Chapters Might Be just a day...
Chapter 1 – Read first understand later
The late morning sun pours in through the windows around the library giving a nice homey warm feeling to the tree house library you reside in. But your mind is not on the happy thoughts of your easy starting morning, instead your mind like your ears and eyes are drawn to the two ponies that stand in front of where you sit.
The small light purple little filly's head slightly tilted up from where she sits on the floor to focus on the lavender mare's face as her voice continues to trail on. Violet may not always want to continue with Twilight's magic training, but she does enjoy seeing the mare's happy smiles that accompany every spell, despite the outcome. You've noticed a few things about Violet lately since her magic training first started.
Violet's ability to control her magic has gotten a little better, as long as she's not upset and really wants to do the correct spell. The little filly has also started to develop her own love of books, really no surprise when her mother is always pushing something but it still surprised you and Twilight when you started finding books stuffed under her bed that you don't remember her taking.
You shift your eyes gaze as Twilight comes closer to the table, her horn has a faint purple glow to it as the quill she set to the inkwell beside you comes to her magical grasp. Her voice comes almost to a mutter directed mainly to herself, but you listen to it as she flicks the quill to the paper, "...Alright, Violet has completed bounding spells...mhmmm, I guess we can start on this..."
A slight smile starts to run across your face as you look over Twilight's changing expression, "Running out of stuff?"
She cocks her eyebrow to your words as she smiles, "Of course not, it's just somethings are going to need a little bit more practice than others." She shrugs a little as she looks back to her list, "I figured it would be easier if we start with the easier stuff first and then move to the more strenuous things."
You nod your head to the comment as you speak up, "What kind of strenuous spells?"
Twilight's grasp on the quil is loosened as it floats back to it's inkwell, "Well, every test is different but its still designed to test foals-..." Her voice comes to an end as a new sound comes to the room.
The low chime doesn't scream attention but you and Twilight both turn back to the light purple filly as you notice she’s moved towards a few bookshelves that sit to this room.
A faint giggle comes from Twilight as she trots closer towards the filly, her baby like encouragement turns the filly around as one of the books from the shelf comes out and begins to hold in her grasp, "What are you looking for Violet?"
The filly blinks to the comment as she floats the book towards her face, the cover of the small brownish book comes to her sight as she looks it over. But the book doesn't stay to the filly's eyes only as she turns it towards Twilight with a faint smile.
You and Twilight look over the book as Twilight nods her head, "Oh, you want me to read it to you?"
You study the book's title for a moment as you think over a reason for there even to be a book for it's subject, The Life and Times of Discord.
Violet floats the book a little more towards the lavender mare as her magic chime rings through the room, but the low chime of the magic doesn't stay its rhythmic low for long as the faint blue glow starts to break away into a rising less than harmonious chime.
To the new noise Twilight's horn quickly sparks up in its own purple glow as Violet's magic becomes engulfed in its new color, but before you or Twilight can speak Violet's magical chime has sparked up to a loud green glow that ends with a pop as the light purple filly disappears from the room, "ViolAhChowwo!!"
Your mind's images comes to it's end as the bed next to you rocks a little, you listen to the mare's groan as you push your dream to the back of your mind; where you've locked away any other too real feeling dream.
The morning air is filled with the oak house's scent, but you're pretty sure it's just because today is the first day your nose has really been fully cleared. Its kind of funny that how much you appreciate Ponyville's scents when you haven't been able to smell them for a few days.
You hold your smirk as you start to poke your hoof towards the mare's side, "So how ya feeling?" You give no attempts at trying to play coy as you rub your cold hoof that laid above the covers all night over her warm coat.
"Unnnhh..." The annoyed groan is followed by a slight sniffle from the lavender mare as she pulls the covers a little more towards herself.
A faint chuckle comes from you as you continue your poking of the mare, "Hmm?"
"Mhmm..." No real response comes from the mare as you move your head to tease the back part of her mane, the senseless moan comes back to your ears with what sounds more like a real made up of groggy and stuffy nosed words, "...I never got sick before *sniff* I blame you..."
You give a laugh through your clear nostrils as you take your head from her, "At least I don't roll away from you in bed."
A light giggle comes from Twilight as she sighs and starts to shift in the bed a little, "That's because you already had this co-AhChowwo!"
Another laugh comes from you as you feel her body jerk from her less than ladylike bellow, "At least it only last a few days."
"HA!" Twilight's stuffy voice comes back in a more commonly know it all tone as she speaks up, "I never really studied healing spells, but I know how to get rid of a simple cold...Besides I can't be sick for Winter Wrap tomorrow."
You blink to her words as you talk, "Wait...why didn't you just use a spell like that on me?"
"Because, you shouldn't really have any outer magic running through your body." As Twilight's words end you roll your eyes to the words. Not a moment passes before the covers of the bed become cloaked in your own purple magic as you lean your head a little towards the mare with a thought, bring it on magic...
As the covers start to float from the bed Twilight quickly springs to life as her front hooves flail towards the covers and bringing them back to her body with a slightly annoyed moan.
You sit up a little more in the bed as you cock your eye to the mare, really? I'm the one that wants to get up? As the thought rolls through your mind you look to the window, the world outside has been sent into a nice winter morning and you can tell that Twilight decided to sleep in a little longer today.
The lavender mare still has her hooves wrapped to the bed's covers as you start to move from the bed to start your morning mind battle on whether or not to just crawl back into bed...But with a few stretches of your legs you bring yourself to stand as you turn back to Twilight. "Your not getting up?"
No answer comes from the mare as you quickly change your voice to a slightly lighter tone, "Princess Don Nothing's star student is sleeping in?!" You give a playful and faked gasp as you watch her figure rollover.
Her eyes squint to you as the soft purple orbs in her pool of white begin to look you over. From the stare you shift a little, but her voice comes to the room in just a moment holding it's clearly stuffy nosed tone, "Why are you so...awake today?"
You shrug to the comment as you watch the mare starting to stir more and more from the bed, her tone holds as she cocks her head with a slight sniffle of her nose, "...Ugh, you know something I never even felt this tired when I have regular colds." Her front left hoof comes to point to you as you smile to her.
With your smile being held to your face you poke your fun to her comment, "You've never caught an alien's cold."
Twilight rolls her eyes to the comment with a faint giggle as she moves from the bed, as her hooves touch to the ground her horn sparks up in a low purple as the bed's sheets and covers start to become a neat and perfectly laid style, with the pillows in just the right order and space apart from each other. You smirk to the bed's too professionally magical made bed as you turn from the room, it still looks good when I make it.
The sound of Twilight's hooves doesn't start up behind you, but you don't stop your own path as you quietly try to sneak your way towards Violet's room. You're a little surprised the filly didn't already gallop towards the room, but you hold the thought off as you think it over, she's just sleeping.
As the threshold to the room comes to you, you peer inside towards the empty bed. It catches you off guard for a moment but you just stare to the bed as you look it over, the covers have been for lack of a better word thrown across the top to make it look somewhat made and the pillow's have been just pushed up to the back of the bed giving the illusion of being neat.
A smile comes over your face as you look over the room, there's no doubt that the bed has been made childishly.
"Violet up yet?" Twilight's voice comes next to you as the lavender mare trots beside you with her mane brush held by her purple puppeteering. Her eyes quick turn to the room as she nods, "Hm, she makes her bed like you..."
A dumb smile comes over your face as you shift your gaze a little towards her. But you meet an already expecting face as she starts to move towards the room with a faint laugh, "I'll fix it."
"What's wrong with my-..." Your voice comes to an end as the sound of a plate shattering comes ringing through the house. You quickly bring your trot back up as you think to yourself, mini Twilight now thinks she can do everything by herself now huh?
End of chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 2 – After all
Your trot down the stairs comes and ends fast as you swing your head towards the room, but as you do you get your answer to the noise with a slight bit of surprise.
"Sorry, sorry."
Twilight comes next to you as she floats her mane brush towards the table as she cocks her head to the small purple dragon cleaning up the broken plate, "Spike?"
The little dragon waves his claws to the name as he continues to sweep the plate up, "Ya I know, but it wasn't my fault."
You turn to the light purple filly that sits at the table with a giggle smile to the dragon that stands from the table cleaning the mess of food and plate he's made, "Violet?"
