//------------------------------// // Beast night Ever, Prologue // Story: Twilight gets a Puppy // by TDR //------------------------------// Twilight Gets a Puppy By TDR Beast night Ever, Prologue [Several months after the Sonic Rainboom] “ Ahhh my beautiful babies, you're finally home with me....” Twilight coo'd pulling the last of the books from the crate looking them over before carefully setting them up to be re-shelved. She had initially thought to fine her brother for all the books he had 'lost', but unfortunately Shining had gotten a library card for Golden Oaks, thanks to Spike,the traitor, and checked them all out following the rules. Her own rules in fact. Rules she set up to remove any limit on the number of books that she herself could check out and the extended return dates based on the number checked out. Shining had three years to return them all, by her own calculations and rules. She had quickly closed that loophole. Spike looked up from his comic book and glanced over at his sister from his spot on the beanbags in the foals section of books before shaking his head and going back to the Power Ponies comic he was reading. It was his usual spot lately with spring break happening in school, he had a week of practically nothing to do, and with Twilight hording the books he didn't even have to do anything with the library. Scootaloo was off with her parents for a week and Sweetiebelle and Applebloom had been spending a lot of time getting ready for the gala so it had been a surprisingly peaceful week. Rahs was stretched out on the couch doing his best to ignore his sister as he thumbed through a new novel he had picked up from a author named Double Moon. It was an odd sort of romance story that had a number of supernatural elements that were rather strange, but still interesting. It was a far better read than that book series that held his sisters name. He actually identified a bit with the main character, though the book was oddly designed to make him a sympathetic, despite being a monster of sorts. It had been rather quiet, aside for Twilight's whining, since the Best Young Fliers competition. Sure there had been some CMC shenanigans, and the usual Tuesday troubles, but otherwise nothing major had happened. It was rather nice to have a normal time of it for once. Well as normal as one could get in Ponyville. Suddenly Rahs felt a tingling burning in his ears and he quickly bolted up right, tail lashing behind him as he tried to figure out the source. “What's the matter Rahs get a flea?” Twilight snarked before the book he was reading bounced off her nose. “OW!” Twilight shouted rubbing her nose as her horn glowed.” Don't treat books like that! Even the trashy romance ones!” Rahs' response was cut off as Twilight retaliated with the lid of the book crate, knocking her brother back over the couch. Spike wisely opted to stay out of it. “Woof!” Rahs shouted as he clamored back up over the couch glaring at his sister. “What do you mean you feel a song coming on?” Twilight questioned. “Bark” Rahs explained. Spike raised a brow at that. “So you just know somewhere out there, some pony is doing a musical number? How do you even sleep at night, there must be stage plays like that going on all over the place.” Spike pointed out. “Ruff...” Rahs explained. “Shining Armor?” Twilight blinked. “Why would he be in a musical number?” The three pondered a moment before there was a collective wince. “Shining is at the Gala.”....... “At the Gala?” “At the Gala.......”