Fangs and all

*rap-crash* Sighing, Twilight got up from her bed, levitating the book in her magic.  Teleporting,  she collected herself in the throne room, where her friends thrones were wrapped in a circle. Trotting into the adjourning room, which was just a hall with a platform at the end, besides the door to the throne room."What is it, Derpy?" The grey mail mare stumbled inside, opening the door with a loud crash. Looking to the heavens, she sighed. Celestia, help me now. "Derpy, are you all right?"

The grey pony nodded, slightly stepping forward and backwards awkwardly. "Got a package for you.. Princess." The alicorn rubbed her temples in an effort to calm herself. It had been a long morning in the castle with Blueblood coming for a visit while Rarity.. was.. ah.. in the little fillies room. Twilight had done everything she could to keep the atomic pair away but sometimes you can't stop things and about ten minutes later she had to escort an enraged Blueblood out of her crystal castle. He had been fuming and nearly rejected her offer, but she had reminded him that he was of a lesser status then her, despite living in Canterlot full time, instead of her having come from the high and mighty noble city and visiting it every so often.

But anyway, back to the present she realized Derpy was staring as well as she could with those mismatched eyes of hers. Remembering how long she had known the pegasus she vowed to herself to find what that disorder was and how to fix it. The way her eyes looked in two directions, like a lizards, was rather creepy, even if Derpy was fine with the way she looked. "Thank you Derpy, but you know if you feel like calling me a title you can just call me Miss Sparkle." And, she admitted to herself, it was unnerving having someone call her that.

Her mouth wide in her trademark grin Derpy nodded, removed the package from her saddle bags with her mouth, then let out a small yelp when the package she held was balanced finely on her hooves. In an instant Twilight was by her side, checking the mare for injuries or any signs of something bad. "Are you ok?" she asked frantically."Whats wrong? Where does it hurt?"

The strange eyed pony was staring at the package with fear. "Th-th-theres something in there!" She stuttered. "It b-bit me!" She waved a hoof in the air pitifully. Now that Twilight was calmer about her subject's situation, she took a quick glance at the package and saw it was vibrating. Well, not so much vibrating as shuffling an inch or two every second. Confused, the lavender mare took a look at Derpy's hoof and her jaw dropped at what she saw. A very confused and crying Derpy was holding a hoof with two marks in it. Not just any marks, though. They were made with precision and the shape was two small holes, one right next to the other. In other words, the bite was made by.. did she dare look? Gulping nervously, her nerves high-strung, she approached the package.

Carefully enveloping it in her magic, she telekinetically lifted the wrappings off, one by one. Plain cardboard stared back, mocking her, pushing her to open it. Taking a deep breath, Twilight opened the package. Two pairs of maroon eyes closely resembling Rainbows stared back at her fearfully, and she yelped. The.. the thing flew up into the air, leathery wings beating in a desperate attempt to stay airborne. But this ploy didn't work and the foal crashed to the ground with a heart shattering cry of sadness. Crawling over to where the colt? Filly? had landed, she looked fearfully, afraid that the worst had occurred.

Her violet eyes found a quivering black heap, slightly streaked with grey. "Oh my.." she murmured, taking in this sight. The little guy raised his head, and despite his draconic pupils, Twilight felt her heart break. "D'awwww!" Was her only comment. She wondered why he had been inside a package, then from the package her thoughts let to a certain pony. Turning she looked for Derpy, but the lizard eyed mare was gone. Secretly smiling to herself, she turned back to the coal dust black foal. "Hmm! What to call you.." It was then she noticed a little ice blue tag attached to his tail. He looked at her curiously and started nomming on her ear. After yelping, she got used to it fairly quickly and leaned in for a closer look.

Please, take care of my baby.

It read. She scratched her head in confusion, unsure why anyone would give up a precious little filly or colt like him/her, despite the fact that the little one was a batfoal. Checking the package for other items, an extended search of the beautiful wrapping of the foals cradle- as she had discovered- turned up only with two items. A well chewed pacifier and a crisp blue letter, emblazoned with some sort of seal. She squinted and made it out. It was a pile of obsidian complete with bat pony wings. She shuddered at the gruesome image and carefully, carefully, set the seal aside. She would have to run tests on it later to find the mother of this partial orphan. Ripping the night colored paper open she drew out the letter, which was, not surprisingly, blue. The letters were in white and she scanned them.

Shaking her head, her next response was "But it doesn't make any sense!" Turning the letter over provided no answer and there was no magical residue to suggest that this was merely a surface letter, only a pony of extreme magical power could do that kind of magic to unseal some hidden message.

As she pondered this, a timid knocking came at her door and Princess Twilight collected her feelings. "Fluttershy?" she called. "Come on in."

Being on the platform reserved for VIP's did that, you could hear certain sounds that the ponies on the lower levels could not. But with the silence here, any sound rang out like a bell in.. well, the silence. With this thought, she shot back to reality where a butter colored pegasus mare was waiting before the platform. "Um.. Twilight? If your busy I can.." She trailed off as she spotted the foal, practically teleporting as she threw herself across the room. "Omygoshthatissocutewheredidyoufind-" She stopped dead. "Er... Twilight?" Twilight was sitting, trying to process what Flutters had just said, when a tap on her shoulder drew her attention to the mare. "Not to interrupt.. or anything." She shrunk back. "But were you aware that this foal is a..."

"..batpony?" The princess finished when her friend looked away. "Yes. I was. I can't figure out why the heck his mother would abandon him!"

Surprised at this outburst, Fluttershy sat down, waiting for Twilights's momentary and rather abrupt rant to end.

Sheepishly grinning and blushing a pale light pink, a nice color on her violet coat, the yellow pony was motivated to go on with a nudge. " Well.. I know this is embarrassing, but do you.. mind if I figure out the gender?" A certain alicorn blushed as she realized what her longtime friend had asked, and insinuated.

"Uh.. sure?" she squeaked weakly, and Fluttershy nodded. Bending down to take a peek, her creamy face flushed cherry red.

"I-its a boy.' She stammered.

"Oh."

Straightening up, the Element of Kindness brushed herself off quickly and flew out the door. Twilight Sparkle was left staring after her friend with a slack jaw. It was rare that Fluttershy flew so fast but perhaps she had been embarrassed from discovering that. Twilight would have never let herself out of her library again if she had thought a boy was really a mare, then discovered like that he was not.

Calming down from the surprise, she checked the letter once more and realized it was written on an envelope! Of course, how could she be so stupid! Shaking the container open she chuckled softly as she realized there was an envelope inside an envelope. Drawing the paper out with her magic, she unfolded it.

To my little darling. May you always be the shiniest star, little Nova bright.

She bit her lip in concetration. "So. Your name is Nova. I can roll with that." The colt giggled.

Only then did she realize she had left her bed in the process of a delicate spell.

"Horsefeathers."