Chapter Neo
Can’t I Keep Her?
Chapter Neo
Ponyville was not a quiet and quaint little town as many would like to believe. Well, except for, like, four in the morning. It was pretty quaint and quiet then. Granted everypony, dragon, and ling were very much asleep at that time, but how nitpicky are we going to be here?
Anyway, Ponyville, four in the morning, very quiet. It’s very important, write it down. Why? Because if you were paying attention, you would have noticed that ‘ling’ was mentioned above. It, obviously, means there is at least once changeling within Ponyville’s county line. Actually who knows how many there are? But this story, at most, will contain two.
The most prominent of these two love feeders was currently breaking norm by not only being up at four in the morning, but also breaking the silence with her giggles of amusement. Bitch.
The first and apparently only pony to notice this, was Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, better known as pretty pink pony princess number seven, better known as Cadance. The laughter, which carried quite far in the quiet stillness of the four o’clock air, woke her from an otherwise peaceful slumber.
The first thing she realized upon waking was that her dream of peeking in on Celestia and Luna as they made passionate love was in fact a dream. The second thing she noticed was that her bed was missing one of the occupants that had been there when she had fallen asleep, namely Chrysalis, former Queen of the Northern Changelings. The third thing she noticed was that the laughter that had woken her sounded very much like Chrysalis. The fourth was that the maid, Truth, had at some point snuck into their bed and was currently spooning Captain Shining Armor. She was the big spoon.
To any fully awake pony, this would have been a lot to handle. Luckily, Cadance was not fully awake and therefore didn’t fully process what she was seeing. She slipped out of the large bed her sister-in-law Twilight Sparkle had provided and made her way to the door, sleepily noting that her daughter was still asleep in her cradle.
It was nice of Twilight to take us in. Cadance’s slow to wake mind noted as she descended the stairs of the library. Indeed it was kind of the purple pony to invite them to her place in Ponyville after their own residence was burned to a crisp by a psychopathic crazy pony.
Cadance stumbled slightly, wobbling drunkenly as she approached the library’s main door. She stifled a yawn as she gripped the door knob with her magic, pulling it open and going outside.
The sounds of Chrysalis’ giggling persisted and Cadance had little trouble tracking her through the pre-dawn streets. The pretty pink pony princess soon followed the giggles to the park, stopping where the street met the grass.
Not too far away from her, Cadance could see Chrysalis running back and forth with a puffy pink pony… thing. Cadance had no idea what she was looking at. The thing was so pink and fluffy, most of its considerable mass had to be fur for it to move with such… not grace, but perhaps ease.
Chrysalis and the fluffy thing seemed to be playing, chasing each other through the trees. Chrysalis rounded a tree expecting to catch the pink fluffle pony, only to find nothing. She looked around bewildered for a moment before craning her neck upwards, seeing the puff of fluff in the tree above her. It released its grip on the branch and landed on changeling, eliciting another bout of giggles.
Cadance stifled another yawn and approached the two, hooves crunching on the grass.
“Hello Chrysalis, who’s your friend?” Cadance asked.
Chrysalis, who was still giggling, suddenly froze, looking like a foal with their hoof in the cookie jar. “Cadance?” the changeling said, forced to look at the alicorn upside down due to her position. “What’s got you up so early?”
“You,” the alicorn said simply. She looked to the pink fluffle thing. “And who and or what is this?”
To her surprise, the thing looked her in the eye with the intelligence of a pony and promptly blew a raspberry at her.
Chrysalis, still pinned beneath the creature tilted her head slightly. “What? No, this is Cadance, the one I was telling you about.”
The thing blew another raspberry.
“No, she’s not the one that screams like a filly. That’s Shining.”
Another raspberry.
“I don’t think she’s ever decapitated anypony. Even if she has, the one you’re thinking of right now is Truth.”
The pink pony puff thing scrunched its muzzle up for a moment, staring intently at Cadance before it blew another short raspberry.
Chrysalis nodded. “Yep, now you’ve got her.”
“What in Tartarus is going on?” Cadance demanded, utterly baffled by the ‘conversation’ she had just witnessed.
“Oh, sorry,” Chrysalis blushed. “I forget not everyone has the gift of tongues as changelings do. This is Fluffle Puff,” the pink puff of fluff stuck it’s tongue out “and she and I have been, uh… talking all morning, yes.”
Cadance rolled her eyes. “You’re allowed to have fun Chrysalis. Now seriously, what is she?”
Chrysalis raised an eyebrow and pushed Fluffle Puff off of herself, standing up. “She’s Fluffle Puff, just told you.”
“Yes, but what is she?”
Chrysalis and Fluffle Puff looked at each other and then simultaneously shrugged.
Cadance groaned. “Okay, what are you doing all the way out here in the park this early?”
Chrysalis shuffled her hooves a bit. “I was out getting some… medicine from the farmer pony and I ran into her near the Forest. I tried ignoring her but she kept bugging so I tried chasing her off and well…” Chrysalis shrugged again. “One thing led to another, I suppose.” she grinned weakly at her joke.
Cadance nodded and yawned. “Alright then, that sounds reasonable. Let’s just go back to bed.” Cadance turned to leave but noticed Chrysalis was not following her. She looked back to see the changeling and Fluffle Puff looking uneasily at each other. “What’s wrong?”
Fluffle Puff blew another raspberry, which Cadance assumed was her way of communicating, and Chrysalis blushed lightly. “She kind of lacks a home at the moment. I don’t suppose we could…?” Chrysalis grinned hopefully.
Cadance found it hard to resist smiling. There she was, a former queen, looking for all the world like a foal with a puppy. Cadance sighed and the pretty pink pony princess went over to the pink puff of pony fluff, lowering her head slightly so they were nose to nose.
“You’re not some sort of evil demon or psychotic criminal, are you?” Cadance asked.
Fluffle Puff licked her nose in response.
Despite herself, Cadance giggle. “Okay, good enough for me, let’s go.” she turned and began making her way back to the tree house, Chrysalis and Fluffle Puff falling in step behind her.