A little bit of shopping... [Open]

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Shylette peered out cautiously from inside an empty bushel-basket. It was late, Owl-time, as she liked to think of it, but she could never go to such a place in the daylight hours, could she? No. There was too much going on then, she would never dare. The tiny fairie pony decided all was safe and the wind had just died down a bit. She floated out of the container with a sweep of her wings and drifted up and over to land on the counter of one of the stalls and look around.

The Marketplace, with its colorful canvas and neat rows of empty stands, reminded her of a Brugh on an enormous scale. If every stand were a breezie's home, they would all be mansions, castles. But of course, that was a silly thought. She knew ponies, large, giant, not-exactly-hostile-but-still-pretty-scary ponies used this place for trading during the day. Shylette couldn't imagine the amount of food it must take to feed even one of those gigantic creatures, even though they were herbivores. Suppose they could eat a whole apple, By themselves, in one sitting?! It made her stomach ache just to think of it.

Or was that her own hunger? That was why she was here, after all. Shylette glanced around, looking to see if there was anything that might have been overlooked. A couple cherries, perhaps, that had rolled away unnoticed or even a carrot, dropped into the snow by accident. The possibility of such a feast was the only thing that could bring her out from her safe hidey-hole in the Owl Time.  A cold wind blew through the marketplace again, making the canvas to snap and flap, and Shylette was carried off her stage and would have ended in a snowdrift, if she hadn't caught hold of a nail that was not fully hammered in. She hung on and waited for the wind to subside again...

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Normally late at night, most ponies were asleep. Well, Beatrice was asleep for a little bit, until she got hungry. At first it was just a sharp ting. It bothered her a little, but not too much. Then within a couple of minutes, it became a symphony of hungry painful grows. Not able to ignore it she picked her lazy self up, sighed, got some money, and walked out of the motel her and her sister were staying at, and made it to the market place.

It was cold. Being mostly cold blooded, she didn't like it much. But she was just going to tough it out. Stomach came first obviously. She hissed when her feet touched the ground. Damn it. Fire dragons didn't like snow. So, she decided she was going to fly. Spreading her wings, she flapped them lightly, making her hover slightly above the ground. Flying to the carts, she noticed they were only slightly locked, while others were opened.

She would just leave the money on the counter or whatever. Belly couldn't wwait. She hovered to a stand that was near Shylette, and stopped flapping her wings. After getting a couple of mouthfuls of whole tomatoes, she didn't even bother with chewing and swallowed them whole. Five of them went down at once. She grabbed another handful, then noticed a unique smell that didn't exactly match anything around her.

Beatrice gulped another mouthful (this time with eight instead of five). She looked and sniffed around until she found a little bug looking thing hanging off of a nail, and noticed that it was blowing in the wind. Some of the wind her wings were creating. She felt slightly bad about something being so tiny and light, so she landed on her feet and tried to catch Shylette in a effort to help her.

"Hey, er, are you okay? Kinda blowing away there. Lemme help you." She said as she tried to cup the breezie in her hands.

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OH HER DEAR SWEET TAIL AND 'TENNAE, IT WAS A GIANT MONSTER!!!

Well, to be precise, it was a dragon. A very enormous dragon! Shylette watched in utter, facinated horror as the beast stuffed a number of tomatoes in its mouth and swallowed them whole, like so many tiny little bodies. Like a snake. And even that still wasn't enough to sate the hunger of the reptile, either, for it reached for a second, even larger handful! Shylette watched the massive quantities of food just disappear, and wondered how there could even be enough food in the world to keep such beings alive.

And then, as though tired of the ravage of tomatoes it had just consumed, the dragon looked around and  locked eyes with her. Frozen with terror at that moment, Shylette could only cling to her nail as it landed and folded its great wings. But when it reached two great claws towards her, the breezie released her grip on her anchor and fluttered away, sailing upwards out of reach. Escape! She had to escape! But where could she go that the dragon could not get her? Someplace small, she thought, twisting her head this way and that to look. She spotted a stall that sold flowerpots. Perfect!

Folding her gossamer wings as closed as they could get, the little faerie pony rode down the wind and shot into an upended terracotta flowerpot -of the average size- through the small hole in the bottom. Safe at last, or so she thought, she sank down to the ground inside, looking up at the hole at the top through which the only light came. The hole was much, much too small to small for the dragon. She was surely secure in here!

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Beatrice actually wasn't surprised at the breezie running away. Lots of things seemed to run away from her. Well, she guessed she could be pretty scary to other creatures. Maybe they couldn't just handle her awesomeness. She was a pretty superior creature. The apex predator of Equestrian life. But! She couldn't let so a pathetically small creature not be able to survive! She wasn't that mean. Plus she was so tiny, cute, and wonderful smelling creature, she would make a fun miniature companion for her and her sister.

