''Pinkie will be here soon to foalsit you two.'' said Twilight, looking at her two daughters who stood in the doorway of the castle. Rainbow stood behind her with a smile on her cyan face. The alicorn mare frowned a little and asked nervously. ''You sure that you'll be fine for a some time on your own?''
''We'll be fine, mom. But why is Pinkie foalsitting us?'' asked Nyx.
''She's foalsitting you because she's the only one not busy tonight because Cheese often to take care of the bakery and the twins. Fluttershy isn't able to trust Screwball alone with her father, Rarity has a order to fill and she has to look after Sweetie Belle and Applejack can't come because she too has a date.'' said Twilight, with her nervous expression clean on her face. ''Now, see you, girls later when me and Dash come back.''
Nyx and Night waved goodbye to their adoptive mother, who walked away with her marefriend. The two fillies smiled at each other, before Nyx led the younger filly into the building and upstairs to the playroom. Nyx looked around the room, toys scattered everywhere and it made a faint frown to covered her face. ''Looks like we're gonna have to clean.''
''Yeah.....'' agreed Night.
Nyx sighed and the pair of the fillies began putting the various toys into their two toyboxes. Nyx sighed with relief when all the toys were clean from the floor leaving a rather normalish playroom in it's place. Night looked around and smiled a little. She picked up her new wand and waved it, picking up various rubbish that also scattered the floor and placed them into the bin. Nyx watched with a smile. ''Your magic is rather handy for these situations.''
''...I just did it because it was quicker....''
Nyx smiled, and said gently. ''Hey, do you have any other spells?''
''......I only know levitation and I rather have mommy nearby when I learn new ones.'' said Night, with a gently shake of the head. Nyx frowned and laid on the rug, looking at the white ceiling with her dragon eyes.
Knock! Knock! The girls were interrupt by knocking on the door and by a voice that was known all too well. ''Night, Nyxie! Auntie Pinkie Pie is here to foalsit you.''
''We're upstairs, Pinkie.'' called Nyx. ''In the playroom.''
Only mere seconds after Nyx had spoken, a pink figure appear at the door of the dimly lit room. The earth pony mare looked around the room with a disappointed frown. ''Why did you clean up? We're gonna be playing for hours in here, aren't we. I mean, I can't babysit you without having playtime; it's improper.''
''Pinkie Pie, we cleaned because we didn't want you to be annoyed by the heavy mess.''
''Oh yea, Nighty. Isn't that your new wand, I'm guess you used magic!?'' asked Pinkie, to the nervous pegasus.
''Yeah....I didn't want it to go to waste.''
''Thats so cool, isn't it, Nyxie!?'' yelled Pinkie, as she bounced up and down.
The black alicorn filly looked at the energetic mare for a moment. ''Why don't you calm down, Pinkie. You're scaring Night.''
''Oh, I'm sorry.'' said Pinkie, to the little filly who smiled gently. ''Oh yea, Nyxie. Where did Twi put the responsibilities list?''
''Oh, on the kitchen fridge.'' replied Nyx gently as she walked to the door. ''Come on, it's almost dinner time anyway.''
Pinkie and Night both nodded, Nyx smiled and walked out of the playroom door. The other two followed the alicorn across the corridor and down the staircase, into the kitchen. Nyx smiled gently, it was just as she had said, the list of responsibilities was on the kitchen fridge's door like her mom had placed it earlier. She tore it off and handed it to Pinkie, who gazed over it as Nyx spoke. ''Here, Pinkie. Mom wanted to make sure you did everything by the list so everything is wrote down.''
''Tell me about it, there is over 20 responsibilities here and I'm only watching you for the evening!'' cried the pink mare, worriedly.
''Um....will you be able to handle it, Auntie Pinkie?'' asked Night gently from her seat at the table. She too had a worried expression, that she shared with Pinkie and Nyx.
''I believe I'll be fine, Nighty. I did care for the cake twins only three years ago, I'm sure I'm gonna be alright. After all, Pound and Pumpkin were only a month old and boy, were their powers strong.'' said Pinkie, quietly as she recalled the day when she foalsitted the cake twins, she would never forget the worst/best day of her life.
''You foalsitted the cake twins....'' murmured Night, quietly.
Pinkie giggled gently. ''I was their go-to foalsitter. But that doesn't matter, according to this, Twi wants you to have pizza for dinner tonight. And after that, there's a method of how to cook it. Twi, I know how to cook.....'' Pinkie sighed to herself.
''Mom just wants everything perfect, it's not your fault, Pinkie. But you might want to get started, it's almost dinner time after all.''
Pinkie nodded and begin baking the pizza, Nyx went and joined her sister at the table as they waited patiently for their meals. About 30 or so minutes later was when Pinkie came to the table carrying three dishes of pizza. The dishes were placed in front of all three of them, and with a small smile, they began eating.
''...Um...thanks, Auntie Pinkie....these are amazing.'' said Night, as she nibbled on the crest of her first one before moving onto the second.
