Lyra sat next to you like a normal pony (which was odd for her) next to you as she eagerly awaited her bath. She had grown onto you the very second she saw you, happy to have your assistance. She obviously had never seen a human before, and now both loved and envied you for being one. Who would've thought her obsession would begin with you?
You turn off the tap and turn to the filly next to you. "Alrighty, Lyra!" you say to the pony. "Time for your bath!"
Lyra smiles cheerfully at you and lifts her front hooves up for you to place her into the full tub. Her pistachio body submerges in the warm water, and she giggles at the feeling. She looks up to you and smiles, again happy for your presence.
With the filly in the tub, you may now begin. Grabbing the shampoo next to you (and getting an awestruck stare from Lyra), you squirt some in your hand (with a still awestruck Lyra watching) and lather Lyra's mint green hair. Lyra enjoys the feeling of your fingers combing through her hair and leans back a bit to enjoy it further. Her short hair is easy to clean, only taking twenty or so seconds to fully soap-up. When you're finished, you step back and look at the overjoyed filly, who looks back at you, still smiling her cute smile.
You rinse the soap off her hands and start to scoop up some water to rinse Lyra's mane when the little unicorn reaches out to you. Seeing what she wanted, you chuckle a bit and hand over one of your, er, hands. The filly's eyes light up as she grabs hold of the new natural technology before her. She looks it over for a few seconds before rubbing her head against it. When she's done being adorable, she looks at the hand again and sticks it in her mouth.
Her little teeth lightly clamp onto your fingers, causing you to jump back and yelp a bit. You shake off the pain and look back at Lyra, who looks confused as to why you were in pain. You laugh a bit at her and say, "Well, looks like somepony's teeth are growing!" Lyra happily shrieks back at you and slaps the water, oblivious to what you said but accepting the compliment nonetheless.
You continue what you started beforehand and scoop some water into your cupped hands. You pour the water over Lyra's mane and watch the bubbles fall from her hair. She is again amazed by your hands' ability to pick things up with ease and drop them with greater ease. Her mane only takes six rinsing rotations, again due to its short size. When you're done, her mane returns to its mint form.
With her head clean, you move onto her hindquarters. You place your hand on Lyra's flank (at which she flinches at the contact of human skin) and ask her sweetly to lift it and hold it. She comprehends and does what you ask gladly. You reach next to you again and grab the shampoo again, applying some into your opposite palm. Then you start lathering the filly unicorn's tail, which is longer than her mane. Because of its size, it takes almost twice as long to lather than her mane. Thirty seconds later, you finish lathering and notice Lyra staring at something. When you follow her gaze, you find it isn't the appearance of something, but the lack of another thing; you had no tail yourself. You laugh a bit at the pony, who stares at you, confused.
"Humans don't have tails, Lyra," you explain to her, but to no avail. Lyra stares for a few more moments trying to put two and two together to find out where your tail was. She gives up though when you turn around and hide your behind, mostly because it was getting kind of weird having her stare at it.
You begin yet again the cycle of cupping water in your hands and rinsing the soap out of her tail hair. Lyra steals a small glance at your behind again when she thinks you aren't looking. Her behind only takes eight rinses, which wasn't as much as you thought. Nonetheless, her tail is eventually finished and ready for drying.
Drying, however, won't be until after the bath, and her bath wasn't over quite yet, for there was one more thing you wanted to do before you left. You grasp from somewhere behind you a special toy you had brought over from where you lived. Revealing to Lyra a Barbie and a Ken doll, expecting her to love them. She did far beyond what you had hoped, and immediately took the two human figurines out of your hands as though it were her first Christmas (or, as it were in her world, Hearth's Warming Day). She observes the alien toys and instantly falls head-over-hooves for them; moving their arms, making them walk and sit like bipeds, and basically everything else humans could do that ponies could not. You smile warmly at the sight, remembering the first time you played with the- er, I mean, when you saw someone else play with them.
Ten minutes of playing and exploring possibilities later, Lyra is done with playing and is ready to leave the tub. You oblige and unplug the tub, draining the soapy water. Lyra lifts her front hooves again so you could pick her up (you muse at how she was the easiest foal yet). Placing her on the ground along with the two dolls, you grab the towel to your left and quickly dry off the latter. Then you turn to the towel's main purpose and start drying Lyra's short mane, then her torso, and finally her tail and hooves. When you're done, Lyra starts to leave the bathroom when you stop her.
