*HOURS LATER: GOLDEN OAKS LIBRARY*
‘I regret this,’ Nyx thought to herself grimly with a frown as she cleaned out a nasty cut that Selena had on her right hindleg with a wet towel. The five-year-old filly clenched her teeth and letting out a loud hiss of pain in the process.
The five fillies returned from cutie mark crusading about 10 minutes ago, and they were now tending to Selena’s injuries. The young filly had numerous cuts and bruises all over her body, many of her cuts leaking blood. Her nose was also leaking blood and Selena was holding a white handkerchief to her nose to help stop the bleeding. There was a massive bump on the top of her head that was about the size of her horn and it throbbed painfully. To many, Selena looked like she had the living tar beaten out of her but Nyx and her friends knew why she looked like this.
Nyx turned to face Scootaloo, who was cleaning out a large wound Selena had on her back. Scootaloo caught Nyx staring at her and she looked to see the alicorn giving her a disapproving look.
“Out of all the ideas that you can come up with, it just had to be bungee jumping,” Nyx said in a flat tone.
“It was the only awesome thing I could come up with,” Scootaloo replied defensively while she continued cleaning the wound on Selena’s back.
“And look what happened,” Nyx said and pointed to her sister’s injuries. “My sister got hurt because somepony didn’t bother to check if the elastic rope was wrapped securely to the tree or the harness was tightly secured to Selena’s waist.”
“I thought they were!”
“Well-”
As the two fillies bickered, Selena drowned it out, not wanting to listen to it. She absolutely hated when other ponies fought or bickered with each other. Selena was the kind of pony that preferred solving problems peacefully rather than bicker or fight. To put it simply, Selena Sparkle was a pacifist, which can be a good thing and a bad thing, depending on the situation.
Nyx and Scootaloo had been bickering for the next 15 minutes and at this point, Selena couldn’t take it anymore. Despite the pain, the filly managed to turn her body around, stuck out both of her hooves, and then placed them onto Nyx and Scootaloo’s chests.
“Nyxie, Scootaloo, stop it!!” Selena said sternly. “What happened was just an accident. The important thing is that, while I did get hurt, I am alive and well.”
Nyx and Scootaloo stared at her, the filly noticing that they were taking in what she said. It was a good thing too because she didn’t want things to get much heated or even worse than it already was. Eventually, the looks on their faces softened and they relaxed, much to the filly’s relief.
Nyx let out a sigh and looked her sister in the eyes.
“You know how I feel about you getting hurt,” Nyx said in a low tone.
“And I know how you get when that happens, as well,” Selena replied softly, understanding her sister’s feelings fully. “There will be some occasions where I might get hurt, although not as bad as I am right now. I still want to have fun.”
Nyx thought about that for a moment.
“Well, we’re going to have to find things that are a bit safer for you,” Nyx said before turning her head to Scootaloo, giving her a slightly stern look. “And hopefully something not very dare-devilish.”
Selena frowned a little bit at that but was still grateful deep down that she can still join her sister and her friends at cutie mark crusading. The 5-year-old filly hoped that whatever ideas that they might come up with for the next one won’t be something boring or unfun. Sometimes, Nyx can be very protective of her, especially since ‘it’ happened years ago.
‘I will never forget what happened,’ the filly thought to herself. Selena was snapped out of her thoughts when she felt a stab of pain shoot through her left wing, causing her to let out a loud gasp of pain.
“Oh, Ah almost forgot about somethin’,” Apple Bloom said suddenly. Her friends looked at her, curious as to what it was that the farm filly almost forgot about.
“What will that be?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Ah asked Applejack yesterday is Ah can have you girls over for a slumber party at the treehouse on Friday night,” Apple Bloom admitted with a huge smile. This little piece of information instantly perked Selena’s interest.
She has read about slumber parties, as well as sleepovers, in books many times and has always wanted one of each. From what she read, a sleepover was something where one or two ponies stayed at a friend’s house for the night, whereas a slumber party was something where more ponies were involved and they did many party games throughout the night. The filly never had a chance to experience any of those things and was beginning to grow excited at the idea of going to experience one of them for the first time.
“What did she say?” Scootaloo asked, clearly trying to hide her excitement. The smile on Apple Bloom’s face grew even more.
“She said Ah can,” she replied. Scootaloo hoof pumped the air, a big smirk on her face.
Selena, on the other hoof, was just barely able to contain her excitement, which is beginning to show itself as a huge grin. It was like a dream come in its finest form; the chance to experience her first slumber party, or so she thought.
“This is going to be fun!!” Selena exclaimed excitedly. “This will be my first slumber party!!”
After she said that, Selena saw smiles forming on their faces and also noticed Nyx trying to stifle a laugh. This confused the five-year-old filly a little bit.
“Actually, this won’t be your first slumber party,” Nyx admitted. This caused Selena’s excitement to die down greatly and tilt her head slightly left in confusion.
“Huh, what do you mean?” she asked.
