Oceanbreeze: WINTERTWILIGHT!!!!!1 -tenses and untenses muscles, vibrates his wings, does whatever he can to break free of the ice and within a couple seconds is walking on shivering and twitching legs- -when he reaches Wintertwilight, he nuzzles her head and says,- I missed you so much.
River: She left Blossomflight to go and help to awakening steeds. "oCeANbREezE!!!!" -canters over to him- "HEY!!!! Don't worry your mate and foals are safe!"
River: O-O Sunshade?? Diamondsong?? Where are you two?? -sees a small, foal-like figure curled into a frozen ball at the very back corner of the cave- x gasps and canters over x -her heart snack when she didn't see the familiar wing colors of her two foals, but she did recognize Blossomflight's filly, Orchidflame- "Blossomflight! I found Orchidflame! She's over here."
Blossomflight: -comes over- "She's still frozen!" -bites lip in nervousness-
( relief feels so very good! I’m so lucky I have such forgiving friends, and such jack butt class mates You guys are so awesome, and I won’t leave, although someday I will have to leave because I’ll be too old, but not today xD x virtually hugs you guys x )
( Now I feel so very terrible....... Maybe I should just, umm, go, because I clearly am to stupid to think about what I say before I say them xd I’m so sorry Wispi xd )
( And I’m so sorry I did NOT realize how that sounded until just now when i said the Dreamdrop thing, but you were talking about Rain, plz forgive meh I’m so sorry I thought you meant something else xd 🙏🏾)
Moondancer: -looks over at Wispiflower, gasps, and screech’s,- I’LL SAVE YOUI! -dashes over and expertly cracks the ice on Wipsiflower’s head, so as to not damage the skull- There we go! Now you’re no longer a NUMB SKULL?!?!? GET IT?!?!?! :D
Nightmist: Hey! -she cries out as her legs are once again frozen- What kind of joke is this!??! -then notices she’s right next to Flare- Oh hayseed.......
Dreamdrop: -looks at Moondacner’s shocked expression- W-hat? What’s wrong with him?!?!
Moondancer: -hangs her head solemnly and apologetically- There is no him, Dreamdrop.
Junetree: -looks around to make sure no one is watching- -takes out her freeze gun and zaps Nightmist‘s legs so she’ll have to stay with Flare until he wakes up- -smiles evilly and melts into the background-
Wispiflower: -wakes up suddenly to find she can move anything but her head- -screams- WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO ME?!?!
River: -started vibrating her legs and wings and clenching her muscles. Pretty soon she was free! She shook off her coat and shivered- "How long have we been in here?" She asked
Blossomflight: -She broke free as well- "I don't know. I'd say a few weeks...maybe? But I'm gonna go find my foal and mate."
Moondancer: She started to shake her whole body, virbating her wings and clenching and unclenching her muscles. Very quickly, within the span of two minutes, was completely free of the ice. "Riverbreeze?! OMGOSH! JUNETREE! Y'ALL ARE OKAY! :D" she shouted, rushing towards them. Then she looked around for Iceleaf and the rest of her friends.
Nightmist:
-gasps- "ALRIGHT. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!?!?! >:(" she said, virbating her wings and clenching and unclenching her muscles much like Moondancer did.
Moondancer-
"Oh calm down Misty. You're overreacting,"
Nightmist: OVERRACTING?!?!?!?!?!?! You need a brain-check, Moondancer -.-
Moondancer: Well, yes, actually, considering I have a BRAIN FREEZE! :D
"C: HAY MOONDANCER!!!!" -She tried to wave her melting wing but it was too stiff- "Ugh..."
Blossomflight: She groaned loudly "My everything hurts!!" And just like River, Blossomflight started bleating for Orchidflame and Flamestone.
River: "Blossomflight! I'm glad your okay! Don't worry your mate and filly are both fine...just a little frozen." -River explained, smiling in victory as her was able to stretch one of her hind legs out of the ice.
Blossomflight: "I'm glad I'm okay, too." She said, stifling a nicker.
River: -.-
Blossomflight: "But, I'm more worried about everyone else. Are we the only 4 pegasi who are awake?" She asked.
She gasped for breath and looked around. She spotted Junetree and Riverbreeze across from here, and tried to stand up. “What the hay happened?!?!?!?! I BLAME THE HUMANS! :D”
She quickly spun her head around and melted at the sight of her mate. His ice had thawed but he was still unconscious. River nuzzled him, happy to hear that her family was safe. She looked back at Junetree. "How about you? How's Wispiflower?"
Junetree: So.... um... funny story. See, we all froze from that bad winter back in January, and we just started thawing out. Diamondsong and Sunshade are still alive, but still kinda frozen and knocked out. But I ckecked on them! They’ll be fiiiiine.
Riverbreeze: -feels a sudden cold shiver run up her spine. She tried to move her legs but she couldn't! She grunted in effort as she tried to free herself. She felt a warm body over her and she craned her neck to look. She gaped as she recognized her old friend. -GASP- "JUNETREE!!! OMGSH!!!! HEY BESTIE!!!!!!" She nuzzled Junetree then grunted again. "Why can't I move? What happened?" x All concerns about herself melted as she remembered her foals. River bleat like a newborn. "Diamondsong!!!!!! Sunshade!!!!!! ARE YOU OKAY!!!???"
Fuchsiafire: -feels something dripping down her hide, and wakes up- -gasps in pain when she tries to move- Wh-wh-what...? -glances around in panic, and notices everyone else is fozen in ice- -eyes flick back to the form at her side- -gasp- SPRUCEFL-
Junetree: covers her mouth- Shhhh. You just unfroze. You don’t want to break something. -hears someone else stir- -glances over at Riverbreeze, who’s blinking her eyes- -dashes over to her old friend- River!
Junetree: -wakes up suddenly- -looks around at her friends- They’re.... frozen?? -slowly gets a devious grin- -creeps over to frozen Nightmist and pushes her next to Flare- -does the same with all the ships- -dusts off wings, feeling accomplished- Better!
