//------------------------------// // Games and Bunnies // Story: I'm a loli?!? // by aterriblewriter //------------------------------// It's been about half an hour since Spike decided to try to eat the magical glowing crystal in my basement. We dragged the surprisingly heavy guy upstairs and lay him on my couch, worried about his health. Personally, I think he'll be alright, I am pretty sure dragons are pictured tough for a reason. Fluttershy quickly ran outside a little while ago, probably going to get someone more qualified to look at the poor guy. We all were sitting at various spots in the living room. Because of Ash's persistence, I was sitting next to Spike, making the fillies giggle and Jynx send feelings of amusement, causing me to glare at them. The tentacle called Crystal was poking Spike in the side, sending feelings of worry. I pat her side, making her feel better and stop poking him. Suddenly, Sylphid glowed green and moved over to the black marks on Spike's mouth, sending feelings of determination. The glow flowed over his burns, making them slowly vanish. Everyone watched them do their work, awestruck at the sudden magical display. It only lasted a few minutes until she retracted from his face and nuzzled Crystal, feeling her thank Sylphid. "-Uhhhh.......-" Spike groans his eyes fluttering. "-A-Are you an angel?-" He asks, a little delirious from the shocking experience. "-You're beautiful......-" He murmurs, staring at my face. Everyone giggled at the scene, making me glare at them, annoyed at the dragon's crush on me. I hear my front door be slammed open, seeing Fluttershy and some white and pink unicorn levitating a med-kit enter the room in a rush towards Spike. "I'll take a shot in the dark and say that she's some kind of doctor." "-Oh, he's conscious, that'll make my job easier. Okay, Spike, tell us where it hurts.-" The pony says, breaking Spike out of his reverie. "-Nothing hurts.... I taste mint for some reason though....-" "-That's strange...... I was told you were launched across the room and was embedded into the wall, it should have broken some scales at least.-" The pony thoughtfully says. "-Dakota fixed him up. He was burnt in some spots by his face, until one of her.....things glowed green and healed him. He woke right up after the light show.-" Zoe speaks up, pointing at me.   "-Is that so? Hmmmm....-" The unicorn trails off, horn glowing. "-Some residual low grade healing magic...... Nice to know she can cast healing magic.-" She smiles, having checked on spike with a small spell. "-Just tell anypony if Spike has any problems, the healing spells are a little iffy when you don't know much about the being you are using it on and, seeing that he is feeling fine, I think he'll be alright to go.-" She shrugs, a little unsure of what to. "-Well, if anything worsens, just let me know. Now, if you excuse me, I have to go back to the hospital.-" She levitates the med-kit and walks out, giving a little over the shoulder wave goodbye. "-Soooooo........ Can anypony explain the glowing crystal in the basement?-" Jessie asks, breaking the silence. "-Well, when Dakota warped here with her house, it had massive amounts of magic in one area, meaning, the residual magic from her getting here had to have gone somewhere.-" Ash explains. "-If enough raw magic is thrown into one spot, the effects could be disastrous, but, we all got lucky. The magic formed the crystal down there.-" She points at the basement door. "-That thing currently holds enough magic to give Celestia a run for her bits, if I'm right.-" "-Woah! How is that possible!-" Lisa almost shrieks. "-The only gem I saw formed by magic wasn't that big, it was the size of a hoofball and had enough magic for twenty unicorns, not even close to the boulder sized monster down there.-" Ash shudders. "-I guess we are pretty lucky that Spike's appetite didn't make the crystal blow up, those things can get pretty....unstable when fiddled with.-" "-Hey, it was worth it! It was the best gem I've ever tasted! Granted, I probably won't do it again, I'm not crazy.-" Spike defends. "Now that everything is all fine and dandy, how about we go back to going to where Flutters was taking us. On that note, sorry Fluttershy, I couldn't wait to check on my basement." I apologize to Fluttershy, remembering that she was leading us somewhere. She smiles and comes over to me. "-It's fine, Dakota.-" She drapes a wing over my shoulder. "-What did she say?-" Spike asks. "-Well, I think it was an apology.-" "-It's alright, Dakota. Thanks to you, I'm going to be just fine.