Chapters Two wolves could be seen walking down the halls of the palace of Canterlot heading to the thrown room. “You need to remind them that you two are together, brother,” the larger wolf said to his companion. This wolf's fur was a royal blue with wine red wings. “I think that they have forgotten that you are the ‘Prince of Winter’ and a prince of the Howling Lands. If this was a Hold and the Lord insulted me, I would have told him what I think.”
little child, be not afraid
and someday you'll know
little child, be not afraid
little child, be not afraid
for you know, once even I was a
well now I am grown
and I hope that you'll know...
everything's fine in the morning
When the song was over Luna was the only one left awake and pulled the blankets over them and finally fell asleep.
Author's Note
If you can guess which book series the base for Robinton is I might let you have an oc in my story come future chapters. This story is also on fanfiction.net under foxondragonwings with some diffrences.
When the morning came the storm had abated and the sun shone through clear skies. Frost Paw was first one to wake; he looked over to see his brother still in-between him and Luna. Seeing the colt brought a smile to him as he remembered the night before. Looking over at the clock he saw it was around seven thirty in the morning which meant that he needed to start breakfast, so he got out of bed as quietly as he could as not to disturb its other occupants then headed to the kitchen and started to cook.
Over the next few weeks Luna was instructed by Robinton in the modern Equestrian style of speech while Fusion Flair was getting better at speaking the same language as everyone else. Also during those weeks Fusion met Big Macintosh when he went to visit Applejack. To say that Flair was impressed by the large stallion would be the understatement on the year. One day when Frost was out on the town Fusion Flair walked to Sweet Apple Acers to help with the apple harvest. When he reached the house he noticed that Frost’s sent was around it as well meaning that his brother was nearby. A noise came from a window on the second floor so Flair walked into the house to see what the sound was. He followed the sound to the closed door to Big Mac’s room so he put his ear to the door to hear what was happening better. What he heard shocked him greatly because he could not see what was actually going on, “Harder Big Mac. Oh, right there…that’s it,” came the moaning voice of Frost paw, “Oh sweet mother that feels so good!” Fusion Flair opened the door to see a sight that made him mad at his brother for some reason he couldn’t think of.
Rainbow walked up to Frost after the song was over and growled out, “I don’t know how, but I know it was you who made everpony sing that. Next time give a mare some warning, will ya.” That said Rainbow Dash flew off to make sure the clouds were getting cleared. Frost chuckled as he walked over to help wake the animals who hibernate. When he arrived he saw that Fluttershy and Applejack were arguing about when the clouds were to be cleared. “We need more time to wake the animals. If you melt the snow now they will be underwater in their homes,” Fluttershy said in a near whisper to Rainbow Dash.
That night the Bolts arrived at Frost’s home and were escorted out to the deck for the pony equivalent of a bar-b-q. Flair was cooking on the grill, Robinton was standing by a cooler talking to Celestia, Discord was talking to Frost, and Vinyl and Octavia were on the edge of the deck where they could put their hooves into the water or dive in and swim. Upon seeing that his guests Frost walked over to great them. “Welcome to my humble abode. I hope that the moon lights your path,” he said with the traditional Aqua guard welcome. “Enjoy yourselves; feel free to look around, take a swim in the lake, or take flight. Just make sure not to get so drunk that you can’t fly strait, I would hate to have to peal you off the ground or the cliff side.”
Author's Note
I have dicided that this story should have been at least the second story of series. as such this story shall be on hiatus untill further notice. I do apologise for getting ahead of myself and only now realizing this fact however I will post the chapters that have been typed up before too long after I have reviewed them more thoroughly.
Frost was awoken by a loud knocking at his front door. Looking at the clock that read 7:30 a.m. he crawled out of the huge sunken bed that took up most of his room and went to answer the front door, but just as he was about to leave the room Spitfire woke up and asked, “What time is it?”
Frost chuckled, “It’s about seven thirty in the morning. There is someone at the door so why don’t you wake Luna and head to the dining room while I answer it.” As he walked to the front door he heard that everyone else was also getting up so, he made a water clone and sent it to the kitchen to start breakfast. When he got to the door the knocking was still going on so he opened the door to meet the person. “Yes how can I help you?” he asked politely while yawning.
