A Derp And A Chirp:
Chapter 1- Getting a Pet:
Derpy remained sound asleep in what had to be the softest bed in Ponyville. However, her clock went off with an alarm that made her freak out the moment she heard it. It gave off a loud ring like you wouldn’t believe, and caused her to flail her forelegs and flop onto the floor wide awake.
“Oh…stupid clock.” She looked off in disapproval, then back at the clock.
As Derpy was and usually is, she proceeded to then throw out the clock from her two-story window. She didn’t care; she had a paying job that would allow her to get another easily…making her three hundred and sixtieth for this year.
She trotted down to her kitchen to get a muffin obviously, and ate it passionately alongside a glass of milk. After she finished her breakfast, she then made it back up into her bathroom on the second floor. So shortly thereafter, she cut on the water, which was adjusted to the perfect temperature. She stood there as she lathered up, letting the warm water droplets hit her sensitive skin under her wings. As she then stepped out, and with a ruffle and brief flapping of her feathered wings, she realized something.
“Wait a moment…today’s the day!” she shouted out, knowing today was the day she would be getting her first pet…and from Fluttershy nonetheless.
A good while later, she shot out of her front door, forgetting to close the door behind her.
“Yippee! I can’t wait to meet Fluttershy personally this time, she seems like such a nice pony.” She said to herself as she was making her way over to Fluttershy’s cottage.
Before she knew it, the cottage was in sight in a matter of moments to Derpy. As she descended in front of the transcendent home’s entrance, her knock on the door was followed by sudden noises of animals inside.
“Um…what did I do wrong?” she thought.
A few clicks of the doors locks, and the door opened up to the sight of the adorable pale yellow Pegasus pony.
“Oh my, I didn’t expect you to arrive so soon Ditzy Doo…but good morning anyways.” Fluttershy spoke softly and with a small smile.
“I’m here for my first pet, you said when I arrived I could start picking right away.” Derpy replied.
“Oh did I? I’m sorry…I think I was busy with feeding the birds while you were asking me.” Fluttershy then looked away.
“Oh…okay…will it be tomorrow then?” Derpy then looked off and towards all of the birds that were nestled in the trees within her front yard.
“Oh no, I didn’t mean to say it couldn’t be today, sure it can Ditzy, whatever you want to do is fine…if that’s okay with-” Before Fluttershy could finish, Derpy zoomed off towards the trees already making her pick.
“Um…oh…starting now I guess…right.” Fluttershy told herself and nodded a pinch before flying low over to her.
Derpy had never seen such a magnificent assortment of birds, neither had she seen so many with such color either. One however seemed to catch her eye as it seemed to stand on a perch alone with no friends to Derpy’s view.
“Which bird is this one?” Derpy asked before flying up to the bird shortly after.
“Oh him? Oh he’s such a sweetie, but bless his little heart, he doesn’t have a friend…or even a mate to be with. I couldn’t come up with a special enough name for him, so he’s just known as Mr. Parrot to me.” Said Fluttershy. She then softly flies up to the parrot like nothing bothered it at the moment, but what could you expect from Fluttershy with birds?
“You poor thing, you want a friend don’t you?” she asked the bird sympathetically.
Derpy got a little closer to the parrot, but it backed away a little bit from her the closer she approached it.
“Oh he’s not used to anypony else but me.”
“I can tell.” Derpy replied.
“Oh but it’s no big deal, besides, all it takes is a little bit of company before they warm up to you. That’s how I taught most of the animals with me to be.” Said Fluttershy, followed by a smile nopony could resist.
“He doesn’t have any friends? Out of all of the birds that are taken care of by you?”
“Unfortunately yes…except Hummingway of course. He’s the most adorable, sweetest little angel for a bird I have, and he is friends with every animal here.”
“Is Mr. Parrot sick?” Derpy asked.
“Oh goodness no, I make sure each and every one of my animals I care for is treated with the most possible amount of love and care they could ask for.” Fluttershy replied.
“Can he talk?”
“He can actually, but he’s shy around strangers…isn’t that right? Yes it is, yes it is!” Fluttershy giggled slightly before proceeding to rub the parrots little head softly. The parrot’s face showed an expression of satisfaction and happiness.
