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“That took longer than expected, sweet Iomedae my wings hurt badly.” I think as I land on some docks in the middle of the night.

None of the ponies were around right now, but I could tell that it was going to be light soon, so I might as well get the girls up again, once we get a room and some food, i'm passing out for a day at least.

“Girls, we’re here.” I said poking them with my nose, Ova and Ruby slowly stirred.

“This place looks a lot different than at home.” Ruby commented as they slid off of my back towards the ground.

“I know sis, but we’re close to father, i know that for sure!” Ova said placing the bracelet on her, transforming her into a human female.

She was about four foot easily, her clothes consisted of a light grey shirt, a black skirt, her white shoes and grey socks were clearly able to see, her skin became that of a smooth heavy tan. I placed the necklace on me, transforming me into a half-elf female with black wizard robes, my pants were form fitting yet flexible, which in my line of work, makes it easy to get around in, my shoes were normal traveler shoes, i had a bag of gold that held about twelve thousand gold in it.

“Let's find a place to stay for the night, get something to eat, then we’ll find a transport to get us to this Ponyville tomorrow.” I say picking them both into my arms, Ova nodded in agreement, Ruby pumped a fist up towards the large metal structures.

It took a bit of time before we found an inn, or as the locals called it, a ‘Hotel’, the ponies here definitely don't remind me of Cadence or Luna, they were definitely shorter by a few inches, plus there were a lot of different coat colors, not to mention they are very… unresponsive to our appearances, they seem to glance at us then dismiss it as something else, even the mare at the counter in the hotel as we approached it.

“Welcome to Château de Berne, how may I help you?” she asks, going over a notebook.

“I was wondering if I could get a room for the night.” I say getting her to glance up, she sighed before going over the rooms.

“How many beds do you need?” she asks, she seems very bored doing this.

“Two please.” I answer, while the girls are looking around at the place, it was quite nice, I'll give them that.

“Okay, that'll be a hundred bits please.” she says, taking a key off of the shelf behind her, I quickly placed the amount on the counter, she handed over the key and took the gold. “You have room three twenty-five, it's on the third floor right side.” she said smiling a bit.

“Thank you, it's been a long couple of days, i can't wait to sleep.” I said smiling a bit, sleep slowly creeping into my body, showing my fangs, she just giggled.

“I hear ya sister, go ahead and sleep when ya get there, I included the carnivore diet in your orders, so you can get some meat.” she said before I went towards the stairs, Ova and Ruby coming up after me.

We reached our room and I collapsed on one of the beds, enjoying the comfort that it gave me.

“Hey aunty Fia, can we get some food?” Ova asked before I went to sleep.

“Sure, just enough for the two of you, nothing more.” I said pulling out fifty gold and handing them to her, she nodded before I drifted off to sleep.

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“That was the best late night dinner I've ever had, and it seems that sis agrees.” I think as I sigh in contentment before looking over at my sister, who also has the same expression.

“That was so much better than rations.” she says getting me to hum in agreement.

“That it was… hey, what do you think will happen when we see dad?” I ask getting her to look at me in confusion and curiosity.

“I don't know, but I know for a fact that i'm going to hug him for a long time… I mean, three years, that's how long it's been since we've seen him outside of that weird dream place.” she replies looking towards the ceiling of our room, I nodded in agreement.

It has been three years, almost four years since we last saw him, and he disappeared right in front of us, it was insane, Iomedea himself even appeared looking for him, saying that he disappeared from his senses, which made us worry, because if a god couldn't sense him, he was in trouble, so we asked Phrasma, the goddess of life and death, she said that he was quite alive, but that she couldn’t find his location, almost as if he was fading in and out of the life force he had. It was worrying to say the least, after two years, we finally got word from Lady Phrasma that he was back in the life stream, meaning we could find him again, which was weird because he was apparently on the other side of the world, in a country that she never knew existed until now, which was odd, as this place seemed to be at least five thousand years old, according to my Lady, yeah, I'm a follower of Phrasma, anyways, when she informed us of this, we decided to travel there, we needed to find our dad after all, sadly, uncle Alex was already on his way there, so we couldn't come with him, something about a large unknown magical disturbance, which sis said she felt. So we traveled and earned gold by doing some requests, we earned a lot, which aunty Fia held onto, as we didn't want to spend all of our gold just yet, it took the whole year before we were even close enough for aunty to transform and fly the three of us, she flew us over the ocean for the following three weeks, gliding to rest her wings every couple of hours, until we came upon a large group of islands that had volcanoes on them, they were populated by what looked like young Dragonborns, as we've met a few in our travels, but they also didn't look like a Dragonborn, as their forms were too… soft, i guess is the word I would use, like the males, or what looked like males, were rounder than the males back home, then the females were too thin, no muscle at all, which was weird. They called themselves dragons, which aunty laughed at, i did too, but I think we were too tired to make any comments, so we slept in a rather large cave, the floor wasn't anything too uncomfortable, but the heat, sweet Phrasma, the heat that the cave gave off was excruciating, i was surprised we could actually sleep through that for the most part. After we met ‘Dragon Lord’ Ember, i still think that's not a real title, we left for Equestria, which leads us to now, in a room for a hundred gold, just after eating what the people back home would go to war over, and now talking about father, we know he's here, in a place called ‘Ponyville’, which is an odd name for a town.

