Teachings of a Very Smart Cookie

by pokefreak13

Lesson One: Don't Provoke a Timberwolf

A heavenly glow engulfed the room as the sun's morning rays streamed through the window. Smart Cookie's eyes fluttered open. She yawned and rolled over to face two fillies staring at her.

Wait, what?

Smart Cookie did a double take. She was about to shout, when the events from the day before resurfaced in her mind. That was right; she did decide to take in...Luna and Celestia was it?

"Good morning!" Luna shouted.

"How many times do I have to remind you, inside voices!" Celestia exclaimed.

This is really going to be my life now, isn't it? Cookie thought to herself before sliding out of bed. Her eyes drifted to a picture of her friends and she couldn't help but chuckle. Wonder how they would've taken to this.

"Excuse me, Ms. Cookie, but what shall we do today?" Celestia asked.

"Yeah!"

Cookie tapped her muzzle. What was she suppose to do with Luna and Celestia? There was tending her family's apple orchard, but surely these alicorns would find that boring.

Luna fluttered onto Smart Cookie's back, snapping the older pony back to reality."So, what is it?"

"Well ah uh, ah was gonna check on mah apple orchard," Cookie answered.

Celestia's eyes widened. "A real orchard? Made up of real fruit trees like the ones in books?"

Cookie nodded. While she led the fillies through the living room and to the front door, she couldn't help but ponder Celestia's words. Her eyes drifted down to the snowy white filly. In all her life, Smart Cookie always believed that fruit trees of any kind were spread throughout the entire world. To never see a great oak tree or smell the citrus scent of plump oranges in the autumn, why Cookie couldn't even picture a life like that.

"Jus' outa curiosity, what kind of plants did y'all have back at home?"

Luna glided off of Cookie's head and landed on the frost covered grass. Her blue eyes beheld Cookie's, causing the mare to take a step backward. "I dunno. Mommy and Daddy didn't really let me or Tia go outside."

"Sister, stop staring," Celestia piped up.

Luna broke her gaze and mumbled a lukewarm apology.

"It's fine. But why weren't y'all allowed outside?"

The trio pushed through the field of grass, their hooves crunching against the morning frost. When Cookie looked at Luna, the filly shrugged her shoulders and with a wing, pointed to Celestia. Yet, the older sister bit her bottom lip. Cookie opened her mouth to say something, but Celestia fluffed out her wings and took off into the sky.

"Hey!" Cookie shouted. However, Celestia landed onto the nearest cloud and hunkered down, disappearing from sight.

Luna kicked at the ground. "She always gets like this whenever I ask her about Mommy and Daddy, and why we weren't allowed to do this or that!" Luna took a deep breath and threw her head to the heavens. "REAL MATURE TIA!!"

Cookie pressed her hooves against her ears. However, it proved futile to Luna's superior vocal cords. Cookie slowly uncovered her ears. It was like being in a silent film. Luna was trying to say something, but Cookie could only hear the dreadful ringing. Her heartbeat quickened. What if she becomes deaf? Cookie closed her glistening eyes. If there’re any deities out there, please don't let me be deaf. Ah promise ah'll never take hearing for granted again. Heck, if y'all somehow make it so that all I hear is Puddinghead's voice for some reason ah'll gladly take it.

When she opened her eyes, she groaned. Well, at least she thought she groaned. Luna was gone, and Celestia was flying straight for the apple trees. Cookie followed.

As Cookie entered the orchard, she perked up once she heard a low growl. It was almost completely drown out by the ringing, but at least her hearing was returning.

"Luna, Celestia? Where are y'all?"

The mare heard something rustling. She galloped deeper into the orchard. Please be fine, please be fine. Cookie's green eyes widened, and she skidded to a stop. Luna was slowly backing away from a canine-like creature made of wood while Celestia was shooting the monster with magic. However, the canine kept on rebuilding itself.

Luna noticed Smart Cookie and instantly galloped towards her.

"What the..." Cookie's eyes met Luna's, "What happened?"

"When I saw it, I thought it was a dog so I followed it. But then it tried to bite me, so I threw a rock," Luna confessed, tears streaking down her face.

Smart Cookie gently scooted Luna behind her before marching up to the Timberwolf.

"Celestia, stop," Cookie said.

The filly terminated her spell casting and flew down to meet Smart Cookie, barely missing the Timberwolf's snapping mouth.

"Are you going to banish it?" Celestia questioned.

"Somethin' like that," Cookie said before taking a step towards the Timberwolf.

"Now listen here." She plucked a stone up from the sea of grass. "This here is mah property. Leave an' ah won't harm ya. But if ya do somethin' stupid..." Cookie glared daggers at the monster.

The Timberwolf snarled, thick honey colored tree sap dripped from it's mouth. It walked towards Smart Cookie, sending small tremors throughout the earth.

"Be careful," Luna whispered.

The Timberwolf shifted its weight from side to side. Cookie licked her lips and gently tossed the rock up and down in a steady rhythm.

Then, it pounced.

Luna and Celestia shielded their eyes with their wings.

Cookie flung the rock into the air before bucking it into the Timberwolf's mouth. The creature stopped its advances and let out a gasping sound. It clawed at its throat while dry heaving, sending tree sap everywhere. The Timberwolf soon began to convulse before exploding. Twigs and logs rained down, decorating everypony's mane.

Cookie turned around and smirked. "Are y'all okay?"

Luna's eyes widened. "That was amazing!"

Celestia glared at her sister. "Still, what were you thinking? Do you know how worried I was?" Tears pricked her eyes. "If-if something happened to you..."

Luna trotted over to her sister and pulled her into a hug."I'm sorry Tia. I didn't mean to worry you."

Smart Cookie made her way to the two sisters. "Promise me y'all won't wander off without telling me."

The two sisters nodded.

"I am truly sorry."

"Y-yeah!"

Cookie rubbed Luna's head. "An' next time, warn me when ya are goanna yell like that. Ah think all of Equestria could hear ya."

Luna's face turned crimson and she immediately bowed her head. "S-sorry. Are your ears okay?"

Cookie rubbed one of her ears. "Yeah, though ah can still hear some ringing."

Celestia glanced at the Timberwolf leftovers and shivered. "Maybe we should go back to your home."

Cookie looked at the sap and twigs in her mane and chuckled. "Yeah, let's get cleaned up."

"Oh oh, do you have bubbles?" Luna piped up.

Cookie chuckled as the trio made their way out of the orchard. "Eeyup."

"Yay!"

Cookie watched as Celestia and Luna skipped and fluttered back to her cottage. Yup, this is really going to be my life now. She grinned.

Comments

[MoonlightEclipsed]

I want to see what the others say and how they react when they go over and meet the two alicorn fillies XD

[pokefreak13]

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Yup! I'm planing to have a few familiar faces show up in later chapters.