'Twas a bright, sunny afternoon as Fluttershy cautiously strolled through the Everfree Forest, with filled saddlebags placed over her back. She had already left Zecora's hut a few minutes ago after venturing there to retrieve some special medicinal herbs and ingredients for Cooper, one of her raccoon friends, who was sick with a severe fever. That alone took great courage, especially since she dreaded going through the Everfree Forest. Now the pale yellow pegasus mare had to trek through the seemingly scary Everfree Forest again to reach her cottage safe and sound.
"Oh, I should have asked Zecora to go with me," she said to herself softly, trembling slightly as she walked."Now, Fluttershy, you can do this. Just take a few deep breathes and you'll be fine." Fluttershy deeply inhaled and exhaled a few times before hearing the sounds of some twigs snapping nearby.
"AHH!"
She immediately retreated behind a nearby tree for a moment before peeking out her head, sweeping it in both directions to check if the coast was clear. Fluttershy then moved out from the tree's cover and resumed walking back to her cottage while feeling more cautious than before. A minute later, Fluttershy gasped as she heard the sound of twigs snapping underhoof again, causing her to immediately turn around in the opposite direction.
"H-hello? A-a-anypony there? Hello?” Fluttershy waited for half a minute before turning back in the direction of her home, but just as she set one hoof forward, a huge creature twice her size instantly emerged several feet ahead of her, barring her path. The pale yellow pegasus mare gasped softly in recognizing the huge creature. “Oh, no! It’s…it’s a wi-wyvern!”
And indeed it was; for this wyvern was covered in grey-green scales, stood up on two legs with both wings folded in and one deadly, venomous stinger at the end of its long tail. Worse still, to the mare’s horror, the vicious wyvern had already spotted her and began charging at her really fast. Likewise, Fluttershy screamed, immediately turned around and sprinted off from the pursuing predator, but alas, the wyvern ran faster than her. Just as the beast was about close in on the poor defenseless mare (who now had tears streaming from her beautiful eyes), Fluttershy heard a loud, young voice from behind her right shouting.
“Oh no you don't, scalie!”
Within an instant, two things happened at once: while running, Fluttershy barely noticed a dark shape whizzing past on her right and colliding into the wyvern behind her. A second later, Fluttershy immediately skidded to a halt before turning around to gaze a sight to behold: a small, stone-armored, feline looking creature was currently standing defiantly before the larger wyvern, who now had been knocked over on it's side, but was quickly getting back up. As she witnessed this, Fluttershy yelped softly as another small, stone-armored figure rushed past her right side, shouting:
"Quickly, hide! We'll take care of this creep!" Without hesitation, Fluttershy quickly went behind a thick tree trunk, while the second stone-like figure joined his companion in confronting the wyvern. As she stood there behind the tree, she heard the loud sounds of three separate snarls with the loudest coming from the wyvern, followed by loud snarling and roaring, indicating the beginning of an epic two-on-one fight. For Fluttershy, she found the sounds of that raging conflict most unbearable, on account that she never liked violence one single bit.
The only thing from it that she found a little comforting were the young voices of the two stone-creatures shouting taunts at the larger wyvern, such as 'Is that all you got?!' or 'Heh! You gotta do better than that!' or 'Oh yeah?! Well take this, ugly!' or 'You think attacks like that can hurt us, lizard breath?!' and so on. This unseen battle continued for a minute or two until finally Fluttershy heard the wyvern give a wailing roar before hearing it moving swiftly away from both her and the two stone-like creatures.
"Yeah, you better run, ya big meany!" shouted one of them. Seconds later, his companion spoke up:
"Phew! That winged lizard sure was tough." The second stone-creature chuckled lightly.
"Tell me about it. I'm surprised we didn't even die from all the times it stabbed us with it's sharp tail."
"Yeah. Oh, I forgot! What about the pegasus we just saved?"
"Don't worry, bro, I'm sure she's somewhere nearby. Hey, miss! Can you hear me? It's safe to come out now!" No sooner had those words been spoken when Fluttershy immediately emerged from behind the large tree and quickly trotted over to her two rescuers, both positioned side-by-side. When she halted a few inches from them, Fluttershy could finally observe what the two stone-like creatures looked like up close. She noticed that both of them were similar in size and almost entirely covered in ornately decorated stone armor, since some small areas of their bodies had patches of skin exposed. Fluttershy also noticed that the pair were taller than school-aged foals and yet shorter than full grown adult mares. Yet despite those common traits, each of the stone-armored beings differed from each other in physical appearance.