-" Spike gently grabs my hand and, to the amusement of Jynx and to my horror, I blush. "-Okay, you lovebirds, now that we had the unexpected 'visit' to the magical crystal downstairs, we are gonna go back to what we were doing, going to Fluttershy's pla--" Ash gets interrupted by knocks at the front door. I shrug and answer the door, getting Spike to stop holding my hand in the process. "Oh, hi, Rarity. What are ya doing here?" I ask, surprised that she's here. "-Good afternoon, darling. Oh, where did you get that coat? I've never seen any design like that.-" She asks, walking circles around me and trying to memorize the design. "-What kind of fabric is it made of?-" "Uh, hey, I know you're into fashion and all, but could ya take a break from that for, like, fifteen minutes?" "-Oh, right! Celestia said that the spell wouldn't work anymore. Here, I have something for you.-" She says after a few moments of silence, levitating a familiar doll over to me. "-I think you forgot this back in my bedroom. Its a dreadful little thing, but I suppose you kept it for a reason.-" She says, giving a little shiver at the sight of the doll. I take a closer look at the doll, wondering why it seemed so familiar, before remembering yesterday morning. "Ahhh, it's the Lilo and Stitch doll-clone-thing." I realize with a smile, happy to see it again. "I knew I was forgetting something today, but I didn't know what." With a quick thanks, I decide to do the kid choice on how to thank her, giving her a big hug.   I wrap my arms awkwardly around her, not really sure how to go about hugging a pony, let alone one bigger than me. She really knows how to keep her fur in pristine condition, feeling no knots in her velvety coat. "-Oh, you're welcome, darling.-" Rarity smiles, wrapping a hoof around me in a hug. "-What are you doing here, Rarity?-" I hear Fluttershy quietly ask, having come to check on me. "-Dakota forgot her doll back at my house and my work was going slowly, so I came to return it.-" "-That's nice of you, Rarity. Would you like to come with us? We're all going to go to my cottage in a little bit.-" "-I suppose I could come along...... Just try to keep your little devil rabbit away from me.-" "-Angel is not a devil, he's just grumpy about not getting the expensive carrots that Golden Harvest sells.-" "-He was grumpy? Tell that to my silk supply, he broke in my house and chewed up all of it up, do you have any idea how hard it is to get Arachnid silk? Nopony has ever seen an Arachnid, let alone talked to one. I'm lucky that my source still sells the silk.-" "-I didn't know he did all that...... I won't give him any more strawberries for a week, that should teach him to not chew up things that don't belong to him.-" "-I really think you need to do more than that......-" Rarity mutters with a sigh, not liking Fluttershy's idea of a punishment. "Okay, let's get the others and go, I want to see what you guys were leading me to earlier." I speak up, getting a little impatient. "-Just wait a little longer, Dakota. We're going to go in a little while, we just have to give Rarity an update on the situation.-" Fluttershy says, patting my head lightly with a wing. "-Why don't you go play with Spike and the others?-" I get lightly pushed towards the living room, feeling Freya get a little agitated at Fluttershy. "Fine, I'll go.-" I mutter, walking back into the living room. I see Ash giving me a curious look the moment I walk in the room. "It's just Rarity." I say before grabbing the books and motioning Spike and the three fillies to follow me upstairs to my room.   They entered my room, seemingly in awe at all the stuff I had in here. The first thing they saw was the posters of games and movies scattered about my walls. I have a wall of video games for all the systems I have, organized by the genre of game and system, right next to my queen sized bed. A few chairs in front of my desk with my T.V on it, pretty much all the gaming systems hooked up to it, a mess of wires poking out the back. "Welcome to my room, please don't break anything." I say, not used to having multiple people in here. "Just take a seat near the T.V, I'll get something we could all take turns on." I point near the T.V, silently hoping they'd get what I'm saying. While they looked around, I threw the doll and the books on my bed. "-Woah, she's got some cool decorations.-" Zoe notes, not noticing that I was talking and looking at my Gurren Lagann poster.   Spike was walking around taking it all in, being a little weird in the process and sniffing random objects, lingering a little longer on my bed. "Maybe it's a dragon thing? Whatever it is, it's getting kinda creepy..." Jessie was looking at my wall of games, trying in vain to get a hold on one of them with her hoof. "-Oh, sweet Celestia!