At Dreamdrop's dismissing nod, she galloped for her mother in a blurry of pink and orange feathers. "M-m-mot-t-ther!!!! I-I-I am-m-m s-s-s-o c-cold-d." she said, in between her clattering teeth.
Blossomflight: "Oh! Come here! Come here!" and she hurriedly pranced toward her quaking filly. "What were you doing?" she asked, pulling her filly in closer, then laying her magenta wing over Orci's back.
Orci: "I-I was-s help-ping D-Diamondsong carry sn-now to the f-filly." she mumbled.
Blossomflight:
"Hmm... Well, it's warm down here. Don't go back up to the surface until I say so. Not even if another adult tells you to. I'm your mother. You listen to me. Understand?" she said, sternly.
Orci:
She looked up at her mother and nodded. "Okay Momma..."
She sent a very vicious glare towards Stormshadow. As soon as the snow arrived, she nodded to the weanlings to take a rest and warm up. Then she took the snow and smeared it very gently across Duskblaze's hoof print on her chest, and then a little bit on her head wound. When she saw the filly wince at the sting, she sighed. She had seen many times, and it meant that this filly needed more toughening up.
Spruceflame: -about to reprimand them for arguing- -eyes widen- -stares at Fuschiafire momentarily, then awkwardly starts looking in any direction but the one that made his eyes on her-
"You both need to stop arguing." she held up her wing to silence them as they started to play the 'blame game' "I don't care who started it! I'm finishing it!! Now, that's enough!" she said, swishing her tail
She cantered to the mouth of the cave, their hoofbeats echoing. They all grabbed a windfall of snow and brought it back. By the time they set the snow down, Orcidflame was shivering. Some of the snow had already melted in her wings and she shook her coat to get the frigid water off.
Stormshadow: -eyes widen in surprise- "But I have a battle to challenge her to tomorrow!"
Duskblaze: -winces and sighs- "Please please can we delay it to another day?"
Stormshadow: -moans slightly- "This is the third time you've delayed this battle!"
Duskblaze: -meets his gaze calmly- "And what, are you so scared that you need to get over it?"
Stormshadow: -seethes and spits on the ground- "No, 'course not! It's just that I can't wait to beat you up."
Duskblaze: -snorts- "Save the better things for last, and you shall be rewarded greatly."
Stormshadow: -hisses under his breath- "Why?"
Duskblaze: -flicks her ears- "I heard that."
Stormshadow: -brays in frustration, then sighs and gives in to his affection towards the filly- "Hold stiller so Dreamdrop can treat you." -trots off and shoos everyone away-
Other pegasi had gathered around to see what all the comotion was about, and it wasn't helping. "Stormshadow, can you help clear everyone away from here?" When the young stallion nodded, she began really looking at the damage. A fairly deep gash in the shape of a hoof was imbedded into her left side of her chest. From the impact of the wall, Dreamdrop estimated that she had broke two of the ribs on her left side and fractured on on the right. Luckily, her wings were working fine and the same could be said for the legs, but the head had taken some more damage. There was a dent a bit above her right eye where a big bruise plagued her beautiful face. She gritted her teeth. There was going to be some lasting damage. First, Dreamdrop sent Diaamondsong to collect a few wingfulls of snow with Orchidflame and Lighthaven. Then she began wiping off the blood the best she could with her wings.
(Finish the rest of this comment later, gtg to basketball )
Spruceflame watched with slightly widened eyes, instantly forgetting about the prospect of spooking Blossomflight for fun. He motioned to Fuschiafire. "Let's get to the mouth of the tunnel to graze and get out of the way," he suggested.
She heard comotion across the cave and heard her name being called. Instinctivly she jumped into a full gallop in the direction from which she heard her name. She arrived a few seconds later with an unconscious Duskblazew lying on the floor. She instantly knew what had happened by the looks of the injury to Duskblaze's chest. Someone had kicked her with enough force that Dreamdrop estimated 2 or 3 ribs could be broken. She kneeled onto her front legs and used her wings to prod the wound ever so softly. She was lying on her side, which wouldn't help in this situation. "Riverbreeze, can you help me move her onto her back?" she asked. "From then I can acsess the damage more thoroughly," she finished in a serious tone with furrowed eyebrows.
Riverbreeze: "Hey, I'm a sky herder and a spy, not a medicine mare. I only know the very basics like: Don't go into the forrest and eat strange berries you've never seen before. That's about all I know. However, in the little knowledge I attain, I do know that Duskblaze, you need to lay still and catch your breath. Just relax for a sec. And Stormshadow," -turns to face him- "She can't do that when she's being shook and yelled at, so either stay and watch quietly, or step back." she said, slightly sternly. She turned back to Duskblaze. "Diamondsong, keep fanning her, please. I'll see what I can do about that chest. But, what we really need are professionals like DREAMDROP AND JUNETREE!!!!!!! IF U CAN HEAR ME, COME TO THE BACK OF THE CAVE PLSSSS!!!!!!" she bellowed
Riverbreeze: -was about to interrupt the fight when Stormshadow kicked Duskblaze across the cave- "Duskblaze!" she whinnied and trotted toward them. "Ok. Don't move her." she told, Stormshadow. The moment River saw the fillies chest, she screamed for help. "JUNETREE!!!!! DREAMDROP!!!!!!!! GET OVER HERE!!!!" she brayed, looking back at the fallen filly. River inspected the damage. Two hoof marks on her chest were gaping open and bleeding. River had watched the filly fly across the cave and land pretty hard on the stone surface, so she also must have hit her head. River immediately began to fan the filly with her large wings. "DREAMDROP!!! JUNETREE!!!!! NOW!!!!"
Diamondsong:
She had heard her mother screaming for help and she cantered over. 'Mom? What's wrong?"
River: "Help me fan her until Dreamdrop or Junetree get's here."
Diamondsong:
She nodded and went to the other side of the filly and began to fan her other side.
