Unlucky

Today, the maternity ward of the Main Canterlot Hospital was quite busy, as, indeed, it always is. The medical staff went about their business, the attendants fussed, visitors nervously wandered back and forth. A pair of unicorns stood in front of the door of one of the offices, wagging their tails: a loving father and soon an older brother. The blue pony kept his eldest son in place with his hoof, who kept trying to get into the office, where his family was now getting bigger. — Dad, let me go! Let's skip the most interesting part!  A white kid with blue hair looked into his father's eyes. And Night Light was forced to admit that if he hadn't seen the birth of his first son, he wouldn't have been able to sit still either. — Shining Armor. Sometimes "no" means exactly "no". When you go to the guard, will you also challenge orders and beg from the commanders? The words had an effect, and the colt lowered his head dejectedly, hanging his ears. — No... I just want to see it so much… The father smiled gently and smoothed his son's hair. — Just be patient. A similar dialogue was heard in this corridor not for the first time, and passing nurses only laughed, looking at the happy family. And so, the doors of the office opened, and an elderly doctor came out. Smiling, he waved his hoof invitingly. — Well, go, stallions, get acquainted. As soon as this phrase was uttered, the ponies, without hesitation, stumbled into the room to see a tired unicorn with gray fur holding two small bundles. Knight Light hesitated for a second. He didn't expect twins. If Shining wasn't easy to handle when his magic was bubbling, then two would be a nightmare. At that moment, the stallion realized that a new count for a nanny would definitely appear in his family's expenses. However, it will be later. In the meantime, we urgently need to come up with a name. "How are you feeling, dear?" — Tired, but extremely glad. And yes, - the unicorn forced a smile and showed her husband the tip of her tongue, - the names are on you, honey. * * * Setting up the System is quite a hassle. A huge amount of unnecessary, garbage information, a bunch of pop-ups, the inability to collapse them ... And all this had to be corrected. Why should I know that strength is responsible for my physical strength? Or how do you like the idea of sticking my name under my nose? Can I forget him? It's crazy. While I was reading, swearing and hissing, quite a lot of time has passed, but I'm still sitting in my mom's stomach. And, apparently, not alone. A couple of subjective days ago (the clock does not want to be set before birth and tied to the time zone) I noticed a new debuff in my status. * "Passive Paired Magic Core". Your magic core is not fully formed, which cannot be said about your pair. You are deprived of the ability to weave spells, in return, all techniques that require energy transfer are given at times easier. Paired with your partner, the effect is enhanced. ×2 MP Well, what can I say? If my future family is racist magicians, I'm a jerk. Although it's a shame to lose magic, which I didn't even have time to try out. But I'll be cool with a battery. However, I've lived one life without magic, and I won't be lost in the second, so it's stupid to get killed ahead of time. Moreover, it is not yet clear what was needed for this magic. If there are all sorts of rituals or tooth—crushing formulas, then I don't need this for nothing. As practice shows, knowledge is by no means the most important thing in a person's life. I guess everything stays the same in pony life. And spend a lot of time in order to do some kind of trick? Sounds crazy to me. Although an even more delusional fact is a mistake in my status. I went through all the settings and went through the FAQ, but I couldn't figure out what caused the error and how to fix it. To be honest, the bright red inscription puts a lot of pressure on the nerves. I hope I get used to it, otherwise… What's going on?! The walls of my "house" began to shrink strongly, pushing me out. It looks like I'm going to be born soon. How do horses give birth there? Fe, it's hard for me to imagine this. Although, only if I really get out of the nurse now, I will be able to understand whether all this is nonsense or true. After all, it is extremely difficult to accept your death and a possible new life. And the System's attempts to calm down are of little help. But now a wave of alien feelings overwhelmed me again, knocking out my consciousness for a moment. If I am turned off under any stress, I will die extremely early, especially considering the fact that I am now kind of like a horse. [Congratulations to the user!] You were born. The main functions of the System are unlocked. The full list can be found in… Blah, blah, blah, it's not interesting, I've already seen and read. So we turn off and try to inhale. Slowly, I carefully tried to take a deep breath when something slapped my fifth point. An indignant squeak helped to cope with my problem, and I opened my eyes wide. The bright light cut them painfully, but after blinking, I managed to focus my vision. A huge gray muzzle with eyes on half a face was the thing that I definitely did not expect to see. An unexpected acquaintance made me scream once again, until the System seized the reins of control over the body, leaving me the position of observer. Well, one thing I realized for sure: I was really reborn and the horses here are not at all like those with whom I am familiar from my past life. * * * To be honest, the first year of my life in the body of a strange horse with big eyes and a small horn flew by extremely quickly and unnoticed. I blame the System for this speed, because it "turned me off" as soon as the first signs of stress appeared. I confess, I was psychologically not ready to suck a horse's tit, which is located next to an indecent place. On the basis of such... inconveniences, and the total infirmity of my body, I very easily lost my temper. Other limbs, a different field of vision, a completely different language and customs — if not for the waves of calm, I would not have lasted long. Maybe it's just that I'm spineless? However, this is not so important, compared to a