> Streaming Ponies > by Ponyess > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Aunt Pink 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guess what, I am still the same old Pinkie Pie, even though she may call me Aunt Pink. Things doesn’t change all that much here. I still work, where I had always worked, at the Sugar-Cube Corner, where else. I now have my daughter Mirage, thanks to Twilight. It isn’t like that, she is still a mare, though she has been an Alicorn for all these many years. I still do recall her as the Unicorn she was when she came to Ponyville, where I still live. On the other hoof, forgetting is the one trick I never managed. She has her own daughter, Shift. Just like her mother, she can perform a Rage-Shift, easy peasy. I taught her the Fear-Shift. Maybe not quite as easy. Then again, I taught her to laugh at what is scarey. I still do throw my parties left and right, for what ever excuse I can come up with, if there isn’t a Birthday or Aniversary already. Skating, baking, rasing Dash, ballooning and what not, I still do perform them all. I have taught my daughter most of the things I do, there is a list as long as Twilight could fly, and then some. “Oh, twitchy tail, twitchy tail. Something is about to fall!” “Sorry, just your jaw, was it?” All the old antics still there, they still pick me for a jolly ride from time to time. I see what is about to happen through them, there is no escaping it. I still live in my old room, much of the time, mainly on work nights, though. There is no room for my daughter Mirrage in the room, as much as I may love to have her with me at all times. That just isn’t to be. She stays with Twilight and Shift when I can’t have her around, she is after all too young to be with me at work, good thing she can stay over at Twilight’s for a few days at a time. I was debating it at great length, but realised, as boring as it was, my parents still love to have her over from time to time, besides, she has a right to see more of the family and where they live, doesn’t she? There is a small problem on that part, I would have loved for her to see Maud and my other sisters too, but Maud is rarely close by, so I will simply have to make due. I’ll just have to explain to her, why my sisters can’t be there. At the castle, there are numerous guards, just as it was at Canterlot castle, Celestia and Luna still does live there and the guards are just as numerous as back then. Cadence still live at the Crystal Empire in the crystal castle with Shining Armour. Seems they are doing pretty well by themselves there, just as Celestia had predicted as she placed Cadence there. Celestia may be old by Ponystandards, but she is still just as wise as when we first met her. Life, it can be pretty hectic. If you try to balance a full-time job with having a daughter. Aside from the partying and general community duties I picked up over the years. Just that I can’t drop any of these things, they are parts of who I am. Besides, it is the fuel that keeps me going, aside from my daughter. Naturally, there are the few occasions where I am required to follow my friends on an adventure, chancing everything on the off chance I can help out, stopping what ever may need to be stopped and keep things going where they were supposed to go. Preparing Mirage is fun. It is almost like a party, just a different kind of serious. She isn’t quite ready for school and Cheerlie’s classes, so I teach her any and every thing I could come up with, the things she needs to handle, being a Pie and daughter of mine. I have her study my book of parties, and look at all the numerous images of parties I threw in the past. Including the once I threw for her birthdays, naturally. It gives her a perspective on things. Or at least, it is what I imagine, not that she has given me as much as a single hint to the contrary. There are all my antics, I prepare her for who she is and what she is to become. You may doubt I could know, but I am still the same Pinkie, I know. If she recognise the tingling senses, she know what to expect. I want her to be prepared and recognise, even if she may need to rewrite her book of Pinkie senses, along the way. --- --- --- > Mirrage 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am a Pie, true and through, just like my mother Pinkie Pie. Guess I am lucky, having her as mother. Not every Pony are that lucky, from what I have heard. Just like her, I am an Earth Pony, is there any doubt of it? Sometimes I go to the new library and visit Aunt Twilight. Since she is a friend of Pink, she had to be a friend of mine. She being a Princess and all that changes exactly sip. Mom sometimes tells me stories of the adventures she was on with Twilight and