Winter's Blessing 2: Remember Me
14. Cause and...
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"Now eat your own food." Amy mentions to a group of squirrels as they had swarmed over to a chinchilla's family meal. The mornings for the past few days for the girls and Fluttershy were spent either looking for Michael or dealing with mundane subjects.
But today was spent with Fluttershy and generally relaxing, helping her prepare breakfast for her animal friends. Fluttershy absolutely loved having Michael's sisters around, they were a joy. Though she did worry about the upcoming months, with summer only last a few more weeks they had to be sent to school. She'd want to speak to Michael about it but with him rarely coming by she almost never saw him.
"What's wrong my dear shy friend, are your thoughts being impacted by the young stallion you brought to Equestria? Surely your lewd thoughts have dwindled."
"Of course you'd say such things, no I'm not thinking of him. I'm worried about his sisters, they're permanent residents to Equestria and they need an education. Summer can only last so long, and I'm sure they'd want to spend time with fillies and colts their age."
"Shouldn't you let their older brother think of that, they are his responsibility or are you doing this merely for the prospect of brownie points." Discord teased.
"And so what if I am? I don't usually asking things in return but he owes me." She says with a huff.
"Quite the turnabout Fluttershy, anyway this came by for you." Discord hands a letter to Fluttershy as there was a distinct smell coming from the letter. Ripping open the letter she begins to read the invitation, it was from Rarity who wanted to see all of the element bearers for brunch later.
"Seems like Rarity wants to get us all together for a little meeting. Seems like without Spike around she's grown bored."
"I would to if I had a child to take care of and nobody to talk to. Oh wait half of that statement is true." He says with a laugh. "Before you ask, I'll be happy to take care of Amy and Dawn while you're away. Besides you need a break from them don't you?" He asks
"If you think that'll be okay." She mentions
"Oh it'll be fine, just inform them." Nodding Fluttershy approaches the girls who were currently feeding a murder of crows with bird seeds and bread.
"Girls, later today I'll be going out and I wanted to know if you were okay if Discord and Eris took care of you." The two looked at each other before nodding.
"It's fine Fluttershy, you've been really nice to us and even taken care of us. You deserve a break." Dawn says smiling as Amy nods still recovering over a sore throat.
"If you two think it's okay." Fluttershy smiles as the two run up to her, hugging her as she hugs back.
Michael...
Nothing very memorable happened during the morning, waking up was pretty standard and I ate breakfast with Applebloom. Most of the extent of my morning was spent with Applebloom, mostly just helping her with chores she hadn't finished or she needed to finish at that point.
Anyway I had to go after helping Bloom, meeting Pixie was probably going to be the highlight of my day. Her royal bitchiness was something I didn't want to see, but then again I dragged myself into the situation. I had no one to blame but myself.
As I continued through town several things had gone around my mind, I had plenty of things to do today. First was actually having both Amy and Dawn in school, since we've got here they've just been with Fluttershy and I'm sure by now she's tired of having them around so much, then there's spending some time with Silver Spoon who was pretty much a cute mare, who I kind of had a connection with and finally knowing what the hell Pixie wanted.
Continuing towards the theater, I pushed opened the double doors and entered walking past the coat checker and upstairs until I reached Pixie's office. Calming myself down I entered and looked to see Pixie sitting on her leather office chair with a smug smile, her hands on the back of her head as she opened them, spotting me as I approached her.
"I'm so glad you're here, I was wondering if I had to go to police and actually press charges. With the law in complete shit hole I honestly thought ponies would be smart enough to us know check us changelings, I mean who would thought that one simple princess would be given the fall victim card." She smiles as she rises from her seat and walks from the back of her office desk and to the front. "Come now, I don't bite. Unless you want me to." She says flashing her sharp teeth.
"Look what do you want? I'm late for work." I mentioned as she giggled and got closer.
"Of course, of course business as usual. Not that I could count on when it comes to you, but whatever suits your mind. Anyway I simply wanted to speak to you about my Burlesque, well before I continue you do know that this is a establishment meant for well dancing, telling off color jokes, and maybe showing some skin from my dancers. This isn't a brothel or a strip club much to most stallions and some mares in Ponyville."
"What's your point? Am I suppose to get something now that you've told me?"
"I simply want to inform you of my business's reputation. Often we get complaints that the rather risqué nature of my theater is harming the children so on and so forth. As far as I'm concerned the only harm this place is giving children, is the ill rumors the parents have been giving."
"And you want me to put a stop to it?" I asked
"Of course not! These rumors fill the curious minds of ponies who otherwise wouldn't bother coming in. I just want to inform you that this place has history and bringing a mare to this theater. I'd say is bold."
"Look I didn't bring Silver Spoon here, she brought me. As far as I'm concerned this place is given the ill reputation because of the owner's change for more dance shows rather then music. But hey that's just me."
"That's sweet a young couple coming to listen to music, I can see the love bloom between you. And that's a positive for me. Just seeing the love is amazing." She mentions as her smile grows larger before sitting down on her seat.
