…... barking all the time......
Twilight Gets a Puppy
By TDR
…... barking all the time......
“....bork bork bork bork bork.....”
Cadence looked down at the gray furred canine bouncing around her hooves, barking at her as she attempted to heat up the dinner that was left for them on the stove. Spike was already making a mess in his mashed carrot and ruby dinner. At least that was expected of a baby.
“What is he doing?” Cadence asked as she looked over at Twilight. The filly didn't respond for a moment as she had her face buried in a book, though at least she was at the table finally and out of the dragon costume. Cadence had far less luck getting all the tinfoil off Rahs, though his bouncing and barking had shed most of it all over the floor at this point.
“He is attempting to do you a frighten.” Twilight responded.
“What?”
“One of my books has pictures of dogs and cats with silly captions of what the animals are supposed to be saying. It's funny, but Rahs doesn't talk that way.” Twilight explained before burying her nose back in her book.
Cadence considered that bit of information for a moment before, letting it go. Aunt Celestia had told her that the pair were connected magically some how.
“Well can you let him know that I'm not going to hurt any one and he doesn't need to bark at me so much?” Cadence sighed.
“He knows. He just wants Miss Peace Lily back. He liked her. She tasted like cats.” Twilight offered sticking her tongue out at the mental image.
Cadence regarded Rahs as he continued to act like a windup toy, bouncing about and barking each time he landed.
She had never seen a Diamond Dog like this one and the glowing points of his ears and tail were a bit unnerving for some reason. As was the mass of sharp teeth he had, so far at least he had not done anything but be noisy.
The pink alicorn sighed and moved over to the refrigerator and pulled a unopened container marked 'Rahs' food' out setting it on the counter as she set another pot out to heat it up with. This of course immediately drew the pups attention and he sat perfectly still his tail wagging hard enough that it slid his butt against the floor as he stared up at Cadence as she warmed the odd looking mess on the stove wincing at the scent.
“What is this? Bleh.” Cadence grumbled.
“Chicken I think.” Twilight stated from behind her book.
“Eeew....” Cadence winced.”How could anyone eat this?”
“Ponies can eat meat. There are a number of stories where survival depended on it. Still with the designs of our molars and how our digestive tracks work it's not the best thing for us, but those who develop a taste for it can eventually get used to it. It does contain a number of nutrients like vitamins A, B, D and K as well as copper, chromium, folic acid,iron, magnesium, potassium, selenium and zinc. “Twilight explained. “And that's just red meat, fish and chicken have a whole differing sort of nutritional spread. From my understanding fish has a very salty taste which a number of ponies like.”
Cadence had been staring at Twilight as she listed of this rather macabre bit of information. Rahs mean while had been jumping up and down again and was getting more and more annoyed that the new sitter was just holding his dish of food in her magic just out of his reach. As such he started jumping up even harder, his teeth snapping at the hovering dish at the arc of each jump. When that failed he started making grabbing motions with his fore claws at the apex of each jump.
Cadence took note of this and surprisingly just lifted the dish higher out of his reach barely batting an eye at the gnashing teeth or waving claws of the pup.
“Does he eat at the table?” Cadence asked.
“Moms been trying to teach him to do that, but his paws are still to stubby to hold utensils and he makes a bigger mess than Spike.” Twilight responded. “Mom usually feeds him on the mat over there by his water bowl. She says it feels weird feeding him like an actual dog, but he doesn't seem to mind.”
Cadence made a note of this and set the bowl of chicken on the mat as Twilight said only to wince as Rahs flew through the air and crash landed half in the bowl snapping up the diced 'cordon bleu' slinging little bits about him as he gobbled.
“ Alright it's time for your dinner, so put the book away and eat.” Cadence stated setting a warmed dish of vegetable spaghetti before the small purple unicorn.
“But I’m just getting to the good part!” Twilight whined.
“Rule thirty three of your moms list says no books at the table.” Cadence stated tilting her head to glance at the spine of the book her eyes narrowing.” I'm sure what ever story in....... beginning thermodynamics can wait until later. Your pasta is getting cold now.”
