Evolution of a Gentleman

It was early morning when I awoke on my third day back, the sky was still dark outside but the birds were all awake. Out of habit I walked over to the window and opened it, the smell of wet earth filled my nose. A cool moist breeze blew into my old room, but of course no matter how close it was to Christmas it was almost never cold nowadays in Miami. I gave a slight stretch thinking of all the chores I had to do today. First was grocery shopping with Gav and Red in supermarket and Little Equestria, second getting a tree for the holidays… dad was pessimistic about getting one. Then return home and prepare a meal for some guests… namely my genetic parents. As I looked around the room I felt emptiness inside me, “I wish Morning was here.” I said grabbing some clothes as I headed to the bathroom.

Steam flooded out of the bathroom as I opened the door; it had been too long since I had a shower by myself, it was refreshing. I was already dressed, with a small towel around my neck drying my hair as I headed down stairs into the kitchen. Upon entering the kitchen I saw the fridge door was open and a barely towel covered butt was sticking out from behind it. “Umm… hello?” I said getting my small towel ready for anything.

A small amount of red hair started to poke out from above the fridge door followed by a small voice. “Where is the orange juice? I know I bought one last night… where is it?”

It was Lisa… her butt wiggled as she looked through the fridge. My eyes began to wander and I noticed a plastic bag with an orange juice carton on the counter top behind her. “Lisa, it’s behind you.” I said still towel drying my hair.

“Huh?! How did it get there?” Lisa said as her head popped out from behind the fridge. She turned and closed the door; the towel that wrapped around her body was barely able to maintain itself around her. With a flick of her wrist she opened the carton, put it straight to her lips and began to chug it down. With each swallow of juice her breast bounced, slowly undoing the towel’s tuck, which was the only thing holding the towel around her body.

“Lisa… you may want to adjust your towel…” I said, as water and sweat began to run down my cheeks.

Her lips pulled away from the carton, juice began to trickle off of her lips, down her chin, and down her breast until it collided into her towel. Who would have thought that a single drop of orange juice could be so evil; Lisa’s towel came undone and slowly slipped off her body onto the floor. She looked down smiling and shrugged; she lifted the carton back up to her mouth and began to drink again. Small drops of juice began to escape from the corners of her mouth as she continued to chug her orange juice, the droplets rolling down off her chin and rolling down her body. I could only stare as Lisa stood naked in front of me drinking a carton of orange juice but what else could I do; it was the second time in my life that I had seen a woman naked. Her eyes then looked to me as she pulled the empty carton away from her lips; Lisa turned slowly and walked over to me. Out of habit I began to back up, until I ran out of floor and my back was against a feathery wall. That is when I noticed that my wings had appeared and were fully extended. “Wha… When did…?” I said as I began to panic.

“They’ve been like that for a while now.” Lisa said as her right hand touched the wall behind my head. She was only a few inches away from me; I could feel the heat of her body against me. “So is this some way of telling me that you find me attractive?” She said running her left hand against the inside of my wing.

As I struggled to maintain thought, Morning’s voice entered my head. “This is normal… when pegasi get aroused our wing ‘pomf’ out like this.”

“So my wings are like pegasi wings?” I thought out loud. “Hey Lisa maybe yo…” I was silenced by her lips which were pressing against mine, as well as the rest of her naked body. We stood there alone in the dark as the morning sun was rising, her body and lips pressing down on mine, her tongue invading my mouth as her hands explored under my shirt. A few minutes passed until she pulled away, a strand of saliva kept us connected until its weight torn it apart.

“If you want more, come to my room, if not, just continue what you were doing but I wanted you to know how I feel before you returned back to Equestria, James.” Lisa said as she walked away from me and stopped at her towel on the floor. Slowly she bent over picking it up exposing her southern tight lips to me which were completely moisten and dripping. She then stood back up and looked at me with a smile, before heading back to the guest room.

