• Published 2nd Jan 2017
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Finding Sunburst - Foal Star



Sunburst is Flurry's foal sitter while Cadence and Shining go out on vacation. While as a foal he and Flurry Heart become seperated and the two go on journey to be reunited.

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Chapter Two: How to be a Foal

Sunburst was now being tucked snuggly into the foal buggy next to Flurry Heart by Spike. The mare from earlier came by with a bright green crystal pony foal with a lock of light yellow for a mane. The mare whispered.”Oh, you’re doing such an amazing job, Spike.”


Spike looked up with a gleam in his eyes, turned to the foal and asked, “Thank you, by the way who’s this?”


The mare smiled down at her foal, “She's Gemstone, my daughter. In fact she and Flurry Heart play with each other quite often.” The mother then proceeded to place Gemstone in with Sunburst and Flurry Heart. as she whispered sweetly to them, “Go play.”


Gemstone gawked upon seeing Flurry Heart she, started screaming and cooing frantically as Flurry babbled back and the two hugged each other.

The mare then turned to Sunburst who gave her an odd look as she gasped,”Oh, I forgot, the colt wet himself! I’d better get him changed right away, can’t believe that slipped my mind for so long!” The other two foals giggled as she took up Sunburst, carried him to a park bench with a hoofful of diapers, wipes, foal cream and powder and began the change. Sunburst cried abit, completely embarrassed by how this mare was changing his diaper. As he began to squirm she quickly placed a pacifier in his mouth. “There there, suckle on that and everything will be alright,” She reassured him. The mare continued the change, putting a new diaper around Sunburst’s little rump. She quickly slid his tail through the tail hole and kissed him on the cheek, making him cross his front hooves over his face prompt the mare to coo some more, “Oh, you're just an adorable little colt.” She then gently settled him in between the other two foals who were still giggling and babbling with each other.


Spike came over and couldn’t help but daww as well as he whispered, “They’re so cute together.”

The mare nodded and replied, “Yes they are, but we should get going. Princess Twilight is probably worried. Best not to keep a princess waiting.” She then took the foal buggy and began pushing it down the road.


Spike turned to the mare and quickly asked, “Oh, I never got your name. Who are you?”


“I’m Sunstone,” The mare responded. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Spike The Brave and Glorious.”


Sunburst was still looking at the two foals with surprise as they were talking amongst each other. Gemstone babbled,”Mommy got me a new cwib."

“Wow, that's so cool!” Flurry shouted in delight before she remembered her parents and she couldn’t help but sniffle and whine, “Mommy and Daddy wet somwhewe.”


Flurry started to tear up as Sunburst babled, “Don wowwie Fuwwy, ya mommy and daddy went on a vacatwion and thewe be back soon.”


”Wha’s a vacwation?” Flurry asked.


Sunburst perked up and replied, “Is wike a bweak, but they wll be back.”


Flurry blushed and looked down at herself as she mumbled to Sunburst, “Ya pwomice?”

Sunburst nodded his head, “I pwomice. Tat’s why they weft me and youw Auntie Twiwight in chawge.”


Gemstone put a hoof in her mouth and babbled. “Don wowwie, my mommy gow on vacwations all the time and she always comes back,” Then she turned to Sunburst and asked, “Fwuwwy, who’s this?”

Flurry picked Sunburst up and shouted, “He’s Sunny, my bestest fwiend! And... I accidentwy tuwned him into a foal.”

Gemstone giggled and shouted, “Wai ya Sunny!?”

Sunburst with a pout muttered, “Yeah, but I Sunbuwst no Sunny.”

Gemstone took her slimy hoof out of her mouth and babbled to Sunburst,”I Gemstwone.”

Sunburst reluctantly shook Gemstone’s hoof as he mumbled, ”Nice ta meet ya Gemstwone.”

Just then Flurry shouted, “Sunnny, ya diapee is all wellow again!”

Flurry and Gemstone both squealed in laughter as Sunburst looked down and placed his front hooves in front of his diaper, it only took him a minute to realize he’d been lied to.

