Scratching Family Matters

A deep purple pegasus was flying back to his home in Ponyville. His deep colored body blended perfectly with Luna's night. There was only one way you could tell that he was flying is if you saw his main and tail, it was bright red with only one cyan stripe. When he had finally reached his house he immediately went straight to his bedroom, and fell face forward on his mattress. 'God, today was rough. My boss is really laying it on.' He thought 'Man am I glad that I don't have work tomorrow.' He let out a deep sigh.

*5 minutes later*

Just as he was about to fall into a deep sleep, he heard 3 loud bangs on his door. "Who the hell comes knocking on ponies' doors at this time of night" He sleepily walked over to his door "What do you want?" he said as he opened his door.

"Hi, brother" the unicorn said.

The purple pegasus's pupils dilated and he became fully awake. "No, no, no, not you.." He looked down at the unicorn "What do you want?!" He said with anger while holding back a tear. He saw a once marvelous neon blue main that seemed to shine, now torn and dirt covered it.

'Is that blood?!' he thought as he saw the once sleek white coat, now covered in dirt and what looked like blood. "WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" now fully yelling. "I TOLD YOU TO NEVER TO COME HERE AGAIN!"

"FireFight," -Said the mare- "I..I'm sorry"

"SORRY ISN'T GOING TO CUT IT!" FireFight said "SORRY ISN'T GOING TO MAKE IT BETTER, VINYL!" By this time half of the town was awake, seeing what all the commotion was about

"Fiery, please." pleated Vinyl

He flinched when Vinyl called him that name "No, no, I can't" He stopped yelling, then shed one tear "I can't forgive you for what you did."

At that point he slammed the door in Vinyl's face. Then he slowly walked to his room.

"What the hell was that about?!" Frantically asked his roommate, she never saw FireFight this angry...

"It's nothing of your concern Spitfire, just go back to bed..."

The fiery mare opened her mouth to say something, but then decided to not argue with FireFight, so she went upstairs to her room and went back to bed.

*The next morning*

Fire walked into the kitchen to see Spitfire cooking. 'Ugh, just great, she is going to make me tell her about last night..' he thought  'Thats the last thing I want right now...' he sat down at the table.

"So..." Spitfire said trying to start a conversation, she sat down at the table. "Might as well cut the bullshit, who was the mare at the door, and why were you yelling at her?"

"Family matters"

"That's a bullshit answer, and you know it." She said shortly and sharply.

Firefight knew it was pointless to fight Spitfire "You caught me. That was my lil' sis, some....thing happened between us and I want nothing to do with her."

"Does it have to do with...you know..." she gestured to his right eye, which had heavy gauze surrounding it.

".....yes...." He slowly raised his hoof to his eye....

Vinyl slowly walked away from his brother's house crying. 'I thought I could at least do something right with my life'. Vinyl's mind wandered throughout the last few years. She had been to many towns applying at any place that had music involved in the job. Waitress at a bar, always singing at open mic nights. None of it went well. "Get off the stage!" "My Grandmother can sing better than you!" "You'll never make it in the real world, so why don't you give up now!?" No one wanted her, everypony hated her, even her own brother wanted nothing to do with her.

She let her memory wander, back to her early childhood. "But Mom!" whined a white unicorn filly "Why does Fiery get to buy a pet?!"

"Firefight gets to buy a pet because he has saved up his bits and he has shown responsibility that he can take care of a pet"  a blood red unicorn mare with a deep purple mare replied calmly "Until you have shown that you can take care of a pet, I'm not buying you a turtle. No matter how much you whine, and that's final."

"But..but...but mom-"

"No buts Vinyl" she interrupted  "Ah here comes Firefight, lets see what he got!" she smiled to her filly

"Hey mom I need some of your help carrying a tank that I just bought" he smiled innocently but behind that smile was a mischievous grin.

"Sure honey" she smiled "What did you get, a fish?"

He turned and smiled mischievously to his sister. "No not a fish"

Vinyl giggled as she was piecing together what he had bought, she whispered "You didn't." she saw the mischief in his eye.

"Oh yes I did. I bought the one thing that mom hates, and I love." He grinned "A snake"

"GAHH!"

"That's my que" he ran towards his mother "What is it mother?"

"S-s-snake!" she looked at her son "No..you...didn't." she saw her son's face "Great, now we have a snake in the family."

Right then Vinyl and Fire burst into laughter and fell on the floor

Vinyl then snapped back into reality. She realised she was crying. "I'm sorry Fiery, I'm deeply sorry."