The Return of Frost Paw

Frost was brought out of his flashback when Pinkie hugged him, the feeling of being hugged broke the dam that was keeping the tears back and he started to cry at the loss of one of the most precious people in his life. Seeing him break down and cry Pinkie tried to sooth him by rocking back and forth while telling him everything was alright. A voice in her head surprised Pinkie but after hearing his story she knew who it was. ‘Pinkie I have an idea that should help him to calm down, but it might put him to sleep,’ Kimiko said.
‘What do I have to do?’ Pinkie asked. She wanted to help Frost, not just because she was housing his mother but for all the times he had helped her in the past few years.
Seeing her determination Kimiko instructed Pinkie on what to do. Closing her eyes to help her concentrate; Pinkie paid attention to Diane’s instructions. After a few minutes Pinkie started to sing in the language used by the fox and wolf clans

“Codail suan, mo chadra bhán
Codail sámh, a mhuirnín mhilis
Luigh go ciúin sa chliabhán
Dún do shúil, a leabh dhílis

Réalta geala anocht ag luascadh ins an spéir
Fuaim na coille agus ceol na hoíche

Fág uait an olagán
Níl gá ar bith leis choíche

Codail suan, mo chadra bhán
Codail sámh, a mhuirnín mhilis
Luigh go ciúin sa chliabhán
Dún do shúil, a leabh dhílis

Réalta geala anocht ag luascadh ins an spéir
Fuaim na coille agus ceol na hoíche”

When Pinkie opened her eyes she saw that Frost had fallen asleep in her lap but he had shrunken to the size of a four year old kit. Pinkie looked down on him with a small smile born partly from Kimiko and partly from herself. Lifting him onto her back she brought him into her room and laid him on her bed before talking with her ‘inner vixen’ as she was starting to call her tenet. ‘Hey Kimiko, I’ve been wondering how Frost met Princess Luna,’ she asked wanting to learn more about Frost.
‘Well now, that’s a funny story really,’ Kimiko started…

