//------------------------------// // Seven Days After // Story: The Adventures of the Elementals // by AutoKnight01 //------------------------------// I only own my OC's and the plot. Sorry not everypony was in this chapter. The Adventures of the Elementals Chapter 11: Seven Days After A whole week had gone by since the party at Sugarcube Corner. In said time, life resumed to what everypony considered normality. Everypony that is except for the elementals of both harmony and nature. Over the past seven days, the knowledge passed between the two groups has grown quite a bit. Each pony and his or her partner learned more and more about each other with each passing hour. With the knowledge came more respect for each other’s culture. After Rarity saw Agua use his water powers to heal Gem’s wound, she started to warm up a little bit to him seeing that there was a nice guy in there. Even Agua had grown used to living with a fashion guru. Not completely but he was getting there. Rarity gets a little frustrated every now and then when she tries to ask him about stallion clothing. Agua waves off the subject saying he’s never worn a single article of clothing in his entire life. He did feel a huge wave of relief wash over him when Sweetie Belle left to go back to her parent’s house. Now he had the room all to himself. The only problem was that it was already decorated with the things Sweetie Belle keeps there. So Agua came up with another idea of living accommodations and secretly got to work on it. Rainbow Dash and Gem had grown much closer since the latter saved the former’s life at the party. Rainbow felt she was indebted to Gem for her heroism and always brought it up. It made Gem feel a bit embarrassed. Gem assured her multicolored partner that it was nothing at all, but Rainbow would not have that. So as an act of gratitude, she worked her hooves off and got two tickets to a Wonderbolts airshow that would take place in a few days. Gem gladly took Rainbow up on the offer. The unicorn of plasma was almost in tears when Rainbow gave her the ticket. She was so happy she made another friend all on her own. Cryo and Pinkie were having absolutely no problems with each other whatsoever. Moves Like Jagger had gotten Pinkie into a dancing fever. And she felt the only one to bring her fever down was Cryo by asking him for lessons to dance like he can. The stallion of ice happily obliged. Aside from that and even after the attack, the Cakes were still happy to have him staying there. That made Cryo very pleased. Twilight had gotten much more comfortable with the boy living in her basement. She still has her worries about him considering how he never sleeps because of his mother’s death. Other than that, the two unicorns have learned much more about the other’s culture than they could have asked for. Pyro was even gracious enough to teach Twilight a few simple Alamantian spells. Fluttershy and Typhoon also seemed to get along much more than they had in the start. Typhoon kept her word and kept her telepathy out of Fluttershy’s mind. There do come the few instances where Typhoon wants to read her mind, but she restrains herself out of respect. Not only that, but thanks to her telepathy, Typhoon’s great with animals. That came as a huge relief to Fluttershy. Because her partner now works with her in taking care of the animals. Even Angel the bunny has taken a liking to the psychic Alamantian. As for Applejack and Terra, those two also felt a lot closer than the first night they spent together. After Terra poured her heart out to Applejack at the party, AJ knew right there she could trust her. Nopony would spill out their emotions like that if there wasn’t trust present. And Terra felt good knowing she had a friend to confide in right near her. She never even went into full detail about her late brother with Pyro or any of the others. Applejack was a special case. She didn’t know why. But she concluded that Applejack being the element of honesty had something to do with it. The water pipe was no longer a problem for the farm mare either. Terra only used it once a week and did it away from other ponies. Celestia’s sun rising powers always brought a bright and beautiful morning to Equestria. This day, the pegasus ponies had a sunny day planned and it would be like that for the rest of the week. Over at Sweet Apple Acres, the rooster’s call had brought everypony inside the barn out of their slumber. Terra rose up from her bed and gave a yawn and stretch. When she descended down the stairs, she saw the Apple family down there waiting for her so they could all eat breakfast together. “Well good mornin’, Miss Terra.” Applebloom greeted the yellow houseguest. Terra sighed upon hearing the prefix to her name. “Appleboom, I told you, there’s no need for you to call me Miss. Just Terra is fine. In fact, I prefer it.” “Ah just thought it would be more suitable considerin’ yer a princess and all.” Applebloom said. “If you recall a week ago when I first met you, I said I hated my life as a princess.” Applebloom gave it a second but she did indeed remember Terra saying she was not fond of her life of royalty. “If you say so, Terra.” Applebloom corrected herself. “Now come on and git