Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 3
By TDR
That's no Moon Dog.
Season 3 Epilogue One
[ Two weeks after the God's council, Canterlot Mid summer, one week after the Sparkle's three years in Ponyville party. ]
Twilight Sparkle sat at the table taking notes as Princess Luna and Princess Celestia explained everything they knew about being a god. Cadence sat across from the pair, closer to Twilight, adding her own input on certain things. Some of it Twilight already knew though from older lessons with Celestia.
She was immortal now, and nothing short of the destruction of all of her portfolios would kill her. Twilight was fine with this because she wouldn't want to live in a world without books anyway.
She could still be injured or contained, but the former wouldn't last and the latter was difficult.
Most of the discussion was about the council, which was little more than a regulatory group for the collected gods in case of disagreements. The heads of the council were usually the oldest gods, though they could pass on the position if they wanted like Discord and Celestia and Luna's mother had. Iinii, the Fates, and Aqua had been the heads of the council almost as long as Celestia had been a god. The group also kept track of territory disputes, portfolio issues, and any violations of terms agreed upon.
Twilight segued that into bringing up the buffalo's claim to the land around Appleoosa and started up an argument between Luna and Celestia about who had the rights to the land. Twilight was rather glad she hadn't involved them in the issue when it was relevant.
Cadence thankfully got them moving along track again.
There talked about making Twilight a proper Princess with a coronation and such, Twilight flat out refused that, going so far as to cover her ears and scream 'La la la la' until the trio got the hint she wasn't interested.
They finally gave up fully when Twilight refused the offer of a increased stipend she could use to buy books with.
They had just finished a lovely lunch that the kitchen staff had brought up for them and Luna was feeding grapes to her pet opossum Tiberius, when Celestia broached another subject.
“Twilight. Might I suggest something to you, on a more personal note.” Celestia stated.
“Oh good, I was wondering if we were going to have this argument today.” Cadence added in chipperly.
“Can I at least say it before you bite my head off Cadence?” Celestia rolled her eyes.
“What are you talking about?” Twilight asked and even Luna looked a little confused.
“Well there is no delicate way to really put this, but I would suggest to you that you cease your relationship with Big Mac of the Apples.” Celestia explained. “Especially if you are serious about your relationship with him.
“What?” Twilight blinked her ears flattening to her head.
“And there it is.” Cadence offered snidely.
“Twilight. You are effectively immortal now. And Big Mac is not. You will remain young and he will wither and die before you.”Celestia stated sadly.”I would like to spare you that so soon in your new life....”
“By telling her to give up all her wonderful todays just because tomorrow might suck.” Cadence snapped.
“There are others out there, Gods and Demi gods whom you could find a happiness with.” Celestia offered.
“Like you and Discord? Or Sunsets mother, a married mare you had an affair with?” Cadence narrowed her eyes. “You're the last pony any one needs to go to for relationship advice.”
Luna's ears remained flattened to her head as she stroked Tiberius' back. “We have to agree with our sister on this. Red Mesa was a wonderful stallion.... but it barely seemed an eye blink before he was gone.”
Cadence didn't respond to that, for a moment silence settled over the table, save for the sound of Tiberius slurping up all the leftovers.
“And would you have given up that bit of time if you had the chance?” Cadence finally asked.
“Yes.... but at the same time.... no.” Luna sighed.
“So gods are just destined to be alone unless they sleep around a lot or only date other gods?” Twilight frowned.
“Well... you could always take a familiar... Philomena helped me get through the last thousand years...”Celestia sighed.
“We were replaced by a bird... lovely.”Luna sighed.
“You could always make Owlowiscious your familier if he is willing.” Celestia offered. “Or any other animal of your choosing, like Tiberius here.”
“Tibbers thanks you for getting his name right for once instead of just screaming and fleeing.”Luna nodded sagely as Tiberius squeaked.
“So I can have a exotic bird or Equestria's only marsupial?”Twilight asked. “Much as I like Owlowiscious, that's rather limited.”
“Tibbers is a marsupial? But he does not have a pouch!?”Luna questioned picking up the chubby little opposum.
“That's because he's a male.” Twilight sighed.
“Wonderus. We asked him to be our familiar because he was adorable and Tia couldn't stand him. We thought him a large rat.” Luna smiled holding Tiberius closer to Celestia who leaned away from him in her chair.
“I really wish you had gone with those two Corgi puppies like you first thought.” Celestia muttered.
“Wait you can have two familiars?” Twilight blinked.
“We are not quite sure there is a limit. Iinii had a pack of winter wolves as his familiars at one time in the past, though eventually they all grew tired and wished to move on so he released them from their bond to live out their lives as mortals again.” Luna stated. “We know another god who had numerous cats.”
“Great she can be a crazy cat mare.” Cadence frowned.
