What has eight legs, four wings, two horns, four eyes, and goes -BONK!- in the night...
Feeling weary, Star Swirl sat down in a chair, puffed out his cheeks as he settled in against the soft cushions, and then tried to tune out the rest of the world. It was a real test of his abilities to raise these two foals. Both were as strong as earth ponies, had the courage and flight of pegasi, while having the curiousity and magic of unicorns.
Heaving a sigh of exhaustion, Clover, who was clever, sat down in a chair beside Star Swirl, who was bearded. It was Commander Hurricane and Private Pansy’s turn to run after the foals for a while, and when they grew exhausted, Puddinghead and Smart Cookie would take over. Princess Platinum of course, being the gracious princess that she was, supervised everything while offering inspirational words of encouragement.
“The white one is a joy, she is perfect in every way, she is as sweet and adorable as the day is long,” Star Swirl said to Clover as he began to stroke his magnificent long white beard with his hoof.
“The blue one is nothing but trouble. She is foul tempered, cantankerous, she is a sour foal and she is so very jealous of her sister,” Clover replied to Star Swirl.
The pair shared a sigh as they watched a blue foal go flapping past on stubby wings, giggling in not at all subtle maniacal manner as she went through the door. A moment later, Commander Hurricane came running through the room with Private Pansy hot on his fetlocks.
“Halt! You made me say it twice!” Commander Hurricane bellowed as he went thundering past. “Halt, or I shall be forced to say ‘halt!’ again!”
“Come back here you little windigo spawn!” Private Pansy cried as she kept up with Commander Hurricane.
“Who is watching the white one?” Clover asked as she sank even deeper into the cushions of her chair.
Almost as if on cue, the white foal pranced into the room, her stubby wings flapping. She was beautiful, she was as radiant as the sun, and she filled the room with life affirming warmth. Her radiance inspired all those who viewed her, revitalising bodies numbed by exhaustion, restoring vigour to those who were weary.
Of course, this radiance and warmth may have been because she was on fire once again, blazing as bright as a flare, and she ignited the wooden door as she pranced through the doorway. Star Swirl and Clover both cried out in panic as both discovered they weren’t quite as exhausted as they thought. They were on their hooves in a hot second, trying to fireproof the room, extinguish the door, and keep their comfortable chairs from burning to a cinder.
“Oh biscuits, everything is on fire again!”
“Yes, but think of the bits we’ll save on heating!”
Moving with swift assurance, Star Swirl lifted the white foal in his magic, holding back her flames as he lifted her up, while Clover worked to put the flames that blazed throughout the room. The white foal was giggling and her smile shone as bright as the sun. Reaching out, she booped Star Swirl on the nose with one burning hoof.
Then, in the most adorable way one could imagine, she yawned, making a tiny squeak.
“The sun is going down and just like clockwork, she is ready for bed,” Clover said, giving voice to her observations. “She operates on perfect celestial mechanics and her behaviour is almost predictable.”
“Come back here you little blue tyrant!” Commander Hurricane demanded as the blue foal continued to elude him. “It is almost time for bed!”
“No!” the blue foal replied as she flew back into the room that had just been on fire.
“Her first word… and it is one of defiance,” Private Pansy said as she rose into a hover and then flew after the blue foal. “Come, little blue foal, come to bed and I will sing to you!”
“Good luck with that.” Star Swirl patted his smouldering beard and made certain the last of the fire was out. He hadn’t lost too much, it was important to keep one’s beard when you were called ‘the Bearded’ as part of your name. “She has spent most of the day asleep. She’ll go to bed when the moon goes to bed.”
As the white foal yawned once more, Star Swirl, who had a kind smile and who had found his second wind, trotted off to put her to bed, so she could lay down and have sweet, pleasant dreams in her flame retardant cradle.
Clover, being clever, followed after Star Swirl and when he put the white foal to bed, Clover stood beside him and smiled down at the foal blazing in her cradle, which was tucked into a fireplace. To say that the good little foal slept like a log was an understatement.
“All of this because of a kiss,” Star Swirl said in a low voice as the foal crackled in the fireplace. He stood by the fire, warming his bones, and enjoying Clover’s closeness.
