My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Swarm of the Century
A/N: (Dede42 opens the door to head outside to the writers studio when she almost runs into Applejack.)
Dede42: Whoa! I didn't expect to see you, Applejack.
Applejack: Hey, Dede42, I thought I would stop by to deliver some apples and see what's going on with Discord and Thanos.
Dede42: Well, I- (she stops when she hears a strange purring sound coming from inside the house) You hear that?
Applejack: Yeah, where's it coming from?
(Dede42 and Applejack enter the house and follow the purring sound into the kitchen, where Blackbelt98, Dede42's youngest sister, is about to feed a purple puffballs that has wings and four legs.)
Dede42: Blackbelt98, where did you find that thing?
Blackbelt98: Isn't he the cutest thing? I found him hanging around the beehives out back.
Dede42: I see. (She whispers to Applejack) Find Pinkie Pie and get her here stat.
Applejack: On it.
(Applejack quickly leaves while Dede42 turns her attention back to her sister.)
Dede42: Um, you know that's a parasprite right?
Blackbelt98: (looks between her sister and the parasprite) Uh oh. I just fed him.
Dede42: You did-? (she gets cut off when the parasprite starts reproducing rapidly)
PSA: Due to an unexpected outbreak of parapsrites, todays Author's Notes has been cut off until further notice. Sorry for the interruption.
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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.
CHAPTER ONE: CUTE PUFFBALLS!
It was a bright sunny day and everypony in Ponyville were busy getting everything ready for tomorrow when Princess Celestia would be paying a visit. Out in one of the fields near the Everfree Forest, Fluttershy and her animal friends were busy gathering flowers and placing them in a basket on her back.
She was singing as she trotted about, gathering the most beautiful flowers that she could find and turned when a squirrel tugged on her tail, smiling when she saw that he was offering her a stem covered with dandelion seeds. "Thank you little squirrel, but remember: these flowers are for Princess Celestia," she reminded him politely as a breeze blew the seeds away. "Only the prettiest ones will do." She giggled as the bashful squirrel headed off to find a flower, and she went on collecting flowers. "La, la la, la la, la la, la la."
Fluttershy eventually reached a stump that had a basket of apples on it that she was going to share with her animal friends when something let out a chirp that made her yelp and jump behind the basket, hiding while the basket of flowers went flying. She nervously peered from behind the basket as a small ball-shaped creature came out from behind a nearby rock: it was blue with dragonfly wings, and four small black legs.
"Hello, little guy," Fluttershy said, coming out of hiding as it chirped again. "I've never seen anything like you before." She watched as it flew around her to sniff at a red apple lying on the ground. "Oh, are you hungry?" she asked and carefully crushed the apple to pulp with her hoof. "Here you go." She gasped when it suddenly consumed all of the apples in the basket. "I guess you were hungry."
The creature then flew over to her, nuzzled her cheek before nestling itself into her mane, purring like a cat. "You're the cutest thing ever!" Fluttershy squealed. "I can't wait to show you to my friends." And she hurried toward the town, eager to introduce the strange creature to her friends.
Meanwhile in the library, Twilight Sparkle was frantically dusting the shelves while Spike was struggling to gather up the various books that were scattered all over the floor, and she was worried that they wouldn't be ready in time for Princess Celestia's visit.
"Oh! Hurry up, Spike!" she exclaimed. "This place isn't gonna clean itself."
"It also didn't mess itself up," Spike muttered, stacking some books and carried them to the nearest ladder.
Twilight Sparkle ran past, still dusting frantically. "Princess Celestia will be here tomorrow!"
"I thought this was just an unofficial casual visit," Spike reminded her while climbing up the ladder.
"There's nothing casual about a visit from royalty," Twilight Sparkle scolded, turning to face him. "I want this place to be spotless, and you've barely made a dent in the clutter."
"Maybe you should, ugh," Spike grunted as he tried to put the books on the top shelf "start reading them one at a time- whoa ho!" He yelped and fell back onto the floor, being buried by the books, and sat up with a glum expression and a single book on his head. "Aw."
