Previously on My Little Pony...
"What about a little chance to explore the world outside your mountain?" Discord asked Roca, as the scene zoomed out to show the big, wide ocean surrounding the Stone Mountain of Nothingness.
"It's just a big wide ocean surface, I've seen it each and everyday in my whole life living here!" Roca pointed out.
"But, I bet you'd wish to see what's underneath the surface of what you see everyday!" Discord said, snapping his finger and summoning a submarine in the process, causing every creature to gasp.
Discord drove the submarine down to the daisy seafloor, passing by all the marine plants and animals, which amazed the submarine riders.
"Wow," Gallus gasped.
"Underwater is so cool!" Smolder cheered.
"There's a strange creature!" Smolder shouted, pointing a claw at the submarine's front window.
When the creature got stuck in underwater unstoppable weed...
"It is called Unstoppable Underwater Weed." Nature Bloom informed, "It got its name from the fact that once it catches a creature, it will forever stick onto the said creature unless dragon fire burns the plant, causing it to wither and fall off."
Smolder then released her controlled fire from her mouth, burning the weed and causing it to wither and weaken, falling off of its hostage. Once freed, the creature speechlessly thanked Smolder, "Thank you..."
"Smolder. My name is Smolder." Smolder introduced.
"I'm Droplet," the creature introduced in return, "Droplet Tidal...but you all should just call me Droplet..."
"A very long time ago...water dragons were free to swim in the bodies of water, run on land, and fly in the sky. Fire dragons could run and fly too, but unlike water dragons, they could not breathe underwater, they could resist lava instead. The water dragons were alright with the fact, but the jealous fire dragons were not. With most of the world covered in huge bodies of water, lakes, seas, oceans, the water dragons surely had a lot more space than fire dragons. So the fire dragons decided to attack the water dragons, resulting in a dragon world war which caused a lot of damage; forest fire, floods, smoke pollution, soil erosion... many creatures suffered from the dragons' actions. The Water Dragon Emperor did not want anymore harm done to any creature, so he decided that he and all of the water dragons should give in, and conceal themselves underneath the bodies of water forever, never to go on land nor sky. With land and sky no longer territories of water dragons, the fire dragons finally stopped their pursuit of the water dragons."
"Why can't all fire dragons and water dragons work well together, too?" Droplet voiced his thoughts out.
"You mean you... want fire dragons and water dragons to be friends?" Smolder asked.
"Well...since the different creatures of Equestria and Beyond got together because of the friendships formed between their leaders and an individual of each of their kind...I don't say that fire dragons and water dragons becoming friends is impossible..." Smolder replied.
"So that means we can make peace between fire dragons and water dragons?" Droplet asked, lightening up.
"If we can get our leaders to be friends and maybe show them how well fire and water work together to make delicious soup, maybe we can!" Smolder said her ideas out loud.
"I'm not letting him take away my Best Friend!" Ocellus said to herself, before she used her powers to change into a tiny fly behind every creature's backs.
"Everything's going fine without those water dragons around." Ocellus, disguised as a fire dragon said.
"See?! I knew it! Fire dragons are violent, and they always are! They're never friends!" Ocellus, disguised as an adult male water dragon complete with an adult male's voice said out loud, revealing her position on the water's surface, watching everything.
"Droplet, go!" Smolder quickly swung Droplet around, tossing him into the ocean in an attempt to shield him from her own kind.
"That water dragon can lead to disharmony between the dragons in less than one minute! Imagine if we signed a peace treaty and then that happens!" Ember continued her side of the argument.
"No 'buts'! Your time here is over, young adult!" Ember declared, grabbing Smolder by her arm and dragging her(Smolder) with her(Ember), followed by the six adult dragons company as they flew to the direction of the Dragon Lands.
The rest of the creatures on the mountain speechlessly watched the events unfold.
"Please tell me that that never happened..." Nature Bloom spoke up.
After the series' theme song played, the creatures on Roca's mountain could still barely believe what just happened.
"That never happened?" Yellow Bright asked.
"Every creature, this is terrible!" Buffer commented.
"Krona knows!" Krona agreed.
"Poor Droplet and Smolder, all they wanted was their kinds to be in peace!" Silverstream lamented.
"And not at war!" Sunshine Rays added.
"Are you sure it's war? Both the fire dragons and the water dragons just left each other. In other words, abandoned each other." Volcano pointed out.
"And Smolder is taken to the Dragon Lands!" Sandbar reminded.
"Friends got to get her back!" Yona declared.
"Don't worry every creature! I'm sure we'll get Smolder back!" Ocellus, in her regular form assured.
"Ocellus?! Where were you?!" Gallus asked.
"What do you mean, where was I?" Ocellus asked, somewhat nervously.
"Where were you when Smolder and Dragon Lord Ember argued?" Evergreen asked.
"Well...I was behind all of you so you didn't see me..." Ocellus replied, trying to hide the truth.
"And where were you when Smolder confronted that dragon with the deep voice who offended the water dragons?" Falcon Dive added, suspecting something.
"Behind your backs!" Ocellus answered.
"And where were you when that water dragon offended the fire dragons?!" Alkali ended.
"Also behind your backs!" Ocellus answered.
"Ocellus, you are Smolder's Best Friend!" Luster began, "You should be standing up on her side like she did with Droplet!"
"Unless of course, she's about to do something wrong!" Sunshine Rays pointed out, "Real friends prevent you from doing what's wrong."
"Thanks, for the reminder, Sunshine." Luster thanked before turning to Ocellus while expressing concern towards the changeling, "Ocellus, I'm not offending you, but please, explain why you were sitting at the back and not saying a single word when the worst was happening?! Is it because you were scared?!"
In order to hide the truth, Ocellus lied, "Yes...Luster...I don't know what got into me...I was too scared to help my Best Friend all of a sudden! At such a time like this! I don't know why I just lost my courage when this happened!"
"Sometimes we experience this sort of thing. There's no way any creature can maintain the same one personality throughout their whole lives or for one whole month..." Sunshine Rays began.
