Everypony stared at the creature, frozen. Different thoughts were running through their heads.
'What is it doing in the Izzy's mane?'
'Did it just talk?!'
'Is it dangerous?'
'I wish I could take a photo right now...'
Izzy shifted in her seat and started to whistle a tune, while looking away. Sunny and Hitch were about to say something, when creature spoke up.
"Damn! Those things are the best things I have ever-..What do you guys call it when you insert something like this in your faces?" it looked back at the dough.
Hitch clipped his eyes, visibly surprised "Well uh, we call it eating. And thank you for the compliment...I think?"
Izzy giggled "Awww! You guys are already becoming friends!"
Creature lowered it's head towards unicorn, being upside-down and still in her mane "What are 'friends'? And what I'm doing in your head?"
Sunny shook her head "It's called mane" she then looked directly at Izzy "And I'd like to ask you the same question, Izzy Moonbow"
Unicorn gulped a bit. It was the first time Sunny called her full name out "W-Well..." she looked at Pipp, cornered.
Zipp looked at her sister suspiciously "Pipp? Do you have to do something with this all?"
Pipp was looking into her phone now, she raised her head and tilted it "Oh, uh? Did you say something?"
Zipp nodded "Yep, you definitely are"
Pipp averted her eyes and sweated a bit "Uh...What do you mean? I was just on my phone and-"
Zipp raised her eyebrow "Even though it's turned off?"
Pipp clipped her eyes and looked down on the black screen "Oh...It is"
Hitch sighed "OK what about this. You two" he pointed his hoof at Izzy and Pipp "You will tell us what happened first, alright?"
Two mares nodded silently. Hitch smiled and then looked at the spirit "As for you uhm...What is your name?"
Spirit raised his head "Oh, I'm Micheal!"
Zipp snorted "Pft, what a weird name"
Sunny slightly pushed pegasus "She didn't mean it. Anyway..."
Everypony looked at Pipp and Izzy. They exchanged looks and sighed...
W was feeling terrible. Even though Micheal was extremely annoying time to time, he was still the only creature he could freely speak to. And besides, one of his kind. Spirit avoided crowded streets, moving through the alleyways.
He stopped behind the trash bin and looked around 'Alright, so what is my plan? I don't even know if I'm going in the right direction!' W quietly sighed and put arm on his eyes 'I wish I could just find him...'
W felt a little vibration in his. Spirit moved his hand away, confused. He down looked at his body "The hell..." W shook his head 'Doesn't matter, I have to focus right now' spirit raised his head and jerked back at the trash bin. It made a little noice, and W froze in place. Luckily, the only pony who was walking there just raised her ears and shrugged it off. Spirit exhaled and looked back at the path. There were glowing particles, levitating above the ground. They were forming some kind of a trail, that led somewhere. On the one end, it was a bit transparent.
W hummed 'Now that's...Curious' he looked across the line, trying to figure out where it led 'Well, I guess I'm might as well try it'
Spirit looked around. Spotting no ponies around him, W started to follow the line, trying to hide behind any possible cover.
Izzy was finishing her sentence "So uh, Pipp offered me to hide him in my mane, and then bring here"
Zipp looked at her sister "And why is so?"
Pipp put a hoof behind her head "Well, first, I thought that Izzy could bring him to her house and well...Make friends with him?"
Hitch raised his eyebrow "Wait, wouldn't it be easier if you just came home?"
Pipp sighed "Izzy wanted to say bye first"
Izzy shrugged "What? It would be mean if I didn't!"
Sunny giggled "Well, that is definitely a lot like you!" she then looked at the creature. Micheal was just slowly spinning above the ground. It looked like he was not scared or frustrated at all. In fact, it was like Micheal felt at ease. Even though he was MUCH smaller than they were.
She coughed it her hoof "So uh, Micheal?"
Creature stopped what he was doing and looked at Sunny "Yeah?"
She approached him. He was barely as big as her head "I'd really like to know what are you, if you don't mind me asking"
Micheal tilted his head in thought "Well, my bro told me that we are uh..Spirits, or something like that"
Sunny hummed in thoughts "Spirits...I think I read something about those somewhere" she then looked around and gasped "Wait, where is my notebook?!"
Hitch put the said item in front of her "There, don't panic yet!"
Sunny exhaled "Phew...Thank you Hitch!" she opened it, picked the pen from inside and started writing.
Hitch looked at Micheal "So uhm...By 'bro' you meant another spirit?"
Micheal nodded "Yep! His name is W!" he then raised his arms "Oh, you were that pony that sent my bro flying!"
Hitch averted his eyes and sweated a little "I'd rather not to mention it..." he sighed "I didn't mean to do it"
Micheal waved his hands "Nah don't worry. He isn't mad at you"
Zipp raised her eyebrow "So, you two are brothers?"
Micheal shook his head "Dunno, he didn't mind when I called him this way"
Pipp raised her phone "Hey, can I take photo?"
Micheal turned his head at her and tilted it "Wha?"
Pipp pressed the screen, but this time there was no flash. She smiled "Ar last, somewhat good photo!" she showed the picture to Micheal.
