My Little Mashup 12 - Doom
We swirled our way across the night sky to catch up with Pterano, finding him in minutes. He woke as we rematerialized in front of him. "Oh! You found me! How... wonderful, yes, wonderful." Nightmare Moon waited a moment. "Where is the stone?" "Heh!...
Finding a New Self, chapter 23: Accusation
That very evening, everything was loaded onto a navy sloop on a dock not far from the trading ship. I was standing on the dock with Renna, waiting until the last moment to say good-bye... ... and the moment never came. We'd been scheduled to leave an...
My Little Mashup 3 - Tricks
An hour and three messages later, I was carrying a rope leader so a halyard could be set up, removing me as the choke point of communication. But as I approached, I heard laughter. Rushing faster, I found a bizarre creature standing over the princess -...
My Little Mashup 1 - Through the Blue Valley
We had progressed past the strip part of the poker game, and were just getting started on the penalties (Chuck and Lily still had a few threads on, but the rest of us were bare). If we'd picked different seating arrangements, we'd have probably skipped...
My Little Mashup 11 - Dreams
I wasn't quite ready to go to sleep, especially since one of the spots on my arm was acting up, indicating that that kind of leaf had been poisonous after all. My itching kept Nightmare Moon awake, to the point that she reached over and touched her...
My Little Mashup 16 - Wounds
I slipped into the unlit porch. Shabna had pulled her feet up onto the rocking chair. Her breathing was ragged. I sat on the love-seat next to her and looked out over the town. It was still too soon to say anything. After a minute, she sniffled and...
My Little Mashup 27 - Test
Pearl couldn't sleep. Her sleep schedule had been completely shot by the summer night celebration just past, and her twenty-fifth birthday just before (or, as dad called it, eight and three quarters). It didn't help that her big test was tomorrow, and...
My Little Mashup 17 - The Stare
I freed myself from the roots that entangled my legs. Flakes of dirt cracked and fell as I moved. Once I was mobile, I looked around - this was recognizably where I'd just been, with the same large rocks and dip, but it was more eroded. And all the...
My Little Mashup 28 - Wrapup
Lily dabbed tears from her eyes as Candice finished reading. "I'm so glad our baby isn't going to be an ex-megatyrant." James leaned in and asked, "Is this a prospective baby?" Chuck replied, "James, I'm not a serial villain. Do you think I would...
My Little Mashup 2 - Sneezes
"Good morning." I squinted at the source of this unwelcome sound. "Ahem. I said, good morning!" A purple unicorn was right there, and a tiny dragon. Yesterday, I had had some time to orient myself. Today I wasn't so lucky. "I suppose it is. Who are...
My Little Mashup 8 - Warpath
As a result of a game of strip-Mao inspired by my use of 'point of order' in the previous chapter (and permitted by my finally fulfilling the requirements), I gained the obligation that I had to follow any one of the following additional...
My Little Mashup 7 - Loyalty
I could barely sleep. There was a serious chance that Discord was telling the truth and Cheerilee was his target. _What would I do if I were him, and I'd picked her? Children. Do something to the children, so they begin acting up. No. They couldn't...