“Come’n, Trixie, I know you can do it. Just concentrate.” Starlight Glimmer smiled encouragingly. Trixie puffed out her cheeks as she continued to concentrate, magic flowing off of her horn.
Starlight was helping Trixie with her magic skills in a field not far from ponyville. They had practiced numerous spells, but Trixie insisted she master this one before they left and called it a day.
“Trixie doesn’t know, Starlight,” Trixie mumbled, sweat starting to pour down her face. Just as Trixie was about give up, a poof of pink smoke surrounded her head. When it disappeared, it revealed the blue pony with a mustache. Starlight smiled broadly.
“Trixie you did it!” To help her friend see her transformation, Starlight summoned a mirror and had her friend stand next to it. Trixie’s eyes were wide as she stared at the long fur on her face. Lowering her eyebrows she flashed the mirror a sultry look. Starlight blinked in surprise, her ears pinning back. She smiled nervously. “It looks great, Trixie. But why did you want to know that spell?” Trixie made another face in the mirror before turning around to look at her friend.
“Starlight, every great magician has had a mustache. Don’t you know anything about magic?” Trixie returned to the mirror. She gave a broad smile and whispered, “Draw me like one of your FRENCH gurls.” Starlight frowned.
“I actually know a lot about magic, Trixie. But don’t mustaches go on MALE ponies?” Starlight shook her head in exasperation, sometimes she thought she’d never understand Trixie’s ways. “Never mind, you’ve learned the spell, so shouldn’t we go home?” Trixie let out a sigh before nodding.
As Starlight and Trixie made their way back to Ponyville, the purple pony couldn’t help but notice Trixie’s incessant wiggling muzzle as she tried to make her mustache move. “You’re planning on getting rid of that, BEFORE we get back to Ponyville, right?” Starlight bit her lip.
“Oh alright, fine.” Trixie concentrated and magic spurted out from her horn. A pair of scissors popped out and snipped off the hair. The two friends made it back to Ponyville in silence and they awkwardly separated.
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The next day, while Starlight was walking around the town, she stopped dead in her tracks when she noticed a poster of Trixie… with a mustache. It showed the magician staring at the reader somewhat mysteriously. Starlight sighed, slapping her forehead with her hoof.
“Trixie, you’ve taken this too far,” she said with a deadpan. Though much to her chagrin, the poster WAS attracting a lot more ponies than Trixie’s usual show posters. Maybe Starlight could let Trixie have her mustache for a few more shows if it would help out her business….