To the words the bowless tailed filly shakes her head as her hooves comes to talk, but you have no idea what she's saying as you repeat the hoove's motion, "What weird chicken?"
Violet's right hoof comes to a point as she holds a giggly smile to something else in the room, it takes you a moment for you to follow what she wants but you quickly pick up on her hoof as you turn around.
But there's no pony that comes to sight as you stare to a brown owl that has perched itself on one of the few bookshelves in the room, your first reaction is a slight bit of confusion with a hint of worry as to how a bird got into the house.
"Owlicious!" Twilight's calm and slightly excited voice breaks through your confusion as you watch the owl turning its head towards the lavender mare's stuffy nosed tone as she trots towards the bookshelves, "...You came by a little late this winter."
"Who?" The owl's tone comes back with no real sense or meaning but the typical word holds its own unique tone.
You squint your eyes to the bird as you think to yourself, did I meet this thing before? You don't get the chance to ask a question as the room comes filled with a wheezing giggle as Violet wiggles her front hooves happily towards the strange creature.
To the laugh Spike turns his head back to Violet as he points his claw to her, "Ya ya, just laugh that things not funny when it's banging on your window in the morning."
"Who?" Owlicious's word comes back to the room precisely as Spike's voice comes to an end. The noise brings an annoyed groan from the small dragon as he turns back to you and Twilight, "That dumb bird woke me up too early, and then I had to let him in!"
Spike's voice comes with a slight whine but you ignore it as you think to yourself, how does he know it's a guy? A faint giggle comes from Twilight as she waves her hoof to Spike, "You know Owlicious is more than a bird, he's a nice help around the library...and he's smart too." A smile comes over Twilight's face as she turns back to the owl.
"Come on down Owlicious, I think I still have your perch from last year." Twilight taps her hoof to her mouth as the owl's wings open and it starts it slow descent towards Twilight's back where it lands.
You quickly notice her magic as you rush over to her and distract her, "No Violet, lets not turn the owl into a snowball."
Spike walks past you with his eyes half closed as his usual cold morning complaining like tone, expressed from his voice, "Pff, I already got my hello from her...That’s what I get from making good pancakes?"
Violet holds a smile to the words as she tries to give you an innocent stare, you give her a faint glare but you can't hold it for long as the sound of Twilight's hooves comes back to the room. The mare turns her gaze to the mostly empty plate in front of Violet as she speaks up in a faint baby like tone through her stuffy nose, "Did some pony brush her teeth before breakfast?"
The light purple filly proudly shakes her head as Twilight's horn sparks back up in a purple glow as the plate comes from the table. Twilight stuffy one comes back as she moves a little closer towards the filly, "And how has your big filly teeth been coming along?"
You give a slight smirk to the comment as you watch Violet's mouth open, the teeth she lost a week ago have came back with in a few days and any new teeth she's lost have come back pretty much in the next one or two days. You and Twilight were a little surprised to see that a few teeth had a slight point to them, but there too faint to really notice and it really just looks like her teeth have just come back in the same order with no problems. Strangely though the slight points didn't come to a surprise for you.
Twilight gets a smile to the filly as she nods her head, "Looks like Doctor Stable was right about magic helping them come in."
From the words Violet closes her mouth as she starts up her hooves, Twilight's smile grows a little more as she nods her head, "Yep, but Daddy will be helping you with your magic today."
You don't really hold the same smile to the filly's request as you think it over, ya Violet more magic training...You turn your head to Twilight as you speak up, "She doesn't have to do anything with books today right?"
Twilight cocks her head to your comment a little confused but she shakes her head as she walks towards the kitchen, "No, she already did all her bounding and teleporting item spells." Twilight's stance takes up a slightly more comfortable stance as her stuffy nosed voice starts to take on a longer paced style.
As her voice starts to ring around the room Spike comes back to the threshold of the room as he takes the plate from Twilight's floating magic. She doesn't take notice to the lapse of an item in her magic as her horn holds its purple while her voice continues, "...I still don't think you should be around too much magic, but Violet has to take Celestia's test before her first birthday..." She taps her hoof to her mouth as she looks aimlessly towards the ceiling, "...The next few weeks we can go over enchanting spells, I put a few enchantments on some brooms in the basement that way I didn't have to worry about cleaning or having Spike falling down the stairs to clean it..."
You laugh to her comment as you stop her words, "Whoa, enchanted brooms, Disney would be proud."
"Whose Disney?" Twilight blinks to your comment as she cocks her head. From her intuitive stare your mind goes blank to the faint mainly mindless thought, "Uh...s-so what are we doing today?"
Twilight shakes the comment off as her know it all tone comes back, "Well, I don't want her to start breaking enchantments yet so I thought we could start on egg warming spells first."
"Egg warming!" Spike comes out from the kitchen with a wide smile as he talks, "Me, do the spell on me!"
You blink to his comment as you speak up, "Won't that hurt?"
Spike rolls his hand to you as he crosses his arms, "I jumped into a lava pool once, nothing is too hot for me."
Lava? Your speechless as you look to Twilight just hoping that she heard Spike's nonsense to, but she's unfazed by the comment as she nods her head, "Well Spike I wanted to try that spell when i'm home, just in case something happens."
"Like what?" You give a little laugh as you continue, "Heck, I could warm an egg." You puff your chest out a little proud as Twilight's expression turns a bit sheepish.
"Well...Violet is able to easily pick up on spells after she sees them, just like me...so I just want to make sure she doesn't accidentally mess up that spell like I did."
You look over her expression as you talk, "What did you do?"
A laugh comes from Spike as he nods his head towards Twilight, "when she heated my egg, and then did a growth spell on my."
Twilight cuts the little dragon off as she rolls her hoof, "But that's why i'll be here for that spell, any hooves, you will just be going over a few simple levitation spells." Twilight's voice picks up as she continues, "Ooooh, Violet could practice her hoof writing again."
To the words the little filly sticks her tongue out a little, you notice her reaction as Twilight continues, "Ya she ca-AhChowwo!" Her sentence comes to an end as her horn sparks a little from her sneeze. "Ugh...First things first, I need to look over that cold spell again."
End of chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 3 – Winter why
The morning has rolled on through like it has for the last few weeks since Violet started practicing magic . Well normal for you, seeing as how you kind of felt that any moment the owl was going to swoop in and steal your breakfast...But that never happened.
Twilight's voice has lost it's stuffy nosed drawl and she has gained back some of her normal energy. You kind of wish you could have just got rid of your cold so easily, but you're not complaining seeing as how now Violet most likely can't get it.
"...Spike, don't forget you and me are going to be outside for most of the day, so you need to be dressed warm ok?" Twilight holds her gaze to the dragon that starts up from the stairs.
The purple dragon gives a faint groan as he continues up, "Well, I guess it won't be so bad...At least Rarity is making the hot chocolate this time."
At the end of his words you hear a knock at the door, you stand from the table as you move to open the front door. But your slow opening of it is quickly speed up as a white mare with some kind of mane wrap comes into the house followed by the cyan pegasus. You try to give a friendly hello but your voice is cut off as the two familiar mares trot into the house.
You close the door behind them as their conversation continues on, "...All i'm saying Rainbow is that you could have moved that cloud!"
"Pff, ya, but then that side of the street would have gotten none of the last winter snow." To Rainbow's words the white mare's eyes widen, "So! Why does the street need snow anyways hmm? Why do we need winter anyways?" The wrap around her mane starts to come undone as the wrap begins to reveal itself as a sky blue scarf, "Honestly, just look at this mane, I just washed it when you came to get me, i'm positively freezing."
Spike moves from the stairs as he holds a big smile to the white mare, "I can warm y-.."
"Perfect, here you go darling, not too warm I don't want my still damp mane to frizz." Rarity's horn holds it's blue tint as the unwarped scarf floats towards the dragon, without hesitation the little dragon darts back up stairs and out of the room, for what you don't know or really care.
As Rarity's face comes back to Rainbow the white mare continues the conversation, "Really Rainbow, next time you can at least stop the snow."
Rainbow's eyes go a little wide as her voice comes back with a tomboyish crack, "You told me to wake you up early!"
