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// Day 3 
// Story: Chibi Flan's Foalsitter 
// by Lucky Star Kona-chan 
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After taking breakfast and helping Rarity some more by modeling, Flan wanted to go out for a walk, but the sun was awfully strong that morning.

Noticing Flan’s discomfort Rarity gave her a yellow sunhat, Flan had a bit of a blush on her cheeks and shyly hugged Rarity before going out while waving good bye to her.

‘She is such a sweet heart.’ Rarity thought while waving back. Then she closed the door to keep working on that dress.

None of them noticed the sneaky box following Flan.







Meanwhile in the streets, Flan was just wandering around and looking for whatever that would catch her attention. Ponies seemed nice enough for her, some of them waved at her with smiles, she returned the gesture. Her mood kept improving by the second, still oblivious of her cardboard stalker.

It was an uneventful walk until she noticed the apple stall; she was in the mood for some juicy fruit.







Applejack let out a sad sigh, business weren’t doing great today, she just got one customer so far.

‘Are ponies tired of mah apples?’ She thought, ‘hmm, nah that can’t be.’

She then notices the little thing that is looking at her apples with interest.

“Hello there little missy, seeing something ya like?”

Flan nodded and pointed to a particularly big apple.

“Ya have a good eye fer apples, would ya like ta buy some?”

Flan nodded.

“These are 3 bits each, how many do ya want?”

Flan thought for a moment before lifting two fingers, and took 6 of the coins Rarity gave her for helping with the dress, and put them on the table.

“Ya ain’t the talkative type, ain’t cha?” Flan shook her head, “oh, that’s alright sugar cube.”

“There ya go, 2 big red delicious, thanks fer yer purchase. Come again soon!” Applejack said while giving Flan the apples and taking the bits.

Flan took the apples and was about to go somewhere else, but she heard Applejack sadly sniffing.

She got to her side and handed her one of the apples she bought.

“Huh?” Applejack saw the sympathetic expression that Flan was giving her, she was touched by the kindness of this girl, she accepted the apple to not be rude.

“Thank ya, things ain’t going the best since a few days, it kept on pilling up, sorry ta bother ya with mah problems.”

Flan shook her head before smiling and then devouring her apple rather quickly.







‘She seems to act nice with everypony except me! Why does she do that!?’ the super sneaky pony known as Twilight thought to herself while inside her cardboard box that was in plain sight, don’t ask me how she pulled that off because I don’t know.

‘I need to observe longer, probably I’ll get some useful data.’







Applejack’s mouth was hanging open after what happened.

She saw Flan going around energetically, looking for ponies then pointing at her stall, slowly but surely she was luring ponies into the stall to buy apples.

Applejack wasn’t sure how she managed to do it, since she didn’t speak a single word while this was happening.

After an hour of non-stop running and convincing ponies, Applejack’s stall was devoid of apples, no more apples, nope. Well except that one Flan gave to her, for some reason she couldn’t bring herself to sell that one.

Flan finally stopped her rush, she sat on the corner of the stall fanning herself with a hand, it was particularly hot this day and she just pulled off an hour running marathon with no breaks.

Then she felt a hoof on her shoulder, “ya alright there, sugar cube?” she heard Applejack ask softly.

Flan faced her and nodded with a smile.

Suddenly she was brought into a strong hug. “Thank ya…” Applejack whispered to her.


Flan returned the hug and pat her back some.







Twilight who was still in her box, was writing in a notepad all the information she got.

‘Interesting, she seems to have a weakness for sad ponies, so she has a soft spot after all.’ She thought to herself.







“Well, Ah’ think Ah’ should be going back to ta farm and harvest some more,” Applejack said while packing some stuff to go back home.

Flan wondered what that place would look like; she had nothing else to do anyway.

“Uuuu.” She said with enthusiasm while lifting her arms.

Applejack didn’t know what that meant, “Uhh, what was that now?”

Flan thought of how to get the message through, after some moments she nodded to herself.

She got a hold of a strange staff that appeared out of nowhere, and made a very crude drawing of a farm on the ground with a pony wearing a hat and a little thing with wings on it, and then she pointed at AJ.

“Ya want ta come with me?” AJ wasn’t sure if she got it right.

Flan nodded again.

“Are ya sure about that? Ah’ don’t want yer parents worrying about ya, don’t ya need to ask fer permission?”

Flan shook her head and showed her another drawing, this time of a stick figure alicorn with the name dumb purple horse below it.

AJ scrunched her muzzle and looked away from the drawing.

Minutes after that.

“Alright, Ah’ figure Twilight is in charge of ya-” Flan nodded not too happily, “-alright, ya can come with me, but Ah’ll talk ta Twilight about this, is that ok with ya?”

Flan frowned upon Twilight’s name being mentioned but nodded anyways.

With everything said and done AJ motioned to Flan to get into the wagon and pulled it towards Sweet Apple Acres.







Twilight saw the wagon leaving and she of course planned to follow them, but she stopped to see the drawings on the road.

‘Those aren’t that bad for how little she is, she has quite the imagination that’s for sure.’ She thought, and saw something else in the ground.

She saw the drawing of the stick alicorn, then the name.

‘Well, she could be talking about anypony, it’s not necessarily me, ri-’  her thoughts were cut when she saw a line extending from the name and connected with other words on the ground.

It reads, “A.K.A Twilight Sparkle”.

Twilight’s good mood has been broken.

‘I won’t give up Flan! Just you wait!’ Then she followed the wagon with new determination.