When the door opened reviling Frost the pony on the other side ran and hugged him fully waking him up. “Daddy why haven’t you told me about this place,” Cadence asked after she let her dad go, “And why did you trick that poor mare into thinking that you would be in Canterlot looking for ponies to join the Wonderbolts?”
“Well I haven’t seen you for nearly five years so how did you expect me to let you know about the house. As for why I tricked Rainbow Dash into thinking that I would be in Canterlot is because she does not know that I am the true leader of the Bolts, and because I am a trickster you should know that,” Frost said was he hugged her back. Luna walked by the door as they were hugging and thought that Frost was with a mare that she didn’t know.
“Who is that Frost Paw?” she asked as she walked up to the two trying to get a better look at the mare.
Frost looked at Luna before remembering that she could have forgotten that Cadence was their child. “This is Princess Mi Amore Credenza, a.k.a. Cadence,” Frost said hoping that Luna would remember.
Apparently the name had struck a chord in Luna’s memory as she slowly walked up to Cadence and hugged her. “Can you ever forgive me for not being there for you?” Luna was trying not to cry but lost the battle as Cadence hugged her back.
“What is there to forgive mom. I understand what happened, dad told me that you had no choice back them. Besides now we can spend time together,” Cadence said as she held her mother letting her cry on her shoulder.
Just then Flair walked over to the two mares and looked at Cadence and said in a very childish voice, “Sissy.” Frost face pawed hearing that from his brother. Luna looked at Flair like he was stoned and Cadence was just stunned from seeing Fusion Flair before she glomped him in a bear hug saying how cute he was.
After the excitement in the entrance way settled Frost herded every one into the dining room. Everyone at the table looked up when they entered and Soarin saw that Cadence was still hugging Flair and was about to get up when the clone of Frost came in and served breakfast. Flair struggled out of Cadence’s hold and sat down next to Soarin and muttered loud enough that everyone heard him, “I’m not cute; I’m sexy and I know it.”
“You defiantly were last night in bed,” Soarin replied without even thinking. Everyone’s heads snapped in his direction letting them see his and Flair’s blushing faces.
Frost gave Soarin a glare that said, ‘We will speak later,’ and coughed and said, “So how have you been Cadence? The last time we saw each other was when you started to foal-sit for Twilight Sparkle while her parents were out and her brother was working.” So Cadence began to tell about what she had been doing for the last five years; from going to the Howling Lands, to visiting another world, and trying to find love.
After telling her story Cadence asked her parents, “So why does Spitfire smell like you two?” The three in question started to blush as Flair laughed. “Flair did something to get you three to make love didn’t he?”
“Well, that is something for another time. I have to go open the store and the others have to get to work,” Frost said in a hurry.
“What store do you need to open that uncle Robinton can’t do himself?” Cadence asked. Frost almost face-planted hearing the question but was able to stay on all four feet and turned to answer.
“I am talking about the Siren’s Song music store in Ponyvill. As for why Rob can’t open it himself is that the security codes are known only by me. After it getting raided by vandals four times I put in a high security system that only I can override. The opening time is eight fifteen and it is eight o’clock now so I must be off,” Frost said when a knocking was heard at the door causing him to sigh; “I’ll get it.” He opened the door to revile Rainbow about to knock again. In the instant he saw her, his face went from a fox to a troll and asked in a deep voice, “Where you expecting someone else?”
Rainbow jumped back in fright at seeing Frost looking like that. “What the hell Frost!” she yelled. “I came to ask you about the Wonderbolts and this is what I get! And you’re welcome for me showing you daughter to your house!” She was about to fly away when she felt a pull on her tail. Turning around she saw Frost looking normal again and he had a serious expression.
“So you want to join the Wonderbolts huh, well you can’t ‘truly’ join them as they are a part of the Aqua guards and you are the bearer of one of the Elements of Harmony. But I think that we can make a deal. You can be an honorary member meaning that you can fly with them in air shows, go to the events they are invited to, and even get to train with them to some extent. How does that sound?” Frost proposed his idea to Celestia the night before and she said she was ok with it. “However you will also be a representative of them as well, which means that you can’t be so lazy doing your job around Ponyvill, understood.” Rainbow nodded her head so fast that one would think that she would get whiplash from the speed. “Good, meet me here tonight at seven and bring Applejack with you, she should be here for something I have planed anyway.”
Spitfire walked out with Frost to help him open shop and to talk to him about Rainbow’s abilities. As the duo left everyone else started to leave to start their day. Celestia and Luna left for the castle while Robinton, Vinyl, and Octavia followed Frost to help out at the store.
