Finn's Story

by FinnMerlins

Rating: everyone
Tags: Dark, Sad, Romance, Tragedy, Random
Length: 2877

The story of a young, and shy hero, what do you see in this young little colt? It's up to you, audience.

On the night of 1994, Thursday, the 12th at 11:29 P.M, Princess Luna would be rushed to the hospital, due to the the words mustered to her husband, who reacted quickly to the words, “Dear….I feel…a kicking in my stomach…”

Her husband rushed her to the nearest hospital possible which was within 30 minutes of their current destination in Canterlot, and was in the town of Ponyville, due to the hospital in Canterlot recovering from an earlier incident involving reconstruction of the building, they had to replan to travel to this location instead of the one that lay in remains, due to a terrorist who had wreaked havoc among the many people inside of it, and had been controlled and executed.

30 minutes later…

Princess Luna now rest on the bed next to her husband in was bolted into by doctors and nurses, who calmed Princess Luna in her time of labor. She was going to give birth to a certain foal….one that would experience hell, as a loud tick was heard, only from a distance, some of the nurses and doctors focused their attention to a white clock on the wall…which read, “Friday, 13, 1994, 12:00 A.M,” on the tiny LCD sign attached to the clock.

They did not give a care at the moment, as the mother of the night was about to give birth to her foal, the ones who had seen the clock had focused their attention on the day “Friday, 13,” since most rumor of this day had been of worst luck and bad things to go wrong, a day that would seem like hell, from other rumors that brewed around in their head and made them worry, but had to immediately disregard the thought of it due to Princess Luna giving birth, but deep inside…they still had worries for their dear Princess.

Luna gripped her husband’s hoof tightly as he sat by her bedside in her time of need of the support from him. The husband gentle and caring in his grip, sparkling dark blue eyes shimmer in the fluorescent light from both the husband and wife. Both with a soft smile on both of their faces, Luna, gripping her husband’s hoof tighter, groaning out in pain, knowing in mind and heart that she would be ok in the birth of this child, squeezing her eyes shut, her eyes begin to shine completely white, going over the irises and pupils of the Princess Luna as she roared out in pain, feeling nothing after a bit, panting hard and looking at her husband by her bedside, an ear perking up from her as she had heard faintly of her baby crying softly, a doctor pulling out a beige Pegasus that looked glistening from birth, umbilical cord still attached, and the father slowly came over, still holding his wife’s hoof, grabbing a pair of etiquette scissors, and slowly cut the umbilical cord off of both Princess Luna and the baby.

They both smiled at their creation. The doctor then trotted up to the other bedside near Luna. “Your child…Princess…Luna,” he bowed and set the beige Pegasus in Luna’s arms, and Luna tilted it so that it’s stomach may lay on her chest, and her smile widened, seeing her beautiful child’s eyelids, and she looked long into them, gripping her husband’s hoof out of pure joy.

The child’s eyes then began to open, sky blue and soft glowing eyes opened up to the dark blue coated mother, who had the smallest little cute smile, giggling softly, the mother was proud of their child, a beige Pegasus with sky blue eyes that glowed softly in the slightly dim room. Princess Luna smiled even wider, pulling her son in for a soft hug, the beige Pegasus’ wings tried to wrap completely around the mother, his irises turning lime green slowly as he attempted to fully hug his mother.

Luna then saw the child’s lime green eyes, curious and thought, maybe he gained the trait of my….oh….he gained the trait of my glowing eyes, though….this….seems different. She then proceeded to look down at her child and used a wing to pull a corner of her mouth another direction and cross her eyes in front of her child, which giggled and his eyes shined softly with lime green, she then thought more and now knew what her child had inherited, he has inherited….eyes…that describe his mood…

She smiled widely and hugged back tightly, who, her child who had then tried to wrap his arms around his mother, unsuccessful in doing so, but as attempting, there was one thing in the mind of one of the parents that remain in her head, and not in her throat to be talked about. He’s so adorable…. Luna thought as her child tried to fully hug her.

