Hoofmaidens' Development
"The new princess seems nice." Brush noted as she ran a dust cloth across the tops of the librarian's personal collection of reference books.
"I'm just worried she'll get as upset with us as Princess Cadenza did... That was horrible..." Bristle remembered as she made the bed.
"I'd rather have another Princess Cadenza than another Prince Blueblood." Breeze said, trembling as she walked in to the bedroom, still wearing a kitchen apron.
"Didn't Princess Cadenza turn out to be the Changeling Queen? I can understand why she was so terrible... Blueblood was still so much worse, though." Cloud shuddered as she swept in the corner of the room.
"Regardless, I like the new princess." Brush said once again.
"Yes sister, she does seem like she'll be a nice mistress."
A round of nods and musings of agreement went around the room.
"And her friends are even throwing us a party!" Cloud added.
"No, they are throwing the princess a party first and foremost, and as such, we should go help set up. We want to make a good impression on the townsfolk." Brush said as she finished up the last of the chores.
"Speaking of the party, do any of you know where we are supposed to go for it?" Cloud looked from pony to pony for a response.
"I believe the unicorn said it was at 'Sugarcube Corner'" Breeze added as she watched Brush walk over to the window.
"We should probably leave soon if we are to find this establishment and help prepare." she turned back to the group, "Bristle, I see you've made the bed and collected the trash from in here, is the rest of the library's collected as well?" Bristle gave a nod. "Good. Breeze, did you finish everything in the kitchen?"
"Of course!"
"Good. Cloud, you done sweeping yet?"
"Almost, just give me a second."
"Ok, well when you're done we'll get tidied up and try to find this 'Sugarcube Corner' place."
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Cloud broke the awkward silence, "We need directions." The mares had been blindly wandering around Ponyville for close to half an hour now.
"Were not lost, Cloud, we'll be there soon. This town isn't that big." replied Brush with an indignant huff.
"Uh... I think we should ask someone too sis... If it's not too difficult, the ponies around here seem nice enough." Bristle was quite thrilled that they had been walking for so long and not one pony had stopped them to yell at them, in fact some even smiled and waved!
"We are not asking directions until we absolutely have to! It makes us look like were ignorant, and that reflects poorly on the princess."
"I think having her whole serving staff on parade through the middle of town reflects even more poorly on the princess than just asking someone for directions."
"I said we're not..." Cloud's logic was slowly seeping into Brush's head "Well..."
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"Excuse me ma'am could you direct us to 'Sugarcube Corner'?"
"Sure! Do you know where- whoa!" the blue maned DJ did a double take as she turned from the stall she was patronizing, "I need to get my glasses checked! Seriously! It's like I'm seeing in double again! Quadruple!" she lifted her sunglasses and rubbed her eyes animatedly, "You all look exactly the same! Did you all mess up your coordinating when you got up this morning? I know this pair of ponies that could have you all straightened up in a jiffy!"
"I'm sorry, but we really can't, we've got to get to Sugarcube Corner soon."
"Oh come on! They have a hot tub! I can see the dirt on your coats, you all could use some spa time if you're going to a party next!"
"I'm really sorry but could you just-"
"Oh come on sis, we have like two hours until the party starts, and we don't HAVE to help set up anyway." Bristle laid on pleading the act thick.
Brush couldn't resist her sisters puppy-dog eyes for long, "Oh all right, but only an hour! Tops!"
"Come with me!"
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The DJ had dragged them to Aloe and Lotus's spa and had them relaxing before they knew what hit them. After a short time Brush had made her way to the deeper spa room and found the jacuzzi.
"So where are you all from? Are you all, like, sisters or something? Is that why you all look so similar?" the DJ asked Brush as she joined her in the steaming water. (The hot tub being the only part of the facility the DJ frequented.)
"No, to answer your last question, we're not related. Well, Brush and I are, but Breeze and Cloud are of no relation to us or each other."
"So what are you all doing looking so similar? Seriously! That's pretty coincidental!"
"This is the standard appearance of Royal Palace Hoofmaidens." said Brush with no lack of confidence in her words. It was easy for anyone to see she took pride in her position.
"Whoa, you work at the palace! I've got a friend who performs at the palace all the time! Her name's Octavia, ever met her?"
"Well, we don't actually work at the palace anymore, we moved in with the new princess here in Ponyville."
"New princess? OH! You mean Twi! Ha! That means you're all living in the library now? Well I guess I should welcome you to Ponyville! I'm actually kinda shocked Pinkie hasn't thrown a party for you yet."
The new resident's eyes widened as she remembered the whole reason they had left the Library.
"The Party!" She sprang from the water, splashing everywhere as she ran to collect her associates.
Vinyl was left alone in the tub. "Nice girl, but too high strung. Kinda reminds me of a certain librarian.“ Vinyl noted as she laid back in the tub, "she could also stand to take a bottle of chill pills like a certain librarian."
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Brush had separated from the group very soon after arriving to wash up and find the hot tub, her associates however had mysteriously never joined her in the bath. She feared that they had left without her. She became more concerned when she found the mare from the morning's excitement in the library wandering around the shop.
"I'm sorry miss, but do you know where my associates are, I seem to have lost them and we really must be going."
The mare turned first with a look of surprise, then shock, a smirk, and finally she held her head high refusing to look directly at the mare "You look simply dreadful! I can't believe that a princess would keep such dreadful company!"
Brush was stunned. This mare had seemed so nice before, but to go so far as to challenge the honor of the princess! "I- I-"
"Gotcha!" The purple maned white coated mare couldn't hold back her laughter.
Brush recognized that laugh "Cloud! Your mane! Why did you dye it? To work as an attendant of the palace you must follow the dress code!"