The first one had some resemblance to a tiger, which included his robust body featuring strong shoulders and back legs. Both of his fore paws were armed with sets of sharp-looking claws, both of which were stained with blood from his scuffle with the wyvern. The stone feline's face also possessed a few distinct features, like his mouth, which were lined with what appeared to be exposed teeth while on the corners of his mouth were two large, curved fangs protruding outward. Finally, there were his light blue eyes, which were quite small in size and had a distinct unibrow fixated above them.
The second being resembled a lion on account how of the swept-back ridges encircling his head and a few of the armor plates on his back had similitude to a lion's flowing mane. In contrast to his companion, this stone-armored feline had a bit more slender build, with his tail being thinner in width, and yet he still looked strong enough to put up a fight. Both his shoulders and thighs had unique stone protrusions on them that resembled pauldrons while his feet had three digits each instead of five, all of which were dull compared to his companion's sharp claws. The stone feline's face not only featured larger light blue eyes, but below his mouth were a quartet of large curved fangs that curved upward.
It took only a second or two for Fluttershy to notice all these features from the two statuesque felines, some of which would have frightened any other pony. But that didn't matter to her, for she just smiled big and wrapped her front limbs around each of their necks in a warm embrace.
"Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for saving me," she said excitedly, as she sequentially released her grip on them.
"No problem, ma'mm," replied the first stone feline, his lower jaw moving as he spoke. "We were happy to do it."
"Say, do you mind if I asked what your name is?" asked the second.
"Oh sure. My name is Fluttershy. What are your names?" Both felines looked at each other for a moment before speaking.
"Well, my name's Celosia," said the first one.
"And I'm his twin brother, Cenobia," added the other. For a moment, Fluttershy's eyes grew wide in hearing those names as she found herself feeling utterly fascinated and enthralled with both Celosia and Cenobia, especially since they were creatures she'd never seen or heard of before.
"Well, it's very nice to meet you two," she kindly replied. "So where do you live? Because I've never seen you around the Everfree Forest before." She immediately regretted asking this when she observed the now sorrowful looks on Celosia and Cenobia's faces. "Oh, I'm sorry. If it's something that you don't wish to talk about, I won't pressure you."
"Oh, no, it's alright, Fluttershy," replied Cenobia sadly. "You didn't mean any harm. You see, this forest isn't our home. And..." Cenobia looked down dolefully as he stalled for several seconds before his brother spoke for him.
"I'm afraid it's a hard thing we're goin' through, Fluttershy. But to put it simply, we have no home to go back to right now." Celosia lifted one of his arms and sympathetically placed it over his brother's back. Fluttershy was deeply torn on the inside from what she heard. That both Celosia and Cenobia, the two young strangers who saved her life, had no home in which to return. She immediately felt an urge within herself to show compassion toward them and thus acted on it.
"Um, if you'd like, you two are more than welcome to come and stay at my cottage," she offered. Within an instant, both stone-armored felines looked at her with expressions of both surprise and utter joy before Cenobia excitedly replied.
"Wow, really? Gee, thanks, Fluttershy!"
"Yeah!" added Celosia. "We'd love to come and stay at your cottage!"
"Hey, wait a minute. Where is your cottage anyway?"
"Oh, it's just down that way," said Fluttershy, pointing one hoof down in the direction of where the two felines were standing. Both Celosia and Cenobia moved away from each other and looked down at the direction that the pegasus mare indicated. They looked back toward a smiling Fluttershy. "Just follow me and we'll be there in no time." With that, she proceed to trot confidently in the direction of her cottage, with both Celosia and Cenobia eagerly following close behind her to their new home.
Within a few minutes, Fluttershy and her two new friends emerged from the edge Everfree Forest and went right for the backyard of the pegasus mare's cottage, which was teeming with many various critters, both land and airborne. Yet, as soon as the trio entered Fluttershy's backyard, many of the animals within the vicinity immediately retreated into hiding, with some heading into the cottage, others went for bird houses, trees, even into the chicken coop. The few of those that didn't go into hiding, such as the eagle and hawk, remained there staring at Celosia and Cenobia nervously. Fluttershy instantly recognized how her animal friends reacted toward her two saviors.
