The mail ponies mane had grown to locks of long silken strands of sunshine, her features rivaling any model they had ever seen from her now regal muzzle and long slender fore legs. Their gaze took in the full glorious sight before them, the hind legs and flank were gone, before them was a long tail with shimmering fins of silver and white.
The wings became angelic looking translucent fins that flowed out of the small tub and onto the floor. Her ears became that of regal fin like adornments, looking more like ornate jewels befitting any queen.
Derpy....was a real Life Seapony.
A soft groan escaped her lips as her eyes slowly opened, the golden eyes looking upon them through long eyelashes.
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The mail mares hazy vision slowly focused as the colors of the world began to clear, the shapes now definable in her sight.
She was unaware what had exactly happened to get her here but the eager faces on the three fillies before her allowed her mind to know something had indeed happened.
She raised a single hoof as the warm liquid embraced her form, the look on her face going from the apologetic smile she came to wear often to a new expression the girls had never quite seen.
Her eyes still wondering separate as they always have were no longer an adoring feature, no.
They only served to show the panic in the mail mare...The seaponies heart.
Scootaloo,the first to notice moved herself and the others a few steps back from the shaking seapony.
"Its okay Derpy, don't you worry....every things is gonna be okay, we promise."
The look on The seaponies features softened slowly as the gentle smile graced her tender features, and then a sudden echoing boomed through the hole in the roof.
A flash of colors dashed over the opening and Scootaloo gasped.
'Oh no!'
She leaned down to the others, her tone lower as to not alert rainbow dash who was nearly all the way here in record time.
"Girls we gotta hide her!"
"But..shes pretty Scootaloo, I don't think Rainbow is gonna.--"
An orange hoof promptly sprung into action,covering the white unicorns mouth.
"Of course Rainbow inset gonna do anything, but chances are she will tell Twilight and she will use her science...and...and...before we know it. BAM! Derpy becomes some attraction at the Canterlot zoo!!! We found her, its OUR responsibility!!"
Scootaloo was determined not to let anything bad befall The seapony in the bathtub.
"Quick!! Close the curtain and the door!!!"
The fillies sprang into action, giving Derpy a rubber duckie as they quickly closed the door.
The three rested their backs against the door, their little chests heaving as their hearts pounded in unison.
Today was going to be a special day indeed.
" We did it.."
"You did what?" The cyan mare asked playfully from the roof.
"It looks like you were redecorating or got the mail Scoots." She chuckled playfully, unaware the subject of her joke was in the adjacent room.
Scootaloo smiled sheepishly up at her mentor, the little smile across those cheeks a near invitation to trouble.
" Ha..Good one Rainbow Dash."
Scootaloo was never good at lying or hiding things from her idol.
~~~~oOo~~~~
Derpy stared at the duckie for a moment, her eyes joining in target once again as a soft sight left her lips. Even tho she knew Rainbow Dash meant no harm in her words, she still did not like being the butt of every ponies jokes. Not every pony could fly as well as Rainbow Dash, especially not her.
The little duckie sat upon the waters surface even with her belly, it was days like this where being special had its limits.
Derpy leaned back in the tub, rubbing her eyes.
" I think its too late to glamour them...." She sighed, knowing soon enough she was going to have to explain herself.
This was not the first time whilst on land she had reverted to true form. The times it happened were few but always near catastrophic. The last she recalled was little Dinky.
She had been out on her normal rounds in ponyville, deciding it was better to walk than attempt to fly with the weather report of rain on the way. The last thing she needed was to fall from the sky as a seapony and land in sugar cuber corner.
A drizzle she could handle but once her fur becomes sleek with water, her body acts on its own. So she did her very best to avoid the rain under the signings and umbrellas of ponyville. It was just as she was heading back when just as her luck would have it, she fell head first into a rather large puddle outside the school house.
The only witness was an amazed little filly with an adorable smile.
She looked like a pup who had finished her first race, something the seapony had always wanted. A little pup of her own.
Time went on and Dinky attached herself to her, pouring affection onto the mail mare like no pony, sea or otherwise, had done before. But alas all good things must end, and often a child suffers for the mistakes of the parent.
