Chapter 15
Name It John
“Maybe we shouldn’t be doing this…” Spike mumbled as he and Snowy was on one of the sails. It was the fourth day, and Snowy was tying a few ropes on Spike so he would conduct an experiment. What he planned was simple. All Spike had to do was jump of the sail so the ropes would theoretically pull him back up. “I mean don’t you think this’s a little…oh, I don’t know, dangerous?”
“Nonsense, Spike.” Snowy assured him as he tightened a rope to the baby dragon’s leg. “I used to do this with vines all the time to pass the day. Now, the ropes act just like them…almost like them.”
“I don’t like the sound of that.” Spike gulped nervously. The Ice Dragon finished the last rope on Spike’s tail.
“Alright, Spike. Jump!” Spike looked down to the deck below. It looked awfully dangerous to hit, even at this height. He could get hurt really bad if this doesn’t work out. “I-I don’t know, Sn--!” Snowy sighed right before he pushed Spike off the sail. Spike exclaimed really loudly in terror until he hit the deck face-first. “Spike!” Twilight and Rarity both exclaimed in shock concurrently. They ran right to where Spike hit. “Spike, are you okay? Say something! Anything!” Rarity began to panic. Finally, Spike groaned in pain as he slowly pushed himself up off the deck, and he spat out a few teeth.
“I’m okay.” Spike answered seemingly semi-consciously. “I just need a little nap.” The baby dragon hit the floor again and snored on the deck; making Twilight and Rarity shocked even more.
“Spiky, Wikey!” Rarity exclaimed in shock. Twilight looked up toward the sail, which the ropes that were tied to Spike led to, and saw Snowy up top; who smiled innocently.
“Heh. Too much slack.” Snowy spoke up shyly.
“Snowy, what happened?” Twilight Sparkle demanded to know.
“I’m sorry, Twilight, but I really just wanted to check if the ropes would work like the vines did back home.” Snowy apologized sadly. “I know that I shouldn’t have used Spike to know, but I did, and I regret such an action. I’m sorry…” Before Twilight could continue to conversation, Lantern Light had spotted an island not too far from them.
“Land ho!” The Pegasus Stallion shouted toward Luckyshoes below. The Captain spots the land with his spyglass and smirks. “Treasure Island.” He mumbled softly.
Meanwhile, inside Canterlot Castle, Jacko Lantern had his stallions executing drills inside the castle. “Intruder in the Throne Room!” Jacko shouted loudly. The troops, armored and equipped with sparring weaponry, immediately ran into the castle in a tight formation and they swung the door open to fight Soarin’s troops. They were only practicing possible battles inside the castle, so they would be able to fight Envious’ Minions; prepared and confident. Jacko had just defeated a couple of troops and they hit the floor, alive, but only for practice. This was a routine drill after all. The point was to fight in a certain form and plan to defeat either one of the teams. Jacko’s routine was to defeat Soarin’, and then the drill was over. He had just ducked an incoming opponent; who had accidently rolled over him instead of pretending to impale him with his sparring sword. The stallion hit the floor and fell victim to a different troop sparring spear. Please note that whatever happens here, the troops aren’t actually being killed. Jacko spotted Soarin’ sparring with another soldier amongst the battle. This was his advantage to attack. Jacko Lantern charged at Soarin’ from behind, but the Wonderbolt noticed this and he flew straight up into the air—allowing Jacko to charge into the soldier’s sword. Luckily for them, sparring weaponry is too dull to actually pierce through armor. So Jacko lived and he pretended to die on the floor dramatically. “Troops: Attention!” Soarin’ ordered. Everypony stopped the battle and the pretend dead troops stood up as well. “Okay, everypony. Jacko’s team has lost, so now we switch areas again.” Everypony from Soarin’s group marched out of the throne room, while everypony else stayed inside it.
“Help me, Soarin’.” Jacko grabbed Soarin’s attention as he coughed.
“Get up, Jacko. You think the armor you’re wearing is a mare’s dress?” Soarin’ rolled his eyes. This was the ninth time today Jacko’s did that. It was beginning to annoy Soarin’ somewhat now it was so old. Jacko stood up with a disappointed expression. “Just have your stallions ready before we come back again.’
