The Prompt: Tell me a story about a mythical creature that lives in Equestria. Preferably something that hasn’t been seen in the show yet.
“Okay…now, just what exactly were you trying to do when this all started?” Twilight asked, face half-obscured by a forlorn hoof.
“Wellll…I got up super early to open Sugarcube Corner and then Rainbow Dash came by with super awesome prank idea, but I had already made plans with Fluttershy and still had to babysit for the Cake’s that night and start working on the Mayor’s Hearth’s Warming office party—you would not believe how much sarsaparilla she ordered. Mayor Mare really must need a lot of sass for January, which I guess makes sense with the election coming up and—”
“Pinkie.”
“Oh, right…sorry. Well, I was looking at my schedule and saw that I had a 12:37 appointment to hang out with my favoritest, most bestest unicorn named Twiligh—”
“Pinkie…”
“Okay…well, I was looking at how packed my schedule was getting—I didn’t even used to need one!—and I was at the library and you always seem so on top of your schedule and all.”
“You could have just asked for some pointers, Pinkie.”
“I know, but when I came in through the window—I’ll, um, get that fixed by Friday by the way, Pinkie Promise—and I hit the bookcase—”
“And Starswirl’s Systematic Studies of Sorcical Structures fell out—”
“And landed on page 287,” Pinkie finished for her.
Twilight was silent for a moment, looking over her shoulder at the ruination of Ponyville, a trail of smoking debris weaving through the market. She cringed slightly at the distant roar of the giant, pink golem as it headed towards Canterlot.
Tightening her grip on the branch, clinging to what little remained of the Books and Branches Library, she glanced back at Pinkie, a sheepish grin on the earth pony’s face as she hung, suspended by her tail at the end of the same branch.
“Well…that explains that then.”