"Is there anything else or are we done?" Pixie giggles and smiles.
"Go on, I don't need anything else. Just stay happy my young little stallion." She says with a smile as I sighed and exited the office.
She was creepy, off and fairly hated by me. But she wasn't too annoying though I know she's going to see more of me through the future I knew this wasn't over.
Later...
I arrived back to the farm I walked up the dirt trail to see Big Mac carrying two wooden buckets of freshly picked apples and taking them to a cart nearby. Approaching the cart Big Mac looked up and smiled.
"So you ready for work?" He asks
"Why not, so what're we doing? Apple picking? Feeding the pigs? Repairs?"
"Nah, we're gonna sell some of our stock in town. Applebloom and Applejack won't be comin' with us." I nodded as he attached a few straps on his shoulders and around his chest.
"You wanna pull or push the cart?" He asks
"Um I'll push, I'm not as strong as you to actually put effort to pull." He chuckles and nods as I pushed from behind and he pulled. Surprisingly it was pretty heavy to push but with Big Mac's strength and size, he pulled it as if he was just walking and pulling a wagon from behind.
"Holy shit man, you're a big dude and all but how can you even pull this crap?" I asked as I continued pushing.
"I've done this for years my friend, once ya find a perfect pullin' spot you're already good." I chuckled and continued from behind as occasionally sweat would come to my view mostly dripping from my forehead. I was pretty fast, my stamina good and on point but when it came to strength. It was something I lacked though in my line of work it was something I almost never used.
In an almost automatic motion my wings began fanning me as if my own new body knew it was time to cool down.
"Neat trick." Big Mac mentions with a small chuckle.
"I guess I'm not all that use to using my own muscles. They're gonna get sore later aren't they?"
"Big time, just don't worry about it. Anyway let's just get to town." Nodding I buckled down as town was a good few miles away.
Elsewhere...
"It's just splendid that we're all together. With my child coming and all its a little difficult for me to even concentrate on my work." Rarity mentions as she sips her tea. Around her were best friends, with recent news of Rarity's pregnancy her friends were always there for her.
"I just hope you aren't overworking yourself, a stressed mother would affect the poor filly." Fluttershy mentions with a smile, though with the invitation to come to the gathering Fluttershy had to let Discord and Eris baby sit both Amy and Dawn.
"Oh don't worry about me darling I'm very well off." She says smiling. "What about the rest of you anything happening?" Both Twilight and Applejack looked at one another, in clear distress. With Michael's passing they didn't know how to break the news.
"Not much, so far being a Wonderbolt is still as awesome as ever!" Rainbow happily mentions making both Rarity and Fluttershy smile.
"Oh that's just divine, what of Soarin' and you? Have you two been doing good?" She asks
"Well yeah, cmon we're like the power couple of the Wonderbolts. Nothing could stop us."
"Speaking of couples, Fluttershy have you been seeing anyone? A mare like you, it wouldn't take long for you to get a stallion." Blushing a bit Fluttershy looked down with embarrassment.
"I just haven't found the right stallion, I know it should be easy, but it's hard finding the one." She says with a small blush:
"Why not join Big Mac's harem! My big sister and Cheerlie been telling me that he's super nice and I can see you and him as a perfect couple." Pinkie mentions with a giggle.
"Please Pinkie, harems are a heavy weight for a stallion to carry. The more mares they have, the more time is spent with them. Like you and Jack, I've heard that you asked both Lotus and Aloe to be apart of his little harem." Rarity says with a giggle.
"Well yeah! I mean he needs a lot of my lovin' plus with two other girls with him it'll be super easier for him to relax!" She giggles as the girls continued talking about relationships they were in, though at one point Fluttershy did consider asking Big Mac, but it was until she met Michael when she changed her mind.
At first she was just there for his sisters, but soon seeing the side of him who'd do his best to relax his mare friends was an amazing sight. If only she was brave enough to actually see him and talk to him about her feelings.
"Twilight, Applejack? You two are awfully quiet, what's wrong?" Fluttershy asks
"Well um girls me and Applejack discovered something a few days ago. Do you all remember Michael?" Twilight asks as they all nod. "We'll certainly I wanted to see how he was doing and it wasn't pretty. Apparently he died, me and Applejack saw everything the ponies around him mentioned that his sisters also died."
"Holy crap, how're we going to explain this to the girls." Rainbow says with a sigh as she pounds her fist.
"Sweetie's going to be devastated. She'll probably blame us." Fluttershy and Pinkie look at the girls upset with the fact that they knew he wasn't gone. Even Rarity had a few tears, with everything happening the two didn't know if they could keep the secret any longer. They might even go to the extreme and plan a funeral for him.
"Girls, we need to tell you something." Fluttershy says with a sigh.
Author's Note
Things are escalating and Babysitter Discord and Eris, nothing could go right with those two as babysitters. Cheers everyone
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