“--hear me?” I hear, snapping me out of my reminiscing about what's happened so far.

“Huh? You say something sis?” I ask looking at Ruby, she gave a worried expression.

“I asked if you were okay, you just started spacing out hard, I've been trying to get your attention for the last half hour.” she said crossing her arms, she cared about me too much.

“I'm fine Ruby, just thinking about all that happened since dad’s unintentional vanishing act.” I said getting her to nod her head in understanding.

“Okay… just try to get some sleep, we’re going to need it for tomorrow.” she says moving towards our bed.

“I will, don't worry, besides, you'll just drag me into bed if I don't.” I commented while smirking, she just smirked back.

“Just get in bed you lazy dragoness.” she replied tucking herself in while I walked over to her and lay down next to her.

“I know, I know… good night Ruby.” I say to my adopted sister, she just hugs me and pulls me closer to her.

“Night Ova, don't let nightmares haunt you tonight.” she says before we both slowly drift off to sleep, with her holding me like a big teddy bear.

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I woke up to a small light filtering through the blinds and into my eyes, making me wake up and block it out before i got up and grabbed a new suit out of my bag of holding, it was then that I called room service and ordered a big breakfast for the three of use, extra for me and Ova, as we need twice as much as Ruby or Emerald needs to eat. The smell of food slowly woke up the girls and brought then to eat before they got dressed and left the hotel, giving to key back to the mare at the front counter, it took some time, and a little sightseeing before we found a train station and bought three tickets to Ponyville, the train ride wasn't anything to go by, it was very boring, but I could tell that magic was used in this town almost instantly when we got off the train, I saw Ruby suck in a quick breath before Ova caught her.

"What is it sis?" She asked as she steadied Ruby, whose eyes were slightly dilated.

"There's a lot of domain magic here, and i mean a lot of domain magic, it's only two, but one is a lot more powerful than the other, almost too much for me to handle." Ruby explained, making me look around in worry.

"Which domains Ruby?" I ask as we start to walk away from the train, Ruby starts to concentrate on the magic powers.

"The weaker one is Void, very experienced Void magic, whoever has this magic is definitely someone we don't want to piss off." She says slowing down as we pass a restaurant, she looks over the ponies until she looks at us. "Brown earth pony stallion, wearing the blue and grey suit, that's the source." She says before we glance at him, he didn't seem all that powerful, but then again, Emerald doesn't look powerful either, and he can destroy everybody easily.

We decided to leave the stallion alone for now, but we needed to find Emerald quickly, knowing what happened when Ruby got hurt that one time is not something we needed a repeat of.

"What about the stronger domain? If it's easier to sense, then we could find out what to do about it." Ova remarked with a nice determination in her eyes, Ruby tried to concentrate but almost immediately opened her eyes again.

"I can't pinpoint the other one, it seems to be everywhere, as if it has more than one source, but nothing is coming up." She said before my vision was flooded with a pink thing that was talking really fast.

"HIMYNAMESPINKIEPIE! AREYOUNEWINTOWN? WHATAMISAYINGOFCOURSEYOURNEWINTOWN! CASUEIKNOWEVERYPONYINPONYVILLEANDIDONEKNOWYOUWHICHMEANSYOURNEWINTOWN!” the pink thing said in a single sentence before gasping dramatically. “IFIDONTKNOWYOUTHATMEANSIDONTKNOWYOURTASTES! QUICK! WHATSYOURNAME? CAMEWEBEFRIENDS? WHATSYOURFAVO---" whoever it was started talking very fast and very loud before she suddenly went very quiet, I could see her mouth moving very quickly, but she said nothing else, I quickly look at Ruby, she is holding her left hand out, with a slightly annoyed expression on her face.