Luna then looked at her husband, “What should we name him..?” the husband then came closer to the child’s face, who starting biting on his muzzle cutely and gently, the husband smiling at the child’s cuteness. The husband parted his lips, and said “Let’s…….call him Finn….Finn….Merlins,” upon those words, Luna smiled, contemplated while connecting the gaze she and her husband had now shared at the moment, shaking it off and slowly nodding. “I think that’s a great idea, dear.”

The doctors then left the room, two guards coming on the sides of the door and guarding them heavily, holding their still position, one doctor remain in the dark corner of the room. The parents of their new child began talking of the child….wondering what he would be like…..where he could go…what he would look like growing up, what he might be capable of in later years….but, in the middle of their discussion of the child, the doctor in the dim corner started walking up into the bed, a soft smiling on his face, as he heard a silence between the two, he decided to part his lips, and attention was now on him.

“Princess Luna, I have a request as to keep your child safe for the night,” he said with a soft voice.
“And what might that be Doctor?” both Luna and her husband arched an eyebrow as to why he would request that, knowing that the child would be safe in their hooves.

“First, I would request as to go to take him to the cleaning and sleeping room of the hospital, get him clean from all of the,” he slowly pointed with the tip of a wing to the child, “….excretes….that reside on him, the hospital is highly guarded, as you know from being here,” the Doctor pointed to the doors of the room, guarded by 3 Pegasi, armed to the teeth, but very calm, staying in a still position, all had their hooves wrapped around a gold encrusted spear. “Your child will be guarded, as you both need rest, even though this is the first night with your child.”

Princess Luna looked at her husband wearily, the husband looked back as well with a hint trust in the Doctor, and slowly nodded, and looked at the Doctor, contemplating for a brief moment. He does have a good point…..I guess our child will remain safe tonight, for we will be able to collect him back from the hospital tomorrow, might as well pull out a cloud and sleep in the air, for now at least. She thought contently, looking up into the Doctor’s eyes and nodding. “That will be gladly appreciated, thank you Doctor.”

The Doctor smiled widely, “Anytime, Princess Luna.”, he replied, and he walked up to the bedside, ready to take the child, but giving the married couple time to say their goodbyes to their child. “Doctor, do you mind if I sing him to sleep?” Luna questioned the Doctor. “Take all the time you need Princess Luna, he is your child after all, and not mine, I have no rights to tell you what not to do and what to do.” said the Doctor very softly. Luna smiled and nodded, seeing as everyone , as well as the guards leave the room, they now guarded the other side, remaining in the same position as they once did as they guarded inside near the door.

Luna looked up at her husband, a sparkle in her eyes, the husband automatically caught the look, and knew what she was about to do, so he wrapped a wing around a chair arm, and pulled it behind him, sitting down and crossing a leg over one, smiling as he looked, and was quiet.

Luna slowly closed her eyes, and focused on her child, her muzzle pointing down to her child, and she parted her lips, her husband snapping his wingtips together in sync with what was their song. Doo…dooooo….dooo…doooooo…the husband started sounding with his lips.

Come, little children, I'll take thee away into a land of enchantment…

Come, little children, the time's come to play…here in my garden of shadows…

She took a deep breath in and out slowly, her voice soft to her child, which eyes slowly started to begin to close very slowly, her voice slowly beginning to put the child in a slumber with slow work and progress.

Ooooo….Ooo…

Follow, sweet children, I'll show thee the way…through all the pain and the sorrows…

Weep not, poor children, for life is this way…murdering beauty and passions…

Ooooo….Ooo…

Hush now, dear children, it must be this way too weary of life and deceptions…

Rest now, my children, for soon we'll away into the calm and the quiet…

Ooooahhh….ahhhhh….ahhhhahhhhhhhh…hhoooohhhh….

Come, little children, I'll take thee away…into a land of enchantment…

Come, little children, the time's come to play…here in my garden of shadow…

The beige Pegasus began to purr slowly, his eyes already fallen to half-closed eyelids, which began falling quickly, looking at his mother as he soon begin to fall to sleep.

