Squealing, fillyish giggles rent the air of the normally placid Golden Oaks Library. Along with them came the sound of tiny, stomping hooves as a pint sized Unicorn and Pegasus chased one another around the library’s loft.
“You’ll never get me, Twi! You’re too slow!” Rainbow Dash shrieked as she galloped headlong through the room, narrowly avoiding obstacles at every turn.
Gasping between laughs, Twilight lowered her head and galloped even harder, yelling, “Yuh huh! I will too! You’ll see!”
Using her superior knowledge of the living space’s layout, Twilight slowly closed the gap between Rainbow Dash and her, until a final lunge gave her a faceful of Dash’s tail… And nothing else, as Dash flapped her little wings and shot into the air.
“Toldja! Too slow!” Rainbow crowed as she did a little circle in midair.
“Hey!” Twilight shouted, “No fair flying!”
“It ain’t against the rules!”
“It should be!”
“Nuh uh!”
“Uh huh!”
“Nuh uh times infinity!”
Stomping a hoof, Twilight glared at Rainbow Dash and fumed for a moment. Then her eyes widened and she grinned, cantering over to her writing desk and climbing up on her chair. Giving her mightiest filly leap, Twilight managed to grab the edge of a nearby bookshelf and climb slowly to the top. “Now I’m higher, so I’m winning!”
Baffled, Rainbow Dash tilted her head to one side before frowning. “What? Nuh uh, that isn’t the rules!” Putting her forehooves on her hips, Rainbow flew closer to the shelf to properly give Twilight a piece of her mind… giving Twilight the precise opportunity she was waiting for.
With a shrill, primal cry of “Gotcha!” Twilight lunged forward right off the bookshelf, hooves swinging wildly and grasping only air as Rainbow dodged with little effort. Seeing her triumph turn to ashes before her eyes, Twilight could only cry out as she hit the floor with a muffled thud, scraping one of her fetlocks in the process.
Biting her lower lip, Dash wrapped her forelegs around herself, then cackled like a loon. “Pfftahahahaha! Oh man! The look on your face was priceless, Twi!”
Meanwhile, Twilight struggled herself into a sitting position and clutched her fetlock to her chest for a moment. “Ow…” she said with a sniffle, rubbing the sore spot. After a few seconds her lip started to quiver and she burst into tears.
Rainbow Dash’s laughter cut off after a moment as she heard Twilight’s wails below her and she gasped, zipping to the ground. Wrapping her arms around Twilight, Dash held her close and rocked back and forth. “Sorry Twilight,” she said as she nuzzled into Twilight’s mane. “I didn’t mean to.”
After a few minutes, Twilight’s tears abated and she hiccoughed, squeezing back. “S’okay… It wasn’t your fault. I shouldn’t’a jumped like that.” Giggling, Twilight rested her chin on Rainbow’s shoulder. “I didn’t think we’d be this much like real foals.”
“I don’t care,” Rainbow Dash replied. “This is the awesomest spell ever.” Leaning back, Rainbow looked Twilight in the eyes and said, “so you wanna do something else now?”
Twilight’s face scrunched up as she thought about it, then she grinned, shoving Rainbow on her back and pinning her down. “Nope,” Twilight said as she wrapped Dash in an even tighter hug than before. “I think it’s nap time!”
“Hey!” Rainbow cried as she fell back, trapped. “But I’m not sleepy! Twilight!”
After a few seconds of struggle, Rainbow frowned as Twilight nestled into her neck, quickly beginning to snore. “Twiiiiii,” she whined as she let her limbs flop at her sides. With a huff, Rainbow rolled her eyes and shifted her weight under her captor.
Resigned to her fate, Rainbow Dash wrapped her arms around Twilight and snuggled up, eyelids drooping closed. Minutes later a second set of snores joined in on Twilight’s quickly building crescendo of slumber.