The incredible life of Arcane Sparkle

Fluttershy was right, is hard to sleep with a baby in the house. Cane started to cry before the sun came up, he was wet again. She gently rocked him back to sleep while she decided to get a cup of coffee and savor it. "Maker knows I wont be able to savor things for a time while Cane is living here." She was glad that Spike had taken the time to teach her how to cook for herself, it also helped that she attended a cooking class run by Pinkie every Saturday. It explained how Pinkie could afford to buy all the items she had and pay for rent for the cakes. She was enjoying her coffee right up until the moment Cane started to cry again. Twilight downed the rest of her morning breakfast brew and went to help feed her new son. She nursed the crying child and burped him. "Now I can't keep you a secret forever, my home being a public building and all. I'm just having the trouble of which one of my friends to introduce you to first, besides Auntie Shy-Shy, and Uncle Spike." She spoke to the child. The child meanwhile was distracted by the playpen with all stuffed animals and toys in it.

He started to reach towards the playpen, so she set him on the padded floor, grabbed some toys and started to play with him. "Auntie Pink and Auntie Rain would too loud and might hurt your ears. Auntie Rare would absolutely adore you, and may faint or make you clothing. I think the best option would be Auntie AJ."

"Ah...a?" Cane tried to say AJ but due to him lacking intelligence or teeth he couldn't pronounce it. He just gave up and started to shake the rattle in his hand, he enjoyed making the new noise.

"Nice try Cane. You're much more intelligent than I give you credit for, most foals would still be babbling nonsense and not pay attention to their parents." Cane then crawled over to where Twilight was sitting.

"Mama." He said while trying to hug her. She picked him up and hugged him back.

"You're such a cutie, also a big handful." Twilight got a wicked idea, and started to tickle Arcane. She loved hearing his laughs and giggles. Then she started to belly blast the baby boy. "PFFFTT. Who's a cute baby yes you are. PFFFTT, who's mommy's little colt? Yes you are." The tickle monster had come and gone, Arcane was still reeling from being tickled and bell blasted and was giggling a bit. There was a knock on the door and she put Arcane in his playpen while she went to answer it. It was Pinkie and she didn't look so good.

"Twilight you have to help me." she near shouted.

"What is it Pinkie?"

"I've had my pinkie sense going cra-zee. Twilight you gotta help me!"

"How would I do that the only one that understands the pinkie sense is you."

"I know but there's an itch that I got that tells me that there's a new pony in town, but then it tells me it's not a pony. IT'S DRIVING ME INSANER!" Pinkie yelled, unfortunately that was heard by Arcane and he didn't like the sudden new noise, so he did what all babies do in that situation.....cry.

"Eh-heh, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHA!" was heard from the other room, suddenly Pinkie's twitching stopped. Twilight rushed upstairs to calm Arcane down.

"Shh, calm down." Twilight was holding the baby now patting his back while his tiny arms were wrapped around her neck. "Mama's here, shh."

"Well that explains that." Pinkie said quietly. Twilight just stared at Pinkie. "Should I just leave?"

"No Pinkie, I could use your help here." She said while the baby stopped screaming.

"Lemme see him." Pinkie held her arms out. Twilight was reluctant but then handed Arcane over. Pinkie held Arcane over her heart letting him listen to her heartbeat.

"Mmmmmmmm." Arcane fell back asleep, and Pinkie handed him back to Twilight.

"How'd you do that Pinkie?" Twilight whispered.

"When in the womb babies can hear the heartbeat of the mother, so listening to a heartbeat will calm the baby down." Pinkie whispered back.

"Pinkie I think I know who was causing those itches and twitches." Twilight whispered.

"Really who?"

"You're holding him. That's Arcane, my new son."  Twilight said.

"What? Why haven't you introduced us to him?"

"It was very sudden Pinkie I didn't think I'd be a mother so soon. The only others that know about him is the hospital, Spike, and Fluttershy."