Spirit leaned towards it in amazement "Wooooaah! That's me? I thought I could see myself only in water!"
Izzy laid hear head onto the table right behind Micheal "You know, it's weird how you don't know what domany words mean. But you know what is 'brother' and a few other words" she clipped her eyes "Why is it so?"
Micheal approached her face and raised his hand "Well!.." he slowly lowered it "..well..." spirit sat on the floor and silently put an arm onto his chin(?). A few seconds later, his head started to smoke.
Hitch was confused "I think you broke him..."
Sunny tapped on her head with pen "She is right though. This is really weird.."
Zipp sighed "Alright, look" she pointed her hoof at the spirit "As long as-..Eh?" but he wasn't there.
A voice from behind was really curious "Woah! You guys have those flappy things?"
Zipp turned hear head around "How did you-?" spirit was there, looking at her wings "What do you think you are doing?" she moved away a little.
Micheal tilted his head at her behavior "I noticed that some of you guys have weird parts of the body" he pointed at Zipp's wings and then on Izzy's horn "Why?"
Sunny raised her hoof "Well, that's a good question! Actually, there are three-"
Zipp cut her off (before it was too late) "How did you move behind me?"
Micheal shrugged "Dunno"
Zipp and Sunny silently looked at him. Zipp groaned and rubbed her head, while Sunny's eyes sparked. Meanwhile, Hitch, Pipp and Izzy were eating the remaining buns.
Sheriff exhaled "Geez...Good thing that I didn't do something extremely bad on accident"
Izzy gulped her bun down "Do you think this will take long"
Pipp nodded as she grabbed a bun "Probably..."
Izzy's ears perked up "Hey, you took some photos earlier, right?" she looked at Pipp.
Pegasus nodded "Yep, let me show them..." she tapped something on her screen.
Hitch looked at her movements "How do you manage to do it so swiftly?"
Pipp smirked "Silently"
Izzy opened her mouth and looked at Hitch "What a move!"
Hitch rolled his eyes "Alright alright..."
Pipp opened her gallery "Alright, so here is the photo I took recently and the one I took earlier on accident!" she accidentally swiped again, showing the picture of Micheal booping Izzy.
Hitch clipped his eyes "Oh...So THAT'S what happened?"
Izzy nodded "Yep, I don't know why did he do it though"
"Because why not"
All three ponies looked behind. Spirit was levitating there, looking at the photo. When they looked at Sunny and Zipp, they saw their shocked faces, turned towards Micheal. Spirit looked up and tilted his head "Something is wrong?"
Sunny seemed to start vibrating. Her smile was growing larger and larger. She then looked towards her friends "Hey, I will need some help!" Everypony sweated and scooted to the exit.
Pipp giggled nervously "I uh...Wanted to take some photos around Maretime Bay!"
Zipp nodded "I will gladly help you with that!"
Both sisters left as fast as they could. Sunny looked at the unicorn and sheriff.
Izzy gasped "Oh! I completely and inconveniently forgot that I had to buy Pipp a donut! So uhm...Se you all later!" she smiled and ran away.
Hitch backed to the door "I uhm...Will give and buy donuts for Micheal and you! So that uh...You both have enough energy!"
Sunny hummed "That's a GREAT idea! Don't take long!"
Hitch was already behind the door "Alright! But I can't promise much!" he closed the door and sound of galloping hooves could be heard.
Sunny shook her head "Phew, nearly bursted here" she waved hoof at herself.
Micheal rubbed back of his head "Huh? What was it all about? Why are they scared?"
Sunny giggled "Oh, don't worry. It's just that they know about my passion about science and magic" she looked up "I can do a lot of crazy stuff when it comes to it"
Michel looked at her "But wait...I am magic, right? Does it mean you will go crazy now?"
Sunny smiled at him "Don't worry Micheal, I respect your choice and won't do anything that you don't agree to. It would be simply rude and awful"
Micheal raised his arm sup "Ah don't worry! I totally trust you!" he approached her.
Sunny lowered herself a little and looked straight in his eyes "Oh, thats good. Very good" there was a menacing spark in her eyes.
Micheal's body shivered. He looked all over it, surprised "Huh? What was that? It never happened before to me"
Sunny closed her eyes "Oh, I think it was fear"
Micheal seemed to puff his cheeks out "I didn't like it at all.."
W was still following the trail. Spirit was far enough from the town, so he could've around freely. It was really quiet and peaceful here. The trees around the dirt path, the quiet wind and distant noices of the town made W feel at ease. However, several details made his concerned.
First of all, Micheal would never want to walk somewhere quiet. At least that's what W thought. Second of all, the trail was way too high for Micheal. Since they started to be limited with their levitation, it wouldn't be possible to fly that high for them. But again, that's what he thought.
W shook his head and sighed 'I swear, if he got in trouble, I will make sure to...Do something'
Now that it was quiet and W had a path to follow, he noticed something weird. He felt awkwardly empty and weak. Spirit couldn't notice it earlier because he had to hide, but now...
W rubbed his flame body "Alright, this is something new now" he then slowed down a little "Hold on, why are those things weaker now?" His flames weren't as big and 'alive' as they were yesterday. W started to feel stressed and nervous about it.
