Flash Fiction #2 · 12:29am Jul 22nd, 2023
This was written in a day and after many edit's here it is! It's imperfect and it's a little wonky with abrupt shift's in perspective but, I hope someone gets a kick out reading cause I am done with this piece...
-----Twilight gets her dream flank handed to her----
“We want to be parent's, again!” Her parent's screamed!
*What the buck...Shining's...gone and you want-to-to-*
She knew the heat of the sun and it’s touch through the roof, through the drywall.
It was on her fur.
Blood-blood-blood-
*"Hey! Twily!"*
"BBBFF! I just finished reading Star Swirl's theory of magic...THIRD EDITION! THIRD! Only graduates with a degree in-"
"Honey"
“Umm...that’s...odd! I mean, wonderful!-” She said, looking into their eyes and seeing the hope shine so clearly...”-I...umm...-” Eyes darting across the dining room, the stove with vegetable curry bubbling away to the rose soaking the ray’s on the ledge to-
“Daring Do! I mean...Rainbow Dash! I mean…”
A hoove pressed into her shoulder and she looked up and stared into the eyes of her parent’s, eyes that were wide with plea…
“Honey, take a breath. One. Two. Three-”
“Four. Five. Six. Remember, Sweetie, you can always stay-”
"I can help!" Twilight cried- eyes shimmering over with tear’s.
Jumping to her hooves, horn aglow with the teleportation rune firmly fixed into her mind- it's curves edged into the bright blue of her mindscape and in a blink the world was void and empty and she was but a-
Color.
Light.
Breath. Breathing air again as world shifted under her hooves and she staggered forward- plonking face into living floor of her library home.
Twilight hefted the Debian Queensland's loan onto the table. Thunk. The groan of her old stout oaken table made her shiver.
“I wonder what Starlight is up to?” She murmured. Absently, thumbing the spine, the gray flesh of tome giving under her hoove.
“OK. ”
“Let’s see...table of content’s- Elemental, Arch-demon’s, Human’s, and...ah! Pregnancy! Little Sister! Or...Brother! Here I come!”
Her purple magic turned the pages one by one by one. Sparkles, murmur’s echo in the empty and sparsely furnished basement lab.
“Where are you...Where are- Ah, Ha! Page 378...section four and now with Rarity approved, fashion forward book mark!”
She cleared her throat and floated over a glass of Applejack’s hard cider.
“You can do this! All you have to do is cast a spell and our world be brighter one more sparkle…”
Sighing...She began to read...
“It began on the crust of another where and another when, where the moon’s where three and where the sun blazes pink frosting...”
Muzzle in a book, she couldn’t help but, think-
_What a odd spell? And, old Badarian?! I wonder how they did their spell’s! They had no-_
“Focus! Giggles! No, Spike, mean’s no pancakes, mean’s you have to rely on yourself! You can do this, mare! You are-”
Her horn glowing, burning, permeating the air with purple mots of light and the odd smell of cooked cabbage on hot summer...day? Her lab was consumed in a growing haze and a-
_was that a whisper?_
And, then, it was that ,Twilight Sparkles eyes burned and her horn flashed a radiant gold and then in a flash of lightening…
she was gone.
--------------------------
Where am I?
_There was a…_
_something...I...need...to…_
_help Mom and Dad!_
What happened?
Where…?
------
_Don’t-Don’t-Don’t you dare! You damn-_
Wing’s beating, hooves cantering to somehow...somehow!- find flight in the next thirty second’s, her breath labored, hair pressed in a parody of Rarity’s own noted curl, and she almost made it too...until-
_OMF._
Her hooves flew first, spittle followed after...then...the rest of her- barrel, muzzle, even...SMARTY PANT’S!
A THUNK and book’s bound in flesh from flezzules and Droppel’s fell from obsidian shelf’s that if one where to stare, gaze too long...well...
A groan and a voice like ocean, rolling over the small minnow.
“_Where are thou! Puny Alicorn! You dare intrude upon my realm! I, the_ _Outer Lord,_ _Merp!_ _will-__”_
“_Stop! Can we talk about this! Maybe, over may-berry tea, perhaps?__”_ _said_ _B__ooks._
_L__ord said “By who’s will do you parlay? I dare not think on your lies!?” added with stomp of tentacled limb that pressed into local dream reality._
_And, then the muttering began…_
“_Alicorn comes in touch’s your thing’s-”_
“_-Makes you walk around and-”_
“_-for forty year’s! And…”_
_Book’s neighed! “I can leave! I was very rude for intruding upon your home!”_
_Then, the book’s shifted revealing, a small book shaped horse...or, horse shaped book? It’s horn dull and dim. It’s shivering at the thought...the thought! Of damaging any book’s…_
“_I think I’m going to be sick…”_
_Speech fled and Twilight Sparkle, first_ _a__licorn of magic and friendship itself..._fainted.
