Boast Barkers Epilogue, part 2
Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
Boast Barkers
Epilogue, part 2
[Ponyville Riverside Motel]
Trixie flopped back onto her bed with a huff. This had been two weeks right out of a old tragedy, or perhaps some sort of divine comedy, in any event it had been weird. It was getting better, but still weird.
There hadn't been much left to salvage out of her wagon. A few pictures, some props, her spare hat and cape had survived, but none of her other show essentials were salvageable. She was glad to have the pictures, particularly the few hoof drawn ones given to her by foals in her travels. The only other thing of note to survive was Mr. Tibbers.
She smirked looking over at the dark blue plush cat. In truth she had been highly embarrassed that Fuzzy had been the one to recover him from the remains of her wagon. It would be the second time that the plushie had passed from Fuzzy to her. The first was when he won it for her at the festival they went to while taking a break from practice. His ceramic eye was chipped, but that would be easy to repaint.
One of the things she was most upset about losing was her stage copy of Beauty and the Beast. It had been filled with hoof written notes on her part, as well as all of the cast's signatures. It was not something that could ever be replaced. She didn't want to hate those brats, but with the loss of the book it was very hard not to. She really should have fed them to the Ursa.
The time when she got that book had perhaps been the most memorable six months of Trixie's life.
She had just turned fifteen, still had not gained her cutie mark and had returned to Canterlot when she was having the most trouble on the road with her parents.
The ridicule and teasing she had gotten when she was part of Celestia's school had left her an emotional mess. Being told you were special and important by the Princess, and then being treated like dirt by every pony your age due to jealousy or anger had ways of messing with a foal.
Her parents had told her she had once been so proud to be selected by Princess Celestia. Though that didn't last long when she was forced to attended a normal school between lessons with the Princess. The complex illusions that got her into Celestia's program were greeted with disdain by teachers and students when she had trouble doing anything else with her magic. The teasing got so bad that when the school had a talent show she jumped at the chance to prove herself.
Only when the time came for her to show her stuff, nothing went right, her tricks flopped, her magic failed and she was nearly crushed by a wagon wheel that got loose from another act, the blasted thing chasing her across the stage. The only thing that happened was she was laughed at, by every one.
She was even given an award for best comedy act.
That broke her. She refused to do anything, she got into fights over the stupidest things, attacking any one who she even thought was insulting her and refused to have anything to do with any of the teachers. Most of the time she did her best to avoid every pony, slinking off by herself to sulk, and she even stopped going to Princess Celestia's lessons no longer seeing herself as worthy.
Her parents took her to a number of specialists and she was diagnosed with Enochlophobia on top of a laundry list of other things including depression and severe anxiety.
Deciding a change of scenery was probably for the best, her parents pulled her out of school and left Canterlot. Her father was part of a traveling show and was rarely home as it was. Her mother was part of the same show though she had retired when Trixie was born in order for her daughter to have a stable life. Seeing that a stable life wasn't working, she rejoined the circus along with Trixie's father and the three of them traveled with it.
There were enough other foals in the show that a full time teacher was necessary so Trixie did get her schooling and with a smaller crowd she was able to calm down, particularly since no one knew of the failed talent show. Still she never opened up and was always considered the quiet one for the next nine years of her life.
At fifteen Trixie returned to Canterlot. She had known she wanted to entertain. She loved the idea of being on stage and she practiced with the shows magicians to the point her abilities surpassed theirs, but she could never manage to show it off. She couldn't handle the crowds. So she wrote to her Aunt Broadway for help, the mare literally lived on the stage.
Her aunt had suggested that perhaps a more structured place might be better for her, than the wide open show of the circus. And Trixie had come back to Canterlot to find out, she knew what she wanted to do, but getting there was the hard part.
She auditioned for the first play that came up, an Old Breezy tale called Beauty and the Beast. To her own horror she had done well enough to secure the position of Belle, the female lead in the play.
Thinking about being the focus of the entire audience as the main character caused her to have a freak out. When she finally came back to her senses she was wrapped in a blanket with her aunt on one side of her and a large canine creature on the other.
That was her first meeting with Fuzzy. He had helped her aunt calm Trixie down as evidently his own sister was prone to the occasional freak out as well, and he and his brother were well versed in calming her down.
Fuzzy had tried out for Gaston, but due to his not being a Pony, had been cast as the Beast instead with another pony playing the bit part of the 'cured' Beast.
She and Fuzzy had started practicing together from that point on. Along with Shirley who was playing Gaston, the three of them dedicated themselves to their parts so well that the end result of the amateur production of the play seemed more like a professional one.
