When we exited the portal, we were just outside Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack decided to drive the truck home, and tell the rest of her family about it. I talked to the Oni inside of it, and told her what she would be doing, and she understood. She was happy to be somewhere that didn't smell like oil and sewage, as she said. I understood. I then asked Twilight to start trying to find a source of alternative fuel for the truck, and she said she would. Then, it was off to Canterlot to go pick up my daughter. I was accompanied by Pinkie Pie, as she didnt have much to do.

As we waited for the train, I sat down, cracked open a Monster, and just stared at my home. I was happy to be back. Pinkie saw me, and leaned over on me.

"Happy to be back?" She asks. I nod.

"Everything is so much more peaceful here. Dont get me wrong, it still has some problems, but they are small compared to Earth's. Here, I can sniff the air and taste how clean it is. I go to a stream of water, or the fountain in the center of town, scoop a handful of water, and I don't have to worry about dying of harsh metals contaminating the water and almost killing me. I don't have to worry about rich people taking over the government and trying to ruin our lives." Pinkie thinks for a second, and says.

"Actually, you do have to worry about that last one, but I get your point. Its good to be relaxed. It's okay." She snuggles up to me, and I give her a hug, squishing her closer.

"Lets take a nap on the train. Set your alarm to wake us when we get there." I say to her, and she just giggles, saying fine.

The train comes, we get on, and fall asleep, cuddling each other.

About five minutes from Canterlot, Pinkie wakes me up. We get up, untangling ourselves from our cuddle, and stretch, then talk till we reach the station.

Getting off the train, we start towards the castle. Trudging through the streets, passing chariots pulled by oxen. We make it to the castle entrance, and upon seeing Pinkie, they open the gates.

The first thing we do is head to the throne room. Before we ge there though, we hear a bit of yelling, so we pick up our pace. Entering the throne room, I see my daughter in her grown form, fighting Luna with the Vibro Axe. Luna was using a kopesh and round shield. She was attacking Satan like she was the devil.

"Come on, you can fight better than that. Swing your weapon with a light grip, and tense when you hit. Your weapon might be able to cut through most things, but it wont help if you die from sloppy handling." She says, using the kopesh to fling the weapon out of my daughters grip, and flinging it towards me and Pinkie.

As it was heading towards my face, I caught it.

"You know, I should probably make you a weapon. Make it a bit more personal. What do you think?" I say, and Satan looks at me. Her eyes widen, and she starts to run at me. I get ready.

When she jumps to give me a hug, she turns back into a little girl, and lands in my arms, screeching.

"Daddy! Your home! I missed you. Did you miss me? What all happened? I smell demon. Did you fight Mologan? I love you daddy. Please dont leave me again." I just hug her, squeezing her gently.

"I'm not going anywhere. And hey, if I die, you can go to hell and drag my ass out. Hows that sound?v she looks at me, and I dont need eyes for me to tell that she is happy. She hugs me again, and I carry her.

"Hey Luna. What was that all about?" I ask.

"She said she wished to learn to fight, so I offered to train her. I agree, you should make her a weapon." I nod. Then, Celestia gets up.

"Its good to see you again, Cameron, Pinkie." I bow as best I can with my daughter in my arms. Then, a bird flies in and lands on a nearby stand. I look, and it is a Phoenix. Celestia smiles at the bird, and turns to me.

"Cameron, meet Philomena. She is my pet and companion." She walks over and strts to stroke the birds feathers. I walk over, and look at the majestic creature. Luna joins us, as does Pinkie, and Luna looks sad.

"Hey Luna, do you have a pet?" I ask. Luna shakes her head.

"No. It sadly perished a long time ago. Hunted and killed by some poacher, as Celestia says." Celestia looks sad as well.

"I'm sorry Luna. I tried to find it, I did. But she ran, and I couldnt help her. When the poacher claimed he had found a nine tailed fox in the forest, and had successfully hunted it and killed it, I tried him for killing the last of their kind. But I couldnt bring her back." She hugs Luna as she starts crying, and I join her.

"Luna, if I could make you a new companion, would you like them to be Kitsune?" I say. I could do it, but I want it to be her decision.

Luna looks at me, incredulous.

"You would make me a new companion? How?" I sigh.