"Aren't you forgetting these?" you ask her while holding up the Ken and Barbie. Lyra beams at your gift and takes them from you with a look of gratitude. She then trots out of the bathroom, both Barbie and Ken smiling stiff in Lyra's mouth.
You put the towel away and take a small moment to look at your hands. "Well, they do look kinda weird," you muse aloud to no one.
Alright, I'll admit this isn't my best one yet, but don't worry I'll get better! Have faith, and just a reminder this isn't supposed to be a serious fic.
1675504 Are you kidding? This is yet again, adorable! A friend of mine loves Lyra, so he'll like this chapter
1675519 No, once is enough, sorry. Next is, well, I dunno. Most likely Applebloom or Sweetie Belle, or perhaps Vinyl Scratch.
I liked it.
Still had the cuteness followed by funny fandom jokes.
Please do Vinyl or Spirfire soon, or maybe Babs seed that would be fun.
Now I know you're in league with my dentist you crafty son of a bitch.
Cause why else would you make something so sweet and adorable that it gives me cavities.
At this rate I'm going to pay for his new boat.
you should get baby sombra in on that action
1675541 Alright, I guess Vinyl will be a good one to do next.
1675587 Uh, I have no idea what you're talking about *suspicious whistling*
1675822 NMM I was actually thinking over, but Pinkamena is, well, 98% fanon, and doesn't show up even in the background. Sure, Pinkie completely goes bat-sh!t crazy in one episode, but that isn't Pinkamena, believe it or not. And plus, how would I do her? Bathe her in blood? Have her give you a cupcake with pony bits in it? This is a G rated fic, so she's out of the question. Although, like I said, NMM is up there.
Filly Blinkie Pie and filly Inkie Pie with help from filly Pinkie!
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Okay back to reading.
ALSO YOU CAN'T BACK OUT OF THE CMC CHAPTER NOW.
Not after today!
1675613 That mane is going to be a haybale to wash.
I don't really have much to say. I like Lyra, but I'm not really her biggest fan. Still, good show.
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you got featured kinda
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I really can't wait to see what you come out with for Vinyl!!!!!!!
Are you going to do Bon Bon at some point?
Firstly: D'awwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!
Secondly, thank you for giving me my daily, no, DOUBLE my daily dose of adorable-ness, and seeming as I just watched a horror movie, this REALLY helped!!
List of ponies that you should bath:
Octavia
The CMC (all 3 in one chapter)
Doctor Whooves
Spitfire (and the other Wonderbolts)
Also, very excellently done. Not many people can pull off a second person story as well as you have, especially considering there's not really a storyline other than 'man gives a pony a bath, amusing things happen'. I especially love the Discord chapter, although if Discord really didn't want a bath, he would never have got one.
Clean ALL the ponies!
1676029 I've said it before and I'll say it again: the CMC aren't going to be a triple trouble. I hate to say it, but that wouldn't make sense.
1675941 Most likely not. Sorry Bon Bon fans, but I don't know anything really about her, minus that she's friends with Lyra (and to some people, more, but I utterly refuse to bring up any shippings, even ones I don't mind like Fluttermac).
1675865 Funny, I saw that uncolored earlier today for the first time! I nearly D'aaawwed to death! And the CMC WILL be coming up, but I'm delaying Scootaloo (who I admit is my fav CMC) so I could see S3 E6, which is a Scoots episode
1676216 I know that feel...
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What about the CMC for the next chapter?
1676302 Read on. You'll see multiple references to you being human, especially during Lyra's bath.
1676285 Aww man, why you gotta bring out the big guns? Fluttershy is too adorable! Nice shot, though, and even though I agree I am delaying Scoots. And also she'll be alone, without Dashie's help.
1676315 Um, I was going to do Vinyl, but the CMC will be after, individually and with Scoots being delayed a bit due to research purposes (she is having an episode soon).
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W-what??