"Thanks for the information Sunshine, but right now, we got to help Smolder!" Luster declared.
"You did realise you stopped calling her professor, did you?" Nature Bloom asked.
"Whoops, sorry....professors..." Luster apologised.
"It's alright, we're not your teachers anymore! We're all friends like friends!" Silverstream assured.
"So...this means..." Buffer asked.
"Yes, you can just refer us by our names, just like every creature else!" Silversteam declared.
"But you're older than us, we should be more respectful to you!" Nature Bloom pointed out.
"Or maybe with or without the 'professor' term, anything you like!" Silverstream suggested.
"Back to the main focus; we got to help Smolder!" Sandbar replied.
"She's our dragon pal!" Yona agreed.
"Indeed." Luster nodded with a determined look, before asking Discord, "Discord, will you please teleport us all to the Dragon Lands?"
"All but me, I got to stay here no my mountain." Roca noted, "Plus, I can keep a lookout in case Droplet or any water dragon comes back."
"Thanks, Roca." Luster thanked.
At the Water Dragon Palace, in the throne room...
"Droplet Tidal, I've been aware with all that happened between the dragons recently..." Emperor Oceanic began a one-on-one conversation with Droplet.
"I am so sorry...Emperor Oceanic..." Droplet sadly hung his head in front of the emperor.
"But I also saw you were right about your friend Smolder, she isn't a trickster. She defended you from her own kind when you were at their mercy." the emperor pointed out.
"She's wonderful, isn't she?" Droplet asked, before shaking his head, "I mean, she's a wonderful friend, isn't she?"
"She has good personality, just like how we are meant to have...I also can't believe how a strange water dragon figure would go against our moral and ethics teachings by offending the fire dragons like that."
"I cannot believe it, neither. Especially when that weird water dragon disappeared like magic in front of the guards!" Droplet added.
"There is something very fishy about him...but one thing's for sure, he really sabotaged the possible friendship between fire dragons and water dragons." Emperor Oceanic stated.
"I know...it's very obvious..." Droplet sighed.
"I am so sorry Droplet, but I am afraid that you can't see your friend again." the emperor declared, causing Droplet to gasp.
"You'd risk your life for nothing. We only risk our lives when it's worth it." the emperor explained, "Like saving the lives of others."
"But..." Droplet tried to argue, but was cut off by the emperor.
"The fire dragons will now detest us more than ever. We better not only stay underwater...but also set up defences in case they have more machines to take them beneath the waves."
"But we want peace, not war!" Droplet insisted.
"I know, but unfortunately, we got to take such precautions, especially with the current situation. I understand your good intentions, but sometimes, they sadly can't be achieved..." the emperor replied.
In the Dragon Lands, Garble was watching over from the Dragon Lord's Rock, just before Discord and the creatures arrived.
"Heroic Ten, and my little sister's friends and the Lord of Chaos?" Garble asked.
"Dragon Lod Consort Garble, are Dragon Lord Ember and Smolder back yet?" Luster asked.
"No, and what do you mean 'and Smolder'? Isn't she living in Ponyville?" Garble asked.
"It is a pretty long story..." Krona responded.
"Smolder, I don't care how long it's going to take, but you got to forget about your water dragon friend!" Ember declared.
"His name is Droplet! And he's a great friend!" Smolder argued.
"If you keep on talking about him, you are not returning to Ponyville!" Ember insisted.
"What?! But I am the Loyalty Teacher at the School of Friendship in Ponyville!" Smolder complained.
"Isn't there a pony with wings but can't fly able to take your place when you are not available?" Ember asked.
"That's Scootaloo, she's a pegasus who can't fly, but she's usually the extra Friendship Teacher!" Smolder clarified.
"She won't be an extra once you're not returning until you do!" Ember declared.
"You can't do this because of what happened!" Smolder confronted.
"It's for the greater good! If it's the only way to get you to put the water dragons aside completely!" Ember insisted, as they landed on the Dragon Lord's Rock, which used to be her father's throne for sitting on.
"Smolder!" Ocellus happily cried running towards her Best Friend.
"Hi Ocellus," Smolder greeted in a gloomy matter.
"What is wrong, BFF?" Ocellus asked in a concerned tone.
"I...miss Droplet...and lost the chances of making peace between his kind and mine..." Smolder sadly said.
"And until she completely gets over with those dragons, she's staying here in the Dragon Lands, not to return to Ponyville!" Ember declared.
"What?!" Smolder's friends all asked in shock.
"But, Dragon Lord Ember, Smolder has to come back to Ponyville! Not only is she our friend, she's the School of Friendsip's Loyalty Teacher!" Ocellus cried.
"She can be replaced!" Ember plainly insisted.
"This kind of treatment to force her to get over with something is simply..." Falcon Dive was about to say something nasty, but was prevented by Nature Bloom filling in for him.
"Really not cool."
"Come on, Smolder! It's just getting over a new friend you just met and spent time with in merely one day!" Ocellus cheered, trying to persuade Smolder to forget about Droplet.
"Droplet and I may have just met, but I felt like I knew him forever..." Smolder sighed, "He's just curious about our world, asking about everything. He's also brave to be the only one of his kind to trust us, and most especially me despite what my ancestors did to his, and even told me about it. And most of all, he's selfless as he could have been happy being the only water dragon to be out of the water, but he wanted all water dragons to get the same thing, and was willing to make a stand to earn it for them. He's amazing..."
"See? That's exactly what I meant!" Ember showed every creature Smolder's current situation, "She can't stop thinking about that water dragon this way! She has to stop now that we don't want anything to do with those so-called good dragons who wanted peace!"
"Unless I'm daydreaming, I'd say she loves that water dragon she described!" Garble commented.
Smolder snapped out of her thoughts upon hearing what her brother just said.
"Don't worry sis, I'll just let you be you!" Garble quickly responded.
"But she must forget or at least get over with that water dragon!" Ember argued with her husband.
"As you said, gemstone..." Garble sighed.
