Airship Mauled

by Darkonshadows

Chapter Six, Mariachi Changelings: Snicker's great.

-One week later, Jade-

I hear a hissing noise and rolled over in bed without opening my eyes, the churros we had for dessert last week were just perfect. I spent the whole week happy.

“Marie, if that’s you, can’t whatever it is wait until morning?” After groaning that out, my response was to hear a hiss followed by a cooing noise.

My eyes opened, I almost flopped out of bed in shock at the green sea turtle being in my face.

I bit back the scream building in my throat, it was just a turtle. A turtle looking at me in an adorable and completely non-threatening manner.

“Oh, it’s you… how did you get on the bed?” The turtle just gave me a bright unassuming smile. “Look what do you want from me?”

The sea turtle hissed in a raspy manner, it seemed a bit parched.

“You’re thirsty and you want me to get you some water to swim in?” It pointed at me with a flipper and nodded, I sighed and threw the covers off of myself and opened the door. “How did you even get into my room?”

The sea turtle just smiled at me and held out its flippers to my rather tired and sleepy form. I wanted to continue sleeping, but the strange turtle needed me. I rolled my eyes and went back to pick her up, after placing her on my shoulder I started making my way down the corridor. I went right on by the rooms belonging to mom, Jacky and Fizzle.

I muttered grumpily as I went down the stairs and walked into the kitchen. The turtle on my shoulder chirruped happily that I was doing this at this time of… what time was it anyway? It was probably morning and Celestia had yet to move the sun.

I looked up at the waning moonlight shining through a window as I got a bowl out. It would be a while before the visage was off of the moon and when that happened, I would find out what Luna’s feathers do in comparison to her sisters. It was probably something to do with shadows, dreams or darkness knowing Luna.

I turned back to what I was doing, I wondered how the construction ponies installed plumbing out here so fast, probably used shortcuts with magic which explained the absolute need for unicorns.

“Would you mind if I got water from the sink?” Why was I asking this? I guess I was trying to be polite, but was it technically unnecessary in this situation.

The sea turtle shook that yes it minded, I sighed and searched around for a canteen of fresh water. I eventually poured some water into the bowl and looked at the happy turtle.

“Do you want salt with that water? I can get pretty salty since you disturbed my sleep for this.” The turtle shook its head no and pointed at the bowl. I rubbed my forehead and then slowly lowered the turtle into the water where it happily hissed as it swam small circles while taking large gulps of water.

I could honestly just go back to bed now and wake up later, but I was a little more than curious about the strange turtle. It was the weekend and I wanted to explore the surroundings around Airship Mauled with Jacky, Fizzle and maybe even Maries for added protection.

What I truly wanted was a little adventure, something more amazing and exciting. This was a world of magic and I was kind of stuck in the doldrums of having an average life. At least The Shapeshifting Siesta were amazing musicians and would be here all week even after taking care of Fizzle’s cuteceanera today.

Maybe they'd stick around. If they did then… we'd personally need an airship to get into Klugetown to help Tarsus find his beloved anthropomorphic shrew. I was tired of his whining and he had friends that could help him.

Or maybe… we could just steal an airship, but not the golden one the young Blueblood apparently owns. We needed something smaller and faster for the long journey.

A splash came from the bowl and I turned my head lazily to look at the turtle and I saw something unusual about it that I hadn’t seen before.

“What the…” The turtle swam to the edge of the bowl and smiled at me while cooing lightly. “Don’t you look at me innocently like that, just when exactly were you going to tell… er… show me those?”

The turtle waved a flipper at me in a friendly manner before waving to itself, as if this was showing me right here and now.

“Yes, yes, you’re showing them to me now. I get it, but it’s the principle of the thing!” I had assumed she was a normal sea turtle, I guess any assumptions in this world could be wildly off the mark. “What are you? If I didn’t know any better… I’d think you were a…”

-Cheerilee-

I could have lived in the inn, but I instead decided to have my sleeping quarters in The Witch’s Fare. I heard something strange going on and decided to investigate it, I groggily made my way downstairs where I saw the shadow of someone familiar in the dark.

It must be early morning, the glowing fish bones hanging from the ceiling were beginning to dim from the sunlight filtering into restaurant. Vaguely morbid décor aside, it was one of my students.

Jade was awake and she wasn’t wearing any clothing, not that it was important that she was as naked as I was.

I wondered what she was looking at. I moved forward slightly and saw it personally. Well… that certainly explains a lot about how the little sea turtle got around and popped up in strange places.

