Chapter 6: Through The Looking Glass...

I hate boats, they sway, they shift and they can sink. I took a deep breath and looked back to the small island of Neo Equineox. Once again, I took another deep breath, it was cold, and it smelled of pollutant, this was a small reminder that I was on Earth again. It was December and a time for many holidays here on Earth and in Equestria. Sadly I would be missing my first Heart Warming Eve, but I would be spending Christmas with the family. I don’t know if it was out of boredom or the fact that I spent every day with several ponies, but I started to get lonely. I began to look around the boat; I saw people and a lot of ponies. One pony in particular caught my attention. Not because I was attracted to her or anything, but because she looked familiar. I removed my hands from the railings and walked over to the light-green coated pony.

“Hello there.” I said waving at her.

“Hi.” Was her only response, it seemed she was too preoccupied with the sights, sounds, and smells of Earth to really give a good answer.

“I’m sorry, I don’t want to be rude but you look familiar. Do I know you?” I asked with a slight amount of hesitation.

She then turned to me and gave me a look, checking me out from head to toe. Then she let out a small giggle, “Blaze Drifter. What are you doing here?”

Crap! I did know her, but from where… “On vacation, with a hint of family business. You?” I said trying to maintain the appearance that I knew who I was talking to.

“Vacation, I needed a break… so is Dark Morning taking your leave of absents okay, or did she try to force you to stay?” The earth pony asked with a grin on her face.

“Very funny, she was actually very supportive, since it was family stuff. Plus with everything that has happened she said I needed some time off.” I replied.

“Oh yeah! The incident with the Crystal Empire, I heard that got you into the Royal Guards officially. That created quite a commotion in the office, everypony was in shock.” She said looking at me, then her gaze widened. “Wait a minute… You don’t know who I am, do you?”

She caught me, “What?! Of course I do. You think I don’t know who you are, pfft. That is funny, that is funny right there.”

“Who am I, James?” She asked lifting a brow.

“Well umm… you are umm…” She then started backing me up towards the railings with a seductive look in her eyes and trot.

“Come on, Blaze, who am I, say my name!” She demanded.

“Ummmmm… I don’t, you’re right; I don’t remember who you are.” I said looking down at the floorboards.

She then exploded into laughter, “Oh Celestia… well since you don’t remember, you can try to figure it out. Oh and you have 5 days to figure it out.” She said.

“Well one actually.” I replied.

“What do you mean one day; this boat doesn’t arrive at Sa…” She began to say before the boat sounded off a fog horn.

“I am transferring over to a plane at our first stop in Hawaii.” I said.

“Well then good luck on that plane of yours.” She said as she went back to looking on at the ocean. As I began to walk away she called back to me, “Hey Blaze!”

“What…” I stood there, my jaw nearly falling off. There stood this earth pony swishing her tail, teasing me with her flank and giving me a raspberry (and for those who don’t know what a raspberry is, it’s when you stick your tongue out at someone). “Good luck with your family!”

3 Weeks earlier…

It was a long two days spent with both Eclipse and Poison, when I finally arrived at my room, finding the care package, and the words ‘I love you’ thrown into the air. That morning, Morning and I had a very pleasant romp around in the blankets, after what felt like the best game of tonsil hockey I had ever played. We spent the rest of the day asleep in bed, till 5 in the evening when Morning woke up and headed to the bathroom. It had been a while since I slept all day, even with Celestia’s light trying to wake me all day long. It seemed my body had gotten used to the night after all. As I began to stretch I felt my fingers hit the ceiling, which was strange since I was sitting in bed. Morning walked back into the room only to jaw drop and point above my head.

“Ghost HANDS!” Morning yelled, slowly backing into the bathroom.

“Ghost hands?” I repeated, I looked up to find a pair of greyish purple gauntlets, with energy flowing through them like hands and fingers. My first reaction to this was of course to scream, “AHHHHHH! GHOST HANDS!” Running to Morning’s side only to have the gauntlets reaching to the ceiling following behind me.

“They’re following you, Blaze!” Morning yelled.

I flinched, something was hurting my hands but when I looked to them nothing. Then I looked at the gauntlets flexing my fingers and turning my hands, the gauntlets mimicking my movements. “No way…” I pulled my hands and arms close, the gauntlets did the same coming into reach. With my right hand I reached to the left gauntlet and grabbed it, I felt myself grab onto myself. This gauntlet was part of me; it was a part of me…

“Blaze, what is it?” Morning said slowly walking up to me.

“It’s… it’s… me!” I said. Staring at the smooth solid piece and feather pattern the gauntlet had.

“Huh? What do you mean it’s you?” Morning said tapping the gauntlet with her hoof.

It took a while to walk from the docks to the airport, but it was better than taking a crammed bus or expensive taxi; especially since I only had a back pack. It was about a 30 minute walk. I looked over my shoulder to see the sun setting behind me. Somehow the sun’s light here felt different, not bad, but not so full of energy like in Equestria. I arrived at the airport and was greeted by several guards and security personnel.