I had no idea what I would have done under normal circumstances but right now I could not follow Lisa into her room. It would mean giving up what I had; it would be cheating on Morning… and the others. I know it sounds crazy; I have tucked with all the other mares in my unit even after I discovered my feelings for Morning, but I did also have feelings for the others. I went over to the discarded carton on the floor and picked it up before tossing it in the garbage. I walked over to the guest room and placed my hand on the door, “Lisa… Lisa.” The door opened under the weight of my hand, and there laid Lisa, asleep on the bed half covered by a towel. I forced my wings back into a pair of gauntlets and walked over to Lisa. I removed her towel and replaced it with a blanket. She smiled while hugging a pillow and murmuring something. I knelt down and placed a small kiss on her forehead, “Sorry Lisa… I’m in love with somepony else.” As I walked to the door and turned off the lights a sparkles of light shone on her face; what I was unaware of as I walked out of the room was that the sparkles were tears.

As I headed to the front door, my brother Gav showed up. “Hey it will just be us two; Forge had some stuff to take care of today.”

“That’s fine. Now I can ask you all sorts of embarrassing questions about your relationship with a fine mare like her.” I said grinning.

It was on the North Western borders of Miami Lakes that Little Hooves rested, a small district with a huge Equestrian population. It had been a while since I got to hang out with my older brother James; he had been living in another world filled with talking mythological creatures, in the country of Equestria. It was sooo cool to be hanging out with him again, especially since we were in my favorite place. As we walked through Little Hooves I saw a smile on my brother’s face, a natural happy smile. Then he noticed me looking.

“What is it?!” My brother said the smirk still on his face.

“Nothing, it’s just that I haven’t seen you smile like that since you got home.” I said crossing my arms.

“Ohh, yeah. Well it’s because I was thinking how much like home this really felt like.” James said putting his hand into his hoodie’s pockets.

“This feels like home?” I said looking around at everypony that was out on the street walking and trotting around. There were few humans but many… several ponies everywhere, and for a moment my thought fluttered to Red Forge and what she was doing. My nervousness faded, and my heart settled… I was happy, it felt like… “Home.”

“Huh?” James said as we entered the supermarket.

“I… it does feel like home.” I said smiling up at my brother.

It was odd seeing my brother in an Equestrian supermarket, he was talking to everypony finding deals… flirting… and even haggling prices down. Here I thought I was going to be showing off…

It was already 10 in the morning and we had finished all of our shopping, we even went into a griffon owned shop to buy meat… I was always too afraid to enter, but James walked in like nothing; even the griffons in the store were surprised. We stopped at Sugar Barn, a bakery malt shop, to get a snack and talk. As we waited for our shakes and food, my brother began to ask questions.

“So how did you and your marefriend meet?” James asked me.

“Well it was in shop class at school, before she got her Cutie Mark.” I said looking for our waitress.

“What’s bothering you Gav?” He said placing his chin on his thumbs and resting his elbows on the table.

“Nothing, it’s just embarrassing how it all started… I mean… you wouldn’t understand.” I said. I knew my brother; he was cool, awesome, great with the ladies, and was a world class charmer. He probably doesn’t even know…

“Dark Morning is my marefriend’s name; we have been together since I lost my virginity to her which was around the same time I started living in Equestria.” James said interrupting my thoughts.

“Wait… what now!?” I was in shock! Did I just hear something impossible, “You lost your virginity to a…”

“Yes, I did and she lost hers to me, so before we go off topic again, tell me how you and Red Forge met.” James said as he helped the shocked waitress with our drinks.

“It was about 6 months ago…” Gavrill began.

I was in Auto-Shop class and the teacher was pairing us off to work on a project, I was hoping to get paired up with a friend or something but instead I got paired up with Red Forge. At first I was pissed off at the teacher for pairing us off, but the teacher said that we both had the highest grades in the class and pairing us with someone else would only damage our grade.

Lunch followed shop class and I met with my friends at our usual table outside. “Man why did I get stuck with a pony chick?” I said.

“Well, maybe it’s because the teacher knows your brother is in Equestria, so he thought you would be okay with it.” My friend Mark said as he was eating a bag of potato chips.

“So what’s wrong with her being a pony? I think it’s kinda cool that all these ponies are allowed to come to school with us.” Stephanie said as she finished drinking her soda.

“Well of course you wouldn’t care… all these ponies are way too… girly.” I added.

“Girly! Really, that is all you have to say, they are GIRLY?!” Steph said crushing the can in her hand. “Well then, maybe this girl-ly should leave to be with her own kind!” She said tossing the crushed can at me and storming off.

“Really bro! You could have said anything else but you said girly.” Mark said chasing after Steph.

