After Frosty and Scootaloo had their rather embarrassing encounter with Scootaloo’s aunts, Frosty was invited to stay for dinner. Originally he wanted to decline, but a weird feeling in the back of his head compelled him to accept. Of course, the ensuing conversation went down the path that one would want the least in such a situation.

“So, how did your… *ahem* first time feel?” Holiday asked.

Both, Scootaloo and Frosty went pale white and rosy in quick succession. “Auntie!” Scootaloo whined and covered her face.

“That’s, umm, well… yeah, uh...” Frosty stammered. “I-I don’t think that’s an appropriate topic…”

Lofty and Holiday laughed at that. “Oh dear, don’t be so embarrassed about it! You’ve finally found a coltfriend after all! There is nothing wrong with that!”

“That doesn’t make it an appropriate topic to talk about, though.” Frosty repeated.

“Argh, can we PLEASE talk about something else already?!” Scootaloo whined.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

“I’ve got it!” Scootaloo shouted a bit too eagerly, before rushing to the door and opening it. “Sweetie Belle! Apple Bloom! I thought your sisters didn’t allow you out!”

“Is Frosty here?” Sweetie Belle suddenly asked.

“Uh, yeah, he is.” Scootaloo answered.

“Frosty!” Both of them then shouted and ran past Scootaloo, who looked after her friends with confusion. “Girls? What’s going on?”

“Frosty, you’ve got to hide!” Sweetie Belle said.

“What? Why?” Frosty asked with a tilted head.

“It’s because—“ Apple Bloom started, however she was interrupted by another, far more forceful knock. Scootaloo, who still stood by the door, opened it again and recoiled upon doing so.

“Greetings, young filly.” A deep, gruff voice said kindly. “Do you perhaps know a certain ‘Frozen Blood’?”

All three fillies immediately went five degrees paler – which looked particularly interesting in Sweetie Belle’s case.

“Uh, uh, Frozen Blood? Umm, I, uh—“ Scootaloo stammered, but was interrupted.

“There’s no use in lying, young filly. We have valid info that he is hiding in this house.”

“I am hardly hiding, good sir. I am merely visiting my fillyfriend.” Frosty said, while going to the front door himself.

“Frosty, wait! They want you, Frosty! They’ve been searching everywhere for you!” Sweetie Belle cautioned.

“Well yes, I know. Else, they would hardly stand there and ask for me, wouldn’t they?”

“That’s not what she meant. She meant that th’ princess is here and that she has sent ‘em out t’search for ya!” Apple Bloom corrected.

‘Okay, this might actually be bad. I shouldn’t say that, though.’

“Oh come, Apple Bloom, you say that as if I was in mortal danger from it or something.” Frosty said.

“But Frosty, you know that she won’t like your, uhh, you know…” Apple Bloom trailed off.

“We can’t be certain about that just yet. What is certain is that the princess wants to see me and it would hardly be polite of me to not heed her call.”

With that said, Frosty stepped outside to the two very surprised looking guards.

“Good day, gentlecolts, I heard you were searching for me?” Frosty greeted.

“Uhh… are you Frozen Blood?” One of the guards asked.

“Yes, I am. Why, is anything amiss?”

“I, uhh… sorry, I just… after all the cautions we got, I expected somepony, who is more… intimidating. I definitely did not expect you to be a little colt, and a rather polite one at that.”

“Oh, don’t be fooled by outward appearances. I am much more capable than I might seem. Yes, I am actually capable of quite a few extraordinary feats! Things like getting sat on by one of the most popular mares around and having my own herd at such a humble age, just to name a few.” Frosty bragged jokingly.

“Yes, so it would seem…” The guardspony mumbled jealously.

“That’s enough chatter, private! We’ve been stalled long enough!” the other guard, likely a sergeant, ordered.

“Yes sir! Ahem, Frozen Blood, by order of her Highness, Princess Celestia, you are to accompany us to the marketplace!”

“The marketplace? Huh, a highly unusual choice for our first date, but I’ll take it.” Frosty joked, more to calm himself than anything else. This earned him a very disapproving glare from the sergeant. “Heheh, yeah, okay, no time for jokes… Umm, please, lead the way then, sir.”