The white mare ignores the comment as Twilight's voice comes to the room in a friendly and slightly confused tone, "Um, you two are a little early, the winter wrap up meeting is not even until midday."
Rarity straightens her stance as she points her hoof to the tan saddle and then to her bright yellow boots, her voice holds a overzealous gasp as she talks, "Twilight...You suggest this crime against fashion, and I want it to be over with as soon as possible."
Twilight rolls her eyes as she talks, "Crime against fashion?"
"Yes, I have to wear the same winter wrap up outfit today that I have to wear tomorrow, it's simply dreadful." Rarity closes her eyes as she tilts her head up.
The cyan mare and Twilight both shake their heads a little to her comment as Rainbow trots towards the happily wiggling filly, "I don't see the big deal Rarity, its just a saddle and its not like we normally wear something anyways." At the end of her sentence Rainbow turns a smile to the filly as she takes her and herself from the ground as she starts her little game of flight.
You watch the cyan mare with your own smile, but you lose it as Rarity's laugh comes to the room, "HA! Just a saddle?! That's what you would say, you don't even have a date to the Night before Wrap up tonight."
Rainbow blows to the comment as the filly in her front hooves that happily dangles her hooves to the ground becomes her point of interest, "So what, not like i'm going for anything other than the special cider Applejack saved."
Rarity rolls her eyes as she nods to Twilight, "You two will at least be wearing something formal right?"
You think over her comment as you give a faint chuckle, i'm not wearing a tux and without that I don't think I have anything else formal. Twilight shakes her head as she speaks up for your silent thoughts, "Well, we already talked about not going."
"Not going? But why are you not going Twilight?" A light laugh comes from Rarity as she looks between you and Twilight, "You have obviously have somepony you can go with."
Twilight smiles as she nods her head with a slight blush, "Oh I know, but it's mainly a well..." She stutters on the word a little, "...a dance..." Her voice quickly pops up in speed as she continues, "...And we don't have any pony to watch Violet, and its far too late not to be home."
You blink to her tone as you think her words over, you and Twilight both knew about the winter wrap up thing but you both kind of just decided it was too late to leave Violet by herself or with just Spike.
Despite Rarity's quivering lip Rainbow's voice comes over the white mare's as she starts to a gentler flight path, "Really? You don't have anypony to watch Violet?"
Twilight nods to the comment as she speaks up, "Well ya, my parents are in Canterlot and we can't just leave Spike here with Violet at night, its not fair to him and we should be here."
Rarity is silent for a moment before she gives a simple nod, "I suppose that makes sense...that is a little bit of a let down though, this year was going to be a lot more formal rather than last years."
"Pff, Vinyl Scratch was what made that night so fun, Octavia's group won't even hoof a candle to last year." As Rainbow's comment ends she slowly brings the filly back to the ground as she sets herself next to Violet, "Are you sure you asked everypony Twilight?"
The lavender mare waves her hoof to the comment as she moves towards the stairs, "I won't be asking one of my friends to give up there night for us, now hold on i'll get my winter wrap up stuff and we can start the plans for tomorrow."
You watch the mare trotting up the stairs for a moment before you turn back to Rainbow's hoof tapping silently. But her silence ends fast as she notices your stare, "I guess it kind of is a good thing, Aj said she had a special cider this year, and it's not like we should be in the same room with drinks."
Her comment brings a chuckle from you as you shrug to her, cider? Ya, I can take that.
Rarity's hooves break you and Rainbow's laughs as she trots towards Violet, "Oooh you know what would go good with your coat's color a nice warm spring color." Rarity taps her hoof to her mouth as Violet blinks a little confused to the words.
It doesn't really take long for Twilight and Spike to come down from upstairs, which for Violet is a good thing seeing as how Rarity has slightly been smothering the little filly with compliments and mane suggestions. Most of witch Violet doesn't even remotely care about.
"Here you go Rarity." Spike hands over the neatly folded scarf the white mare gave him earlier as her faint blue magic starts to wrap around it, "Thank you darling..." As the scarf comes to lay around her neck she lets out a girly high pitched joyish sequel, "Ooooh what did you do, its very warm."
Spike crosses his mitt covered claws to his arms as he speaks up, "A dragon knows how to heat things up."
As Rarity continues to enjoy her new warm garment and Rainbow continues to shake and roll her eyes Twilight comes over towards you as she neatly rolls a long scroll like piece of paper into a pocket on the side of her saddle, "I really don't know how long this meeting will take..." She gives a faint giggle as the flap to her side pocket comes closed, "Ponyville has never really planned for Winter Wrap up, but I doubt there should be any problems."
"Pfff, as if...We got Twilight Sparkle as the teams manager." Rainbow rolls her hoof to her own words as she continues, "...You probably already planned everything out, heck you probably even planed for a mistake or something."
"Actually I planned for Ponville's most common mishaps and problems, that way if they come up we have a way to continue Winter Wrap up." Twilight gives a proud smile as Rainbow just blinks to the words.
But the tomboyish mare doesn't stay quiet for long as she shrugs the comment off, "Alright lets get going, me and Aj can't stay all day from her farm...it turns out some of the normal snow clouds mixed with the Everfree forest, so I have to try and push them back." She gives a faint sigh to her comment as she trots towards the front door.
Rarity and Spike follow after the mare as you say your goodbyes to Twilight, the lavender mare turns from you towards the filly as she smiles, "Be good for daddy Violet."
The filly pauses for a moment before she gives an innocent smile quickly followed by a nod. Twilight follows after her friends as the filly's nod comes to an end.
As the door to the house comes to a close and the slightly wider gust of cold air from outside became quite you turn your attention back to the light purple filly, "Alright Violet...mommy says we have to do magic training."
To the words the filly playfully starts to mess up her neatly brushed mane that Twilight set to resemble her own, as the filly's usual mane style comes back to her she turns her stare back to you as her hooves come to speak up.
You give a little chuckle to the comment as you shrug, "Looks like you did a few big spells to me." As you hold your smile and lower your head to hers,"...But I think we should at least try something."
Violet squints to your comment but her thinking is brought to an end as she brings her happy gallop like trot to a fast speed directed towards the main part of the library. You watch her path for a moment before you quickly follow after her, note to self make sure to pick the book first.
End of chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 – A gust of old
It's been probably close to about an hour since Twilight and everypony left, you're not completely sure but you've gotten a lot better at guessing pony time for the most part. Truthfully you don't really care seeings as how you and Violet have found something to do, Twilight said she had to practice magic, but she didn't say for how long so you've decided to make today just a relax day.
You and the little filly have taken a spot towards one of the larger bookshelves in the main part of the library, really anywhere would be find but you would rather not go up the small staircase that leads to the upper level and you didn't want to sit too near the door incase somepony decided to check out or drop off a book.
You've always kind of enjoyed sitting on the floor rather than sitting in a chair or something, mainly because you feel off balance with your front hooves off the ground. But you do find your own unique enjoyment from having the light purple filly so close to you as she sits on her little pillow, ponies grow up too fast and you don't know how much time you have until the little filly is no longer little. So you're going to enjoy her childlike needs to slightly snuggle up close to you while it last.
A few spell books lay around the floor mixed with one or two storybooks Violet picked out. Reading never really has been something you've enjoyed and every time you hear Twilight say, just read a book you always get a sad reminder there's no tv in this pony world...Not that you really can remember it all the time but when you do your realize how badly you actually miss just flipping through random channels.
You push the thought aside as you continue to read the simple foal's story that Violet picked out.
"...And that's when it happened, the great big one eyed-..." You stop your building and playfully excited voice for dramatic effect as the sound of a hoof knocking to the door comes around the house.
You turn your head to the door as you float the book face down to the ground to hold the page, the little filly loses a bit of her excited and interested forward lean as you trot towards the door, "Hold on Violet..."
You bring your trot to an end as you move your hoof to the door and put on a friendly smile, but as you look over the smaller grey stallion with dark blackish mane standing in the doorway you lose a little bit of your smile. Your eyes drift over his satchel bag that acts as his own winter saddle from its size, "Hello betrunken..." He gives a smile as he continues, "...I need your-..."
To the words you close the door just hoping the small stallion will disappear, you stare to the red oak door for only a moment as the sound of a hoof knocking on it comes back to the house. You give a sigh as you realize your attempt at vanishing the small stallion will not be working.