Orciidflame:
At the sound of pegasi screaming, she darted for her mother. "Momma? What is it? Is it wolves?" and she began to tremble at the last words.
Blossomflight:
"No, honey. It's not wolves. Besides, if it was, I wouldn't let them get you." she said, walking toward the noises.
River: she nickered at the yearlings confusion. "Well, if your asking me, she has always been afraid of 3 things, actually. Jump scares, fire, and bears. So, if you can, try to make bear noises, then come up behind her and scare her. Hahhahahaa!!!!! Her face will be priceless!! But, don't let her see ya!"
Stormshadow: -returns with some berries- "i think we should use...aha! Cow noises!" -grins gleefully-"And just saying, these berries aren't poisonous."
Duskblaze: -blinks in confusions- "Whats a cow?"
Stormshadowz; -proudly fluffs his dark blue feathers- "It's this little yappy thing that landwalkers often hold on vines. They're sort of like mini bears.'
Duskblaze: -nods in understanding- "ooooh."
Stormshadow: "Good idea, right?"
Duskblaze: -snorts disdainfully- "You know what I think? We should use dog noises."
Stormshadow: -frowns- "What's a dog?"
Duskblaze:-proudly fluffs out her brown feathers- "it's this big creature like a moaning bull, with smaller horns. They are black and white, and produce milk for the landwalkers."
Stormshadow: -nods in understanding- "ooooh."
Duskblaze: -plucks a berry of a branch-
Stormshadow: -suddenly frowns- "Wait. Why do landwalkers need milk if they aren't foals?"
Duskblaze: -also frowns- "maybe they are foals?"
Stormshadow: "Can't the landwalkers make their own milk for their own foals?'
Fuchsiafire: -giggles as she watches the shipper get attacked with tickles- -when Spruceflame helped River up,- I get the feeling we’ll be using your advice, Riverbreeze ma’am. Do you think it’s a good idea to use the bird noises for this? Or do you have a better idea?
River: -can't stop the laugh coming from her lips as she was tickled- "STOP!!!! AAAHHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!! STOOP!!!!" she squealed grinning from ear to ear
Gray: -watches her get tackled and felt his muscles twitch- "Calm down! They were just playing. River was laughing. She's fine!" he thought, fighting the urge to not tackle the yearlings. He watched them go toward the entrance and sighed in relief that he hadn't gone berserk-
She was on edge from the last sneak attack and she stood particularly close to Orcidflame and Flamestone. She looked around the cave, admiring its beauty, but she also flicked her ears in every direction, her wings opened, prepared to fight or fly.
River:
Is within earshot of the yearlings and chuckles. She went over to then and whispered gently,"As a master of spooking Blossomflight, I know that the best place to scare her would be behind her; where she can't see you. Those are the real good ones. If she sees you....... Let's just say that you better start praying. But, if she doesn't see you, it's a jackpot!" she said, winking
Spruceflame considered taking offense at Junetree's remark, but decided not to. He retracted his wing and resettled it on his back, then answered Fuschiafire. "The mouth of the tunnel, I think. That way, we might be taken for a real hawk by Blossomflight, but Junetree will know what's happening."
Junetree: -ponders- Huh, I’m impressed. Okay, let’s do it.
Fuchsiafire: -stands up straight again at that, but was careful not to brush of Spruceflame’s wing- Okay then, don’t ask me for my opinion. -turns to Spruceflame- So, where do we go?
Spruceflame swallowed awkwardly at the term, but also refused to show how awkward he felt because he knew that he would provide Junetree with a weapon if he did so. "I think we should do my idea," he decided. "But adding something. When Fuschiafire or I makes a hawk noise, you jump out and spook Blossomflight so she doesn't have time to be annoyed at us."
Junetree: Then what are you proposing we do? -smiles knowingly at the two at the word “proposing”-
Fuchsiafire: -becomes MUCH more aware of Spruceflame’s wing that is still wrapped around her- -realizes she‘s still slumped against him, but doesn’t do anything about it-
Spruceflame grinned mischievously at Junetree. "Jump-scared, huh? I think we can do that. But wait," he added as a thought struck him. "She knows you and is good friends with you. On the other wing, she isn't good friends with us. So if we jump-scare her, she would probably be less forgiving."
(Presumably in our respective houses, although I don't think that's the answer you were looking for. Junetree was telling Spruceflame about Blossomflight's biggest pet peeve: getting jump-scared. Fuschiafire and Spruceflame are starting to have a ship moment and Junetree is annoyed that she can't call them out for it.)
Fuchsiafire: -tries to ignore the way it feels when Spruceflame put his wing around her- -continues to play “dying”-
Junetree: -forces herself not to take the dare, but makes a mental note of the intensity of shipping vibe she was getting from the two- She hates it whenever someone sneak-attacks her. Her face whenever I sneak up on her is priceless.
Spruceflame laughs again, then strangely realizes he enjoys the feeling of Fuschiafire's weight against his legs. He unfurled one of his wings and covered her instinctively, then awkwardly realized what he was doing. He pretended he didn't feel the awkwardness that he was feeling, and forced himself to leave his wing there. He looked sidelong at Junetree, silently daring her to remark on this.
Spruceflame chuckled. "Okay," he said. "How about 'annoy Blossomflight'? We just make eagle and hawk noises until she shouts at us. Then we stay quiet for like five minutes, and start over again."
Fuchsiafire: Well... -rolls eyes- Never mind. Not important. -Stan’s there for a few minutes, studying the cavern they were now in- -gets bored quickly- Hey Spruceflame, want to play a game?
Spruceflame noticed her tone and decided to stand up and support his own weight with his hooves again. "I wouldn't say so," he hedged. "But define 'weird' in this context."
Sunshade: "YYAAA-HOO!!!!!!!!" he bellowed. He heard his cheer of excitement echo through the cave, then come back to him. "YYAAA-HOO!!!!!!!!" and he chuckled.
Orci: -feels proud to show the herd the cave- "Ta-Da!!!"
