Magical Mishaps [Private: Vixen] [Dead]

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It wasn’t something Yellowjacket made a practice of, but every now and again he wanted to try and really use magic. There was just a part of him that couldn’t get past the fact that he was a unicorn who could only do really simple levitation. Unicorns could do so many things, and even an average unicorn could do more than the yellow-coated stallion. Even using magic to lift his smoker for when he had to calm down the bees was a struggle sometimes. Of course the fact that his sister had always been better at magic than him didn’t help, especially when they were growing up. And while his parents had tried to be supportive, Yellowjacket would be lying if he said he wasn’t glad that he’d moved out of Ponyville proper and was living somewhere he could make his own way. After all, very few ponies came this way down Whitetail Woods, and those who did were usually more than happy to stop and chat for some refreshments, which he was only too happy to provide for some company.

Because he didn’t dislike other ponies, he just didn’t like having to live up to the expectation of being a unicorn when he was scarcely better than a foal with magic. It was this that every so often led the stallion to being in what was essentially his front yard and trying to lift various objects. He couldn’t rightly use the back of his home, considering it was where his apiary was. The stallion took a deep breath and looked at the pencil on the ground in front of him. Off to the side he’d gathered a small clump of everyday items, things he’d really like to be able to hold and most of them more than one at a time. His horn glowed with a faint aura of ice blue, the same color as his eyes, and he focused on the pencil. Slowly, it began to lift into the air.

Yellowjacket smiled and brought the pencil up to about eye level, just focusing on holding it there. Maybe he could try picking up another object at the same time? Glancing over to the pile, the unicorn spotted a notepad sitting on the top and decided that would do. Focusing, the unicorn’s horn glowed a bit brighter as the same icy blue aura started to surround the notepad. The aura didn’t get very far before it started to slow down then stop advancing altogether. With a huff of frustration Yellowjacket stopped his hoof on the ground and the resulting loss of focus made the pencil drop too as his horn stopped glowing. Well he’d almost been able to hold two things at once. The sound of approaching hoofsteps caught his attention, and Yellowjacket turned to see somepony coming up the path towards him. He really hoped they hadn’t seen his pitiful attempts at magic…

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Two figures walked through Whitetail woods one a filly with bandages covering her right front hoof and torso over which rested the wooden hoofcrafted Ajax armor that was covered in scratches and was smoking in some areas and sheathed sword made of a serpents scale lay strapped to the filly's back. The second figure was that of a baby dragon, a female one to be precise. The young dragoness only had light bruises and a few scratches along her scales but was otherwise unharmed. "That was fun." the filly said with a smile. "How was that fun?" the dragoness asked. "Well it was fun wasn't it?" the filly asked. "Well yeah b-" was all the young dragoness could say before being interrupted by the filly. "So what does it matter? We had some fun and that's all that matters." The filly said through a smug smile. The dragoness decided to just go along with her sister and continued walking down the path on which they were currently traveling upon. The two sisters eventually stopped to rest for a short breather and after they rested enough to continue traveling the two sisters resumed their trek. Eventually the two sisters came close to ponyville and were relieved when they saw house nearby. Hoping to rest up for a bit and maybe grab a snack the two sisters headed towards the home and came close enough to see a yellow unicorn stallion practicing a simple levitation spell. As the two sisters came closer they witnessed the yellow unicorn try to lift a second item only to fail as both items he had been levitating dropped. The two sisters both gave each other looks but approached the yellow stallion introducing themselves one at a time. "Hello my names Vixen Tremortin." the filly said. "And I'm her sister and my names Krystal Tremortin." the young dragoness said. "We were wondering if you could help us out here. We both just came from the Everfree forest and as you can see we suffered a few scratches from our experience." Vixen said happily.

