A Pony's Destiny
Chapter 81: It Ain't Easy Being Breezies
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI woke up the next morning and I felt a lot better and much more awake as I looked out through the bedside window to see a wonderful and clear morning. I got up and decided not to dress as it looked to be quite a hot day, so I had a quick breakfast and then left my house to see the mares all walking out of town.
"Hi Bond darling." Rarity greeted before she came over and kissed me. "We're meeting up outside the park. Fluttershy is already there."
"Okay, got it." I replied, kissing back.
We walked along with the others until we arrived at a dark green patch of grass by a tree where Fluttershy was already there.
"Is everypony here?" Fluttershy asked.
"We're all here." Twilight replied.
"Okay, everypony. As you know, the adorable fairy creatures known as Breezies are about to come through Ponyville."
"Yes! Ooh, it's so exciting! Ah!" Pinkie exclaimed as she hanged above a tree branch, "I can't wait for Rainbow Dash to make the breeze for them so I can see how cute they are up close!"
"I've never done it before, not that I won't be totally awesome at it, because I totally will!" Dash boasted.
"And that breeze is very important, but so is cheering on those teeny-tiny little things, so they have the confidence to ride that breeze to their native land. Did I mention how tiny they are? So tiny! I was thinking we could do a special Breezie cheer!"
"I love cheers!"
"But these cheers should be quiet cheers. We don't want to startle them. They need to be able to concentrate. Why don't we try it? You can do it, Breezies."
"You can do it, Breezies!" we all cheered which nearly knocked me off my balance.
"Oh, my."
"Heh, sorry, Fluttershy. Ah had no idea how hard it was to do a cheer quietly." Applejack said.
"Oh, it's okay. Quiet doesn't come naturally for everypony. Let's try it again."
"You can do it, Breezies!"
"Perhaps just a little bit quieter."
"You can do it, Breezies."
"Just a little quieter."
"You can do it, Breezies!"
"Perfect! Oh, um, I mean...yay."
"Great, then we're set with the cheering." I said, "What's next?"
"We need to get the ponies in Ponyville to set up the wind direction so the breezies don't get blown off course."
We nodded in agreement as we walked back to the town.
Sometime later, the whole town was working with the preparations, I was looked up to see the winds being made by the pegasuses.
"That's too strong! We gotta slow this breeze down or we're gonna blow those Breezies apart!" Dash yelled, causing Flitter and Thunderlane to slow down with their wings.
"What I don't understand is why they need the Pegasi to make a breeze for them." Carrotcake said.
"Well, you see, it's the breeze that activates the Breezies' magic, and that magic protects the pollen they're carrying from being destroyed." Fluttershy replied.
"So, no breeze means no magic means the pollen goes bad?"
"That's right! And they only have two days to get that pollen back before the portal to their home closes. That's why it's ever-so-important that we help them make their way through Ponyville safely."
"We certainly wouldn't want to scare them and divert them from their path!" Cupcake said.
"Now you understand."
"I have to say, you certainly know a lot about them." I said to her.
"Oh, thank you. I went to see them gathering their pollen in western Equestria." she paused when we saw Rarity show up in another one of her new dresses, nearly blinding a few ponies. "Um, Rarity? I, uh, hate to weigh in with you when it comes to fashion, but..."
"Oh, there's too much purple on this, isn't there? I knew it! But Twilight refused to admit it." Rarity stated.
"What?! I-"
Twilight got cut off.
"Oh, no-no-no-no-no. It's the perfect amount of purple. It's just that there's an awful lot of sequins on your jacket."
"Oh, darling, please! One can never have too many sequins!"
Especially when you're sparkling in my eyes." I said, raising my eyebrows and kissing Rarity.
"Umm Rarity, you can if they reflect the sun, and the light catches a group of Breezies right in their eyes, and blinds them long enough to get them off their course so they never get home!" Fluttershy said.
"I stand corrected! I suppose there is the rare instance where one can have too many sequins. I'll just take off my jacket." she then took off the purple jacket to reveal a much even bright dress, "I suppose this won't do either?"
Fluttershy shook her head.
"Don;t worry Rarity, you can wear that to brighten me up tonight." I whispered to her.
"Oooh darling, you are ever so naughty..." Rarity giggled, whispering back "...I love it!"
"Everypony, it's time." Twilight whispered to us, "Please welcome... the Breezies!"
We looked across the small bridge to see a purple mist approaching towards us, this must be the breezies. When they got closer, they were indeed breezies, although in my mind, they could easily pass off as a different version of butterflies. But all the same, it was quite cool to see them for the first time.
"They're as cute as Apple Bloom on the day she was born." Applejack commented quietly.
"And would you look at those adorable little packs they carry their pollen in?" Rarity added.
"Lun! Arshen aifo!" one of the breezies ordered.
"So... cute! Can't... take... it!" Pinkie exclaimed as she put her hoof in her mouth.
Spike then showed up besides us, before he climbed up a tree branch to have a closer look at the breezies...then there was trouble. Spike was jumping on the branch for too long as a leaf came loose and was blown away by the pegasuses wind power.
