//------------------------------// // Friendship in the storm // Story: Paradise island // by Furious Thestral //------------------------------// The sounds of the ocean hitting in the cruise, a few seagulls flying above in the sky, the dolphin's jumping in the surface. The travel towards Mexicolt has just begun. Twilight leaved the cabin as she trotted to the cabin of Sunset Shimmer. "She's not in there now" said Trixie to Twilight before she could knock the door. "Do you know where she is?" Twilight asked as she turned her head towards Trixie, with a smile she wanted to know the whereabouts of Sunset to have a time to befriend the orange unicorn. "She's in the dining hall," replied Trixie weaving her head to her left pointing the direction where Sunset went, "she and her mother must be eating by now" added Trixie as she began to trot passing by to the other end of the corridor. Twilight gave a step to the dining room but then the idea of inviting Trixie would be better for her, after all she never had the chance to coexist with anypony in school but she always was willing to have a friend, and Twilight wouldn't miss this opportunity, "Trixie do you wish to go to the dinning with me and have a breakfast?," she invited her moving forward her head and twisting it slightly to the right to convince her, "please" she added but inside her head thought it was a terrible mistake adding the last part, she sounded now desperate. "Trixie doesn't need to go and eat she has better things to do," declined the unicorn, she began continued her trot but stopped as a big growl went through all the corridor, it was Trixie's stomach, Trixie blushed in shame as she take half turn to see Twilight, "i guess that the great and powerful Trixie would like to go and have a little breakfast" said Trixie as she then trotted back. Twilight smiled happy that her new friend accepted her invitation as they now trotted to the dining room. Twilight and Trixie walked across the dining hall, the wall's had paintings of Equestria and Celestia, the tables were decorated with white mantles and blue ribbons, the roof had a giant chandelier with candles and many crystals to reflect the rays of sun to illuminate the hall during the day. There were many ponies in the table having breakfast and the waiters trotting from here to there delivering dishes in a silver platter professionally all around the hall. In the near center of the dining was Sunset Shimmer with her mother eating what it seems an spinach soup with apple juice. The two unicorns reached Sunset's table. "Hello Sunset" greeted Twilight stoping next to her. "Hello Twilight, Trixie" Sunset responded smiling to the two unicorns as she take another spoonful of her soup. Twilight smiled towards Sunset then look to Autumn noding her head to greet her, Autumn return the salutation with another nod. Trixie gave a cold stare towards Sunset, "hello" she said without much enthusiasm, Sunset ignored the cold response as she continued to speak with Twilight. "Why don't you two take a seat and join us in breakfast," invited Sunset placing a hoof in the next chair, "we can make the waitress bring whatever you want." she added making a hoof movement to the one of the waitress as she come to their table, the two unicorns accepting the invitation of Sunset seated in two chairs each one. The waitress trotted towards the table in a uniform and apron with shades of dark blue "Hello, what can i serve you?" asked the waitress in a gentle manner smiling the way she always had in her time of work for everypony. Twilight looking at the menu, "i'd like a carrot soup and an orange juice please" said Twilight as she lowered the menu. "The great and powerful Trixie would like an oat cereal, a chocolate milk and a brownie" ordered the blue unicorn giving the menu to the waitress, same did Twilight. "Very well, please wait while i return" the waitress gently replied as she trotted to the kitchen. The three unicorns were looking to each other while Autumn Shimmer ignoring them was eating her own soup. Twilight began to look towards Sunset trying to make a conversation, thinking in the first way to begin it, "Sunset how long have you been studying in the school for gifted unicorns?" asked the the lavender unicorn hoping that this will do a good start. "I have been for a quite long time, studying the scrolls of Astral Magnificent," replied Sunset showing pride of her studies, "and even i had the book king's grimoire of Anzer" added Sunset smiling to the two unicorns Twilight was surprised of hearing that she had read those two books but she only knew about one of the author's the other one was unknown of her knowledge. Trixie one the other hoof was surprised of hearing the name of Anzer, "king's grimoire!?," repeated the blue unicorn in shock placing her front hooves in the table, "but that book was suppossed to be ban-" "rare!, i know," Sunset interjected what Trixie was about to say, "princess Celestia managed to give me one for my hardworking studies" added the orange unicorn keeping her composure and maintaining her smile to the other two unicorns. Trixie gave an angry glare to Sunset for having such book and she wanted to know more about the subject. "Twilight!," a worried shout from the other side of the hall made the four unicorns to turn their heads, it was Velvet Sparkle who was trotting towards the lavender unicorn, "i thought that we were going to have breakfast together" the white mare cried to her daughter. Twilight was embarrassed not only for the fact that she forgot about the breakfast together but for the other ponies that were watching the scene, "sorry mom, i just wanted to get to hang out with Sunset and Trixie" Twilight replied as