over here. Ah’m starvin.” Terra giggled a little bit and made her way over to the table and sat next to Applejack and Big Mac on her other side. Applejack had made them all a yummy fruit salad with the main fruit being apples of course. Terra was a sucker for it and instantly fell in love with the recipe as soon as the first bite touched her taste buds. After breakfast, everypony went off to work. Almost all of them anyway. It was Saturday so Applebloom had today and the next day off from school to goof off. Terra wanted to help out, but she had a problem with hitting trees. Or anything that grew out of the ground. She felt that trees are part of the earth and hitting them is wrong. She Applejack thought it would be best if Terra didn’t buck apples with her. But the geokinetic pony didn’t want to feel like dead weight. So she was on cart duty. She latched herself up to the hauling cart and brought loads of apples from the farm to the barn and back again. A few hours later, it was break time. Terra walked into Big Macintosh and her hormones went insane upon seeing his big buff body. When it comes to guys, Terra can’t control herself. She goes for her prey without any warning. Slowly, she approached him with a very devious smirk. “How’s it hangin there, hot stuff?” Big Mac froze in place with a startled expression on his face. Terra’s eyes met his somewhat fearful ones. “So…hows about you and I go somewhere and…..see what happens?” The red stallion hoped to Celestia she was just kidding. But his hopes seemed to be fruitless when she placed a hoof on his chest and rubbed slowly and in a circular motion. “Uh……well……..Ah…uh…..” Seeing his face made Terra burst out into a fit of laughter. “Oh come on, big guy! I’m just messin’ with ya! You should see the look on your face. It’s priceless! Oh hold on! I can show you!” Terra waved her left front hoof conjuring up a chunk of rock from the ground. The surface was flat and Terra waved her hoof a few times. With those waves, etches appeared on the surface of the rock in the shape of Big Macintosh’s face. The expression she drew him with looked exactly like the face he had when Terra spoke to him. “See? Priceless!” Terra laughed. “Oh you crack me up, Big Mac.” With that said, Terra dropped the rock and walked away. Big Mac and Applejack approached the rock to view themselves. “Well….it does look like the face you had.” Applejack admitted with a giggle. “AJ….she scares me.” Big Macintosh muttered. “Aw get over it, bro.” Applejack insisted. “She’s just pokin’ a little fun at you is all.” “It’s not just that.” Big Mac got serious. “There’s something yer not tellin’ me, AJ. First Terra shows up and the next day, those strange black ponies try to kill them. Now you tell me right now. What the hay is goin’ on with you and her?” “There is nothin’ goin’ on, Big Mac!” Applejack nearly shouted. “Nothin’ you need to worry about, anyway.” “Ah am worried, AJ. Ah don’t think it’s the best thing if we keep Terra around for much longer.” Applejack was surprised. Never in all her years did her older brother disapprove of anypony. “Big Mac, keeping Terra around is the reason we’re all alive to tell about that party. Had she and the others hadn’t been there, we’d all probably be dead.” “The way she came here is too suspicious, AJ. One day you go into the woods for a campin’ trip with yer friends. And the next day you bring home an Alamantian and say outta nowhere she’s gonna live with us. Then the day after THAT one, we nearly killed by black ponies. Too suspicious.” Applejack was already fed up with him. “Say what you want, Macintosh. Ah know you know Ah’m right.” “Ah’m sorry, Applejack. But Ah’m only concerned for you. Ah want her out. Now.” His tone was dead serious as were his words. His brotherly extinct was at a high level. After what he saw at the party a week ago, his trust in Terra diminished little by little with each passing day. He thought she was nothing but a bait for danger and it would better if she was nowhere near the Apple family. That did it. Applejack could take the suspiciousness. But now he was flat out saying Terra had to go. She was not gonna have her older brother lecturing her like he was her father. With an angry eye, she adjusted her hat and glared at him. “Now you listen here. Ah’m not gonna tell ya what’s goin’ on but Ah will say this. Those black ponies back at the party, they ain’t done comin’. The reason Terra is here is because she’s mah guardian. She’s protectin’ me. In fact, she’s protectin’ our whole family. So whether you like it or not, Macintosh, Terra ain’t goin’ nowhere and that’s that.” “But AJ…” “Ah’m not gonna listen to another word, Big Mac! Terra’s stickin’ around! So get used to it!” With that, she stormed off. Every stomp to the ground raised a small cloud of dust. Big Mac wanted to keep talking but her mind was already set on keeping Terra here. As uncomfortable as he was, he had no choice now but to take his sister’s word for it and trust Terra a bit more. Speaking of Terra, when she walked away from Big Mac, she engaged with another conversation with Applebloom. The little filly caught her when the older mare tried to walk off the grounds of the farm. “Uhhh…where you goin?” Terra