"Sorry aunty, but she's one of the sources, I can't do much about this other than to stop her from talking so I can concentrate." She whispered, which got me to notice a small ball that was fluctuating behind the pink pony, I knew it was an Orb of Silence.

"Do it, I'd like to know what's going on around here." I whispered back before looking over at Ova, she was all types of confused. "What's wrong Ova?" I whispered to her she seemed to be concentrating on the mare in front of us.

"She has dad's scent on her, but it's really weak, as if he wasn't here for a couple of weeks." She replies before twitching her nose almost unconsciously at the scent.

I nodded before looking at the mare who had seemed to stop talking and looking at the small glowing orb that was the spell.

"Okay, I've got a lock on the domain… or rather, domains." Ruby says looking over to me and Ova, I nod for her to continue. "It's a strange combination of Law, Good, and Arcana domains, it's mixed in a way that they work well together, but they're also different enough that there's something that brings them together." She says dropping the spell, I nodded before turning back to the mare in front of us.

It was then that I saw a wizard come around the corner and notice us, but she wasn't wearing just any wizard robes, she was wearing master robes. I could tell that she had some confidence issues, but the pure power she was commanding was slightly overwhelming to my senses. She came up to us and looked us over before holding her hand out.

"Twilight Sparkle, it's nice to see new faces here in Ponyville, i'm the newly appointed Master of Magic, if these robes are anything to go by." She says getting me to shake her hand back.

"Fia Goldenclaws, it's nice to meet a master in such a small town, I wasn't aware there was a new master though, who trained you?" I ask shaking her hand before disengaging from the welcome.

"I was trained by Princess Celestia, and a man named Arcana, i went through my trial yesterday." She replied smiling nervously, this got my attention.

"I'm sorry, I must have misheard you," I said while looking slightly surprised.

"Oh, well it's easy to missunder---" she started before I was inches away from her, looking into her eyes.

"Because I know for a fact that there is no master by the name 'Arcana', so would you like to try again?" I asked, giving a small smile as fear started to appear in her eyes.

"Well… that was just one of his names, he also goes by Forest Flare." She says, making me step back quickly.

"Right, sorry about that little outburst, I just don't like liars, but Flare is the best of the best when it comes to being a master, so if you were trained by him, then you truly earned those robes." I reply as both girls tense as they recognized their father's alias when he was out on a job.

"You know Forest?" The very pink pony asked coming up next to Master Sparkle.

"Yes, we have quite the history, we've been on many adventures and had many stories together, I'd be surprised if he hasn't done anything during his four year disappearance from home." I replied reminiscing about the adventures we went on together.

"Oh, perhaps you could tell me more about him, I don't know much, only that he's exceptionally skilled in magic. Say, think we could chat for a bit?" Master Sparkle commented, making me think about it before deciding that could be helpful if they were to be an ally.

"Sure, as long as you don't mind if we get something to eat first, we haven't been eating much while traveling, and I need to rest my wings before I do any more flying." I say stretching my arms a bit, the girls looked ready to explore, they definitely got that from Emerald.

"Sure, as long as you want to go to a party first." She replies, making me notice that the pink pony is gone.

I looked around to find her, only for her to be nowhere in sight, which disturbed me, as i didn't see her move, when i looked at the girls, who were looking at a small metal box on a wooden pole with surprise and confusion.

"Did… did she use a spell?" Ova asks, leaning over to Ruby, who shook her head.

"N-no… there was no matrix or even a glow that accompanies a spell… she just, lept into it…" she commented back making me look to Ms.Sparkle for some help.

"Pinkie isn't one to obey the laws of physics, all i know is that she's able to predict the immediate future and disappears and reappears without making any noise, no matter the size or shape of the space she's in, trust me, I've tried figuring her out, I'd rather not go through that again." She says putting up her hands in surrender, I just nodded, noting that she shivered a bit.

"I'll take your word for it ma'am." I said before we left the somewhat busy streets, It took ten minutes before we were coming up on a tree that also served as a library.

"Ah, you're a Druid, I guess that makes sense, in why you were trained by Forest." I comment as we come up to the door, she chuckles.