she tried to calm her mother. The waitress arived with a platter and began to serve the dishes that the two unicorns ordered, "madam, would you like a seat?" offered the waitress to Velvet, the white mare flushed her face in red of embarrassment realizing the scandal that she made, she then nodded in acceptance of the waitress offer. After breakfast the waitress came to collect all dirty dishes and leaved letting the five unicorn's to chatter, "and that is how the great and powerful Trixie defeated the manticore," said the boastful Trixie always with her head held high, Velvet and Twilight seemed impressed by the story, Sunset rolled her eyes quietly thinking that it must be a lie and Autumn Shimmer didn't even pay attention to such meaningless story, "Twilight," Trixie called to make Twilight turn her attention to the blue unicorn, "feel yourself honored because Trixie invites you to the astronomy show held in the theater, it's an excellent show" invited the boastful unicorn. Twilight was surprised being invited, to hang out with a friend was something that she should've done from the beginning not the other way, "thank you Trixie i'll be glad to go with you" replied the lavender unicorn with a big smile clapping her hooves in excitement. "Very well then, onward" said Trixie as she leaves the table to trot the exit of the dining hall. "Wait," said Twilight making Trixie stop immmediatly and turning around, "is Sunset gonna go with us?" she then asked wondering if she invited Sunset as well. Trixie glared to Sunset who returned the glare, the two of them were not getting well as it seems "sorry, but Trixie only aford two entrances for the show" replied the unicorn, Twilight was a bit sad she really wanted to go to the play with all her friend's but she can't leave one to be with another, decisions like these are very painful to make. "Don't worry, i'll pay for her entrance" Velvet said offering a helping hoof to her daughter after all seeing how happy she was having friends, how could she not help her?. Trixie and Sunset both stare to Velvet surprised, "oh, theres no need for you to do that" said Sunset lifting her hooves in denial, "nonsense you three should get along and have fun together" replied the white mare giving to Sunset the bits necessary for her entrance. Twilight gave a thank you smile and Velvet returned a wink of the gesture. Trixie made a discreetly face in disgust for having to get along with Sunset. Autumn Shimmer turned to Velvet with a serious face, "thank you for inviting my daughter" the unicorn mare said with a acent only the elite type of canterlot would use. "Oh it's nothing after all they should all have a good time together" replied Velvet smiling waving her hoof. the three unicorns then trotted to go to see the play in the theater. "After the play we can go to do other things right?" asked Twilight hoping that all together would have an incredible day. "Of course Twilight," said Sunset from her right "we will have the best day of our lives" she added with a trustworthy smile. "The great and powerful Trixie will make sure you will have fun" then said the blue unicorn with determination and faith in her words. Twilight couldn't be happier for having friends like these two. [insert montage of three unicorns in a cruise here] *** "Attention on board!" shouted a sailor in the navigation cabin when the captain arrived, "rest" ordered the captain as he marched next to the helm, looking to each pony in the cabin in their respective places watching that everything was in perfect state. The captain was a pegasi with a white marble mane and a pale yellow coat, his uniform is white with golden details. The captain after contemplating the vast ocean began to speak, "how are we in our current location?" asked the captain in a demanding voice expecting one pony to respond. "sir, we are in a favorable current and there are clear skies all the way" replied Sonar a unicorn mare holding a telescope with her magic, keeping an eye to anything that could appear from the distance. "Excellent keep the curse to our destination" ordered the captain with a satisfactory smile proud of being the captain of the solar wind, after all, this was princess Celestia favorite cruise and even if she uses it for special ocassions he enjoyed taking passengers from around the world to a beautiful destination making the travel of their lives. "Uh, captain?," the voice of a mare in the cabin tried to have the attention of the captain for a moment, "is it okay to take this route to our destination?" the mare in uniform asked curious about the coordinates of their location. "it's only a little deviation Copper Compass, to give the passengers the opportunity to see the giant siren statue," replied the captain concerned about their location, "after all that statue shouldn't be only for the eyes of the Theron kingdom" he added with a passive smile. Many sailors know about the statue they say that the Theron kingdom made it in honor of said creatures and the frienship they had, it was a statue made out of stone with perfect detail with 45 meters tall, but one of the most important things in the statue is that it beared a giant ruby in its neck the biggest of them all. The legend says that whoever steals it will receive the wrath of the 'singers', nopony believed in such curse but the rumors of various ponies indicates that whoever goes near the statue with the intention of stealing the gem they can hear a song, those who hear it can't describe it but others say that such infernal noise is to call the 'singers' to appear. "But captain!, these waters are dangerous, they say that here the storms are more powerful they even surpass the 5000 wing power!" Copper Compass