The Gift
The six Chans walked carefully down the streets of Bavaria, Jackie leading the way with Uncle holding Jade's hand, Sweetie Belle on Uncle's head, Scootaloo on Cumulo, and Apple Bloom on Audrey. It had been surprisingly easy to get Audrey on the plane at the Los Angeles International Airport. All it had taken was sticking a fake mustache on Audrey, and everyone from the one selling the tickets to the flight attendants treated him like a human. The only thing really odd was one other passenger - who claimed to be from Van Nuys - who kept asking Audrey if he was related to a Mr. Mumbles. As he had no idea how to respond to that - and no musical ways to explain his confusion - Audrey had remained silent.
"I will do some sleuthing at the chocolate factory," Jackie spoke up. "But you girls should stay with-" His voice trailed off as he saw Uncle tugging Jade off towards the square, the fillies following him. "...Uncle."
"Jade, I hear you like Hip Hop?" Uncle asked curiously. "You know, they have it here in Bavaria, too."
"Really?" Jade asked in surprise.
"Yes!" Uncle confirmed. "They call it Oom-Pah!"
Uncle and Jade burst into giggles. Apple Bloom tilted her head. "...ah don' get it."
"I don't think it matters," Sweetie Belle observed. "Uncle's feeling good enough to go out and do things with us. What's it matter if we don't get the 'Dad jokes'?"
"Good point!" Scootaloo agreed. "Come on, let's go find some Oom to Pah to!"
Jackie rolled his eyes, heading off to find the chocolate factory as the others burst into laughter at Scoot's wordplay.
It wasn't long before the group found some musicians playing in the square, playing a drum, a saxophone, and an accordion. Uncle quickly led the girls - save Apple Bloom, who remained at her perch on Audrey - into a bit of dancing, Audrey following along with a wave of his vines. At the end of the dance, the whole group shared more laughter. "And Sweetie said your hip didn't hop!" Jade pointed out gaily as they approached a table set with food, plainly there for anyone to come up and have a snack.
"Ha ch-ch-cha!" Uncle murmured eagerly as he lifted up a large slab of cheese on a piece of bread.
Sweetie Belle gasped in shock. "Uncle! Cheese!"
"Yummy!" Uncle responded eagerly as he moved to take a bite.
"But cheese and other dairy products don't agree with your digestion!" Apple Bloom pointed out. "It's why I made a lactose-free cake!"
Jade frowned. "There's something different about you," she pointed out incisively.
"Like what?" Uncle asked evasively.
"Well, for one thing, you haven't said 'one more thing' since we got here," Jade insisted.
"I only say that when I am in an irritable mood," Uncle offered quickly, his eyes shifting back and forth. "Travel agrees with me."
"Actually, you haven't said 'one more thing' since just after your birthday party," Scootaloo pointed out. "Not to mention you just feel...younger."
Apple Bloom gasped in shock. "Did...did my potion actually work to make you younger?" she asked hopefully. "I didn't think it would, but maybe with how much magic you've been exposed to training as a chi wizard and raising us..."
Uncle sighed softly. He couldn't let her lead herself down a mental path like that. He'd have to tell them the truth. "No, Apple Bloom...it was not your potion." Reaching into his shirt, he pulled out the Dog Talisman, showing it to the five of them.
All five stared in shock. "No...way..." Jade responded, stunned.
"Way," Uncle replied with a grin.
"The Dog Talisman makes you act younger?" Sweetie Belle asked, surprised.
"Kinda fits," Scootaloo offered. "I mean, well cared for dogs act like puppies for their entire lives right up until those lives catch up to them and everything fails at once. Though with the magic setup, it probably makes you immortal too, or something. Those sound like they'd go together."
"Very astute, Scoot," Uncle praised teasingly, slipping the Talisman back under his shirt and booping Scootaloo on the nose with one finger.
"Does that mean Rhino's part Noble Dog, then?" Sweetie Belle asked curiously. "I mean, we got him nearly a decade ago, and hamsters normally only live for about three years."
"I know!" Scootaloo agreed. "Heck, I took him into show and tell once as the world's oldest hamster when he turned six! Then someone showed me that stupid Guinness book that showed the record was seven..."
"Well, he is still acting as young as when we first got him, so it is possible..." Sweetie observed.
"Maybe he just got into Uncle's chi lab and ate some magic stuff?" Jade suggested helpfully.
"Uncle," Apple Bloom spoke up worriedly, shifting the conversation, "you told us magic always exacts a price. W...what price are ya gonna pay for doing this?"
Uncle sighed softly. "One I will willingly pay," he replied warmly, kneeling down to wrap his arms around the girls. "You are in the prime of your lives. You deserve to have many happy memories, and you try to give them to me too. Normally, I can only do so much for you all. But with this...I can give you all the happy memories you deserve, even if it's only for a few days."
Blinking away tears, the three fillies piled into the Uncle hug. Jade joined them, a calculating look on her face. Immortality, huh? she thought softly. Maybe there's something there to fix that...
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Other Sans. I wish ya luck on punning this. Can't seem to find an opportunity here.
Also anyone know who Mr. Mumbles is?
7740117
It's a reference to Dan Vs.
7740117 Don't tempt him!
What Scootaloo said about the lives of dogs really resonated with me on a personal level. Very good choice of words there.