“Sure, Soarin’.” Jacko assured as Soarin’ left. He sighed to gain back his seriousness and focus. “Enemy approaching! Protect the Princess!”
The island wasn’t any ordinary island. In fact it was hot and volcanic, as if it had an eruption not too long ago. Helpful, Rarity, Spike—he had just recovered from his nap--, Twilight, Fluttershy, Snowy, and Pinkie Pie had rowed their way to the island with Slipknot and Luckyshoes to find resources. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Sunny stayed behind to help mind the ship. “Slipknot and I will check the eastern part of this island while the rest of you can look around the western edges.” Luckyshoes ordered comfortingly. “We’ll meet back here before sundown.”
“Yes, Captain.” Twilight agreed as Slipknot and he left the group. Helpful looked around with Snowy on his back. There was no sign of food anywhere. How were they going to find anything is this wasteland? “Hey! I found something!” Pinkie’s voice echoed not too far away from them. She somehow sneaked away, before they even started. The group followed Pinkie Pie’s voice to a small cave that soon grew larger the deeper they went. Once they found the Pink Mare, they found a huge chamber with a stone dragon statue holding the hugest Wing Emerald ever. Rarity spotted the humongous gemstone and started to laugh maniacally as she charged right up to the crystal. “Oh, my stars! It’s the most gigantic Wind Emerald I’ve ever seen!” Rarity squealed so excitedly she received the hic-ups.
“Pinkie Pie!” Twilight greeted her friend. “How did you find this place?”
“Lucky guess.” Pinkie replied with a huge smile.
“You seem to be filled with those.” Helpful remarked thoughtfully as he marveled the stone statue before them. He noticed that the dragon statue also had one arm raised to slash at something before him, and it made him wonder. Rarity didn’t care; all she had was the most beautiful gem ever, but was it real unlike what Discord made a huge boulder seem like the hugest most gorgeous diamond in her life, or was it? It had the windy vortex inside it, that was for sure, but Rarity just had to be positive. “Spiky dear.” Rarity grabbed Spike’s attention. “Could you come over here for a second?” Spike didn’t know what to do at first, but he walked over to Rarity anyway.
“Yeah, Rari--whoa!” Spike exclaimed in surprise as the white unicorn picked him up with her magic. She levitated the baby dragon up to the giant Wind Emerald and she pulled his tail; making him stick his tongue out and lick the Wind Emerald. The taste was so sweet that Spike couldn’t help, but lick another time. After this Rarity shoved Spike away quickly and hugged the giant gemstone with an obviously mentally ill grin. “It’s mine!” Rarity shouted harshly as the echoes filled the cavern. Everypony just stared surprised and a little shocked as Rarity talked sweetly to huge gem; rubbing it and calling it ‘Darling.’ Helpful and Snowy both raise eyebrows awkwardly. The Tan Pegasus turned to Twilight curious. “Is that normal?” Helpful inquired to know from his good friend.
“Well, not exactly.” The Purple Unicorn smiled awkwardly. Helpful just looked her confused; she sighed. “The last time she did that was when Discord took over Equestria and manipulated everyone. Rarity was deceived as well, and she was hauling a huge boulder around insisting that it was diamond she named ‘Tom.’”
“That’s just weird.” Snowy replied with an awkward look. They looked back up to Rarity and the Wind Emerald.
“You really are real, aren’t you? Otherwise, Spiky would have been spitting out a horrible taste.” Rarity smiled at Spike awkwardly; he only crossed his arms at Rarity a bit cross. “Now, anyway, I shall name you: John.”
“John?” Snowy remarked a little surprised by the name. “Who in the great, blue sea would name a gemstone ‘John’?”
“Well, I just did, and—newsflash!—I’m not from the ‘great, blue sea.’” Rarity shot back at Snowy. She turned her attention back to the Wind Emerald, now named John with sweet eyes. “Now, you and I will never part at all. I’ll bring you with me, wouldn’t you like that, John? Yes, you would, instead of being here with that repelling dragon statue. Helpful!”
“Uh, yeah, Rarity?” Helpful asked her curious.
“Would you be a dear and help me carry John out of this chamber?” Helpful walked up to Rarity and the Wind Emerald.