Realizing she’d been caught, Flurry quick;y babbled, “I was joking, Sunny. Besides you’ll get wuse to it! Is pawt of being a foaw.”

Sunburst turned his head in shame as Flurry got up, revealed that her diaper was soaked, and said, “Hey, wook, I actuawy peed.”

Gemstone groaned, ”Oh, I did too, bu Mommy jus changed me.”


The two foals both giggled as Sunburst eyed them, “So ya jus use to it? Ya dun cwy?”

Flurry rolled her eyes, “Of couwse. We onwy cwy when it gets uncomfowtable.”

Gemstone added, “Yeah, Sunbuwst. If ya think thas bad, wait to ya mess yaself.”

Sunburst couldn’t help but shiver on the inside at that the very thought of that. “I hope I ge back ta nowmal befowe tha happens.” He muttered to himself.

Quickly changing the subject, Flurry whispered in Gemstone’s ear as she nodded and asked, “Alwight Sunnybuwst I gotta show ya how ta be a fowl. Ya weady?”

Sunburst eyed the two foals and asked, “Wha do ya mean, Fwuwwy Heawt? I can be a fowl!”


Gemstone giggled, as Flurry eyed Sunburst, “Oh weally?”


Sunburst shouted back, “Yeah, weally!” He couldn’t really explain why, but he felt like he had to prove himself.


Flurry Heart put her entire hoof into her mouth, taunting Sunburst by saying “I bet ya can’t do thwis.”

Gemstone placed her hoof into her mouth as Sunburst looked down at his hooves. Not wanting to be outdone by two foals, he took his right hoof and began to suckle. His face lit up at the sensation and the other foals giggled.


After stopping for a quick diaper change for Flurry Heart and Gemstone, Spike and Sunstone were now nearing the Crystal Palace.

Spike opened the front doors of the palace and led himself, Sunstone, and the foals inside. They soon found Twilight, who had just finished talking with some nobles.

“Oh, hello Spike.” Twilight warmly greeted, not suspecting anything.

Spike immediately shouted, “Oh Twilight, you can’t imagine how happy I am to see you right now!”


“What is it?” Twilight asked with concern in her voice, and she quickly noticed something. “And where’s Sunburst?”

Spike gulped as he reluctantly said, ”Twilight, I think that Sunburst was turned into a foal somehow!”


Twilight (much to Spike’s surprise) threw back her head and laughed, “Oh sure, Spike. And bits just fall from the sky if you wish for them. Now tell me honestly, what’s really happened to Sunburst?”

Spike groaned, he realized there was no way Twilight would believe him until she saw it for herself, so he led her over to the foal buggy.


Twilight peered inside the buggy, and her eyes nearly popped out upon seeing three foals. When the shock wore off, her eyes focused on the orange coated one who looked up and quickly took the hoof out of his mouth, as the other two fillies giggled.Twilight picked said foal up with her magic and asked Spike, “So, you think this little one is Sunburst?”

Spike shrugged, “I don’t know for sure Twilight, but at the park he mysteriously disappeared and this foal was found by this mare named Sunstone.”

Twilight examined the foal held in her magic as he balled and waved his tiny hooves frantically. Reacting quickly, Twilight tickled him until his cries turned to giggles, then she replied, “Well let me see if I can find a way to verify his identity,” And to Sunstone she said. ““Thank you for assisting Spike.”


Sunstone bowed her head, “Think nothing of it, princess. I’m just glad I could help, and that my daughter has a new playmate. Is there anything you need from me?”

Twilight shook her head, “Not at the moment. Thank you again for making sure Flurry Heart and this foal got back here safely.”

Sunstone smiled and bowed, “I would never let a helpless little foal come to harm. This little one clearly had nopony to take care of him. Now I guess I should get going. It’s nearly time for Gemstone’s nap.” She whispered as she took the foal into her foal buggy.

But Flurry Heart began to wail again, which prompted Twilight to ask loudly, “Do you think you could you watch Flurry while I see to this foal? If he really is who Spike says he is, I’ll need to find a way to change him back. And I don’t think I can do that, run the Crystal Empire while the royal family is away, and take care of Flurry Heart. And Spike’s only got two claws, and something tells me none of the royal guards here have any foalsitting expertise.”