“Your first slumber party happened when I brought my friends over 2 months after Twilight and Spike found you at the doorstep,” Nyx replied. “You can even ask Twist since she was there when it happened.”
This confused Selena even more as this was something that she couldn’t remember nor had any recollection about this single event at all.
“I… don’t remember that at all,” she admitted truthfully.
“I will tell you what happened, and I must say this, the things you did were funny, and we laugh about it to this day,” Nyx said and then began to recall the events of what happened during the first slumber party at the library.
An event that was still talked about to this day…
*2 MONTHS LATER AFTER SELENA BECAME PART OF THE FAMILY*
“I can’t wait for this slumber party, Nyx,” Sweetie Belle squeaked with excitement, her saddlebags on her back. Nyx smiled at this as they walked closer to the library.
This was going to be the first time that the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Twist were going to be spending the night over at the library and have a slumber party there. It took a while for Nyx to convince Twilight to allow her friends to come over and have a slumber party.
Nyx was completely and utterly ecstatic when Twilight had finally said these very words.
“Alright Nyx, you can invite your friends over.”
The Sun was about halfway down the horizon when they reached the library, and just as Nyx was about to activate her magic to open the door, Scootaloo spoke up.
“Let’s try to avoid doing anything girlish,” Scootaloo said. There was no argument there.
Nyx ignited her horn, gripped the doorknob with her magic and turned it. Nyx pushed opened the door and the five friends entered the library, with Nyx closing the door behind them. Twilight was reading a book and wasn’t paying attention when the door opened and closed. Nyx walked up to her mother and tapped her on her left shoulder. The small contact was enough to get Twilight’s attention. She turned her head and saw Nyx and her friends standing there and she smiled.
“Hi, girls,” Twilight said in a polite greeting tone. “Spike is preparing daffodil sandwiches and celery soup, and I will bring the food up to the bedroom when it’s ready.”
The five friends nodded their heads once, and they walked up the stair, heading towards the bedroom. They entered the bedroom, her friends putting their saddlebags next to the bedroom door. Letting out soft sighs, they all sat down on the large bed that Twilight always slept on.
‘I can’t believe this is happening,’ Nyx thought excitedly to herself and wanted to hop on the bed but decided against doing it.
“So, what do you girls want to do first?” Nyx asked her friends and they began to think about what they could. Nopony noticed that Scootaloo had an evil smirk on her face as she grabbed a large pillow and tossed it at Nyx.
The pillow hit Nyx in the face and she fell on her back. She sat up and removed the pillow from her face. She immediately noticed Scootaloo laughing at her, pointing a hoof at her as she did this. Nyx smirked as she held the pillow in her magic and tossed it at Scootaloo. The pillow struck Scootaloo in the face, knocking the Pegasus onto her back. Scootaloo sat back up, the pillow falling off her face, and a smirk grew on her face.
“Oh, it’s on.”
This resulted in with the five fillies getting into a fun pillow fight, laughing, and just generally having a good time. They were so busy in their pillow fight that they didn’t hear nor notice the sound of hoofsteps coming up the stairs or entering the bedroom.
“Hey, girls,” the sound of Twilight’s voice caused the 5 fillies to stop their pillow fight and turn their heads in Twilight’s direction.
They saw Twilight walking up to them with something lying on her back. Although Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Twist had no idea what it was, Nyx did and saw that it was Selena, her baby sister who had a big smile on her face and giggling innocently.
“Is it okay if Selena can join you?” Twilight asked. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Bell, Scootaloo and Twist tilted their heads to the side and they all had curious looks on their faces.
“Selena?” the 4 of them said at the same time. “Who is Selena?”
Twilight lit up her horn and they saw something being levitated off of her back. Once Twilight revealed what was on her back, they saw a foal with both a rich blue mane and tail, dark gray fur, and emerald green eyes that they had never seen before. They noticed that the foal had a horn, which rendered her a unicorn. Nyx noticed that Selena’s wings were gone, telling her that Twilight must have used an illusion spell to hide her wings.
“Girls, this is Selena, my baby sister,” Nyx said. All of her friends turned to look at her with a surprised look on their faces.
“I didn’t know ya had a sister,” Apple Bloom said. Nyx tried to find the correct words to say as she rubbed her right foreleg with her other foreleg nervously.
Luckily, Twilight was able to explain it for her.
“Well, she is actually her adopted sister,” Twilight said, which came as a surprise to the four fillies. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Twist snapped out of their surprise and they stared at Selena, who still had that smile on her face and giggling innocently, flailing her tiny hooves around as she did.
Twilight put Selena down on the bed, and the magic surrounding her horn dissipated. The foal ran up to her big sister and hugged her left foreleg, nuzzling the foreleg affectionately. Nyx looked at her friends for a moment and, as if they all could read each other’s minds, nodded their heads. Nyx looked up at Twilight, who had a hopeful expression on her face, which was also present in her eyes.
“Yes, Selena can join us,” Nyx said. A smile grew on Twilight’s face and she walked out of the bedroom and down the stairs, leaving the 5 friends with Selena to continue their pillow fight.
