The Darkness Youkai

by Lucky Star Kona-chan

Rating: teen
Tags: Twilight Sparkle, Random, Gore, Slice of Life, Crossover, Alternate Universe, Main 6, Touhou, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 5365

The smol youkai that likes to chill in the shade falls in Equestria.

Rumia was enjoying a nice midnight snack in her happy little place, when she was rudely tossed into a completely different world by a meanie grandma.

Now alone in a strange place, she has to adapt to her new circumstances. Because she totally can't just do what she always does... right?

...

...

Yeah, about that...

Published 2025-01-08 22:30:00 UTC
Last updated 2025-02-08 18:14:00 UTC

1: The Strange Creature.

Author's Note

When boredom strikes...

Well you know what I mean, I suppose :derpytongue2:

1: The Strange Creature.

Deep in a dark forest, a woman in white and purple walked through a path decorated with red stains and bones. She didn’t seem bothered by this as she calmly continued her stroll down this unnerving road. She casted a disappointed look at her surroundings while shaking her head and sighing heavily.

A short distance away she could see a small mound made of skulls and decomposed limbs, if the sight alone couldn’t deter a passerby of continuing surely the putrid stench could. Regardless of these the woman proceeded forward, as if this was just a normal pathway. Passing by the mound she reached a more open area where the trees had a wider gap between them letting the moonlight pierce through the darkness.

On the center of this illuminated area sat a small blonde short haired girl no much taller than four feet, her body dressed by a black vest and skirt, a white blouse with a red tie and a red ribbon on the right side of her head. These clothes seemed old and ragged with rips and holes in many areas except for the ribbon in her head.

The girl was happily munching what looked like a leg of some unknown animal it was far too mangled to resemble a limb of any conventional creature; her face and clothes covered in stains from the dripping blood. This made for a creepy contrasts with her innocent looking bright red eyes.

“Hmm~” she let out some happy moans as she enjoyed her late night meal.

The woman purposely stepped on a twig in the ground to make her presence be known.

Turning around the girl saw the taller woman looking at her with her arms crossed, tilting her head in confusion she just stared as the woman said something she couldn’t understand with a stern expression.

“Uh?” was the only thing the girl said, getting a rather long sigh from the woman.

The woman then raised one of her arms in front of her, ready to do something. Until the wind blew some dust in her face, making her sneeze losing focus which made her unconsciously snap her fingers. This created a gap below the girl, who fell through it soon after. When the woman recovered she noticed the lack of a small girl in front of her and proceeded to promptly panic, as another woman in white and blue behind her face palmed.

Oopsies?

Despite the gap looking like it would have been a long extensive journey, it was actually rather short as the girl was unceremoniously dropped butt-first in a very similar looking forest to the one she was previously.

She looked around and saw an old looking structure in the distance, she stood up and with her arms extended at the sides of her body she started walking in a random direction while curiously looking around her. The forest was similar yet different, it looked more colorful than before if that made any sense, with a swamp and some cliffs.

This was until she heard shuffling behind her followed by a loud growl, turning around she saw some kind of feline creature with wings and a stinger. It roared angrily due to the girl invading its territory.

But rather than being scared, the girl grew an almost impossibly big smile and pounced into the beast.

The next morning Princess Celestia’s most faithful student, a unicorn named Twilight Sparkle was currently researching part of the mysterious and unexplored Everfree Forest alongside her best friend and number one assistant Spike the dragon.

He was a little bit unnerved by being in this particular forest, “Twi, why are we here again?” he asked as his eyes darted back and forward at every sound in the area.

“We are just going to take some samples. Plants, maybe an insect and who knows we may be lucky and find something unique Spike, aren’t you excited?” Twilight said with glee, being oblivious of her assistant’s nervousness or just plain ignoring it.

“Yeah… excited… hurray…” he threw one arm up with totally non fake, non-sarcastic enthusiasm.

“That’s the spirit, Spike,” Twilight said with high spirits.

