The Child of Principal Celestia

The afternoon had arrived and Solaris was allowed to wander Wonder World finally. He had been given about ten dollars worth of tokens and there were other kids around his age there too, including a blue skinned one with multi-colored hair that for some reason enjoyed the ball pit. He didn't pay her any attention though, there was a particular game here that he wanted to play, one that he had enjoyed ever since his babysitter had mistakenly let him watch a movie about dinosaurs, not realizing until it was too late that it wasn't a good pick for a three year old child. He walked over to the machine in question and he saw that an adult was standing there, but the adult looked different from other adults that he knew. Most of them were clean shaven, but this one had a neatly trimmed beard. His eyes were focused on the screen and he was using the light gun with expert precision.

The young child could only watch in awe, but was surprised when the stranger put a token in on the other side and pressed the button on the console, pulling the other light gun out and aiming it at the screen. He was not prepared for what the man did next, he was expecting the man to wildly fire both of the weapons at once. Instead, the man fired one of the guns until the game told him he was out of ammo and swapped as he reloaded, ensuring that he'd always be able to fire his weapon at the dinosaurs that were trying to reach his character. It was like something he had never seen before, no one had ever showed such skill at this machine, and yet here was this man acting as if it was nothing.

Minutes quickly blurred together as a crowd started to form, mostly of other children, but there were some adults mixed in. There was a bunch of murmuring about the fact that everyone they knew required multiple tokens for this machine to even get far into the game, yet this guy was on the final boss after using only two tokens, one for each gun. His eyes never wavered, and everyone wondered if the man had even blinked once during the entire thing, "While I appreciate an audience, all of y'all murmurin is breakin my concentration," the man said in a thick southern accent.

Everyone fell silent as he started to attack the final boss, it was a dinosaur from the newest movie, the Spinosaurus. The adult playing the game smiled a little as he rained fire down upon the beast. Quickly firing through clip after clip of ammo while avoiding as much damage as he could. Within a few minutes, the dinosaur roared in pain and retreated, signalling the end of the game. The entire crowd, including Solaris erupted into cheers as this man did what none of them thought possible, but the man merely put the light guns back where they originally and calmly walked away. Solaris didn't feel like he could match the skill of the man he had just watched, so he wandered off to a racing game.

As he sat in the chair of the arcade, he inserted a token and grabbed the steering wheel. A raspy voice spoke up next to him, "You think you got what it takes to beat me, kid?" the voice asked.

He looked to his side and saw the girl he had seen earlier, she was smirking at him as if she was the queen of this arcade machine, "No one's faster than I am," she stated.

He stuck her tongue out at her, "You're a girl, how can you be good at video games?" he asked.

This riled up the blue girl and the two of them started the race, Solaris thought he had her beat, but she quickly drove up behind him and passed by without any issue. The race was clearly over from that point, but he kept trying, desperately to get anywhere in the race. He kept falling further and further behind, but this girl was able to beat him soundly and without any issue. This infuriated the boy, "You cheated!" he accused her.

"I don't have to cheat to beat someone like you, I've been playing this arcade since I was three years old, I'm really good at games like this," she stated proudly.

"You're still a cheater! Everyone knows that girls can't play video games as well as boys can!" Solaris reiterated.

The girl took offense to that and pointed to an arcade, "I come here to play that one all the time, it's a great game. Let's see how well you do if you're so good at video games," she taunted.

He walked over to the arcade, it was a game about a fighter jet, he inserted a token and started to play the game. Almost immediately, he was overwhelmed and defeated, he had never played a flight sim before. He got frustrated, but the girl from before walked over to the machine and put her token in. She started to expertly play the game, avoiding missiles as if they weren't even an issue for her. He watched in both shock and awe as she blew through the game. When she beat it, she turned over to him as he stood there slack jawed, unable to process what just happened. He had always believed that girls weren't good at video games, but here was this girl who just easily beat him twice.

"You just gonna stand there or are you going to apologize to me," she huffed.

He pouted and folded his arms, "I"m sorry," he said in an annoyed tone.

The girl smiled and wandered off to play some more games leaving the child on his own and separated from the group he had come to the place with. But as a young boy, he had ideas of where to go to get into trouble. He decided to head towards the playground that Wonder World had. It was a very fun place for any kid to go without any tokens and he felt like he wanted to climb things. He took his shoes off at the door and placed them into locker they had set up for shoes and ran into the tunnel. There were kids his age climbing around and playing in the different ball pits, but none of that mattered to him.

