Fangs and all

"...and that," Chrysalis ended with a monotone voice,"Is how me, Fluffle puff, and Twilight all ended up in the same tree. Castle. Whatever." She flapped her hoof about for emphasis, and Fluffle gasped. Soon she was hard at her favorite pastime, which seemed to adding more saliva drenched holes to Chrysalis' tail.

"So....Let me get this straight."Luna said, her royal posterior against the shiny crystal floor. "You, met Twilight while hunting for love and got introduced to Fluffle puff, who was at that time a foal. Then she grew up and because her parents 'basically'," she made QUOTE marks with her hooves," Were an aliicorn and a changeling Queen, she became a bit.. ah.... cuckoo, to put it harshly?" she made the appropriate motions next to her ear.

Mariposa/Chrysalis nodded, then added fiercely,"But don't you dare make fun of her for that!" Luna suppressed a laugh, making eye contact with Twilight instead. At that moment Twilight was snorting and doing her best to cover up her sounds. She did her best to form a heart with her hooves and legs, and Luna nodded. Chryssi blinked suspiciously at the alicorns actions and turned towards her hostess to see a perfectly blank face. No one better then Celestia's student to look utterly bored, even when stuff fascinated her.

"Well." Was Luna's only comment. "That was INTERESTING to hear." She got up, twisting her hooves at odd angles and her neck to get rid of the cramps without hurting herself. Twilight nodded.

"At least that was the short version." The lavender alicorn commented. All three other ponies nodded, though Fluffle puff was, incidentally, more absorbed in seeing how high she could jump.

Chrysalis was actually the first to notice. "Where's that little bat demon foal you got in the mail?" After processing this, Twilight and Luna looked about frantically from their spot before realizing what the changeling had said. Twilight was the first to act on it.

She glared at the queen and her breath came in short huffs, indicating she was either close to using magic or was about to charge. Mariposa held up her hooves in defense, the pocked holes  in her hooves making it easy to see the fear on her face. Luna was thoroughly amused at that, a changeling queen afraid of a alicorn. She hid it well, though.

"Ok, Ok!" Mari/Chryssi nearly shouted. "He isn't a demon foal!" The sound of a gulp was audible and it was clear who it was from. All the drama was observed by a no longer bouncy Fluffle puff, and like a pony who looked much like her, her usual fuzzball mane cut had gone all floppy.

The purple mare looked around, accompanied by Luna, who was staring intently into the shadows. Remembering a spell she had put on NOVA earlier, Twilight hoped it was still active. Her horn powered up quickly, and she located the bat pony nearby. The royal blue princess noted this particular spell and sat down, waiting patiently. Soon she had determined which direction to head and left the room. Luna followed after one last glance at Fluffle puff and Chrysalis.

"Pbbt."

"Agreed."

***

After a while of Luna hanging around after Nova was found on the ceiling of the little colts room she told Twilight of her argument with Celestia. Obviously, she left out the reason they were fighting. Twilight, despite being Celestia's student and knowing the Lunar diarch's sister better, she sympathized. Also, Luna left out that she had been blind.

Nova, who was currently sitting behind Luna, jumped onto her head after she finished her tale and began.... rubbing the Night princess' horn. Twilight blinked at this odd behavior. "Mum?" He spoke, his accent clear.

Twilight shuffled uncertainly, while Luna stared up at the foal with a look of utter guilt and sadness. The young mare didn't seem to notice though, and she reached over to pull the colt closer. "Sorry." She apologized, cuddling her adoptive son. "He usually doesn't call other mares mom. I wonder what he considers different about you?"

Luna forced a smile onto her face, even if it was a bit cheesy. "Perhaps because I'm a deep blue purple color?"

"Hoo?"

Luna jumped, and nearly shrieked. What came out instead was a strangled pant, and she looked about frantically for the culprit of frightening her so. She stopped when she spotted Twilight curled up into a ball, laughing her head off. The amethyst shaded alicorn only had to take a look at Luna's nonplussed expression to be set off in a fit of laughter again. A bemused Luna watched this scene, unsure as if to be amused or thoroughly terrified. "So.... Who said that?" She asked, still unsure.

The lavender mare took a deep breath, struggling to keep her chuckles under control. "That...heh... would be Owlowiscious. " Only now did the princess spot the dark shadow shaped like an owl. It was partially visible in the noonday sun, but other then that draped in darkness.

"Hoo?"

"You, you silly owl." Twilight giggled, then face hoofed. "Forget it."

"Hoo?" Luna laughed as well, her anxiety gone in the light of finding out Twilight had a third companion. Spike appeared in the doorway, rubbing his emerald green eyes.

"Twilight... I'm going to go feed Peewee now, ok?" he asked sleepily. Twilight nodded in consent.

"Princess Luna is here though!" She called after him.

"Mmhm... thats nice..." Spike replied sleepily as he made several grasping attempts for the doorknob. After some pathetic tries, the unicorn rolled her eyes and charged up her horn, the door swinging open silently.

After taking several stumbling steps and a yawn or two the two mares heard a loud crash from the room next door and did their best to suppress their giggles. Spike appeared again in the doorframe, glaring at them. "Princess Luna?" he inquired frostily. "Seriously? Why didnt you wake me up better?"