Fuchsiafir: -comes out of hiding- -looks around the large space- Woah! -hears her voice echo- -whispers,- Woah. -trots over to Spruceflame- Isn’t this place huge?
Orcidflame: "YEES!!!!! FINALLY!!!!! We made it everyone!!!!! We made it!!!!!" she whinnied as she galloped forward. "Lighthaven! Remember this?" she asked
Goldenleaf: XI Spruceflame, there are too many different calls for birds and they make so many sounds that sound the same as others so there's really know way to tell who's first or all of that hooey.
Spruceflame: -glares- "You're forgetting someone. Personally, I happen to know mine is the most accurate, according to Jonathan. Second. is actually Stormshadow. Eagles have really stupid sounds, they just look majestic."
Link to the new post: https://www.theguardianherd.com/messageboard/herd-chat/tgh-rp-o-c-chat-49
( YAY! )
( Perhaps we should make part 49....? )
Oceanbreeze: WINTERTWILIGHT!!!!!1 -tenses and untenses muscles, vibrates his wings, does whatever he can to break free of the ice and within a couple seconds is walking on shivering and twitching legs- -when he reaches Wintertwilight, he nuzzles her head and says,- I missed you so much.
Wintertwilight: -eyes pop open at the sound of her mate’s voice- O-Oceanb-br-reeze?
River: She left Blossomflight to go and help to awakening steeds. "oCeANbREezE!!!!" -canters over to him- "HEY!!!! Don't worry your mate and foals are safe!"
Dreamdrop: -sobs, but quickly recovers and makes the rest of the way out of the ice-
Flare- -gasps- Nightmist?!?!
Nightmist: I’m right here you numb skull -pins ears at her own words and glares at Moondancer- Now you‘ve got me saying these stupid puns! >:(
Moondancer: -shrugs-
Oceanbreeze: x gasps awake x WiNtErTwIlIgHt!!!! FoAlS?!?!?!
River: "No, it's okay. Look, she thawing out." -looks around the cave- "Everyone is slowly thawing out. Good!"
Blossomflight: "Yeah...that's good."
River: O-O Sunshade?? Diamondsong?? Where are you two?? -sees a small, foal-like figure curled into a frozen ball at the very back corner of the cave- x gasps and canters over x -her heart snack when she didn't see the familiar wing colors of her two foals, but she did recognize Blossomflight's filly, Orchidflame- "Blossomflight! I found Orchidflame! She's over here."
Blossomflight: -comes over- "She's still frozen!" -bites lip in nervousness-
( relief feels so very good! I’m so lucky I have such forgiving friends, and such jack butt class mates You guys are so awesome, and I won’t leave, although someday I will have to leave because I’ll be too old, but not today xD x virtually hugs you guys x )
( I’m so selfish. I’m not worthy of anybody’s forgiveness. ;( )
( Now I feel so very terrible....... Maybe I should just, umm, go, because I clearly am to stupid to think about what I say before I say them xd I’m so sorry Wispi xd )
( And I’m so sorry I did NOT realize how that sounded until just now when i said the Dreamdrop thing, but you were talking about Rain, plz forgive meh I’m so sorry I thought you meant something else xd 🙏🏾)
( I miss Rainfeahter ;( She was so funny and happy and now she’s gone. Do you think she’s doing okay?)
Moondancer: -looks over at Wispiflower, gasps, and screech’s,- I’LL SAVE YOUI! -dashes over and expertly cracks the ice on Wipsiflower’s head, so as to not damage the skull- There we go! Now you’re no longer a NUMB SKULL?!?!? GET IT?!?!?! :D
Nightmist: -wing palms-
Nightmist: Hey! -she cries out as her legs are once again frozen- What kind of joke is this!??! -then notices she’s right next to Flare- Oh hayseed.......
Dreamdrop: -looks at Moondacner’s shocked expression- W-hat? What’s wrong with him?!?!
Moondancer: -hangs her head solemnly and apologetically- There is no him, Dreamdrop.
Dreamdrop: ..................
( x sighs x She’s had her heart broken twice. It’s hard to believe she’s still fighting xD _
Junetree: -looks around to make sure no one is watching- -takes out her freeze gun and zaps Nightmist‘s legs so she’ll have to stay with Flare until he wakes up- -smiles evilly and melts into the background-
Wispiflower: -wakes up suddenly to find she can move anything but her head- -screams- WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO ME?!?!
Dreamdrop: -gasps for air and coughs- “What h-happened?”
Nightmist: Everybody’s asking the same question, Dreamdrop. We don’t know, so just roll with it, okay?
Dreamdrop: -flares eyes open and looks around frantically- Darkfire??? ;(
Moondancer: -s runts eyebrows and examines Darkfire’s frozen form, but finds nothing but ice, and slaps a wing over her mouth-
River: -started vibrating her legs and wings and clenching her muscles. Pretty soon she was free! She shook off her coat and shivered- "How long have we been in here?" She asked
Blossomflight: -She broke free as well- "I don't know. I'd say a few weeks...maybe? But I'm gonna go find my foal and mate."
River: "I'll come with ya!! :D"
Blossomflight: .-. ok
Moondancer: She started to shake her whole body, virbating her wings and clenching and unclenching her muscles. Very quickly, within the span of two minutes, was completely free of the ice. "Riverbreeze?! OMGOSH! JUNETREE! Y'ALL ARE OKAY! :D" she shouted, rushing towards them. Then she looked around for Iceleaf and the rest of her friends.
Nightmist:
-gasps- "ALRIGHT. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!?!?! >:(" she said, virbating her wings and clenching and unclenching her muscles much like Moondancer did.
Moondancer-
"Oh calm down Misty. You're overreacting,"
Nightmist: OVERRACTING?!?!?!?!?!?! You need a brain-check, Moondancer -.-
Moondancer: Well, yes, actually, considering I have a BRAIN FREEZE! :D
Nightmist: -wing palms-
Riverbreeze:
"C: HAY MOONDANCER!!!!" -She tried to wave her melting wing but it was too stiff- "Ugh..."