"Hey, wait!" she shouted. The pegasus mare immediately began fluttering all over her backyard near the places where most of her animal friends were hiding as she softly pleaded with them. "Please, don't be frightened. I assure you, there's nothing to fear. I only brought these two here to give them a new home. I mean, they just saved my life today and you should be thankful for that. So please, come on out now and meet them. I promise they won't hurt you."
All the while, both Celosia and Cenobia watched in awe as Fluttershy gently reassured her animal friends, to which all of them began poking their heads out of their hiding spots as she spoke. Seconds after that, many of Fluttershy's animal friends, one by one, emerged from their hiding spots and slowly approached the two newcomers, while the beautiful mare continued gently encouraging them on. Within a minute, all of the animals were visible within the backyard and some of them curiously came within a few inches of two new arrivals as Fluttershy settled down next to them.
Wow, thought Celosia. That's amazing.
You know, these little guys are quite adorable, thought Cenobia.
"My friends," said Fluttershy. "I'd like all of you to meet Celosia," she placed one hoof on the said feline's bulging shoulder before walking over to Cenobia, placing a hoof on his pauldron-like shoulder. "And Cenobia." She looked out to her animal friends. "I'd like for you all to please treat them with respect and don't be too rough with them, okay?" All of Fluttershy's animal friends nodded happily as they now felt at ease with the two feline brothers' presence. Fluttershy refocused her gaze at the two felines. "And I'm so sorry for how my animal friends reacted toward you two."
"Hey, it's alright, Fluttershy," replied Celosia politely, observing some rabbits sniffing him up close. "I'm just glad that you were able to calm them down."
"Yeah," added his brother, watching a few birds flew down to perch atop his leonine crown. "I mean the way you spoke to them like that was amazing! I've never seen anyone do that before."
"Oh, why thank you," replied Fluttershy, giving a small smile. "You see, I've always had this special connection with animals ever since I was filly. Why that's how—" she stopped mid-sentence as she felt someone lightly tapping the bottom of her hind leg. She looked down behind her to see her pet bunny, Angel, looking at her with desperate and fearful expression on his face pointing one arm inside the house before giving a few raspy sounding breathes. Fluttershy gasped in realization. "Oh my! I almost forgot."
"What's wrong?" asked Celosia, who had a concerned expression from his unibrow.
"There's a very sick raccoon, Cooper, who's bedridden with a fever inside my cottage and I still have to make a special treatment for him from those ingredients I got from Zecora. So could you and Cenobia please wait here with my animal friends while Angel and I go inside to help him?"
"Sure thing, Fluttershy," replied Celosia happily. "We'll keep our eyes on them."
"Okay. Thank you. I'll be right back." The two brothers watched as Fluttershy and Angel hurried back into the cottage. A few seconds later, Celosia broke out laughing hysterically as he rolled over on his back to reveal a few squirrels clinging to his underbelly sniffing it with their noses. Cenobia watched for a moment before he approached his fitfully giggling brother with a wicked look in his eyes.
"Why, Cel," he spoke playfully. "I had no idea you were ticklish." Some of the other animals took hint of this and followed Cenobia's example, fully intent on giving his brother a tickle torture he wouldn't forget.
Inside the cottage, Fluttershy was hard at work mixing up a treatment from the ingredients she attained from Zecora with Angel helping her as best as he could. One of the living room sofas laid Cooper, covered in small bed sheets while his black-masked face was flushed red from the fever he'd contracted. Within several minutes though, Fluttershy and Angel managed to finish preparing the treatment and they brought it over to Cooper in the living room.
"Here you go, Cooper," said Fluttershy sweetly. "Just take a gulp of this and you'll feel all better soon." She gently administered a spoonful of the medical concoction into the raccoon's mouth before taking the spoon out as he reluctantly swallowed, gagging slightly at the bad taste of it. "Oh, I'm sure that it tastes awful, but it will make you fit as a fiddle in no time. But for now, just continue resting while the treatment kicks in." Cooper nodded as Fluttershy and Angel moved a few feet from him. "Phew. Thank goodness. Now we better go check on how Celosia and Cenobia are—" she was cut off mid-sentence when she heard the sounds of a bear snarling outside in the back yard. Fluttershy instantly rushed pasted Angel, slammed the back door shouting: "Celosia! Cenobia are you...o...kay?" She slowed to a complete stop when she saw something unexpected. There sitting on his stomach was the bear that visited her cottage sometimes with a blissful expression on his face. Standing on the bear's back was Celosia, scratching it tenderly with his sharp claws in up-down motions. Sitting close by was his brother, Cenobia, and some critters and birds who watched the spectacle with great interest.