"Aww, I get it trust me. I could give you some pointers if you want." Pinkie said.

"Would you?" Twilight pleaded.

"I have to ask a few questions, but first I'd put him back in his crib." Pinkie handed Arcane, to Twilight. Twilight head upstairs and lay Arcane down.

"Would you like some tea?" Twilight asked as she walked back down the stairs.

"Ginseng if you have any." Pinkie said.

"I think I do." Twilight said as she searched her cabinet. Spotting the ginseng tea she added it to the boiling water on the stovetop. She joined Pinkie, "Careful it's hot."

"Thank you. I guess the situation is a bit reversed." Pinkie said.

"I know, usually it's me that's asking the questions and everypony else answering." Twilight chuckled.

"Twilight I noticed how young Arcane is and I know that you're breastfeeding him. There's nothing wrong with that, just when you start to ween him of it you have to stand your ground."

"I got that."

"There's also this, there are no books on being a mother, there is no book on telling you how to love your child, the hospital is a great place to learn aliments for your child."

"Yes. Being a mother is something that comes naturally." Twilight said, "I got it when I had Spike when he was young but I was a foal at the time as well."

"Yeah, other than that I think you have all the bases covered." Pinkie said. "You've already named him, now all we need to do is introduce Cane to everypony else."

"Yeah, I was going over that this morning and I couldn't reach a conclusion."

"I'll take care of it for you if you want me to." Pinkie said.

"Would you, but please no party cannon?" Twilight begged.

"I would never use my party cannon in the same room of a baby." Pinkie said.

"Do you have anymore tips?" Twilight asked.

"I see you already have things for him but I suggest when he gets older giving him pull up diapers, it will really help with the terrible twos and threes."

"Thank you Pinkie, I can't seem to thank you enough for your help." Twilight said.

"By the way I have a question."

"Yes?"

"What species is he? I don't think I've seen anything like him." Pinkie said. "This is me we're talking about here!"

"To be completely honest, I don't know. I ran into Fluttershy yesterday and she said he looked more like a monkey than a pony."

Arcane 1st p.o.v.

What is this? Where am I? Where's the warm? I opened my seers to find myself surrounded my black lines. I tried to push on the black lines but they wouldn't move. Where's my chewie? I had the chewie in my noise thing before I went to black. Where did it go? I moved my top thingy to look around with my seers, my chewie had fallen between the black lines and onto the bottom! I needed my chewie! Where's the big milk thing? That'll get my chewie for me! I decided to call for help! "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"

3rd p.o.v.

Twilight was finishing up scooting Pinkie out the door so that Pinkie could get the their other friends when Cane had decided to start screaming. "Hold on Cane, mama's coming." Twilight said up to the screaming baby but to no avail he continued to scream until she reached his room and picked him up. "What is it baby?" She said while holding him. "Where'd your pacifier go?" Twilight pondered to herself until she spotted it on the floor. "Oh no, it got all dirty. I'll get you another one." Twilight said while reaching the changing station and pulling a pacifier out from one of the drawers and plopping it into his mouth to quiet the noisy baby down. "Shh it's alright, Mama will wash your dirty one later but for right now you can play in your playpen in the living room while I go clean up for your aunties to come over." Twilight said while walking down to the living room and placing the now awake baby into his playpen while she cleaned up.

Arcane 1st p.o.v.

Mama? What's a mama? Is it what the big milk thing is, a mama? I was turning the top thing that moved my seers, I'll have to find out a name for the top thing later. There were a lot of different things, but there was something in front of me. What was it? It was pointy, but not pointy and it moved! Wait that's a part of me! Huh, they look weird there were many pointies and one littler pointy. Can I move these thingies? I started to wave them about and it was fun! I wonder what will happen if they crash into each other! I brought my pointies together and it made a noise! Did I hurt my pointies?!?!? Were they alright? I seered at them and they were fine, but what was that noise I made by crashing them together? I wanna see what happens if I crashered them together again. So I repeated my process but I did it harder and again there was that noise. I did it again and again! I loved it, but suddenly the big milk thing was back, wait no it's called a mama. The mama was back and seeing at me, did I do something bad? The mama picked me up and put me on the bottom. Then the mama grabbed my pointies. What was she doing?