So, it has been decided! She was going to take in this critter, and no one was going to stop her! She won't quit until she succeeded. She didn't entirely see where Shylette flew off to, but she knew the general direction, and with her smell and hunting skills, it shouldn't be too big of a problem. Before she would track her out, Beatrice just took at whatever was left of the tomatoes, only ten of them, ate them as quickly as possible then followed the direction she saw Shylette go into...

After some sniffing, and poking around she found her hiding place. The flower pot! She would have to be crafty... Beatrice tried to slide the pot off with as quickly as she could, doing her best to cover both holes, hoping to not let the critter escape!

"You are mine now my tiny friend! I will name you Mini! Mini of the Mighty! Don't worry! I'll take good care of you little one!" Beatrice stated a little bit loudly. Hopefully no one would catch her...

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As was usual for him, Sirocco was spending the evening gliding along with the winds, looking for a proper place to rest for the night. He generally had little interest in exploring at night; it was too hard to see what you discovered at night time! Thanks to old habits from his brugh he tended to be active at both dusk and dawn, but since his departure he was starting to get more used to moving around during the daytime as well. But as he gently flew over the rooftops of a quaint pony village below him, something immediately caught his eye: a large dragon! Sirocco had seen dragons before, but for a teenager this one was fairly massive. Unnoticed by the larger creature, Sirocco watched the dragoness devour fruit from above, until his eyes followed the dragoness's own gaze towards...another Breezie! The Breezie, naturally terrified of the large scaly beast, tried to hide in a flower pot, but it seemed the dragoness would not be deterred so easily. "She's in danger," Sirocco announced to himself in full Breezish (Breezese? Breezian? Whatever you call Breezie speech), "I have to rescue her!" Thoughts of knights in shining armor rushing to the aid of princesses terrorized by dragons entered his mind as Sirocco took advantage of a breeze sending him in the direction of the dragoness, aligning himself with her in order to charge at her. "HIYA!" Sirocco aimed and dove at the back of the dragoness's head with a dropkick, putting all of his might into it. Though about as effective as hitting her with a small rock, the "attack" was sure to at least distract the gargantuan reptile!

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Shylette eyed the hole at the top of the flowerpot for a long time, but nothing happened. With deep sigh of relief, the tiny faerie pony relaxed her shimmery wings and drooped a little, letting go of her tension. She was safe. And no sooner had that thought crossed though her mind than the light suddenly went out! Shylette's head shot up in alarm, but she could not see in the pitch darkness! A rumbling, grumbling, grating sound began and it was only when the opposite wall of the pot slammed into her- yes, it was the wall that had moved!- did she realize what was happening. The pot was sliding! The Breezie stood on her tiny hind feet and tried to push against the wall, but she might as well have tried to push an oak tree over. She was pushed along by the flowerpot until, for just a moment, the world dropped away as the pot slid off the edge of its counter. But just as quickly, a dragon... the big scary dragon's... giant claw clapped over the wide bottom of the flowerpot as best as it could, leaving only small gaps between its talons. The faerie pony skittered around the pot frantically, practically dancing on Beatrice's palm as she sought an eascape. All the dragon's cheerful assurances did nothing to soothe her. And then something made the dragon seem to pause. Shylette took her chance then and dove for what she thought was the widest space, struggling to squiggle out between the dragon's vice-like claws!

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Beatrice was happy! She succeeded in capturing the insect like pony creature thing. She had a tight grip between the pot bottom and top. She clasped her hands tightly, being sure as possible to keep the critter from escaping. She held it close to her chest. She could feel the tiny being dance on her palm. It didn't bother her much. She had scales, which were barely, if at all ticklish in any way.

Then she felt something hit the back of her head, which felt not even like a poke due to the size and toughness differences. Then Shylette tried escaping between her claws, which she just tighten and closed. Looking around she saw the second bug thingy! She looked just as tiny and adorable! She was going to take both of these pretty things with her!

"Oh my gosh! You two little cuties are adorable! I wonder if you two gals have names! Going to rename you anyways, so, not like it matters ~" Beatrice said then tried to stun her a little with a breeze blown between her lips. Then! Before she could do anything more, she flew slightly and tried to trap her with her mouth, doing everything to not swallow the critter. Hopefully with her trapped in her strong jaws, she could go now.

So, she went back to the stand and used her tail to place a couple of bits on top, then wandered to a apple stand, then cherry, and went late night grocery shopping, before trying to get to the room before someone noticed her sight stealing. Making sure to cover her tracks, she knocked her head on the door, hoping to wake up her sister...