“What do you mean he has an Equestrian Passport? Does he look like a pony?!” Some faceless man said over the radio.

“Sir, we need you to stand off to the side.” One of the guards asked holding a metal detector in his hand, leading me into a white closed off room with only one door and a large glassed mirror on one side. I walked over to the table that sit in the middle of the room, pulled out a chair and sat down.

Suddenly a somewhat big angry looking gentleman showed up, shoving a badge in my face. “Officer Benjamin Oakfield, why are you carrying a false passport?” He then looked me up and down, and then stared at my arms. “What are these?” He said flicking the greyish purple gauntlets I was wearing. “Are you some sort of Adventurer? Do you think you can get past me with these cheap tricks, young man? Well answer me?!” He shouted.

I was surprised to find that people feel very confident and superior when they hold power over someone, I sighed and handed the officer a black plastic card with a silver phone number on it. “Please call that number and everything will be explained.”

“You think I am going to call some random phone number and they’ll let you on one of my planes in my airport?” He said snatching the card from my hand.

“Sir, we are done searching his bag but all he has is a bunch of weird clothes.” A random security guard said through the intercom, “All of his shirts have holes in the back, sir.”

“Holes?” The man looked at me. “Care to explain yourself…” He looked down at my passport, and then back up. “Mr. Drifter, if that is your real name?”

“I have a lot of back problems I have yet to solve.” I said shaking my head and pushing my hair back with my hands out of stress, revealing a shining small smooth round gem on the back of my hand.

Benjamin quickly slammed his right index finger into the gem, which rested on my forehead causing an unusual reaction…

As I studied the gauntlets, trying to learn how they worked, Morning was busy looking over the rest of me to see if anything else had changed. Then she noticed the small gems on the gauntlets; she lightly poked one of them with her hoof. The gem began to dimly glow red before a huge pain struck at my back. The gauntlets clenched in midair right before exploding into feathers, which disappeared seconds after forming.

“Blaze!” Morning said as I hunched over in pain.

“Morning… It burns…” I muttered, as I looked down. The tattoos on my body began to shift around, grow and change.

My gauntlets blew apart leaving disappearing feathers, and my back exploded with darkness. A pair of large greyish-dark purple wings with red tips expanded out of the darkness and around me. Benjamin quickly backed away slamming into the door behind him, outside I could hear guns being cocked.

“What are you?” Benjamin said trying to reach for a baton on his belt.

I sighed, shifting my weight to my right, slightly slouching my back. “I am a member of the Equestria Guard, a citizen of Equestria. If you choose to ignore my request and contact the embassy or the number on the card I gave you I will…”

Benjamin slammed his baton on the table, “Are you threatening me and the great nation! You… you mutant!”

Suddenly the door slammed opened and a brown coated unicorn, with a gold mane and glasses busted into the room. “How dare you treat a citizen of Equestria like this!” She said looking around the room. “Now where is he?”

I raised my hand catching the attention of the brown coated pony; she looked at me then at her notes and documents. Her eyes squinted behind her glasses at her paperwork, and then she walked right up to me looking directly into my face.

“Blaze Drifter? Are you Blaze Drifter?” She asked her voice cracking as she spoke. “Are you the same stal… guy who saved all those Crystal Ponies?”

Me and Benjamin looked at her in shock, “What did you say?” I asked.

“What are you talking about; UN soldiers were responsible for taking that guy out. Not this damn mutant…” Benjamin began to say, before the brown pony stared him down.

“Umm… I am not allowed to talk about it.” I said as she got closer and lifted up my short sleeve to reveal some of my tattoos.

“You are him! My name is Parchment Pride; I work for the Equestrian Embassy…” She shook her head. “Never mind that, Benjamin; release this citizen of Equestria right now.”

“But Ma’am, he isn’t even a pony, he’s a mu…”

Parchment slammed a hoof on the ground, scaring the big security guard. “This is a guard of Equestria, a hero of our kingdom. How dare you insult him! Release him at once or prepare to face the anger of the Equestrian Embassy’s paperwork!”

Benjamin freaked out and ran out of the room, outside you could hear him barking out orders. He then walked back in with my bag, “So sorry for the trouble.”

I stood up and bowed, “No please, forgive me for wasting your time, Sir.” I grabbed my bag and was about to sling it over my back, when I realized my wings were still out. I closed my eyes and focused on seeing the gauntlets again. My wing disappeared into darkness and two floating gauntlets appeared behind me before floating forward. I stretched out my arms in front of me before the gauntlets floated out over my arms and clamped down wrapping themselves around my arms and fingers. I looked over my hands clasping the air as I turned my wrist.

“Wow!” Parchment said.

“That was awesome…” Benjamin mumbled under his breath.

As I walked out of the room Parchment followed behind me, giving Benjamin a snooty grin. “Bye Benny.” She said as she trotted up next to me.