“Uh…sure.” Snowy got off of Helpful’s back, and the Tan Pegasus lifted the giant crystal off the dragon’s claw onto his back; pleasing Rarity, but Fluttershy noticed a green glow in the dragon statue’s eyes. She gasped as it raises his claw to strike Helpful, Rarity, and Snowy. “Helpful! Look out!” She shouted to warn Helpful.
“Huh?” Helpful responded as he looked behind to find the dragon slashing at them. “Look out!” Helpful tackled Rarity away from the dragon’s arm span. It missed, but that only made him more irritated. The dragon roared at the group in intense anger; scaring Fluttershy onto her back with her legs straight up in the air. John rolled off of Helpful’s back, but he saved it quickly. “Everypony run now!” Helpful ordered as he ran ahead with Rarity and Snowy. Twilight quickly used her magic to levitate Fluttershy as she, Pinkie Pie and Spike escaped into a different hallway than what Helpful, Snowy, and Rarity escaped through.
The Dragon Statue only followed Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Spike. Unaware of the direction the Wind Emerald was taken. He stomped as he chased them through the cavern. Spike noticed that it was gaining on them rather quickly, and it didn’t make anything better. “C’mon, guys!” Spike encouraged them desperately. “We need to run faster. You can do it!”
“We’re running…a fast…as we…can, Spike.” Twilight replied as she tried to breathe. “We can’t…run any…faster.” The dragon roared in fury as stomped closer. The baby dragon gulped as he watch it gain on them.
Meanwhile outside, Slipknot and Luckyshoes were looking around for anything suspicious instead of food or water. They were looking for treasure. The island they stood upon was indeed named the fabled ‘Treasure Island’; where it was rumored that it had treasures beyond your wildest dreams. “There can’t be any treasure in this wasteland.” Slipknot complained as he continued his search. “It’s probably buried under the dried lava everywhere. We should find some food before we return.”
“We’ll get to that, Slipknot.” The Captain assured. “First we must find the treasure.”
“I know we’ll be rich beyond our wildest dreams, but would it really benefit us at all, sir?” Luckyshoes stopped for a second to contemplate on his First Mate’s quote. What would they ever gain finding millions of treasure chests filled to the brim with gold and precious gemstones? They have always wanted to find this island ever since foal-hood. Should they just give up their search now and forget about it? No! Not when they’re this close to fulfilling their dreams like this. “We keep searching, Slipknot.” The Sea Pony ordered as Slipknot sighed disappointed, but then a rock before them started to move just a little. Slipknot noticed this. “What was that?” He asked his Captain as the rock moved again over to the side revealing a secret hole from under it. As the two walked over to it curious, Helpful climbed out with the gigantic Wind Emerald on his back, he settled it on the ground, and he helped Rarity and Snowy out. “Thank you so much, Helpful.” Rarity thanked him as she hugged John again.
“That’s just disturbing.” Snowy remarked as he stared the white mare. Helpful expected for Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Spike to follow, but they weren’t behind them at all.
“Oh-no.” Helpful frowned as he looked down into the cave. “Where’s Fluttershy, and the others?”
“They must’ve got lost in the cavern.” Snowy guessed as he too noticed they were gone.
“Where’d you find such a huge Wind Emerald?” Slipknot asked Rarity astonished by the gemstone’s massive size.
“Oh, just inside some old chamber beneath the island,” Rarity chuckled. “And it’s mine!!” The White Mare hugged onto the gem even tighter; making Slipknot give her an awkward gaze.
“Okay then.” He replied just a little creeped out. He then whispers in the Captain ear. “What should we do, Sir?”
“It’s too late now.” Luckyshoes replied as he sighed disappointed.
“I’m going after them.” Helpful announced to the others.
“But what about that Dragon Statue, Helpful?” Snowy asked him concerned.
“It’s just a big, carved, piece of rock. How dangerous can it be?” Helpful answered proudly. He turns his gaze to Rarity and the two other stallions. “I’ll be back soon.”
“Okay, okay. Just go.” Rarity replied not minding if Helpful did leave at the moment. She had John, that’s all that mattered at the time.
“Um, right…” Helpful replied just a little surprised at Rarity’s response.
“I’m coming too.” Snowy insisted to help.
