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It's been like that for a few months since I came to Equestria now, i haven't found either of my siblings yet, but i'll find them eventually, Cadence actually got the training down within two months, she's very talented with this kind of stuff, we even got through the cantrips, first level, and second level spells easily, we were training one the last of the third level wizard spells that I was willing to teach her, there was no way in the nine hells that I was ever going to teach her necromancy, it was during this time when she asked me something that changed my view on her forever, it went like this.

We were in the cave, I cleaned it up a lot in the months of staying there, it now felt more like a small cozy home than a wild cave, we were practicing the spell 'Tail Strike' for a while when we decided to take a break, we knew a lot about each other by now and everything was fine, Celestia and Luna haven't found me or my cave yet, trust me, i'd know if they did, so everything was fine, that's when she asked the question.

"Master, what do you see me as?" She asks, getting me to look at her curiously.

"That depends on what you mean Cadence, for one can see you in many different ways." I say, I've been getting really good at wise person talk.

"I mean, as a pony, not as your student, but as a family member." She asks, getting me to look at her surprised.

"Why the sudden interest?" I ask her, she brings her knees towards her face and starts crying a little.

"I guess that it's just that, I don't really have a family, i have aunty Tia and aunty Luna sure, but other than that, i'm alone, and when we started training, when you taught me your magic, I couldn't help but feel a connection, like there was something in you that brought me closer to you, and you always stood by my side in training, went through the motions with me, healed me when i injured myself, heck, you even laughed when I got worried about you after a misfire of a spell, telling me that you were fine and it was nothing but a scratch. You took care of me even when you knew you'd get nothing in return, I started to see you like the father I never had, and I was wondering if you saw me as your daughter." She explained, I was at a loss for words, Cadence saw me as a father, her father.

The more I thought about it the more I saw that she was right, I did take care of her while expecting nothing in return, I did laugh when I got injured by her misfiring a spell, and healing her when she got injured, going through the motions of the spells with her, so she can know what she's doing wrong and know what to do right with each spell. I laughed in my head at that, knowing that I have been treating her like a daughter of sorts.

"Well… you are the only pony I know so far personally, and you're an amazing student, able to master spells that others would have taken years to master…" I start, I can see her physically deflate from what i'm saying. "That being said, you are the one pony who i would die protecting, so, yeah, I guess that i do see you as a daughter, Mi Amore." I finish hugging her gently, she gasps at that sentence, one because I called her Mi Amore, which I never did before, and second, because I called her my daughter.

"Thank you so much… Daddy." She says hugging me tightly, almost crushing me, but not quite.

"Anything for you my lovely princess." I whisper, getting her to cry into my chest, I just held her in my arms, letting her cry until she fell asleep in my embrace.

"Things are going to get more interesting now, but i hope you'll forgive me my princess of love, because I know that you'll be able to move on, when the time comes." I think as I decide to go to sleep as well.

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The dream realm is weird, I can attest to that, for this dream wasn't my own, but of someone close to me, it was dark out, i was in the middle of what i could guess was a small town, and it was raining hard, so there was no one outside, which was to be expected, but this felt deserted, there was also a large castle like structure down the road, I noticed three figures running down the road towards me, as they got closer, I noticed that one of them looked similar to daddy, while the second looked like a relative of his, maybe my uncle, anyways, the third being was a weird version of a Timberwolf in the Everfree, I could almost see the muscles it had as it ran with the other two, then just as they were going to reach me, three glints of metal came into my vision before all three hit the ground, the furry wolf tumbled a bit before slowly getting up, the first person, who i now knew was daddy rolled into the hit and landed on one knee, the other person landed face first and didn't get up, but started to gasp and gurgle, my dad went over to him and looked him over before crying, i was close enough to hear him.

"No, don't you dare die on me now, we were supposed to escape this place together, come on brother, stay with me, please." He said to the other person, who I now saw had an arrow going through his neck, tears started to well up in my eyes.

"Uncle…" I whispered before noticing that my daddy had pulled the arrow in his leg out and notched into his bow, before turning and firing at something, when the arrow vanished i heard a small yelp of pain and the sound of metal snapping in half, as well as footsteps running away.

"Damn it, I didn't hit the head… doesn't matter, I'll find that thing eventually, then I'll reap my vengeance." He said going over to where I saw him shoot and pick something up, a quick spell, which I noticed was a mending spell and he placed it around his neck, I saw it was a gold necklace with a weird eye in the front.