"Don't worry, I'm sure some BFF time will get her to get over that dragon!" Ocellus assured, hugging Smolder.
In the underwater kingdom of Dragon Seas, Droplet sadly swam home to lie down on his bed, which was a rock covered with seaweed. He sadly looked at the two coconuts he had brought home earlier, the very coconuts he and Smolder had together, which he placed on top of his cabinet of treasures.
"Oh, Smolder...I know we just met...but you are like a friend I've had forever...I miss you so much..."
"We can play Tag and Seek! Or, bowling our style! Or, dodge rock!" Ocellus suggested, trying to cheer a walking with her head down Smolder up.
"It's not like those games can settle things between the dragons." Smolder sadly said.
"Or maybe we can play Laugh out Loud with jokes!" Ocellus continued.
"Thanks for trying to cheer me up Ocellus, you're a great BFF..." Smolder thanked, unaware of the fact that Ocellus was the one reason the water dragons and fire dragons did not get along this time.
"But I still can never forget about Droplet...I just wish I could see him...one last time...know how he's doing with all that just happened..." Smolder sadly said.
Seeing her Best Friend so depressed made Ocellus feel guiltier than ever for her actions, to the point that she could no longer take it, "Smolder...I...I..." she cracked, "I am the one reason you and Droplet can't be together!"
"What?!" Smolder asked in shock.
"You two had everything going well, and I ruined everything!" Ocellus cried.
"What do you mean?" Smolder asked.
"I sabotaged the possible friendship between fire and water dragons! It was me!" Ocellus continued.
"What are you saying? It's not like you were the strange fire dragon whom Ember doesn't remember bringing with her." Smolder stated.
"Actually...that was a disguise..." Ocellus admitted.
"So you were also the water dragon who called the fire dragons revolting fire-breathing beasts?" Smolder asked, expressing suspicions.
Ocellus gulped and nervously giggled, "Well..."
That response was enough to confirm Smolder's suspicions, as she angrily confronted her Best Friend, "Ocellus, what did you do?!"
"I disguised myself as that fire dragon and water dragon who said those nasty things..." Ocellus confessed.
"What?! Why?!" Smolder asked.
"You and Droplet were getting so close just on the very first day you met! I was afraid that you're going to stop spending time with me and forget about me! Your BFF!" Ocellus dramatically cried.
"You mean you sabotaged the fire and water dragons' relationship just so you can keep me and Droplet away from each other so you can spend time with me?!" Smolder asked in an even more furious tone.
"Yes...I am so sorry, Smolder!" Ocellus cried and apologised.
"What you did is literally unforgivable!" Smolder scolded.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't know what I was thinking!" Ocellus apologised.
"You know what I'm thinking? It turns out that I never knew you; you are no BFF!" Smolder harshly scolded, "If you were a real BFF, you'd never try to keep me away from some creature that is alright for me to love!"
"But you and Droplet just met!" Ocellus pointed out.
"He's not like you! I don't see any reason to be related to you!" Smolder scolded.
"What?!" Ocellus cried.
"I hereby disown you!" Smolder declared, before angrily storming off with a march.
"Where are you going? Smolder?!" Ocellus asked, but got no reply.
"What have I done?" she asked herself, full of remorse.
"Smolder! What's wrong?" Silverstream asked, noticing her friend's angry expressions as the dragon stormed pass the other Young Six members, and the Heroic Ten members.
"Long story, and you're not going to like it." Smolder answered.
"What is the story?" Gallus asked.
"Some creature whom I thought was my BFF turned out to never have been my BFF all along!" Smolder indirectly mentioned Ocellus.
"Ocellus?!" the rest of the Young Six asked in shock.
"What does Smolder mean?!" Yona asked.
"She's the one who sabotaged the relationship between fire dragons and water dragons by disguising herself as those dragons who insulted the other kind!" Smolder explained.
"What?! Are you sure it's Ocellus?" Sandbar asked.
"She'd never do that!" Silverstream stood up.
"That's what I thought, but she admitted it out of feeling guilty. She said she only did it so she can spend time with me, by separating me and Droplet through causing tensions between the dragon kinds." Smolder explained.
"What?! I can't believe it!" Gallus cried.
"That is a serious crime!" Sunshine Rays commented.
"Causing disharmony between different races?" Evergreen asked.
"That can lead to war!" Buffer ended.
"What should creatures do?" Krona asked.
"Now that we all know the truth, should we tell the dragon lord?" Luster suggested.
"But, what about Professor Ocellus?!" Nature Bloom asked in concern.
"Maybe you should call her 'so-called Professor Ocellus', for what she's just done!" Falcon Dive commented.
"But she has a reason!" Volcano pointed out.
"Whose side are you on?!" Sunshine Rays angrily asked.
"On every side like a Historian." Volcano answered, "Got to think of all sides and not choose to focus on any one side."
"I'm sorry Sunshine, but I think we got to help Ocellus..." Nature Bloom stood up.
"What?!" Sunshine Rays asked.
"Make amends for what she's done, that is." Nature Bloom quickly finished.
"Nature is right, Sunshine. Ocellus better make up for her mistake! That's the only way to redeem herself!" Luster declared, "So please, go with Nature Bloom, find Ocellus and help her make amends!"
"Come on Sunshine, you must know what the right thing to do is, right?" Nature Bloom asked.
"Alright, I'll help Ocellus." Sunshine Rays agreed, "Just to help her make up for her wrongdoing!"
Sunshine Rays and Nature Bloom then took off, leaving the rest of their friends.
"So, what about the rest of us?" Alkali asked.
"We got to do the best we can, stop the tensions between the dragon kinds and form peace between them." Luster announced.
"Easier said than done." Volcano commented.
"So what's step one?" Yellow Bright asked.
"Probably talk to the Fire Dragon Leaders because they're easier to approach from our perspectives." Luster figured.
"And they are just around the corner." Falcon Dive added.
"Ocellus?! Has any creature here seen Ocellus?!" Sunshine Rays called, while flying through the skies alongside Nature Bloom.
"We just want to help her!" Nature Bloom assured.