-" A voice exclaims, startling everyone. Lisa had opened my closet door and was frozen in shock at the amount of clothes in there, making me sigh and the others speed over to see my closet. "This is gonna come back to mess with me later, isn't it? Why does she have to be the one to dig in my things?" I get over to the door and shut it, making shushing noises and making zipping motions over my mouth. "Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone about this. I want it to be a surprise later." I say, earning looks of confused understanding. "-Okay, we won't tell anypony.-" Lisa slowly says, the other three nodding in agreement. I smile, relieved that they got it. "I would hate it if the fashionista downstairs learned of my closet." I think with a shudder, knowing she would go crazy. I motion them over to the seats by the T.V, wanting to play some games with them. They each take a seat and I move over to my game wall, looking for one of my favorite games. "Ah! Here, ya guys are gonna love this!" I say, having found the game quickly. I pop the game in my Xbox and pull out two controllers, a plain black corded controller and my custom  wireless controller I made myself. The controller was white with gold trim, golden tribal wings flowing down the grips and the buttons were silver with black lettering on them. I turn on the T.V and see the title menu start up, hearing the group gasp in amazement. "Yeah, I can only guess how it looks to ya guys." I say with a giggle, just liking the look of absolute wonder on their faces. I had put in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, one of the games I am better at. I felt like showing off, having played this for a while. I put it in versus mode and passed the black controller to my tentacles, giving them a slight feeling of challenge. Freya quickly responded with glee, wrapping herself around the controller, eager to beat me again. The others were happy to join in, Crystal being a little more hesitant and being placed at the block button on the controller by Freya and Jynx, much to the annoyance of Sylphid. I give them a little pat on the side and murmur lowly to them. "What happened to the perfect team I had yesterday? Ya guys wouldn't even let me land a hit on ya. I want that team to come back and try to take my crown away from me.... Or are ya.... Chicken?" That last word got a reaction, all of them took their positions, feeling confidence and challenge flow, making me give a feral grin. "It's been a little while since I had a round against anyone on this.... Let's go!" I chose Taokaka, one of my favorite cat girls. The tentacles, after some voting, chose my only weakness, Rachel Alucard. She can place lightning rod traps during the battle and can make quick getaways with her wind power-thingy. Freya and Jynx send something akin to evil laughter. "Just one round, then I'm passing it over to the others." I say, earning a nod from Crystal. I then chose the stage, Taokaka's home, The Lost City. I skipped the little introductions for the characters, wanting to get on with this. In the game Taokaka and Rachel stood on the edges of the screen, waiting for either to make a move. Suddenly, Tao sped over with insane speed, claws extended, Rachel standing still and sipping on her tea with an indifferent look on her face. When Tao got close enough, Rachel's little minion turned into a cannon and fired, just missing when Tao suddenly jumped, a feral look in her eyes. "Nyaa!" Metal claws raked Rachel's face, her health bar lowering a little bit. Tao landed, giggling at her pain. Rachel growled, firing another cannon shot and speeding away with a gust of wind. Tao quickly turned around, noticing the two lightning traps and giving a small groan.  "Grrrrrr! I will beat the rabbit lady!" Tao yells, running headlong into the traps. She dodged them with some trouble, glad that when Rachel activates the traps, all of them go off. Rachel was prepared this time, launching some pumpkins into the air and sending a frog out in Tao's path, to the confusion of my audience. Tao gave another growl at the sight of her next obstacles. "I hate rabbit lady's toys!" She yells, running on all fours, her tail wagging haphazardly. A sudden gust of wind slowed Tao down, the pumpkins flying after her. Tao tried to jump and dodge, only to jump right on top of the frog and get shocked, losing about a tenth of her health bar. Another gust of wind came, sending the pumpkins back at her, now stunned, self. They made contact, sending Tao into the air and closer to Rachel. Rachel jumped into the air, her clothes turning into a giant spiked collar and spinning to grind the spikes into Tao's body, dealing massive damage. Tao's health bar is now a little under half way after the barrage of attacks. Rachel was swept further away from Tao by another gust of wind, firing her cannon three times while flying away, each shot landing around Tao and turning into lightning traps.  