Chapters Fast Tap and the place of his hearth warming
The worst moment for invite me
I walked happily through the halls and met Sandbar, wearing his winter suit on.
Sandbar said quickly “Fast Tap!”
I respond “Sandbar! partner!”
Sandbar said, “I was just looking for you since I know you don't have a place to spend the festivities of hearths warming, I give you a verbal invitation to spend it with me!”
I accepted the invitation “Wow, that sounds great, of course, I'm going!”
Sandbar “Thanks Fast, I know you will, we will be glad to have someone else in our house.
“See you friend!” I said and Sandbar made a farewell gesture, while I passed by.
After that, I wanted to fly, so I went out the front door and ...
Autumn Blaze teleported in front of me just before jumping “Fast!”
I stopped “Hello Autumn Blaze, you are also getting ready for the holidays right?”
Autumn speaks exited “I know, I'm excited, Fast Tap I invite you to spend hearths warming with me and the other kirins, I told you about your adventure with Cozy in person and they want to see you…!”
I felt awkward “Thanks Autumn, but ...”
“I know, it will be very incredible that it was not necessary to tell you, see you, now I have to help some boys in performance” Autumn hugged me teleports back to her house.
Great, now I had to be in two places the same day, a reason to relax flying when starting the flight, just Silverstream crashes with me on purpose and we fall into the snow.
Silverstream said exited “Fast! I have news for you! Guess! Guess!”
I said in my mind “Please not another invitation...”
Silverstream said “Fast, since you don't have a place to live, you will come with me TO MOUNT ARIS, TO CELEBRATE THE THREE DAYS OF FREEDOM CELEBRATION!”
I was following the flow to not make her sad “That sounds great ...”
“I don't want to tell you anything, because you're going to love it more than anything!...”-Suddenly Silverstream remember she has to do something-“AHH! I have to go, see ya Fast, by the way, there in Mount Aris I will give you a gift”
Now I was 3 at that time, already in the heights I saw and go to Gallus, he was a little worried.
Cozy asks “Why?”
To me, at that time he only told me his secret ... let's just say that it is something we share of our past ...
I said “Gallus?”
Gallus was sad “Yes, I know Why that face? … You already know”
I said “I know ... do you want us to be partners for these festivities?”
Gallus gets happy “Would be an honor for me ... The show!”
I asked “huh?”
Gallus said “Ugh, nobody was supposed to know, is that I with my other friends will do the festive tale of Snowfall Frost”
I said “Don't worry, I won't tell anyone like your secret Gallus”
Gallus hugged me “Thanks Fast, I have to go, see ya!”
And he leaves, to avoid more invitations I decided to go straight to the caverns of the school, and in it, I thought about how to solve it.
I was walking to nowhere “ugh, how will I go to 4 places at once? ... I think I can only visit one, try to be in the 4 will make it in none ...”
Suddenly, when I opened my eyes, I saw it, that crown, that same crown that Cozy wore when I took the school intact on the floor, I decided to take it and thought about how you would feel alone with Tirek
“... no, ”-I sneaked and picked the crown-“she almost killed me and broke our friendship! this will remind me of the pain she made me, and surely she would have a great time there with her little friend centaur”
Already when a few minutes passed it was already night and I spent in my bedroom, alone, not knowing who to spend the holidays with, the crown? I hid it deep in my bed so that nobody knows of its place ...
Tirek interrupts “Then ... you used to hate Cozy, eh? Why did you change your mind?”
Fast says “The story will tell you ...”
Already when it was midnight sleeping without even knowing which way to go ... I hear that imaginary friend knocking on the window like a door, but, it had another form, the only one he had since I moved here, a mini shooting star.
Kevight said “Fast, Fast, it's me”
I walked to the bedroom window and opened it “Kevight?, I thought I could only see you from afar ...”
Kevight said “Seeing your concern with whom to spend the holidays, I decided to come in the form that you used to see me since you moved here and do what I did best, give you a hand, well now a star ... that led to ... will be my last time I see you, it's very ... complicated to explain ...”
“Oh ... whatever it is, thank you, friend ...”-I said and I don’t see a way to hug that little creature yet, but tries-“and how exactly will you help me?”
Kevight said “Well, we will travel in time and see the possibilities you have, the one you see the best future, that will be your choice, hey, almost like the old times Fast”
“As you say, partner!” I said and Kevight approached him and I touch him with my hoove and we travel to a possible future.