He picked up his brother and brought him to a house, at first I thought he was going to knock on the door, but he just kicked it in and went inside. I followed not knowing what he was doing, when I came into the house, the stench of death immediately came up my nose, I saw rotten wood all around me, and two rotting corpses laying on a bed off to my left, daddy went into another room, I quickly followed, watching, he laid down my uncle onto another bed and placed a blanket over him.

"Don't worry Silver, i'm going to heal you up, then we can continue leaving this cursed place." He said before going back into the other room after grabbing a small leather-bound book that i saw before and placing it in his bag, I also saw him grab two other books one was the spellbook we've been practicing in and the other was a blood red book that had a weird looking jar imprinted into the cover. "Sorry bro, but i can't heal you, and besides, you'd probably die before i could and Lady Pharasma would kill me for even attempting to step into her domain and changing fate, not to mention, i'm not strong enough to save you from death." He said before walking out of the house, I saw him crying on the way out, he and the large wolf left the town and traveled into the woods.

I collapsed into the ground as the scene shifted into one that had him looking older, much like he looked now, he was with a few humans, the wolf, and a weird being that looked like a cat and a female that looked like what he described about elves. They were traveling through a tunnel before my daddy held up a fist and everyone stopped, I came up to the front to see a bunch of robed and hooded figures surrounding a raised platform, on it I saw a small girl and a baby dragon, daddy looked mad, i never saw him mad before, it scared me, and apparently, it scared the others too even the female next to him.

"Emerald, you need to calm down, your wilderness side is showing." The female said before daddy took off and planted his sword into the closest figure, he seemed to wield magic i haven't seen before, he was tossing balls of fire, throwing lightning, even blasting them back with the wind itself, it was as terrifying as it was awe inspiring, the other humans had to stop him from killing the last hooded figure, who had his hood down and was shaking in fear, i saw that it was a human male, he was quickly handcuffed and taken out of the room with no resistance, daddy went up to the dragon and the female, they started shaking in fear too.

"Shh, it's okay, i'm not going to hurt you, no one’s going to hurt you any longer, I'll be right here to protect you." He said softly hugging the two, they both melted into the hug and started crying heavily. "Sis, can you help me carry these two out of here, I don't want to leave them by themselves." He asked, looking at the only older female in the room.

"That's my other aunty…?" I asked myself out loud as the female nodded before picking up the dragon and carrying her out, they both seemed to fall asleep on the way out, they reached a large tent and went in, I followed to continue listening to the conversation.

"So, what are we going to do with them, we can't bring them with us, it'll be too dangerous, but we can't just leave them here either, especially with the war going on." The highly armored male said, turning the attention to him, daddy and my new aunt were holding both of the children in their arms while they snuggled into their chests, still sleeping.

"I said I'd protect them, and i mean it, even if I have to die doing so, i'll keep them safe." Daddy said, getting a surprised look from the male and my auntie.

"I haven't heard you talk like that in three years… what changed bro?" My aunty asked, getting me to look at daddy curiously, wondering what she meant.

"I agree with Fia here Flare, you haven't spoken this carefree, or this determined, since we got here, what's going on?" The male said getting me to look at daddy even more curiously, wondering how long he knew these people.

"The war changed me Alex…” he said, the male now known as Alex sitting down. “I was born in Trin, you both remember the place, one day, when I was six, a disease started spreading into everyone in town who was twenty years or older, my parents were in their early thirties when it happened.” he started explained, they looked at him curiously, until it finally clicked, Fia placed her hand over her heart while Alex looked shocked.

“So they were affected too…” Alex said in realization, he seemed to know something about my dad now.

“Yeah, they were, they lasted a while thanks to me and my brother making healing potions for them… but they died anyway.” he replied, both of them looked sad, as if they never knew about this before.

“I'm sorry that you lost your parents… I guess that's why you didn't like the idea of going to Trin all those years ago…” Alex remarked, letting me know that it left bad memories in my dad's head.

