Ivory Jay was a young foal who grew up in fame and fortune. Japooter Jay is a dark lord from another world, who threatens the true nature of Ivory's life. But why is there a connection between them?
Jay is the surname. Two lives, two dimensions, two personalities, one family. Why? That is the question few ask, but want the answer to overwhelmingly. Why is there two dimensions between them? Why has no-one ever said a thing about Japooter? Why are they related? Even more frequently asked, how are they related?
Only time can tell, for now the mystery is yet to be solved.
In the darkness on a mild Summer's eve, there was a slight storm in Ponyville. For the entire duration up to this point, not a single sound apart from the droplets of rain hitting the ground could be heard. Located in the brisk darkness, illuminated slightly by the streetlamps of long history, there was a basket of straw, a type of basket one might perhaps find a foal wrapped inside. This was indeed the case, as a tiny, sleeping pony was covered in a white sheet for a blanket, protected from the rain underneath the landing of the house it was stationed at.
Nearly motionless, the foal was there for about a minute before the door to the house was knocked upon. It was then with impressive speed that the innocent infant was answered to, the door swung open in a slightly irritated feel by a young looking female unicorn with a green coat. Her mane looked as if she was just situated in the rain with the style to it, but on closer examination anypony could see that it was more as if she was never in the rain at all. The cutie mark which was bared on her flank was that of a cup and saucer, both had a look as if they were made of clay, the cup itself included a coloured substance, of what seemed to be of a hot temperature due to the heat lines which were portrayed above it.
At first the answering mare was not pleased facially, her eyes looked as if she had not sleep for the majority of the night, it didn't help that it seemed to her at first that the door was knocked on by troublemakers who had probably moved on quickly with a brisk sprint. The green mare then felt a presence of movement by her hooves, and was surprised to say the least at what was in her direct eyesight. As if feeling the sudden urge to help, the facial expression of the unicorn grew weary for the foal as questions spun round in her head. With a hasty change of pace, the pony levitated the basket gently into the warm indoors of the house, immediately after she closed the door with a thud. The unicorn moved the basket into a soft and comfortable position on top of a few pillows, making sure the creature inside didn't get hurt if it had the strength to wander off from where it is situated. Luckily for now, the foal was in a state of relaxation as it slept without issues.
Sounds of movement could suddenly be heard from upstairs, the loud actions the unicorn took to ensure this foal's safety had awoken another member of the house. The speed at which they were travelling towards the bottom of the house indicated a lack of sleep also for this other pony.
"What in Equestria is going on down here?" Spoke the pony from the stairs, revealing a dark red pegasus with the mane and tail of red and dark purple stripes. They too were a mare, who also had the same lack of energy of the brown-haired unicorn. "Zappy, it's late. What are you doing?" The once annoyed tone of the red pegasus was now one of concern.
"You mean to tell me all this time I was the only one who heard noises outside, just to find this bewildered foal on the landing?" Zappy was now broadcasting a tone of motherliness towards discussions centred around the young stranger from the outside world. With half curiousness and half bewilderment, the red pony walked towards the basket the young unicorn was guarding. Inside was a sleeping blue pegasus colt with a small quiff of dark brown hair, all the rest was being covered by the small blanket covering the creature, who seemed to think it was comfortable judging by the now contemplated look the foal was expressing while asleep. A sudden tiny squeal could be heard from the pegasus' mouth, as Zappy turned to see a look of sheer adorableness on the pony's face: pupils dilated; blushing cheeks and the front-right hoof placed on her face.
"Can we keep it?" A sudden burst of excitement arrived out of the mouth of the red pony.
"I am guessing that is what they're here for, somepony couldn't look after this cute pegasus and so we were picked to look after them." Zappy's tone of urgency was now mixed with serious as she started to lift the foal up, via her horn, to see if there was anything that went with the basket which was of great importance. The pony then paused for a moment, considering something in her brain. "Wait Red, what if we can't raise them? What if we can't cope?" Zappy rhetorically asks to Red in a tone of importance, leaving the red individual in a state of heartbreak.
"No no no no no!" Called out Red with concern. "We can, we can. Trust me. I will just go out and get baby stuff tomorrow morning." Red was extremely excited, to say the least.
"Red," Zappy states calmly, "I mean what if having a foal is just something I am not willing to have at the current moment. Have you thought about that?" By this point the unicorn was in a stance which acted as a sort of high ground between the two ponies in the room, but it showed flaws such as the time she could hold the stance before collapsing into a state of grave uncertainty. Red approached the weak unicorn, hugging her for comfort.
"If that is how you feel, we don't need to keep the critter." A tone of truth was in her voice as she hugged Zappy. The green mare was now considering some more, where would the foal go if they couldn't protect it. The last thing she wants is to make somepony live their younger years being in an orphanage, she should know. A sudden change of tone was displayed in her voice.