7740132 Is that going to be a crossover?
7740117
Maybe they could find some Oom-Pah to Loom-Pah to at the chocolate factory.
Scoots could teach Rhino some tricks to show off at his next showing. After all an old dog can learn new tricks.
Oh Uncle, you come up with the cheesiest ways to dodge questions that it's full of holes. Must be part Swiss.
7740134
You called?
When they mentioned Rhino the hamster, the only Rhino I know of was in the Disney animated movie Bolt. Or am I thinking of a different hamster?
Oh gods, loved the reference to Dan Vs.
Vengeance incarnate indeed.
Anyways... could they use the horse talisman to bypass most of the unfortunate consequences that will come from using the Dog, or is that too much of a Deus Ex and will only make things worse?
Dan VS.
Big Green Mother from Outer SpaceAudrey III.7740197
That would be the reference.
Jaaade. What are you thinking?
This was an interesting and heartfelt chapter.
7740132 I knew it was a reference the moment I read Mr. Mumbles.
7740191 NYEH! Have you no shame, man!?
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
I can JUST SEE Uncle thumping tia on the forehead going "One more thing!" after the girls get through with Uncle!
Because, with the four working together and the world that is being put together for our reading pleasure, I really doubt that immortality or something close enough is far to possible not be impossible
BLACK TIGER AWAITS NEXT CHAPTER! Sorry, Hak Fu was my favorite thing in the whole series. I loved how he involved he was in the Tarakudo Arc.
7740254 Something that will go wrong.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
One wonders curiously, with a tinge of fear, what Dan is planning to do in Bavaria.
I'm back. So I got another one though this one is more of a contradiction than a theory/debate. Though this mistake is from the show and not from you. It's the scene where Uncle is hanging with his nieces and was about to eat a slice of bread with a block of cheese. Apple Bloom(or Jade in the show) brought up his lactose intolerance. While the Dog talisman gives Uncle unlimited energy and keeps him from dying, it's not going to help his digestive system. His body would still go under the process of his consequences if he ate the sandwich since the Dog talisman doesn't cure things, that would be under the Horse talismans wheelhouse.
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Except that lactose intolerance is something that can develop as you get older, along with other digestive issues. If this is the case with Uncle, the restoration of youthful energies could restore the digestive tract to a younger state, when it could handle dairy and so on.
Alternatively, it could have made Uncle reckless enough that he decided enjoying the taste of cheese was worth the digestive upset, which would be Future Uncle's problem.
(You'll note that in both show and story, he never actually ate the cheese.)
I am kinda hoping Celestia takes an interest in Uncle and makes him young again if Jade can't find a solution.
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I know he didn't eat it but the fact he was going to brings this topic up. While having the energy of a younger person makes sense I doubt the talisman can make certain body parts younger. That's outside it's range, sounds like it would need the combination of the horse and monkey talisman to probably pull that off.
7740564
How about the fact it gives the younger attitude with "it's Future Uncle's problem"?
7740171 This story has had many crossover-like references. One early chapter has Uncle and the fillies run the shop for a day and quite a few anime characters came for ancient artifacts like the Police girl from Hellsing You know, the one with the big titties. who came for a sword once owned by Vlad the impaler, or Dracula a.k.a. Alucard.
7740564 then explain how he was able to fight Hak Fu without any bone or muscle problems.
Oh Jade oh Jade... This cannot turn out well.
Chapter Sixty Five
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"One More Thing!"
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Well. Uncle's dead.
7740512 What.
7740200 I suspect that you'd need all 12 talismans together to completely avoid side effects, though I don't really know the show well enough to back that up from the source material.
Any group smaller than the full set is going to be weak in certain aspects, which will leave openings for long-term negative effects...
7740191 ...well played sir! You truely are sansantional
7740324 all of my yes
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7740933 ...
I vote for Lyra or Bon Bon for that crossover.
The Abridged Version.
Original's okay, but ABRIDGED!
7745210 That would be amazing.
7746296 I took her out for a walk.
Alucard. That's not how you treat your kid.
My kid is a freaking pony. She loves walks! Besides, she's taking down more Nazis than the French walking backwards. Want to know how many Nazis the French took down? The negative version of my little pony. And she's doing it with friendship.
She's shooting lasers out of her horn.
And she doubles as a minigun. Tiny horses are amazing.
7747081 I totally read that in Alucard and Integra's voices.
7747081 Exactly!
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7747773
This does seem like the kind of conversation they would have.
This is all going to end in tears.
Hahahaha Does that make Audrey catnip?
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Also, just realized that Rhino hasn't been mentioned lately. Most likely dead, of course, because of their lifespans; but still, show the little fuzzbutt some more love.
7866879 Is there any other way?
I facehooved so hard,because I just realized that Mr. Mumbles is probably another name for one Mumbo who definitely has an excellent mustache.
8785605
...uh, no.
It's a reference to Dan Vs, and more specifically to the story "The Wheel and the Butterfly: A Dan X Pinkie Pie Saga" by Justice 3442. Dan's cat is named Mr. Mumbles, and putting a fake mustache on him somehow makes workers at various hotels and on planes and the like mistake him for human.
8785617
One, Mr Mumbles is a female and Two, that actually works in the show.