Wrong Ways to Fantasize: Cadance Tries To Plan Her Daughter's Life

by Mockingbirb


Bells of Brass

As Flurry Heart had grown from foal to filly, and grown into an older filly, she'd explored some different hobbies. This hobby, however, she liked best of all.

"Mom," Flurry said, "You remember how Grogar's Bell was the key to controlling his power, and preventing him from conquering all of Equestria and the Crystal Empire?"

Cadance reached up to touch the ear protectors covering her head. "What, dear? Did you say something?"

Flurry pulled off her own pair. "Yes! I did!"

Cadance meanwhile was pulling off her own. "No need to shout, dear. Just wave at me and take off yours, and I'll take off mine."

Flurry laid her hammer down gently on the forge, and raised a large brass object high. "Behold! I have recreated Grogar's Bell!"

"That's very nice, dear."

"But mom! It's the key to saving all Equestria! If Grogar ever comes back, I mean."

Cadance stepped closer. She looked at the bell. "May I?" she asked.

Flurry nodded, and Cadance took the bell in her own magical levitation field. She examined it closely. "I suppose it does look a lot like the pictures in the books. But how do you know it really works?"

Flurry smiled proudly. "Because I made a whole test batch!"

"Huh?"

Flurry pulled another bell out of a drawer. "Behold! Cadance's Bell!"

"What?" Cadance squawked.

Flurry rang the second bell, and the one in Cadance's field fell. Cadance's magical glow was gone. "Now tell me to wash my hooves! And tell me I can't stay out until eleven with colts from the Vocational Ed program!"

Cadance's mouth opened and shut, but no sounds came out.

Flurry Heart smiled mischievously as she pulled out another two bells. "Watch me make my Grandaunties move the sun and moon up and down at my command!" She grabbed her mother by a fetlock and led her outside.

Cadance sat up in bed, suddenly awake. She elbowed Shining.

"Whut?" Shining muttered.

"Dear? We should be more careful what we eat at those diplomatic banquets. Although I DID just have an interesting idea. I wonder if it might work?"

Shining grumbled, "Was it another idea to make our daughter the most powerful creature in all of Equestria and beyond?"

"It...MIGHT have been..."

"Tell me about it in the morning. But now, let's go to sleep." Shining rolled over, and soon he was snoring away.

Cadance pouted. "It MIGHT work. You can't prove it wouldn't. Not unless we try it first. I wonder how long it would take to teach our daughter to be a master smith?"