Starswirl and the Purple Terror

by ValdimarGreen

Day 4

Day 4

Starswirl wasn't a morning pony, had never been. So when the warm light of the newly raised sun hit his body through the window, he stubbornly ignored it. The sun shone on, mercilessly. After a shot internal debate, he decided to crack one eye open ever so slightly, so he could use his magic to pull the drapes closed. However, when he did, his vision was obscured by two humongous purple eyes.

Starswirl let out a loud yelp, scrambling backwards, resulting in him tumbling out of the bed. Tangled in the bed sheets, he remained on the floor for several moment as he tried to catch his breath. "Are you trying to kill me Twilight Sparkle?" he finally managed.

Twilight had the grace to look embarrassed. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to... It was just that, the sun went up and you didn't move and I thought that maybe you had... you know. So I was just gonna check for some vital signs, honest!"

Starswirl crawled up into bed again, pulling the blanket over his head as he did so. "I'm going back to sleep." he said grumpily from underneath the covers.

"What?" Twilight asked, taken aback, "But the sun is up! Its a beautiful new day, filled with new amazing discoveries to be made!"

"They can bite my shaggy hindquarters for all I care!" Starswirl replied.

Twilight gaped at the sorcerer shaped mound on the bed. "How can you even say that?!" she asked.

"Because its Monday!" Starswirl snapped, "I don't study on Mondays."

Twilight seemed even more baffled at this revelation, but after overcoming her initial apprehension her voice took on a sad note. "Oh I'm sorry, I was just looking forward to work with you today. But, I suppose that at your age it's not strange to take a day off for rest."

Starswirl poked his head out from underneath the covers, "What do you mean... at my age?! Can't a stallion grow a respectable beard without being considered both half-dead and senile?" Twilight opened her mouth to respond, but Starswirl rolled right over her as he continued, "And for your information I'm not taking the whole day off, Mondays are the days when I reorganize everything and make a checklist for the coming week."

Twilight blinked a few times as the last part sunk in, then tears began welling up in her eyes. "I see."

Starswirl peered at her under a raised eyebrow, "Are you okay Miss Sparkle?"

"Yeah" Twilight sniffed, wiping at her eyes with a foreleg, "I'm just so happy."

Comments

[TGM]

trufax: This could have very well happened, though farther in the future of the show that we see now.

I read the journal of the two sisters (the supposedly 'official' history of C & L) and Starswirl time traveled a lot. Into the future, apparently.

[Wellwater]

"I am just so happy."

[Frission]

I just wish these chapters were longer...

[Lag Incarnate]

4627344
I remember reading a comic where he time-travels from the Canterlot throne room 1000 years in the past to the present day. Turns out not much had changed and he dismisses it as a failure.

[Admiral Q Ponyform]

4661515 Obviously Celestia wasn't in then

[Zephandolf]

Mondays are the days when I reorganizes everything

Should be "reorganize". Leave off the "s" for Starswirl

[EverfreeSparkle]

They are so much alike it is almost scary.

[Joural]

4661515

Doesn't that comic also feature Luna noticing that her reflection doesn't change, and determining that something is ahoof?

... nah, I don't like how that sounds, ponifying verbs is dumb.

ahand is obviously better

[keaton-furman-prower]

...Am I the only one who's imagining Starswirl speaking in the voice of the John Hurt Doctor?

[Raal]

4692873 as far as i'm concerned the need of most bronies to find away to ponify everything even if its just sticking a p in front of it is silly cus sometimes it completely changes how a word is said. Some things you can get away wiht for similarity, some things because of anatomy, but some things..No. (i'm looking at you. "Prussia".)

[HiddenBrony4]

4793780 And the best part is, Prussia was an actual HUMAN country once. I think it fell some time around WWI, or perhaps a bit earlier.

Remember people: research is your friend!

[Tankman585]

5051322 Prussia united the other Germanic States to form Germany in the late 19th Century.

[toxiconym]

Starswirl wasn't a morning pony, had never been.

I just realized I'm an EVERYTHING pony.
I love waking up early in the mornings and I love being outside at midnight and I love the middle of the day and omg what is wrong with me and why would anypony care

[Greatazuredragon]

"And for your information I'm not taking the whole day off, Mondays are the days when I reorganize everything and make a checklist for the coming week."
Twilight blinked a few times as the last part sunk in, then tears began welling up in her eyes. "I see."
Starswirl peered at her under a raised eyebrow, "Are you okay Miss Sparkle?"
"Yeah" Twilight sniffed, wiping at her eyes with a foreleg, "I'm just so happy."

Oh boy...
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he ain't getting rid of her after that.

[MadeThisJustForThePun]

"I thought that maybe you had... you know. So I was just gonna check for some vital signs, honest!"

Starswirl seems remarkably calm, considering an apparent time-traveler who knows everything about him, including the time range around when he died/dissapeared, is checking to make sure he's not dead yet.