Glowing Cupcakes

It was moderately warm day in Ponyville, where most of the ponies were all doing their jobs, usually relevant to what their special talent was. Their main talent was usually represented on their flank, also known as a “Cutie Mark.” Every pony does not start with one, but rather, starts with nothing on their flank, and so will gain this “Cutie Mark” when they have discovered their hidden talent.

However, not every pony was working. They all had personal hobbies, some different, some the same, some similar. One of these ponies, a unicorn to be exact, was Twilight Sparkle, who had the hobby of reading. She loved to read, and spent a lot of time indulging herself into culturing herself on lifestyles, on magic, and other interesting subjects that came into mind.

In the library, Twilight Sparkle was lying belly down on her bed while reading one of her many books of magic, “Advanced Spells for the Average Unicorn” and engrossed herself deeply into the contents of the book. She had spent quite some time on this book today, approximated to about two to three hours from the morning. It had become 12 in the afternoon and Spike, her baby-dragon assistant, was eventually getting bored.

Spike, actually fed up on being wide awake and yet doing nothing, decided to go into the kitchen for a snack.

“A little treat would do for some time” he thought to himself, going downstairs, leaving Twilight alone upstairs. Twilight didn’t notice, as she was too interested in her book. Spike jogged pass the library shelves and into the kitchen, where he then opened the fridge to find four nice cupcakes that Twilight had gotten from Pinkie Pie as a after-party present. Not knowing this, he simply took all the four cupcakes from the fridge, and climbed up onto the kitchen table.

“Maybe there’s some stuff I can add to these cupcakes! Hmm, yeah, something to make them worth-while.” Thought spike aloud, going around the kitchen for ingredients.

“Taco Sauce, nah, hmm... Cream Filling...nah...” Spike said as he raised and lowered multiple containers and cans on the kitchen table. This went on for a few minutes until a certain can caught his eye under the kitchen table. He ducked under, picked it up, and stood up beside the table, inspecting it. It was a green can, that was clearly opened and then closed by a unicorn with magic, as the cutting line around the top of the can could still be seen.

“Hmm...Unknown Glowy Stuff...Hmmm....Maybe it’s a new flavor in town!” said spike, as if he held the holy grail. He went over to the cupcakes on the other side of the table, and opened the can with his spines. He looked inside it in amazement as a green glow shined out from the strange can, and smacked his lips. Usually, shiny or things that glowed usually attracted his attention, and he added a small amount of the powder substance onto all the four cupcakes, leaving the can still quite full of this green glowing powder. He bit into the glittery green cupcake, and smiled.

“Yum!” He exclaimed to no one in particular, “this stuff really makes these cupcakes taste really good! Mmm...” He said, stuffing the cupcake into his mouth. He then paused, looked around, making sure Twilight didn’t find him talking to himself or meddling with this green can, and then thought of a idea.

“Hmm! Pinkie Pie should really know about this....stuff! It really brings out the sparkle in this pastry.” He thought to himself. “I’ll let Twilight know I’m going out...But...hmm...I mustn’t let Twilight know about the green cans...hmm...Oh yes!” He snapped his fingers with a idea, leaving the green can of glowing powder on the table, going halfway up the stairs and calling up to Twilight; “Twilight! I’m going to go out and do a...errand, okay?”

Twilight responded with a soft “Okay!” and continued to read the book, too interested to care on what Spike said, and hummed peacefully.

Spike grinned. He went downstairs, took the green can along with the last cupcake, and dashed outside to sugarcube corner to tell Pinkie Pie of this new ingredient.

After much running, he arrived to the nice little sweetshop that belonged to the Pie family, and Spike walked in, holding this green can, making sure it was upright as not to drop the contents. He met Pinkie Pie first thing at the counter, and told her all about it.

“So your saying that this silly stuff makes cupcakes twenty times better?” Said Pinkie Pie, examining the can with slight distrust from all angles, yet excitement at the same time.

“Yes,” Spike said honestly, “I’m sure all those ponies would love this stuff. I mean, glowing cupcakes! Isn’t that, err, cool?”

Pinkie Pie looked at the can distrustfully, and placed her right hoove into the can, and tasted some of the green dust, and suddenly changed expression to a happy look, closing her eyes.

“Okie Dokie!!” she said happily, taking the can and placing it onto the counter temporarily. “I’ll put this into the pastry on the party tomorrow. See you there, Spike!”

Spike waved and left towards the library, only to find that Twilight Sparkle was still reading the book, and had hardly noticed he was even gone. Spike called it a day off and went to bed to rest for the afternoon.