stopped on her hooves and turned around to look into the young filly’s eyes. “I’m heading out to the most open area I can find where nopony else will be.” That made Applebloom a little bit concerned. Then Terra spoke again. “You wouldn’t happen to know where I can find a place like that, would you?” The little filly began to think about a place that fit the criteria Terra wanted. She quickly came up with an honest answer. “Right outside Ponyville is just a wide open area. Nothin’ is out there except for a trail leading to the town and the dirt that makes it.” That was all Terra needed to hear. She quickly began to walk in the direction Applebloom was pointing in her description. Not knowing what was going on, the young filly followed her. “Wait. Why do you wanna go out there?” she asked the Alamantian. Terra kept walking but she talked at the same time. “Because I need a wide open space for myself so I can practice using my powers.” Applebloom got confused hearing her use the word “practice”. “Whadaya mean practice? Ah’ve seen you use your powers. You don’t need practice.” Kids. The yellow earth pony thought she might think that. “Just having these powers and using them in small doses isn’t enough, kid. I have to practice using them every day to make sure I’m in peak shape one hundred percent all the time. Also I need to practice to keep my powers under control.” Applebloom did seem to understand. But she was still curious as to what Terra would do. “Can Ah come watch you practice?” Applejack heard the question being nearby. “Applebloom, Ah really don’t think that’s a good idea.” “Sure. She can come.” Applejack looked at her partner with a bit of shock. “What?” Terra went on. “It’s not dangerous or anything. You just gotta stay at a safe distance from me. I don’t want you to get crushed by an out of control boulder. Not saying that I would lose control of a huge boulder but you get my point.” The orange cowgirl felt better with Terra’s reassurance. Staying far enough away from her seemed easy enough. So seeing as how she was on break, she decided to accompany them. They walked off with Big Mac watching them shaking his head. A short ten minutes later, the three ponies arrived at the most open part on the outskirts of Ponyville. Just like Applebloom said, nothing but a path to the town surrounded by rocks and dirt. Terra considered it a slice of heaven. “Okay. Now go over there and enjoy the show.” Terra pointed to a random direction. Applejack and her little sister followed the direction and got behind a good sized rock for cover. That left Terra alone to prepare her body to perform her earth moving. While they waited for her to start, Applejack and Applebloom turned around and noticed something. Rather somepony. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, along with Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Gem, were all approaching. “What are ya doin’ here?” Applebloom asked. “We came to the farm looking for you.” Sweetie Belle answered. “Big Mac said you and Applejack came out here with Terra.” “It’s a beautiful day, Applebloom. Let’s go crusading before it’s shot.” Scootaloo insisted. “In a minute.” Applebloom said before turning back around. “Ah wanna see Terra practice.” “Terra?” Rainbow Dash repeated. The cyan pegasus peeked around the rock and saw Terra a good distance away. Not close enough to see facial expressions but close enough to know it was her by coat and mane color alone. Applebloom had a pair of binoculars with her and looked through them to get a closer look at Terra. Gem, confused, walked up to the filly. “Why do you have binoculars?” she asked. “Terra said Ah have to stay far away so Ah don’t get hurt. The only way Ah can see her is with these.” Gem gave an innocent laugh at the filly and lowered the binoculars with a gentle hoof gesture “Here. I have a telescope spell.” Gem’s horn glowed electric purple and she focused her eyesight on Terra. Then a circle shaped screen big enough for the group of girls to see. What they saw was Terra. She was just standing there. “What is she waiting for?” Rarity wondered. “Just watch.” Gem responded knowing what was about to happen. All eyes were on the magical screen Gem had created. Terra seemed to be doing nothing at all. Mistaken was what they were. Terra was focusing hard on her element. Through her hooves she sensed every bit of terrain that was around her and what the name of each rock was. With one last deep breath, Terra stood bipedal and slowly brought her front hooves together. “As sturdy as its soil.” She mumbled. Opening her eyes, she looked at the ground a few yards away from where she stood. She then leaned over into a martial arts stance and pointed her left hoof right where she was looking. When she raised her hoof up, a large chunk of the rocky ground ripped from the surface and floated in front of her. Here, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and the three Cutie Mark Crusaders were getting their very first full view of Terra using her power to full potential. And she was only practicing. Focusing on the one chunk she rose from the ground, Terra tossed it up and towards herself, spun around, jumped up and gracefully kicked it into the