"Pshhh! We were all thinking about what the crazy one who dragged us here said, and seriously, it does kind of suck to all look the same doesn't it? Nobody calls us by name because they can't tell us apart!"
"While I agree it is an inconvenience, we MUST look the same! Breaking dress code is grounds for dismissal!"
"-From the PALACE! If you didn't notice, we aren't in the palace anymore. And besides, this will be fun! Live a little! Don't worry we'll dye them back later."
"We?" Brush dared to ask, fearing the consequences of that word.
Her fears were realized as double DJs walked in.
"Oh hey sis... You like my new mane?"
"I can't believe you would... Oh Celestia. Dare I even ask what color Breeze dyed her mane?"
"Oh don't worry, she didn't dye her mane" Cloud could barely contain her mirth, but Brush was too busy examining her sisters new "style" to notice.
She did notice, however, when another pony entered the room.
"Princess!" Brush hid the ground in a deep bow, "I'm sorry for the violations of code amongst... Um, princess? Where are your wings?"
Cloud exploded in laughter, even Bristle let out a small snicker, but Brush was not happy.
"You didn't."
"We did!"
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Preview: "Twilight walked into Sugarcube Corner anticipating the usual friendly greeting from the Cakes. Instead she was met with what distinctly instilled thoughts of what it would look like if pre-reformation Discord and the Changeling army decided to attack the humble bakery at the same time, namely it was pure chaos."
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CHANGELINGS! Oh wait that's dye.
answer of the day: As in human society pains are taken to ensure that people may eat what ever their personal beleifs allow them to. it is reasonable then to assume that ponies and griffians do the same. so then either meat or some kind of simulation of meat would be the answer
I take it there will be a chapter devoted to the guards too, dood?
As for your question...I'm half sure she eats the same as the ponies did while she was there, despite the fact that most myths revolving around griffins have stated that the primary source of food for them were horses...see as the shows isn't telling us about the griffin society...I'm sure they have pork, or beef...or chicken, dood.
Changling needs an "e" in it (this mistake is also made in the preview)
"princess that" should be dropped
To answer your A/N question, it is highly probable that Equestrians are used to carnivores seeing as how they have pet dogs, owls, etc.
Not to mention, Equestrian ponies regularly eat cake which contain eggs as a key ingredient.
2167745 Fixed! Thanks for catching that, and as for the eggs thing, that opens up a whole lot of new questions doesn't it.
At first i was
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then I was
now i'm like
*Faved*
fluttershy was shown feeding fish to her otters (or weasles?) in one episode. Gilda was shown to be able to eat fruit. The eggs that you eat are not really a meat product, also they are unfertilized and therefore would just rot if left alone.
Answer to your question: The slow pegasi. It was motivation to work harder for Dear Leader Celestia
All ponies look alike except for their colors and manes.
In answer to your question about Glida, I'll bet that the ponies manufacture protein supplements for sapient carnivores and omnivores living in Equestria. They'll probably be mushroom protein or something but with spices so it tastes like meat.
Nice to see the four hoofmaidens breaking out from their shells but something tells me that nothing good can come of this in the long term.
2167741
Equestrians seems to be omnivores at least to some degree unlike real ponies, so stuff like fish or eggs are probably easy enough to get.
I wonder how forgiving Twilight will be when she sees her new guards. I can totally imagine she'll troll them at first and then say she was never really mad at them for it.
As for what gilda ate: You ever read Rainbow Factory? The failed pegasus foals aren't turned into rainbows...
...I'm a bad duck...
2168513
Horses can (and do, usually when living at high altitude or in colder climes) eat meat, you know. So it's not so much "unlike real life" and more "more common than in real life"
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now I'm thinking it might be best if the show never goes anywhere arctic in nature...
2171290
Interesting. I thought that real life horse were supposedly unable to digest meat.
But I've got to disagree with never going anywhere arctic ...just image all the bad fanon that it'd destroy!
2171407
Nope. While it isn't entirely common, horses can eat meat. While they are normally herbivorous, and may have some difficulty at first, they adapt to it, even in the wild. It's much more common in the east. Look up the blood-eating horses of Tibet and the beef and yak-eating horses of Bhutan. Hell, there are recorded instances of horses that ate people.
The bad students.
My theory is that there is a small subset of the Equestrian food industry that deals with carnivores/omnivores living in Equestria. The idea is that inside Equestra high background magic levels make most animals intelligent to some degree, while outside many food animals are dumb as they are in reality/our world (whichever terminology you prefer). As such this small and unadvertised (save by word of mouth) group of restaurants and food suppliers—numbering less than you could count on two hands—concentrated in the major cities get their food from out of country from farms that are routinely inspected and certified by Equestrian representatives to contain no intelligent animals. Canterlot's "Griffon District" is notorious for the odd smells that occasionally waft about when the wind blows just right.
But that's just my idea.
Oh dear. My own hoofmaidens dislike me. Only people who's job is to interact with me... and they hate me.
But ignore my ramblings. Good show, luv- sorry. For a while, I thought this was written by a bird. Anyway, splendid character development, Scratch which is always wonderful, adorableness... frankly, I think this chapter is very good. Still, I must retire for the night. I hope we have great encounters in the future.
-Prince Blueblood Soluna
I recognize from the posting dates that I'm coming in way late on the argument, but I'd say Gilda probably ate (and still eats) fish for her dietary needs: the likeliest suspects for her eagle half's species are all primarily fish-eaters, and unlike most 'normal' sources of meat, fish in Equestria are fairly clearly not intelligent enough to worry about. I'd probably stretch that across the board to all Griffons, actually. Now, how they got enough fish for her up to the school each day...
Vinyl's gonna teach those ladies how to have fun
And to answer your question, read this.
Stolen apples... just like in her one and only episode.