New Life in Equestria

by jkreader

Chapter 22 - Dentist Appointment (Rewritten)

The next day started out normally. I woke up before anypony else as usual, despite my being up late. I trotted downstairs to look at my schedule for the day. While looking at it, I saw that Nyx had a dentist appointment scheduled for after school today. I figured maybe Joshua could use one too. Soon enough, I heard movement from the top of the stairs.

“Good morning Mom,” Joshua said.

“Good morning Joshua,” I said, “Any changes?”

“No, I don’t think so,” he said. He looked behind him as if looking for a possible grown tail, which there was none. He let out a sigh in relief. “Anything from Princess Celestia and Princess Luna yet?”

“Not since their last letter. Joshua, out of curiosity, did your parents ever take you to a doctor called a dentist before?”

“Yeah, they did,” he said, “Why?”

“Well, Nyx has an appointment with Colgate, the town’s dentist, today after school, so I think I might have her look at your teeth too.”

“Colgate?” he asked me, “That’s her name?”

“Yeah. Why do you ask?”

“Because that was the name of a type of toothpaste my mommy and daddy and I used.”

“Huh,” I said surprised, “That’s a weird coincidence.”

After Nyx and Spike woke up and we all had breakfast, I went over to Colgate’s office to pencil Joshua in. She’s a blue unicorn mare with blue eyes, a white and darker blue mane and tail, and an hourglass cutie mark. She looked up when I came in.

“Oh! Hello Your Highness!” she said bowing.

“There’s no need for that Colgate, and just call me Twilight,” I said to her, “I came here to schedule another appointment for today.”

“Is it for you or Spike?”

“Actually, it’s for the human I recently adopted. You’ve heard about him right?”

“Of course I have,” she said, “I’d be happy to check his teeth for you.”

“Thank you Colgate,” I said to her, “I’ll bring him and Nyx by after school gets out.”

“I look forward to meeting him,” she said waving.

5 hours later...

After picking up Nyx and Joshua from school, we arrived at Colgate’s dentist office and went in.

“Hello again Twilight,” Colgate said. She walked out from behind her counter and up to us. She then looked down at Joshua. “It’s nice to finally meet you Joshua,” she said, “I’m Colgate, Ponyville’s resident dentist. Are you ready for your checkup?”

“I don’t know,” he said, “I’m not really comfortable at dentists.”

“Don’t worry Joshua,” Nyx said, “Tell you what, why don’t you watch me have my teeth checked on, and then you can go?”

“Okay,” he said.

“Wonderful!” Colgate said, “Right this way you two.” Colgate walked to the back and entered her examining room with Joshua and Nyx behind her. I followed as well, standing in the doorway. After helping Nyx into her seat, Colgate levitated a stool over for Joshua so he could watch. A few minutes into Nyx’s checkup, we heard the door open.

“Be right back Nyx,” Colgate said. I turned around and saw Derpy and Dinky in the waiting room.

“Hey there you two,” I greeted them.

“Hi!” Derpy said, “What’s up?”

“Nyx and Joshua are having their teeth looked at today,” I replied.

“Dinky’s here for an appointment too,” Derpy said.

“Ah yes,” Colgate said looking at a clipboard, “I’ll look at her when I’m done with Nyx and Joshua. You can come back here with your friends if you’d like Dinky.”

“Okay!” Dinky chirped. She then scurried underneath me and into the room. I heard Derpy chuckling behind me. I then saw Dinky standing over at where Joshua was. “Hi Joshua,” she said.

Joshua turned around suddenly. “Oh. Hi Dinky,” he said, blushing a little bit. I raised my eyebrow a bit at that reaction. “How are you?” he asked climbing down from the stool.

“I’m doing okay,” she said rubbing one foreleg against the other, “You?”

“I’m doing okay too,” he said. I could tell there was something going on between those two that I didn’t know about. For a moment, I thought I caught Nyx winking at Joshua while Colgate began cleaning her teeth. A few minutes later, Nyx was finished, and Colgate gave her a new toothbrush, like she did with all of her patients. Joshua was still a little nervous about getting his teeth checked, but Nyx and Dinky both gave him encouraging smiles, so he sat down in the chair and let Colgate check his teeth. As he opened his mouth, Colgate’s face turned to one of confusion, but started checking and cleaning his teeth all the same. Soon, Joshua was done, and he got a new toothbrush too. While Nyx and Joshua were talking with Dinky, Colgate came up to me.

“Something wrong?” I asked her.

“I’m not sure,” she said, “I expected him to have different looking teeth than us, but when I first saw them, they looked a lot the way our teeth do. Is that normal?”

I knew what this meant; Joshua went through another change: his teeth, and he didn’t even know it. I saw his teeth several times before, and they had sharp ones in certain spots. I knew that humans ate both meat and plants, but Joshua said that he never ate meat before, and neither did his parents. I told Colgate what was going on, and she promised she wouldn’t say a word about it.

I then turned back to Nyx, Joshua, and Dinky. “Okay you two, we need to get going,” I told them.

“Okay Twilight,” Nyx said, “Bye Dinky.”

“Bye Nyx,” Dinky replied giving Nyx a hug. She then gave Joshua one too, “Bye Joshua.”

“Bye Dinky,” Joshua said. Joshua’s hug seemed to last longer than Nyx’s. After they broke away we left.

“So Joshua,” I said trying to sound casual, “Why were you and Dinky acting awkwardly around each other?”

As I suspected, Joshua’s cheeks started blushing again.