A Unicorn, a Changeling and a Bat Filly and the Baker
~2nd Serving~
Bat-Time Snuggles!!
The Baker's a simple man. So simple in fact that most remember him only by his profession, the 'Baker'. Simple defined everything about him from his messy permanent bed-hair, his approach to life, all the way to the warm pink pajamas his daughters had given him last Christmas. He is a man of simple pleasures. So simple in fact that one of his greatest pleasures in life was his daily evening routine.
"Cocoa." He said, reading off a mental check list.
"Check." His eldest daughter, a young unicorn filly, said from where she sat on the living room coffee table, hugging an empty mug, drained of its warm creamy cocoa.
"Sleepy." He said, quickly kneeling to wipe off the marshmallow cream moustache from the little unicorn's muzzle, much to her chagrin.
"Cheeeeck..." His youngest daughter, little changeling filly perched comfortably on his shoulder, tucked comfortably into the nook of his neck, murmured sleepily. This earned her a gentle petting on her kitty-cap to which she cooed happily in reply.
"Luna." He looked around. "Anyone?" The warm, cozy little living room was stubbornly thestral-less.
"Lulu's missing." Tia sighed, rolling her eyes. "Again."
"Where is that filly?" Baker sighed at the absence of his second eldest daughter. Being naturally nocturnal, the little thestral was the most difficult to get to bed at night.
"Um, Cadie'll find her, daddy." Cadie yawned widely. "Uh, Cadie's sure there's no way Lulu can sneak up on us, Cadie thinks." She said, raising her voice just a thimble over her usual whisper.
"3...2..." Tia counted down until her sister bit on the bait. "1."
Chomp...
Chew....chew....chew...
Baker suddenly had a little thestral filly biting him affectionately in the neck, stubby little fangs barely tickling his skin. 'Love-Nibbles', a show of affection surprisingly common to both changelings and thestrals, or so the few books on the two races had taught him. He turned his head this way and that, confirming to his own satisfaction that the little thestral was quite securely anchored to his neck. Yes, filly cannot be removed.
"Lulu, check." Tia said, crossing her hooves with a sigh. She gave a sudden squeak as Baker leaned down to scoop the last of his daughters from her wheel-chair. "W-wait, d-daddy! I..." She quietened down as she was cradled against his bosom as he began to make his way for the stairs. "F-fine, i-it's not like I like this or anything..." She muttered into his soft warm pajamas as she snuggled up closer for safety.
Baker shouldered open the door into his daughters' safe little sanctuary, the bakery's largest bedroom. "Night light mode." He called out. The wall lamps and night lights lit up to a warm, cozy glow, just enough to illuminate the star-studded ceiling and various sparkly galaxy-and-planet mobiles hanging from above. The night sky above melted away into the wall murals of sceneries from the Old World. These were interrupted along one wall by large wall-length windows looking out onto a balcony overlooking the canal sparkling under the moonlight below. A lone stargazing telescope stood watch in the darkness outside.
He tiptoed over Lulu's Elements of Harmony action figures lying about on the ground, carefully avoiding tripping on Cadie's foal-sized gondola paddle before navigating the maze of book towers that marked Tia's domain. "So, pajamas. Who first?" He said, looking about for his daughter's onesies.
"A bit of a no brainer, daddy." The ever put-upon Tia sighed from the comfort of his arms.
"You've got a point. I think Cadence fell asleep with the parking brakes on." Her father said, finding his lightly snoozing changeling daughter's grip on his shoulder and neck was stronger than a gondolier's paddle-grip. "As for Luna..." The filly occupying the other side of his neck spoke for itself. Nibbling intensified.
"Thank you for volunteering, Celestia." He summed up.
"Mmmph." Tia had somehow magically produced her fluffy strawberry-pink bunny-rabbit onesie in her muzzle, holding it up for him.
He took the onesie in one hand and skilfully slid Tia's rearhooves into the rearhoof sleeves as he deposited her on her soft pink bed.
"Hooves up, like you're cheering." Baker said. Tia could only roll her eyes at the childish request but obediently raised her forehooves to allow him to slip the forehoof sleeves on.
"Yay." Tia monotoned as her father zipped her onesie up securely.
"Now, your turn, Luna." Baker said, looking to his second daughter....only to find his shoulder suddenly thestral-less once more. "Luna?"
"I win! Lulu one, bat-jamas zero!" He heard the little filly declare her victory from somewhere behind him. He turned to find her rolled over on her back on her bouncy black bed, little hooves in the air, her Wonderbolt onesie stuck over her eyes. "This is me winging, always!" She declared defiantly, hooves flailing at thin air. Baker couldn't help but wince at the awful bat puns. He had decided it must be somehow built into bat pony genetics, denying all guilt on his part.
"I'd hate to see you losing, sister." Tia sighed, hoof in her face.
"Is it? Let me check this alleged victory." Baker said, picking up the giggling filly. "I don't see your hooves in the air, champ." He coaxed as he righted the filly and eased her rearhooves into her onesie.