------------------------------------------------------------------
In the fifth time Twilight awoke to a room full of delicious, scrumptious and divine book’s and she couldn’t partake...because her hooves were filled with tea the color of star’s in the throes of dying…
_I wonder what it’s like-_
Cough.
_I wonder what it’s like to stand on the edge-_
“Small creature? Does not thou seek parlay with my the great Merp?”
“Oh!” Twilight said. Her eyes widening her hooves scrapping on too-shiny-too dry-too cold, cold...warm…
“The cup’s warm.”
“Indeed, feeble creature. You are only able to maintain consistence over only 8 of the directional reality’s.”
“What...What happened...oh...lord?” Twilight book ended with a smile.
“Your flesh bound fluid rushed to your top bit’s where sound exit’s and you collapsed...I have deemed to much less of a threat then the big white.”
Eyes darting away, mouth muttering as her eyes seemed to slide over the shard’s of outside that bleed in the room and the pulsar’s that demanded to exist in a space as small as a sitting room…
She swallowed. Her mouth suddenly dry.
“Big white?”
“Pink of what you call...hair? from the top and two wing’s of ponderous size for such a creature. She was quick too…”
“Big...white…” She murmured ,then, Ear’s raised and her face burned a blotchy maroon.
“So...tall? Did she have a love for anything?”
“Oh! You mean-”
“Her sword! She would yell “You vile beast! You know the sting of the root’s for they will choke the water from ya!””
Twilight blink’s. Head turning, back and forth, back and forth as if shaking water from her ear’s.
“She was a warrior! It’s what drew me in…that ,Celery Root!”
“She must be most famous where you, Alicorn’s come from! They must praise, Celery for facing great and powerful, Merp!”
Twilight Sparkles mouth agape! As, thought’s connected and word’s and meaning’s burned in her mind’s eye and two thing’s burned more then anything else…
Celery Root was Celestia’s actual name..._and..._somehow the-
“Trixie, does not stop by enough.”
“Trixie Lulamoon?”
“Yes! You know my daughter!”
And, it was then, that Twilight Sparkle stared at the creature before her- it’s eye stalk’s twitching, it’s mouth a slice of void with teeth the size of pinkie pie…
Pinkie Pie…
“Daughter! How goes the greatest and most powerful!”
pink hair...
“Do you know a Pinkie-”
“Maker! I have come to complain!” said a very, very, very familiar voice…
-----Twilight gets her dream flank handed to her----
“We want to be parent's, again!” Her parent's screamed!
*What the buck...Shining's...gone and you want-to-to-*
She knew the heat of the sun and it’s touch through the roof, through the drywall.
It was on her fur.
Blood-blood-blood-
*"Hey! Twily!"*
"BBBFF! I just finished reading Star Swirl's theory of magic...THIRD EDITION! THIRD! Only graduates with a degree in-"
"Honey"
“Umm...that’s...odd! I mean, wonderful!-” She said, looking into their eyes and seeing the hope shine so clearly...”-I...umm...-” Eyes darting across the dining room, the stove with vegetable curry bubbling away to the rose soaking the ray’s on the ledge to-
“Daring Do! I mean...Rainbow Dash! I mean…”
A hoove pressed into her shoulder and she looked up and stared into the eyes of her parent’s, eyes that were wide with plea…
“Honey, take a breath. One. Two. Three-”
“Four. Five. Six. Remember, Sweetie, you can always stay-”
"I can help!" Twilight cried- eyes shimmering over with tear’s.
Jumping to her hooves, horn aglow with the teleportation rune firmly fixed into her mind- it's curves edged into the bright blue of her mindscape and in a blink the world was void and empty and she was but a-
Color.
Light.
Breath. Breathing air again as world shifted under her hooves and she staggered forward- plonking face into living floor of her library home.
Twilight hefted the Debian Queensland's loan onto the table. Thunk. The groan of her old stout oaken table made her shiver.
“I wonder what Starlight is up to?” She murmured. Absently, thumbing the spine, the gray flesh of tome giving under her hoove.
