Family of Misfits

Birds were singing loudly and their songs were full of life and joy.  They spiraled through the sky and next to Jay's window. The birds would've sang for the whole house all day, well.... They would've if Nyx hadn't been starring at them with deep dark lifeless eyes, hunger flashing in them when the birds flew in front of the window. This caused the birds to all flee, even the ones who weren't next to his window had flown away after being alarmed by the others.

"nmmm....' Jay Sky moved around slightly in his bed, slowly waking up. "Oh hey... Good morning Nyx.." He yawned and rubbed one of his eyes sleepily.

Good morning? She thought, a bit hurt. Obviously preferring the dark but she responded to him softly "Good morning young Jay.."

That brought a smile to Jay's face and he giggled.

Nyx couldn't help hiding a small smile, she remembered when she was a young pony. Oh it feels like it was just yesterday... She thought as images of her in her childhood came flowing back, laughing a bit when she saw other ponies running in fear and some bowing to her in surrender. "Those were the days...."

"What days?" Jay asked as he climbed out of his bed.

"Oh, nothing young Jay... Just my childhood." She smiled at him and he smiled back.

"What was it like?" Jay asked.

"It.... It was very eventful..." She giggled softly and sighed with happiness.

"I like events, can you tell me what they were about?"  He sat down in front of her, looking up at her with large curious eyes.

"I believe that is for different time" Nyx said  gently. arcing her neck to be at eye level with him. "Now it is time for you to eat breakfast, go young Jay" She smiled.

"I'm hungry!" He laughed "Come on Nyx, I'll introduce you to my parents and we can all have fun at the park!"

"I do not think that that is a good idea young Jay," She said defensively "I doubt your parents will be happy to see a shadow Pegasus with you. Especially one of my race and height." She smiled, but it wasn't a warm happy smile. It was a dark evil smile.

"Why not? You seem really nice and friendly, I'm sure they'd love you!" He smiled and jumped up happily.

"L.... Love...?" She growled slightly and disappeared into the shadows "Sorry young Jay, but I will not be joining you for breakfast..."

"Oh... Okay..." Jay smiled "I'll bring you some Haywaffles!" He ran away giggling, greeted by his family as they all sat down to eat.

Nyx was left alone in Jay's room, and like anypony else, she curiously wandered around it. There were quite a few toys and crayons scattered on the floor. She found the occasional stash of Hay Bars and little chocolate sweets. The child's room amused her and made her a bit sick, this place was so happy and bright. Nothing at all like her room when she was a young pony. By the time Jay came back Nyx had completely scanned his room, he found her back in the shadow where he had left her.

"I brought the Haywaffles!" Jay giggled and balanced a plate on his head.

"Are they for me?" Nyx asked softly.

"Yes Nyx, these are for you." He smiled and tilted his head to let the plate slide down in front of her.

"Wait.... Young Jay, are these really for me?" Her eyes widened with surprise and shock.

"Yes, now eat up so we can go play!" He sat down and waited patiently as Nyx hungrily devoured the food.

Once she finished, she bowed to Jay "Thank you, Young Jay. You are very generous."

"No need to bow, you're an odd pony." He laughed a bit and smiled "Are you ready to play?"

"Play? What do you want to play?" She asked as she sat up and looked down at him.

"We can play board games! Or outside games!" Jay began to jump around happily.

"What is a 'board game'?" Nyx tilted her head a bit.

"I'll show you!" Jay ran to his closet and dove in the mountain of clothes and toys, and maybe there was some food in there too. Or at least it used to be food.

He came back to her with an odd looking rectangle balanced on his head, it had some weird name that was faded with age and from being worn down. Nyx curiously sniffed the thing, that was clearly a bad idea because right as she breathed in she sneezed. Millions of little dust particles flew up from the surface of the box and hung in the air like a little cloud.

"Oh... My bad, sorry Young Jay" Nyx looked embarrassed for looking like a fool.

"It's okay" Jay laughed and put the game on the ground, throwing the lid off and taking out small game pieces.

"What are those?" She laid down and lowered her head to the game.

"These are your characters, you use them to play" He smiled up at her and then pulled out a board from the box.

"Your characters......?" She looked confused and eyed each character, grunting at some of them. She absolutely despised the male characters, she showed her dominance over them by pushing them aside.

Jay giggled as he watched her. A few moments later he began to set up the board game, it looked like some kind of money and clue game. After Nyx was done glaring at the male characters she watched Jay closely as he set it up, learning how to do it and what goes where.

"Okay Nyx, this is a really really fun game! What you do is you own a little business to start off with and you have to work your way up. These little cards can help you or destroy you!" Naturally he made it sound dramatic. "But if you get a good one you get stuff like pay raises when you pass one of the two pay days. Every time you pass a pay day you get paid in bits! and if you land on it your income is like, kajiliazed! Well... Mom says it's quadrupled but I like to say kajiliazed" He giggled. "So you choose a character and you push down this little die popper and release it to roll them, once you see your number you move that many spots on the map. BUT BEWARE! There are spots on the map that can take your bits, there are some that can give you more too." Jay handed her twenty bit tokens "Here's your starting money, now let's get started!"

They both played the game, Nyx had been able to get her business to a Sky-Scrapper in under ten moves. Jay had barely moved away from his Mom's basement and he was now celebrating his new office.

After a while Flash Quake came into the room, in an instant Nyx shifted her form into a black shadow chain necklace that hung around Jay's neck. Flash smiled at him playing and picked him up, placing him on his back and explaining to Jay that they were going with Heavy Beat to go walk around and play. As they left the house to go meet up with Heavy Nyx's little form flashed as it formed a small black heart on it that had her eyes on it, she seemed to be watching everything, learning about the new world around her.