Tiny Twilight Tales

by Foals Errand

Slumber Party-2

It was earlier than normal, but Celestia wanted to be ready to receive the mothers when they came to pick up their daughters. She took a deep, slow breath, and released it carefully, applying her royal mask just in time as the three mares came in. A few of her most trusted servants were watching over the fillies. They did not need to be here.

Celestia gazed levelly at the three mothers as they slowly approached her throne. A young unicorn stallion brought in a a silver tea service and poured one cup of tea. He set the service on the small table and bowed his head.

Celestia smiled at the mares. “Tea?” As one they shook their heads. Celestia shrugged before dismissing the stallion with a smile. She calmly raised a cup of Earl Grey to her lips and sipped. With a smile she set her cup down. “My, there is nothing like a cup of tea after a bad night.” She turned her attention back to the mares. "Well, that could have gone better. I know that foals will be foals and that this is something I am certain they will out grow given time. In the meantime," she noted with deceptive mildness, "I think it would be unwise to subject your foals to facing 'monsters'. Wouldn't you agree?" She did not wait for comment as she calmly continued.

"Therefore I will relieve you of the concern of bringing them here. It is my sincerest hope we can all learn from this unfortunate happening.”

The eyes of Golden Glitter’s mother widened before she swallowed hard, realizing exactly what must have happened. “O-of course your highness. May we collect our daughters now and head for home?”

“But of course. Did you think I’d keep you from your daughters? Heaven forbid. Go retrieve them and depart with my blessings.” Celestia nodded to them as they quickly bowed and left. She took another sip of her tea and smiled. “Raven, my dear? Would you please cancel court for the day? I will spending time with my beloved student.”

“Of course your highness! Will you and young Twilight be needing anything?” Raven asked, smiling up at Celestia as she wrote up the order.

Celestia rubbed her chin in consideration “Hmm, actually…”

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Twilight’s muzzle scrunched up as she stared at the dish that Princess Celestia pulled from the picnic basket. Twilight had been so excited to have a picnic with her mentor, just the two of them. Her favorite foods had been in that big basket, even celery soup! But Twilight wasn’t sure what this was.

“Cheesecake?” Twilight cocked her head at it. “It doesn’t look like cake…”

Celestia looked down at Twilight, a smile tugging at her lips. “Oh? Well then, my faithful little Twilight. Why don’t you tell me what this is?” She set the cheesecake down on the picnic blanket and cut a small slice. She set it on a plate in front of Twilight, along with a fork.

Twilight slowly circled the plate before laying on her belly and giving it a small sniff. She finally poked at it with the fork. “Hmm...It’s wiggly!”

Celestia struggled to keep from laughing as she watched Twilight’s tail flick. She finally took the fork, cut off a small bit of cheesecake, and placed it in her mouth.

Twilight hesitantly chewed the bite. Once… twice. Her eyes lit up and a ‘mmmm’ escaped her lips.The piece of cheesecake was soon gone, and Twilight was rubbing her plump, fuzzy belly with her forehooves. “I ate too much pie.”

“Pie? But my dear, I told you it’s cheesecake.” Celestia smiled at the stuffed little pony laying on her back.

“Nuhuh. After all of my very in depth studies, I have come to the conclusion that this is a pie! A very, very yummy pie!” Twilight let out a small belch before blushing. “Um, cuse me?”

“Have no worries, my dear. But really, pie? Well then I must inform the chefs they’ve been labeling it wrong for a very long time.”

Twilight considered, still on her back, eyes closed and enjoying the sun. After a few moments she opened her eyes and frowned. “Well, I guess it can still be called cheesecake. But, It’s really pie!”

Celestia began laughing before she laid down beside Twilight. She nuzzled her tummy. “The chefs will be very relieved to hear your decision!”

Twilight giggled happily before hugging Celestia’s muzzle.

Comments

[badninja]

Blasphemy Twilight Cheesecake is not a pie, it is the best desert out there. I understand your confusion with how it looks I hope that Pinkie will correct you one day.

[ValNitak Choas]

9020922
I with you, cheesecake is the best cake out there,
next she going to say pizza is a type of pie when it is not.

[Foals Errand]

9020922

9020938

Now, now she is only 4. And she did love it ^^

[Tatsurou]

9020922
Actually, by the technical definition, cheesecake is a pie. It's a filling placed within a crust, rather than a baked pastry.
https://www.finecooking.com/article/cheesecake-or-cheesepie

[Alondro]

9020938 Pizza is a type of topped flatbread.

Though, deep-dish pizza might be 'close' to an open-topped pie.

The categories start to get fuzzy with all the variations.

Then there are strombolis, calzones, and panzerottis; which are classified as turnovers.

[dracone]

Well, that was adorable

[Grahf]

9020944
agreed technically it is a custard pie but since it in a shape like a cake and can be decorated like one it came to be called cheesecake

[SuperPinkBrony12]

Not for nothing, Celestia, but I think you should be having a talk with the mothers to ensure they're not raising their children to hold such negative views of those around them. If they think Twilight is a monster because of her freakish powers, who knows what they may think of those with magical abilities that are almost non-exisitant?

I know children usually don't think the same way as adults, but that's why it's all the more imperative they know the difference between right and wrong. If not, it can have very dire consequences for them later in life.

[Foals Errand]

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If she hears more of such talk she'll bring it up. For now she thinks that the fact that they blew this chance to get deeper into her inner circle will be enough.

[Hazey Logic]

Hey look, I found a history of cheesecake at of all things cheesecake.com!

[Emtu]

9020944
The last line from that article is the best part: "So, in short, a cheesecake is a pie. It can also be a cake, but it can’t not be a pie."

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

A very cute chapter. :) I have not truck in the 'cake versus pie' debate. ;)

[link4]

lol... loving the latest chapters. :)

[Dorath]

D'awww

[Vaguely Demented]

Cheesecake is ambrosia, nothing more, nothing less.

[Alondro]

9040272 Dude, your Death Star got blown up TWICE, and then the PLANET-SIZED newbie got taken out... again by one friggin fighter!

Have you SEEN how many torpedoes it takes sometimes to sink a battleship? Or how about the Starship Enterprise? That thing has taken one hell of a beating!

Face it, you Empire guys need to fire your engineering department.

[TheGreatEater]

9024227
Especially when lightly topped with a drizzling of Nutella.

[Vaguely Demented]

9243448
So you’re saying with enough common sense we could provoke the entirety of the nobility to go into anaphylactic shock?

[TheGreatEater]

9243511
Yes. Yes I am .

[TheGreatEater]

You know you can (at least as of three updates ago) drag chapters around in the edit story feature (the one that allows you to publish new chapters), So that you can restructure your fic?

That way you don't need to worry about putting an A/N with "before Luna", you just move the chapters around to where you want them to be.

9020938
Pizza is a pie. Since Pizza means Pie in Italian. But it's an Italian Pie.

[TheGreatEater]

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I was thinking more like her doing that to the fillies who tormented her precious student. Rather than Luna herself.

And I could see her sending ponies to the moon (or the sun) for hurting her precious little Twilight Sparkle. Especially with her as a little filly.

[KittyrinnAiko]

“Nuhuh. After all of my very in depth studies, I have come to the conclusion that this is a pie! A very, very yummy pie!” Twilight let out a small belch before blushing. “Um, cuse me?”

She's not wrong.