Blossomflight: She groaned loudly "My everything hurts!!" And just like River, Blossomflight started bleating for Orchidflame and Flamestone.
River: "Blossomflight! I'm glad your okay! Don't worry your mate and filly are both fine...just a little frozen." -River explained, smiling in victory as her was able to stretch one of her hind legs out of the ice.
Blossomflight: "I'm glad I'm okay, too." She said, stifling a nicker.
River: -.-
Blossomflight: "But, I'm more worried about everyone else. Are we the only 4 pegasi who are awake?" She asked.
Moondancer-
She gasped for breath and looked around. She spotted Junetree and Riverbreeze across from here, and tried to stand up. “What the hay happened?!?!?!?! I BLAME THE HUMANS! :D”
River:
She quickly spun her head around and melted at the sight of her mate. His ice had thawed but he was still unconscious. River nuzzled him, happy to hear that her family was safe. She looked back at Junetree. "How about you? How's Wispiflower?"
Junetree: -nickers- He’s right next to you. Check for yourself.
River: -she trusted her friend, but she still couldn't get rid of the nervous ness in her chest. She gasped again.- 'How's Graywood? Is he okay?"
Junetree: So.... um... funny story. See, we all froze from that bad winter back in January, and we just started thawing out. Diamondsong and Sunshade are still alive, but still kinda frozen and knocked out. But I ckecked on them! They’ll be fiiiiine.
Riverbreeze: -feels a sudden cold shiver run up her spine. She tried to move her legs but she couldn't! She grunted in effort as she tried to free herself. She felt a warm body over her and she craned her neck to look. She gaped as she recognized her old friend. -GASP- "JUNETREE!!! OMGSH!!!! HEY BESTIE!!!!!!" She nuzzled Junetree then grunted again. "Why can't I move? What happened?" x All concerns about herself melted as she remembered her foals. River bleat like a newborn. "Diamondsong!!!!!! Sunshade!!!!!! ARE YOU OKAY!!!???"
Fuchsiafire: -feels something dripping down her hide, and wakes up- -gasps in pain when she tries to move- Wh-wh-what...? -glances around in panic, and notices everyone else is fozen in ice- -eyes flick back to the form at her side- -gasp- SPRUCEFL-
Junetree: covers her mouth- Shhhh. You just unfroze. You don’t want to break something. -hears someone else stir- -glances over at Riverbreeze, who’s blinking her eyes- -dashes over to her old friend- River!
Junetree: -wakes up suddenly- -looks around at her friends- They’re.... frozen?? -slowly gets a devious grin- -creeps over to frozen Nightmist and pushes her next to Flare- -does the same with all the ships- -dusts off wings, feeling accomplished- Better!
(Who feels like a revival?! :D )
Dreamdrop:
She nodded, pleased by her work. She got up, rolled her eyes as Stormshadow crushed Duskblaze's wing, and then stalked off to continue other things.
Duskblaze: -starts snoring-
Stormshadow: -peeks out the cave- "I guess she has a right to sleep. The sun has set fro a while, and the moon is up."
Duskblaze: -rolls in her sleep and mumbles some giberish-
Stormshadow; -snorts- "I'll make sure you don't sleepwalk." -pauses and yawns- "Well, maybe not."
Duskblaze: -grunts and snorts-
Stormshadow: -yawns again, then curls up besides besides her, accidentally crushing her bleeding wing-
Duskblaze: -squeaks in pain and her eyelids flutter open- "Oww, ow oww"
Stormshadow: -hastily rolls off-
Duskblaze: -sighs and falls back-
Orcidflame:
At Dreamdrop's dismissing nod, she galloped for her mother in a blurry of pink and orange feathers. "M-m-mot-t-ther!!!! I-I-I am-m-m s-s-s-o c-cold-d." she said, in between her clattering teeth.
Blossomflight: "Oh! Come here! Come here!" and she hurriedly pranced toward her quaking filly. "What were you doing?" she asked, pulling her filly in closer, then laying her magenta wing over Orci's back.
Orci: "I-I was-s help-ping D-Diamondsong carry sn-now to the f-filly." she mumbled.
Blossomflight:
"Hmm... Well, it's warm down here. Don't go back up to the surface until I say so. Not even if another adult tells you to. I'm your mother. You listen to me. Understand?" she said, sternly.
Orci:
She looked up at her mother and nodded. "Okay Momma..."
Dreamdrop:
She sent a very vicious glare towards Stormshadow. As soon as the snow arrived, she nodded to the weanlings to take a rest and warm up. Then she took the snow and smeared it very gently across Duskblaze's hoof print on her chest, and then a little bit on her head wound. When she saw the filly wince at the sting, she sighed. She had seen many times, and it meant that this filly needed more toughening up.
( Do you mean the thing where we all meet up on video? )
(I'm planning to, but I'm not feeling great. I don't know for sure.)
(Who’s coming to the video chat today?)
Spruceflame: -about to reprimand them for arguing- -eyes widen- -stares at Fuschiafire momentarily, then awkwardly starts looking in any direction but the one that made his eyes on her-
Duskblaze: -glares at Stormshadow and mutters- "Yeah, Stormshadow."
Stormshadow: -gapes- "What did I do now?"
Duskblaze: -sighs- "Sheesh, for Diamondsong's sake, let's just quit it!"
Stormshadow: -suddenly leans forward and nuzzles her neck-
Duskblaze: -flinches and yelps- "Whazzat for?"
Stormshaodw: -grins sloppily- "I've always cared."
Duskblaze: -tears brimmed her eyes- "i thought you didn't like me."
Stormshadow: -takes a deep breath and looks her straight in the eyes- "I've always loved you."
Riverbreeze:
"You both need to stop arguing." she held up her wing to silence them as they started to play the 'blame game' "I don't care who started it! I'm finishing it!! Now, that's enough!" she said, swishing her tail
Diamondsong and Orcidflame:
She cantered to the mouth of the cave, their hoofbeats echoing. They all grabbed a windfall of snow and brought it back. By the time they set the snow down, Orcidflame was shivering. Some of the snow had already melted in her wings and she shook her coat to get the frigid water off.
