The Crusaders had agreed to make their sessions with Twilight a weekly activity. Villhiem and I usually watched over the fillies as they learned from Twilight. That was two weeks ago.
Nothing has gone wrong. It's all very boring.
I now lay at Rainbow's hooves. I was waiting for her to finish writing up the next few months weather schedule. I was disheartened to hear the words 'snow', 'possible blizzard', and 'cold front'. At least she's not going gaga with Hearts Warming. Yet.
I felt a hoof prodding my head. I looked up to see that Thunderlane had come in while I was moping. "Hey, RD? You think our little weather maker here knows anything snow related?" I huffed, rolling over so that my back was facing him. "She could really help us out and save on snow clouds!"
Rainbow looked at me with a raised eyebrow. "I'm starting to think she doesn't like winter."
Winter's fine, it's Christmas I don't like.
"What?" Thunderlane nudged me with a hoof. "I've yet to meet a dog that doesn't like snow!"
<<Quite pokin' me.>> I growled.
"I think you should leave her alone, Thunderlane." Rainbow cautioned.
"Hey, I'm a dog pony, remember?" More poking.
<<I mean it!>>
"Thunderlane, she's been pretty cranky lately."
"C'mon, dogs love me-"
<<THAT'S IT!>> I whipped around, teeth glowing. Everyone paused as I bit into Thunderlane's fetlock. Blood started to drip from my mouth. .... Shit!! I let go of Thunderlane's leg, and bolted to a far corner.
Rainbow zipped over to Thunderlane, swinging a hoof at me in a late attempt to dislodge me. Pressing her seat cushion to his hoof, Rainbow led Thunderlane to the first aid station. I followed at a discrete distance, head, ears, and tail hung low. This was not how I expected this day to go.
We all kept quiet as they cleaned the wound. Rainbow broke the silence as she bandaged the bite mark. "I'm sorry about this. I-"
"No, no." Thunderlane interrupted. "It's my fault. I kept prodding the angry Eevee." He gingerly shifted his weight to his bandaged leg. He hid his wince with a cocky grin. "Ya think your new Canterlot friend would want to take a look at this? Ya know, as a data point?"
Rainbow gave him a sly smirk. "Sure... She's at Twilight's, I think. Let's go see her."
Thunderlane's grin fell. "Wait, now?!"
We left the weather station. As Rainbow passed me, she glared at me. "No fishcakes tonight." I nodded, and moped behind them.
It didn't take us long to reach the library. We knocked and entered without waiting for a response. We didn't have to wait long before someone noticed us.
"Don't you normally break a window?" Spike snarked around the stack of books he was carrying.
"Yeah, yeah." Rainbow waved him off. "Ya know where Moon Dancer is?"
"Yup! She's in the back study." Spike tilted his head towards said room.
We gave our thanks as we filed past him. Finding the room in question, I recognized it as the room I laid my egg in. We knocked and waited for the strained "It's open!" It seemed as if the mess of paper had migrated from the basement to this room. At least it attempted to organize itself along the way. Stacks of paper were labeled, and what I assumed were matching labels tacked on a board and connected with string.
It also looked like Moon Dancer had her own "stress circle" she was leaning against.
"Is this a bad time?" Rainbow nervously asked.
Moon Dancer sat on a nearby chair. "No, no. I was thinking of taking a break. What do you need?"
Thunderlane and Rainbow shared a look before the stallion spoke. "We had a bit of an incident earlier. We figured you might've wanted to take a look at it?"
"What happened?" Moon Dancer sighed.
"I'm going to leave you two to it. I gotta finish my paperwork." Rainbow waved before bolting. Moon Dancer shook her head before giving Thunderlane an expectant look.
"First off, I need to say that this was my fault." The pale maned stallion sat down to rub the back of his head. "I was bugging Leo here, and she ran out of patience and Bit me."
Moon Dancer raised a skeptical eyebrow, pointing at his wrapped leg. "That was from a bite?"
Thunderlane shook his head. "No, no. Not a bite, a Bite."
"That doesn't explain anything." Moon Dancer deadpanned. "Besides, I've already measured the Packs' bite force. They'll break skin, yes, but it won't be that deep. Not deep enough to warrant that many bandages." She pointed to Thunderlane's leg.
Thunderlane looked back to the main rooms of the library. "Did, did nopony fill you in on their, eh, unique abilities."
Moon Dancer pointed to a stack of papers. "Listed abilities by individual. I still highly doubt that Leo's bite force could change that much."
"Do you have anything to measure it again?"
With a roll of her eyes, Moon Dancer fished a device from the mess of paper on her desk. It had a wedge of rubber with a metal stick attached to a recording device. She held the wedge out to me. "Alright. Baseline bite please."
I bit down as hard as I could without putting any power in it. It's odd feeling the difference of a bite and a Bite. The second one feels... more.
"Okay, right where I expected it to be." She held it out to me again. "Alright, Leo. Bite"
Crunch.
"O~oh, a critical hit!"
