//-------------------------------------------------------// A Glimmer of Growth -by MLPForever- //-------------------------------------------------------// //-------------------------------------------------------// A Glimmer of Growth //-------------------------------------------------------// A Glimmer of Growth It was a pretty typical morning in Ponyville for everypony. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and the whole day had an overall happy feeling..... That is, except for one. It has been six months since Starlight Glimmer had become Twilight's new friendship student. She had almost brought the entirety of Equestria to ruin as a result of her misguided beliefs. Starlight believed that if everypony were equal, then peace would be achieved. The problem was that she was forcing it on other ponies, whether they wanted it or not. Twilight and her friends revealed her for the fraud she was and drove her out of her equalist village. Then the incident with the castle map happened. Starlight tried to get revenge on Twilight and her friends by altering time and making sure that Rainbow Dash never did the Sonic Rainboom as a filly. This Rainboom was the one that helped Rainbow, Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Applejack get their cutie marks at the same time. With Starlight making sure it never happened, no matter what, the future could only lead to ruin. Long story short, Starlight realized how wrong she was, and is now trying to learn about the intricacies of having a friend from Princess Twilight Sparkle herself. All things considered, she had been doing pretty well with her lessons. She reunited with Sunburst, made a new friend out of the Great and Powerful Trixie, and learned how to have fun with Hearth's Warming Eve. Everything seemed to be going well for her. So....why was she feeling down lately? The truth of the matter is that Starlight still had a part of her that felt big after doing all the things she did. A part of her lingered inside her that still wanted to make the world a better place as she saw fit. Whenever she took a pony's cutie mark to make them equal, she simply felt bigger, and she LOVED that feeling. Starlight wanted to experience how it felt to be big. This day, however, her chance had come. Starlight had been tasked by her teacher to arrange all the books in the library section of the castle in a specific order. According to Twilight, "learning how to organize books is like learning how to organize time with friends." Starlight didn't really get this logic, but assumed that she would learn the reasoning while she was doing it. While she was doing the work, Starlight came across a particularly interesting looking book of spells. Her curiosity peaked, and she took the book out to read it. On the cover, strangely enough, there was no title or author. Starlight assumed that that was because this book was so mysterious and dangerous that the one who wrote it didn't want to be associated with it. Starlight flipped through the pages, looking at all the spells in it. It all looked very strange, even for her. But soon enough, she found one spell that drew her attention. Ever wanted to know what it's like to be big? Try this spell and find out! The part of her that wanted to feel big again took over her mind, and Starlight decided to try this spell out. Her horn glowed with the effort of casting the spell, and after she did, she felt..... Nothing. Starlight sighed to herself. "Well, it was worth a shot," she mumbled in disappointment. But soon enough, just when she was sure it didn't work, she was hit with an amazing feeling. Suddenly, everything around her seemed to get smaller and smaller. Starlight thought back to the spell and realized that "be big" was quite literal. She was growing! The door opened and Spike, Twilight's number one dragon assistant, came into the room. "Hey, Starlight, Twilight's busy in Canterlot, so she asked me to check on- Sweet Celestia!" Starlight saw Spike on the floor and smiled. "Spike, I'm so glad you're here! This feels so great!" Soon enough, her growing stopped, and she took up almost all of the room with her size alone. Her horn was so close to hitting the ceiling, she was so tall. "Starlight! W-What happened?!" Starlight kneeled down so that her face was right in front of the tiny dragon. To Spike, he could climb right on her muzzle from where he was standing. "Well," Starlight explained, "I was organizing the books in the library when I found one that caught my eye. It didn't have a title or author on it, but that only made me curious to read it. So I did, and found a spell that would make me big. I cast it, and.....well, you know the rest." "Th-This is insane! We have to tell Twilight about this right away!" "Why should we tell her?" "Uh, because we need to get you back to normal!" "But you don't understand. I don't want to be normal." Spike looked at her in disbelief. "W-What?" Starlight smirked at him. "Don't you get it? I