Tao finally recovered, furious at the little vampire running away. Tao reached into her pocket and threw....a pillow, just my luck. The pillow hit Rachel, stunning her for a second, while Tao ran past the traps. Tao jumped and landed on Rachel, claws swinging wildly and a cloud of dust surrounding them. The dust cleared and Tao activated one of her specials, making a ghost copy of her follow. She quickly went into action, swinging her claws rapidly, dealing twice the damage. Rachel quickly blocked most of the hits then flew away to the other side of the traps, Tao's ghost double disappearing. Rachel's health bar had a little more than a quarter left from the punishment she went through. She gave a little, "hmmpf," and sent out more pumpkins and taunted, taking a seat and sipping on tea. Tao ran towards her, seeing red. She quickly ran into the traps, trying her best at blocking them when they activated. Rachel sent another gust in Tao's direction, slowing her down and hitting her with the pumpkins. Rachel fired more traps at Tao, each one activating the moment they landed, making it look like even Thor didn't want Tao to win. Tao got shocked a few times, lowering her health to a little sliver. Tao finally got close and hit Rachel with a haymaker, bouncing her off the wall. Tao followed the move by jumping and sending Rachel into the air, attacking from all directions. Rachel quickly lost during Tao's assault, not even able to block the attacks. When all was said and done, Rachel was unconscious on the ground and Tao was doing a little dance. In the real world "Winner is.... Taokaka!" The announcer yells, to my happiness. "Yeah! Good game, guys!" I applaud, giving a high five to each tentacle. Freya gave me a whack on the shoulder, sending begrudging respect. Jynx sent amusement at Freya's attitude. I turn around checking on my little audience, hoping they liked the show. The Ash and the others came up at some point during the game, surprising me a little. There was a moment of awestruck silence, nothing could be heard, except the winning music from the game. "-That was..........awesome!-" Spike cheers, surprising me with a bone crushing hug, making me blush like a tomato. "-That was an interesting little display you put on, darling.-" Rarity smiles. "-The way those two were fighting was barbaric, but I suppose i like the dress the other one was wearing.-" "-I liked the cat lady! I almost couldn't keep up with her!-" Zoe cheers. "-I-It was exciting! I-I've never seen something like that.-" Fluttershy agrees. "-Yeah, Dakota has some interesting things, doesn't she?-" Ash notes, interested in what else I have. "-I wonder who else she has on it....-" Lisa trails off. I pry myself out of Spike's grip and smile, happy to show off. "So.... Are we going now?" I ask, Crystal turning off the Xbox behind me. Fluttershy gives me a nod and turns to the group. "-O-Okay, let's get going.-" They all slowly made their way out, Spike following close beside me and trying to hold my hand, much to my annoyance. It took a little while to get to where we were going, having taken some turns and ended up following a dirt path that lead around the outskirts of a forest. The path was hugging the edge of the forest on one side and the opposite side was a massive apple orchard, the sight of which made Jessie smile. The strangest thing I've noticed during the walk was that I heard various animal noises growing in volume as we continued.    After walking for a few minutes, we came upon a little cottage built on a hill. I stop suddenly, questioning everything knew in life after getting a good look at the place. The whole cottage looked like nature decided to take over. There was grass growing out of whack everywhere, even the roof wasn't safe. To the left of the house were a few chicken coops surrounded by a small fence. Birdhouses were on every branch on every tree, the resident birds poking their heads out, staring at me with varying degrees of fear and curiosity. The little bridge over the river looked like it was formed from the earth and under it was a little dock leading into a burrow for some kind of animal. "Huh..... Nice place ya got here. Who lives here?" I ask, looking to Fluttershy, hoping she can give me some limited answers. She points to herself with a small smile, trying to hide behind her hair. I hum in response, mentally taking notes. When we got to her front door, she pushed it open and I immediately noticed the strong.....zoo-like smell. There were even more birdhouses inside, making me blink in confusion, not really expecting there to be more. The rest of the house looked pretty normal, if you ignored the little animals running about the place.   