Leo found that he was having a difficult morning as he tried to hurry along with his breakfast. At first it was nothing special and particularly quiet, acting like himself with Celestia being awfully affectionate amongst the small gathering of ponies he met days ago. Awkwardness flowed around the dining hall with whispers and strange comments that he had to block by pressing his hands onto his ears. Like pins and needles, his hearing was flooded with the voices of every servant and guard that took a great deal of interest in him.

After quietly munching on some of the sandwiches that were prepared, the annoyance of strictly vegetables shifted his behavior in a not-so friendly way. He found his body swelling with temptation and instinct for something that has protein. There wasn't a single piece of meat on the table though, and he was still hungry.

"Do we have any fish?" he asked, surprising both princesses as they tried to enjoy peace and quiet. Remembrance flowed back with swiftness, and the two sisters found it awkward that they were not intuitive of his canine appetite. Surely they did not forget that he was a meat-eater in the first place.

Luna shook her head at the boy, disappointing him while the staff looked at the boy in fear. "We do not carry any meat products in Equestria. We are herbivores, as you can see, and any form meat in the castle is frowned upon."

Leo was not happy about that and decided to interject with his own statement. Hopefully he could convince him otherwise, or it was going to be a long day for him.

"But fish is what I eat the most. Mr. Mole says that it's the most important food source in my diet."

Luna stayed relaxed, but deep inside, she coiled in disgust that he ate meat, and she was read and more than willing to change the boy's diet to keep pones from speculating about his habits. She might not be his mother, but Faust was not around to make the rules right now.

"We'll just have to change your diet then," she smiled lovingly and nuzzled the frustrated boy as he pushed his plate away, rejecting the salad Celestia set on his plate.

"Perhaps some fruit will help curve your appetite for meat."

Leo just sat there with his arms crossed and his tails flicking back and forth, pouting and grumbling underneath his breath while Luna Celestia looked to one another for an idea. It was a long moment of silence between them and the annoyed pup before they were greeted with the smell of something sizzling. Putrid it was to the ponies, but for Leo, it was a heavenly aroma that made his mouth water and the muscles in his jaw tighten.

He went to looking up and over his chair, when out of the blue came Amaterasu in an apron and a steaming hot salmon with lemon juice gazed over it and broccoli on the side. Leo sighed with content, as though he had died and gone to heaven. He wiped the saliva from his mouth and slipped back into his seat before sinking rather abruptly to the scent.

"Here you go," the goddess cooed lovingly, nuzzling the top of his head as the princesses grit their teeth angrily. She gave both alicorns the challenge of earning Leo's love and friendship by picking him up and setting him in her lap before he could feast. "How about we have someone feed you? This is an awfully messy fish and you don't need to stain your tails."

"Where did you come from?" Luna asked hatefully, watching as her little fox succumbed to the busty deity feeding him. There was no greater hatred than to watch this stranger take her companion and manipulate his love and care like that. Besides, she wanted to be the one that feeds him!

"From the kitchen," their fellow yet much more ancient goddess replied.

Celestia glared at her for the apron and asked why she was wearing it in the place, followed by the statement of being a deity so cooking was something she does not have to do; that's what servants are for.

Amaterasu delightfully chirped with an evil grin, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Didn't your mother teach you that when you were fillies?"

"So the reason you are here in our is to win him over."

"No, I'm here to honor his mother's request of watching over him."

"So cooking him breakfast. . ." Celestia was interrupted by the woman's annoying laughter.

"I suspected you would not have any meat prepared for him, so I took a salmon from one of the ponds in your garden." Amaterasu gave her an innocent smile, and then winked at Luna, intentionally infuriating her while Celestia watched with disgust of the idea that she was losing to this broad. She couldn't be, she was sexier than that dog!

"You cannot deprive Leo of fish," Amatearsu pointed out, purposely angering the princesses. "It is the main source of food in his diet. Taking it away means you're taking away serious nutrients his body needs to grow. You could make him malnourished or very sick if you do."

Leo nodded in agreement and added, "Plus it's really good."