Three thousand four hundred and fifteen years ago, give or take a few years, Kimiko’s family were on a trip to the country to the south to see how the ponies were getting along. They were staying at the palace of the Alicorns in what would be known as the Everfree Forest. The Alicorns were the rulers of Equestria even in those days, and Aaron, Celestia and Luna hadn’t taken the throne: instead their parents, Galaxis and Gaia, were still the king and queen.
Galaxis had a starlight silver coat with a mane and tail that resembled the galaxies. Gaia had a light green coat and her mane and tail were a darker green. They were good friends with the leaders of the Howling lands and had even been talking about a marriage between their two nations, with the condition that their children choose who they wish to wed and how.
It was an hour before sunset as Frost walked down the hall of the palace he came across Luna’s room; peering into the room he saw Luna was getting ready to raise the moon for the night. The first time he met Luna was during a winter solstice nearly one hundred years ago when she and her family visited the castle on the Emerald Isle, Luna had just started to raise the moon at night and he could almost feel a pull towards her as the moon pulls on the water, that was the night he fell for the ruler of the moon.
As time passed Frost would spend more and more time in Equestria and less in his homeland. Seeing this, his parents contacted their fellow rulers and started to work out a political marriage between the two lands. The two started to spend time with each other and even talked about the future. Then came the day that Galaxis held a contest to choose the new leader of the royal choir, Luna talked Frost into competing even though he knew if he won the position he would give it to his best friend, Aaron, who he thought was the better candidate to hold the position. After much thought on Galaxis’s part; he chose Frost to lead but Frost argued that he did not want to be the leader of the choir, but thought that Aaron was better suited to lead them. However Galaxis talked him into taking the lead for a year to see if he still held the belief. Over the next year Frost tried to tell Aaron what had happened but Aaron would not listen to reason.
“You knew that the choir meant everything to me but you still competed! Why did you do this to me I thought you were my friend!” Aaron roared in fury thinking that Frost had acted to slight him not knowing that Luna had put him up to it.
Frost looked at the floor trying to figure out why his friend was yelling at him even after he explained what happened and what he did. “I wanted you to have the lead, not me, you know that Aaron. The only reason I competed was so you would do your best,” Frost said weakly only to be ignored.
“I told you that I didn’t want help winning the seat, but no you had to try anyway and now look what happened. You got the seat you arrogant ass!!” Aaron continued yelling at Frost, breaking him down further. “You knew that if you participated you could win, but it didn’t stop you! Did it? All you care about is yourself just like any petty wolf. I hope you never find pleasure singing again!” With that Aaron stormed off.
Frost went to see Galaxis about his position in the choir. “I quit the choir. Place whoever you want but I’m not going to be in it,” he said with sadness audible in his voice. “I can’t take it any longer, you knew I never wanted to lead them but you stuck me there anyway, why?” He looked up to Galaxis with tears in his eyes wanting to know why he got the seat and not Aaron.
Galaxis sighed and lowered his head answering in a soft tone, “I wanted Aaron to learn how to follow others. That was why I gave you the spot; I thought that he would listen to his friend but I was wrong and this happened. For what happened you have my deepest apologies Frost Paw. I know I have no right to ask this but I need to ask that you try and forgive my son for how he acted.”
Frost looked him in the eye but could tell that Galaxis was speaking the truth. “I will try but I don’t think he can forgive me for taking what by all rights was his position.” That said Frost walked out of the throne room and back to the room he was given. That night there was an aurora in the sky and a mournful song filled the air as if the aurora was playing for the loss of a loved one. The next day Frost had told Luna that he had to return to the Howling Lands to oversee something. “Travel safe,” Luna said as she hugged Frost at breakfast when he told them he was leaving. After saying his good-bys Frost took flight towards the north; towards his home.
For the next four years Frost almost never left his wing of the castle in the Howling Lands; the only times he left was when Luna came to visit him, to control flooding waters, or to light the night sky with an aurora. On one night that Celestia was staying at the castle Frost was standing outside on his balcony when he heard hoof-steps coming out onto the balcony, turning he saw Celestia approaching him. “You know that Lulu misses you, after you left she couldn’t listen to music without crying. Even Aaron has started to lose interest in the choir. We need you to come back, Frost,” Celestia was nearly pleading for him to return with her.