He saw his objective, a climbing wall for the kids. It wasn't very tall or very steep and had foam padding at the bottom, so if any of them fell, they wouldn't get hurt. But he ran towards it and started climbing it, he felt alive while doing this. He really felt most alive while being active and he couldn't explain why, sure he loved video games, but he enjoyed running and climbing. He had always wondered what would new adventure each new day would bring him. He climbed to the very top of the wall, despite it not being allowed and he looked down from the top of the mountain.

He smiled as he looked down upon all of the kids, until a ball hit him in the head and that was enough to knock him off his perch. But he didn't fall towards the foam matting that was there for the children, he fell off and slammed into a yellow tunnel with his right arm. Pain erupted through it as he felt a painful snap. By the time he had hit the ground, he had erupted in tears and was screaming loudly, moving his right arm hurt like he had never been hurt before. He tried to get up, but he couldn't.

The kid who threw the ball walked over to him and hit him in the face again, "Dumb kid, you got beat by a girl at video games and then you tried to play king of the mountain. Serves you right!" he taunted.

Solaris noticed the red skin of the older kid in question and screamed in pain as the others moved away from him. Luna was the one who entered the tunnel and the playhouse, much to his surprise and he was still scared of her from this morning, so he tried to move away.

Being much smaller than she was and having an injured arm prevented him from getting very far as she quickly grabbed him, "Solaris, where are you hurt?" she asked in a concerned voice.

He didn't respond, but it was pretty obvious where he was hurt from the fact that in his escape attempt, he didn't move his right arm very much. She gently grabbed his arm and he tried to yank it from her, but her grip was firm, "Solaris, please work with me here. I just want to see how badly you're hurt," she said firmly.

The boy complied, he was still crying as Celestia rushed into the tunnel, "Solaris, I heard you screaming, is everything alright!?" she called out.

The younger of the two sisters moved her hand gently, but firmly along the arm to check for any fracturing, while trying to minimize her nephew's discomfort. She found where he had been injured upon reaching the upper arm as he winced and started sobbing louder. She moved her hand in that area and felt movement where there wasn't supposed to be any. It didn't take her at all long to figure out what had happened.

"What is it, Luna?" her older sister asked, noticing the look of concern on the woman's face.

The blue haired woman sighed as she gently scooped up her nephew, "Tia, can you help me with him and can you ask Cadance to get his shoes? I thought his arm was bruised at first, but with a simple test like this, I can't tell how bad the injury is. I don't know whatever went on in here, but I'm very sure he has a broken arm," she replied, her voice full of sorrow.

Celestia nodded and walked over to her son, she helped her younger sister pick him up. The two of them helped him out of the playhouse area, what was supposed to be a happy day for the child turned into a hospital trip. She wasn't happy about this at all and she looked down at her son who looked up at her pleading, almost as if he didn't want to leave his own birthday party, "Solaris, I promise to you that I'll make this up to you. I'll organize another party for you, but right now, we need to get you to the hospital. Having your arm treated is a lot more important than having cake and opening your presents," she said reassuringly.

He rested his head against her shoulder and closed his eyes, he was upset that he wasn't going to be able to finish his birthday party, but he knew that there was no fighting his mother when she took that tone. "Mommy, will you stay with me there?" he asked, scared.

He had always had a fear of hospitals and doctors especially, he couldn't explain why, none of them could. But just being separated from his mother or his aunt at one was enough to send him into hysterics. His mother however nodded to him, "Of course I will. Luna and I will both stay by your side during this, and Cadance will come with. I promise. If you're a good boy at the hospital, I promise you that I'll go get something special to eat on the way home, okay?", she replied.

"Okay, Mommy," was all that Solaris could muster up the courage to say as he was carried out into the SUV and buckled into a seat securely with his aunt holding him close.

His mother climbed into the driver's seat of the car and started the car, she sighed as she hadn't expected to ever have to take her son to the hospital for any sort of serious injury. It was usually just for him being sick when the urgent care facilities were closed or his primary care physician wasn't available. This wasn't something she had ever wanted to do, but as a mother, she was prepared to do it. She promised herself silently that she would do her best to help her son's recovery go as smoothly as possible as she started the drive to the nearest hospital.