However, before he could get any bad thoughts about it, W noticed a giant shadow. When he raised his head, spirit noticed a tall, very tall building.
W snorted "Well, now that is interesting. How did they manage to build it?" he shook his head "No, not right now, I gotta focus on the..." when he looked back at the trail his hands slowly fell "..objective"
The particles were leading towards this building. W face palmed "How the fuck did he-" he then stopped mid sentence 'This word again?' W groaned "DAMN IT WHATEVER!" he levitated towards the building faster than he usually is "I shouldn't care about what happened. All I have to do, is find this imbecile, save him and bring home" he became silent for a moment "..how will I do it though" He didn't know if there were any ponies inside the building.
Approaching voices made his thoughts wither away for later. W quickly found a rock and flew behind it. As the voices became closer, he could hear hoofsteps 'Four walking...And it look like they came from this building' he closed started to listen as voices became more or less clear.
"So uh, are you sure it was a good idea to leave them alone?"
"Come on Zipp! He will be fine. Sunny wouldnt hurt anypony just for science!" the sigh could be heard "At least I think and hope so"
"Well, thats the thing, he isnt a pony!"
A much more cheerful and louder voice came in "Come on guys! Little one will be fine, I'm sure!"
They came closer "You know what Izzy? Yeah, I trust Sunny. Besides, Micheal looked really tough. I'm pretty sure he can take her on!"
W froze in place 'Micheal?'
A sound of wings flapping could be heard "Well you three have fun. I will go and grab something for us"
A pony that was silent finally spoke up "Make sure not to spend all of our money" she chuckled.
As they all turned their heads away, W dashed towards the building.
"Well well well, look who is telling me that!"
But W didn't want or need to listen to them anymore. He was levitating as fast as he could. Spirit didn't even notice that his body was starting to emit small lightning sparks. He had just one thought in his head.
'Please, be alright!'
As W approached the building, he looked up. The nearby window was far too high for him. If it wasn't for the weird event, he could have easily levitate towards it. But right now, W couldn't.
Spirit groaned "Damn it, damn it, DAMN IT!" he clenched his fists and his body started to spark even more. Spirit noticed it and teied tried to calm himself "Alright, not now, don't freak out..." he exhaled slowly and looked around "The door and other windows are at the same height. Of course..." W sighed and looked up "If only there was a way up.."
Spirit closed his eyes and imagined this window. It was there, as close as possible. All W needed, was a boost. Just a little dash towards it...As spirit thought about it, his body vibrated and he felt tingling all around it. W quickly opened his eyes "What the-" he bumped his head into a window and rubbed it. W noticed that he was levitating just above the windowsill "..fuck?"
He the shook it off "Later, all later" he looked into the window. It was a bit hard to see. Suddenly, he heard a muffled yelling.
"NO, STOP!"
W's body completely froze "M-Micheal.."
"PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU I WILL DIE!"
Spirit's hand started to shake "Die..?"
A loud thud could be heard. Everething went quiet.
W stood silent for a few seconds. Then, his flames started to glow. Lightning across his body became much more frequent.
Micheal was on the ground, holding his stomach(?). He was laughing extremely hard.
Sunny was giggling too "And after that, I just rammed into Hitch's sandcastle while pretending to be a princess assaulting it"
Micheal laughed for a few more seconds before breathing heavily "S-So you- You were supposed to be saved?! Whole you are this big?!" he was still on the ground.
Sunny nodded "We were really weird back then"
Micheal raised his hand "W-Woah, I bet W would just criticize both of you!"
Sunny shrugged "Who knows!" she then leaned down a bit "By the way, mind telling me about him?"
Micheal raised his body with hands "Oh, yeah, sure! Well, his fire is much lighter than mine. W is mostly either meanie or boring" he then hummed "I think he called that 'calm' and 'STOP BOTHERING ME', though I'm not really sure" he then added "But he is like, way smarter than I am!"
Sunny looked up "Interesting...Hold on" she then looked back at spirit "Didn't you mention that you two are very close?"
Micheal nodded "Yeah! Very very very close! 'Cuz we are like he said..." he cleared his throat and his voice changed "We two are the only of our kind, as far as I can tell" Micheal shook his head "Or something like that"
Sunny's eyes widened "Oh my hooves..." she then frowned "Hold up, doesn't that mean that he is probably looking for you?"
Micheal rubbed his head "He probably does..."
Suddenly, one of the windows shattered with a flash. Sunny yelped and lowered herself to hide behind the sofa. However, none of the shattered glass pieces hit the floor. When Sunny peeked at the window from the cover, she felt speechless. The pieces were all frozen in the air. The weird lighting like energy was going through every piece. In the middle of it, was blazing creature that remotely looked like Micheal, but much more lighter in color.
Looked at the Sunny directly "Where is my brother, where is the one you were torturing?!" it's voice was like a roar, echoing across the light house.
Micheal perked up "Oh hey, it's W!" he then peeked out and froze.
Just like Sunny. They couldn't move out of fear. The only thing they both could say was...
"Uh...Oh..."