After lunch, Moondance put Starlight down for her nap before asking Melody and her friends to listen out for her while she headed back out. They agreed but soon found that "foal sitting" wasn't all that exciting.
"Okay...Starry's down and out and we're bored!", Desert quietly complained.
"Not to worry! For I have a Story to tell.", Melody Star said as they sat down with their apple juice.
There once was a old mare who had longed for a child of her own. One day she got an idea to make some cookies. After mixing the ingredients she put the gingerbread in the oven. Once the timer went off, she went to take the cookies out of the oven. When she pulled the tray from the oven a gingerbread mare with white and green frosting jumped up and off the tray. The old mare was surprised that her cookies came too life. Perhaps I put too much "life" spice in the mix,the mare questioned herself. Then the gingerbread mare started running around yelling and having a good time while the old mare chased her around. She then decided to take to the road and ran out the door yelling:
"Run. Run. Run as fast as you dare! You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Mare!"
The old mare chased after the cookie right as she passed by a farm pasture full of sheep,dogs and cows who smelled the delicious scent of cookie and wanted a taste.
"Wait, Gingerbread Mare! We want a taste too! the critters exclaimed as the gingerbread mare ran off yelling.
"Run. Run. Run as fast as you dare! You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Mare!", she yelled as she then came upon a river. Now a fox, who had seen the gingerbread mare run towards the river thought to herself a clever plan on how to get a quick snack. The fox walked over to the gingerbread mare and offered to carry her across the river. The gingerbread mare happily agreed and climbed onto the fox's back as she waded into the water. Soon the fox's back began to dip into the water and the gingerbread mare got scared.
"Quick! Climb onto my snout! You'll be drier.", the fox said.
The gingerbread mare did as she was told, but soon regretted it. For as soon as she climbed onto the fox's snout, the fox tilted her head back and snapped up the gingerbread mare.
"As fast as you were little cookie, what you lacked was common sense.", the fox laughed as she swam on.
"Fin.", Melody said as she finished.