"It wouldnt be hard, just time consuming. It would take me a full day to make it. Also, she won't be the same as your first companion. But, I can make her if you want." Luna hugs me, almost squeezing all the air out of me.

"Please." She says, choking up. I hug her.

"Your wish, is my command." I say. Pinkie jois me, and we stop hugging after a few seconds.

"Well, I'm ready to head home. Tomorrow I can start on the Kitsune, and I will send a letter when I need you to put the heart in." I say. The princesses nod, and we all say bye to each other. I've put Satan down, and she is walking along holding mine and Pinkies hands. She has started to wear more normal clothes I stead of just a baggy shirt.

She was wearing a light turquoise shirt with a black hoodie that wasnt a full zipper, it stopped about a quarter from the bottom and had a red trim It's hood had cat ears and a face, and the entire thing had some faint star pattern all across it. She he'd on a set of light turquoise leggings, and a pair of all black converse, with red laces not tied all the way up.

We got on the train home, and reached it pretty quickly. It was getting late, and Pinkie said goodbye. Then me and Satan walked home. I tucked her into bed, and went to sleep myself.

The next day, I sent Satan off to school, and then I decided to start on Luna's gift. Heading to my workshop, I got ready. My arm started to glow purple.

First, I grabbed some obsidian, and some metal. The metal I grabbed was from a couple of meteorites I had found on a few of my hunting trips for the butcher. Speaking of, I probably should do so again soon. Setting the meteorites aside for now, I grabbed the obsidian block I had bought at one point from Pinkie and her family. The stone was about 6'×3'×4'. It had a nice pattern of white swirls and speckles.

I started on the tails first, as they would be the hardest, with the face being second hardest. I spent an hour shaping each tail, and shaving the hair detail into them. When I was done, I had shaped nine tails, about three feet long each tail. Each tail had hair, and almost galaxy shaped swirls in them.

Next, I went to Fluttershy's, and asked her if she had a fox friend I could borrow. She did, and she called over a nice red fox named Artemis. She was a pretty little fox, and she followed me home while I told her what she needed to do. She nodded, and I went back to work. She posed well, and II was able to get her body shape created in moments. Moments being an hour and a half. After, she took a small nap, while I started on making it he smaller details. Looking to her for reference, I made fur along the body, and made nebulae and galaxies with the swirls and speckles. Stars covered her.

After Artemis woke up, I had her sit near me, and started to sculpt the head. The head took about two hours to make, and came out perfect. At the half hour mark, I had Artemis open her mouth so that I could make one for Luna's new companion. She did, and whenever I looked over at her, she opened wide, showing me the detail of her teeth and mouth. It went smoothly with her help.

I dont know when, but eventually I heard a yelp, and Artemis took off. I decided to stop, and went to see what was up, and when I walked out the workshop to see who came up, I saw Artemis in the arms of Fluttershy.

"Hey Fluttershy, whats up?" She looks at me.

"Noone has seen you all day except me, so I was coming to see what was going on, and to see how Artemis was. What are you doing anyways?" I smile.

"Wanna come see?" She nods and gets up, carrying the little fox. I lead her into the workshop, and when she sees the statue of the nine tailed fox, she gasps.

"So, what happened is, when I went to Canterlot to pick Satan up yesterday, she was fighting Satan, and showing her how. When it was over, Philomena came in, and Luna got sad. Turns out, her companion was killed by a poacher a long time ago. Well, my soft heart couldnt take her beingnsad, so I offered to make a new companion for her. Her last companion was the last Kitsune, or nine tailed fox, so her new friend will be one too." Fluttershy is slightly crying, and I give her a hug..

"So this is where you've been? What else do you have to do to finish?" I think.

"Well, I need to finish the eyes, probably some gems from Rarity, or maybe some of the library or tree of Harmony. Oh, some heterochromia sounds good. Anyways, after that, I need to cut the statue in half, and hollow it out, and make a thaumic metal skeleton for it, then, I need to make it a brain, and then a heart. After that, I need to place enchantments in it, to make the galaxies and nebulae move like they are real. And, I need to do some painting, mainly a moon on the forehead." Fluttershy nods.

"Well, if thats the case, then you can hold on to Artemis for a little bit. I'll go tell the girls whats happening, and we can get you some crystal from the library. And maybe from the tree, but it will be a special trip." I nod.