"Too cool for old school, always." Lulu giggled at her father's ticklish handling. "E-eeeeee!" She gave a screech of laughter as her father found a particularly ticklish spot at the base of her wings. "O-okay! Okay! Y-you get to win too!" She gasped, raising her hooves for him.
"How generous." Her father said, slipping her small leathery bat wings through their holes and adjusting the onesie's hood around her big fluffy ears. "Now, try and keep that on at least half the night."
"Armour on. Bat-tle ready." Lulu nodded to herself. "Tia! Pillow fi-..." Her battle cry was cut short by a flying pillow to the face.
"Be quiet and go to sleep." Tia, living pillow cannon, huffed at her downed sister, pushing up her glasses up her muzzle.
"What shall we do about your sister?" Baker asked, pointing at the sleeping changeling still fastened to his shoulder like a cute and furry limpet. "We need to get her into bed somehow."
"Put yourself in her bed with her." The ever pragmatic Tia suggested.
Her father paused for a moment, seemingly considering the suggestion. "That works." He shrugged, before flopping onto his daughter's big cerulean blue bed and pulling the fluffy blanket on. "There, she's in her bed." He nodded to himself, satisfied. "Wait, there's one problem with this plan, Celestia." He added. "I'm kind of stuck here."
"I see no problem with this." Tia had somehow materialized on his chest, poking her head out to peer at him from beneath the blanket.
"I see one problem. I'm not in that bat." Lulu's muffled voice said. "There, problem solved." She said, somehow magically appearing beside Tia from under the blanket. "Eeeee~" She gave a happy little screech as she snuggled up against her father.
"What am I going to do with you three?" Baker sighed, shaking his head.
"I know! I know! bat time snuggle!" Lulu giggled.
"Fine. You asked for it." Her father wrapped his arms around all three of them and pulled them all into a tight snuggle under the blanket, earning him a chorus of giggles and one sleepy purr. They settled quickly, reveling in the warmth and comfort of the happy little world underneath blanket.
It was a while before the sound of soft, quiet breathing filled the room. The young father sighed softly as he slowly, gently dislodged the three fillies off himself before rolling off the bed. With practiced precision he tucked all three into the same bed before planting soft kisses on their foreheads. Then, with almost tactical stealthiness, he snuck out of the peaceful sanctuary as quietly as a shadow.
It was a quick step across the corridor back to his own room. "I feel like I forgot something." Baker paused at his door. He gave it a moment's thought before finally shrugging and retreating into his own room.
Barely a moment later the door to his daughters' bedroom slowly creaked open, revealing three little pairs of eyes, all gleaming with mischief in the dark.
The night was still young after all.
Cute
i am soooo confused why is cadnce, luna, and tia in it when its 3 totally diff fillya?
Computing Cute factor........ computing impossible, Cute Factor Exceeds Calculable Range
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I think that he named the three after the princesses.
cute.
4690545 yup and omg the diabetes oozes from those 3. Hooray for sugar rush overload!
Wonder why he name them after the three princess? And on a whole other note, my cute meter is stable, barely.
Silver Octave 1997-2014
Death by diabetes
I only came back to the grave to tell you I love this. TIME TO STALK YOU!
I swear my cuteness shield Is gonna malfunction and kill me with cuteness overload. I await more while my shield is repaired.
4690479 Read the first chapter, friend. They're named after the princesses, that's all.
God this is too adorable for words.
So I went to the doctors after I read this I have cutabetes I wonder how I got them
I think thoughts of this chapter are going to help keep a smile on my face all day long So adorable.
What the hell did you do to your title? People like you are why the Oxford Comma should be non-negotiable. This is no longer a matter of "mere style", this is a matter of "you done fucked up", OP.
FIX IT.
... I think my heart has exploded.
DAAAAAWWWWW!!!!
Out of all the cute stories that I've read on this site (which is quite a few mind you), yours is the one that is going to give me diabetes. Congratulations on that, amigo!
Daaawwww!! This story is soooooo cute!
So the three puffs of pure diabetes and cuteness and snuggles are young Celestia, Luna, and Cadence, but different species, or are they just named that?
This is a very bat-tastic story you got here.
I don't think I will ever be able to like it enough.
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*Dead*
4683731 Many thanks. I wouldn't say I'm a 'natural' at storytelling. It's more like comedy and adorable are all I'm good at if you look at my repertoire.
4684156 Many thanks. Me too!
4685231 Many thanks. I'm curious too, actually.
4685256 Many thanks for that. Happy and fluffy's exactly what I was going for. The alicorn princesses are still alicorns. They are only 'unicorns' from the narrative's perspective. I'm experimenting with perspective third person narrative as opposed to factual third person. Perspective third person only reports what's apparent, in this case the three alicorns were wearing clothes that obscure their wings, thus to an outsider's perspective they are 'unicorns'.
And yeah, I can't wait to find out how they became a family too.
