"I'm home." called out a certain male draconequus, tired from the long flight home after attending what might have been one of his most exhausting royal business trips in his life.

He was soon greeted by his wife, as she trotted happily into the room to greet him with a warm smile and a kiss. "Glad to have you back. Everything go okay in the Gryphon Empire?"

"As good as its going to be. I'm seriously thinking of telling my mom that trying to make peace with them is turning into a lost cause." he replied, a hint of annoyance in his tone.

"What's stopping you?" Claire responded with a giggle.

"My Mom." he said disgruntled. Both of them shared a hearty laugh at this, all the while they couldn't hear the sounds of a tiny creature approaching them from behind the male draconequus. The lady kirin noticed this however, but said nothing to her husband who was lost in a trance of laughter. His laughter soon broke when he felt something tug hard at his tail. "OOOOOWWWW!!! What in the-."

The young stallion soon stopped his phrase once he saw his assailant, who was hanging by its teeth on his tail. It was a young kirin with a white coat and purple mane. Small, but noticeable claws could be seen on it's fore-hooves and he looked into the fierce, yet adorable red eyes of the attacker and couldn't help but chuckle. He was attacked by none other than his young daughter Identity.

"Nice to see you too Idie." he said with a laugh.

The young kirin couldn't help but growl playfully as she held on tightly with her teeth, wrestling playfully with her fathers tail. His small laughter broke her from her horseplay and she looked in his direction and smiled while still having his tail in her mouth.

Before she knew it her father teleported them to the bedroom where he set her down on the bed to continue her little game. Claire followed close behind and laid down near Illusion as they continued to play around. Identity saw this and let go of her fathers tail to go to her mom, but was cut short by Illusion wrapping her in his magic and placing her at the top of his tail on her stomach as he lifted his tail to make her legs dangle on either side of the appendage.

"You've had her for 2 days Idie," he said to his daughter in a playful tone "now its my turn to be with her." Idie shot her dad a look of anger, that could only be topped by the young filly's mother, and shot a raspberry at her father. "I can play that game to you know." he said as he stuck his tongue back at her. The two of them held this pose for what seemed like hours, never breaking eye contact.

Claire was just laying down next to her husband, laughing to herself in her mind. 'Why must I always babysit' she thought jokingly. She was brought out from her thoughts when she heard a tiny yawn come from Identity. Illusion moved his tail to where the young filly slid down it like a slide and grabbed her, setting her near the two of them. Identity walked, tired as can be, to her mom and gave her a kiss on the cheek before climbing up to her dad where she nestled herself in the fur on his chest, falling asleep within seconds.

The two parents stared lovingly at their child as she slept, and then looked at each other with loving expressions. "So did she speak anything while I was gone?" Illusion asked, making sure to be quiet enough to not disturb her.

Claire shook her head "No, believe me I've been trying to get her to. She should be though; I know she's only three, but I was speaking enough when I was that young."

"Maybe we can both try to get her to speak tomorrow, my mom already arranged for me to have all day with the two of y'all tomorrow."

Claire smiled at this "Yeah, I don't see why not." The two of them shifted slightly, Illusion being careful as to not wake Identity, to where they were sitting at the head of their bed. Illusion had become use to sleeping to where he wouldn't shift a lot at night, which allowed his daughter to sleep on his chest fur all night.

"Hey honey." he spoke.

"Yeah Lulu?"

"Thanks for talking me into doing this with you." he said kissing her lightly on the muzzle.

She giggled a bit before returning the gesture. "Thanks for being as good a father as I thought you would be." The two laid down in their bed until sleep had overtaken the both of them, held close together, with the symbol of their love nestled close to the both of them.

THE END

Author's Note

Sorry I took me a while to update, I've been bust with a lot of other stories as well.

There might be a bonus chapter for this story as well, but whether or not there is depends on how fast I can get this project I'm working on, with a couple of other members, done.

But, it also depends on whether or not y'all want a bonus chapter (it will feature more clop).