Fenrir
Chapter 03
Previous ChapterNext Chapter“I must say Miss Fluttershy, besides my beloved, I have never met a pony so interested in warg culture, it is quite refreshing.”
“Oh I'm interested in all predatory races, ever since me and Gilda got together; she got me really hooked on discovering all the little nuisances of each species.”
“How is Gilda doing by the way?” asked Twilight
“Good, though she misses me, and Scootaloo...plus her letters have been getting a bit....well, they have been leaning toward a certain topic.”
“What do you mean?” asked Twilight.
“Well...” said Fluttershy, stuttering a bit before finally speaking further. “She has been wanting to expand the cottage, and has been asking me...well asking me how I would feel about adding more cubs to our family.”
Twilight looked confused, but Fenrir laughed at that, “Ah, her nesting phase is starting to take hold.”
“Funny,” said Fluttershy with a chuckle, “Gilda's mother said the same thing.”
“Nesting Phase?” asked Twilight.
“It's when Griffons start getting along in the family way,” said Fluttershy with a smile, “it seems Gilda wants to settle down, but...well, I don't know what to tell her. I mean yeah, I love foals dearly, but I know Gilda, and she'll want a large family, and I don't know if I can handle all those little ones running around.”
“You do realize she will be there with you right, if she wants to settle, she will settle hard, probably moving in with you and everything.”
Fluttershy blinked at that, “huh...I hadn't really thought about tha....”
She then saw the clock, gasping before getting up and bowing to Fenrir, “Thank you for your information, but I have to go pick up my daughter now, I'll see you later though, and you to Twilight.”
She sprinted out the door, Twilight laughing a bit, till she saw Spike enter, the dragon's eyes widening as he saw Fenrir, who got up and walked over to him with a concerned look on his face as he spoke. “Hello little one, I know you probably don't remember me, after all you were but a babe when you met...”
Spike rushed forward and hugged him, Fenrir hesitating for a moment before wrapping him up in a hug as well, tears welling in his eyes as he nuzzled into the dragon he saw as his own.
After a few moments, Twilight joined in on the hug, the group hug lasting a good while till finally Spike extracted himself with a grumble. “Ok ok, you didn't need to make it mushy Twilight.”
“Says the dragon who ran up and hugged his father,” said Twilight sweetly, leaning against Fenrir with a smile on her face.
“Whatever mo….wait….father?”
Twilight nodded, “yes, or he will be soon, won't you dear?”
Fenrir nodded, “I have already sent a letter to my clan, and we should be hearing news from them soon.”
As if on cue, Spike belched a gout of fire, two scrolls flying out one at a time, Twilight grabbing them immediately and beginning to read the first one out loud.
“To My Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle. I have recently gotten news that Fenrir has moved into town, as well as that he has plans to marry you. I cannot put into words how excited I am for you, nor how exciting this will be for many of us.”
“I must admit, I only found out about this from Fenrir's beloved mother, who received the news of Fenrir's intentions while meeting with several heads of the Responsible Predator's Movement, and they have made a rather insistent request. The way they see it, your marriage is the perfect opportunity to show that wargs can coexist peacefully with ponies, after all as they say; why would a pony marry a warg if they are all monsters.”
“So, and you have every right to say no to this, they wish to send a few representatives and press to your wedding, so that they can show the world a union between a warg and a pony, a love defying the ages. Again, you have every right to say no, and you don't need to give an answer right away, but know I and my sister will be attending, for I would not miss your wedding for anything in the world. Your beloved mentor, Princess Celestia.”
“P.S. I have also sent the letter from Fenrir's mother along with this one, that he won’t have to wait for it in the mail.”
Twilight set the letter down, smiling a bit before handing him his letter.
“Aren't you going to send a response to her about the representatives?”
“That can come later; I want to know what Mama wrote you.”
Fenrir smiled at that, and knew that his mother would be overjoyed to know Twilight still called her that, and proceeded to open the letter and read.
“To my dearest son, your letter has come as a great surprise to me, for like many of the pack, we had often figured that the claws of adventure had sunk deep into you and made permanent residence, but now my heart can rest easy. I am also gladdened to hear that you intend to keep pursuing things with Twilight Sparkle, for that mare was like a daughter to the pack, and to know that will soon become a reality is such a wonderful thing.”
“Because of this, we are moving the pack to Ponyville, both to be there for the wedding, and because the village we have been living near has become rather hostile towards us, and it will be safer for the cubs if we are near a village that is a lot more open minded.”
“Now I will need you to go to the Mayor of Ponyville and see if it is alright for us to move there, though you probably won’t have any problems on that end, for she is one of us if I am not mistaken. Also, we will have a matter to discuss when we arrive, but that can wait, and most likely Celestia has already informed Twilight of it, so you can prepare yourself in the meantime.”
“With that said, give Twilight my love for me, and make sure to get her to write her parents, for they should be at the wedding as well. With love, Larentia of clan Nuntis.”
Finishing the letter, he set it down with a smile, before turning to Twilight and speaking. “I suppose we have some things to prepare, but first, would you mind accompanying me to the Mayor’s office?”
“I would love to,” said Twilight, before getting up and following him as they headed out, Twilight telling Spike to mind the library while they were gone before closing the door behind them.
*
Rarity was not in the best of moods today, for she had nearly had her head torn off by her old friend when she had tried to get her to see reason on the issue of Twilight dating a warg. It had not gone at all how she wanted it, for like so many times before, she forgot how deep Applejack's hatred for wargs ran.
