Dreams Do Come True

A/N well chapter 12 is here feel free to PM me or Southpawfighter614 with any suggestions or ideas

Twilight went to her old bedroom and saw Shooting Star sleeping, sucking his tip of his wing and she smiled. She walked over to him and shook him lightly “Star, sweetie, time to wake up. We need to go back to the castle and say goodbye to your mommy.”

“ok” Star said groggily. He hopped out of the bed, stood up and shook a little. Twilight smiled at her nephew.

“Oh, before we go, my mother and father cooked breakfast and Cadence helped cook some of your favorites” Twilight told him. Star’s mood brightened immediately.
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“So Cadence, does Star drink milk or water with his breakfast?” Velvet addressed her daughter in law
“Hmm, I don’t know. Usually milk last I knew” Cadence replied over her shoulder.

“Ok” Twilight Velvet said.

“Oh, did I tell you all about one of the times when Shooting Star was a foal? He crawled into Aunt Celestia's room with this little stuffed bunny he carried everywhere…but he went in there wanting a late night snack, It was so cute.” Cadence continued as she set out plates.

“Well, Aunt Celestia wasn’t in there. She was helping Aunt Luna, so I was sleeping there. Star climbed into the bed and woke me up. His face was so adorable, I couldn’t help but smile. I said “Well hello there, what are you doing out of bed?” He smiled and said “can I have a snack?” I smiled and placed him onto my back, took him down to the kitchen, where he ate a whole six muffins.” Cadence laughed remembering the little colt’s seemingly endless appetite.

“aww, that sounds adorable.” Twilight velvet said “Speaking of adorable, there’s the little dear now.”
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Star walked down the stairs, and went into the kitchen with Twilight behind him.

“Well, good morning sleepyhead. Did you sleep ok?” Twilight velvet asked the little one.

“Yes ma’am.” He replied, still remembering his manners.

He walked to a chair, and attempted to climb into it. Cadence picked him up in her magic and sat him down, much to his chagrin. “I’m a big colt now, I can do it, cousin Cadence.” Star said, frowning.

“There you go, baby cousin” she said as she ruffled his hair.Star smiled at a plate of eggs about the size of his head. A smile crept across his muzzle and a glass of milk was put in front of him. A fork shortly followed, but Cadence wasn’t sure if he could use magic just yet. Star looked at the fork, focusing, and lifted it. Cadence was shocked. Most young colts his age could barely manage any type of magic.

As everypony sat down to eat, Star was eating his eggs. Cadence noticed he had some of it on his face, and everypony else looked at Star and couldn’t help but giggle. Star looked back and said “what’s going on?”

After everyone ate, Cadence came over with a napkin and wiped Star’s face off. He glared at her.“Oh, calm down silly. Now let’s fix that mane and tail” He tried to run, but failed. Cadence had a brush and held him down with her hooves while her magic used the brush to fix his unkempt appearance.

“Now you look like a proper young prince.” She said, smiling at her handiwork and giggling at Star’s disgruntled face.
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After breakfast was over, Twilight, Velvet, and Cadence cleaned up the leftover mess, while Star and Shining Armor played out back. After all was said and done, Twilight bade her family goodbye, and trotted off towards the hotel, to gather up Shadow. From there, they would have a final meeting with Celestia before going home.

With Shadow in tow, Twilight made her way toward the place gardens, where it would be most likely to find the Princess at this time of day. Sure enough, they found her in the gardens, having afternoon tea with Luna. While Star played in the gardens with Luna, Twilight and Shadow recounted everything on Star’s progress, and told her about his nightmare the night before. Satisfied that she had been filled in, Celestia enjoyed a few minutes with her son, before the train to ponyville left.

On the ride home, Star slept most of the trip away, occasionally tossing and turning, or grumbling. But at least he was having normal dreams for once. Twilight was watching over him, and Shadow decided to make himself scarce. He’d had quite enough of the whole “social” thing for now, so he was in a dining car sipping at a cup of tea, a special brew he grew himself.