The marketplace was unusually empty for a weekday, when they arrived. That was not because there were less ponies around, but because all of them had gathered around a wooden stage that now sat in the middle of the plaza and seemed to be the place where the sergeant was taking him.

The crowd opened a pathway for Frosty and the guards, who were escorting him from the front and the back. The CMC, meanwhile, tried to slip in as well, but the crowd closed the gap before they could, so they had to squeeze themselves through.

On the other side of the wall of ponies, Frosty found none other than the Princess herself, as well as the six Element Bearers standing on the stage and looking at him with varying gazes. From worried to shameful, to ashamed, to outright death glares. The Princess, however, wore a mask of pure neutrality.

“Frozen Blood, I presume?” she asked down to him.

“Indeed, your Highness.” Frosty answered.

“Do you know, why I have summoned you here?”

“No, I don’t. Though, seeing as this looks more like an arrest than a summon, I presume that I am in trouble for something?” Frosty calmly asked back.

Princess Celestia’s neutral gaze shifted into an angry glare at that. “You, Frozen Blood, have committed a heinous crime that I never would have thought to be committed by a colt as young as you. You have practiced the long-forbidden arts of soul magic!”

The crowd, as well as Fluttershy and Twilight gasped at that – although Fluttershy did so more because she got scared by the crowd.

“You have heard the charges put against you. How do you plead?” Celestia continued.

‘Damn… I could just lie, but Applejack would likely see through that… oh, what to do, what to do… Maybe I can spin this around, but it’s definitely gonna be risky...’

“I plead guilty.” Frosty said, eliciting another round of gasps, as well as a very confused expression from the princess.

“This is the first time that anypony has the audacity to not try to hide this crime before us. Tell me, young colt, what has brought you to openly admitting this?”

Frosty gave a serious look up at her. “Simple: Because after thousands of years spent in hiding, I think that finally, the time has come that at least some of the false accusations that are put against us shall be laid to rest.”

“How dare you?!” Twilight suddenly shouted. “The princess would never do something like making up false accusations!”

“That is true, I apologize for that.” Frosty apologized. “There are no false accusations against us to be found, simply because everything that one can find can be boiled down to ‘extremely dangerous, kill on sight’ and I imagine that this is not because of a lack of knowledge, but because of extreme censorship – something that the princess definitely had a hoof in.”

The crowd gasped again, this time looking back and forth between the princess and Frosty. Even the Element Bearers were now giving slightly doubtful gazes over to her, with the exception of Twilight, who was still glaring down at Frosty.

“I see, it was a mistake to allow this after all…” The princess said. “Your deception threatens to corrupt the minds of my beloved ponies, therefore you must be destroyed right now!”

She reared up and unleashed a mighty magic beam onto Frosty, as soon as she came back down. Frosty barely managed to erect a shield before the beam hit and he was thrust backwards.

The crowd looked on in amazement, as Frosty actually endured the princess’s attack. Unbeknownst to them, though, Frosty’s powers were being drained at an incredibly fast rate and if nothing happened, he would lose within only a few moments.

“WAIT!” Three fillies suddenly screamed, placing themselves in front of Frosty and thus making Celestia redirect her beam upwards to avoid hitting them.

“APPLE BLOOM?! What in tarnation did ya think yer doin’?! Ya could’ve been killed!!” Applejack shouted down to them.

“Frosty almost was!!” Apple Bloom shouted back, before turning to her coltfriend with the other two fillies. “Frosty, are you okay?”

Frosty was panting from over-exertion, but his powers weren’t completely drained just yet.

“Y-Yes, I’m fine. Thanks girls, that was a really close one.” He said to them with a thankful smile, before looking back at princess Celestia.

“Dear princess, is my own death really worth so much to you that you would kill this entire town for it?” Frosty asked seriously.

“That’s outrageous! The princess’s magic is highly precise! Nopony except you would’ve been harmed!” Twilight defended.

“I am not talking about the attack. I presume, since her highness is most likely the one that also destroyed my predecessors, she is well-aware of what happens when I die.” Frosty said.

