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Post by Becka *Pone* on Mar 10, 2004 16:50:24 GMT -5
"Goodmorning Gumdrop, it seems someone is in a better mood." Kail gave a smile as the little one giggled and then went to find her kitten.
She proceeded to grab eggs, butter, flour, sugar, and all the other essentials for cookie making when Fluttershy walked into the room and asked what she was doing.
"Making cookies," Kail replied cheerfully, "for the nursery residents. Swirl and I decided they needed a little Festival Cheer and cookies are always cheerful."
Truthfully she had wanted to buy each one a special little gift, but where would they put it? They all had no more than a bed. Besides, the nursery didn't have the money in its fund to buy all of them little gifts, so she had just used her own funds to buy the ones that she knew very well presents, like Sherbet.
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Post by spookytale on Mar 10, 2004 17:25:29 GMT -5
Swirl rolled out of bed, uncharacteristically well past sunrise. She made her way into the bathroom, quickly but efficiently cleaning herself up and preening until she was back to her usual glistening self.
She quietly trotted down to the kitchen, where she smiled sheepishly at Kail and the others.
"Looks like I wasn't much help yesterday, but lookit here..."
She nudged the big box of donated chocolates from Sparx's store, it had gotten haphazardly shoved under a table.
"At least we'll have extra sweets for the Festival."
She plopped down and grinned at Gumdrop. "Sounds good huh? Little Miss...miss...?"
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Post by Shadoweaver on Mar 10, 2004 20:44:11 GMT -5
Harvest Moon bounded into the kitchen, his crimson and cornsilk mane all sleep-mussed. "Good morning!" Moon pricked his ears as he heard Kail. "Ooh, cookies! I can help!" He sprung over to her, sliding a bit on the floor.
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Post by silverfall on Mar 10, 2004 21:14:55 GMT -5
"Ooh," Fluttershy lifted her hooves as the foal slid across the floor, afraid he might slide right into her. Then to Kail, she said, "I can help if you like."
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Post by silverfall on Mar 10, 2004 23:21:56 GMT -5
The nursery door swung open and there stood... a big, brightly-papered box? Razz struggled to get the big box through the doorway. He pushed and pushed and pushed until the paper began to crinkle and then the box slid on through with such force that it sent all the other presents falling to the floor. Razz came in quickly, shut the door, and began gathering the smaller boxes up.
"Hello!" he called out cheerfully. "I'm back!"
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Post by Becka *Pone* on Mar 10, 2004 23:31:58 GMT -5
Kail smiled at all the offers to help make cookies, "that sounds wonderful! We will have so many sweet treats for the residents - it will sure help them to get out of their bad moods." She wasn't so sure about Moon helping - visions of yesterday's pancake making were dancing in her head - but she decided he could do something easy, like decorate, or taste test. When Swirl showed off her own box of goodies Kail's smile got even brighter. Swirl was probably her best friend in the whole city, she was glad to be sharing this Fest Eve with her. "Happy Fest Eve!" she said to her. (ugh, too tired, when did Kail become so one-dimensional? ) Then two things happened simletaneously, Sherbet woke up with all the commotion and started walking towards the kitchen, and Razzarro finally managed to push his large box through the door, sending all of the smaller ones toppling onto the little Explosion. She yelped in surprise and Kail rushed out of the room to see what was going on. "I didn't do it this time I swear," the little orange one said from underneath boxes. She was still too sleepy to register tha they were presents, or she would have been overjoyed. Kail picked her up and put the little one on her back with a smile. "What is all this Razzaroo?"
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Post by silverfall on Mar 11, 2004 1:24:04 GMT -5
;D
"Presents!" Razz said with a big grin. "Sorry, there, Sherbert." He tipped the largest box back so it was upright. "The big one is for the kids. And the smaller ones are for... uh... friends, you know like you and Fluttershy and everyone. It's not much, not on my budget, but you can't not have presents!"
Fluttershy perked up at the sound of her name.
