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// A unicorn with wings. 
// Story: A loving Family 
// by Lethrael 
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A unicorn with wings.

They were staring at him. They were staring over his blue coat, right into his big emerald eyes and at his smooth aquamarine mane with the little ponytail. The lucky ponytail from daddy Gentle Light. He had done it to bring him good luck for his first day of school. 
The little colt sighed nervously and pranced on the spot. He put on a smile, as he was supposed too. But as he saw, what the other pupils did, his smile faded away. One part of them were smirking, the other part were looking confused and the last part were simply whispering to each other. Even Ms. Cheerilee was just staring at him. Was it so wrong, what he had said?
He pressed the wings firmly against himself in a failed attempt to feel comfortable again. But it simply couldn't comfort him, his ears drooped against his head first and flapped nervously then .
Two fillies in the first row were putting their heads together and one of them, an orange pegasus pointed at him with one hoof. Cheerilee was finally able to put herself together and cleared her throat as loud as she could to silence the class again. She laid her hoof on the little foals side and smiled strangely.
“Alright, Slight Hope. I think it's enough to introduce yourself, don't you think?
Please sit down in the first row beside Sweetie Belle, do you?”
She pointed out the next free desk aside the white unicorn. He nodded slowly and hesitantly and sneaked out to the place. All foals were still staring at him and he could feel every eye of the room on his back, as he sat down. So he ducked down on the desk and laid his face behind his fore hooves.
What was so wrong with it?
He looked down at the desk, until the white unicorn got his attention with a gentle poke. Her smile was almost a smirk, but as she cocked her head, she put on a real one.
“If you want to you can stay with me and my friends during recess.”
He nodded as fast as he could and the filly grinned gently, as she turned over to the starring pegasus. First she tried to get her attention with another poke, but she didn't respond. Finally she stretched her neck to her and whispered directly into her ear. This grabbed Ms. Cheerilees attention easily .
“Sweetie Belle, come to the board please and solve this problem, would you?”
The unicorn sighed, but followed the order. Her pegasus friend snapped back and looked to the board. Slight eavesdropped many other whispering behind him and the eyes on his back hadn't moved away. He wanted to be invisible, he wanted it very badly and. A ball of paper hit his back head and he turned over with a small shriek.
“Slight pay attention please.”
He blushed and faced Cheerilee again. She looked over him and smiled. Her eyes were wandering over the ground behind him, facing every whispering foal and ending finally on the loudest two.
“Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon are you listening?”
Both fillies fell silence and faced the teacher. But both glanced shortly to Slight and smirked again. He looked back to the board and put a pen in his mouth. The rest of the lesson went fast, but the eyes in his back didn't move away and a few crumbled balls of paper hit him now an then, but he tried to ignore them. He had to pay attention, if he want to catch up.The bell rung at least and the colt stood up. He searched for his lunch box in the deeps of the saddle bags. Somepony bumped into him and he almost felt over, but he was able to make way for the other pony. It didn't passed him, it tried to push him again, but a hissed sentence sounded behind him.
“Hey, Diamond Tiara stop it!”
It finally stopped the pushing back and forth and he was able to lift his head out from under the desk with his lunch box in his mouth. A small lump stuck in his throat and he had to snuffle to fight back a few tears. He wiped them away with a stroke of his wings and somepony laid a hoof around him.
“Are you alright?
Don't bother 'bout it, okay?”
This was a very gentle voice and he tried to nod again. The hoof lifted his head and he looked into big gamboge eyes in a yellow face. They were shining so gentle and friendly.  He closed his eyes shut and felt an encouraging thump on his side.
“You know, Slight. I don't believe you. It sounds too silly for me.”
The colt opened his mouth and eyes surprised , but the orange pegasusfilly grinned at him.
“Scootaloo this isn't very nice.
He is...”
The filly rolled her eyes a little bit bugged and turned to the source of the third voice. The white unicorn, Sweetie Belle was her name, right? Slight tried to take a step closer, but the hoof of the earthpony filly hold him in place. He mumbled something incomprehensible thanks to the box in his mouth.
“Don't worry, she doesn't mean it, Slight.”
Her whisper drowned the arguing of the other two.
“I just wanted to say...”
“Besides Scootaloo, you can't say such a thing, if you want to...”
The earthpony guided him gently away from the squabblers and slowly out of the room.
“These two just needed this, you know. Scootaloo is sometimes just a little bit insensitive.”
Before the earthpony was leaving the room she added this sentences loud enough, to stop the arguing. The pegasus snapped back:
“Hey, I've heard this.”
Sweetie Belle snickered and Slight joined in too. The smiling earthpony guided him out of the room and both were facing a crowd of staring fillies and colts.  Two earthponies were standing in front of the stairs and smirked.
“Hey Slight, where is your horn?
You're a unicorn, right, so...”
Her voice sounded harsh and the little colt drooped his head, but before the pink earthpony was able to finish her sentence at all, the orange pegasus jumped out of the door and rushed down the stairs. She built up herself in front of the earthpony and stretched out her wings as far as she could.
“Just shut up, Diamond!”
The filly flinched first, but focussed quickly against her new enemy.
“What do you want, Blank Flank?”
The pegasus cracked her tail once in front of the fillys face. It squeaked and jumped back.
“Come on, Slight, we should go.”
Sweetie Belles voice on his left side sounded real calm and together with the earthpony she guided him through the starring foals. A little bit of whisper accompanied them, but Apple Bloom cleared her throat and the foals felt silence again.

