Pop rocks, Stone smith and Winter frost eventually make it to Ponyville market. Stone smith saw Pop rocks searching around and asking market ponies if they have seen Moonie, meanwhile Winter was cowering behind him. He rolled his eyes, about to lecture him when he heard the sound of Pegasus wings flying away. He looked up and saw Moonies closest friend, Summer Days. He thought it would be best to ask her of all ponies, since shes the closest pony to Moonie right now.

“Excuse me, Miss Days..?”

The cream pony looked down towards the voice, curiously. She furrowed her brows, she recognised the pony from one of Moonies get togethers. He’s a quiet stallion, preferred to stay within his own friend group to chat than meet new ponies. She hovered in the air before she responded.

“Uh…yes??” She sounded cautious with her words, wondering why of all ponies, <span class="caps">SHE</span> was the one to be interacted with right now.

“You’re close friends with Moonlight, correct? I mean I see you two together a lot…I would assume you two are quite close friends.” He ended his sentence in a matter-of-fact tone.

“Yeah we are best friends, why do you ask?” She said slowly, as if the question was obvious.

Stone figured so, he didn’t know how to ask his next question without striking concern in the other pony.

“Have you…seen her as of recent? She’s usually in the market place around this time selling her smoothies, but we have not seen any sign of her at all today.” He asked, face growing concerned as he spoke.

Summer thought to herself, she really /hasn’t/ seen any sign of Moonlight recently, usually she would meet up with her for lunch during her break but she hasn’t gotten any mail from her at all.

“No…now that you mention it, I haven’t really seen her around or heard of her…is that why you came all the way here? To look for her?“

“Yes, we were busy lecturing Winter over here, for stalking Moonie once again when the subject of Moonie in general came up and we got concerned. Do you have any idea where she might go at all? Has she expressed a need to be alone recently?” He asked, trying to find a reason for said disappearance.

Summer shook her head as she landed, finally fully facing the trio. Winter back up a bit more behind Stone. Winter didn’t really like Summer all that much, she’s really scary to him. She usually glares at him when she catches him stalking Moonie or flirting with her. Summer noted that Moonie is also really close to a few other ponies: Pinkie, Maple and Synchronize. The trio decided that they should pay Maple a visit next. Summer agreed to spread the word about Moonies disappearance. They said their goodbyes and parted ways.

“She seemed nice, didn’t she?” Stone noted as they were trotting away to the address Summer gave them.

“Yeah, she seems to have this warm aura about her! Like an inviting house with freshly baked cookies! No wonder Moonie spends so much time with her during breaks!” Pop rocks agreed, smiling.

“She’s…<span class="caps">REALLY</span> protective of Moonlight, I’ll give her that..” Said Winter nervously, shuddering.

The other two ponies laughed as they continued on with conversation.

Stone smith had a unnerving feeling in his gut, however, about Moonies true whereabouts. He has a slight hunch something terrible is involved.

He really hopes he’s wrong.

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Heyy….hey.. how y’all doin???? It’s been a flaming hot minute since I’ve done some art on here, let alone main story art! So uuuh yeah !! Did the sketch for this last month but wanted to get this part done asap since its almost 2021 and i didnt wanna let anyone down with this one. Please let me know what you think of the writing, im hella tired right now and i really put my all into this part. I’m sorry if it takes me ages to get the next part out, January is gonna be a stressful month and christmas im not gonna be home for ages! I’ll try to do journals to update yall but thats about as much as i can do rn! Btw Commissions still open (Not that anyones gonna be reading this far to find out lol).