“He loves to get rubbed on his head, most birds do. Go ahead…try it, he won’t bite or anything, I promise.” Fluttershy assured Derpy.
Derpy decided to give it a shot, and slowly approaches the colorful parrot. Surprisingly enough, it wasn’t going anywhere this time, probably since it felt comfortable around Fluttershy.
The parrot backed up just a little bit, but Fluttershy assuring the parrot that there was nothing to be scared of.
Then, to Derpy’s surprise, she managed to touch its head, and began to softly rub along the crown of his head. The bird then focused attention back to Derpy, and stared her right in the eyes.
“Aww, he likes you Ditzy!” said Fluttershy.
“Are you sure?”
“Absolutely…like I said, he’s a sweetheart…aren’t you little one?” said Fluttershy, as she softly stroked along one of its wings.
A good while later, and after staying around Derpy’s company, the parrot began to warm up to her presence. Derpy and Fluttershy remained under the tree he was perched within, giving him time and space to get as comfortable around the new guest as possible.
“So how old is he?” Derpy asked.
“Um, well…I don’t really know to be honest. I’m saying that because I didn’t raise him when he hatched. If I were to guess, maybe four or something like that. I found him crying out to his mommy and daddy in a forest. I waited alongside him so that his parents would return…but they never did. So ever since then, I have cared for him, and treated him as one of my own, just like I do to all the animals under my care.” Fluttershy stated with comfort.
Before they both knew it, the parrot had been sitting on the ground next to Derpy the entire time as Fluttershy was looking off into another direction, as was Derpy too.
“Banana?” said the parrot next to her, which startled the both of them for a bit.
“Oh my goodness…I’ve never heard him say that before?” Fluttershy was surprised; she couldn’t believe that bird was actually speaking at a time of unexpected timing from him.
“So he does talk, oh wow this is cool! I want him as my pet!”
“Shh, keep your voice down, you don’t want him to fly off.” Fluttershy shushed Derpy.
The parrot was indeed startled by Derpy’s change of tone, and made him anxious to fly off.
“Um…muffin?” Derpy then put a muffin in front of its face, making it stare at the strange object.
“Um…where did you get that muffin?” Fluttershy asked.
“I have no clue, I wonder that myself, but what fun is there in understanding?” Derpy replied.
“Oh um…I guess.”
The parrot looked at it for a little longer, then back at Derpy in the eyes. Over and over for a solid three minutes it did that, with Derpy adding the word “muffin” to the bird.
“Muffin?” the parrot then spoke up, struggling a little with the word but managing.
“Oh my sweet Celestia…he said muffin.” Derpy said softly. Giddy with excitement and energy, she was heavily tempted to hug the adorable parrot learning her favorite word, but that obviously would not work out well for her or the bird.
“Well would you look at that…it looks like Mr. Parrot I think has chosen you to be his…uh…oh my…” Fluttershy then stopped herself, as she watched the parrot and Derpy eat the muffin together.
“Uh, um…is it okay for parrots to be eating muffins?”
“I don’t really know Fluttershy?” Derpy shrugged, her mouth full of muffin, along with her quick new friend the parrot enjoying the muffin as well. It was a blueberry muffin, so it wasn’t totally bad for Mr. Parrot, since they need a healthy diet of seeds, fruits, and cooked vegetables…rice would kill it though like it would any other bird.
So time passed on, as Mr. Parrot was now perched on Derpy’s back when she and Fluttershy walked back inside for a snack.
“Well I am just so proud that Mr. Parrot has…oh…well where did she go?” said Fluttershy turning around to see that Derpy and the parrot had disappeared out of sight.
Meanwhile in the air…
“Woohoo! The best pet ever!”
“Muffin!” the parrot squawked, flying next to her.
“Another one?”
“Muffin!”
“Okay, okay here you go.” Derpy then brought out another delicious muffin from behind her once more.
“Where and how in Equestria do these muffins keep appearing into my hoof when I bring my hoof behind me then back out into view?!” she wondered to herself out loud.