Why We Don't Play with Age Spells
Princesses, We Have a Problem...or six.
Author's Note
This fic was totally inspired by the cover art!
I know it's goofy and silly, but hey, I have no regrets.
Hope you enjoy it!
Princesses, We Have a Problem...or six.
Twilight was intently focused on her spell book. She had mastered quite a few spells that week and was proud of that. Her newest spell was an age spell.
Her friends had been watching her preform various spells with ease, all of them cheering with each successful one. Pinkie had produced popcorn for everypony, and they were content to munch while they watched.
She'd changed fruit into furniture.
She had turned Rarity's hair green...much to the unicorn's shock...then changed it back.
She had done a series of tricks using books, quills, and her friends as juggling objects.
She had turned the popcorn into varies sweet treats, much to Pinkie's delight.
"You've been practicing those things pretty hard, Twilight." Spike finally spoke up. "Maybe you should take a break."
"Aw, one more! One more!" Pinkie begged.
"Well, alright." Twilight said. "This is one I just mastered this morning. An age spell. Hmm. I better age a fruit or something."
"Twilight, I don't know about this. You've not had enough practice at that spell yet." Spike said worriedly.
"Oh, Spike." Twilight chuckled. "It's fine. Hey, why don't you go fix some snacks while I do this?"
Soike sighed and went to the kitchen. Twilight looked around thoughtfully. After a moment, she placed a pot on a table and put a seed in it. She aimed her horn and lit it up.
"So cool!" Pinkie squealed, bounding over as a green shoot poked up from the pot.
She bounced into Twilight, who's concentration broke as her horn glowed brighter. Before anypony could react or speak, the room exploded in a blinding white light. Spike noticed the flash from the kitchen and came running.
"Twilight! Are you ok? I don't remember that from your spells..."
He trailed off as he stopped in his tracks and stared at the scene in front of him. Sprawled in the floor, groaning, were his friends, but there was one major problem.
They were all fillies.
Spike looked at each one in turn, and swallowed hard.
"Oh, this is not good!"
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Spike approached Twilight first. She shook her head and stared at him.
"Spike?" She managed. "What happened?"
She looked at her friends and her jaw dropped in shock at the sight of their small bodies.
"Sweet Celestia...this is not good, Spike."
"Hey!" Dash yelled. "What happened?! Why the hay am I so small?! And why is my voice so high?!! Twilight!"
"I...I think that the age spell backfired." Twilight explained, gulping.
Pinkie was jumping and leaping and bouncing excitedly.
"This is sofun! Let's play! Come on! Leapfrog!" She bounced over Rarity's head.
"Pinkie!" Rarity shrieked.
Twilight giggled in spite of herself and suddenly ran after Pinkie. Applejack, trying to keep her suddenly over-sized hat on her hat, chased after them. Fluttershy cowered close to the floor and eeped as Dash leaped over her and tried to tackle Pinkie.
Spike looked at the group of energetic fillies and took a deep breath. There was something he had to do. He needed to send a calm and collected letter to Luna and Celestia and request their assistance. They would know how to fix this. He had a feeling that Twilight probably didn't have the reversal spell mastered, and if she did she was small, and wouldn't have nearly enough magical power to change herself and her friends back to normal.
Spike made his way to the desk and grabbed a quill. Before he could use it, though, Dash rushed in and grabbed it.
"Haha! Come and get me, Spikey!" She squealed. The others giggled.
Clearly their filly sides had taken over completely. Spike narrowed his eyes at the blue filly.
"Give it back, Rainbow Dash." He ordered, holding out his claw.
"Nuh uh." She responded, poking out her tongue at him. "You can't make me."
A clatter interrupted Spike's movement towards her, and he looked to see Pinkie happily climbing up the bookshelf.
"Pinkie Pie!" He shouted, worried for her safety. "Get down from there! You'll fall!"
"Awwww, but I like it up here!" She said, smiling. "Can't I stay, Spike? Please?"
"No!"
Sighing, she slid down to the floor, and then joined the others in a game of tug-of-war. Spike turned back to Dash.
"Give me the quill, Dash."
"No."
"Give it here right now!"
"No!"
"Rainbow Dash, give it to me!"
"Make me!"
Before he could, she flew up over his head, quill still held firmly in her grasp. He groaned. Fine. She could have it. He got another one and grabbed a parchment from the desk. Before he could write anything, he heard a shriek behind him.
Turning, he found Dash tormenting Rarity by poking her with her treasured quill. Applejack was trying to lasso a running, giggling Twilight and wasn't succeeding, and Pinkie was busy drawing on the wall and floor. The only behaved one was Fluttershy, and she was curled up in a corner, clearly terrified of the racket being made by her friends. Spike stood.
Time to take some command. If he didn't, they would destroy the library. As if to prove this silent point, Applejack lassoed a stack of books and knocked them down with a crash.
"Enough!" Spike shouted. "Rainbow Dash, leave Rarity alone! Twilight, Applejack, no running inside! Pinkie Pie, stop drawing on the walls! Everypony pick out a picture book and sit down!"
It worked.
Dash was the first to get a stack of the picture books Twilight always left on a low shelf and handed them to her friends. They all sat down in different spots to look at them.
Spike grabbed his quill and though briefly on what his well constructed letter should say. In the end, he wrote the only thing he could think of.