4688213 Unfortunately I'm so ignorant I wouldn't know what that is if it hit me on the head with a crowbar. English isn't my first language unfortunately and I never studied English literature.
4688651 Many thanks.
4689558 It's alright. My next objective is to produce sugar strong enough to raise the dead. Just kidding, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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4690318 I agree.
4690479 As I explained, their human father decided to name them after the tree alicorn princesses. Probably because he picked up the names in a book somewhere and decided they'd make good names for the fillies.
4690483 I wonder what the unit of measure for cute would be? It'd probably be something like 'Fluttershies' or Fs for short. Or Woonas.
4690545 Got it in one.
4690724 Weapons of Mass Diabetes.
4690798 Probably something worth exploring in the future.
4690802 No! Don't go into the light! Come back! I've got more sugar for you!
4691027 Your shield is strong, young one.
4691146 Pretty much, yes. Many thanks.
4691627 It wasn't me!
4691901 Glad to hear I've put a smile on someone's face. You've put one on mine now. Many thanks, friend.
4692191 They shall forever remember this as....Fiction Zero.
4692306 As I said above, I wouldn't know what that is if it hit me on the head with a crowbar. I'm too ignorant, though my working excuse is English isn't my first language.
4692377 Here, have a replacement.
4692379 Me too.
4692419 Many thanks. What other stories have you read? I'm on the lookout for stories like that myself.
4692657 Many thanks. Mission accomplished.
4692749 They were only named after the princesses. Also, pure diabetes?
4692759 'Bat-tastic'? That's a new one. *Takes notes* Many thanks.
4693272 Many thanks. I think disability is an interesting theme to explore, one not many attempt, even fewer succeed at correctly portraying. And that's understandable as it's not an easily relatable human experience. I recently broke my leg and I've been living with crutches for 2 weeks and I've only just started to appreciate the frustration and helplessness. I'm not about to say I understand disability entirely just yet as I've only had a fraction of the full experience. But what I've experienced thus far alone has been quite...something.
I recall one pony in a wheelchair in that episode 'Trade Ya'. Pony wheelchairs are quite different from ours, being more like wheel replacements for their hind legs. That's sort of what I envisioned for Tia.
4693523 MEDIC.
4694496 They are half-disguised as you say with their wings hidden by their clothes. So from the perspective of the narrative they were simply 'unicorns'.
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Cuteness Diabetes. Cutebetes. Does this to you.
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It is still wrong, if I assume that someone is both a changeling and a bat pony. It should be written as thus:
A Unicorn, a Changeling and a Batpony, and the Baker.
4695337 yus! I have been useful!
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for the life of me, I can't remember at the moment. I'll get back to you on that and you are welcome!
4695337 Thank you. Too bad I'll be contracting "D'aww'ibeetus" from this story soon...
4695337 I wub this story.
Another! -Thor, 2000 and something.
Please sir, may I have some more? -Whatshisface the Orphan, some time a long time ago.
U almost ready 2 put up another chapter?
Very interesting. Might as well see where this goes.
This is so sweet it gave me a cavity just by thinking about it.
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) many happy faces for this chapter
HUZZA A NEW CHAPTER, WE THANK THEE
4695368 WE GET THAT REFRENCE
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THIS WOULD PLEASE ME Like your sister IF I FELT SUCH THINGS
5115896 this might please you if you are a cod fan or a portal fan
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My balls just dropped another good five feet and MY FRIEND WON"T STOP SETTING PIZZA ON FIRE HALP Though I cannot feel such things as friendship
5115928 oh... well do the pizza your self and if she refuses knock her out then make the pizza your self (the second is only if she wont beat you to death when she wakes up) btw take care and have a fire extinguisher near by at all times if she tries again
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ALL THE PIZZA!! ALL OF IT!!! NOWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE IS SAFE, AND EVERYWHERE ELSE ISN'T EITHER!!!
5115966 WE MUST FIGHT A PIZZA BURNING LADY WITH um... LUNA YEAH LUNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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SHE'S BURNING THE GRILLED CHEESE NOW AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5115980 OK THIS HAS GONE TO FAR, TIME TO BECOME A SUPER SAYIN (is that right?)
"KAME HAME HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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BIG BANG ATTACK!!!!! Lol I'm remembering the really high squeaky voices all the characters in DBZ when they were in Japanese
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NOW MY BUTTS ON FIRE HALP SHE'S MAD, MAD I SAY, MAD!!!!
5116001 *teleports over to you house and uses a fire extinguisher to kill the fire and douses your lady friend*
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Kewl thx
5116013 your welcome, btw now what should we with your pryo maniac of a lady friend
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I fixed it. Duck tape really does fix everything! Except not breathing... Which was caused by the duck tape in the first place...
5116047 *makes nose holes in the duck tape*
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*le burns body. Oops.
5116060 hmm lets go else where...
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Mmmm yes... doodadoo
5116120 lets definitively not go there *points at freddys fazbears*