"With making up for something she did..." Sunshine Rays ended, causing Nature Bloom to stare at her with an annoyed look.
"Sunshine! Professor Ocellus must be feeling very guilty! Can you please try to be nicer to her in situations like this?!" the green-turquoise changeling asked.
"I am so sorry, Nature, but you know how much I don't like vices and wrongdoings! Plus, disguising herself as the opposite-sex?! That is so not right!" Sunshine Rays insisted.
"I know, Sunshine, but you should have known better that hatred is not good, even if it's hatred towards bad things that aren't good!" Nature Bloom pointed out.
"Sorry, I just have no control over these things bothering me so much, hopefully one day it'll be more I mean less...intense..." Sunshine Rays responded.
"Right now, let's just focus on finding Professor Ocellus, shall we?" Nature Bloom asked.
"Sure, I can use a little scavenger hunt after all my writing!" Sunshine Rays insisted.
Unbeknownst to every creature, Ocellus had disguised herself as a rock, feeling so guilty for what she recently did.
Unfortunately for her, every creature thinking she was a rock was not really completely good news as just after Sunshine Rays and Nature Bloom flew pass, Lava and two female dragons who share her age approached the rock-disguised Ocellus.
"Come on girls! Who's up for some lava surfing?!" Lava asked.
"We all are!" one of the dragons agreed, as they took the disguised Ocellus with them in their claws.
"Lava surfing?!" Ocellus asked herself.
"Did this rock just talk?" the other young female dragon asked.
"You probably must be hearing things, Pyre." Lava replied.
"Hearth, what do you think?" Pyre then turned to her other Best Friend.
"A talking rock? I find that hard to believe." Hearth honestly replied.
"Then, I must be hearing things.." Pyre gave in, as she helped her friends carry the rock-disguised changeling to the nearest lava stream, to Ocellus' horror.
"Ready? Three, two..." Lava began the countdown, but before she and her friends could throw Ocellus the rock into the lava stream, the terrified Ocellus changed back into a changeling and flew off with a yelp.
"Professor Ocellus?!" the three preteen female fire dragons asked in unison.
"Professor Ocellus?!" Nature Bloom and Sunshine Rays gasped, as they finally saw who they were looking for.
"What were you doing as that rock?!" Pyre asked.
"And isn't that against the changelings' rule of using powers only for a job, a play, or an emergency?" Hearth asked.
"It is! And it's a wrongdoing!" Sunshine Rays declared, showing up with Nature Bloom.
"Miss Sunshine Rays and Miss Nature Bloom?!" Lava's friends asked in unison.
"Don't get too excited, they are my older brother's best friends." Lava reminded.
"But they are famous heroes of Equestria and Beyond!" Hearth pointed out.
"But we still prefer to be treated like regular creatures," Sunshine Rays insisted.
"We're really sorry we can't spend more time with you, because we got some work to do today." Nature Bloom apologised.
"Now Professor Ocellus, I believe that we got some serious things to talk about...." Sunshine Rays began, only to notice the absence of the cyan changeling.
"She was here a second ago!" Nature Bloom cried.
"We can help you find her if you'd like." Lava offered.
"Thank you so much Lava, but don't forget, to leave things to us afterwards." Sunshine Rays thanked.
"Gar-gar! Gar-gar!" Smolder called her older brother.
"What is it, little sis?" Garble asked.
"I need your help!" Smolder began.
"Sure, anything for you!" Garble replied.
"Get me to talk to Dragon Lord Ember." Smolder ordered.
"What?" Garble asked.
"What?!" Ember asked as a response to hearing the story from the creatures.
"It really wasn't a fire dragon and a water dragon individual, it was Ocellus!" Volcano explained.
"She lost her moral compass today, because she was so blinded by her worries of losing her time with Smolder since Droplet became a friend." Luster added.
"She's most likely jealous of Droplet, and jealousy can make any creature do such crazy things!" Alkali contributed.
"Talk about it," Volcano responded, remembering the time when he was jealous of Alkali.
"The main point is, the real problem really wasn't between the two dragon kinds!" Yellow Bright pointed out.
"And don't worry, Sunshine Rays and Nature Bloom are handling Ocellus right now." Evergreen assured.
"So you are saying?" Ember asked.
"Try again. Try to make peace with the water dragons!" Later declared.
"Just like what Solder and Droplet wanted!" Krona added.
"But, even if I wanted to, how will we get peace if we can't even get word to the water dragons?! About who sabotaging our relationship?" Ember asked.
"Ocellus, Smolder's Best Friend!" Falcon Dive clarified.
"Only because she's jealous of Droplet and wanted to keep him and Smolder apart!" Buffer reminded.
"Allow me to think about this..." Ember suggested.
"Take your time," Luster replied, before turning to her remaining best friends, "Alkali, Evergreen, Yellow Bright and Buffer, you four are coming with me. We're going back to Roca's mountain with the aid of Discord!"
"Did some creature say 'Discord'?" the said draconequus asked, appearing right in front of them.
"Right on time, Discord." Luster smiled.
"But what about Krona, Falcon Dive and I?" Volcano asked.
"You three stay here with the fire dragons, we'll be back, soon." Luster assured, before Discord teleported her and the others, and himself, away.
At Roca's mountain, the owner of the mountain itself was looking at the ocean, just before she heard the sound of teleportation. She turned around and saw some of her friends.
"Luster! You're back!" she greeted.
"Did Droplet come back?" Luster asked.
"No, all has been quiet ever since you were gone." Roca reported.
"We got a word to send to him," Luster declared, before turning to Alkali.
"I am ready when you are Luster!" Alkali saluted.
"Every creature, stay and wait here, Alkali and I will be back soon. Hopefully with Droplet." Luster instructed.
"We sure heard that!" Buffer responded.
"Good luck on your quest!" Evergreen wished.
"Stay positive!" Yellow Bright chirped.
Luster hopped onto Alkali's back, ready for another ride, but before they could move...
"Are you sure you don't need my assistance?" Discord asked, offering Luster a scuba diver's gear.
