Feather Paw's Destiny

"Guys!"  I yelled through the window. "It's time to come in!" I said opening the door for them. "Come on Shining it's time for dinner!" As I came in I found Shining following me closing the door behind him, going into the kitchen I took out some daisy and daffodils.

"Hey do you want daffodils and daisies with an apple? I asked Shining opening the door to the refrigerator

"Sure, hey um, Feath?" He asked getting the plates from the cupboard

"Yeah?" I replied looking in the bottom draws of the fridge for the apples

"Do you know why dad is acting this way"

"Yes I do... but I-- I can't do this just don't say anything to him or mom.

He didn't respond.... as I got the apples out of the fridge, I ran over to the bowl on the counter and got some daisies and daffodils out then I put in the daisies and daffodils in a bowl and tossed it. I cut the apples and then put all of them on the stove and when they were done put them on plates and asked Shining to put the salad and the grilled apples on the table. After that I went up to mom and dad's room and knocked on there door ever so slightly and told them it was time for dinner. When I came down Shining was setting the table and putting napkins down under the silverware.

Hey, maybe I'll get my cutie mark in sword fighting" he said picking up the fork and swinging it around before jabbing it in the table. "Um Feather? I think I got the fork stuck in the table..."

"Of course you did" I said rolling my eyes and prying the fork out of the table.

When mom and dad came down we all ate a peaceful dinner, sadly there was a lack of conversation between mom and dad and an awkward silence between dad and I. As I looked over at mom I realized she had tear stains down her face and her face was also red. I also realized that mom and dad had been in their room for the entire day screaming at one another. So I had a feeling that dinner was not going to go well if one of us opened our mouth and by one of us of course I meant dad.

After dinner mom made dessert and dad cleared the table, after dessert mom told us it was time to go to bed. When Shining and I went upstairs and brushed our teeth and went into our rooms, I always read before I go to bed and I always close my door but as for my brother he liked keeping the hall light on and his door open. When I started reading my book it was so quiet downstairs I thought mom and dad had left, there was no yelling, no fighting, nothing. Not a peep. And it was actually quite nice not having any noise it the house.

After a good half an hour of reading I decided maybe it was time to go to bed. Let mom and dad work out there differences downstairs and let us get some rest.

During the night I was woken up by the light of the hallway shining into my room, but I was so sleep deprived I thought I was hallucinating. So I closed my eyes again, a couple seconds later I was woken up again some pony jostling me around and tapping me on the shoulder.

"ugh" I moaned "five more minutes"

As the tapping continued I groggily opened my eyes and sat up in my bed "What do you want" I groaned "It's one forty-five in the morning" I said looking at my alarm clock

"Feather Paw? I'm scared" My brother replied sitting on my bed "It's one forty-five in the morning and their screaming at each other."

As my body allowed me to wake myself up I was more aware of my surroundings and the noise going on around me. I realized that coming from mom and dad's room there was a lot of noise and yelling.

"Can I sleep in your room tonight? Please?" He said

" Shining Sword?! What are you still doing up though?" I asked

"I told you... they're screaming at each other" He replied

As I looked at my clock once more I realized it was now one fifty four the morning and went back to bed, but before I had the chance too, Shining asked me a question.

"What do you think their fighting about?"

"Probably us and their marriage and what not..." I told him slowly closing my eyes drifting off to sleep. "Get some rest. At least try. Everything will be better in the morning."

As I closed my eyes and drifted off I looked out my window and saw the moon, knowing the moon was out was just comforting to me some how. Then I went to sleep.

Later that night I had a dream... there were many nightmares or something like that surrounding me and as I looked at all of them they looked... negative. Let's see, there was one that I saw that looked weird. It was Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom, they came up to the door and knocked, then I answered. My mane was really messy and so was my fur... looked like I hadn't brushed it in months,

"What do you want" I scowled at them

"Um... want to come out and play, we were thinking of trying to earn our cutie marks again" Scootaloo said

"Go away! You know I'm not apart of that anymore!" And shut the door in there face

In the next little nightmare I was in my room, my door closed, and my room all messed up you know. Stuff on the floor, things in my drawers hanging out. And I was sitting on the floor hunched over a checklist saying must check and recheck and check it again. I didn't know what I was checking but I heard mom and dad yelling and told them to be quiet. And in another nightmare it was about my mom. She was in the house sitting at the table reciting things under her breath using sock puppets to act something out... one looked like dad and the other one was her I'm assuming and she was mumbling and saying things to herself that made absolute no sense like divorce, no pony can't and kick them out, they don't care to stay. Which I felt was really disturbing.

In my next dream I was in the present and my dad was telling me to leave and kick me out, mom sat at the table and watched dad kick me out, when I walked out the door he shut the door and locked it. And I walked away from the house with my head down.

When I woke up from a cold sweat I though to myself maybe it was better if I left. Mom and Dad might not fight anymore, and Shining and I might be able to... to run away from all that's happened.

As I got out of bed I got a piece of paper and a quill and trotted into the bathroom, when I got into the bathroom I closed the door and taped the paper to the back of the door. Then I started thinking what I would need to bring with me, as I started to think I knew that I would definitely need

-Food

-Water

-The bag of bits

-My Saddle bag

-Dry Clothes

and obviously there was more to come but Shining could put some stuff in his saddle bag. When I was done making my checklist, I went into Shining Sword's room and dug through his closet.(Trust me, that was not one of the things on my bucket list.) When I finally  found his saddle bag I went back it to my room using my horn for a flashlight and got my quills, parchment, and some of his dry clothes and put them into his saddlebag. When that side of the bag was full I bought both my saddle bag and his saddlebag down to the kitchen and filled it with some bottles of water, apples and oats. Than when I came back to my room I made packed a little more into our saddlebags and then decided we were ready.

When I was about to wake him up I looked at him. Peacefully sleeping, I didn't want to wake him up but I had no choice if I wanted to make it out of the house by a quarter to three

"Shining, It's time to wake up...."

"Wha--- wait why... Celestia hadn't even risen the sun." He replied putting his head back to the pillow.

"Yes, that's why we need to leave. NOW!"

"Fine" He said getting up and out of the bed. "Where are we even going"

"I'll explain on the way. Come on!" I said dragging him out of the bed "Here, I already have your saddle bag packed, can you use your horn to make a little flashlight glow while I write?"

"Sure" Shining replied

I took a piece a paper from the drawer and began to write

Dear Mom and dad,

I know you guys are going through a lot right now, but if you and dad are going to be fighting around Shining and I maybe it'd be best if we had left. I love you both even if you don't love me back, but I do know one thing. I am not going to make you choose between your marriage and your kids, and maybe while we are gone. You might be able to solve your problems. I am so sorry. And while I really don't want to write this I have too, me and Shining Sword are leaving. But don't worry maybe we'll return in a couple of moons.

Love always,

Shining Sword and Feather Paw

I taped the parchment paper to the dining room table and left the quill next to it. And then we walked over to the door.

"Say your last goodbyes and a last look, because we'll be gone for a while" I told Shining Sword thinking where we would go.

And then opened the door and walked out.

-----To be continued