Celestia’s Tiny Student

Bonus Chapter

Dolls and Adventures

“Would you like a little bit more tea, Lady Mi-Amore Cadenza?” Twilight asked, imitating Blueblood’s snobbish accent, her head raised proudly as if she was looking at the ceiling. A toy teacup half-filled with tea was between her hooves.

She was perched on a bottle cap covered by bits of cotton wool for additional comfort. Before her was a toy-sized rounded wooden table covered by a white tissue with lavender stars decorating it. On top of the table laid two additional miniature teacups, three strawberries with bits of cream on the top and three slices of one cookie. Twilight’s tea party was located on the floor of her mentor’s bedchamber, with a dollhouse nearby on the right and a large bed on the left at a more considerable distance.

On the other side of the table sat filly Cadence, her eyes closed and a warm smile on her face. “Why of course, Lady Twilight.” She spread her little wings, carefully grabbing the tiny teacup with the tips of her pink feathers before placing it on the sole of her raised forehoof.

Twilight looked to her left, her attention now on a large kettle resting on the floor next to her. She bit her lip and lit her horn, her lavender magic slowly raised the teapot towards the table. The filly alicorn lit her own horn as well, ready to aid Twilight in her endeavour in case of an emergency.

Drops of sweat fell down Twilight’s cheeks as she slowly tilted the teapot, letting a few drops of tea fall precisely into Cadence’s teacup. “S-sorry,” Twilight said in panic as some tea escaped the cup right onto Cadence’s hoof. The steam coming from the teapot indicated it was still very hot.

The alicorn giggled. She raised her forehoof up to her face and tilted it, pressing the little teacup against her lips before taking a sip. Despite her reduced age and young body, using toys to drink tea proved somewhat challenging.

Twilight looked to her right and then up, glancing at the washed-out maroon and navy blue buttons, or rather at the eyes of her newest friend. “What about you, Mister Fancy… I mean, Smarty Pants. Would you care for a bit more tea?” The aura around Twilight’s horn grew in size as her magic surrounded the doll’s head.

“Yaaay… pweesee…” a fake colt’s voice similar to the voice of White Path echoed from the doll as his head nodded.

Cadence raised a forehoof to her mouth and giggled. “I see you’re getting better with that spell I taught you,” she whispered, only for the little mare to shush her.

“More tea coming right up,” Twilight said, adding a few more drops into the third teacup. After lowering the teapot, she wiped sweat from her forehead and levitated Smarty Pants’ forelegs, carefully wrapping his fake hooves around the teacup. Her breathing became deep but slow while her mind focused purely on raising Smarty’s legs up to his mouth, tilting the cup as drops of tea created a little stain on the grey material.

With additional effort, she levitated Smarty’s foreleg towards the tissue covering the wooden table, raising the tip of it to wipe his mouth clean. Twilight gave a quick glance at her foalsitter before smirking.

Cadence blinked, now staring at Twilight curiously. I recognize that smirk. What kind of crazy idea came into your mind this time, little missy? With her attention on Twilight, she was caught off guard by a soft poke on her shoulder, only to notice Smarty Pants surrounded by lavender aura, standing on two legs while holding a strawberry.

Cadence blushed as she looked to the side and hid behind her wing. Oh Twilight. Your ideas are just adorable. She lowered her wing before saying, “With great pleasure, Mister Smarty Pants.” Her horn lit as she levitated the gift over to her mouth and she released a satisfied ‘mmm’ upon feeling the taste of the cream before finishing the strawberry with a second bite. Upon noticing a half-bow from the doll, she gently patted his head. “Thank you. You’re such a gentle-doll.”

She observed as the doll approached Twilight, gifting her with another strawberry while towering over her. The doll looked like a young colt from Cadence’s perspective, reaching only her muzzle when standing on two legs. Yet, when compared to Twilight, he looked like a tall stallion in front of a young filly. Oh, to be young again. Literally and hypothetically. With a bit of focus and the help of her imagination, Smarty Pants gained features of Twilight’s brother in her mind. She quickly restrained her laughter with a forehoof. Grey Shining, wearing blue pants with polka dots decorating it, surely an image to remember.