"No thanks Discord, Alkali and I got this." Luster smiled, before Alkali took her down into the ocean, transforming them both into sea ponies upon touching the ocean's water. Despite the transformation, their sizes remained constant.
"Hold on Luster, underwater and air are very different when you compare." Alkali rhymed.
"They sure are. The water particles are a lot closer together compared to the particles of air. And water is heavier than air, and denser than air as density is mass divide by volume. More mass, more density..." Luster began explaining.
"You sure you're not Volcano's twin sister?" Alkali joked.
"Sorry...just can't help but say those..." Luster giggled., while still riding on Alkali's back.
"Ocellus!" Sandbar shouted, walking around the Dragon Lands.
"Ocellus!" Yona yelled.
"Ocellus!" Silversream squawked.
"Ocellus!" Gallus called, flying around.
"Where can she have gone?" Nature Bloom asked in a worried tone.
"She's probably feeling guiltier than ever..." Sunshine Rays figured, "Probably hid herself from every creature and everything, just like any creature who feels such guilt will like to do..."
"If we want to find her, we got to think like her! If we ever felt so guilty, where will we hide?" Gallus asked.
After a while of thinking, Yona raised her front right hoof, "Oh! Yona knows! Yona knows!"
Meanwhile, with Garble and Smolder...
"Are you sure you want to straight away criticise your own Best Friend and hand her over to the Dragon Lord?" Garble asked his sister.
"She was never my best friend...I never really knew her..." Smolder declared, with her head hung down.
"I wasn't best friends with Dragon Lord Ember to begin with, and all we know about each other was the outside...but when the dragon eggs really needed me, we started to know about each other on the inside..." Garble reminded.
"I know Gar-gar, but that's so different! I became friends with Ocellus ages ago! Remained friends until...today..." Smolder sadly slowed down.
"You really love your new friend over her?" Garble asked.
"I don't want anything to do with her now..." Smolder declared, expressing how much she disowned Ocellus.
"So you're just going to tell Dragon Lord Ember that..." Garble began, only to be cut off by his sister.
"The fire dragons and water dragons can be friends! The only thing that got between them is some creature that I now disown..."
Meanwhile, underwater...
"Do you think we're close to finding him?" Alkali asked.
"I don't know...I've never been to Dragon Seas...we met Droplet outside the were dragon empire!" Luster explained, "He must have a job to do beyond his home's borders!"
Alkali suddenly halted and stopped in her tracks, as a water dragon guard stood in front of them!
"Halt! Who goes there?!" the guard asked, raising a spear at them.
"We're friends of Droplet, a water dragon who lives somewhere in these waters, and we're looking for him..." Luster explained, but was ignored by the guard.
"Just go back where you came from!" the guard pointed the spear at Alkali's chest, to her discomfort.
"Alright, alright, we're leaving!" Luster responded, signalling Alkali to swim away, in the inverse direction of the one they just travelled in.
"Leaving?" Alkali whispered.
"Don't worry, I've got a plan." Luster whispered into Alkali's ear.
At the Young Six's Treehouse, which was the Tree of Harmony grown into a treehouse for the creatures, Ocellus curled herself like an animal during winter.
Just then, Nature Bloom, in the form of a huge dragon, carrying Yona and Sandbar on her back, landed right beside the treehouse alongside Sunshine Rays, Silverstream and Gallus. Once the yak and earth pony came off her back, Nature Bloom changed back into her regular form.
"I just hope that really was an emergency." Sunshine Rays remarked.
"Since we are in a hurry, I'd say it is." Gallus figured.
Silverstream opened the door to the treehouse and let every creature in.
"Ocellus?" the creatures asked as they entered.
Ocellus quickly turned into a rock as the door opened.
"Ocellus," Sunshine Rays sighed, "We're here to help you."
"Help you fix things," Nature Bloom added.
"What I did was literally unforgivable, just like what Smolder said..." Ocellus sadly said, changing back to her regular form.
"She only said that because she was too angry at that moment." Nature Bloom assured.
"Any creature can say that when they feel such emotions." Sunshine Rays added.
"But she actually has a point! What I did was so wrong! So bad! So...extreme!" Ocellus cried.
"You just lost your moral compass because of your emotions," Nature Bloom informed, understandably.
"Droplet is right for Smolder...I never should have existed! I am no BFF! Just like what Smolder said!" Ocellus sobbed.
"Ocellus, it is time to put all of this aside! You just got to continue down the path, make the right choices, and make up for it. Blaming yourself for what happened does not change a thing. Learning from the mistake, not making the same one, and fixing it, does change things around, plus, make up for it!" Sunshine Rays encouraged.
"Wow Sunshine, for once, you never really got so angry or insane!" Silverstream commented, causing every creature to stare at her speechlessly.
"What?! Sunshine is known for going insane over wrongdoings and anything not good!" Silverstream reminded.
"I really won't say that if I were you, Silverstream..." Sandbar pointed a hoof at Sunshine was, reminding Silverstram of the pegasus' presence.
"I am so sorry, Sunshine..." Silverstream apologised.
"Don't worry, this time, I got it covered." Sunshine Rays assured.
"But not everything's covered. How can Professor Ocellus ever make up for such a misdeed?!" Nature Bloom asked Sunshine Rays.
"Well...I do have something in mind..." Sunshine Rays replied.
"What is it?!" Ocellus asked.
"But unfortunately, I believe that all I can do is give a clue, let Ocellus figure out the rest. If I told her everything, she won't learn the moral compass of her own." Sunshine Rays informed.
"Then what is the clue?!" Ocellus cried.
"To make up for this huge misdeed, you must show every creature whom you affected that you recognise your wrongdoing as something wrong, and show that you do want to make up for it!" Sunshine Rays explained, "That is all I can tell you! You got to spread your wings from here."
"Sunshine!" Nature Bloom complained.
"Teachers are meant to guide others, not spoon-feed them." Sunshine Rays reminded.
"Actually, thanks Sunshine Rays! I know what to do!" Ocellus thanked, as she got an idea, rushing off.