The scolding Derpy had received from Roseluck was beyond unpleasant. She could still feel her chest tighten every time the white mare glared at her. The harsh words still echoed in her ears.
'Failure...Pathetic....Liar.'
She did not want her child to believe in such nonsense as 'Seaponies'.
They often call her kind Seaponies...even tho they are hardly equine in nature aside from surface characteristics. Mermare was another name labeled onto her species but it hardly did it justice.
It is often said when swimming it feels as if one is flying, she may not be the best flyer per say but when it comes to feats of aquatic athletics there is no better than Derpy herself.
Still, the pressing matter was what to do about the fillies. She could not moon blink them yet, it was hardly noon. The window for glamouring had also vanished. She was left but with one option..Tell the truth.
~~~~oOo~~~~
"So whats going on guys? I can tell somethings up.."
Rainbow Dash playfully smirked as she approached the fillies. The sound of sloshing water was easily heard through the thin door.
What were thy trying to hide? Last week it was a baby Manticore they were going to raise.
The cyan mare snorted as she rolled her rose colored eyes.
'Last week was Manticores who knows maybe they think they found a Seapony.'
The idea was enough to make her chuckle out loud.
Knowing these three anything was possible...no matter how ridiculous or dangerous...if it meant them getting a cutie mark they would do it.
"Its nothin really....me and Sweetie came over and uh..decided we wanted to be carpenters! Right Sweetie?"
They yellow filly pleaded with her eyes to the little unicorn.
"R..Right!!! But..uhhhhh when we got here everything was fixed so we....."
"WE BLEW A HOLE IN THE ROOF!!"
The little orange Pegasus finished up, the three of them smiling angelically in unison.
The cyan mare only stared at them as they spoke, her gaze narrowing more and more as it continued on.
"Riiiight...totally makes sense guys..." She watched as the fillies let out a collective sigh of relief, Oh yea...it was certain...
Something was going on.
"Welllllll....We can start our lesson but first I need to use the restroom..."
Their eyes all widened in unison.
'Nailed it.'
She triumphantly made her way to the bathroom, reaching for the door and then suddenly Apple Bloom was now on her leg, quickly followed by Sweetie Belle.
"Say...lets all go get a bite to eat back at the farm...Im sure sis would love to talk to ya.."
"Yea...and then...we....can go have a spa day with my sis...you know relax those key muscles!"
Rainbow Dash was now at a snails pace, dragging along the fillies like the tail to a kite. whatever was behind this door was sure to be one heck of a doozy!
Rainbow opened the door to the bathroom slowly as Scootaloo jumped onto her head to cover her eyes.
"Wai!? wuh!?-----"
Suddenly the cyan mare lost balance and tumbled into the bathroom at full speed, the three fillies hanging on like it was a high speed roller coaster. The impact sending the three tumbling off and onto Rainbows back.
" Derpy!?"
Rainbow called out in surprise.
The three poked there heads over Rainbows, gasping in unison to find the mail mare standing there on four legs.
"Hey there...Rainbow Dash!"
The girls stared at her in shock, was she not a seapony a mere five minuets ago?
Rainbow groaned and got up, this was just a misunderstanding....again..and they were covering for Derpy who had destroyed more stuff...again! How many times can one mare destroy every house she comes in contact with before switching jobs?!
"Ugh....well...Im gonna go get the construction team..again...Im sure glad the mayor decided to create a department for mail mare caused damages." The cyan mare seemed to be in low spirits as she left the bathroom and flew out through the hole.
"Well....Im gonna go back to work guys..."
The grey mare smiled to them as she slowly moved out of the bathroom, leaving them confused and believing it may have been an illusion.
However...the amount of towels on the counter proved otherwise.
Scootaloo turned to the mail mare as she left the room, watching her as she did so, spotting that the intricate silver had not left her tail completely nor had the angel fins from before.
"Your hair is still wet... wouldn't want you to catch a cold..right?"
Derpy turned to face those three smiles, feeling a dry lump form in her throat as she swallowed hard.
Busted