Thus, a search and mission of friendship has just begun.
“So, what will be our first stop?” I asked
Kevight looked around and saw that it is Ponyville where we were “It seems that someone who lives near the school”
“Oh right, Sandbar, let's find it and see what will happen” and we walked looking all over Ponyville.
And the best is we sing on a while.
I sing first “In time we go, hoove and star; To decide for all the friends the best ; Starting in a village; Sure he have fun with; And we'll end up at the moon blue festival ”
Next Kevight “Fast now you will make a choice; Almost similar to those made it before; Your options we will go to investigate; And see what the future will tell ”
I looked through a window of a House and I found Sandbar with his family “Hey, it's here!” I said and Kevight approached the window and also looked through it.
Before see what will happen we sing “A choice to take; Let's see what will get; It is better to start with the good things there ”
Kevight ended “What we will see here; It's in your head; Let's see If you are with them ”
Fast Tap and the place of his hearth warming
Sandbar from that future said in that house “I can't wait, Fast is coming!”
He was sitting in front of the door gallops on the site excitedly, and suddenly someone opens it, It was me but from that future.
That future me said giving him a hug “Hi Sandbar! Thanks for inviting me”
Sandbar said, “Ah yes, have you celebrated these holidays as we do?”
That future me responded, “Ummmmm, sit at the side of the fireplace until it's midnight?”
Sandbar giggled and gave him a doll that looks like him (or me) “No Fast, I made it myself, here, we put our dolls on top of the fireplace”
That future me said, “I guess it's something that is as if they were all there, right?”
Sandbar said “yep, and you're next!”
They walked to the fireplace where his parents and his little sister are near and that future me places his doll on top of the fireplace with the other dolls.
“Well, here we go, thanks Sandbar!” That future me said.
Sandbar said, “You don't have to thank me Fast!”
When we looked from the window Kevight and I that, almost tears came from my eyes ...
“That ... was beautiful, honestly” I said.
Kevight was about to cry “To consider you part of his family ... is something appreciated ...”
I comfort myself “Ok, the next one is Autumn Blaze, she asked me to go to the Peaks of Peril, that's where she lives with her friends”
Kevight said, “And what are we waiting for ?! Come on!”
We teleport to another future, where we are in the village of the Kirins, from above a tree we see what happens, the Fast of that time enters the scene, just when the kirins were giving gifts, hugs and also kisses some.
Me from that future appears “Hi guys!”
“Fast Tap!”- Autumn from that future said and ran quickly gives him a big hug-“I knew you will come!”
Me from that future said “We are already 2, it seems that they have a good time here huh”
“And that is nothing Fast”-Autumn looked at a large tree in the center of the city-“We are about to decorate the great tree of light!”
Me from that future said “Perfect! can I join?”
Rainshine, the leader of the kirins, approached to them “Of course, you have helped us recover our magic, decorating our tree with us sounds wonderful”
Me from that future jumps very high joy “Yay!”
Seeing me, decorating a large tree with everyone in the village looked great, and seeing Autumn Blaze smile with tears in my eyes, it also reached my heart.
I said “Hehe ... I had never decorated a tree in my life, always at the orphanage we bought one already made with a star and everything, to avoid problems of who put the star and stuff”
Kevight adds “That has to be something beautiful for you, right?”
I said “Without a doubt, friend, well, let's go halfway, let's go!”
Kevight interrupt “Wow, I think someone is going fast on this”
I responded “It’s time to sleep hours ago and with these things I see are all I need to make the choice, since the rest would be exactly the same”
Keivght said “Hmmm, you have a right sense, and more if we know you well, buddy, let's see Silverstream!”
When teleported to the next future, we went to Mount Aris, near the sea and come me from that future from there time, he saw that no one was, transforms into a hippogriff, and begin to fly over the sea.
“Hello? They told me there was a party here”-Me from that future said and Silverstream with his brother Terramar and her cousin Skystar leave the sea, all in the form of sea ponies and hugs him at the same time and take him to the sea-“EEEP!”
At that moment I, and Me of that time become sea ponies, I with Kevight, we go and hide in a coral
Silverstream from that future said “Fast Tap WELCOME TO THE THREE DAYS OF FREEDOM CELEBRATION!”