"So how's that?" asked Celosia. "You like that, big guy?" The bear simply growled with glee and euphoria, implying that as a 'yes.' Fluttershy simply watched the scene with awe while Cenobia looked at her before he stood up and walked toward her.
"Hey, Fluttershy. Did you get your sick raccoon friend fixed?" Cenobia asked. Fluttershy broke out of her dumbfounded gaze and looked at Cenobia as he stopped and sat down next to her.
"Oh, yes we did," she gently replied. "But what happened? I heard a loud snarl and I thought you were in trouble."
"Nah. It wasn't anything to worry about. When this bear here came in from the forest, Cel and I were almost ready to fight him. Thankfully, your animal friends told both of us that he was friendly. The bear obviously came in wanting something and that's when Cel offered to scratch his back and well...you can tell how he feels about it." While listening to Cenobia's explanation, Fluttershy carefully observed both the bear and Celosia, smiling at how the latter was doing wonderfully in giving the former an excellent back scratch.
"I agree," she replied. "Your brother's done a wonderful job at it so far." She then approached the two before stopping a few feet from the prostrate bear. "Um, excuse me, Celosia. If you don't mind, you can stop now, please." Celosia ceased his back-scratching and looked at Fluttershy with a perplexed expression, with the bear staring at her as well.
"You sure?" he asked the pale yellow pegasus mare. "Because your bear buddy really seemed to enjoy it." The bear nodded hard in agreement with Celosia.
"Oh, I am sure that he did. You did that wonderfully. But I'm also pretty certain that he came for more than just a good back scratch." The bear grunted in agreement as he nodded in Flutterhy's direction. Thus, Celosia shrugged his shoulders, jumped down off the bear's back and padded over to his brother's side while the bear stood back up, opened his mouth and pointed at it with one claw. Fluttershy instantly understood this and flew into her cottage for a few seconds before rushing back out carrying some fresh nuts and berries in her forelegs. "Here you go, some nice goodies for you." She dropped the nuts and berries into the bear's fore paw while he joyfully scarfed them down into his mouth. The bear grunted happily and turned around heading back toward the Everfree Forest. Everyone present watched him melt into the forest.
"So what now, Fluttershy?" Cenobia asked.
"Well," she replied. "There's still so much for me to do for my animal friends. They still need to be fed and some of them still need to be given baths and so on."
"You mind if Cen and I help you with that?" asked Celosia.
"Why sure. I'd be more happy to let you two help me, Celosia."
"Well then," said Cenobia excitedly. "Just tell us what to do and we'll do our best." With that, the two brothers followed the mare into the cottage, ready to take on the duties she had for her animal friends.
The trio spent the rest of the afternoon and all evening tending and caring for all of the animals living within and near the cottage outside. This included tasks such as feeding the animals, bathing them, treating/checking them over for possible injuries or illnesses, even playing a few games with them. Fluttershy thoroughly gave specific instructions to Celosia and Cenobia for each task that need to be done around the cottage, which the two brothers followed as best as they could. Surprisingly they did very well at their tasks too. Throughout the duration of these tasks, all of the animals quickly came to accepting Celosia and Cenobia, even Angel, who felt suspicious about them at first.
At one point, Cooper, the raccoon began showing signs of feeling healthy again to where he could walk and wander around the cottage freely, something that utterly elated Fluttershy, Cel, Cen, and the rest of the residing animals. All in all, the whole rest of that day was an enjoyable and thrilling experience for both Celosia and Cenobia, knowing that this would be their new home.
Later that night, when all of the animals were finally asleep within and outside the cottage, both Celosia and Cenobia were currently residing in Fluttershy's bedroom. It had been a minute since Fluttershy showed them in before she left, promising that she'd be right back, and the two brothers had been waiting patiently for her return. Fluttershy came trotting back in carrying two thick rolls of cloth on her back, to which she sequentially set down on the ground.
"Could you help me with these?" she asked the two brothers.
"Sure thing, Fluttershy," replied Cenobia. And within less than a minute, the three friends managed to carefully unroll the thick rolls of cloth and flatten them out in front of Fluttershy's bed, both laid out parallel to each other. Each sheet was about six hooves wide, fourteen hoofs long, and about half-a-hoof thick. The feline brothers looked at them with perplexed expressions.