Ooooo….Ooo….Ooooo…Ooooooooooo…

Princess Luna’s eyes flashed white as she began to end the song, she could see her child’s irsies flash lime green, a soft smile on his face, and back to soft sky blue, which in less than a second, she could not see anymore, except see the hum of light blue behind her child’s irises behind her eyelids, and she could only hear the quiet and audible snores of her child sleeping. She smiled softly as she had done good and had signaled the Doctor back in with a wing as he remained peeking through the small little window of the door.

The door creaked open slowly…and soon the hooves and body of the Doctor were in the room, Luna now hold up the child for the Doctor to take, which he walked over to the bed, and gently slipped the child above his wings, and slowly carried him out, the parents waving back at their sleeping child and smiling, slowly getting ready to leave out of the hospital.

The Doctor then walked out the door slowly, passing the guards without bumping into them, heading down a dimmer hallway with 3 doors, 2 of the doors were restrooms for mares separately and colts separately, the other room was the sleeping room for children, which was filled with children who looked alike, but had tags on the hoods that went atop of the children’s heads to identify them all.

He had a soft smile and looked down at the child he now hold in his wings, setting him down on a crib and pulling out a white plastic tag, writing down on the name in permanent marker with a wing, “Finn Merlins”, clipping it to his crib. He then smiled and left the room, closing it shut, having the keys dangle from his pocket, only not to remember that he needed to lock the door, and slowly left the hospital, the guards watch the hallways, all except the dim one in the corner, a door down it that was a final door, above the door, was a metallic sign, in red words, reading “EXIT”.

The doctor had now left the hospital to the guards, leaving a guard in charge of the hospital, as there we’re no more patients to be cared for in the hospital except the babies. And then a nurse walked in, coming up to the front desk of the hospital’s entrance, and slowly checking around, finding her card.

Then, she slowly walked past the guards as they guarded the main hallway which we’re where the children were located, slowly walked past another set of guards which we’re a second barrier of the hallway. She slowly began to grow closer to the room with the sleeping children, the pitter- patter of her footsteps echoed in the long hallway. She slowly reached for the knob, gripping it with her hoof, and slowly twisted it counter-clock-wise, slowly the door began to creak open, dim fluorescent light from the hallway ceiling’s only one light immediately found its way into the room.

She took out a notebook with a PDA as well, looking at all the children and walking around quietly around them, she seemed to be checking if they we’re all the right tags, then she spotted the beige Pegasi Finn, and spotted a male brown Pegasi on a row next to him, looking beige in the dark room, along with the odd light from the room.

She looked between the beige Pegasus and the light brownish Pegasus closely. “Silly Doctor, always putting the wrong babies in the crib,” and with that said she wrapped Finn in her wing slowly and gently, which still slept and snored cutely in the dark, and took the light brown Pegasus and put him in the crib labeled, “Finn Merlins”, and put Finn in the light brown Pegasus’ crib, the label fallen off onto the floor, and put the light brown Pegasi into the Finn’s crib.

She then smiled, and made sure everything was in order for the rest of the night, at the rate she was going, it was now 12: 57 A.M, and she had now passed and moved around every crib slowly and silently to get back to the door, opening and leaving the room, forgetting to lock the door, leaving it a crack open unknowingly, and walked out the building into the dark night.

Slowly, a gust could be heard and felt that crawled its way into the nursery, slowly creaking the door open quietly, and another door could be heard clicking open, it was the back door, rusted slightly but still glimmered of it’s cold steel, the door bringing in soft whistles of air, blowing the door more ajar very slowly, the wind growing severe out in the night, to the point, where the nursery doors slowly begin to open as well, but barely at all.

The wind overtime began to blow and crawl around the room a bit more, sending cribs to roll out of order very slowly, one crib gently bumping into Finn’s new crib and sending him rolling out the door and into the hallway, a guards eyes right beside him closed, snoring heard from him as well, a snort interrupting his snores, and continuing.

