“Alright, alright, let me get this straight: one of you eavesdropped, another just confessed to partaking in fornication, and you’re saying you got called out for the same thing by the one who admitted to the aforementioned fornication??” Takashi asked, eyes wide. He was trying to make sense of this entire mess he found himself in.

“If it makes you feel any better, I did it too--in a threesome.” Raki said, smiling warmly.

“What?” Kaguya asked, eyes widening.

“Exactly.” Raki replied, still smiling.

“Gah! Why can’t I get the nurse out of my head?!” Tenmei wailed, flinging his forelegs in the air for a moment before handing his glasses to Koto and slamming his face into the table.

“He’s still on about that?” Rekka asked, looking at the earth pony. “If all else fails, just court her already.”

“It’s not that simple…” Tenmei groaned childishly before he lifted his head up and slammed his face into the table again.

“I see no other solution. If you want, I can fetch her here and now.” Nagare remarked, spreading his other wing.

Tenmei let off yet another childish groan. Mimi and Mimu ran down the stairs again, catching everyone’s attention.

“Kaguya, can we hang out with the other fillies and colts?” Mimi asked, a wide grin on her face.

“Sure. Just don’t do anything dangerous, and be back before dark.” Kaguya replied.

“Wait...why let them run off?” Takashi asked, only to find the mare’s nose in front of his.

“We’ve a mess to sort out.” She replied as the two fillies rushed out the door like a cockatrice was on their heels.

“Where should we go first?” Mimu asked, flapping her wings briefly.

“Let’s go to the park!” Mimi answered, smiling widely. She took off towards the library, since the park was very close to said library. The fairy-winged filly followed, using her gossamer appendages to keep up with Mimi. The trip took a good fifteen or so minutes, and when they got there (after catching their breath), a whole bunch of other fillies and colts were playing with one another via various toys and games.

The park was irresistible for the two, especially considering the activity going on today. A few fillies and colts recognized the two, and whispers consisting of ‘the new kids who write a different language’ soon ran rampant amongst the few. Some other whispers pertained to Mimu’s fairy wings, or her black mane and tail. Some even whispered about Mimi being almost monochrome or something.

Scootaloo and her friends ran to the duo with smiles on their faces. “Hey!” Scootaloo cried, hugging Mimi.

“Hello!” Mimi replied with a wide smile. She looked over at Sweetie Belle and Applebloom, and immediately noticed two new cutie marks: the earth pony had a longbow with an arrow hitting an apple, and the unicorn had what could best be described as a simple music note bent in a way akin to a boomerang.

“You two got your cutie marks?” Mimu asked, eyes widening.

“Yep! Turns out I have real good aim! Applejack was so proud of me!” Applebloom replied, putting a hoof to her chest as if showing off her confidence to the world.

“I’m not too sure what my cutie mark means…” Sweetie Belle sighed, looking at it despondently for a moment before smiling. “But I’ll figure it out eventually.”

“Hey, have you tried getting your cutie marks?” Scootaloo asked, brow arched.

“No, though I guess it’d be nice.” Mimi replied, still smiling.

“Haven’t really got mine by flying.” Mimu confessed.

“Hey, since we still are the Cutie Mark Crusaders even though we have our cutie marks, perhaps you two could join!” Sweetie Belle proposed, smiling wide.

“Cutie Mark Crusaders?” Mimu asked, brow arched.

“Yeah--we help each other and other fillies and colts get their cutie marks!” Scootaloo translated, also smiling wide.

“Hey, weird kids!” Cried another voice. The group of fillies turned their heads in one direction to see Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon approach them, both of whom had horrible smiles on their faces. “Shouldn’t you be elsewhere, where we don’t have to see your lack of cutie marks?” Diamond taunted.

“Just because you’re rich and spoiled doesn’t mean you get a free pass to pick on them!” Scootaloo declared, literally stepping between Diamond and Mimi.

“And you have no right to defend blank flanks, you flightless pretender!” Diamond hissed back, eliciting a shocked gasped from the other fillies present (with the exception of Silver Spoon). "Because you were blank flanks once!" She added, raising a hoof to motion to Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Applebloom.

“I’m telling Miss Cheerilee on you!” Applebloom hollered, pointing the accusing hoof at the bullies.

"What's the point? We're not in school." Silver Spoon jabbed back, her grin widening.

"Doesn't mean we still can't tell!" Sweetie replied swiftly, her eyes narrowing. Her horn began giving off faint, small sparks of light green, and some of those sparks took on the same shape as her cutie mark.

"What good is your talent if you can barely use magic?" Diamond taunted, her face moulding to shape something between a smug look on her face and an evil rapist's smile. As soon as she said that, Sweetie's horn stopped shimmering. This caused the eyes of the blank flanks present to widen, and they glanced around hastily for a moment.

“Um, hate to cut the chat short, but we gotta go home.” Mimu sighed, taking off back home quickly. Mimi followed close behind, leaving the other five fillies in the dust. It wasn’t dark yet, but they could not risk further trouble with Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon--that was an automatic no-no. The two finally reached home after fifteen minutes, and opened the door to find the adults at the table--with Nagare and Tenmei absent--and they were talking about bits and jobs and things like that.

“Why are you two back so early? It’s not even been an hour.” Kaguya stated, looking at the two as they made their entrance.

“Diamond Tiara...and Silver Spoon…” Mimi huffed, sitting on her rump to catch her breath.

“Oh. Those two. Perfectly understandable, then.” Takashi replied, sighing.

“Hey...where are Tenmei and Nagare?” Mimu asked, noticing the stallions were in fact absent finally.

“They went to take care of something…” Takashi replied quickly.

Author's Note

This chapter is rather short, which is because I've something big planned next chapter to compensate for that.

~Dragon