It was a good thirty seconds before she suddenly stopped, almost making Spike fall down from her back, “woah, at least give me a warning before doing that, Twi,” he complained with a frown.

She didn’t answer for a fat second, “sorry Spike, it’s just…” she trailed off as she got a magnifying glass from her saddlebags before looking at something in the ground, “something happened here.”

“What do you mean, what sort something?” he turned around to try and see what she was referring to.

“It looks like some creature’s traces,” she pondered for a few seconds tapping her chin with a hoof, “but these don’t look like anything we have seen in the forest before, for one these footprints are very small, and their shape…” she inspected the footprints more closely, “it’s strange.” She followed the trail and soon enough she found even more footprints, “and now there’s manticore’s paw prints here.”

Spike poked her in the back of the head when he noticed something in the trees ahead, “emm… Twi?”

“What is it, Spike?”

“There’s b-blood in the trees!”

Now this caught her attention, “what?” she asked before looking at the path ahead and indeed there were blood stains in the tree branches and in the bushes further ahead. But that wasn’t all, she also saw a bulk in the distance. Twilight magicked her magnifying glass to Spike, “Spike hold this for a moment,” and got her binoculars to check from a safe distance, she could see something white poking out of some rocks far ahead, “what is that?” she mumbled under her breath.

“Should we go back, Twi? Continuing doesn’t sound like a good idea,” Spike tried to get her to back away, now even more nervous after these new findings.

Twilight nodded, “You’re right Spike, but at the very least I want to confirm what is that behind the rocks. If you notice something dangerous let me know and we’ll teleport back.”

“Got it,” Spike replied with a more calmed tone.

Twilight trotted on the unnerving path carefully, paying attention to anything that dared to move around them. Spike did the same from her back. Sweat slowly formed on their forehead from the tension in the air, it didn’t help that they saw a manticore’s detached tail under a bush; they got a bit green in the face with an audible “eww…”

“Maybe two creatures fought each other here, whatever it was must have been enormous to have done that to a manticore,” Twilight expressed her disgust.

“But didn’t you say there were only those weird small footprints and manticore ones here?” Spike pointed out, “do you think, this t-thing may be a f-flyer?” he stuttered.

With this theory on their mind, they scanned the sky and the top of the trees but saw nothing.

“This is strange, those blood stains around seem recent as are the traces,” Twilight took another cautious look around, “but nothing points out at any disturbance on the trees, or confrontation by that matter; not even at ground level.”

“What does that mean, Twi?” Spike didn’t like how Twilight said that, it felt foreboding.

Twilight took a shaky breath in, “what I mean is, whatever took down this manticore did it in such a way and so easily that it didn’t even affect the area around them other than decorating them in blood,” then she looked at the rocks from before and got closer, “which means…”

She poked her head over the rocks to see past them, a disgusting smell attacking their nostrils almost immediately. They covered their noses to block the stench.

“Just like I thought, it’s the manticore’s carcass,” she said with revulsion.

“Can we go now? I’m starting to feel sick,” Spike covered his mouth trying to hold the nauseating feeling.

“Yes, we better go before…” Twilight was about to ignite her horn but a subtle sound caught her attention. “Do you hear that Spike?”

“Huh?” he looked confused for a moment before focusing on listening, “hmm…” a moment later he did hear a soft snoring like sound, “oh yeah, what is that?”

“It seems to come from…” Twilight heard it again from the body in front of her, “the carcass?” she moved to the front with some hesitation, the unicorn was disgusted enough already, ‘be strong Twilight, be strong!’

But she wasn’t strong, it wasn’t common for the average pony to find something like this after all. So she took a minute, to ease the feelings.

Spike wasn’t faring much better but he managed to hold it in.

“Sweet Celestia, I will need a very warm bath after this…” she said tiredly with the occasional gag reflex. Her eyes then fell into the curious form calmly sleeping in the middle of all that, “What is this creature?” she focused on the creature trying her best to ignore the rest of scene in front of her.