Frost looked up upon hearing that Aaron was losing interest, but what shocked him even more was that his leaving was causing Luna to cry. He turned to the white mare and said, “I’ll be ready in a few moments to leave. Just give me a minute to get something.” He walked into his room and a few minutes later he returned with something being held in his mouth. Talking around the item he said, “Okay Tia I’m ready let’s go.” With that the duo flew off at near the speed of sound to cut down on travel time. They arrived the next morning right after sunrise, and stumbled when landing after flying for so long and so fast. “Where is Luna?” he asked Celestia trying to regain control of his breathing.
Celestia waited until she caught her breath before answering, “She probably be in your old room. She moved in there a week after you left.”
Thanking her Frost ran down the hall towards where the lady of the night was. As he ran past the guards they mistook him as an assassin and gave chase, down the twists and turns they ran until he found the proper hall and seeing the door he started to slow down. The guards used that moment to surround him, pointing their weapons at him.
“What the hell do you think you are doing? And who the hell do you think are you?” the captain of the squad demanded.
Frost drew up to his full height and responded in his Canterlot voice, “I AM FROST PAW, AND I DEMAND YOU LET ME PASS OR SO HELP ME YOU WILL BE NOTHING BUT DUST IN THE WIND!!!” Hearing the commotion outside the door Luna opened it to see what was going on outside. When she saw Frost surrounded by guards she quickly dismissed the guards before one of them done something stupid and forfeited their life.
After the guards left Luna walked up to Frost and nuzzled him, effectively calming him down. “I missed you,” she whispered in his ear when he returned the gesture. They heard hoof-steps coming down the hall, turning to see who was coming towards them they saw Gaia running down the hall. Luna was still nuzzling Frost when her mother got close enough to talk without raising her voice.
“Frost, it’s good to see you again. How are your parents?” Gaia asked with a slight smile at seeing him again with her youngest child. Seeing Luna happy after so long almost brought a tear to her eye. “By the way Aaron wants to talk to you about something in his chambers, he wouldn’t tell me what. When you two are done talking dinner will be in the main dining hall.” When Frost nodded she left to see to other matters.
Frost broke the contact after a few more moments of nuzzling Luna. Looking into her eyes he pulled the box out from under his wing and opened it to revile a hoof bracelet; set with an opal in the shape of a bass cleft on the right, a sapphire in the shape of a treble cleft to the left, and an emerald shaped as a tenor cleft in the center. Bowing down he presented her with the band and asked, “Luna will you marry me?”
Luna looked like she was just given the world on a silver platter. She jumped up and wrapped her hooves around his neck and gave him a near bone-crushing hug saying yes over and over again. When Luna calmed down and let him go Frost slipped the band around her hoof.
Together they walked to meet Aaron in his chambers. When they arrived they saw that Aaron was standing out on the balcony looking at the morning sky. Without turning to look at them he said, “Frost I want to say I’m sorry for how I acted those years ago. Looking back I realized that you only did that to help me, and seeing that I also realized you didn’t deserve to be treated like that.” He turned to face them and walked towards Frost and bowed before him. “I ask that you forgive my arrogance and my behavior that day.”
Frost put a paw on Aaron’s shoulder. “I accept your apology. After all, what kind of friend would I be if I was that petty? Think of it as water under the bridge,” Frost started to laugh at his pun.
Luna looked between Frost and her brother confused about what they were talking about. “What the heck are you two talking about?” Luna couldn’t take anymore of not knowing what was going on.
Frost sighed and turned to her. “Do you remember about five years ago when you talked me into competing for the lead of the choir?” When Luna nodded he continued, “Well I did not want to lead the choir, and when I won I went to your father to try to talk him out of giving me the position and give it t Aaron. Unfortunately he refused just letting me give up the lead, he made me lead it for one year after that I was free to do whatever I wanted. In that year the choir prospered, I however fell into a state of disarray feeling like I betrayed my friend. At the end of the year I went to tell Aaron that I would be giving the leadership of the choir to him, when I found him in his room he started to yell at me for ‘stealing his leadership’. I tried to explain what happened but he wouldn’t listen to me, some things were said that were later regretted and I left the next morning.” When he finished Luna was glaring at her brother.
“So you’re the reason he left!” Luna shouted as she stalked up to her brother. Seeing his sister in that pissed mood made Aaron start to back away in fear. “I will get you for making Frost leave me for so long!”
Frost got a good look at her eyes as Luna stomped past him. What he saw scared him as the pupils were contracted to slits like a dragons. Getting between the siblings Frost brought Luna into a sudden kiss distracting her long enough for her to calm down. Luna’s eyes fluttered closed from the passion in the kiss. Breaking it, Frost looked at Aaron and said, “Why don’t you tell the others that we will meet them soon.” After he left Frost turned back to Luna who was still in a daze. Seeing the glazed look in her eyes caused him to chuckle, bringing her out of her stupor. “Why don’t we head to dinner?”