sky and away from Ponyville. It landed about three hundred yards away from her. But she wasn’t paying attention to it anymore. She already had her geokinesis pointed on another chunk of rock. She made seven more rise from the ground and rotate and around her in a spiral formation. As she did all this, her bodily motions followed the rocks. Her arms waved, her body swayed to and fro, she spun around, it was like the mares watching her from the distance were viewing art in motion. Terra then stomped the ground with her hind hooves. With each stomp, even more chunks of rock rose from the ground and floated around her. She then stopped moving her body except for her front arms which slowly moved in a circular way. The rocks she hard floating around her began to form from a spiral to a ring above her head. Then Terra punched her right hoof straight up. That sent the ring of rocks rocketing into the air. When they were high enough to no longer be seen, they must have collided with each other because all of them obliterated into dust like a firework. While she began to do something else, from the distance, Gem’s telescope spell was proving to be most effective as she, Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity, and the CMC were all blown away at what Terra could do with the ground. The girls didn’t notice it, but Big Macintosh had walked up behind them staring at them all not knowing what the hay was going on. “Uh…what are y’all lookin’ at?” Rarity put her hoof on Big Mac’s cheek and turned it in the direction all of them were looking. Soon the red stallion grew the same look and spoke no other words. Terra had formed a snake of rock and dirt and hade it flowing all around her in the sky. Then she directed it to the ground and it dug its way through the dirt. It then came up and back down again. Up and down up and down. After doing that a few times, she brought the snake back up from the surface fully and then made something else happened right under her hooves. The ground beneath her began to rise up in the form of a rocky pillar. It elevated up to about twenty feet in height. Then she jumped off it and made another pillar raise up from the ground right where she jumped. She didn’t even descend a single inch. A few more body waves was all it took for her to raise two more pillars of equal height. As she jumped to one, one of the boulders she was moving flew at her. She punched at it and it obliterated. She did the same thing with another one when she jumped to the other pillar she made. Terra then redirected every ounce of power she had on those remaining rocks she had floating around her in the form of a flying snake. All the rocks came together in one big clump. There Terra put her powers to the real test. Her geokinetic mind began to concentrate hard on the giant group of rocks both big and small. Slowly but surely, the rocks all began to grind into one another. Dust fell from them and to the ground. Terra’s hard focus did its job. She fused all the smaller rocks into one big round boulder as wide as the Sweet Apple Acres barn itself. She gently lowered it to the ground where it stayed. Her mind then redirected to the pillar she was currently standing on. The top portion broke off into a thin platform of rock and rose up into the air above the giant boulder. Rainbow Dash found that amazing because in a way, Terra was flying. When she was right over the rock, Terra jumped off the platform and landed right at the tippity top of it. A few deep breaths and hoof motions later, Terra brought down her right hoof hard into the surface of the boulder. The giant rock began to crack and the edges began to break off. Then a lot of pieces shattered from the boulder and a cloud of dust rose up. When the dust cleared, everypony saw what she did. The boulder was no more. But there was another pillar. Straight vertical line, with one horizontal line near the top, and a longer horizontal line at the very bottom resembling her cutie mark and the symbol for her element. While that happened, Applejack, and the other present ponies there all marveled at Terra’s strength. The first time viewing it for themselves it was for most of them. Gem had seen it before. Big Macintosh couldn’t believe it. He was extra surprised because of the accusation he made about her just prior to going out there and seeing Terra do all that. Terra jumped all the way down from the pillar and landed nicely on her hooves without any pain at all. Upon connecting with the ground, she gave a simple wave of her hoof and the pillar that made the makeshift statue of her cutie mark broke into a million pieces. A cloud of dust rose from the rocks as they piled on top of one another. “Ah yeah. That’s the stuff.” She murmured. As she walked away from her work, Terra looked to her side and saw the group of ponies on the ledge watching her. Gem disengaged her viewing spell while Terra changed her direction of walking to them. With a smirk, Applejack leaned her head towards her brother. “Feel better about havin’ her stay?” she whispered. After seeing what he just saw one pony do, Big Macintosh was at a loss for words. He immediately regretted every bad word he said about her to Applejack. If this mare