Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Fall Weather Floofs,
part 2
[ The next day at the finish line.]
“So where was Spike again?” Pinkie Pie asked. “I wanted to ask if he wanted to help announce the race with me. Two commentators would be super awesome!”
“Woof.”Rahs shrugged from under his curtain.
“Headache ? That's too bad.” Pinkie Pie shrugged recalling the impacts from yesterday with a wince. “ Oh well, maybe next year.”
Any further conversation was interrupted by the sound of fighting a dust cloud of tangled limbs and angry shouts rolled across the finish line.
“And here's Applejack and Rainbow Dash.” Pinkie Pie announced.
As the smoke cleared a dusty and beaten pair of ponies faced off against each other.
“I won.” Dash snorted.
“No, I won.” Applejack snapped.
“Girls, girls, you both tied!” Pinkie Pie chimed up.
“What? We tied for first?” Applejack panted.
“Nope, for last.” Pinkie Pie grinned.
“Then.. who won?” Dash stammered.
“That would be me.” Twilight Smirked as she trotted up with a medal around her neck.
“WHAT!? Dash practically screamed..
“You said you never run in a race before!”Applejack protested. “ And every time we saw you you were in the back.”
“True, I haven't run in an actual race before. I did however spend a number of years running around with a hyper active puppy of a brother and after that I spent a few more years training with my oldest brother to help him get ready to be in the Guard. I also coached Lyra in track. She came in second by the way.”Twilight smirked pointing to a hopping lime green pony off to the side. “The books on racing I read years ago and one of the prominent bits of wisdom they all shared was to conserve your energy until the final stretch when every one else is tired.”
“Bwaaah?” Dash enunciated.
I still keep in shape, while I don't go on runs as often as I used to, I’m no slouch. Seriously do you think I keep this this flank as firm as it is by just reading?” Twilight grinned, taunting the pair by wiggling her rear at them.
“Eenope.” Big Mac stated from the other side of Twilight where he had walked up to check on his sister just at the right time to see the display.
The purple mare ceased her taunting turned her head to stare wide eyed at the large smirking stallion before her, eeped loudly and vanished in a flash of teleportation leaving behind nothing but a racer tag with the number 42 on it drifting to the ground.
“By Celestia's sparkly tail, will you two just get a room and get it over with.” Rainbow growled up at a confused looking Big Mac before Applejack swatted her with her hat.
“Seems I missed something interesting.” a regal voice commented. “ Particularly since my tail seems to be involved in it.”
A number of Ponies in the crowd gasped and bowed as Princess Celestia trotted up to the pair of disheveled ponies who had quickly ducked their heads. Pinkie Pie and Big Mac bowed and stepped out of the way of the pair Celestia was addressing, Rahs might have bowed a little but it was hard to tell under the massive curtain.
“There thou are!” another voice bellowed and a dark alicorn darted up next to her sister sweeping the bundled Moon Dog off the ground with her fore hooves.
“Umm Princess what are you doing here?”Applejack questioned as she glanced over at Rahs. The poor pup was flailing wildly as Luna ignored his actions completely slinging him around in a hug like a four year old with a large teddy bear.
“Luna wished to meet with Twilight and her brothers, though mostly Rahs. Spike pointed us here from the library, but it seems we just missed Twilight. “Celestia commented. “I also wanted to show Luna what The Running of the Leaves had become nowadays, rather than what it was before she was banished.”
“Huh?” Rainbow Dash put eloquently.
Celestia looked at Dash curiously tapping a hoof against her chin as she considered telling the story of how the event was started by a cruel lord who hated fall and just wanted it to end sooner than it should, forcing ponies to run themselves to death to shake free the last of the leaves each year, but the atmosphere was too festive for that sort of story.
“Do not worry about it my little ponies.” Celestia answered instead. “Though I do have to question why the pair of you were fighting like that. I was under the impression you two were quite close.”
Celestia raised an eyebrow as the pair of them tried to look any where but at Celestia.
“We got a little out of hoof with our competition Princess.” Applejack admitted as Rahs continued to flail behind them. The gathered ponies were not sure whether or not the conversation with Celestia was more or less interesting than the towns second largest canine being treated like a rag doll by a Pony Princess smaller than he was.
“I see. Well I don't need to remind you why your continued friendship is important. So if there are any issues I would like you to let me know so we can work through them. That goes for all of you, Pinkie Pie would you mind letting the others who are not here know that.”
“Okie Doki Princess!” Pinkie Pie chimed.
