Dust

D U S T

small

smôl

adjective

1. of a size that is less than normal or usual.

Pony genetics was pretty straightforward. Two unicorns get together, they get a tiny little unicorn baby to care for and nurture, the same for both pegasus and earth. But what if two ponies of different races bred? It's a fundamental law that all ponies have some degree of magic within them, with unicorns being the most blessed in the arcane, pegasi in second, and earth ponies last. When different races intermingle, the child takes on the traits of the parent with the most magic. This is incredibly common, but it is not unheard of about an offspring not inheriting the related talents of their family members.

Small Smiles is a unicorn with the talent of reduction spells, nothing too extreme, but she makes a pretty fine business of using her magic to reduce large-scale objects to much more manageable heights. Moving luggage or furniture has never been easier, and she makes a pretty bit off of it as well. Ponies pay for not having to do as much work as they need to.

Wing Runner is a first-class flyer; Not Wonderbolts material, but he still is fairly well and confident in what he does as a pegasus, his talent literally being an excellent flyer.

Somehow, these two meet. Smiles is petite with a a slender form, light blue in fur color, her mane cut short to keep the tangles from wrapping around her horn. Wing is tall and sinewy, his body sleek and with fur that of grey quicksilver, with broad, powerful wings to lift him from his hooves to the skies above.

They date for a while. They find out that they're in love. They get married, move into a home together, and make love until early dawn. The first couple of months are showing promise of their first child, a strong, healthy unicorn girl, a bit on the stouty side, but they loved him anyway.

They try again, gotta love them kids. Their second born is a rather...odd case. We'll get back to him soon.

Years pass, another child happens. Their third and youngest, a small unicorn girl. Now, back to the middle child. In the oldest and youngest, the mother's race was dominant, producing unicorn offspring but with various talents based around distant genes of other family members. The middle child was a unique case, his father's race but based heavily off of his mother's magic and genes. Small Smiles passed on a...different gift onto her son. In relation to her shrinking magic, he too was affected by them.

Except he can't use magic because he wasn't a unicorn, instead a pegasus, so it transcribed a different way. He was made small. Impossibly so. Thanks pony genetics.