“Then let’s go.” Helpful agreed as Snowy hopped onto his back and Helpful flew down into the cave. Rarity was too fixed on her gem to notice, but something started to nag at the back of mind; telling her to stop gawking at John and follow Helpful. “Okay, Helpful. I’m coming as well.” Rarity sighed as she turned around to find that he was gone. “Oh-no. I need to catch up with them soon. I’d hate to leave John all by himself though.”
“Don’t worry, Lady Rarity.” The Captain assured her. “We’ll watch and take of your gem as you catch up with Helpful and Snowy.”
“Oh, thank you!” Rarity smiled as she dashed down into the cavern after them. As Rarity caught up with Snowy and Helpful, Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Spike were cornered by the Dragon Statue; who was walking slowly toward them. “We’re trapped!” Twilight remarked as she looked around for anything to help them out of this situation.
“Why don’t we make friends with the big guy?” Spike suggested as he walked up to the dragon holding out his claw to shake his. “Hi! I’m Spike, and these are my friends: Twilight, Pinkie Pie, and--!” Spike ducked as the dragon tried to slash his head off. “Whoa! You seem to have quite the temper, pal. Maybe you should just be friendly for a change and let’s be friends.” The baby dragon held out his claw toward the Dragon Statue, and it looked at him questionably. Finally, it slowly grabbed Spike’s hand and shook it gently. “See? That wasn’t so hard wa--!” The baby dragon was thrown toward Twilight; who luckily, softened his landing, but they both hit the wall behind them; making the Dragon Statue laugh hard. Fluttershy helped them both up. “Oh, my gosh. Twilight, Spike. Are you okay?” Fluttershy asked them concerned.
“I’m fine, Fluttershy.” Twilight assured as she noticed the Stone Dragon laughing as hard as possible. Small cracks on its body structure could be hardly noticed as it continued to laugh. “Wait a minute. It can’t sustain itself while laughing, it’s so old.” She turned her gaze to Pinkie Pie. “Pinkie Pie. Can you make it laugh even more?”
“Do a dog and tree have bark?” Pinkie asked proudly.
“Uh…yes.”
“Then there’s your answer!” The Pink Mare ran straight up to the laughing Dragon Statue. “Good Day, Mr. Stone Dragon, Sir!” Pinkie grabbed its attention as she juggled a few rocks into the sir. “Say, how many roaches does it take to screw in a light bulb?” The Dragon shrugged confused. “Nopony knows. Once the light goes off they scatter.” The Stone Dragon laughed even louder than before, and Twilight could now more plainly the cracks begin to grow.
“It’s working, Pinkie Pie!” Twilight shouted to her friend. “Keep going!”
“Now, here’s another one!” Pinkie continued to juggle her rocks. “Why did the chicken cross the road?” The Dragon raises an eyebrow curious. “To get to the other side!” The Dragon laughed even harder. “Now, I’ve got another for ya to think about. One day there was a stallion driving his carriage down the road and he saw a tree in the middle of it and so he swerved to dodge it. Well, then another tree came onto the road again, and he swerved to dodge it. Finally, the other stallions who were pulling the carriage stopped to ask him why he was making them swerve a lot. The driver replied, ‘I was just trying to dodge this tree that kept appearing in the middle of the road so we wouldn’t hit it.’ Then the others said, ‘sir, that’s not a tree. That’s your air freshener!’” The Dragon was now laughing so hard, it was pounding on the floor several times; making the cavern shake and Pinkie lose her balance, but she kept the act up. The cracks were getting larger and deeper now; Pinkie Pie needed one last joke to wrap this all up. “Here’s my last joke for the day. One day, a colt went to a farm, and when he got back home, he told his parents all about it! ‘I even saw a pony who builds other ponies!’ he said. ‘Are you sure?’ the parents asked him. ‘Yes,’ the colt said, ‘he was just nailing on their hooves when I got there!’” The dragon’s laughter was so loud, it started to rumble the entire cave until the cracks on his body shined bright green light and he fell apart into rubble scattered onto the floor. Pinkie Pie stopped juggling her rocks and sighed of relief; glad it was over. Spike was still laughing though. “Spike.” Twilight grabbed his attention.
