//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 The Lab // Story: The Seaponies // by opuscon789 //------------------------------// After the shark was gone, Numeral, Twilight, Pinkie, and Rainbow arrived at the lab. At the front desk there was another seapony that was red with a white mane, and a phone for a cutie mark. She welcomed Numeral happily.   “Good morning, Numeral… Who are your friends?” she asked.   “Everypony, I want you to meet my assistant, Aid. Aid, I want you to meet Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Twilight Sparkle,” Numeral introduced.   Aid looked at them closely. “Are they land ponies Numeral?”   “Yes they are.”   “Numeral, this is what the boss was waiting for. Not only did you bring three land ponies, you got all the types as well. The boss will give you a promotion for sure.” Aid swam right up to Twilight. She stared straight into her face. “What brings you to Atlantores?” she asked.   “Long story,” Twilight responded.   “I’m happy that you’re here. We seaponies have started a project about the land ponies. Do you ponies mind that we ask some questions?”   “Sure,” Pinkie answered. Aid guided them into the waiting room.   “Make yourselves comfortable. The doctor will be here shortly.”   The three friends sat and waited.   “Twilight, do you think that they will get in our personal business?” Rainbow asked.   “They might, but all you have to do is answer some questions. There’s no harm done,” Twilight assumed. A yellow seapony with an orange mane and a star cutie mark swam into the room. She looked familiar to Twilight, like she’d seen her before.           “Have I seen you before?” the seapony asked. “I knew you were coming here once I saw you underwater. What are you doing here?” “I just wanted to see the seaponies down here. Sorry if I bothered you. Let me introduce myself. I’m Twilight Sparkle, like you said in you meeting yes I do study a lot of magic. Over there are my friends, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash.”   “Hi,” said both of them.   “Hello, I’m Firestar. I work here and study your existence. Aid and Numeral told me to come in here and ask some questions. I am very happy that you’re here in Atlatorse. I looked at you, Twilight, in your dreams. What were you doing that night before you went to bed?”   “I was reading a book about seaponies. When I got psychically connected for the second time. I know that its easier to get connected when you're thinking about me. And during that meeting you were thinking about me and I was thinking about you. That made the connection much easier,” Twilight explained   “Since I got a good look at Twilight, I want to study your blood. Can I have a blood sample, please?” Fire asked. “I also need to borrow your friends and study them. We need to get a blood sample from them too.”   “You can totally do that,” Pinkie said in excitement.   “Well... ok, I guess as long as you don’t take too much blood,” Rainbow said. Fire Star levitated needles across the room.   “This will only take a second, Twilight.” Fire Star stuck the needle into Twilight’s shoulder. To Twilight, it felt like a small nail. After five seconds it was over. Twilight only got shots when she went to the doctor, but mainly they would give out shots to protect ponies from diseases.   Fire Star levitated a bandage onto Twilights shoulder. “See? That was not that bad. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, can you please follow me?” she asked.   “We’ll be back, Twilight. Don’t go anywhere,” Rainbow said. Both of them left the room. Twilight waited for them by reading the Atlantores news. Numeral swam into the room and hovered over Twilight.   “Hi, Numeral,” Twilight said.   “Oh, Twilight,” he said worriedly.   “What is it?”   “When this is all over, will we still be able to be friends? I mean, I really like spending time with you...” Numeral said, cheeks reddening a bit.   “I like to spend time with you too,” Twilight said, blushing as well. Why am I blushing? she thought. "But, you're a seapony and I'm a land pony. Even the magic of friendship can't change that fact, can it?"   Numeral looked at Twilight straight in the eyes, causing the two to blush deeper. He looked down at his fins instead.   She hadn’t known Numeral for long. But as Pinkie said, “Friend at first sight,” or love at first sight.   “I don’t know what to say. It’s not like you can turn yourself into a land pony and live with me,” Twilight told Numeral,   “It’s possible. There was one seapony that turned herself into a land pony to follow her cutie mark,” said Numeral.   “Who did that?” Twilight asked.   “Her name was Lyra Heartstrings.”   Twilight remembered her from when she was at the Canterlot wedding. She was the bridesmaids at the wedding. She never talked about where she was born. She lived in Canterlot and helped with weddings. There had been a couple times when Lyra would go somewhere and never tell anypony where she was going. She disappeared for about a week and then was found on the beach in Waterhorse, knocked out. Twilight read this in the newspaper once before.   “She usually comes here for about a week just to see her family and then she heads back,” Numeral explained.   “How do you know all of this?” Twilight asked.   “Every seapony knows this. She one of the most famous seaponies in town.”   “Then why can’t you study her instead of us?”   “She put a spell on herself and made it so that whenever she touched water she would turn into a seapony instantly. And then whenever she touches dry land she turns back into a land pony. I want that spell, but she made it up herself. I don’t know how she did that. Lyra just went back to Waterhorse. I don’t think that her train leaves today but she owns a house in Waterhorse, you can go speak to her,” Numeral explained. “After Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash come back, take us there,” Twilight demanded.     “Yeah, I have to finish some work first. I will give you the address to the place and you can find it.”   “Thanks Numeral,” Twilight said.   Numeral left the room for a while and came back with an address. “Here is the address, Twilight. You have to travel all the way across town to get there. I will suggest that you put on an invisibility spell because you’re going to a track seaponies to look at you and that will slow you down.”   “Thanks again Numeral,” Twilight said.   Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash swam into the room and Numeral left.   “What’s next, Twilight?” Rainbow asked.   “We are going to go see Lyra.”   “You mean the pony that works at the wedding? Doesn’t she live in Canterlot?” Rainbow asked.   “Is she throwing a party? I want to go!” Pinkie said.   “Well, Numeral told me that she was born a seapony.”   “What? I don’t believe that.” Rainbow said.   “Well come on and I will show you,” Twilight suggested. Twilight performed the invisibility spell that Numeral gave her, on herself and her friend. “we don’t want any seaponies looking at us on the way. Plus the sharks could find us to.” Twilight explained  The three friends started heading back to Waterhorse.