Cadence tilted her head as she looked at Twilight, who kept biting the strawberry and licking the cream, her little eyes were closed while a large satisfied smile radiated from her face. Said strawberry was one-third of the unicorn’s size, already half eaten. With a pleasant feeling overwhelming her heart, Cadence poked Twilight’s cream-covered little muzzle playfully. She then licked the bits of cream which had ended up on her forehoof.

Twilight levitated the cream from her muzzle. Instead of eating it though, she levitated it towards Smarty Pants, creating a tasty mouth made of white cream across his grey face. “Bon apetit.”

Cadence grinned. “We shouldn’t leave it at that. There’s more improvements that can be made.” She lit her horn, surrounding a slice of a cookie with her magic before levitating over a toy-knife, using it to turn her tasty snack into a shield-like shape. She levitated it towards Smarty Pants’ flank, placed it against his pants, and next levitated a bit of cream from the last strawberry, decorating the shield with a white tasty star.

Twilight fell from the bottle cap onto the floor, now lying on her back and holding her belly as she bursted into laughter. “Good one... Cadence!”

Their fun was interrupted by a noise of door opening. Both the young alicorn and the miniature mare turned to look at the entering giant: a tall presentable pegasus with two boxes of paint held between his wings, alongside some paintbrushes and canvas.

“Your delivery has arrived, Twilight,” Steel Blade said, placing the required equipment next to a teapot.

“Delivery?” Cadence asked as she pointed at the paintbrushes. She held her forelegs on both of her sides and asked, “What are you planing? Hmmm…”

“Just a little art, is all,” Twilight said with an innocent smile while rubbing the back of her neck.

“Is this supposed to be Shining Armor?” Steel Blade asked as he lowered his head to the floor, taking a closer look at the cookie-shield with star-cream pasted upon doll’s pants.

Steel Blade resisted a chuckle as his mind provided him with an image of a fellow guard wearing blue pants instead of armor. “I can’t wait to tell Overwatch about it. She’s going to have a field day making jokes upon hearing this.” He stood to his full height and continued, “Speaking of our favorite lieutenant, he got leave today and wanted to ask you if you would be interested in meeting him at the Donut Joe’s.”

Cadence stood up and looked up at the guard curiously. “He wants to invite me to the donut cafe?”

“He does. Since you’re now Twiny’s permanent foal-sitter, he wants to get to know you better… you know… to make sure his younger sister is in good hooves.”

“Is that so?” the young alicorn asked as she stood up on her rear hooves and placed her forelegs on her sides. Her head now reaching Steel Blade’s chest armor. “And may I ask why he didn’t invite me personally?”

Twilight giggled, which sounded almost as if a mouse was squeaking. “That’s Shiny for you. He likes to act like a big tough stallion with lots of self-confidence, but deep inside he’s a gold-hearted and overprotective brother. He tends to be shy at times.” She shook her head. “Don’t get me wrong, he’s growing into a mature, responsible and brave pony, but I still remember how he invited a few colts over to play all kinds of role-playing games when we were younger. I bet there’s still some part of it left in him even after all those years.”

Cadence nodded before rounding the little table and lowering herself to the tiny filly. “Since I’m your foal-sitter, I think it is only fair for me to get to know your family better, not to mention that we didn’t meet each other on the best of terms the last time,” she whispered.

“Oh, right. He got a bit too overprotective and was mean to Prince Blueblood,” Twilight said before standing on her rear hooves and anchoring her forelegs on Cadence’s muzzle. “I’m sure you’ll like him a lot once you get to know him better. He’s really nice.”

