The story starts out.........
AppleJacks (me) June 14 ('00):
Rose Marie Gardner sat on her bed and stared hard at the picture of a pretty brown Shetland pony. A little girl proudly held the pony's reins. I miss you so much, Snooper! the girl thought. I remember the day this picture was taken.......the day I got you. Marie lowered her head as a single teardrop rolled down her fair cheek and landed on the picture. She swiped her long blonde hair out of her face and wiped the drop off the picture. I was ten years old. I only had you for four years and then you had to go out and have a baby! The baby didn't even make it! Why did my dad want you bred anyway? It was a stupid idea. Marie was starting to get mad, something she always does when she's upset. Oh, whats the use of being mad? It never gets me anywhere but in trouble. Then she laid her head down in her hands and sobbed.
All of a sudden, everything got unusually warm, compared to the cold air conditioning in her room. Marie shuddered and looked up.......and quickly jumped to her feet. Where am I???!!! The young girl was looking over a meadow from a high hill, and not believing what she saw.......
Gusty, June 28 ('00):
Marie looked around. Am I going mad or have I fallen asleep? she thought. In the far end of the meadow she saw colorful ponies flying, jumping, and playing. She was sure she heard them talking. I am mad, she thought. Soon, they were coming toward her. One with a horn, green hair, and maple leaves for a picture said, "Hi!"
Desert Willow, April 7 ('00):
Suddenly, a whole group of ponies surrounded her and she looked about her, smiling brightly now. a baby pony came up to her.
"Hi, I'm Baby Firefly."
"H-hello Baby Firefly, I'm Rose Marie. N-nice to meet you," she stuttered, still not believing her eyes.
"Would you like to play with us?" Baby Firefly asked shyly.
"I would love to play with you, Baby Firefly. And the rest of the ponies too!" she said beginning to get excited over what was happening to her. Surely I must be losing my mind. But as long as I am, I might as well have fun! she thought to herself.
Some of the flutter ponies flew over to see what was going on. Baby Firefly took Rose Marie down to the nursery to see what the babies were doing. They were putting on a dress-up show for the adult ponies!
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After playing dress-up for four hours, they played a little tag.
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While Rose Marie and Baby Firefly were watching all the baby ponies put on an extremely funny show to the adult ponies (before they played tag), she whispered to Baby Firefly, "Where are we?"
Baby Firefly whispered back, "Why, Rose Marie! In Ponyland, of course! I thought you would know, after all, you used to come here a lot when you were 7! I wasn't born, but the older ponies talk about you all the time!"
Rose Marie felt startled, I remember! she thought to herself, but I thought it was a dream! The show was almost over and when it was finished, Marie and Baby Firefly (after playing tag) walked together over the hills, they were going to Dream Castle!
Jessica, February 13 ('00):
Rose Marie ran down to catch up with Baby Firefly and the others. Soon, she could see Dream Castle over the next small hill. It was familiar to her. The towering castle reached up toward the clear blue of the sky, so colorful and magnificent. It was surely even more beautiful than she had remembered it. Down the hill she ran, picking up speed as she went. Soon, she reached the drawbridge. Slowly it lowered and she followed the baby ponies inside.
Stripes, March 26 ('01):
The inside of the castle was so much bigger than it looked from the outside.
Little Ponies were running around everywhere, playing games and enjoying the
beautiful spring weather.
"Wow..." Rose Marie was in awe "It is so much more beautiful than I
remember from my dreams."
Baby Firefly smiled. "Those weren't dreams Rose. Let me show you around."
As they walked further inside, Spike suddenly jumped out from inside a
doorway.
"Hey Firefly!" he said. "Who is your friend?"
Baby Firefly introduced Rose Marie, "You haven't ever heard the older ponies talk about her?"
"Oh yea", Spike repllied "You are Snooper's owner."
"How do you know about Snooper?!?!" asked a very surprised Rose Marie.
Lily, Jan. 14 (02):
"My mother told me about snooper, she said you brought him to pony land too!" Baby Firefly exclaimed.
"I did not, he would have gotten spooked!"Rose Marie argued
" Why didn't you bring him this time ?"interupted baby Gusty.
Rose Marie burst into tears " HE'S DEAD!!" she yelled as loudly as she could.