“What is going on here?” I jumped and turned to see Fresh Start the maid. I pointed over to what was going on in the dimly lit kitchen.

-Fresh Start-

It wasn’t just any sea turtle, it wasn’t even a normal one. I’ve only heard legend of a strange wondrously beautiful creature like it. I’m surprised that Cadence didn’t have one or even know what I was talking about when I asked her if she had one as a pet.

Apparently Jade had one as her pet and it was amazing that she even found it, they are very rare creatures.

I watched as Jade toy with the turtle for a bit and I smiled warmly. Where was a camera when you needed one? This was really cute to watch, to think Kuril complained that her daughter didn’t do adorable things.

Poor Mayor Kuril was missing her daughter playing with her odd pet that took residence with us.

Thinking about it... we had to do something! That turtle is probably a sacred creature and we needed to protect it from anyone who would want to harm it.

-Jade-

It was a sea turtle alright… just one that happened to come with wings. Yep, I couldn’t do normal for too long if I tried.

I got a little playful with it and the turtle kept bopping me on the nose in a cutesy manner. We did several playful things together between bouts of the turtle taking drinks of water. The green feathered wings were coming out of small flaps in the front part of the shell that raised up for them.

After it had tired of flying around the little sea turtle landed on my shoulder and it tucked its wings back into its shell. Rainbow Dash must never hear of this kind of animal before she gets a tortoise.

Now that I thought of it, I finally had a name for her and it’s based on something I liked.

“I’ve got a name for you, would you like to hear it?” I turned from the nodding turtle and was about to make for my room when I saw the two mares just staring at me. “Uh, you saw all that I take it?”

“Jade I don’t want to alarm you, but that thing is a rare creature called a…” I held up my left hand stalling Fresh before she could get started.

“I know what she is... were you about to say she’s a turtle dove?” It was quite literally a turtle with wings like that of a doves, it wasn’t that hard to figure out. Fresh Start’s reaction told me I was right about what the green sea turtle dove was.

“What’s a turtle dove?” Cheerilee asked mystified by the turtle clinging lovingly to my shoulder.

“It’s something I thought that Princess Cadence would know about considering their status as creatures of love.” Yes, Fresh Start, that’s what they were certainly known for.

If I remembered right, there was some mythology behind having one around you. Given how often mythology was used around here, I knew this bit of knowledge.

They are considered sacred creatures by goddesses of love, fertility and harvest. This adds more oomph to me being a sun priest than I would have liked, if this turtle dove was in fact what I thought it was to me.

I just ended up with a literal symbol of peace, friendship and love, which was to be expected given I was in Equestria, as a familiar. There is no other reason why it was following me around and chose me out of all the beings in the world to be friends with.

I wondered what Sekhet’s sister Bastet would have to say about the turtle dove. She was a goddess of fertility, so she’d probably know a thing or two about it. Maybe Sekhet herself knew and probably didn’t tell anyone, because she likely didn’t care since it was outside her purview.

The turtle tickled the fur on my neck and I giggled a bit, before glaring at the smiling turtle.

“Okay, you are now henceforth known as Snickers the green sea turtle dove.” I wondered why Ms. Start’s right eye was twitching so horribly.

“Are you seriously going to name a rare and sacred creature like that, of all things, Snickers?” The turtle glared at her before turning to me and nodding happily while clapping her flippers lightly together.

“She seems to like it, right Snickers?” The turtle nodded while smiling at me, before she sent a deathly glare towards Fresh. Wow, the turtle didn’t like Fresh for some reason. “I don’t think Snickers likes you putting her on a pedestal like that.”

“But… she’s a turtle dove Jade, do you know how rare her species is or what they are even capable of?” There goes Fresh’s hooves clasping her head, she's panicking slightly. “She needs to be in an aquarium and protected from those who’d want to hurt her!”

“Vaguely, in a sense yes, I think I do know what she can do.” My little turtle with the hidden wings could simply just be a smart animal or she could be some kind of magical creature that does something amazing. I didn’t care which it was. Snickers was a cool turtle with wings, she didn’t seem to care about being seen as anything special and I could get behind that. If she wanted to be treated like I normally treated her, then I would. “Do you want me to treat you any differently from the way I already have as a sacred, noble creature Snickers?”

Snickers shook her head no, I shrugged at Fresh Start.