“So you are a unicorn, aren't you?”
The orange pegasus filly stood in front of him and stared at him with big eye. He was sitting on a bench and had put his lunch box on the table behind him. The eyes of the other foals were still staring at him, but the three fillies here didn't look such disturbed or smirking. No, the pegasusfilly in front of him was smirking, but in another way as the other foals.
“Uhm, yes.”
His voice sounded so soft and uncertain, that the filly cocked her head and was taking a step closer. She nuzzled him with her nose and tried to put on an encouraging smile, but a brief smirk flickered over her face for a little moment, before she was able to recover the smile. Slights ears drooped again and he snuffled once.
“Hey, I just want to understand. Really.”
Her wings buzzed once and she drew an apologetic circle on the ground. Slight closed his eyes, sighed and nodded. He wiped over his eyes with a wing and swallowed a sob down his throat. He thought a while and his hooves stroked meanwhile over the bench and over themselves.
“I wanted to ask this Dad and Daddy a while ago. Because I'm a Pegasus.
But this could mean, that I wouldn't be their colt.”
All three fillies stared at him. His voice faded away and he finally became silent. He blushed and wiped over his mane with one hoof, he touched his ponytail and closed his eyes for a second.
“You do have two Daddies?
This is...”
The white little unicorn was the first who recovers and her confusion pitched her voice higher and higher, right into a squeak.  She stopped and took a deep breath as she saw, that the little colt kept himself down and drooped his head. She smiled gently.
“...so cool!”
Did she mean it? Slight lifted his head again and searched for her eyes. He saw a real smile and even the shimmering lights of friendly thoughts and real interest. He smiled back and nodded. This time the pegasus filly swarmed before him and a grin laid on her face. She buzzed her wings in excitement and even bounced once.
“And you're really a unicorn with wings?”
The smile faded away and the ears drooped again. He answered in a hesitant tone, but with a sure nod.
“Yes, Dad Shinning Star has always said, that we are a family 
and I'm their colt and they're both my Daddies.
But a few ponies were saying, that a unicorn could never have a pegasus as a foal and first of all two stallions simply couldn't.”
The filly cocked her head and stared at him very confused. He blushed more and drooped his head. The unicorn and the pegasus put their heads together and whispered.
“Do you really think...He doesn't have a Cutie Mark, right?...are you sure?”
A hoof turned him around and he faced his small Wonderbolt lunch box. On his left side sat the yellow earthpony and smiled at him. But he just looked down on his lunch box, pulled it nearer with a shaky hoof and opened it. A daisy sandwich, an apple and a small Muffin stayed in it and put a smile on his face. He sobbed once and tried to take the sandwich, as another question interrupted him.
“Now you're a pegasus, don't you? Why are you sayin', that you are a unicorn?”
The yellow earthpony beside him looked very confused and Slight Hope sighed. He had asked himself the same question again and again when he had been staying in Canterlot. As they were mocking him, as they were...He shook the bad memories away and swallowed another sob down his throat.
“Because...because I won't, that...I won't say, that...”
He stopped in the middle of the sentence and looked down at the small muffin in front of him. Chocolate his favourite taste with sprinkles.