I spat the chunks of rubber out of my mouth. Ugh, I'm going to be digging pieces out from between my teeth for the next week....
While I was vacating my mouth of ruined equipment, Thunderlane and Moon Dancer were staring at what was left with wide eyes. "So, uh, w-what was the reading?" Thunderlane asked.
"She broke it..." Moon Dancer croaked out.
"Well, I can see that. But what was the reading?"
Moon Dancer flipped the machine around so that Thunderlane and I could clearly see the needle was jammed to the far right. "No, she broke it." She turned her stare to focus on me. "How? How can she get such power out of such little muscle structure."
"By biting ponies, apparently."
Shut up, Brain.
"... I need to get the Spectro-Thaumic Scanner out." I was lifted up in her aura, along with a thick pillow, and dragged off into the basement. Thunderlane warily followed behind us. We startled Twilight, who was in the middle of writing up her lesson plan for the day.
"AH! Oh, hello Moon Dancer, Thunderlane..." She saw me in Moon dancer's magical grip. "... Leo. What's up?"
Moon Dancer breezed past the lavender mare, leaving Thunderlane to stammer out an explanation. I, now upside down, could only watch as Moon Dancer pulled the STS out of storage. As she was looking for the socket to plug the machine in, Twilight began trying to get Moon Dancer's attention.
"This is odd, seeing this from the outside." Twilight murmured. She sent a very small electric spark to zap the over-zealous mare on the flank. The sudden shock caused Moon Dancer to drop everything in her magic. Thankfully, that only meant the STS' plug, the pillow, and me.
I missed the pillow.
Thunderlane and I let the studious mares set up the experiment. Part way through said set up, the Crusaders and Villhiem joined us. After being filled in, Scootaloo decided to fetch the last book her and her friends had been reading. Soon enough, the elder mares were ready.
They placed me into the STS' bowl with the pillow, turned it on, and told me to Bite. One small mess of feathers later, Moon Dancer put the machine away and dragged Thunderlane off to compare her notes. I stayed to avoid the impending research spree.
Twilight gathered the Crusaders around her chalk board. Villhiem settled on the floor, and I lay on the pillow I bit. Each Crusader pulled a notebook from their bags.
"Alright girls, if you remember from last week, we summoned a Ruriri. This week, we'll go over how to summon a higher tier. We will stay within the Ruriri family." Twilight picked up a pointer stick in her magic, using it to tap a stylized Magikarp. "When we first started your lessons, I told you not to triple the Koikingu recipe. That is not a hard and set rule. Most recipes barely even double the reagents required. Some even require powdered gems to get to the highest tiers."
The pointer tapped another pair of drawings one the board. One was a pair of blue spheres stacked on top of each other, the other was a larger blue ball with a smaller ball connected with a jagged black line. "A quick tangent into history, the Ruriri family was originally known as the Mariru family. The amount of reagents needed for the first tier was actually less then what was estimated." She pointed to the sacs. "So, please find the Mariru jar."
While the Crusaders dug through their sacs, I leaned over to Villhiem. <<How can something about as big as a saddlebag hold so much shit?>>
<<Tardis charm.>>
I blinked at him. <<Wait, really?>>
Villhiem shook his head. <<Twilight called it something else, but she basically made bags of holding.>>
<<Huh.>> We turned back to the ponies as Scootaloo succeeded at removing her jar.
It didn't take her long to get set up, but the other two managed to find their jars in that time. Twilight stopped Scootaloo from beginning her chant. "As you'll notice, there isn't much of a difference in the amount of reagents between the Mariru and Ruriri tiers."
The fillies spent some time comparing the recipes, but Scootaloo began her chanting soon enough. With the now familiar blinding crack, a Marill sat within the circle. A quick banishing, and the circle was cleared for Apple Bloom. It was at that point I lost interest.
Getting up, I left through the nearest tunnel. I made my way to where I figured Rainbow would be. I found her napping in one of Applejack's trees. Bounding up beside her, I carefully lay on her stomach so I didn't wake her. I settled in for a nap of my own, and waited for the chewing out I deserved from biting Thunderlane.
Not sure who to blame more here. Thunderlane was a thundering idiot (never owned a dog but even I know not to poke an angry dog like that), but that doesn't excuse Leo biting-to-injure like that.
At least attack move the Thunderlane got was a bite not too crunch
I never play pokemon, but I wonder if Leo could magically expand her bite size like a parasprite?
So, when is Twilight going to discover the summon for more Eevees?
So, the summoning the ponies are doing is basically calling japanese pokemon?
So Moondancer just experience Eevee weirdness first hand. And reacted accordingly.
I wonder if Twi will stumble upon an Eevee summon?
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probably an unintentional, instinctive action that called on Leos Bite attack, she did say she didnt mean to do that...
Ibui? Sounds like you had the Hepburn romaji translations rather then the Trademarked romaji translations. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Japanese_Pokémon_names has both- and generally people will use the Trademarked romaji versions.
