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// Hero 
// Story: The Young Mage And The Lighthouse 
// by AlwaysDressesInStyle 
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There’s only one pony who can save Baltimare.  Well, more like half a dozen, but unless an alicorn teleports in, none of the others are close enough to do anything about it.

Dewey races down the stairs, the clip-clop of her hooves striking metal echoing in the spiral staircase. Sirens are going off in town, but it’s too late.  Baltimare is on a coastal plain – there’s no high ground to escape to.  The tsunami is much closer to shore by the time she emerges from the lighthouse, but she’s not scared.  It’s only water, and water will do anything she wants it to.

Her horn glows and she starts fighting the tsunami.  She may have power over water, but the wave has the power of momentum.  It fights back.

She’s sweating as she forces a gap in the wall of water.  The wave parts, sparing the lighthouse promontory.  Cut in two, the tsunami is no longer a match for her, and she sends the wave back out to sea.  The wave is powerful, but water is Dewdrop’s domain, and the wave is intruding.

She takes a look around – the city is safe.  She trots into the lighthouse, head held high.  Her ‘useless’ talent just saved the city and nopony is any the wiser. She’s tuckered out, so she decides to take a nap.

A few hours later the townsponies make their way to the lighthouse, parading up and down the promontory.  There’s a marching band, cheerleaders, and the mayor of the city is shouting into a bullhorn over the racket.

“Dewdrop Dazzle!  Please come down, we wish to thank you!”

She trots down the stairs slower this time.  She’s spent years as an outcast.  What can she even say to the ponies who’ve tormented her for so long?  Will they finally accept her…?

She opens the door, and the mayor presents her with the key to the city.  “Dewdrop Dazzle, on behalf of the ponies of Baltimare, we thank you for protecting our city.  From now on, every year we will celebrate this day as Dewdrop Dazzle Day.  Three cheers for Dewdrop!”

Dewey blushes as the crowd starts cheering.