Music from marine animals is heard and Silverstream dances
Me from that future said “Yes! I LOVE MUSIC!”
Terramar adds “Everyone loves it!”
And every seapony and hippogriff started dancing
At that moment I noticed that everyone who lived on Mount Aris was at sea, it was something beautiful, something I never noticed, everything else was hugging dancing and a lot of food, at one time, Fast of that future and Silverstream was alone watching the wonders of the ocean
Me from that future asked “Silverstream ... What was that gift you told me before?”
“Ah yes, thanks for reminding me”- Silverstream said gave him a box wrapped in wrapping paper, He opened it and sees that it is a shell-stringing necklace-“I made it myself”
“Hehe, it looks very cool”-Me from that future puts it on the neck-“How do I look?”
Silverstream just said “Amazing”
“Thank you!” Me from that future smiles at her and gives her a big hug
Skystar appeared from a little far from the scene “Ooooo, It seems that my cousin has a boyfriend!” and Both guys blushed.
Seeing this by my eyes of this choice, it takes me to that level of good as the others
Kevight said “That, is legendary, a gift from a friend made by hand and not with bits is something that has enormous value...”
I respond “Honestly, the option becomes more and more difficult, every trip we make is short but very significant, not many give you a gift like that”
Kevight said “There is still one more, right?”
“Hey yes, Gallus,”-I said and we teleport us to the future of the last option-“of all those who have to choose, he is the one who needs it more than anyone”
Now, we are in Griffinstone, where the Blue Moon Festival is celebrated (if it can be considered celebration), Gallus walked through the streets, alone and sad, seeing through the windows that lack of love of families to each other, in one of those he sits in the snow and begins to cry, suddenly, the Fast of that time appears to give him company ...
Me from that future said “Is everything fine Gallus?”
Gallus looked at Fast and started crying with joy, so much that he hugged him tightly “Fast! Seriously thanks for coming ...”
Me from that future pats Gallus´s back “Relax bro, everything will be fine”
Gallus said, “I never had company these days ...”
Me from that future said “Tell that changed, more for you than me”
Gallus said “It was the best we started to consider ourselves brothers, right?”
“Without a doubt ...” Me from that future also cries of happiness
It is a small moment, but one that reaches the heart of the most sensitive ...
“Stop there, is Gallus your brother? If they are different creatures” Cozy interrupts again the story
Tirek adds “And when you hear that moment you see very clearly, which is the best option, be with that bird”
Fast said, “It may seem the best, but it's just about seeing more the value of each of the options, everyone shares something in common, do you know what it is?”
Cozy lifts the hoove “It's all are your friends, and everyone reacts with that energy of love and friendship when you appear in those futures, and gives yourself something beautiful that makes the choice more difficult”
Fast respond “Exactly, they all show the union between friends, who can be told almost a family, since they invited me to very important celebrations for them, and they want to spend the holidays with me, let's say that I was more responsible for all this than it happened to me and by accident, I have touched in all of them the deepest of his heart over time and they all want to return the favor of those months, since such a celebration, heh, after all, is only once a year…”
Fast Tap and the place of his hearth warming
To what brings us to the next part of this story ...
I said “...I think I know which one to choose among all ...”
Kevight said “Not too fast Fast… we still have to see what will happen if you don't go to their parties one by one”
I almost forgot that “...oh...”
Kevight said “Calm down, because I will summarize it in a little song, so you can see the effect of that”
And so then Kevight started to sing “We saw the good, And now the worst, What will happen if you don’t attend ”
“On 1 I go, In 3 I am not, I can imagine how bad it can be... ”-I kept the sing-“See Sandbar without I open the door, See Autumn disappointed, See Silverstream without her smile, And Gallus is not inferior, I return to the same point; A choice to take, I start again, Where I consider it again ”
And Kevight end “I see your point, This is a cycle, They all lead to the little good ”
While we were singing that, we quickly saw what happened if I didn't go to their parties to go to another, and they have been what I guessed with the song and we ended up returning to the present, just a few minutes after midnight.
“Ugh! it's useless, whatever I do, everyone will end up really bad with a good and dot, I give up, I won't go anywhere, I'll stay at Twilight's Castle the holidays”-I lay my head down with the eyes closed with disappointment.