Cadence carefully retreated her muzzle from Twilight’s grasp while catching the little mare with her wing. With the filly now perched between her feathers, she pointed up at the clock. “The issue is that we still have a few hours before my foalsitting hours ends. I wouldn’t want to leave you alone.”

Twilight shook her forehoof dismissively. “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. I’ll just spend time with Smarty Pants and paint something.” She pointed at the stallion behind her. “Besides, Steel Blade, Overwatch and Spike will keep me company.”

“Are you sure?” Cadence asked. Upon receiving a firm nod, she lowered her wing, letting Twilight slide onto the floor.

Twilight stood in the shadow of her foalsitter, observing her intensely as the alicorn filly enveloped herself in powerful magic, growing in size before Twilight’s very eyes. The shadow she stood in became larger, the alicorn’s legs grew longer, violet coloration appeared on the tips of Cadence’s wings, and soon Twilight ended in the presence of a once-again mighty giant. She stood on her rear hooves and waved at her foalsitter, who responded with a thankful smile.

The floor trembled under Twilight’s hooves, caused by both her foalsitter and guard’s loud steps towards the door. She looked around and charged her magic, making Smarty Pants gallop towards the door, jump onto the handle to press it open. Smarty Pants then jumped onto the floor, pushed the door further and performed a half-bow.

“Why thank you, Smarty Pants,” said Cadence. “You’re such a gentle-doll.”

“He’s indeed,” Overwatch said as she peeked into the bedchamber, now looking at her partner. “See, Steelie. You could learn a thing or two from him.”

The pegasus groaned before closing the door, leaving Twilight alone with the doll and paint. Yet, something about such combination sounded like a receipt for disaster.

Twilight looked at Smarty Pants with a warm smile. “It seems we’re alone.” She lit her horn, making the doll nod his head. She grinned widely and spread her forelegs. “Let’s have some great fun and go all out, only you and me!”

“Fuuun… I l-like… f-fun…” Smarty responded, waving his forehooves cheerfully. He looked down at his owner and asked. “What fun?”

Not wasting a moment, Twilight ran towards the box with paint, pressing her tiny forehoof against the opening mechanism and next pushing it open with all four of her hooves. “Would you be so kind and open the other one?”

Smarty Pants nodded before walking shakily on his four hooves towards the second box, mimicking the unicorn in opening it.

Twilight examined the rich variety of paint color present in both boxes and nodded. “Perfect.” She galloped towards a paintbrush and pointed at it. “This is a paintbrush.”

“Pain bruise?” Smarty approached slowly and massaged blue material on his foreleg, which served as a bandage after the needle accident. “No bwuise, pweesee.”

“Not pain bruise.” Twilight shook her head and gently stroked the blue bandage on Smarty’s foreleg. “Say it with me, paintbrush.”

“Pain… crush?” He pointed at the little unicorn, examining her for injuries.

“No, nopony stepped on me.” Twilight massaged her forehead and said slowly, “P.A.I.N.T”

“Perfect,” Twilight said, receiving a happy smile in return as Smarty clapped his forehooves. She stood on her rear hooves and wrapped her forelegs around the handle before picking it up. After taking three steps, she carefully placed it between Smarty’s forelegs. “Let me show you how to paint. Hold this and follow me.”

Smarty Pants nodded, following Twilight on his three hooves while holding the paintbrush with his left foreleg.

Twilight levitated over a canvas, supporting it against the wall of the dollhouse. She followed it by levitating a paintbrush into her embrace, now struggling to maintain balance on her rear hooves. “Watch this.” She bit her lip and her ears drooped as she lowered her paintbrush into a grey paint. Once it was soaked enough, she lifted it towards the canvas and started painting Smarty Pants without the help of her magic. She added a bit of black and grey color into the two-toned, some maroon as the right eye, a bit navy-blue as the left eye, and greyish-blue for the pants with polka-dots..

With her brush supported against the paint box, she wiped sweat from her forehead and smiled encouragingly. “See, easy peasy. Your turn.”

