Friendship is Puppies, Part 1
Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Friendship is Puppies,
Part 1
One upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria. There were two regal sisters, who ruled together and created harmony for all the land. To do this, the eldest used her unicorn powers to raise the sun at dawn. The younger, brought out the moon to begin the night. Thus the two sisters maintained balance in their kingdom for their subjects, all the different types of ponies. But as time went on the younger sister became resentful. The ponies relished and played in the day her elder sister brought forth, but shunned and slept through her beautiful night. One fateful day the younger alicorn refused to lower the moon to make way for the dawn. The elder sister tried to reason with her, but the bitterness in the young ones heart, turned her into a wicked mare of darkness, Nightmare Moon. She vowed that she would shroud the land in eternal night. Reluctantly the elder sister harnessed the most powerful magic known to ponydom, The Elements of Harmony. Using the magic of the Elements of Harmony, she defeated her younger sister and banished her permanently in the moon. The elder sister took on responsibility for both sun and moon......
“........ and harmony has been maintained in Equestria ever since.” Twilight concluded looking at the book more closely.
The young lavender furred mare shifted on the grass where she lay under a tree on a small blanket so as not to damage the book she was reading by setting it on the bare grass. Her lavender fur was nearly groomed and her purple hair with a magenta stripe had been allowed to grow until it spilled over her back curling slightly at the end. It was a bit more time consuming than a shorter mane style she had wore while younger, but she wasn't deaf to the compliments her longer hair brought her while she was still dating.
The filly had filled out well as she turned into a mare, enough that even after the flood of suitors that came after Prince simply due to her sudden popularity, she had a number of young stallions who attempted to woo her with little success. She had been on other dates, though after the first few were uninteresting and a particularly pushy one was teleported into the deep snow at the top of the Manterhorn above Canterlot, she started turning all of them down in favor of focusing on her studies.
Twilight tapped the last page of the book again curiously, looking at the drawing of the Elements.
“Elements of Harmony... I know I've heard of those before.... but where...?”
Twilight moved down the path lost in her own world as she considered where she had read about those before. She had only picked that particular book because she didn't recall having read it yet. It must have been from one of the ones Princess Celestia had given her when she moved into the tower. It was decidedly an interesting read, but it was obviously written as an old pony tale. She would have disregarded it when she was younger, but she had since learned that many of the 'old pony tales' had a few grains of truth in them. This one was sticking with her harder than usual for some reason and she knew she would need to find out where she had seen the reference to the Elements of Harmony before or she would go crazy.
“There you are Twilight!”
Twilight stopped dead in her tracks blinking in confusion as her brain came back into focus now that it had to work on more than just putting her hooves down in a manner conductive to walking.
Lemon Hearts, Minuette, and Twinkleshine stood before her, all three carrying wrapped gifts. Twilight's brain quickly rolled though her mental checklist to try and figure out who the gifts might be for, her mind clicked onto Moon Dancer.
“ Moon Dancer is having a little get together in the west castle courtyard.... wanna come?” Twinkleshine grinned as did the other two.
Even if her own mind hadn't been blaring warning bells already, those smiles would have set it off.
“Oooh, uhh sorry girls.... but you know how I feel about birthday parties...... besides I've got a lot of studying to catch up on...” Twilight muttered before darting off in another direction at full gallop.
The trio looked after her and sighed.
“There is decidedly something wrong with that mare.” Lemon Hearts stated.
“I didn't realize that birthday parties were a real phobia” Minuette commented.
“It's called fragapanophobia.” Twinkleshine explained. “It's a real thing with her, according to Spike and Rahs any way.”
“At least those two said they were coming.”Minuette smiled.” I guess trying to convince her it was just a regular party wasn't gonna work.”
“I wonder how she knew it was birthday party.” Lemon Hearts considered.
The other two pondered that as well, completely oblivious to the gifts on all their backs.
Twilight raced back to her tower nodding a little as she passed Lyra and Shining Lights who waved at her.
Racing up the stairs she flung open the door, only for the door to hit something unyielding and bounce back smacking her in the face and nearly knocking her back down the stairs.
Twilight sat down hard, rubbing her nose as the door opened up and a large navy furred figure glared down at her with amber eyes, rubbing his shoulder with a paw.
“Woof!” Rahs growled.
