Fundamentals

by FerociousCreation

"Mares with Cute Glasses"

To Minuette’s surprise, Party Favor was not attempting to hog all of Moon Dancer’s attention. Instead, he insisted to be on the outside ledge. Just before he managed to escape her view, Minuette noticed the stallion was carrying his notepad from yesterday. The mare was almost tempted to run upstairs and barge into whatever Party Favor was doing. Or plotting!

Regardless of her curiosity, Minuette was being asked a series of questions by Moon Dancer, further delving on details from when she left the study yesterday to the moment she arrived this morning. Most of the responses to “how did you feel” questions was misery. And even though Minuette explained to the best of her knowledge, the unicorn wished she did write down what her experiences were in further detail.

“Were you able to cast any type of magic?” Moon Dancer asked.

“I… am not sure…” Minuette tapped her hoof on her chin. “Maybe?”

Moon Dancer shook her head, her bangs swaying near her eyes. “I don’t want a maybe. If you are not sure, then there is no need to press you on that.”

Minuette grumbled and folded her arms. If only I was sure of it.

All questions were now answered after thirty minutes of Minuette speaking her mind about her lack of a cutie mark. Moon Dancer lightly nibbled on the quill feather with her lips, thinking of a way to add onto her cutie mark removal study. Giving her friend a serious look, Moon Dancer asked, “Do you think I should use myself and remove my cutie mark?”

The door from above flung open and Party Favor charged in. “Don’t do it!” he shouted with desperation. “You don’t want to subject yourself to that type of misery!” Instead of using his balloon magic, Party Favor quickly scrambled down the stairs. “Don’t do it,” he repeated, much more calm now; and out of breath from the quick run. In his hoof was his notepad, the papers flipped open. Too bad for Minuette, the words were hidden from her eyes.

Moon Dancer pointed the quill tip at Party Favor with the flick of the wrist. “Telling me not to do something is tempting me even further to go through with it.”

“But you asked me the question and I want to give you my thoughts on the matter,” Minuette inputted. Party Favor opened his mouth to argue, but knew Moon Dancer would listen. “I do agree with Party Favor on one thing: it does cause misery to not have your cutie mark. However, if you want to go through with removing your cutie mark, then I will not stop you.” Party Favor gave Minuette a strong look of disapproval and she was expecting it. “However… I will not allow you to test yourself alone. I will make sure nothing bad happens to you or your cutie mark.”

Moon Dancer did not look phased by Minuette’s statement. In fact she smiled. “I do appreciate you and Party Favor being concerned with me going through with removing my cutie mark.” Her eyes darted between the two unicorns. “But I want to experience not having my cutie mark just like you two have. It's not that I do not trust your feedback; I want to further solidify my claims; it's what a researcher does.”

“But will you allow Minuette to keep an eye on you and your cutie mark?” Party Favor asked, taking a few steps toward Moon Dancer. “Your cutie mark is what makes you special. And I would hate to see it misplaced.”

Moon Dancer placed a hoof on Party Favor’s shoulder, maintaining her smile. “You like the truth, right?”

“Oh course I do.”

“Then trust me.” Any amount of worry Party Favor held quickly evaporated. He just stared blankly, not sure what to say. “Once I get the facts from my experiment, then I will be satisfied with my work and not have to do this study for a while.”

“What do you mean ‘for a while?’” Minuette chimed in.

“Because I have only used the removal spell on only you, Party Favor, and soon, myself; all of us are unicorns. I have yet to test it on a pegasus and earth pony.” Knowing there was no stopping Moon Dancer, Minuette and Party Favor glanced at one another, blinked, and smiled.

“Well, I do hope the best comes out of all this,” Party Favor flipped his notebook closed. “Even if it makes me uncomfortable.”

“Of course,” Moon Dancer nodded.

Minuette grinned, her brows slightly creased, “But I will still keep an eye on your cutie mark when you do perform that removal spell.”

Moon Dancer walked over to the desk and began writing in her notebook. “I understand that and I don't blame you for wanting to. Trust me, I would want to make sure somepony I trust keeps an eye on my cutie mark as I go through with this.”

While Moon Dancer occupied herself, Party Favor briskly walked over to Minuette and spoke quietly through his teeth, “If anything happens to her cutie mark, it is on your head.”

Minuette’s cocky grin challenged Party Favor’s bothered sneer. “Moon Dancer has favored my opinion than yours, leaving me to believe that I am the one who is favored in this situation.”

Party Favor almost choked on his tongue and spoke nonsense. “You win this battle…” He turned quickly, but lost grip of his notepad. The papers flipped open, its words vulnerable to anypony who may read them.

A light-blue silhouette quickly engulfed the notepad and it darted toward Minuette. “Now what is this?” she sang, glancing at the first page.

Party Favor flushed, “I-It’s nothing! Give it back!” But the blue mare jogged away, ascending the stairs. Her eyes fanned over the first underlined phrase and paused her movement. “Stand Up Comedy Skit?” The first few words Minuette managed to read before Party Favor snatched it away from her were “board games, scared bugs,” and “mares with cute glasses.”

Red in the face, Party Favor scowled at Minuette. “That was uncalled for!”

Minuette couldn't help but giggle. “Mares with cute glasses, huh?” Party Favor flushed even more and stormed out onto the balcony, slamming the door.

“Minuette?” Moon Dancer asked at the base of the stairs. Minuette flinched, slowly turning her head, seeing her friend’s thick brows bend. “What did you just do?”

Author's Note:

How are my current readers liking the story so far?

If you are wondering why my chapters are short and posted every four days, it is more of a personal challenge to stick with a story and finish it by working on it constantly, feeding my readers slowly.

Comments

[Dan]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Meganekko

[FerociousCreation]

8027349 I think you can see where this is going :3

[Yoshifan30]

Okay so it looks like moondancer is asking Minuette how she felt about her cutie mark being removed even though she didn't give her any straight answers moondancer wanted to experiment herself but party favor didn't want her to feel that kind of misery including Minuette but she still wants to help her to understand what cutie marks do and what makes them work but before she could have done something Minuette kind of went too far with her teasing so yeah yikes