//------------------------------// // Episode 1: Once Upon a Time... // Story: Mr Rich's Filthy Adventures // by Illuminate Sparkle //------------------------------// The little filly was covered with the towering white blanket made by the feathers of the northern white goose. While her head being protected by the comfortable, large pillow, made only by the finest thread of an unlucky mare. Her pure body almost swallowed by the princess - sized bed in the bright room decorated with only the most expensive toys and furnishings. With her silvery tiara on her head yelled she with the most "adorable" voice: "DADDY! I WANT A BED TIME STORY!" Diamond Tiara shrieked impatiently. A few light hooves quickly got echoed in the hallway outside her room. Oh no! My dad would never come so quickly, this can only be... "Your father sent me here because you needed a bedtime story. *cough* Never growing up aren't we *cough*... " Roseluck talked with a stiff and suddenly dry-coughing-voice. "Nooo! Call daddy here, I want to hear the story from him!" the little filly continued with an obnoxious voice. "Why? You know he doesn't care about that unless he can make a profit out of it." "Oh really? I don't think he would appreciate such talk about him" Diamond Tiara's eyes glistened while she saw an opportunity to get rid of Rose Luck once and for all. "I won't appreciate what?" interrupted a deep voice while the grayish amber business stallion had entered the room. "Your daughter's face." Roseluck quickly added. "How right you are my number one assistant! OWNED Diamond Tiara! 1 - 0 to Miss Luck!!" Filthy Rich in high spirits joined the conversation. "Yeah whatever." she answered and then quickly left the room. "Isn't she just wonderful Diamond Tiara?" The little filly looked with small angry eyes towards her father, who continued to chuckle a little. After awhile understood even he that something was wrong and sat carefully on her bed, at his daughter's side, while simply asking "What's wrong my dear?" "Sometimes you are just so mean to me..." she answered with a half whiny voice. That's what I said when your mother was pregnant. "What?" Diamond Tiara asked confused. "Ah what? I didn't say anything AT ALL." Filthy Rich quickly added. "You have such a messed up imagination." Damnit, I must learn to keep my thoughts in my head. "What?" "IIIIMAAAAGIIIIINAAAATIIIIIOOOOONNNN!!!" the stallion sung with a deep and beautiful voice. An awkward silent broke out between the two of them after Filthy Rich was done with his song. His sight slowly stroked through the well decorated room, where every single thing he had given to his daughter had a special memory, an adventure behind it. Diamond Tiara saw the glow in his eyes and understood very well what he was thinking about. "Papa... Could you maybe, tell me one of your adventure as a good night story?" his own little daughter, with big puppy eyes, asked the one she loved the most. The words slowly woke him up from the thinking of his past and a smile was seen upon his face. "Wait a minute, are you serious? That's what you wanted me to tell you? Come on, of course you should have understood that our assistance is supposed to do such boring work! Besides I don't like you to call me "papa" it sounds so... ehhm... you know when two stallions like each other? That word is kinda like that. Well, it's okay if its two mares though, sometimes it's pretty intense as well. Which means I will be proud of you whether you choose a stallion or a mare as your partner in your future life. I'm so glad for us to have such a discu-" Small tears fell towards the expensive blanket and Filthy Rich stared in horror while her droplets slowly exploded into thousands of smaller droplets on what had cost him far too much. "Okay, okay! I'm sorry my dear, I will tell you a story based on one of my journeys." he ended the sentence quite unmotivated. "Oh thank you pa... Daddy!" Diamond Tiara got a warm hug while he slowly bedded her back in the bed. "Very well then... Once upon a time..." When I was quite young, only a few years older than you I lived happily filthy rich with my family. I won't waste time explaining them since they are pretty much only stereotypes of an elite family. However, thanks to them I found a map leading towards a chest filled with treasures! More precisely I found it at my parents living room and sto- borrowed it... Anyways, the map brought me to an exotic island far south where other beings than ponies should live there. Or so I thought. It was there I met a somepony who came from Canterlot, with a big mustache, that sexy accent and always surrounded by beautiful mares, none other than my future arch rival: Fancy Pants!!! .... "What are you waiting for?" Diamond Tiara asked carefully. "I don't know, sometimes I just wished I had hired a group of ponies who could play some epic orchestral music. Playing some epic dark choir music when mentioning his name... Epic" Filthy Rich began slowly to dream of something so much better than his current situation. Anyways, at that time he seemed to be an okay stallion, how wrong I later that evening would be. After spending a few hours at the closest innkeeper, we discovered something amazing. Both of us had the two exact copies of the same map, meaning, both of us was after the same treasure. However, as a true gentlecolt he wanted us to cooperate in order to find the treasure together. He also wanted us to split the note after we ate a mighty meal. The following day we searched high and low until we finally found what we searched for - The temple! "Wait, wait, wait, you said Fancy Pants did something that evening..? Diamond Tiara interrupted while raising one of her front hoof in order to get even more attention. "Yes and if you put that annoying hoof in your mouth and continue listening so will it's soon be revealed." Filthy Rich said somewhat annoyed. As I mentioned before... We found the temple! We entered it and as expected was it full of hideous traps. Shooting knives, arrows, axes, big boulders, snakes, fire and I even got saved by Fancypants, however, I still hadn't forgotten what happened during that evening. Ultimately we found the treasure, filled with gems and gold relics. As a true gentlecolt wanted he us to share the treasure between us while I suddenly got a certain flashback. The very evening, the day before that adventure, he ate food which cost more than my food, then he insisted on sharing the bill! So I did the only right thing a stallion could do inside a dangerous temple with a chest filled with treasures. I hit him with a rock so he fainted, grabbed the treasure and didn't saw him on a loooong time. Until many years later when I was one of the bigger business stallion, I met him at one of the elite - society - parties. He was pissed, I was even more pissed, due to the fact that he had survived that fateful day. We became enemies and... "The end... " Filthy Rich ended his story while his little daughter had fallen asleep. He gave her a kiss on the forehead and left the room where he met the beautiful yet bitter assistance. "If I had to listen to that boastfully crap then I guess I would have fallen asleep aswell." "Oh, still so sore about your loss Roselucky." Filthy Rich answered the bitter sentence with a smile. She looked with hatred towards him before answering "One stupid bet and I would lose my shop and become your assistant in order to pay of my debt, I'm indeed so lucky..." she answered with a sarcastic voice. "Nah, just a stupid mare" he answered back while his face deformed into a prideful smile. After dodging another deadly glance continued Filthy Rich towards his bed room. He was determined to hit the bed early because, who knows what kind of adventure which might surprise him the next day?