After that I spent the rest of the day thinking what it was that really did bother me about Red Forge… The next day in shop class the teacher told us to work in our pairs to repair an automobile engine. Red Forge and I popped the hood of the Nissan Altima that sat in the garage, and as quickly as I opened it she was already sticking her head in looking at the bolts we needed to unfasten the parts from the car.

“I’ll be right back.” She said walking over to my tool box. As she walked off I placed my hand on the engine feeling the metal out, pulling and stretching to see if the problem lay with any of the metal components of the engine. After a few seconds I found that there was a hole on the underside of the engine exhaust manifold. “A’m aack!”

As I looked up I saw Red Forge with my socket wrench in her mouth and an engine hoist in tow. “Ohh! Let me help you with that.” I said as I quickly ran over and went for the tools in her mouth but she motioned for me to get the hoist. It was then that I noticed several things about this unicorn; one was that she had a small nick on her lower left ear, second was that the black grease looked nice against her copper-orange coat, and third was that while she was pushing the hoist with her flank her tail was high enough that I saw everything.

Grabbing an apron with slot sown in, she tossed it around herself until it hung against her blank flank and tied it off. “Okay so let’s loosen the sucker and see what’s wrong with it… Unless you know what’s wrong with it… ‘cause I already know!” She said with a smug smile on her face.

“I doubt that.” I said grabbing my socket wrench from her apron.

“Really? Okay if you already know, why don’t you tell me?” She said staring me down while grabbing the wrench back.

“No way, if I tell you, you will just agree with me without even trying!” I said yanking the wrench back.

This argument continued for a while, so long in fact that every other student pulled out their engines and was already inside working on them. Then she suggested that we call out our finding at the same time to see who was right.

“Okay on three!” She said and I nodded.

“One!”

“Two!”

“THREE!!! The engine exhaust manifold…” We yelled out together, and for a moment we stood there in shock.

All I could do was ask, “How did…”

“How did you know!?” Red Forge interrupted by pushing me against the car, her hooves on my shoulders and her face less than an inch away from me. And for a moment I was completely turned on by the fact that she was that close to me; she must have noticed because she shyly pulled away from me. “Let’s just get this thing fixed.” Forge said as she began adjusting the crane.

“Yeah sure…” I replied, my heart still pounding from the incident.

A couple of days had passed us by, we had ignored the moment we had shared on the open hood of that car and instead of growing apart we grew closer. We began to hang out after school, and I would walk to and from school with her. We even went over to each other’s houses. After a few days I began to wonder something and if it wasn’t for the other students in our class, I would have never known what was truly hiding in my heart.

“Hey, Gav, come here!” said a classmate of mine. When I walked over I noticed 5 other students walk up behind me. There he showed me a picture on his cell phone taken a few days before, it was of Red Forge pinning me up against the car, though the angle of the picture taken suggested that we were much more than friends. “So here is the deal bro, you help us ace this final test with the cars and we will delete this little picture… You don’t want people to know you’re a pony lover, do you?”

Normally I would react calmly, take my time to think things through, and plan out a good course of action. Nope, not today! Suddenly the phone in front of me shorted out, as well as every phone and electronic device around me; I had released an EMP but I didn’t stop there. Without looking I used my ability to release 3 engines from their cranes dropping them to the floor. I stood there saying nothing, I had snapped… but why did I snapped, was it because they wanted me to do their work, was it because of the picture? Then it hit me, it was because Red Forge, would she be insulted or made fun of as well, and that angered me. Then I realized another thing… I was starting to fall for this mare. I quickly turned and ran out of the room, the other students still in shock at what happened. I was running as fast as I could down the corridor, and that was when I heard a weird noise behind me… it was the sound of horseshoes clopping on the school’s laminated floors.

“GAVRILL!” shouted a familiar female voice from behind me, as I turned I saw a red and orange burl heading right for me. Before it even came into view, I began to speed up. “Why are you running?!” Forge yelled.

“Because you’re chasing!” I replied as I made a quick turn to the stairwell. As I tried to make it up the stairs, Red Forge caught up with me and as she tried to reach out for me, she tripped crashing into me.

“Why are you running away from me?” She said standing over me.

I looked away unable to look her in the eyes, “I don’t know.”

