//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: The Sea's Pearl // by lyra_lover777 //------------------------------// As the pod rushed toward the Goddesses and Fluttershy's friends, Fluttershy began to wonder, why was she doing this? Why was she betraying her friends? Then all the sudden the king stopped supporting the shield and turned towards Fluttershy, his horns lighting up. "My dear." he said in a scarier, meaner voice than she had heard him use before. "You must defeat Luna and Celestia. You must." Fluttershy realized he was casting a spell to hypnotize her. She shook the feeling from her head as they zoomed towards the chariot. Finally he won out and she fell into a daze. "Why did you do that?" she asked as she recovered from the spell. "I was just making sure you were on board for sure. I didn't want you backing out ." Fluttershy nodded. The look in his eyes told her that he was telling the truth. "Then why use the scary voice?" "All part of the spell. I am sorry, I just didn't want this to go south. After all, my whole race depends on this." Fluttershy nodded again. They were now in firing distance and the magic sea pony, Manta Bay, shot beams of light at the chariot that bounced harmlessly against the shield, hitting their shield and bouncing back in forth until losing strength and fading away into the air. The goddesses fired back, their stronger blows making the pod rock in the air. "It is time to use your pearl shards." said the king. The sea ponies, except for the king, all burst out of the pod, a sphere of water around them. It was being held up by the king. Meanwhile the six ponies floated up into the air. The kindness one, Fluttershy's replacement, was a lime green pegasus mare with a dark green mane, a sunflower her cutie mark. Both groups floated into the air, their eyes shining as the beams shot from the elements and pearl shards. The rainbows smashed against each other, pushing and pulling, trying to gain purchase against the other. This went on for minutes as the battle stopped, everypony(or sea pony) watching the spectacle. They watched as the king regained himself and struck Celestia with a giant green laser. She crumpled and fell to the ground. "Princess Celestia!" screamed Twilight as her mentor fell to the hard ground. Twilight burst into tears. With this distraction, the sea rainbow pushed back the other rainbow as it fell apart, the sea rainbow striking the mane six(excluding Fluttershy) and the sunflower pony, as well as Princess Luna. Luna fell to the ground smoldering while the Mane five plus one were pushed back into the chariot. The group of sea ponies re-entered the pod while high flippering and bouncing around, screaming in joy. They soon touched down on the ground. Fluttershy saw Big Mac in a nearby pod with wheels. She quickly made the king change both of them back. Fluttershy watched as the now ponified Big Mac cantered over to her. Suddenly they both watched as Princess Luna rolled over as her last lifeblood left her. She pointed her hoof shakily at Fluttershy before becoming limp and still. Suddenly ponies everywhere (and only ponies, not sea ponies) started to grow things. Unicorns grew wings and their horns enlarged, and pegasi felt their wings enlarge and their heads becoming adorned with long horns. Earth ponies grew horns and wings. As Fluttershy felt a horn sprout from her head, she saw Big Mac grow wings and a horn. "Fluttershy, I know I haven't been payin' much attention to yuh, since were dating an such, but I was just worried-." "Shhh." Fluutershy shushed him as she leaned in close and pressed her lips to his. The two started to flap up into the air as they continued the long kiss. They broke apart as they watched the sun reach the horizon, but not dipping below it, and newly minted alicorns fluttered around in the air. They held each other close as a question popped into Fluttershy's mind. "Wait, whose going to make the sun and moon rise and set now?"