“OK. ”
“Let’s see...table of content’s- Elemental, Arch-demon’s, Human’s, and...ah! Pregnancy! Little Sister! Or...Brother! Here I come!”
Her purple magic turned the pages one by one by one. Sparkles, murmur’s echo in the empty and sparsely furnished basement lab.
“Where are you...Where are- Ah, Ha! Page 378...section four and now with Rarity approved, fashion forward book mark!”
She cleared her throat and floated over a glass of Applejack’s hard cider.
“You can do this! All you have to do is cast a spell and our world be brighter one more sparkle…”
Sighing...She began to read...
“It began on the crust of another where and another when, where the moon’s where three and where the sun blazes pink frosting...”
Muzzle in a book, she couldn’t help but, think-
_What a odd spell? And, old Badarian?! I wonder how they did their spell’s! They had no-_
“Focus! Giggles! No, Spike, mean’s no pancakes, mean’s you have to rely on yourself! You can do this, mare! You are-”
Her horn glowing, burning, permeating the air with purple mots of light and the odd smell of cooked cabbage on hot summer...day? Her lab was consumed in a growing haze and a-
_was that a whisper?_
And, then, it was that ,Twilight Sparkles eyes burned and her horn flashed a radiant gold and then in a flash of lightening…
she was gone.
--------------------------
Where am I?
_There was a…_
_something...I...need...to…_
_help Mom and Dad!_
What happened?
Where…?
------
_Don’t-Don’t-Don’t you dare! You damn-_
Wing’s beating, hooves cantering to somehow...somehow!- find flight in the next thirty second’s, her breath labored, hair pressed in a parody of Rarity’s own noted curl, and she almost made it too...until-
_OMF._
Her hooves flew first, spittle followed after...then...the rest of her- barrel, muzzle, even...SMARTY PANT’S!
A THUNK and book’s bound in flesh from flezzules and Droppel’s fell from obsidian shelf’s that if one where to stare, gaze too long...well...
A groan and a voice like ocean, rolling over the small minnow.
“_Where are thou! Puny Alicorn! You dare intrude upon my realm! I, the_ _Outer Lord,_ _Merp!_ _will-__”_
“_Stop! Can we talk about this! Maybe, over may-berry tea, perhaps?__”_ _said_ _B_ooks._
_Lord said “By who’s will do you parlay? I dare not think on your lies!?” added with stomp of tentacled limb that pressed into local dream reality._
_And, then the muttering began…_
“_Alicorn comes in touch’s your thing’s-”_
“_-Makes you walk around and-”_
“_-for forty year’s! And…”_
_Book’s neighed! “I can leave! I was very rude for intruding upon your home!”_
_Then, the book’s shifted revealing, a small book shaped horse...or, horse shaped book? It’s horn dull and dim. It’s shivering at the thought...the thought! Of damaging any book’s…_
“_I think I’m going to be sick…”_
_Speech fled and Twilight Sparkle, first_ _a__licorn of magic and friendship itself..._fainted.
------------------------------------------------------------------
In the fifth time Twilight awoke to a room full of delicious, scrumptious and divine book’s and she couldn’t partake...because her hooves were filled with tea the color of star’s in the throes of dying…
_I wonder what it’s like-_
Cough.
_I wonder what it’s like to stand on the edge-_
“Small creature? Does not thou seek parlay with my the great Merp?”
“Oh!” Twilight said. Her eyes widening her hooves scrapping on too-shiny-too dry-too cold, cold...warm…
“The cup’s warm.”
“Indeed, feeble creature. You are only able to maintain consistence over only 8 of the directional reality’s.”
“What...What happened...oh...lord?” Twilight book ended with a smile.
“Your flesh bound fluid rushed to your top bit’s where sound exit’s and you collapsed...I have deemed to much less of a threat then the big white.”
Eyes darting away, mouth muttering as her eyes seemed to slide over the shard’s of outside that bleed in the room and the pulsar’s that demanded to exist in a space as small as a sitting room…
She swallowed. Her mouth suddenly dry.
“Big white?”
“Pink of what you call...hair? from the top and two wing’s of ponderous size for such a creature. She was quick too…”
“Big...white…” She murmured ,then, Ear’s raised and her face burned a blotchy maroon.
“So...tall? Did she have a love for anything?”
“Oh! You mean-”
“Her sword! She would yell “You vile beast! You know the sting of the root’s for they will choke the water from ya!””
Twilight blink’s. Head turning, back and forth, back and forth as if shaking water from her ear’s.
“She was a warrior! It’s what drew me in…that ,Celery Root!”