“Sssuuure…” After soaking his paintbrush in lavender color and a few firm swings, he took a pose of a proud guard holding his spear. “It is you.”

Twilight laughed awkwardly, observing one circle with 5 lavender lines representing belly and four legs. “You certainly… caught my features. I must’ve lost a lot of weight lately.”

Smarty soaked his paintbrush in pink before adding another circle, five big lines and several tiny lines. “Ca...dence.”

“Very nice, but you forgot about something,” Twilight said as she looked away from the tiny lines imitating wings to the colors inside the box. With a few quick improvements, she said, “Our portraits can’t be completed without tails and manes.”

She pushed the canvas to the side before levitating over a normal size notepad, ink and quill. “You gave me an interesting idea, but before I try it out, I need to look into your education.” She opened the door into the dollhouse and went in.

Smarty followed, gritting his non-existent teeth as he tried to get through the door. After a few moments of struggle, he whimpered and waved his legs.

The little unicorn walked towards the exit with a small blackboard by her side, only to facehoof. “Not again…” Upon seeing a sad pout on Smarty’s face, she said warmly, “Here, let me help you.” With four hooves anchored against floor of the dollhouse and head pressed against Smarty’s chest, she pushed, combining their strength. After a few tries, Smarty flew away from the door, bouncing on the floor before shaking stars from his head.

Twilight sighed as she supported the little blackboard against the little table, levitating the notepad, quill and ink next to Smarty Pants. She grabbed a miniature chalk and used it to draw a period with a number one next to it. “This is one,” she said, pointing at the blackboard with a match, Smarty nodded. After drawing two periods and a number two, she said, “That’s number two.” She continued until reaching number nine, her taller friend kept making notes in the notebook.

“Now here’s a simple calculation. If four times four is sixteen, how much is five times five?” Upon seeing a clear confusion, she asked, “Maybe something easier. How much is 2+2*4?”

“How about 2+2?” she asked. After a moment of waiting, she rolled her eyes and wrote on the blackboard number 1+1 with three question marks and pointed at it with the match.

Smarty Pants wrote it in the notepad and rubbed his forehead, brows scrunched in thought.

Twilight lowered the match onto the floor and grabbed a chalk. “This is one.” She drew a period. Here’s another one. “She drew another period next to the previous one. She added a circle around two periods and asked, “How many periods do we have together?” Upon seeing how her friend was thinking even more intensively, she said, “Think about it and call me if you come up with something.” She walked away from the blackboard and grabbed the paintbrush, her attention now on the doll house. Time to put the idea into action.

“Nice,” Twilight said while holding a large paintbrush with her foreleg by her side. Only the windows were spared the lavender paint, yet the same couldn’t be said about Twilight’s muzzle and forelegs. A portrait of Smarty Pants was visible across the lavender background.

Now time to cover another wall with grey paint and draw Cadence, while the third wall will be pink with myself upon it. Her thoughts were interrupted by a gentle poke as she looked back, quickly seeing a proud Smarty Pants holding a notepad, 1+1 = 2 with two hearts wrote upon it.”

“Great work, I’m proud of you,” Twilight said as she levitated over the quill and wrote ‘2+2 = ???’ under it. “Think of it as your long-term homework. You can do it later.”

Smarty Pants nodded before looking upon the wall. Not wasting a moment, he ran to grab the second paintbrush, now looking at the little mare expectantly.

The door into the bedchamber opened as Steel Blade peeked inside. “I’m back and I brought Spike, sorry to keep you waiting. I hope you’re not bored yet or anything.” Upon hearing no response, nor seeing the little mare, he went inside and scanned the area. His attention quickly focused upon the oddly colored doll house with a few stains on the floor.