“There must be something we are skipping ... some information ...”-Kevight felt that there was something under Fast's bed, secretly looked for it, and levitated that crown from before-“Fast ...What is it…?”
I taked it sharply “That?! Is nothing…”
Kevight said after looked my sudden attitude “Don't cheat on me, it's from Cozy Glow”
I confess “... yes ... I put it there to remind me of that terrible mistake she made me ... I tried to forgive her ... but she sent me almost to my doom ...”
“I feel that this is the fifth option ...” Kevight said
I said annoyed “NO, Cozy was the ‘friendly’ and ‘cute’ that you sent to me so that you knew ... wait, did you know what was going to happen to me?”
Kevight respond “I didn't see what was going to happen to you, just what happened after that ...”
“I guess she will be happier than ever on hearths warming day, and more in the following!” I said.
Kevight asked “Would you really like to see her later if you don't visit her ... well, as you say”
We touch each other again, so you can see that she will be ... it wasn't really that way I thought.
What happened was that it took us to a place that I couldn't even identify, but the snow was a bit strong ...
I looked around and I get confused “Uhh, where are we?”
Kevight had no expression at all, but he looked sad, just forward a little and pass a purple pony with a hoodie with his light blue hood, leaving traces in the snow ... “Follow him”
To continue where I wondered if everything was fine with him, the road was a bit long, but he stopped at a statue, we were a little far, we didn’t see well, only his silhouette we saw, in it, the purple pony takes off his hood and it is seen that it's me, with tears in his eyes, he leaves a gift in the statue, climbs on it and hugs a part of it, and then runs away.
“What happened?” I said.
Kevight responded “He left ... do you want to see what that statue is?”
I looked at Kevight and then the statue, I approached it and I saw the worst surprise that someone can take these days!
That statue ... was Cozy, with other creatures, all of them petrified, actually, I wanted Cozy to be happy, in the Tartarus, but Happy, not see her ... with that face that tells me "help, forgive me Fast"
“W-what-what happened?” I said terrified.
“I would like to tell you ... but I will only say that it was partly your fault ... you will petrify them ... if you don't visit her at these parties ... it will become eviler, it will not be her heart cold ... it will be compressed ice ...” Kevight explained.
I started to cry and I fell in the snow next to the statue and I cried in a way I never did before “N-no! Cozy! Friend!”
Kevight said “Do you understand now why I gave you Cozy to fulfill your wish to have someone like you? she can be good, but what she needs help, requires someone to mold her well ...”
I asked myself “Why did I feel so much hatred for her at first?”
Kevight almost explained, “Because ...”
“…it was a question that doesn’t have to be answered ... I will choose to spend the holidays with her ...”-I keep crying-” I hope my friends understand ...”
“I think you've already chosen ... well, I think ...” Before Kevight ends to say, I hugged him even though he is kinda small and achieves it better than the other time
“Thanks, friend” I said
Kevight said “Do you remember how I could cheer you up a bit in your worst moments? Well, do that with her, in your own way, now you are ‘Kevight’ and Cozy is ‘Fast’ ... I know you won't look at me anymore, but I promise I'll come back ... one day ...”
I said “It's okay dude ...”
“This will happen next year ... if you can’t reform her before entering classes ... this statue will be in your future ... you can do it Fast Tap, believe in you,”-Kevight announced and begins to rise more than it was and shines brightly- “See ya, friend!”
Suddenly ... I woke up ... it seems that all this time travel adventure has been just a dream until I looked at the side of my bed, and it's a light blue gift, with a pink ribbon, I open and saw that in it is Cozy Glow's crown, I close the gift, I looked out the window, and the sun is rising, someone knocks on the door of my living quarter and there were Gallus, Silverstream, Autumn Blaze, and Sandbar.
Fast Tap and the place of his hearth warming
“Guys ... hello ... I have to tell you something ...” I said.
Gallus interrupted “No Fast, we have ...”
Sandbar added “We really regret pressed you ...”
Autumn explained “We discovered we all invited you to spend the same day with us ...”
Silverstream said “And knowing that we are very distant from each other”
“Forgive us…” They said.
“Its okay guys ... and don't worry, I already made a choice ... in fact ... I'll tell you later” I said a little sad.
