A Weekend Visit [Dinky/PM]

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Piña had absolutely no idea where Berry Punch had ran off to, but it was okay. Her sister was probably off doing something with Ruby Pinch or whatever. It was fine for Piña as it meant she could get a chance to look around Ponyville a bit more. Despite being from Canterlot, Piña found that this small Earth Pony town aesthetic fit her a lot better. If it wasn’t for the fact that the Apples had a practical monopoly on cider and apple juice around here, Piña could see her family maybe setting up a new farm down here. As much as she hated to admit it, however, the Apples did make the best apple juice. Shoot, she was drinking a cartoon of their juice right now. One day she would figure out how they did it and then make an even better one…probably using Apple family apples since they were also the best apples. Dang it, they won either way.

Ah well, no point focusing on that losing battle. For now all she could do was throw away the carton and get back to exploring the town! On some of her last visits she had already been to Sugar Cube Corner and some of the other central features. Not wanting to look at that again, she had wandered off towards some random direction. She was surprised to find, however, that she had wandered up by the school house. Fortunately it was the weekend: she’d hate to be mistaken for a local foal skipping class. At the very least, the playground was available to play on.

Glancing around, she spotted something that looked like a pole with two balls attached to it. The top of the thing made it look like it was supposed to spin, but she wasn’t exactly sure if it did. Well, there was only one way to find out!

With a running start, Piña leapt at one of the ball things and grabbed onto it. As the rope strectched and the ball went flying forward with her it…only went forward. Darn, no spinning. Still, the now makeshift swing did well enough, and Piña simply enjoyed herself as she swung on the ball.

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Dinky wandered the schoolyard. Dinky didn't know why she was at school on the weekend. In truth, she was a little lost lately. With her focus askew, her magic studies went askew. Earlier, she tried to make a firework and accidentally pushed her spellbook into the mud. Dinky was still sad she hadn't been able to recover the next page of her illusion studies. The foal didn't want to admit it to her mother that she ruined it so now she just had to skip ahead... Yay... Why her A better question posed itself when she noticed another filly there. A filly she didn't know! She kinda looked like Ruby Pinch... but pinker! Maybe they were cousins? Did that mean she was getting a new classmate? She thought of Berry Punch and decided that probably wasn't the case. She was a foal and knew that mare was a little... Um, she didn't want to finish that. Momma told her to do unto others as they would do unto you. That probably went for thoughts and talking too. Dinky tilted her head as she watched the filly run towards the tetherball pole and- What? Dinky giggled as the pink foal swung on the tetherball. What was she doing? That was so silly! She wandered over to the funny scene with a smile. "Heehee, what are you doing? You're supposed to hit it, not swing on it! The swings are over there, silly." Dinky pointed to the aforementioned swings. "Who are you?"

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As the ball started to slow down, Piña found herself in the presence of another foal. She was a unicorn, lavender colored with blonde hair. For a moment Piña wondered if she was still in Canterlot, at least until she remembered that Ponyville did have unicorns in it despite being an “Earth Pony” town.

”Yeah, I saw the swings, but I figured it’d be much more fun to play around on these things,” she said as she jumped off the ball

Walking up to the foal, Piña put out a hoof to shake the other foal’s foreleg.

”Name’s Piña Colada, from Canterlot. Came here to visit my sister but she’s out doing something or whatever so figured I’d check out the town.”

Whenever the introductions and stuff where done, Piña made her way back to what was now obviously a tetherball ball and took a side.

”Anyway, up for a game?” she said, gesturing towards the other side with her head.

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Dinky watched Pina hop down. She put out her hoof to meet the filly's hoof and they shook hooves. "I'm Dinky Hooves! I've lived in Ponyville all my life. Who's your sister?" That'd be good to know. To her knowledge, Ruby Pinch didn't have a sister, but they looked alike. Hm. Her eyes moved to the tetherball. She smiled. "I'd love to play some!" Dinky took the other side.

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”Berry Punch,” she said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world,”But I’m guessing you were thinking Ruby Pinch, right? She’s my niece but we’re pretty close in age so I get the sister thing a lot.”

It was one of those weird parts about her relationship with her sister that, technically, she was closer to her niece in age than her own sister. Still, Piña though it was pretty cool: she could be the fun aunt, have a good close friend, and the older sister thing all in one package. Saved money on postage too: only had to write letters to one house.

Positioning herself, Piña went to grab the ball but took a look over at Dinky.

”Alright, I’m gonna serve, but no using magic got it?”

It might have been a little weird to say that, but up in Canterlot there were so many unicorns that if you didn’t remind them to not use magic well, they were gonna use magic when they played. So it wasn’t anything against Dinky, and in a town like this it was probably obvious, but Piña figured she’d say something just to be safe.

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Berry Punch?! ... Wowwy, their mom must be old! But, Pina was Ruby's aunt. That must be weird. Aunts were supposed to be as old as moms. Weird weird weird. Dinky wondered if she had any aunts on her father's side. Would they have stuck around? Did they even know about her? She had been thinking about her father a lot lately. It started after the dream stuff. I-It wasn't time to think about that! She was having fun with a new filly! "Okay, okay! Wasn't gonna use it anyways silly!" Dinky hopped into place and smiled at Pina Colada.

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Okay, good, she wasn’t going to cheat. That was always good: guess being from Ponyville meant she really was more used to dealing with Earth Ponies.

”Awesome: a lot of the foals up in Canterlot keep forgetting I’m an Earth Pony so they keep using magic all the time. It’s really annoying actually…although Earth Pony strength is a pretty good thing to have in a game like this,” Piña said as she jokingly flexed a foreleg before giggling.

Once everypony was in place, Piña stood up on her hindlegs as she prepared the serve. Taking advantage of that “Earth Pony strength”, she smacked the ball with a mighty whack towards Dinky. Of course, being foals meant it wasn’t that hard, and she still wanted to be able to chat while doing all this as well.

”So, you friends with Ruby Pinch? She’s pretty cool but kind of weird at times.” she said, feeling it was alright to poke some fun at Ruby since they were family after all.

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Canterlot foals used magic a lot, huh? All that made her think about was what kind of games the unicorns in Celestia's School played... So cool. She snapped to attention at the 'mighty' whack Pina used to send the ball her way. Dinky hopped up and gave her own whack, albeit a little weaker due to her unicorn physique. "Ruby?! She's awesome! She's really silly and fun to hang around. She makes fun noises with her horn too!" To Dinky, Ruby was a great friend! Maybe Pina could be a friend like that to Dinky too! Yay! Friends! "Um, what's it like in Canterlot? Did you ever meet someone from Celestia's School?" She couldn't help it! She had to ask! She wanted to know so badly! Such a dream to go there...

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"She still doing the noise thing with her horn?" Ruby said. She would have added a rolling of the eyes a bit, but she was too focused on returning the ball to Dinky with another Earth Pony thwack. It wasn't that she was bothered by Ruby's hobby, just playful teasing on her niece's oddness...okay, sometimes the noises could be a little grating.

"Anyway, I don't think I've met that many ponies from Celestia's School. My family doesn't live within the city proper but kind of nearby. The vineyards and stuff are on other parts of the mountain."