After many years away from the rock farm, Pinkie Pie returns home to spend a month with her family. However, in all those years she has changed a lot, and probably so have her sisters. But, how much?
Will she be able to still see in them the ponies she spent her childhood with?
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NOTE: This story was written far before Maud appeared for the first time. That means she is absent from this story, and the personalities of these Limestone and Marble Pie do not match canon.
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Chapters (17)
Nicely done my good sir... I might check out our other stories when I get the chance...
3947151 Thank you! And I was worried that this may not have any response at all from the community.
Well this story is a whole lot of fun! I adores Ocatvia being a Pie sister and this fic just shows a great dynamic with the family. I see this is marked as hiatus, a real shame. Still, I love what's here and if it ever updates, I'd love to read more
4443803 Thank you for the kind words! Don't worry about the hiatus, it's just that I am busy with exams, and I don't really have time to spare for this.
Very glad you're enjoying the read
Maud appears in this story, right?
I am waiting for the other shoe to drop and Marble and Limestone to hear the full story of Pinkie as a Bearer. Maybe then they will understand why she is always bouncy.
4658385 I'm afraid not. She was spoiled right before I started writing, and I didn't want to change my plans.
I did made a headcanon for her, and from what we saw in the episode, it fits perfectly.
4658607 Oh, don't worry, she will talk about that. At first I was going to not use that, but then I remembered she would have mentioned the Elements during the dinner, but may not have said that SHE was meant to use one of them.
4661766 What's the headcanon?
4662867 Long story short: She's a captain of the Ground Guard.
Yeah! Really excited for pinkies tale about being a bearer!
4727149 I should probably say something to lower your expectatives.
4729497 it fine :) i tend to like people/ponies reacting to things a little to much
Poor pinkie! Limestone is really mean
How could anyone but pinkie be the element if laughter? She laughed in the face of danger, and the element is her cutie mark!
(Also doesn't the things they did in the beginning of the 1st epp count as earning there elements?)
Sorry if im over analyzing, the story is really wonderful!
4787045 No, you're not. If that is overanalycing, I don't want to know how you would call what I do sometimes
I believe that, in other circunstances, other ponies could bear any of the Elements...proving they do have the appropiate characteristic. For Magic, we have Twilight, but if it wasn't because she turned her back to Celestia, Sunset Shimmer could have been the Bearer(And she would probably had a different set of friends). Or Trixie, perhaps! I'm sure there is a story with her as the Element of Magic.
For Laughter, there are other options too...Surprise to Cheese Sandvich. There's a story where it's Trixie!
What they had to face on the first chapters its...If I am honest, I think they were rather small tasks to prove your worth of something so powerful. I think the real test was getting Twilight's approval and actually having the Elements work with them.
And it is the other way round...Pinkie doesn't have the element as her Mark, the Element changed to match her mark. (Well, unless you think of the metaverse of Que Será, Será)
4788274 thats good, and you do make good points, i have read a bit of the luna verse so know what your talking about. :)
4788274 There are stories featuring other sets of bearers. You just have to look.
Just some food for the thought. The fact that the Elements changed their shapes to suit the bearers indicates that the bearers could have been different. Though I would argue that Twilight was guaranteed the Element of Magic. The other Elements changed, but the Element of Magic always was the six pointed star. It is possible that the Element manipulated fate to gain a bearer that suited its tastes. If that were the case, then the Element of Magic is the chess master who has been manipulating the series, not Celestia.
4790700 Hum. It was a six-pointed star, wasn't it? Hum. I suppose you're right, it is likely Twi was determined to be Magic. Celestia, however, didn't have a way to know the shape of the element would literaly match a Cutiemark.
Or maybe Magic has that shape just to be different XD
I feel like that last part was a direct reference to certain triology about time loops.
4791096 No, actually. I hold the belief that the elements are intelligent and benevolent, but I thought that before reading the Time Loop Trilogy.
Celestia did use the Elements in the past. She almost certainly remembered the star of Magic. She saw that Twilight had been selected by Magic, and so took her as a student.
I have another theory. My other idea says that Starswirl is the mastermind, and I have evidence. Would you like to hear it? (It is a bit of a wall of text.)
4791164 That sounds likely (The seconds sentence). Althought she took Sunset Shimmer before Twilight, so maybe if she hadn't left for the human world...
After all, I am sure there are more ponies with a six-pointed mark. But not all of them had made a baby dragon grow into an adult with a surge of magic. I can imagine Celestia taking Twi under her wing, just in case Sunset was not the right pony (Which she wasn't)
Hum...I wonder what would have happened if Sunset was the one sent to Ponyville, made friends with the rest of the Mane6, but failed to defeat Nightmare Moon because Magic was already bount to Twilight. Hum...I think I may have a new fiction in the to-write list.