had that much power when she was only practicing, than she would no doubt have any trouble protecting them when it came right down to it. It was the Shadowmares that still frightened him though. “Fine. She stays.” He muttered back. Applejack smiled with satisfaction. Big Mac was okay with her staying. Not one hundred percent but enough to let her stay. When Terra retreated to where Applejack and Applebloom were, she was surprised to see the other girls there along with Big Mac.” “That….was…..awesome!” Scootaloo shouted. “That was mighty impressive there, Miss Terra.” Big Macintosh complimented. “Well thank you.” Terra responded. “Although back home, it’s nothing special.” “Nothing special?” Sweetie Belle sounded surprised. “How was THAT nothing special? That’s the most super special thing I’ve ever seen anypony do!” “It’s not special because in my country, everypony can do it.” Terra reminded them. “At least in my Geo tribe that is.” They had forgotten that. Terra was from a land where her powers were the most common thing to see. “And to think, I thought rocks had no real purpose.” Rarity commented. Chuckling, Terra levitated a small rock and held it over her raised right hoof. “For me, rocks are my source of power along with the ground itself.” She said right before she dropped the floating rock. “Hold up. I’m here with Applejack. Rainbow’s here with Gem. So…that leaves you, Rarity. Where’s Agua?” “Oh who knows?” Rarity answered. “One minute he’s right there next to me in the linen store, the next he’s gone from sight altogether.” “I’m sorry but, did you REALLY expect a guy like Agua to enjoy being in a clothing store?” Terra asked. The fashionista indeed felt a little bit stupid bringing him along with her to a store where they sell fabric and nothing else. She should have known he would have bailed. “I guess it was inevitable.” Rarity commented. “Remind me smack Pyro upside the head the next time I see him. After all, HE was the one who paired me with that insufferable jerk.” “Agua’s a jerk alright. But even I have to admit, the things he can do with water are very impressive. Just wait. You’ll see it one of these days.” “I just fear it will be the last thing I ever see.” Rarity commented. “It hasn’t been the easiest week of my life living with him.” “Hey. I lived with him for three straight YEARS. And he hates me a lot more than he hates you. Trust me on that.” Terra assured the fashionista. “So I take it you’ve been thrilled to be away from him.” Rarity assumed. “Indeed I have.” Terra confirmed with a wide smile. “And don’t blame Pyro for this.” “Why not? He was the one who assigned us our partners.” Rarity whined. “He seemed to only get five out of six right.” Rainbow let out a chuckle herself and talked. “Rarity, look. I used to feel the same way about Gem here. I thought she and I were totally incompatible and Pyro screwed up in pairing us together.” That line made Gem nearly start crying. “You…..you don’t like me?” she said with her voice cracking. Rainbow Dash immediately waved a hoof at her unicorn partner. “Calm down, Gem. Let me finish.” Then she re-directed over to Rarity. “That’s how I felt at first. But then the next day at that party, Gem put herself on the line to save me and took a hit meant for me. That made me feel differently. Pyro didn’t make any mistake. Gem was clearly supposed to be my partner from the start. I’ve never seen anyone be THAT loyal to a friend.” Rainbow mentioned her own element of loyalty. As she put a hoof around Gem’s back, the purple unicorn of plasma still had her eyes wet. But now she was smiling happy Rainbow felt that way of her. “Well Ah guess you two gals do go good together.” Applejack commented. “Kinda like me an’ Terra. She’s just as honest as Ah am.” Terra only nodded in response. “If only Agua could have a little bit of generosity I’d be satisfied.” Rarity muttered under her breath. “Well, I supposed I better head back to the boutique and see if he went there. I’d rather have him there than out terrifying all of Ponyville. Sweetie Belle, have fun with your friends.” With that, the Cutie Mark Crusaders rushed off to do their own thing. And seeing as how they had nothing better to do at the time, Applejack, Terra, Rainbow Dash, and Gem decided to walk with Rarity. Big Mac simply returned to the farm. It took a few minutes and a good exercising walk, but they all got back to the boutique. Once inside, the four mares saw no blue stallion that was the pony of water. “I guess he’s just out and about.” Rainbow Dash suggested. “Oh well.” Rarity humphed. “It’s probably better. I need to get some work done and I tend to work better when I know my house is empty.” “Uh…..Terra?” Gem muttered. “How are you doing that?” Terra made a confused face as she looked at her purple sister. “Doing what? I’m just standing here.” “Well…..” Gem pointed to a nearby window where all the girls now looked. Every few seconds interval, a pile of dirt flew passed the window. Everypony in the boutique looked at the pony of earth wanting an explanation. “Hey that’s not me. I swear.” Terra defended as she put up a hoof. Wanting to know just what was going on out there, Rarity rushed out the back door of her house and nearly screamed