‘So that’s how these two got together,’ Kimiko said after finishing her story.
Pinkie thought about what she heard as she laid down to try to get some rest. Looking over at Frost, who was still kit sized, to make sure he was comfortable she slowly fell asleep. As she was falling asleep she didn’t notice a flash of snow white on the bed beside her or notice a weight on the bed. Kimiko had materialized herself and tucked both Pinkie and Frost in before she curled around them. “Good night little ones,” she said as she too fell asleep.
The sun was shining in through the window into Frost’s eyes starting to wake him up. Rolling over to get the sun out of his eyes he noticed that he was not the only one in the bed. Cracking one eye open Frost saw a pink mass curled around him, and it was at that point that he realized he had shrunk in size. Lifting his head he looked around the room as the previous night’s events came back to him. Seeing that he was now in Pinkie’s room and in her bed with her curled around him he started to freak a bit thinking that he had done something with her. Feeling Frost get up Pinkie lifted her head only to see him freaking out. A voice came from the other side of her, “Frost, calm down you’re acting like a kit again.” Hearing his mother’s voice Frost came to a mental halt before turning his head to look for where the voice came from. When he found her he launched himself at her wrapping her in a back-breaking hug saying how glad he was to see her again. “See what I mean, you’re making a fool of yourself. Why don’t you ‘grow up’,” she said with a playful laugh making him blush.
As Frost let go of Kimiko he started to grow to his original size. “I need to let the others know why I wasn’t there last night,” he told the two females in the room. “Pinkie why don’t you come over when you get the chance, we can talk more then if you want to.” With that he excused himself and left to return to his house.
That day Pinkie was thinking over what she had learned about Frost’s past the night before. ‘What are you thinking about Pinkie?’ Kimiko asked scaring Pinkie out of her train of thought having forgotten about Kimiko for a moment.
After calming down from her fright, Pinkie responded, ‘I’m thinking about taking Frost’s offer to talk more later. I’ve been wondering about his past for a while and he kind of gave me a way to learn more about him. He was the one who led me to Ponyville after I got my cutie mark and I owe him for getting me a job with the Cakes.’
The vixen took a moment before she replied, ‘Let me see if I got this straight; you feel as if you owe Frost for him leading you to Ponyville and for getting you your job? Did you ever think that he did it out of the kindness of his heart?’
‘You’re probably right, but I still want to thank him for his help.’ Pinkie pulled out a baking sheet covered with chocolate chip cookies. ‘Do you know what his favorite kind of dessert is?’ Pinkie asked with a thoughtful expression.
‘The last time I baked him something I made a cherry pie,’ Kimiko said after a little thought.
Hearing the suggestion Pinkie said, ‘I think that I will make it for him.’ Getting out the ingredients that she would need Pinkie started to through together the pie. Just before she pulled out the pie the bell on the door to the bakery rang. “One moment please,” she called to who ever walked in.
“Do I smell a cherry pie about to come out of the oven?” Frost’s voice came from the front of the store startling the pink pony as she was talking about him.
Sticking her head out from the back Pinkie answered, “You do. Give me a moment and I’ll be right out.” Taking the pie out and setting it on the counter she turned around only to find Frost standing behind her. Jumping back Pinkie gave a startled noise causing Frost to laugh; hearing him laugh Pinkie calmed down and asked, “So what can the party queen do for you?”
Frost put a paw under his chin in a thoughtful pose. “Well I was hoping to make a request for some pies for a party I was planning to throw for a friend. I normally would do it myself but I have too many other things that need my attention to do any baking. And if it’s not too much to ask could I get you to make a cheesecake?” he then told her about a friend that he met during his travels that would be coming to Ponyville from another dimension. Hearing about the visitor Pinkie started to bounce around the kitchen planning on throwing the new person a party. Frost coughed to get her attention and continued, “I was also hoping that you would help me set the party up,” he pawed Pinkie a list that had what was still needed for what he had planned, “On that list should be everything that we will need that I didn’t get already.”
Looking over the list Pinkie asked, “So what was your friend’s name? It would help with the welcome sign and the frosting on the cake.”
“Actually there are two coming over, and they’re kind of in a relationship. The older one goes by Kurama and the younger calls himself Naruto.” Frost reached behind his left wing and pulled out a picture and showed it to Pinkie Pie. “Naruto is the blond and Kurama is the red head,” he explained who was who. “I want to pull a prank on them but they both are prankster princes so I need more help than I would like; but beggars can’t be choosers.”
When Frost said that there was going to be a prank a pair of sonic-booms sounded outside of Sugar Cube Corner. A second after the booms Fusion Flair and Rainbow Dash came into the store. “Did I hear something about a prank?” Rainbow and Flair asked in unison. With a sly grin Pinkie told them about the duo of visitors that they would play host to. After hearing the plan both the pegasi were eager to pull a prank of that size. “We’re in,” they said again in unison.
On the other side of Ponyville a flash of red light went off signaling a teleportation spell coming from a different world. The light disappeared reviling a dark cyan pony covered in blood standing in front of the town library. Twilight came out to see what the light was from, when she saw the pony she ran to it. When she reached the pony he said, “Help me. Call prince…” before he could finish he passed out.
Twilight looked around to see if anypony was around; seeing no one she quickly levitated the pony into her house and had her assistant send a letter to Frost telling him to come as fast as possible. Setting the pony on her bed Twilight started to get her first aid kit out to try to stop the bleeding.
Back with Frost a scroll appeared in front of him from a blue flame; grabbing the scroll with his magic he quickly read the scroll, and then reread the scroll to make sure he didn’t misread it the first time. After reading it the second time his eyes flashed a dark blue as an aura of the same color formed around him and he disappeared in a flash. When the spell ended he appeared in his house and ran to his room and started to get his medical supplies so he could help the injured pony. Seeing Celestia he asked her to help him to keep the mysterious pony calm in case he woke up; and in case his theory was confirmed. Celestia went to find Robinton to get him to help as well. When everyone was ready they teleported to Twilight’s.
Twilight ran over to Frost and told him where she put the pony and what she did to stop the bleeding. “Thank you for trying to help, but for now I need to see just how badly he was injured,” Frost told her as he walked into the room. What he saw confirmed his worst fears and relived some worry for him. The injured pony was Rainbow Dash’s twin brother Rainbow Bolt. He was barely recognizable; his wings had been cut off, his mane was soaked in blood, his coat had bald spots, and where his cutie mark was supposed to be was a patch of raw skin. “What happened to you Bolt?” Frost whispered softly. Grimly Frost set about healing the poor pegasus. Starting with Bolt’s cutie mark he started to sing in a language of magic, working his way to other injuries he never stopped singing. When he finally stopped singing Bolt looked as if he was never hurt, and through the window the moon was shining lending everything a silver look. Looking over his work Frost let out a sigh of relief; the hardest part of the spell that he used was recreating the wings and having them being able to support flight.
Just as he was about to step away Frost noticed that Bolt’s cutie mark was that of a cloud with a bolt of golden lightning. Chuckling at the irony he moved a strand of Bolt’s mane out of his face before walking out to the main room of Twilight’s house.