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// *Breakfest games 
// Story: Filly in the snow 
// by Blitz Stratus 
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	With Luna's help it didn't take long to gather the necessary ingredients and before
you knew it you where busy mixing up a batch of pancake slash waffle batter.  

"Ok Luna it looks like we're ready to pour, do you have the waffle press plugged in?"

"Waffle pwess is pwugged in daddy."  

"Good, now Luna you what to do the honor of making the first waffle?"

"Yes pwease." Luna says bouncing on her flanks as you set the bowl down next 
to her.

Then, to your surprise, a soft blue glow sparks from the small bump that was 
Luna's horn and in awe, slash terror, you watch as a shimmering cloud like 
tendril snaked away from Luna and wrapped around the bowl with a low hiss. 	

"Umm Luna what are you......doing."  

"I'm wiftin the bowl."

"Well I can see that, but......ummm." Your words fall short as they collect in your 
throat, unable to continue their journey to describe what your seeing, as the bowl 
gracefully lifted from the counter and, with an almost lazy list, drifted to the side of 
the waffle press.

"Can you open the waffle pwess daddy?"

"Umm sure Luna, but how are you doing that?" You ask as your jaw hangs agape.

There is a pause as a look of bewilderment befalls Luna's muzzle. She raises a 
hoof but slowly with draws it. 

"I weally don't know daddy." Luna pouts.

"Well I guess that make's two of us then." You sigh flipping the waffle press lid 
open."How about we figure it out after we finish making these waffles, sound 
fair to you?"

"Ok daddy." Luna smiled as the bowl lifted a little, then silently tilted downward 
allowing semi pink batter to flow into the waffle shaped mold. "Is that good?" 
Luna questioned, floating the bowl away from the press's side and placed it 
back on the counter.

"Yeah, looks good to me."

"Now what?"

"Now we close the press, and wait for the waffles to cook." You reply, closing
the waffle press, a faint click sounding as the press's lock engaged. "So we'll
be waiting for a few minutes."

"Can we pway one of the game's daddy on the box's?"

"Of course we can Luna." You smile scooping up the little filly in your arms.
"But what game should we play?" 

"Sometin fun!"

"Well that narrows it down." You laugh, stepping out of your kitchen and into
your den. "But I think I have just the game in mind for us to play."

"Yaaay!"

"Ha ha, Well someone's excited."

"Of cwouse, it wook weally fun when you were pwayin."

"It was, but now the fun will be doubled and but I have to ask Luna, do you 
like dragons?"

"Umm what kind of dwagon?"

"A little purple one."

"Oh, can he spit fire and fly?"

"Of course he can breath fire, but he's a little lacking on the flying bit." You 
replying a mumble, as you knelt down in front of your TV, a hand coming 
loose from the filly so you could sift through the stacks of video games. 
"By the way Luna can you fly with your wings?"

".........No daddy I ...can't." Luna mumbles sadly.

"Oh, how about I teach you?"

"But you don't have wings daddy."

"True, but that won't stop me from helping you." You smile, giving Luna's left 
ear a light scratch. "But with the weather right now It might be a bit difficult." 
You sigh as you go back to your search.

"What game are you wooking for daddy?"

"Well I was looking for a game called Spyro but how about we play something
on the Snes instead?"

"Ok daddy. But what we going to play on that."

"Oh that's simple." You smile as your free hand descends into a small 
shoebox that sat just below your Tv. "We're gonna play this game." 
You reply as you pulled out a small, rectangular gray game cartridge.

"Donkey....kong...countwy? What's that?"

"Well let me set up the Snes and I'll show you Luna." You mumble as your
free hand quickly sets to work loading the cartridge into the system.

The cartridge smoothly slid into the game slot, which gave a hefty chunk
as it engaged the game reader that lay at the bottom of the system. Then
after a quick wiggle, as to see if the game cartridge was properly seated, 
you moved onto unwinding the controllers and, once they were loose and 
the console was turned on, handed one to Luna, who, with a expression of
slight confusion, gazed at the strange, object that now rested in her hooves
as you made your way back to your couch.

"What is it daddy?" Luna questioned as she gazed at the, gray, rounded 
ended rectangle.

"That's a controller Luna, remember, you watched me use one to play that
game last night."

"Oh, umm you did this wight?" Luna questioned as she pressed one of the
buttons with her free hoof. "Wike that?" 

"Yep just like that." You smile as you patted her head.

Luna grew quiet after this, which, at first, caused a sense of worry to quickly
fill your chest. But, quickly, the feeling dissolved as Luna began to laugh and
point at your tv screen as the sound of synthesized guitar riff started to play. 
You had watched this opening perhaps a hundred times, yet it still brought a
smile to your face every time. You had missed most of the entrance but what
you did see made a smile come across your face. Tree's filled the background
and made up what appeared to be a jungle stage which a large brown figure 
was dancing, his big black boombox pumping out the opening theme to the 
game. But as his dancing continued another figure appeared just bellow the 
stage, a large barrel held high above his head, fuse sparking with life. Then
with a mighty heave the wizened figure hurled the TNT barrel up onto the stage
and, after a mild freak out by the larger figure, the barrel detonated, destroying
the boombox along with the stage as the scene faded and main menu took its 
place.

"Ok Luna let just set this up for two player real quick and we we'll be ready to go."

"Ok daddy, but can I be the wittle one?"

"Well I don't know, Diddy is my favorite."

"Pwease!"

"Oh.....all right." You chuckled as the screen shifted once more and a new scene
came into view and, after another quick explosion, you and Luna came into view.

"Yay! I'm Diddy!" Luna shouted with glee. "But how do I move?"

"Use the D-pad."

"The what?"

"You see the plus sign on the left end of the controller?"

"Yeah."

"That lets you move, you can jump with the B button and the Y button lets you
roll, run, pick up barrels, and climb vines." You explain to Luna, pointing at each 
surface as you mention them. 

"B for jumpy, plus thingy for moving, and Y for's evewthing else?"

"Yep that's the jest of it."

"But what about the..... Sewect and start button?"

"Well we won't be using the select button and the start button just stops the 
game." You mumbled as the game play got underway.

A few minutes in and, after few moments of milling about so Luna could get use 
to the controls, you found that Luna, even though lacking fingers and, to your 
knowledge, any previous gaming experience, was doing pretty good for her first
time as you to went on to complete the first level and moved onto two, then to
level three with only one causality on the process due to the little filly holding an
explosive barrel for a little too long.

"Am I doing good daddy?" Luna asked as diddy came down hard from a jump, 
sending a crocodile tumbling off screen.

"Well there's room for improvement." You quickly mumble as other level came to
a close. "But for your first time, Your almost an expert." 

"Yay!"

"But we're going to have to pause the game in a little bit though."

"Wha! Why?" 

"Um your waffles will burn if we don't silly."

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Luna mumbled as red bathed her indigo muzzle as you 
held back a sigh.

"Hey with as cute as you are I think your allowed to forget some little things."
You smile giving Luna's mane a pat as a new stage came into focus on your
Tv and a faint ding echoed in your ear.