The white foal yawned one last time and her flames became more like a glowing ember. She closed her eyes, settled down into her cradle, and as darkness spread over the land, she went to sleep.
For Commander Hurricane and Private Pansy, the night would last forever, because this was the night that the blue foal would refuse to go to bed…
“That is a very silly story,” Twilight Twinkle said as she looked up at her auntie Celery.
Surrounded by entirely too many foals on all sides, Princess Celestia was surprised that her bed could even hold all of all them. She felt every little body around her, pressed up against her, their reassuring warmth filling her with feelings of love and affection.
“I suspwect that aunt Cewestwia is twelling us a fabwicwation,” Gloaming Guard said.
“Shut up, snotface!” Twilight Twinkle shoved her hoof into her twin brother’s face.
“Now now, behave, both of you.” Celestia looked down at Twilight Sparkle’s foals. Both had rich purple pelts like their mother. Both had blue hair like their father. Gloaming Guard was a unicorn like his mother had been, and Twilight Twinkle was a pegasus.
“I liked the story,” Barley said just before he yawned. He smacked his lips and rested his head upon his own twin sister, Brandywine, who kissed him.
“Oh yuck! You kissed your own brother!” Twilight Twinkle cried as she recoiled in horror. “Colt cooties!”
“Brothers are gross,” Ditzy said as she cuddled up closer to Twilight Twinkle.
“Hey!” Dizzy said in protest of his sister’s words. He pushed his black mane out of his eyes and tried to see past his hair. It fell right back down over his eyes and left him blind. He huffed in frustration.
“Sisters are icky,” Blue Streak said as he peeked out from beneath Celestia’s wing. “And they smell funny too.”
“We do not!” Twilight Twinkle protested, glaring at her other brother.
“We smell like soap and cookies.” Ditzy blinked and tried to focus her eyes. “Colts smell like plots—”
“Now now,” Celestia said, and then sighed as she summoned her patience.
Feeling squished, Bell Heather lifted her head, yawned, and then dropped her head upon Barley’s back. He was soft and he didn’t smell like plots. He smelled like strawberry soap.
“Did they really keep you in the fireplace?” Twilight Twinkle asked.
Laughing, Celestia dropped her head down and kissed the foal on the cheek. “It is time for bed. The sun has long since gone to sleep and so should you.”
Groaning, Tourmaline shook her head. “The bed is full of cookie crumbs… I’ll never get to sleep.”
“I wonder what Luna is doing,” Blue Streak said as he struggled to hold in a yawn. After a moment, he lost, and his tiny muzzle was split open by an enormous yawn.
“I suspect that Luna and the foals with her are doing pretty much what we are doing,” Celestia replied. “Only for them, the night is just getting started. Now go to sleep.” Reaching out with her magic, Celestia turned off the lights and the illumination in the room was the fire burning in the grate. She heard a tiny squeak as somepony yawned and she reveled in the warm, pleasant feeling of drowsiness.
“We should post a guard… I know my sister Crisis and Bandua… they will come for us in the night while we are sleeping,” Brandywine said in a worried voice.
Blinking, Celestia discovered that she was now wide awake.
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Too...much...cutness...SYSTEM OVERLOAD...CUTNESS LEVELS CRITICAL...REACTOR BREACH IMINENT...EVERY MACHINE FOR ITSELF...RUN, FOOLS, RUN !!!!
Also...som many names, I need a sheet to keep tracking !!!!
This, this is worthy of another! I love hearing about Celestia's and Luna's foalhood! I want more! Please don't regret this story! It's full of adorableness. I would love to read more about the collection of foals that Celestia and Luna are telling this story to.
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This is a story within the Chase Verse.
The Chase will tell you more about the foals... eventually. Some of them haven't been born yet.
The D'awwwws! Heck heck heck.... Smack OK I'm still alive...
white.... i think.... idk.....
Awesome story!
You should definitely not regret. This was awesome. And cute!
That gave me so much diabeetus that Wilford Brimley just came a-knockin' on my door.
6051558 I don't read that story, who are the parents?
6051765
Several parents from different families.