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Post by Delta on Mar 11, 2004 4:14:51 GMT -5
Gumdrop frowned at Swirl. "My name is Goody Gumdrop!" She said and stuck her tongue out at Swirl, now smiling. She suddenly became quiet at the mention of presents. She wouldn't be etting any this year. But once she realised that one of them was for her and the other ponies, she brightened up a little. "Yay!" She squealed, and bounded over.
At that same time, Crystal slipped through the door. "Um... morning..." She said goggling at the sight of the mountain of presents.
She didn't really care if she didn't get any presents. The best thing that she could get for the festival was to know where Delta was.
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Post by Becka *Pone* on Mar 11, 2004 8:59:47 GMT -5
Sherbet finally woke up and squealed on Kail's back when told the largest present was for the littlest of the ponies. Yeah, she would have to share, but she was one of those little ponies, so it meants she got to help unwrap. Her eyes lit up with glee at the thought.
Kail smiled, but then frowned - she hadn't had time to wrap any of her own presents. She would try to find time to do that later today.
"When can we open it?" Sherbet hopped off Kail's back and started circling the present as if it were her prey.
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Post by silverfall on Mar 11, 2004 9:19:03 GMT -5
"Uh..." Razz looked a Kail. "I think so. Can we open it? Maybe we should wake the other kids, though." He set the smaller presents aside for later, obviously more intent on the large one.
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Post by Becka *Pone* on Mar 11, 2004 14:42:00 GMT -5
"We might as well wake the other kids, they've had enough sleep by now. She looked back into the room at who was still sleeping: Charm, Skyfeathers, and Bellaluna (Kail could never call her simply Bella, it would be much too weird for her). She wasn't sure she wanted to be the one to wake them though, so she gave an uncertain glance around the room.
Shrugging, Kail walked over to the nearest sleeping foal and brushed the hair out of her face. "Goodmorning," she cooed softly, "there are presents waiting for you."
(whoever wants to can make it their foal - whoever gets here first I suppose).
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Post by Sparkleworks on Mar 11, 2004 17:12:14 GMT -5
(Erm, just to clarify things, I guess Sparx went back to her place, or maybe Tink's. Either way, my last post said Sparx was going to the Nursery, but since now it's, er, the next day, she well isn't there anymore. lol.)
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Post by Delta on Mar 11, 2004 17:31:39 GMT -5
(-_-' eh, I didn't explain it very well, did I? Bellaluna's not here, she's with Sweet Berry. They came to the nursery to tell Kail that they had found a foal in case anyone would be looking for her, coz the nursery is pretty much the place to go if you've lost someone. Bad Holly! Explain things better!)
Gumdrop jumped about after Sherbert. "Please Mr Razzaroo, you have to let us open it now!"
Crystal trotted across the room and found herself collapsing in an armchair. She sighed. Another year had gone by...
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Post by silverfall on Mar 11, 2004 18:02:39 GMT -5
(LOL! So many children...so little time...)
"Ok, Ok," Razz said to Gumdrop. He went to wake up Sky Feathers with a gentle nudge. She opened her big eyes and blinked. She looked as if she was about to cry when Fluttershy came into the room. Sky scurried off the bed, falling on her side and scrambling up on shaky legs and hurried to Fluttershy's side.
"Uh oh," Razz said, smiling. "Someone's made a friend."
Fluttershy nuzzled the foal and took her into the kitchen for breakfast, which she was clearly more interested in than presents.
(Ok, so who the heck is still here? LOL!)
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Post by silverfall on Mar 11, 2004 18:35:39 GMT -5
Silverfall stood outside the window, peering in at the group. There was a bit of a smile on her face, until strange thoughts pulled her away. She backed up, looking around as if frightened. There was a rippling in the world's energy...
She raced to the woods, Razz and his friends forgotten.
....................
Razz's ears went up and his eyes widened.
"Wait, did you see that?" he asked. He could have sworn he'd seen a flash of silver at the window, but by the time he'd made it to the door there was no one around. No one that was silver at any rate... and he shook his head as if he'd made it up. He turned away and closed the door.
"Sorry, where were we? Present time?" he asked the kids. "Come on, then, let's open it up. Start tearing paper!"
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