You open the door again as you speak up you're already pre-planned response, "I don't care about your basement and no Stony you can't hav-..." You stop your words as you look over a slightly dark orange pegasus, "Volt?"
The stallion holds a sheepish friendly smile as he brings his right hoof to wave hello with his voice, but he's cut off from his greeting as the small grey stallion pushes past him and you into the library, "Really? You leave the door open for the unseriös one but not for me?" Stony shakes his head as he continues his trot towards the main part of the library.
"Wha-...Stony, I don't care about your basement and i'm not giving you any mane." Your mind quickly runs through your previous statement as the stallion turns his head back to you with his halting trot.
Stony's face shows a bit of confusion as he looks you over, "You act like we're not friends?"
You blink to the words as you try to speak up, but your comment is halted as Volt comes into the house followed by two higher pitched childlike voices.
You turn to the sounds as you watch two familiar looking young colts following in behind the orange pegasus. As the colts enter the house Violet brings herself up from her seat on the floor as she starts towards where the new ponies have comes to stand.
As the filly trots to the room the two colts shoot back a smile as they trot over towards her and start to talk, but your ability to listen to the foal's conversation is lost as you turn back to Stony with a new slightly defeated tone, "What do you need?"
You roll your eyes to the comment as you speak up, "I'm sorry Stony."
The stallion taps his hoof to his mouth as he hums to himself, "It's not believable."
To the words Volt speaks up as he nods towards the main library, "Can you just get what you need? I don't want to have to run all over town."
The small stallion's attention turns to the pegasus as he points his hoof to him, "Ha, that's not true, you just don't want your mare finding out you left the house." He turns to you as he looks you over, "hmmm, I have yet to see your mare, I assume you are foal sitting as well?" He gives a cocky smile as he lets his joke roll thought the room.
You don't share in his amusement as you just stare to the considerably smaller stallion, but he loses his laugh as he rolls his hoof to you, "Oh you mare are no fun...might as well go back to what I need."
The grey stallion turns back to the library as he starts to search the bookshelves, the orange pegasus turns to the two colts as he speaks up, "Sparky, Bell, you two should just have a seat...I think Tombstone is going to take a little."
"Owk dad." The light orange colt and the blue unicorn colt move towards the table as Violet follows after them. You move towards the grey stallion as you speak up now trying to act like you really know what you're doing, "What are you looking for?"
But as you move after the stallion he holds his hoof up, "Shhh, I am thinking-...MY Luna is that an OWL!" Stony's hoof comes to point at the owl that's been perched happily in the corner near the window.
"Who?"
Stony's trot comes to him fast as he moves towards the bird, but as he does this you quickly move to cut him off, "No, your not taking it's beak or something."
The grey stallion stops his trot as you move in front of his path, with a roll of the eyes he waves his hoof to you as he tries to move past you, "Nonsense betrunken..." He gives a slight laugh as he shakes his head, "...A beak is no good, I would need a feather...just one."
Stony turns his head back to the owl as he looks it over, to the strange pony's stare Owlicious eyes go a little wider.
"Wha-...No stony, you're not plucking feathers." Your voice brings a slight sigh from the stallion as he shrugs and turns his gaze back to the bookshelves, "Fine...Now happily follow me around until I have found the book i'm looking for."
You blink to his comment but before you can ask a question the stallion's horn has sparked up as books start to come from the shelves and float towards him, "No...No...No..." As each book leaves his magic it floats to you and you quickly bring your own magic to keep them from falling to the floor as the stallion continues on down the rows. Volt just watches the slight magic show with a hint of confusion and amazement to your magic.
Violet and the other two foals don't take notice to the magic show as they stand near the table continuing to talk, "...I'm the best at snowball fights now, nopony has even come close to beating me after you showed me how to do that thing." The blue unicorn colt quickly changes his excitement as he brings his head up to a straighter tilt, "That was pretty cool...for a filly."
The light purple filly gives her own response but the colt doesn't follow the simple hoof motion as he just stares to her. But her silence doesn't prompt another response from the colt as the light orange pegasus moves to one of the seats at the table as he shifts his hooves to a small pocket on his saddle, "You ownly win because nopony else can throw as fast."
He turns his sigh to Violet as the normal stuffy nosed voiced colt tries to whisper though his smile, "He still lost to a filwy"
The words bring a slight smile from Violet as Sparky cracks up in a childlike giggle, but the two foal's laughs turn the other colt's squeaky voice to a faked deeper tone as he tries to puff his chest out, "At least I can throw a snowball, heck I bet I could even sled down Feather Peak hill."
Sparky loses some of his giggly tone as he blinks a little surprised to the words, "But, that place is only for big foals?"
From the words Violet's ears flick as she listens more a little harder to the cocky blue stallion's words, "Pff, so? I bet I could go down it in like sixty hours flat..." The colt stutters on his words as he quickly tries to correct himself, "I mean sixty minutes...I mean uh...you know the numbers that's a minutes."
Sparky smiles as he answer, "Sixty seconds?"
The giggly tone brings the blue colt's eyes to an annoyed squint as he produces his bottom lip a little, "So what, I was close."
Violet gives her own faint wheezing laugh to the colt's funny and annoyed face as Sparky unfolds the paper that he pulled from his saddle's pocket, "Well, my dad wont take us to Feather pwek if we don't at least start our pre-school prwject."
The blue colt gives a loud groan as he tilts his head up, "Ugh...Why do we have a project for that any hooves." He brings his head back down to face the colt as he talks, "My brother says that-that preschool is not even um...the real thing, it don't even matter at all!" His excitable voice comes to an end as he holds his wide eyes to the orange colt. But he turns his gaze back to Violet as he nudges her, "You were smart to not come back."
Violet just blinks to the colt's comment as Sparky speaks up, "Well we still have to dwo it." He looks down to the paper as he sighs, "I don't know why I picked math as my last thingy to do."
To the changed expression on the colt's face Violet moves closer to where the colt sits as she looks over the crumbled up paper. Theres only five questions on it but none of them are done or even started, the problems are simple and very easy addition and subtraction...which makes the little filly stare a little confused to it as she thinks over the colt's comment.
Sparky dips his hoof back to his saddle's pocket as he pulls out a pencil, but as it comes into view Violet's horn sparks up as she takes it from his hoof and puts it to the paper. The confused colt just watches the pencil and it's puppet master making quick work of the page as the chime of her low blue magic holds to the table.
It only takes a moment before Violet floats the taken pencil back to Sparky. It takes a few seconds for the colt to look over the numbers on the paper, but as he does he turns a smile to Violet, "Hey...how did you do that so fast?"
Bell gets his own smile as he quickly darts his hoof to his saddle, "Oh oh, could you do mine? I don't like writing stuff but I picked it."
To the words Violet sticks her tongue out a little and shakes her head.
"What?! Come on?" The blue colt's faked manly voice turns more into a feminine whine as he holds his fluorescent green eyes to her, "No fair, you helped Sparky."
Violet holds a smile as she keeps her head up copying her mother's own refusal like stance.
Bell gives up on the plea as the sound of your voice comes back more to the room.
"Stony! Just tell me what you're looking for?!" The small grey stallion pauses his stream of books as he holds a slight surprised face to your tone, you're not mad but you're starting to get annoyed from the constant and same exact tone he used for the word no...that has come from every book.
Stony cocks his head as he holds a book to his grasp, "Oooh, I'm sorry. I had thought the betrunken narr never knew anything about his mare's library."
You blink to his words as you float the book in your grasp back to it's spot, "You're still mad about the door aren't you?"
The grey stallion pushes his head up proudly as he talks, "I have the right to look for a book however I want, I have a Ponyville library card..." He quickly rushes through his sentence as he continues, "I just don't have it with me-BUT I can still look however I want, and for however long I want."
You look him over unimpressed as you think to yourself, obviously this stallion doesn't know who you are...Not worth it, "Fine."
"Good." Stony floats the book to his face as he nods, "Oh look this is what I needed." His horn's spell drops as the few other books he had fall to the floor as he trots away with his face buried to the cover.
You shoot a death stare that goes unseen as you float the books from the ground, "Hey, I don't come into your house and do this."
