Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Brindle Gossip,
Epilogue 1
[Ponyville Library, later that night.]
“Well I’m glad that's over.” Twilight sighed, trotting into the kitchen, back to her normal Unicorn self. “Where's Rahs?”
“He just got in the bath down stairs. “Spike offered “He's still having trouble with his hooves. And we just got Rainbow Dash out of here a couple minutes ago.”
“It's ten o clock at night , doesn't she have some where else to be?” Twilight sighed looking down at her re- Dragoned assistant / brother.
“She claimed to want to see him with a wet mane. She's super interested for a pony who claimed to not be at all interested unless he had wings.” Spike shrugged. “Oh, I got a letter back from the Princess. She's okay with your plan, She's going to send the decree to the mayor and send a few ponies down to help Miss Cheerilee oversee it all. She'd also like further details on the situation when you can send them.”
“Great. So who's on the list now?” Twilight asked as Spike held up a large scroll riddled with names.
“Easier to say who's not on the list.” Spike lamented.
“Alright, who's not on the list?” Twilight chuckled.
“Well us of course, and Cheerilee. Nurse Redheart is off it, as she kept Dr. Quack's office open, despite the doctor running off and hiding.”
“They really need a full hospital in this town. The population is more than enough to require one.” Twilight sighed. “Something to look into later.”
“Filthy Rich is not on the list. In fact he was rather angry that Barnyard Bargains locked up when Zecora came into town. He's looking to replace the manager and has his own class all his workers will be forced to attend.” Spike offered.” So we can probably take most of them off the main list.”
“Well, he is all about business, It's never a good idea to discriminate if your goal is selling things.” Twilight shrugged.
“Big Mac and Granny Smith are off the list too.” Spike added.
“Really?” Twilight's ears perked up.”With how Applejack was I figured they would have just as many problems with a Zebra as she did.”
“Mac explained that he makes apple deliveries to a number of Zebra run farms and restaurants in neighboring towns. Granny deals with the requests and delivery orders so she has met most of those ordering from Sweet Apple Acres personally.” Spike sighed.” According to her Applejack has issues with Zebras because of something that happened in Manehatten when she was younger.”
“Ehh, she was willing to set that aside it seemed, but it's not enough to get her off the list.” Twilight shrugged. “What about Rarity?”
“She refused. Claimed this was twice she did something like this and figures she needs to go just to be sure there's not a third time.”Spike smirked.” Seems she is learning, not enough for me to warn her about Prince, but she's getting there.”
“You're still an ass for that.” Twilight sighed.
“I don't see you warning her.” Spike snarked.
“Not my business.” Twilight smirked before tilting her head as she noticed Spike's expression had shifted to one of worry and concern.
“What?” Twilight questioned.
“Your horn. It's sparking.” Spike stated pointing up at her head.
“What?” Twilight asked as she looked to the kitchen window, her reflection in the dark glass showed small flickers of light dancing around her horn.
“Is it a surge?” Spike asked.
Twilight frowned reaching over to pick an apple from the fruit bowl on the table with her magic. The apple took to the air for a moment before it suddenly folded in on itself from the pressure of her magical grip, spraying apple juice everywhere and crushing everything else into a chunk about the size of a apple seed before even that folded in on itself.
“What in Tartarus?” Twilight stammered before the sparks suddenly stopped and the light of her horn went out, the half seed falling to the table with a thud as the super dense seed imbedded itself in the wooden table top. The purple mare went wide eyed for a moment before her eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted on the kitchen floor.
“TWILIGHT!” Spike shouted getting out of his chair managing a few steps towards her before he wobbled and sat down hard falling over into unconsciousness as well.
A few moments later A soaking wet Moon Dog, dripping suds and water all over the floor burst into the kitchen flinging open the fridge, grabbing anything he could and shoving it into his mouth, devouring it as if he was a starving pony seeing food for the first time in months. The Moon Dog was so focused on eating every scrap of food he could get his paws on that it wasn't until he had eaten all the meat from his last hunt, bones included, and cleared everything else out of the fridge that he noticed the others on the floor. The only reason he even spotted them was because his eyes had been drawn to the apples on the table.
Despite the fact that both his siblings were laid out, Rahs couldn't help wolf down the bowl of apples, something that finally took the edge off his hunger, before he scooped up the pair of them and rushed out of the kitchen and out the front door. The soaked Moon Dog tore through the streets of Ponyville headed for the hospital dripping suds and water still as he streaked off into the night.