The Moon Dog had grown a little taller in the last two years, he was at the point that if he stood on his back legs he could look Princess Celestia in the eyes, and like Celestia he towered above every other pony. On all fours he was at eye level with Twilight, and his build made him seem more the size of a particularly burly stallion.
The lankiness of his teen years was still present, but he had filled out enough that unless some one had not ever seen a Diamond Dog they wouldn't confuse him with one. His features had taken on a bit more feline aspect with his face and unlike normal Diamond Dogs his back legs, while digitigrade, were not tiny compared to the rest of him. He was well muscled, more so now than before but it was lean rather than bulk. All four of his paws were more cat like and the front two were capable of finer manipulation unless his claws were out. His ears and tail remained feline like, though his ears had gotten longer to the point Spike had joked he was part rabbit. The glowing balls of light at the end of his tail and ear tips had not brightened any, nor had they gotten any bigger or changed and most ponies never even noticed them.
He still wore pants, less because of fear now and more from utility of all the pockets he had in them. While at home he usually only wore the pants though he had a long coat that he had worn in a western style play that he had loved to the point that Broadway had given it to him. He wore the duster pretty much everywhere from that point on.
Miss Broadway had hired him on at the Celestial Theater a year ago to do odd jobs around the place, much as she had done with Shirley. Her former permanent worker had made a name for himself and quit working at the theater which allowed Rahs to step in. Rahs had considered the Royal Guard at one point, though the recruiter wasn't willing to sign in a Diamond Dog. Celestia wasn't happy with the why, which was complete political fluff, but she gave Rahs a number of alternate ideas he was considering.
“Sorry, I didn't see you there...” Twilight apologized.
“That's because it's a door not a window.” Spike chimed up from behind Rahs, the little dragon carrying a gaudily wrapped present as well.
Spike had not changed much at all aside to grow a bit taller and become nearly as smart as Twilight. He was still a pudgy little purple Dragon, but what he lacked in size he had more than made up in snark. Twilight blamed his older brothers for that. Particularly Rahs, given the fact that no one but Spike and Twilight were able to understand him when he spoke normally, Rahs didn't bother with stifling any smart ass comment that came to mind. Over the years that had an affect on her little brother as his sarcasm filter was skewed beyond repair.
At least Spike hadn't picked up any swearing. Rahs could be rude, but he still had the sense to watch his language around Spike.
“ Bark?” Rahs asked his ears perking up.
“The fire? Oh right. Spike find me that old copy of Predictions and Prophecies.” Twilight ordered getting a stare from the brothers as she raced past them looking over the book shelves filling their home.
Twilight turned to them, noting that both of them were carrying presents.” What are those for?”
“Gifts for Moon Dancer.”Spike sighed.
“Oh Spike you know we don't have time for that sort of thing.” Twilight chided looking through a stack of books.
“But we're on a break!” Spike protested.
“Woof.” Rahs countered.
“My schedule? What about my schedule?” Twilight demanded.
Rahs held up to claws.” Woof.”
“What? When did I free up two hours for a party!?!” Twilight demanded.
“When Celestia canceled all classes for this week. Which means you can at least go say Happy birthday to Moon Dancer, before you come back here and bury your nose in a book again. She really wants you to come, even if only for a little bit.” Spike grumbled. His eyes narrowed into a glare to meet Twilight's.”Oh no you don't, out of every one else around here we know what your issue is and you're never gonna get over that if you keep hiding from it.”
“I don't have time for that I need to find that book.” Twilight fussed and both Spike and Rahs rolled their eyes. Her horn lit up and she started pulling books off the shelf looking at them with a growing scowl. “ No, no, no, no...... SPIKE!!”
“Don't yell at me. I might have agreed to be your assistant for an allowance, but I'm not some slave to be ordered around.” Spike growled.” And for the record this is the third time I've had to say that. One more and I should set the library on fire just as a obvious' I quit' statement that even you would understand.”
Rahs took that moment to step between them before things became too heated between the siblings. He was far from the voice of reason, but every so often an argument would break out between two of the three of them, it happened with siblings, and it was agreed that the third would step in to stop it before things could get particularly bad. Celestia had found out once what particularly bad meant when the three of them were mad at each other for some little thing or another. The entire class room had to be rebuilt after a fire breathing Dragon, a magic immune bundle of sharp teeth and claws that was empowered by magic, and a overachieving incredibly gifted unicorn mage, got into a fight.