Stony rolls his hoof to your words as he turns his head back to you, "Of course not, you just eat my roses pass out on my lawn and allow your foal to turn my house into a snow globe. Spider mane was soaked for hours after I found the poor thing trapped under the cup I left it in."
"What?-"
Your voice is cut off as Stony reaches into his satchel, "Enough talk, I must do what needs to be done."
End of chapter 4
Chapter 5 – Enough talk?
To the word the orange pegasus that has stood in the main library's entrance way for the last few minutes speaks up, "Finally, can we go now? I told Amethyst I would have the foals to here before midday."
A laugh comes over Stony as he stops his hoof's digging in his saddle, "Ha! Please, you are the foal sitter...But yes we need to leave. Come betrunken, we have much to do."
"Ya no, i'm not going into a basement again." You give your own chuckle as you look over the grey stallion's almost shocked face.
Volt follow's your words as he pokes his head out a little more towards the small pony, "Ya, why did I even need to come with you?"
Stony's answer comes quickly to the orange stallion as he waves his hoof, "You owe me for fixing your mare's painting that you broke."
Volt rolls his eyes to the comment as he sighs, "That was five months ago and I paid you."
"Yes, but I did not charge full price and it was late. Besides I need a pegasus for this and also a dumpfbacke." He turns his eyes to you with a faint smile, which only brings an annoyed reaction as you speak up, "What does that mean?"
"Ugh, betrunken...you work and live in a library...find a book on Griffin language."
As Stony's comment comes to end your mind tries to wrap around his words, griffin? But your astonishment to the name doesn't last long as Volt speaks up again.
"Can you at least tell me what i'm doing?"
The grey stallion nods his head, "Of course..." He reaches into his satchels pocket as he pulls out a glass jar, but as you look over the brightish green thing inside you go speechless.
Volt on the other hoof immediately speaks up, "Thats a Parasprite! Why would you bring a Parasprite into Ponyville?"
You think over the words for a moment as you squint to the small almost no bigger than a golf ball sized round body with nothing more then two large eyes two small black bug like feet and two bug like wings to it's figure.
From the stallion's loud and fast words the grey stallion smiles as his horn takes the jar into it's magical hold and brings it to float next to the book, "Correct, it is a Parasprite...But I changed this one."
Your silent as the orange pegasus continues to speak fast, "W-what did you do to it?"
Stony puffs his chest out proudly as he tilts his head up, "I put a spell on it to only eat snow-..."
"Why?" Your word brings the stallion down sharply from his self induced high as he rolls his eyes and explains, "Because, a normal Parasprite eats any kind of food no matter if it's full or not..." He wiggles his hoof to you as he smiles, "There are also a few that still eat clothing and buildings thanks to a failed spell your mare did when they first came to town."
You nod your head not really believing the stallion's words as you wait for him to finish, "...This is one of those, but like I said I put a spell on it to only eat snow."
Volt's eyes get a little wide as he points his hoof to the stallion, "Tombstone, you told me it was because no pony put snow clouds above your house, I had to personally escort a few weather ponies there last week!"
Stony blows to the comment as he floats the jar to the other side of him, as he does this Owlowiscious focuses on the bug like animal in the jar,"Yes well, I need you in case the thing gets out..." He laughs as he continues, "When the snow is gone tomorrow this thing will revert back to eating anything and everything; and I can't have it running around town, i'm a mortician, not a animal catcher."
A defeated sigh comes from the orange stallion as he talks, "Fine, lets just get this done before Amethyst gets back from the Winter Wrap up meeting, she's a team leader so I still have time."
Stony nods his head as he talks, "Good then betru-..." The small stallion's words are cut off as the owl darts from it's perch towards the glass jar, Stony's eyes shrink with fear from the talon stretched animal as he drops his magic and jumps out of the way.
Within a moment the glass jar hits the ground with a shattering sound as the bright green Parasprite quickly zips around the room.
Stony drops to the floor as he covers his head with his front hooves, "My Luna it's free!"
The words send the dark orange stallion into a quick jump from the room as the owl's screeches and food wanting primal instincts send it chasing after the fast moving bug thing.
Your eyes widen to the scene around you as you duck your head trying to avoid each swooping sweep of the brown owl that has in one second taken over your house.
To the commotion in the other room the small blue unicorn colt gives off a slightly girly laugh as he starts to hold his sides from the way the older stallion's are acting.
Sparky and Violet don't really follow the laugh though, and as the few moments start to turn into an almost never ending cycle of bird on bug flight the light purple filly moves towards the room with her horn glowing faint green.
You continue to duck your head from the fast moving animals as you try to grab at the frantically chasing bird.
Violet holds her eyes to the room as she traces the quick moving golf ball like bug, but her moments of watching comes to an end as the filly tilts her head forward and sends a quick bolt of green magic into the room. Only the bolt misses the bug and hits you in the face and some of the wall behind you. The bolt turns your laid down mane into a frost combed masterpiece and throwing your warm face into a cold shock, which you can only use to blink in confusion towards the light purple filly standing in the doorway of the main library.
Violet's ears drop down as she realizes her missed spell and her head sinks a little from her once ready and proud stance. But she quickly brings her head back up as she sticks her tongue out a little as she again tries to trace the quick moving bug. Again her bolt comes through the room, the stream of magic misses again as a random part of the room takes on a frosted shimmer from her magic. But the filly is quick to let out another bolt, that this time makes contact with the small bug as it turns into a frozen ball and drops to the ground. As it hits the wood floor the slight bit of ice breaks but the Parasprite doesn't move as it's wings get a little drenched in the quickly melted water.
Owlowiscious slowly stops it's flight path as it flaps it's self back to its perch. As the bird comes to rest you wipe the frost from your face as you hold a smile to the little filly.
Volt slowly brings his head to poke back around the corner of the room as he holds a slightly surprised stare to the little filly, Stony holds the same stare but the grey stallion is quick to dash over to the still grounded bug as he reaches into his satchel, "Good, now you can clean your slight snow globe of a house." He floats a jar towards the bug as he continues, "Ah...this is why I always have a spare."
The grey stallion turns his head to the pegasus at the threshold as he talks, "You know, I asked you to come with me in case it got out...I did not ask you to follow me around so that I could hear foals."
A sheepish nod comes from the stallion as the two colts start up in a slight gasped voice, "WHOA! That was cool!"
Bell takes a hoof forward as he watches Stony scooping the Parasprite into the other jar, "Hey can you teach me that?"
Violet blinks to the comment as she brings her hooves up to speak, but the motion only causes the blue colt to ask again. Knowing the colt won't pick up on the next hoof motion's you talk up, "Uh, I don't think it's the easiest thing to learn."
"Awww..." The colt nudges the filly as he continues through his slightly disappointed but understanding tone, "Why didn't you just say so?"
To the words the filly turns her head to you as you again speak up for her, but this time not really wanting to say what you're about to, "Violet can't talk like you two." You try to give emphasis to the last part hoping to make the two colts understand.
Stony's horn sparks back up as he brings the book to float up to him as he adjusted the satchel around him as he starts to trot towards the door, "Well back to-..."
"How come?"
The grey stallion's voice is cut off which brings him to a slight stop as his path gets cut off from the light orange pegasus.
Violet continues to swing her head back and forth as you speak for her, "Violet has Sombrauism, she talks using her hooves."
Sparky's normal stuffy nosed voice is quick to answer as he blinks to the words, "Can I learn it?" As his words end the two colts poke their ears up awaiting your answer.
But your voice doesn't come up as the orange stallion next to them speaks up, "Not today Sparky, I don't think Mr.Sparkle wants any other foals around the house right now."
You ignore the Mr.Sparkle part of the stallion's words as he shrug to it, "Well maybe not today..." with your pause you think over your next words as you continue, "...Understanding hoofing is easy, trying to speak it is harder." Your words are confident as you think them over for a second, really two hoofs, two ears and a few motions can only do so much...
The two colts nod their heads not really knowing what they're agreeing to but as there gestures end the grey stallion at the door speaks up, "Actually I think the betrunken should watch the foals, my plan was to invite him along this way I would not have to pay the book renting fee...But this might work out better seeing as how you are bad luck."
Any moment of normal conversation is now gone as you turn a slightly annoyed eye to the stallion, "Um...yay?"
