//------------------------------// // Mystery on the Friendship Ex-purr-ess // Story: Twilight Gets a Puppy, Season 2 // by TDR //------------------------------// Twilight Gets a Puppy Season 2 By TDR Mystery on the Friendship Ex-purr-ess [Ponyville library, one week after Hearts and Hooves Day, not a Tuesday] “So let me get this straight. She ate the whole thing? The whole multi-layer cake, with a chocolate mouse moose head and doughnut city decoration. In one single bite.....” Cheerilee blinked, laying down the tiles for the word 'Isthmus'. “ She just jumped into the air, unhinged her jaw and ate it as she landed. It was by far the most disturbing thing I think I have ever seen, and I've dealt with Rahs' diet for years.” Twilight shuddered. “Woof.” Rahs asked curiously from the couch, not going any where near these two and their scrabble game, it could get heated. “Oh yeah I'm pretty sure Rainbow Dash forgave Pinkie for the Mare Do Well fiasco after this. But now Pinkie's made Applejack and I mad. Everyone else got a bite or two out of that cake and we didn't even get a taste. We also spent at least six hours talking Princess Celestia down from dropping the sun on Pinkie Pie for devouring the cake before her. I mean she gave the princess a slice you'd cut for a 6 year old who you wanted to cut off from sugar.” Twilight rolled her eyes setting tiles for 'penguin' , playing off the 'u'. “That should frighten me more than it does.”Cheerilee stated as 'squirrel' was placed off of penguin's 'e'. “I'm sure the cakes are not thrilled with it either, all that work and 'slurp', gone.” “Not as much as you might think.” Twilight snorted looking at her tiles and simple putting an 's' after penguin, clearly annoyed at her tile set, but not willing to draw a new hoof. “ They still won first place after all, which was the goal. After all the whole point was to win and be recognized. Pinkie's deformation of her whole body definitely drew attention to their place. No bad press and all that. Also it was less a 'Slurp' and more a 'Shlorp'.” “Bark?” Rahs questioned flipping the page in his book. “Yeah I'm not too thrilled with Fluttershy, Dash, and Rarity right now either.” Twilight answered giving Cheerilee a glare as she built 'Sphinx' off of her recently laid 's' with the 'x' hitting a double word score. “ I'm not worried about Dash as I'm still trying to go easy on her with how hurt she was, but I'm about to put my hoof down with how much I'll take if she tries to take advantage of it.” “I would figure she would be too busy with her new colt friend. “ Cheerilee smirked before frowning as Twilight played off her 'x' with 'xebec'. She looked up at the mare quizzically. “It's a small three-masted sailing ship with lateen and square sails. I started looking into shipping after hearing it was Cadence's favorite thing. Weird hobby.” Twilight explained as Cheerilee shuffled her tiles into the bag and drew again. “She is.. and it's small wonder that both of them haven't gotten killed yet. Last week they jumped of the side of the Maneterhorn.” Cheerilee watched as Twilight put 'quais' between the 'q' and 'I' of 'squirrel' and 'isthmus'. “ Ponies do that with parachutes all the time, plus Rainbow Dash is a pegasus.” Cheerilee stated countering with 'S' in the corner of Twilight's last word and 'squirrel' taking a triple letter score. “Her wings were bound and they both jumped off wearing canvas suits with fabric stretched between their front and back legs. And that was it no safety net.” Twilight growled building 'varus' off the upper 'us'. “They're gonna hurt themselves. Or worse.” “This from the mare who thinks the deepest mysteries of the arcane are perfectly safe so long as you have goggles and a lab coat.” Cheerilee smirked putting 'wrier' from the top triple word score to connect to 'squirrel'. “That's different, I live with a magic garbage disposal.” Twilight smirked, placing the word 'airflow' at a 90 degree angle from the first letter of 'wrier' starting the next dimension of the game. “Bite me!” “Also airflow? I know we agreed that only a weather pattern word would be allowed to move to the vertical field but that's weak.” Cheerilee chided as Rahs grumbled and stormed off to the kitchen. “It's all I had the tiles for.” Twilight shrugged.” Besides it's not long enough to reach the top yet, so I didn't need to make it an astrological word too.” Cheerilee sighed as she built 'yellow' off the now floating 'L' in 'airflow' her tiles floating in place as well. She glanced to Rahs as he left the room. ”I do have a question though.” “Shoot.” Twilight stated building 'waste' off the end of 'Yellow' bringing the word back over the board, the game starting to look more like a foals attempt at building blocks than a simple game of scrabble. “Why does your brother do that?” Cheerilee asked. “Do what?” “Bark half the time then every so often say something in Equestrian?” Cheerilee asked. “Oh, that. I understand him either way so I don't even notice any more, but it's a pretty stupid reason... He... “Twilight began. KRACK-A-THOOOOM!!! Twilight and Cheerilee yelped as the whole tree shook, the scrabble tiles flying every where as the sonic boom shook the entire town. After a moment or two Twilight stormed over to the door flinging it open to scream up into the sky. “DAMNIT DASH, PRINCE!! WE SAID NOT TO FLY THAT THING OVER THE TOWN!!!!” Twilight screeched in a booming Royal Canterlot Voice at the THUNDERHEAD circling in the sky.