//------------------------------// // Chapter 12 // Story: Chasing Twilight Stars // by RejectOwl //------------------------------// Twilight's ears twitched in time to the clock on her wall, Star Chaser was still crying, she'd tried everything she could think of toys, feeding, rocking, burping, even bribery via ice cream, but it had no effect. "Pleaaase, Star Chaser, please stop crying. Dear Faust please stop! I'll give you a lollypop if you just stop crying!" She exclaimed as she herself began to cry. "Twilight? You alright?" Spike asked. Twilight chucked a pillow at him. "I demand quiet!" She screamed hypocritically. "It's been an hour." Twilight twitched. "One full hour, and I'm losing it, how are you still able to throw a tantrum over a whole hour? Why Star Chaser? Why?" Twilight screamed incoherently as the foals cries assaulted her ears. Cinnamon Flower flinched at the sudden scream as she cowered in the corner, a pillow over her ears, having long since given up on any attempts to calm Star Chaser, even before Twilight, opting instead to attempt to muffle the cries. "I haven't slept in what feels like three days, my foal has been crying over nothing for an hour, five more minutes and I'll lose it!" Twilight screamed. "Noooo. Don't start screaming. It's bad enough with him screaming at the top of his lungs." Cinnamon whimpered. "Why won't he stop crying? Did we try everything?" "Yes we've tried everything! Sometimes foals just cry Cinnamon, you'd know that if you hadn't dumped him on my doorstep!" Twilight yelled. Cinnamon flinched as if she'd been struck and began to silently cry. A knocking sound came from the front of the castle. And now the foal could probably use magic to whack stuff around the room. Twilight thought bitterly, until the sound came again. Right, right, doors. Twilight reminded herself. Twilight stomped to the door and answered, to see Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. "Hey Twilight! We haven't seen you in so long we thought we'd come visit! And then I heard Star Chaser crying and thought, well, maybe we can help with that too!" Pinkie Pie cheered and began to run into the castle. "I got the flour!" "No Pinkie! Don't you dare get flour all over my castle!" Twilight shouted and picked up the pink mare in her magic, and thumped her onto the ground. "Ow, did you have to do it so hard?" Pinkie asked as her eyes rolled around in her head. "Yes!" Twilight snapped. "Ooooh! I've seen you before!" Pinkie cheered rushing to Cinnamon Flower. "You're the mare who works at the new ice cream shop!" "Please. Don't talk about that." She whispered as tears ran down her muzzle. "I don't work there anymore, and I don't want to talk about it, ever again." "Okay then, I Pinkie Promise I won't ever bring it up again unless you wanna talk and then obviously I'll have to bring it up again! Because how can I relate to you if I don't bring up the topic? I mean, that'd be so hard!" Pinkie babbled on. "Pinkie. Silence." Twilight snarled. "Oh. Sorry." Pinkie smiled guiltily then her eyes widened. "Sooooo! Twilight! Who is your new friend!" "Huh? Oh, Pinkie Pie meet Cinnamon Flower, Cinnamon, this is my friend Pinkie Pie, before you ask, yes, she's odd, she's just being Pinkie, it's what she does and it's why we love her. Wait, Pinkie, didn't you say you already knew her?" "Oh! It's so super duper great to meet you!" Pinkie cheered. "And no! I saw her but I didn't meet her yet! She always hid from me!" "Hi, I'm Fluttershy." Fluttershy reached out a hoof for Cinnamon's, much calmer than Pinkie Pie. "Oh my gosh! New friend! We gotta throw a party! I don't even remember you moving here, which is weird because normally I know everypo-" Twilight hovered Pinkie in her magic, and forcefully threw her from the castle. "I said be quite and I meant it." Twilight said and nodded firmly. Cinnamon and Fluttershy stared at Twilight. "Remind me not to piss you off." Cinnamon whispered with a mix of fear and awe. "You just... you just picked up a pony with your magic, twice!" "Language! There is a foal in the room! Or I'll chuck you out next!" Twilight exclaimed as she began tugging at her mane. "Anypony else?"" Spike shook his head quickly and made to leave the room, claws clicking on the floor. "I said silence!" Twilight screamed and picked up the baby dragon and put him in a closet. "Noisy baby dragons go in the time out closet!" Fluttershy ran to cower in the corner beside Cinnamon Flower. "Is she always like this?" Cinnamon whispered. "No, normally she's much calmer." Fluttershy squeaked. "Foal madness?" Cinnamon asked. Fluttershy mutely nodded, watching her friend stomp around the room in anger. "She... she's so powerful." Cinnamon said in awe. "Is that why they made her a princess?" Fluttershy merely shook her head, not trusting herself to speak. "They made me a princess because I'm good with friends. So good with friends, and now a tiny foal throwing a tantrum is gonna be what breaks me!" Twilight kicked out and sent a stool flying, shattering into the wall. Fluttershy let out a tiny squeak and moved closer to Cinnamon. "If an angry alicorn scares you so much why don't you just leave Fluttershy?" Twilight snarled. "In fact, I'll help you." The pegasus was lifted in a purple aura and hovered out the door, and unkindly plopped onto the ground. "There. Now there will be silence, aside from the screaming foal that is." Twilight twitched. "Princess Twilight, do you hear that?" Cinnamon asked her eyes wide. "No, I think my ears are still ringing from all the bucking screaming!" She shouted. Cinnamon pointed to the little foal, his face was a mess and his eyes puffy, but he was asleep. "Oh my Faust!" Twilight exclaimed and scooped Cinnamon Flower into a tight hug. "He stopped, oh he stopped!" Cinnamon ducked her head as she felt a blush take over her face. "Princess, could you let me go?" She mumbled. "Oh, right." Twilight dropped the mare. "And I told you earlier, just call me Twilight." "Right, Twilight." Cinnamon smiled and gently picked up Star Chaser, depositing him in his crib. "Cinnamon?" Twilight questioned. "Hmm?" "I'm sorry." She said with her head down in shame. "For what? You didn't make him cry." Cinnamon answered. "For... for yelling at you." Twilight answered. "I shouldn't have done that. You're too nice for that. You didn't deserve it." The mare blushed and then smiled. "It's alright Twilight, I've heard foals can make a mare do crazy stuff." Cinnamon laughed. "I need a nap." Twilight mumbled and slumped onto the floor where she sat. "You should probably go to your bed then." Cinnamon laughed. "Right, beds, beds are good." Twilight mumbled as she plodded to her room. "You'll make sure he doesn't hurt himself somehow?" "Yeah, I got it." Cinnamon answered watching the princess carefully. "Go get a nap."