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The sound of fillies laughing and exclaiming made her ears perk up immediately. She stumbled a bit as she walked over the broken branches and leaves before peeking through the bush. It was a whole new village filled with ponies of all sizes.

She looked above her and saw Pegasuses flying in the air, kicking clouds and blowing them away. Her eyes were filled with wonder after being in her pack and seeing the same howlers every single day. She flinched back into the bush after seeing a yellow ball rolling towards her.

"I won again!"

"For the fifth time, there is no winning."

"But I got it to the bush!"

"And I got it to the tree, but here we are."

Two colourful ponies were bickering in front of the bush. The tallest one was a peach coloured colt with a chocolate brown mane with a golden streak, his date coloured eyes were glaring at the mare. The mare was a unicorn and almost at his height with custard gold coat with patterns of chocolate and her mane was wavy and up in a pony tail with a blue bow, her violet eyes were glaring back.

"Guys, you're fighting again." The ball was rolled away by a pink Pegasus with a darker shade of pink as freckles on her body, her mane reminded Beatz of a saturated colour of her favourite treat, cotton candy.

"How can there be no winning? That's literally so boring!" The colt shot back.

"I'm older than you so I make the rules." The mare spoke, raising her chin up.

"By 5 months only! Abby, come on, tell her she's wrong!" The colt was flabbergasted and looked at his pink mare for help.

"Let's just calm down, you guys. This is just a game." Abby, the pink mare, sighed and tried to break the bickering. "And Savannah, it is boring when there is no winning."

"Elijah literally faster than both of us and he always wins!" Savannah shot back, eyes wide as she noticed Elijah snickering at her.

Beatz tilted her head slightly, unable to understand what they were bickering about. She hoped it wasn't too serious because who is she going to play with?

Taking a deep breath, she braced herself before lowering her ears down as well as her head a little. She moved out of the bush, slowly and suddenly heard the bickering stop immediately. She looked up as three pair of eyes were wide and staring back at her. Her words caught up in her throat as she opened her mouth a bit.

"Tell me I'm not the only one who's seeing that thing." Elijah spoke, unable to look away from the howler that had just emerged from the bushes. "I literally didn't see or notice her when she was in the bush." Abby spoke quietly. Savannah, however, was mesmerised by the earrings she was wearing and how exotic she looked. That filly was definitely not from around here.

"Uhm, hi, I was just hoping I could play with you." Beatz said, timidly and was met with faces of confusion. Right. They don't understand her.

"What did she say?" Elijah asked, perplexed as he looked at the mares. "I think she was greeting us?" Savannah guessed. "How would you know?" Elijah retorted. "She waved her hoof." Abby pointed out as she stood onto her hooves. Beatz frowned a bit a thought of some way to be understood.

She pointed at the ball, "I want to play ball." She said, slowly but still pointing at the yellow ball. "I think she wants to play with us." Savannah smiled slightly. "I say let's get her in. It would be split into two teams."

Abby and Elijah look at each other then back at Savannah, "Okay. I'll be with Elijah." Abby immediately chose her teammate. "I can't decide whether it's because you want to win or because you're scared of… Er… Whatever her name is." Savannah rolled her eyes when Abby smile sheepishly and took her position with Elijah. "Join us, come on." Savannah encouraged Beatz who beamed and walked completely out of the bushes, revealing herself completely.

"Do you think she'll be using that thing to win?" Elijah asked, pointing at Beatz's almost limp tail. "Maybe, maybe not. She doesn't know the rules yet." Abby pointed out a logical reason. "Sa-Van-Nah." Savannah spoke slowly to Beatz. Beatz tried to say it back and ended up with a sloppy version of her name. Savannah giggled and repeated it. "Sa… Van… Nah." Beatz stuttered a bit but smiled widely when she saw Savannah basically cheering at Beatz's accomplishment.

"She said my name, you guys!" Savannah exclaimed to her friends who jogged towards them. "Can you say my name? E-Lie-Jah." Elijah spoke first, eyes filled with excitement. "Ab-Bee." Abby smiled a little. Beatz felt a bit shy and her wings fluffed. "El… Lie… Jah." Elijah cheered at this which caused Beatz to feel a bit more comfortable. "Ab… Bee." It was beginning to get easier for Beatz to speak their language. "What is your name?" Savannah butted in and Beatz tilted her head slightly.

"Savannah." Savannah said, pointing at herself. "Elijah," She pointed at the colt. "Abby," She then pointed at Abby. Then she pointed at Beatz, waiting a bit. Beatz took a few seconds to understand, "Beatz." She said but was met with confused faces. "That was a very small name?" Elijah guessed before imitating what Beatz said.

Beatz then remembered when her dad would call her name by his language. The alpha would give a linguistic potion to Robin so he would at least speak their language, although he was teaching Beatz a few words of his own language.


"Beatz." She said again and this time, with her dad's language. "Oh! It's Beatz!" Savannah exclaimed with a smile. "That's a cute name." Abby said, softly. "It sounds cool." Elijah nodded as he kicked the ball towards Beatz and it hit her legs gently. "Kick it back." Elijah said, moving his hoof in a kicking motion. Beatz looked down at the ball before kicking it gently with her hoof. It rolled away a bit.

"Harder." Abby encouraged a little, moving her hoof a bit faster. Beatz walked towards the ball and imitated Abby, this time the ball rolled towards Elijah. The trio cheered and Beatz smiled widely, showing her pointy teeth but they didn't care. She looked and was completely innocent.


"STEP BACK FROM THAT MONSTER RIGHT NOW!"



Ooooo, what is this? A cliffhanger? Ahhh, I've had so much fun drawing this piece because I finally got to pinning down Savannah's new design! ;w; So I haven't pointed out that every time Robin has to come to the pack, he has to drink a potion to be able to speak Beatz's language. Sooo… I have nothing to say ;;w;; Tell me what you think will happen! ;w;

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