A Fathers Love

It was relatively a quiet day in Ponyville. Everypony was going about their business. Lyra sat on a bench, playing her lyre. Carrot Top stood in the market place, selling some carrots, Pinkie Pie hopped around town, greeting everypony she saw, and Derpy flew around after Rainbow Dash, copying her moves in an attempt to clear the sky of unnecessary clouds. So, everything in Ponyville was in a peaceful state…

That is until a loud yell came from one of the supposed empty houses.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” A male earth pony screamed as a few large boxes stacked on each other fell onto him. The earth pony poked his head out of the pile and proceeded to free his black grey body of its box prison and tossing back his black and yellow mane, sighing as he did so.

“Bumble Blitz, will you ever stop hurting yourself?” he scolded himself. With a sigh, he went back to work. “I hate moving” he said to himself as he tried to stack the boxes back up, only to have the top box burst open and bury him in a pile of toys.

“MFHRGGGLFUH!” Bumble managed to shout under the mountain of toys. At this, a young green and orange filly with a red and neon green mane ran down stairs and stopped in front of the pile. She fluttered her small leathery wings anxiously.

“Did you call me, daddy?” she asked bubbly. At this, Bumble poked his head out of the mound of toys, shaking them from his mane. The little filly giggled and stared at her father with mischievous eyes.

“Yes, Pastel.” Bumble Blitz let out a sigh as he stood up, stepping out of the pile of toys. “Mind helping your daddy out?”

Pastel smiled and nodded. All of a sudden, she felt her mane shift, and her partner in crime poked his head out and jumped in the pile. Bumble smiled, presently. But a few moments later, he felt a bite on his rump and shot up in the air. The little ferret sat on his rump, and smiled up at him innocently. Pastel giggled at this, “Thanks for helping me get daddy, Barnaby!”

Bumble, now with a pain in his rump grumbled as he turned to his daughter and her furry companion.

“Thank you for helping, Pastel Dream…” he then glared at the ferret that bit his rump. Pastel stared at her father with sweet eyes, and then she looked at her pet ferret.

“Didn’t he help, too?” Bumble looked at his daughter, then back to Barnaby. He couldn’t understand how Barnaby had helped this situation at all, but he might as well say thanks anyway.

“…Thank you too, Barnaby” The earth pony said with a sigh. The ferret simply climbed onto his owner’s head as she saluted her father.

“Anytime, daddy! Need any more help?” asked Pastel, staring up at her father expectantly.

Bumble looked at the boxes, which, as though to challenge him they fell apart and spread their contents all over the floor. Bumble let out a small chuckle and rolled his eyes. “Yes, I think help would be nice. And afterwards, we’ll go look around town and see what our new home needs.”

Pastel tackled the mound of various items and started placing them around the house, squealing the entire time. “Yay! We get too look around! Maybe I’ll make friends!! Maybe daddy will make friends!! Maybe I’ll get CANDY!!!!!!!”

Bumble laughed at his daughter’s enthusiasm but silently promised his little ball of energy shouldn’t get any more sugar today. Or tomorrow, for that matter.

“Daddy, where’s the glue?”

On second thought…maybe the whole month. Bumble pondered this, smiling slightly. But he was interrupted by his daughter’s words:

“Daddy, I think I got Barnaby glued to the table…again.”

Make that two months.

---Later that afternoon--

“But daddy! I was a big help!” Pastel whined as she walked through town with her father. Bumble sighed and shook his head, not looking at his daughter.

“Tell that to the bare patches in your little buddy’s fur.” she just pouted with her ferret tucked safely in her mane. He gained some bald spots from the glue. Pastel pondered a few things:

One: It wasn’t fair she didn’t get sweets! It was Barnaby’s fault for sticking himself to the table. (In Pastel’s opinion, of course.)

And two: Would she meet anypony interesting on her walk today? She’d have to wait and see.

Pastel walked alongside her father as they toured the various market stalls, they were greeted by several friendly “Hellos” and even some free samples!  As they walked along Pastel received some questions and even some compliments about her wings.  Pastel thought to herself what nice ponies they all were, she had never had this much fun at the market back home and nopony apart from daddy had ever been so nice about her wings before. Pastel felt happy, she spread out her featherless wings to catch the warm sunlight, something she had never dared to do in public before.