“Don’t give me that!” She said slamming her hooves on the ground next to me, “I overheard the other guys in class about the picture they took… Look, I’m sorry about that day, I didn’t mean to be so aggressive, just come back to class and let’s finish our project.”

“It’s not the picture… it’s… it’s… you wouldn’t understand.” I said still looking away from Red Forge.

Suddenly I felt her face get closer to mine, and then I felt a warm, wet, and flat thing run up my cheek… twice. I turned to catch Red Forge with her tongue sticking out about to lick me a third time. She blushed, “Sorry, I think I understand so I just wanted to make you feel better. So I licked you, but after I licked you the first time I realized that you taste really goo… nice… sorry. You probably want me to go now.”

I grabbed her hoof before she could move away, “You don’t have to stop…” I said looking up at the yellow eyed mare. I can tell you right now, I could never have guessed what was going to happen next. Red Forge lowered her head to lick me again but this time as she ran her tongue over my chin and then over my lips, I licked back. For the next few minute or so we were focused on exploring each other’s mouth, my hands running up and down her underside as her waist began to lower. Then suddenly the first lunch bell went off snapping us back into reality, the sudden surprise caused me to use my mutant powers causing the lights to go off. Slowly Red Forge and I parted lips, her lips still feeling the release of magnetic waves from my body when the bell scared us.

“What did you do?” She asked as we both stood up and began to head back to class to get our stuff. As we began to finish working on the engine I explained to Red Forge everything about mutants, what they were to each other, other humans and the world. At the end of everything she looked at me and said something I would never forget, “I would never hate you because you were different… I mean, we are different, aren’t we.” She said holding a hoof to my hand. As we continued to work on the engine I noticed a musky smell coming from Red Forge but since I knew almost nothing about ponies, I ignored it.

We returned to shop class after school to finishing working on the engine, I lost track of time talking with Red as we worked. It was 7 o’clock in the evening when we finished; without the use of the crane me and Red Forge lowered and installed the engine. I wiped my brow with a rag and noticed a smudge on Red Forge’s flank; without thinking I wiped it off to discover an anvil and hammer on her flank. “Hey Red… did you always have this thing here?” I asked looking down at her cutie mark.

“That’s my Cutie Mark! I have a CUTIE MARK!” Red yelled hopping around me, she then started shaking her flank at me and for a moment I caught a glimpse of her marehood. I quickly looked away turning red with embarrassment. “Gavrill, what’s wrong?” The orange mane unicorn said getting closer.

“Umm, would you mind not jumping around like that… It’s umm, yeah.” I said, still looking away. I should not have been looking away; I could feel Red Forge getting closer then I felt her tongue on my neck. “Red, what are you… ugh.”

“You saw it, didn’t you?” Red said placing a hoof on my stomach as I nodded. “Well then, I think you need a better view!”

Red Forge suddenly forced me down and rather than placing her lips on mine, her face began to nuzzle into the crouch of my pants. “Red, what are you mmpghhh!”

“I’m sorry Gav… but I really need this right now.” As I tried to fight her off, her marehood pressed down against my face, her juices flooding down over my face, the musky smell now smothering my nose. Suddenly my member was freed from my pants and then engulfed by a warm, wet and tight sensation. The more I started to fight against her, the more I started to give in; instead of trying to push her off my face I found myself pushing my tongue deeper into her.

As I started to get into it she quickly pulled away and once again we were face to face; her tongue lapping over my face. “Why… wha…mmpghh. Forge’s tongue slipped back into my mouth, her hips lower over mine. I could feel my member slip into Red Forge’s wet, hot, and tight hole. We both let out a moan and as soon as I was all the way into her, Red Forge began moving her hips, back and forth at first, then up and down. She pulled her lips away, “Red, this is too much…”

“I’m sorry, Gav… ahhhh, it’s that time of the month… ahhhhh! I couldn’t help it, I couldn’t… ahhhh, couldn’t help taking you into me, Gav! Oh, Celestia!” Red Forge said as drool began dripping out of her mouth.

“We were ‘tucking’ for the rest of the evening… Later she told me about how all ponies go into an uncontrollable heat thingy and how sometimes they can’t control themselves.” I told my brother. My brother James just sat there, a straw hanging out of his mouth. “Umm, what?”