Duskblaze: -winces as Dreamdrop pokes and prodds her- "Lighter please?"
Dreamdrop: -snorts apologetically-
Stormshadow: -trots back with some moss- "Do you need this?"
Duskblaze: -rolls her eyes but flinches, the small move causing her head ache- "Sheesh, do you now see the pile besides me?"
Stormshaodw: -huffs-
Stormshadow: -eyes widen in surprise- "But I have a battle to challenge her to tomorrow!"
Duskblaze: -winces and sighs- "Please please can we delay it to another day?"
Stormshadow: -moans slightly- "This is the third time you've delayed this battle!"
Duskblaze: -meets his gaze calmly- "And what, are you so scared that you need to get over it?"
Stormshadow: -seethes and spits on the ground- "No, 'course not! It's just that I can't wait to beat you up."
Duskblaze: -snorts- "Save the better things for last, and you shall be rewarded greatly."
Stormshadow: -hisses under his breath- "Why?"
Duskblaze: -flicks her ears- "I heard that."
Stormshadow: -brays in frustration, then sighs and gives in to his affection towards the filly- "Hold stiller so Dreamdrop can treat you." -trots off and shoos everyone away-
Dreamdrop:
Other pegasi had gathered around to see what all the comotion was about, and it wasn't helping. "Stormshadow, can you help clear everyone away from here?" When the young stallion nodded, she began really looking at the damage. A fairly deep gash in the shape of a hoof was imbedded into her left side of her chest. From the impact of the wall, Dreamdrop estimated that she had broke two of the ribs on her left side and fractured on on the right. Luckily, her wings were working fine and the same could be said for the legs, but the head had taken some more damage. There was a dent a bit above her right eye where a big bruise plagued her beautiful face. She gritted her teeth. There was going to be some lasting damage. First, Dreamdrop sent Diaamondsong to collect a few wingfulls of snow with Orchidflame and Lighthaven. Then she began wiping off the blood the best she could with her wings.
(Finish the rest of this comment later, gtg to basketball )
Spruceflame watched with slightly widened eyes, instantly forgetting about the prospect of spooking Blossomflight for fun. He motioned to Fuschiafire. "Let's get to the mouth of the tunnel to graze and get out of the way," he suggested.
Riverbreeze:
"Okay!" and she moved to the opposite side of the filly and together they gently rolled her onto her back.
Dreamdrop:
She heard comotion across the cave and heard her name being called. Instinctivly she jumped into a full gallop in the direction from which she heard her name. She arrived a few seconds later with an unconscious Duskblazew lying on the floor. She instantly knew what had happened by the looks of the injury to Duskblaze's chest. Someone had kicked her with enough force that Dreamdrop estimated 2 or 3 ribs could be broken. She kneeled onto her front legs and used her wings to prod the wound ever so softly. She was lying on her side, which wouldn't help in this situation. "Riverbreeze, can you help me move her onto her back?" she asked. "From then I can acsess the damage more thoroughly," she finished in a serious tone with furrowed eyebrows.
Riverbreeze: "Hey, I'm a sky herder and a spy, not a medicine mare. I only know the very basics like: Don't go into the forrest and eat strange berries you've never seen before. That's about all I know. However, in the little knowledge I attain, I do know that Duskblaze, you need to lay still and catch your breath. Just relax for a sec. And Stormshadow," -turns to face him- "She can't do that when she's being shook and yelled at, so either stay and watch quietly, or step back." she said, slightly sternly. She turned back to Duskblaze. "Diamondsong, keep fanning her, please. I'll see what I can do about that chest. But, what we really need are professionals like DREAMDROP AND JUNETREE!!!!!!! IF U CAN HEAR ME, COME TO THE BACK OF THE CAVE PLSSSS!!!!!!" she bellowed
Duskblaze: -woozily lifts head and glares at Stormshadow-
Stormshadow: -gasps- "Are you okay?"
Duskblaze: -promtly falls back-
Stormshadow: -shakes her violently- "Wake up!"
Duskblaze: -blinks open eyes- "i'm not dead yet, but I will be is you keep shaking me!"
Stormshadow: -puffs in relief-
Duskblaze: -sighs- "Fine, fine, I shouldn't have kicked you, but no need to be so... so... mean! I was just teasing!"
Stormshadow: -droops head and sniffs-"you shouldn't have kicked me."
Duskblaze: -heaves herself up with surprising strenght- "You still say that?"
Stormshadow: -nudges her back down- "Rest. Fine, fine, I'm sorry. Soryy sorry sorry."
Duskblaze: -sighs- "You never do stop copying me, do you?"
Stormshadow: -realizes his mistake and pauses.- "Whoops."
Duskblaze: -blinks dully at Riverbreeze- 'Hwelp, pwease."
Stormshadow: -rolls eyes- meaningfully says, "Sheesh."
Stormshadow: -lowers head shamefully- "Sorry, Duskblaze." -adds drily- "Though you shouldn't have kicked me."
Riverbreeze: -was about to interrupt the fight when Stormshadow kicked Duskblaze across the cave- "Duskblaze!" she whinnied and trotted toward them. "Ok. Don't move her." she told, Stormshadow. The moment River saw the fillies chest, she screamed for help. "JUNETREE!!!!! DREAMDROP!!!!!!!! GET OVER HERE!!!!" she brayed, looking back at the fallen filly. River inspected the damage. Two hoof marks on her chest were gaping open and bleeding. River had watched the filly fly across the cave and land pretty hard on the stone surface, so she also must have hit her head. River immediately began to fan the filly with her large wings. "DREAMDROP!!! JUNETREE!!!!! NOW!!!!"
Diamondsong:
She had heard her mother screaming for help and she cantered over. 'Mom? What's wrong?"
