[FFML] [fanfic][MLP:FiM] The Alicorn Foal, Chapter Two

[Mythril Moth]

Here's some more. Same disclaimers apply. C&C welcome.

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Chapter 2: Weather You Like It Or Not...

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The inch-deep blanket of snow covering Ponyville glittered brilliantly in 
the early morning sun. Confused, curious ponies gawked at the freak weather. 
Twilight Sparkle emerged from the library, gazing around wonderingly.

Above and behind her, Rainbow Dash beat her wings, tail flicking and ears 
twitching in annoyance. "Weather Control got me up at two this morning," she 
said archly. "Two. This. Morning. We've been tryin' to fix this mess for 
four hours, but it just keeps snowing. We can't stop it. We've totally lost 
control of the weather."

"That...shouldn't be possible," Twilight said.

"NO DUH!" Rainbow retorted. "We've already sent a message to Canterlot, 
but--"

"Wait a minute," Twilight interrupted as a thought occurred. She charged out 
into the snowy streets, heedless of the cold. Rainbow Dash followed her.

They came to a stop in front of a house two blocks from Sugarcube Corner. 
Twilight was about to knock when the door opened and Sable Star trotted out, 
ears flat and wings rustling at his sides. "Oh, Twilight Sparkle, thank 
Celestia," he said. "Something's going on with Vel..." He blinked as he got 
a good look at the snow covering the unicorn's head. "Is...that...?"

"It's snowing all over Ponyville," Twilight said, shaking her head to 
dislodge the powdery snow from her mane. "I had a hunch, so I came right 
over..." Pushing past the stallion, she trotted inside, Rainbow Dash 
following her. Sable frowned in confusion, then joined in behind them.

"Did Cloudsdale try to get in touch with me?" Sable asked the younger 
pegasus. "I was kind of out of it last night...Lav needed sleep yesterday so 
I was looking after Vel all day..."

"No idea," Rainbow said. "I was kinda busy tryin' to herd this snowstorm. 
Since two in the morning."

Sable winced. "Ouch."

They reached the nursery, and both pegasi stopped at the door. "Whoa," 
Rainbow breathed.

"Yeah, that's been going on since I woke up to check on her," Sable said.

Velvet Frost was hovering three feet in the air, her wings beating very 
slowly, one beat every five seconds. Her eyes were open and glowing; a wave 
of brilliant ice-blue light was pouring out of her tiny horn. Lavender Rose 
was trembling in the corner, ears flat and eyes wide. Twilight approached 
the foal and tilted her head, brow furrowed.

"Well, that explains the snow," Twilight said after a moment.

"WHAT?!" Rainbow shrieked. "You mean--"

"Yep," Twilight affirmed. "Velvet's magic is making it snow. That's why you 
can't stop it. It won't stop until she settles down."

"You're kidding," the blue pegasus said flatly. "You mean this little brat 
can--"

"Control the weather? Apparently." Twilight shook her head, smiling. "Could 
you fly back to the library and get Spike to send a message to Princess 
Celestia?"

"Sure," Rainbow replied, staring at the alicorn foal for a long moment 
before shaking her head and flying off.

Lavender approached the younger unicorn on unsteady hooves, still staring at 
her glowing, hovering daughter. "Weather control?" she asked softly.

"I'm afraid the two of you won't be very popular with the pegasi for a 
while," Twilight said ruefully.

Sable's ears flattened. "Great. There goes my job."

"I'm sure they'll understand it isn't your fault," Twilight said soothingly. 
"This is just one of those things..."

Princess Celestia appeared in a burst of sunlight, startling everypony.

"That was fast," Twilight said.

"All things considered, I didn't want to waste any time," Celestia replied 
primly, studying the foal with a wry smirk. "Well, this certainly explains 
all the agitated pegasi I've seen today..."

"How do we calm her down?" Twilight asked.

"Did anypony try singing her a lullaby?" Celestia suggested.

Lavender Rose facehoofed.

"She's a powerful alicorn foal whose magic just woke up, but she IS still a 
foal," Celestia continued. "Just get her to go back to sleep."

Twilight sighed. "It's always something obvious..."

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Fifteen minutes later, it stopped snowing. An hour later, the pegasi had 
turned a cold, wet summer morning into a bright, warm, somewhat muggy summer 
morning. Everypony did their best to try to forget the freak snowstorm, but 
rumors were flying all over Ponyville. Twilight had decided it would be a 
bad idea to tell everypony exactly what had caused the snow in the first 
place, but in her heart, she knew it was a moot point--sooner or later, 
everypony would know about Velvet Frost's weather-control magic.

The next few weeks were bizarre, to say the least. Although Velvet had not 
managed to reproduce her first feat of weather magic, or performed any magic 
that affected Ponyville, she had become prolific in performing small-scale 
feats of weather, usually confined to the vicinity of her home--and 
occasionally, to Twilight's dismay, INSIDE the house. More than once, 
Twilight came home from supervising the little alicorn completely soaked to 
the bone.

Then, one afternoon, almost a month after the snow incident, Velvet managed 
to make it rain milk all over Ponyville.

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Panic ran amok in the streets; ponies stampeded wildly all over town, 
freaking out at the sudden milkstorm.

"DISCORD'S BACK!" somepony shrieked.

"HIDE YOUR FOALS!"

"HIDE YOUR LAUNDRY!"

"HIDE YOUR PETS!"

"HIDE YOUR PETS AND YOUR FOALS IN THE LAUNDRY!"

"Calm down, everypony!" Pinkie Pie shouted over the din. "It isn't Discord! 
See? It isn't chocolate! If it was Discord, it'd be chocolate! But it's not! 
It's..." She tasted the rain, and spat it out, making a face. "Formula?!"

A few other curious ponies tasted the milky rain, making similarly disgusted 
faces. "Ugh!" somepony groused. "Why would Discord make it rain foal 
formula?"

"Discord isn't back, and has nothing to do with this," a magically amplified 
voice filled the town square. Everypony looked up to see Twilight Sparkle, 
being held aloft by Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy and looking rather serious. 
"I have something important to tell everypony, so please pay attention and 
above all DON'T PANIC, okay?"

The crowd waited expectantly.

"Velvet Frost can control the weather. Since she's just a foal right now, 
her magic is acting out randomly. She made it snow a month ago and somehow 
she's causing this. I think she's just hungry right now--"

The rain suddenly stopped.

"--and that would be Lavender Rose feeding her," Twilight finished.

The crowd began whispering excitedly amongst themselves.

"Now, this is important," Twilight said. "We all need to be supportive of 
Lavender Rose and Sable Star through all this. I know Velvet's magic 
might...inconvenience us from time to time, especially if she pulls off 
another stunt like this, but please understand, this isn't anypony's fault. 
A lot of you are unicorns; you were foals once, or you have foals, or you 
know a foal...you know what happens when foals' magic acts up."

A ripple of assent from the crowd, punctuated by Pinkie Pie's loud yell of 
"Boy, DO I!"

"So okay then," Twilight said in a hopeful, cheerful voice. "Please just put 
up with any weird weather we have until Velvet is old enough that we can 
teach her how to use her magic properly. Okay?"

General assent rose from the crowd, which began calmly dispersing, groups of 
ponies whispering amongst themselves.

As the two pegasi lowered Twilight to the ground, the unicorn sighed, wiping 
her brow. "Whew," she exhaled. "That went better than I expected..."

"Everypony understands the situation," Fluttershy assured her. "I'm certain 
absolutely nothing will go wrong..."

And that was precisely when it started raining manure.



To be continued...




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