"I can go to the tree, if one of you can get a small shard of the library. Not much, just a small, almost grape sized piece." Fluttershy nods, then says goodbye, and then leaves. Artemis stays with me, and we finish the little bit more we need. As I finish up the nose, I feel a presence behind me.

"Faust, how are you? Come to see me?" I ask.

"Yes. Also, here to give you something." I sit up, and turn around. When I see her, she is looking at the statue, and smiling. She looks at me and holds up some crystal.

"I heard what your doing, so I decided to help. Just a small sliver of the tree of Harmony. For the eyes." I stand up and take the offered piece, and say.

"Thank you. You wanna watch?" I ask. She nods. So, I sit back down and start carving the eye sockets. Turning from Artemis to the stone, I make the eyes as best I can. After the sockets are done, I then move to the crystal, and put one finger on it. Then, I work some magic.

As I do, my finger starts to vibrate. I will my finger to do what I want, and not shatter the crystal. And eventually, a crack is heard. I pull away, and look at the crystal.

The light blue crystal now has an expansive tangle of spiderweb cracks flowing through it, but the gem isn't shattered. The cracks are well defined, and can be seen when staring into them. Showing it to Faust, she takes it and looks at it for a few minutes.

"You can get lost in that. That is beautiful." I thank her, and then proceed to put the eye in, making it go through the eyelid piece of stone I hollowed out to make a socket. After that, I stop for a second and stretch, and that is when I can hear voices from outside. I get up and head out, and see all my girls there. They see me and call out a greeting.

"Hey girls, how are all of you? Sorry for not getting out to see you much." Rarity just scoffs.

"Darling, if what Fluttershy and Pinkie have told us is true, then what your doing is more important. We just care about our herd master."I nod.

"Sorry girls. I understand. By the way, want to see what I have so far?" they all nod and follow me into the workshop.

When they see the statue, and the one eye, they all are amazed. I notice Faust has left, but I see a note. I pick it up and read it.

'Dear Cameron,

Thank you for what you are doing for Luna. She has been lonely as of recent, so giving her a new companion will do good for her. For whatever your mother did wrong, she did right in making you a kind man. That is why those six love you.

Love,
Faust.'

I smirk, and put the note in my pocket. The girls are still marveling over the statue, and I ask.

"Does one of you have the piece of the library?" Twilight nods.

"Yes right here. It took me a minute to get it off with some magic. Is that the size you need?" I take the piece, and look at it. Its exactly the size, and I nod, already thinking. I place it on the workable, and put my finger on it, making it vibrate. I do the same as last time, and the crystal cracks. When I take my finger off, it top has a tangle of spiderweb cracks throughout it. It looks shattered. The girls all Marvel at it, and Rarity asks me to teach her how to do it. I tell her later.

"Hey, does anyone know what time it is?" Twilight looks at the clock, and says.

"About three in the afternoon. Wait, that means the kids will be out of school soon. We should probably head on over to pick them up, and we'll bring them back to see the statue if your not done by then." I nod, and start to place the eye in. It goes in well, and I stop for the time being, and tell Artemis to come get some food with me. She hops up and follows.

Heading inside, I grab some food for us, a few strips of chicken and some raspberries. She gobbles them down while I eat a ham and cheese sandwich. While I eat, I think of what I need to do now.

Well, I still need to cut it in half and hollow it out. Then, I should make the skeleton. I need to put enchantments on the joints to make the rock move organically, or it will just shatter. Then, I need to make a brain and a thaumic nervous system from it to the joints, and the tail, so it can move all of them. After that, I need to make the heart. I will head to the tree to get some crystal for the heart, dont want Faust to make another trip, and I want to say hello to the tree. Once I can start on the heart, I will need to place the top on and seal it up. Dont want it coming to life not fully together. That should be all, and then Luna needs to come and place the heart. Yeah, that should be it.

We finish our food, and the girls are arriving with Satan and the CMC. Satan runs to me and gives me a hug. The other follow a bit slower, but I get a hug from them too.

"Hey girls, how are you? Any trouble at school?" I ask. They all shake their heads no. Scootaloo then asks.

"Rainbow said you were doing something cool. Can we see it?" All of them nod, and I agree, and lead them to the workshop.

