My Little Gremlins

Another glorious winter has come again, the fresh blanket of snow covered the peaceful town of Ponyville, as well as the rest of Equestria. There was barely any activity, except for a certain lavender unicorn. Twilight Sparkle of all unicorns, was not only up in the dead of night, but she was in Canterlot at that time of night. Harth's Warming Eve was coming again, and Twilight wanted to give a gift to each of her friends, Pinkie Pie would've normally did this because she loved to see her friends smile, but after all it was the season of giving, and Twilight really liked her friends, Fluttershy was the only pony left now, she got her other friends presents in Ponyville, but she wanted to get Fluttershy something really special, not that her other friends weren't special, they were all equal to her, but after all with just the motivation to do something for a friend, this was about the most random thing somepony could do, especially for Twilight.

She was in a shop district of the kingdom, as she expected, most of the buildings were quiet and dark, but there was one place in particular that seemed to be open. It was not really a building, but more of a staircase down beneath the ground. Twilight walked down the set of stairs and found a stallion about as old as Granny Smith and a young colt in the shop, both earth ponies.

"Hello." Twilight said

"Hi there." The colt said answered back, but the old stallion was silent.

There were strange noises coming from another part of the shop.

"I was just looking for a present for one of my friends, do you mind if I take a look around?"

"Not at all." The colt answered again as more sounds came from another room

Twilight looked around the shops, to find old antiques and other old things, until she made it to the room where the sounds she heard came from. Twilight found a cardboard box and opened it up.

"What is this thing?" Twilight asked with a smile on her face. It was the most adorable thing she's ever seen.

"A Mogwai." the colt said

With that the Mogwai started to make more noises.

"What's he doing?" Twilight asked again

"Singing." the colt replied again

Twilight trotted back into the main room of the shop.

"I've got to have him, he's incredible." Twilight said to the old stallion

"I'm sorry, but he's not for sale." The stallion said

"I'll tell you what I'll do." Twilight replied placing some bits that she took from her saddlebags on the counter "I'll give you one hundred bits."

"I'm sorry, the answer is still no." He said

"How about I double the offer, two hundred bits." Twilight said again

"No." He replied

"That's two hundred bits."

"I'm sorry, the Mogwai is not for sale." The stallion said trotting into another room.

"But grandfather." The colt said

"With Mogwai comes much responsibility, I cannot sell him at any price."The stallion said

"Wait outside a moment, I'll be right out." The colt whispered to Twilight

Twilight went back outside back into the freezing cold and in a matter of minutes, the colt came back out with the box. Twilight gave the bits to the colt.

"Thanks." She said

"Wait miss, there's three rules you got to follow." The colt said

"Yeah, what kind of rules."

"Keep him out of the light, he hates bright light, especially sunlight, it'll kill him." the colt said "Keep him out the water. Don't get him wet." "But the most important rule, the rule you can never forget, no matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs, never, never feed him after midnight."

"Sure kid whatever you say, hey listen, thanks and happy holidays."

"You too Miss."

"You can just call me Twilight."

"Okay, bye Twilight."

"Bye kid." Twilight said

She pulled a note from her saddlebags and wrote something on it before teleporting back to Ponyville.

Knock Knock

Fluttershy was cuddled up in her soft bed, everything was quiet, and suddenly that loud knock came. It had startled her because it wasn't that normal to have a knock at the door at this time of night, or in this weather condition. Assuming it was one of her animals, she got up to see what was going on. Down the stairs she went trying not to make a peep, and found nothing out of the ordinary. Her whole cottage was silent, all her animals were sound asleep. Then came another sound, it sounded like some sort of animal, but she couldn't pinpoint what it was, but it sounded like it was coming from her front door.

Fluttershy trotted to the door and open it to find a box left on the door step. Just a single cardboard box. Was this where the sound was coming from? Fluttershy picked up the box and took it in right away. Setting down on a nearby table she put hear ear to it, listened closely to the box, and sure she heard a sound from inside. Fluttershy opened the box. Before she could look inside a furry creature jumped unexpectedly and landed back in the box. That made Fluttershy jump as well, and in a matter of seconds, hands slowly emerged from the box and it's head popped out along with them. It was some sort of furry, white and brown creature with big ears and eyes. It's hands had three fingers and they had no fur on them.

"Hello there little fella." Fluttershy said in a whisper as she picked the creature up and cradled it. "Aren't you a cute one."

While still cradling it she looked in the box and saw a note rolled up inside. She set the creature down back in the box and opened the note.

To whom that took my Mogwai in.

If you are reading this, I hope that you take care of my Mogwai, Gizmo and I hope you and him become good friends, but you must follow these rules.

1. Keep him out of the light, especially sun light, it will kill him.

2. Keep him away from water, don't get him wet.

3. (Most importantly) No matter how much he cries, no matter how much he begs, never feed him after midnight.

Once again I thank you for taking him in and I hope he brings as much joy as he brought to me before.

A friend

After reading that, she vowed to follow those rules, she loved all animals and she was shocked at the first rule, the fact of an animal dying sent shivers down her spine, but for now she took Gizmo back out of the box, flew back upstairs and tucked him into her bed.

"Good night Gizmo." Fluttershy said as she got in with him and slowly drifted back to sleep.

Twilight was now back at her library home after delivering the present to her friend, she proceeded up the stairs quietly, trying not to wake up Spike. She got back into her bed.

" I sure hope Fluttershy likes the present I gave her, after all it's a cute animal, and Fluttershy loves animals, what could possibly go wrong. I mean it's not like those thing will turn into little green monsters." Twilight thought as she drifted off to sleep as the cold winter night continued on.