"Oh, no!" he exclaimed.
The leaf flew towards the breezies and a small group got cut off with the others as they flew out of control in the air.
The crowd gasped to see them in trouble.
"Slow down the breeze for the other group to catch up!" Dash ordered.
"They're too far back!" Thunderlane said, "We can't connect the breeze to both sets of Breezies!"
"What if we speed it up?"
"Then the first group'll be going too fast, and they'll get separated from each other!" Flitter replied.
The breezies were still spinning around...I was tempted to pull out one of my random moments, but I could see that now was not the time to play Spinnin' Around by Kylie Minogue.
"Tanagretu nik mir! Maisegu de piripa!" the breeze leader said, although we had no idea what he was saying.
One breezy fell out of the group and was spinning loose too fast, Fluttershy gasped and flew straight to the breezy and caught her safely.
"Mekenar stuf!"
"He's right! You must all gather as close as you possibly can!" Fluttershy agreed.
Shortly the breezies all grouped together and held onto Fluttershy as she flew down to the ground gently and the crowd cheered as we saw Fluttershy bring them down onto a small rock.
"Mugudi saikendus?"
"Oh, I understand the language of all kinds of creatures!"
"You must be so proud."
Finally, for a minute I thought I was going to have to use Google Translator, but not this time.
"And you speak my language too?"
"I can. This lot can only understand you. Clearly, they're not the brightest bunch around."
The breezies behind him seemed to disagree.
"That was amazing!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"I'm sorry we couldn't get a breeze going that would get them back to the others." Dash said as she pointed to the rest of the big group flying away from Ponyville.
"Oh, it's not your fault." Fluttershy assured.
"I, for one, am very proud of you, Fluttershy. Leaping into action like that." Twilight complimented.
"I feel like I should design you a special hero's gown! Heh...Or a sash. At least a sash."
The minute Rarity said Sash...I was then reminded of a song which went the following:
I had a dream last night, you were there,
you held my hand so tight, I thought I just die.
Do you remember, when we used to have so much fun,
I used to cry sometimes, those days are gone, do you remember?
I then shook my head to get back my concentration.
"Okay, okay, okay! I know what you're all thinking! Why don't you just say it?!" Spike exclaimed.
"Spike, you don't need to say it...we already know you are sorry, but it wasn't your fault either." I replied, "Nopony didn't know that the leaf would fall off the branch so it was an accident waiting to happen."
"Bond's right, it's okay. It could have happened to any one of us." Fluttershy said.
"Okay...Thank you!" he replied as he stopped sniffing. "I'll just go back to the Library and rest my head."
"Alright Spike, please do so." Twilight replied.as Spike walked from us and back to the library.
We turned our attention back to the breezies.
"So, Fluttershy, you want us to get the breeze going again so these little guys can get a move on?" Dash asked.
The breezies protested as they grabbed onto Fluttershy.
"Maybe we should wait just a moment or so. They've been through so much..." she replied.
"Just gimme the word when you think they're ready."
"Will do...in the meantime, Seabreeze and the other breezies will stay at my cottage until they're ready to go."
"Got it."
Fluttershy then left with the breezies, leaving the rest of us with nothing else to do except to just wait and hope they get back home safe.
When it was the afternoon, I decided to check up on the breezies when during my walk through the woods, I noticed Seabreeze being spun and struggling to keep up with the wind current.
"Ah! Gah! Ah! Kesino! Uu! Tu ge! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Miuse konda!" he yelled as he avoided the acorns.
I stayed back so I could keep an eye on him, before he flew up and got his head stuck in a beehive.
I then heard Fluttershy gallop towards me.
"Bond Racer, have you seen Seabreeze?" she asked nervously.
"Well, he's about to get a sting in a tail." I replied, pointing to the beehive before I moved away and performed a rimshot.
"Ibeku-u-u! Ah, sa-sabada!" he yelled as he got out of the beehive and landed on the branch, before a swarm of bees came out with thier tails at the ready before Fluttershy flew up and stopped it.
"Excuse me, bees? Can you please back off my Breezie friend? He didn't mean any harm. It was just an accident." she asked which didn't work, she then put on a bee costume by surprise, "I'm working on a bee-type dance and was hoping you could help me? Does this bring to mind any images for you? Perhaps a bee?"
That didn't work either and the bees now had thier tails aiming at her instead. I had my bubble shield spell at the ready.
"Excuse me! I have done nothing but be kind, but I guess that is not working!" Fluttershy demanded. "You bees know better than to hurt a helpless Breezie! I demand that you go away now, or you'll have to answer to me!"
That did the trick as the bees turned and flew back to inside the hive.
"Menkyulen. Thank you!" Seabreeze said to her, "Thank you so much! Thank you for coming after me!"
"Of course. You could've gotten seriously hurt out there. Ponyville is much too dangerous for you. One tiny acorn is a threat!"
"Yeah, I know! That is one reason why I have been trying to get us to go from the beginning!"
"Oh, my goodness. I was just trying not to hurt any creature's feelings, but my displays of kindness may have cost you everything...Time is running out, and you may never make it home!"