Twilight was deep in thought when Shadow finally returned to their car. He plopped down in a seat across from her, avoiding sitting on Star. There wasn’t much discussion to be had, so the ride went by pretty silently. Shadow couldn’t help but wonder what had Twilight so preoccupied, but he knew better than to ask cause she wouldn’t tell him.

When the trio finally got home, they took to their respective domiciles, a groggy Star following Twilight to the library, and Shadow making his way to his house. He didn’t need to write the Princess tonight, so he decided to go do more research on his magical powers. He knew he wouldn’t be nearly as good as a purebred unicorn, but hopefully he could learn something besides levitating things.
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Twilight entered her library and was greeted by a happy Spike. He didn’t get to go to canterlot this time because Twilight didn’t have enough money, so he stayed behind with Rarity, which he didn’t horribly mind. Spike hugged Twilight and then Star, who was instantly awakened when he saw his favorite playmate. It was too late to go see Sweetie, so that would
have to wait.

After Star and Spike had played for a while, they took themselves to bed, which was surprising to Twilight. This just gave her time to think of more experiments for Star to work on. He was progressing pretty rapidly at the ball game, so it was time for new material.

After she’d gotten her fill of research, Twilight took herself to bed. Tomorrow was going to be an intense day of studying for the two days that Star was slacking on while he was in canterlot. She gave up trying to solve his night terrors, so she was putting all her focus into magical control.
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Eventually, weeks turned into months, and into a year, finally. Twilight was beside herself with glee. Today was Star’s birthday, and also a milestone, for he had spent the entire year studying under Twilight, making new friends, and most of all, spending time with Sweetie. Twilight smiled to herself as she walked into sugarcube corner, where Pinkie was taking orders at the front counter.

"Good afternoon, Pinkie.” Twilight greeted the puffy-maned pony at the counter. “Today’s a very special day.”

“I know I know I know!” said Pinkie, beginning to bounce around. “Today’s Shooting Star’s ‘happy living in ponyville for one year with all your friends and sweetie belle’ day. Can you believe he’s been living with us for a whole year? that’s like, 400 days!” Pinkie chattered excitedly.

“365 days.” Twilight corrected Pinkie, laughing. “And that means we need some really special cupcakes and muffins and stuff. We’re holding the party at Applejack’s again, so there’s room for dancing and things” Twilight went on. “You’re in charge of the party as usual, Pinkie. Make sure to make it the next-best night ever.” Twilight said happily, placing her order list on the counter.

“Okie dokie lokie, Twi!” Pinkie said, rushing to the back of the store to begin preparing her mixes for all the sweets.
Twilight left the excited pink mare to her baking, while she went to go arrange the barn with Applejack.
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Shadow had been asked to meet Twilight and Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres, so they could decorate the barn for Star’s birthday / one year in ponyville party. He trotted happily up to Applejack, striking up a conversation with her while they waited for Twilight. He’d improved his grasp of magic quite a bit over the past year, and could now levitate and teleport freely, though he still got exhausted pretty quickly.

Twilight walked up the main path of the farm that led to the big brown barn. The supplies were already delivered earlier that morning, so they just had to be put up. After discussing momentarily with Shadow and AJ how the decorations were

supposed to look, they all knew their respective duties and got straight to them. They’d finished early with the surprising help of Big Mac, so the four had time for Idle chatter while Star and Spike were on their way, with Rarity, Pinkie, Dash, and Fluttershy. Sweetie Belle also came along.

Star had no idea what was going on. All he knew was he was going to Sweet Apple Acres for something that involved a lot of ponies he knew. He didn’t even know that he’d been living in ponyville for a year so far. By now he had grown almost 6 inches, standing slightly taller than Spike. His wings hadn’t grown in yet, and they wouldn’t for a while, but he could easily

move them if he tried. He didn’t attempt flying yet. Last time he did, he ended up with a face full of pond water. He was
happily chatting with Sweetie, while Spike was talking to Rarity. Dash and Shy were busy arguing over who was the best
wonderbolt.