"Where are you going?!" Sandbar asked.
"To fix my mistake!" Ocellus declared.
"We're coming with you!" Gallus announced.
"No! I mean...please do! But just stand by!" Ocellus told the others.
"Stand by?" Yona asked.
"That means be ready to deal or assist with something or be present while something bad is happening but fail to take any action to stop it." Sunshine Rays defined.
"Thanks, Sunshine, for a second you're like Volcano." Silverstream commented.
"Sure Luster, Volcano and I are a lot alike as intelligent leaders, but don't forget that we're still different individuals." Sunshine Rays reminded.
"Can you please focus on the situation?" Nature Bloom politely asked, as they followed a majority of the Young Six.
In Dragon Seas, Luster and Alkali carefully swam pass the water dragons and marine creatures, as Luster kept the invisibility spell she casted active, so she and Alkali could find Droplet without being detected.
"Finding Droplet will be like finding a needle in a haystack, only we'll be finding a water dragon in an underwater empire!" Alkali complained.
"You are right, it is going to take too long trying to find Droplet, especially when he won't be able to find us!" Luster agreed.
"So what should we do?" Alkali asked.
"Get ready Alkali, this plan can be very risky and complicated." Luster warned.
"If it's the only way..." Alkali gulped.
Luster then purposely turned off the invisibility spell, causing the water dragon guards to know where they were.
"Get them!" one of he guards shouted.
"Just dodge them, Alkali!" Luster instructed.
Alkali did as told, zig-zagging, twisting and curving as she attempted to swim away from the guards.
"This is your plan?!" Alkali asked.
"Trust me! This way, Droplet will know where we are and come to us!" Luster whispered into Alkali's ear.
"I just hope that he finds us before we're all doomed..." Alkali whimpered.
"Dragon Lord Ember..." Smolder began, as she and her brother approached the dragon lord.
"Your friends already told me about the situation, I'm still thinking of what we should do." Ember insisted.
"Please, don't do anything to the water dragons unless it's making peace and befriending them!" Smolder pleaded.
"We don't want any more enemies, but how will we ever get them to understand?" Ember asked.
"Understand what? The truth about what happened?" Smolder asked.
"Yes, that truth..." Ember sighed, "The one involving your Best Friend."
Smolder was silent for a while, before she spoke up, "She is not my Best Friend, anymore..."
In his home, Droplet gloomily ate his meal, which was sea grass just like most of the time given he had lots of sea grass in his garden for eating. Suddenly, he heard some commotion as a guard shouted, "?Halt in the name of the emperor!"
Rushing out of his house, Droplet quickly witnessed Alkali and Luster being chased by guards.
"Alkali?! Luster?!" Droplet asked, before quickly swimming to their side.
"I don't know how much longer I can keep this up!" Alkali cried.
"One thing for sure, I just hope Sunshine never finds out about this..." Luster commented in response.
"What are you two doing here? In these forms?" Droplet asked, catching up as he swam right beside them.
"Droplet! We found you!" Luster gladly said.
"More like you found us!" Alkali added.
"I'll explain later!" Luster announced, before teleporting all three of them back onto Roca's mountain, and turning her and Alkali back into a unicorn and hippogriff respectively.
"You made it!" Yellow Bright cheered.
"It really was risky..." Alkali commented.
"I'm so sorry, but we can't spend too much time!" Luster apologised.
"You did spend a lot of time; one whole hour and forty-nine minutes and fifty-three seconds to be exact!" Discord commented, showing them a stopwatch.
"You sound a lot like...a friend of mine..." Luster commented, indirectly mentioning Xian Zhe, who helped her at times while remaining a secret from the public due to his kind's customs.
"Sorry to change the topic, a bit...but, why would you want to bring me here?" Droplet asked.
"We have something important to tell you." Luster responded.
"You know, about what recently happened between the fire dragons and water dragons." Buffer added.
"Oh that? Emperor Oceanic already told me to forget about it, water dragons just have to be more on guard." Droplet replied.
"I see that he doesn't want a fight, neither do we, nor the fire dragons as they just...went home..." Buffer informed.
"And Smolder?" Droplet asked.
"Dragon Lord Ember decided to keep her in the Dragon Lands until she gets over with you." Yellow Bright informed.
Droplet gasped to learn about what happened to the fire dragon he loved, but sadly accepted, "Just let that happen...it's not like fire dragons and water dragons can be friends now..."
"Droplet, they still can be friends, because it really wasn't one of them who sabotaged their possible friendship by causing those tensions!" Luster informed.
"What?!" Droplet asked in shock.
"It is a very crazy long story..." Alkali nervously added.
"But to summarise it; Ocellus, Smolder's Best Friend was jealous of you spending so much time with Smolder on the very first day you two met, so she decided to separate you by causing tensions between your kinds! She disguised herself as that fire dragon who insulted the water dragons, and then, disguised herself as the water dragon who insulted the fire dragons! So it really wasn't your kinds causing the tensions!" Luster explained.
"What?! Smolder's Best Friend, jealous of me?!" Droplet asked.
"We are really sorry about that...she just could not help herself back there..." Evergreen emphasised.
"So you are saying?" Droplet asked.
"There is still a chance to create peace between the two dragon kinds!" Luster pointed out, "Tell the water dragon emperor! Please!"
"After what happened with the guards, you think he'll listen to me?" Droplet asked.
"I heard he's a great emperor from what you said about him!" Buffer assured, "The kind that treats his subjects like his own children!"
Droplet smiled to hear what Buffer said.
"Smolder disown Ocellus?!" Krona asked in shock.
"Disown means refuse to acknowledge or maintain any connection with!" Volcano defined.
"So that means..." Falcon Dive began, before being cut off.
"I refuse to have something to do with Ocellus!" Smolder declared.
"Every fire dragon!" Ocellus' voice could be heard, as the cyan changeling herself shouted through a megaphone from high above the Dragon Lands, "Please follow me! I need you all to hear something!"
