Rock Point. As the name implied rocks where all over the place. Hard and spiky rocks covering the ground, and even the ocean showed on its surface there were rocks in it. Because of it, being dared could be very dangerous and ponies avoided that place. The water of the ocean made the rocks very slippery, so if somepony wasn’t careful it will fall and hit his head. But the Pies knew how to handle those rocks. Some days at the farm they had to work on the rain, which gave them the ability to walk over wet rocks normally as if they were on the ground. On the rock point there was a small peak. Not high as a mountain, but high enough to make ponies think twice about climbing it. Limestone looked to her sister, usually Marble would stop and think of not going up, but this time Marble was the first who started climbing. She only climbed; she didn’t mind if her sister was climbing before her, she only saw the end of the peak. Limestone thought this might be going too far, they could find Gilda, but how were they going to take her back to the police?
“Hey Marble, it’s not too late to go back. I think father will understand if we tell him what happened” she said.
Marble kept moving and answered “You can go back. I need to deal with this” Limestone couldn’t let her sister go there without her, so she stayed by her side.
The finally reached the top, and the first thing they saw was a igneous rock lying on the ground. It couldn’t belong to that place, it has to be one of theirs. They noticed a cavern going down, they felt frustrated, but without any other clue they went down the cavern to see if they find the thief. Contrary to what they thought the cavern was lightened, holes all over the place let the lights of the sun to come inside. The ponies walked down to what it seemed stairs, it couldn’t be naturally be done that way, somepony or something had have done it. They walked carefully, because although they could see where they were going, they weren’t sure what might lie on the bottom of the stairs. They finally reached the end, and notice a small camp tent, very stereotypical like those you see in cartoons. The ponies approached it slowly, trying to not make a sound.
Suddenly, they heard something coming from the tent “Who in the world carries rocks?! Agh! They are not even valuable!”
That was Gilda’s voice for sure “Okay, we grab the tent and pull it with her to the police” Whispered Marble
“Are you crazy? How are we going to step up all the stairs? Not to mention the way down to the beach” Limestone lowered her voice too “Do you have another idea?” “What about we surprise her and tie her down?” “Oh, yeah? Do you have a rope?” “Maybe she has one inside” “Limestone, focus! We need to do something now”
And a third voice came from behind them “I have something in mind”
They turned and saw the griffin standing right before of them. They were startled, but quickly got into a fighting stand. But because of their lack of actual fighting experience, they didn’t look intimidating at all
“I didn’t think you would look for me” Said Gilda in her cocky voice.
Limestone spoke for her sister “Give us our rocks back, you thief!”
Not a second passed when Gilda threw at them a huge bag with the stones, at least most of the stones it used contain “There, now go, I can’t sell rocks, they don't worth a thing. I only took that bag because it was the biggest bag”
Limestone was astonish to this outcome. It wasn’t what she expected, but she got what she wanted. Limestone took the bag and had the intention to leave the place immediately. But Marble stood there, frozen; she was grinding her teeth in anger.
Marble finally spoke “Tell me. What you said about my sister… was it real?”
The calm and cocky expression on Gilda’s face changed into an angry smirk “Every single one of them. I stole your stuff, but I would never… ” Gilda stopped, something prevented her from finish her sentence.
The two of them stood there, not a sound could be herd, just the wind blowing in the distance. Their eyes were like sights on cannons ready to shoot. It was as if somepony started a staring fight. Gilda and Marble stared fiercefully into each other’s eyes, not even blinking. Limestone couldn’t only wait until one of them the first move. And that was Marble
“Tell me the whole thing… Tell me what happened!” she demanded.
Gilda spread her wings and said “I don’t have to deal with this. Smell you later” and took off her flight.
Marble saw a big rock lying on the ground and had an idea. When they where young Marble and Limestone used to have kicking rocks competitions, in which they hit a rock and saw how far it flew, and they had become more and more precise and more powerful with their shots. Marble ran to the rock, turned and with both back hooves with it as hard as she could. The rock flew like a rocket, and with a deadly precision hit Gilda’s left wing. She fell to the ground, screaming. Limestone was perplexed; that wasn’t her sister, she couldn’t possibly do something like that… Yet, it happened. Marble ran to the top of the stairs where Gilda landed, and Limestone followed her.
Gilda couldn’t get up, her wing was the only thing hurting, but it was too painful to even move. Marble stood in front of her and said “Now, tell me. What happened with my sister!” “You are crazy, just like her!”
