Strange habits.
Before we start here are the word formats:
"Marks" = speaking
Bold = Letter
Italic = thinking
The mane 6. Those 6 ponies that live together in harmony in Ponyville, who are in fact the elements of harmony. Who share their friendship amongst others, and solve any problems that seem to get in their way. The best of friends you'd expect to be normal and just ordinary pegasuses, earth ponies, a unicorn and an alicorn. You'd think them to be normal during their spare time, but once you read this you must think again and about what their habits are.
Let's start off with Twilight Sparkle here, since she's the main heroine and the princess of friendship.
The day started off unlike any other Twilight was in her Castle of Friendship, opening up her eyes to a new day when a streak of sunlight came in through the window from the east side of equestria. As Twilight got up, she pulled the doona covers back and sat up on her hooves. Staring groggily around her room, she muttered to herself. "I do not want to get up today, but I have to."
Twilight then put her forelegs on the floor and lowered down her hind legs. Although still feeling groggy, she leaned her legs down wanting to get back in bed. I can't do this Twilight flustered in her head but I'm not gonna give up. Not on a Monday. She'd forgotten which day it was, an she pretended that today was a Saturday when she woke up, but it was Monday today. However just as she was about to even get started, she collapsed to the floor and laid their with all four of her hooves sticking out.
She immediately heard a familiar voice at the moment she couldn't open her eyelids. "Morning Twilight" the voice said "are you okay?" The second time the voice spoke, Twilight seemed to recognise the voice. She opened her eyes to a blurry vision but recognised the figure in front of her. It was her number one assistant, Spike the dragon. As Twilight's vision cleared she began to speak to her good friend. "Yeah, I'm fine... I" she muttered, but Spike didn't hear her very well. "Um what was that?" He asked, Twilight raised her voice a little so that Spike could just hear her. "I'm fine" she spat out "today is just like every other day, where I have to do work."
Spike then thought of an idea, that would keep Twilight sitting all day. I'll give her a day off he thought. "Well how about today... you get the day off?" Spike suggested to his friend. "Wait... really?" Twilight asked as she began to get up on her hooves, "Sure thing. Since you look really tired when trying to get up, I'll free you the whole week." Twilight's face beamed with excitement at that. "I also mean that you can retire" Spike recommended. "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" Twilight squealed while galloping around in circles. "Thank you Spike, I really needed that from a friend like you." "No problem. I guess I'll go serve some breakfast" Spike said as he stepped towards the kitchen.
"Today is the luckiest day of my life!" Twilight exclaimed in excitement "what can I do now that I'm in retirement though." She thought of what she would do on this day of being free and out in the world. "I guess I'll go and write a letter to Celestia, explaining my retirement" Twilight suggested to herself, running to a drawer. She used her magic, to open the drawer and take out a quill and a piece of paper. She thought levitated it onto a desk, although she had a stern look on her face about the paper. I'm wondering what Spike is making for breakfast today? I'm so hungry right now Twilight thought to herself. Seconds later a growl came from her stomach. "Oh, I better hurry up" she replied to her stomach. Using her magic to levitate the pen, she wrote:
Dear Princess Celestia.
Today feels like the luckiest day of my life, I'm retiring for the rest of my life. You know what that means right? No more books, no more teaching, no more lessons. None of that. My magic can remember the spells and I've practically learnt every single spell of the course of 10 weeks, yes that's right. Every single spell a unicorn can do in Equestria. I don't need these spell books anymore, so say goodbye to those. I also won't be running the library anymore, as it will always say closed everyday. The only work I need to do is clean up the library and that's it. I also won't be seeing you anymore, as I don't want to have a look at the princesses. You and Luna aren't the good princesses, I'm the best princess. It's so great to be free!
Your faithful no longer student, Twilight Sparkle
When Twilight finished writing the letter, she rolled it up into a scroll and went to find Spike. "Hello? Spike? Where are you?" However what happened next was not what she had expected. Spike appeared from behind the front door and shouted "Hey Twilight!" Twilight yelped "Ah" in response and farted. "Sorry that I scared you Twilight, but..." Spike started, but then remembered that Twilight had cut the cheese "I never knew you farted when surprised." "Well sometimes, but it's not every time" Twilight explained. "But I came to you for a reason" she started "I need you to send this letter to Princess Celestia." "Will do" Spike said, he then snatched the scroll from Twilight and blew it into a mist of green smoke. The smoke travelled out the window and through the air. "And it's on its way" Spike said brushing his claws off. "Well Spike, while we're waiting let's go see what you made me for breakfast" Twilight insisted.