Feeling a ticklish sensation on his cheek, Steel rubbed it with his armored forehoof. He narrowed his eyes and pointed at the floor. “Hoofprints.” He sighed. “I should’ve know leaving Twilight alone with paint will end up in a mess.” He picked up Spike with his wings and placed him on the bed, petting him. The young drake frowned in return. “Wait here while I’ll search for her.”

“That’s even worse,” Steel Blade said before walking towards the exit. “Ever since Cadence started taking care of Twilight, she’s been sneaking outside the bedchamber with her newest doll. To make matters worse, she seemed way more distracted than usual.” Once closing the door, he was greeted by a chuckling Overwatch.

“If you’re looking for Twilight, she went this way. I bet the bathroom was their destination.” She pointed at Steel’s cheeks and said, “Nice whiskers by the way.”

“Princess bathroom have mirrors, you can see for yourself,” Overwatch said, gesturing for him to follow her.

In a flash of lights, Twilight and Smarty Pants appeared behind a pillar half a meter above the floor. The little mare fell onto her belly with a quiet thump, Smarty fell on her. After a moment, Twilight crawled from under her doll and massaged her forehead, whimpering. “Lesson to be learned… teleporting with passengers is so much more difficult and draining than teleporting alone.” She turned around and helped Smarty stand. “Especially with a passenger bigger than me.”

“It wasn’t your fault,” Twilight said as she peeked from behind the pillar, making sure the way was clear. “A patrolling giant, hide!”

Both Twilight and Smarty pressed their backs against the pillar, staying out of sight. Their ears were straightened, picking up noise of loud steps. The floor shook under their hooves.

Once they could no longer hear the hoofsteps, Twilight jumped onto Smarty’s head and pointed ahead. “Let’s hurry up before we get caught. To the bathroom!”

Smarty nodded, almost shaking the unicorn off his head as he galloped, hiding just once more from another giant before stopping in front of the entrance to the bathroom.

“Alright, now do as I taught you,” Twilight said before jumping from Smarty’s head. The doll took a moment to prepare a jump, bending his legs. He jumped, grabbing the handle with the tips of his forehooves, barely reaching it. Remembering Twilight’s lessons about opening doors without magic, he anchored his legs against the door while pressing the handle.

“Great job!” Twilight shouted as she ran over and pressed her forehooves against the wall with her hind-legs against the large door, pushing it open with some struggle. “Let’s go.” Smarty nodded and jumped down, following her inside.

The bathroom was as big, if not bigger than Celestia’s bedchamber. The spacious bathtub itself was like a canyon, and while Twilight still felt a fear of water, she managed to suppress her bad memories and got used to her mentor’s bathtub.

Gold trim and gems decorated the entire room and the furnishings, and a large mosaic of Celestia’s cutie mark dominated the space.

Twilight examined herself, noticing a mix of pink, grey and lavender covering the fur on half of her forelegs, while stains were present on her fur, tail and mane. She suspected the top of her head didn’t fare any better. Smarty Pants was in a similar situation, though the fur-cloth on his back was covered by more varieties of colors, a side effect of losing his balance next to an open box filled with various paints.

She looked up to her left, pointing at the sink. I could teleport, but it would be too easy. I’m actually starting to enjoy not using magic in some challenges. With a firm jump, she grabbed the edge of the sink, only for her forehooves to slide against the wet surface. With trained reflex, she landed on her rear hooves and jumped again, this time landing in the middle of the sink.

“Whaaa!” Smarty shouted in panic as his attempt to reach the sink failed, only to be caught by Twilight’s magic and levitated over next to her.

“Now, now, you need to be careful,” Twilight said, nuzzling Smarty’s foreleg and next his chest. She gave a quick glance upon the bathtub, one she used to climb for minutes to get into, only to drown in hot water. So much has happened ever since I was shrank by the princess. Such dangerous scenarios suddenly doesn’t seem all that dangerous any more. She smiled warmly. Now I can get into the tub of such size with one jump. I bet I could escape the trap I ended up long time ago without breaking a sweat.

