Author's Note
This is apart of Ciderfest's Celebration of Writers this year and is being released alongside a few other stories written by me and edited by: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/27861/Nyronus
In order to give a preview of the convention stories to be presented a couple of weeks in advance. I hope you enjoy this one.
The Meeting
Autumn Blaze pranced along her route until a portal appeared before her. Then to her left and to her right. She braced herself not knowing what to expect as Fizzy in full Nirik form burst out from the portal. She recognized a Nirik alright and then her friend Pinkie Pie spilled into view with the sound of dice rolling around a tin can as her eyes ran around her head.
“What just happened? I feel like I”ve been in an Ice cream mixer for a whole day again. Don’t mention the Cakes I fell in once whoever is there, I see like twenty of you right now and you’re all blurrier than a McFlurry.” She spoke as she tapped her head and shook it vigorously in a very cartoonish manner to right her brain and reorient her eyes.
Across from her, a purple unicorn with a mess of frizzy hair rolled into existence much with somehow having similar rolling eyes and cartoonish sounds of her disorientation. “Why do I feel like I took a flight with Zipp only for her to decide to show off and attempt to reinvent the wonderbolts.” She shook her head and looked over at Pinkie Pie as Autumn Blaze stepped back and took a seat, staring at them both in confusion. Fizzy joined her and sat next to her.
They turned to exchange looks between each other, “I umm… we’ll talk about this in a minute, okay?” Autumn smiled nervously at Fizzy who nodded to her.
“Sure, yeah, umm…. Is it just me or those two?” Both of them turned their attention back to Pinkie and Izzy who were looking at each other and then suddenly stood on their rear legs, full forelegs extended ready to hug each other.
At the exact same time they blurted out at the top of their lungs, “HELLO, New Friend!” Then stopped and looked at each other confused.
Izzy and Pinkie both lifted their hooves at the same time following each other as they did. The mirrored movement between the pink and purple pones was uncanny and unnerving as they did everything trying to trip the other up or get some non-mirrored reaction.
Front hoofstand between them with their rear legs bent over their back to shake rear hooves by criss crossing their legs so right rear hoof shook the right rear hoof and the left did the same. Exactly right at the same time. Dashing off somewhere suddenly and coming back with a pie, exactly at the same time offering each other a pie.
“What kind of pie is that?” Izzy asked leaning in to get a smell of it, though her nose only seemed to smell her own pie.
“I wouldn’t know,” Pinkie Pie said suspiciously as she smelled Izzy’s pie and took a whiff but only smelled her pie. Both of them mirrored each other’s movements precisely right as they moving up and their pies down away from the other one only to slide down lifting their pies high into the air in a vicious staring contest that was unrelenting.
“Okay…. How about we just say the type of pie on three?”
Pinkie pie guarded her pie jealously and then nodded, “Okay fine, one.”
Izzy nodded and slowly started to extend her pie towards Pinkie Pie, “Twooooooo”
Pinkie and Izzy locked eyes as if they were staring each other down at high noon in a western pony town like appaloosa about to be told to draw. “Three!”
At the same time they both shouted at the top of their lungs, their voices seeming to lift them completely off the ground and allow them to hover there for a moment.
“Cherry raspberry with Boston Cream!” They blinked at each other. Then immediately traded pies as Autumn Blaze and Fizzy had both turned their heads so far they had conked each other in the head with their horns.
“You’re like me but with a horn!” Pinkie Pie commented then blushed heavily. “I mean ya know, with all the crazy party fun and the, you can defy the bounds of physics toooooo?” She emphasized the word too by leaning forward and darting her eyes out of her head against Izzy’s while pressing her forward to the base of Izzy’s unicorn horn.
Izzy leaned back and repeated the gesture back at Pinkie Pie, “Oh yeah, I can do that too; little weird on the head but still fun.”