Twilight's spells could do nothing directly to Rahs and Spike was highly resistant to most forms of damage. Rahs' claws and teeth were not sharp or hard enough to do anything to Spike, and he couldn't bite through any shield Twilight put up. Spike's fire was easily blocked by Twilight, and he wasn't fast enough to get a hold of or hit Rahs.
The stalemate then had been broken by Celestia's intervention, but that was only after the three had been trying to batter each other with everything in the room they could get a hold of. Despite how violent it had seemed none of them had any harsher injuries than a few scuffs and a bruise or two.
Since then Celestia suggested that if two of them were arguing, the third would do their best to not get involved aside from trying to stop it from escalating no matter whose side they were on in the end. It would be easier to cool down tempers than to fund a repair bill later,or worse a hospital bill. This far the idea had stuck.
“Woof!” Rahs stated holding his paws up between the two.
“A deal?” Twilight asked looking curiously at Rahs.
“What terms?” Spike questioned his anger fading a bit..
“Grrrrr....” Rahs explained causing both of them to grumble under their breath as they thought it over, Spike was the first to agree.
“Alright fine. One hour.” Spike grumbled.” The parties not until three anyway. But you have to go, no weaseling out of it and I work ONLY an hour.”
Twilight didn't seem thrilled with the deal either though a quick glance at Rahs told her it was this or nothing. The Moon Dog had adopted his,' I'm already tired of this crap' pose, his ears flat to his head and arms crossed as he stood on two legs to look down at both of them. Both Twilight and Spike had the same pose for when the others were fighting, but Rahs was still the most physically intimidating out of the three.
“Alright fine..... so where is the book?” Twilight asked as Spike climbed up a ladder on the other side of the room.
“It's over here.” Spike called pulling it out and waving it in her direction.
Twilight's magic wrapped around the book yanking on it and pulling Spike off the ladder, the little drake still hanging onto the book. Rahs dove for and managed to catch Spike before he hit the ground, a low growl coming from his throat as and oblivious Twilight dropped all the other books she had been holding in her magic, the pile thudding down atop the Moon Dog and Dragon.
Rahs whimpered from under the pile and Spike sighed rising to begin picking up the fallen books.
“Elements, elements... e, e, e, e, e, e, ah ha...... Elements of Harmony, see mare in the moon?” Twilight stated reaching the correct section only for a redirect.
“Mare in the moon?” Spike questioned as he climbed the ladder to put the books back. “But that's just an old ponies tale.”
Twilight flipped through the pages of the book back to the M's.
“The Mare in the Moon, myth, from olden pony times.....”Twilight read.
“Olden pony times? Seriously does no one know how to put a date on things?” Spike complained. “ I mean seriously how hard it it to slap a date on something. I mean it's only 1000 AL. In a couple of days any way.”
“.. a powerful pony who wanted to rule Equestria, defeated by the Elements of Harmony and imprisoned in the moon.” Twilight continued ignoring Spike's comment.” Legend has it that on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape, and she will bring about nighttime eternal.”
Rahs listened in, handing books up to Spike though he froze suddenly, his ears perking up as he heard the story. Something was bothering him about it, but he couldn't figure out what.
“Do you two know what this means?” Twilight gasped.
“No.” Spike grumbled and Rahs shook his head catching the ladder before it wobbled to much under Spike.
“Take a note please, to the Princess.” Twilight stated her magic floating a quill and parchment over to Spike as he climbed down the ladder. Out of the three of them he had the best writing. Rahs' was barely legible on his best days and Twilight's was completely different depending on whether or not she was using her horn or mouth. As such she preferred to simply dictate to Spike, not liking the taste of quills.
“Okey dokey.” Spike shrugged, preparing to write.
“My dearest teacher, my continuing studies of pony magic have led me to discover that we are on the precipice of disaster....”
“Hold on.” Spike muttered.” Precipic......”
“Bark.” Rahs corrected Spike's spelling.
“Of disaster. Got it.” Spike stated.
“The mythical mare in the moon is in fact Nightmare Moon....