“Awwwwwwww....”
Dinner was surprisingly quick. Rahs nearly choked twice with the way he wolfed down his food, his head and paws getting coated in the foul smelling stuff. Twilight ate quickly as well, though that was clearly because she wanted to get back to her book. Granted the way she slurped up the pasta left that side of the table splattered in sauce and the red mess speckled the purple filly. Cadence was quite glad she had pulled the book away as it would have been covered with pasta sauce. Or maybe leaving it close would have made her eat more carefully.
The pink mare briefly wondered if Twilight had been picking up some manners from Rahs. Of the three of them Spike was the cleanest eater, and the baby dragon mashed anything put in front of him to paste before licking it off his claws.
Spike finished first and Cadence picked him up carrying him to the sink as he burped making sure to aim him away from her while the other two continued to eat. She ran some warm water in the sink as she plugged it leaving a little bit of water for Spike to play in as she ran water in the other side of the sink and picked up the cleaning supplies she had brought down to start washing the baby Dragon. The little lizard splashed in the water and giggled like crazy only fighting as Cadence used a rag to wipe off his face, and that protest was cut short as Cadence used her magic to make a few bubbles in the soap float around him. This was more than enough distraction for the baby and he spent the rest of the bath cooing, giggling, and swatting at bubbles.
“Alright let's get you dried off.” Cadence smirked pulling him out of the sink and setting him on a towel rubbing it over his smooth scales, the purple and green seeming to shine from the washing. “ Once we get you all set we'll give your brother and sister a bath and then you can play............ what?”
Cadence perked her ears as she turned back around. As she gave Spike a bath the room had still been filled with the noise of Twilight slurping up her pasta and Rahs licking the last few drips of his dinner out of his bowl, pushing it across the floor as he did so. Then it all went silent.
Looking around Cadence now saw she was alone in the room with Spike. Confused for a moment she recalled number 56 on the list.
'Never say the word bath around Twilight and Rahs.'
“Crud.” Cadence grumbled as Spike laughed.
Cadence sighed as she placed Spike in a playpen in the living room with a few blocks and a couple of the shiny objects she had brought with her. Spike oddly seemed disinterested in the glass marbles, though Cadence was more concerned with finding the other two than the baby Dragon not liking what she brought for him.
Cadence started searching the house looking for Twilight and Rahs. She first walked around the down stairs. Kitchen, unused dining room / library, living room / library, down stairs bathroom / library. Sitting room/ library, Night lights sitting room, locked and dead bolted from the outside with a note at about Twilight's eye level informing her not to try to enter 'or else'.
Heading back into the living room to check on Spike, she then headed upstairs to check those rooms. Hall/ library, a guest bedroom/ library, twilight's room / library, main bathroom, parents room, a locked room with a padlock on the outside out of of a fillies reach covered in band posters, and note like downstairs a locked study with the note as well, and a library/ library.
“I am sensing a trend here.” Cadence grumbled not really surprised she didn't find them with this light search. Clearly these two had advanced beyond a normal foals hide and seek.
“Twilight. Rahs... come out ,come out, where ever you are, you can't want to stay dirty, you'll mess up any books you touch and never be able to read again...” Cadence called. A gasp from down stairs put a grin on Cadence's face as she darted down into the living room, finding it empty, She knew they were down here now.
A giggle from Spike drew her attention to the baby dragon and a frown to her face.
Spike sat where she had put him still playing with blocks, though he was wearing what remained of Twilight's dinner on his head like a wig and was covered in pasta sauce.
“Ooh that's cheating.” Cadence grumbled picking up Spike again for his second bath.
With Spike clean once again and safely placed on her back to avoid a repeat Cadence again set out to find the pair. Figuring they had ample time to hide now Cadence checked each room again starting from up stairs and working down. Not finding them upstairs she set a small alarm spell on the stairs before heading down to hunt for them again. She checked under the tables, behind the couch and in all the closets with little to no luck, though she did find another library in the hall closet, she wasn't even going to ask. As she went back into the kitchen again she noticed something. A small sauce stain on the wall in a the shape of a hoof. She moved over to it grabbing a paper towel in her spell and wiping it, seeing that it easily came off and was clearly fresh. She blinked at it curiously wondering how it had gotten so high on the wall from such a little filly.