"I'm not a Druid, I don't even know what i'm classified as, besides a unicorn mare." She replies before opening the door, which gives way to a standard looking library and a stairways off to the side of the place, two small couches and three chairs in the center of the room. "Spike! We have some guests." She calls out as Ruby closes the door.

"Jasmine or Red Zebrican?" I heard a male call coming from the alcove off to the left.

"Zebrican please." She said as she sat on one of the couches that decorated the room.

"How many cups?" The male asked as I heard water boiling quickly.

"Five, one for everypony." She said as we followed her while sitting on the couches or chairs in the space.

"This is quite the library you have Ms.Sparkle." I commented while relaxing, my muscles finally giving way to my posture.

"Thank you, but I moved into this place about a year ago, I don't know who owned this place before me, but they had quite the collection." She replied while smiling sheepishly.

"Ah, I know the feeling, a Lich's library however is quite the thing to see." I say remembering the last lich's library I was in, it was enormous.

"Really?" She seems curious.

"Yeah, hundreds of shelves, containing thousands of books, tombs, and scrolls on any subject, going deep and physiological in each one, even the ones with magic in them." I say remembering some of the magic theories in a few of the books we found.

"Wow, that does sound impressive, i'm pretty sure that the Royal Library in Canterlot only has three thousand at least, so to hear of a library a lot bigger than that sounds like a dream come true." She says leaning back with a dreamy look in her eyes, making me giggle.

It was then that I saw a purple and green Dragonborn come out from the alcove holding a metal tray with a tea pot and five cups in it.

"Here's the tea everybody, sorry for the wait." He said pouring the tea with expert flexibility.

"It's fine Spike, go ahead and sit with us, I was about to ask a few questions about their home." Twilight said as she was handed her tea. "If that's fine with you?" She asks looking at me.

"It's fine, a master is open to all information that can be spared, but please, let's not get personal with the questions." I replied while taking a sip of my tea, it had a minty taste that was smooth on my tongue.

"Of course, so tell me, where are you from?" She asks as she relaxes into her seat.

"Well, i'm from Trin, while these two are from No'tash." I reply easily, she seemed confused by this.

"Really? Where are those places?" She asks while Ova starts watching Spike as he relaxes into his chair.

"Well, Trin is East of here, about… two weeks travel by air and sea, while No'tash is more likely West from here, probably the same distance, if not farther." I say thinking about the time it took us to get here.

"Okay… so, I would assume that you're their mother? Unless i'm mistaken." She comments pointing towards the girls who had started browsing the books she had.

"Ah, no, i'm not their mother, i'm their aunt, their parents died in a war a few years ago, me and my brother took them in, him being their father." I explain as I notice Ova glancing at Spike every few seconds. "Ova dear, do you have a question for the young man?" I ask glancing at her, she jumps a bit before sighing.

"Yes, I do… if you don't mind that is." She says look at the boy, he shakes his head.

"Go right ahead, i'm willing to answer any questions you have for me." He replies easily before taking a sip of his tea.

"Well, I was wondering what you were, because you look like a Dragonborn, but you smell like a full-blooded dragon." She says with her nose twitching involuntarily, he seems to ponder that question while Master Sparkle raises her eyebrow at that.

"Well, as far as i know, i'm a dragon, but i don't know much about them, only that I'm quite young, shorter than I should be, and that dragons can only breathe fire." He says listing off facts, but that last one caught our attention.

"Wait… what do you mean, 'only breath fire'? I know for a fact that there's more than just fire as breath weapons, I've faced all of them." I commented, looking at the young drake, they seemed confused.

"What do you mean 'breath weapon'? I've never heard of something like that." Twilight says making me look at them in confusion, Ruby decided to speak for me.

"Oh, that's just what we call it, it's basically any sort of energy that comes from the mouth, fire being the most common." She explains, Twilight quickly wrote it down on one of her notepads.

"Okay, so what are the others, if fire isn't the only one?" She asks in a scholarly but curious voice.

"Well, besides fire, there's ice, lightning, acid, sleeping fog, and poison. Depending on what type of dragon, such as chromatic or metallic, will also help find which kind of breath they will have." She says listing the facts her own father taught them when talking about dragons. "Now as for you being smaller than normal Spike, that easy, you simply aren't eating enough." She says giving off another detail.

"What? I eat enough, though sometimes I don't get to eat because of my chores or if Twilight suddenly leaves." He says crossing his arms in a childish way.