"So what are these sheets of cloth, any way?" asked Celosia.
"Why these are your beds, Celosia," the pegasus mare. "I brought them up here so that you and Cenobia could sleep on them instead of the floor."
"That sure is nice of you, Fluttershy," said Cenobia as he and Celosia positioned themselves on their respective new beds. "Thanks."
"Yeah," agreed Celosia. "I appreciate it."
"Oh, it's no problem really," replied Fluttershy. The mare flex her graceful facial features into a deep-thinking expression.
"Say, Fluttershy, are there any others like you? You know, more pony-like pegasus?" Cenobia questioned, breaking Fluttershy's train of thought
"Oh why yes there are," she answered. "In fact, some ways from my cottage is a town called Ponyville, which not only have pegasus ponies living there, but also unicorn ponies and earth ponies that live there too." Celosia and Cenobia's light blue eyes grew wide with fascination upon listening to this new information as Fluttershy continued. "In fact, some of my best friends live there in Ponyville."
"Wow, that's neat," replied an awed Cenobia.
"So who are your best friends?" asked Celosia. "Could you tell us about them?"
"Why sure," replied Fluttershy delightfully, as proceeded to tell them about her best friends: Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. She spoke passionately about them for about half an hour while Celosia and Cenobia eagerly listened to her. Finally, Fluttershy got a certain point where she wanted to ask the two brothers something that she'd been thinking about long and hard since she brought them to live in her cottage. "...So, um, would you mind if I brought them over to my cottage tomorrow and introduced you to them?"
"Sure that'd be great!" replied Cenobia enthusiastically. "I'd really like to meet your best friends."
"Yeah, me too," added Celosia. "But don't you think they'll react the same way your animal friends did when you first brought us here?"
"Yes, I realize that," said Fluttershy. "But don't worry. I think they'll warm up to you once I mentioned that you both saved my life today."
"You know, that's a good point," replied Celosia joyfully, agreeing with the mare's words. "Your friends would be very grateful for us doing that."
"Yeah," added Cenobia. "That would be really great." Fluttershy smiled joyfully in seeing the two brothers acting positive about the prospect of them meeting her best friends for the first time before she opened her muzzle widely with a big yawn.
"Goodness," she said sleepily. "It sure is getting late, which means that its time for some much needed sleep." Fluttershy turned around and jumped onto her bed, but just before she could pull down the covers, Celosia's voice rang out.
"Um, Fluttershy."
The frail pegasus mare turned around on her bed and looked to see both felines still sitting on their bed mats without any signs of sleepiness in their eyes. "For some reason, I don't feel very sleepy."
"Yeah, same here," agreed Cenobia. "Could you maybe help us out?" Fluttershy placed one front hoof on the bottom of her muzzle for a few seconds before her eyes brightened up.
"I have just the thing," she said gently. "Do you mind if I sung you a lullaby?" Both brothers looked at each other for a moment before giving Fluttershy a nod of approval. Fluttershy cleared her throat and began singing:
Hush now, quiet now
It's to lay your sleepy head
Hush now quiet now
It's time to go to bed
Drifting off to sleep
Exciting day behind you
Drifting off to sleep
Let the joy of dreamland find you
At the very moment Fluttershy began singing her lullaby, Celosia and Cenobia began succumbing to somnolence as the song's soothing rhythm, nodding their heads. After a few more minutes into the song, the two felines eventually went prostrate on their makeshift beds, closed their stony eyelids and fell blissfully to sleep. In observing this, Fluttershy yawned once more and undid the covers of her bed in getting herself to sleep. She failed to notice that while asleep, a teardrop prodded out from one of Cenobia's closed eyes, streaming down his face.
The very next morning after providing herself and her animal friends some breakfast, Fluttershy left the cottage, promising both Celosia and Cenobia that she would return, and flew straight toward Ponyville, where her first stop would be Sugarcube Corner, aka, the home of one of her best friends, Pinkie Pie. Upon entering Sugarcube Corner, Fluttershy immediately informed Pinkie Pie that she needed her help over something. When the pink party-going earth pony asked what it was, Fluttershy requested Pinkie to tell Twilight, Applejack and Rarity to come on over to her cottage some time before noon for an urgent meeting on account that the pegasus mare has something important to announce to them (Pinkie Pie also needs to attend), while she would personally inform Rainbow Dash about this matter.