“Umm, nothing Gavrill, it… that was a very descriptive story. Also that means she was a skipper.” My brother James said pulling the straw out of his mouth. Looking at his watch my brother stood up, “Time to go!”

“Umm sure… What’s a skipper?” I said grabbing my bags and heading to the exit.

“Well, it’s a pony that ignores that phases a few times, and then becomes insatiable.” My brother said. “Hey, Gav?”

“What?” I asked.

“You’re a pervert.” James said giving me a nudge.

It was the middle of the afternoon when I returned home, my mother was slowly walking around the house trying to get used to walking again and Lisa was busy freaking out. It took me awhile to realize it, but the red glow that my wings gave off is my healing ability expanding. This explains why Morning has been waking up more refreshed every… night. My body was still going through some changes after the incident in the Northern Region near the Crystal Empire and the potions Poison Heart and Dark Eclipse force fed me for a couple of days. Currently I was sitting on the roof outside my window that faced the yard and I was busy preening myself as Cloud Chaser had taught me. Sadly, no pony on my team had feathered wings so none of them could teach me how to do it properly.

“James, dear, where are you?” My mother called from the yard.

“Up here, Mom!” I yelled waving my hand.

My mother turned around and tilted her head at me. “What are you doing?”

“Preening my wings… I think. Why, what’s up? I asked.

“I could use your help in the kitchen; I still haven’t gotten used to the fact that you became a vegetarian.” She said placing her hands on her hips.

“I am not vegetarian… it’s just I don’t want to eat something I know can talk in a parallel world…” I said as I gave a slight grin, and then spread opened and stretched out my wings, flapping them to straighten out any loose feathers. Tilting forward I rolled off the roof and glided down onto the yard. “Tada!” I said after landing on the ground. My mother walked up behind me with a smile and smacked me in the back of the head.

“Don’t scare me like that, child, I didn’t know you could use those wings. Now get inside and put those away, your pare… the Williamsons are coming over tonight.” My mother said forcing herself to smile.

I stood up and patted my short mother on the head. “Don’t worry, you are my real mother, no matter what. Okay?” I said trying to comfort her.

My mother let out a sigh as we walked inside and into the kitchen. I gave a light stretch forcing my wings away and my gauntlets to appear wrapped around my hands. When my eyes came back into focus I saw my brother Gav and his marefriend Red Forge in the kitchen. “What’s up, you two?”

“Gavy told me what you did for us the other day and I wanted to say thank you…” She quickly tilted her head down. “Thank you!”

“What… No! No need to thank me, I know what it is like to live different…ly…? Also I am sorry you had to go through all that.” I said as I headed over to the sink to wash my hands.

“It’s no problem… I get yelled at all the time…” Red said, Gav knelt down to give her a consoling hug.

“Well Red, to make up for it, why don’t you stay for dinner?” I said as I grabbed a head of lettuce.

“No, it’s okay, I really don’t like me…” Red started to say as I pulled some white lilies into the sink. “What is with the flowers?”

“Well I have been living in Equestria for a while now… so I kind of stopped eating meat. I became plant oriented. I don’t eat the flowers but I am used to shopping and cooking with them so it would be a great help if you did join us for dinner.” I said smiling while washing the rest of the fruits and vegetables that I had purchased that day.

A large smile ran across her face, “Sure, I would love to stay for dinner!” She said hopping on place, my brother getting knocked over. “Gavy! I am so sorry.” She grabbed Gav’s hand with her hoofs and helped him up.

My father walked into the kitchen as Red was helping Gav to his feet. He then looked at Red; she turned away from his eyes. “Once again, Miss Forge, I am sorry for my behavior and rude tongue the other day.” Red gave a shy smile but was still too hurt from his words the other day that she could not look at him.

Suddenly my mother clapped her hands twice. “Okay, if you’re not helping in the kitchen, get out!” She yelled pushing my father out of the kitchen.

“Hey, Gav, come here!” I said turning off the sink and drying my hands.

“Yeah, what is it?” He said walking up to me.

I grabbed him by the shoulder and began to whisper. “Is Red still in heat?”

“How did you?” He said, before I gave him the big brother stare. “Yes.”

I reached into my pocket and pulled out a small vial with glowing golden fluid inside. “Drink this next time she feels the urge…. Oh! And lock the door and play loud music.”