“What? Comedy gold.” Spike explained as stood up from laughing on the floor. Twilight rolled her eyes, but then a bright yellow light appeared on Pinkie Pie’s neck and it formed a gold necklace with a blue balloon in the center. “Look, look, guys!” Pinkie Pie shouted and hopped around them as excited as could be as she sang this song:
“I got my Element,
“I got my Element,
“I proved that when it comes to laughter, I can be the best,
“It wasn’t too hard for me to pass such a serious test,
“I’m Pinkie Pie,
“I’m Pinkie Pie,
“I’m silliness in a box,
“Nopony can’t stay sad for long once I’ve turned over their giggle box,
“I’m Pinkie Pie,
“I’m Pinkie Pie,
“I’m here for your amusement,
“If you’re down, don’t you frown, I’ll fill your life with merriment,
“Hee, hee, hee,
“Ha, ha, ha,
“Hoo, hoo, hah, hah, ho, ho,
“I laugh everywhere I go just to make sure that everypony’s got some,
“Hee, hee, hee,
“Ha, ha, ha,
“Hoo, hoo, hah, hah, ho, ho,
“You never ever have to cry once that you’ve learned how to smile!”
Helpful, Snowy, and Rarity followed the singing till they found Pinkie Pie, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Spike. “Fluttershy!” Helpful shouted as he dashed over to her and gave her a huge bear hug. “I thought you were lost in here. C’mon. We’ve found a way out, and we can leave.”
“Helpful!” Fluttershy finally replied. “Pinkie Pie’s found her Element of Harmony.”
“The Element of Laughter!” Pinkie Pie replied with a proud expression.
“It’s suits you.” Snowy complimented politely.
“I know, right?” She giggled excited. She then jumped up and down rapidly. “This is just so exciting! Are you excited? Cause I’m excited. I’ve never been so excited!” Soon the group returned to the Tide Churner, and Luckyshoes and Slipknot were there to greet them.
“Ahoy, Friends!” The Captain greeted happily; he noticed Pinkie Pie’s necklace. “So I see you’ve also found another one, eh?”
“Yes, indeed.” Twilight replied proudly. “Did you find any food in the island?”
“Not a lot, unfortunately.” Slipknot answered sadly. “The island’s to volcanic to find enough food anywhere.” Rarity then remembered her huge Wind Emerald she left in Luckyshoes’ and Slipknot’s care.
“Where’s John?” Rarity shouted obviously looking quite worried.
“Uh, if you mean the Wind Emerald we brought board here for you, it’s in the Cargo Hold.” Slipknot explained to her kindly. The White Unicorn gasped dramatically and dashed straight down under the deck.
“Now, that that’s over with,” The Captain cleared his throat to continue their conversation. “We’ll be headin’ back into sea soon. So, Helpful, Snowy, and Spike; you should get back to work.”
“Yes, sir!” The three saluted to the Captain in agreement. Pinkie Pie and Slipknot went downstairs to check inventory again as Twilight and Luckyshoes went inside the Captain’s Cabin, and Slipknot gave orders to set sail again. As Helpful, Spike, and Snowy carried out their orders, Fluttershy stood at the edge of the railing and watched as the sea rolled by softly.
Meanwhile, in Canterlot Castle, at the outside of Celestia’s bedroom door, Flight Lock went to go check on AC Turnip and Big Macintosh for a report on how things were going. He wasn’t surprised to find them both sleeping on the job though. “AC, Big Mac!” Flight Lock ordered seriously. “Attention!” The two immediately awakened and jumped up into attention.
“Uh, what?” AC murmured half-awake with his helmet covering his eyes blocking his eyesight. “Morning already? Oh-no! Envious is in the castle! Big Mac, protect the princess! I’ll fight him off!” AC then swung his spear around blindly trying to hit anything he could.
“Turnip.” Flight Lock tried to grab his attention. “Turnip.” The bucktoothed stallion didn’t hear him still as he continued to slash at anything. “Turnip Top, Front and Center!” Flight Lock finally ordered after he rolled his eyes.
“Yes, Sir!” AC quickly pulled off his helmet and stood beside Big Macintosh straight.
“Report.” The Commander sighed to calm himself.