"Hands." The mama said. "Thehaganame hands!"

I seered at my pointies, was the mama trying to tell me something? Why did she have my pointies?

"Haaaaaaannnnnnnnnndddddddddssssssss." The mama said again. Hands? What are hands? Was she talking about my pointies? Are my pointies called hands? They ARE! I have hands! What was that noise I made with them though? I tried to do it again but the mama still had my hands in it's hands and it was too stronger to break apart. Then the mama made that noise with my hands again. "Clap!" It noised at me. Was the noise I made called something? I made the noise again when the mama let go of my hands, "Clap!" The mama noised again. I was clapping! That was the noise was called. Yay! I clapped some more and laughed. I learned something new!

3rd p.o.v.

Twilight was busy cleaning when she heard a noise, she had looked outside the window but there was nopony at the door. Then she heard the noise again and looked to where it was coming from, it was Arcane and he was clapping but then he stopped when she looked at him over his playpen. Aww he just discovered his hands, and it looks like he's trying to clap! Twilight thought it was so cute so she took little Cane out of his playpen and held his hands. "They have a name, hands!"

The baby looked at his mother with confusion on his face. Hmm, I'm going to have to try a different approach. "Haaaaaaannnnnnnnnndddddddddssssssss." Twilight drew out her word hoping that it would register into the infant's little brain. The baby was struggling within Twilight's own hands then she moved them apart and clapped them. "Clap!" She said to the baby and let his hands go. The little colt clapped again and Twilight repeated the word. "Clap!" The baby paused then smiled and started clapping and laughing. "Aww, you are so adorable."

"CA!" The baby gurgled as he clapped.

"Yes! Clap! You like to clap don't you."

"Mmmmmumumumu...............CA!" The baby mumbled and hummed.

"You think you're so smart mister?" Twilight pointed at herself. "Who am I?"

"Mk!" The baby screamed out.

"No, I'm MAMA." Twilight said.

"Hmm?" The baby hummed.

"MA MA." Twilight pointed at herself. "You said it earlier, why won't you say it now."

"Mama?" The baby said with his hands outreached. He had a pitiful look on his face like he wanted to be picked up.

"I'm sorry baby." Twilight picked her child up and held him tight. There was a knock on the door.

**********

"So Twi, why'd you have Pinkie bring us all down to the library? Not that I mind or anything." Applejack asked.

"Yeah, I was busy sleeping." Rainbow yawned.

"I'm sure she has a very good reason." Fluttershy said.

"Thank you Fluttershy, in fact as you may have noticed things in the library are a bit different."

"What? You letting toddlers into your eggheadom?" Rainbow asked.

"Well.....sort of." Twilight chuckled.

"Darling I hate to be so crass but could you please get to the point?" Rarity asked.

"Okay, just wait right here I'll be right back." Twilight said as she went upstairs and picked the bouncing baby boy up. Twilight walked back down the stairs, "Girls I'd like for you to meet our newest addition to our friendship. Meet Arcane." Twilight showed off her baby.

"Twilight is that what I think it is?" Rarity asked.

"SA-SA!" The baby said and reached towards Fluttershy.

"Aww c'mere you." Fluttershy cooed and Twilight handed over her child to Fluttershy.

"What is it?" Rainbow said and in the distance a certain unicorn DJ scratched one of her records.

"MY CHILD IS NOT AN IT!" Twilight yelled, startling Cane and making him cry.

"Aww don't cry little one. Auntie Shy's got you." Fluttershy said bouncing the baby.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhh." The baby cried out reaching for Twilight.

"Oh come here." Twilight picked Cane out of Fluttershy's arms and cuddled him. "Girls this is my son."