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I can't find that part. Even so, assuming the force of the bite was unintentional, it still would have drawn blood. Walking away, swiping with his paw, snapping his teeth, relieving himself on Thunderlane's leg...there were much less violent was to get his point across.
Another chapter so soon? Symphonic you spoil us!
Two things: at the start of the chapter you call the CMC the Cursaders (curse-aiders?) and later on you call Moon Dancer “Monn Dancer”, which is actually kind of thematic to the story now that I think on it.
C’mon Twilight. One already turned to water with a Baby Blue Sapphire and you’re purposely feeding another ground Topaz. You must have some idea in your head about them being summons.
And now we see that Baby forms require less than a normal baseline, and that evolutions that would require stones still do. When I get the chance to update the doc I’m going to have to make a whole section about summoning.
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as u can see, even though it wasnt explicitly said, she didnt mean to use Bite, she may have meant to bite, but not use Bite
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SHHHHHHH!!!!! Keep talking and he'll stop!!
If that's what happens when bite gets a crit...
Crunch is going to be interesting
Haha! I love how even outside of the Doctor Who community the TARDIS is still such a big thing.
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Less violent, sure. However this is Leo we're talking about. She's known to be impulsive and to act before thinking, especially when she's in the middle of one of her mood-swings, which she was. So while there were less aggressive alternatives that the other Eevee's would have probably employed, this is fitting with Leo's character.
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snaps are one of the first tricks a dog will go to when upset. She'd already tried growling, already curled away from him, those are the warning signs in dogs.
This would all continue to be better if the human aspect had never been introduced, but OH WELL.
i think you mean moon
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Fixed and fixed. Thanks for the catch.
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your welcome
Moon
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And fixed. I didn't notice the second one...... glad you did though, thanks!
good chapter can't/will wait for the next good day to you sir
Wait, in the last chapter, you said
What rules are there, other than the vague summoning rules? For writing stories in this world you have created, I mean. Do we have to write from a pokémon's point of view or a ponies? Does the pony have to be a normal pony(you know like changeling, vampony, thestral, ex.)?
Sorry if someone has already asked and received an answer, I didn't see such comment.
PS: Fix your grammar in the author's note last chapter.
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Other than the rules for summoning, there are two rules: please use the time scale I've established (four weeks to a moon, 12 moons to a month, four months to a year), and no Eevees or Dittos for the time being. There will be a major plot point about them later in my story. Other than that, anything goes, really. Just be aware that I might accidentally muck up your story by including or omitting something that you may have or haven't put in.
I also would like people to pm me with a link to the story. You never know what you may inspire in mine.
In regards to the grammar, what did I mess up on? I honestly suck at proof reading my own work....
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In the quote I made from the Author's note you said storys, instead of stories. simple mistake.
Anything goes? okay thx.
Love your story btw
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Thanks for the correction, and I look forward to reading yours. Could you pm me a link when it goes up?
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Sure! I plan to write it with the main character from I Don't Bite... which is not finished, but yeah I think some funny business will ensue with a vampony finding a pokemon in his blood supply cabinet.
btw: Do you have any suggestions of a pokemon for me to use? I am thinking maybe Vulpix, Gyrarados, or some other fun pokemon I like. I am a gen. 1 nut. A pokemon that is not from gen. 1 I might think about is Fennekin.
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One word: Noibat.
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It’s actually two words if you sound it out Noi Bat standers for noise and bats
Welp ... Leo broke it ... They'll need a more powerful one to measure that ...
Tense Error: bit
Typo: Leo
Punctuation Error: Bite."
Punctuation Error: Yeah we've done this whole song and dance before ...
Typo: pieces
Punctuation Error: see above
Any particular reason you're not calling him by name?
Typo: stacked
Leo has some seriouse mood swings... This happend to me to ones Sometimes the growling is very quite and can bearly be heard... Everyone has a bad time sometimes
Meh... Its not like Thunderlane lost a leg... Also he was warned by RD and Leo... Although a angry bark would have surficed
Looks like Leo's getting Stronger
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Many people do not realize that when a dog bites in annoyance, it is much, much less of a problem for other dogs.
There is a big difference in a predator's skin compared to prey species. (I think it's something to do with collagen, not entirely sure.) The point is, skin for creatures like dogs, foxes, cats, or even bears move around when stressed. In comparison, humans, ponies, etc. will not. This is why you can pick a kitten up by the nape of its neck without fear of injury. This does harden a bit as the cat gets older, so you shouldn't always do that for an adult cat, but it's certainly a lot more loose than normal.
So in play fighting, dogs, bears, etc. will use teeth and claws, with no fear of actually injuring the other, while something like a gorilla, pony, or human would be a bloody mess.
Pets will understand that their owners are fragile, and tone down their playing to compensate (my dog is so nervous about it that she doesn't want her teeth anywhere near my skin), but more wild animals will often not understand the distinction. Or will forget in a moment of emotional stress.
So yeah, Leo's actions were entirely understandable. As they all clearly have Eevee instincts, not human ones.