Stony waves his hoof to your words as his horn sparks up, "I had wanted to put this Parasprite in the Everfree forest, but if you were to come along there's no doubt in my mind we would be attacked by timber wolves..." He lets out a laugh as he finishes his comment, "...And I don't feel like digging any holes today so here you go." A small pouch comes from his satchel as he floats it to the table, "There is your bits for the rental, do not ask when I will bring this book back...I have need of it until I am done...my payment is correct though..."
He stops as he squints his eyes, "Unless you're going to charge me extra like that dragon does, verdammt book hoarder."
"Tombstone...there's foals." The orange pegasus nods his head down as the grey stallion waves the comment off.
You ignore it as you nod your head, "No, it's fine goodbye Stony."
"Perfect, now come unseriös, I need your help for this high up task." The grey stallion holds his new found smile as he trots towards the door and leaves the house.
Volt rolls his eyes as he waves goodbye to you, the blue unicorn colt doesn't give another glance towards you as he follows Stony out. But the light orange colt waves his hoof to you and Violet as he moves to where the other pegasus stallion stands at the open door, "Bye mister, bye Vio-let."
You and Violet watch the few ponies leave the house as you turn to Violet's hooves, a faint chuckle escapes your mouth as you look over the filly's downed ears, "No, i'm not mad you hit me with your magic."
From your words you look around the room as you pause, the spots where Violet's magic hit have turned into a now thawing mess of water and a few books still lay on the floor from the owl's sporadic flying and Stony's magic, "Um...but we need to clean this up before mommy gets back."
End of chapter 5
Chapter 6 – Long day
The day since Stony, Volt and the two colts left has gone on like you thought most of the day would have, a few ponies dropping off books or picking one up but for the most part just a day of pretty much nothingness.
It only took a few minutes to clean up the one or two books and Violet's magic was pretty easy to get rid of when you can just heat up the water until its gone using your mind...Note to self, I still got it.
You and the little filly have made your way back to what you intentionally had planned for today, which was just pretty much a lazy day. You figure Violet's unexpected magic use and the few other things you did earlier was good enough so there was no need to start something else.
The library much like the outside world is calm with only a few disturbances changing the tone of the natural world, for the house it's your voice as you continue on reading the foal book Violet picked out. Really you don't understand why a story about a really tall plant would be interesting but it seems to have kept the filly pretty entertained as she holds her ears up to your voice. You push on through the words as you try to shake the thought that you've read this before,
"...Fee-Fi-Fo-Hum, I smell the mane of Sir.Bubble Gum." A deep voice ran around the mist cloud's surface as the bright pink maned white pegasus tries to scan the area around him in search of the source of the voice. "Who's there?" Said Sir Bubble Gum.
"Fee-Fi-Fo-Hum, you should have know better then to come." Again the deep voice rings around the cloud's surface as Sir.Bubble Gum continues his search for the voice.
"I have come in search of the golden pearl laying clam that you have stolen!" Sir.Bubble Gum sprawls his wings out a little more as the stallion tries to hold his own to the building fright that pulses through his wings."
You squint to the last few words on the page as you think to yourself, how is this a foal's book?
To your silence Violet's horn sparks up as it's blue glow wraps to the page to turn it, you quickly move your hoof over the page as you turn it manually with a laugh trying to hold a playful baby like tone even though your trying to be serious, "Violet, this is a book we don't want to be sucked into."
The light purple filly gives a smile to your nonsense as she looks back to the page waiting for you to continue on.
You trace your eyes back to the book as you take a deep breath and start to read again, but as you start to read through your sentence the door of the house comes open. However you don't stop your voice as you push on through the already imbedded riddle of the story, "Fee-Fi-Fo-Hum, that was dumb..."
As your words end you turn your gaze to the lavender mare that enters the house followed by Rarity and Spike, "I thought you said you weren't going to teach her anything like that word again?"
Crap, you give a sheepish smile as you nod to the book, "Uh...it was in the book?"
Twilight shakes her head as she holds a smile to the filly that now happy jumps from next to you as she gallops over towards the mare, "And how were you? Were you good for daddy?"
You float the book closed and bring it to hoover beside you as you bring your legs up under you to push you from the ground, which really should not be a hard task but your back legs feel like needles as you stretch them out.
This of course prompts a response from the purple dragon as he starts to remove his mits from his claws, "You get up like Granny Smith."
You nod your head with no idea as to what he's talking about as you feed back a response, "Well you try reading..." You turn the book to you as you read the name aloud, "Prince Bubblegum and the quest for the magic clam , all day." You nod to your words as you hold the floating book to you, still better than Magic For Derpys.
Spike rolls his hand as he laughs to the words, "That book is du-..."
"Oh really? You read that today? I must say that book was my favorite when I was a filly." Rarity gives a girlish giggle as she puts her hoof to her chest, "I just love the idea of stallion on a quest."
The purple dragon quickly changes his response as he nods his head, "OH ya totally! I love the book, yep best book ever, its my favorite."
You roll your eyes to the comment as you trot over to the table and set the book down, "So how'd it go?"
Twilight's horn comes up in it's own purple glow as she nods her head, "It was fine, but I needed to ask Rainbow something and I couldn't find her when we left."
Rarity rolls her hoof to the words as her proper voice comes up, "Oh she probably went to help Pinkie set up the Winter Wrap up party tonight."
The words spark a shrug in the lavender mare as her saddle comes from her mid torso, "I guess."
At the end of her words you hear a knock at the door, you immediately turn to trot to it but you don't even take a step before the door opens to the cyan pegasus tugging along a yellow and pink maned pony.
"There you are Rainbow, I needed to know if you-..."
Rainbow's tomboyish voice comes over Twilight's as she talks, "Ya ya, you want to know if my team will be doing east, I don't care we can do anything."
"Um ok-..." Twilight's words are again cut short as Rainbow closes the door and puts on a big smile.
The cyan mare swings her head between you and Twilight as she talks, "So I found somepony to foal sit Violet." The mare nods to Fluttershy as she stops her comment.
You just blink to the always shy mare as Twilight gives a little giggle and waves her hoof, "Oh Rainbow you and Rarity both know we-..."
"But now you have somepony to foal sit." Rainbow holds a proud stance as she cuts Twilight off again, which causes the lavender mare to sigh as she finally gets through a sentence, "Rainbow, i'm not going to make Fluttershy take a night for me."
"Oh no Twilight, i'm not doing anything anyways...You know I hate social gatherings...and dances." The yellow mare's words get lower as her words trail on but you understand her for the most part as Twilight again shakes her head now trying to show her respect for the offer, "Fluttershy I can't ask you to watch Violet with such short notice."
"Um, well Angle is at the all day and night pet salon and it really is no big deal if you want to go...um if thats ok with you." The mare gives a smile to her unsure words but your more focused on her comment, all day and night pet salon? The demon spawn...you shake the comment off as you think to yourself I hate you Stony.
Twilight is silent for a moment as Rarity chimes in, "Twilight it's only for a few hours, and it's not even like you two have to stay the whole time."
The lavender mare turns her head to you as she speaks up, "D-do you want to go?"
You never really have seen Twilight unsure on anything, and definitely when her friends are around her...But even as you think it over your answer is clear and fast, "It's fine with me."
Twilight hesitates for a moment before she nods her head, "Well I guess it would be fun."
Fluttershy nods her head as she speaks up, "Um, I can be over at anytime."
Twilight gives a sweet smile as she nods her head, "Thank you Fluttershy."
End of chapter 6
Chapter 7 – Party pony style
You pace at the bottom of the stairs as you think over Twilight's words, i'll be right back? She said right back?
The start of the night rolls over the world as the sun barely just peaks over it, you've already eaten dinner and you should be about to leave for the Winter Wrap up thing...again should be. Violet still sits at the table looking over something she pulled from the shelves and the grey doll sits hunched over on the table beside her. Spike has already left for Rarity, which you're not really sure if she was expecting him or not but its not like you could have stopped him anyways.
You give a faint sigh as you shift your weight on your hooves, but you don't really have time for your mindless game for long as Twilight's voice comes back to the stairs above you.