"Now dont touch anything. We dont need you crushing a hand or anything of the like. Just look." They all nod, and look around. When they see the statue, they all run over to it, and gawk at it. Sweetie Belle compliments it.

"This looks really good. I like how the swirls in the obsidian look like galaxies and nebulae. It already looks almost alive."

"Thanks Sweetie. I still have a ways to go, but it's almost done. You can stay and watch, but first I need to go get something, so you need to leave. I wasn't joking about the danger in here. You can play one of the cleaner games on the Xbox while I'm gone." They nod and start to leave. I follow behind and lock the door. The girls have told me of their adventures, and I wasnt going to take any chances. I made sure Artemis was out before hand though. After that, I went with the girls into the house, and got the games ready for them. After that, I walked out the house.

Then, I transformed into the hyena howler. The original howler form. Then, I took off into the woods. Running for about ten minutes, I reached the gorge that lead to the tree. Springing down the cliff walls, I made my way to the trees hollow. As I make my way in, I feel a warmth settle around me.

I walk to the tree, and place a hand on it. I can feel the tree swell with power, and a vine wraps around me in a hug. Then, the vine starts to go into my crystal arm. After it does, I say.

"Hello again." I am sent an image of a filly smiling. Then, she sends me a picture of Faust with a questioning look on her face.

"I am here to ask a favor of you. I am making a new friend for Luna, and it will need a strong heart. I could make it of other crystal, but it wouldnt be the same. I want it to be like her old companion. So, I would like to ask you if I could have some more crystal, to make a heart for the Kitsune?" I am sent an image of an old grandmare, with a warm smile on her face. The next picture I see is more of a movie. It shows one of the branches, about midway up the tree, growing what looks like a fruit. As it gets bigger, I can see it looks like the crystal heart up in the empire, but smaller. It is pure white, and radiates a calm, peaceful energy. Then, the tree show me an image of the Elements of Harmony, then a picture of the moon.

"The Element of the Moon." The tree sends me an image of a happy filly. I nod.

"Thank you. Luna will be so happy when this is finished. Thank you." The tree send s me the smiling grandmare again, and pulls the vine out of my arm, before wrapping me in another hug. I hug back.

After that, I climb into the tree and find the branch with the heart. Pinking it like an apple, I climb out, and say goodbye again, before heading off back home.

Reaching the house, I go in to find the mane 6 here, making supper.

"Is it really already supper time. Damn, can you call me when supper is ready? Please. I think Luna would like it if she got her pet at night. And it almost finished." They all nod, and I thank them, going back to the workshop.

Setting the heart on a work bench nearby, I start to cut the statue in half lengthwise, and hollow it out. Doing so takes about an hour, and I then stop and move to making the skeleton and brain. The brain isnt hard, I make a simple brain similar to a humans from thaumic metal.

Next, I make the skeleton. It is made of carbon steel, and is super strong and light. I make it in the shape of a fox, and at the joints, I carve runes in, and imbue them with magic to make the stone move like a fluid organic matter. The entire thing is covered in runes by the end of it, and each steel bone is almost lime another vertebral column. They are made of multiple steel bone pieces. After I am done with making the skeleton, I put it in the stone halves, and then go about sealing it up with magic, and a chunk of obsidian that is left over, filling in the cracks. And then, I am done. The entire thing took about the whole day. I just need Luna here.

As I head out the workshop and into my house, everybody is sitting down to eat, and I see Celestia and Luna there as well.

"Hey girls, what happened to telling me when it was done?" I say sarcastically. The girls look guilty for a second, and then I say.

"I'm kidding. Hello princesses, how are you today?" Celestia answers me.

"We are doing fine, Cameron. How have you been?"

" Just finishing a project, if you would like to see it after supper, you can. Its in the workshop. Oh, Luna, you might want this though." I then pull out the element of the moon, and hand it to her. She looks at it confused, before looking back at me as I sit down.

"What is this?" She asks. I finish the quick bite I had taken and say.

"Well, its the heart." She looks confused for a second, before understanding dawn's on her.

"The heart of my companion?" I nod.

"She's done, and waiting for a heart. Let's finish supper, and I will bring her out for you to put it in." She nods, and sets the heart on the table next to her. We eat supper, and Luna constantly looks at it, as if to make sure it is still there.

