Parasprites

Chris stared at a sketch of what appeared to be a cotton ball with cute eyes and wings. “This… thing is a menace to society?” She started to laugh at the thought of such a thing being a problem.

Colgate Smacked Chris with a pillow and growled. “These things are not funny Chris!”

Chris waved her hoof at Colgate. “Sure Colgate, a mennace.” Colgate continued to glare but it didn’t derail chris’s train of thought. “So what, they are cute and everything stops to look at them and cuddle them and play with them?”

Colgate had to take a deep breath to stop herself from beating Chris with the pillow. “No Chris… well when they first showed up we did stop to admire their cuteness and play with them a bit but their cuteness is just a defense mechanism to keep them safe while they destroy everything.”

Chris struggled to hold back her laughter, “I take it.” she snorted. “There is a story here?”

Colgate took a deep breath and pointed at the picture. “These things eat, they eat a lot of food. They reproduce very quickly.” Chris shrugged in response causing Colgate to sigh. “They reproduce just by eating. Once they have consumed the equivalent of their own body mass they spit out a new parasprite. Then go back to eating. They do this non-stop.”

Chris slowly nodded as she realized what she meant now. “So they wiped out a massive amount of food then? Did anyone starve?”

Colgate Shook her head. “No, a friend of mine used a spell on them that made them stop eating food. In fact, food disgusted them.”

Chris smiled. “Oh that sounds like it was an easy fix. Problem solved!”

Colgate smacked Chris with the pillow again. “No. That made things worse!” Chris looked perplexed at this info. “She didn’t realize that her spell didn’t kill their appetite it changed what they ate! Now instead of food they were eating trees, and tables, and chairs and windows, and entire buildings!”

Chris looked shocked. “Wait what? How in the world did that happen?”

Colgate looked a little off-kilter now. “I have no clue! She didn’t even understand it! But there was very little known about these things! But they ate my clinic, Chris! They ate my dentist's office!” She finished by shoving her face into Chris’s.

Chris slowly pushed. “O K Colgate. I see why you are upset over these things now… how did you get rid of them?”

Colgate blinked a few times and tried to fix her mane. “Another friend of mine in town did know about them, guess her family had a history with them. She gathered up instruments around town while we were distracted and thought they were just cute friendly things. She made herself into a one-pony band and the music she made led them out of town.”

Chris rubbed her chin in thought. “They didn’t just come back when the music stopped?”

Colgate smirked. “On no they didn’t get the chance to. The princess showed up with her guards and they went into the forest where my friend led them and wiped them out. Turns out they popped up all over the country and she was traveling around exterminating them!

Chris awkwardly grinned. “Well as long as it didn’t unbalance any exosyste-” She noticed Colgate starting to twitch as one of the hairs in her mane sprung out again. “I mean… Yay the bugs are gone!”

Colgate nodded happily. “Exactly!”

Author's Note

Not sure what is going on with fimfic. I hit publish on this chapter yesterday but saw it marked as unpublished today.
Well two chapters for everyone today then!