Dark Horse
Princess Twilight Sparkle had been a naked human girl for almost thirty minutes, and she was rapidly growing acutely aware of her nakedness and the cold temperature of the Aethenaeum.
"That can't possibly be good for your spine," Moondancer said. "Why do these human creatures have their teats there of all places, anyway? It...it defies all logic..."
Twilight wrapped her arms around herself, shivering; her cheeks flushed faintly. "Celestia? Could you...conjure me up a robe or something? I'm getting chilly here. Also, Moondancer, could you stop that? I don't know why, but it's starting to really make me uncomfortable..."
Moondancer snorted and leaned low, examining Twilight's feet. "How silly it is to have what appear to be vestigial digits here...can you grab anything with those?"
"I can barely grab anything with these," Twilight said, wiggling her fingers. A blue cape materialized above her; she grabbed it and slung it about herself, tucking it in tightly. "Thanks," she said.
Celestia smiled and laughed softly. "Think nothing of it," she said. "Moondancer does raise a few valid points, though. Human anatomy is rather...odd."
"Tell me about it," Twilight said, rolling her eyes.
"And why are your teats so swollen?" Moondancer continued. "Is that normal for humans? Is their mammary capacity more closely related to bovines?"
"They're just...like that," Twilight said, blushing more furiously. "All my friends in the other world have them. Some are bigger than others. Sunset Shimmer's are REALLY big." She shrugged. "I think it's just normal for them."
Moondancer frowned. "Are they...productive?"
"Gah! NO!"
Celestia coughed delicately. "Girls? I do believe we can find more constructive uses for our time while we wait for this spell to wear off..."
* * * * *
Tirek had encountered a slight, annoying hiccup in his search for the source of magic.
He'd narrowed it down to one area of the school. Which, unfortunately, was one of the girls' bathrooms.
Even with his disregard for others and his fortunate diplomatic immunity, Tirek was not fool enough to tempt fate by barging into a girls' bathroom.
Upon the discovery of this particular problem, he had resolved to wait until after the students and faculty had all departed for the day, then begin his investigation.
"Brother, please," Scorpan begged as Tirek skulked around the halls. "Let's go home...I'm not comfortable with this..."
"Leave," Tirek snarled. "We are hardly joined at the hip."
Scorpan stared at him, then sighed and slunk away, slump-shouldered.
Keeping to the shadows and doing his best to remain unobserved, Tirek watched as the students of Crystal Prep trickled out of the building. The faculty began to disperse; that obnoxious woman Cinch locked up her office and left, her walk stiff and brusque.
The school seemed to finally be empty. Tirek strode down the hall, approaching the bathroom...
The door opened, and Dean Cadance strode out, a disturbed, confused look on her face. She blinked as she noticed him, her mouth pursing into a small 'o'.
Then he heard sneakers squeaking on the tiles, and looked up to see a lavender-skinned girl with glasses skidding up the hall, a homemade-looking device of some sort clutched in one hand. She screeched to a halt, bracing herself against a row of lockers and panting. "I'm...here..." she wheezed. She blinked as she looked up. She saw Tirek and let out a startled yelp, backing away and pinwheeling her arms. "Uwah!"
The girl's panic seemed to stir something in Cadance, and she came back to her senses, folding her arms and giving Tirek a stern look. "What are you doing hanging around outside the ladies' room?"
Tirek gave her a defiant stare in return. "I am merely in the hallway, Dean Cadance. That there happens to be a restroom here is of no—"
The thing the lavender girl held in her hand suddenly emitted a shrill, piercing shriek.
At the same time, the crystal pendant hanging around Tirek's neck lit up bright red.
The light and heat of a blazing fire filled the open doorway behind Cadance, and three heads snapped around to stare.
"Get BACK HERE, Philomena!" a female voice hissed from somewhere in the room. In the middle of the bathroom, a bird seemingly made entirely of fire let out a shrill cry, gliding over the toilet stalls.
"Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh—" the lavender girl stammered, eyes wide.
Tirek's eyebrows rose. "A phoenix?" he murmured. "They exist?"
Cadance stared.
The sprinklers went off, followed by the fire alarm.
The phoenix shrieked angrily and dove directly into the mirror, disappearing into it without incident.
The three observers stared at each other.
Tirek's pendant stopped glowing, and the girl's device fell silent.
A dripping wet Cadance rushed down the hall and turned off the fire alarm and the sprinklers, then pulled out her phone. "Yes, this is Dean Cadance of Crystal Prep. Yes, we just had a fire alarm here. It was a student smoking in the restroom that set it off. There's no need to send emergency response. Thank you. Yes, kids will be kids. Yes." She disconnected and put her phone away, then walked back up to the others.