“What is this stuff?” He asked.

“Something my other human co-workers drink for the job.” I said. “It ummm… gives extra endurance…”

“Really?! Cause I find it kind of hard to keep up with her when she is in heat.” He added.

“Yeah I know, alright now get out of here, the both of you. I got some cooking to do!” I said taking out the cutting board and a knife.

A few hours of being in the kitchen reminded me how convenient electricity really was. When I would return to Canterlot I was going to splurge on those solar panels for the apartment. Maybe I even take my laptop, projector and some movie; Morning would love that… I stopped cleaning some of the dishes we used and looked out the window. I looked at the sky as the last ray of sunset lit up the horizon and the dark night began to settle in. Surprisingly enough the moon was always visible in the sky here in Miami, but it was only at night that it appeared to be closer to the earth. I stood looking out the window for about half an hour, my mother going on in the kitchen like I wasn’t there, my family doing the things they normally did. It wasn’t until the stars showed up that I became a little homesick, 3 stars appeared next to the almost full moon… It reminded me of somepony, “I miss Dark Morning.”

My mother turned to me as she began to pull some hams out of the stove, “What was that, honey?”

“Nothing, Mom, let me help you with that.” I said walking over to her.

“I hope I made enough… do you think it’s enough?” My mother asked.

I looked down at the kitchen counter; several large plates and bowls of food sat there, steaming. “Yes mom, now stop before we all have to go into hibernation.”

“Hiberna… Hahaha! Oh my goodness… that was funny.” My mother said grabbing onto my shoulder as she laughed.

“Umm it wasn’t that funny…” I said as my mother continued to laugh. Then tears started to run down her face as she laughed.

“I’m sorry, honey, it’s just we all missed you and everything started to go downhill after you left for college. Now you showed up…” My mother said walking to the living room door and cracking it slightly open. “and like magic you fixed everything like you used to. Your sister, brother and his little pony friend, and your dad are setting up the Christmas tree… smiling and laughing. I am walking around the house again thanks to you, and the house is filled with happiness… I don’t know. Do you understand what I am trying to say?”

“Mom… there’s nothing special about me... I’m just a normal guy with creepy constantly changing mutant abilities.” I said gripping the door as my sister ran past me into the kitchen.

My mother wrapped her arms around me and gave me a big tight hug. “You are special and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.” She pulled away and pointed a finger at me, “This goes for you, too.”

“Okay mom.” I said as my sister ran past me, tripping on the door frame while carrying several knives and forks.

The utensils took flight out from underneath my younger sister and then landed perfectly set on the table. I looked over to my brother Gav, his hand fully extended and a sharp look of focus in his eyes.

“Nice focus, Gav!” I said grabbing my younger sister off the ground by her pants. “You okay, small fry?” I said as I put little Yuli down.

“I’m fine.” She answered with a nod.

“Oh no… not you too, Gavrill, I am so sorry.” My mother said while sighing.

“I’m not!” My brother exclaimed. “This is one of the best things that have ever happened to me. I am like you and James… it makes me feel more like a family. So I can manipulate metal, do you know how convenient that is?” Then Gavrill walked over to Forge, “Also it goes perfectly with her Cutie Mark since it is her special talent, too.”

“Yeah, working over metal…” Red Forge said, her cheeks lightly blushing.

“So when are these guys going to show up?” I said looking over to my mother.

“Well they said around 7 in the evening and it’s about…” My mother looked up at the clock in the kitchen, “Well 7 o’clock, so they should be here…” No later than my mother mentioned the time did the doorbell ring.

“I’ll get it!” My younger sister yelled. As my sister ran over to the door I detached my gauntlets and had them float into my room upstairs. As I looked over myself, nothing looked out of place, I looked as normal as one human could. My sister opened the door and was shocked to find a girl of her age at the door, “Umm hello? Are you the Williamsons?”

“Yes we are and is this the Miss-ken residence?” said an older familiar female voice.

“It’s Mishkin and yes it is.” My mother said as she walked to the door and invited our guests in. As they walked in my mother introduced everyone, “This is my husband Ivan.” She said as she pointed to a very well built muscular older man. “My sons James and Gavrill…” My brother and I nodded, “and this is my youngest daughter Yuliya…” Looking around, my mother then pointed to a tall redhead, “This is a family friend Lisa…” and then pointing to the young orange coated mare, “and this is Gavrill’s girlfriend Red Forge.”

