Canterlot.
Located at the top of the tallest mountain in Equestria, it is the jewel of the nation. Some say it was placed there to be closer to the sun that Princess Celestia drove across the heavens. Other, less kind ponies, merely say that it was so high up just so the nobles could look down their collective noses at the rest of the nation.
However, today something was different.
Today, canterlot was suffering… from an infestation. All over this glorious city swarmed… well, to be precise, nopony had any idea what they were, only that they wanted one thing.
Cheese.
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Today had started as a normal day for Night Light. He woke up, made coffee for his wife,and went to get the morning paper. Everything was perfect., until he opened his front door that is.
“CHEESE!” Cries out furry little blue creatures as they swarmed all over the streets.
Calmly he retrieved his paper and went back inside. “Hunny? I think tuesday came early?” He called up the stairs as he sat down and pulled out the sports section. The hoofball finals started last night afterall.
Shortly thereafter his wife entered the room and making breakfast. “What did twilight do this time?”
“Well it looks like the neighborhood is covered in.. hamsters? And they are screaming cheese for some reason.” Nightlight commented as he scanned the sports page to see the scores for last nights game
“Cheese? What would hamsters want with che-what's that on you back?”
Looking back nightlight found himself face to face with one of the hamsters from outside
“Cheese!” It cried as velvet hovered it out the window.
“Well you have to admit as far as her mistakes go at least this one is at least sorta cute.”
“But cheese? Twilight doesn't even like cheese! Last time we have cheesy mexicolt food she fled the room in terror!”
Both of them shuddered at the memory of that night. Never again would cheese enchilada’s enter their house, they silently swore.
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Even with the setback to the normalcy of the day Nightlight was determined to persevere. He was going to have a normal day. And nothing was going to change that.
And so he grabbed his umbrella from the stand next to the front door and headed out.
The situation outside has gotten much worse. Looking up the street he noticed that one of the nearby stores had been broken into, judging from the wheels of cheese rolling down the street, the little blue hamsters cheering as they rode their spoils away.
‘Just ignore it’ he thought as he used the umbrella to to deflect the waves of hamsters trying to search him for cheese.
Strolling down the streets he took in the sights. From the royal guard trying, and failing, to keep the hamsters from the stores, to the sight of ponies beating back the cheese mongers with brooms.
Finally arriving at the castle, he walked on through the gates towards celestia school for gifted unicorns. Pleasantly he noted that early on the school seemed to had erected a shield bubble around the building.
“Morning Moon Wiever, morning Flare.”
“Morning” came the response.
Everything was perfect.
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The hamsters stared at night light.
Nightlight blinked.
They blinked back.
“Uhh hello?” He said.
“Cheese?” They responded.
“Nope no cheese here...” He said as he slowly back away and out the door.
As soon at the door clicked shut his classroom erupted into screams of cheese and the sound of smashing.
‘Well there goes normal’ he thought as headed down the hallways watching the staff run around panicking, many with little passengers riding their backs. ‘Wonder how they got past the shield bubble’ Night Light wondered as he strode down the hallways in his own shield.
“Ahh headmaster! Does this mean school is canceled today?”
“GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!” Was the headmaster's response as he bucked and twisted desperate to eject his passenger.
“I'll take that as yes sir. Have a good day.’ Night light calmly responded as turned around. ‘time to go home’
Today was perfect
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‘Who am i kidding today is terrible’ he thought as he sat on his haunches in front of his house.
‘First these things, then my class,’ nightlight sighed, as he watched his wife running about with a boom
“Back! Back! No cheese here!” She cried as she brushed the fuzzy blue creatures off the window seals
“CHEESE!”
Sighing night light rubbed his hooves along the base of the his horn as the chaos kept unfolding around him.
“CHEESE!”
His ear flicked.
“CHEESE!”
His nostrils flared.
“CHEESE!”
He took a deep breath.
“CHEE-ENOUGH!”
Silence ‘at last!’
“Cheese?”
Nightlight conjured a wheel of cheese and threw it at the offending little demon.
“CHEESE!” The remaining creatures cried out as they swarmed over the enraged stallion screaming all the while.
“ENOUGH! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH WITH YOU!” The seething pile of blue fur cried out “IF YOU WANT CHEESE SO MUCH THEN HERE!!” And with that nightlight started throwing conjured cheese into the mass of cheering hamsters
“I HAVE HAD IT! EVERYWHERE I GO YOU ARE THERE!!! JUST LEAVE!!” He cried out as he waded through the front door. “OUT OF MY HOUSE!”
Going from room to room he tossed them all out until finally at long last there was silence.
Blessed silence.
‘Today was terrible.’ He thought as he collapsed in bed