“All is well, sir.” Big Macintosh answered.
“Yeah! Not a single shadow can slip past our watch.” AC shouted proudly.
“Is Celestia inside?” The Pegasus asked them curiously.
“She sure is!”
“Have you even checked?”
“Eeyep.” Big Mac replied.
“Well, check again.” AC looked through the door and found Celestia sleeping under some covers for what seems to be a nap. He closed the door slowly.
“She’s in there alright!” Turnip Top answered him proudly. The Commander left the two guards as he continued his path to receive any more reports from the other guards. Little did they know that the Celestia AC thought was napping was actually a fake. Celestia was in Star Swirl the Bearded’s Wing again; searching for any history left inside. She thought she cleaned out this entire library by now, but she still wanted to find more information on these outer lands. “There must be something around here still I can find.” Celestia told herself as she pulled out another book she already read before. She sighed disappointed and a bit tired of finding another book she had read an hour ago. “Now I know how Twilight Sparkle feels when she can’t find any answers to what she wants to know in her library.” She pulled out another book from the shelf, but this time it stopped only halfway, and made a clicking sound that surprised Celestia greatly.
The shelf moved on its own and opened a secret chamber that even she didn’t know was even there. “What in Equestria is this place?” She asked herself as she entered the ancient chamber. There was a shelf in the center of it; it was circular and it had a polished Aquamarine on the top, and above it was a stained glass window that had several weird scenes in it. One was a unicorn colored in gold fighting some strange, circular creature in the sky; another was what seemed to be an Alicorn, Pegasus, Unicorn, and an Earth Pony fighting four enemies at once. Three of them was Discord, Nightmare Moon, and Envious, the forth was a dark entity holding some scepter of power, the Earth Pony was equipped with a sword, shield, and a scabbard as he fought the dark entity, the Pegasus fought Envious, the Alicorn fought Nightmare Moon, and the Unicorn fought Discord, color wasn’t specified amongst the four heroes; another scene looked like the Crystal Empire being swallowed up by some huge darkness with four bright green eyes, but at the center was what it seemed that seven ponies in a circle and one at the center of them in the air surrounded by a large bubble of light repelling the darkness away; three scenes in one stained glass window. It was obvious that they were not from history; unlike the stained glass windows she had in the ball room. “Interesting.” Celestia remarked thoughtfully as she studied the window above here. Then she looked around the walls and lit the torches using her magic. They blazed into light and the walls could be more plainly seen, but they were bare and had no other shelves. That was fine with Celestia, she only needed just a few more books anyway, and she had enough. The shelf at the center had many books to make her occupied for the day. As she turned her attention back to the shelf, she spotted the Aquamarine above it shine bright and the stained glass window above opened into three parts; allowing her to see the night sky above.
The light from the Aquamarine, reflected from the fire in the room, shot a beam of light into the sky, a beam that all of Equestria could see within miles, and then a second beam shined onto the floor before Celestia and formed the body of an Alicorn Stallion. He did not have a cutie mark, but he was uniquely muti-colored in some bright light that made a beautiful glow in the room. He was very tall, in fact taller than Celestia, and he had interestingly shaped wings. They were obviously not from this world and they were indescribable in detail, but they were basically like folding fans, but they still had separate feathers with very elaborate symbols. He had three horns instead of one, and they seemed to be holding in a beautiful blue flame. His eyes were like calm flames themselves and they made Celestia feel like she was in her room sleeping beside her fireplace which blazed a warm fire to keep her warm. She noticed, like Gemini, the Alicorn had a symbol on his head; a seven pointed star, and his mane had very long, but calm flames swaying in the air. “H-Hello.” Celestia greeted a little dumbfounded by the Alicorn’s handsome charms. “W-Who are…?”
“Who am I?” The Alicorn replied finally with a sweet smile. “I am Polaris; the North Star. I have been summoned forth by you, Great Majesty.” He bowed to Celestia in a very humbling fashion. “How may I be of service to you?”
“U-uh…” Celestia didn’t know what to do. She was actually surprised to have found this chamber and now she’s accidently summoned a Star to be of service to her. Wouldn’t you do the same if this happened all of a sudden? She cleared her throat for a start, and she tried to speak to Polaris, but she couldn’t find any words to pronounce. The Star began to grow a little concerned. “If my appearance is a distraction, I can change form.” Polaris offered kindly.