''Night is right, these are perfect. Looks like mom has nothing to worry about.'' said Nyx, with a smile.
''Aw, thanks girls.'' said Pinkie, with a caring smile before she gripped hold of the list. ''What's next? Oh, bath time!''
Both of the sisters looked at each other happily, both of them loved baths. After all, their first meeting with Twilight led to a bath. Pinkie noticed this and smiled, knowing it be relatively easy. The earth pony looked at the bath time methods, and sighed in frustration. Twilight had placed two different methods on how to wash the pair.
All of them washed the dishes and went to the bathroom. Pinkie helped Night out of her vest and wing covers and of course, the bandage. The mare frowned when she saw the still open wound on the side of the filly's body, it either was never going to close or it will scar pretty horrible and she already had a lot of scars. Nyx watched as she also got out of her vest and headband, and frowned gently at the filly's scars and wound.
''Okay, girls. Nyx, according to this, you don't need my help but Night you do because you can't wash out that wound out on your own.'' said Pinkie.
Night nodded, and let Pinkie help her into the bathroom as Nyx climbed in herself. Pinkie helped wipe over the filly's body, using the shower gently then she washed the wound, being as gentle as she could muster. The filly winced a little. Pinkie frowned and said. ''Oh, did I hurt you there?''
''A bit.....''
Nyx watched as she also washed herself, having taken the shower from Pinkie. The black alicorn spoke ''Pinkie, I'm finished by the way.''
''Oh. Ok, Nyxie. Can't you get out?'' asked the pink mare.
''I can, I was just telling you so you knew.''
Pinkie nodded as she continued to gently wipe the wound on Night's side. Nyx frowned at her sister's wincing as she climbed out of the bath tub and grabbed the towel. She wrapped the towel around herself, for a moment as she levitated her headband. She dried her mane and gently secured the headband on her head, pulling her mane back behind her horn.
Pinkie kept one eye on the drying filly, as she gently helped Night out of the bath. She helped Night dry herself before gently grabbing a new bandage. She wrapped it carefully around the filly's body, making certain that her wings could slip through then she placed the vest on top, she picked up the wing covers but didn't see the point in placing them on Night's wings because of how late it is. ''I'll put these in your room, Night. Get yourselves dry, girls.''
10 minutes later, Pinkie and the sisters were sitting in the living room, that was lit only by the fireplace. The sisters were sitting by the fire, using them to roast marshmallows. Pinkie scanned the list for the next chore. ''Girls, I know what's next. It's a very brief playtime. Brief, as in a short time?''
''Pinkie, it is already 6 O'clock.'' said Nyx, as she pulled her marshmallows away from the fire and begin eating them.
''I suppose, but is it really necessary that it's brief?''
''I guess, but we do have story time after that before go to bed.''
''Right, oh well. Let's go to the playroom. Eat your marshmallows.''
Both of the fillies nodded, and ate their marshmallows gently. Then they followed Pinkie up stairs and to the playroom. ''So what do we do this?'' asked Nyx.
''Just play!'' said Pinkie, joyfully before she went to play with a dollhouse. Nyx and Night side glanced at each other before going to play with a couple of soft toys.
About 30 minutes later of playing, Night yawned gently as she dropped her bunny soft toy. Pinkie noticed this, and smiled sadly. ''Looks like it's story time. Nyx, you tired?''
''A bit, but we can read the story in Night's and mom's room. I'll stay awake and go to bed afterwards.'' said Nyx, gently as she helped the small filly next to her to her hooves.
The three ponies walked out of the playroom and into Twilight's bedroom. Night laid into her's and Twilight's bed, yawning tiredly. Nyx sat down on a nearby stool as Pinkie grabbed a story book, the list had told her the exact book to read, it was 'Nyx of the Night', Nyx's favorite story and the one where her name came from.
Pinkie read the story for the next 4 minutes until Night fell to sleep, Nyx yawned herself causing Pinkie to stop reading because she didn't want the filly to fall asleep out of her own bed. Nyx got up, having noticed that Pinkie had stopped reading, and walked into her own bedroom next door. Pinkie smiled, yawned a little but went downstairs into the living room. She laid on the sofa, wrapped in a blanket until Twilight and Rainbow came back.
40 minutes later, and the front door opened. ''Pinkie, we're back!'' It was Twilight, Pinkie yawned and walked into the hall, like she was in a trance. Twilight looked at the mare, with a frown. ''You're tired, aren't you? You should head home now.''
Pinkie yawned once more and said gently. ''Alright, the girls are asleep. Is Rainbow staying over?''
''Yes. After all, she is involved in what we're doing tomorrow.'' said Twilight, glancing at a tired Rainbow. ''See you tomorrow morning, Pinkie.''
''Yeah, see you tomorrow, Twilight, Dashie.'' said Pinkie, yawning before she left the castle. With the pink mare gone, Twilight went to her's and Night's bedroom, smiling at the filly in her bed. And Rainbow went to the guest room.