Equestria Dark: Tales of a New Appleloosan Stallion Water Salespony

Written by VelvetHeart

"Mom! Help!" The tight little cry in Mizzle's voice sent a shock of terror through Silver Lining's spine. With her wings spread wide, she shot through the hallways of the herd's house, coming to a skidding halt outsize her little herddaughter's home.

When she saw what was happening inside, her heart quickly dropped back where it belonged: Rumble lay on his belly, his forelegs clamped tightly around his little sister whom he had pressed firmly to his chest. His mouth slowly and delicately worked along the little tufts of downy wingfeathers protruding from Mizzle's back.

"Don't worry, Mizzle. Just hold on a little bit longer. Momma's needs to get something." Silver Lining's words brought a hopeful, shiny-eyed look to Mizzle's features...

...which promptly collapsed into a resigned dismay as she saw what her mother had gone to fetch.

*click*

The photo of Rumble's First Display of Paternal Instinct joined the others in the increasingly-stuffed photo album, right along Rumble's First Steps, Rumble's First Erection and pretty much every single picture they'd managed to cram into the day he was first Stallioned.

The infamous Rumble's First Serious Illness luckily remained undocumented, as it had reduced more than one of the herd's mares to tearfully pleading Luna not to take their little colt away as the ambulance-carriage sped off.

The time when they discovered Rumble had been faking it all to get out from under an exam had been dubbed P-day, after what occurred when the little colt saw a herd of enraged mares charging at him en-masse.