Rahs' head snapped up looking at Twilight, his ears perked high on his head. That name was maddeningly familiar to him and yet he couldn't place it. There was also something else, some sort of presence. He felt it as Twilight walked past the large time keeping device as she said the name. Did saying the name summon it's owner? Rahs shuddered
Neither Spike nor Twilight noticed their brothers discomfort as Twilight was facing away and Spike was too focused on the writing.
“And she's about to return to Equestria and bring about eternal night.” Twilight continued.”Something must be done to make sure this terrible prophecy doesn't come true. I await your quick response, your faithful student twilight Sparkle.”
“Got it.” Spike claimed.
“Great, send it” Twilight ordered.
“Now?”Spike asked.
“Of course.”
“I dunno Twilight. Princess Celestia's probably getting ready for the Summer Sun Celebration, send it the day after tomorrow. She's got to be busy.”
“That's just it Spike, the day after tomorrow is the thousandth year of the Summer Sun Celebration, It's imperative that the Princess is told right away.”
Spike submitted to the odd logic and rolled the scroll up wrapping a seal around it before breathing in deeply and incinerating the scroll with a blast of green flame.
“There, it's on it's way. But I wouldn't hold your breath.” Spike chided.
“I'm not worried Spike, the Princess trusts me. In all the years shes been my mentor she's never once doubted me.”Twilight grinned.
“Except for the toothpaste incident.” Spike grinned.
Twilight frowned.” We promised never to speak of that again.”
“You promised never to speak of it. I promised nothing. Then there was the catastrophic book fort fire.” Spike grinned.
Twilight's frown deepened.
“RAHS!!! Spike's picking on me!” Twilight called looking back to her brother, who for some reason was staring into the hourglass. “Rahs? What is it?”
The Moon dog continued to stare at the upper bulb without responding. Something that made both of them worried enough to walk over to him.
“Rahs?” Spike questioned.” You okay.”
Rahs remained silent until the last grain of sand fell from the hourglass before he turned and looked at them both with a smile that would have scared any who didn't know him.
“Woof.” Rahs chuckled.
“The hours up?” Twilight questioned only for her eyes to widen..” Oh come on it wasn't that long!”
Spike smirked as Rahs scooped up his sister and the present for Moon Dancer walking towards the door.
“Woof”
“But I'm waiting for a return letter! I can't just leave!” Twilight protested.
“Hey I'm the one who gets the letters and I'm going to Moon Dancer's party , so if you want to read it as soon as it comes you best come on.”
“This is cheating!” Twilight flailed as she's carried out the door.
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Oh I am SO going to enjoy reading about these three’s fights
This made me laugh and left me unsure if it was a mistake or intentional.
First, I really like this story so far. It's an interesting read, and Rahs's, "I am Groot," routine is pretty funny, though I am looking forward to him having a proper speaking role.
That said, I feel I must address one ongoing issue with the story: punctuation, or rather a severe lack thereof. Whenever you write long sentences, you tend to forget to add commas, colons, and semicolons in the middle of them. This makes your sentences feel rambling and run-on, even though they're actually neither of those things. For example, before:
After:
See the difference? A comma signifies a pause in the sentence, rather than a period's full stop. If you make more pauses, your story will read much more smoothly.
just make longer chapters if you want the episodes to fit in one chapter, (sans this one as I can already see that it's going to a LONG one.)
en.wikifur.com/w/images/e/e2/Digiplant.gif needs to be digitgrade. missed the t
Honestly? I'm not complaining and it's a nice change of pace.
Actually I am just DYING to know how Rah's connection to Luna/Nightmare Moon will be playing out here!
Also: SUPER curious to know if Twilight's Canterlot friends will count as Element Bearers!
so good I love this story
Yay, Twilight is going to Moondancer party!
Moondancer won't become a sad shut-in... hopefully...
Couple of slight nitpicks,
Needs a space after the comma.
Should be woo.
If I'm not mistaken isn't the mountain Canterlot is on called the Canterhorn?
Asiding that, fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/127/1/3/thor_and_mlp_meme_for_fimfic_by_ponpheonix-d64fsvg.jpg
You tell her, Spike. Also, I've noticed that the three counter each other akin to the weapon triangle of Fire Emblem.
Wow, there are already differences, this will change how things pkay out, good, nothing is worse than a reteling of the chapters without anything changing :D. Man, twilight phobia of parties is a real deal, awsome.