“Hmm, doesn’t have hooves or claws instead the appendages end in fleshy digits, no muzzle; similar eye size to a pony’s; must be bipedal from how its body is proportioned hind legs being longer which means the front ones are arms; lack of fur except in the head so it must have the need to cover itself in clothing for warm. But the fact that it wears clothes must indicate that it has some level of intelligence, that said it seems these clothes have been used for a long time to be so worn out,” she inspected the creature as she wrote in a notepad.

Spike got down from Twilight’s back and looked at the creature quizzically, “any idea of what it is, Twi?”

“The closest thing I can think of is a furless minotaur, but even then it lacks many features from them,” Twilight resumed her inspection, meanwhile the creature kept on peacefully sleeping with a silly expression and some drool leaking from the side of its mouth, “doesn’t seem in pain or injured, so all the bloodstains have to be from whatever happened here,” she brought a hoof close to its mouth and slightly pulled upwards to reveal its teeth, “Incisors, canines and flat broad molars in the back, must be an omnivore and despite being the size of the average adult pony it doesn’t strike me as an adult, the face structure in particular reminds me more of a foal. But then again this is just speculation at this point, it would help if we could talk with it. We could learn so much from it Spike, this is a very rare opportunity!” Twilight was getting more excited by the second at the prospect of learning about a new unknown species.

Spike rolled his eyes, recognizing that insatiable curiosity Twilight has when it comes to learning new things and even more when said things were unknown.

But then he noticed something, “Twi, since it is an omnivore, do you think it could be dangerous?”

Twilight thought about it for a moment, “It could be, I guess. I’m assuming the blood on it comes from feeding of the manticore remains.” She admitted, “But if it has any level of intelligence like I think it does, then we could probably reason with it.”

“And if it doesn’t?” Spike inquired.

“We could always follow Equestria’s Biology Department’s protocol and have a cage ready just in case,” Twilight tested the waters and used her magic to levitate the still snoring creature, to her surprise it curled up inside her magic as if trying to be more comfortable but nothing more, “but I want to leave that as a worst situation possible option. I don’t want to jump to conclusions and encage an intelligent being that could also be sentient.”

Seeing as how everything was in order so far, Twilight decided return to her library in Ponyville.

“Should we ask Fluttershy for help just in case?” Spike brought up the topic, considering they were dealing with an unknown species.

Twilight gave a quick nod, “It would be great help yes, but I think we should find a way to clean this creature first. I don’t know how Fluttershy would react if the first thing she sees is this bloody mess. In any case, hop on Spike we have to return to the library if we want to get anything done and this place is getting on my nerves on more than one way.” Then they resumed their way home, being relatively close to the edge of the forest helped to calm their nerves.

The trip was uneventful, with it being so early in the morning not many ponies were out and about on Ponyville’s roads. So the duo didn’t have any awkward encounters along the way.

After entering her home, Twilight let out a breath she didn’t know she was holding. Spike let out a sigh of relief, got off from Twilight’s back; took her saddlebag and hung them in the rack next to the door before returning to Twilight’s side.

“Well that sure was an experience, so I hope to return to that forest never, thank you very much,” Spike expressed his honest feelings, still shuddering at the thought of what they just witnessed.

“Good idea Spike, as much as I want to go explore some more to see if there’s more members of this species out there, it’s obvious something big and vicious is roaming the forest right now and I don’t want to stumble upon it if I can help it.” Twilight mimicked Spike’s shudder. “But now where should we put it? I don’t exactly want it to stain the books or the cushions,” she looked around for a good place, both of them oblivious of the movement in her magic. “Can I put it in your bed Spike?” she asked innocently with a smile.

“What? No way! Why don’t you use your bed? Is big enough for it to fit comfortably,” Spike replied with a deadpanned look.

“But the blood Spike, the bloooood. It will make a mess in my bed,” Twilight said in a whiny voice.

Then they heard the sound droplets.

