Twilight watched Scar across the breakfast table with fascination. If it wasn't the fact the he had been the stallion she had 'seen' yesterday evening that amazed her, it was the way he was looking. He looked... spent. His coat was an unkempt mess and his mane wildly tangled.
There was a strange twitch to his eye, and he shuddered from time to time, mumbling to himself as he simply stared at the plate before him. It seemed he had not gotten much sleep last night. No wonder, she thought, they had still been at it when she and Spike had returned to the library.
"Scar?" she spoke up carefully, making Scar's head snap up and stare at her with a distant look, "Are you... are you alright?"
"Scar..." he replied with a strange look, "Did things... many things..." he shuddered, "And couldn't get out... tiny key much too small for hooves..."
"Oh dear..." Twilight eyed him with worry.
"Wasn't all bad." he chuckled lightly, "It had fun, lots of fun... just didn't think Purple Haze could be so... wild." he mumbled, "Really is like gnoll in pony skin..."
As if on cue, Purple Haze entered the kitchen. Unlike him, she looked absolutely lively. She was wearing a bathroom robe and her mane was still wet. Every step she made seemed happy and full of strive as she walked up to the table with a huge and satisfied smile.
"Good morning, Scar..." she snuggled up to his side.
Twilight watched in wonder as Scar first flinched at her touch, but then literally melted all over the breakfast table as she started to caress one of his ears, making him shudder with utter abandonment under her ministrations.
"Yesterday..." she cooed into his ear, "Was beautiful..."
Scar's mumbled something under heavy breaths as one of his legs started to twitch involuntary.
"Wow..." was all that Twilight could muster up as she watched the two.
"Yuck." Spike complained from his seat, "Some of us are trying to eat, thank you very much!"
"So..." Twilight started, "What are you two planning for today?" she silently prayed they weren't going to spend more time in Purple Haze's room. She seriously doubted the walls of the library would survive another night like that.
"Well..." Purple Haze started, "Since I already had my Heart and Hooves Day present..." Scar gave off another unintelligible mumble as she continued her work on his ear, "I think it's time Scar got his..." Twilight could actually see Scar tremble slightly.
Purple Haze pulled out a little box and set it down before Scar, "Happy Heart and Hooves Day!"
Scar picked his head off the table and looked at the little box in wonder, "Is for Scar?" he tried to pick it up with his hooves, but only managed to shuffle it around a bit, "Silly hooves..." he mumbled, slightly frustrated.
"Here, let me give you a hoof." she opened the lid of the box and turned it towards him, letting Scar look at the contents.
Scar nearly held his breath as he observed the little thing inside the box with fascination.
"So? What do you think?" Purple Haze asked anxiously.
"Is beautiful..." he whispered.
Inside the little box, a custom-made eye clap rested on a small pillow. It was shaped to look like a pegasus from the side, made from a deep-black material and lined with gold to give the shape a realistic effect. The pegasus folded almost naturally to take a form appropriate for its function. It looked so delicate and pretty Scar barely dared to breathe on it.
He carefully reached out with his hoof, but found himself unable to take it from the box. An angry snarl escaped his lips as he tried again, "Stupid hooves..." he muttered, "Can't pick up anything!" he silently wished for his claws to return a bit earlier.
"Let me help you." Purple Haze offered and picked up the eye clap, "Now, let's remove the old one first..." she carefully reached up and slowly removed the piece of cloth he had used to cover his blind eye lately.
"Ewww..." Twilight cringed as she saw the scarred remains of his eye, suddenly feeling a bit queasy at the prospect of continuing her breakfast.
Spike however, was staring at it in complete wonder, "That looks so awesome! Why didn't I get one of those?!"
Twilight shot him an annoyed glare, "Because baby dragons aren't supposed to lose an eye battling evil unicorn kings?"
"There!" Purple Haze finished her work on his new eye clap.
"How does it look?" Scar asked with excitement.
"Totally wicked!" Spike gave his approval.
"Just perfect." Purple Haze replied with a smile that grew dreamily when he embraced her for a hug.
"Is perfect present for it." he told her with a big smile, "Now Scar can..." he was interrupted by a knock from the door, "Scar will get it!" he jumped up happily and ran for the door, eager to see which pony would be the first to see his new look. It wouldn't occur to him he still had to figure out how to open doors with hooves until he had actually reached the front door.