Finn now was slowly being pushed and pulled closer and closer near the back door, which slowly began to keep opening and opening wider and wider every so often of the wind, Finn’s crib just nearing the door now, the end of the crib now was getting layered bit by bit very slowly with a soft drizzle of rain, and a bump in the earth could be felt as the wind pulled and pushed Finn out of the hospital, tipping it over and Finn felt the earth against his body, eyes slowly opening and looking around quickly. “Meh meh?, Dah dah?” he said with worry and concern in his voice.

He started to whimper and felt cold, looking at an ominous forest that look ahead of him and crawled over to it, feeling his knees slightly scrape against damp dirt, slowly in a matter of seconds finding himself in the trunk of a tree, wings wrapped around himself, shaking with fear and with worry and loneliness.

He felt lost, alone, unloved, abandoned, tears started to softly travel down his rosy cheeks, sobbing quietly himself to sleep in the cold, rainy and dark night, lone, without his mother or father, and he would remain this way, till time said he could be with his mother that he would never get to see till then.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-04-04 17:42:01 UTC

A Life Changer

Now…there was silence in the  beige foal for quite a while, but now he was not a foal 19 years later, he was a colt, an educated colt at that, he was able to get used to his surrounding, looking at the people all around him and slowly begin to understand civilization, words, meanings, things, places, languages, pictures, art, music, science, and everything the world had to throw at this 19 year old Pegasus, the one flaw he had…however, was the inability of being able to be able to communicate fluently, in other words, he was very shy.

A beige hoof touched a stone on a pathway to give out a faint clop, and the noise continued to repeat in the afternoon atmosphere, clop, clop, clop, calming around everywhere, luscious plants, insects and creatures so cute and innocent were on the sides of the pathway, our hero walking to a building with a flickering lime green sign that read “Sugar Cube Corner”, on the top of a neon blue and pink and yellow building, he slowly then let his head fall down to meet the door, little chatters of this and that being thrown around to talk to others, giggles, laughs, smiles, were everywhere.

Everyone’s head then turned and everything went silent, no one continued to eat, and their entire eyebrow’s arched down, even the kids, even a toddler in the corner of the room!

Finn slowly looked around, a frown and a quivering lip on his face, he slowly began to trot to the cashier’s counter, slowly lifting his head to meet a pink face with arched eyebrows, they blinked for a second, and a pink curly and frizzy mane’s end bounced in front of the pink pony.

“I don’t serve demons sir…” said the pink pony, it was now confirmed that this was a female, and it was the very owner of the building who usually made everyone smile, but not for Finn, not for Finn, Pinkie Pie, was the owner. His lip began to quiver more and a small tear fell out silently, “I’m…n-not a dem-“ Pinkie Pie interrupted, “Yes you are, you know you are, and maybe that’s why nopony likes you, sir.”

The beige Pegasus’ heart crumbled, and tightened his eyes shut and tears trickled out, he slowly sat on his hind end on the floor, and slowly began to lie down on the floor, hiding his face in his hooves and silently crying.

Everyone in the room than begin quietly chuckling or laughing, looking at the beige Pegasus with pride of the owner of the restraunt being able to let those words flow out her mouth. The sobs grew a slight bit louder as time flew by a bit.

Then the door to the restraunt creaked open slowly.

A white furry hoof slowly met it’s way on the floor of the building, a pointy and almost seemingly electric blue tail and mane with sky blue combined in with both the mane and tail of this pony. Finn’s attention did not focus on this pony, as he was too busy weeping his tears on the floor quietly still. Everyone’s eyes widened in shock of this pony, as they realized exactly who this pony was, what she did, and what she was best at doing.

The small muffled clops of her hooves came louder to Finn’s ears, as they slowly perked up; she began to grow closer and closer to the counter. Finn’s quiet sobs began to weakly die down slowly, and he lifted his head up sadly, and looked up, meeting a white furry face, an arched eyebrow, and maroon eyes.

His eyes widened in less than a second, shock filled him, so many things were coming back to him so quickly, his tears dried quickly, automatically knew that female tone of voice that was soft and tender to him when he was in high school, he remembered every single bit of how her voice sounded, how much he…had feelings for her, secretly of course.