“Huh?” both said in unison looking out a window to see if the weather changed, but they knew today there weren’t any scheduled rains so that theory was discarded pretty quickly.

They heard it again, confused by this they turned around and saw a small puddle forming behind them, with droplets falling every few seconds their eyes followed the droplets up to their origin and saw bright red eyes staring back at them with wonder and expectation. They yelped in surprise and a bit of disgust because the creature in Twilight’s magic was drooling all over the floor. But they didn’t sense any malicious intent behind that stare.

“Hmm…” Twilight hesitated for a moment, “Hello?” she waved a hoof in its direction to appear friendly.

The creature tilted its head it looked rather confused, “He… llo?” it tried to mimic Twilight’s words in a female filly like voice and also her waving with a hand.

This already started exciting Twilight, but what she heard next wasn’t something she expected.

The creature’s stomach rumbled loudly and its face turned into one of distress, “can… eat… you?” it rubbed its belly, “hungy.”

“Eh…” their brains did a small pause before what it requested settled in, “EHHHH!?”

This is how the relationship with the strange being started. Let’s hope for the best everypony.

2: The Clean Up.

Both of them were pretty disturbed at what they just heard. The creature still kept that sad look on its face.

“C-can you repeat that? I think I misheard you,” Twilight asked, trying very hard to ignore what she just heard.

The blonde creature tilted its head and blinked in confusion, “Can… eat… you?” it repeated, “Rumia… Rumia, hungy,” its stomach grumbled to emphasize this.

Twilight’s ears folded back, “Umm…” she bit her lip nervously, “no, you can’t eat me.”

This response seemed to make the creature even sadder, “Really?” it asked in almost a whisper, “not even… bite?”

Twilight shook her head firmly.

The creature put one hand forward with the index finger and thumb close together leaving a very small space between them, “not even… tiny nibble?”

A flick of Twilight’s mane jumped out of place, she was getting pretty stressed about this, “No! You can’t eat me, bite me or nibble me, none of that!” she snapped.

That did it now, the creature was tearing up and its lips were quivering sadly, followed by a sad whinny cry.

More of Twilight’s mane and even tail was jumping out of place, “Oh no!” she brought her hooves to her head, “what did I do, I’m sorry! Please don’t cry I’m sorry!” she begged anxiously.

This didn’t deter the creature from keeping its wailing.

“You did it now, Twi. You made it cry,” Spike commented in a mocking tone, this got a not so nice glare from Twilight. He got his claws up defensively, “just saying.”

Twilight then repeatedly tried and failed to calm it down, if anything she's making things worst as the volume of the cries increased tenfold. They both covered their ears trying to muffle the annoying sound, to no avail.

“Twi, please make it stop!” Spike was on the ground wincing painfully at the deafening cries.

Twilight was starting to develop tears of her own at this point, “please I’m begging you, calm down!” she yelled trying to overpower the creature’s cries, it didn’t stop. Twilight’s eyes shrunk in desperation, “please… y-you’re hungry right? Please calm down and we’ll give you something to eat, just stop crying!”

Finally, after hearing a mention of food, the creature stopped crying and went back to sobbing, “really?”

Twilight nodded vigorously, “yes, yes, I’ll get you something to eat, so no more crying please.” How she managed to keep the creature in her magic during the outcry was remarkable, but she knew her head was going to complain to her later.

Signs of a smile started appearing in the creature’s face.

“Oh…” Spike grunted in the floor, “I think I’ve gone a bit deaf after that.”

Twilight massaged her temples, “Spike, stop being a drama queen for a second,” she sighed tiredly, mane and tail completely messed up.

Recovering some semblance of sanity back Twilight focused on the being in her magic, which was still looking at her expectantly with some traces of tears in its eyes.

Twilight thought for a moment about what the creature has said so far, “Rumia was it?” she called getting a slightly bigger smile from the creature, “what do you eat, exactly?”

“Human! Rumia wants human!” the creature threw its arms up cheerfully, “human yummy!”

