Trixie is trying to steal Twilight's firewood, Ponyville can't find a unicorn to play the part of Clover the Clever, and Twilight can't help because she has to prepare for her royal duties over in Canterlot.
Can her five friends do the pageant with somepony neither of them really trusts, especially when the pony in question keeps acting so suspicious?
This story was supposed to be done in time for Heart's Warming, but a bad case of writer's block regarding the second chapter, a lack of motivation and what felt like about twenty distractions piling up got in the way.
Thus, I decided to post the first chapter anyway and wait to see how it is received. If it is received better than most of my stories (let's say, 50 Likes) I'll put some effort into getting out the second half of it. If it just gets ignored by people, it will stay On Hiatus until I feel like writing on it again and I'll turn my attention to the dozen other stories on my list in the meantime.
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Some parts were incredibly awkward to write, though.
Trixie and Twilight, two unicorn mares of the same age and similar talents... It's like the opposite of Lavender Unicorn Syndrome.
Cool! You made something out of the first half that I already read! And something good too!
...I just wanted to peek a little and read the rest later. Now I've to wait for the next part, though.
Good premise and an interesting situation, I am intrigued so have an up vote. There was one thing though:
You seem to have Rarity sounding like Applejack.
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Dangit, you found my Obligatory Dumb Mistake.
I changed that part around a little when I wrote it, because I couldn't decide which one AJ should say and which one Rarity. I'll fix it soonish.
At least this time my ODM wasn't calling Rainbow Dash a him... those tomboy (tomcolt?) characters are sneaky like that.
This is relevant to my interests. Hope to see the next part.
Because Trixie is the best pony.