the rest of her friends. She apparently used to live in a library back then. She had to move, since Tirek blew it all to Tartarus, before they sent him down. Just like Mother, Pinkie Pie, I am all party and fun, true laughter, in part because she taught me, but also because it runs in the family. My guess is that it is our family trait, kind of like the Apples’ honesty. I will be in school next year. I don’t mind, maybe I am just curious. I hope to see Shift, Twilight’s Dauhter there too. Cheerlie is going to teach us all we need to know, or so Pink told me. She has been a great teacher. What isn’t on Cheerlie’s classes isn’t something you need, unless it is part of family or personal goals in particular. Sheerlie couldn’t teach a Pegasus how to fly or a Unicorn to levitate. These are type specifics above and beyond her level. Besides, she is an Earth Pony. She will teach reading, writing, mathematics, history, geography and the like, school subjects every Pony needs to know. Looking back, my flank still is blank, devoid of a mark I can see and describe, though I swear, it isn’t quite the natural colour of my coat. It is as if there is something I can’t see, or just a cloud of cover over what is to come. Is it merely a Mirrage, an illusion, or is there something more behind what I think I almost see? I haven’t asked anypony if they see it. I keep it to myself. The crusaders still do stick together, even if they no longer are chacing the ever elusive marks, putting them on a course on their future. Though they are a few years beyond where I am looking. Not quite mares, but certainly no fillies who would care to play with me or Shift. Pumpkin and Pound are old enough to be foal sitters I guess, though they kind of feels like siblings to me and Shift. They apparently are just as good Pegasus and Unicorn as they were the first time Pinkie Pie was foal-sitting them, the shock of that, mind you. --- --- --- > Shift: 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I live in a castle with mom, Twilight Sparkle and just like her, I am a Sparkle. Just like her, I am also an Alicorn. This is who I am, it is what I was born to be. My name is Shift. At first, I guess it is from how I shift from one general outlook and into another. I never look like any other Pony. I am just shifting from one general type and into another. It is confusing, but most so to others. I am scaring the Ponies of the village, when they don’t understand. At first I just shifter randomly, then I got more control over these shifts, I never do this in public anymore. I don’t like how it makes the other Ponies feel, maybe I can’t blame them, not after the story my Mum told me about how the Changeling Queen Chrysalis had her hive trying to take over Canterlot. If it isn’t clear to other Ponies, I am no Changeling. I am merely an Alicorn. With Twilight as my mother, one should have expected something out of the ordinary, something more than the generally expected. Having Pinkie Pie and her daughter Mirage just amped it all up to an entirely new level. Being an Alicorn sound fun and it is, most of the time. Living in a Royal castle with a Princess of friendship certainly can be fun, particularly with an out of control Party Pony as a friend. If you are an Alicorn, there are a few things you need to think of, Ponies doesn’t naturally trust the next Alicorn. Speaking of Ponies, good thing I have Aunt Pinkie, if there is any Pony who knows Ponies better than her, I wouldn’t even trust Celestia of Luna on that one, as well as Luna knows us through our dreams. We do after all dream repeatedly each and every night. Princesses, yeah, I do see them all on a regular basis, not just because Twilight is one, I can hardly avoid seeing her each and every day, just as I commonly see Luna at night, for some reason, she seems to love bumping my dreams. It is as if there is something pulling her in towards me. I hope to learn what it is, as I grow up, but I guess I could wait a few more years, for it. I plan to apply for Celestias school for gifted Unicorns, hoping they wouldn’t mind an Alicorn in their midst, though. Aside from asking Rarity to create a suit for me, like the one she made for Nyx, I could always hide who I am with my regular trick. Cadence is a fun Pony to be around, maybe she just enjoys having an Alicorn around, at least more so than most Ponies, but I guess it may be from her element of Love too. Speaking of elements, as much as we represent them, but it is in how we inspire others that is the core of bearing an element. In this case, I guess I am the element of change or adaptation. In this regard, I guess I am closest to Luna, who could take on numerous guises as she split up her self. --- --- ---