“Now then if you two are still in some sort of competitive mood there are still a number of leaves on the trees that could be shaken loose by two ponies who fought each other the whole race rather than actually run it.” Celestia suggested.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash winced though the pair glanced at each other before both smirked and the pair took off running back down the road.
“Well that seemed to be settled agreeably.” Celestia smiled.
“BWAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!” Pinkie Pie cackled looking past, the Princess as the others ran off.
Looking back Celestia had to hold back a snort of laughter herself as Luna had removed Rahs' curtain to continue to hug him.
The Moon Dog was indeed fluffier than usual, but only around his paws, ears, shoulders, head, and tail. The onset of his winter coat had poofed up those parts of him to look like pom poms and give him a fur do very much like Prench Poodle.
A number of other Ponies in the crowed were stifling their giggles or backing quickly away, depending on whether or not they were close enough to Rahs to hear his growling, or sensible enough to see the Moon Dog had death in his eyes.
Luna didn't seem to notice at all and still had him in a bear hug while rambling about something in old Equsish at a speed that made Celestia wonder if she had managed to get a hold of another quadruple espresso.
“Ahh I see Rahs' winter coat is coming in again.”Celestia smirked getting a glare from the Moon Dog.
“Also Lulu calm down, I don't think he can understand you and even if he can I am certain he needs to breath.”
Luna blinked, confused for a second before she seemed to catch on and let go of him. Rahs clearly had good self preservation instincts as he lept away as soon as he could, only to be scooped up again in Luna's magic and lifted flailing in the air. His attempts to bite his way out wound up as effective on the Princess's magic as it had on Shining Armor's shields after months of practice. Celestia frowned taking note of the immunity to Rahs' abilities her sister seemed to have.
“Luna.” Celestia sighed glancing around at the ponies who had taken the time to hide, but still hung around to see what was going to happen.
“He is released! How ever we cannot speak with him if he has scampered off?” Luna turned to look at the flailing Moon Dog. “Perhaps we should acquire a brush to fix his coat however.......”
“Luna I believe you are embarrassing him unnecessarily.” Celestia sighed trying to hide her smirk.
“Pish posh. We are his grandmother, we are supposed to embarrass and spoil our grand foals.... pups in this case.” Luna scoffed.
“WHAT!!!!!??” cried out every one present at the finish line, including Celestia.
“We have been officially made his guardian by his parents, and we have chosen the title of grandmother for said guardianship.” Luna stated flatly.
“Luna did you threaten Nightlight and Twilight Velvet for this....” Celestia sighed.
“Who?” Luna asked.
“His parents, well Twilight's parents....” Celestia offered.
“Ahh we had not considered asking them, we swore to his birth parents, as they cannot be here, that we would watch over him.” Luna responded.
Again the clearing echoed with a bellowed 'What', though not from Rahs as his jaw was hanging open too far.
“What? He is one of ours. How could we not offer such?” Luna commented glancing over to a Guard who had run off then returned with a brush for the Princess. “Ah thank you Guard.”
“You're Rahs' Granny!?” Pinkie Pie gasped.
“Something of the sort. “ Luna responded, pulling Rahs out of the air to start brushing him. “ We consider our selves something of a matriarchal figure to Moon Dogs any way given we are responsible for their existence. With Rahs' presence here however we decided something more personal was needed.”
“You do realize that with your status and with what Bleu said about Spike that this is.......” Celestia slowly blinked. An expression appeared on her face that made more than one grown pony in the crowd wet themselves and a number of others run off screaming thinning the crowd even more. Only the bravest or most fool hardy remained now, which was pretty much just Pinkie Pie and Lyra.
The smirk that had claimed the face of the Solar Princess was inaccurately described as diabolical, it was much worse than that and several witnesses swore she grew demon horns briefly. One was insistent that she grew a wirely mustache and twirled it with a hoof, but few listened to Pinkie. “Oh I am going to have so much fun with this.”
Luna who was used to her sisters oddities ignored it. Rahs who was also used to some of Celestia's oddities was worried, but far too, distracted. Pinkie Pie just giggled as if she knew what was going on.
“Woof?” Rahs questioned as he was brushed. He somewhat liked this, but he would never admit it.
“What does it mean?” Luna pondered. “ Honestly not very much at the moment, there are far too many legalities to go through and Tia took away the battleax we were going to use to cut this era's red tape.”
“Lulu you were going to cut the Ponies who set up the red tape.....” Celestia sighed.
“The result would have been the same, and we were only going to threaten them a little with Dr. Choppy.”
“Lulu....”
“Brushie brushie.......Tis fine, thou took Dr. Choppy away any way. Now then onto the meat of it.” Luna continued still trying to work out the odd floofs in Rahs' coat. “We have met thine birth parents and figured out the gist of how thou came here. We wish to speak with thou and thine siblings when able about this.”
