A Tail of Difference.

The warm afternoon air ran through Leo's hair as he dodged two of Canterlot's finest chefs. Celestia's sun beamed through the windows and blinded most of the workers from catching or hurting the little troublemaker, teasing them with her power while her little sidekick held onto the golden prize they've been searching for.

The treasure that makes Celestia drool was in her reach and getting closer by the second. She could smell the sweet scent of fresh chocolate frosting, a smell which she enjoyed the most.

"Where is that thing at!?" the head chef yelled, forcing his sunlight blind eyes open to see where the little fox ran off too.

Celestia peered from around the corner and snickered at the chef, her silence broken as the spell died in the knick of time. She knew the chefs all too well for their overly dramatic attitudes.

They are so easy to fool.

"Miss Celestia, I got it!" Leo ran around a mare covered in flour and dove into the safety of what is the underside of the alicorn's slim belly. Holding the freshly made cake with both arms, he fought with himself to keep balance so that the cake does not slip out of his hands.

The Solar Princess let out one last snicker before using her magic to teleport Leo and herself to a safe location, surprising the one that came to her mind before she saved Leo from The Head Chef's frying pan wrath. They teleported into the room of their favorite gamer and proceeded to laugh as their arrival set off her sensory.

It was the safe haven for every pony that is well within right to enter her Mare-Cave. Nobody dared to enter this one part of the castle because of the rumors that spread after her return from the moon. Guards would dart past it, maids would leave necessities at the front door, but none would even knock on the door.

This place was a nightmare to them, a place where the monster inside frightened a rookie for his brave mission of asking for a date. But like those who dare to interrupt her, they fell to the hellfire of her anger and never looked the same.

But to Celestia it was just another room that she can enter and hide in. Which was what she and Leo were doing, because the chefs would surely tell the queen about this.

Meanwhile. Luna was well within the second chapter of Okami when her favorite fox-boy laughed and accidently bumped her Pony Station Four. The two shared this moment while the tip of their karma backfired with something ferocious.

"Oh that was funny. I haven't had that much in years." Celestia had a hoof over her eyes. She was doing her best to wipe away the many tears that were making it hard to see. "Di-Did you see that mare when you blew flour into her face!? She was so shocked that she put you down!"

Leo nodded and leveled himself to giggling in the loving wing of his alabaster friend. Happily, he snuggled into the alicorn's underside and disappeared behind her wings as the cake was magically cut into nine perfectly shaped triangles. Celestia was the first to lift a slice, but to her own surprise it was Leo she gave the slice too. He did a splendid job in making her day and retrieving the goods, so it was only fitting that he gets the first bite.

"A toast..." she levitated the cake into his hands "...For making me laugh and feel like a filly again. Oh Leo, you are going to make me a very happy mare for all the years to come, just as long as you don't prank me."

"Don't worry, Miss Celestia. I won't prank you, Miss Luna, or mommy." the little fox replied before taking his first bite.

"M-my game!" Luna finally made herself present by darting to her tipped console. Hearing the disk scratch after the console fell off its stand, Luna felt irked and utterly horrified to have her progress just seconds away from a checkpoint. If she could reach the checkpoint she could have the ultimate technology that ponies invented during her banishment.

Auto-save.

"No, no, no." she continued to sputter as the console was put back in place and the disk was spat out. Using the light of the T.V. instead of turning on the lights, The Gaming Princess checked the second side of the disk and mentally prayed for Leo to not have done damage to her precious.

Reflecting the screen of her one hundred inch flat screen, Luna came across a deep ring within the disk. Said ring was right in the middle of the disk, as clear as her sister's day.

"Hi Miss Luna." Leo peeked over the bridge of Celestia's wings and smiled warmly, his slice of cake already devoured. "Want some chocolate cake? Miss Celestia and I took it from the chefs before they took it to some guy called BlueBlood."

Luna glared at the child from the corner of her eye, a shadow of blackness overcoming her body as the disk was dropped. She turned her gaze completely to the boy, glare becoming scowl, while Celestia took caution of what was happening.

"You..."Luna pointed a hoof at the boy, her anger destroying his wonderful smile. "...Scratched up a rare game. That disk was worth almost four hundred bits, and you scratched it!"

It had been a long time since Luna became this angry over a video game; at least that is what she thought when it was just a month ago. Protectively, she tightened her wings around the boy and narrowed her gaze, a snort or two coming out as she put down her second slice.

"Luna," the princess said firmly, almost threateningly. "He didn't mean to scratch your game and you know it. He's just a little colt that is excited and happy."

"What?" Leo's ears folded to the back of his head, his eyes locked onto the blue alicorn. "Did I break something just now? I didn't mean to, Miss Luna."

Celestia frowned to the alicorn as she stomped towards the cowering boy with the intention to roar her frustration. Her wings shot up and glowed a threatening dark blue, her eyes burned white, and all the care for her new friend went out the door. She was mad, if not angry, at the boy, and she showed it without regard of him being just a colt that was recently accepted into the family.

Leo retreated behind Celestia's wings as the Lunar Princess stopped with all the magic in her body flowing out in a dark manner. He quivered in the safety of his friend as she nuzzled his head and pecked it. Luna was supposed to be his friend, but here she was acting so mean to him by looking so scary.

She looked like a monster that comes out of a closet to eat you up, but to Celestia she was becoming the monster that made her room off limits.

"Luna, enough!" Celestia said loudly, her wings unfolding when Leo pushed them apart and made a quick run for the bed.

Quickly, he crawled under and scooted into the darkness until it completely engulfed him. If it wasn't for his tails being so big and fluffy, he would be invisible to the princesses.

