My Little Family

I walked up to the door Carousel Boutique, and I walked in. “Just a minute!” I heard Rarity yell from upstairs. A few seconds later, she came down.

“Hello, Thorax! What brings you in today?” She asked.

“Hi Rarity! So, um, there’s this creature that I like, and I was wondering if you could make something for them for Heart’s Warming.”

“Oh, why of course. So, what were you thinking of?” She asked.

“Here’s the thing: I wasn’t looking for you to make a dress or suit, or any type of clothing. I know that’s what you do, but since you stitch, I was wondering if you could stitch something together.”

“I’m listening.”

I got up at 5:30 again to make a special breakfast. Why? Today is Hearth’s Warming Day! So, to start off the day I was going to make Monkey Bread. I got my CD player, and the greatest hits from blink-182. While I was happy that today was Christmas/Hearth’s Warming Day, I was a little upset. This would’ve been Chrysalis and Puppet’s first Christmas, but unfortunately, they were gone. While I was waiting for the timer to go off, somepony galloped towards me. Pharynx came in, panting.

“Hey, Pharynx. What’s going on?” I asked, concerned.

After catching his breath, he gasped, “Thorax is gone!”

My eyes widened. “What do you mean?”

“Somepony took him! I went to say good morning to him, but I found this note on his bed.”

He handed me a note and I glanced over it.

Merry Christmas! We wanted to give you a Christmas you would never forget. Since you took the lives of one of us, we decided to return the favor.

Happy holidays!

I was shocked, concerned, and afraid. “Alright, you go to the Princesses’ castle, and show them the note. I’ll get Twilight, and then we’ll meet you there.”

We went our separate ways. I hurried over to Twilight's room to tell her what happened. We went to the castle, and after a guard directed us to a room, we met up with the Princesses and Pharynx.

We both sat down, and Pharynx hovered the note over to Twilight.

“So, you don’t know where he’s at?” Luna asked Pharynx.

“No. I went to say good morning to him, but all there was was the note.” He responded.

“Let me see the note again.” I said. Twilight hovered it to me, and I grabbed it. I read it again.

“I don’t know what they mean by ‘You took the lives of one of us’.” I skimmed it again, and then it hit me. I swear, as soon as I realized who it was, “Jaded” started to play. I stood up and stomped towards the door.

“Where are you going?” Pharynx looked at me.

“To give the animatronics the one-way ticket to the afterlife they just won.”

We (the princesses, the Mane Six, Discord, Pharynx, Spike, some royal guards, and I) went to the pizzeria. They stayed outside while I went in. I went through the first set of glass doors, and put on “Jaded". After the guitar, bass and drums came in, I walked through the second set of glass doors. The animatronics stared at me, and I just sat down.

“Can I get a glass of chocolate milk, please?” I asked. They just stared. “Can I get a glass of chocolate milk please?!?” I demanded.

“Get our special guest the chocolate milk.” Freddy said, looking at Chica. Chica ran into the kitchen and got me chocolate milk. I almost took a sip, when I said, “You really think I’m stupid?” I threw the glass across the room, heard it smash, pressed on my necklace, and grabbed my Wunderwaffe in one swift motion. “Where’s Thorax?” I snarled.

“Why should we tell you?” Freddy grumbled.

“Maybe then, I’ll let you live.” I snapped back.

“He’s in the basement.” Toy Bonnie blurted. Everyone looked at him. “Listen, I’m trying to release my first single, “Friday Nights At Chuck. E Cheese”, and I told you that. That’ll be kind of hard to do if I’m dead.”

“You can shoot him.” Foxy sighed.

“Everybody back away from the door.” I shouted. I stormed over, thrust it open, and walked down to the basement. The door to the basement was locked, so I had to kick it down. Thorax started screaming, but it was muffled, since he had a cloth in his mouth.

“Hey, it’s me, Joh-” I paused as I realized he was looking behind me. I turned around, and saw the ten animatronics that attacked Ponyville. I shot them, knowing that they were down here to take me down or kill Thorax. They all got electrocuted, and I turned towards Thorax. He started scooting away from me like he thought I would hurt him.

I put down the Wunderwaffe, and put away my suit. “Hey, I’m not going to hurt you. I promise.” He started to calm down. I took the cloth out of his mouth, and untied him. He hugged me and said, “Thank you so much!”

“No problem. Let’s tell the others you’re safe.” I said. We walked out, and everypony was happy that he was safe. I opened the portal to Celestia’s castle, as Celestia had invited them there to celebrate Thorax not dying, and let them go through. I closed it and went back to Twilight’s castle. I went to the library and set a fire in the fireplace. I got a blanket, my CD player, and “God’s Favorite Band”. I put on my blanket, played “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, and sat by the fire. I needed to be alone for a while.

Celestia had invited us to the castle for breakfast to celebrate that I was alright. There was an assortment of things: Eggs, bacon, monkey bread, and a lot more. We were all sitting down and eating, when I noticed Johnny wasn’t with us.

“Where’s Johnny?” I wondered out loud. Everypony looked around the room, but no pony knew where he was.