Jeanette, May 14 (02):
Baby Gusty stumbled back a few paces, and eyed Rose Marie concernedly as the girl began to cry. " I'm really sorry, I didn't think about that. Here in ponyland, we forget that...things change in your world. " Baby Firefly nuzzled Rosemary sympathetically. " It must be hard to lose your special pony. I know you loved her very much." Rosemary sniffed and nodded. Blinking, she glanced at baby Gusty. " Sorry I yelled at you. it's just...I miss her. And it's not fair." She sniffed again. "When I came here before, when I was little, there was a pony I was friends with. I think she was a Unicorn...she had rainbows in her mane and tail. Where is she?" Baby Firefly stepped back. " I...wait here." She galloped away through the ponies in Dream Castle, her mane flashing as she ran.
Heather, Oct. 2 (02):
Baby Firefly ran and ran like she never did before.Soon she stumbled into rainbow village, were the rainbow ponies lived.She asked Sky dancer is she had seen Moon stone, and a girl named Rose Marie was here to see her.
Lady Firefly, Oct. 2 (02):
As Baby Firefly ran off into the castle Rose-Marie wonder around petting the ponies that came to her, she tickled Spike's tummy. She could believe she was back here.Rose-Marie was amazed after all these years she was back in Ponyland, the land of her "dreams". Where ponies never grew old, where ponies never died, she began to grow red in the face but then all of a sudden there was a flash of a beautiful rainbow light, in front of her stood her childhood playmate the pony Moonstone.
"I can't believe it you came back, you've been gone to long, where have you been?", Moonstone gushed.
"Oh, Moonstone, it's you it's really you! I'm so sorry, I never ment to be gone I'm so mad at myself. But I promise I won't leave you or Ponyland ever again!", Rose-Marie began to cry.
Lady Fizz, Nov.1 (02):
As the girl began to cry once more, Moonstone rushed to her side and embraced her as best she could. Rose Marie put her arms around the unicorn's neck, and Moonstone's eyes met Baby Gusty's. Baby Gusty looked distressed, but Moonstone's eyes told her not to be afraid or upset. Baby Firefly stood close to her friend, sad and a little confused. Rose Marie seems to cry a lot, she thought, the way only a baby pony can. At last Rose Marie dried her eyes.
"Snooper is gone, Moonstone," she said quietly, looking up into the unicorn's eyes. Moonstone looked as if she'd been struck by lightning. Tears rolled down her own face.
"Then you need me more than ever, don't you?" she asked quietly. Rose Marie nodded with a sniffle. "Come on, let's get you something to eat and drink. You'll feel better after that." Baby Gusty and Baby Firefly followed the two old friends to Moonstone's house by the castle and were silent as Rose Marie calmed down more and more as she ate and drank Moonstone's magic meal.
"Thanks so much, Moonstone, I--" but Moonstone shook her head with a smile.
"No thanks are needed, Rose Marie. You need me, so I will do anything you need me to do." Rose Marie smiled again. Baby Gusty smiled tentatively, but suddenly Baby Firefly burst out crying. Astonished, the ponies and Rose Marie looked at the wailing pony in shock.
"Baby Firefly!!" cried Rose Marie, rushing to hug the baby pony. "What on earth is the matter?!"
"You...you...two are s-s-such g-g-good friends!" sobbed the baby, and both Moonstone and Rose Marie began to laugh at Baby Firefly's innocence.
Kirstin, Nov. 1 (02):
Then Rose Marie told Moon Stone about everything. ''Oh, I am so sorry about, uh, your pony," said Moonstone. ''You can ride me, if you want to.
''Alright,'' said Rose Marie, as they galloped off.
''Shall we get matching hair-dos?,'' asked Moonstone as she stopped at the Pony Perm Shoppe.
''Sure,'' said Rose Marie.
They had a hard time figuring out how Rose Marie should sit to get her hair done, but at last they ended up with Rose Marie sitting on Moonstone`s back. (The chair was made for ponies so it didn`t fit Rose Marie.)
Just as they were leaving the Pony Perm Shoppe, Sundance came over .
''ROSE MARIE!!! It`s you!" Sundance exclaimed. Then she called, "MEGAN! Megan! Megan! Come here!'' .
''Rose Marie!'' said Megan, as she came over. ''It`s you.'' The two girls hugged each other.
''Come,'' said Megan. ''Let`s go and have some ice cream at the Satin Slipper Sweet Shoppe."
Nicole, Feb. 24 (03):
Once in the sweet shoppe, Rose Marie final got a chance to ask Megan about the little ponies, everything was still sort of a blur to her and she was hoping that Megan could refresh her memory.