The heat of the situation and the tension aroused as they kept screaming “TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED!” Yelled Marble, and Gilda denied.
Until finally Gilda broke “SHE STOLE MY FRIEND! ... My only friend” both Marble and Limestone were shocked as they stepped back.
Tears came from Gilda’s eyes as a river, she kept moaning and crying as she told her story “She was the only friend I had, We met at the Junior Speedsters racing team, back in flight school. Nobody liked me because I was the only griffon, but she stood by my side loyally. After school she took a job as weather manager in Ponyville, and I had to return to the Griffon Kingdom. We promised to meet again… And we did. Years after that I finally got the chance to go to Ponyville to see her again. I kept my cool attitude as I was in school… I wanted things were like back then. But… your sister appeared. She kept getting between us; she couldn’t tell I wanted to spend time with Dash alone. She threw a party… for me... or so she said. I thought it was a way to make me look bad in front of all of the ponies around, she spent the whole day trying to separate me from Dash, it was only logical, I was weird and different from her. And there were pranks, very stupid pranks. I didn’t know it was Dash who set them up. I yelled at her… at all of them, and left. I haven’t talked to her again. If it wasn’t for Pinkie Pie!”
Gilda kept crying, for once they felt bad for her. It was obviously her attitude the cause of her own trouble, but it was still sad how things got so misunderstood. Marble felt bad for putting Gilda in that position, she hurt her, and she accused her so badly; Marble returned to her shield mode, she couldn’t face what she had done.
Limestone in a very lighthearted voice said “We are sorry Gilda, we had no idea. Our sister might had… “Taken” your friend… But, what about if you get two new ones?”
Gilda stopped her crying to look at the pony who said such a thing “You wanna be… my friend?” she asked
“Yeah, you are not as bad when you are yourself” Gilda’s eyes were still dripping tears, but she didn’t look sad anymore.
Marble took a deep breath and changed her smirk into a full smile “Yeah, I want to repay you for hitting you so hard” She didn’t want to look at her; she was still embarrassed.
Limestone raised her right hoof as a sign of trust“So, what do you say? Leave everything behind?”
Gilda hesitated for a moment. She raised her claw, she was shaking nervously, and tried to hold Limestone’s hoof. She finally touched it, and slowly held it. It felt nice, a pony who offered her friendship, and who has seen her true self.
But everything wasn’t perfect, once the Pies smiled and giggled her claw and yelled “This… This… This is so stupid!” as she jumped to the cavern opening.
Her wing wasn’t a problem at the moment, and she jumped the whole way down in a matter of seconds. Limestone, after seeing her running away from the place, yelled “We are from the Pie Rock Farm! We deliver to all over Equestria! Call us some time!”
Gilda headed north away from both the Rock Point and the city. Limestone hoped she heard her, if Gilda appears one day in the future she will gladly give her another chance.
Marble returned to where the camp tent was to take the igneous rocks back. Limestone helped her take the stones that were scattered around the place, maybe it was Gilda who threw them after noticing that what she stole was stones.
Limestone looked at her sister and asked “So… what was all that about?”
“What do you mean?” Marble replied
“You know, the angriness, the hitting… Is there something you wanna talk about?”
Marble stammered, she tried to avoid the question but couldn’t find a way “We are late for the next delivery. Hurry up”
Limestone knew there was something wrong, but she wasn’t going to shoot a rock at her. She was just going to give her some more time.
They returned to the police station, where the police pony was at the exact same place doing the exact same thing, and no other police pony was to be seen. When the police pony saw them, once again she left the phones for a moment to talk to them “Did you find her?”
Limestone took the lead and answered “No, we found our bad near the Rock Point. We looked for her, but there were neither signs nor steps to follow. We are sorry”
The police was obviously disappointed, and after hearing the answer she returned to her duties, not before saying “Your carts are still in the room. Leave the key and go” And they did just that.
They were at the entrance of the police station and saw the sun going down “We should stay here for tonight” Suggested Limestone
“No, we are late. We can make it to the next place and rest there” Said Marble.
"She might be right"thought Limestone and agreeded to leave the place. This time they were unsure how to take what happened that day. They couldn’t sell the rocks, they believe they helped someone, but they might never see her again. This could be considered a failure, but that couldn’t be right because at the end they did what they thought it was right. Moreover, Limestone had a bigger question about her sister “What is she hiding?” and for now that will be her priority.