said alarmed trying to convince the captain to change the route immediately. "I know compass, they say that they are called hurricanes," said the captain calmly knowing the situation of these waters, "but don't worry there's nothing but clear skies from here on out and calm wind's" replied the captain trying to calm the navigator in his response. Copper Compass calmed herself after all in all the time she had travel with the captain they never encountered danger, but that was not the case in these territorial waters. "I guess you're right captain, sorry for doubting" Copper Compass finally said as she returned to her station. The other sailors were a bit concerned and worried about the talk the captain had with her navigator, the look in their eyes have been noticed by the captain as he then finally spoke. "I know that all of you are a bit worried so then, i will send a patrol to check the skies within 1 Km. around," he said then the other ponies changed their faces to a better one, "will this calm your worries and continue with your work?" asked the captain as he see's that everypony nod in agreement, he then pointed with a hoof to a pony making a signal to make the question to an order, as the pony understood what he had to do then pulled a switch that send a signal to other room were a group of pegasi. "Alright team, listen up we got work to do," shouted Burst, she was a pegasi mare with a blue and yellow mane and a pink coat also she is the leader team of the 'climate patrol', "we have received a message that we are ordered to go and check the weather in a 1 Km. radius, so we will divide in four groups of two" Burst added looking at all the pegasi members to forming a line in front of her. The climate patrol usually never goes out on missions except to help the cruise find a way out of storms or guide it through high dense fog's, so they all fell excited and enthusiastic about being called. "I hope you all got your orders and don't forget you equipment, so go on and fly you dodo's" finished Burst with a military tone to make her subordinates keep in mind what they have to do. "Yes ma'am" the 7 pegasi replied, and they all ran towards the door taking lift and fly to the sky. the eight pegasi take different routes each to go and complete their mission just a patrol for any alteration of weather nothing more some of them take the task as an excuse to have a flight trip but others are more serious about this. Two pegasi fly into the east with an easygoing speed the mare was keeping an eye to any direction for any dark cloud that could pass by, the stallion seemed to be more relaxed and enjoyed the little flight that they had. "Relax 'StarScream' this is just a simple patrol," said Sea Salt, a stallion with a blue sky mane and a beige coat, with a careless smile, "besides there are no black clouds or any kind of cumulus here" added Salt as he waved his front hooves to the whole clear sky. "First of all it's Star Stream," replied the mare pegasi angry of his partner's nickname, "second this is Theron territory, who knows what will happen here" added Star, she had a soft pink mane and a turquoise coat, on the lookout. Salt let out a snicker between teeth shaking his head in disbelief, "how can you belive in such nonsense?," the stallion questioned, "the fact that those ponies can make storms that surpass the 5000 wing power and even those stories about their fire magic? only a foal (fool) would believe in such thing" Salt said almost losing his composure to laugh, Stream rolled her eyes in disgust to having a partner like him always careless and nothing serious. "Listen, i don't care if there's not even a small cloud in the sky, we only need to be on the lookout for any-," Stream was interrupted by something in the distance for what it seemed it was a group of pegasi in the sky, "do you see that?" she then changed her words pointing to the group of ponies, Salt who was still laughing turned and changed his expression as he tried to focus on the distance. "are those pegasi?" asked Salt not able to identify the group from so far. "There flight pattern is quite different to a normal pegasi," Stream deduced by the way they flew, "and those wing's are a bigger than a normal pegasi too" she added worried that they might be from the Theron kingdom. there were 15 of the strange pegasus in the middle of the air from the point of view of the two ponies of 'climate patrol' they seemed to be talking to each other. "I don't like this Salt" said Stream a bit scared thinking on the worst case scenario. "Hold on," said Salt as he noticed something appearing from a cloud nearby the group, "there are more of them and it seems that they are carryng some sort of, barrel?" inquired watching how the other pegasus delivered the barrel. One of the pegasi noticed the two patrol ponies and began to wave his hooves from one side to another. "What is he doing?" Salt asked looking to the strange movements. "i think he is warning us," Stream replied turning around and preparing to return to the ship," we should better leave were not supposed to be here" trying to convince his partner to return Stream began to fly back, but Salt remained in his place. "Wait, let me see what they're up to" Salt answered with curiosity in his eyes he never seen something like this before, the pegasi that warned them returned to his group and they began to fly in circles forming a tornado. "Seriously, i think we should leave and warn the cruise" Stream repeated herself expecting that Sea Salt would pay attention to her worried tone. "Relax, that tornado doesn't seem any dangerous, besides its to-" Salt's words were cut off as he and Star Stream observed that the barrel was thrown into the