Twilight Sparkle was relieved to see that he was all right, but she was still worried about not being ready for the royal visit. "Everything's got to be perfect," she insisted. "No time for fooling around."
Spike got up and removed the book from his head. "You know, this would be an awful lot easier if there weren't two of us here getting under each other's feet," he suggested.
"Great idea," Twilight Sparkle agreed, giving him the duster while heading for the door. "You clean, I'll go see how everyone else's preparations are coming."
"Or maybe I should…" the baby dragon began and groaned when she shut the door behind her.
Exiting the library, Twilight Sparkle checked on the progress of the decorations that the ponies were putting up all over town, nodding in approval, and then she did a double-take when she reached the welcome sign that was being put up.
"What happened to the rest of her name?" she asked, frowning since the sign said "Welcome Princess Celest".
"We couldn't fit it all in," Golden Harvest confessed sheepishly.
"You can't hang a banner that says "Welcome Princess Celest"," Twilight Sparkle scolded. "Take it down and try again." She went on her way while the two ponies sighed and took the sign down to try again. "That looks perfect," she told one of the ponies, who was watering the flowers. "Keep up the good work."
In the Apothecary, Sunrise Blossom was in her workroom, working on a batch of firework potions when her twin sister trotted inside. "Hey, sis, will be with you in just a minute," she said, carefully pouring a small amount of dried fire-flower petals into a bottle with the bubbling potion, and then quickly put in a stopper to keep it from going off. "There, that's the last of them."
"Fantastic," said Twilight Sparkle. "I was stopping by to see if you had the firework potions ready, and you've got them all done."
Sunrise Blossom winked. "Well, I know how important it is to have everything ready, Twi," she remarked, putting the ingredients away. "How are the rest of the preparations going?"
"Except for the welcome sign goof, everything is going great," her twin replied. "Want to help me check on the rest of the preparations?"
"Sure."
After making sure that Rosemary had plenty of food and locking up the Apothecary, the twins went over to Sugarcube Corner to check on the food and found Mr. Cake taking a pie out of one of the ovens and Mrs. Cake was busy frosting a cake.
"Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Cake," Twilight Sparkle greeted them. "How's the banquet coming?"
Mrs. Cake flushed, looking over at a table that had all kinds of baked goods – which were half-eaten. "Uh…it would be coming a little better if…"
Pinkie Pie popped up from behind the table took a large bite out of a completed chocolate cake and the crown decoration fell off to land on her head. "Mmm…" she said, slurping some frosting off her mouth.
"Celestia, give us strength," Sunrise Blossom groaned, covering her face with her hoof. "Mrs. Cake, I thought you sent Pinkie Pie out with a long shopping list so you both could get the food ready," she said, having hoped to avoid this particular problem.
"We did, but Pinkie finished it sooner then we thought she would," Mr. Cake answered sheepishly.
Twilight Sparkle stalked over to the pink pony, who was eying a strawberry cheesecake. "Pinkie!" she snapped. "What are you doing? Those sweets are supposed to be for the princess."
"I know," said Pinkie Pie in her usual cheerful manner and seemed oblivious to the exasperated looks that the Cakes and the twins were giving her. "That's why I'm tasting them. Somepony needs to make sure that everything is tasty enough to touch the royal tongue, and I, Pinkie Pie, declare that these treats are fit for a king, or a queen, or a princess." And she managed to take a large bite out of the cheesecake before they could stop her.
Fluttershy rushed into the shop with an excited expression. "Twilight, Sunrise, Pinkie, you won't believe…" she trailed off when she detected the tension, "oh, I'm sorry. Uh, am I interrupting?"
"No, not at all," Pinkie Pie said cheerfully. "Come on in and make yourself at home. What's going on, Fluttershy?"
Smiling once again, Fluttershy straightened up. "You won't believe what I found at the edge of the Everfree Forest," she informed them and then nodded to a section of her mane. "Come on out, little guy. It's okay." And the blue creature came out, purring and chirping, followed by a yellow one and a gray one! "Three?" she gasped, wondering where the yellow creature and the gray creature had come from.