upon sight. Agua was in the backyard deep in a wide pit he recently dug with a shovel. The hole was about the size of a very large swimming pool but much deeper. “What in tarnation?” Applejack said shocked herself. Hearing her made Agua stop what he was doing. He climbed out of the pit and viewed the group of girls in front of him with most of his fur covered in dirt and mud. “Hello, Applejack. Rainbow Dash, Gem, Rarity, hippy.” Agua greeted them with a smirk on that last one. Terra snarled. “Asshole.” Before the two ponies of water and earth could begin to get into their wordplay like usual, Rarity spoke first. “Agua….what….have you done?” she was still shocked enough to the point where she could barely talk. “Well, I’d like to think of it as home improvement.” Agua said as he glanced back at the hole. “YOU’RE DIGGING A HOLE IN MY BACKYARD!” “Very good. You can see. Why don’t you give me weather report?” Agua’s sarcasm knows no bounds. It made Rarity quite annoyed. Using her magic, she pulled the shovel out of Agua’s hooves. But it turned out to be too late. Agua had just finished using it and no longer required it. “What do you think you’re doing digging a hole back here without my permission?” Rarity growled. “What are you? My mother?” Agua snapped. “So I decided dig a hole. So what?” “This is MY house! If anything gets dug up around here, it doesn’t happen unless I SAY it can!” she screamed. “AND WHY ARE YOU DIGGING A HOLE?!?!?!?” “Because I can’t take your little sister’s room anymore.” Agua finally gave his explanation. “I refuse to sleep in a room that is surrounded by dolls and pained pink. So Bobo and I decided it would be best if we got our own room. But seeing as how there are no empty ones left in the house, we decided to make our own out here. It was really Bobo’s idea. And it was good one.” “I don’t care if it was yours or your giant stupid clam’s idea!” Rarity shrieked. “What possessed EITHER of you to think this would be okay with me?!” Agua answered quicker than Rarity expected him to. “Well let’s see. I’m staying here giving you 24 hour security from evil ponies who wanna kill us. So I think I deserve to have a little something to myself. I’m getting me a new bedroom.” “How could you have even dug a hole this big in just a few hours?” Rarity asked. Agua gave a look at Rarity. A look that said, “Are you freakin kidding me?” “I’ve been digging back here for days. I can’t believe it took you this long to notice.” Agua corrected. Terra confirmed that. She was able to sense through her hooves the dirt Agua had been digging through. By her estimation, he had been taking that shovel to the ground for three days and seventeen hours on the dot. He had even put sea rocks at the bottom and even a few plants to make it look good. Then it came time for Agua to put the finishing touch on his new room. He took one step back from the hole then stood bipedal. With a few graceful motions from his front hooves, those same hooves became energized with his watery power. He motioned his hooves forward over his head. Then a huge stream of water appeared from behind his back, flew over his head, and into the hole. After only three seconds, the hole was filled. But the water was all dirty. Agua had a quick remedy for that. Still in his hind hoof stance, he moved his front ones as if he were picking something up. In fact he was. As his hooves got higher, all the water in the hole raised up and out of it. The ball of water then slowly moved to the left. And with a light shake of the hoof from Agua, all the dirt in the water ball just fell out of it. Then he placed it back in the hole. This time, no dirt got into the water. It was perfectly clear. The leaves from the plants underwater swayed with the current whichever way it went. After going inside for a quick moment, Agua returned outside with Bobo’s tank and the giant clam himself inside it. Using his hydrokinesis one more time, he lifted Bobo out of his tank by moving the water around the giant clam. At a couple hundred pounds, Bobo was a load. But Agua could handle it. “So is this our new room, Agua?” Bobo asked in his super deep voice. Nopony except for Agua was really used to hearing the clam talk. “Yep. This is for you and me, buddy.” Agua lowered his pet into the pond and released his grip. Then the blue stallion dove in the water after his clam and began to swim around gracefully. He could stay under there forever since he could breathe underwater. Rarity began to steam. While she did, Terra approached her. “Well….at least he’s not INSIDE your house.” That didn’t get the humorous response she was hoping for. Instead, Rarity slowly tilted her head so she was glaring right at Terra with a look so icy it could have frozen Cryo. With a small hint of fear in that look, Terra backed off. “I’ll just smack Pyro for you when I see him again.” “Yes. You do that.” Rarity said in a low tone. The rest of that day went by without anymore hassles or problems. And Rarity had to admit. The pond Agua made did in fact look kind of nice. The ponies who came in her shop all saw it and complimented her thinking she was the one who did it. The next day rolled around pretty quickly. And with a new day comes more lessons.