Pinkie Pie promised Fluttershy that she'd get on it right away, to which the pegasus mare was thankful for and hugged Pinkie before flying off to find Rainbow Dash. Seconds later, Pinkie dashed out of Sugarcube Corner and right for Rarity's Boutique when she suddenly stopped in her tracks before her entire body shuddered for a moment. After recovering herself, Pinkie resumed her mad dash towards Rarity's, knowing that that she and her friends were in for a doozy today.
Hours later around noon, Twilight, Rarity, and Applejack who was dragging a shuddering Pinkie Pie by the tail had just rushed across the small creek bridge before arriving at the front door of Fluttershy's cottage, where Rainbow Dash was waiting for them impatiently.
"It's about time you gals got here," she complained. "I've been waiting here for almost half an hour!"
"Chill out now, Rainbow," said Applejack. "We got here as fast as we could."
"Yes," agreed Rarity. "Despite Pinkie's Pinkie Sense slowing us down a notch. After all, the poor dear is shaking as if she caught a cold."
"I-i-i-it's n-n-n-not a cold," corrected a trembling Pinkie Pie. "It's a do-o-o-o-zy."
"Which reminds me," said Applejack. "What do ya'll suppose Fluttershy's wantin' to tell us that's urgent?"
"Well," answered Twilight. "I suppose we're going to find out, aren't we?" The scholarly mare reached out her hoof and knocked on the cottage door. Seconds later, the door creaked open leaving it ajar as Fluttershy's beautiful moderate cyan eyes peaked out for a moment.
"Oh good, you're here," she said before fully opening her front door. "Come right in." She stood to one side as all her friends strolled right inside, except for Pinkie Pie who was dragged in by Applejack holding her by the tail. All five mares managed find some good spots in the living room, with Rarity, lounging upon the love seat, Twilight and Applejack taking the couch, Rainbow Dash hovering on one side of it, while Pinkie Pie stood on the opposite end shuddering, which had now intensified significantly. Fluttershy stood in front of her friends, doing her best to hide her utter nervosity from them as she spoke. "I thank you all for coming on such short notice. Um, I hope you don't mind if I interrupted you with anything."
"Oh, don't be ridiculous, Fluttershy," said Rarity. "You're our dear friend and we'll always be here for you no matter what."
"So, what it is you wanted to speak with us so urgently about, Fluttershy?" asked Twilight Sparkle. Fluttershy, then looked from side to side before gazing back at her friends.
"Well," she began. "Yesterday, I made two friends who are now living with me at my cottage. I invited you all here so that I could introduce them to you."
"Well, that's mighty fine of ya, sugarcube," declared Applejack pleasantly. "Why don't ya bring 'em on down and we'll mingle with 'em."
"Um, okay. But first, I strongly ask you all to promise—no, no—Pinkie Pie swear to not react aggressively or violently toward them when you meet them. Please?" For a moment, Fluttershy's friends gave each other queer looks at each other before they proceeded in verbally doing the Pinkie Pie Swear (including the trembling Pinkie) for Fluttershy, making her smile joyfully. "Thank you. Now just wait right here and I'll be right back."
The five mares watched as the pale yellow pegasus mare quickly retreated upstairs before hearing hushed voices, including hers. Rainbow Dash was tempted in hovering over to the stairs to eavesdrop on the unheard conversation, but a surge of Twilight's magic grasping her tail discouraged her from doing so.
Half a minute later, the sounds of three sets of hoof steps were heard descending the stairs and the quintet of friends watched as Fluttershy first emerged, followed by the slightly smaller stone felines, Celosia and Cenobia. And when the trio sat down on the edge of the pink circular rug in front of them, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and even the vibrating Pinkie Pie all had looks of shock and bewilderment in their eyes with their maws slightly agape.
In contrast, Celosia and Cenobia had pleasant and friendly expressions plastered on their mask-like faces as Fluttershy introduced them: "Everypony, I'd like you to meet Celosia and Cenobia." She reapplied her gaze toward the feline siblings. "Boys, these are my best friends, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie...who seems to be having a doozy."
"Hi there," said Celosia politely.
"Hello, ladies," added his brother. Suddenly, Pinkie Pie's body instantly stopped shuddering and shifted into several different contortions and expansions simultaneously before reverting back into her normal, cotton-candy maned self. She gasped softly with delight, thinking:
Ah-ha! So that's what this doozy was about...oh right, she thought. She resumed gazing at the two feline siblings with awe and shock.