"Spike, a healthy dragon eats two times more food than a normal person, it's how they grow, that's also why dragons hoard large amounts of items, mostly gold and gems, it lets them eat without having to move very far." Ova says looking at the young drake with a concerned expression on her face.

"Two… times…?" Twi asks as she let's that explanation settle in.

"Yes, now Spike, you're around my age, and I know for a fact, that you should be twice as tall as you are now, and three inches taller than me at least." Ova responds before walking up to Spike concerned, he just seems to be spaced out a bit.

"Wait, what do you mean three inches taller than you?" Twi asks looking at Ova curiously, she looks over at me asking to show them with her look.

"Go ahead, show them." I reply as she nods, she backs up and grabs her bracelet lightly.

"Elimina l'illusione..." she says before her form flickers before she transforms into her dragon form, Twilight and Spike both gasp at this in shock.

Now that I see her true form next to Spike, I can see that she's right, he is smaller than her, by five inches, when he should be three inches taller. They seemed to be staring at her in shock and in Twilight's case, amazement and wonder.

"What are you?" Spike asks, looking slightly up at her.

"Jsem drak Spike." She says speaking in Draconic, to him, Twilight seems confused while Spike's eyes widened in recognition of the language.

"What did you say Ova?" Twilight asks, making Spike look at her curiously.

"The language of dragons, very few know it these days, only the dragons and the Dragonborns know it…" Ruby says while pulling out a book from the shelf before sighing. "Well, there's also uncle Alex, dad, and us, but other than that…" she continued before we all heard a high pitched scream of joy, said scream came from Twilight.

"A whole new language! I need to learn it!" She says before me and the girls face-palm.

"Twilight, this language is very old, old as the deities themselves." I comment making her freeze and snapped her head towards me.

"What do you know of deities? You're the second mare I've heard say this." She asks getting me to look at her confused.

"I'm talking about the nine deities that watch over the world. Why?" I ask looking at her, she seems to be connecting the dots on something.

"Can you tell me who the nine deities are?" She asks getting me to do a double take at the question.

"Sure… well, in order, there's Desna, the chaotic good goddess of stars, dreams, travelers, you know, anything having to do with the night, Iomedae, she's the lawful good goddess of honor and justice, things like that… then there's Shelyn, the neutral good goddess of art, beauty, and music, Calistria, the chaotic neutral goddess of lust and trickery… " I start off naming all of the nine deities I remember off the top of my head.

"Don't forget Lady Phrasma, the true neutral goddess of life and death." Ova says pointing towards me.

"Right, Phrasma, then there's Irori, the lawful neutral god of knowledge and history…" I say continuing the list of deities, Twilight was writing all of this down, she seems very interested that there were deities in the first place, Spike looked like he wanted to meet them. “Then there's Norgorber, the neutral evil god of greed and secrets, Asmodeus, the lawful evil god of pride and tyranny, and finally there's Rovagug, the chaotic evil god of destruction and wrath.” I say naming all of the deities of the realm, it was quite something, to see someone who didn't even know of the deities.

“That's a lot of people.” Spike says thinking over the names.

“Not really, there's only nine, but there are a lot of minor deities, and I mean a lot.” Ova says resting back next to me, I just nod to that statement.

“So the nine you just listed, they're major deities?” Twilight asks getting me to think about it.

“Yeah, then there's the two creators, who are like, the mother and father of the major deities, but I don't know their names.” I answer trying to remember all of the information that I've come across.

“That's amazing… wait, wouldn't that mean that the alicorns are children of the gods?” she asks, getting me to chuckle.

“No, they're most likely demigods, not really gods, but not really mortal either.” I say getting her to nod slowly in comprehension. “Let me guess, it's a lot to think about.” I comment, she just nods again, slightly slower. “Don't try to think about it too hard, it's not like you'll meet them any time soon.” I say stretching my arms a bit before getting up. “Now, I believe you said that there would be a party somewhere?” I asked getting her to snap out of her trance.

“Yes, that's right, Pinkie’s throwing you three a welcome party, we better get going, because one doesn't just not arrive to a Pinkie party.” she says getting up and starts stretching.

"Then let us enjoy this party." I say following Twilight out of her house towards a building that was made of sweets, Spike and Ova were speaking along the way, getting to know each other.

"Well, here we are, Sugarcube Corner, this is where Pinke both lives and works, she's the only employee." Twilight says opening the door to the building.