To the voice you bring your eyes to look over the mare, she told you that the Winter Wrap up party is nothing really special and that there would be no need for a tux or anything...So you just put on your boots and a decently matching scarf that you had made after you burnt Twilight's...However your doubting Twilight's earlier comment as you look her over.
The lavender mare has on a yellow almost sun dress like thing on with a pink ribbon like bow that hangs in the front. Not the best thing she has in her closet but as you look her over you realize something that really catches your eyes, her mane style has changed to more of a flippy lay that brings out her mane's highlights but more importantly on her horn sits the bright white gold gem studded horn ban that almost has a shine of it's own to it.
You get an almost goofy smile as you look over the mare, "Thought you said we didn't have to dress up?"
A slight blush comes over her as she shakes her head, "We don't? I-I just put this on because it gets cold at night, ha, not like I want to be sick again right?"
You shrug to her comment as you hold your eyes to her as she descends the stairs, sadly your gaze of the mare is cut short as a hoof to the door turns you around. You open the door to the winter bundled yellow mare as you step aside.
Fluttershy nods to you as she steps inside and looks to her friend, "Whoa Twilight, you look really nice."
Twilight gives a little giggle as she thanks her friend, but there small talk only last for a moment as she turns her attention to the light purple filly, "Ok Violet, we'll be back in a little ok?"
The filly blinks to the comment for a few seconds before she nods her head with a simple smile.
"Thank you again Fluttershy..."
The yellow mare waves her hoof as she speaks up in a slightly less shy voice, "Oh no it's perfectly alright Twilight."
You stand by the door as the cool night air continues to poke at your body, but you're able to ignore it as Twilight and Fluttershy's small talk ends and the lavender mare starts to trot towards you. You say your goodbyes to Fluttershy as you close the door and take your first steps towards town with Twilight beside you.
Night's in Ponyville have always been strange to you, none of the normal bright colored ponies are usually out and most of the town is dark except for the few candle street lamps that dot the main street. Lucky, like most nights the sun's orangy red glow as it sets goes slow leaving enough light to make the trot easier.
Really though you don't care, right now your spirits are high and with each step you take your distance becomes a little bit closer.
As you round the last street corner the lights off the town hall, where the celebration is being held inside start to bring its own glow to the world as you watch a few other couples and ponies trotting towards it.
You do get a slight sigh of relief as you realize that the ratio of dressed and just normal ponies is pretty much equal...and the only ones really dressed nice are other mares so you're pretty sure your scarf and slightly matching boots makes you look like a superstar...at least they both match your coat's color well.
You and Twilight take your first steps into the rapidly approaching building's open doors as your ears and eyes become flooded with the sights and sounds inside.
There's really no guessing that Pinkie's hoof help create this place seeing as how most of the stuff is bright colors but you wouldn't be surprised if she had help seeing as how the colors actually match really well against the town hall's light wood insides.
Your ears bring a different thought that is completely void of Pinkie as the sound of high class slow but nice music rolls around the room, blending the normal conversations with a feel of relaxing.
You swing your eyes to the source of the music as you look to the stage on one side of the room, but you don't even attempt to guess the instruments the ponies on stage have in there hooves.
A smile crosses you as you and Twilight continue more into the open building, a few statues of ponies in various stances align the room but for the most part this is just an open social gathering.
"Twilight!"
The sound of a south like accent turns you and the lavender mare to the other side of the room where tables upon tables of hoof foods and drinks sit.
The familiar orange mare trots over towards you with her signature western hat as she speaks up, "Rarity said you two weren't coming'?"
Twilight gives a faint giggle as she shrugs, "Fluttershy offered to foal sit."
Applejack nods her head to the comment as she speaks up, "That pony really should enjoy meetin' ponies, but at least she's not sitting in her house tonight."
To the words Twilight swings her head around a little as she talks, "Um, did you come with somepony?"
The orange mare's answer comes quickly as she speaks up, "Nope, me and Big Macintosh are just here to help give out the cider." She gives a wink as she nudges Twilight, "Can't have any pony stealing apple family cider can we?" She taps her hoof to her mouth as she stops her laugh, "But uh, haven't seen Big mac since he went to show Cheerilee the-..."
"Oh there you are darling."
It doesn't take long for the white mare to be followed quickly by the small purple dragon to come to where you three stand as she starts to talk about something. But you slightly ignore her as you look over her lavish pink, red and gold layered and flowing dress that is WAY too fancy to be here. Of course the white mare doesn't notice it as she continues, "...Just like I said, this is much better than last years."
"HA! As if!" The tomboyish voice is followed by a snorting laugh as the cyan mare and the energetic ball of fluff trot over towards your now slightly formed circle. "The only reason you are saying last years sucked was because somepony spilled a drink on your dress."
Rarity's ear flicks a little as she ruffles her nose, "That was a HOOF crafted dress stitch by stitch, do you know how hard that is?"
Rainbow rolls her hoof to the comment as she continues, "Nope."
Your smile that you've held through the conversation turns to a chuckle as you listen to Rainbow's comments.
"...Hey Aj, whens the cider? This punch is lame."
"Lame huh?" Pinkie taps her hoof to her mouth as she squints one eye, really you're surprised she hasn't rushed you into a death hug...but you kind of figure she's tired from all the ponies around the building that she most likely knows.
Applejack rolls her eyes to the cyan mare's comment as she trots towards one of the tables with a few large wooden barrels stacked next to it, "Dagnabbit Rainbow, you know I said we have to wait until more ponies show up..." The mare quickly darts her eyes around the room as she sighs, "Oh well, might as well start early this year."
Rainbow grins as she nods her head, the first cup of frothy cider is snatched by the cyan mare as Applejack tries to pour the next few quickly for her friends. You float yours to your hoof as you realize magic when you're not a unicorn should not be really shown in public...unless you want a group of confused ponies talking you to death.
Twilight waves her hoof to the cup as she talks, "Sorry, I did a cold spell and I don't want to mess my magic up with a loose mind, i'll just stick with punch."
Aj shrugs the comment as she passes it to the next pony.
You take your first sip of the strangely bitter tasting cider as you make a mental note to self as to what not to drink, nothing blue and nothing new.
End of chapter 7
Chapter 8 – Two Barnz would be proud
Surprisingly the music in the dome like building picked up from it's earlier classy tone, and you're now able to see why Twilight called it mostly a dance. It's kind of funny that most of the ponies here are a little younger looking than you and Twilight's friends but you've seen a few familiar faces that you've passed sometime through town.
But the dancing ponies, music change and free drinks are not what has kept everypony in your small group. Instead tonight has become a collection of stories, adventures Twilight and her friends have gone on, things you and Twilight have done and things that everypony has done...You never really considered your impression on Twilight's friends to really be so big, but tonight you have finally seen how tight nit the ponies really are.
Your group did lose Rarity a little earlier and the small purple dragon sought to follow after her. But you still have Aj, Pinkie, Rainbow and Twilight around you...And the stories haven't stopped coming, although you do give a questioning stare to Twilight as she shifts a little off balance as her words run through her, "...And that's why I don't want Violet going anywhere near the *hic* l-lake."
Twilight's horn holds its faint purple glow as she tilts her fourth punch cup to her mouth, as she goes silent for a moment Rainbow breaks in with a wide smile as she eggs on the mare's story, "But don't you think Violet would like it?"
The lavender mare's eyes widen to the comment as she lifts her hoof up to tap to her mouth, as she does this her balance slightly is lost and she quickly slams her hoof back to the ground, a giggle comes from her as she does it again, trying her best to match it to the beat of the song.
You look over the lavender mare's overjoyed filled face to her simple motion as you talk, "Twilight, are you okay?"
"Never *hic* better." She shoots you a smile as she continues her hoof clap to the music.
Rainbow on the other hoof burst out into a laugh with Pinkie as the two mares lean to each other.
Aj doesn't share in the enjoyment as she speaks up, "Uh, Twi, you sure you're okay?"
Twilight blows to the comment as she shakes her head, "Yes, I-I think that i'm ok." She lifts her hoof up as she speaks up again, "I also think-..." She stumbles a little as her hoof comes past her chest, but you place your hoof to her side as you balance her out.
To your touch of her low dress she turns her attention to you as she smiles with a very suggestive tone, "...I think that we want to go home and *hic*..." Rainbow and Pinkie both slightly stop there laugh as Twilight's comment ends for a second, "...And try a spell on Star Swirl's journal." A giggle comes from Twilight as her words come to an end.
