Twilight Gets a Puppy Season 7

Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 7
By TDR

Curtain tales

[Ponyville, Seshat, end of summer]

"While a fascinating course of action Sparkle I do not see how I am able to help you with this." Sombra stated.

"So you never had to deal with this before? " Twilight asked looking at the crystals scattered across the table. Tempest stood nearby with a large light and desk mounted magnifier aimed at her stub of a horn. " Aren't you half Crystal Pony?"

" While the sperm donor that forced me into existence from the comforting null of the void was, as a demi god I never went through any sort of horn growth, though I do expect if my horn was damaged some how it would regrow, though that is not something I wish to test so do not even try it." Sombra snapped.

"I didn't plan on it, I mean the amount of pressure it would would be immense. I mean look at the magical back blast that happened when I blew you out of the tower in the Crystal Empire while I had a concussion, that didn't even chip your horn. Also the mayor told me I can't test spells over a certain thrum in town." Twilight pointed out.

Sombra and Twilight glared at each other a moment though Twilight was smirking.

"Indeed, though do not lose your head over it, the mayor is simply doing her job. By the by , any sharp neck pains recently?" Sombra questioned.

Sombra and Twilight glared at each other a moment though Sombra was smirking.

"Not to interrupt but what exactly is this about?" Tempest asked.

"Simply put the crystalline growth inherent to Crystal unicorns can be duplicated... on other crystal unicorns. So it's not as much help as expected, however Sombra here can make black crystals out of near nothing so if the control of that was used to shape properly they might be a substitute." Twilight offered.

"Ahh I see what you are considering and no it would not work. Black crystals are a disrupter." Sombra explained. "And they do not come from nothing."

"What now?" Tempest asked.

"Black crystals produce a harmonic that is disruptive to magic, the more magic put into them the more they shift, breaking the usual orderly spells that most casters favor. Think of it as a bit of metal that has just been struck with a hammer, the shape changes and the metal vibrates. shaking loose anything that might be holding it unless you have a tight grip with your tongs."

"Not sure that metaphor works. It's like say a bowl of water is a spell, and a struck tuning fork is stuck into it, the fork is a black crystal. It's broadcasting magic on a disruptive wavelength to normal magic, which is why no one can cast if the crystals are attached to them. It's a magical disruptor rather than a remover like my brother." Twilight hummed. " Still that's not hard to adjust or tune it, but how did you grow it?"

"You push a certain amount of power into something, be it a crystal shard or a bit of sand or rock. The black crystal has an accelerated growth though it damages the source material of the crystals. It is also not stable and tends to grow more and more brittle before crumbling." Sombra pointed out.

"You could have lead off with that!" Twilight groaned.

[Winsome Falls]

“Again, ah would like to point out that this feels a little off in terms of being ah 'Big sister, little sister' camping trip.” Applejack pointed out.

“Bark?” Rahs asked from where he was setting up a tent.

“Actually that might help.” Applejack admitted.

“I don't care if he's willing, I'm not going to wear a dress.” Spike offered setting down a cooler.

“Really wouldn't take much for uncle Pharynx and I to be girls. Or look like them at least.” Firefly added. As his uncle grunted in response and went back to working on the fire pit.

“Honestly that would be fascinating to see what you might come up with, though you really should try a dress at some point Spike, I have the perfect color pallet I want to try to match with your scales.” Rarity chimed in.

“Perhaps thou should wait in that regards Rarity. After all were we not here to distract Rainbow Dash from her upcoming wedding more than anything else?” Princess Luna offered.

“Yeah, she and Scootaloo should be back at any point now, from what I've heard she's freaking out kinda hard.” Sweetiebelle offered.

“Wuff.” Rahs explained with Spike, Luna, Rarity, and Applejack nodding in agreement, while Applebloom, Sweetiebelle, Pharynx and Firefly looking confused.

“He said this isn't much different from what happened when she first started dating Prince so it's expected.” Spike translated.

“Ahh.” Sweetiebelle nodded.

“So does she know about the Bachelorette party we plan to drag her too?” Applejack asked.

“Not yet, but if you keep talking about it she might.” Rarity frowned.

“Ruff?” Rahs asked.

“Buzzing?” Spike blinked. “No I don't, but I do hear screaming.”

A moment later Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash tore into the camp screaming with a massive swarm of Flyder on their tails.

Rarity and Luna both frowned at the swarm as tendrils of shadow started forming around them both.

Spike, Applebloom. and Sweetiebelle yelped at the size of the swarm.

Firefly and Pharynx both licked their lips at the sight of so many delicious plump Flyders coming towards them.

Applejack blinked wondering what smelled so good.

“Wonder how those taste roasted?”

The Flyders suddenly had a collective sense of unease.

A few moments of gratuitous violence against bug amalgamations later.

Rahs hummed to himself spearing another three Flyders on a stick before holding it over the fire.

“See if you pop their heads off like this it also gets rid of their venom sacks, a slight twist and it comes right off.” Pharynx showed Firefly. “There's also a lot of meat in the first two joints of the legs here though the last segment and the wings aren't worth eating.”

“Tha wings head and pointy leg parts are used in alchemy though. Granted tha venom glands are really only useful fer making something that takes tha sting outta flyder bites, but ehh.” Applebloom shrugged “Not sure it's worth tha effort of trying tah save this many of um, they ain't uncommon. Prolly a good idea to mix up a batch just in case though if I ken find some clover and runewart around here.”

“Yeah though ah ain't never seen a swarm this big come this far from tha lakes.” Applejack offered Crunching on one of the roasted ones Rahs had offered her. She wasn't sure on the flavor, but it wasn't bad.

Rarity and Sweetiebelle were mostly ignoring the others and working on their own camp fire roasted carrots.

Luna had tried one and decided to pass not liking the taste of the bugs though she had gone right to making smo'res and skipping the carrot dinner.

Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo simply stared at the others.

“Why are we friends with this lot again?” Scootaloo asked Rainbow Dash who just shrugged wincing as Firefly crunched down on one of the roasted bugs.

“Dunno kid but you are dating one.” Rainbow Dash muttered back.

“So do we wanna do campfire stories? “ Spike asked, barely bothered by the others eating bugs , though he was picking bits of charcoal out of the fire and munching the burning char between trying to swipe some of Luna's marshmallows.