tornado, reaching to the top of the climate phenomenon it explode pouring a giant dark cloud that increases its size, all the pegasi from the tornado continued their formation making the tornado bigger and stronger, the patrol ponies were shocked that how the tornado was enormous. "We need to leave, now!" yelled Stream pulling the hoof of her partner, Salt didn't need to be telled one more time as he then followed her to the ship flying as fast as they could but the wind began to take speed against them and the rain began to fall. "We have to warn the ship!" Salt yelled from behind Stream, both flying at full speed. *** Before the storm in the deck of the ship, Trixie and Sunset were sitting in chair's with a glare of annoyance between them, "nice weather, right?" said Sunset trying to smooth the mood between them. "Trixie find's it quite calm perfect for the experiment," replied the blue unicorn not changing her face to Sunset, "when Twilight arrives with the equipment, of course" she added changing her direction to the ocean. "Okay Trixie what did i did to you to be mad at me?" Sunset asked she never knew her or even look at her in the past so it wasn't a grudge against her, right?. "Trixie has nothing against you Sunset," began Trixie still looking at the ocean, "but there are things that Trixie heard about you" added the mare facing Sunset. The orange unicorn reacted back surprised by the statement of Trixie, she was about to say something when she saw Twilight arriving. "Sorry for taking much time" Twilight apologized to her two friends bringing Trixie's magical science kit. "no need Twilight," Trixie said as she received the kit placing it in a table, "and now be amazed in the spectacular chemestry of pyromancy!" shouted Trixie raising her hooves in the sky making a scene in front of other ponies. Sunset from behind contained a rage from the words of Trixie thinking a way to separate Twilight from her. Twilight was excited to see a experiment, she never had a chance like this since she blew all the lab in school, "what kind of experiment will do Trixie?" the lavender unicorn asked placing her hooves together with a spark of curiosity in her eye's. "First the great and alchemical Trixie will show you how to make fi-" Trixie's words were cut off by the sudden change of the sky turning into a pitch black. "Thats strange, they said that it was going to be sunny" said Twilight looking how giant cloud's began to appear from the distance, the wind began to blow and the waves from the sea were more violent at every second. "it's better for us if we go inside the ship" said Sunset taking Twilight to follow her inside. "Wait for Trixie!" the blue unicorn yelled as she take the kit with her and tried to rush to catch the other two unicorn's, but the winds were too strong and the strength of it began to pull Trixie almost dragging her as the same goes to Twilight and Sunset. Twilight quickly and with a little of struggle she casted a magic barrier covering her and Sunset, Trixie tried to do the same, with a lot more effort, she couldn't cast it properly. "Trixie, quick cast the shield!" yelled Twilight worried as she noticed that the rain reached the ship and the wind blow ferociously. "Trixie can't do it!" creid Trixie as she was pulled by the wind, Sunset let out a small smirk behind from Twilight perhaps she didn't need to plan anything at all. Trixie fight in vain against the wind many ponies tried to rescue her but they were stopped considering the danger of the situation, the strength of the wind grew stronger that Trixie's hooves gave off the floor to be thrown out of the ship. "TRIXIE!!" shouted Twilight as she ran to save her friend. Not thinking twice she throw herself over the board not that she could possibly think to use magic to to snatch her out of the water after all that could be a better option. Sunset from the top she could see how the two unicorn's were together struggling in the ferocious waves, she seemed to had a thought on the situation but what could she gain by jumping too, by thinking in the next events she prefer to jump as well hoping to find a way to save, mostly, Twilight. The waves carried the three unicorn's wildly up and down. Twilight swim with all her strength to reach Trixie, who was paddling to remain afloat. Sunset from behind reached Twilight. "Twilight we have to back!," Sunset shouted worried that a wave might drown them, "it's too dangerous!" she added trying to convince her to go back and leave Trixie behind. "But, what about Trixie!?," Twilight thought that with the two of them can manage to save her combining their magic, "we can't leave her!" desperate she yelled hoping that Sunset could help her in the rescue. "We can't save her!" Sunset yelled those words with a cold expression as the water. Twilight was Shocked to think that she had to abandon somepony and specially a friend. The fear began to take control of Twilight, she could not leave Trixie to her fate, "Twilight if we manage to levitate with our magic we can make it to-" sunset tried to explain but she stop mid sentence as she was shocked that the eyes of Twilight glow white, "NO" said the lavender unicorn froming a big sphere of magic then teleporting her and Sunset next to Trixie letting her inside the magic barrier, Trixie coughing and spitting salt water felled unconscious. Twilight who wasn't capable to control this state of her's did what she thought it was a good option to teleport back to the ship but a lightning hit the sphere and the three unicorn's disappeared, the witnesses were in disbelief to see what happened but for the sailors and the captain their main priority for now was to put the cruise and the passengers into safety.