Sunstone nodded, quickly calming Flurry Heart down by placing a pacifier in her mouth. “Alright, I suppose I can manage. Gemstone will be thrilled to finally have a playdate with Flurry Heart at her place instead of having to always meet at the playground.”


Twilight smiled and nodded as she continued, “Spike, please show Miss. Sunstone to the nursery. If Sunburst turns up at all or somepony comes by saying they’ve lost a foal, let me know.”


“Sure thing.” Spike replied with a bow. He then lead the mare and the two foals (who were now on Sunstone’s back) down the castle hallway. Meanwhile Twilight took the orange coated foal up to her room.


Sunburst gazed at the now giant purple coated alicorn, he was in complete amazement over how big she looked. “Twily, ya huge!” He babbled.

Twilight giggled, completely unaware of what the foal had just said, and whispered, “Oh, what a curious little foal.” She then settled the foal on top of her bed and laid him down, hushing him as he kicked his legs. She proceeded to take a hair from his mane and placed it in a beaker on a counter. She then began to mix a variety of different colored potions in various beakers.


All the while Sunburst was looking around the room with a new foalish perspective at how big everything is. He looked down at his back hooves and for some reason he tried to suckle them while trying to fold them over. He frowned at each attempt as his back legs fell, making his diaper crinkle quite loudly. Twilight giggled turning her head from time to time watching Sunburst flail about while trying to put his back hooves in his mouth. She turned her head back to the beaker and mumbled, “If this mixture turns orange then somehow that means this foal is Sunburst,” She watched the mixture with intense scrutiny, and was shocked when she saw it turn from a baby blue to the same orange as the coat of the foal. She sighed, faced with the reality that had previously seemed almost impossible “So you are Sunburst.”


Sunburst smiled at this as Twilight came over and hugged him, “But who did this to you? What happened?” She asked him, hoping to somehow be able to get an answer out of him.


Sunburst began babbling frantically, “I was accidentwy tuwned to a fowl by Fwuwwy Heawt, Twile, ya got ta bewieve me!” But alas, to Twilight his words sounded like unintelliegable gibberish.

Twilight sighed and kissed the foal now known to be Sunburst on the forehead. “If only I could speak foal,” She sighed. “I’ll investigate what happened and get to the bottom of this. Somehow I’ll turn you back to normal. But in the meantime...” She placed him back on the bed and gave him a raspberry on the tummy making him giggle and scream in laughter, as she gazed upon Sunburst’s infantile face and rubbed it with a hoof. Sunburst then started to blow raspberries with his mouth. Her heart melted making her kiss the small colt on the forehead, “Now how about we get you back with your friends?” She cooed.


Sunburst giggled and shouted excitedly unintentionally sending spit all over the place. Twilight kissed him on the forehead again and took him on her back, trotting down the hall with a skip in her step.


Spike and Sunstone watched as Flurry Heart was laughing wildly with Gemstone, as they were now placing giant blocks on top of each other.

Twilight came into the nursery carrying the foalfied “wizard”, and placed Sunburst down, who crawled over to the two other foals and they hugged each other. Sunstone cooed, ”Is this adorable little baby really Sunburst?”


Twilight nodded her head and replied, “Yes I think so, I used an identification spell on some of his hair.”

Spike gasped, “But how did he become a foal in the first place?I thought you said age spells could only be performed by powerful unicorns.”


Twilight turned to Spike. ”That is an excellent question, Spike, and unfortunately I don’t know the answer. Did you see what happened by any chance.?”


Spike reluctantly bowed his head as he confessed. ”I was reading a comic book at the time. I’m sorry.”


Twilight sighed. “It’s okay, Spike. You had no way to know what was going to happen,” She turned to Flurry who was squealing as her horn glowed, all of a sudden, she blasted the blocks making all three foals scream in laughter and kick their little back legs! Twilight scratched her chin as she pondered, “Did Flurry somehow turn him into a foal?”

Sunstone turned her head towards Twilight, “I don’t know, it could be possible though. Princess Cadence has told me many times that Flurry has become more unstable with her magical outbursts. But they usually were just blasts of energy, nothing as powerful as an age spell.”