"They're amazing," said Twilight Sparkle, moving closer since they were different from any creature she'd ever seen or read about. "What are they?"
"I'm not sure," Fluttershy admitted. "I'm also not sure where these other two came from."
Sunrise Blossom peered at the creatures and giggled when the yellow creature nuzzled her. "Ooh, that tickles!"
"I'll take one off your hooves," Twilight Sparkle offered as the gray creature landed on her hoof. "I've never seen anything so… adorable. Besides, it'll be nice to have a companion for Spike so he won't bother me so much while I'm studying."
"Pinkie, do you want the other one?" Fluttershy asked, even though it looked like the yellow one had already taken a liking to Sunrise Blossom.
Pinkie Pie, however, made a disgusting face. "Ugh! A Parasprite? Are you kidding?" she scoffed, steering clear of the three flying creatures as she made her way toward the door.
"Ugh?" Fluttershy repeated, confused.
"A para-what?" Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom echoed, exchanging confused looks.
Fluttershy looked between the pink pony and the blue Parasprite. "How could you not like…?"
"Ugh," said Pinkie Pie again. "Now I gotta go find a trombone."
"A what?" Twilight Sparkle asked.
Pinkie Pie rolled her eyes. "A trombone, you know…" and she imitated playing a trombone.
"We know what a trombone is, Pinkie, why do you need one?" Sunrise Blossom asked exasperated and sighed when the pink pony left instead of answering. "Oh boy."
Twilight Sparkle decided not to worry about their odd friend. "Ahhh, typical Pinkie." And the three Parasprites all purred.
Over at Carousel Boutique, Rarity was busy working on dresses for the royal visit tomorrow, and she currently had her hooves full in trying to get her model, which happen to Rainbow Dash, to stand still long enough to finish up the outfit that she'd managed to get the blue pegasus to wear: it was pink with gold, gold boots, and a fancy tall wig. "Stand still, Rainbow Dash," she scolded through a mouthful of pins.
"Ugh, I caaan't, I need to flyyy!" Rainbow Dash complained, wondering how her friend managed to talk her into this in the first place. "This is waaay too boring for me." And she tried to take off.
Rarity, however, stepped on her friend's tail to keep her in place. "Do you want to look nice for Princess Celestia or not?" she demanded.
Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom both entered the boutique and while the orange unicorn was trying and failing to not laugh at the sight of the blue pegasus' outfit, her twin was admiring the completed outfits. "Wow. Rarity, those outfits are gorgeous."
"Mmhmm. Thank you, Twilight," Rarity said graciously. "Nice to know somepony appreciates my talents." And she shot the blue pegasus a look.
"Ugh, sooo boooring," Rainbow Dash complained, trying to free her tail, and stopped when she heard a chirping sound coming from the twins.
Even Rarity heard the chirping. "Huh?"
"What's that sound, Twilight? Sunrise?" Rainbow Dash asked, and her jaw dropped when three Parasprites came out of Twilight Sparkle's mane and three more came out of Sunrise Blossom's mane, each different colors. "Wow, what are they?" she asked, intrigued.
"The better question is, where did they come from?" Twilight Sparkle wondered, seeing the gray one she'd adopted earlier. "I only had one a minute ago."
"I only had one a minute ago, too," Sunrise Blossom agreed, perplexed. 'Did they reproduce while we were walking? But how?'
Rainbow Dash flew over and caught one of the Parasprites in her hooves. "Uh, I'll take one."
"Me too, oh, they're perfect," Rarity agreed, joining her friends and admired the beautiful colors of the Parasprites.
Pinkie Pie entered the shop just then, looking at her friends. "Does anypony know where I can find an accordion?" she asked and she groaned in frustration when she saw that they were cooing over the six Parasprites. "Girls! Hello! This is important," she called out, but they ignored her. "Durgh! Thanks a lot." And she stormed off to look for instruments, including an accordion.
A/N: Until the Parasprite crisis has been resolved, there will be no Author's Notes until next time. R&R everyone!