“So wait does this mean that Rahs is a Prince?” Pinkie Pie chimed up putting 3 and 4 together and ending up with 34.
“Maybe.” Celestia sighed. His family was already of minor nobility so it might not mean anything much as my status means nothing in the long run for Twilight. “Plus, if my sister met Rahs' parents where I think she met them the legalities will be a nightmare. We will need to see what they say before a court.”
“Pfft what they said was simple, thine mother wishes for grand puppies.” Luna stated. “Thus we shall endeavor to seek out those that we find a good match for you.”
Rahs flattened his ears then buried his head in his front paws with a whine.
“Rest assured we shall find only the best of possible mates!” Luna cheered.
“Lulu I don't think that.......” Celestia sighed torn between trying to help the Moon Dog and wanting to see what would happen.
“We shall need to think of something impressive however. Thou art one of a kind and only the best shall do, perhaps only another as rare such as a goddess.” Luna pondered. “Hmm Cadence is claimed, Ahh perhaps my sister is to your liking, we have heard males today like those with wide posteriors!”
“LUNA.” Celestia snarled as Rahs curled up in a ball of embarrassment while Luna brushed out his coat.
“Yes?” Luna asked innocently.
“Aside from the fact that I do not have a big flank. I have no interest in a canine I practically helped raise!”
“Methinks thou protests too much.” Luna smiled.
“I don't date canines.” Celestia hissed.
“We have met all your previous lovers dear sister, and we can safely say ALL thou ever date are dogs.” Luna grinned.
Celestia growled as Pinkie Pie giggled.
Trixie Lulumoon paused as she was pulling her cart along the road. She lifted the brim of her hat looking around curiously. She felt something ominous in the air but she couldn't pinpoint what it might be.
She had not progressed far in her ultimate goal.... okay she had nada to show for it, but she felt she had best speed it up for some reason.
The mare trudged on for the first time feeling that the clock was ticking.
yea luna may need to meet the pony who raise rah before become his guardian....... thought be funny if luna was twilight's great great great great great great great great great...ect grandmother.....
Called it
Ooh Trixie sensed a disturbance in the shipping-force.
HaHaHa This is gold. By the way Celestia, you just missed a potential blackmail material on your student.
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Isn't that normally Cadance's thing?
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Dr. Choppy.... Please tell me why that wasn't Rahs name? Or at least his nickname. OH sweet Celestia please tell me you make that his nickname.
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No that relation is not there. She might be to Celestia, but no ones really gonna ask.
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Celestia wouldn't blackmail her student.... Her student's brothers on the other hand.....
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I did not expect Dr. Choppy would have fans. So help me if i see a shipping thing between Dr. Choppy and the Waning Moon i'm gonna lose it.
Damn you! Now I can't stop laughing about poor old rahs and his dating shenanigans
So wait...if Rahs is only the SECOND biggest canine in Ponyville...who is the biggest???
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or go both, like on tiwlight mom side she very very very distent related to luna, while on her dad side, well could either go with sunbutt, or few gen back they realted to sunbut
Second largest?! Who's the largest?
Dr. Choppy was best battle axe, may it rest in peace.
Trixie getting sized up by Luna, now I want to see this.
VERY interesting poor RAHS.. Celestia is right getting a court to accept things where Luna met Rahs parents will be a legal nightmare
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It would be interesting if Trixie Lulamoon turns out to be Luna's descendant. Then she also has to prove to Luna that she is a legitimate choice.
His guardian? Hmmmm... no. Sorry Luna, he's pretty much grown now. Plus she's had absolutely nothing to do with him since her return. Oh, and technically she CAN'T be his guardian anyways, because she doesn't have to legal sayso of the ones who actually raised him.
Plus she doesn't even seem to care about publicly humiliating him, which seems like a bad trait to have.
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I thought Celestia already has item to embarrass Cadance on her wedding day. Maybe she love to do the same with her student?
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Bit of a joke about wizards/magic users having an insatiable urge to build a tall structure or be up high.. aka towers.
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It should do you a frighten.
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I think they're referring Cerberus. Even though he's only in town once in a millennium when someone steals his ball.
Also, this chapter made me think, "holy wandering commas, Batman!"
Celestia, would you like some aloe for that sick burn?
I think i speak for all of us when i say "Go nuts"
Makes sense there was nothing about math in this statment
Dr. Choppy.
Clock is ticking, Trixie. clock. Is. Ticking!
