A small white button eyed unicorn doll came trough the window. It had a curly pink and purple mane made of yarn. A sickly green aurora took it and began to take it apart. First the hair, which was a painstaking process. Then the horn Which was thankfully removable. And lastly the eyes and stuffing. It was turned inside out and dyed a burnt orange. The doll was then filled with sand and given a strait red mane and tail. Big black button eyes completed the smiling face and the doll was sent through the window once more.
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The carriage pulled into the driveway of the pink palace apartments, disturbing a blue unicorn who was practicing her magic. A few choice words were shouted as the unicorn stormed back into her section of the house. Soon there was another carriage, a bigger one full of possessions that belonged to the new family. Two ponies began to unload everything into the house, passing by a white unicorn with a royal purple mane and a pink one with a darker pink mane. After everything was unloaded and the ponies were lousily tipped, the moving carriage pulled away.
A small burnt orange blank flank filly emerged from the house looking thoughtful. She passed the barren garden and dead grass to an almost dead bush. A V-shaped twig was pulled from it and stripped of its leaves. After untangling her red mane from the branches of the bush, the filly held the stick towards the ground and began walking, not knowing she was being watched. A little later a rock was disturbed, catching the filly's attention.
"Hello?" The filly asked in her Manehattan accent "Who's there?"
When she got no reply, she tossed a rock. When she saw a bright green flame she began to run. She ran until she was sure she was safe. She stepped in the middle of a mushroom ring. There she saw a purple and green baby dragon.
"you scared me to death you mangy thing!"
the dragon did not reply.
"I'm just lookin' for an old well. Know it?"
Still no reply.
"not talkin, huh?"
nothing. The filly stood in the middle of a circle of mushrooms.
"Magic dowser, magic dowser, show me the well!" She said to nopony in particular.
There was the sound of hooves as another pony charged towards her.
"AH!" The filly screamed "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
She attempted to hit the intruder with the "dowsing rod" only to have it taken away by a orange aurora . The greenish unicorn looked thoughtful for a moment before speaking.
"Ooh. So let me guess, your from Appleoosa or Saddlearabia. Someplace dried out and barren, right?" The foal smiled with amusement. "I've heard of water witching before but it doesn't make sense. You don't have a cutie mark and this is an ordinary branch!"
The filly glared at him. She smacked his horn and took the rod back, rolling her eyes.
"Its a dowsing rod!" She said, annoyed. "An' I don't like being stalked! Not by pshyco ponies or their dragons!"
"Well, he's not really my dragon, he's kinda feral. You know, wild? Of course, I do feed his every night, and sometimes he stops by my window and brings me little dead things" The foal said while petting the dragon.
"Look, I'm from Manehattan. And if I'm a 'water witch' then where's the secret well?!" The filly stomped her hoof.
"If you stomp too hard, you'll fall in it!" he said.
The filly backed away as the pony dug at the dirt to reveal a wooden cover. He nocked on it. it gave a hollow sound.
"See?" He said as he propped the lid with a stick to get rid of the excess dirt. "They say it's so deep that if you fell to the bottom and looked up, you'd see luna's night in the middle of celestia's day."
"huh" The filly replied, a little skeptical.
"Surprised she let you move in, my grandma? She owns the pink palace and won't rent it to ponies with foals." He said
"What do you mean?" The filly asked
"Uh, i'm not supposed to talk about it..." The pony stuck out his hoof. "I'm Snips"
"Snips?" The filly questioned.
"Short for Snipsy Snap. Not MY idea of course but we don't get to choose our names.What did you get saddled with?" Snips asked
"I wasn't 'saddled' with anything. It's Babs." the filly replied.
"Babes what?" Snips asked, playing with the dragon.
"Not 'Babes' It's 'Babs' Babs Seed!" Babs explained. She had to explain this a lot.
" Huh, that's different. If you had an ordinary name, I would have ordinary expectations about you. But your name is just plain strange..." Snips replied.
" Not as strange as Snipsy Snap!" Babs shot back.
"Snipsy! Snipsy snap!" Came a distant voice.
"Grandma...." Snips whispered to himself worriedly. "well, I gotta go. see you later Babes. oh, and you might want to wear hoof-gloves next time."
"Why?" Babs said, clearly annoyed by him calling her 'Babes'
"Because that, 'dowsing rod' of yours, it's Poison Oak" He said as he ran off
Babs quickly dropped the stick as she watched him go. She looked to the well. It had a small hole in the cover which she looked through. She saw nothing but darkness. Still curious, she dropped a rock down the hole and listened. She never heard it hit the water.