When the assembled ponies trotted up and into the barn, it was fully dark. Then there was a purple flash, and Star couldn’t believe what he saw. There were two huge buffet tables, fully decked out with sweets, cakes, muffins, cookies, anything you could imagine. Above the two tables was a huge purple and blue banner that said “Happy Birthday Shooting Star!” in silvery-

white letters. Many of the ponies assembled were friends of his from school, or other ponies that Twilight knew. Star wasn’t very good with names, but he knew every pony by their faces.

Then, the music started, and with that, the party went into full swing. Ponies were dancing, laughing, and conversing with one another, or playing random games that Pinkie invented on the spot. For once, Star was enjoying being surrounded by ponies. He and Sweetie were even able to find a table to themselves.
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About half an hour into the party, Star suddenly felt very ill. He hadn’t eaten or drank very much of anything yet, but he usually wasn’t bothered by that. He could barely focus on the conversation at hand, and slipped in and out, before finally collapsing in a shaking, writhing heap of fur. The last thing he remembered hearing was Sweetie’s voice yelling for somepony to help him.

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It was a brilliant summer day. A lone human was sitting on a lakeshore, a fishing pole in one hand, and a cold can of soda in the other. As he stared at nothing in particular, the human heard a sound in the woods behind him. He froze. So far as he knew, nobody knew he was here. He hadn’t even told Jason. And he usually told him everything, much to Jason’s chagrin. EVERYTHING. Even things that he didn’t want to hear. But what was your best friend for? Gripping his fishing pole tighter, he

lifted himself slowly off of the log, when there was a rush and a crackle of splintering twigs and crushing leaves. He didn’t turn around fast enough, and found himself nearly airborne, heading towards the ice-cold lake.
KER-SPLASH!!
Surfacing, the human saw another human cackling like a madman on the shoreline. Standing nearly 6 feet tall and 275 pounds was Jason.

“Ey, Damian, how’s that water taste ya shite? You know you ain’t allowed to go fishing in my prized spot without me, punk!
“Who said this was your spot, you overgrown human-bear crossbreed? I should come up there and kick you straight in yer

nutz!” the human called Damian retorted.
“I’d rather look like a grizzly bear than a scrawny little beanpole.” Jason sneered back.
Just then, there was a splash behind Damian. Turning around, he saw a huge something coming straight towards him. He swam quickly towards the shore, which seemed a hell of a lot farther away than before. The whatever it was grabbed onto

Damian’s leg, and pulled him under. Jason saw this and knew he wasn’t fucking around.
Jason took a header into the pond himself, swimming out to and pulling Damian to the surface, He pulled his pocket knife from his belt, and stabbed the huge, toothed fish in its left eye socket, effectively making it release Damian. Carrying them both back to shore, Jason examined Damian’s leg.

Pieces of skin had been ripped out, and the puncture holes were deep. If Damian had struggled anymore, he might have lost some muscle pieces. Then the pain hit Damian, and he gripped onto Jason’s arm, hard leaving nail marks. Wrapping up Damian’s leg in his T-shirt, Jason rushed him out to the nearest hospital. The result had been Damian getting several dozen stitches in his lower leg, and being stuck in a wheelchair for a week.
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Star woke up surrounded by all sorts of ponies, wondering if the young colt was ok. Thankfully, he hadn’t lapsed into a magical fit. He was helped up by Twilight, and asked to talk to her in a separate room. He detailed the memory to her, and

told her how he’d managed to hear names in the memory. Shadow’s human name came up, which thoroughly shocked Twilight. So Shadow wasn’t lying about being human in his past life. She would definitely need to interrogate Shadow again.
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After Star relaxed, he returned to his party. He wasn’t about to let his nightmares get the best of him tonight. The party went on for what seemed like hours, and all the food had actually been eaten. It was a Saturday night, so Star and almost

everypony else had nowhere special to be, so they kept going until ponies left on their own accord. Even Pinkie had tired herself out, so they were going to come back the next day to clean up.

A/N i ment to put this in there but got lazy Damian asked Jason to let him stay with him for a wile