The girl wiped some water off her device and put down the hood on her sweatshirt, shaking out her messy violet hair. She produced a plastic-wrapped packet of tissues from the pocket of her jeans and tried to wipe off her glasses. She glanced at Tirek, tilting her head. "That pendant...it was reacting to that...that..."
"Phoenix, yes," Tirek rumbled, stroking his chin. "An actual phoenix...fascinating."
The girl blinked. "That was a phoenix? But they're...mythical..."
Cadance shook her head. "I dunno, Twilight. It was a bird, it was on fire...sure sounds like a phoenix to me." She glanced at Tirek, raising an eyebrow. "Now, what were you saying about just happening to be standing there?"
Tirek paused, carefully measuring his response. He glanced at the girl—Twilight—and frowned thoughtfully. "Ladies...I'm beginning to get the impression we're all searching for the same thing." He looked at Twilight. "You there. That device. What is it for?"
Twilight jerked sharply. "I-it's...I'm measuring strange energy patterns I've been detecting for the last several months," she stammered. "Th-they started showing up across town at C-Canterlot High, a-and now they're here, and...and we all saw that...that BIRD..."
"Canterlot High," Tirek said thoughtfully. "Interesting. You have data on these energy patterns?"
Twilight nodded.
Tirek smiled. "Twilight, was it?"
"Y-yes," she said. "Twilight Sparkle."
Tirek's smile widened into a frightening grin. "Twilight Sparkle...I believe we can be of use to one another..."
Stats
Page generated in 0.042 seconds
Total duration
939 users online
308,068 hits today, 2,240,556 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2023
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2023 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
Oh my god I was so confused for a second. I forgot what happened in the last chapter.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Well, this isn't going to go well at all. Or perhaps it will go all too well. We'll see...
And there is a time and place, Moondancer. This is neither.
Twilight Sparkle and Tirek working together? Well this won't end well.
Oh boy... Tirek and human Twilight... that won't end well.
Nice chapter, good work.
You need to update this faster.
And I would LOVE to see Tirek's ass kicked by a, and I quote,
assets.rebelcircus.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/unicorn1.jpg
this sounds like something out of Anthropology
6516791
I fergot too! I'll be glad when Friendship Games comes to Netflix.
I don't think it is necessary or even appropriate for you to try to match up your canon with Friendship Games. You started writing with what I would have thought was knowledge that you were immediately deviating from the movie canon, so I don't see a need to drag yourself back towards it.
That...was rather...entertaining.
Bad Philomena.
...how do you spank a bird made of living fire?
(...please...no one answer "Very, very carefully".)
6516867 I never said I'm integrating the storyline of Friendship Games into this. I'm just matching things up, like the inclusion of Principal Cinch, the affirmation of Cadance's actual staff position, and mentions of things such as the rivalry and some of the Crystal Prep students. Which will only serve to make this a stronger story in the end.
6516872
Oven Mitts.... very very good oven mitts
Hey moth, grats on getting featured again!
I guess now we know how Tirek's going to acquire the ability to 'drain magic'.
I was actually rereading this story earlier, so seeing it update shortly afterwards is a treat.
Tirek suddenly looks like an even greater threat than before, if he convinces or forces SciTwi's assistance. Hope to see more soon.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
6516872
...Whip it with a wet towel, maybe?
See this Tirek teaming up with this Twilight to hunt down magic makes sense AND if he's influence turned her into Midnight Sparkle would be even better and more logical than the movie.
6516872 fire proof gloves
6516872
Oven Mitts.
EDIT: Oh, someone already said that. Drat.
6516872 throw a heavy blanket on it and start stomping on it?...or, would that possibly cause one to be arrested for "abuse and/or life endangerment of magical animals"?
Oh boy.
Oh, dear. Oh, deary dear. Dearest of dears. We're in trouble now. Someone needs to confirm Twilight's no-doubt-present suspicions that Tirek is bad news... or we might be doomed.
Twilight run away as fast as you can.
OH NO TIREK HAS RETURNED
Twilight, wat R U dooing? Twily, no, stahp, Stahp, STAHP! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Equestria is doomed if Tirek gets through the portal...
Don't do it Twilight! Don't go to the dark side!
The plot thickens... and much like quicksand, I am drawn into it screaming for someone to pull me out, lest I become addicted to yet another story.
Tirek working with Twi? Never seen this angle before. I like it.
This chapter reminds me of Sunny, Moonie and Twily. Have you read that fic? This was Moondancer in a nutshell.
Quite interesting! I'm liking the various little incursions from Equestria.
6517580 He has, and pardon my French. But he's a Total Badass rocking a chain mail shirt, leather pants, and steel toed boots. And he Knows it.
Oh, dear. Tirek working with Twilight, this can only end so well.
I can see Moondancer and Flash discussing about human female breast.
Tirelight. To ship or to not ship - that's the question.
Moondancer should Get to the Human World and have eather gargatuan or midget brest...
