A Gift Best Given
In what ponies would call the richer side of Ponyville, was a small shop filled to the brim with antique hats, silverware, and whatever else a stupidly rich pony would buy. But on this particular day, Ancient Waters received an unusual customer.
It started out like any other boring day. Clean the night dust off the items, tidy up, and then play the waiting game until a potential buyer comes inside. Then it's just the matter of watching them to make sure they don't end up being a shoplifter. It was much more exciting in Canterlot, where ponies would show up every hour of the day. However, since moving to Ponyville a few weeks ago, business was rather slow. Yet the air was clean and that was all it took for Ancient's family to ship him off to this unusually friendly town.
Once Ancient Waters put the last animal statue in place, he quickly eased himself behind his desk and took out the daily newspaper. Though before he could even begin his crossword puzzle, the door opened with a chime.
The unicorn looked up from his newspaper, only to find that no pony was there.
"Down here!" A young, feminine voice called out.
Ancient Waters shifted his gaze to the ground and gazed blankly at a young pink filly.
"Were do you keep your spoons?" The tiara wearing filly asked. Though to the teal unicorn it sounded more like a command.
"Past the hats." Ancient Waters replied.
As the filly left, he couldn't help but wonder about the strange filly. Ancient Waters didn't know a lot about foals this day and age, but from experience he was certain that his prices were just too high for a filly to buy anything, even if she was rich.
Letting out a sigh, the unicorn ran a hoof through his dusty mane and left the counter to follow suit. From years of running his store, he's seem many shoplifters. So if she turned out to be one, why Celestia have mercy on her soul.
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Letting out a sigh in frustration, Diamond Tiara put yet another spoon in her 'already has' pile.
"Why do you need to have such a big collection!?" Diamond whispered loudly.
"Can I help you with anything miss?"
The filly jumped and spun around, only to calm back down once she realized it was just the cashier.
"I need your rarest spoon." Diamond Tiara explained.
"You already looked through all of my collection." The unicorn replied.
Diamond Tiara let out a 'humph.' Silver Spoon's birthday was just two days away and she still didn't have the best possible gift to give her; and this shop was her last hope! Now it seems like the options are to either take a train to Canterlot's Spoon Store, or fake an illness so she couldn't go to the birthday party. Yet there was always that off chance that she could buy a spoon from the store and pass it off as something special with a story.
But I could never lie to my best friend. Diamond Tiara thought to herself.
"Why do you want a spoon so bad anyways?" The cashier asked while using his magic to put the spoons away.
"I need a gift for my best friend and she likes to collect spoons, and if I don't get her the best present then she'll think I'm the worst friend ever and-" But she was silenced by a teal hoof pressed against her mouth.
"Does your friend take care of her spoons?"
Diamond Tiara found this to be a really weird question to ask. But her daddy always told her to always answer somepony when they speak to her. So once the hoof was removed, the filly took a deep breath and answered with a nod.
"Silver Spoon polishes them once a day and only uses them for the most finest of meals. Then she washes them by her own hooves and her own hooves only."
"Come with me."
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Ancient Waters led Diamond Tiara back to his desk. Then he pulled an antler down from his deer statue. There was a quiet groan and suddenly two pieces of wood on his desk pulled back to reveal a small tin box. He quickly levitated the box in between both of them. The tin box was quite flat but it was at least six inches long.
"What's inside?" The filly questioned.
Ancient Water's stomach flipped as he slowly opened the lid. He saw it in her eyes that this filly cared for her friend deeply, and told the truth about how well her friend took care of her spoons. So though it pained him to do so, Ancient Waters decided to give his precious treasure to somepony who would use it with love and care.
Inside was a simple silver soup spoon. But unlike a simple soup spoon, the handle was all twisted up.
"Why is it all twisted?" The filly asked, causing Waters to chuckle.
"This here is the very spoon a young Princess Celestia used when she was first practicing her magic. Once the first castle got destroyed, this spoon was found by an explorer who later sold it at an auction. Then the winner gave it to a museum who then sold it at an auction which I happened to be a part of."
The filly's eyes widened at this tale. Once he was done, she quickly asked, "How much!?"
"How much do you have?" Ancient Waters questioned
"One hundred bits." The filly replied.
"Done." He smirked.
As they made their exchange, the two ponies said their farewells. Once the door closed with a chime Ancient Waters couldn't help but wonder who this lucky friend of hers was.
"If she's anything like that filly I'm sure Ponyville is lucky to have them." He smiled to himself.
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The party was nothing special. Just a boring tea party with dad's business partners. The only thing saving Silver Spoon from running upstairs and reading a book, was her friend Diamond Tiara who was sitting in front of her. While the adult's talked about boring stuff the two friends were playing hoofsies under the table.