"No!" Cried Zappy, almost literally at the brink of tears. Seeing them in this state, Red was taken aback and felt she should bring comfort. "If there is one thing I am not letting that foal live with is the thought of being an orphan, even if that means raising the little colt on our own." Red's face beamed with both pride and happiness and launched her own body into the unicorn in front, collapsing them both onto the carpet on the floor playfully. The two shared a giggle and Zappy pecks Red lightly on the cheek.
"Didn't they come with a name?" Asks Red partially excited. With this, Zappy lifts the foal again, only to find a small note enclosed in the blanket.
"Their name is Ivory." Replies the unicorn in a slightly more playful tone.
"Okay, name sorted. Now just one more problem." Red stated in a now more serious tone. "How many bits is it gonna take to raise this foal?"
Somewhere which resembled the land of Equestria was a massive area of destruction, a powerful burst of sun rays with a sunset sky beamed over the rubble and derelict buildings emitting a sense of danger for anyone unfortunate enough to make eye contact with the massive corpse. Amidst the rubble, there was smoke and dust. Dust and smoke of an obvious source, the ruins of the once populated location. Upon further inspection, anypony could see that the land was holding one building still up, a building completely unharmed and still stable, all for a good reason. The one building remaining was a stone temple with no care paid attention to it on an outside look, the stone pillars lined up as soldiers outside the buidling chiseled in an uneven way to make a feel of uncertainty, but along with this menacing symbols carved into the stone walls of the building - to top it all off the objects were covered in whoever was unfortunate enough to be bombarded in what seemed to be the onslaught of the century, it wasn't just blood creating patterns on the symbols, but their dismembered bodies too. Anyone who could see the outside walls would consider that a mass murder has happened in this fare land, but yet it seemed like there was no stoppage of the crimes committed. It was chaos.
Buried deep in the heart of the building of death lied a fancy banquet with 10 individuals very calmly spaced out between each other, two ponies of visual power sat on the ends of the wooden table, one a pegasus stallion of average height and a devilish smile which appeared as if it was accustomed to his face. The stallion was certainly a bold figure, one of sheer fright physically however. The face of the pony was as if it was partially burnt, but also showed a slight deformity overall, it was not a look which was immediately viewed as evil, but could easily create an uncomfortable feeling in anypony's stomach at the thought of viewing such a stallion. Located directly opposite at the other side of the table was a mare with the same pleased look, one of uneasiness; however, this pony did not have a deformity in the slightest, she looked quite normal and emitted a feel that she was not forced to be here, yet showed no thoughts of leaving. Any stallion at first glance could easily find the mare attractive, their personality was quite seductive and their voice felt persuasive, their purple fur and multicoloured mane and tail (these being aqua, pink, light brown and navy blue) making for a completely one-sided judgement on whether or not the mare is suited to anypony. This being said, it is easily recognisable that the mare is in a relationship with the disfigured stallion, who possesses a dark blue coat of fur and a dark and light brown mane, simply judging by their cleanliness compared to the rest, the others are quite distinctly smothered in dirt and whatever else they had trodden in.
Particularly strange to the peasant looking ponies in the chairs perpendicular to the two power ponies was the feel of the inside. It was as if all the horrors of the outside world were being hidden away by the artwork and architecture of the building's inner walls. There was no blood, no bodies and pretty much nothing disturbing apart from the face of the blue stallion, which most likely if mentioned in this way could lead to another addition of the killer's wall of fame outside. Chandeliers hung from the building's ceiling, they were so high up that it would bring up the thought of the imposing building size just by glancing at them. Eventually one of the dirt covered stallions in the mix coughed to signal the attention of everyone at the banquet. On the first cough the only attention he received was from the ponies of his status, upon the second the slightly irritated expression of the deformed pony was now visible, which in turn caught the attention of his partner at the other end of the table. However, she simply smiled as if preparing for something big, and sat in silence. Then came the third cough, one which had caused the currently eating stallion to snap. Instantaneously after the incident, the beast slams his hooves against the table and frantically moves his head towards the individuals lower than his social status.
"Is there," he started strongly, with a slightly deep voice, "Any reason. Any reason at all, for you to be so rude as to not eat the food presented before you and then want to begin a conversation?" With that the weaker ponies look down at their plates which were untouched to keep the conversation serious. In total their meals were half of what the blue stallion had consumed.
"With all due respect my Lo-" one peasant exclaimed, before being interrupted.
"No no, please do go on!" The stallion started, sarcastically, "You have already lost all my respect when you revolted the first time." He continued in a much more serious tone.