Twilight went to a table, with a bowl of cereal waiting there to be consumed. The cereal was oats, which Twilight really liked with milk. "So" Spike started as he walked up next to Twilight "what do you think?" "Are you kidding?" Twilight responded "Its amazing, just the way I like it." Twilight then grabbed a nearby spoon with her magic and started to eat up. Once she'd finished spike began to gag, which was what got Twilight's attention. He became very bloated and burped out a scroll. "Ooooh! Let me see" Twilight said, snatching the scroll from spike with her magic and opening it up. She began to read it silently:
Twilight! You can't quit now! You have been in a library for years now and all you're gonna do is quit? I wouldn't expect that to happen. Very disrespectful of you Twilight! You're definitely not my faithful student anymore, buzz off and have fun!
Princess Celestia
"Whatever" Twilight said "don't need her anymore anyway." "So are you ever going to see Princess Celestia again?" Spike asked. "Nope" Twilight responded, "I am not her faithful student anymore! Which means I'M FREE!" Twilight exclaimed as she galloped out of the castle's front door. She began galloping to the edge of Ponyville, everypony stared at her and watched as she sped through. She stopped at an apple tree at Sweet Apple Acres and slammed her horn into it, using a blast spell to blast open the trunk. The whole tree fell down onto it's side and Twilight squealed at the sight. "Apples!" Twilight squealed as she picked one up with her hoof, which she didn't do very often but didn't really need magic in order to do. "They're ripe and fresh!" It was at that moment that she noticed that Applejack was a few yards away from her watching. She glanced at Applejack and yelled "Thanks! Applejack!" She then began to gallop back towards Ponyville in excitement "It's so good to be free!" Applejack could only respond lightly "What in the hay is Twilight doin'?"
Spike put Twilight's cereal bowl in the sink, just as Twilight burst out through the front door. She then stopped dead in her tracks taking slow deep breaths, calming herself down. "So good to be free huh?" Spike asked. "Yes!" Twilight yelled "But before I go out and tell my friends, I need to clean up my spell books." Twilight then thought of a crazy idea to clean the place up, as she stared at the books. "Twilight are you okay?" Spike asked, he was somewhat confused by what Twilight was doing. "Yes, it's just that..." she started, she couldn't hide her thoughts and had to get the truth out there. "I've never eaten anything that isn't food before" she said. "Good" Spike said "You'll have to go to Nurse Redheart if you do."
Twilight knew that paper wasn't poisonous, so wasn't ink when it was dried, only when it was wet. "Well no" Twilight said "paper isn't poisonous so don't worry." "Paper?" Spike beamed "you're gonna eat paper?" "Yes" Twilight said "it's the only way I'm gonna clean up the library, by eating the pages out of the books." "Okay then" Spike said "go ahead." Twilight decided to start off her big meal by grabbing a levitation spell book with her magic, she didn't need to know how to use that spell anymore as it was the most common spell any unicorn could do. Spike backed away to watch Twilight as she placed the book down on a bench and opened it up. She tore out a page with her magic and stared at it for a little. What If I? Never mind Twilight flashed threw her mind. She then put the page in her mouth and began chewing, it wasn't like any other time she'd eaten something it was delicious. After Twilight swallowed, Spike spoke up. "How does it taste?" He asked, wondering how somepony could like eating an object that isn't a food. "It was the best thing I've ever tasted!" Twilight beamed "Paper is delicious!"
"It reminds me of that one time when Discord was eating the pages from the reform spell book" Twilight explained "I want more!" She then ripped out another page and ate it, and as Twilight kept ripping and chewing nearly all the pages in the book were gone. "I'm too full" Twilight said "But I'll treat myself to a little dessert." She then levitated over the letter that Princess Celestia had sent to her, scrunched it up and ate it. "Twilight..." Spike said looking shocked "that was written in ink, right?" Twilight then glanced at spike and spoke out "Ink is only deadly when it's wet, when it's dry it's a whole different story." "Oh" Spike said, "I guess I'll eat the cover. If I can eat gems, I sure can eat this thick cover."
Spike then ate the cover of the book and for the rest of the day, he only ate the book covers and Twilight only ate the pages in the books. This was Twilight's new and strange habit.