Creating A Hive

Training Time!

Raspberry held up a toy rat.

Cookie prepared to pounce on it. She knelt close to the ground, glaring up at the toy. With a hiss she ran at it. She leapt off the ground.

Raspberry kept the toy rat in place.

The griffon child missed the toy rat. She flailed her arms, trying to reach it. Raspberry tossed the toy rat in the air, letting it drop in reach of her wing. The griffon in body but kitten in brain reached for the toy rat. Fruitless in her goals, the kitten meowed.

Dynamite flew up to her mother's side. She hovered in the air before landing. At seeing Cookie rolling mournfully on the grass, she laughed. "Still can't catch a stupid mouse?"

Cookie sat up, glaring sharply at her sister. "Shut up!"

Dynamite made a face. "You're stupid! You're stupid!"

"I am NOT!" Cookie hissed. She went into a hunter's pose, a growl coming out of her beak.

Raspberry dropped the toy rat into her hoof, throwing her arm over Dynamite's shoulders. "Hey. You're smarter than you're sister, right?"

"Yeah!" Dynamite boasted. She added sticking out her tongue at her sister.

"You can fly faster than her, right?" Raspberry asked.

"Yeah!" Dynamite boasted again.

"So you can fly twenty laps around the house, right?"

"Yea- wait what?" Dynamite looked up at her mother. Her red eyes wide in dismay, her jaw dropping.

Raspberry was smiling innocently. The patented mother's smile, of 'do what I say or you are grounded'. "Twenty laps. Around the house. Flying." She made a gesture of 'get going' with her hoof. "Go."

Cookie laughed. Dynamite glared at her sister. The griffon- in the greatest act of vengeance an eight year old knew- stuck out her tongue at her sister. The blue pegasus whined. She still went out to obey the orders.

Raspberry smiled back at the giggling griffon. "You're not off the hook either. Again." She held the toy rat up in her magic.

Cookie groaned, but tried once more.

==CAH==

The Cutiemark Crusaders had a special event that they did once a week on Tuesdays. Tuesdays: Enough Shit Isn't Going On Today, Do It Tuesday! Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo would go to Twilight's library to learn new skills. Apple Bloom would learn potions, after being inspired from working so often with Zecora. Sweetie Belle learned magic, an important skill for any growing unicorn. Scootaloo learned about mechanics, which overtime would help her add upgrades to her scooter.

Twilight Time was the CMC's new favorite thing. They started doing this not long after Lilac went up north for training. They had heard about their friend getting training from letters, and Lilac's goodbye before going to Manehattan. They were so jealous at first. Not only did Lilac get to hang out in Babs Seed's town, she got to learn all these cool skills! That didn't seem fair.

So they complained to their sisters and pseudo sisters (in one case).

Their sisters went to the closest teacher of those skills in town.

Raspberry declined, saying she was already working with Lilac and her other children.

Their sisters tried again.

Twilight said yes.

So the Cutiemark Crusaders got to learn new things!

However, Dynamite Berry and Dark Justice heard about this training. They watched their mom and sometimes their aunt and rarely their dad leave town for a day. They heard about Dynamite's friends getting specialized training once a week. They got excited.