Sandbar yawned “We rehearsed all night”
Autumn yawned too “And I help them rehearse all night”
Silverstream said “We will go to sleep, classes start in a few hours”
“Okay ...”-I levitated the gift with magic and I placed it on my back-“I'll go outside if anyone asks”
When going outside, to the schoolyard, Twilight appears and sees how my face was sad ... Why? How would you feel that if you don't do something for a friend, she will die and that you will miss your other friends anyway?
Twilight asked “Fast ... you are ok?”
“I guess ...”-I said, after a quite silence I asked her “Twi ... did you ever spent hearths warming alone?”
Twilight responded “Never ... the parties are to spend with family and friends”
I asked “And if your friendships that are your family separate just these days ... How would you join them? if they have their own families”
Twilight thought on something “... give them something that always reminds you that you are always there”
I looked happy at her knowing what I will do next “Thanks Twilight”
“Oh, you made me remember”-Twilight made appeared two gifts, one purple and one white-“The purple is from me for you, and the white came to you by mail”
The Twilight´s gift ... was a sled, a large and stable one, you could even carry things in it, the white i opened it, and I was surprised with what I had ... a lot of coins and a note that said this:
“This will serve you for gifts, there is still more to give and receive”
Kevight ;)
“Kevight? What a strange name ...” Twilight said giggling.
I put the light blue gift on the sled and the white open gift levitating by me and I put it in front of the height at which my necklace is “I have to do some shopping now ... it was a pleasure to have talked with you mom”
Twilight blushed “Fast, I told you it's not necessary to you have a mom”
“I know, but it's how I see you now ... and I'll always see you like this” I waved my hoof to her and later teleported myself to Ponyville taking the sled and gifts.
This is where this adventure of this decision ends, I bought the gifts for all my friends:
I gave Silverstream a necklace with a heart in the center that I made in a necklace workshop… she won't forget that.
To Gallus, a stuffed animal similar to me ... so he doesn't feel lonely.
To Sandbar, a sock with my colors ... to put it in his fireplace and feel that I am there.
To Autumn Blaze, decorations for her tree, bright and colorful ... to decorate them with all her heart.
To Smolder, one of the most beautiful gems in the caves, I received help from a friend of a teacher.
To Yona, a half-compressed wood shaped like a log ... would love to break it into shreds.
To Ocellus, I found a set of comics called "Ponyhattam Mysteries" ... to have fun and also find out that mystery that contains this.
To the tree of harmony, I gave a picture that has me, her, and all my other friends mentioned above.
To Twilight, a book that talks about my first time at this school.
To the others were several things…
“And here I am, drinking hot cider with my best friend and her jail buddy” Fast said after telling that story.
“Awwww that's very beautiful”-Cozy tries to hug Fast, but the bars prevent it, but Fast approaches her and hugs Cozy.
“Bah! For me it was stupid, if that thing exists, I challenge him right now to do something that scares me”-Tirek annoyed look back and see a gift that appeared out of nowhere on his back- “AHHH!”
Fast and Cozy laughs.
Tirek scared and confused said “H-how… did that come here ?!”
“That's my friend, you can't blame him…”-Fast teleports the gift in front of him and see what it is-“hey, it's from Kevight too, he says ‘Happy holidays’ aww how cute!”
“Open it! open it!” Cozy said exited.
Fast opens it and takes out what it has “Are home decorations, an MP3 with a song ready to play and a poem”
Tirek said “I hope that song isn’t very cheerful”
Fast plays the MP3 and reads the poem while decorating around “We have arrived, More than usual, Maybe are we parted, That's why I sing this friendship; And it's not hard to notice, That distance, which separates, Time will pass, I know you are sad, but that's not bad; Because the last gift, what do you need to receive, Is this song, In a happy tone; that song, what are you singing now, It's so you never forget, that I will be in your heart… ”
Meanwhile, in other parts of the world his other friends find that same poem left in front of them by that comet, when reading it, they also join in singing without having noticed from where they are, Fast and Cozy share the poem's sheet, the comet he goes to the tree of harmony and thanks to him for what he allowed him to do, just a few days ago, yep, let him help Fast one last time
And everyone sing “Friendship is here, From beyond, What matters if you are or not, Our hearts connect us; We will always take care of ourselves, And never forget, that friendship, In us it will live, Will always mark us; The only gift, What do you need to find, That presence, Of a good friend; With this song, That we sing now, It's more than apologies, It's more than just an action… Maybe it looked in danger, A time ago (time ago), But when you face us you can say that, We are until the end (until the end) ”
Cozy sings the solo “And the most ignored, They are the ones that need the most; They deserve more, Since they never had ”
Everyone goes back to sing “The only gift, What do you need to find, That presence, Of a good friend, With this song, That we sing now, It is more, than we can express, Is what this friendship represents ”
Fast said after sing “What a beautiful song, time to open gifts, right?”