"Well, I just feel that...all...all of us since you demolished this fair village. We have no-where to go. We cannot go anywhere, we cannot rebuild because you have strictly stated we cannot. Our lives were miserable anyway, but now it just seems whatever we do from here on out is simply leading to one option." A passionate peasant spoke out as passionately as they could.
"That being?" The Lord asked with minimal interest, picking at a meatless chicken bone.
"Death, Lord Jay, death." Another spoke with concern.
Upon further analysis of the statement, Japooter taps his right fore-hoof on his head, thinking it seemed.
"Oh! I have an idea!" With this positive sounding statement, the eight peasant ponies listen in further to his idea. "How about, I don't do anything and you get executed, just like the leaders of your incident a while ago eh?" He continued in the same positive tone.
"My Lord, surely you can see that if you didn't bomb the entire village and instead help it thrive that the rebels may not be so severe now, let alone exist." A worried mare asks in the crowd of the unfortunate.
"Surely you can see that I prefer it when you speak when you are told to do so." A slightly sarcastic Japooter responds. As if irony was listening in on the conversation, a sudden blast is heard from the East side of the building, Japooter's left. The entirety of the individuals at the table were blown away physically at the explosion from the outside, once the dust settled a fairly large group of ponies in a uniform made of green and brown patterns were in sight emerging from the wall's hole. It was at this moment one spoke.
"Lord Japooter Jay, you have committed crimes against the land of Equestria, of which we have decided to take into our own hands. The unicorns here will fire at you until you are dead unless you can accept to stand down right now. Two choices here, death or abdication. Which do you choose?" His tone was not that of heroic, but rather more fed up and out for vengeance.
With this sudden invasion of his abode, the Lord had found himself unable to move for the longest time, frozen in disbelief at what in his head was quite an impressive attack by such a miserable lot of ponies. As Japooter regained his senses, however, he then without a word flew towards some steps located in the far corner of the main living area, the Lord stopped flying at the trough of the narrow staircase and started to ascend up them on foot, while the unicorns in the rebellious outfits took potshots at his fleeing figure. During this whole time the fight was focused on the fleeing pegasus, giving the Earth ponies a chance to escape the crossfire and for Lady Jay to hide in the room. As soon as the stallion was out of sight of the unicorns, the rebellion's leader, who also delivered the raid's speech, gave everypony positions to get to. Once the coast was clear, Lady Jay set foot up the staircase to meet her lover at the top, whom was ready with prepared alicorn soldiers, before telling them to cease fire at the sight of the mare.
"Calcie!" He shouted at a moderate level with a sense of worry in his voice. The pegasus goes over to hug her.
"Japooter, how in Equestria did you manage to get these alicorn soldiers? Let alone alicorns." The confused mare finally spoke.
"My dear, you obviously know of my lab." He began, confidently, "I have been working on these tests for alicorn clones for a while now, ever since I rid this land of the four alicorns in charge I believe."
"How did you get...alicorn DNA?" With this, the pegasus began to look more serious.
"If I told you, you would be sickened." With this he began to send the alicorns one by one up another staircase, which leads to roof access. "Calcie, please look after the foal. Whatever you do, do that." There was a concerned tonality in his voice, "I am not taking any chances, the last thing I want is for my heir who will follow in my footsteps to be vanquished along with me." With saying this, the stallion was now out of sight, leaving Calcie alone, facing the crib in the foal's room. She slowly walked over to the small pony and picked it up with a smile of joy.
"Never," She began, talking to the foal quietly, "never will I let anything harm you, my precious little Ivory." She hugged the foal, then laid it back down as she began to notice a raging battle occurring from the window of the room.
Ivory had never found out about his adoption from the two lovers Red Stripe and Zappy Coffee, in fact for ages he had never put together that mare and mare cannot make a foal so simply. Simply, that is, not impossible. It was on a misty morning when Ivory was in his bed that he was told important news from Zappy. The colt had awoken from a strange dream, one which had left his mouth slightly ajar when it came to arriving back to reality. Before this, the room had been as silent as a sleeping hamster. Nothing was out of the ordinary, the windows viewing the outside world were shut from the blinds which cowered in front of them, the door was left slightly open - as was the routine when a young pony would want quick access to their mother in dark times - and there in the minute bed lay the most docile blue colt in the universe and beyond, simply sleeping like he had done in the household for the past 10 or so years. Everything, was still. This was until the colt awoke in fright and let off the faintest scream in all of Equestria's history. The nightmare he had endured was enough to make the strongest of stallions shiver slightly, but the scream was faint, for young Ivory knew that something so horrible surely had to be a dream. Yet, when gasping for air while sitting up in his bed, the pony felt something was truthful about what seemed to him the eternal slumber he had just endured. While still regaining sense of what just happened and where he is, the house remained silent. The colt viewed around the room, hoping he was not still inside the nightmare as he tried to find anything in his room which didn't add up, leading to another attempt at escaping the dream's clutches. There was, however, nothing he could see which out of the ordinary. His toys from the loving family which care for him are scattered on the shelves and the floor, every one of them taken into consideration for Ivory's choice of style and love for his parents. As soon as he was sure that this was the reality he was used to, the colt threw himself out of the bed and then traversed the battlefield which was the toy scattered bedroom. He was still not quite with it, as usual for him in the early hours. What Ivory could make out, however, was the sound of a screech in an excited tone from what seemed to be his mother, laughing hysterically along with it. The little blue pegasus' curiosity took the best of him, leading him to find the reason for the ecstatic behaviour.
