Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 2
By TDR
Scratching Post Social,
Prologue
[Ponyville]
Amber Waves looked out over the obstacle course and shuddered a little. The wheat furred and golden maned mare had taken over as head organizer for the Sister Hooves Social for this year along with her little sister Purple Mountains, who despite her name had a white coat and a blue and red two tone mane.
She had expected a bit more work than she had last year with all the new families in town. The obstacle course was a bit longer and the cupcake eating contest had needed a great deal more cupcakes, helpfully provided by Sugar Cube Corner at a bulk discount.
There were a few snags here and there, but the biggest of them was currently standing off to the side looking over the proceedings and the smaller games with some interest.
Princess Luna, with her adoptive little sister Sweetiebelle were watching the first of the ponies go through the obstacle race with interest. The little white filly seemed a bit upset over something though she didn't seem inclined to say anything to Princess Luna.
Applejack and Applebloom were of course, here as well, given they were founding members when this all started three years ago, it would be odd if they were not. The pair of them seemed to be excitedly talking to the Princess and Sweetiebelle as they pointed everything out to the new comers.
Still, they had registered and everything was on the up and up with those two, though some of the others were a bit …. odd.
Still this was workable, a six legged race, or a egg race could easily balance out even an alicorn competing.
Still it had taken a heroic effort at the last few hours to increase everything that was needed.
Particularly with the stands, as a great deal more ponies had shown up to see Princess Luna compete. Then there was a need for yet ANOTHER set of seating, as the press wouldn't sit any where near Rahs and Spike Sparkle who had come to watch.
That had been a headache and she really wished she had just taken Rahs' offer to run them off.
Usually there were no spectators permitted beyond family, but Princess Luna claimed Rahs was family and by extension Spike. The Press had no real excuse, but they were given a spot and told to stay there or else.
This made them easy prey for the Filly Scouts, but that had been expected, those fillies were ruthless.
Still it was all set now, a few games were going on here and there, as well as some other non competitive activities.
The main event was the obstacle course and with the amount of racers this year, there were a number of races that would be going back to back. Thankfully proper planning put any problems near the end, so if the insanely strong Applejack, two Cutie Mark Crusaders, and a Princess broke anything it wouldn't hurt much.
She hoped.
“You alright Sweetiebelle?” Applebloom asked ,curiously noting her friends discomfort.
“Yeah I guess..” Sweetiebelle sighed.
Applebloom remained silent and slowly counted down to when Sweetiebelle was gonna actually answer, and like clockwork....
“It's just.... Rarity didn't even come out to see me compete.... I actually tried to get her to come out too.” Sweetiebelle sighed.
“Well yah got Princess Luna, why would yah need Rarity?” Applebloom questioned.
“I know, Luna's great too... it's just....... I dunno Rarity's my real sister and despite all her dumb stuff I still care about her..... Doesn't seem she cares enough about me though.” Sweetiebelle frowned.
Luna's ears perked as she listened to Sweetiebelle talk though she didn't address the filly's concerns.
A small smile however graced her lips as no one had noticed her horn had been glowing softly for the whole time they had been here.