Supper was relatively quick, some meatloaf and sides. Then, after we all cleaned up the kitchen and dishes, me, my herd, my kids, and the two princesses head out side. I ask Applejack to help me, and she does.

When we get the statue of the fox out of the basement, Luna gasps, and comes over to it as we set it down. I then tell her what it is made of.

"It's made of obsidian, with a carbon steel skeleton to make it tougher to crack. The eyes are made of two shards of crystal, from the library, and the tree of Harmony.

"The teeth are made of shards from my arm and made to be purple, to match its body, and the heart, is grown from the tree of Harmony. Its the element of the moon." Luna and everyone looks at me.

"The element of the moon? As in, a personal elsment just for me?" I nod. Luna pulls out the heart, and looks at it. Then, she brings it near the chest of the Kitsune, and it slowly seems to melt its way in.

After a second, the fox starts to move. The first thing it does is yawn, stretching its mouth out farther than I had originally made it. Then, it proceeded to stretch, much like a cat, going into cobra pose and then a downward dog pose. It shook itself, and it's hair waved, and when it settled down, the stars on it's body twinkle, the galaxies swirled, and the nebulae moved like nebulae do, I dont know what they do.

It blinked a couple times, and then looked at Luna. And when it did, I could see Luna be taken by its shattered eyes. It was a few moments later she broke her trance, and says.

"Io?" The kitsune yips, and licks Luna's face. Luna thenntears up, and hugs the fox lime theres no tomorrow.

"Io, you've come back. I've missed you so much." She says, crying into the fur of her companion. Celestia is stunned, and I whisper.

"Is Io the name of her previous companion?" Celestia nods. I nod back, and walk up to Luna, kneeling next to her.

"Luna, I want to tell you more about her." Luna pulls away some, and the fox moves to lay a few tails across her, and wraps her up. Luna then nods to me when she is comfortable.

"Well, the first thing is apparently, she has the soul of her previous incarnation. That was unplanned, but not bad. Now, we get to enchantments that were put inside its thaumic brain.

"First, it has a pocket dimension it can go to, and can be summoned whenever you want her near you. The summon can be indefinitely, but if you want to travel with her easier, put her in there. Here is the necklace. (Which I then give her as I continue to talk.)

"The next thing, is she can use fox-fire again. Each of her nine tails can channel energy, that can be used to do whatever she wants to do with it. She doesn't have to eat, but if you want to feed her, a chunk of thaumic metal or obsidian works fine." I reach over to pet her, and I feel her fur is actually fur, not stone. I tilt my head, and dig a little deeper, finding her stone skin.

"Well, thats good. She has actual fur, and still has her stone skin. Her skeleton is pretty much all vertebra, and she wont get a broken bone. If her stone shell cracks, give her some obsidian, and it will help her heal. If her body breaks apart fully, and she has no more outer rock layer, bring her to me and I can remake it. Other than all of that, I don't know much else. The tree made the element heart, so she knows what it can do. You'll have to find out. Now, I need to run a checkup on her. Io, please stand." And she does.

Next, I have her flex every single piece of her body, to see if any of the runes wont work. Everything flexed fine, and the tails were working well. After she was done, she nuzzled me, and went over to Luna. Luna liiked at me.

"Thank you, Cameron, for bringing my dearest companion back to me." I shake my head.

"Luna, all I did, was make the body. The tree did everything else. And it was fun to make her. I loved doing it." I stand up.

"Alright, I had a long day lugging the block of obsidian around, so it's bedtime for me. I love you girls, girls, Celestia, Luna, Io, goodnight, and enjoy the reunion you two." I then head off to my bedroom, and am joined soon by Applejack.

"Lunas really happy with what you did. And so, I want to keep you company tonight. Thats final." I nod, and get ready for bed, getting into my sweatpants. An undressed to her lingerie. It was a red bra and panties with a rose pattern. As we climbed into bed, she cuddled up to me, and I could feel her breasts and body up against me. I turned, and cuddled up to her.

And felt like I was truly home as I drifted off to sleep.

Author's Note

This chapter was fun to write. It was much easier to get it out than the last few. Thank you all for reading.

Have a Jivin day!