No worries. If you don't read it, it isn't all that important to know.
so much foals...
Celestia gets the Day foals
Luna gets the Night foals
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Luna also gets the bad foals, like Crisis.
6051860
They are not bad, they are just misunderstood
6051860 And I'm sure that's another story altogether
6051886
Crisis is the first Flutterpony.
That probably means nothing to anybody unless they really like the old school MLP stuff.
6051908
SQUEE! Flutterponies!
extra 'her'
So is having twins a pre-immortality Alicorn thing, or just a major side effect of doing it under the effects of love magic?
6052112
Option C: Biological crapshoot.
The description made me think of the "Notice me Senpai," meme. That is all.
6051908
First Flutterpony, so the changelings-are-mutated/cursed-Flutterponies origin theory is out for Chaseverse, then.
6051765 sigh, let's see. The Chase uses the idea of herding, so they are more like family groups.
So... Spoilers!
Luna and a unicorn named Barley had Barley.Berry Punch and Bucky had Barley. Who was named after the unicorn named Barley. Oops.Twilight Sparkle, Flash Sentry and Rainbow Dash had Twilight Twinkle and Gloaming Guard. And Probably Blue Streak.
OCs - Bandua is a Hippogriff. Bell Heather is a Kelpie. Dizzy and Ditzy are probably Derpy's. Brandywine is Berry Punch's. And all of those share a father named Bucky (but Bell Heather is adopted). Tourmaline is a changeling adopted by Celestia. Erebus is an odd tribe changer adopted by Luna...
I don't know whose Crisis is though.
I can't believe I typed that on my phone...
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Barley Bitters is Bucky's, birthed by Berry Punch.
6052496 Still though, one mistake and everything off the top of my head. Not too bad considering I'm terrible with names. Also I fixed it.
6052646
There is no need to. This story can stand alone.
6049842
Generally, there has to be an actual story to give it a sequel. These two chapters read rather poorly as they are, story wise. They don't really feel complete.
6052683
I added the second chapter instead of a sequel.
6051908
So Discord and Fluttershy's foal?
6053293
Nope.
6053299
does crisis come from somewhere further in the story?
I found this hilarious and cute! Great job.
Favorited.
I'm so confused, but Tia and Woona were adorable, so everything is alright.
Did this story's idea come from a Calvin and Hobbes quote????
6053299 This story... was amazing!
You should do Luna's side of the story, but have her's extremely exaggerated. just an idea that I would like to see.
6052384 Slap that there comment on a story, make it well-written, and give it to baby sleeping in a fireplace!
Glimpses of past and future, adorable all around. I'm quite impressed by the capacity of Celestia's bed.
6053314 she's gonna irritate* the hell out of her siblings.
*Hint: synonym for "irritate" that rhymes with "rug".
I laughed too hard at this
How the hell did this even get featured? You know what? I don't care. It's stupid, the author said it's stupid, and it'll remain that. Have a nice day.
6055255
I think you need a hug. Or something.
6055278 I welcome it. Still I think this is overrated. Meh... I don't mind. I really don't. Pay no attention here.
6054618 Funny knew a faimly who's children were like them, One Angel one Holy Terror.......
This was cute.
WARNING If you came down here to read the comments 1st then read the story. This story is overloaded with cute. In other words a cuteness overload warning. The amount of cuteness in here can cause the following:diabeetus,heart attack and a large amount of weak spots added to your body. This may be your only warning.
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I wonder if baby Celestia really slept in a fireplace
6057377
Ermagerd, too edgy for me... 4chan memes... oh noes whatsoever shall I do...
invasion of the edgelords!
6057724 >ermagerd
I chose my meme well, I see
6057768
So, what were you hoping to accomplish exactly? Do you feel better? Does shitposting make you feel more secure and help you deal with your own inadequacies? Do you need a hug? Somebody to talk to? Is this a cry for attention or help? Does ruining what is mostly a pleasant environment where people are having fun help you feel a sense of accomplishment?
6057788 yes
and now I can condense into a singularity of hate
thank you for helping me achieve my true purpose in life
your sacrifices will never be forgotten