“Whoah….erm…sir…nice eyes…heh…”

He stood up, “V-V-Vinyl!? Is that really you!?” he said in a slightly louder, but barely at all loud tone of voice that sounded cute and innocent.

Her eyes slightly widened, and whispered “H-How do you know my name? Are you a stalker? Did you spy on me while I was growing up?” she asked in rapid succession.

He then stopped smiling, but did not frown, “Oh, you…don’t remember me..?” Finn said in a softer and more innocent tone of voice.

“No….I….well….you…look….no….I don’t remember you…sir…”

He stared at the ground and went through his mind of all the moments he spent with Vinyl in high school, he remembered very clearly that they we’re best friends in high school, the bestest friend’s nearly in the entire school. Then he hit gold and thought of an idea,

“Erm….do….you…want….to know?” he asked softly.

She then took a minute to contemplate and she thought she then nodded slowly.

Finn smiled and slowly turned around, walking over to an empty table, beckoning her over and she listened and came over, taking a seat on one side of the table, while Finn sat on the other side, everyone’s eyes locked on both Finn and Vinyl, in confusion of the moment, of why a mare like this would want to talk to a stallion like this, a demon talking to a mare was so confusing!

“Uhm….sir…before you explain yourself sir…do you…mind telling me…why your eyes are glowing?” she said softly.

Finn softly smiled and his eyes were lime green. “They depict my mood, see? I’m very happy to see you,” he said sweetly.

“Oh….I see…so….the colors….show mood?” she said.

“Yeah, but…everyone gets the wrong idea that I’m a demon though…because of it…” he said a little sadly.

“Aww…I don’t think they show you’re a demon, not at all…” she said calmly.

Finn lightly blushed under his beige furry cheeks, “T-Thank you………now…I’m going to tell you how I know you okay?” she then nodded very slowly.

Finn cleared his throat and took a deep breath, closing his eyes for a bit, and re-opening them after a short while and looking into Vinyl’s eyes.

“Do you r-remember what h-high school you went to?”

She rested her hooves on the table and stared at them, tapping them constantly and looking for an answer in her mind, after a short while, she responded with, “Ponyville High.”

Finn smiled, as he knew his progression with her would hopefully kick in for her to remember who he was, what he was great at, and other things related to Finn.

“Do erm….you…r-remember…that day…when all those…people…crowded…you…for your album, I…was….in the midst of it…and…”

“Oh…dear Celestia…that was horrible…but…someone…came…and defended me…wait…was that…” she quickly looked up at Finn, studying the features of his face, his rosy beige cheeks, lime green and sky blue mixed eyes, the cute white hat with the ears that nearly dangled over his face slightly, and then it hit her.

All the girls and boys from the last hour of school crowded her in the hallway, one boy holding her up against a locker, holding up fur around Vinyl’s neck, and they all said together “You have no right making music….” And they repeated and repeated and repeated.

A pair of sky blue eyes was then on the other side of the crowd, out of it all and saw Vinyl and the bully, and heard there chants, he then gritted his teeth and his eyes turned blood red, and he kicked his hoof at the floor, charging through the crowd and turning his back, bucking the bully into a trashcan out of vision, everyone else running out the hallway screaming.

“A-AND YOU HAVE NO R-RIGHT TO BE J-JEALOUS OF HER T-TALENTS!”

“Finn!” Vinyl said sobbing loudly and wrapped her arms around Finn’s back, boring her face into his shoulder and began to sob loudly.

“Vinyl!” Finn said full of worry in his voice, hugging back Vinyl tightly as she hugged him, calming her loud sobs and patted her back.

After a long while, her sobs ceded to exist, and Finn slowly parted his lips,

“Don’t worry Vinyl, this will never happen again…

“I promise…” Vinyl said slowly out of mind, not realizing that she was in a sort of trance.

Finn looked at her questioningly and asked “Is everything all right?” She slowly looked up and stared into Finn’s eyes softly, “Finn? Is it…really you?” she asked very quietly.

Finn smiled and nodded, “It’s g-great to s-see you, best friend.”

