Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 6
By TDR
A Hearth's Wyvern Tale
[Ponyville]
Rahs sighed looking down at the letter of refusal for him to play Snowfall Frost in A Hearths Warming tale.
If he was being honest, he had never considered applying for that role before, at least this rejection letter was only due to him being male, not like he hadn't put on a dress to play a girl before, but evidently they didn't want that.
He had managed to snag the role of the Ghost of Hearth's Warming Future in the play once. Granted he had only gotten the role because he was supposedly big and scary. No one had expected him to do any of the lines, let alone the entire song. The pony that they had gotten to do the voice over was a bit miffed that his job wasn't needed.
Still that was years ago.
Rahs sighed tossing the letter in to the small fire he had burning outside in a cast iron pot with the fire burning only oak wood lit by lightning.
While complicated, it was a superstition that Miss Broadway had imparted to those who used her theater. It was.... well Rahs wasn't sure what superstition it was supposed to work with, but he did it anyway, even in as hot a summer as this was.
In truth he hadn't had a actual role any where other than at The Ball in quite a while, and aside from a few small plays and letting the school drama club use it, the theater hadn't seen much use either.
While this prank had a lot of rejection letters at once, he hadn't had many roles in anything since he came to Ponyville. With everything going on he was often stuck around the town and sadly this meant that Celestia's prank, while it hurt, hadn't really changed how everything would go normally.
For him any way. Spike and Twilight were still trying to get their issues under control.
Spike was going to make an announcement at the next Crystal Con.
Twilight had gotten responded to all the letters and had promptly gotten into a letter war with a number of professors and others that sent in letters about things completely unrelated to the original prank.
Rahs tossed another letter on the fire and frowned, before a smirk crossed his face as he remembered the counter prank.
“Ask not for whom the bell tolls...”
[Canterlot]
Princess Celestia stared at Raven Inkwell.
Really STARED at her.
Raven, well used to this sort of thing, ignored her and continued to direct the circus that was the Day Court Room.
Seeing she was getting no reaction, Princess Celestia then turned to stare at her sister.
Princess Luna ignored completely her and dragged another guard over to watch her open a present.
Somehow, some way, the damn Sparkles had done something that no one else in several thousand years, not even DISCORD, had done.
Celestia looked out over the massive crowd gathered in the throne room, every one of them carrying a gift of some kind, or two, and the line went around the castle. Streamers and balloons were everywhere, there was a parade going on outside, and mail ponies were still delivering countless gifts from all over Equestria and much of the world.
"Another package from Griffonstone Princess!" A young blue griffon sang dropping a pile of packages onto the other pile of packages before flying off.
It was Princess Celestia and Princess Luna's Birthday.
And everyone was celebrating.
It was NOT either of their birthdays.
Not even close.
"Look Look, this one is from a filly in Chicagcolt, she sent me a macaroni picture of my moon squishing a dragon!!" Luna cheered. "Lacy Frill, put this one on the wall too."
The mentioned maid took it and flew out of the room to where a unicorn was balanced on a ladder to apply sticking spells to hold it on the wall of the hallway just outside of the throne room, there was a rather large collection of drawings and art from foals adorning the walls.
There were plans to add the great hall to the tours so any foals on the tour could see if their art was there.
It was.
"Luna..." Celestia frowned.
"Ahh this one has sent me a copy of the fifth giant robot game." Luna frowned." We already have this one though.... AHHH, we shall send it back along with a offer for them to play it as well, the more ponies who play the game means they will make more of the game, does it not?" Luna asked a Guard who shrugged.
"Luna.... " Celestia tried again. She had kept her birthday secret from Equestria for so long, when she made Luna do the same her sister had accepted her logic of not wanting any sort of holiday or massive event to come of it.
"Oh what is this?" Luna asked opening a letter and looking at the page that fell out her eyes widening as she read it, before she looked to the included photos." OOH!! Salacious!"
Celestia face hooved. How the Sparkles had convinced White to give an interview to a group of newspapers on when Celestia and Luna's birthday was was any ponies guess. Even if the rabbit followed the agreement she forced on him not to tell, he claimed he knew what day and year it was and said he had told someone.
He had. White had needed to remind their mother when their birthdays were a few times in the past.
Twilight claimed she was the one told and the public then latched onto Twilight who was known as the Alicorn of magic, and Tuesdays, who stated as Celestia's student. Surely she knew the date and what she told everyone was correct.