As we walked to my gate, I was hoping that my flight hadn’t left. Me and Parchment began to talk on our way through the airport; one subject we kept returning to was human pony relationships. It turned out that it was slightly frowned upon in the states. I could never understand how people could think, even though our two species have been talking for several years, humans are the ones with the issues, not the ponies. When we arrived at the gate I was surprised to see the plane still waiting there. The airport had put a freeze on the flight due to some fueling issue; I looked to the flight attendants and then back to Parchment. “I never got to thank you properly for everything that you have done for me.”

Parchment tugged on my shirt and I slightly bent over in response, she raised her head and kissed me on the cheek. I raised my hand to my face and blushed; people and ponies in the background began whistling and telling us to get a room. “You’re welcome Blaze.” She said turning around and heading back the way we came. For some reason I could help but stare as she walked away, maybe it was because she kissed me or maybe it was because her flank was larger than of most of the ponies I have met; either way I watched her until she was out of my sight.

“Sir, quickly now, we are closing the gate.” One of the female flight attendants said, while the others giggled at my red flushed face. I entered the plane, placed my bag above me, and sat in my chair in the center row towards the tail of the plane. Looking around I noticed there was a lot more room on these planes; you could stretch your legs out in front of you. Then I saw why, I saw several ponies scattered throughout the plane looking out the windows and talking about how it was their first time on a plane. I sat down, buckled my seatbelt, laid my head back and closed my eyes, letting the sounds of the engines put me to sleep.

“Poison!” I yelled walking through the apartments, my wings knocking things over as I powerwalked through the halls. Morning was trotting behind me with a huge smile on her face; enjoy the sight of my frustration and large dark wings.

“What do you want?” Poison said with a groggy voice, through a slowly opening door.

I grabbed the door and pulled it the rest of the way open, causing Poison to lose her balance and fall forward. Quicker than I could extend my hands, my feathered wing brushed past me and caught Poison before she fell. “What did you do to me?”

“Huh?!” Poison looked at the large wings that wrapped around her which prevented her from falling face first into the ground. “Blaze, what are… why do you have wings?” She said with a confused tone in her voice.

I looked at Poison with a slightly frustrated look, and sighed. “I told you, weird stuff happens to me when you guys use magic and potions on me.” I reached out and helped Poison to her hooves. “Can you tell me what was that potion you force fed me for the last two days?”

Poison began to giggle nervously, “Well you see, it had a kind of sexual booster… magical stamina enhancer, and several other magical items that I turned into a potion. Then I enchanted the potion… heh…”

“You’re kidding me right… you loaded my body with magic… not potions, but magical enchanted potions.” I stood there for a moment trying to process everything, and then I looked over to Morning. “Nope, can’t help.” Without a moment hesitation I passed out in the hallway.

“Uhh, passengers we have arrived at uhh, Miami International Airport. I repeat we have arrived at uhh, MIA. Please stay in your seats till we have come auhh, to a complete stop. Uhh, Thank you for flying with us.” A click and a static was heard before the speaker complete turned off. I had spent the entire flight asleep and upright in my chair.

“Look, mama, that man was alive, I told you!” A little boy who sat in the row in front of me said, his mother patting him on the head congratulating him.

I let out a long yawn followed by a fierce stretch which started cracking the bones all over my body. I looked out the windows to see our plane pulling into the gate, a large umbilical tube extending out to the plane. I was literally in the tail center of the plane and waited for everyone to leave before I got up and reached for my bag. One of the flight attendants walked up to me as I headed to the door asking if I was okay, I lifted my hand and told her I wasn’t a fan of crowds. As I walked through the airport I could smell… well people again, and cleaning products, tons of cleaning products. Then the smell of food, first it was the strong coffee Miami was known for, and then it was the sweet pastries. I even caught the smell of McDonald fries and Subway bread. As I reached the double doors leading to the street I was wondering how I would get to my parents’ house. A pair of soft warm hands blanketed my eyes; I could feel a light cool touch of metal on the hands, before I heard someone speak.

“Guess who?” said a very feminine voice, "You only get 2 guesses…”

I took a deep breath through my nose; smelling to see if I could catch their scent, and figure who it was, but all I could smell was oranges, tomato sauce and cheese. Wait oranges… “Lisa… Lisa is that you?”

“Hey no fair you peeked.” She said pulling her hands away and giving me a big hug.

“I didn’t peek, you just still smell like oranges.” I said smiling. I gently pushed away from her holding her shoulders. I quickly looked over her. She had long red-orange hair, blue eyes, her skin was a dark tan, and she had a thin hour glass figure covered in a sky blue knee length dress. “So how did you know I was coming? I only told my parents… They called you, didn’t they?”

“Yes they did, and I offered to pick you up. You know, after your mother’s surgery last year and all.” Lisa looked away.

“Hey, you did your best, you saved what you could… plus I’m back in town for a little while, hopefully it will brighten her up.” I said raising her face with my palm. “So look at you, how long has it been since I last saw you?”

“About 2 years now, and what happened to you, look at your hair and your body… you look toned?” She said grabbing and fluffing my hair. “Oh it’s not your mom you should worry about, it’s your dad. He is all angry about the old days and how his son has betrayed him, working with them ‘ponies’ doing who knows what… By the way, what do you do over there?” Lisa said keeping her blue eyes locked on me.