WANT to be big. I WANT to keep growing. I WANT to have everypony bow down to me!" "But...I thought you changed!" Spike yelled, not believing that Starlight actually wanted all this. "Oh, I did, but this new change brought that side of me back!" At that moment, a loud growl echoed around the room. "Huh, what do you know? It looks like I'm hungry," Starlight said casually. "Uh, I can get you something from the kitchen if you want," Spike offered, terrified of the giant mare. "Oh, that won't be necessary. I have....something else in mind to eat." She licked her lips at Spike. Spike tried to run away, but Starlight lifted him up with her magic, bringing him up to her face. Spike gulped in fear from the leer she was giving him. "Aw, how cute. You thought you were going to get away." Starlight said this with a deceptively innocent tone in her voice reminiscent of when she ran her equalist village. She gave Spike a good long lick, making the baby dragon shiver from the saliva. "Mmmm, you ARE delicious. You wouldn't let a mare go hungry, would you?" "Y-You're insane!" "Maybe, but what does your word matter to me? You're just food." At that moment, Starlight tossed Spike inside her mouth. To Starlight, it was a dream come true. For Spike, it was a nightmare. He landed on Starlight's wet tongue, and for a moment, the light from the outside illuminated it. The light made it seem like a whole other world, with the glistening saliva, shiny gums and teeth, and the throat that seemed to beckon him to accept his fate. When Starlight closed her mouth, Spike couldn't see a thing, but he could feel so much. Starlight's tongue started tossing him around her mouth, getting a good taste of her meal. Starlight moaned in pleasure from his taste, which echoed around Spike from inside her maw. He was played with in every way one can imagine. He was pushed against her cheeks, the roof of her mouth, and even nibbled on by her teeth. All of a sudden, everything in Spike's new world was still. He lay in the middle of the giantess mare's tongue, and she stopped moving her tongue. Spike had a fleeting hope that she had changed her mind and was going to let him out. However, her tongue lifted up so that he was sliding toward her throat. Spike tried to grab onto whatever he could to escape, but he couldn't get a good grip on anything. Looking at the throat as he slid down, the uvula above pointed down, as if to say that Starlight's stomach was going to be his new home, and there was nothing he could do about it. Spike reluctantly accepted his fate, letting himself slide toward the gaping throat. If he was going to die, he might as well do it by contributing to this goddess's body. He was accepted into his new home with a wet gulp. Starlight traced Spike's path down her throat with her hoof, feeling him get taken to her belly. As soon as he landed inside, she had a sudden return of the amazing feeling, and everything seemed even smaller. "So if I eat, the more I grow. Guess I gotta eat, then!" She then stood up and her head hit the ceiling. She wondered what she could eat now to grow even more. Starlight then looked around the library and found just the snack for her. Starlight levitated all the books around her and lined them up in front of her mouth. As soon as she opened it, she floated the books inside gulping them down one by one. She assumed that if Spike was going to become part of her body, he might as well have some good reading material in the meantime. Once all the books in the entire library hit her stomach, she grew even more, this one a bigger growth spurt than before. She burst through the ceiling and sunlight poured into the room. When her growth spurt stopped, she could see all across Ponyville just from standing. The "tiny" ponies were looking up at her massive form, the buildings looked like dollhouses, and everything looked like a playset. Starlight was loving every second of this....and she needed to grow bigger. Starlight walked through the panicking streets, her hooves making booming earthquakes with every step. Along the way, she was levitating more ponies to her awaiting mouth, gulping them down and growing a bit with each one swallowed. She had to be bigger than everypony. No, bigger than the world. No, bigger than EVERYTHING, and she wasn't going to let anyone stop her. At some points, she accidentally stepped on groups of ponies, smashing them into a bloody pulp. To Starlight, this was no concern of hers. She simply lifted her hoof up and licked the remains up, swallowing what was left of the ones she crushed. Eventually, everypony in Ponyville was sitting in her belly, and Starlight was big enough to take up two Ponyvilles. She was loving this more and more with every inch she grew. But still, she felt like something was missing with this town. She then looked at all the buildings around her, and got an idea. "Well, if I'm going to keep growing, I might as well eat as much as possible." So she used her magic to lift