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Chapter: سِتّة

I look back towards Fury and Kayda and find them stopping a feet away from the train that’s suppose to take us to where these two celestial gods, or whatever, who are currently await my arrival. That’s what the unicorn mare said anyways.

“You two ain’t coming with us?” I ask them both. Both Fury and Kayda shake their heads.

“Nah. Canterlot is not a place I really like to go to. To many uptight and snobby richies live their” Fury says with dismissive wave of his hand. I look to Kayda for her reason as she shrugs her shoulders.

“Same thing as Fury. Nothing but dick heads and racists bigots up there. You and Winter be careful there” she says as she waves us off.

Me and Winter wave back and board the train with the four guards. We take a seat but the guards stand by the entrences of the cart that we’re in. The unicorn guard in purple armor looks at that the two of us.

“What your friend said isn’t a lie, but I assure you that the two princesses aren’t like that. So there’s no need to worry” she says in a monotonous voice.

“She‘s right. The princesses are very kind compared to the ponies who live in Canterlot.” Kayda says to reassure me and back up the unicorn mare’s words.

I wave a dismissive hand to the both of them. “I ain’t worried about nothing. I’ve dealt with people just like them. This ain’t nothing new to me” I said with a chuckle. “Best way to deal with them is smile and blow them a kiss. They get pissed when you do it.”

This got smiles from the three other guards and chuckle from one of them. The one who chuckled spoke up.

“Just might try that” he said as he chuckled some more, but soon stopped as the unicorn mare cleared her throat. All three stood at attention as they stayed beside the entrences of the cart. The train then slowly started to move. It’s destination to a city called Canterlot.

The unicorn mare speaks up once again. “You two better sit tight. It’ll be an hour and a half to get there.”

“S’all good, I got my phone to keep me entertained” I said as I swiftly pulled it out a pocket from within my jacket. As soon as I pulled it out all eyes were on me. I tap my phone to turn it on and it unlocks itself as the Face ID kicks in. I quickly swipe twice on the screen and open up my favorite mobile game. The music to the game sparks up loudly through the speakers of my phone which made everyone in the cart jump. It put everyone on edge as the guards lifted up their rifles and looked straight at me. I looked back then with confusion.

“Damn, what’s got all you jumpy. I’m just playing a game on my phone” I say as I show them the game as it loudly continues to play the music. They all lowered their rifles as they looked at my phone with child like curiosity. I then start to play the game as I continuously tap on the screen so the little character with the mini-gun jetpack doesn’t get killed from the various obstacles. I glance up from phone to find the guards and Winter closely watching me play the game with wide fascinated eyes.

“If your curious on what this is, it’s called a smartphone. It’s a device that can let me communicate with others with the same device or similar too from around the world. I can also watch videos, play music, and play videos games. This isn’t a magical item, it’s made up from tiny techy parts. It’s made by science. I wish I can explain to you guys in greater detail, but I’m not all that smart. I’m a boxer, not a scientist. And if you have questions about what I’m talking about, I’ll just show you through this device” I casually say as I kept my eyes on the screen.

Winter tugs on my sweater to get my attention. I pause the game and look over to her. “What’s up?”

“You said that device can play music, right?”

I nod my head. “You wanna hear some?”

She nods her head excitedly. This gets a smile from me and tap my phone a few times and the. tap on the Spotify app. I scroll through the downloaded music on the app and find a good song that everyone might enjoy.

“Alright everyone, lemme play some music that will get everyone in some good vibes!” I tap the song and it slowly started to play.

As the song played their ears perked up and started to nod their head’s to the beat of the song. The guards nodding and tapping their hooves on the floor. Even the most serious guard nodding her head as a small smile forms under her helmet.

Few minutes go by as the song slowly comes to an end. Everyone in the cart looks my way with disappointed looks, but soon the smiles return back to their muzzles as my playlist shuffles through.

“Hey Tatsuo, is it ok if I can play that game you were playing on that?” she asks shyly with her ears folded back. The sight of her made my heart skip a beat at how adorable she looked. So there was no way I was going to say no. I tap on the game I was playing and hand over my phone to her. Before she can grab it though, I quickly move it away as I look at her.

“Please be careful with it, ok?” She nods her head happily as she grabs my phone and looks it over curiously. She then starts to copy what I was during the game. On her first go she did pretty good, but once it started to speed up she lost and started over again. She continued to play has her face started to scrunch up as she concentrated on the game, her fingers tapping furiously on the screen to avoid the traps.

My eyes slowly start to move away from my phone as they slowly look Winter over. Seeing her winter white fluffy coat was pretty hard not to run my hands through it. Also, seeing those fluffy tips of her ears was really hard on me but I had to take the chance. I unconsciously reach out to her ears without a second thought and with my index finger and thumb I gently grab one of her ears. Winter tensing up goes unnoticed to me. I gently start to pet her ear as a smile spreads across my face from how soft and cold they felt. I then start to gently run my fingers through her fluffy fur and notice how unbelievably smooth and silky it is. I couldn’t help myself. I really couldn’t stop myself at this point. I had to hug and pet her.