Someone knocks on the door of the Tartarus “Fast, it's me Gallus”
“Perfect! Guests! I will open!” Fast gallops to the door
“So ...”-Cozy gives Tirek a stingy face-“Kevight doesn't exist huh?”
“OKAY THE PURPLE WAS SAYING THE TRUTH!” Tirek said annoyed and the comet flies towards you and makes a farewell gesture
This story is over in the best way, right? well yes, and, Who is the narrator now? Well, it's me ... your imaginary friend
❄️HAPPY HEARTS WARMING DAY OR AS THEY CALL IT THERE! ❄️
Fast Tap and the place of his hearth warming
If you haven't read the other stories of Fast Tap's adventures, let me give you a resume of what is most necessary for this adventure:
Fast has an imaginary friend who passes like a shooting star every night, and Fast asks him sometimes wishes, in fact, he granted him the desire to have a friend like him, which was Cozy, but you know how that friendship finished, which is where we are for this adventure.
Fast Tap and the place of his hearth warming
On hearths warming eve, two ponies and a centaur spend it together in these festivities in the most dangerous place for this, the Tartarus itself, the centaur and the younger pony were prisoned in different cells, the 3 were taking hot cider that the older pony had prepared, and the gifts for him that he brought from far away, were next door, suddenly, the centaur starts a conversation.
Starts with Tirek, the Centaurus “I still don't believe this pony has come here just to spend the holidays with you”
Cozy, the younger pony responds “Calm down Tirek”
The older pony, Fast, says “Honestly, I had no choice, and I love it”
Cozy asks “But you have more friends ... why did you decide to leave them for just me this day?”
Fast says “it’s a short story, but to understand it I must make a ‘wittle’ flashback:…”
Fast Tap and the place of his hearth warming
Several years before going to the school of friendship, or at least was planned, it was just a foal, almost like Cozy's age, who only had his imaginary friend, this one was called Kevight, it was a ball of light with feet and hands, but without fingers; when it was only a few minutes before hearths warming day, he gave me a very special gift ...
I was reading a book where Keight was and helping me in it, a flashlight and a window were next to me...
“Wait a moment...” Tirek asks “Was your friend in a book?”
Fast responds “Kevight is more magical than you could imagine, make light roots appear to take me to high places, travel in time for a few minutes ...”
Cozy surprises “WHAT !? Travel in time?”
Fast says before it gets weirder “It may seem like a very powerful character, but its magic is limited, in fact, that is part of this flashback…”
Returning to history ... when it was a couple of minutes before it was midnight:
Kevight whispered to me “pssst, Fast… I have your gift for these holidays, you always wanted to watch something of your future, right?”
I responded “Yep, I wanted to, but you told me that if you show it to me it would no longer make sense to live life because I would already know what would happen”
Kevight said “I know there is a moment that will not affect your future that comes from itself”
I responded surprised “Amazing!”
Kevight left to form the book and extended his hand to me “Ready to go?”
We touched the hoove and hand and I said “Sure do”
Touching my hoove and his little hand, magic revolved around us and took us a long time in the future, when I was already at school, I and Kevight were in the caverns of the school, at that time, no idea that existed, we hide in a large crystal, and I see myself, already big (teenager), he walks aimlessly through and when he looks down he finds a crown, my self of that future lifts the crown and takes it with a not happy face ...
Cozy interrupts the story and says “Wait ... is it the same crown that I made?”
Fast responds “No doubt…”
I was confused at the time. Why would I take a crown that small and hoof-made? “uhhh” is what I said.
“I know you won't understand it, for now, you should be a little bigger to understand it, maybe a little bigger than him, so you can see it” Kevight told me.
Suddenly we were taken back to that present, we look out the window and the fireworks appeared suddenly “Wow ... I really hope to know friend ...”
Kevight said “Believe me Fast, you will ... you will ...”
Well, now starting with the story ...
