3rd Person POV

Ghost didn't really understand why Diamond Tiara needed that almost ridiculous wetsuit to swim, I mean she could have just not opted to get in the water. But, he decided that the quicker they 'hung out', the quicker he would be able to get to go and get back to the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

"Alright then, what did you want to do? Just swim around a bit?" Ghost asked, motioning towards the pool. Diamond Tiara shook her head.

"Of course not! I wanted to show you what I could do with that!" She exclaimed, pointing with her hoof towards an incredibly tall diving board. It seemed to be as high as the second floor of her house, and extended to about the middle of the large pool. "I've been jumping off of that every since I was a little filly! And I've mastered a ton of flips and dives, watch!"

With that, Diamond Tiara trotted over towards the ladder that led to the top of the diving board, and as she did Ghost went over to Silver Spoon. "Has she really dived off of this that much?"

"Oh yeah! It's strange, she loves diving off of this thing, but is still too scared to let too much water get on her fur. She's told me that she takes 5 minute showers tops." Silver elaborated, Ghost blushing a bit due to that last part. "I think her fear started when she was a little foal."

"How? She almost drown or something?" Ghost asked, but Silver Spoon shook her head.

"If she did, I doubt she would ever get near a pool again. No, it started with one of her old nannies." Silver explained. "She was really mean and nasty, but Diamond was too little to speak out about it. She used to spray Diamond with water and call her really bad names whenever she did something bad, then when her parents found out and had the nanny arrested, Diamond started to call others names to make her feel better about herself."

Ghost began to think about that story. If Diamond Tiara was projecting her past trauma onto others, that might explain why she called other names all the time.

"Yoohoo! Up here!" Diamond Tiara called, grabbing the attention of Ghost who was staring at the ground in thought. "Are you two ready?"

"Jump Diamond!" Silver called out encouragingly, as Ghost gave a smile and a nod. Right on the edge of the diving board, Diamond Tiara made sure to tighten one of the straps keeping her suit as tight as possible. Stuffing her ears into her swim cap, Diamond took in a deep breath and bent her knees a bit.

She jumped once, gaining the necessary bounce for a successful dive. With a second bounce, she closed her eyes in concentration. With a final bounce, Diamond Tiara jumped high into the air, causing Ghost's jaw to drop in amazement. Unlike her other talents which she just mostly boasted about, seeing her actually perform a jump was stunning.

Twisting in the air as if there was no gravity, Diamond began her descent towards the water, her body moving as graceful as a leaf blowing through the air riding on a gentle breeze.

That was until one of the straps on her midsection managed to snag on the diving board as she fell. With a yelp, Diamond was suspended on one of the corners of the diving board, barely hanging on with the elastic strap snagged. Ghost and Silver watched as she tried to pull herself back up onto the diving board, but gasped as they saw the elastic strap beginning to tear.

Before they could react, the strap tore and released Diamond Tiara, sending her plummeting towards the water. Without the elastic strap holding the suit together, it would be useless in keeping water out. Once Diamond fell into the water with a loud splash, she froze as she felt the liquid rushing into her suit.

"Little devil! Good for nothing! Blank flank!" The voices echoed, causing her to scream underwater, flailing and fighting to get to the surface.

"I gotta help her!" Ghost yelled, jumping into the water and seeing the terrified Diamond Tiara fighting and kicking to swim upwards, but her suit was creating to much drag for her. Ghost swam towards her and grabbed her by the shoulders, but all of her kicking and screaming made it hard for him to get a good grip.

She kicked outwards when she felt unfamiliar hooves grab her, thinking it was her nanny coming back to scold her. With a particularly hard kick, she managed to hit Ghost in his horn, causing him to garble in pain. With his magic disrupted, green flames entrapped Ghost, revealing his true Changeling form.

At the sight of this, Diamond Tiara froze completely, staring in shock at Ghost's form. Ghost looked down and saw that he was no longer disguised as a colt, causing his eyes to widen in fear. Not wanting to waste anymore time, Ghost once again conjured his disguise and grabbed Diamond Tiara, already swimming up to the surface.

Once the pair came up from above the water, they both took in a deep breath of air, Diamond Tiara coughing and wheezing as she did so. Ghost looked and saw that several maids and butlers had immediately surrounded the pool, each of them holding their hooves out to take Diamond.

"Here, grab her." Ghost said, holding her a bit higher as a few of the butlers took her and began to cover her with towels, each of them spouting off question after question if she was okay. She did nothing but stare at Ghost in shock, the changeling colt still in the water and holding on to the edge of the pool.

"Where is she? Where's my daughter!?" Filthy Rich yelled, pushing his way through the wall of his own attendants. He saw her seated onto a towel, with another red towel over her shoulders and small frame. With a gasp, he went to embrace his daughter, putting his hooves over her shoulders. He began to ask her the same questions that all of the attendants were asking her, but she said nothing, only staring at Ghost with wide eyes and partially separated lips.

He followed her line of sight and saw Ghost in the pool, tears on the edge of his eyes. "Thank you! Thank you so much for saving her!" He gasped. "If there's anythin' you need, just let me know and I'll make it happen. That's the least I can do to repay you!"

Ghost cracked a nervous grin and chuckled. "I... think I'll hold onto the favor for now if you don't mind."

"Of course, just let me know when ya need something, and I'll get it done." Filthy answered, picking up Diamond Tiara and taking her inside the house. Not once did her eyes leave Ghost's.