House Sparkle
The Bad News
Load Full StoryNext ChapterTwilight walked triumphantly through the halls of Starswirl's University of Magical Mastery. Twilight could hardly believe that after years of non-stop studying, she was finally finished. She now had her fifth diploma in hand, and was heading home to hear the big news that Shining texted her about earlier. Her white blazer and pants rustled lightly in the breeze as she adjusted her black-framed glasses. A small purple horn parted her dark blue mane as she prepared to head home.
“Hey Sparkles, wait up!”
Twilight turned to see her friend, Sunset Shimmer running up to her. “Jeez, what’s the hurry?” Despite the similar outfit, Sunset’s skirt clung to her right leg as a gust of wind came by. Much to Twilight’s mild delight, Sunset’s clothing seemed to have a problem keeping her breasts concealed, even her yellow horn seemed carefully placed on her forehead to compliment her features. Twilight gave her friend's words little thought as a portion of her attention was focused on her friend's curves, taking them in with a slight grin.
“Evidently there’s news waiting for me at home, now if you’ll excuse me,” Twilight said she turned to leave but Sunset stopped her by grabbing the purple mare’s shoulder.
“I take it you won’t be heading to the party later then?” Sunset asked, putting on her best puppy-dog eyes. Getting Twilight to a party at all is the equivalent to pulling teeth for the fire haired girl, but the few times she had managed to drag Twilight away from her studies were rewarded with a happy unicorn singing about nonsense.
“Sorry Sunset, but I got a feeling this is important.”
Sunset frowned, crossing her arms in annoyance. “Fine, just give me a call later. Okay? I’ll let you know how the party went and let you know how much fun you missed. I bet Flash Sentry will be there.”
“Flash Sentry? Am I supposed to know who that is?” Twilight asked, baffled that Sunset would mention someone she doesn’t know.
Sunset was stunned by Twilight’s oblivious nature. “Seriously? I know you spent all your time reading and doing school junk, but how did you not know the most popular guy in school? He’s hot, an awesome guitarist, charming, and all around great guy.”
“That sounds like every hot guy or jock in every school drama my foalsitter gushed about when I was younger, and with that in mind… he just became the most boring person I’ve ever known,” Twilight said in monotone.
“Oh don’t be like that, he’s awesome. I’m sure you’d like him,” Sunset pouted, stomping on the ground in frustration.
“Sorry, but you enjoy your boy-toys. It’ll be neat to hear about your next attempt to seduce him,” Twilight said, chuckling when Sunset punched her shoulder.
“Smart ass. You’ll never find your Prince Charming like that, Sparkles,” Sunset retorted.
“That just means I’ll have to work to become a Prince myself,” Twilight joked. ”I’m partially there anyways,” she thought.
Sunset shook her head in annoyance, "You are such a lost cause, I feel as if I have failed you, Twily." The purple graduate didn't answer, but merely grinned and bid her friend goodbye. Sunset shrugged and walked home, swaying her hips, much to Twilight's interest.
Twilight didn’t stay alone for long as she felt a small scaly body hugging her from behind. “What’s up Twi?” Twilight turned to see her sister, Barb, clinging to her side, happy as can be, with her green spines and adorable features
“How was school, Barb?”
The dragon let out a groan. “Boring, why don’t you just school me? You already taught me everything,” Barb grumbled, releasing her sister. Barb was a good foot shorter than Twilight, her tail thrashed as it poked out of Barb’s blue jeans as her purple scales rubbed against her yellow T-shirt.
“You need to gather information from different sources, I may be smart but I don’t know everything,” Twilight retorted, walking home with her draconic sibling in tow.
“Then why is it that the teachers just repeat what you taught me? Every year it’s, ‘blah blah blah, Twilight told me already, blah blah blah,’ It’s annoying,” Barb complained.
“Being home-schooled by me doesn’t look too great on a resume, you know,” Twilight quipped. Barb let out a sigh of defeat, annoyed that Twilight was right. “Besides, treat it like a refresher. It’ll help you remember it all.”
“Yeah, yeah”, Barb muttered. Thanks to Twilight teaching her nearly everything at age four through ten. The moment Barb’s score for her entrance exam came in; the school she applied to had her elevated several grades. This made things awkward when she was a twelve year old dragon girl in tenth grade with several students that were almost twice her age. The teasing and bullying stopped when Shining Armor came to visit though.
They reached a rather large house, standing two stories tall with a mere six bedrooms in comparison to the various other houses that tended to have at least ten. Twilight and Barb stepped past the iron gates and opened the front door. “We’re home!” Twilight called out.
They saw their older brother standing in the hallway, the fact that he wore a rather plain dress attire confused the two. “Twily, Barb… come in.” The tone in their brother’s voice caused the two to worry. They quickly followed their depressed brother into the living room..
They entered the living room where they found their parents and Cadance seated. It was evident that their mother had cried for a bit with her husband comforting her. “What happened?”
“Uncle Silver has passed away,” Night Light said, the dark blue stallion held his wife close while she sucked in another breath, trying to keep herself from crying again.
Twilight and Barb’s mood dropped immediately; Uncle Silver Sparks was a good stallion, whenever he came to visit he’d act like a friend to Shining and the girls. He helped Shining get together with Cadance, assisted Twilight with her studies though mostly in the field of finance and business, and he’d get Barb some of the best toys, even play with her when her siblings or parents couldn’t.
“When is the funeral?” Twilight asked.
“Tomorrow. After that is the reading of his will,” Shining replied. He walked over to give his siblings a comforting hug. “It’ll be alright, girls.”
“I know, Shiny. I know,” Twilight muttered, fighting back her tears as she returned the hug. Barb buried her face in her sister's blouse, failing to keep herself from crying.