Yes, do go ahead.
"From one to another, another to one. The mark of one's destiny singled out alone, fulfilled."
Reread that. It might not have been incomplete. Its true purpose might have been to make the caster fulfill his or her destiny by any means necessary. Starswirl's destiny might have been to become the alicorn of magic. As he was both too old and set in his ways, he could not become an alicorn. So I think that the spell killed him and reincarnated his destiny in Twilight thousands of years later. His soul spent all those years manipulating bloodlines to produce the perfect successor to his destiny. And then Twilight became his successor and invented a separate spell to cause ascension.
It fulfilled his destiny, just not in his lifetime.
4793551 (You call that a wall of text?)
That's an interesting point. Hum. But it sounds rather cruel to Twilight, doesn't it? Being the final product of a spell.
Though I would delete the 'Sould manipulating', and I would leave that part solely to the spell itself.
4793578 I said it was a bit of a wall. not a full wall.
There are plenty of stories where Celestia manipulated the bloodlines to produce Twilight. Sometimes she also made sure that the other bearers were born (one oft used bit of evidence was that Celestia gave the Apple family their land). That is just as cruel. Sunset is even worse than that (in the sense that Twilight's origins are all part of a plan. The plan is incredibly cruel. The story itself is incredible).
4793962 I'll make sure to give it a look.
Still, even if people don't like when somebody else makes a scheme of that sort...Come on, gimme a rest. Yeah, I manipulated you into doing this. No, I am not sorry. If I hadn't done that, we all would be dead.
My first negative vote!
If only I knew why...
4827785 some people just like to down vote everything, This chapter was really good, im guessing that Octavia is secretly dating Vinal Scratch .
4851925 Well, I don't know. Til now, I only had upvotes. The fact that somebody thinks is a bad fiction is not bad, but I would like a critique.
And you'll see on the next chapter.
nice chapter.. knew it was vinal! didn't expect that she would be a fancy like that though!
my geuss.... vinyls back at the hotel.
case and point limestone if celestia had only enough money in the budget left to give money to the geology research peoples or the bakers, she'd give it to the bakers....
bakers make cake....
celestia loves cake
i think honestly pinkie trumphs limestone and octavia as she is an element bearer, has the ear of botyh princesses, is vital to the operation of a entire town, and for the coup de grace. she planned the royal wedding.
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I think having Pinkie cuss a bit ruins the Tempo of the story but other than that it's great
4857331 Thank you
As I said, she's not the most original pairing, but I wanted to add something a lil' different. Earthsong gave me the idea for the albino Vinyl, I just added the fancy apperance.
4857430 Don't you hate when you're a dingus and you forget about things? I had something planned for those packs Limetsone has, but I completely forgot!
4857523 Geology is probably a rather important science in a world dominated with magic, where stones can have important propieties. I don't think cakes are that useful for the well-being of the nation.
Though cake is tempting...
4857619 Perhaps it does. But I needed a gloomy Limestone for what comes next.
And I'm not even sorry for her. She got what she deserved.
4858901 i like the idea!
4877684 After all, no-one likes to be famous all the time.
And for ponies is much easier, having the whole body covered in hair that can be dyed.
Great...MOAR NAO THE PONY GOD DEMANDS IT!
4900930 Hush. A chapter per week is tiring enought.
This was a really long chapter...
4900980 PONY GOD AGREES
4903436 Good. Because you're not getting more chapter for a couple of days.
4905341 Alright! The wait has begun!
Aw, Limestone geting a colt friend would be adorable! Hopefully it would lightin her up a bit! Great chapter though!
4932569 I was very confused because your comment appeared right after I uploaded chapter 11
Limestone has a boring life. Well, she's teaching in an university, and that is hardly boring. But it's just not her thing.
And Fling 'n' Steel is a nice fella.
4932650 sorry about that! the new chapter made me realize that i hadn't read the last one! This chapter pretty fun though!
4938077 Oh, don't worry about that.
And thanks! I am very glad you're enjoying this story ^^
Igneous forgetting Vinyl's name was classic.
4990269 It's always so embarrasing to ask.
Really excited to see how her "date" goes!
Having just read through this story, I'm quite conflicted. On the one hand, the plot itself is well thought out and executed. On the other hand, you need an editor/prereader badly. It really looks like you're a non-native English speaker, because there are numerous consistent errors that almost look like they've been run through google translate.
In terms of writing, your dialogue is weakest. While your characterization of Limestone speaks in a consistently stilted form, Octavia wanders in and out, Vinyl is schizophrenic in her dialogue, and Pinkie is far far too formal for her character. I recommend trying to add more contractions and pauses to try and get Pinkie's actual voice to come across more clearly.