Okay, this one was overall decent, with one issue to address, rest was, well average good, fun, snarky enjoyable character interaction per normal. With some amazing fun at the end. So just go through the notes here...
Those athlete name puns....... the puns...
Twilight.. sometimes it's hard to tell if you are just being pedantic as passive-aggressive response done deliberately to teach them a lesson about precise wording, or you really are just that neurotic about precise wording and didn't get it.
Hmmmmmm, Big Mac would have them beat in raw strength and likely endurance, but not really what I'd call 'athletic' overall. They'd have the edge in speed and dexterity easily.
See, at first, with Spike chasing the chicken, I thought it was just Rahs being a bad influence on him.
FLOOFY! FLOOFY FLOOFY PUPPY-KITTY! YAY!
Who does NOT like being seen only partially floofy, you only have yourself to blame RD.
Wow... Spike is freaking fast when he's got a goal in mind... damn.
And Twi has already gotten used to the weekly Ponyville Disaster.
So, Dragon skulls may be hard, but seems not immune to concussions.
Okay, and now the one part to be all critical about, Twi's DQ'ing Dash for using her wings. Now, I could go the whole, no given reason why it's changed, makes it feel rather fix-ficy route, which, it does give a mild vibe of that off to me. But we can argue about butterfly effects all day, and we know I'm possibly overly sensitive to seeing things in that light.
So no, let's ignore that, the bigger issue is how it makes no sense to be happening as presented. With it all happening at the end, and only then does RD get told about it. For one, they had a massive scoreboard keeping track that would have shown that easily. Beyond that, this is the type of thing that should have been called out then the first time Dash did it if Twi was ruling that way. She would have had to declare one of them the winner, so how did she not say Dash was DQ'ed for it at the time? Doing it the way she did here just makes her come off like kind of an ass and a really, really bad judge to only tell one of them long after the fact their behavior is being penalized when said behavior is not something clearly, and concisely laid out as wrong before hand for her to have known. Even then it's bad form.
Though, you'd think they'd realize how badly Twi to being teased... well again, all RD's fault here.
Also ehhhh on Twi up to winning it. Nothing she said really makes one a good long distance runner, be in better overall shape sure, but, just having her bumped up to first feels... unneeded and overdoing things to me.
And now, we commence, THE UTTER GLORY THAT IS TGaP LUNA!
Okay story, you pulled off a good reason for changing why Tia was there. She was going to come anyway, but was a bit late due to the stuff with Rahs and Luna needing to be dealt with.
And then a sudden dark turn out of nowhere that feels so damn out of place and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Poodle Rahs!? POODLE RAHS! PLEASE TELL ME THERE IS ART OF THIS!!!!!!
Makes sense Luna would be immune to the Moon Dog magic eating given everything we've learned, few possible theories on the exact mechanics of it. But nice touch.
Luna's assertion of supposed to be embarrassing him are true.
And, yeah, this might cause some issues with the pones that have already adopted him.... ohhh this is going to cuase some legal headaches.
I'm guessing Tia's smile was something along these lines?
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NOOOO! Tia! Why take Dr. Choppy! BOOOOOO!!!!!! At least Luna gets some Brushie Brushie time to make up for it...
You know, putting 3 and 4 together to get 34 is... pretty solid Pinkie Logic. It requires seeing things from a WHOLLY different perspective that gives no bucks about conventional rules or ways of doing things, and yet, still has it's own logic to it you can see where she's coming from, if not why. Good job.
I'm with Rahs on the idea of Luna the Shipper... this can not end well. For Rahs at least, for me it's going to be hilarious!
Okay, so quick note, I tend to read this on my kindle while on break at work. (Yes totally ONLY on break.....) And her trying to hook him up with Tia... got me SO many weird looks in the break room as I burst out laughing my ass off.
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As for her winning i recall she came in sixth in canon and with her being a much more active unicorn this go around. A win worked. Plus it set up the mac joke.
This isn't so bad considering some the... Other, body parts of Celestial, and Luna, used swearing.
*cough*falloutequestria*cough*
Ah, so Trixie is gonna go after the 'you know what' like in cannon, but for an entirely different reason. A similar reason, being more powerful than purple smart, but that reason having a totally different motivation: the affections of a certain Moon Dog whom we all know as part of the protagonist group.
Pinkie Pie's and Lil Shid's are unaffected by the signs of danger.
Rule 34
Luna - is - best - Princess ♡
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Amen to that.
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Got to love how Luna starts his romance partner plaged life.
is she going rule 34........ i can see this going in interesting directions after rereading it i just caught this
sick epic burn
Ok... Now I am curious if there is Rahs art... ...
That, or Discord got out early... then again that would be interesting too