“Night shift security…” I said, picking up my bag.

“That sounds cool, is it dangerous?” She said holding onto my arm.

“Nah, it’s kind of fun, but it is always hard to sleep during the day, Morning is always waking me…” I caught myself before slipping up. “The morning sun works differently in Equestria than it does here. It’s like Celestia’s sun fills you with energy.”

“Celestia?” She said grabbing my arm as she led me outside to the garage.

“Yeah, Princess Celestia, the Alicorn that controls the sun in Equestria, she is like a God or something.” I said trying to pull away from Lisa’s large bust.

“A Goddess in control of the sun, I like this world already, but let me guess it’s a male who controls the moon right?” She said giggling.

I gave her a slight stare which stopped her giggles, “No. Princess Luna controls the moon, and she is Celestia’s younger sister.” I said angrily, as we arrived at a neon green 2012 Camaro. “Your car?”

Lisa nodded as she pulled out the keys and disabled the alarm. “Come on, hop in, you can put your bag in the backseat.”

“Doctors make way too much money.” I said climbing into the car.

“So how is Anne?” Lisa asked as we began to head out into traffic. “I heard she was working in Baptist…”

“I don’t know, we broke up about 3 years ago.” I said closing my eyes and leaning back in the chair.

“Wait, you broke up? I didn’t know that, I thought you two were engaged.” She said almost hitting the guardrail.

“Hey! Focus!” I yelled. “Yeah I caught her sleeping with Michael one day, and I just left her. Of course I asked why she was sleeping with Michael, by asking Michael and then her, and when I heard the answer, I just left.”

“Wow! I knew Michael was a sex fiend, but I never thought he would screw a friend’s girlfriend.” Lisa said. “What a jerk!”

“No, he is not, I am glad it was Michael. At least he was always honest with me; it was Anne who was a jerk this time around. Saying she wanted to wait till marriage to have sex… and then screws another man behind my back cause she thought I wasn’t a virgin.” I said with an angry tone in my voice.

“She really hurt you, didn’t she, well if you ever need a shoulder to cry on, or someone to listen to you, or some fuck buddy. I am here for you James.” Lisa said as we came to a stop light.

“Fuc…” I quickly opened my eyes and looked over to Lisa. She was looking at me with these puppy dog eyes and was letting a finger slowly pull down her shirt. Her top moving past her tan lines and over her breast, letting one of her large boobs fall out of her top. Then just as the light turned green, she pulled it back under her clothes. “Buddy… Um, no thanks, Lisa.”

I quickly readjusted in my seat, trying to hide my growing erection, it was the first time I had ever seen a human boob in person. Then Lisa’s hand went straight for my crotch with her hand, gripping my shaft through my pants. “Well at least I know you’re straight, but why don’t you want to bone a hot girl like myself?” She said releasing my shaft and placing her hand back on the steering wheel.

I sat there, my face frozen in shock from what Lisa just did. Then without thinking I said it, “I already have someone in Equestria.”

“What, you have a girlfriend and you didn’t mention this earlier?” She said pulling us into a Subway. “We are talking about this now before I lose you to your parents. Get inside, and order something, my treat, but in exchange you tell me about this girl!”

As we sat down with our meals, I took a large slip from my coke, the carbonated drink bubbled down my throat and burned the inside of my nose; it had been too long. “So what do you want to know?” I said, reminding myself not to divulge too much information.

“Well… what does she look like, do you have a picture?” Lisa asked biting down into her sandwich.

“She is white… with long straight indigo hair that curls at the end… very nice, toned figure. Ummm, average bust… big firm ass… she is very beautiful.” I said hesitantly slowly stuffing a chocolate cookie in my mouth.

“I thought you were a big boob guy?” Lisa said grabbing her own large breast.

I stared at Lisa’s boobs as they gave a slight bounce when she released them; I shook my head and returned to our conversation. “Would you mind not doing that?” I asked pointing at her boobs. “And I was a big boob guy… till she changed my mind.” I said.

Lisa nodded. “Well what’s this magical girl’s name who turned you away from big boobs?”

“Huh?! Her name?” I began to look at my food, and then back up at Lisa. “Well I call her Morning…”

“Morning? Is that like some sort of pet name or something…” The look of her trying to think too hard was written on her face, I began to wonder if I had given out to much information. Did she find out that Morning was a pony? “In the airport, you said something about Morning giving you a hard time to sleep… You’re sleeping with her already, how long have you two known each other?”

“Well, I met her on my second day in Equestria through a friend of a friend. Thing went well and…” I turned away blushing. “Things happened.”

Lisa dropped her sandwich and began choking on some food. She reached over to her soda and began to chug it down before looking straight at me with a surprised look. “You had sex with a girl you only knew for a day?”

“Pig!”, “Animal!”, “Typical guy…” Was some of the thing I started to hear in the restaurant coming from some of the female customers.

“It’s not like that… she… seduced me.” I said fidgeting in my chair.