"Get back here, you little cretin." Luna growled, her magic materializing through her mane, stretching massive lengths that began to slither under the bed.

With his eyes closed and his entire body curled up, Leo started to cry as his blue friend lifted the bed and dragged him out by his legs. Young and ignorant, the little fox succumbed to his fear during Luna's little tantrum. She held him in the air by his waist and pressed her muzzle against his nose, the scent of mints masking the vegetable pizza she ate half an hour ago.

"You scratched my game, Leo." she growled, brink to shaking him for it. "That game was expensive, and I only bought two nights ago. Now I have to preorder it again if I want the special edition."

"Luna, stop it! You're terrifying him!" Finally the elder sister intervened by snatching the whimpering boy away from Luna. Surprisingly, she shoved Luna back and said angrily, "Are you out of your bucking mind!? Leo is just a little colt; it was an accident that he bumped your game."

Luna huffed and growled as it struck her over the head like a hammer beating a nail. She didn't want to admit it or listen to her sister, she did that enough already, but her actions made such valid points. She made her own bed and now she had to sleep in it.

It was a game, a great game at most, but it wasn't worth the price of frightening the boy that has such a good heart.

Finally, after coming to realization, Luna's scowl disappeared, leaving a horrible frown for the boy to see. Her guilt weighed her down as she instinctively reacted by unfolding her wings to take him into her grasp. Her sister, on the other hoof, had something different in mind for their little friend.

"I don't think so," Celestia said scathingly, retracting the boy to her chest. "You frightened him and became a bully over a game."

"Sister..." Luna paused, hesitant of sticking her wings out to the boy, "...Please."

Seconds of massive silence ran between the two sisters, their eyes never leaving one another. It was hard for Celestia to think about surrendering Leo to her sister, seeing as how she went crazy over a disk. It ran through her mind that Luna was possibly not the best mare to leave Leo alone with. But she had to remember that her own antics have made her the same way, so it only made her pot caught in the black kettle.

"Leo," Luna reached for the boy, but his hands swatted her wings away. "Oh honey, I am so sorry for scaring you like that. I was being a mean mare over something stupid."

Leo kept looking away from the alicorn, ignoring her. He held onto Celestia's feathers and dug his face into her chest for comfort, but found only the space between him and her growing.

Celestia, with her chocolate covered muzzle, slowly reached out to Luna and said, "Leo she is saying she's sorry. Now you know Luna did not mean to act so mean, don't you?"

Pouting at the alabaster alicorn, Leo gave a huffy, "Yeah...I guess."

That got Luna to smile a little before the tears started to sparkle in her eyes.

"Leo," Celestia drawled firmly, "You know she didn't mean to scare you. Now would mommy want you to be acting mean to Luna when she is trying to make up for her mistake?"

Defeated by his memory of getting a shot, Leo imagined that same stern look and immediately sighed to the alicorn as she released him into Luna's wings. Quickly, the Lunar Princess cleaned her mess with a wave of her horn and made her way to the beanbag chair Faust gave as a Hearth's Warmth Eve present.

"Oh I really am sorry," Luna cooed, while sinking into said chair and popping an E-Rated game into her console. She grabbed her console and gave Leo a loving kiss to the cheek as Celestia grabbed the other beanbag. "Can we still be friends? I don't want you to hate me or be afraid."

"It's okay Miss Luna." oh how those words brought her great joy, "You just scared me, but please don't do it again."

"I won't, you adorable tike." she pecked his cheek, then put the controller into his hands while her shared divided the cake. "Now what do you say you spend the day with me while we wait for my friends to arrive? We can play video games and do other fun stuff until Twilight Sparkle and her friends come see you."

Leo looked down at the controller and gave it a confused look. He was curious in every way he could be, but his response is what Luna wanted to hear, not his expression to her controller.

"What's a video game?" he asked.

Shocked by that question, Luna spewed her drink and choked, the look of absolute astonishment as the game started.

"You're kidding, right?" Luna asked flatly.

Leo shook his head, thus the Solar Princess found it hilarious for Luna to be with the biggest newbie in all of Equestria. What's worse is that she would have to let him learn by letting him play. And that was not something she wanted to do, not when seeing others mess up is like having a knife cut off a limb.

I have to teach Leo about video games. she thought, her hooves dragging over her eyes. This is gonna be the longest afternoon in the history of my gaming.

Oh this is gonna be torture to Luna. Celestia mentally giggled, She hasn't taught anyone since Twilight Sparkle made her World of Warcraft game crash.

Is a video game some sort of candy? Leo thought, Wait...is a video game the weird thingy I broke just now?

"Okay sweetie, I guess I have to show you." Luna adjusted herself in her seat, allowing the little fox to lay against her side. "This is a controller, and all these buttons allow you to do something with the character."

"What's a character?"

"Oh dear..." Luna facehoofed.

"And so the terrible journey of teaching Leo about video games begin, starring Luna: The Mare Who Could Not Teach My Pupil." Celestia hosted in a mock tone, receiving a hard glare as her sister's response.

"Oh yeah?" a series of pops and crack could be heard from Luna's neck, determination in her eyes. "Okay Leo, let's get down to business, starting with the basics of this game."

"What kind of game?" Leo asked.

"The best video game to have ever been made by Square Enix...Kingdom Hearts."

"Leo, how old are you?" Celestia asked out of the blue, licking her lips of the frosting.

"Six." Leo chirped.

Six. Which means twelve more years... and you're legal. Celestia giggled in her mind.

To Be Continued...