Dear Prinesses Luna and Celestia,
Help!!!!!! Age spell!! All Elements are fillies!!! HELP!!!
Spike
He sent it immediately, hoping they would come to his rescue very soon. Until then, he had six fillies to keep track of. That thought made him gulp.
Celestia help him, he was going to go crazy!
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The pictures books didn't help for long. After a while, Dash was flying around and Twilight and Applejack were involved in another game of tag. Rarity was attempting to redesign the library's curtains, and would have cut the current ones to shreds had Spike not noticed and taken away the scissors she held. Pinkie was attempting to make a mountains from all the books she could reach so she could climb up it and claim it for Equestria.
Fluttershy had finally ventured from her corner and was trying to capture a mouse to make friends with it. Spike finally had to intervene when she tried to tackle the little creature...after which he quickly let the grateful mouse outside.
"Wheeeee!" Pinkie cried, having made it to the top of her book mountain. "I made it! I, General Pinkie Pie, Equestrian Scout, claim this mountain and dub it Mount Pinkie Pie! Hooray! I claimed it! Whoa!!!"
Her celebration of her victory was short-lived as her wobbly mountain collapsed, burying her under it. She let out a wail.
"Oh, I'm gonna perish before I can tell Equestria about Mount Pinkie Pie! Somepony bury me here!"
She lay there and shut her eyes...obviously having forgotten she was already buried. Spike rolled his eyes and quickly released her from her place under the stack of heavy books.
"Ooh! A spell book!" Twilight cried.
"No!" Spike yelled, snatching it.
Then he had to rush over and save Twilight's favourite vase after Applejack lassoed it. He barely had that done before he had to run and pull Dash free after she crashed into Pinkie's fallen mountain.
He took the scissors from Rarity for the second time just as she was about to give Fluttershy a mane trim, putting them away this time where she couldn't find them.
"Chaaaaarge!" Dash yelled, plowing headfirst into Pinkie, and sending both of them into the pile of books.
"Hey! Get off my mountain!" Pinkie cried.
"I'm claiming this mountain for Cloudsdale!" Dash shouted. "Mount Rainbow Dash!"
"Mount Pinkie Pie!"
"Mount Rainbow Dash!"
"I'll throw cupcakes if you don't get off Mount Pinkie Pie!"
"I'll throw em right back!"
Spike finally broke in.
"Guys, why not just call it a combination of your names?" He asked wearily.
They thought about that briefly.
"Rainbow Pie Mountain!" Pinkie suddenly squealed.
"I love it!" Dash exclaimed.
It was at this moment somepony knocked on the door. Spike rushed to answer it, and nearly fainted in relief at the sight of who stood there.
"Oh, thank goodness!" He cried. "You have got to help me!"
"I see you have had a bit of an exciting time?" Princess Celestia smirked as she surveyed the messy room.
"You have no idea!" Spike groaned. "It's been like running magic kindergarten...minus teaching the magic! It's been crazy! Please fix it!"
"Do you not enjoy watching foals?" Princess Luna teased.
"Sure, but not six at once!" Spike exclaimed.
The Princesses eyed the foals in question.
"Princess Celestia! Princess Luna!" Twilight cried.
"Yay!!" Pinkie shrieked happily, leaping up ont a bookshelf.
"Pinkie, get down!" The weary Spike ordered.
She obeyed, and jumped back up next to Dash on top of the books.
"Princesses, we have claimed this mountain for Equestria!" She announced triumphantly.
"Have you indeed?" Princess Celestia said with an amused look.
"Yes!" Pinkie shouted. "This is hereby called Rainbow Pie Mountain!"
"Well, then." Princess Celestia commented solemnly. "I will have to make sure it goes on the map."
Pinkie giggled.
"Alright, my little fillies." The Sun Princess continued. "Can you do me a big favour?"
"Sure!"
"Of course!"
Princess Celestia smiled. "Can you all come sit in front of me? I'll get Luna to tell you a story!"
Six fillies were seated in front of her in seconds. Princess Luna smiled slightly as her sister's horn lit up.
"Once upon a time, long, long ago..." she began.
There was a flash of white light, and when everpony's vision cleared, the Bearers were all back to normal size. For a moment, they all just looked at each other, then at the Princesses, then back again. Twilight caught her mentor's raised eyebrow and gulped.
'Oh boy.'
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Once the entire story was told, Princess Celestia shook her head.
"I trust you have learned a valuable lesson."
"I have." Twilight answered. "Spells are not meant to be played with. You could wind up doing something you don't mean to do. Like changing everypony into fillies." She blusged.
"Well, since we are no longer needed..."
The Princesses took their leave and Twilight took a deep breath.
"Spike, I really appreciate you taking charge here today." She said, turning around. "You really did a good..."
She stopped, and the others followed her line of vision. Spike was sprawled on the floor, sound asleep, snoring quietly.
"Aw. Poor Spike." Applejack chuckled.
"Yeah, guess he's really tired." Dash added.
Twilight gently levitated a blanket over and covered the baby dragon.
"That's what happens when you wind up in charge of six energetic foals." She replied, smiling. Then she sighed.
"Foals." Another sigh. "That would be why we don't play with age spells. I will never use that spell lightly again!"