“Well, the way you normally act, I bet she would. Most of the girls in school wanted to do you… Wait.” Lisa stopped to think again, moving her fingers through the air as if doing a math problem in the sky. “If you left Anne, and you were a virgin, and this girl was the first girl you were dating after Anne… that means you gave your virginity to some random girl?!”

“She wasn’t some random girl!” I said standing up and slamming my hand on the table. Then I realized where I was and slowly sat down. People began to murmur more behind me and all around me. “Anyways she was also one, too.”

Lisa looked confused, “Also what?”

“A virgin.” I said still blushing while I began to eat my sandwich.

“Are you telling me that a pair of virgins met up in some random city, had a great day together and then had sex… and are still together after a year?” Lisa said trying to understand the situation.

“Well no, not really... We talked a lot and she showed me the sites. Then we went back to her place and went at it for a couple of days…” I said slowly toning down my speech as I came to the end of my sentence. “Yeah, I don’t really know what happened… We just clicked.”

I spent the next few hours telling Lisa about me and Morning, excluding some details. As we made the last turn into my parent’s neighborhood, Lisa was still adamant about talking to me about my sex life. “Would you give it a rest?”

“Last question I promise, if she is so super horny…”

“She is not super horny.” I interrupted Lisa.

“Okay, whatever. If she likes having sex so much; don’t you think that while you’re away she might go and screw another guy?” Lisa asked driving into my parent’s driveway.

“To be honest, I don’t think she would at all.” I said opening the car door and stepping out. There it stood, a two stories high house with a red roof, white walls and a large yard. “Plus I would trust her with my life. I mean I trusted her with my biggest secret.”

Lisa quickly stepped out of the car placing her hands on the roof. “She knows you’re a mutant.” Lisa whispered.

“Since day one almost, we had a lot of secrets and after a few weeks we told each other everything.” I said swinging my bag over my back.

“Wow.” Lisa said walking up next to me as I headed to the front door. “So she really is legit.”

“I told you there is just something between us, I can’t really explain it.” I stood in front of my old house, a house in which I became a son and a brother. I reached for the doorbell and pushed it down for a second; 3 loud chiming bells went off inside. Then a girl about 4 feet and a half stood in the doorway, before giving me a huge hug.

“James, you’re really, really here!” The little girl said tightly hugging me.

“Yuli!” I said lifting Yuliya into my arms and giving her a hug. “Where are mom and dad?”

“They went out; it’s just me, Gavrill and three friends of his from school.” She said pulling me into the house with her weight.

“They went out this early?” I asked checking my watch. “But it’s 4:00 in the evening, why would they leave?”

I placed little Yuliya on the sofa and gave myself a good stretch, Lisa followed us in and sat down next to Yuliya. “So have you told him yet, Lisa?”

“Shhh, not right now!” Lisa said, moving her hands in a cutting motion.

I raised a brow. “What’s going on…” I took a sniff of the air. “Floral musk…” I whispered. I turned to Yuliya, “Gav has some friends over right, what are their names?”

Yuliya put a finger to her head. “Mark, Stephanie and… Red Forge I think?”

“Is Red Forge a pony?” I asked.

“Yeah she’s in the 10th grade with Gav and Mark, why?” She asked.

“What did you say they were doing upstairs?” I said walking to the stairwell.

“They said they were going to be playing video games, Haliod or something.” Yuliya said.

“Is something wrong, James?” Lisa asked.

“Umm, nothing… I’m going to go say hi to Gav. Okay Yuli?” I said walking up the stairs.

As I walked up the stairs I didn’t know what I was thinking; was my younger brother already having sex and with a pony, the smell of musk was faint, but strong enough for me to catch it. As I reached the second floor I suddenly felt relief, I could hear the sounds of the video game echo through the corridor. Voice yelling out for each other; “Cover her!”, “Look out grenade!”, “Stay close they are picking us off!” Then all at once, they cursed.

I opened the door and caught two boys, a girl and an orange coated Unicorn holding controls and looking rather defeated. Then I looked at the unicorn; what was I really worried about, about Gavrill having sex or the species he was having sex with? I looked at all four of them, “Man, you guys suck!”

All at once they turned around; the blonde headed boy turned around the quickest, a huge grin across his face. “Bro!” He dropped the controller and rushed to me, giving me a tight hug.

“Who’s that?” asked the black haired boy to the unicorn, the orange coated unicorn shrugged.

Gav released his hug and turned to his friends. “This is my big brother James, or as you guys would know him ‘The Lost One’!” I gave a weird look to my younger brother, why would he mention my gamer ID? Then I looked over to his friends, their jaws dropped.

“No way… no way! You didn’t tell me your brother was the ‘The Lost One’! He still holds 8th place in ‘Grey Ruin Map Pack’!” Mark said.

“This is so totally awesome!” The red mane pony exclaimed.

“Hello James, remember me?” Stephanie asked.

“Steph is that you? You’ve gotten taller…” Stephanie nodded and blushed. “Hey if you guys want I can join you later, but right now Yuliya is alone with Lisa. So I will be downstairs.”

“Well Mark and Steph will be leaving soon, so it will be just me and Red… so you can join us later.” Gav said.

