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Paper Tiger had convinced her stablemate, Moondance, to go out and cause some mischief. Moondance wasn't really the type to purposefully ruin anyone's day. But, what Tiger wanted, Tiger got. The filly couldn't be denied when she set her mind on something.

"Are you really sure this is a good idea?" the quiet, blue unicorn asked.



"Of course, it's a good idea!" the wannabe master predator replied. "What fun is it to sit around all day? There are conquests to be had, and phonies to be stalked."

Moondance sighed. Paper Tiger was always trying to hunt someone or something. But what if they don't want to be stalked?

Tiger blinked and stared like Moondance had grown an extra head. That's the point. What fun is it to chase someone who wants to be chased. It defeats the point of hunting. Du'h."

Up ahead, Tiger spotted a white pegasus practicing his swing in the park's batting cages. The hunt was on! "Come on! Let's go hide in those bushes and watch!" She ran off without looking to see if Moondance was following.

"What's he doing?" Tiger whispered to her sister from another mother. "He keeps doing the same thing over and over. That looks boring."

"It's called practice," Moondance whispered back, "You need to do something a lot of times to get good at it." She was always at dance lessons, trying to become graceful and elegant. She wasn't quite there yet though.

Tiger shrugged. "I don't need practice. I'm already the best at what I do." She moved slowly out of the bushes, "see, watch and learn from the master." Slowly, she moved toward the batting cage while being careful to stay in the foal's blind spot. Her butt wiggled back and forth as she got ready to pounce while waiting for just the right moment. Then, right as his bat made a loud crack from hitting a ball, she sprung. Tiger jumped against the fence. "BOO!"

It seemed to startle him, and she fell over laughing.

Moondance scowled at Tiger. "That wasn't very nice." She was ready to tear into her more for being a jerk, but then the boy's comments set her off. "Wait a minute! That's not very nice either! Only I get to talk to my friend like that!"

Tiger was clearly not as upset about the remark as Moondance was. She was still laughing, "did you see your face when I scared you? It was priceless!"

Neither phony seemed like they were going to answer his question about Tiger's strange looks.

"It talks too much." Moondance said. "But she's my best friend, and I love her... even if she is a pain in the a**." The two really were opposites. Moondance tried her best to be classy and refined. Paper Tiger was a wild one, but often times she was all roar and no bite; more playful than anything, and not a real threat.

Tiger stood up and brushed herself off. "Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer!" She showed her teeth and did her best growl. Although, since she was still just a phony, it didn't sound as intimidating as she thought it should.

Tiger was delighted at the distress she was causing. Although it seemed that he was less scared after she growled than before. She would have to work on that. "Of course, I'm a phony! What else would I be?" She was snarky in her reply. "But I guess you've just never seen anypony as awesome as me before." Her tail swayed back and forth lazily.

"Don't pay attention to her," Moondance said, "She's just trying to get you riled up. She likes to play games like that, and unfortunately, she drags me along with." The unicorn much rather would have been at home practicing dancing. She didn't like to play mean tricks or scare phonies. It was so uncivilized to her.

"Belldandy's my sister! How do you know her?"

"I'm Moondance."

"And I'm Paper Tiger."

"We're like sisters, but not really because we're not related."

"Yeah, I would never be related to a DORK like you!" Paper Tiger started laughing again, and Moondance gave her small shove. "Ow! I was only joking!"

Moondance smiled at Smooth Swing, ignoring Paper Tiger. "Belldandy is really nice. All of my siblings are. Other parts of my family are a little more wild though..." She thought about Great-Grandpa TACO and most of his children. She was lucky to have been born into the more sane branch of the family tree. Frankly, she was related to half of Phonyland, so there were bound to be more than a few family members to be embarrassed of. It was just pure statistics.

"You play an instrument and baseball?! Moondance was impressed. Now she felt double terrible that Paper Tiger was mean to such a cultured and sweet foal. Smooth Swing was someone she would have liked to have been friends with, not someone to stalk and terrorize.

The unicorn turned red with embarrassment.

"I'm really sorry that we interrupted your practice. You must need to do a lot of it to be good at so many things..."

Moondance was really enjoying talking with Smooth Swing. Being friendly and nice was making her day much more enjoyable than playing mean-spirited pranks. Now if only Paper Tiger would figure it out.

The cat-like phony looked bored with the conversation. She didn't have very much of an attention span, and all this talking was really lost on her. Her mind wandered as she thought about all the things she'd rather be doing than standing around here.

As soon as Swing was done speaking, and before Moondance could reply, Paper Tiger blurted out, "Can we go do something else already? This kid sounds as boring as the rest of your family, Moon Moon."

The unicorn turned pale. This was so embarrassing... Moondance couldn't take her friend anywhere. She had been enjoying the conversation, but now she was about to boil over in rage.

"Excuse us for a moment," she said to Swing as she grabbed Paper Tiger and quickly pulled her away.

"Listen. I don't know what your problem is, but I'm getting really sick of your attitude. We did what you wanted to do earlier, so now you're just going to have to stick it out and do what I want to do for a little bit. Maybe you'll pick up some manners and learn to be nice if you pay attention a little. You already terrorized him, the least you could do is listen while he's talking. The world doesn't revolve around you, you know."

Paper Tiger didn't know how to respond. She felt guilty that she upset her friend that much. It wasn't that she was trying to be rude; it was just so boring to listen to them talk about music and dance. But she knew she needed to be a little nicer if she didn't want to get scolded again.

Paper Tiger slinked behind Moondance as she walked back over to Smooth Swing.

"Sorry about that," Moondance said, "I really have been enjoying talking with you. It does sound like our families have a lot in common. Are you sure we're not somehow related?" She laughed. It wasn't a particularly funny question, but the unicorn felt like she needed to smile a little to feel better. She didn't like yelling at Paper Tiger, but sometimes she had stop joking around with her and just be forceful for her to get it.

"I'd really love to meet your brother! But maybe you should try dancing yourself? The dance school is really nice, and it could be one more thing to add to the list of things you know how to do. Although, I understand if you prefer to stick to things where you don't have competition with your siblings."

She was trying really hard to make this whole encounter less awkward. She wasn't sure it was working.

Moondance blushed a little when Swing made the comment about them being related. It was always possible for two large families to merge in Phonyland. It made getting together for the holidays easier, for sure. "We'd love to come and meet your family sometime!" she said, a little too eagerly. It seemed that between the music for Moondance, and the athletics for Paper Tiger, that they'd have a really good time.

And the idea of meeting a stuntman sounded really awesome to Paper Tiger. "Double Dare, eh? I'll have to look him up. There's no way he's as cool as I am, but I'll give him the chance to impress me."

"It was really nice meeting you, Swing!" Moondance said, smiling, "I'm hoping you do come and try the dance school. It's a lot of fun. If not then, hopefully we'll get together again soon. Maybe we can collaborate on a performance."

Just then, Paper Tiger thought of something nice she could to in return for all the trouble she caused. "I'll help you find your ball! But I bet I can do it faster than you!" she shouted as she ran off into the field to try to find it. Moondance laughed and watched as her friend darted from object to object in the grass, rushing to find it.

Overall, this had been a great day! It started out rough, but everything turned out great in the end.