Twilight was taken aback by the blunt request, but was also puzzled by it, “I’m unsure if we have those here, can you tell me what a human is?”

Rumia pondered, trying real hard to come up with something, “human…” it paused, “human look… like Rumia, but big!” it opened its arms to their full reach to put emphasis on how big humans were compared to it.

“Eh?” Twilight wasn’t too sure what to make of that, “they look like you but just bigger?” Rumia nodded, while Twilight was being bombarded by strange thoughts. There were some unpleasant implications in that statement for sure.

“Why do you like eating humans so much, Rumia?” Twilight was stepping into dangerous territory with this approach.

Rumia shrugged, “Humans yummy!” it said non-chalantly, but suddenly its face twisted in a strange way giving it a disturbing look that was enhanced by the blood covering it, “and funny, they scream funny stuff! Like: I don’t want to die, please don’t eat me!” Rumia giggled amusingly, “But Rumia knows human likes to be eaten!” then Rumia’s face returned to cute indifference.

Twilight and Spike felt a cold shock going up their spines after hearing that. Something was clearly wrong with the creature lazily floating in Twilight’s magic.

The purple unicorn laughed nervously, “yeah… funny, very funny!” she said as convincingly as she could, feeling overwhelmingly unclean as she did so, “but I’m sorry Rumia, there’s no humans in Equestria.”

“Rumia can’t eat horsey either?” it said while pointing at Twilight.

“I’m not a horse, I’m a pony,” Twilight corrected, “and again, you can’t eat me, Rumia.”

“Can Rumia eat other pony?”

“No, you can’t.”

“Not even a little one?”

“No, please stop asking.”

“Can Rumia eat…” but Rumia got interrupted by Twilight stomping a hoof in the wooden floor.

“No, Rumia. You can’t eat ponies!” Twilight snapped again.

“Is that so?” Rumia asked with uncertainty.

“Yes it is so!”

“Oh…” Rumia paused again, then its eyes drifted to the baby dragon behind Twilight. Spike was stiff as a statue under the gaze of the strange being, “Can Rumia eat lizard girl?” Rumia pointed at him.

Spike’s fear converted into an offended scowl, “Hey! I’m not a girl, I’m a boy you know!”

Twilight deadpanned at him, “oh, so that’s what offended you.”

“Oh, Rumia sorry, can eat lizard boy?” Rumia asked again after correcting itself.

Spike’s brain now caught up with the other wrong part of that statement, “also I’m not a lizard, I’m a prideful dragon!”

“Oh… Rumia sorry again,” it paused again thinking for a moment on how to formulate the question, “Can Rumia eat…”

“Enough!” yelled Twilight, with no more patience to spare, “you can’t eat Spike either. You can’t eat anypony!”

Twilight soon realized her mistake, as tears were building up in Rumia’s eyes again, threatening to assault her ears with another deafening wail.

She hurriedly waved her hooves in front of Rumia in a panic, “Oh no no no, please don’t cry I’ll get you something to eat.” She looked at Spike, “Spike, go to the kitchen and fetch some sandwiches, quick!”

Not wanting to relive the torture from minutes ago, Spike rushed to the kitchen as fast as his stubby little legs could let him.

Soon after, he came back with a tray full of different kinds of sandwiches, “here!” he showed them to Rumia, which was now staring at the things with interest.

Rumia reached for one, but saw that her arm couldn’t quite reach the tray as if something was hindering their reach, “Huh?” Rumia then finally took notice of the purple aura.

“Oh right, I’m still holding you in my magic,” Twilight commented, “Spike, get closer so Rumia can pick one.”

Spike did as told and Rumia managed to get a sandwich from the tray, a simple cheese sandwich. Rumia brought it closer and took a cautious sniff at it, not really disliking the smell Rumia took a bite from it, “Hmm~” Rumia seemed to enjoy it, if the smile present on its face was anything to go by.