Flair and Soarin headed to Sweet Apple Acers to talk with Big Mac about what happened last night and if he was alright with it. Needless to say he was not impressed in the beginning, but after much yelling, cussing, and threatening he finely came to an agreement. He would let Soarin join them but he would not ‘receive’ only ‘give’. Soarin on the other hoof was open to trying just about anything. “Well now that that is settled, why don’t we get to work harvesting the last of the apples,” Flair said bringing their attention back to the farm.
“Eeyup.” “Lead the way.” The two said at the same time causing them to look at each other. “That was weird,” Soarin said.
With Frost at ‘Siren’s Song’ Cadence was helping organize the vinyl record collection. “So did you find any love songs while you were away?”
Frost chuckled, “What genre would you like first. Not only did I find love songs in classical styles I found them in just about every style on Earth. The songs you are asking for are too numerous to put in just one section of the store; therefore I had to place them with the rest of their genre to maintain order.”
Cadence looked shocked at hearing that there were so many songs about love. “Where are the more known songs?” she asked trying to find a starting place in the sea of music.
Frost thought about it for a moment before answering, “I would suggest the rock song ‘Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad’ by Meatloaf; isle five in the M’s for the artist, the album is Bat Out of Hell. That should keep you busy trying to learn the lyrics. I suggest you don’t listen to some of the more raunchy songs in rock until for a while.” That said Frost went to help somepony who came to get an instrument repaired. While Frost led the pony into the desk Cadence walked back to where she was directed passing a few sections that held the disks of music. When she got to isle five she walked to the M’s and picked up a c.d. and flipped the case to read the songs on it. After finding the one she was after Cadence walked to the front and paid for the album. ‘I need to get back to dad’s and listen to this,’ she thought and walked home.
Over Ponyvill Rainbow was helping get ready for a late day storm Frost had arranged to help the farms with crop growth. “Get those clouds in place, Derpy. Hey, we need to get this set up before five we have only two hours before it starts without us!” Rainbow was shouting out directions to the other pegasi who were on weather duty. Looking around to check their progress she noticed that Sweet Apple Acers was uncovered by clouds so she went to take care of it when she was Flair fly up and start to bring in rain clouds. “What the heck is he doing at the Apple’s? He has been spending a lot of time over there,” Rainbow muttered to herself as she flew to the orchard to find out why he was there. When she landed on the front porch she heard talking out in the fields. Curious she follows the voices to an opening between a stand to trees, and lying on the ground was Big Mac, Fusion Flair, and Soarin cuddling. Seeing them lying together that way caused Rainbow’s mouth to drop open in shock because she didn’t think that Soarin was a colt cuddler; she kind of expected Big Mac or even Flair to be, but certainly not Soarin.
Applejack was walking through the orchard looking for her brother to talk about what was planned for the next few months on the farm when she walked into Rainbow, literally. “What in tarnation are you doing just standing there Dashie?” AJ asked trying to figure out what her mare-friend was doing in the middle of the orchard. Rainbow just lifted a hoof and pointed at the clearing still open-jawed. Applejack followed the hoof and saw her brother cuddling two other stallions. “What the buck are ya’ll doing!?!?” she yelled at seeing the scene of three male making out.
The three stopped playing tonsil hockey and looked up only to see Rainbow Dash and Applejack staring at them. Flair and Soaring freaked out and took flight leaving Big Mac behind to face the wrath of two incensed mares. “It’s not what it looks like AJ, ah was just showing them how to prench kiss.”
“You would think with how much Frost does it with Luna that Flair would know how by now,” Rainbow said under her breath but Applejack heard because of how close they were.
Applejack shook her head and glared at Big Mac and demanded, “When were ya going to tell us Big Mac? We’re your family and ya keep a secret this big from us.”
“Well it wasn’t my idea to keep it from ya’ll, ah just didn’t have the time with all the work for Winter Wrap up,” Big Mac told them hoping to calm them down enough to avoid their wrath. “Ah didn’t know ya’ll were so interested in my love life. Ah could smell the two of ya on each other the last three nights but ah haven’t said anything to Granny, so don’t ya tell her anything. It’s a good thing she sleeps heavily or ya would have woken her too.”
The mares blushed at hearing that they were caught red hooved so to say.