"Ocellus?!" the three Heroic Ten members present in the Dragon Lands asked in unison.
"I don't see any reason to follow her!" Smolder arrogantly huffed, with her eyes closed as she turned to face away from Ocellus.
Ocellus, noticing Smolder, could not help but feel guilty, but still continued her speech, "Please! I got a huge apology to make! And the only reason I need you all to follow me just for this once is to hear the apology alongside some other creatures who too, need to hear it!"
This time, Smolder opened her eyes, and speechlessly decided to fly up and follow Ocellus, encouraging all the other dragons to do the same.
"What about Krona?!" Krona cried, causing Falcon Dive and Volcano to turn back for her.
"Sorry...we kind of forgot..." Falcon Dive nervously replied, before trying to help Volcano carry Kron.
"You're too...hefty!" Volcano commented.
"I thought she was too heavy!" Falcon Dive commented.
"Hefty means large and heavy!" Volcano defined while still struggling to lift Krona.
"Need an extra claw from a big strong dragon?" Garble asked, lifting Krona from the bottom.
"Thank you for the help, Dragon Lord Consort Garble!" all three Heroic Ten members in the situation thanked Garble.
"Big brother Volcano!" Lava called, as she and her best dragon friends Pyre and Hearth showed up flying beside them.
"Lava!" Volcano happily greeted,d "Great to see you again, little sister!"
"Mr Volcano? Mr Falcon Dive and Miss Krona?!" Pyre asked.
"We are so glad that we're meeting you all!" Hearth added.
"What about me?!" Garble asked.
"And you too, Dragon Lord Consort Garble," Pyre and Hearth greeted in unison, as they bowed alongside Lava.
"That's more I like it," Garble commented.
"Are you only excited to meet us because we're famous?!" Falcon Dive asked in a somewhat annoyed tone.
"Yes, it's because you are famous heroes who saved us..." the girls admitted.
"Should have known," Falcon Dive plainly responded.
Underwater at the center of the empire of Dragon Seas, inside the palace's throne room...
"Smolder's Best Friend was jealous of me for spending so much time with her! I'm really sorry I made her jealous to the point that she'd cause tensions between us and the fire dragons just to keep me and Smolder apart!" Droplet apologised to the emperor.
"Droplet, I know you're upset about not getting to see your fire dragon friend, but seriously, you can't pin the blame on some creature else!" Emperor Oceanic informed.
"I'm not lying! Smolder's friends told me this! Plus, Ocellus is a changeling! She does have the power to disguise herself as some other creature! And it makes sense that that weird water dragon was her! She must have transformed into something invisible to avoid being captured!" Droplet argued.
"I know but just because some creature can do something doesn't mean they will or should," the emperor reminded.
"So...you don't believe me about this?" Droplet asked.
"Droplet, I..." the emperor was about to respond, before he was interrupted by Ocellus' voice speaking:
"Attention water dragons of Dragon Seas, I have something to say to you, and the fire dragons."
On Roca's mountain, Ocellus was speaking through a microphone connected to countless giant speakers as tall and as wide as one tenth of Roca's mountain. Not to mention that only two of the speakers were surrounding Ocellus, while the others faced down into the water, all around Roca's mountain so Ocellus'. voice could be transmitted throughout the water to ensure the water dragons could hear it.
"I just hope that we're not defeating any creature..." Nature Bloom commented, as she and the other Heroic Ten members, Discord, Roca and the Young Six members minus Smolder all stood on the mountain wearing ear protectors.
"I just hope that this is the acceptable way..." Sunshine Rays commented.
"I am so sorry about what I did to both fire dragons and water dragons, all because I wanted to spend time with my Best Friend, whom I lost in the process of committing this wrongdoing: I created tensions between the fire dragons and water dragons by disguising myself as that fire dragon who insulted the water dragons, and then disguised myself as the water dragon who offended the fire dragons, before turning into a micro-organism to avoid capture. Causing disharmony between two kinds just to keep my Best Friend apart from who I am jealous of, is a serious wrongdoing, because I might cause something as terrible as war all over something between my friends. I accept any punishment you want to give me. I deserve harm, not any creature else..."
During Ocellus' speech, Smolder gradually smiled to know that the cyan changeling had learnt her lesson and was willing to make amends.
The water dragons slowly went to the surface to see Ocellus themselves, including both the emperor and the empress.
"Ocellus..." Dragon Lord Ember angrily began.
"No, wait! Don't hurt her!" Droplet shouted, leaping out of the water and flying towards Ocellus, stopping right in front of her and defending her.
"What?!" Ember asked.
"She was willing to admit her mistake to all of us! All dragons! Both fire dragons and water dragons! That's two whole kinds instead of just one!" Droplet began explaining.
"And so?!" Ember asked.
"Admitting a mistake to this many dragons and creatures is really brave; many will usually be ashamed of their mistakes and will prefer as less creatures knowing about the mistakes as possible, but Ocellus allowed every creature to know hers by announcing it to us all, by herself. She does want to make amends! This act is enough to do so!" Droplet finished explaining.
"I have to agree with Droplet," Emperor Oceanic said, "Not only is it a sacrifice, Ocellus also brought both dragon kinds together with her speech."
"And a real chance to get along," Empress Mariana added.
"You...you are right..." Ember speechlessly responded, approaching the water dragon leaders.
"Emperor Oceanic," the emperor introduced himself.
"Empress Mariana," the empress introduced herself.
"Dragon Lord Ember," Ember introduced.
"And Dragon Lord Consort Garble," Garble introduced, flying right next to his wife.
"Look! The fire dragon and water dragon leaders! They are getting along!" Droplet happily commented, watching the said leaders meet and greet.
"We sure are!" Empress Mariana responded, overhearing what Droplet said.
"And we look forward to signing a peace treaty," Emperor Oceanic added.
"So will I, turns out fire and water can get along after all," Ember commented.
"And I know something else that can get along!" Smolder added, landing right in front of Ocellus, "A dragon and a changeling!"
"What?!" Ocellus asked in a confused tone.