“There you have it, she gets no special treatment just because she's a strange and rare creature that can disguise herself as a normal sea turtle. I’ll just continue treating her like I always have, as background noise. Though I may ask her to do a few favors for me from time to time, you okay with that Snickers?” The turtle chirruped and hissed happily from my shoulder as she rubbed her head against my neck. “Well, since I’m up already and given going back to sleep is not an option at this point... I guess I better get started on breakfast!”

“Really, you’re going to cook? I haven’t seen you cook before and…. wait a minute, I’ve still got to tell you about turtle doves and why you should take great care with one!” Look Fresh, I'm already here and I know how to cook given my mother runs a restaurant. You would think that I might have learned a thing or two, after all these years of being raised by mom. Snickers launched from my shoulder and dropped onto Fresh’s nose glaring at her in an angry manner. “I could just pretend that you’re not a turtle dove and not bother Jade?”

Snickers nodded seriously and flew over to me, all while cooing at me affectionately.

“You want to help Snickers, sure thing! Hey Cheerilee, you want to join us?” The teacher just looked between me and Fresh, she just shrugged and came over to me. “Grab some eggs, flour, salt, baking powder, sugar and whatever fruit you can find. I’m making omelets and waffles for breakfast. It’s about time mom took a break from cooking every day for all of the hungry mouths around here! Want to help mix the batter Fresh?”

“No, you just go on.” Fresh Start seemed very upset that Snickers didn’t like her.

“Come on Snickers, show her a little love. She’s not about to take you away from me and put you in an aquarium. I won’t let that happen and even if it eventually does end up happening, then I’ll just pull a ridiculously explosive jailbreak for you regardless of what anyone else wants.” The turtle hovered in front of me and seemed to mull it over, she then flew over to Fresh and begrudgingly rubbed up against her in a friendly manner.

“Thank you Jade, but I really don’t think Snickers likes me very much.” Okay I could see Fresh was somewhat sorry, but not completely.

“Look, if Snickers wanted protection and a safe life, then she could have stayed in the sea and well away from me.” After I said that, Snickers thrusted her right flipper in the air and agreed with me by making her own adorable noises to that effect. “Also don’t be a grump, find the waffle mallet and a spatula would you?”

“Fine, but I will need to bring this to Celestia’s attention when she eventually comes around.” She started searching for the waffling mallet that I wanted. In the meantime Cheerilee brought the ingredients for the waffles and omelets over to me.

“You go ahead and do just that Fresh, we’ll see what happens then.” The turtle hissed in agreement with me before hugging my shoulder protectively. “I don’t think Celestia would ever take a pet from their owner.”

Waffle mallets, for the fun kind of percussive breakfast options.

-Fizzle-

Something smelled good and delicious. I numbly walked into the restaurant portion of The Witch’s Fare while looking around for that wonderful scent.

“Sit down Fizzle, I’m covering breakfast today." It sounded like Jade was busy in the kitchen. "I’ll be with you in a minute, what do you want on your omelet?”

“Salt, pepper, onions and a small amount of bell pepper.” I just heard a grunt of confirmation as a clanging noise sounded from the kitchen. My cuteceanera today was going to be good, I can just feel it.

Minutes later, Jade walks out of the kitchen without clothes and my mind goes completely blank.

Comments

[Sigmacipher]

Quothe the Fizzle...Meow....

[Velvet-Fresh]

blank besides one .. gigity

[The Faceless Maker]

error: 303.
Fizzlepop.exe has stopped responding.
to restart: flick horn. nuzzle. comment on current state of nonaction. do anything as Jaded Laperm

[lainverse]

8916577
Actually not anything. Kiss will throw her in a loop.

[Thy Lord]

“Yes, yes, you’re showing them to me now. I get it, but it’s the principle of the thing!” I had assumed she was a normal sea turtle, I guess any assumptions in this world could be wildly off the mark. “What are you? If I didn’t know any better… I’d think you were a…”

Dang it!!!

[Thy Lord]

It was a sea turtle alright… just one that happened to come with wings. Yep, I couldn’t do normal for too long if I tried.

YES! Never mind my previous comment.

[ThatBadGuy]

*insert nude cat pun*

Haha! How hilarious, you!

[Gojira_Tanaka]

9440112
Oh the mew-dity!

[Shadowshame]

9440112
She is a real shogunyanter isn't she

[Dashie04]

You gotta know if you ask the Turtle Dove to do anything, she’ll do it well.

After all, Snicker’s satisfies.