"And the award for late reaction goes to..." Luna said loudly, doing her best to imitate the voice of a show mare.

He groaned in response and went to feed his pet PHOENIX, grumbling with every other second step. The two princess glanced at each other, then burst out laughing. They couldnt help it. "OH SURE, LAUGH AT THE DRAGON!" Spike yelled from the other room, with some sarcasm but mostly mock anger.

That just made them chuckle harder, the tension between them gone. "That was... amusing." Luna said between gasps of breath, desperate for air but still in the hold of mirth. Twilight nodded, still holding her sides with an expression somewhere between laughter and pain. Soon they were done with their laughter fit.

Awkwardly sitting, the two mares avoided eye contact, unsure of what to say to the other. As inspiration struck, Twi faced Luna. "P-Princess Luna?" she asked hesitantly, unsure of whether or not the Princess was enveloped in her own thoughts.

"What is it, Twilight sparkle?" The younger sibling of the rulers had adapted a formal, stiff tone and Twilight bit her lip nervously before rushing on.

"I realize you just had the fight andI'mreallysorryformaybepossiblyoffendingyoubutmaybeyoucouldmakeupwithher?"

The cobalt pony slowly blinked and as Twilight gritted her teeth nervously, smiled. "I am on board with that idea." her voice was soft, despite looking excited.

"Great! So we-" Twilight nearly shouted inly to be interrupted as Fluffle Puff and..... Fluffle puff came inside. "Uh......"

The slightly less fuzzy one rolled her eyes, then through an illusionary flash of fire, became Chrysalis. "Me and Fluffle Puff are going outside." She said, the submissive tone and the dual sides of her voice combining in odd ways. The princesses exchanged an alarmed glance.

"I don't think thats the best idea..." Chryssi growled in response to this and Fluffle patted her leg reassuringly.

"Pbt. pbbbbt. PBBBBBBBT!" The queen looked at the fuzzball with some surprise, whatever she had said was shocking.

"Are you sure?" Fluffle nodded.

"How are you able to understand her?" Luna said, interrupting some sort of conversation.

Twilight slowly shook her head. "Don't question it, Princess Luna. The explanation will make your head spin." Somehow, without her moving a muscles, her neck twisted around and around until she looked creepy.

"wah.... DISCORD!!!"

Randomly, Pinkie appeared. "I'm howling at the moon and sleeping in the middle of a summer afternoon!" She sang softly.

"PINKIE!"

"Yes Twilight?" The dimension defying mare said happily.

Twilight facehoofed. Discord appeared, clutching his sides and laughing hard. "That was... amazing! Oh, the look on your face!"

Luna just stared. She couldn't help it. Only at The Summer Sun Celebration and the Grand Galloping Gala had she seen more different species.

A draconequus, laughing his head off-quite literally, Luna noted, as his head slowly twisted around with each laugh like a screw- an earth pony singing who-knows-what, a batfoal suckling on his hoof and looking at them with, if he had been older, could only be described as a deadpan expression, an alicorn who was doing her best not to blow up, a changeling queen who was snickering softy, and a giant ball of fur. With eyes.

The Moon Princess was composed in the presence of others besides alicorns, but she couldn't help it. She broke down.

"AHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!" She howled with glee, rolling on her back.

Everyone stopped to look in surprise. Discord was the first to recover. "Well, we finally got a laugh out of her!" Then he became serious. He glared at Pinkie and held out his paw. "You owe me thirty bits."

"aw... shucks." Pinkie complained, taking the money from some dimensional pocket that would have been impossible if it weren't Pinkie Diane Pie. She hoofed it to the Chaos lord, who gulped it down like butter.

"BURRP!" He belched, then blushed as he held his talons to his mouth. "Excuse me.... Wait..." With his claws he fished down his throat, using a fishing rod. He reeled it up, despite the fact that if that had happened to anyone else the hook would of caught in their throat and optionally killed them. he brought up the coins, squinting at them carefully. "These are fakes, you silly pony." he dismissed with a 'humph' that would have made Rarity proud in the elegance of which it was executed.

He then proceeded to face paw. "Good Faust, you ponies are really starting to get to me." He walked over to a wall after an unhappy Pinkie Pie gave him some non counterfeit coins and introduced the blue crystal surface to his head. Repeatedly.

"O...kay then!" Twilight said, unnerved by all that had happened. She raised and eyebrow and pulled the only foal in the room closer to her, making it harder for him to become the subject of any of Discords more saddening pranks. "I just thought of something!" She lit up her horn, the purple glow looking odd and out of place in the clean blue room. "With this spell I should be able to divulge who his parents are!" She warbled happily, the technical terms setting her off in a  frenzy of speech known only to 'geeks' as the world called them.

'No!' Luna panicked, having easily recovered. 'Not that.... She can't learn who his parents are!' In a desperate attempt to stall the studious filly she lit up her horn, the beautiful aura twisting and turning as she wove an intricate spell.

Twilight frowned, reaching up to tap at her horn with a hoof. The spell fizzled for a second, then the aura stretched to accommodate the tip of her hoof. "Thats odd." She commented really to nopony in particular. "My magic isn't working too well."