It hadn't been easy to get to that point though. They had to work at breaking Trixie of her phobia which the pair simply considered as stage fright.
It had been Fuzzy who came up with the solution.
If Trixie couldn't stand up in front of a crowd, then she should masquerade as some pony who could.
All Trixie had to do was pretend to be some one else on stage, Trixie herself could hang back and ignore anything any one said about the mask, because it wasn't her it was who she was pretending to be who they were talking about and watching.
Trixie had called it dumb.
Shirley had called it advanced method acting.
Fuzzy had called it better than anything any pony else was coming up with.
In the end, it worked. Trixie’s stage fright wasn't gone, but she could be some one else who wasn't afraid, or nervous or panicky.
The pony speaking and moving was just some one guided by her, a persona. If anything happened to to the persona then it was only that character that had anything happen to them, it was not Trixie herself, just who she was pretending to be.
Fuzzy had helped her with that, but it was far from all.
The troupe had taken a break to visit a Hearth Warming festival for a bit of R&R two weeks before the show was to start.
Trixie had gotten separated from the others and run afoul of a group of colts and fillies her own age who decided that the festival was boring and picking on a blank flank was more fun.
When she ignored their words the teasing got more physical, pulling her tail flicking her ears anything to get a rise out of her.
Before she found the others Fuzzy had found her.
Had she knot known him she would have thought him some sort of monster like the teenagers did. Half of them wound up face first in a dumpster out side of a restaurant, two of the mares wound up with mangled haircuts due to his claws. They all were likely sorry they decided to pick on Trixie.
It had taken a while after that for her to calm down again, being on the verge of another freak out, though that was when Fuzzy had gotten her Mr. Tibbers. He spent more bits than the toy was worth trying to get it for her before he finally knocked over some bottles.
It had felt nice to have someone work that hard to get something for her, even though she knew he was only trying to calm her down.
When the show finally began a few weeks later The troupe put on a spectacular performance.
Trixie put herself so fully into the illusion that she was Belle that the audience and the rest of the cast fully believed it. When her father went missing, every one was worried. When the Beast rampaged, every one seemed to feel her fear. When Gaston 'killed' the Beast, her words brought the audience and many of the other actors to tears.
It was here at the height of the illusion that she was Belle that she gained her cutie mark. She was not just skilled at magical illusions, but she could fool anyone into thinking her mask was the real her to the point that she became what ponies saw.
Everything that had happened up to that point had been thanks to Fuzzy.
Trixie smirked to herself as she squirmed on the bed clutching Mr.Tibbers close as she recalled how Rahs gained the nickname she gave him.
The last kiss of the show to the cured Beast was a worrying point for her. Shirley had suggested jokingly to practice that as well, shoving Rahs at her.
Rahs had not been expecting it and crashed into her, for a brief moment their lips meeting before the Moon Dog managed to turn himself to not land on her but crash to the floor.
He and Shirley got into a fight over that, though Trixie had just remarked that his whiskers had tickled and his lips felt Fuzzy.
The nick name stuck.
Her cutie mark, her stage fright cured, and her first kiss. All at the paws of her Beast. And even now years later he was helping her out still. She didn't know if it was just her or if he was nice to every one like that.
Trixie sighed sitting up letting the stuffed cat fall back onto the pillow as she ran her hooves through her mane.
She finally got to meet Fuzzy's sister too. Certainly she had heard of Twilight Sparkle, but she had never met her. Twilight was withdrawn, smart, sharp, and rather blunt all at the same time. Still Trixie couldn't help be in awe at the mares magical prowess.
It was a pity that she needed to regard Twilight as a rival because of that.
The pair of them had struck up a conversation about some of the illusions she had used in the show. While Trixie wasn't willing to reveal all she knew some of the magical theory behind one of two of the spells she used was enough to sate the mare.
From Twilight she learned about Moon Dogs, the purple Unicorn seeming to have a deep seated obsession with finding out everything about them she could. From the talk turned lecture she found out Moon Dogs fed on magic, and Fuzzy was leaching the excess power from Twilight to feed
From this information Trixie theorized that Fuzzy would never leave his sisters side as her magic was his prime source of food. Unless a stronger power source presented itself he would always be around her.
Trixie needed to be stronger. She had to gain more magical power to become stronger than Twilight. She rather liked the mare, but in this Twilight was Trixie's rival.
Fuzzy would be hers.
And perhaps she could manage to kiss him properly this time she giggled falling onto her back on the bed kicking her hoofs in the air.