Celestia and Luna sank in defeat and decided it was best to keep their mouths shut. Both were hurting internally from this new rival of theirs getting the best of them, of which killed their moods for today. Finding not a reason to even look at he boy for attention, they hung their heads and returned to food on their plates, which somehow did not taste as good now.

Witch. . . they thought together.

The throne room remained quiet for the princesses to taste the sour defeat of their new rival, but they were not prepared for the next pony that followed his personal guard. All of their attention was now on this particular stallion, their eyes narrowed while wits were about them, as if they were ready to put an end to him.

"Nephew, care to join us for breakfast?" Celestia asked, matching the calm and cold expression of her family and staff while Leo started to grin. He laughed with Amaterasu upon seeing the unhappy prince with his new hairstyle and almost fell out of her lap when he saw how infuriating it was.

Hm. . . he seems to be better looking, now that he looks like the backside of a mule. Luna thought amusedly while on the outside she had an expressionless face.

It was then the eyes of the fox and the stallion locked in a clash of indifferences, and all of hell was going to break loose.

"Y-You!" Blueblood exclaimed in shock and anger, his usual façade of arrogance not attainable while the young pup kept smirking like that.

"Y-You did this to me!" stuttered Blueblood in a furious voice. The staff could not believe their eyes, but if only they knew what the princesses saw in that boy's actions towards their nephew. Still, he was quite amusing to watch, perhaps the funniest thing to happen in a very long time.

How can that little beast just sit there and smile? Why, I will have him caged and dropped from the highest cliff for this! Blueblood though before visibly releasing his rage on the child, while the others tried to come to terms with this snickering.

Meanwhile, because of Blueblood making himself the center of attention, nobody noticed Leo hop off Amaterasu and approach the prince with Higarashi on the top of his head.

"You're going to be the death of me," Higarashi slapped his forehead and sighed as the two creatures came close. "Why did I have to volunteer watching over the boy?"

"Hi there," Leo chirped, waving a hand at the enraged prince with his best innocent look. "You're really funny looking. What happen to all of your hair?"

"What happen!?" roared Blueblood, towering over the child as the rest of the royals watched carefully. "As you can see, I have no mane and most of my tail is missing. And I know it was you who did this to me, you insolent freak!"

"But how could I do it when I've been with Miss Celestia and Miss Luna?" asked the fox as a couple more ponies entered the throne room. It was not thought possible, but somehow it got much better with Rarity and Sweetie Belle watching from the corridor.

"Are you sure didn't miss with a pair of scissors?"

Blueblood screamed at the top of his lungs in pure fury, no longer able to contain the unbearable humiliation. It felt like his reputation was crushed, he could feel everyone's laughter by their looks. The pain was intolerable.

"You. . . are going to pay for ruining me." Blueblood growled dangerously with a grim expression. He roared again after rearing up to punish the boy.

A sense of danger came to the fox as everyone watched in horror. Leo wasn't anywhere near as big and they doubted if he could fight with him. They rushed to his aid, wanting him to get away without a single hair on his head touched until it was too late to stop the stallion from making a grave mistake.

Leo sat there and waited, counting the seconds ticking by as he heard his tiny mentor give a battle-cry, accompanied by the tiniest speck launching off his head into the hoof coming down on his head at the last second. Blueblood breathed happily for his victory, his deep ego swelling as he looked up to his aunties charging at him.

His hoof was stopped though, by. . .

"Those who dare harm last kyuubi," Higarashi growled at a decibel that everyone could hear, surprisingly. "SHALL BE PUNISHED!"

The echoing roar of the old flea boomed across the halls as he gripped the arrogant prince by the heel of his hoof. He shed all sense of manners and mercy, turning into the ancient fury Amaterasu had remembered. His voice was raspy and hoarse, but strong choking the princesses with fear.

He knew damn well what he was doing. Every ounce of his strength. The sound of his ridiculous battle-cry. The way his eyes shined with the fire of his long life, even when his body creaked with old age. He had his heart and soul in one while showing the entire the skeptics what he could do.