They all stopped and looked at me. A little bunny hopped up to me, giving me a few curious sniffs, before turning to Fluttershy and the others, glaring at them. "-Angel, this is Dakota, please be nice to her.-" Fluttershy introduces me to the bunny, making me raise an eyebrow at it. The bunny looked at me, his calculating stare lingering at the faux bunny ears on my coat, before hopping behind me. He pawed at my little tail on the coat, seemingly confused why I have it. Then he looked at my coat sleeves, which had two tentacles coming out of each arm. He poked Crystal on the tip when she got close to him, making me shiver at the contact. "Nice to know that I can feel what they feel if I try." I mentally note. The little rabbit, then stared at my eyes, an almost menacing glare in his eyes. "I think I've read about this somewhere..... Something about dominance or respect, I dunno."  I think with a shrug, staring back at the almost evil looking bunny in front of me. The staring continued for a few seconds, neither of us backing down, until the bunny suddenly smiled and hopped into my arms, taking care to not touch the tentacles. That made everyone stare at me in astonishment, causing me to raise an eyebrow at the stares "-Did he just.....?-" Zoe asks, one of her wings twitching a little. "-Oh, my.......-" Even Fluttershy was at a loss of words. "-What's the big deal? It's just a bunny, not a timberwolf. -" Ash asks, not really getting the big deal about this. "-Darling, that rabbit is the most demanding, evil, outright angry little monster I've ever had the displeasure of encountering.-" Rarity explains. "-The only pony he will listen to is Fluttershy.-" I give the little fella in my arms a few scratches behind his ears, him leaning into the touch. I guess I did the right thing, seeing that all the other animals in the house flocked to me the moment they saw him become putty in my arms. The various birds had perched onto my head and shoulders, me feeling that childish feeling of absolute wonder at this, I decide to go with the the flow, giggling all the while. "-Whoa! She's like another you, Fluttershy!-" I hear Jessie exclaim. Unbeknownst to me, Spike was watching this in silence, hearts in his eyes, thinking that I looked amazing with the giant smile on my face. "-Oh, that's just amazing! I've never seen all of the critters warm up to somepony that fast, especially Angel!-" Fluttershy quietly exclaims, excited at my apparent skill with animals. I was surrounded by various animals, dogs, cats, mice and even a bear, the last of which knocked me down by running into me, sending the birds flying in a panic and making me throw the bunny onto a nearby couch to save him the trouble of slamming into the ground with me. "-What's a bear doing here?!?-" I hear Ash panic. "-Oh, it's fine. She's Ms. Grizzly, one of the few animals to help me out when I need to lift something heavy. Don't worry she won't hurt anypony while she's here.-" Fluttershy assures. "Okay, nice bear, no need to eat me, I am too spicy from years of eating spicy foods!" I didn't even catch the reassuring tone in Fluttershy's voice, too focused on the bear in front of me. The tentacles quickly went into action, Freya and Jynx glowing their respective colors, gaining the attention of the bear. The bunny suddenly hopped in front of me, chittering furiously at the bear and causing Jynx and Freya to retract a little in confusion. The bear looked almost scared of the bunny, like it was familiar with him. The bear broke out in tears after listening to him and ran outside, much to the amusement of Freya and Jynx. "-Angel! Why did you say that to her! You know she's sensitive about her weight!-" Fluttershy scolds, not liking the bunny's attitude. "-Go out there and apologize!-" The bunny gave a little huff and ran outside after the bear, glaring the whole while. "-Why didn't you make him apologize to me about the silk.....-" Rarity mutters under her breath. The crowd of animals had swarmed me while I was sprawled out on the ground, mice climbing onto my chest and head, birds retaking their place on my arms and cats curling up on my stomach. "I have a feeling that I'm gonna love this place!"