Celestia was sitting in her throne room talking to one of the royal guards, “I’m surprised that Ponyvill was able to wrap up winter in one day this year. Then again I sent Twilight there so to learn about friendship.”
The guard perked up at hearing the name of the younger unicorn. “How is Twily? She only sends me letters once a month,” he asked curious about the mare.
“Shining Armor, you know as well as I do that she is okay. She sent you a letter yesterday. You act like a mother hen,” Celestia laughed at the expression on his face. “You need to try to let her go; she’s a grown mare. Even I can tell that when she gets in bed.” Celestia whispered the last part so that Twilights brother could not hear.
“What was that princess?” Shining Armor asked thinking he heard something.
“Nothing, nothing at all,” Celestia replied quickly before changing topics, “What do you think of the return of Prince Frost Paw?”
Armor thought about what he knew of the prince. “I don’t really know much about him, but from what I’ve heard he is about as powerful as your sister. And he could rival you brother in the music arts,” he said truthfully.
“Whom might you be talking about, Captain?” a voice asked from the front of the grand hall. Armor whipped his head around only to see Luna walking towards the thrones. “Frost is almost as powerful as my sister, although he might be rivaled by Aaron in musical skill but not in knowledge.”
Armor started to laugh at the thought of someone outside of the royal family being that powerful. Celestia brought him out of his laughter by saying, “He probably more powerful than me only because of his ability to control the water. He is not called the ruler of the seas without reason.”
“Surely you jest princess. No pony can be that strong,” Armor said with a nervous tone. As he said this water started to form around his hooves and frozen him in place as a form came out of the water in the air.
“I will let your comment go on the grounds that I’m not a ‘pony’. However I think it best that you learn more about some-‘pony’ before judging them, Captain, as you will do well to avoid unwanted insult,” Frost said when his form solidified from the water. “I would like to hope that the citizens of Equestria don’t think that others are weaker than themselves. How times change in a thousand years, I remember when two beings greeted each other that they treated the other as an equal. Even in the Howling Lands they still comply with that standard. Enough of these maters I would like to propose a contest of the choirs of the lands with Equestria acting as host.”
Celestia thought about the proposal for a few moments. “I will talk to my brother about it,” she answered, “However I would like to know who you wish to invite, and what the groups need to be size wise.”
Just as Frost was about to answer her, Armor had worked his way out of the ice and tried to hit Frost for trapping him. As the hoof made contact with the fox, Frost melted into water showing that it was not the real Frost. Armor was looking around for his opponent but could not find him when he heard a whisper in his ear, “That was a nice punch but it lacks luster. Let me show you how to throw a proper punch,” was all the warning he got before a paw hit him square in the chest sending him crashing into the fountain of water over a hundred feet away. Frost walked up to Shining Armor and held out a paw to help him up out of the water. “Sorry about that, I don’t know my own strength sometimes,” Frost noticed that Armor looked pale and asked, “Are you okay, you look a little pale?” Shining Armor glared at Frost Paw.
“My coat is white you fool. I don’t know who you think you are, but I don’t like your attitude,” Armor told Frost in a low voice so no one else could hear him.
Frost laughed at what he heard. “Do you know of poison joke? There is a form of it that makes me take leave of my scenes,” he was barely able to get out while laughing like Discord.
“Where is that son of a bitch, Solaris,” Pinkie appeared out of nowhere looking for Solaris, what was different about her though, was that was off about Pinkie was that her mane and tail were deflated and her overall color was darker.
Frost started to freak out at seeing Pinkie like this. “Who is asking Pinkie or Kimiko?” he asked trying to figure out who he was talking to.
Pinkie turned to look at him and said in the voice of Frost’s mother, “This is your mother speaking. Now tell me where your father is.”
Frost’s tails shot between his legs and started to back away in fear. “How have you been mom? Long time no see,” he asked in fear.
Kimiko looked at Frost with an annoyed expression. “I will ask you only one more time. Where is your father? If you don’t tell me what you know I will make your life miserable for the next nine months.”
Frost ducked behind Celestia to hide from his mother. He poked his head out and whimpered out, “I think he left for the Howling Lands this morning. He might be back by tomorrow.” Frost stepped out from behind Celestia in confusion. “What do you mean ‘the next nine months’?” The look that he got from her asked, ‘Are you that dense?’ Realization hit him like a ton of bricks as he asked, “Is it a boy or a girl?”
