//------------------------------// // Chapter Five- Snail Mail // Story: Sweetie Snail // by MLPxMaestro //------------------------------// Sweetie Snail: Chapter 5- Snail Mail: The suns soft rays hit the chilled land, as it steadily rose above the horizon on the sleepy town of Ponyville. Mailmares and Mailponies in general were doing their morning routes on delivering packages and letters that needed to be brought to their final destinations within the hundreds or even thousands of mailboxes. There was however one pony that stood out from the rest, and that was a mailmare who went by the name of Ditzy Doo, or Derpy Hooves as some of the townsfolk called her jokingly. The adorable gray Pegasus was making her way over to Rarity’s mailbox to place a small package she had requested from a popular fashion line. It was the last house on her route at the time. She steadily places it within the mailbox, just to make sure she doesn’t break the darn thing like last time. After completing the process in a successful manner, she turned back around facing the other mailboxes that seemed to just await her arrival. However, when she took several steps or so with her back turned from it, the package hit her in the back of the head. “Ouch! Who do you think you…are…” she turned around to the sight of nopony around her, nopony anywhere in sight for that matter. “Um…hello?” the gray Pegasus called out, feeling a bit worried now. She got no answer, and proceeded to pick up the pace, as that seemed quite weird and strange to her. “Oh wait…I need to put this package back in her mail box he-he…yep.” She grabs the box and places it where it was last time…in the mailbox of course. “Okay, now you stay right there mister box.” She said, after her wings spread out wide to take off. But once again, she was hit in the back of the head by the same box. “Okay, what kind of joke is this?! Show yourself now!” she raised her voice to absolutely nothing from her view. But little did she know, a small snail was now on the box. Her vision caught the site of the harmless little mollusk just on the edge of the package. It slithered ever so slowly onto the brown paper surface of the small box. “Well what do you think you’re doing all alone mister snail?” her face then began to show a grin towards the small life. The snail did absolutely nothing as usual…for now anyways. “I got an idea, how about I take you home? My daughter loves bugs after all, I think she’d atleast love to see a snail.” She grabbed ahold of the snail, but however, her taking Snaily home would not be the case. Just as she did that, it seemed like the snail had disappeared into thin air. “WHAT?!” her mind was absolutely speechless and truly baffled at what just happened in front of her. It was almost like the snail defied the laws of physics or something to her. “Um…okayyyy…no more girls night out with Berry Punch and her friends. They must have made me drink some awfully strong stuff if that was just my mind.” she thought to herself, still trying to gather in her mind what had just happened right in front of her. She let out a sigh and proceeds into the air, as Rarity’s home was the last on her mail route before she head home for today. She had the day off today, since she had worked enough hours to allow some time off of work to be with her family for part of the week. Ditzy hummed to herself a little tune in her head she remembered when she was young, in order to pass the time on her way back home in the steady and easy flight. “And sooo the wind blows without a- WAH!!!!” she slammed on her airbrakes, to the shock of the snail sitting there on her snout. It almost appeared as if it was looking straight at her with its eyestalks, but it was a snail? “Um…I thought you…er…” she was confounded by speechless actions once again. She didn’t understand why or even how the snail managed to end up right on the end of her snout. It seemed to be hitching a ride with her back to her place, but she was surprisingly starting to get a little terrified of the snail. She descended back onto the ground, and placed the snail back onto the ground. “There you go mister snail, now I need to get home okay?” she ascends back into the crisp early morning air, and shoots back off into the original direction she was heading. “Wow…this morning has been really weird. To think all of that weirdness coming from a snail I met outside of that mailbox? I don’t think I’ll ever understand this town sometimes.” Finally, she had arrived back home, and trying to stay as quiet as she could. For her two girls Sparkler and Dinky were sleeping soundly inside the house. “Ah, home…now I can finally rest easy and spend some time with my- AHH!” she yelled out in shock again, as it was the exact same snail. It sat there in front of her front door like it was waiting for her to do something else. “What in the name of Equestria are you? You’re certainly no snail I’ve ever seen?” she crept closer and closer to the snail, but it soon after then vanished once again. “Um…” her pupils dilated, her face full of shock. She didn’t understand if she was even in a dream or something. “Okay Ditzy, wake up now.” She pinched herself on one of her legs, but it didn’t work. She however scanned her eyes back over her body, and to the sight of the snail on her blonde colored tail. “What do you want with me? Goodness, this has honestly got to be a dream.” She looked away, and then back to her tail…the snail had disappeared for a third time. She began to feel actually kind of scared now, but how could a pony begin to even feel remotely scared over a mere snail. For one, she seemed to know this was no ordinary snail. Her golden yellow eyes looked every which direction she could think of to know just where that snail could end up being now. She however saw a small note left in front of her hooves. “What the…” she picked it up, and it had some slime on the inside of the folded note. “Ewww, what’s this all…oh forget it I’ll just see what it says.” Ditzy opened up the note, and to her surprise it was the “hero” she had heard about in her paper. The note read: “I am the slimy serenade of justice within this town. I have no enemies, nor friends. I am here on one behalf and one only for my race. A great terror is devastating my mighty race, and is continuing to do so right here and now as long as you do not help me defeat this mighty foe. This foe is known as the white death…or salt in your terms. An exterminator of your kind is using salt all over your town, and destroying my mighty and once proud mollusk family. Now, we are hiding and running…well…slithering for our lives. I have chosen you fellow pony, and another small white pony to hopefully assist me in this war effort of survival. Become my champion, and I shall reward you with great treasures you cannot possibly even begin to fathom. Sincerely, Stormageddon- Dark Lord of All (A.K.A: Snaily- FYI: Just call me Snaily…the other one does.)” The note then ends, and Ditzy is literally about to lose her mind. “I’m not eating poppy seed muffins ever again…I need to rest.” She then heads inside after unlocking the front door quietly, and places the note into one of her mail outfits’ pockets. “Ah…bed at last…” She softly tells herself in her mind as she settles within her nice warm bed. “MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY! MOMMY!” Dinky said, jumping up and down on herm mother’s bed. A small happy toned voice sounded while her eyes were still shut. It was her youngest daughter Dinky. “Dinky stop, I got followed by somepony, and mommy is about to lose her mind go back to bed.” “Can you really lose your mind momma? I wanna lose mine too! I wanna be just like you!” Dinky smiled widely. “No…go back to bed…” “But momma, you said you wou-” “I know I did little muffin, but a snai-…never mind, go back to bed now.” “Okay…” Dinky lowered her head, making her way out of her mother’s bedroom. “Celestia give me strength…I might not make it today.” Ditzy thought.