“I don't like cats.” Twilight muttered. “Seeing animal versions of something like my brother is a little disturbing.”
“Just because you two are dateless on Saturday nights doesn't mean we have to be.” Cadence snapped ignoring Twilight.
“We have discovered the club scene my pinkest niece, we are hardly alone on Saturday nights.” Luna chuckled.
“Really? You'll have to invite me out with you one of these days.” Celestia stated.
“We would prefer not to. We are building our reputation back up as the fun one at the various club scenes in my night. Bringing in the motherly sun goddess whose ideas of fun are a calming tea and the crossword puzzle does not strike me as something the club goers would be alright with.”
Twilight seemed lost in thought as the two started bickering again. ”Alright so any animal can become a familiar? A magical beast, a regular mammal, a marsupial, and I'm pretty sure Discord has a pet butterfly named Lorenz.”
“Of course he does.” Celestia sighed.” Also yes.”
“So does making them a familiar actually make them immortal as well or am I just training to get used to things dying around me”Twilight demanded. “ Because I learned that lesson when I learned how to feed Rahs and in my study of Parasprite biology.”
“No of course not, Phillomenia might be an odd example as Phoenix's in the wild tend to be immortal unless killed by one of their natural predators, recall your studies on summoners when you were trying to understand the link between yourself and your brothers. The spell used to make a familiar for a god is based on that, although the bond between the caster and the target is much more open. Your familiar will gain immortality, a more robust body, increased intelligence, and it will often develop powers based on your portfolio.” Celestia explained.
“Tibbers can dream walk and manipulate darkness. He was already such a clever little thing to begin with, managing to sneak into the cake vault and eat twice his weight in cake.”Luna smiled, nuzzling against the opposum who hissed a little, patting the alicorn on the nose with a paw.
“Yes.... clever.... and lucky some pony else found him first.” Celestia grumbled glaring at Tiberius who stuck his tongue out at her in return..
Twilight considered. “Do you have a copy of the spell?”
“Of course.” Celestia offered, her horn flaring and a scroll popped into being before Twilight. “ It requires a little bit of prep time and some fairly exotic components, but nothing outlandish.
Twilight opened the scroll reading it over curiously.
“So just to be clear, any sort of mammal is on the table for a familiar?” Twilight asked again.
“Yes.” Celestia agreed with a nod. “Aqua had a whale for a time.”
“So if I wanted to have a pig or a Sika, I could?” Twilight asked.
“I believe so yes.” Celestia frowned wondering about this line of questioning.”I don't know any gods who have had pigs, but the Elk god Dogwood had a Sika. Of course he was using it to lord over the other elk at the time that he was using one of their lesser cousins as a pet. That lasted a few hundred years before the Elk had enough of his bullshit and nailed him to a tree. He eventually gave up his powers just so he could die and be done with the pain, though by that point there was a whole culture of guardians watching the tree to make sure he stayed put. The tradition continues and the current Elk god just stays out of their business and lets them come to her if there's an issue....”
“So what's to stop me from making another pony my familiar? Twilight offered finally.
“ What?” Luna demanded as Celestia twitched mid explanation.
“Honestly a pony is just a highly evolved mammal, not unlike a pig or a Sika deer. While neither of those two are what anyone would consider sapient they are intelligent and some have been known to mimic speech like a parrot. A pony is just one step up from that and unlike an animal who might freak out when first bonded with, a pony would be awake and aware enough to tell you yes or no, thus taking care of any sort of trauma that the spell might caused by uplifting something without a higher thought process or even a concept of mortality.” Twilight considered.
“But the spell can't do that...” Celestia protested.
“Have you tried?” Twilight asked looking to the three of them.”Judging by your fish impersonations I would say no.”
Twilight's horn glowed as she picked up Tiberius. The opossum hissing in annoyance as Twilight's spell pulled him away from his meal while she scanned him over.
“This spell is rather complex... traces of ritual magic, blood magic, and necromancy?”Twilight focused with a small frown.
“The blood magic is the bonding agent while the necromancy is there to ensure cell death is staved off.” Celestia explained.”Most summon spells involve one or the other which is why summoners are rare and necromancers non existent.”
“Interesting.” Twilight hummed to herself a she set Tiberius back down.
“So can you do it?” Cadence asked leaning a little closer.
“I'll need to research this further, as while I looked into necromancy, I've not studied blood magic, but I don't see why not. It's not too different from the link between myself and my brothers. There's a constant feeding line of energy connecting Tiberius to Luna like a standard summoners bond. It's slight but noticeable. That would probably get bigger depending on the size and draw of the creature in question. Still I could probably make a score of ponies my familiars before I'd have issues with normal spells and that's just with the spell as it is.” Twilight considered.”There's plenty of room for refinement.”