The woman, my genetic mother, had a slight look of disgust when she saw me, and the pony in the room. My genetic father wore a smile on the entire time, and the little girl they had brought with them only had a look of curiosity, “So what is your name?” said the little girl.

“Oh forgive me, my name is Nonna… and what is your name?” My mother asked.

“My name is Sarah, and this is my mother and father… ummm… Monique and Alexander.” Sarah said looking up at her parents.
//I switched those names so they are in the same order like “mother and father”//

We all exchanged greetings and then moved over to the dining area to eat, “Dinner will be served soon!” My mother said.

As we all sat down, Sarah sat next to me, “So you are my brother, right?” She asked, I nodded trying not to focus on the looks my genetic parents were giving me. “Sooo, are you a mutant?”

“SARAH!” Monique yelled, “I told you not to ask or even talk about that!”

“Honey, calm down, we are guest here, and you told Sarah it was okay to ask her brother anything. So calm down…” Alexander said grabbing his wife’s hand.

“But look, they even have a po…” Monique’s voice was silenced by Alexander covering it up with his hand.

“We will talk about that later at home… okay?” Alexander said getting a small nod of agreement from Monique.

The entire table sat in silence before Sarah spoke up again, “I heard that you can heal yourself, is that true?”

Slowly I began to speak, something I avoided doing since these people entered the house, “Yes… I can heal or regenerate from any wound or injury… why do you ask, do you know any mutants?”

Sarah shook her head, “No, I go to a private school, where they don’t allow mutants into… so I heard you also have other mutant abilities, is that true?”

Who the hell was this brat and where did she get all this information? I thought to myself as I began to eat my cauliflower and broccoli. “They have a tendency to change on me, yeah.” I said and then began stuffing my mouth with food.

“Umm, aren’t you going to eat any meat?” Sarah asked with a confused look on her face.

“Meat? Nah, I stopped eating that a while ago… forced to. I live in a place where eating meat isn’t a good thing.” I said looking over to Red Forge.

“Where?”

I looked over to this young girl, who was probably about 14 or 15 and I sighed. “You are a curious one, aren’t you? …I live in Equestria, in Canterlot…” Suddenly I heard a pair of utensils fall, and Sarah’s eyes opened wide.

“You live with ponies?” She asked almost falling out of her chair.

“He lives in that horrible place?” Monique yelled out to my parents, “What is wrong with you people? Aren’t there monsters and other creatures there; they could kill him.”

“Honey…” Alexander spoke as he tried to calm his wife.

“NO!” She yelled at Alex, “It’s one thing that they have one at the table, but our boy is living in a place full of those freaks! What kind of parents are you?”

My mother and father almost exploded at this woman’s accusations of their character until I spoke, “The kind that doesn’t abandon their children in the middle of the street.” I said calmly eating my vegetables. Suddenly the phone rang, “Excuse me.” I said slowly walking into the kitchen to answer the phone.

“Hello, Mishkin residence.” I answered.

“Ummm, is this how you use this thing?” said a female voice on the phone.

“No, no, no! Talk into that end, and listen on that… like this.” said another female voice.

“Hello? Hello?”

“Hello, Mishkin residence, can I help you?” I said slightly agitated, but somehow confused; the voice sounded way too familiar.

“OH, Hello… is Blaz… I mean James, is James there?’

“No way… Morning is that you?” I said completely surprised.

“Oh Luna’s Stars, it is you…” The voice said followed by cries. “I have been lost all day in this Miami International Airport place… Then I found this mare… who I asked for directions… and she said she met you… and then…” The phone was pulled away.

“Morning, MORNING?!” I said beginning to panic.

“She is fine, it’s me, Parchment… from the airport.”

“Ms. Pride, how are you? Is Morning really okay?” I asked catching my breath.

“She’s fine, just a little shaken up. Would you mind coming down to the airport and picking up Ms. Morning? I am sure we don’t want her getting lost. Just come to the drop off zone when you first enter the airport, we will be waiting for you there.” She said.

“Sure, I’ll be right there, okay, and thank you very much!” I said.

“No problem, good bye!” Parchment said before hanging up.