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when she figures out Twilight's party phobia
I just realized Pinkie Pie is not going to be happy
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There may be one or two, they are siblings after all.
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Fixed. My editors have not gotten this far yet as i write like i'm batshyt insane.
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If you've seen SiS LRG my main work that might not be a good idea. It's listed as the 83rd longest work on the site right now. At one point it was the 19th.
8493918 Yep all that is coming though it won't be explained tooo too quickly
8494454 Not much point of a word for word story. Some episodes will be lumped together in a single chapter as the three will only have bit parts that don't need to be shown as a full episode. Either that or i will shoe horn in one of the three to make it more interesting. I already have a few ideas.
8494567 actualy that exact phobia is a fear of Birthday parties. Not parties in general. It's usual connected to children who have had traumatic experiences, or elderly who have issues with the passage of time, though both can be an entirely different phobia masked as this one .
What kind of dog is Rahs and what dose he look like?
Hmmm? This is a side of Twilight I never thought I would see.
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I based him on a anthro version of redxii from final fantasy 7 crossed with a nightsaber cat from WoW.
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A bit whiney? Well she has had a different life than canon Twilight.
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So Basically Rath half dog half cat. Also is it possible see a drawing of Rath?
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and to that good sir I say https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/767839/chapter-41-to-split-or-not-to-split
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No one has drawn any thing yet and my skill set doesnt cover it well
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Oh okay thought I ask.
Great start
Given how long 'chapters' tend to be on this site¹, you're fine for length. Using multiple 'FiMFiction chapters' to hold one episode's worth of your story is fine if it lets you stay under the 5000 word mark.
I am firmly of the opinion that any chapter longer than 5000 words can, and needs, to either be edited for length or split into at least two smaller chapters.
1: 'Chapters' of ~10kwords are common and I've seen one that hit 50kwords per chapter, (bad enough on its own but they were often pointless digressions from the plot).
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Hehe well aposed to “ X moons ago “ lol
No a huge fan of "the show with additions" proffer stories that use the show as a setting and do their own thing with it. I really enjoyed the set up chapters but the jury's still out on if I'll keep reading.
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S'all i can ask for. Not every one will like the same things.
(Partially) WRONG, at least according to Google, fragapanophobia is the IRRATIONAL fear of parties, and she had a traumatic experience with a birthday party
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true but there is not anything i could find that had the 'Rational' fear of parties.Or even a basic fear of parties. Clearly pinkie came up with that one as any one afraid of parties is clearly irrational and needs help.
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A phobia is defined as an irrational fear because it robs you of the ability to respond to the fear rationally, not because the fear itself is irrational.
A very indulging read.
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I realize I am super late to the party (heh) here, but I believe the phobia you are looking for is Convivophobia-- specifically, the fear of parties. Fragapanophobia is specifically just the fear of birthdays, and since Twilight doesn't seem to have a problem with the actual date of birth and only the party on said date of birth, Convivophobia probably fits a little better. I'm not sure why I decided to chime in on a conversation that happened in '19. Sorry!
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Sokay. I still read this stuff. A lot of people just started reading.
You write siblings well.
Got to love the dynamic of the Familie of the Sparkels. Very well developed Spike for ones!
Great chapter <)
Im surprised this story get so few comments...
Remind me of another great story in work that deserve some attention
You know I don't know why this never occurred to me before but I just realized that according to the series opener The younger sister refused to lower the moon yet when the flashback later in the series shows the fight Luna turns into Nightmare Moon when she raises the moon to make an eclipse
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Im rewatching a lot of the episodes again to write and theres plotholes all over.
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Could be an error, but the story at the series opener was essentially just that; a story. An "old mares tale". Something like that, I would accept the mismatched info between that and the flashback to be believable. Flashback is as close to being there and seeing it for yourself as you can get. The flashback is what really happened.
The series opener tale was likely passed down by word of mouth for a while, details change with time, and is only as accurate as it has to be to get the jist across.
That's my take anyway.
Sound like a certain doctor I know…..
Doggo with a touch of Miau and Spike the Dragon with a actual character development. Magnificent ♡
Love the little touch with the whole hourglass thing. Little secret that most people don’t know about the first episode.
Still one of the best Spike character development of Fimfiction
This family is kick ass