“What are we witnessing here?” Autumn asked Fizzy as she offered Fizzy some popcorn
“I have no idea.” Fizzy replied with apprehension then tasted the popcorn and realized it was covered in caramel. “Oh…. no thanks I umm…” Fizzy was frankly flabbergasted. It would have been enough to snap her out of her nirik mode on any other day.
“So what should we do? What are those funny ponies over there and why do they look like the same species but polar opposites?” Izzy asked while eating the entire pie in three bites.
Pinkie Pie slurped her pan in one bite and produced from her mouth a completely cleaned pie tin. Izzy had just eaten the entire tin, pie and all. “I like the crunchy part best.”
“Oh those two? Well Autumn Blaze, HI!!!!” Pinkie Pie suddenly tackle-hugged her into what could only be described as violence that was associated with no pads hoofball with the referees looking away. Izzy bounced over using her hooves like they were a pogo stick.
“Oh are we glomping ponies?” Izzy suddenly got a menacing intent look in her eye and snapped her attention on Fizzy. She smiled with the kind of grin you would expect from a person about to commit an undo amount of violence and leaned right up to Fizzy who shied away from her and looked extremely shocked for what was about to happen.
“Hi new Friend!” She called out and Fizzy jumped out of her skin high into the air before crashing to the ground. Fizzy doing all this completely on her own from the sudden jumpscare of Izzy at point blank range. “I prefer the self-glomping method. It means I don’t have to actually touch them.”
Pinkie Pie helped up a still semi-stunned Autumn Blaze and Izzy leaned in, “Whooooo you have a horn too but you don’t look like any unicorn I’ve ever seen. Your horn is really fancy. I wonder what decorations and glitter I should use for it.”
“I umm…. would appreciate no glitter, it gets everywhere and in everything and I can't get rid of it.” Autumn responded by rubbing her head where she had crashed into the ground by Pinkie Pie’s sudden rush.
“Sorry about that, I got really excited. I hadn't seen you in so long and kirin are usually pretty durable.” Pinkie Pie with a grin on her face.
“Oh this is a Kirin? I thought they were mythological horse demons that took away your ability to speak. Ya know before they steal your soul.”
Fizzy growled and stamped her hooves, “We do not steal souls.”
“So I was right about the voices then?” This reply stunned Fizzy who plopped onto her haunches and stared from Pinkie Pie to Izzy and back to Pinkie Pie then to Izzy.
“Are you two even real?” Fizzy managed after a solid minute of absolute stunned speechlessness.
“Oh I don’t know about the voice thing, hey Autumn do you guys steal voices?” Pinkie Pie asked as she turned to her friend.
“No, we umm… the steam of silence was a voluntary thing as illustrated by why my village exiled me.” Autumn explained while trying to look both as innocent and as non-threatening as possible as well as closing her eyes and feeling sweat on her brow from the nervous idea that Izzy had about stealing voices. Which was not true of course but the soul part, well, she wasn’t about to talk about that.
“Ya know…. I was not prepared for Looney Tunes today, I think I should turn the page on this book and head on.” Fizzy said as she started to walk towards the portal.
Pinkie Pie grabbed the edge of the horizon and pulled it up revealing they were standing on a book page. “You mean this book page?”
Izzy turned her head and grabbed onto it too, “Oh you can see that too? I just assumed the animator had forgotten to hide the edges.”
Fizzy panicked with fear, “No no no! Not while I’m on it!” She started immediately scrambling for the portal. She ran as fast as her legs would carry her and jumped through the portal, not bothering to look back to find out the fate of the other occupants.
Pinkie and Izzy both let go of the book edge and let the page fall back to where it was. “Pinkie Pie…. You will never cease to puzzle me and amaze me in the same instance. So is this your umm… sister? Cousin? Nieceee…?” She asked nervously as she turned to Izzy.
“I have no idea in Celestia sun or Luna’s dreams who this is, we just met.”
Izzy nodded, “Yeah, that’s why I said, Hello New Friend!” She exclaimed as another portal opened and a new adventure in this weird storybook began to unfold. But that encounter is a story for you to fill in.