“She must be most famous where you, Alicorn’s come from! They must praise, Celery for facing great and powerful, Merp!”
Twilight Sparkles mouth agape! As, thought’s connected and word’s and meaning’s burned in her mind’s eye and two thing’s burned more then anything else…
Celery Root was Celestia’s actual name..._and..._somehow the-
“Trixie, does not stop by enough.”
“Trixie Lulamoon?”
“Yes! You know my daughter!”
And, it was then, that Twilight Sparkle stared at the creature before her- it’s eye stalk’s twitching, it’s mouth a slice of void with teeth the size of pinkie pie…
Pinkie Pie…
“Daughter! How goes the greatest and most powerful!"
pink hair...
“Do you know a Pinkie-”
“Maker! I have come to complain!” said a very, very, very familiar voice…
And, through to small squiggled of...noise...something that bleed the smell of fresh cut grass and the texture of sand came a blue...unicorn…
only...she wasn’t a unicorn...was she?
She couldn’t be...right?
She creature she was sure _wasn’t a unicorn_ _stood at the edges of “doorway”. A doorway that_ _to her purple gaze_ _consisted o__nly three thing’s: Luna’s mane- all a haze of blue and star’s and nebula's, and Starlight Glimmer…looking very, very terrified, and Spike...who looked…_
_bored._
_Bored and apparently very surely...here...wherever...here was! Twilight turned away from ,Spike to stare at the visibly terrified creature that was ,Starlight, before her that looked nothing less than sliver of unicorn and came to mind the ancient pony’s of old that huddled together small and frightened without magic, wing’s, and the strength and power of the earth-_
“_Maker! What is Twilight Sparkle, doing in the Grey Realm?” The strange creature with Lulamoon’s voice ambled onto a chair that grew itself from the floor that was-_
_jsdljfsj;sfd-_
“_-What-” Twilight said from her seat. Her hooves occupied by the tea as the creature who she struggled to identify as Trixie Lulamoon-_ a unicorn, it’s a unicorn- Slipped forward on groping and looping tentacles that urged forward towards Outer Lord Merp. She could only watch as the creature jumped towards the lord in jet of purple, sweet jam, and the number zero…
Then...the world when sideways and left-way's and all at ounce…
She blinked and she was on the ground and the ground was...green? Spike-yes!-Spike was standing some hoove step’s away, sipping on her tea as stared at--
Them.
“Maker!”
“Daughter! How goes the greatest and most powerful!”
“what?”
“what?”
A pounding in her head and Spike then turned at her with eyes the color of Celestial Sea- green and blue that burned and it spoke one word!
Awake!
Awake!
“Twilight!”
And, through to small squiggled of...noise...something that bleed the smell of fresh cut grass and the texture of sand came a blue...unicorn…
only...she wasn’t a unicorn...was she?
She couldn’t be...right?
She creature she was sure _wasn’t a unicorn_ _stood at the edges of “doorway”. A doorway that_ _to her purple gaze_ _consisted o__nly three thing’s: Luna’s mane- all a haze of blue and star’s and nebula's, and Starlight Glimmer…looking very, very terrified, and Spike...who looked…_
_bored._
_Bored and apparently very surely...here...wherever...here was! Twilight turned away from ,Spike to stare at the visibly terrified creature that was ,Starlight, before her that looked nothing less than sliver of unicorn and came to mind the ancient pony’s of old that huddled together small and frightened without magic, wing’s, and the strength and power of the earth-_
“_Maker! What is Twilight Sparkle, doing in the Grey Realm?” The strange creature with Lulamoon’s voice ambled onto a chair that grew itself from the floor that was-_
_jsdljfsj;sfd-_
“_-What-” Twilight said from her seat. Her hooves occupied by the tea as the creature who she struggled to identify as Trixie Lulamoon-_ a unicorn, it’s a unicorn- Slipped forward on groping and looping tentacles that urged forward towards Outer Lord Merp. She could only watch as the creature jumped towards the lord in jet of purple, sweet jam, and the number zero…
Then...the world when sideways and left-way's and all at ounce…
She blinked and she was on the ground and the ground was...green? Spike-yes!-Spike was standing some hoove step’s away, sipping on her tea as stared at--
Them.
“Maker!”
“Daughter! How goes the greatest and most powerful!”
“what?”
“what?”
A pounding in her head and Spike then turned at her with eyes the color of Celestial Sea- green and blue that burned and it spoke one word!
Awake!
Awake!
“Twilight!”