Spike giggling on her back drew her attention to him as the little Dragon squealed and looked up at the ceiling. Looking up herself she saw a small purple Unicorn, horn glowing stuck to the ceiling up by the light.
“Traitor.”Twilight hissed at Spike only for the baby Dragon to giggle even more.
Cadence sighed, plucking the purple Unicorn from the ceiling with her magic, disrupting the spider climb spell the filly was performing and holding the flailing spaghetti covered filly in the air.
“Save me Rahs!” Twilight called.
“Woof.” came a hollow sounding reply.
“What do you mean no!?” Twilight flailed.
“Woof!” Rahs responded.
“And I dun want a bath either but I got caught and I'm not gonna go alone.”
“Grrr.”
“Don't you take that tone with me.” Twilight whined.
Cadence in the meantime had been listening to the barks and had made her way over to the refrigerator. Opening it showed nothing but food so she looked under it,nothing, and then moved to lean over the counter to look behind it.
Wedged between the wall and the back of the fridge was a very flat looking puppy who was covered in months of accumulated dust that had gathered in the hard to clean place as well as the food he had eaten earlier.
Amber eyes met her pink ones and Rahs smiled sheepishly, wagging his tail a little before Cadence grabbed him in her magic by the scruff of the neck pulling him out of his hiding spot.
“You can't blame me for turning you in, she found you herself.” Twilight chided.
“Woof.”
“I didn't make you keep talking.”
The dust and food covered Moon Dog whined as he was held in the air. Twilight floated there in the pink glow pouting. Cadence grumbled at the pair under her breath. And Spike giggled like mad from Cadences back at his family members floating above him.
Spike sat on the floor of the bathroom as Cadence worked the shampoo into Twilight's mane.
“Close your eyes now, you don't want to get soap in them.” Cadence muttered to the still pouting Twilight.
“I dun wanna....AHH AHHGGGHHH MY EYE AHHH I'M BEING KILT!” Twilight cried out flailing splashing water all over Cadence.
Not that it mattered much to the already soaked alicorn. The canine currently sulking on the other side of the tub was the cause of most of it. You would think he was a cat with the way he flailed and flipped the moment a paw even touched the water. Cadence had to refill the tub twice just from his thrashing about emptying it, and then a third time as the water turned gray from all the dust his fur had collected behind the fridge.
This of course meant that she had used just about every towel in the bathroom just to deal with all the water on the floor.
Twilight had been little better. The purple Unicorn was seven and clearly should have known better, though as Cadence moved to set her in the tub the gifted Unicorn filly had gathered all the water up in her magic and moved it out of her way so she wouldn't get wet. Several attempts by Cadence to dunk the mare were foiled as the water always wound up where Twilight wasn't.
Before Cadence could do anything however Rahs solved the problem by slapping his wet tail against Twilight's face disrupting her spell and causing all the water in the tub to slosh back and soak the filly. Cadence again was drenched by it too, but she had given up knowing what dry was.
At least for the moment, the baths looked like they would be done soon.
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♫ Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue,
Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn bork! bork! bork! ♪
It's funny, isn't it? Dogs love to swim, but hate to be bathed. My last one was downright terrified of it. He'd come out of the experience shaking like a leaf, every single time.
I never could figure out why.
8422465 SO MUCH YES!
And the laughing started
laughing just intensified
was wondering when Caddy would figure that out.
Older brother, so it was obvious
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It was hilarious, really. Throw him in a river and suddenly, you've got an undercover sea dog on your hands. Toss a bit of soap after him, though? OH GOD NO IT'S MELTING ME AAAAAAAGHBARKBARK
8422511 Mica was horrified by wet! Dew kept her out of the grass when I let her out to do her thing. You could scald her with hot water and she’d still be shivering and chattering her teeth by the end of the bath and trying to give you that look of “why do you try to kill me?”