"Is it weird that I have a strange instinct to eat the roof?" Ruby asks as we just look at it.

"If it is, then i'm weird too, cause that roof looks delicious." Ova responds, not taking her eyes off of the roof.

"No, it's not weird, I had the same thought when I first came here." Twilight says leaning on the door frame. "Now get in here, you don't want to be late." she says entering the building, we just look at each other before entering.

When we entered there were ponies everywhere, I could see so many different colors and they were all looking at us.

“Hi everyone! Sorry if we were a little late, Twilight held us captive with questions.” Ruby says getting all of them to laugh, much to Twilight’s dismay.

“Hey, it's all good! You're here, and that's all that matters in the end!” Pinkie says coming up next to us smiling. “Now let's get this party started!” she says as a white unicorn with two shades of blue for a mane came up to a strange table and started to play music that got everyone enjoying the day.

We decided to just mingle, Ova and Ruby went to see what the kids were up to near the snack bar, while I found myself a seat in a corner, ponies came up and introduced themselves. I met at least twenty ponies before an orange earth pony walked up to me.

“Howdy, i'm Applejack, but y’all can call me AJ.” she says, shaking my hand.

“Nice to meet you AJ, i'm Fia Goldenclaws, those two troublemakers are Ruby and Ova Goldeneyes, my nieces.” I say pointing to the girls who were talking to three fillies and Spike.

“Nice ta meetcha' too Fia, i'm the co-owner of Sweet Apple Acres, the best place to get your apples, the little filly with the bow in her mane is my little sister Apple Bloom.” she says pointing in the same direction i did. “By the way, how do ya like Ponyville so far?” She asks getting me to think about it so far.

“I don't know, I haven't been around this town enough to get a good opinion on it, but the ponies are nice, and Twilight is quite the bookworm, asking the important questions while we talked, but i think i shattered her view on the world.” I say looking around at all of the friendly faces I've met or are no doubt going to meet.

“Well, I guess that makes sense, but if you need a tour, just let me or Pinkie know, the two of us know this town like the back of our hands.” she says before waving goodbye after I nod.

“Well brother… as you've always said, you've got to sing at least one song at every party. Looks like you've rubbed off on me.” I think as I walked onto the stage and grabbed the microphone.

“Hello everyone! How's the party so far?” I ask getting everyone's attention, they just cheer loudly, making me smile. “That's good, that's good. Now, I guess i'm going to be doing a small family tradition my brother created and sing a song for all of you.” I say, hoping that they'll let me sing just one song.

“Then let's hear it!” a cyan pegasus called out, getting others to agree with that statement, I just smiled a bit.

“Okay, okay, now listen to this.” I say just as the music starts.

Recommended Listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHpFOj4rejw

"They say i'm out of my mind, I say: ‘Get out of my way’, deeper into my grind, more each day.

I gotta live my life, I gotta chase my star, in a world where dreams are all we are.

Can you feel the fear take hold? Well tell me, are you here for grey or gold~?" I started off with the music before the bass dropped, letting me know that it was time to amplify my voice.

"Turn up the lights! Show me the stage! Throw me that mic, I'll go all day~! This is my time, my time to shine." I sang, getting into the music, everyone started dancing to the song as I sang some more.

"Count it on down, spark that fuse! Mark my words: front page news~! This is my time, my time to shine, watch me shine, watch me shine, yeah." I continued, the ponies started picking up on the words and started to sing along when they could.

"Through the shadows I rise, in the battles I rage, like an eagle I fly, higher each day. So alive, on fire, hot-wired, i'm a rocket on a one way flight! I know the moment is mine, tonight I fight." The ponies were now all joining in singing along with me, which brought a smile to my face as I continued.

"Can you feel the fear take hold? Well tell me, are you here for grey or gold~?

Turn up the lights! Show me the stage! Throw me that mic, I'll go all day~! This is my time, my time to shine. Count it on down, spark that fuse! Mark my words: front page news~! This is my time, my time to shine, watch me shine." I sang until Ruby jumped onto the stage and started singing.

"If i'm only getting one shot, i'm gonna set this world in flames, everybody will remember my name~!” everyone looked surprised at her sudden entrance to the song, but like she and her sister did with their father i expected it. “Turn up the lights! Show me the stage! Throw me that mic, I'll go all day~! This is my time, my time to shine. Count it on down, spark that fuse! Mark my words: front page news~! This is my time, my time to shine, watch me shine, watch me shine~, watch me shine~! Watch me, yeah watch me shine!" She sang finishing the song before everyone started clapping and demanding another song to which Ruby graciously accepted before I jumped off stage and headed to the snack table.