She smiled widely and scooted quickly over to Finn’s side of the table, coming closer to Finn and pulling him in her arms, leaning him slightly as he still slightly sat, excited that her best friend was right here, right now. She couldn’t help but every so often squeeze Finn in her arms and keep her grip tightened.

Finn’s face then began tinting a bit of scarlet, looking up at Vinyl shyly and wrapped a wing around her back, hugging her tightly as well, tightening his gentle grip, but never to where it was unbearable.

“How could I forget my best…friend…” Vinyl said a bit sadly.

“Vinyl…you…had to…”

“Why did I have to..?”

“Because if you didn’t, you wouldn’t be who you are right now….you wouldn’t be this famous, amazing, and erm….yeah…” he said softly, slowly adding onto the amount of scarlet that showed on his face.

“I wouldn’t have made…”

“4x4=12….a-and that would leave you t-to not be…as….f-famous as you are…today…”

“Yeah…I missed you so much! You’re my best friend and I forgot about you!”

“Vinyl, it’s alright,” he said softly and looked into her maroon eyes, “you are always forgiven, and always have been remembered.”

Vinyl smiled and tightened her gentle grip around Finn, filled with excitement still that her best friend was here. Finn just sat there in Vinyl’s arms and purred softly, hugging back tighter and tighter, but never too tight in his gentle grip, his cheeks only growing more scarlet with each second passing by.

Finn looked up at Vinyl “I’m glad you’re here Vinyl, I really, really am.” Finn said with a smile as his he felt hooves completely around his neck, blushing as he couldn’t hug back from his arms, since his back was to her side, but was able to hug her back with a wing.

“I am too Finn…I really….really am.” Vinyl said with a smile and blushed a bit as she said that.

A little bit of a while began to pass as the two began conversing deeper about their lives, a little chuckle and giggle to muster out of one another every so often, and after an hour passed, it was now 8:09, pony time.

Vinyl giggled a soft bit at Finn’s cute attitude, and his inability to do good jokes, not purposely to hurt him, but she just did it because she thought it was cute. “Erm….V-Vinyl…I have a question…” he asked very softly and shyly.

“What’s that Finn?” Vinyl said in a softer voice.

“Erm…I was wondering if….we…erm….if we…could…go…out…to eat…at…Midnight Mare…” Finn said as his face grew with more blush as he mustered every word.

Vinyl grinned widely at both this question and the cuteness of how he asked it, “Are you asking me on a date..?” she grinned even wider after she was thinking he’d say yes.

“Erm…yes! I…I…mean…erm…no….erm…uhh….” his face was now completely red, and he glanced around with swiftness, filling up with shyness, “uhh…..heheh………….” he looked down and and squeezed his eyes shut, saying with a crack in his voice from shyness, “Yes…”

Vinyl smiled a bit more and scooted a bit closer, leaning Finn over and making him lean into her for another hug, “I’d love to do that Finn.”

Finn smiled and blushed a bit harder with Vinyl as he now lay slightly in her arms,  purring softly at the soft feeling of her arms and hooves that wrapped themselves around him.

Then the noise of a gunshot was heard, and Finn looked up quickly, Vinyl tightening her grip around him out of instinct, and gasped, looking around quickly, shaking softly and Finn rested a hoof on her back and patted it with gentle motions.

“It’s alright, I got this Vinyl, don’t be s-scared…be right back.” Finn said, with a soft smile, and which turned as he bolted out the double door, the crowd of people that was once in the building, now stormed after Finn in wonder of what he would do now, all except Vinyl, who stayed there in her booth, worried about what had happened, and that Finn would be ok.

Finn rushed around the vicinity of where the screaming was located, looking around at some houses which all had closed doors, all except one, and he bolted into the doorway to stare at the barrel of a gun.

“S-Stay back! I-I-‘I’ll kill her!” the dark stallion said as he began backing up as he held a mare in his other wing, over her mouth, the barrel stayed on Finn as he backed up a bit, a crowd of people behind him, all faces scared, and they backed up a way bit more than Finn anticipated.