“I wouldn't worry about Shining then if you can get this to work. I rather want to see what happens if he has something out of my portfolio.” Cadence nearly purred “How long do you think it would take to be sure.”
“I'd have to run some tests, but maybe a few months for preliminaries and proper testing on volunteers.” Twilight considered as Cadence helped her up off her chair and guided her towards the doors.
“Well lets get started right away, I am very interested in getting a copy of all your notes on this as well.” Cadence grinned practically hopping.
Luna and Celestia watched them leave simply starring.
“The goddess of magic every pony.” Celestia muttered. “Why did we never consider this Lulu?”
“Our mother told us it only worked on animals when she taught it to us.” Luna frowned.
“Our mother.....”
“Yes.”
“The mare who never stayed with one lover longer than twenty years before she got bored with them?” Celestia asked.
“Yes.” Luna agreed.
“Told us it only worked on animals, and not other ponies.”
“Yes.”
“I want a copy of her notes too.” Celestia stated looking to the door the pair had exited..
“Verily.”
Nice chapter but got to confess Royally pissed on how you just basically skipped EG utterly in such a manner.
Yeah I get it why you did it, but still felt lazy, and overly fast to me.
Oh by the way you skipped the sirens what happened to them?
Gods are just like opossums. They like to eat, sleep, and to not check if they can make others immortal. At least the good opossums are cute.
Gods are cool too I guess, but they could really choose to be more intelligent like the opossums.
for a great story full of fun and drama
Okay, I absolutely love this twist on the "Immortal/Mortal" lovers thing.
"Why can't a (member of same species) be a familiar? They're just a highly evolved animal."
Huh. With the talk of how many ponies she can make her familiar without running into casting issues, is this how she plans to make her friends immortal like her? Also, is it anything like the link she has with Rahs, and that Rahs has with Spike and Shining?
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There were serveral hints as what happened with them in the last few chapters
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The sirens saw which way the wind was blowing and deiced to NOPE the buck out of there and say it is safer in the EG world with tacos.
Gotta love the younger generations! They can get so very clever with new ideas and not be stuck upon old outdated ideas.
Go Twilight! Goddess of Magic for the win!
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They went through the mirror, then Sonata dug out the mirror from the debris, propped it up against the statue, and called out where it was while people were looking for it.
Sonata deserves to be recognized as the god of sirens, just because she's a decent person.
A plot device which lets gods make other characters immortal, with maybe the potential to increase it to a measurable percentage of the population, combined with a segment on whether love is worth it if your partner will eventually die? I think I can already see the immortality morality based flame war from here .
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That was Aira
Well, for one, YOU are not the Goddess of Magic, Twilight is.
Wait, who's Philodendron? Philomena's previous iteration?
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If they'd stayed in the EQG universe they wouldn't have sent Discord a letter asking for backdated birthday presents.
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Twilight also has Spike (a brilliant O&O DM) as a brother. I don't know who he games with, but from what we've been told they're capable of some very out-of-the-box thinking. He did, after all, manage to talk Celestia down from attempting to kill Applejack when she was first infected with the Witch Wolf thing.
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Phillodendrin is a stupid spell check not accepting change all
that was highly amusing.. and I love how they realized that their mother, who obviously has commitment issues, Might have lied to them just so she could justify being an immortal whore.
How else do you describe someone who leaves someone they are sleeping with just because they are bored of them.
Edit: So how long until we start unravelling how many other things Dumbass the Unshaven... I mean Starswirl the Bearded, tossed into a/the Mirror Portal to 'deal' with them.
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A standard greek god?
Granted....mostly Zeus.
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Nah, with Zues, it was mostly Not getting Laid By Hera and then finding some mortal that reminded him of her during the Honeymoon phase.
I believe you meant, “segued.” “Segway” is a made-up homophone (and thus a trademarkable word like “Verizon,” “Truvia,” “Advil,” “Kodak,” etc.) specifically invented for Dean Kamen’s original self-balancing personal transporter based on technology his firm developed for the iBOT wheelchair.
I was wondering if THAT was what Twilight was going for half way through the chapter considering her line of questioning and even more obvious that Caddy would want the notes if it were a viable approach.
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Aaaaand “Phillodendrin” sounds like a botanical anti-dandruff shampoo and pain reliever.
Wow the end of season three...your stories are really good and I know you are probably going to be on a break for a bit but if there is going to be a season four any ideas on the starting date sorry if this sounds pushy I've just really enjoyed your series
What if you made him the familiar of not just you but Chryssie as well
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Ive got one more chapter of this. Season 4 will be out first of the year
I can see why I would too at this point
Still a testament to how tough ponies in Ponyville are to survive 3 years of uninhibited Sparkle Siblings.
Yup, that's Twilight!
Yup, that's Twilight.