He smiled wide, as Daddy Gentle cuddled him for the last time and whispered something in his flapping ears.
“I've put a little surprise in your lunch box today.”
He almost burst in curiosity, but Daddy Gentle whispered to him.
“Don't tell it Dad Star, alright?”
Both smiled whimsically to each other and nodded once. Dad Star fondled him over his mane and nuzzled Daddy Gentle as a goodbye. He guided Slight Hope out of the house and through Ponyville to the school.
“I have to speak with Miss Cheerilee, alright?
Don't worry. I'm sure, you'll find some friends here, Slight.
I promise.”

“Hey, hello. Ponies to Slight. Are you there?”
The yellow earthpony waved in front of his face with one hoof and he flinched away. His smile faded away once more and he sighed droopy.
“I...I just wanted to say.”
All three fillies sat down before him and stared at him. They were listening and smiling. He blushed more and mumbled the rest of his sentence. The pegasusfilly grinned wider and stood up. She looked everywhere and seemed to make sure, that nopony could eavesdrop. Finally she took a step closer and lowered her head to his eye level. She whispered something into his flapping ear.
“Do you know, I can't fly and a few ponies had said, that I'm never be able to. 
But one pony had told me, that I'm kind of awesome anyway. 
It simply doesn't matter what others had said.”
Slight hadn't expected this and looked surprised in her face. She grinned back and nodded. She looked around again and quickly nuzzled him with her cheek. She blushed a little bit, as the white unicorn said in a calm matter.
“Oh, you're so cute...”
The pegasus flinched away and glared at the the smiling unicorn.  She opened her mouth, but Slight interrupted her.
“I'm the colt from two unicorn daddies and...”
He was very loud at first, but his voice faded away and he was interrupted by a quick hiccup. He bit his lips and stayed silence, because he didn't know what else to say. Now the yellow earthpony stood up and cuddled up to him. She put a hoof around him and whispered in his ear like the pegasus before.
“My mummy and my daddy are gone.
And sometimes I miss them so much.
But my big sister is always there, when I need her and is helping my out of it.
And my brother is always there for me, too.
I love them a lot.”
Slight hugged her kindly with both hooves and stammered a:
“I'm so sorry for you.”
The earthpony replied the hug even more gentler and nuzzled him with her nose. He felt two tears on his coat, as she dried her eyes on it.
“Thank you.”
Her voice sounded silently in his ear and the earthpony filly let him go. He didn't quite know, why the fillies did tell him that, but he was feeling more safe and secure because of it. The yellow filly cocked her head and smiled encouraging. He took a deep breath and cleared his throat.
“I had said, that I'm a unicorn, because.
My daddies are unicorns, and I'm their foal.”
A hissed sentence behind him interrupted his statement.
“But they aren't your real daddies.”
He turned over. The pink earthpony sat on the bench in front of him and played with the lid from his lunch box. She smirked and glared at him. He blushed even more, tried to catch the lid, but the filly didn't let it loose, so he sighed and stayed silence. But it was even worse then that. She had led all the other foals with her and they were staring at him. He drooped his head and closed his eyes. They were staring, they were whispering, they...
“This is just Slight Hope and he is new here. You all know this, right?”
He felt a hoof on his shoulder and opened his eyes again. The unicorn stood beside him and smiled.
“Lilly here is incredible strong.”
She pointed with the hoof to a pony in the crowd with an hedgehog as a Cutie Mark.
“She had mane extensions...”
Now she pointed to a pony, which obviously had one, but blushed either way.
“..and I squeak and my voice will pitch high, when I'm excited.”
As a proof she squeaked right now and grinned to the crowd of foals.
“And this is Slight Hope. He has two daddies and is a unicorn with wings, okay?”
Slight drooped his head again and closed his eyes, but as a gentle hoof laid down on his shoulder, he lifted his head and looked into two arctic blue eyes. They were shimmering more friendly, than confused and he saw a small smile on her face.
“H..hello Slight.
'm Lilly. Nice to meet you.”
The strong pony?
The two magenta pigtails reminded him on his own lucky ponytail and he smiled back. More and more ponies gathered around him, welcomed him and asked many questions. If he was able to fly, if he was a fan of the Wonderbolts. Who had put a muffin into his lunch box. And if he wanted to play catch with a few of them.

The three Cutie Mark Crusaders looked to Diamond Tiara and shared a smile. The pink pony bit her lips and pushed the lid away. She mumbled something and disappeared from the crowd, accompanied by her only friend. Slight Hope looked to the three fillies and smiled thankfully. Then he turned over to the crowd and answered the questions from the two flying pegasi in front of him.