"Attention all!" Silver Spoon's dad, Silver Tong, announced.
Everypony including the two fillies turned their attention to the light grey earth pony.
"As you know today is my darling's birthday. So I believe it is time for her to open her presents."
As the adults hurriedly got their presents ready, Diamond Tiara quickly whispered, "I told your butler to put my present in your room."
Silver Spoon gave a quick nod. Now she really couldn't wait for present time to be over so she could go into her room. The last time Diamond did something like this, Silver Spoon found a pink crystal spoon on her bed.
"Mrs. Wing why don't you start?" Silver Tong asked.
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Golf clubs, vases, stuffed animals, another pet Stabyhoun, honestly the only mildly pleasant thing Silver Spoon got was a box of chocolate. Though it was from Filthy Rich and he did know her better than any of dad's clients.
"Thank you all for these wonderful gifts," Silver Spoon cheerfully said with a fake smile, "dad, may I please go to my room to put my gifts away? I'd hate for them to get ruined."
With approval from her dad, Silver Spoon, with the help of Diamond Tiara, dragged the presents up into her room. But it was hard keeping Tin Tin Jr. from getting into the chocolates.
"So where's my gift?" Silver Spoon asked.
Diamond Tiara carefully set down the golf clubs by Silver's bookcase. "It's in a tin box."
Silver Spoon looked around her room for a bit before finding it on her nightstand. The presentation was a little weird, but its what's on the inside that counts. So with that she opened the lid and let out a gasp.
"I know it doesn't look like much but that spoon use to belong to-"
"This is the famous twisted spoon!" Silver Spoon squealed. "Oh my dad would always take me to the Amazing Museum of Wonder when I was little, and we'd see this spoon on display! I was so sad when it closed oh Diamond thank you!"
With tears in her eyes, Silver Spoon gently put the spoon on her bed before giving her friend a bear hug. Diamond Tiara stiffened at first but then quickly relaxed and wrapped her forelegs around Silver.
"You're the best friend ever!"
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"A spoon! How did you know?"
This is sweet.
6209357 thanks
Soooo... Silver likes to... Pfft... SPOON?! ah? Ah?... I'll show my self out...
6210200 She likes to puff spoons?
Anyways, thank you for the fave!
6210204 oh you poor innocent child, how I envy you.
6210212
It's a cute story and I gave it an upvote, but it could use a once-over from a decent editor.
Your dialogue is punctuated incorrectly, you've got a couple of missing commas, there's at least one extra apostrophe, one or two typos like "seem" instead of "seen", that sort of thing. It's not bad, but you can make it better. Stories are like the spoons in Silver's collection -- they look better when they're polished.
Great little slice of hugs you wrote here.
I chuckled at the boredom part that led to the two to play hoofies under the table. So cute. At least until that stuff eventually gets into the whole straight on kicking war. lol
Dawww........this gets a fave!
Those two are so sweet together.
6211248 Thanks, I'll take a look into it.
6212427 Thanks!
6212616
6212867 No prob!
Cute story
6225888 Thanks
this was nice. Short and sweet.
but i did have one technical issue with the premise of the story. Anchient Waters is the proprietor of a high end antique shop in a small town and does not recognize Diamond Tiara or Silver Spoon. There's not that many rich fillies living in Ponyville. At least not before Twilight's castle appeared and likely drove up the property values just because a Princess took up residence in the center of town.
And if Silver Spoon was a collector (probably the ONLY collector of antique spoons in Ponyville) she would likely be a regular customer.
7182333
Whoops
7187691 well if you corrected it and had your OC recognize the names and faces of the fillies in question it would not change the story much. It would only make your OC seem more competent and believable as somepony who knows Ponyville's more well to do citizens sense his business only attracts those with expensive tastes.
7187853 I did try and explain in the beginning paragraph that he just moved to Ponyville a couple weeks back. Also, with the dialogue I tried to convey that he was kinda antisocial. Do you think that helped?
7187863 OH I either missed that or forgot it. Yes if his shop was new in town then that would explain why he didn't know Diamond. Though I'm not sure how Diamond would take somepony not recognizing her LOL.
7187892 True! Still kinda having some trouble writing her.
7187916 I don't think so. You seem to write her well as close as I can recall. Diamond is a complex character to write for. Make her too mean and the reader wants nothing to do with her. Make her too nice and suddenly she's not believable accept in an alternate universe perspective.
As far as i remember you wrote her pretty close to the delicate balance of spoiled and snippy but still affectionate and sympathetic.
If there's one pony other then her dad she's ever shown her kindness to it would be Silver Spoon. Her gift and the affection behind it was truly special.
7188122 Thank you!