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When the pony approaching came more into view, Yellowjacket could see it was actually a pony and… what looked like a dragon?! That caught the yellow unicorn by surprise. It wasn’t exactly often that normal ponies like him saw dragons, well, aside from Spike in Ponyville. But to see another dragon surprised and interested him. What didn’t interest him was the fact that the pony approaching him seemed no older than a filly! Great Celestia what in the world was she doing smoking like that? And wearing all sorts of armor? As far as he knew the only ponies with a need for armor were the royal guard, and this filly looked much too young to be a member of their ranks, much less traveling on her own. A sad thought occurred to him: did she not have parents or other ponies to take care of her and make sure she didn’t go running off to all sorts of dangerous places in Equestria? He didn’t think that she was simply a short pony, not since her proportions were very foal-like. That, and he didn’t see a cutie mark.

Either way when the pair got in range to call out and did so, Yellowjacket was brought back to the present. He trotted a bit towards them to make talking a bit easier and addressed them with a smile, “I have to say I’m not a medical pony, but come on in. I can get something ready for two hungry travelers.” So saying, the stallion headed inside and gestured for the two to find him before going to his kitchen and starting to pull out some bread and honey for toast. If they were hungrier than that he could also make something more, but this was quick and would at the very least take the edge off. Trying to ignore the fact that he used his hooves more than most unicorns would probably do instead of his magic, Yellowjacket got everything ready and soon there was a plate of toast and a pot of honey on the table. He smiled, “Help yourselves. I’m Yellowjacket, but…” and the stallion glanced between the two of them, “What’s a filly doing in the Everfree forest? It’s dangerous in there!”

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The two sisters were grateful that the unicorn stallion offered them help and followed the stallion into his home and learned that his name was Yellowjacket. The two sisters sat down and awaited the snacks that the stallion was providing. Vixen noted that the stallion seemed to prefer his hooves rather than his magic and the filly combined this with the practice she had seen him doing before she and her sister had introduced themselves and thought that he might not be good at it or he just liked doing things the earth pony way. Soon a plate of toast along with a pot of honey was placed on the table for them. "Thank you very much." the two sisters both said in unison before they dug into the food that had been provided to them. Vixen using her magic twisted the tip of her front right hoof guard and pulled on it revealing a small carving knife which she used to slather some of the honey onto a piece of toast which was also enveloped in the white aura of the filly's magic. Vixen then heard Yellowjacket asking her why she had been in the Everfree forest anyway and that the forest was dangerous. "Well yeah it might be dangerous to somepony who isn't prepared, but as you can see from my armor and my sword I am more than prepared for that forest. Plus I had my sister with me. Although my mom doesn't like it when I sneak away to explore there." Vixen said. "By the way, I don't mean to be rude but do you mind if I ask why you use your hooves more than your magic?" The filly asked.

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Well at least the filly’s appetite didn’t seem to be hurting from her time in the Everfree, that was for sure. Neither did the dragon’s, though Yellowjacket didn’t know exactly how much dragons were supposed to eat to begin with. “You’re welcome,” the unicorn nodded with a friendly smile before taking a seat of his own with them at the table and honeying his own piece of toast. Magical practice did tend to make him hungry, and the stallion had been planning to eat when he was done, just he hadn’t planned to be done so early which was why nothing was ready. He was just about to take a bite of toast when Vixen unsheathed a knife from some compartment in her armor!

Yellowjacket started and dropped his toast, eyes wide, “For Celestia’s sake be careful with that! You could hurt somepony!” Why she felt the need to use her own knife when it wasn’t that difficult to pour the honey on the toast was anypony’s guess, but that didn’t make it any less shocking. Her explanation for why she was in the Everfree forest, combined with her actually rather rude question, took the unicorn aback for a moment and he blinked, then frowned slightly. “Where did you even get armor and a sword?” Which really was code for who in Equestria had given them to a filly, because she certainly didn’t make them herself. She didn’t even have her cutiemark yet! Not to mention her question was completely out of the blue and made him rather uncomfortable.

