My Little Family

I woke up on October 1st feeling proud of how we played at the concert. I got dressed, walked into the dining room, and chirped, "Good morning!"

"Good morning!" Starlight, Spike, and Twilight all said in unison.

"Spike made pancakes! They're really good!" Twilight said.

"I don't doubt it. He's a really good cook." I replied.

"We want to thank you again for giving us tickets to the concert. We really enjoyed it!" She smiled.

"Yeah, it was really cool how you had sparks come down from the ceiling and made fire shoot up during the concert. The songs were really good as well."

"Well, I'm glad you all enjoyed it."

As we were eating, there was a knock at the door. "I'll get it." I said, getting up from my seat.

I opened the doors and got shot with confetti, and the Mane Six exclaimed, "CONGRATULATIONS!!!"

I regained my hearing, and asked, "What's this for?"

"Did you read the newspaper yet?" Rainbow asked.

"No. I only woke up a few minutes ago. I didn't get it yet."

Pinkie handed, or hoofed, me a newspaper, and I read the page. It talked about how "Different Worlds" had become the Number 9 spot on the list for "Best Bands In Equestrian History".

"Oh, my gosh! If I had any more tears, I would be crying tears of joy right now. This is amazing! Did you guys enjoy the concert?" I gasped, practically quivering with excitement.

"Obviously! You and Discord did an amazing job!" Rainbow cheered.

"Thank you! I'll make sure to pass the word when I see Discord."

"We should throw a party to celebrate!" Pinkie suggested.

"Maybe later. I spent two days holding a concert, and then a month crying, so I would like to have some time to relax." I sighed. I let them in, and they talked to Twilight, Starlight, and Spike while I ate. They then went somewhere to do something, and after I was done eating, I told Spike to tell them I’ll be in my world for the day, gave the coordinates of the places I would be, and left.

I was at Barnes And Noble looking for a new book to read. As I was looking, I heard a portal open. I got out my gun, just in case it was the animatronics.

"Johnny?" I put away my gun when I heard Luna's voice.

"That's me." I said. I found her at the front, and gave her a hug. "How are you?" I asked.

"We’re doing good. We wanted to know if we could hang out for the day."

"Sure. Spending a day with the princess of the night? I'll take that offer any day! Since we're here, how about you get a book?"

"Sure!" She came back to the front after getting her book, and I saw she got a romance novel.

We then went to to a movie theater, and watched "Back To The Future". After, we went to a mall to eat at the food court. When we got there, I started to panic, as I had remembered there was chicken and steak and meat there. "Maybe we shouldn't eat here." I stammered.

"Why not?" Luna asked.

"It's just that there might be things here you won't like."

"Don't worry, we'll be able to find something we like." She flew over to one of the places, and I thought, 'Now's better than later.' She flew over to one place and I followed. She said, "We'll get some Teriyaki chicken with Loman." I just stared at her, shocked. "Is that okay?"

"Yeah, I…" I was at a loss for words. All this time, I was worried that they would think of me as a monster if I told them I ate meat, when they also ate it this entire time!

"Johnny?"

I snapped back to reality.

"Yeah?"

"Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, it's just that I was worried you and everypony else would think of me as a monster if you found out I ate meat." I nervously chuckled.

"Don't worry. We eat meat as well."

"I just figured that out. You go sit down, and I'll get your order." I got her order as well as mine. We sat down and ate.

After that, we went to the pool. Then, we went on the hill Thorax and I once visited, and watched the clouds.

"Thanks for hanging out with me today! I had fun." I said.

"We should be thanking you! We had an amazing time with you today." We heard a portal open behind us, so we sat up and turned around to see who it was.

"Hello!" Thorax chirped.

"Thorax!" I got up, kissed him, then hugged him. "How are you?"

"I'm doing good. Do you feel any better since September is over?" He asked.

"A lot."

"Twilight said she had a surprise for you. But first you need to put this on." He levitated a blindfold into my hands. I put it on, and levitated me onto his back. "Hold on tight!" He warned. I did, and he started walking. After a minute or two, he stopped and said, "You can climb down now." I climbed down, and took off the blindfold.

"SURPRISE!!!" A whole bunch of ponies yelled. We were at Sugarcube Corner, and there were a bunch of ponies here: The Mane Six, Lyra, Bon Bon, Vinyl, Cherry Punch, even Celestia and Luna.

"What's this for?" Pinkie hopped over to me with two party hats.

"We wanted to congratulate you and Discord and being in the top ten bands to ever play in Equestria!" She put one hat on my head, then did the same for Discord, who was next to me.

"Well, thank you all. We really couldn't have done it without your help. If you all didn't show up, we probably wouldn't be on the list."

Discord and I got picked up by the Mane Six, and Pinkie yelled, "Three cheers for Discord and Johnny making number 9 on the list of the best bands to ever live in Equestria! Hip hip!"