I bring an arm around her and bring her head against my chest. Winter didn’t seem to mind, but I couldn’t tell how she was reacting. At this point I didn’t care. I had to keep petting her. I’ll let her pummel me later.

I gently hug her close as I start to gently scratch her ears and head, even combing my fingers through her fur. My fingers then slide down under her chin and then lightly start to scratch there. The moment I did that her tail started to lightly thump against the seat. Her right foot slowly started to thump against the floor as my scratching started to speed up a little. I feel her lean her head into my chest as a small groan escapes from her mouth. I quickly stop and look down at her worried that I might have scratched her to hard, but all worry is washed away she looks up at me with an annoyed pouty look.

“Mmrr, why’d you stop? That felt nice” she says drowsily as she shifts around and lays her head on my lap. She grabs my hand and lays it on her head. I then continue with the petting.

I let out a chuckle. “I honestly thought you’d be very pissed at me. Didn’t know if I was crossing some boundaries by doing that, but I had to risk it. Your silky fur was screaming to me to be petted.” She lets out a satisfied groan as I massage her head.

“You kind are. I’ll let it slide though because what your doing feels amazing. Never felt anything this good before” she says a bit tiredly as a yawn escapes her. “It’s even making me sleepy.”

“Heh, my hands tend to have that effect on someone when touched. Makes everyone go night night.” She just smiles and nuzzles her face into my stomach as she slowly starts to drift off to sleep.

“Wooow, look at you. Who knew a tough guy like you can have such a soft side” one of the male guards says.

I shrug my shoulders and look up towards the guard. “To be honest, I’ve never had a side to me like this till I came here. Don’t know what the sudden change was, but there’s change alright.” I look back down at Winter and softly pet her. “For some reason I feel different around her. Never felt like this back home with anyone. It’s a warm feeling that makes me happy but I’ve only felt this way with my mother. But there’s something there that I’ve never felt with my mom, but I feel for... her.”

“That’s something we call love, kid.” I look towards the female guard and find her looking at me with her blank look as always.

“Love?” I think about it for awhile, but can’t really tell for sure. “Maybe. I really don’t know yet. Like I said, I’ve never felt this way for anyone.”

“You’ll figure it out sooner or later bud. If she has this much of an effect on you now, just wait till you two start getting more serioussssssss, if you know what I mean” another guard says as he wiggles his eyebrows. The other two guards chuckle softly as the female guard shakes her head with disappointment.

We all soon start to get to know each other all the while Winter snoozes away on my lap as every few minutes she snuggles her face into my stomach. All four of them make little comments about how nice it would be for us to be a couple. I quickly turn those down as I tell them that I’m not ready for that commitment yet. The stallion’s shake their head’s in disappointment at missing a good opportunity and scold me for doing so. The mare in control of the group of guards quickly shuts them up and understands where I’m coming from. She told me its better to let things settle in before rushing into anything. I thanked her for understanding, but this got little remarks from the stallion’s. They quickly went silent the second she sent a piercing glare their way.

The mare then looks my way. “Anyways, so your trying to become a boxing champ, eh?”

You nod your head. “That’s right.”

The mare gives me a hard look and sighs. “Kid, no offense, but you don’t even look like you take on a dragon!” I just smile at her which confuses her.

“Probably not, but that ain’t gonna stop me from claiming belts in the four weight classes that I called out. Plus, it’ll be fun to fight a dragon, I just know it” I said with excitement in my voice.

All four looked at me as if I was insane and then then one of them snorted and started to laugh. “That’s the most craziest things I’ve ever heard coming from someone!”

Winter started to stir a little in her sleep and the guard quickly quites down. She softly groans in her sleep as she shifts uncomfortably on my lap. Her muzzle and face scrunch up as if she was in pain. She then wraps her arms around my waist tightly as droplets of tears run down her face. I didn’t know what was going on and I didn’t know what to do in this type situation. So the only thing I could do was softly comb my fingers through her white hair and shush her back to sleep. I did this for a couple of seconds and she soon laid still on my lap with arms still wrapped around me.

“Hm, wonder what that was all about?” I asked myself, to which one of them answering my question.

“She could be remembering a bad memory she had when los— OW! What was that for?!”

“Shut up you idiot. That’s not information we should be giving out to someone we don’t know.” The guard who butted in then looks my way. “No offense though. We take our job seriously, unlike this dumbass over here” he points a thumb back to his friend.

“Ruuude!”

I chuckle softly. “It’s cool, no—“ I pause for a bit as a big yawn escapes my mouth “…worries.” I rub my eyes a little. “Jesus, guess that little spar wore me out a bit.”

“Go ahead and catch some zzz’s kid, we still got about an hour to go. We’ll wake you guys up once we get there.”

I give a nod and rest back against my seat and get comfortable. I rest a hand on Winter’s head, softly petting her as my eyes slowly start to close. The last thing I see is a small smile on her face as my mind slowly drifts off to sleep.