//------------------------------// // A Hearth's Wyvern Tale // Story: Twilight Gets a Puppy, Season 6 // by TDR //------------------------------// Twilight Gets a Puppy Season 6 By TDR A Hearth's Wyvern Tale [Ponyville] Rahs sighed looking down at the letter of refusal for him to play Snowfall Frost in A Hearths Warming tale. If he was being honest, he had never considered applying for that role before, at least this rejection letter was only due to him being male, not like he hadn't put on a dress to play a girl before, but evidently they didn't want that. He had managed to snag the role of the Ghost of Hearth's Warming Future in the play once. Granted he had only gotten the role because he was supposedly big and scary. No one had expected him to do any of the lines, let alone the entire song. The pony that they had gotten to do the voice over was a bit miffed that his job wasn't needed. Still that was years ago. Rahs sighed tossing the letter in to the small fire he had burning outside in a cast iron pot with the fire burning only oak wood lit by lightning. While complicated, it was a superstition that Miss Broadway had imparted to those who used her theater. It was.... well Rahs wasn't sure what superstition it was supposed to work with, but he did it anyway, even in as hot a summer as this was. In truth he hadn't had a actual role any where other than at The Ball in quite a while, and aside from a few small plays and letting the school drama club use it, the theater hadn't seen much use either. While this prank had a lot of rejection letters at once, he hadn't had many roles in anything since he came to Ponyville. With everything going on he was often stuck around the town and sadly this meant that Celestia's prank, while it hurt, hadn't really changed how everything would go normally. For him any way. Spike and Twilight were still trying to get their issues under control. Spike was going to make an announcement at the next Crystal Con. Twilight had gotten responded to all the letters and had promptly gotten into a letter war with a number of professors and others that sent in letters about things completely unrelated to the original prank. Rahs tossed another letter on the fire and frowned, before a smirk crossed his face as he remembered the counter prank. “Ask not for whom the bell tolls...” [Canterlot] Princess Celestia stared at Raven Inkwell. Really STARED at her. Raven, well used to this sort of thing, ignored her and continued to direct the circus that was the Day Court Room. Seeing she was getting no reaction, Princess Celestia then turned to stare at her sister. Princess Luna ignored completely her and dragged another guard over to watch her open a present. Somehow, some way, the damn Sparkles had done something that no one else in several thousand years, not even DISCORD, had done. Celestia looked out over the massive crowd gathered in the throne room, every one of them carrying a gift of some kind, or two, and the line went around the castle. Streamers and balloons were everywhere, there was a parade going on outside, and mail ponies were still delivering countless gifts from all over Equestria and much of the world. "Another package from Griffonstone Princess!" A young blue griffon sang dropping a pile of packages onto the other pile of packages before flying off. It was Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's Birthday. And everyone was celebrating. It was NOT either of their birthdays. Not even close. "Look Look, this one is from a filly in Chicagcolt, she sent me a macaroni picture of my moon squishing a dragon!!" Luna cheered. "Lacy Frill, put this one on the wall too." The mentioned maid took it and flew out of the room to where a unicorn was balanced on a ladder to apply sticking spells to hold it on the wall of the hallway just outside of the throne room, there was a rather large collection of drawings and art from foals adorning the walls. There were plans to add the great hall to the tours so any foals on the tour could see if their art was there. It was. "Luna..." Celestia frowned. "Ahh this one has sent me a copy of the fifth giant robot game." Luna frowned." We already have this one though.... AHHH, we shall send it back along with a offer for them to play it as well, the more ponies who play the game means they will make more of the game, does it not?" Luna asked a Guard who shrugged. "Luna.... " Celestia tried again. She had kept her birthday secret from Equestria for so long, when she made Luna do the same her sister had accepted her logic of not wanting any sort of holiday or massive event to come of it. "Oh what is this?" Luna asked opening a letter and looking at the page that fell out her eyes widening as she read it, before she looked to the included photos." OOH!! Salacious!" Celestia face hooved. How the Sparkles had convinced White to give an interview to a group of newspapers on when Celestia and Luna's birthday was was any ponies guess. Even if the rabbit followed the agreement she forced on him not to tell, he claimed he knew what day and year it was and said he had told someone. He had. White had needed to remind their mother when their birthdays were a few times in the past. Twilight claimed she was the one told and the public then latched onto Twilight who was known as the Alicorn of magic, and Tuesdays, who stated as Celestia's student. Surely she knew the date and what she told everyone was correct. She was off by months. Celestia's birthday was near Nightmare Night. Luna's was near the summer sun Celebration, which was well past. "Oh my ... there are two of them? A mare and a stallion?" Luna asked looking between the pair of photos that came with that letter." While we have been favoring mares as of late, as the younger crowd says ... DAAAMN." "LUNA!" "What Tia!" Luna sighed not putting down the pictures, the Guard and the Maid both were staring over Luna's shoulders as well to look at them. "This will not stand." "We certainly hope not. Would be better to be laying down... or sitting... or bent over something..." "FOCUS LUNA." "We are VERY focused Tia." "This prank cannot go uncountered." Celestia growled. "But.. TWINS Tia! TWINS and they very much want to meet me.." Luna purrs. Celestia rolled her eyes. The Sparkles would pay for this. There was no way she could enjoy a cake covered in as many candles as her age was. It would set fire to the city.