She was off by months.
Celestia's birthday was near Nightmare Night. Luna's was near the summer sun Celebration, which was well past.
"Oh my ... there are two of them? A mare and a stallion?" Luna asked looking between the pair of photos that came with that letter." While we have been favoring mares as of late, as the younger crowd says ... DAAAMN."
"LUNA!"
"What Tia!" Luna sighed not putting down the pictures, the Guard and the Maid both were staring over Luna's shoulders as well to look at them.
"This will not stand."
"We certainly hope not. Would be better to be laying down... or sitting... or bent over something..."
"FOCUS LUNA."
"We are VERY focused Tia."
"This prank cannot go uncountered." Celestia growled.
"But.. TWINS Tia! TWINS and they very much want to meet me.." Luna purrs.
Celestia rolled her eyes. The Sparkles would pay for this. There was no way she could enjoy a cake covered in as many candles as her age was.
It would set fire to the city.
I see they made sure Luna would enjoy this prank. I hope she enjoys the twins.
god i want to know exactly what was in those photos
Were gonna need a bigger cake.
And extrensive fire supression.
Oi mean, it said mint chock chip vanilla.. How was I supposed to notice that the three idental prducts ranges on three identical market stalls side by side to each othre, were fudge, Candles, and soap products.
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Showing off how flexible they are
You could imagine several elephant caravans striding through Canterlot from Saddle Arabia to deliver millions or billions of birthday presents to make up for the years they failed to celebrate their birthdays.
Celestia is older than most dirt as she started I one of her dairy books, I think it was season 1.
So Celestia setting Canterlot of fire would be probably a well controlled cake kindling.
But I doubt any cake could survive that inferno unassisted.
Hope someone gift Luna X-Com:
This is funny as hell and I'm making a guess here it wouldn't of happened if celestia and Luna didn't do the mail fraud prank though I think Luna is actually liking this one and just got a offer from twins that she is putting a lot of thought into I mean from what it sounds like they will be confined to a bedroom for multiple hours doing all kinds of activities that would make Celestia blush with a thousand yard stare
In my personal opinion this isn’t the nuke this is the part where everyone panics because they received the nuke strike and then the nuke hits.
I take it Rahs is invoking Hemingway and not Donne.
Unless he's planning a funeral for Celestia as a prank.
So when she said she was born at night, but not last night... she was kinda telling the truth?
Luna is going to have Some Fun.
lets be honest, all Celestia has to do is state that their can only be so many candles per inch of cake, which will result in either the creation of Number shaped birthday/event candles, or celestia getting a cake that can qualify as a small town by sheer size alone.
I'm imagining this cake is made by dragons doing strafing runs to heat a giant slab of stone that is set above a giant shallow depression holding the actual batter of a sheet cake big enough to host a sporting event.
That mother of yours is quite something
They must have celestia's cake's they will suffer greatly for this, 🤔 question are we basically in a fellow Arc
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Even if she was 4,000 years old, the cake would only need a 64x64 grid of candles. Tile a few large sheet cakes together and you could easily accommodate that many. If we allot 1 sq.in. for each candle to mitigate radiant heat transfer, plus an inch of padding on the edges, that's a 5.5-ft square, not even as big as a queen-size mattress.
Dear God, just how far will this prank war go?
I love they got a prank off that annoys the buck out if Celestia, while Luna gets to have a blast and enjoy it.
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Celestia and Luna abdicating the throne to the Sparkles sounds like ONE of the pranks they could do. No idea if that's the last prank or not though.
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Buck yeah, MATH
Not that their not funny but the pranks chapters are really starting to get stale. I still like the story but if this keeps up to much longer I’m going to shelve this for a good while
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well there's only 3 episodes left this season and the pranks chapter ends next chapter.
Don't worry Celestia, we can just give you a small 4 tier cake, but have the celebration near a volcano that can be set off, and that will be your candles
I mean candles that are just numbers exist, too
Hahahahahahhahaha
I was giggling through the whole 2nd half
That was a good chapter.
I had first thought the way that celestia was being ignored the sparkles had put a notice me not spell on her.
But i like the fact that Luna is enjoying herself, to make up for the collateral of the last prank when she had already surrendered.
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I suspect the number of zeros needed would also set the city on fire.