However, if she had to be honest, Rarity thought Applejack was being rather stupid, holding on to this hatred the way she was. More and more ponies were starting to become more accepting of wargs thanks to the less agreeable tribes either dying out or finally joining the movement.
But the Apples were still holding on to their hatred, and from what Rarity was seeing, recently it was starting to cost them dearly. Many businesses were starting to not do business with the Apple Family due to their bigotry, even with Apple's like Big Macintosh, because for every one of him, there were ten Applejack's ruining the Apple Family's reputation.
As she walked however, she became surprised when she saw Big Mac standing outside the door to her boutique with Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, her little sister holding the young earth pony as she cried while Big Mac stood protectively over them both.
“Why love,” said Rarity as she got close, “what are you doing here, I wasn't expecting you till tonight, and why is Apple Bloom crying.”
“Can we go inside and talk about this,” asked Big Mac, “I don't want many ponies knowing about this yet.”
Rarity nodded, opening the door and watching as Sweetie Belle led Apple Bloom up to her room, and then she headed with Big Mac into the kitchen and got a pot going for tea.
“Ok love, talk to me, you look positively out of sorts.”
“....Me and Applejack got into a big fight today,” said Big Mac, “it was over Twilight.”
“I see,” said Rarity, “so she told you we met Twilight's special somepony, and that that somepony was a warg.”
That got an eyebrow raise from Big Mac, “She said she found out Twilight was dating a warg, she said nothing about the warg actually being here, no wonder she was in such a fit about it.”
“It was more than a fit,” said Rarity, “the moment she saw him Applejack bucked him in the head while mistaking a love nip for a bite.”
“....He ain't dead is he?”
“Of course not,” said Rarity, “he was conscious when I left, but let's leave that for later, I want to hear about this fight, for it must have been serious if you brought Apple Bloom to my door.”
“Well the gist of it is I told her me and Bloom wouldn't be living with them anymore as long as they held the views they did, so I have effectively moved out of my own home. Which....leads me to this question....do yah mind of we move in with yah?”
He braced himself for a freak out, and instead saw Rarity sigh, the mare placing a cup of tea in front of him before sitting down herself and speaking. “It’s no trouble love, I already have things prepared for when this moment possibly came, I'll get Apple Bloom's bed from the basement.”
“What, no bed for me?” asked Big Mac.
Rarity gave him a smirk, “Come now darling, with what Dashie, you and I do together, I think we can agree you and I don't need to sleep in separate beds, especially seeing as how I know you will be doing the same when you are at Dashie's place.”
Big Mac stared at her a moment, then chuckled, “Guess I'm still not used to this.”
“It's ok dear,” said Rarity, “Now what say you and I talk to the children, for this will no doubt put smiles on their faces.”
*
“By my namesake’s twin tails, it’s you?”
Twilight stared at her mate, flabbergasted at his reaction to the mayor, and then became even more flabbergasted when the mayor answered back.
“Ah, a warg, nice to know my story still gets spread among the tribes.”
“Ok I'm missing something,” said Twilight, “who is she to you?”
“How can you not know who she is,” said Fenrir as he turned to his mate and spoke. “She is the daughter of The Morrighan, the goddess of the wargs and oldest of us, and first pony to ever be raised among wargs.”
Twilight's eyes widened in shock, then widened further when Mayor Mare removed her tie, her eyes becoming like a wolves and a tattoo running from the right side of her face down the right side of her neck and ending at her right fore-hoof appeared, the mare smiling as she spoke, revealing fangs.
“Glad to be recognized, and it’s good to meet you at last Fenrir, mother speaks highly of you and your clan.”
“I am glad, which actually brings us to why we came here.”
“I see,” said Mayor, gesturing to the chairs as she sat down as well, smiling at them both as she spoke again. “Well, what do you need to talk to me about?”
“How would you feel about a warg clan moving into the Everfree Forest?”
“I would be open to it,” said Mayor Mare with a smile, “Though you will have to deal with our local Apple Family members, they will probably try and launch a protest over it.”
“We have handled bigotry before mam,” said Fenrir, “and from what I have seen so far this town seems far more accepting then the village we are currently protecting, so a few neighsayers won’t hurt us too much.”
“Then you have my full support,” said Mayor Mare with another smile. “I'll prepare and announcement to give to my citizens, and in the meantime you can get to informing your mother that I approve. To be honest, I have wanted to open up the forest for a clan to move in, as it would make things much safer, so your timing could not have been more perfect.”
“Glad to have helped,” said Fenrir, “Also, just to let you know, some reporters as well as representatives from the Responsible Predator's Movement will be showing up as well, as I will be having my wedding here with my mate Twilight and...well, it is a pretty historic event.”
Mayor Mare's eyes widened at that, the mare turning toward the princess and speaking, “Is this true?”
Twilight nodded, “Yeah, I mean it is an important event, and it would be wrong of me to want to keep it a private affair when it would mean so much to other couples like us, after all, if they see one of their princesses embracing a warg, even a relatively new one, it will help many to overcome their fears and possibly bring their relationships out into the open.”
“That is very brave of you,” said Mayor Mare, putting on her tie and allowing its enchantment to take hold once again before speaking. “Now get, I have a lot of paperwork to do.”
Author's Note
Woo, the next chapter of Fenrir out and about, god’s that was fun to finish, also, expect next chapter to be really interesting, and yes, that means more bigoted Applejack ahead, as well as Granny Smiths first appearance in this fick...so yeah, look forward to that.
And if any of you were wondering, The Morrigahn is essentially the wargs version of an alicorn, though she has two elk horns instead a unicorn horn.
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