Seeing this Twilight’s mind was in conflict, because the scene in front of her despite the contrast with the blood, looked like Rumia could be harmless. But she knew she was wrong, the insistence on wanting to eat them was proof that Rumia could be a potencial risk if left unchecked.

‘But perhaps, we can reach a mutual compromise?’ she thought, trying to figure out what to do next. Because she can’t just hold Rumia in her magic forever, at some point she would be too tired to keep the spell going.

“Rumia,” Twilight called. Rumia having finished the sandwich looked at her with an innocent smile, “can you promise me something?”

Rumia tilted its head confusingly, “promise? What is promise?”

“Is when you say you will do something, or assure somepony that something will happen in a certain way,” Twilight explained calmly, “are you with me so far?”

Rumia blinked a couple of times while processing what Twilight just said, then nodded.

Twilight let out a deep breath to be as composed as possible then fixed her sight on Rumia, “Rumia… if I let you out of my magic, can you promise me that you will not hurt us?”

Surprising Twilight, Rumia smiled sweetly, “pony and dragon give Rumia yum yums, Rumia won’t hurt friends.”

Twilight remained silent, her lips starting to curve into a smile as her tensed muscles began to relax.

Spike was a bit skeptic though, “are you sure about this, Twi?”

The magic around Rumia was already starting to disperse, “yes, Spike. I’am.”

But they noticed something strange, “Twi… did you really end the spell?” Spike asked, getting a nod from a gaping Twilight, “why is Rumia still floating, then?”

Being free, Rumia took another sandwich from Spike’s tray and then started looking around the library with curiosity while still floating.

“She flying!” Twilight pointed the obvious, “but how? She has no wings…” then she saw Rumia getting dangerously close to the bookshelves with those bloody stained hands, “Rumia no!”

“Huh?” Rumia turned and looked at her quizzically.

“Oh, I mean…” noticing her own mistake Twilight cleared her throat and used a more relaxed tone, “would you like to take a bath, Rumia? Having so much blood over you looks like it’s uncomfortable.” She half admitted half guessed as she never found herself in a similar situation.

Rumia looked in a mirror that was close by and saw the bloody mess, she looked back at Twilight, “Rumia too dirty for pony house?”

Twilight flashed a sheepish smile, “just a little bit. So, would you mind?”

“Ok!” Rumia responded energically, “Pony bath with Rumia?” Rumia then asked innocently.

“Oh,” Twilight paused momentarily and took a look at herself, then remembered what happened in the forest. The memory making her a bit green in the face, “yeah, I think I need a bath too, are you sure you want to share it?”

“Yes! With friends is more fun!”

“Alright then, follow me,” Twilight motioned for Rumia to follow her, ‘I guess I can also use this chance to get to know Rumia better.’

Arriving to the modestly sized bathroom, another question arose for Rumia, “pony, clothes are dirty too. What does Rumia do with them?”

Twilight tapped her chin thoughtfully, “we could wash them, and then I’ll use a spell to dry them up faster. At least until we can confirm if one of my friends can help you out with the clothing.” then another thought came to her, “oh, also my name is not pony, it’s Twilight.”

“Twalat?” Rumia attempted to pronounce the name.

Twilight giggled at the slight butchering of her name and shook her head a couple of times with a smile, “Twilight, Twi-light.”

“Twailit?”

“Try again, I know you can do it,” Twilight encouraged.

Rumia thought hard about it, “Twatlad?”

Twilight’s left eye twitched involuntarily, “what… how even?” she facehoofed and groaned, “nevermind.”

After that little set back and Rumia finally managing to pronounce Twilight’s name correctly. They proceeded to take a bath during which Twilight noticed a few things, like Rumia’s body being more similar to mammals than any other species and Rumia’s gender, asking the name of her species or where she came from wasn’t very helpful as Rumia wasn’t able to give a clear answer and just replied with something like ‘Rumia is Rumia’ and ‘Rumia came from forest.’ By helping Rumia clean herself Twilight was surprised by how nice and soft Rumia’s hair was to the touch, also how smooth her skin was, the girl was enjoying the attention very much.