So Philomena trolled both worlds. Or doomed them. Then again, dooming can be trolling of the highest level.
*DUHN, DUHN, DUUUUHHHHHNNNN!*
Now comes the usual trouble.
Keep up the good work.
-The Character
Twilight seems really impressed with them.
He seems trustworthy.
6518429 all the same points I was to make.
Dun dun duuuuun
6518576 i agree
Ok this is gonna be an interesting turn when Equestra finds out theres still an active Tirek
6518200
I have to say I read "Tirelight" and immediately thought of a car tire made of flashlights...
6518962 Isn't that like the only thing to even mentation this ridiculous phase?
6520049 Sure, ironic. Whatever, Earth Turd.
Well... that was unexpected.
Philomena... why...
All that you changed from the previous chapter were formalities, right? I sure hope so, cause I made a quick scan before reading the interlude and that's all I could catch. Ohhh, I hope I didn't miss anything...
I look forward to the coming chapters, though I have to say, I am not enjoying the presence of Tirek and Scorpan. I hope that human Tirek will at least not be an evil prick and ruin things...though Cadance's incompetence makes up for it. Her aunt is going to be so upset!
I need more Sunset Shimmer, but the limitations of the search system on FiMFiction is kinda ruining things...should I see if I can give some feedback to make things a bit easier to search for? Cause it gets annoying trying to find an Equestria Girls fic and end up with Anthro MLP, or trying to find an actual crossover fic and instead finding all of those Displaced fics. I like the idea of a genuine character getting displaced. I am sick of seeing fics of someone dressed up as the character getting displaced. Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm getting sick of getting stuck with an abundance of those instead of what my heart truly desires...any advice?
6522727 All that actually changed was the proper title for Cadance and replacing "the headmaster" with "Principal Cinch".
Also, finding Sunset Shimmer stories to read isn't nearly as hard as you make it out to be. I've got over 100 of them sitting in a read later list devoted JUST to Sunset Shimmer stories.
6522731 WARNING. DEFCON 1 TEXT-WALL IMMINENT. GRAB A DRINK OR SOMETHING.
Are they chapter stories, though?...that's the main thing I'm looking for. I love a good one-shot and all, but most of them that I've read were short and sweet. I love 'em to death, but the short one-shots are like mini-snacks for my brain. Maybe green grapes (I like those more because of their sourness compared to ones like Concord). They're tasty...er, entertaining, but it only keeps me occupied for a small amount of time. I can recall most of them and never forget the morals or the overall message, but unlike a good multi-chapter story, they only last for maybe 10-40 minutes, sometimes even an hour if I'm lucky. I fear I may have grown addicted to Pony...
On the other hand, you got the big one-shots like Rainbow Factory and Cherilee's Garden (It may have multiple chapters on the story, but Scarlet Harvest is more like a sequel). Going back to food allusions, these are like huge steaks. Delicious, or in this case huge page-turners (page-scrollers in the case of the internet I suppose), but very hard to complete in one sitting. In the case of stories, it can range from life distractions to simple switching over to a different activity. Sometimes you just need a palate cleanser, right?
I wish I could implement the tone of words into what I type, because some of it looks a bit...condescending. I tend to accidentally do that when I really am just explaining myself etc. If you got any awesome suggestions, I'd love a PM. I think I can also go through your library (haven't done anything like that before on here), but I don't know if that's invading privacy or something like that...I'm shy about that kinda stuff. Anyways, sorry for the late reply and the text wall. I've probably got an internet bounty on my head. I try to put a lot of thought into what I type, though, and that's the main reason I make these so long...once I accidentally started a flame war (a while ago, don't remember details of what and where), and was powerless to stop it, all because my words were misinterpreted. When I actually realized that there was a flame war because of what I said, I explained my actual message. I guess I actually did sort of end the main fight, but the damage had been done and what was said couldn't be taken back. Something similar happened in school a few years back as well, but at least I was present to immediately explain and diffuse the situation...
Sorry for dumping that on you, I guess I went on a tangent. I would delete the extra stuff, but...I guess I sorta want it out. Not like anybody I know personally would see this since they aren't Bronies or don't know my username on here. That's enough text terrorism for today, I need to balance out this exposition, so have some wubz.
So cute, we need modern MLP ponymotes. We have so much to work with, like that Diamond Tiara still posted on Saturday, though I think butt-chin snobby DT is much more hilarious and comedy gold.
Okay, enough's enough. My insanity stops now. Talk with ya later!...if I didn't scare you off or anger you...
Sorry.
EDIT: Saw that your library has open locks...and personal recommendations...I might have been hasty about it being a privacy thing.
6522997
I have a couple DOZEN multi-chapter Sunset Shimmer stories in my read later list, in my tracking, and in a bookshelf I created called "Favorite Sunset Shimmer Stories". Again, if you spend 20 minutes looking for them, you will FIND them.