When the five friends ended their pillow fight a few minutes later, Nyx looked around to see if Selena was still around. Her eyes widen a bit and panic began to build in her chest when she saw that Selena was nowhere to be seen. Nyx hopped off the bed and began searching the entire bedroom frantically but found no sign of her younger sister.
“Nyx, are you okay?” Twist asked her after seeing how frantic Nyx was.
“I’m trying to find Selena!!” Nyx said in a frantic and worried tone. “She’s nowhere to be seen!!”
It took a while for them to register what Nyx had just told them. When they eventually took in on what Nyx said and when the four fillies noticed that Selena was indeed missing, they began to help Nyx in the search for the missing foal. 5 minutes passed and there was still no sign of Selena. Nyx began to fret and worry that she must have gotten bored and scampered away somewhere.
It wasn’t until she turned at Scootaloo’s direction, the Pegasus with her back turned to her, Nyx saw her baby sister. She let out a sigh of relief and at the same time, trying to stifle a laugh. Selena was climbing up the Pegasus’s back with Scootaloo somehow having absolutely no idea that she had an 8-month-old foal climbing up her back. It didn’t take long for the foal to fully climb up the Pegasus’s back and giggle a little.
“Nyxie!!” Selena said and she began softly nibbling Scootaloo’s left ear. The Pegasus flinched a little as a result from this sudden contact on her ear.
Nyx couldn’t help but chuckle slightly at this. The sudden shout instantly caught Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Twist’s attention and they turned to Scootaloo. They immediately caught sight of the 8-month-old foal softly nibbling Scootaloo’s left ear.
“Aww, I think she likes you,” Nyx said while chuckling.
“That is so adorable,” Sweetie Belle said with a goofy smile on her face, both of her hooves over her mouth and letting out small fits of laughter as it happened.
Apple Bloom and Twist, on the other hoof, were rolling back and forth on the floor laughing up a complete and utter storm. They were laughing so hard that tears leaked from their eyes and trailed down their faces.
“Ha-ha, very funny,” Scootaloo said sarcastically. “Can you please get her off me?”
Selena nibbled Scootaloo’s ear for a good 5 minutes before Nyx decided to use her magic to get her sister off of Scootaloo, and thankfully Selena didn’t resist. The five friends decided to play a board game as the next activity for the slumber party. It did prove to be hilariously difficult since Selena would randomly climb up their backs, shout out ‘Nyxie’ and then start nibbling on their ears softly.
At some point, they decided to play ‘Truth or Challenge’ and during the whole time, Selena kept playing with their tails like a cat, giggling in the process. Sometimes, Selena would nibble on their tails, making silly noises as she did. Nyx couldn’t help but laugh lightly when she saw her playing and nibbling on any of her friend’s tail like a cat.
When it was time to go to bed, with her friends sleeping in their sleeping bags from the sides of Nyx’s bed, Nyx was lying down in her bed and she happened to turn her head to where Apple Bloom was sleeping, which was to the left of the bed. What Nyx saw next nearly caused her to start laughing out loud and wake up all of her friends.
Selena was sleeping peacefully with her hooves dangling freely, but that wasn’t what had almost caused Nyx to laugh out loud. What made the situation humorous was that Selena was sleeping peacefully on Apple Bloom’s face with her flank just an inch away from her mouth!! It looked like the farm filly had no clue that she had a sleeping foal on her face with her flank just an inch away from her mouth.
It took every single bit of Nyx’s willpower to keep her laughing under control. Once she was finally able to get herself under control, she looked away and rested her head on the pillow, falling asleep soon after.
*PRESENT DAY*
“I seriously did that?!” Selena asked loudly while laughing uncontrollably at the ending. She only laughed harder when Nyx nodded her head in response.
“But that’s not even the best part, Selena,” Nyx began to say. “Apparently, when she woke up the next morning and yawned, you slid down a bit and your entire flank slipped right into her mouth. Apple Bloom screamed so loud that it woke up everypony in the library but somehow, it didn’t wake you up. You continued on sleeping peacefully as if nothing was happening.”
Apple Bloom simply rolled her eyes at that while Selena was busy laughing her flank off even harder at that part of the story. It was an embarrassing moment for her, one that sometimes Scootaloo would tease her about several times on occasions.
“That has to be… the funniest thing… I’ve ever heard!!” Selena exclaimed loudly as she laughed, tears trailing down her cheeks as a result. Sweetie Belle was chuckling while Scootaloo was laughing teasingly at Apple Bloom, who once again rolled her eyes.
It took about five minutes for Selena to calm down from her laughing fit, wiping the tears away with her left hoof. A few chuckles escaped her as she did this.
“That story totally tops the one Sweetie Belle told me earlier this morning today,” Selena said and turned to face Sweetie Belle. “No offense, Sweetie Belle.”
“No worries,” Sweetie Belle said with a smile.
“Well, let’s get you bandaged up,” Nyx said before she began bandaging up Selena’s wounds, her friends doing the same. At least that night ended with on a good note.