“Okay, I will. So I will see you guys later.” I said closing the door behind me. I headed back downstairs and sat on the sofa, letting out a sigh.

“Are you okay? You look flustered.” Lisa asked.

“Yeah I am fine; I just had a funny feeling that was all.” I said sinking into the couch. I turned to Yuliya who was texting on her phone.

“She has been on the phone since you went upstairs; teenagers so full of hormones, and by the way she is texting… I am guessing it’s a guy.” Lisa said walking behind Yuliya slightly moving my sister’s blonde hair out of the way to catch a glimpse of her phone. Lisa then looked up at me and mouthed, “It’s a boy.”

Yuliya looked behind her, pulling her cell phone in closer. “Hey, that’s personal!”

I gave a smile and began to wonder; when did my siblings grow up? A yawn slipped out of my lips before my eyes became heavy, and for a moment my eyes closed. I slowly fell asleep on the sofa while my sister texted on her phone and Lisa bothered her.

While I slept, I dreamt about the last few days and all the training I was doing. I was learning how to use the gauntlets and my wings; it turned out they were big enough to let me fly, and at night they dimly glowed red while I slept, or so Morning told me. Then my dreams focused on Morning and the rest of the girls, even though it had been only a little over a day, I had already began to miss them all. As I dreamed I began to hear a man yelling in the distance, it then started to get closer. Suddenly I awoke by the same man’s yelling, but not just any man, it was my father yelling at my brother.

“How dare you bring that here, and do those kinds of things in my home!” My father yelled.

“That? Don’t talk about Red like some sort of thing! She is a girl and you are so in the wrong!” Gavrill yelled back at our father.

“I don’t understand you, how could you do this to me! Those things took away our lively hood, and since then I have been working a normal job that means nothing to me, so that you and your sister can eat, and this is how you repay me?” My father said pacing around.

I got up and walked over to them to try to calm the fire, only to watch my father raise his hand to hit Gav. As he raised his hand to hit Gav, I reached out and grabbed it. “Hey Dad, how is it going?”

My father quickly turned around, looking at me with anger in his eyes. “How dare you stop me, I am going to teach this disgrace of a son a lesson!” And with that he gave me a hard shove pushing me towards the kitchen door. As I turned to brace for the fall, I heard a woman’s voice come for the kitchen; it was my mother, who was rolling up in her wheel chair with a knife in hand.

“Ivan, maybe you should… huh?” I fell onto my mother grabbing the railing on her chair. “Oh God No… AHHHHHHHH!”

I stood up, my mother’s hands shaking as they reach for her face; I slowly turned to my father; he, my family, Lisa and Red Forge turned pale as they saw me. The knife my mother was holding was now buried deep in my chest.

“James, my God!… I didn’t mean too… Oh God…” My father muttered. Sadly enough, my parents knew I was a mutant but not all of my abilities. They knew I could heal but they did not know the extent of how powerful it was.

“What is wrong with it, dad? What is wrong with having a relationship with someone who is different?” I said grabbing the knife and slowly pulling it out. “You and mom loved me even though I was adopted and a mutant… then you found out mom was a mutant as well, and you still loved her. What’s wrong with loving an Equestrian?” I finished saying handing the knife back to my mother.

“Honey… are you okay?” My mother said reaching up to me with her hand and placing it over my closing wound.
“Yeah mom, it will take a lot more than that to kill me…” I said kneeling down and giving my mom a hug. I then stood up and walked over to my brother and his marefriend, walking past my dad. “You may want to take her home for now… I will take care of dad okay.” My brother nodded, and walked outside with Red. She waved good bye as she headed out, a worried look on her face. I turned to my father and walked over to him and stood in front of him. “So dad, what’s really wrong?”

“He was having sex with that…” My father began to say raising his voice before I interrupted him.

“Pony… unicorn… girl?” I said, looking at him straight in the eye.

“Mare, he was having sex with that mare… In my house!” My father yelled gesturing his hand to the front door.

I took a deep breath and looked at my father; his face was red with anger, his hand shaking with adrenaline. I gave a silent prayer for what I was about to say next. “Yuliya, cover your ears…” I looked over to see her doing what I asked, and then I looked over to my father. “Dad, when was the last time you had sex?”

My father became livid and slapped me across the face, “What did you say?” He said.

Unmoved by his assault I continued to speak, “What is wrong, dad? Really what is wrong, don’t give me the run around cause you know eventually I will find out, and help you if I need to.”

My father slapped me again. “Do you think you can understand how I feel… My wife can no longer walk; the company I work for is forcing me into retirement… I may not be old, but I am old enough they say, and what is worse is that…” My father started to lose his balance and walked over to the sofa defeated. “We are going to lose the house.” He said.

“Ivan, what do you mean we are going to lose the house?” My mother asked. My father buried his face into his hands.

“In order to pay for the surgery you had, I had to put a second mortgage on the house.” He said.

“Ivan, why didn’t you tell me? We could have done something, worked something out.” My mother said rolling into the living room.

I looked over to my bag and started to rummage through it. “Dad, how much do you owe?”