"That is exactly what I have been telling all of them! But they do not listen to me! No breezy ever listens to me!"
"Seabreeze, I understand your feelings are hurt, but it's hard for them to hear you when you're shouting and being mean." I said to him, "The message doesn't get across that way."
"But what about those bees? Fluttershy was not nice to them, and that was the only way they listened!"
"Yes, but they had to go, and they wouldn't listen to me any other way. We need to go, now!" Fluttershy said.
Seabreeze then held on to her as they flew normally and not too fast, I followed them by flying to keep the wind current flowing gently until they got back at the cottage. When we arrived, I walked in with them where Fluttershy got their attention.
"My dear Breezies, I had to rescue Seabreeze from serious harm, and now I know more than ever that you must leave before it's too late! You would never survive in Ponyville."
"Erski parli polin!" the breezies protested.
"I can't help you any more. In fact, I wasn't helping you at all by being nice. Oh...But the truth of the matter is that I must be firm! You must go, now!"
I then opened the door and guided the breezies out of the cottage and after they left with Seabreeze, I closed the door and then saw Fluttershy crying her eyes out....I had to give her a comforting hug.
"Don't cry Fluttershy, you did the right thing, they had to learn." I assured, "They'll get back home for sure now, we best get going so we can help and watch them leave."
Fluttershy wiped her tears away, "Okay Bond...thanks for comforting me. Rarity is very lucky to have you."
When we were altogether at the town, the pegasuses were having trouble.
"It's too strong!" Dash yelled.
"I can't do it any lighter!" Flitter replied.
"Neither can I!" Thunderlane added.
"Fly back! I'm gonna try and see if I can slow it down." Dash told as they moved back, she slowed her wings down but the wind seemed to be too gentle this time, "Now it's too light! Oh, this will never get them home!"
"Oh, my. Maybe it's because there are too few of them. When they started their journey, there was more of them to face the breeze together." Fluttershy explained.
"I've been studying an old spell book from the Castle of the Two Sisters. There's a spell that I think could help us!" Twilight said "This is probably gonna feel a little funny at first, but you're gonna have to trust me."
"I love new ideas that make me feel funny at first!" Pinkie jumped.
Twilight then used her spell and in one bright light, the mares all turned into breezies
"What the?!" I gasped, "You're all breezies!"
"Huh, how come you didn't turn into a breezy?" Twilight asked.
I checked over my magic level and then blushed, "Oops, I had my anti-form spell active...sorry, but this does mean that you'll have protection from me. I'll keep the wind flow as gentle as I can until these breezies get home."
The six of them nodded as the breezies smiled at them.
"Maifo flai batendud!" Fluttershy said to them before she corrected her language, "Um, I mean, let's go!"
They then flew up into sky as a close group whilst I followed behind them, keeping the wind level and speed in check as we flew across from Ponyville, past the snowing areas and through the desert. One of the breezies began to feel tired and nearly fell out of the group before another breezy saved her.
"You can do this!" Seabreeze encouraged as he flew over to them, "I am sorry for how I treated you before! It was not right that I called you names! I did not even really believe those things I said! I was worried we would never get back to our home, and I lashed out...I know you can do this! I believe in you! Hold on to me, let us join the group!"
We then approached a small river with a tiny hole in it, I had to stop as they all flew into the hole and afterwards, I landed down on the ground, relived that I could give my wings a rest at last and I had to stay outside as I was obviously far too big for the hole. Several minutes passed and soon I heard the voices of the six mares coming back out, they all landed on the ground a bit away from me before a huge light appeared around them and they turned back into their normal pony forms.
"Whoa! That was a close one!" Dash exclaimed.
The others agreed.
"So, uh, I've always kinda wondered what it would be like to be a griffon." she added as if she was suggesting something to Twilight.
"Not a chance." she replied.
"You sure? What about a dragon? No? It doesn't have to shoot fire!"
"Girls, we should just go home, it's not safe for us out here and we're far away from Ponyville." I advised.
We then began the long walk back home and it took us three times longer to get back, that when we returned, it was already nightfall. As we exchanged our farewells, Applejack had something to say.
"Alright ya'll, me, Big Mac and Granny Smith will be going to a distant market village on the other side of the Everfree Forest." she said "So ah was wondering if any of ya'll would be free to watch over Applebloom and the farm while we're gone."
The others shook their head as if they wouldn't be able to.
"I'll do it for you, Applejack." I said with a smile.
"Thanks Bond, ah appreciate it. Ah'll see you at the farm tomorrow."
We then had a group hug before I kissed Rarity and walked back to my home, tired and exhausted. I went straight over to my bed and fell backwards, waiting to sleep. It felt kinda cool to see the breezies, despite the few hiccups during the day and that moment with Fluttershy was a bit of a sad moment, but she is right, I am an amazing friend to them all and I'm very lucky to have Rarity as well since both Rarity and Fluttershy go way back.
Better sleep now as I'm once again needed at the apple farm. Next Chapter: Somepony To Watch Over Me Estimated time remaining: 8 Hours, 56 Minutes