“Don’t do s-something yo-you’ll regret sir,” Finn came closer very slowly “please…you’re b-better…t-t-than this…” Finn was coming ever so closer, finding the now shaking barrel of a gun.

“F-Finn!?” Vinyl stormed right in the house and found the barrel of the gun now pointed at her, and Finn then heard the safety of the gun click off.

“N-NO!!!!” Finn pulled out his sword at the last second with a wing, squatting down and jumping in the way of the gun, and threw his sword widely at the man.

A loud bang then rang around Ponyville.

Both, three synced thuds could be heard, the scared-for-her-life mare screamed of terror and now bolted out of Vinyl’s way, and out the door, into the shocked and stunned crowd.

“FINN!!” Vinyl bolted right by Finn’s side and flipped him gently over, looking at his shirt and found blood dripping from his shoulder, watching and feeling as tears began to fall from her eyes, seeing the tears hit the upper area of his shirt, and sobbed softly as Finn lay limp.

After a bit of time, Finn’s eyes then twitched for a second, and Vinyl noticed and gasped.

“Finn!? Are you…ok!?” Vinyl said with the highest worry in her voice.

Finn’s eyes then slowly fluttered open, the soft sky blue looked up at her with a weak smile. “F-Finn! You’re ok!” Vinyl wrapped her arms around his back in quick motion, putting his face in her chest and softly sniffled and lightly sobbed.

Finn closed his eyes again and weakly put a right wing and a left hoof around Vinyl, the audience captivated by the hero’s brave and risky move, questioning now how they thought of him, and what he really was, even a pair of blue eyes and pink fur we’re absolutely shocked by what Finn had done, and chatter was heard in the crowd, everyone looked around and someone asked out loud, “Do you need a medic!?”

Finn looked up and barely said “N-No…h-he only got…my shoulder…I’ll be fine…it went straight through and out, some…w-wrap w-will do…”

The pony then nodded and looked towards the crowd, “Let’s give them their time everyone, they’ve been in need of it.”

Everyone slowly nodded and scattered everywhere in separate directions, continuous clops heard against cobblestone paths.

Vinyl slowly brought her head back to meet her friend’s eyes, sniffling “W-Why did you do that?”

Finn blushed softly, sighing and closing his eyes, “I…I’ve held…a…secret…since…h-high school…a-and…I’ll…I’ll be ready…to…say it…at Midnight Mare…” he opened his eyes, “I just couldn’t let him…s-shoot you…I…couldn’t…”

She sat there holding him, shocked a bit, wondering what he’d been hiding for all these years for a bit, but a little bit more concerned about his state, and sighed softly, reaching to clear her tears with a hoof, but Finn lifted his left wing up to Vinyl’s cheeks and wiped them off, slowly binding his left wing back up afterwards.

“A-Alright…ok…good…do…you want me to help you up?”

Finn looked up at Vinyl innocently, “Are you sure?”

“Yes Finn, I am.”

“O-Okay…then y-yes…please….and…thank…..you…”

Vinyl softly smiled and slightly stood up, slowly wrapping her hooves around Finn’s arms and pulling him up, grabbing where his wing connected to his body gently and wrapped it around her side for support.

Finn blushed lightly, “T-Thank you…V-V-Vinyl…”

“It’s alright, can you stand on your own?”

“I…I think…”

“Let’s check…first…”

Vinyl slowly unwrapped Finn’s left wing from her back, and slowly rested a hoof on his back as he wobbled for a second, and looked down, standing still and moving around a bit, smiling proudly.

“T-Thank you….s-so much Vinyl…”

“It’s alright….so…I can meet up with you at 7:30..? Because I’m working on a track at the studio…”

Finn smiled, “7:30 sounds fine to me Vinyl.”

Vinyl smiled with Finn and walked up to him, giving him a last hug, and pulling away , whispering softly to him sweetly, “See you till then...Finn.”

Vinyl slowly then walked out into the dark night, and Finn blushed madly, fixing the collar of his shirt, and walking in the opposite direction into the night.