//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: The Six New Alicorns // by twilightsparkleisbestpony //------------------------------//      Chapter 3 A/N: hey guys, sorry that yesterday's chapter was so short, my best friend had a really bad asthma attack, and I was with her in the hospital most of the day. She's fine now, and so I can write again. Yay! So yeah, story, here it is!    "That's Ruby and Amethyst's room, and that's Seed, Tart, and Blossom's, That's where aunt Fluttershy and uncle Mac will be staying..." Lilac Sky dragged on, showing everypony to their rooms. Rainbow Dash pulled her over after a while.    "So kid, your mom says you took to those things like a natural!"    "Well, I'm a pretty decent flier, but I wouldn't call myself a natural."    "Come on, your mom said your first time flying would have made me look twice."    Pinkie popped out of nowhere. "Actually, the author, twilightsparkleisbestpony, said that you would make Dashie's jaw drop!"    "What in Equestria are you talking about aunt Pinkie?"    Fudgie and her little sister, Sprinkles, also popped out from nowhere. "Makes perfect sense to me Lilac, can you not hear? Is there water in your ears? Sometimes I can't hear when I've got water in my ears, so I shake my head like this!" Sprinkles then proceeded to shake her head furiously in a dog-like manner.    "What were we talking about again?" Lilac asked, confused.    "No clue kiddo." Rainbow Dash responded, ruffling Lilac's mane.   Three Months Later    "Well, today is my last day as a Pegasus."    "Yup, tomorrow you'll wake up with a horn on your head." Rainbow Dash said to her daughter, giving her a hug.    "Happy birthday Storm." Fluttershy said to the blue Pegasus, with a month old foal on her back, whom proceeded to yawn and curl up in a ball.     Storm smiled, taking the tiny pink filly, who had an orange mane and tail, and had been dubbed as Meadow Lark. "I guess I'm just a little bit scared that the transformation will hurt." She admitted.    "Well my back was pretty sore," Lilac Sky told the soon-to-be-alicorn, "So your head will probably hurt like hay tomorrow morning."    "Watch your language when there are foals in the room Lilac!" Her mother reprimanded.    "Sorry mom."     "Well Cloudstorm, make a wish." The light blue, crimson maned young mare took a deep breath and blew out eighteen candles on the cake.     Lilac pulled her over later, on their way to bed. "What did you wish for?"    "Well, for us not to have to do this, but if we must, for my head not to hurt so bad. Trust me, I had a hangover one time, it sucked. I don't want that to happen ever again." The girls smiled and bade each other goodnight. As Cloudstorm tossed and turned in bed that night, she realized that she could not sleep from the pain. She carefully lit a candle and took it over to her bedroom vanity. She looked in the mirror and noticed a tiny nub of a horn on her forehead. She smiled and continued to watch it grow for an hour. When it reached full length, she smiled, took a good long look at herself, and curled back up in bed, smiling.       "Did it hurt?" AppleTart asked Storm. Her birthday was coming up in three weeks, and she was nervous.    "A little bit, but not too bad. Kind of like a migraine."    "Are you kidding? When I sprouted these things, I wanted to tear my hair out from the pain!" Lilac said.    She had scared Tart with her rage, and it was visible. "Sky, you frightened her! Good going!" Storm yelled.    "Well excuse me for telling the truth! You were just lying to her!"    "I was trying not to scare her, but now you've gone and done it instead!"    "You're just setting her up for unbearable pain!"    Apple Tart shrunk back into her little private world, crying softly because of her two arguing friends. "P-please stop fighting... please girls?"    The arguing young mares paid her no heed, and kept bickering. Eventually, Luna had to step in and break it up. "Alright you two, ENOUGH! YOU ARE SCARING THE POOR THING WITH YOUR YELLING! NOW WILL BOTH OF YOU PLEASE SHUT THE BUCK UP?!?!" Lilac and Storm went wide-eyed. Lilac Sky had only heard Luna's royal Canterlot voice once before, and that was when Flickersky, her older cousin, had been pulling her hair, (Which, by the way, was no where near as bad as the punishment his father had given him,) and Storm had never heard it before, and it scared her shitless.     Neither of the ponies could say anything for a few minutes, and then lowered their heads. "Sorry..."    A few weeks passed, and Apple Tart joined the group of alicorns. Like Lilac had said, it had hurt like hay, and she was happy when it was over. She walked around, sporting her new horn, beaming with pride. And, she was tall enough that she could take both of her little sisters flying.    "Higher Tart! Faster!" Blossom and Meadow Lark sat on her back as she flew through the sky. Unlike Tart, Apple Blossom was not afraid of anything.    "I can't go any faster. I'm sorry."    "Oh. Okay." The three sisters continued to simply cruise around the sky, enjoying the breeze. "Hey sis?"     "Yeah Blossom?"    "Aren't you scared about this whole bad guy thing? I'm a little scared and I don't even have to do it."    "Well, sure I'm scared, but I'm doing it for you, and Meadow, and Mom and Dad, and everypony! And I'm doing it because I love you guys." Apple Tart told her sister, nuzzling her lightly on the cheek. "Besides, it's not going to happen for a long time, and we'll be ready."    They were silent for a little while. "Hey sis?"    "Yeah Blossom?"    "I love you. Please be safe. I already lost one sibling, I don't wanna lose another."    "I promise, I'm not going anywhere." A/N: Sorry about the fluff at the end there, but it's physically impossible for me to write fics without making them fluffy. Anyway next chapter should be up tomorrow. Thinking of putting this on EQD. Love you guys!