My mother and father looked up at me, “No James, we are not taking your money!” My father said lifting his face from his hands. “We raised you and cared for you, but that does not mean you owe us anything. I will not have it!”

“It’s not for you, Dad.” I said. “I am doing this for Yuliya, Gavrill and mom.”

“What do you mean by that, are you saying that since I cannot provide for this family you will!? I will not stand for it! Do you hear me?” My father yelled.

“I hear you, but I am doing this because I want my siblings to have a roof over their head that their parents provided for them. I want mom to have her husband back, not some angry man who can’t even look at his only real son.” I yelled pointing at the front door. “Is that what you want, do you want Gavrill to hate you, because you can’t deal with your problems and ask for help?”

“No it’s just…” My father said.

“Just what, dad?” I asked.

“I don’t want you to waste your money on us, because…”

“Because why, dad?” I asked sitting down across from him.

“Because your real parents called me last week.” He said with a sad look on his face. “They were asking for help, they were asking to see you.” My face went blank. “They had another child, a little girl named Alex, who wants to meet you.”

“What do you mean meet me, they abandoned me…. At the circus, they left me all alone without a single word...” I said falling back in the chair.

Lisa walked over to Yuliya and pulled her hand. “Hey Yuliya, maybe we should head into the kitchen to help your mother with dinner.” All three of them walked into the kitchen.

As they left my father put his hand on my shoulder. “I know it’s a hard decision to make, and you don’t have to rush to make one...”

“I’ll see them.” I said sharply.

My father quickly turned to me with a confused look on his face, his hand gripping my shoulder. “Hmmm. I know it’s not my place to ask, but why, son?”

I looked at my dad and down at my hands. I closed my eyes. My sleeves became thinner as the gauntlets disappeared and two large blackish wings grew out from my back. “Because dad, what if she is like me, a mutant… I don’t want those people abandoning her like they did me.”

My dad gave a large smile and sat across from me; he then reached into his pocket and pulled out an old smoking pipe. “You grew up and became a fine young man.” He said lighting his pipe and taking a large puff. “A fine young man indeed.”

I retracted my wings and my sleeves puffed up again, only black smoke remained in the air slowly fading away. “Well I had these really awesome folks who took me in and raised me as their own, and that is why I am going to help them out with their home. Also, because I love them very much.” I said smiling. My father tried to argue it, but in the end I won out. Then as we finished one discussion I started another. “So about Gavrill, you should apologize to him and his marefriend.”

“Why should I apologize, he is a human and the girl is a horse!” My father said. “What if he caught some sort of horrible STD.” He said.

“Dad, trust me, that doesn’t happen. Our species is the only one that carries STD.” I replied.

“I know you’re different, son, but why are you defending these ponies so much?” My father asked. “Let me guess, you have a marefriend, too?” I started to choke on the water I was drinking. “Really?” My father said. “You too.”

As I tried to clear the water from my throat my father sat deep in his chair and gave his thinking face. “Dad… what is it?” I said coughing.

My father gave me a serious look, and then gave his pipe a puff. “Son, answer me honestly, and if you do I will apologize to Gav and his girlfriend.” My father said and I nodded in response. “Is sex better with them than it is with a human girl?” My father asked wide eyed.

“So it really was the entire money thing making you a grump ass jerk.” I said

“Enough dillydally, answer my question!” My father exclaimed.

I let out a sigh. “As long as I answer, no matter what the answer is, you will apologize to Gav?”

My father nodded, “Just as long as you give me some dirty details, okay.”

“Perv.” I sighed again. “To be honest dad, I had never had sex with another human girl… Ever.” I said.

My father dropped his pipe, “You’re kidding me, right? You’ve never had sex?”

“I didn’t say that, I had sex before… with several different mares…” I hesitantly said.

“How many?” He asked.

“To be honest… I kind of lost… count.” I said putting my hand behind my head. “But I do have a marefriend and we do a lot of tucking almost every day…”

“You lost count?” My father sat back in his chair. “You really are a ladies’ man, no matter what species you are with… So how does it feel? Cause if you want I could tell you how sex with a human is?”

“No Dad! Your only experience is with Mom and I don’t want to know how Mom ‘Feels Like’, okay?” I said.

So I explained to my Dad about tucking with ponies and how they go into heat and are uncontrollable. We spent almost two hours talking about it before Gav showed up at home again. My father walked up to Gav and apologized to him, and told him whenever him and his girl… marefriend was over, he would treat her with respect. Gav almost broke down in tears; it seemed both of them were hiding secrets from one another which was causing friction between them.

Later Gav pulled me off to the side, “What did you tell dad?”

“About what?” I asked.

“I mean, how did you get dad to say sorry?” He asked.

“That is our secret for now, so enjoy it, little brother.” I said fluffing his hair with my hand.

The rest of the night we all spent the evening laughing and telling stories about the old days in the circus. As the day turned into night, the household began to receive more guests; old friends from the circus as well as new friends from our current lives. It slowly became a party; still I was rather tired from the day’s events that I went up to my old room to fall asleep.