“Maybe he had to do some last minute shopping.” Rainbow Dash suggested.

“But, it’s Hearth’s Warming Day. About every store is closed.” Twilight said.

“I hope he’s alright.” Rarity chirped.

We all started getting worried and decided to go look for him. We went to the teleporter room and found that the most recent place opened was Twilight’s castle. We went there and started calling out for him. We looked all around, and I heard music coming from the library. I looked, and sure enough, he was in the library.

“Hey, I found him.” I yelled. “Hey Johnny.”

He didn’t turn around.

“Johnny?”

He still didn't move. I walked up to him and tapped him on the shoulder. He jumped, as if he didn't know I was there.

"Hello!" I chirped.

"Hey. Guess you finally noticed I wasn't there?" He asked.

"Yeah. How come you didn't come?"

"I… well first, today would have been Puppet and Chrysalis' first Hearth's Warming, so it's… kind of saddening that they… aren't here with us to enjoy it." He sniffled. "He didn't deserve to go." There were some tears running down his face.

I hugged him and muttered, "He really didn't. He was a great person. Is there anything else?"

"I… I could've lost you today. The animatronics were planning on killing you. If I had let another person close to me die, I don't know how I could live with myself. I also noticed you scooted away when I came into the room. I want you to know that I would never hurt you." He hugged me back and sniffled.

"There there. It'll be okay. Let's be happy that I'm here." I felt something touch my head. I looked up and saw some mistletoe floating above us. I looked into the hallway, and saw Rarity using her magic. The aura on her horn was the same as the one around the mistletoe. When I looked at her, she winked. She must have figured out that Johnny was the "creature" I was talking about. "Hey look at that."

Johnny looked up and said, "Yeah, it's mistle…" He looked at me, and I was grinning. Before he could say anything, I kissed him. After processing what was happening, he put his hand on my cheek and kissed back. We stopped after about ten seconds, and I said, "I love you."

"I love you too." He responded. "Oh! I need to get everyone's presents."

I ran to my room and got everyone's presents. I handed the presents to their new owners, and they opened them. They thanked me, then Twilight pulled out a little slip of paper from inside her box and asked, "What's this?"

"That is your ticket for the concert Discord and I are holding." I replied.

All their jaws dropped. "Wait, how come she only gets one and we don't?" Rainbow asked.

"Check your boxes again." I told them.

They did, and they all pulled out tickets.

"Thank you so much Johnny! This gift is from all of us." Twilight said, levitating a box in front of me.

I opened it, and there was a piece of paper in the box. I pulled it out and opened it. In it, there were a bunch of nice things from everyone (Discord, the Mane Six, Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Shining Armor, and Thorax) saying how cool I am, how much they care about me, and other things. I looked up at them, and they were all smiling. I hugged Twilight, and the rest of the group joined in. "Thank you all so much! I'm blessed to have you all as friends."

"And we're blessed to have you as a friend." Celestia said. We would have continued our group hug if my stomach didn't grumble.

"How about we get something to eat?" Celestia suggested between giggles.

"Yes please." I replied.

I stayed with Johnny so we could cuddle. We laid down together in his bed, and he asked if he could ask me something.

"I don’t know, could you?" I replied.

He giggled an adorable giggle, and asked, "Did you know that I loved you before today?"

"Yeah. You talk in your sleep, and your heart pounds when we cuddle." He blushed as I chuckled a bit.

"You have a cute laugh." He complimented.

I blushed and said, "So do you." He blushed as well. I then remembered that I never gave him his gift. "Oh! I'm so sorry! I never gave you your gift!" I summoned his gift and levitated it to him. He opened it and froze. He took out the plush of me that Rarity stitched and looked at it. He sniffled, and I asked, "Hey, what's wrong?"

He hugged me, and sputtered, "Nothing, I'm super lucky to have you in my life."

"I'm glad you enjoy it." I smiled. He got up, and put a CD into his CD player. He put it on the desk next to the bed and put on a song. "What-"

"Just listen. Every lyric in the song is from me to you." He said. I listened, and it brought tears to my eyes.

"What is the song called?" I asked.

"'Last Night On Earth'." He answered.

"You mean that? That every lyric in the song is from you to me?" I asked.

"Yep. I love you with all my heart." He said.

"I-I love you with all of mine as well." I kissed him.

"Good night." He laid his head on my chest.

"Won't the music bother you?" I asked.

"Nope. It'll just remind me how lucky I am to have you. If you want to turn it off, you can."

"No, I'll keep it on. Good night. I love you." I said, with tears still in my eyes.

"I love you too." He said.

I kissed his forehead and listened to the song. "I'm lucky to have you as well."

I laid there listening to the song when Twilight came in. "Is he asleep?" She asked.

"Y-yeah." I replied.

"Is everything alright?" She asked.

"Yeah. I'm just really lucky to have Johnny with me."

"You two will make a great couple."

"Thanks."

"Good night. Let me know if you need me." She said, then closing the door.

I kissed Johnny on his head, and closed my eyes. Today's been a good day