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It's adorable, isn't it? Dogs are the best thing. I really want to get another, but my current lifestyle (and cat) just wouldn't allow for it.
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Pretty much an all round animal person that prefers cats!
But wont turn down snuggling a fluffy anything!
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I'm actually a fan of rats, myself. They're smart as hell, much more loving and affectionate than you'd think, and don't require much in the way of expenses.
They live only for two years or so, though, and that gets hard on you after a while... so I've stopped keeping them.
Don't fret over the meager amount of down votes but maybe some people didn't like how you initially presented the story? I didn't say anything because I wanted to make sure and see where the story went first before I said anything but by the time I finished reading chapter 2 I found myself asking myself. Is there going to be dialogue in this story? or is the story going to be completely depicted through Celestia's journal entries?
Of course I'm glad the story marched in past the diary entries but maybe it would be better if you condensed it somehow? Those diary entries feel out of place past the prologue in my opinion.
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I am highly amused this turned into a discussion of pets.
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The whole first part here was going to be all journal, but i wanted the first meeting of Cady and the fluff-kateeirs[ still not finding anything rolling off the tongue] to happen.
The entries also serve to show what's behind the political mask Celestia wears. Because outside of that she's still the stoic unflappable Celestia.
I'm not sweating the downvotes, it's i just wanna know why is all.
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Not the reference i intended, but still funny.
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Well, it really kind of suggests itself. So long as you don't mind, it's all good.
Filly Twilight bath time.
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Question, does TDR stand for Tiny Dark Rabbit?
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Close its for The Dark Rabbit.
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Can I just say that is an awesome name?
Also totally with you on the whole, dislike please tell why.
Twilight's aversion to bath makes me want a scene where Celestia complains to Night Light about Twilight's body odor.
Celestia: "Good morning, student... (gags)
Sweet mother of me what is that smell?!?!"
"Will to live... fading... fading..."
Twilight: (reeking of B.O.) "Good morning, Princess Celestia."
Celestia:
I'm enjoy the this story
You have to use the word 'Spa' instead of bath, darling.
Every chapter get a giggle out of me
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say the frequent grammar issues and homonym/close homonym mistakes are at least a part of it. But I'll probably just refrain from ticking either up or down due to that, myself.
I also notice that you make a mistake many folks do when going the "journal entry" route: they don't write it the way someone would actually write addressing a journal.
Calling something a journal entry doesn't magically grant carte blanche for serving up a big, steaming pile of exposition. You still need to weave it into the narrative in a way that doesn't scream "I AM EXPOSING HAHAHA" at the reader and disrupt the story.
I do realize, it's easier to say that than to actually do it. Good luck!
Another excellent chapter! It's good to see some character growth with Rahs
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I shall have to keep that in mind. thank you for the input, lets see if i can figure out how to use it properly.
she's found THE MEMES.
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Do you want the heat death of the universe Cadence? Cause that's how you get entropy!
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Spa sappin ma Sentry!
Wait what, since when did Cadance have green eyes
... did Chryssy already replace her 
For that you gain a bonus point.
HA! I'm your 999 like. XD
Hmmm, I think there might be a tiger, potentially of the stuffed variety, lurking nearby.
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is that a calvin and hobbes reference?
Ice cream fun!
Nay, you got it wrong, it's: "Bork, bork, nom, nom!"
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I always wondered how you spell what the Chef said. Thank you.
Glorious chaos.
10094191 Fellow viewer of Donut Operator?
What 34
No bad guys needed for the adventure that is everyday life with unicorn fillys, dragon hatchlings and Moon puppy
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Discord approved im sure 👍
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Huh Nice? Em... Context?
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Its Rahs kinda a tiger-dog/kitten?
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1872
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Reminds me of horse videos eating birds hole...
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Absolutly Priceless
Presley
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Also love the banter between Twi and Rahs
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Pretty sure that a wet job is associated with something else usually
Knowing what happens up to season six one really is in awe how the story evolved with time ♡
Cadance should get a knighthood added to her titels, she fight valiantly against impossible odds!
My deepest respect for that version of Cadance, it's is well done and shows how tough a cookie she is