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// Twilight And An Octorok 
// Story: Twilight And An Octorok 
// by UniqueSKD 
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Twilight And An Octorok


Equestria. Town of Ponyville. Golden Oaks Library. Saturday afternoon. About tea time.

Twilight stared at the bizarre-looking creature that sat in the middle of the carpet of the library, her little dragon assistant Spike hiding behind her, poking his head out with a mixed look of curiosity and fright. The creature, a little bigger than Spike but slightly smaller than Twilight, lay still yet was breathing, leaving the two to believe it was either unconscious or sleeping. 

"T-T-Twilight? What in Equestria is THAT thing?", Spike asked nervously, not taking his eyes off the strange entity.

Twilight shook her head. "I don't know what this thing is, Spike, but-", she sat down on her haunches and clapped her hooves together as she squealed in delight, "-I'm going to be the first pony ever to communicate with another intelligent lifeform from a different dimension!"

Spike took his eyes away from the thing to give Twilight a puzzled look. "What about that dimension with what-you-call-them? Hee-you-mans?"

Twilight's face sank into a frown. "That doesn't count," she said sourly.

Spike shrugged. "Whatever. But this thing doesn't look like one of them." Spike looked back at the creature. He noted its round spherical form, red in color, and with a patch of white where he assumed its eyes would be. It had four small stubby legs, and what looked like a large round mouth. Needless to say it was probably the oddest thing he'd ever laid eyes upon, second only to Discord. "What spell did you use anyways?", he asked.

Twilight's horn glowed with a purplish aura as she levitated a spell book from a table over to her. "To be honest, Spike, I'm not sure what spell it was exactly." Twilight flicked through the pages until she found the spell she had performed some moments ago. "The spell didn't have a name, and it didn't say what it was supposed to do either. All there was were the instruction on how to cast it."

Twilight closed the book and levitated it back to the table. "I guess Starswirl never finished writing those specifics of the spell, but taking into account what we've seen happen, it must be some sort of dimensional net to bring creatures from other universes to our own."

Spike narrowed his eyes at the librarian pony. "You didn't know what it did to begin with, so you went ahead and cast it anyway? What if it was dangerous? What if that spell sent the atmosphere on fire and destroyed all life in Equestria and beyond as we know it?"

Twilight rolled her eyes. "Why would Starswirl invent a terrible thing like that, Spike? He created spells to aid ponykind, not to destroy it. Besides, nothing like that has happened, and everything looks okay to me."

"Well, there could have been a chance it may have happened!", Spike answered back.

Both pony and dragon returned their attention back to the creature when they heard it beginning to stir. A pair of black narrow eyes appeared on its white face, which stared back at the librarian and her helper. Both sides simply stayed put and kept their gazes fixed on each other, for the length of a whole one minute, before Twilight finally decided to take a step towards the creature and offer it a hoof.

Spike went wide-eyed. "Twilight! What are you doing? Get away from that thing!", he whispered worryingly.

"I'm going to try and get the creature's trust by showing it we're not hostile," Twilight replied back over her shoulder. "I took it away from its own world and dimension by mistake, it'll be confused and frightened. If I show it we aren't hostile, it might tell us who and what it is."

"Er...Hello there, sir or madam. My name is Twilight Sparkle," she said with a friendly smile, hoping the creature would understand her. "What is your name?"

The creature stared at her hoof for a moment, before looking back up at her. It blinked a couple of times, before it began to suddenly shake, as if though it were cold. 

Twilight withdrew her hoof and looked on in panic. "Oh dear! Are you okay? Are you cold?"

The creature made no reply or sound, just shaking even more.

Twilight turned to look at Spike, who stood observing the creature in confusion. "Spike! Run upstairs and get some blankets! I think the poor thing is freezing!"

"But its the middle of spring, Twilight. How can it be cold?", Spike asked.

"I don't know, maybe its biology is different to ours! It probably - OW!"

Twilight felt something hard hit her on the side of her head and falling to the ground with a thud. Looking to see what struck her, she noticed a rock laying near her. A strange sound drew her attention back to the creature, which now seemed to be giggling, and making a rather strange sound.

"Did...did that thing...spit a rock at you, Twilight?", Spike asked in bewilderment.

Twilight ignored him, her focus being on the creature that had just assaulted her. "Now what was that for?", the pony demanded angrily. At the tone of her voice, the creature stopped its giggling and looked at Twilight. "I don't know what you are," Twilight continued, still holding a serious tone in her voice, "or why you spat that rock at me, or even why you can spit rocks for that matter, but we will have none of that happening while you're here, mister. Do I make myself clear?".

The creature just gazed into Twilight's eyes, blinking a couple of times.

"I said, do I make myself clear?", Twilight asked again, a little louder than before while stomping a hoof on the ground and flaring her wings out. 

The creature sucked in air, inflating its body a little, and when it released it back out, another rock shot out from its mouth, clonking the purple alicorn on the other side of her head. It fell again into a fit of giggling.

"Spike, pass me that book," Twilight growled. "I'm sending this thing back where it came from."