Shimmer & Co

by ShimmerSkies

Rating: everyone
Tags: Random, Slice of Life, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Comedy
Length: 1056

Short on cash mischievous Shimmer and Icy have to share a house with Angel, an uptight earth pony.

After many failed attempts to become rich and famous Icy and Shimmer are strapped for cash and homeless, they find themselves having to share a home with their anti-social landlord, Angel. Will friendship bloom or will the house become a war-zone in 10 seconds flat.

Published 2012-03-25 23:34:03 UTC
Last updated 2012-03-25 23:34:03 UTC

Moving in

Me and Icy practically burst through the polished wooden door, Icy can use her magic to stop her from sliding across the highly varnished floor but the second i land I slide straight into the kitchen. Not the best first impression. A frowning earth pony with a blood red mane, cream body, piercing green eyes and a cutie mark of a strange contraption rigged up to a computer. I have only seen a few computers before as they are very expensive, but this pony, unlike us, doesn't looks tight for money. The earth pony walks over to me, raise an eyebrow and asks. "Did you wait for me to open the, don't you have a job to go to?" She lets out a sharp laugh.
"Well, I help create the best looking snowflakes, and my friend Shimmer creates rainbows for special events."
"Isn't there already a weather team for that," I'm surprised, earth ponies don't really care much for Pegasus weather stations, as long as the sun shines bright and rain comes to their crops they're happy. "There is a weather station for rainbows but mine are more special like I can make them the shades of the sunset, or make them have sparkles that shine as brightly as the stars." I retort with a smug grin that'll shut her up.
"Sounds more like a cheap party trick," comes a voice from inside, me and Icy walk to the door and to our surprise we find Lyra and bon-bon, I can remember creating a playful bright pink, yellow and green rainbow for their 5th anniversary. "Angel, I thought the losers were coming later?" Lyra calls out. Our cheeks good bright red, sadly with Icy's baby blue coat and short white wispy mane and my bright yellow coat with lime green mane, it's pretty easy to tell we're blushing. Bon-bon shoots me a death look so we start too carry the stuff upstairs. "Ugh, I can't believe we have to share a house with her, and I bet there will be no shortage of visits from those two."
"Calm down Shimmer don't let them get to you," Icy always knows what to say.

Once we are done we decide to snoop around. We go to the bathroom and notice it's piled high with fancy make-up, around twenty different shades of pink and numerous different skin products each doing exactly the same thing. After that we nose around the bedroom and find the thing in Angel's cutie mark, it has two circular pads next to a tablet, if you put your hoof on each circle you can move a stylus around making it possible for an earth pony to use a drawing tablet. My eye slowly meets Icy's and we grin, I dash over to the plates and start moving my hooves around randomly, Icy joins in. Icy accidentally nudges the mouse so the screen lights up and to our horror we see that Angel was working on some art before we came. Damn. Me and Icy start pressing buttons to no avail, I get an idea it's stupid but it might work. "Icy what if I buck the monitor, so it looks like it exploded."
"It's not like we have a choice, buck away." I rear my hind legs tensing myself, when suddenly I hear hooves banging up the stairs, me and Icy dive under the bed. "So Angel you say this artwork is a masterpiece."
"Yes Lyra I spent hours working on this," I feel a pang of guilt all that work for nothing.
"I wonder what happened hear?" Angel asks to no pony in particular, I dare to stick my head from outside of the bed. Angel seems to be calmly pressing a button on her mouse, I don't know why didn't we just ruin her entire project. "You can come out now did you seriously think I was stupid enough to believe that you had nothing to do with this." Angel is practically shaking with anger, so long roof over my head it was nice knowing you. I hear rapid breathing and next to me is Icy, even though she has cool blue eyes I can swear they are flaring red. "You have the nerd to accuse us of bad manners, did you hear what you and you pea brained minions said about me and my friends!"Bon-bon stomps over, I try to plan my quickest escape but then I realize there is none, Icy won't go down without a fight. In this kind of situation most people would abandon Icy, but I can't do that, we have been friends for as long as I can remember....

In school I was always bullied for being a blank flank, sure my passion for rainbows was ignited by the sonic rainboom, but it took me about a year for me to start creating rainbows. I started feeling so bad I would go down into Everfree forest at lunch just to avoid the mean fillies (the colts actually weren't bothered, luckily when I was younger I was rather attractive.) While I was walking around the forest I met Icy, she was also a blank flank, so we started talking and we instantly became friends every lunch I would meet up with her and we would talk about school our families and our lives. We shared all of our secrets and kept our promises to this very day. I always feel like I owe Icy, she gave me the will to wake up each morning and go through all the bullying.

I'm snapped out of my fantasy world by Bon-bon's snide comment, "I'm sorry were you dreaming of your mare-friend again?" Now I'm the one red with anger. I raise myself into the air ready too tackle Angel and Icy flares up her magic, her tip of her horn aimed at Bon-bon's chest. Literally seconds before I dive at Angel I hear Lyra call out."Everybody stop it. Losers, apologize and this can all be over." It's funny that the voice of reason even calls us losers. We unwillingly apologize and drag ourselves to our room, it feels like I'm a naughty foal and Angel's the disapproving mother. I slump onto the springy bed. "Hey Icy"
"What?"
"Something tells me we're not gonna get along with Angel."