I can't decide if this bit is another jab at Celestia, an example of Twilight being extra smart and genre savvy, a way around the whole "Twilight will outlive her friends" thing, or all of the above.
i wonder who they mother was or is????
Somehow that doesn't surprise me
That's how you know she's serious.
Tiberius best possum
Hey, ponies are mammals ;p
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Chrysalis is immortal, she wouldn't need to be
Soooooo in other words twiggles (nickname I read in another fic for twilight and just felt it would sound funny for rn) just figured out how to make the others immortal if they wanted to npw I'm just wondering how exactly the talk to the family about I've been given a option of immortality should I take it would go
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You misunderstanding, I meant: Make Shining Armor the familiar of both Cadance and Chrysalis
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Both their parents are gods, they're all gods too already.
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I have yet to see anywhere that 2 gods getting together Results in another God. Saturnia I think has been stated to only be a Demigod and both her parents are Gods.
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Saturnia is only a demigod because she currently doesn't share in any of her parents' portfolios. Were that to change, she'd likely be elevated to the status of a minor god.
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Offspring of gods are always demi gods even if they pair with other gods. The universe may raise said children to gods at a whim. But that whim is no diffrent than if it feels like raising a mortal, or an apex mortal. The universe might decide tommorow that Applebloom has done enough to become the god of pears and poof she's the alicorn of pears.
Saturnia and the other demi gods..[wow i've got a lot of them around now] are just as likely to acsend to full god hood as anyone else in the world. Deed, will, or for the hell of it, are how gods are made in Puppyverse.
Ok so theoretically speaking. Does Cadance even need to use the spell (modified or not) on Shining Armor anyway?
Like there is the possibility that All of the Sparkles (sans Parents) are immortal now anyway because of the connections they share with The magical Heat sink that is Rahs. Like Its already known that The link between him and Twilight is Both strong and 2-way, and that magical effects that effect Rahs can go along the link and effect Shiny (The poison Joke incident).
The Link between Familiar and God also is stated to be similar to that of the link between Summoner and Summoned Being, which was researched to study the link between Twi and Rahs.
So speaking from a purely theoretical stand point, Twis immortality Can and likely would Flow down the link into Rahs and from Rahs it flows into anyone else covered by the link.
This feels like soft confirmation that Rah's in probably immortal now too.
he might not ***technically*** be a familiar, but I think Celestia said in season one it was more or less the same principle just without the forced compulsion one can pt into such a spell.
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that should be explained further at another time
am I the only one want a scene with the sirens meet with they mom Aqua who ask "where have you 3 been all this time? you knew what forget you three stay out way past your bedtime all 3 of you are grounded for 100 years"
why use it on a pony? she'd just get bored in 2 decades an it'd be pointless then
Wait...if twilight is a godess and is magically soulbound to rhas spike and shining wouldnt that make them immortal by proxy due to the divine magic flowing from her into the bond same as how they all felt rhas' nausea or spikes greed?
Am I the only one that thinks this series has been hammering on celestia too hard at this point. Like the joke has gotten old and now it just feels like it’s beating a dead horse? (Pun definitely intended)
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That last one sounds like the reason for Discord’s ascension.
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Discord is actually one of the big three. The gods who have been around from the very beginning.This does nothing different for him than a normal god but given his portfolio he's impossible to kill. There will always be chaos and disorder or life and the universe couldn't function. Same with Order or nothing would hold together. and Harmony [ how atoms and the like work together to make things]
a grate chapter and i am happy to see Tiberius in a chapter so few know of him..
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I've read plenty of Harry Potter Dumblebashing fanfics. This is nothing.
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That doesn’t mean it isn’t starting to get annoying. I just feel like the joke has run it’s course by this point. I appreciate a flawed celestia but I think it’s really reached its peak here.
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I get that. Hitting a character over the head too many times can get grading. I feel that way towards Ronald Weasley and the excessive lengths writers will go to make him the vilest thing on earth. But in this case, I don't think it's that bad. Especially in this chapter, it was really rather tame, if anything at all. Honestly, I didn't notice anything
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Just to clearify I don’t think It’s gotten to the point of going to far. I just feel... tired of it. Like it feels at this point in the story it’s right on the edge of going to cross a line.
Like with this chapter with Celestia suggesting Twilight to break up with Big Mac to save her the heart ache... I’m getting this feeling in my gut it’s starting to reach a point where the author I actively looking for is to not like celestia so she can get taken down a peg for laughs.
Do you understand my meaning here?
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In truth i am not. In fact ive been trying to make celestia not look the bad guy. But due to plots and such shes got to look more failable. Sunset was really the last big gaff i have planned for her.
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I get that and I do understand, but I would like to point out that Celestia suggested did have some merit will the closed-off and misinformed information she's had concerning the limits when choosing a familiar. Having a mortal spouse could lead to problems, so I didn't find it inappropriate to suggest ending such a relationship.