"I just hope it's not my sister..." Purple Haze chuckled, "She'd be all over him in a second..." she stalled, "Is it normal for me to worry about something like this?"
"Well he does look pretty good..." Twilight replied before thinking, a bright blush appeared on her cheeks as Purple Haze gave her a smirk and Spike looked up in confusion from his plate, "I just said that out loud... didn't I?"
"He does look pretty cool..." Spike scratched his chin, "Why is your face red?" he gave Twilight a questioning look.
"Spike... why don't you go see what Scar is up to? Maybe he'll need you help."
Spike shrugged, "Sure... I guess... I wonder if he can still lift Tag..." he mumbled to himself as he walked out of the kitchen.
Twilight turned to the still grinning Purple Haze, "Please don't tell anyone I said that..."
Purple Haze chuckled, "Can't blame you for it... and I certainly can't wait what Dash and Rarity are going to say when they see him like that." she smiled, "The potion will last for another twelve hours and I intend to make full use of that time..." she gave Twilight a thoughtful look, "You may have to buy a new bed though, I'm afraid we... kinda broke it."
Twilight cringed as she remembered the scene she had observed through the keyhole.
Paws, maybe?
Scarred.
Also, PurpleScar OTP
hahaha that last part.
Why can't I like this story twice? Or three times for that matter?
2523474 Thanks ^^
..They...BROKE the bed?
....eesh...
2523482
im with you there
hope next chapter comes soon
( response to this and previous chapter: sweet mother of good, i both envy and pity scar)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, oh man, I love this
I think it's kind of... shallow of her to only do it with Scar seeing as he's a pony now. I know that, being a gnoll, it would probably be dangerous in his normal form, but it still feels really shallow of her to suddenly want to do this just because he's now a pony. Just my opinion though, and I still love the story, that bit just irked me a bit.
2523482
I said that, but only with seventeen times instead of thrice.
I would be very interested in seeing Scar literally melt all over something.
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But I kid. Good job as usual.
if he broke it as a pony what would happen when hes a gnoll.
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boom
no more house
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I think she was just scared, a non-brony who fell in love with a pony would likely be jumpy as hell at the prospect of intimacy; a species divide is no small thing to most people after all. I like to think that seeing him as a stallion just helped her take that last leap of faith, and that things won't really change that much at all when he goes back to being a gnoll (except, perhaps, a little initial awkwardness over the size difference).
I get the feeling that the girls' conversation about Scar being attractive might be foreshadowing how all the other mares will react to him. Maybe the gnoll will get more respect other than just being a guardian badass; maybe he will get respect as a sexy beast.
this story.
Guess who's at the door!!!
So... they're not even hitched and he's already whipped? HAH!
Well, this story is a fave from now on.
2524662 why u no fav earlier?
Purple Haze is like a gnoll in a pony body? Thank goodness she wasn't a gnoll when they did it or the bed wouldn't be the only thing that was broken.
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Shhh, please think of poor Twilight and don't give them ideas - the transmogrification potion was already proven to be very effective and Scar could probably supply the hair...
2523482 You know I don't like the word thrice, it sounds weird.That's why I don't like using it.
2525343 DEATH BY SNU SNU!!!!
oh please let scar be a pony for a little while longer
Bow chicka wow wow.
2523703 Not to mention she apparently all but raped him repeatedly. *rolls eyes* I knew it was eventually gonna fulfill the romance tag but I won't deny I was really hoping it wouldn't. I love this fic and the characters are great fun but the shipping has just felt so forced and then this whole "overtones of rape" thing really bothers me. Especially with overtones of stockholm syndrome.
2524871 Because I didn't have an account earlier!
Bring us moar!
2528729 excuses ,excuses
2529689 Wel, Scar was in an equine form during their... *ah-hem* 'procreation', which means that any child that was created in the process is 100% pony. Now, if she had done that when he was still a GNOLL, then you can count in the possibility of- as the Daleks 'lovingly' would refer to it as- an abomination.
2529842STOP MOCKING ME!
again .....giggity
a custom-made eye [ clap ] ?? cap, patch, cover ??
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I waited and waited for this story to have more chapters after this one chapter came out. then I wasn't in the mood. then it got completed while I was all over some other story. then it got buried under hundreds of new chapters in my faves. oh god, it's so pleasant to find it again.
I don't trust what they are saying right now because while I can't discount the obvious thing the author is hinting at he has done the out of context gag a number of times