The yellow stallion glanced down at his toast for a moment, using a hoof to turn it back over so that it was honey side up again, not that it would matter much with the mess he’d made from dropping it but he tried. “I don’t want to talk about it,” he finally answered, looking at her and her sister. It wasn’t really any of their business, no matter how good she seemed at magic, and while he was friendly they had just met. Perhaps if they’d known each other awhile his answer would have been different, but while he was willing to be hospitable he wasn’t going to share one of his deepest insecurities and shortcomings out of the blue like that.

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Vixen was startled when Yellowjacket shouted out to be careful with the knife she had unsheathed to slather honey onto her toast. "I'm always careful." the filly said. Krystal shot her sister that suggested otherwise. Vixen continued slathering the honey onto her piece of toast and took graceful bites of the honey covered piece of toast and that was when Yellowjacket asked a question about how Vixen had acquired a sword and armor. Vixen smiled before speaking. "Well I made the armor myself out of wood and as you can see I based it off the armor that is on that Nightmare Moon statue in town and it took me a very long time to make too." the filly started. "As for my super awesome sword here I bought this cool serpent scale in Canterlot and brought it to this pony who could turn it into a sword so me my sister and my best friend Tessa took the serpent scale to his shop and after two days he had turned that serpent scale into the awesome sword that you see before you!" the filly said excitedly. The unicorn stallion had then decided that he did not want to answer Vixens question about his magic and the filly decided to accept that as an answer. Instead the filly decided to change the topic. "So what do you do for a living Yellowjacket?" the filly asked innocently. Her sister was also slightly curious about what Yellowjacket's profession was, but the young dragoness simply bit down on her piece of toast slathered with honey.

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Always careful. Not according to the look that the dragon gave her sister, to which Yellowjacket frowned slightly. That and the fact that the filly seemed to have a grandiose sense of herself didn’t exactly endear her to him. Either she’d end up getting herself hurt or she’d get somepony else hurt, and Yellowjacket couldn’t really feel good about himself if he just sat back and let that happen. Maybe he could talk her into going home? It sounded like she had parents who did care about her, if they wanted to keep her safe by telling her not to sneak off. Hopefully they’d also told her not to play with knives, but… well it didn’t seem like she was very open to listening to them.

His frown only deepened as he listened to her story. Parts of it didn’t make sense or were downright silly. Maybe it was the truth, but it was a hard truth to swallow. “It couldn’t have taken that long, considering you’re still a filly,” he pointed out, trying to emphasize that she was still young and maybe hadn’t spent as much time on her armor as she should have. Trying to create something like Nightmare Moon’s armor was interesting and showed a level of creativity, but that didn’t make it any safer to actually try and use that armor. What materials could a filly even get ahold of to make armor?

The comment about her sword made him choke for a moment on his toast, “What pony in the name of Equestria sold you a sword?!” While he was all for the empowerment of children, this was a bit far. There were ways to empower them without downright encouraging them to put themselves in danger! Yellowjacket had to get a glass of water to clear the last of the toast from his throat and Vixen’s question when he returned to the table caught him off guard. The stallion blinked, “Uh, I’m a beekeeper. Hence all the… honey around…” Was she trying to distract him or was she really curious? With this filly, Yellowjacket wasn't sure what to think.

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Krystal took another bite out her honey slathered piece of toast as she watched Yellowjackets expression change throughout the conversation that he and the young dragoness's sister had. His expression that seemed to show most was concern. The thing that most concerned the stallion seemed to be Sword. The dragoness didn't blame the stallion for being concerned about a filly that had a sword, after all she had been extremely worried as well Vixen had suggested buying a serpent scale and turning in into a sword. The young dragoness had simply dismissed the though thinking that nopony would ever sell a filly such a sharp item. To the young dragoness's surprise that day her sister had bought the scale and with little to no effort had managed to find somepony willing to turn it into a sword. Her mother had been even more worried. She practically had a panic attack when she saw Sword on Vixens back, but somehow Vixen had managed to convince her mother to let her keep the sword. Krystal still worried about her sister having a sword from time to time, but she said nothing about it. Vixen did buy the thing with her own bits anyway. The dragoness returned her attention back to the conversation going on between her sister and Yellowjacket. Soon the topic was shifted to what Yellowjacket did for a living and the Dragoness had to admit to herself that she was curious as to what the unicorn stallion's profession was. The young dragoness looked to her sister and saw the look that appeared on her face when she was generally curious about stuff. The stallion revealed that he was a beekeeper which explained the honey. "Wow! So what's it like?" Vixen asked happily. The dragoness smiled and poke up as well. "Yeah what's it like being a beekeeper?"