"Well, nothing much has changed, all though we are working on building a new nursury for the baby ponies. " Megan sighed, "and then theres the..."
"Megan!" Moonstone interupted, "Rose Marie's got enough on her mind, she doesn't need to hear about THAT!"
"Tell me," Rose Marie said a look of fear in her eyes, "is something wrong?"
"She has the right to know, Dream Valley is Rose Marie's home too." added Sundance.
"Allright," Megan concluded, "I'll tell you everything, but lets go sit outside, its hot in here."
They walked out side. "Ok, lets see hear, where should I start... about six weeks ago, Baby Galexy, Baby Northstar, and Baby Ribbons were playing on near the pond with a couple Baby Sea Ponies, Baby Lily and Baby Sea Shimmer. According to the babies it all of the sudden it got real dark, but only for a few seconds, and then it was beautiful agian, only Baby Galexy was gone! And where she was standing there was a large puddle of green slime. Nobodys heard or seen from Baby Galexy since, she simply vanished. And then about two weeks ago it happened agian, to Paradise. Same sudden darkness same green slime. And agian no matter how hard we search, theres not a trace or a clue to be found. And then only three days ago, Wind Wistler was walking over to see the bushwollies, and shes gone, but we found a large pile a green slime not too far from them. So, thats are problem, three ponies missing in the last six weeks, not to mention to two flutter ponies, Forget-me -not and Orchid. Any ideas Rose Marie?"
Rose Marie was lost for words, "How could something like this happen?" was all that came out.
Gibbie, July 5 (03):
Megan shook her head and sighed.
"No one knows what to do. If there was some kind of physical evidence we had to work with, we could--"
"Wait," Rose Marie interrupted, "what about the slime?"
"What?"
"You said that there was green slime left behind after they ponies disapeared," Rose replied, thinking quickly. "Is there any left where they vanished?"
"Forget-Me-Not was the most recent disapearance. She vanished not two days ago," said Minty in her Irish accent. "There's still some left near the creek where she was playing."
Megan and Rose exchanged glances, and trekked towards Sugar Stream, the creek where flutter ponies most often gathered. There was a large apple tree that was in bloom, and at its base was a puddle of what must be the green slime. Megan crouched down next to Rose Marie.
"It smells like...I don't know. Carrots?" Megan sniffed.
"It sure does," Rose replied. "Weird." Baby Firefly began to tremble.
"Why, what's the matter, Firefly?" Minty asked.
"Moonstone used to tell us stories in the nursery," she shivered. "She said that sometimes ponies from the other world--the world where Rose lives--when they die, they cross a border between there and Ponyland, and just...get stuck. Sh-she said that they leave green slime behind."
"Oh, Firefly," Minty chuckled. "That's nonsense." She nuzzled the tiny pony trying to reassure her, but could not hide the fact that she was frightenned as well. "Go home now, Firefly. You've done enough worrying for one day." With a sniffle, she trotted away.
"It's true, what she says," Minty said somberly. "I heard the tales when I was young."
"Oh, Minty, you're being ridiculous. There is no such thing as a gohst!" Megan giggled nervously. "Whatever is taking those ponies is a real live tangible something or other. With Rose Marie here, we're sure to find out what's happening." She walked off in the direction of the nursery. Rose shrugged, and followed Megan. Minty sighed and reared up to reach an apple. There was a wave of darkness, and then she was gone.
Two weeks had passed since the disapearance of Minty. The ponies had become restless and a law was made that no one could be outside after dark. Meanwhile, the wheels in Rose Marie's head were turning. She thought of the slime. Why is that smell so familiar? Then she remembered. Snooper's favorite treat was carrots. After having an after-lunch desert with Sundance, she decided to go visit with Megan. When she was within four yards of the nursery, where Megan often volunteered, a strange buzzing sounded in her left ear. She stumbled forward and fell face first. Just inches above the ground, the grass slipped away and turned into a pool of shadow, neither white nor black, grey nor colored, soft yet sharp. She stood up in the solid liquid gas, and gasped. It couldn't be--Snooper? Her halter chained to a wall of nothing, her feet in hobbles? And next to her--Minty, Wind Whistler, Orchid, and all the others! A loud whinny sounded from behind Rose Marie, and she turned to look over her shoulder. Her eyes adjusted in the dark to see the form of one who died too young--Snooper's foal.
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