Celestia and Luna fell back from Blueblood being thrown over the pup and through a wall. Neither could respond to the flea's monstrous power, couldn't even find a faint flicker of words while the room fell in silence. Leo took that as something funny, for it was the risky part of his prank on Blueblood. Still, he did not expect his mentor to throw a pony through a wall.

"That will teach him," Higarashi said sternly, crossing his arm and holding his head high with pride. "And let that be a lesson to everyone in this room."

"That was totally awesome!" Rarity said out of character, her dream of revenge fulfilled. She wanted to give this hero of hers a token of gratitude, but there was one problem —she could not see him.

Celestia and Luna were still dumbstruck by Higarashi's display of power. They waited for Amaterasu or one of the members to shake them free of this confusion and awestruck.

"Yes," Leo hissed, secretly pumping his fist before noticing Rarity and the unicorn beside her. When he did though, he felt something surge in him.

He rose slowly with the filly watching him, this time ignoring the ear-piercing roars of every pony cheering in assumption that he'd somehow tossed the unconscious Blueblood like a ragdoll. The instant he his eyes locked hers he became aware of the world going silent to his benefit, but why?

A fox with meaning, he approached the unicorn without fear and crouched on all fours in Celestia's sunlight beaming on him and her. He did not even register that Rarity was greeting him, almost as if she never existed in the first place. He moved very slow, circling her with his scent, his mind held captive, recognizing these emotions as something oddly conditional.

"You're pretty," he exchanged a blush of shock with the unicorn. "What's your name?"

Rarity squealed excitedly in her mind while Celestia and Luna added the filly as another rival for the boy. Amaterasu, on the other hand, was a little happy that he'd set his eyes on someone around his age. Now if only she could get the princesses to keep their hooves off the child, but she knew better than to get between them. Besides, if what she was seeing turned out to be true, then there was the possibility of the alicorn facing rejection in the future.

"S-Sweetie Belle," she stuttered nervously, hiding behind her sister when it was too much for her to handle.

She peeked around and asked cutely, "What's your name?"

"Leo," he took in her scent, acting on his instincts. "You smell very nice."

Shocked, Sweetie Belle came back around as fast as she ran behind her sister, not sure if this fox was being a nice or being weird. She knew this was how some stallions acted, but for this to happen to her, and it coming from a fox with a many tails. . .

"You think I smell nice," she looked away with her blush now turning crimson.

He nodded.

"You're really weird," she giggled, but in a good way.

Abruptly he dropped the nice act, which confused everyone since it was nothing crude or mean, rather adorable. Proudly, or cutely in his case, he struck a pose with his tails thrust in different directions and his chest puffed. At that point he was making mares swoon over his cute tough colt act with the filly.

"Hey," he held his head high for Sweetie Belle. "Weird is the new normal and better than being like that guy over there." He pointed at Blueblood, who was imprinted in the next wall as guards tried to pry him free.

Sweetie Belle smiled, stricken with great interest of the slightly funny prince.

"Are you hungry?" Leo asked, his fur the only thing preventing his crimson to show. "There's plenty of food."

"We are famished," Rarity chirped, already taking her seat while Sweetie Belle realized she had been left alone with the fox. She smiled triumphantly at both alicorns as Leo showed Sweetie Belle to the table like a gentlecolt.

"In your faces," she whispered, invoking the wrath of her princesses.

Celestia and Luna exchanged determined looks and nodded in the midst of this predicament. They knew that being princesses and older mares was not going to cut it, nor was the snuggling and cuddling. They had to change tactics before it was too late.

"This means war." They told one another, meanwhile the completely ignored Higarashi hopped into Amaterasu's hair and decided to take the day off.

"I'm too old and small for this crap."

Author's Note

Yes, this is different from the blog I made if that snippet.

Truth is, that last snippet was a lie. Don't take offense, but I wanted to know which readers are faithful and which ones are just here to read what they expect.

I'm glad that only one dropped me because of that snippet. Thank you everypony, all 443 of you.

As for the one that dripped me for that fake snippet. . . . Shame on you.