“Both,” was all the answer Kimiko gave before her coloring brightened and her mane and tail puffed up meaning she returned control to Pinkie. “What did I miss?” Pinkie asked trying to figure out where she was.
Celestia was too stunned to say anything and Luna had passed out from what she heard. The first one to regain some semblance of coherent thought was Shining Armor. “You are at the Canterlot palace looking for someone named Solaris. Now if you will excuse me I think I hear my sister calling me,” he said before he teleported into Ponyvill.
Frost escorted Pinkie back to the Cake’s as night fell. “Pinkie, do you know anything about your other side, Kimiko?” he asked as he led her to her room trying to be the gentleman his mother raised him to be. When Pinkie shook her head ‘no’ he sighed but continued; “Kimiko was the name of my mother. She ‘died’ nearly two thousand years ago because she was tricked by a changeling who took the form my father, Discord. But she had the ability to be reborn into another form because she had control over time itself, without her time ends. However before the attack was finished she was able to send a part of herself through time to thirteen years ago to heal her wounds and return to this plane. That piece found a home in you, Pinkie.” Frost developed a glazed over look to his eyes as he remembered how he had lost his mother…
Frost had just returned from another trip out of dimension that Solaris sent him on as a practical joke. “I swear one of these days I will get him back for sending me to the world of the Care Bears,” he shivered at the thought of so many beings hugging him at once. “If I EVER find a world worse than that dad is getting an all expense paid trip there. Well now that I’m back I should find mom.” That said he walked to her room to talk. On his way he heard Solaris singing:
‘My child arrived just the other day
Frost hadn’t heard his father sing in nearly five years and was surprised to hear that, from what he could tell, Solaris was singing about him and started to join in to form a harmony.
‘Well, the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
My son turned ten just the other day
And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Well, he came from college just the other day
Well, the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Well, I’ve long since retired; my son’s moved away
And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
Well, the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon
Solaris appeared in the middle of a field staring at a purple dinosaur. The purple dinosaur started to sing, “I love you, you love me, we’re a great big happy family…”
Solaris started to shake in fear at seeing the monstrosity known as Barney. “Not again!!!” he screamed out in mental agony.
Back with Frost Paw in the Castle of the Howling Lands he continued onto his mother’s room. As he got to the doorway he heard a scream of pain. Running into her room he saw what looked like Solaris and a pure white vixen on a bed. The only thing wrong with the scene was he had just sent Solaris into a different dimension and the vixen was bleeding from her side. Seeing his mother in that state something in Frost snapped; his fur started to bleach as white as newly fallen snow and he grew about twice his normal size and stood on his hind legs making him look bigger. The Solaris look-alike looked at him as the change took place and said what was probably the worst thing to say, “Son, it’s not what it looks like. I found your mother like this.”
The vixen looked over at Frost and made a slight motion with her eyes that told him to end the fool. Frost looked at the being pretending to be his father and spoke in a voice colder than space, “My father is not in this dimension you fool, now feel winter’s cold embrace.” Frost wrapped his wings around the look-alike and dropped the temperature of the water in its body to three degrees absolute freezing him instantly. As it froze the spell that it used stopped working reviling its true form of a changeling. After he froze the changeling; Frost shattered the ice, which crumbled into diamond dust and disappeared with a breeze. Calming down Frost shrunk back to normal size and ran over to his mother.
“Mom, are you okay?” he asked with concern in his voice. The wound was worse than he first thought, she had been stabbed through her left lung and, from how she was laying Frost was willing to bet that, part of her spine was severed. There were only a few things that could have made a wound like that; a sword; a unicorn horn; or a changeling’s horn.
As they faded out Kimiko closed her eyes and with a smile she fell asleep. As she fell asleep her form started to glow a soft blue; when the light faded her body was gone.
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.fox and wolf clans
“Codail suan, mo chadra bhán
Réalta geala anocht ag luascadh ins an spéir
Fág uait an olagán
Codail suan, mo chadra bhán
Réalta geala anocht ag luascadh ins an spéir
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.
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.
‘So that’s how these two got together,’ Kimiko said after finishing her story.
Bolt woke in a room that he did not recognize. He tried to get out of the bed when he noticed that there were no straps holding him to the bed however hearing someone come to the door he feigned sleep but keeping one eye slightly open to see who was coming into the room.
On Earth a few minutes before Frost left