uuing | ten. ☆ ( video / backdated to before the spring cleaning plot )

Uu-! Hi everyone..! Today Maria and Beato have a question for everyone!

[ Maria is practically as cheery as ever when she waves at the camera - except she's not alone right now, there's someone sitting there with her, and she turns to that person with a smile as if urging her to speak on.

Beato waves too, as excited about this as ~~HER TINY ONEESAN~~ Maria. ]

We thought of this some days ago, while watching the people in the tea house. You all come from very diferent places, are we wrong? I can only imagine how many wonderful stories you all have!

And so we want to hear e-verything about you and your world! [ she's just fistpumping here now, look at all this double excitement. ] Uu-, so everyone, please tell us your stories, okay? Beato and Maria re-ally want to know!

We'll be waiting! Thank you so much!

( ooc: replies will come from both Maria and Beato (

fathersbeloved) and will be a bit delayed (especially on my side, since I'm going to bed right now and will get to them tomorrow)! )

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A funny story? Hmmm...

Well, just about anything with Pinkie Pie in it would count for that. How about the time she saved Ponyville from a Parasprite invasion?

[Hey, it was funny in retrospect, once everything was rebuilt.]

Sure, Maria wants to hear that story..! [ a giggle. ] What are Parasprites like?

Imagine a tiny little ball with big adorable eyes, the cutest little wings and an adorable smile...

And now give it an incredibly voracious appetite and a desire to eat everything in sight.

E-eat everything..? [ her eyes grow wide. ]

Uu-, but that's a bad thing..! You can't eat everything!

And that, I'm afraid, is precisely the problem. When Fluttershy found one of the little creatures out in the wild, it was so cute that she absolutely had to bring it home with her. On the way back, it replicated itself twice, so there were three of them. She ended up giving one to me and one to another friend of ours.

Unfortunately, we didn't quite understand what we were getting into. See, when Parasprites eat enough, it gives them enough energy to reproduce. They literally spit up more of them. In no time at all, we had dozens of the things flying around, and that's when things started getting really bad.

Of course things would get bad, uu-.. Maria gets it, if there were a lot of them around, they would start to eat all the things! There wouldn't be anything left at all!

Exactly. And that's very nearly what happened.

But throughout the whole thing, Pinkie Pie had been gathering up musical instruments. A trombone, a tambourine, an accordion... we didn't know why, so we kind of brushed her off and kept trying new and crazier ways of getting rid of them. I even ended up casting a spell to try to keep them from eating the food... so they started eating other things instead.

Things were looking pretty grim, and we were all running out of ideas, when finally she came marching through the middle of town, playing all the instruments at once. It sounded like some sort of one-pony polka band.

And the weirdest thing was, all the Parasprites started following her.

They.. followed her, uu-? Why would they follow her..?

... Is it since they liked the music?

I have to assume that's what it was, since there certainly wasn't any other reason. She lead them right out to the Everfree forest and sent them off, and we haven't seen a single one in Ponyville since.

So then after that whole fiasco was taken care of, we apologized for not taking her seriously and went back to the town...

Which needed a lot of fixing up at that point.

That's a really interesting story.. Maria should remember that if she ever sees any of them, they like music, uu-! Then it won't ever get as bad for Maria as it was for you..!

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