River: "Help me fan her until Dreamdrop or Junetree get's here."
Diamondsong:
She nodded and went to the other side of the filly and began to fan her other side.
Orciidflame:
At the sound of pegasi screaming, she darted for her mother. "Momma? What is it? Is it wolves?" and she began to tremble at the last words.
Blossomflight:
"No, honey. It's not wolves. Besides, if it was, I wouldn't let them get you." she said, walking toward the noises.
Stormshadow: -sighs-
Duskblaze: "Where are you, Fuchsiafire?"
Storkmshadow: -echoes Duskblaze-
Duskblaze: -glares at him- "Sheesh! You can't think of your own summons?"
Stormshadow: -glares back- "you always use my words!"
Duskblaze: -snorts- "like when?"
Stormshadow:-retuns her gaze cooly- "Where do I start"
Duskblaze: -fumes- "Anywhere!"
Stormshadow scratches chin thoughfully- "Aha! You know, 'sheesh' was my word."
Duskblaze: "Aha! No it wasn't!"
Stormshadow: -scoffs- "You just used 'aha!'."
Duskblaze: -kicks him angrily on his shin and shouts- "I was the one who first said that word!"
Stormshadow: -gapes at the slightly bleeding gash- "How dare you!"
Duskblaze: "'Cus I do!"
Stormshadow: -whirls around and kicks her in the chest, making her fly across the cave- "You dare kick me!"
Duskblaze:-gasps and falls unconsious-
Stormshadow: -runs over to her- "Help! HELP! HELP! HELP!"
(anyone on?)
Duskblaze: -glances at the room- "Now that we are all here, what do we do?"
Stormshadow: -frowns- "i dunno."
Duskblaze: -suddenly looks giddy- "Is there going to be a contest?"
Stormshadow: -jumps eagerly- "I LOVE contests!"
Duskblaze: -looks expectantly at Fuchsiafire- "So?"
Stormshadow: "Please say that its a contest!"
River: she nickered at the yearlings confusion. "Well, if your asking me, she has always been afraid of 3 things, actually. Jump scares, fire, and bears. So, if you can, try to make bear noises, then come up behind her and scare her. Hahhahahaa!!!!! Her face will be priceless!! But, don't let her see ya!"
(it's okay! THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!!!)
Stormshadow: -returns with some berries- "i think we should use...aha! Cow noises!" -grins gleefully-"And just saying, these berries aren't poisonous."
Duskblaze: -blinks in confusions- "Whats a cow?"
Stormshadowz; -proudly fluffs his dark blue feathers- "It's this little yappy thing that landwalkers often hold on vines. They're sort of like mini bears.'
Duskblaze: -nods in understanding- "ooooh."
Stormshadow: "Good idea, right?"
Duskblaze: -snorts disdainfully- "You know what I think? We should use dog noises."
Stormshadow: -frowns- "What's a dog?"
Duskblaze:-proudly fluffs out her brown feathers- "it's this big creature like a moaning bull, with smaller horns. They are black and white, and produce milk for the landwalkers."
Stormshadow: -nods in understanding- "ooooh."
Duskblaze: -plucks a berry of a branch-
Stormshadow: -suddenly frowns- "Wait. Why do landwalkers need milk if they aren't foals?"
Duskblaze: -also frowns- "maybe they are foals?"
Stormshadow: "Can't the landwalkers make their own milk for their own foals?'
Duskblaze: -snorts- "This is getting ridiculuos."
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Fuchsiafire: -giggles as she watches the shipper get attacked with tickles- -when Spruceflame helped River up,- I get the feeling we’ll be using your advice, Riverbreeze ma’am. Do you think it’s a good idea to use the bird noises for this? Or do you have a better idea?
Junetree: -listens quietly-
River: -can't stop the laugh coming from her lips as she was tickled- "STOP!!!! AAAHHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!! STOOP!!!!" she squealed grinning from ear to ear
Gray: -watches her get tackled and felt his muscles twitch- "Calm down! They were just playing. River was laughing. She's fine!" he thought, fighting the urge to not tackle the yearlings. He watched them go toward the entrance and sighed in relief that he hadn't gone berserk-
Stormshadow: -belly rumbles- "I'm getting hungry. Do you wanna go graze?'
Duskblaze: -nods- "Sure!" -trots towards the exit of the cave- "We'll bring something back!"
Spruceflame: -laughs as well, then helps River stand up-
Stormshadow: -winks at Duskblaze
Duskblaze: -smirks, sneaks up on River-
Stormshadow: -goes from the left side while Duskblaze goes from the right- "3...2...1..."
Duskblaze and Stomshadow: "BOOO!" -tackles River to the ground-
Duskblaze: -tickles River's belly- "Thanks for the advice!"
Stormshadow: -laughs hysterically-
Blossomflight:
She was on edge from the last sneak attack and she stood particularly close to Orcidflame and Flamestone. She looked around the cave, admiring its beauty, but she also flicked her ears in every direction, her wings opened, prepared to fight or fly.
River:
Is within earshot of the yearlings and chuckles. She went over to then and whispered gently,"As a master of spooking Blossomflight, I know that the best place to scare her would be behind her; where she can't see you. Those are the real good ones. If she sees you....... Let's just say that you better start praying. But, if she doesn't see you, it's a jackpot!" she said, winking
Spruceflame considered taking offense at Junetree's remark, but decided not to. He retracted his wing and resettled it on his back, then answered Fuschiafire. "The mouth of the tunnel, I think. That way, we might be taken for a real hawk by Blossomflight, but Junetree will know what's happening."
Junetree: -ponders- Huh, I’m impressed. Okay, let’s do it.
Fuchsiafire: -stands up straight again at that, but was careful not to brush of Spruceflame’s wing- Okay then, don’t ask me for my opinion. -turns to Spruceflame- So, where do we go?
Spruceflame swallowed awkwardly at the term, but also refused to show how awkward he felt because he knew that he would provide Junetree with a weapon if he did so. "I think we should do my idea," he decided. "But adding something. When Fuschiafire or I makes a hawk noise, you jump out and spook Blossomflight so she doesn't have time to be annoyed at us."