You give your own chuckle to the giggly mare as you breathe a sigh of relief to the fact she didn't say something that might have embarrassed her later.
But despite her words Rainbow and Pinkie's laugh comes back up, "T-that egghead is fried!"
You reach your hoof to Twilight's punch cup as you try to take it from her magical hold, but she just giggles as she floats it a little higher.
Aj taps her hoof to her mouth as she shakes her head, "I don't get it, all she had was four things of regular punch?"
Pinkie rolls her hoof to the comment as she talks, "No silly, I spiked the punch."
You and Aj both blink to the words as the orange mare speaks up, "Pinkie! Why would you do that?"
"Duh! Dashy said it was lame." The pink mare holds a wide and innocent smile as Rainbow shifts her eyes a little nervously, "Oh come on, it's not like I knew she would do that."
"*hic* What about Spike?" Twilight's half closed and relaxed gaze comes open a little more as she turns around the room, "Where is he?"
You hold your hoof to Twilight's side as you talk slowly, "Spike is fine, I think we should-..."
The music in the building goes to a soft tone ass Twilight comes up in a gasp, "We should dance!"
You blink to her words as you study the smiling mare, "Uh maybe-..." You hold your sentence as you look over Twilight's slightly faded smile, but you soften your gaze as you nod, "Alright...But then we need to go home."
Rainbow speaks up as your words end, "Don't worry about Spike, I can get him home."
Twilight's new found confidence sparks her hooves fast as she hoovers the cup to Rainbow and pulls you along behind her as you two push through the slight crowd of ponies. You're able to take control of your almost drag as you lead the giggly mare to one side of the designated dance area where she can't really embarrass herself....And where you can't really embarrass your sober self.
Luckily the song Twilight has picked is fairly slow and you're able to reassure yourself as you glance to the other ponies around you, neither you or Twilight could dance at the wedding, but you two made up for it by laughing and just combining the small amount you both knew.
Twilight's confidence slightly falters as she realizes where you two are, "Uh..."
Before she has a chance to really speak up you follow through what you know, a pony slow dance is pretty much nothing more then using your other partner as your legs, from what Twilight said to you its supposed to be simple...Both ponies wrap their front hooves around each other at least until they have a ok balance and then you just walk trying to match your partner's speed.
This thought brings no help as you look to the shifty mare's stance, but you follow through your word to her as you place your first front hoof to her upper body right where her neck meets it.
Twilight's smile comes back to her as she follows your motion, the next hoof is the hard part...But with a little bit of luck neither of you fall over.
A giggle rolls from the mare as you two just stand there for a moment neither one of you knowing how to move on from there. You copy her laugh as you hold your smile, but you slowly start to move your back legs as she starts to follow you.
The slow song continues to roll on as you two finally start to get the hang of it, you both still wear the oh crap why are we doing this smile proudly but at least you're not standing in one spot anymore.
You don't really care at this point who's watching, because as you and Twilight stare to each others smiles you both simply ignore the rest of the world as the sound of the music coming from the stage continues to move you two.
The song feels like the longest thing in your whole life, besides from the wedding's song...But as the sound continues on Twilight moves her head to lay up against your neck. You follow her action as you use your slight high difference to bring your head to her mane.
With your enjoyment to actually moving and her drunken boldness you both make it through your first day, and even attempt a few more over the course of the next hour. But as Twilight's stare starts to become a little lapsed you finally are able to peel the lavender mare from the dance area and the party as you two take your first steps out into the world.
The moon hangs high up in the sky, its not full but the light of the white orb brings it's own warmth to the world...Not really but it still makes the town around you look calm.
However you try to keep the pace of you and Twilight to a decent speed as the nip in the air runs to you. The lavender mare slightly leans to you as you stay close to each other both for warmth and for Twilight's own well being.
"That was fun..." Twilight's voice brings a smile over her face as she trots beside you with her head to you.
You nod your head as you continue your pace.
A giggle comes over the mare as she leans her head a little to you from her close trot, "I want to have sex."
You burst out in a loud laugh as you think over her bold and drunken confident words.
But your laugh causes the slightly sobering mare to blush hard as she talks, "*hic*, I-I never had a colt friend when I was growing up..."
Your ear holds to the mare's voice as her tone changes a little from her relaxed words to a more real and deep through sound, "...I always thought it was because no pony found me attractive..." A slight giggle comes from her as she takes her head from you and continues to talk, "But...I guess it doesn't matter, I mean look at me...I'm married and have a foal."
You cock your eye to her voice as you hold your gaze to her stare that has now pinned to the road in front of you two. Despite her gaze and her shifted head her words still come directed to you, "Am I rushing Violet? A-am I pushing our foal to fast?"
The words come over you as you slow your trot almost to a stop as you notice Twilight's pace starting to end. Twilight holds her gaze to your pause as you think her words over, sure about four months is a short time but you can't believe that she would need to be drunk to hear her real thoughts...You swallow your personal thoughts back as you talk, "Well...Violet needs to get her test done before she's one right."
Your words turn the mare's head into a nod as you continue, "...Then no...we're not pushing her to fast."
Twilight takes her own moment as she turns her gaze to the ground, "I spent so much time on my studies for Celestia's school when I was a filly..."
You shrug to the comment as you talk through a slight chuckle, "But you didn't have somepony like you to help..." You smile as you look her over, "You didn't have a beautiful, smart and passionate pony to turn to, Violet does."
The mare gives a little giggle as she turns her gaze to the ground, but her slightly shy stare from your loving gaze doesn't stay quiet as she hiccups.
From the noise you let out a faint laugh as you start your trot back up, "Now come on, no sense in getting frost bite."
Twilight follows your trot as she brings herself back to trot close to you.
Your breath rolls in heat wisp from your nose and mouth as the library starts to come into view from your path.
As you near the red wood door your magic wraps to it as you bring it to open, you wait for the mare to trot inside as you follow in behind her.
But there's no moment of silence or a warm welcome as the sound of a low chiming magic pops from beside you and you turn to Fluttershy...or at least who you think is Fluttershy.
The yellow mare with bright green mane gives a faint smile as she talks, "Oh you're back early?"
You blink to her new mane color as you speak up, "Um...Are you ok?"
Fluttershy nods her head as she talks, "Yes, Violet didn't want to go to sleep and I guess she wanted to practice a spell."
You nod your head as you wiggle your hoof to your mane, "Uh, regular water can change your mane back."
Twilight speaks up with a little giggle as she looks over her friend, "Oh Fluttershy, *hic* thank you for stopping by."
The yellow mare blinks to her friend's tone but her sight of her is lost as the sound of little hooves comes back to the room as Violet happily gallops to where you and Twilight stand.
"Hello Swe*hic*etie, you should be in bed."
Violet doesn't pick up on the different tone as she nods her head with a smile.
Fluttershy turns back to you as she talks, "Um, well goodnight."
You nod to her as you move to open the door for her, "Goodnight, and thank you."
As the mare leaves the house you close the door and turn your attention back to the two other ponies in the room, "Alright, both of you should be in bed."
You move to trot up the stairs as you call back to the little filly, "Come on Violet."
The filly follows you up the stairs as her hooves come back to her.
It only takes a few minutes to tuck the light purple filly in, its a little past her bedtime so as her head hit the pillow she pretty much went right to sleep.
You hold your trot to your room as you float the scarf from your neck and start to fold it up, but as you turn to the room your eyes set to the lavender mare in the bed.
It's really no surprise that she's asleep, but you are kind of impressed she at least got the dress put away. You lose your magical chime as you just toss the scarf to a nearby dresser and move to kicking off your boots.
You move towards the bed as you look over the mare, you figured her earlier comment was nothing more than her own slight loss of thinking but it is kind of a let down your not getting lucky tonight. A faint chuckle comes over you as you push the thought from your head.
As you move into the bed Twilight gives a faint groan as your side comes down to your weight. You give a relaxed sigh as you hold a thought to yourself, Twilight better hope she doesn't have too much to do for Winter Wrap Up. You hold a smile to the thought as you just shift your eyes over
the mare's closed eyed face.
End of chapter 8