"For making amends, I hereby dis-" Smolder began, causing Ocellus to gasp before Smolder finish the sentence, "disown you. You are officially dis-disowned, in other words, not disowned anymore. I acknowledge you as my BFF once again!"
Ocellus smiled to hear what Smolder said, happily hugging the dragon, "Thank you so much, BFF!"
Smolder embraced her best friend's hug, just before their warm reunion moment was interrupted by Volcano who approached them.
"Technically, there's no such phrase as 'dis-disown', you should just say you called off the disownment and acknowledges her and your relationship as friends again!" Volcano informed them.
"Volcano," Smolder giggled, "I was just having fun saying that."
Ocellus giggled as well, happy to have her Best Friend back and the problems she caused resolved.
Soon, perhaps a few days later, a huge party was held in Equestria, thrown by Pinkie Pie and her husband Cheese Sandwich.
"Alright, every creature! The big Water Dragon Welcoming Party is here to celebrate the peace and friendship between all of Equestria and Beyond with their new friends, the water dragons!" Pinkie Pie happily announced, as she and Cheese Sandwich activated their party cannons. This time, instead of confetti, millions of tiny water droplets were shot out of the cannons.
Rainbow Dash and her husband Soarin led the Wonderbolts to performing their show at the huge celebration, while Rarity and Spike worked on the last bits of the decorations. Applejack and her husband Caramel, alongside Big Mac and his wife Suga Belle set up the apple-themed food, all while Discord was telling Fluttershy about his latest escapade.
"I'm telling you! I helped them a lot! I got them to know about Droplet!" the draconneques insisted, causing Fluttershy to giggle, "Oh Discord..."
Among the creatures, old notable creatures associated with the Council of Friendship could be seen talking and getting along; Capper, Captain Celaeno, Tempest Shadow and former Chancellor Neighsay, all while Princess Twilight Sparkle, and the leaders of the changelings approach Ocellus.
"Ocellus." King Thorax could be heard saying the name of.
"King Thorax, Prince Pharynx, Princes Twilight Sparkle!" Ocellus bowed before her superiors.
"We've heard a lot about your involvement in the recent tale about fire dragons and water dragons," Prince Pharynx began, causing Ocellus to whimper.
"We sure were...disappointed in you..." Princess Twilight Sparkle sadly admitted with her eyes closed.
"I'm so sorry! I lost my moral compass out of jealousy and blindness!" Ocellus apologised.
"But we also know that you had the willingness to make up for it, and you did make up for it." King Thorax assured.
"And best of all, you brought the fire dragons and water dragons together!" Pharynx added.
"And benefitted every creature as now that fire dragons and water dragons are in peace, every creature can also be in peace with the water dragons, and the water dragons provide us with lots of water as our friends...while as their friends, we teach them and share with them the wonders of the world out of the water." Princess Twilight Sparkle ended, watching the leaders of the fire dragons and water dragons get along.
"And the water dragons finally get to know their whole bodies!" Thorax added.
"As in, what animal body parts they have," Pharynx clarified.
"Thank you for your understanding, and forgiveness, you're majesties." Ocellus bowed.
"And I've heard from Luster Dawn that you sure have learnt something about friendship through the whole situation, which became involved with the new story about fire dragons and water dragons." Princess Twilight Sparkle added.
"Yes, Princess Twilight Sparkle," Ocellus explained, "I've learnt that a real friend will never do something so wrong just to keep some creature away from their friends. Plus, real friends should be willing to let others, even other friends spend time with their friends, not keep a friend all to themselves."
"Well done, Ocellus." Princess Twilight Sparkle praised, just before she, Ocellus, Thorax and Pharynx turned to look at Discord, who caught their attention with his voice just a few metres away.
"Seriously, I deserve more credit than this!" Discord could be heard telling Fluttershy and the Council of Friendship's children, who were all giggling.
"I was the one reason they met Droplet and get to know about the water dragons!" Discord declared.
"Let's just hope he learns that credit isn't everything," Thorax commented, watching the scene.
"That is Discord for you," Pharynx added.
Ocellus then turned her head to look at Smolder and Droplet, who were enjoying some private time together on the balcony of one of the towers of Canterlot, having cake.
"This cake is so delicious! I'm so glad that every water dragon gets a chance to try it, Smolder!" Droplet commented.
"I'm glad that every fire dragon got to learn to make some warm water by working together with every water dragon." Smolder remarked, drinking some warm water from her cup.
"I am so lucky to meet you, Smolder." Droplet stated.
"I am so lucky to meet you too, Droplet." Smolder replied.
"Smolder? Droplet?" Ocellus asked, approaching them by the stairs.
"Ocellus! You're here!" Droplet greeted.
"You're not upset that I'm here?" Ocellus asked.
The dragons giggled in unison before Droplet started, "I can never be upset with the presence of the BFF of my girlfriend."
"Wait, what?" Ocellus asked in shock.
"Droplet and I are dating now," Smolder confirmed.
"Oh..." Ocellus replied softly, "Well...as your BFF, I should be alright with it..."
"Actually Ocellus, we'd like you to come along whenever we hang out." Droplet informed.
"What?!" Ocellus asked, "But aren't dates just for two?"
"Well, that's what we originally thought, until Droplet came up with the idea." Smolder replied.
"Fire and water may both be needed to make soup and warm water, but there's one more thing that always have been needed in the process, too." Droplet explained, "There always have been a pot to contain the water over the fire! We're just fire and water, we need a pot!"
"So you mean..." Ocellus began.
"You are our pot to complete our set, Ocellus!" Smolder exclaimed.
"Really?! That means you both want me to be with you two whenever you...date?!" Ocellus asked.
"You can be like a tour guide giving us a romantic tour!" Droplet suggested.
"Or a helper!" Smolder added.
"Or a friend to play a game with!" Droplet added.
"Or the creature in charge of the pot whenever we warm water!" Smolder finished the list, causing the three to laugh in unison.
"Well, when fire, water and a pot unite!" Ocellus responded, causing another laugh to be shared among the trio.