"Hooray!" Everyone cheered.

"Hip hip!"

"Hooray!"

"Hip hip!"

"Hooray!"

Pinkie put on some of the music we released, then we sat down and ate. Discord, Rainbow, Applejack, Thorax and I sat down at a table together.

"So, what's next for the band?" Rainbow asked.

"Well, first, we have to keep this a secret with our friends, but we are releasing a CD and DVD of the concert. We figured that just in case there were some ponies that didn't get to go to the concert, they would be able to watch the concert on the DVD. Also, we decided to watch it for future generations, or for anyone that wants to relive the moment."

"That's a pretty good idea. I'll make sure to pick up a copy as soon as I can."

"Then, we were planning on releasing Green Day's music, as well as some other artists."

We continued the party, playing games, a food-fight, drinking and eating, and it started to die down about two hours in. Then, it was only the Mane Six, Celestia, Luna, Thorax, and obviously, Discord and I.

"Thank you all so much for this! It was amazing."

"No problem. You deserved it!" Pinkie said, hopping up and down.

"Is it true that you cuddle?" Rainbow blurted.

"Rainbow!" Twilight exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, but I'm just curious!" Rainbow replied.

I looked around, and everypony in the room was looking at me.

"Y-yes. But, if you're looking to cuddle, I'm in a relationship, and I'm not trying to sink it." I took a sip of my chocolate milk.

"Actually, I wouldn't mind if you cuddled with them." Thorax said.

I coughed, nearly choking on my drink. "I'm sorry, I j-just wasn't expecting that. R-really?"

"Yeah. Changelings are about sharing love now, so if you cuddled with them, that's fine. As long as nothing sexual is going on. Johnny's still mine." He said, hugging me as my face turned red. "So no kissing, or… you know. That's a talk for another day."

My face immediately went red. "Anyways. Spike, Discord and I were talking. Would you like to join the band and play bass for us?"

He looked shocked and excited. "YEAH!!" Everyone looked at him. "I-I mean, sure. That would be cool."

I chuckled, then Twilight said, "Wait, he doesn't play any instruments though."

"Don't worry, I can teach him."

"S-so, I'll be able to play concerts like you and Discord did, with thousands of ponies cheering? A-and we'll release CD's?"

"Yeah." After I said that, he fainted. Twilight caught him with his magic, and put him on his back.

"I think it's time we turn in for the night." She giggled.

We all went home after that. Twilight put Spike to bed, and Thorax went back to the hive. Unfortunately, he couldn't stay with me tonight. It was a little past 9:00, and I was in my room listening to music when I got an idea to end off this amazing day. I teleported to a horse race track that my dad took me to when I was little. I put on some music, and walked around. A few minutes later, as I was eating some cookies, I saw Twilight come out of a portal. I walked out of the building I was in, and out to her.

"Hello. You're here to see me, I'm assuming."

"Yes. I wanted to talk to you."

"Alright. Come in."

We walked in the building, and sat down at a table.

"What do you want to talk about?"

I took a sip of my Coca-Cola, only to choke on it after she asked, "How would you feel about me adopting you?"

"I'm sorry, I wasn't expecting that."

"It's okay. I wasn't really sure how to come up on the subject. Ever since we talked on September 1st, I felt so bad that your parents died. You're such a good person, and you were so young when it happened. It must be hard going day by day seeing other foals with their parents."

"It is."

"I would love to have you as a part of the family. Out of everypony, I think we get along the most. Excluding Discord, but I think we can both agree that it would be a little weird if he was your parent. So, what do you say?"

I took a moment to think about what she said.

"I… would love to have you as my parent." I got up and hugged her. "Th-thank you so much."

"Let's go home… son." Hearing her say that almost made me cry right then and there. We went home and went to bed.

As I was dreaming, someone said from behind me, "How did it go?" I turned around and saw Luna.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Twilight adopting you. How did it go?"

"It went well. It kind of threw me off though… wait, how do you know?"

"She had been planning it ever since the day you revealed that you didn't have parents anymore." She sat down and I did the same.

"She mentioned how she thought one of the elements might adopt you, but after a month or two, she decided to take things into her own hooves. She just didn't know how to go on about it."

"I know. I asked her what she wanted to talk about, and she asked, 'How would you feel about me adopting you?'" I chuckled. "She really does care, doesn't she?"

"She does. She felt bad about how you didn't have any friends, and she felt even worse when you said you didn't have any parents. Though, she was kind of scared of talking about it with us and our sister. It isn't common for a pony to adopt one of another species, so to adopt a creature from another dimension would be on a completely different level. We have to know, you and Thorax do actually cuddle?"

"Yeah. I love all of your hugs, not just from you, but from the elements, and everypony else as well. As you can see, I don't have any fur, and everypony's fur is really soft."

"Alright, we'll let you get back to your dream. Good luck with your new family." She ascended into the white void, sunk into the sky and disappeared.