It was 2 in the morning or something, when I felt someone enter my room. It was my mother checking up on me. She ever so gently moved the hair out of my face. She even went as far as recovering me up with the blanket; sadly my mother was unaware of a bad habit that formed while living in Equestria. As she kissed my forehead my arms reached out and pulled her into a hug; she let out a sigh. “Someone is not used to sleeping alone I see.” My mother then noticed the gauntlets that tightly wrapped around my arms; she slowly began to touch them. She came across the smooth gems on my hands that dimly glowed red. As she touched them they glowed brighter, the gauntlets disappeared and my wings extended out and around us. My mother clenched her teeth thinking something bad was going to happen, but instead, out of habit, my wings wrapped around us. Suddenly she noticed that the lining of the wings began to glow dimly red as well. The energy being emitted from my wings began to lull my mother to sleep. I still didn’t know what the red glowing meant and I wouldn’t until the next day.

It was 8 in the morning when I began to wake up; as I opened my eyes it took me a moment to realize where I was. As my eyes began to search the room I felt extra warmth coming from my chest, as well as some movement. I looked down and noticed my wings were wrapped around me and another person, yet I could not tell who it was. I spread open my wings which awoke the person who was sleeping next to me, it was my mother.

“Mom, what are you doing here?” I said sitting up in bed and folding my wings behind me.

“Hmmmm. Nothing, I came to check on you during the night and you pulled me into bed.” She said with a yawn and stretch and as she stretched she got a strange look in her face. She then looked down at her legs and started to cry. “Oh my god… oh my god. James, my legs, my legs!”

“Mom, what’s wrong?” I said.

With tears in her eyes she began to move her feet and toes. “Look honey… I can move them and I can feel them.” She said pinching her thigh.

“Okay soo…” Then it donned on me, my mother was paralyzed from her lower waist down after the surgery she had with Lisa a few months ago. “Wait What?!” I yelled getting out of bed.

Slowly she moved herself to the edge of the bed and placed both feet on the ground. She took a deep breath and placed both hands on her knees before leaning forward. The door to my room opened and my father and siblings rushed in. “What’s going on here… What is she doing?” My dad said pointing at my mother and without a second thought my mother pushed herself up and stood up. My father stood dumbfounded as his wife began to slowly step forward. “James… what did you do?”

“I didn’t do anything… I think.” I said. As my mother slowly and wobbly moved forward, I extend my arms out to her, and without realizing it so did my wings extend out to her.

“I knew that we found an angel that day.” My mother said collapsing into my arms. My father gave me a tight hug as well as my brother and sister. My wings wrapping around us all, “Thank you, my little angel.” My mother said hugging me tightly.

In a small apartment complex in Canterlot, Equestria, a group of night ponies returned home to find that one of them was missing.

“Hey Poison, where did you say my sister was going?” Eclipse asked as she put her bags down.

“Well she said she wasn’t feeling well.” Poison responded.

“Did anypony escort her home?” Icy asked.

All of them looked around and shook their heads no, “So where is she?” Raven asked as she sat down in the common room of their apartment.

Suddenly Midnight came running into the common room with a note in her hoof. “She’s gone!” They all gasped.

“What do you mean, gone?” Haze said walking over to her close friend.

“She went after Blaze… she went to Earth!” Belle said lifting the note into the air.

“Wait she went to Earth, by herself. How did she get a travel visa… when did she… Argh! Curse you Dark Morning!” Eclipse yelled.

“Umm. Eclipse, she mentioned one more thing in her letter…” Belle said slowly cowering from Eclipse.

“WHAT!” She yelled.

“That you were in charge until she got back.” Belle said hiding behind a sofa.

Eclipse quickly turned to Midnight Belle and snatched the note from her hoof and began reading it. Then with a calm smile she turned to everypony. “Well it seems I am in charge and though it might be a short time I hope you will all respect me as your leader.” She said smiling while trotting off to her room.

“Wow talk about a mood changer.” Wild Haunt said sitting down on the floor.

As they all stood there in silence, they all looked at each other wondering who of them was going to break the silence by asking a question.

“So why did Morning leave?” Night Star asked Belle.

“Well according to the letter, she thought she could be without him for a few days, but then as the day progressed she realized she missed him too much and there was something she had to ask him.” Belle replied.

“What did she have to ask him?” Poison asked.

“I don’t know, the letter doesn’t say…” Belle said flipping the sheet back and forth.

“You don’t think she’ll…” Silver started to say.

“No she wouldn’t, would she?” Star said.

“This is Capt. Morning we are talking about, she probably will.” Poison said with a confident tone in her voice. “And if she does, I am so going to join them.

“Seriously, Poison?!” Belle asked.

“Yes I am, I mean we are all practically like family now and the last thing I would want is to be left out.” Poison said as she pulled out some potions from her bag. “Plus who else could protect us and care for us like Blaze does… plus I think he would make an excellent father figure.”

“WHAT?!” Everypony said looking at Poison.

Author's Note

Sorry was busy with school, and work... and I got seriously injured.