I quickly hung up the phone and grabbed my mother’s keys from the key rack, “Mom! I’ll be back.”

“Huh?! Where are you going?” My mother asked.

“The airport!” I yelled as I quickly headed out the door.

“Wow, whatever it is, it must be important.” My father said.

I was five minutes from the airport, driving my mother’s mini-van, hundreds of thoughts running through my head, thousands of things I wanted to know, but only one thing I wanted to say… maybe two. I turned off the expressway and into the airport; traffic was bad, but it always was. Suddenly I spotted two familiar ponies waiting in the drop-off zone, a brown coated pony trying to comfort a white coated pony. I pulled up and Parchment quickly noticed me, pointing me out to Morning. Morning quickly grabbed her satchel and walked over to the car with Parchment.

Parchment opened the door for Morning and gestured her in, “Okay, just climb right inside, I think Blaze knows what to do. Quickly now, don’t block traffic.” Parchment said closing the door behind Morning.

I put Morning’s satchel in the back row, and helped her into the middle row and buckled her in with the safety belt. As I did so, she gave me a tight hug. “I missed you, Blaze… I was so scared.”

“I missed you too.” I said hugging her back.

Morning gave me a quick lick on the cheek as I finished strapping her in, and waved good-bye to Parchment as we drove off; she stood there, vanishing into the distance.

“So your world is very loud… and bright… and I am completely scared right now.” Morning said closing her eyes as a pair of headlights drove past us. “How can you be so calm controlling this thing?!”

“It’s not that bad…” I looked over to Morning who looked like she was having a panic attack. I reached back placing my hand on her head. “Just calm down and give me a few minutes…”

“Okay…” Morning said still shaking under my hand.

We drove north on the expressway, exited on 103rd NW and continued east until I arrived at a Dairy Queen. I turned off the car and walked over to the passenger side door. I slid the door open, unbuckled Morning and helped her out of the mini-van. “Slowly now…”

“Where are we?” Morning asked looking at the big red bright sign.

“We’re going to get ice cream.” I said looking over at Morning. Suddenly her ears perked up and she trotted in place excitedly.

After a few moments of being inside we were back outside, sitting in the last two rows of the mini-van, well Morning was laying on the middle row; each of us eating a Blizzard. “So wait, your real parents showed up?”

“Yep!” I said eating another spoonful of cookie dough, vanilla ice cream.

“Wow… just wow… why?” Morning said diving into her cup of strawberry granola ice cream. Suddenly her face popped as she pulled out of her cup, “Are you really okay with them being there right now? Without you?”

“Hey, when I am good and ready, I will go back… also when you are relaxed enough… what are you doing?” I said glancing at Morning as she got closer to me.

“Umm… this?” Morning pulled my cup away finishing my Blizzard, a smile on her face.

“Hey?!” I quickly turned to get my cup back when my lips ran into hers.

“Thanks… for the ice cream… and calming me down… and always thinking of me and everything else.” Morning said as she pulled away.

“You’re welcome.” I said as I rested my forehead against hers, “And thank you for loving me back.”

A few minutes went by as we just rested against each other like that; then my mother’s cell phone went off from the cup holder in the front seat. Morning looked right at it, “What is that?”

“Phone.” I looked at the caller ID, it was my father’s number. I answered the phone by sliding my finger across the screen, Morning completely focused on my actions as I put the phone to my ear. “Hello?”

“James, where are you? Will you be home soon? Did you answer the phone while driving… you shouldn’t do that, it’s against the law now. Is everything okay? Did…”

I interrupted my mother, “MOM! Everything is fine; I had to pick up an important somepony from the airport. She got scared so I pulled over to let her calm down.”

“Hello, Bla… James’s mother.” Morning yelled at the phone.

“Is that her?” My mother questioned. “Oh let me say hi!”

I sighed and put the phone on speaker in front of Morning, “Okay, why don’t you two talk while I drive us home.” The two started chatting immediately; I carefully strapped Morning into the middle row and closed the sliding door. I was originally thinking of taking Morning to a park and letting her fly around to relieve her nerves, but I think that talking to my mom was something that made her feel better. I managed to drive back onto the expressway and all the way home while the two talked, mainly about me. I remember a few times I had to yell back to the two when it came to certain topics.