Oh Brother...

Thunder let out a slight groan and lifted himself from his bed. Letting out a sigh he looked around, finding himself in an unfamiliar room. Quickly remembering it was his brothers bedroom he was letting him sleep in. Looking over to where Lightning slept last night he saw the bed was empty.

Letting out a sigh he laid back down and closed his eyes. He was tempted to go back to sleep, but refused to let himself do so and got up. Jumping out of the bed, Thunder let out a light yawn as he rubbed an eye with a hoof.

Stepping out of the bedroom and down the corridor, he thought back to yesterday. It hadn't been exactly has he had hoped... He didn't really get to talk much with Lightning and he didn't know Lyra and Bonbon well enough to get into any real conversations. They hadn't done much just ran around, sat around and went to nice restaurants.

Stepping off from the stairs he looked around the kitchen and saw Lightning painting something against a wall, humming lightly to himself. Thunder blinked, snuck up beside Lightning and looked at what he was painting. It was an interesting sight. It was a sky full of clouds with the sun shinning around it, with two pegasus' flying next to each other, holding a filly, the two pegasus' were smiling brightly.

Thunder took a moment to gawk at Lightning's artwork. The clouds were nicely detailed, the sun gave of a beautiful shine and the light it gave shined over surfaces nicely and the two pegasus' and fillies coat textures and mane style looked really well drawn and well shaded.

Lightning drawings looked good before he moved to Ponyville, sure, but they never looked this good. It was usually just well drawn environments and ponies. Thunder could tell his brother had defiantly been practicing in the past year.

Lightning didn't seem to notice Thunder's presence as he scanned the painting to make sure there wasn't any extra details he needed to add. Letting out a content 'Hmph' he turned to a water bucket and dropped the paint brush in, causing Thunder to realise he was holding it with his mouth and not his magic like his paint palette, and turned around, coming face to face with Thunder.

Letting out a yelp, he jumped backward a bit, staring wide eyed. "Woah! Oh, hey! You're awake!" Lightning said, before letting out a sigh. "Great, cool, great. Good morning." He continued tiredly.

"Um... Good morning." Thunder said blinking. Looking to the painting Lightning had drawn, he grinned a bit and turned to him. "That's a great painting you made there." He complimented, watching Lightning blink and glance at the painting before grinning happily.

"Oh, thanks. It took like a week to make." Lightning thanked turning to the painting and putting it aside with his magic.

A week?! Thunder would've guessed it had taken longer, considering how good it looked. Thunder blinked as he watched Lightning walk to a pantry and pull out an unfinished painting. Narrowing his eyes at it while Lightning used his magic to place it on the easel, Thunder let out an 'um'. "Is... is that?" He questioned.

Lightning grinned and looked over at Thunder. "Yup! It's princess Celestia!" He exclaimed excitedly. Thunder could swear Lightning read his mind, because he answered his question he was just about to ask. "I'm painting it because I was asked to make one for the Summer Sun Celebration next month." He explained waving a hoof, as he used his magic to pick up the paint pallet and paint brush, which he began to shake dry. "They asked me to make it so that it has Celestia raising the sun up high while the moon sets behind her."

Thunder blinked and watched as Lightning grabbed the brush out of the air with his mouth and began to dab it into the various paints. "Wait, why're you doing this now when you didn't do it yesterday?" He questioned, raising a brow.

Lightning took the brush out of his mouth with his magic so his speech wouldn't be muffled and began speaking. "Because yesterday was like, a... day off for me. Now that it's over I need to work on this." He explained grabbing the brush again.

Thunder blinked and looked at the painting he had put to the side. "But... wait, what about that one?" Lightning looked over to it and started levitating the brush again.

"Oh, that one? I was asked to make that one before this one. I was about half way done with it when I was asked to do the one for the Summer Sun Celebration." He explained waving a hoof, with a roll of his eyes. "I decided to go back and forth between the two, so I could work on both and not lose to much time on them."

"Who's it for?"

"Um... A family of Pegasi." Lightning stated, narrowing his eyes. Thunder guessed that should've been obvious.

"Well... Why don't you take it to them?" Thunder questioned, lowering a brow at Lightning.

"Well, one, they live in the Cloudsdale, two, I can't fly, and three, the paint's not dry yet." Lightning stated off, looking to the side as he did. Thunder hummed and looked at the painting.

"Okay then, makes sense. But how do you plan on letting them know it's done?" Thunder questioned. Lightning hummed and turned back to the portrait of Celestia.

"I'll send them a letter. I might not be able to fly but Derpy... sort of can." Lightning said, taking a moment to think about his words.

"Um... who's Derpy?" Thunder asked, raising a brow.

"The mail mare, Depry Hooves." Lightning answered but then passed and looked down in thought. "Well, I guess her name is Ditzy Doo, but most pony's call her Derpy Hooves." Lightning explained. Thunder opened his mouth to ask why ponies would do that but Lightning answered him before he could even ask. "If you're wondering why ponies do that, you'll know when you see her."

Thunder's lips thinned while he thought about what he had just been told. Ponies gave this, Ditzy Doo pony, the nickname 'Derpy Hooves' based on how she looked? That sounded a bit mean...

Thunder was brought out of his thoughts by a growl from his stomach. Letting out a slight huff from his nose he walked to the kitchen to get something to eat. Grabbing the left overs from yesterday, Thunder walked over to the kitchen, sat down placed his food and began to eat.

Looking over at Lightning he saw him start to paint some sun rays pushing against the shade of the night sky and light glow of the moon, right behind Celestia.

"Hey Lightning." Thunder called out to his twin and waited for him to turn and face him. "We're gonna be able to hand out today, right?" He asked, lowering his ears.

Lightning blinked and lifted the brush with his Lightning again. "Oh, yeah, sure. I usually stop painting for the day at five o clock in the afternoon, we should be able to hang out then." He nodded before picking up the paint brush and returning to his painting.

Thunder blinked, looked down at his meal and then to the clock. ten o' nine. Sighing, Thunder looked down and continued eating.

This month he was hoping to spend time with his brother was not exactly turning out the way he had hoped so far.