up the buildings in the area and lift them to her mouth. When she was done consuming them, she had grown big enough to crush half of Ponyville with one step. "This is so incredible! At this rate, I'm going to be bigger than the world in just a few hours!" Starlight went to look for more cities and ponies to eat. She ate the entirety of Appleloosa, Manehattan, Fillydelphia, Las Pegasus, and so on, growing bigger with every single thing hitting her stomach. She then saw Canterlot in the distance and remembered that Twilight was there. She wondered if she knew what was going on as she went towards the regal city. In Canterlot, Twilight was in the mail room, waiting for mail from all over Equestria to come so she can read it, whether it be fan letters to the princesses, requests for a new area in the town, or death threats to be tossed into the fire. But strangely enough, none of them have sent any mail today. Maybe the mail pony was late......again. But before she could think about it further, she could feel rhythmic earthquakes from around her. They seemed to be getting closer and louder, eventually getting to the point where Twilight couldn't stay on her hooves anymore and had to fly. At that point, a giant eye looked inside the window. Twilight saw it and screamed. She heard some evil giggling as the roof was lifted off, and Starlight's grinning face was right above her, blocking out all light. "Starlight?! What happened?!" "I'm getting bigger, Twilight, and I'm loving every minute of it!" "Did....did you read the book with no title or author?!" "Whoever the author was, he's the best one ever!" "Gotta remember to write "off limits" on that one," Twilight mumbled to herself. Starlight's stomach growled again, and she looked at the alicorn princess with a hungry look. "Starlight, don't you even think about it!" "I'm sorry, Twilight, but I just have to grow. Besides, you'll be seeing your friends soon enough." "You ATE them?!" "Yep, and they were delicious! But I bet you'll be the tastiest of all." Starlight lifted Twilight up with her magic. Twilight tried to use her own magic to escape, but to no avail. She remembered that a side effect of the spell is immunity to magic. Starlight lifted her up to her face, and at this size, she absolutely dominated Twilight. If Twilight was on Starlight's face, she could take a swim in her pupils if she wanted. But that wouldn't ever happen anyway as she was taken inside the giantess's cave-like mouth. After tasting her and seeing that she is indeed the tastiest pony she's ever had, she gulped Twilight down. Twilight slid down her throat and landed in her stomach. From the inside, she noticed that nearly everypony in Equestria had been devoured by Starlight. It seemed that they have accepted their fate to live in Starlight's belly for the rest of their lives. There were even some that were worshipping Starlight for being a goddess that had come to bring them to their inevitable fate. Twilight was trying to comprehend all this, but then noticed that Starlight's belly, and as a result, Starlight herself, was getting bigger.....and bigger....and bigger. Starlight, on the other hoof, was having the time of her life as it seemed that she was having the biggest growth spurt she's ever had. She assumed that eating Twilight had given her the boost she needed to grow infinitely. "Yes. Yes! YES!" She shouted as she grew. Her head was in the clouds, then her butt was in the clouds, then she couldn't even see Canterlot anymore. Bigger and bigger she got until finally, the entire planet was the size of a marble to her. The ball of dirt that had once been her home is now able to sit comfortably on her hoof. Starlight then decided that she might as well eat everything, so she took the planet and gulped it down whole. She kept on growing and saw all the other planets in her solar system, and they followed suit. She ate planets, stars, comets, galaxies, multiple galaxies at once, and so on and so on. Everything tasted absolutely delicious, and she was glad that she was becoming the goddess that she deserved to be. Eventually....there was nothing else. Literally everything that has ever existed was sitting comfortably inside Starlight's sexy stomach. Now all are equal in the sense that they are all inside the most beautiful goddess that has ever come into being. Starlight was glad that she was able to be bigger than absolutely everything, and that she had become the goddess that she felt she should have been since she was born. She patted her belly in satisfaction, with all of existence itself still going inside her. Inside her belly, all living beings have accepted their fate as being mere morsels to Starlight Glimmer. They went on with their daily lives, with the major differences being that they were inside a giant mare's stomach for the rest of their lives, and that there were now groups that worship Starlight as the true goddess she is. It was a pretty abnormal ending of the day in Ponyville.