Fuchsiafire: -nods in agreement-
Junetree: Then what are you proposing we do? -smiles knowingly at the two at the word “proposing”-
Fuchsiafire: -becomes MUCH more aware of Spruceflame’s wing that is still wrapped around her- -realizes she‘s still slumped against him, but doesn’t do anything about it-
Spruceflame corrected himself, grinning. "Well, you know each other. And that's more than Fuschiafire and I can say about her."
Junetre: -cracks up- Me and Blossomflight? Friends? Are you serious? She’s an anti-shipper for goodness’ sakes!
Spruceflame grinned mischievously at Junetree. "Jump-scared, huh? I think we can do that. But wait," he added as a thought struck him. "She knows you and is good friends with you. On the other wing, she isn't good friends with us. So if we jump-scare her, she would probably be less forgiving."
(Presumably in our respective houses, although I don't think that's the answer you were looking for. Junetree was telling Spruceflame about Blossomflight's biggest pet peeve: getting jump-scared. Fuschiafire and Spruceflame are starting to have a ship moment and Junetree is annoyed that she can't call them out for it.)
(Where were we?)
(Ah, good idea. Hmm, high school juniors? Sophomores?)
(Flamefrost, we should add Spruceflame and Fuchsiafire to Pegasus Valley!)
Fuchsiafire: -tries to ignore the way it feels when Spruceflame put his wing around her- -continues to play “dying”-
Junetree: -forces herself not to take the dare, but makes a mental note of the intensity of shipping vibe she was getting from the two- She hates it whenever someone sneak-attacks her. Her face whenever I sneak up on her is priceless.
Spruceflame laughs again, then strangely realizes he enjoys the feeling of Fuschiafire's weight against his legs. He unfurled one of his wings and covered her instinctively, then awkwardly realized what he was doing. He pretended he didn't feel the awkwardness that he was feeling, and forced himself to leave his wing there. He looked sidelong at Junetree, silently daring her to remark on this.
"So what does Blossomflight hate?" he asked.
Junetree: -slips over to join Spruceflame and Fuchsiafire- I know just the thing. What she hates most of all is... -pauses dramatically-
Fuchsiafire: -sighs- What? Please. I’m about to die of boredom. -collapses into Spruceflame’s side for emphasis-
Spruceflame: So what should we do instead of bird noises?
Fuchsiafire: -starts to smile a little bit- I like most of that game, but I like the versions without bird noises.
Spruceflame chuckled. "Okay," he said. "How about 'annoy Blossomflight'? We just make eagle and hawk noises until she shouts at us. Then we stay quiet for like five minutes, and start over again."
Fuchsiafire: You chose. I really don’t care at this point in my boredom.
Spruceflame grinned and raised an eyebrow – that is, as close to doing so as a pegasus could come. "That depends," he said. "What game?"
Fuchsiafire: Well... -rolls eyes- Never mind. Not important. -Stan’s there for a few minutes, studying the cavern they were now in- -gets bored quickly- Hey Spruceflame, want to play a game?
Spruceflame noticed her tone and decided to stand up and support his own weight with his hooves again. "I wouldn't say so," he hedged. "But define 'weird' in this context."
Fuchsiafire: -stiffens, but doesn’t pull away- Sooo... about that time frame.... It didn’t make things weird, right?
Sunshade: "YYAAA-HOO!!!!!!!!" he bellowed. He heard his cheer of excitement echo through the cave, then come back to him. "YYAAA-HOO!!!!!!!!" and he chuckled.
Orci: -feels proud to show the herd the cave- "Ta-Da!!!"
Spruceflame: -nods- Certainly bigger than that crystal cave, isn't it? -notices himself leaning into her but doesn't stand up-
Wavesplash: -walks over to Stormshadow and Duskblaze- I’ll come with you!
Wintertwilight: -dashes after her daughter- Hoooooold on missy. Did I give you permission to go anywhere?
Wavesplash: -puppy eyes- Can I go with them? Pleeeease Mommy?
Wintertwilight: .....You inherited those puppy eyes from me and dad. So, I‘ll just go with you.
Wavesplash: -turns the puppy eyes on Stormshadow- Help me, please.
Fuchsiafir: -comes out of hiding- -looks around the large space- Woah! -hears her voice echo- -whispers,- Woah. -trots over to Spruceflame- Isn’t this place huge?
Stormshadow: -smiles happily- "Anyone in the mood for a fly?"
Duskblaze:-nods- "it is getting slightly stuffy here."
Storrmshadow: -stretches his dark blue wings- "And I'm slightly hungry,"
Duskblaze: "Same!"
Stormshadow: "Anyone else coming?"
River: -chuckles at her bestie-
Orcidflame: "YEES!!!!! FINALLY!!!!! We made it everyone!!!!! We made it!!!!!" she whinnied as she galloped forward. "Lighthaven! Remember this?" she asked
Spruceflame nodded at Goldenleaf. "Too true. Okay, Fuschiafire, we're done now." He grinned.
Fuchsiafire: -blinks at the bird-imitating pegasi- Ummmmm....... Okay..... -backs up and hides behind Wispiflower-
Wispiflower: Stay as long as you want, honey. -shudders at the terrible imitations of bird calls-
Junetree: -stomps hoof- Ugh, I missed it! This is what I get for being late.
( What's what? )
What is it?
Goldenleaf: XI Spruceflame, there are too many different calls for birds and they make so many sounds that sound the same as others so there's really know way to tell who's first or all of that hooey.
River: "O^O Oops....I was imitating a hawk....Oh crud, I'm getting my birds mixed around XD"
Spruceflame: -glares- "You're forgetting someone. Personally, I happen to know mine is the most accurate, according to Jonathan. Second. is actually Stormshadow. Eagles have really stupid sounds, they just look majestic."
Goldenleaf: Oof XD. I came in too late x sighs x