As Pastel walked along, she saw three fillies. One was a white Unicorn, with a purple and pink mane. The other was a Pegasus filly, who was bright orange and had a magenta mane. The last one was an earth pony, she was cream colored and had a red mane with a cute bow in it. Pastel stopped to wave to the fillies. They smiled and waved back, then got back to their conversation.

Pastel was happy! These fillies seemed nice; perhaps they would meet up again! Just then, a smiling cream colored earth pony trotted by Bumble Blitz and Pastel. She had a curly pink and blue mane, and had three small candies as her cutie mark. Then Pastel remembered how badly she wanted candy, and frowned.

Then, Pastel saw a store that sold something even better than candy…dresses! As she and Bumble walked up to the building, and entered, they heard a regal voice come from the back.

“Welcome to Carousel Boutique! Where everything is sheik, unique, and magnifique!” a beautiful unicorn mare with a pure white coat and a curly purple mane walked out of the back closet. A pink pony with an even pinker frizzy mane followed behind her.

“Hello!” Bumble said, sticking out his hoof. “I’m Bumble Blitz. This is my daughter, Pastel Dr--” he was cut off by the pink mare who was now inches from both of them.

“HELLO, BUMBLE BLITZ! I'M PINKIE PIE! YOU MUST BE NEW TO PONYVILLE I KNOW VERYPONY IN PONYVILLE AND OMYGOSH I SHOULD THROW YOU A PARTY AND THERE COULD BE LOTS OF SINGING ANDDANCING AND MGFHH!!” at this, the white mare used magic to zip her friend’s lip.  Pinkie Pie looked at the zipper over her lips and groaned.

“Really now, Pinkie! Be more polite!” the Unicorn pranced up to Pinkie and whispered in her ear, “They may be new but don’t scare away potential customers!” She then turned to Pastel and her father and greeted them

“Hello! I am Rarity, and welcome to my boutique! …How may I help a handsome stallion and his lovely daughter?”

Pinkie Pie was looking at the two with a zipped smile -- Pastel made a mental note to stay ten feet from this crazy mare at all times.

“Aha,” Bumble cleared his throat. As I mentioned before, I’m Bumble Blitz and this is my daughter Pastel Dream.” He looked at his daughter and nodded. “I was wondering if you would sell me some gems. And if not, could you tell me where I could get some?”

Rarity gave him a confused look. “Dear…eh, I sell dresses. Not gems. I put gems ON the dresses. I do have gems but I don’t normally sell them, may I ask what they are for?”

Pastel was now bored of this conversation and decided to look around the shop. It was fun looking at all the pretty dresses until she saw an emerald, her favorite gem sitting next to an unfinished dress.

“Maybe Rarity won’t miss one gem. SNACK TIME!” at this, Pastel snatched up the gem and ate it.

“Pastel! We’re leaving! The furniture should be delivered to the house right about now!” Bumble called from the front room. Pastel trotted up to her father and smiled they said their goodbyes to Rarity, who had agreed to give them a few gems each month free of charge!

As Rarity went back to her newest creation, she talked to herself. “Such a nice stallion and his daughter is so cute! I can’t wait to make dresses for her, now back to work. Er…where did the emerald go?”

--That night…--

After a hard day of telling her father where all her toys and furniture should go in her room, Pastel was fast asleep. Bumble smiled as he watched his daughter sleep. He reviewed his whole day in his mind. What fun him and his daughter had!

With a yawn, Bumble Blitz went to his room and laid down in his bed. “Well, tomorrow we have the whole day to really look around town.” The gray pony paused, and stared at the ceiling.

“I hope that stupid ferret doesn’t bite me again.”

After he said that, a book fell of a shelf and hit him in the face. “OW!” he pushed the book off him and rubbed his nose, glancing up. He saw the furry terror jump off the ledge and leave the room. he grumbled to himself and turned over in bed. He mumbled to himself.

“Barnaby, one. Bumble Blitz, zero.”