The Young Mage And The Lighthouse

by AlwaysDressesInStyle

Villain

Dewdrop briefly considers doing nothing. She’s hundreds of feet in the air in a sturdy lighthouse designed to withstand a direct impact. She could stand idly by and nopony would even question her as to why she did nothing. Nopony short of an alicorn could ever stop a tsunami. Nopony there would even believe that she could.

She decides it high time she changed that. She gallops down the stairs, making it to the rocky beach in time to see the wave towering high overhead. She’s not scared. It’s only water, and water will do anything she wants it to.

Her horn glows and she starts fighting the tsunami. She may have power over water, but the wave has the power of momentum. It fights back.

She’s sweating as she forces a gap in the wall of water. The wave parts, sparing the lighthouse promontory. Cut in two, the tsunami is no longer a match for her, and she sends most of the wave back out to sea. The wave is powerful, but water is Dewdrop’s domain, and the wave is intruding.

What’s left of the tsunami towers over Horseshoe Bay, threatening ships and the city itself. Dewdrop stands calmly on the dock, and requests somepony bring her the mayor of the city.

The mayor rushes to the bay, as the city’s citizens flee in terror. He recognizes Dewdrop from his teaching days. She was a student of his, before he’d gone into politics. “Dewdrop Dazzle, I commend you.”

“Shut up. I’ve stopped this tsunami. You know as well as I do that without me, this wave would inundate Baltimare, destroying it.”

The mayor nods.

“If you don’t pay me five million bits, I’ll let go of the wave. You’ve got an hour to decide.”

Author's Note:

Story notes: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1034859/story-notes-the-young-mage-and-the-lighthouse

Comments

[Emil]

This isn't even the real villain ending. That would involve her making enough of an effort that any survivors and outsiders would think that she gave it her best shot, and then letting the wave wipe out the city and kill tens (hundreds?) of thousands of former residents.

[Snowliasion]

Do it.

[AlwaysDressesInStyle]

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True, but I don't think the PVCF editing team would've approved that ending for the app. It's also darker than what I normally write. The idea crossed my mind though...

Heck, she wouldn't even have to give it an effort. Nopony could possibly expect a unicorn to be able to do something about a tsunami. Maybe shine the lights on the doomed city to give everypony an extra five seconds or so notice. Maybe a few unicorns could wink out in time.

Too bad, so sad, Baltimare. Maybe the new residents will be nicer to her when they rebuild the city.