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Honestly, Yellowjacket was of half a mind to escort Vixen and Krystal back to their parents and then find out who had sold the young filly a sword and have a severe word with them. You didn’t just give foals the chance to hurt themselves like that! Sure, a fake sword playing together in the yard or in the middle of town was one thing, but knowing that a filly was walking into places like the Everfree forest and that she was wilding a blade that looked even larger than it actually was when compared to the small youngster was not acceptable! At least, not in the yellow stallion’s mind it wasn’t. As much as he didn’t like to start confrontation and much rather preferred being friendly to everypony, this was something that seemed to be testing him. After all, Vixen didn’t seem to have any idea what kind of danger she was in, or putting her sister in for that matter. Krystal seeming to be a bystander and through that an enabler certainly didn’t help matters. How long was it before they got seriously hurt?

The unicorn shook his head, “Beekeeping is something that can be dangerous,” and he pointedly looked at Vixen with what he hoped was a firm expression, “And I got stung plenty of times before I learned how to be safe. Sometimes I still get stung. But I have years of experience and tools to keep me safe.” He really didn’t want to do this, but she was going to get herself hurt or worse and somepony needed to get through to her, “You do not. You’re still a filly Vixen. A filly being very silly by putting herself in danger. If you want to adventure so badly, find some way to study it or find somewhere to apprentice at. Otherwise, I think you should go home and apologize to your parents for sneaking out and worrying them.” Was that firm enough? Would it get through to the filly? Yellowjacket had no idea; he’d never had children of his own before, and he didn’t exactly make a habit of being stern with foals. But he also fully believed Vixen needed to hear this before something horrible happened to her or Krystal.

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Vixen watched Yellowjacket for a bit as he seemed to be thinking about something that seemed like it would regard her. "How much you want to bet its about Sword?" Vixen asked her sister. "Naw I bet that its about your age and lack of experience." The young dragoness said. "How much are you willing to bet?" Came Vixens reply. "twenty bits." The young dragoness said before taking the final bite of her honey slathered toast. "Deal." Vixen said. The two sisters then waited patiently for the Yellow unicorn stallion to speak to them and listened to every word he said. Once Yellowjacket had finished his rather stern speech Vixen slammed her head down on the table and levitated a bag containing twenty bits towards her sister. The filly took a moment to collect herself and then with pride in the fillies voice she spoke to Yellowjacket. "I may still be a filly but I assure you I have more than adequate experience to adventure in that forest. I mean just look at me I'm perfectly fine." the filly said in defense. "You know your tails half gone right." Krystal said. "Ha ha very funn-" the filly started as she check on her tail and to her horror her tail was actually half gone singed right at the edge. The filly stared at that for a brief moment and returned her attention to Yellowjacket. "Ignoring my half burnt tail I am still quite safe adventuring in that forest...unless there is a hydra then I run away as quick as I can." Vixen finished. A few seconds later Vixen remembered that she had not introduced her pet wasp. "Oh I almost forgot to introduce you to my pet!" the filly said. The young filly rustled her mane and out of it came a wasp that flew around before landing on the filly's horn. "This is Stinger." Vixen said happily as the wasp flew down and began to eat away at the honey slathered crumbs that had fallen from the filly's snack.

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