“Of course! Another threat to Equestria will be destroyed just like all the others before!” Twilight shouted again.

“Could you please stop spouting propaganda like a speaker? I thought that you were a lot smarter than that.” Frosty retorted. “No, I mean that upon my death, everypony in my vicinity will die.”

Fearful murmurs erupted within the crowd and the Element Bearers exchanged worried looks.

“And now you are threatening everypony here?! You really are nothing more than a villain! I am ashamed of myself that I have taught you magic!” Twilight went on again.

“That’s not a threat!” Apple Bloom shouted back. “It’s… it’s… it’s a warning.” She said, quieting down. “When he dies, there’s this black stuff comin’ out from him that... ah dunno, eats everything that’s alive…”

“Wait a dang moment, Apple Bloom, you knew ‘bout this?!” Applejack asked angrily, to which Apple Bloom quietly nodded.

“So, wait, let me get this straight: When Frosty dies, we will all go with him. The princess knew that and just tried anyways?” Rainbow Dash summarized, giving a shocked look over to the princess.

Celestia stood still for a moment and then sighed, letting her head hang. “I admit that I made a mistake. I indeed did not know that this would happen. I deeply apologize for the danger I have put you in, my little ponies.”

‘Damn, nice dodge.’

“Seeing as the situation has changed, my verdict shall be adapted. Frozen Blood, you are still guilty of practicing the forbidden arts. However, since your immediate destruction would cause harm to my little ponies, you shall instead be banished from our lands. Should you ever dare to set foot into Equestria again, you shall be thrown into Tartarus for all eternity!” Princess Celestia declared.

“NOOOO! Please, don’t do that!!” the three fillies pleaded, but Frosty held them back.

“Girls, it’s alright. It is likely for the better if I go. Even if I wasn’t banished, now that everypony knows, I doubt that they will ever trust me again.” Frosty tried to calm them. His success in that was very limited.

They shared one last goodbye-hug, before they were forcefully separated by the guards and Frosty was led to the town’s edge, from where he made his way towards the Everfree. On the edge of the forest, he turned around one last time to get a look at the town. He thought for a moment, about what he was leaving behind and about how his plans had to be drastically rewritten now.

He was just about to turn around, when he saw three small dots growing bigger in the distance. As they came closer, he could make out three distinct voices shouting: “Frosty! Wait!” The CMC reached him a few moments later, completely out of breath and their faces stained with sweat and tears.

“Girls? What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be with your sisters?” Frosty asked in surprise.

“Pff, no. Ah don’ want anything to do with these traitors!” Apple Bloom declared.

“Woah woah woah, wait a moment. I wouldn’t go as far as saying that they’re traitors, they just… they were just misguided.” Frosty said.

“But they were so mean! They banished you only because they don’t understand what you are! Not to mention all the things you did since you came here! That was just unfair!” Sweetie Belle lamented.

“Yes, I know, but—“ Frosty started, but Scootaloo cut him off.

“No buts. Frosty, believe us, we have thought about this and we know what this decision means. Back there, we saw how everypony ganged up on you. Even we could see that this game was rigged from the start and yet… we saw that you could stand up even to the princess herself, but you didn’t try to escape - you didn’t even try to hurt anypony. Princess Celestia, however, tried to blast you after only a few seconds of talking. Let me tell you, Frosty, after what we saw back there, we can safely say that we are done with them.” Scootaloo declared.

“Also… you are our coltfriend. You are everything we ever wanted and everything we would ever need and then even more than that! Why would we want to be anywhere else?” She added.

“Wow… th-thank’s girls, I…”

A single, genuine tear rolled down Frosty’s cheek. The fillies smiled at him when they saw this and he quickly turned away to wipe it off. After he had done so, he remained with his back to them and smiled into the forest, before raising a hoof and declaring: “Well then: Onwards to new adventures!”

“Onwards to new adventures!” The CMC mimicked him, before the group vanished into the foliage and marched into a new chapter of their lives.

Author's Note

Well... shit. That didn't go well at all, didn't it? But I'm sure that Frosty already has all kinds of ideas on what to do next! At least, he certainly knows how to survive in the Everfree... right?