1676339 What the buck, bro? Dashie? DASHIE?! CRYING?!! Dammit, dammit, dammit! *Goes to corner of room and dies*
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1675536 Gosh I can't believe how stupid I was I forgot you already did Trixie.
I've read the whole thing. Hope you do the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
I just read it all in one sitting...I think I might Overdose on D'AWWWWW!!!! Please do Vinyll scratch, perhaps vinyll and Octavia at the same time because they will grow up to be best friends/lovers. PLEASE?!?!!
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Sorry, I haven't seen any other comments relating to not doing the CMC together.
I can understand why you wouldn't want to though, it would get quite difficult and confusing.
I do think you should definitely do Octavia though, in my humble opinion.
Again, excellent story and I look forward to reading future chapters.
.....ok here's what i want to see
Gilda
NMM
CMC
Diamond Dogs
Blueblood
Flitter and Cloudchaser
Spitfire
Soarin
Braeburn
Little Strongheart (the bison girl)
Mayor Mare
Pipsqueak
....and that's all i got now...
.....I want theses fillies for Christmas now....especially Lyra and Trixie
1676453 You're right, she is. Although, they never say by how much, so I assumed they were only a year or two apart.
1676535 Maybe they'll be together, but I dislike Octavinyl. Just saying.
1677019And here's a response:
Maybe
Most likely, although no guarantees
Definitely
Most likely not
Perhaps, if I could somehow douche him down a bit
Don't know 'em, sorry
Probably
"
Maybe
Forgot about her. She's a maybe
Most likely not
Er... I'll get back to you on him
Sorry, but I just don't know how I'd work with a lot of the remaining characters. Right now, I'm working on ideas for Vinyl and very unlikely, yet possible, Octavia.
Best one yet! Such adorable fanfiction! and, technically, it's from th 2nd person view, which is rare even among fanfictions
1675856 most things could probably pass, with 2 sure exceptions: Pinkamena and, oh god, Li'l Miss Rarity. if you were going to do Molestia, it is possible to make this stay G-rated... just make some minor references.
Yay!!! Lyra!!!!
Love this chapter!
So much d'aww out of my favorite background pony!
Lyra!!! My favorite background character!! I got to tell ya, that was freaking adorable! And I really can't wait for the Scoots one.
1677166 I understand. But I used to take baths with my best friends when we were way little (no homo) that's the idea that I was thinking. There are a lot of octascratch fans out there who would get a kick out of it, I'd reckon
Great Celestia, Lyra such a cutey filly, I say Bonbon.
1679155 Yeah, but I've decided that they'll be alone. Although, to help compromise, I am doing a sequel to this called Bedtime for Ponies, and they could have a sleepover then.
..no..words...just....grattitude....
1676316 Big guns? Oh please!
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Please do Sweetie Belle first, for she is best crusader.
1679763 Hmm, I personally love Scootaloo, then Applebloom, and then Sweetie Belle, but just for you I'll do Sweetie first.
1679892 Really?!
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Also, our CMC favs are opposite of each other, with Sweetie Belle > Apple Bloom > Scootaloo
I've got nothing against the chicken, of course, but Sweetie Belle is like a little bundle of cuteness and joy
1679938 Reall, when it comes down to it, I love them all equally, but if I had to order them that would be my order. And I agree that SB is a sweet bundle of joy. (I especially love the episode where she's uber bored and starts propelling herself with her hind legs)
1680813 Yeah I had done some research on that and found the same thing. You're right, but I still used that anyway because "scrub like Tartarus" sounds better than "scrub like the Underworld".
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Same lyrics, so it doesn't really matter, but I personally was singing the Living Tombstone's version.
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I was right twice? WHO AM I!?
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Also, mentioning that you played with Barbie dolls is no crime against your masculinity. Any person that ever went to a day care center has played with them for at least a little while. And if anyone says they did go to a day care and didn't, they are either lying, or they just don't remember.
Also, I would appreciate it if King Sombra joined. Before he was an evil dictator with pure hatred flowing out of his eyeballs.
Have a moustache. Actually, make it two.
I like the way this chapter opened up with the sitter being her first experience with seeing a human thus her fascination developing as she grew up without him/her around. headcannoned of fancannon of...well stuff!
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don't sell yourself short, this was adorable
have some d'awww
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