Trixie's more lewd trains of thought was cut off by a knock on the hotel door.
“Coming.” Trixie called as she slipped off the bed fully and headed to the door. She expected the Mayor with more questions, that odd insurance pony with even MORE annoying questions, or even Fuzzy coming to check up on her.
Trixie was not expecting a blonde maned, gray furred mare with bubbles for a cutie mark and unusual eyes.
“Umm, can Trixie help you?” Trixie blinked trying not to stare at the mare's odd eyes.
“Yup, can you do that magic thing you did the other day on stage with Rahs?” the Pegasus mare beamed.
“You mean this?” Trixie blinked at the odd request, forming a small sphere of magic in the air before her.
The blue Unicorn yelped as the Pegasus mare jerked forward, biting into the magic globe. The spell poofed out of existence as Trixie tried to figure out what was going on.
“Hmmmm.” the mare considered chewing the air as if she had managed a bite out of the magic before she frowned. “I don't taste anything … he lied to me.”
Trixie blinked as she was thanked, before the Pegasus fluttered off, muttering something about blueberry’s, pine-cones, and muffins.
“This town is crazy......” Trixie stated quickly closing the door.
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MORE SHIPPING!!! MORE RHAXIE!!!
adding more fuel to the fire I see, this ship pleases me (and kinda gives trixe a reason to still go after the amulet, kinda)
Honestly I root for Trixie! Go get her tiger, rawr!
The depth of her character and the meeting with Rah's, not to mention the first kiss... It would be nice. Albeit I am rather worried too. Rah's until now wasn't interested in ponies. So technically he doesn't have an interest in Trixie. I really hope Trixie can manage to get together with him, but I really fear to see that poor mare heartbroken here! 
Anyway I really liked the interpretation of that episode. It is nice that Trixie's career and income wasn't ruined, like in the canon episode. That mare was never really a villain. She only needs a hug and support!
Nice.
so Trixie want rah, but feel rah wont leave her sister cause of his need of magic, which I think rah would go with Trixie for short time, mostly cause he be worry about twilight then anything,
I can see the two of them on stage in doing plays and such together, after twilight become a princess... or open a stage house in ponyville
Thus I pray... Unlimited Ship Works.
I think Trixie is getting the wrong impression of Twilight and Rahs relationship.
If she told Twilight I can imagine after her and Spike interrogating Trixie they would help her snag Rahs.
I hope there will be many more misunderstandings between them. Maybe a town betting pool (giving Trixie AND Twilight further proof that the residents of Ponyville are crazy.)
Twilight would probably have buried Trixie under a mountain of books on illusion if she found out Trixie didn’t know the theory behind her magic tricks
Wait... Trixies magic is blueberry muffin flavored with a hint of pinecone... Blueberry... Now maybe it's just because Trixie is blue, so it's common when comparing her to a flavor, but did you give her magic a blueberry flavor because of the Evergreen Heart, Aprion's fic?
Ok so major question but erm wouldn't dark magic like sombra be poisonous to Rahas or changeling magic making him ill
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I'm sure we'll get to that explanation eventually. Nightmare Moon's magic wasn't harmful from what we know, but I can imagine evil magic just tasting nastier.
That was quite the amusing ending! <3
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I don't think Trixie can replace shining Spike and Twilight as a magic provider, but I think there could be a possible way she could get into the mix
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Depends on if he has a choice between "Eating" and "Nullifying" when he chows down, since both of those are part of Rah's ability set.
This is one genius setup you got. Trixie is not an arrogance and hateful type pony, but because she thought being magically powerful would be the way to win her crush - not about vengeance or hurt anypony. I can easily see an alternative background that would led to the Alicorn Amulet event in the future.
But I do have question... did this chapter hint Derpy can talk to Rahs or something?
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I think my idea would work, the two of them, after twilight become alicone, and stay in ponyville buy a theater and/or use the castle of friendship ballroom as a theater to put on shows and such.....
Hes setting up a reason for the alicorn amulet to be used like in the show since the reason was she felt shown up by twilight and wanted to prove she was better but now its cause she has the hots for a rather dashing moon dog and wants to be able to provide a larger amount of magic for him to eat thus hoping to achieve him staying by her side>>8618155
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The pinecone was a old joke that i never fully understood. Blueberry because it was the first muffin flavor that came to mind when when i thought of the Derpy joke.
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Well Nightmare Moon's magic Tasted like black licorice so yeah it did make him a bit ill.
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Running joke i keep mentioning. Sooo close
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"Beauty and the Bork"
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WAIFU FIGHT!!! Trixie versus Gilda!