“No!” Celestia spoke finally; surprising Polaris a little. “I-I mean, that will not be necessary. Thank you.” The Star then smiled kindly and used his magic to pull out a book from the shelf behind him, and he opened it.
“You haven’t read this yet; have you, Your Highness?” He asked her as he flipped through the pages.
“No, I have not, Polaris.” Celestia replied a little calmer than before now. Polaris than stopped flipping through the pages and gave her the open book.
“Read this then.” He offered as Celestia accepted the book with her magic, and read it aloud.
“’Armageddon?’” Celestia read out loud, but looked at Polaris confused. “But isn’t that some tale over ten thousand years ago about a love story gone horribly wrong?”
“Not to my kind.” Polaris answered to her with extremely serious eyes, but then he changed his expression to a grand smile. “Please, feel free to read through any books at all in here. They’re all basically prophesies and other forms of magic made by Magi of the Seventh Chain. So enjoy! If you need me just say so.” The Star then disappeared into the Aquamarine before Celestia could ask any further questions. The Stained Glass Window then closed right when the beam stopped, and Celestia stared right at the third mural of the Crystal Empire being swallowed by darkness. It made her wonder greatly of Polaris’ meaning of ‘not to my kind.’
The fifth day has come, and all is quiet around the Tide Churner as they sail straight through one of the thickest fogs they’ve seen. There was very little wind, and the ship was moving very slowly through the water. “Captain.” Slipknot grabbed Luckyshoes’ attention.
“Yes, Slipknot?” The Captain answered as he stood by Calm Water at the wheel.
“Twilight and I have been navigating through the charts and we believe that we’re in Pirate Territory.” Slipknot explained as Twilight looked around to see if she could find anything through the fog.
“Aye.” Luckyshoes agreed with them. “I’ve known this ever since we’ve first sailed into this forbidden deathtrap.” He turned his gaze to Lantern Light in the crow’s nest. “Keep a sharp eye out for anything unnatural in this dreaded fog!”
“Aye, Captain.” Lantern saluted to him as he used his spyglass to see through the fog. Down below them, Rarity had been carefully polishing John as the rest of the crew ate lunch for the day. Sunny and Applejack made it all by themselves, and it was a grand lunch for the crew as they drank their drinks and discussed their voyages with their guests. “And then, without warning, the dreaded dragon swooped down from nowhere, and I was lucky enough to dodge the deadly monster as it almost bit my head off!” Flyleaf explained his story as he made motions that show what happened. “I ran off into the caves, but of coarse, that was a bad move, and I was running away from one of the most infuriated dragons in history! My gems in my bag, I kept running till I returned in the same chamber of that monster, and I hid amongst the pile of various gemstones as it entered back inside. I could feel my own heart beat in the most extreme speeds as the ugly dragon crept closer to my hiding place. Uh, no offense.” The sailor apologized for that remark to Sunny, Spike, and Snowy who were al sitting in the same table.
“None taken.” Spike assured for he was very transfixed on finding out the ending of the story. “What happened next? Did you kill it?”
“Spike!” Sunny shouted at him a little withdrawn by his quote.
“Heh, sorry, Sunny.” Spike smiled at her innocently.
“Well, the crew was already getting the ship ready, and there was no hope for me to get help inside of the cave. So, as the dragon looked around the pile, I stayed perfectly still.” Flyleaf continued staying still himself.
“You stayed still?” Sunny asked him raising an eyebrow indifferently.
“Yeah, some dragons eyesight are based on movement, right, Flyleaf?” Spike asked him curious.
“Aye, but this dragon wasn’t.” The sailor answered with an awkward smile. “He growled so deeply at me, I thought I was done for till--!”
“We’re under attack!” Slipknot shouted as he ran down into the mess hall. “Get your rumps up and get to Battle Stations! Battle Stations now!” Everypony immediately jumped off from the tables and ran up to the deck. Helpful and Sunny spotted another ship beside them, but it flew no flags.
“Oh boy.” Sunny remarked as the cannons from the ship beside theirs were primed and ready to fire. “Pirates.”