~Dood~[/hr]
Later that night, Twilight laid on her bed, reading the constant stream of texts coming from Sunset; all of them relating to who is doing what and what stupid thing some senior is doing. After hearing that Uncle Silver had died, her mood for the junk Sunset is possibly laughing her butt off about died with him. Twilight had changed out of her school clothing into a pair of black sweat pants and a white long shirt. She heard a knock at the door that broke her out of her thoughts. “Come in.”
The door opened to reveal her dragon sister, wearing her usual nightgown, that gave Twilight a slight view of the dragon’s bra and panties. “Hey Twi, whatcha doing?”
“Nothing much, just reading about how stupid my ex-classmates are. Did you know Golden Crest just drank a liter of beer upside down then went into a closet with Moondancer holding a watermelon? I don’t know why Sunset hangs out with such an idiotic crowd,” Twilight answered, her phone alerted her of another text message. “Now she and some colt named Flash Sentry are going to test how well the mattress holds up.”
“Oh, okay. Think I can spend the night with you?” Barb asked, fiddling with her tail awkwardly. Twilight smiled and lifted her covers to allow her younger sibling into her bed. Smiling, Barb quickly moved into the purple mare’s bed and cuddled up to her sister. “Thanks Twi.”
“No problem, Barb. Good night,” Twilight said, holding the dragon girl to her breast and petting her head. The dragon might not be of blood relation but Twilight loved her little sister, ever since she hatched her from her egg in Magic Kindergarten.
She felt a familiar presence near her crotch. "Sorry, but not tonight," Twilight said, hearing Barb grumble in disappointment, her head nuzzling her sister's chest as she tried to get to sleep. She slumped back and began drift off, not before hearing another alert from her cell phone.
“For the love of Chaos, shut UP Sunset.”
~Dood~[/hr]
The next day, the funeral finished up with Silver Sparks’ burial on the top of a hill that overlooked the town of Ponyville. Much to the surprise of the Sparkle family, there weren’t many ponies that came to the funeral. This slightly angered Velvet, but Night Light was close by to calm her down. All that was left was the will.
A brown stallion sat behind his desk before the family of the deceased, checking through his files. He cleared his throat and began. “Thank you for coming everypony, I know this can be hard, but Mr. Sparks wanted his will to be known to his next of kin. 'To my sister, Twilight Velvet, and her husband Night Light, I leave Thirty-seven million five hundred thousand bits. I know you don’t like living the life of a noble, but I don’t want the nobles of Canterlot trying to take it from our family.'” This shocked both ponies greatly. Night Light’s jaw seemed to unhinge itself from his mouth, while Velvet was trying to figure out a reason to not accept all of it.
“'To my nephew, Shining Armor, I leave you my home in Ponyville and of course… my title as Duke of Everfree, they are yours. I also leave you ten million bits for you and your future wife, and yes… that means you can keep the cars too.'”
Shining’s expression nearly matched his dad, but Cadance quickly shook him from his stupor. “We can’t, Shiny. Remember that we’ll be in the Crystal Kingdom,” she said.
“That’s right,” Shining groaned.
“You can take the cars though.”
Shining smiled at his fiancée and gave her a kiss on the forehead.
The lawyer coughed to gain everyone’s attention. “And finally; 'to my niece, Twilight. I give you my precious company, Spark's designs. As well as two point five million bits to start you off. As long as you take care of Barb, I’ve noticed you two becoming inseparable in my final years, so I want you to take care of her. I know that you can make Sparkle Designs the best it can be. After all you did learn from the best, and you are a very bright girl, I'm positive you'll make me and the rest of the family proud.'”
“Wow… I get his company? That’s a bit much,” Twilight muttered.
“I guess we get to share that, right Twi?” Barb asked, slightly disappointed that Uncle Sparks didn’t leave something for her specifically, but the feeling of her sister holding her closely cheered her up, cuddling into Twilight's breast.
Shining rubbed his chin and smirked. “Think I can pass the land and title to Twilight? Sorry to do this to Uncle Silver but Cadance and I have rather… big plans set in the Crystal kingdom.”
“What kind of plans, Mr. Armor?” the Lawyer asked.
Shining’s smirk fell as he tried to find the right words without spoiling anything. Thankfully, Cadance was there. “It is a royal matter between my father and us, Aunt Celestia already knows of this, if you have a problem with it… take it to her.”
That immediately shut the brown stallion up. He shuffled through his notes as he reorganized his thoughts. “Very well, Twilight will inherit Silver Spark's title and land, as well as his company. Isn’t that a bit much for a mare of her age?”
“Twilight always did have a habit of making the impossible easy, she did hatch Barb after all,” Shining quipped; he was nudged in the shoulder by his pouty sister. “Besides, it’s not like she’ll be alone. She’ll have Barb, us, and Uncle’s staff. She knows to ask for help, even if she does forget sometimes.”
“Well… Maybe I’ll let you keep one of Uncle’s cars then,” Twilight said. Shining chuckled slightly, claiming it as a small victory.
“About that last part, Silver Sparks’ house staff… have all left, except for the Head Butler, of course,” Uncle’s lawyer said. Twilight bit her lip, knowing that this will be the start of a terrible shipwreck.
Author's Note
Well this trainwreck has started a head of time, dood.
I gotta admit, seeing as you guys poke at my grammar mistakes, it's neat to have you guys yell at me for my mistakes, dood. I might keep that consistent for this story, dood.
Big thanks to Wrabbit and BronyPonyMan for doing alot of the yelling at me for my mistakes, dood.
I won't be doing clop every chapter like I did with the Misadventures, but there will be clop, dood.
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