Twilight was also enjoying herself, it was a very relaxing activity to do after such a stressful morning. She guessed this is what parents felt when helping their foals take a bath.

A couple of minutes later Twilight dried herself and left Rumia to her own devices as she was having fun in the bathtub with a rubber duck, while she focused on cleaning Rumia’s clothes.

‘Some of these stains seem to be very old, I wonder for how long Rumia has been wandering around the forest and who gave her these clothes? Did somepony gave them to her or were they made by her species in some unknown city, somewhere in Equestria? Does she have a family in said hypothetical city? She looks quite young after all. If she does… what happened to them?’ Twilight mind was free to wonder as she tried to get Rumia’s clothes as clean as she could manage.

While the girls went to clean themselves, Spike with a broom in claw used the time to clean the library.

After a while he saw the other two coming back, Rumia in particular looked rather cute without all the dirt and dried blood all over her, that said the dress still had some stains and looked even more worn out than before, “How was the bath?” he asked while resting the broom on his shoulder.

“It was surprisingly relaxing all things considered, Rumia behaved and seemed to enjoy it a lot. I tried to clean her clothes but I misjudged the potency of the spell I used to dry them and as a result the fabric frayed out some more, some of the torn parts got bigger due to this,” Twilight explained, “so we will need Rarity’s help soon, before it all falls apart.”

Out of nowhere Rumia hugged Spike making him tense up and yelp in surprise.

“Dragon, look look!” she said enthusiastically, “Rumia clean now,” she paused and looked at his blushing face, “why was dragon not in bath too? More friends, more fun!”

“Oh, that sounded like something Pinkie would say,” Spike said despite his uncomfortable situation, “but also I can’t do that Rumia, I can't just barge in for a bath with girls.”

“You figured out Rumia was a female as well?” Twilight asked with slight surprise.

Spike shrugged, “it wasn’t that hard, her voice and the fact that she uses a dress were dead giveaways. I don’t think guys from her species would use dresses either, unless it’s some kind of rule.”

“That’s…” Twilight pondered, “Actually a good point.”

“Dragon, dragon,” Rumia called, a quiet grumble came from her, “more food?”

Spike snorted amusingly, “sure thing-” but then he was suddenly lifted from the floor, “woah, hey!”

Rumia carried him to the kitchen, Twilight followed close behind.

Being freed from the girl’s grasp, Spike thought with a claw on his chin, “Would you like pancakes with sirup, Rumia?”

“Pancakes yums! Dragon, Rumia wants, Rumia wants!” Rumia floated around Spike with a twinkle in her eyes and a big toothy smile spread across her face.

Spike held his claws up while giggling, “Ok, ok. Just give me a couple of minutes and I’ll have them done, oh the name’s Spike by the way.”

“Spike!” Rumia confidently said Spike’s name on her first try.

It was enough to say that Twilight wasn’t a fan of this if the pout she was giving was any clue. But checking the clock on the wall gave her an idea, “Spike, can you watch Rumia for a little while? I’m going to go get the girls, they should all be up by now I figure.”

“Huh?” Spike perked up from the bowl where he was preparing the pancake batter, then his brain caught up with what Twilight said, “eh… sure thing, Twi. I can watch Rumia, should be simple enough now that we know how to handle her.”

Twilight nodded knowingly, then focused on Rumia, “Rumia, I have to go out for a moment to bring my friends.”

“Friends? More friends for Rumia?”

Twilight giggled into her hoof, “I don’t see why not. I’m sure they will all warm up to you, so can you please behave until I come back?”

“Twilight friend. Rumia will be good!” the girl exclaimed happily.

With a gentle smile adorning her face, Twilight left soon after feeling pretty good about their situation, ‘the day’s looking up finally, everything will be fine.’

Author's Note

Will it be, Twilight? Will it be? :derpytongue2: