"Do you have my cell number just incase?"

"Yeah, mom I'll be fine! Why are you worrying over me?"

"Well, I don't know what kind of things seventeen year olds are capable of doing these days!"

"Calm down, go enjoy yourself, I'll probably just play Battlefield or Call of Duty or something."

His mom hesitated,"Fine, but if I come home and something is different in a bad way-"

"Mom! I'll be fine! Just go to Olive Garden or where ever you're going..."

"I already told you, it's Applebees with my boyfriend!"

"Oh yeah." He scowled,"Tim..."

"Why do you hate him?" His mom got out her car keys to her grey minivan.

"I think you dating him is like kissing a black recluse spider..."

His mom leaned down and kissed him,"Please try to accept him, Danny. It's hard enough that your father and I had a... you know..."

"Divorce?"

"Yes."

"Fine... Just go to Applebees." Danny pouted, walking away. His mom exited through the front door and right before she closed it said,

"Make sure all the doors and windows are locked! The AC is on!"

Danny sighed, closed and locked the backyard door and side door. Then he grumbled his way to the second floor of the house and made sure all the windows were shut, even though air conditioning could never bring the oven of an upstairs below ninety degrees fahrenheit.

He smiled, finally free for the next few hours, free of chores his mom forced him to do like dishes, vacuuming, or even yard work.

Yard work would usually include raking leaves or mowing the grass, but his yard was humungous, being nearly four square acres large. He only had one neighbor who lived across the street and Danny absolutely hated them. He had no real reason why. He just felt uncomfortable around them. They lived deep in the forest, only a dirt road from the paved street to their house. Danny never felt safe on the dirt road, even when someone was with him.

Danny laid in his room, pondering what to do as the fan on his ceiling slowly went in circles. He stared at one blade as it chased the other blades.

With nothing to do, he logged on to his Windows 7 laptop, checking his AOL mail.

"Spam....Spam.... Spam.... Fake.....Unimportant." Was how he summed it up. He went and typed in YouTube.com on the search bar in the Google Chrome window. He was lead to the homepage.

"Wonder how long Mom will spend at Applebees with that prick..." Danny giggled, opening a new tab and going to a much more mature site...

Golden Talon looked around, staying by the knight's side as they walked in the woods.

"Where are we going?" Gold asked

"To get food..." the knight responded.

"Ooh, is the castle's chef here?" Gold seemed hopeful, smiling.

"No, we have to get our food manually, little Golden Talon!" Knight had a hungry grin. Seemed like he could eat a horse... or so he wished.

The two stayed very quiet as the knight set up simple rope traps. Gold played with butterflies that flew just above his head. He could almost reach the low lying branches that the knight was growing tired with since they kept whacking him in his face.

"What do we do now?" Gold whispered as knight hid in some dark green brush.

"We wait for an animal to crawl into the traps."

"Then what?" Gold asked with a curious expression.

"Erm, you'll see." the knight spared him the details.

Danny sighed happily, throwing away some tissues he used to clean up his 'work station'. He stared at his watch, only 4 o'clock.

"Well that burnt some time." Danny chuckled. He zippered his pants back up and cruised into his kitchen, getting out some Beef flavored Ramen Noodle Soup. He whistled a merry jingle as he turned on his stove top, taking out a small pot and filling it to an imaginary line his mind setup. He then turned the knob on the stove to a seven. He turned returned to his computer. There was a message on the screen, more of a one question survey, actually.

He read it aloud,"What rhymes with 'orange'?". There were then multiple answer choices. A was Door Hinge, B was Core Tinge, and the last choice, C, We'll be here for a while,"What do they mean 'we'?" Danny asked himself. He shook his head and clicked A, Door Hinge.

His computer shorted out. After furiously trying to press the power button, Danny gave up and went back to the stove and just waited for the water to boil.

"Queen! Queen!" A little changeling yelled out, running to the Queen of Changelings, Chrysalis who waited on a sofa, pissed as her minions tried to pass the riddle that Twilight set up against them after Twilight took them down again in their own base of operations. She waited for her minions to actually solve the magic riddle, of what rhymes with orange.

"What is it?" She hissed, still having a head ache after being defeated.

"The answer is door hinge!"

"Then try it..." Chrysalis was relatively quiet yet sounded pissed.

"Yes, my queen." He bowed and then rushed to the magical being wearing the giant Pinkie Pie costume.

"Door Hinge!" He yelled. The being then exploded, sending the changeling flying through the air and crashing him into a wall, but there was now an exit way. All, including the queen, exited in a rushing wave of black shells, and furious shape shifting magic.

Danny finally finished cooking his soup and put in the flavoring, spreading it through out the water with his fork, turning it into a broth to bath the noodles in. He sat in the wooden chair at the table and twirled the fork around, gathering noodles as he gulped up half the noodles in one gulp. He immediately spit it back into the bowl, both from having too much in his mouth and how it was too hot.

"Dammit!" He exclaimed, wiping his mouth. He shook his head and turned on the kitchen's TV. He flicked through multiple channels, not finding one thing to watch that he liked,"Ain't this a bitch?" he sighed. Silently, he ate at a few noodles at a time. Finishing, he wiped his mouth and put his dishes in the sink. He strolled back into his room. The computer still out.

He laid down, rubbing his head. Suddenly he felt a tremor, then a hologram-like imagine showed up right in front of him. There were two horses, one large and one small. The small one was purple and the tall one black. The small one had a horn and it looked like it was discharging a bright glow. Danny was behind the giant one. Suddenly the horn let go a large blast, it zoomed past the tall pony and seemed to engulf Danny. His entire vision began to glow. The floor beneath him gave out.

He felt weightless. In front of him, the light ceased. He blinked a few times, his vision shaking and his hands and legs trembling. He colappsed onto the ground, his vision blacking out. He landed on cold, castle brick.

His left hand landed into a small pile of green goop, a pair of hoof steps in front of him.

"Get the Queen..."

Gold woke up softly, the blaze from the campfire shining off the knight's armor. Gold looked around as the knight poked the fire with a twig.

"I'm hungry...." The young gryphon complained.

"I'm sorry Golden, but we didn't catch anything." The knight sighed,shifting the wood in the fire until the twig broke. Gold was about to close his eyes when suddenly he heard a twig break. The knight was on his paws in seconds, his large dagger out in seconds towards the noise. They could see a pair of blue eyes staring at them, illuminated by the fire. Then another appeared. Another followed by another and even more pairs. Then there was a pair of eyes that were white with green irises. They all came closer as it became very obvious what was going on.

"Umm, what is going on?!" Golden jumped over to the knight, hiding behind him.

"Changelings..." The knight gasped and picked up the young gryphon.

The one with green irises stepped forward

"Ahh yes, gryphons... I never would expect a knight to be so far from home~" Chrysalis teased.

"That's because the 'majestic justice system' that Celestia has screwed us over." The knight sighed angrily.

"Awww, what did little celly do to you, Birdy Paws?" she cooed.

"Why is she talking to you like that?" Golden asked in a whisper.

"She sent her guards and killed the gryphon king and now the entire kingdom is cursed to damnation." The knight stayed stone faced. He blushed when Chrysalis got closed and brushed her mane into his face. He brushed it away.

"D'awww, I could help you if you can do me a favor~" Chrysalis grinned.

Golden looked up at him, noticing the blush.

"And that is?" he asked, raising a brow.

"We get back together~"

Gold was dumbfounded as he looked up at the knight. His blushed had completely taken over his cheeks.

"W-what are you talking about?" The knight asked, acting as if he didn't know.

"What is she talking about?" Golden asked, confused.

Chrysalis stoked the knight's beak getting real close,"Come one, Mr. Paws~. Don't you want to give me all your love?~"

"Erm..." The knight covered Gold's ears,"Why should I?"

"Why~? It seems we fight for the same cause, to bring Celestia to her tyrant knees~." She came close to his face,"Plus, how can we deny true love~?"

Golden Talon looked in horror. He climbed down and slowly backed away, bumping into a changeling who all looked to hear the answer.

Chrysalis grinned and stared into the knight's eyes. He took off his gauntlets and unhooked his chest plate. He opened his arms to her. She went into his embrace and hugged him.

"Y-yes..." he was still very unsure, but seemed like he was thinking things long term. Gold looked on and just when he thought this couldn't get worse, his beak met her lips, and they kissed.

Author's Note

I forgot to mention this story may have some heavy references to the first four issues of the MLP FIM comics. I suggest you read them before reading this story, but that is completely up to you ;3. I rushed to get this out. If you see any mistakes please please PLEASE point it out. Thank you.