very unpleasant discovery for me — it's very difficult to get experience at first. Fuck the experience! I even received the classic "Observation" for all popadans two days ago! And what, I ask, is the problem? Vision! It was disgusting! And with unaccustomed so generally terrible. For a long time, all I knew about my appearance was that I had white fur, like my older brother (I never found out his name), and my name is Knight Reed. It's funny, considering that I've never really liked reading, even though I had to do it with enviable frequency. But, despite my happy squeaks from getting the first active skill, nothing much has changed. Although I'm lying. Now I began to rotate my hefty eyes many times more actively and wave my hooves, trying to turn over — the skill level just needed to be raised. Because so far it's just a cool, but not very useful function, like my watch, which I haven't set up. "Observation (level 1)". One of the basic skills of the System. Allows the User to find out information about the object. Unfortunately, at the first level, the maximum of this skill is a name or a title. But I'm not picky, that's enough for me for now. At least I found out what my parents' names are… And my brother still won't catch my eye. As I understand it, he is now at some kind of educational horse party. Speaking of relatives, that small but voracious monster that grabbed my magic is my sister Twilight Sparkle. By the way, I am proud that I learned her name without the help of the System. Too often my new mother took it off either directly from me or from my bed, shouting loudly. And even more often, I myself tried to keep this one-year-old monster with my mooing from committing another violent act on my psyche. God, I saw her eat a spider.… But let's not talk about the scary. I'm slowly beginning to understand the conversations of my parents and my name sounds too often there. I was afraid that they were thinking of giving me away (the unicorn family, and I can't do magic), but everything turned out to be much easier. Twilight and Knight are older (by the way, an interesting trend of name inheritance. When I grow up, I will need to understand if everyone does this and how they choose the second part of the name. I don't believe that everything is taken just from the ceiling.) they were just very worried about ... ta-daaam, my strange behavior. Mood swings (hello, System), loss of consciousness (and again it is), low activity (already my miss) — they dragged me to the doctors, but, as I understood, they did not achieve anything. And now they're both moving towards my crib. A very comfortable crib in which I trained my eyesight. I believe that sooner or later, the System will score Perception points for such "heavy" workouts. They got up and are standing. They talk quietly, but it doesn't work out — and even if it did, my vocabulary is too small to understand their rapid speech. Twilight Velvet, my mother, picked up her sister, who was trying to break through the railing of the next cradle (or what is this stuff called?).The silence of the adults dragged on, and the mother slightly furrowed her eyebrows and nodded to her father. Knight Light exhaled loudly and abruptly brought his face closer to me. — Say "Daddy"! Please, please, please! — he even started dancing. Stop. What the fuck? I'm already exhausted, and all this clowning because of my supposedly first word? — Dad!  Sparkle squealed loudly on Velvet's hooves, and Velvet kissed her gently on the forehead. And as if waiting for the sister's squeak, the System activated. [Attention! Quest received] "First words". You are too silent for a decent foal and your parents are already desperate. Destroy their fears, be a good kid. Reward for completing: 25 XP Penalty for failure/disclaimer: none. Accept the quest (Y/n)? Wow. My first quest, which will definitely give me the second level (to take which you only need 10 experience points). That's just for now I should wait with its implementation: I have a couple of crazy thoughts about quests that it's better to check right away. No, now it's clear that the System will turn some requests of ponies into quests, but I'm confused by the reward mechanism. What does the "carrot" and "stick" depend on? So with a confident movement of thought, we click no and maliciously look into Bata's eyes. He, having received no answer, hung up his ears and somehow wilted, stepping aside. Now his place was taken by a gray unicorn with purple strands. — What about the word "mom", son? Come on, I believe in you, - the woman smiled gently. And here is the System. [Attention! Quest received] "First words". You are too silent for a decent foal and your parents are already desperate. Destroy their fears, be a good kid. Reward for completing: 30 XP Penalty for failure/disclaimer: none. Accept the quest (Y/n)? Ha! The reward has risen, which means the more important the action, the better the prize. Surely a similar scheme works with complexity. But again, that's not all I want to know. So without a doubt, I'm pressing no. The unicorn retreated slightly confused to her husband. The sister on her mother's hooves was not able to appreciate the tragedy of the moment, so she squeaked very loudly again. — Tway! — she already knows her name. The smart one is growing up. And now it's time for an experiment. Gathering my strength, I strain my vocal cords to join my sister's "battle cry". — Twaaaay! — and I didn't squeak at all, honestly. The parents froze for a second, only to immediately rush to hug. And I didn't mind. Still, it is difficult not to reciprocate such strong love and care. [Congratulations on completing the alternative quest] "First Words". You kept silent for a long time so that you could finally dedicate your first word to your sister. It is unlikely that she understood your generosity, but it will not be forgotten anyway. Reward: +35 XP. A new status has been received. Oops, that was unexpected. I wanted to check what would happen if I completed the quest after the refusal, but it turned out even more interesting. However, why spoil the moment of family joy with all sorts of calculations? They're not going anywhere, I haven't learned how to walk…