Twilight looked back at Flurry and reluctantly she said. “Then turning Sunburst back to normal will be more difficult than I previously thought.””


“I could go ahead and look around the park, and see if any other pony saw anything. Ill inquire about Sunburst and this foal,” Sunstone offered. “It’s the least I can do for bringing them here.”

“Good idea,” Twilight agreed. “And I’ll come with you. Maybe I can figure out who casted the spell,” Then Twilight turned her head to Spike, “I guessm in the meantime, Spikem you're in charge of keeping these foals safe. Don’t worry, we shouldn't be gone that long.”


Spike blushed but still said. “Sure thing, Twilight, I’ll keep an eye on things here .”


Twilight replied firmly, “Alright then, I trust you, Spike. Don’t let me down.”


Sunburst watched as the big ponies ran off. He suddenly felt a feeling of fear and whimpered, “Whewe they goin?”


Flurry came over and hugged Sunburst and said, “Bi ponies hawe to go sometimwes, wemeba?”


Sunburst quickly realised he was crying over the adults leaving. He tried to put on a happy face, but found it more difficult than he realised.


Gemstone replied, “I okay, my mommy always come back,” Then she immediately asked, “So why di the puwple pony take ya, Sunnybuwst?”

Sunburst shrugged, “I don weally know, Twile needed my haiw to pwove I’m Sunnybuwst.” He nearly gasped at the fact that he’d said his name so foalishly.


Flurry giggled. “That wewid, because you awe Sunnybuwst? Why did she need ya haiw?” Sunburst shrugged as Flurry then said. “Well now that ya back we can continue ya weasons,”


Sunburst eyed Flurry as she pondered for a second and then told him, ”Now, ya hawe to hewp us webuild the towa!”


Gemstone turned and nagged at Flurry Heart, “Yeah becawse Fuwwy bwew up owa wast towa!”


Flurry Heart grumbled and crossed her forelegs, “Sowie my hown gwows sometimes, I don know how to contwo it ye.”


Sunburst wanting to cheer up Flurry, came over to her and sweetly told her, “Is okay, ya a fowl and ya goin to hawe magic outbusts now and again, tat’s why youw mommy and daddy made me youw cwsytaller. Now wets bwild a towa togetha.”


Flurry giggled and hugged Sunburst, then the three foals started to place blocks on top of each other. They continued building for some time, stacking their blocks on top of each other with their hooves until the tower was now over their heads. Flurry Heart tried using her horn to levitate one of her blocks but her horn only sputtered as she groaned, “Oh stupi hown wowk!”

Sunburst put a hoof around Flurry and told her, “When I get back to nowmal I’ll show ya how to contwo that hown.”

Flurry Heart looked up and cheerfully exclaimed, “Yeah, ya can! When ya a adwlt ya used ya hown all the time!”


Sunburst then turned his head and concentrated all his attention to a block. He squinted his eyes and he concentrated his power to levitate the block with his horn. He mumbled, “Ya gotta concentwate wike this.” He tried with all his might to lift the block, but it just fell making the other foals laugh and giggle.

Sunburst groaned as Flurry replied, “It’s alwaight, I gwess as a fowl ya ba at magic now.” Sunburst started sulking as he whimpered. Flurry Heart quickly hugged him to make him smile again. Then she said to him, “Wets pway somthin else.”


Gemstone looked at Spike and said outloud, “Wets pway, get the puwple dwagon!

Sunburst eyed his new foal friends and asked, “Saw wha?”


Flurry giggled, “Ywea! wets get the puwple dwagon, unnybuwst!”


Sunburst looked at Flurry Heart, then at Spike, and he giggled as he shouted,”Alwight, Fwuwwy Heawt, wets get that dwagon!”


Spike had been watching the foals for sometime. But they suddenly came up and started crawling around his legs as he dawwed and asked, “Oh, what do you want?” Flurry pounced on him again, as did the other two, causing him to fall to the ground. He tried to get the foals off him but they clung to him like glue, “watching these foals, is going to be harder than I thought.” He complained.