Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 4
By TDR
Indonesian damsel manifestation,
part 2
[ Carousel Boutique, Sunday afternoon]
“From in the head to out in the world, every thought to action. Hold close this book and through its spell, you'll start a chain reaction, projecting forth whatever beauty you see. Only when true words are spoken will you finally be set free.” Rarity tilted her head. ”What an odd spell.”
The white mare stretched out over her bed, looking at the book curiously. “I wonder if it worked?”
Green magic struck the book and in a flash the spiked gray tome was gone, replaced by a ornate gold leafed and jeweled tome.
“Ooooooh!” Rarity gasped, her eyes starting to flicker green, her pupils still slitted. “ That is much better. I should head out and see about fixing that puppet stage.”
Rarity chuckled, trotting out the door, her tail whisking as she smiled, showing a bit more fang in her smile than she should have.
[Golden Oaks library]
Rahs sat up from the couch with a start, sniffing the air curiously as he yawned. Something smelled rather good.
After a moment the faint wisp of a scent faded and Rahs shrugged and fell back onto the couch returning to his nap.
[ Moon Dancer's house in the Crystal Empire ]
“He's adorable Moon Dancer.” Twilight cood looking over the crib's edge at the pale orange dappled foal sleeping there.
“Honestly you wouldn't say that if you didn't catch the little monster while he was sleeping.” Moon Dancer chuckled. ”This has been a long year.”
“I expect so with all the classes you've had to give, plus helping out my brother and Cadence on top of having to care for a newborn.” Twilight smiled moving back to take a seat across from Moon Dancer at the table. ”So how's Sunburst been?”
“A bigger wreck then me. Of course he has to deal with his mother too. It's a wonder he turned out as well as he did with how that mare is. Much as I like the help with Stargazer here I really want to put her on the list of ponies my shield blocks.”
“Oof. That bad huh?”Twilight questioned.
“ I love the mare but holy buck......” Moon Dancer sighed. ”Still she set up Stargazer's first birthday fairly well. Princess Cadence and your brother showed up with Chrysalis and brought gifts.”
“Please tell me he didn't bring Foal's first O&O game.”Twilight grumbled as Moon Dancer laughed.
“Alright I won't tell you he did that, Cadence did a little better with a bunch of baby books. Seems a certain little unicorn she foal sat skewed her ideas of what a foal might like. Chrysalis was the one who actually brought the most useful thing with the changing table and actually showed us the best way to deal with diapers.”
“She buried Celestia under a pile of them didn't she?” Twilight deadpanned.
“Suffocated her in them actually.” Moon Dancer sighed.” Though Princess Celestia did get us the crib there. Of course Princess Luna showed up too.”
“Oh no.” Twilight gasped.
“And she brought a gift.”
“Oh no.” Twilight gasped.
“She claimed he would grow into it.”
“Oh no.” Twilight gasped.
“ Yup, the battle Scythe is currently locked in the attic.”Moon Dancer smiled. “ So are you sure it's okay to sit around and talk? I've heard some worrying things about those friends of Spikes you brought along.”
“It's fine. Spike tends to keep them a bit more grounded and Applejack's here watching them. She's got a great deal of experience with dealing with that lot.”Twilight offered.
[Crystal Empire, 5th Precinct]
The cell door slammed shut leaving Witch-Jack to stare out from the cell with a frown on her face. A stray bit of magic had triggered her transformation as she went to get a snack from one of the food carts outside the convention.
The reaction of the Crystal ponies around her was instant and had lead to a number of guard and empathetic changelings tackling her.
At the moment she was sitting in a mithrial cell down at the local precinct awaiting orders from higher up on what to do with the captured witch wolf.
“Ah can't believe ah forgot about this being a problem here.”Witch-Jack sighed.
[Crystal Palace Convention Center, built in the spot across the street from the library in Sparkle Square where the statue was]
“Oooooh look at that , and that, and that, and that, and that.......” Sweetiebelle cheered, bouncing around the room looking at all the gaming exhibits.
Applebloom sighed. Spike had been dragged off almost immediately to host some event or another leaving the crusaders with Applejack.
Applejack had stated she was gonna see what the snack carts had and wandered off as well.
That left Applebloom and Sweetiebelle practically alone.
Scootaloo and Firefly had gone off to look at something, though Scootaloo was more dragging the colt around to look at things then the pair of them just wandering off.
Applebloom narrowed her eyes as she watched the pair of them examine a game based of some Japony comic about ponies in robot battle suits fighting rogue blue robots destroying some future city to a rock soundtrack about storms.
“Hmmmmmm” Applebloom pondered tapping her hoof to her chin, a couple of ponies dressed as waifu battleships walking past behind her.
Cadence's ear twitched as she looked out over the city from the half rebuilt crystal palace.
“Some one's horning in on my job.” Cadence frowned.
“Cady, you are not the only match maker in Equss!” Chrysalis called out.
“No, but I am the best!” Cadence snapped back. ”I have the charts to prove it!”
“Oh stars, you got her started again.” Shining Armor groaned.
[ Moon Dancer's house in the Crystal Empire ]
“Let that be a warning though of what will happen when Stargazer gets to the cutie-mark age.”Twilight explained.
“And I heard the terrible two's were bad.” Moon Dancer sighed.” Though speaking of foals...”
“Don't you start too, I get that enough from mom.” Twilight warned.
“Ha, well consider it a valid topic when you point out the obvious problems with you and Big Mac right now.”
Twilight nodded a little sighing. She couldn't really explain what she was doing as the Familiar spell research was a bit hush hush. She did talk to Big Mac about it however and he was oddly in favor of it. He didn't like the idea of watching his family grow old and die around him, but he did like the idea of being around to help out the family as a whole for as long as possible. Applebloom was still young, despite Spike's worries right now, and no one had any idea on how long Applejack was going to live. Luna predicted that her life span would be the same as normal, as she hadn't bonded with anyone and wasn't likely to do so. Twilight knew she was on the right track with the spell, and Sunset had been a great help thus far, but she felt something was slowing her down in her progress and it was taking forever to see results.
“I'm sure it will be fine.” Twilight offered finally.
[ Carousel Boutique Monday morning, 7am.]
Flashes of magic filled the room as piles of clothing and various fabrics that could likely only exist in fantasy covered the room in growing mountains of cloth, with each new flash of magic adding more to the towering range.
A door to an old storage room opened and a dark gray and black maned stallion poked his head out with a growl.
Sombra frowned deeper looking at the mess of dresses and cloth scattered around and offered a fanged hiss in response.
“What the buck is all this?” Sombra snapped, or asked normally, it was hard to tell with him.
“This book is amazing! Why, I, I, I, I've been up all night just creating and creating and creating and creating! I've completed my fall line for the next fifteen seasons!” Rarity exclaimed.
“Mare what are you on abo..........” Sombra started to gripe before he stopped his eyes going wide.
Standing in the middle of the mess with a book floating around her was a very tall dark figure, her black furred form shimmering with a silvery gray coloration as it caught the light. She had a massive mane of gently flowing purple hair that shimmered in the light just as her coat did. Sombra estimated the mare was as at least as tall as his mother with glimmering blue eyes slit like a cat's that stared down at him.On her flank was a trio of diamonds that somehow seemed sharpened giving the dark mare a bit more menace.
Sombra blinked.
“Is something wrong darling?” Rarity asked, the flash of fangs visible in her mouth.
“I shall be in my bunk.” Sombra stated flatly getting a last look before closing the door to his room again.