“Yeah… one of the reasons… but there's another… you see, everyone who wasn't affected were brought into the fortress, where the guards said they'd take care of us, but every time someone got sick, they just threw them off the outer wall.” he explained, getting a sickened look from both of them. “Eventually i had enough, and i planned an escape with my brother, Moon Silvereyes, he was nine at the time, and we did, we escaped the fortress under the dead of night during a rainstorm, we were home free, but then arrows were shot at us, i could tell it was a werewolf from the scent.” he continued, pausing at the moment before revealing the truth. “It killed him, the arrow went through my brother’s neck, one hit me in the thigh and the last one hit Artimus in the side near her back leg.” he said, getting them to gasp at what he said, I just sat next to him, tears starting to come out. “I was able to fire an arrow back and hit his collarbone, but he fled before I had the chance to fire another.” he said getting them to look down at the ground in anger, as if wanting vengeance. “This is where I got the necklace from, it was the werewolf’s necklace, I've been looking for him ever since that night… but no luck… I couldn't find him, then i joined the party… and vengeance was the last thing on my mind, but still there… but I guess if I didn't go to Trin, I wouldn't have Fia as a sister, as I was one of the only people to stay behind and talk to her.” he said, getting another hug from my new aunty, before they both yawn, I notice that it's now night outside.

"Let's get some sleep, it's late and we're going to need our energy in the morning." My aunty Fia said getting everyone to agree to that suggestion and laid down on beds just big enough to hold them, and they drifted off to sleep, the next thing I knew, I was in my room with aunty Luna looking at me worried.

"There thou is! We were worried when our sister and we hadn't found you in the castle, where are you dear niece?" She exclaimed, hugging me tightly, then looking straight into my eyes, as if searching for the answer before I could tell her.

"Don't worry aunty Luna, i'm perfectly fine, i'll be back in the castle by tomorrow morning, I was just working on a surprise for you and aunty Tia and I ended up staying later than expected, that's all." I said hoping my partial lie would work, as I was working on something, but it wasn't a surprise for my aunts.

"As long as you're safe that's all that matters." She says hugging me again.

"I'm in the safest place imaginable." I reply hugging her before everything starts turning white.

"Looks like thou's waking up, we shall see thou in the morning." She says before the light gets brighter.

"See you in the morning aunty." I reply smiling before my world turns black and I feel a person underneath me, who's wrapping their arms around me in a protective way.

"Good morning my Mi Amore, how'd you sleep?" I hear as I sit up, facing the one male that treated me with kindness so far.

"I'm fine daddy, it was a peaceful but weird dream." I reply smiling a little, rubbing my eyes tired.

"Your tears say otherwise sweetheart, what happened?" He says brushing his hand over my cheeks, I could tell that they were wet.

"It's nothing… I just saw some bad things, that's all." I replied looking away from him, he could tell I was trying not to cry.

"Mi Amore… there's no need to hold back your tears, let them flow like the rivers that carve the land." He said hugging me gently, i started to cry into his chest, he just held me until i stopped. "Wish to tell me?" He asked as I had stopped crying, I just nodded my head before laying on my back on his torso.

"It was like I was in memories… your memories daddy, i saw uncle Moon, the night he died, I also saw aunty Fina… I think her name was…" I start getting him to laugh lightly.

"Her name is Fia, but close, what else did you see?" He corrected me before waiting for me to continue.

"Well, I saw you get mad, and I also saw a lot of humans with you, one was in this full body fancy armor, the other was a weird looking cat, and there were these hooded humans who had two kids like me on a table… do you remember that daddy?" I ask before noticing him grimace.

"Yeah… I remember that day too well, what remained of our party was helping Alex with his home war, we were tracing this cult that had been kidnapping other children in the middle of the night, we followed two back to their base, dealing with any traps that were in the way… I lost it back there… it wasn't my best moment, but it got me two beautiful girls out of it, so technically you have two sisters, but I haven't found them yet, but I do know that they're most likely with Fia." He said getting me to look at him in surprise.

"I have siblings!?" I asked sitting up in his lap, he simply nodded, I was overjoyed at this news, not only did i now have a father, but now i have two sisters as well, and an aunt who can beat up daddy if he makes a dumb decision.

"Yep, the dragoness is named Ova Summereyes, while the elven girl is named Ruby Summereyes." He said giving me their names, I was bouncing up and down at the news, I had more family, and I couldn't wait to find them, until I remembered what I told aunty Luna.

"I have to go daddy, aunty Tia and aunty Luna are waiting for me back at the castle." I said hugging him tightly.

"Of course my Mi Amore, i wouldn't want to keep them waiting for too long, you know how Celestia can get." He replies, hugging me before I start to run out of his home. "Just make sure you come back soon, I wouldn't want you falling behind!" He called out and I waved back before applying some magic to increase my speed.

Author's Note

Second Chapter! YES! i dont have anything else to put on this... sorry if its short.😖

So until next time my lovely little night terrors!