Twilight looked up and nodded. “Oh, right, let's get this over with.” She lit her horn, levitating over a shower head as warm water showered them with thousands droplets. “Now, time for some cleaning magic.” She cast a spell as magical aura enveloped them both. The paints were washed away by the water in an instant.

“Alright, more water it is,” Twilight said as she send more magic into the hot water knob. Much to her horror, the knob broke off as a massive stream of hot water followed, filling both the sink and the tub. “Oh, come on!”

“Hot, hot,” Smarty shouted, grabbing Twilight before jumping onto the floor. His hooves slid upon the watery floor as he fell into an empty artificial hot spring.

Hot water turned into lava as it started escaping the bathtub, streaming onto the floor and into the spring.

“Lava, hot!” Smarty shouted as he climbed up, getting out from the spring. He galloped outside with Twilight’s forelegs wrapped around his neck.

Upon seeing Steel Blade and Overwatch from the corner of her eye, Twilight lit her horn as she charged a teleportation. Relocating both herself and Smarty several pillars closer to Celestia’s bedchamber. Her eyes rolled while marks of burned fur appeared on her. She shook her head, noticing as Smarty was about to enter the bedchamber.

“Floor is lava!” Twilight shouted, causing Smarty Pants to jump up, anchoring himself against the door. Twilight bent her legs and jumped onto a nearby bookshelf. Hot red boiling lava was blocking her path to the bed. She grit her teeth and lit her horn, levitating Smarty Pants over. With her companion nearby, she started jumping from shelf to shelf, Smarty followed her example despite his bigger size.

“Lava on the floor, classic,” Spike said, perched on the edge of the bed. “Come on, Twilight, Smarty, you can do it!” he cheered.

Once close enough, she jumped towards the roof of her doll-house, Smarty wasn’t far behind. “Alright, throw me towards the bed, just as I taught you,” Twilight commanded.

Smarty Pants nodded, standing on his rear hooves while grabbing the little mare, throwing her towards the bed.

Twilight was quickly getting closer to the bed but wasn’t close enough, her forelegs straightened as she was about to grab claw of a friendly dragon extended towards her, hoping against hope she would reach it before falling into the lava, only for her body to hit a white wing instead.

“Sorry to interrupt your fun, Twilight,” Steel Blade said, raising his wing up to his face as Twilight was now perched on his feathers. “But I think you’ve made enough of a mess for one adventure.”

Twilight looked around, the lava on the floor had vanished, replaced by small bits of paint and colorful hoofsteps. A trail of water from Steel’s armored hooves could be seen heading outside. Smarty Pants was lying motionlessly on top of the dollhouse. She chuckled awkwardly and rubbed the back of her neck. “Yeah… sorry… I got too carried away, and I used a little bit too much magic in the bathroom.”

“A little bit?” Steel asked, causing Twilight to blush in embarrassment. It didn’t take long before the little mare displayed the best puppy-dog eyes with her bottom lip quivering in a pout. “Fine, fine, I forgive you, no need to assault me in such a way.”

The little mare stood on her rear hooves and poked her chest. “Thank you, and don’t worry, Smarty and I, we’ll clean this mess.” Before the pegasus could say a word, his little charge jumped from his wing and ran towards the open door, Smarty surrounded in lavender aura galloped behind her. “I’ll get a mop, bucket of water, cloth, wipes and ‘Fire: The Purge Of the Unclean’.”

Steel Blade shook his head. His job now slightly more difficult ever since Twilight got daring enough to go outdoor. His eyes became wide, ears drooped and he bit his lip. “Book… what?” He galloped. “Twilight wait!”

He kept running in attempt to intercept his little charge, ready to do the most dangerous thing in his long career as a Royal Guard, get in between Twilight and the literature. Deep in his mind he already missed Cadence’s help in keeping Twilight out of trouble.

Celestia's Tiny Student

by CommanderX5

Bonus Ch - Dolls and Adventures