I saw Twilight and the cyan girl talking with a white unicorn mare and a butter yellow pegasus mare, Twilight noticed me as I came up behind them.

"Ah, hey there Fia, that was quite the performance you gave, I didn't even know you had a good singing voice." She says just as the others notice me near them.

"Thanks Twilight, but i'm not a performer, that title goes to my brother, he always sang and danced at any party he was invited to, or if he was asked to perform for the audience." I say getting a cup of punch with a cupcake.

"Really? I'm guessing that he did well?" She asks getting me to chuckle.

"If you count getting five hundred bits every performance at least well, then yeah, he did well." I say getting them to look at me shocked.

"Five hundred a performance at least! Where was he playing!?" The cyan girl asked, getting my smile to weaken just a bit.

"Wherever he could, music was one of the things that brought hope to anyone in times of war." I replied, my eyes slightly glazing over from the war we were in not too long ago, the same war that took many lives and gave me my two wonderful nieces.

"A war? What kind of war?" The cyan mare asked, getting the others to look at her with a flat stare.

"The twenty year war, it was the bloodiest time for No'tash, it took a while, even with us added to the resistance army, but that's a story for a later date." I replied shaking my head out of the trance just as Ova came up behind me.

"Aunty, I've found his scent, but it's surrounded by domain magic, a lot of it." She says picking up a punch glass, looking at me then the girls.

"Oh, are you searching for somepony?" Twilight asked getting me to nod both at her question and Ova's statement. "Who is it?" She asks, letting me look right at her.

"Sorry, but I can't tell you, Ova, if he's near, then so is the counterpart, who no doubt has the item we need, sniff her out." I ordered her, she nodded and slipped back into the crowd, disappearing from our sight.

"Whoa, she's good." Pinkie said looking over the heads of others.

"Of course she is, she was trained as a Rouge to slip into crowds and blend in ever since we took her in, you'd be surprised what people say when they think no one is listening in." I say grinning a bit at their wary reaction. "Don't worry, we don't use this against friends, mostly just random people or others who think too highly of themselves and brag a bit too much.” I say calming them down slightly.

“That's still not very nice darling, it's bad to spread rumors about others.” the white mare said, getting the yellow pegasus to agree.

“While that may be true, these aren't rumors, they’re facts, we just happen to have a special ear to listen in on them when others think no one is near.” I reply having my ear twitch before listening in on a conversation with the girls and Spike. “and speaking of ears, mine say that you might want to stop your sister and her friends before they try the lemonade, it's got alcohol in it thanks to rainbow hair here.” I say pointing to the girls walking towards the other end of the table, towards the spiked lemonade.

“Oh, my, Sweetie Belle!” The white unicorn quickly rushed up to the group before they got the lemonade, the others just looked at the cyan with a disappointed gaze.

“Hehehe… I didn't think anypony would noti-Ow!” she said before getting pulled into the kitchen by Twilight by the ear.

“We’ll be right back, please, continue to enjoy the party.” she said before disappearing into the back herself, I just shook my head at the antics of these ponies.

“Well, now with that out of the way, I suppose I should continue my search, hopefully the girls found something by now.” I say before leaving the yellow pegasus where she stood.

To say the party was eventful was an understatement, the full swing of the party didn't happen until five hours later, when the kids tired themselves out, I myself didn't remember much about it, besides the fact that I was able to drink all of Ponyville under the table and stay standing for a good half hour before passing out for good. So to say I was confused when I woke up with the yellow pegasus and the white unicorn sleeping in the same bed with me, was something I would say describes the internal freak-out I had after I woke up completely justifiable, I just wish I could remember more than the stupid drinking competition so I could remember how I ended up in bed with the two mares who were using me as a giant teddy bear, to be honest, it was adorable to see them like this… now what happened at that party…

Author's Note

AND WE GOOD! Hey everypony, sorry for the wait on this chapter, but i'm finally getting some headway done one this story, now I've prepared Noah's AND Sapphire's stories already, i just need to start them up, which will be after this story is finished, and for those who are a little confused, don't worry, I've got plans made and everything will make sense later.

So until next time my lovely little night terrors, stay terrifying!