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There's a long while before trixie comes back. Anything could happen.
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This has been done in previous chapters as well. I think it's when rahs samples the magic of a pony it temporarily creates a link allowing them to hear him, and prolonged consumption of a ponies magic produces a longer lasting connection
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Nice theory. But nothing so complex.
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No worries, just seemed to correlate to when he's sampled a ponies magic
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Think more like silent bob. I know that spoils the joke but its been over 30 chapters
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In re: the pine cone joke: basically an early brony blogger went to one of the frist Brony cons and asked all the artists at the artist alley for Trixie eating pine cones for his sketchbook. Enough artists posted the requests on their own blogs that it became a recurring meme.
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...anyway great chapter! I'll be honest I'm still looking for just a liiiiitle bit of romance but i like where the story is going regardless.
1- something tells me trix is completely missing the point of the connection Rahs has that feeds him excess magic.... not something you can switch just cause someone else is stronger.
2- LOL derpy xD
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Now I am even more worried for a heartbroken Trixie.
You have given the ship ammunition for it's party cannon! We shall see it sail!
Will you be placing more refrences to old shows in the story? A Lion King refernce or a Alvin and the Chipmunks refernce would be nice!
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I drop all sorts of things in my stories. It's like a where's waldo of pop culture nonsense some times.
Dude. A yandere Trixie driven to acquiring the Alicorn Amulet from Season 3 all for the sake of desperate love...
Now that's beautiful.
So, yeah, I realize this comment is coming in reeeally late, but I haven't had access to my computer for a while and Fimfic has adopted some kind of update that boogers with my phone and they still haven't answered back why.
That said, I love love LOVE what you did with the arc
! Perfect setup for Trixie's return, adorable crush and back story for later drama
. My favorite part was the punishment. If you took an Abrams joyriding through a city street, you would be arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. It wouldn't matter if you didn't mean harm, hurt no one, and/or you were just a stupid kid. The act alone would cause a wide enough panic to warrant the charges. That's why, even for a children's show, I was baffled and disappointed by the punishment for those two idiots deliberately luring a dangerous animal to town for their own amusement. Make them work with clean up crew, year-long community service, heck, even a thousand or so sentences on a chalkboard but...Moustaches?! Seriously!?! Worse, moustaches they think look cool
. They had the crowd laughing but I would be going Yaay. Whoo cute moment. Now who's fixing my property damage?
But your blacklist? Beautiful. It fit in an Equestrian setting of not too harsh, worked well with Pinkie's scary...well, Pinkieness
...and served as an effective punishment. Heck, that might work in real life as a punishment and scare adults into behaving. Have you lived in a small town? If you don't have something locally, you're talking an hour(s) long commute or doing without. The idea anyone could have that kind of pull with local business...*shivers*
Also...
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If this has anything to do with one of my earlier comments...thank you for taking it as it was meant
- constructive criticism. Most authors like a some cc, some honesty, or even just a little friendly debate. Some though...well, those weren't fun times. All the same, glad to see you can recognize when someone just enjoys your story and wants to see it at its best.
So Spike is no longer crushing on Rarity
Twilight has a thing for Big Mac
Rahs has a passing interest in Gilda because he doesn’t see her as prey
And Trixie has had a crush on Rahs sense she was 15.
How many more love interests and were is this delicious train wreck heading.
Put on your Captains hat on Cadence, there are ships inbound.
Well Trixie has a reason for that amulet now
TwiMac
Rahxie
For the shippers. >:3
a compliment and a not quite but almost a compliment
This is one of the most charming, down to earth fics ive seen on this site.
Glancing at the sequels, that changes a bit but still. I love this fic, its so cute and bubbly and makes me wanna snuggle rahs.
Not quite compliment
I love seeing how your style and quality of writing improves, a lot of fics its slow going but you're picking stuff up quick
Heheh, I'm sure
9502522 Stop following me...or am I following ya? The world may never know. But anyways I see ya on almost every fic I read! Must mean we enjoy a lot of the same stuff.
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Yesss! I ship em hard! The fleet is about to engage in fireworks out of all canons ♡
Cadance: True, true loveeee~♡ The Puppys will be so cute
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Apparently nobody has been listening to twilight when she explained about moon dogs
I think Derpy overlooked the 'ability to eat magic' part.
Welcome to the most normal day in your life around a Sparkle Miss Trixie
GOD DAMN DID NOT EXPECT THAT!
YESSS! MORE PUPPYSSSSS! Go for it Trixie
♡