//------------------------------// // Chapter X - A little problem. // Story: The Legend Starts // by 654_nosneb //------------------------------// A few hours passed, and Tia and Luna were planning for entire night how to show Philomena to my mom. Meanwhile, Philomena was hidden in my room, so I couldn’t step inside since there was so much light, like sun came to my room only to blind me. At night, Tia took her (finally) from my room and placed in the living room. “Miss, can you go to the living room for a moment?” Celestia said while near her was Luna that was crying from ‘laugh attack’. I was looking at them from the kitchen and silently laughing as well “I’m coming, I’m coming. No need to yell at the whole house.” My mom said coming downstairs. When she finally arrived the ‘show’ began. “After everything you done to us” Luna started “we wanted to give you something in recompense for giving us everything." “So…” Tia silenced Luna, which looked at her with anger “We want to give you a gift from us both!” “A-a gift? Thank you girls! You didn’t need to, everything that you gave me, your happiness, are already a gift for me” She said and started hugging them. “So can I ask, what is this mysterious gift?” “It’s this!” Both sisters shouted, as Philomena apeared from the hallway. “AAAAAA, GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME!” She yelled, scaring Philomena, which started flying towards me. I also got scared, since last time I had contact with the bird? Phoenix? Doesn’t matter right now, I almost died. If Celestia didn’t intervened, my face would be burned by now. But now, she was doing something else, like talking to my mom that everything is okay. The bird was coming to me and I tried to hide under the table, which didn’t do much, but somehow it succeeded in hiding me. When Philomena stopped seeing me she after a 5 second pause, rushed towards my mom. Luckily Celestia has good reflex and catches the bird with magic and stopping her. “Wh-wh-what is this?” My mom whispered. “This is Philomena, she is a bird, according to William, a Phoenix.” Luna answered “A phoenix?” My mom shocked. After a moment she stopped being paralyzed and looking at sisters and me was thinking about something, that I couldn’t tell. “It a nice… gift” she lied. I could clearly see her lying right now, but it seems that both fillies didn’t notice that “but we can’t keep her. She will burn our house down! How did you find her in a first place?! You have some explaining to do Tia and Luna” she said. I saw the sad faces on Tia and Luna faces. I was sad for them. I knew that my mother would do something, like giving a punishment. “Don’t do anything to them.” I said, defending Tia and Luna “ it wasn’t their fault. Philomena was injured by some kid, and would probably died if not them.” I saw the look on my mom’s face. She wasn’t happy, she was angry. Very angry “You three will have some explaining to do.” she said. “ we can’t keep her. You will free her today, at the evening.” This sentence just confirmed the punishment. Philomena would be free and we couldn’t do anything about that. I was laying on my bed. I looked at the clock. 3 PM. I was sad for the sisters. They rescued the dying bird and now they are going to punishment of some sort. I hear my door moving. Looking there I saw Luna. “Hi William, can we talk?” She asked. “Sure. What you want to talk about?” “About Philomena. I think I have a plan what to do with her.” She immediately got my attention. “What are you planning?” “Maybe we hide her in your garden? There are plenty of space and big tree. We can like make her a nest and hide her there.” It wasn’t a bad idea, but if my mom someway funded out about that, she wouldn’t be happy. “We can try and risk” I said. “So now I will go with Tia and hide her there,” she said. “While you need to created a version, that we get her leave.” I nodded, accepting my task. Soon enough, I cam up an idea what to say to my mother when something unexpected happened. “Why you want to lie to our mom?” I heard, looking up I saw my sister standing in a door “Melissa it’s not what you were thinking!” “No need to lie, Tia already told me everything.” I wasn’t sure if it’s a good, or a bad thing “So? You want to help? Or go to mom?” She smiled and left my bedroom, leaving behind my sister. Everything did go as planned. Celestia and Luna created a nest for Philomena, hidden in the leaves, on a top of the tree. After this, I told my mother that we left the bird and it flew away. Thankfully she believed it and we were finally finished with Philomena time? If you could name it that. Let’s hope that she will not find out about this.