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// Yona lets Sandbar go 
// Story: Pony and the Yak 
// by Majestical4729 
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After the dance, Yona took Sandbar to the balcony to see the stars in the beautiful night sky. As they sat, Yona began a conversation, "Sandbar, are you...happy here, with Yona?"

"Well, yes." Sandbar quickly smiled, before frowning as he looked at the distance between the castle balcony and the vanishing point in the line of sight. "But..."

"But, what?" Yona asked in a concerned tone.

"But...I wish I could see my Dad again." Sandbar admitted, "Just for a moment, I miss him...so much..."

Yona thought for a while, before answering, "There is a way."



Yona took Sandbar to her room, where she kept something special.

"This magic mirror will show you anything you wish to see. Just tell it, and it will do the rest." Yona told Sandbar, placing her hoof right next to an oval mirror that was small enough to be held by a pony's hoof.

"Please show me my Dad." Sandbar told the mirror, holding it in his hoof.

The mirror glowed green before showing Sandbar what was happening to his father; the old pony was coughing and collapsing in the middle of the woods with no company.

"Dad!" Sandbar gasped, "He's sick! And may be dying! Plus, he's all alone! He needs some pony!"

Yona looked at a portrait of herself on the wall. It showed her what she looked like before the curse. Knowing that she had to choose between being freed from the curse and letting Sandbar go, she still made the decision.

"Sandbar better go and help his Dad." Yona declared.

"What?" Sandbar asked in disbelief.

"Sandbar's completely not a prisoner anymore. He can go. Yona allows him to do so." Yona explained.

"Oh thank you, thank you so much for knowing how much my Dad means to me." Sandbar thanked Yona, placing the magic mirror back where it was when Yona shoed it to him.

"Keep the mirror, Sandbar." Yona told him, "So you can always remember Yona, and every creature here."

"Thank you Yona...if I could...I will come back and visit." Sandbar told her, before galloping off with the mirror.



"Sandbar?" Silverstream asked, as she watched him race off to the castle exit.

"Where are you going?" Ocellus asked.

"To save his Dad," Yona answered, "His Dad needs him, more than ever..."

"But, that means that Sandbar..." Smolder began, before Yona cut her off.

"Is leaving. Yona allowed him too..." 

"But, he's our last hope to break the curse!" Gallus cried out loud.

"And you know that we all wanted the curse to be broken!" Ocellus pointed out.

"Yona knows that...but she also knows that...somepony's life is a lot more important." Yona declared.