side of the boat, not wanting to move closer to Adagio. 

"Oh, Adagio, hey! We uh... we didn't know you would be back again. You uh... you okay?" 

Adagio still didn't say a word, and her face remained neutral. As if she was just... frozen. 

"Adagio? Are you okay? You're not mad, are you?" Lyra gulped.

Trixie, unsure of her well being, slowly started to move. She took one step, and then another, and then another, and then another, slowly moving towards Adagio.

"Adagio, please talk to me. What we did was wrong, I know, but can't we talk this out?" 

Adagio's head only made a slight turn to look at her friends, and back at Trixie. Her expression changed from neutral to a scowl, as if she was annoyed. And without warning, Adagio started singing.

My heart is pierced by Cupid, 
I disdain all glittering gold...

Adagio pushed herself off the boat, putting herself back into the open water, still above the water away from them. Then like an ominous spirit of the night, her eyes began to glow, and the red pendent around her neck hummed. 

There is nothing can console me
but my Jolly Sailor Bold...

She dived straight back into the water, the girls only getting one glimpse at her feet before she was dispersed into the water. Confused, the girls leaned forward, trying to see where she was going. A bright flash of red emitted from the water, but it lasted for a brief second. Everyone was sent back into a gasp of surprise. 

Far beneath the water, three massive sea creatures began swimming beneath, moving themselves right up to the surface where that tiny boat was afloat. All of them began to spiral around the water, and then slowly show off only a few inches. 

Around them, the girls could see more giant fins prodding out of the water. Blue fins, purple fins, and orange and yellow fins! All of them were digging right through the water, and swimming around their boat. And then in seconds, they vanished back into the sea. 

"We're gonna die out here, I just know it..." Lyra whimpered.

Bubbles began to pop. Even more than usual. More and more bubbles began bubbling up and popping above the surface; in three different places at once. Everyone let out a collective whimper of fear, and huddled all together, holding each other close. 

But then, they noticed something was starting to rise up from the water. In all three of those places, what appeared to be snouts started to poke its way out, with water pushing past it. The snouts were connected with a head, the head in the shape of an equine like creature, with long necks. 

All of them pushed themselves higher and higher out of the water, showing off more of their features. Their skin was mostly covered in fish scales, but their undersides where the bellies were, were not. Gills were on the sides of their faces, with antenna on top of their heads. Giant fins stretched from the back of their heads and extended down all the way down to their backs. There were giant arms connected to the fronts of their bodies, in the shape of front hooves of a horse. 

Lastly,  they could see red gems right in the midsection, where they could guess was where their hearts were. But all of their heads were looking down at them, snarling. Sharp teeth were flashed at them, accompanied by loud growling noises. 

Trixie and the girls shivered out of fear. 

"Girls, I hoped it wasn't going be like this but, I think we're fish food!" Octavia whimpered.

"This isn't how I wanted to die!" Lyra bawled. 

Trixie didn't cry like the others. She was too busy analyzing each and every one of them.

"Girls, look closely. Do any of them look familiar to you?" Trixie asked. 

"No!" Vinyl screamed.

"Well, they do to me." Trixie said. She looked up high above, staring at the yellow and orange creature that was staring down at her with looks of anger. She didn't back away, run back to her group. She was too busy looking at the giant thing that was in front of her. 

"Its... its you. Adagio?"

The yellow creature's head slowly leaned down, its neck bending forward so its head could meet up with her. But the face didn't leave a smile, but instead just growled some more. 

"Adagio? Please, can't we talk?" 

Adagio didn't respond to Trixie with words, but instead just backed its head up to tower above. The giant hooves held onto the sides of the boat, tightly. Once she had a grip, she jerked her head forward, and exploded at them with one giant roar that would have been big enough to cause earthquakes. Her roaring practically made everyone fall to the floor of the boat and their hair blew right behind them from how loud she was. This was one angry beast.

As the lifeforms roars died down, she let go of the boat and started to turn around. She dived straight back into the sea and used her tail to splash the water, creating a big enough wave to push the girls and their boat straight back towards the mainland. All of them screamed in terror as they held onto the boat, watching the night sky zip right past them above. 

The boat started to shake and it stopped once it hit something hard. Pulling themselves back up, they looked to see what they hit. They found themselves right back on the beach where the car was. And out in the sea was the three creatures staring at them with angry snarls and growls.

All three made a collective roar and dived back into the sea, disappearing under the water. The girls were practically shaking from the fear they had just witnessed a few moments ago.

"So... y-you think they're still mad?" Lyra asked.