The Odd Family

Firebrand rolled over as the winter sun shown through her window. Throwing her pillow over her head and moaned..........it was her first day of school. Her brother Cold-steel nudged her gently and an occasional poke, "Hey sis, it's time to get up. Mother and father sent me."

She rolled out of the warm bed and trudged to wash her face and brush her teeth. Cold-steel thought himself the luckiest colt at school to have Firebrand as a sister; he was in the popular group but he ALWAYS wanted a sister and his parents had tried to to have another but that ended with his 'would-be' baby sister didn't make. Cold-steel saw as a gift of fate that the night that his unborn baby sister died that Firebrand showed up. On that night and whole day his mom had been depressed. Now eight years later, his mom would refer to his sister as her guardian angel, and refer to him as Firebrand's protector.

As they ate breakfast in the kitchen father was reading the morning paper reading the jokes from it to illicit laughs from the family. Cold-steel looked over at Firebrand and she was really distracted, "Am I a monster? Other fillies and colts have said so."

Her parents looked up from what they were doing, "You're not a monster don't listen to the others, they just believe what they're told and don't take time the time to know you. Quill help me out please?"

"Sure thing Aurora Dawn. Your mother is right Firebrand, they don't realize that your bat species is fruit bat...........not of the species that require blood; most blood feeding bat ponies tend to be clingy to a source and even then the host has to be willing to be fed upon. You're our special angel." With that said he presented a very bright red apples and and Firebrand eyes dilated and her ears twitched body tensed and as the apple went airborne she took off and caught it as it barely left her father's hoof. When breakfast was cleaned up Firebrand and Cold-steel walked to school. When they arrived to the two story school building Firebrand froze in her step as a shadow car into view and she tried to dodge the pegasus; bodies made contact and Firebrand hit the snow and she felt her wings crunch harmlessly in the snow.

"You finally made it! Damn I thought you'd never show!" The cream colored pegasus with a dark brown mane and tail with banana split for her cutie mark said in a speed almost matching Pinkie Pie.

"Split, you almost killed me! You crazy filly." Firebrand laughed, Banana Split laughed and retorted:

"Barely, I needed more speed to that. Anywho, I smell fresh apple on your breath."

Firebrand snapped her mouth shut and looked bashfully to the side. Cold-steel watched the interaction as he talked to his friends who intercepted him, of any Fillie at school were to intercept his sister it would be best if it was Banana Split. Banana Split even though she was in the cool popular group it didn't hinder her kind heart. The morning classes went well, it was during lunch when trouble hit.