Stepping forth into the place where Zappy was situated, Ivory couldn't help but notice a frantic and joyful dance before him from the clearly entertained mother of his in front of him. Her horn was holding something up, as proven by the glow emitting from the the unicorn's origin of magic. Something long and narrow was in her magic's grasp, causing Ivory's curiosity to get the best of him,
"Mum," the colt started, eager to know what is with the dancing. Taken aback slightly, the mother looks at the colt with an even more excited grin.
"Ivory!" Zappy jumped on top of the young colt, not enough force to harm him, but enough to take him by surprise. "I have the most unbelievable news!"
"Could you tell me what it is," he paused for a second, letting in a bit of air after the surprise which was the jump. "without sitting on top of me?" There was more concern in his voice than agitation. Zappy let out a small gasp of shock.
"Sorry," she spoke quickly as she let Ivory get back onto his hooves. "I just found out that I am pregnant!" By the end of the sentence, Zappy was once again flailing around the room once again in an uncontrollable style. Ivory simply stood there perplexed.
"Pregnant?"
"Oh, I guess you wouldn't know what that means." Zappy pointed out to herself. "Let me put it this way for you, you're gonna have a little brother or sister!" With this, Ivory felt happy. A little pony to look out for, finally someone on their level. Almost immediately after, Ivory began feeling something different, a feeling which was really scrunching up his brain. He felt like he wanted to hit something. Hard. He then figured out what was troubling him, the colt was jealous. Murmuring to herself, Zappy spoke, "Oh Celestia I can't believe that magic worked." Ivory couldn't care what anyone said, he was furious. With this temper, he removed himself from the room and went to sulk where he started his day. Zappy couldn't help but ignore Ivory, she instead was still dancing around without a care in the world. It was at this point that Red had returned into the home at an urgent speed.
"Zappy! I heard that you had news to tell me! What is it?" Red was taking frantic breaths. Without hesitation Zappy shouted with joy.
"I'm pregnant!" Upon hearing this, Red is very clearly shocked. A few seconds later, his hooves lose their grip and so he flops onto the floor, still wide-eyed.
"That...that spell worked?"
Downstairs, Red and Zap ended up having a small celebration. Music was being played as both Reddie Stripe and Zappy Coffee danced a slow dance together in the living room, the two mares looked into each others eyes, both were dilated heavily, the unicorn's eyes on the verge of joy-filled tears. Both exchanged a romantic kiss, followed by a deep emotional hug as the song being played reached its loving chorus. Upstairs was another story, Zappy had gone up previously to check upon the colt, during these moments of conversation the blue Ivory put on a happy face just for the overwhelming feelings Zappy was feeling. After leaving the room, saying that her and Red were to have some alone time downstairs, Ivory went back to sulking, staying this way for a while as thoughts went around his head, by now a mixture of jealousy and sorrow. Why, he thought, why do I have to be replaced? Ivory then stared into his space-themed pillow as his eyes watered up, and let out tears of sorrow. Twenty minutes of sorrow passed, until the feelings changed. He felt the anger again, but this time it felt much more fierce. Ivory felt as if he could melt anything with the roaring fire that was latched to his soul at that given moment in time. It was at this moment in time that his dream returned to his head. All he could imagine was fire and anger, cities crumbling under a large threat, destroying everything in a fit of rage. It pleased him. All Ivory could see from his eyes was fire and power, the large threat was him. The colt smiled and was about to laugh maniacally before he stopped. He thought. He gasped. Why did I have such a thought, the pegasus thought worryingly. Ivory then decided to snap out of this jealousy business and head downstairs to where his parents were situated. A little pony to watch out for, Ivory thought as he began to act more happy with every step he took down.
Japooter reached the opening at the top of his fortress, he gritted his teeth. Nearly completely surrounding the building was a large amount of the same significant green and brown colours. This attack was large, Jay couldn't have denied that by now. The sun was crawling away from the sky, the Lord felt that this was a coincidental sign something was going to fall, and he hoped immensely that this was the opposition. By this time, he noticed the alicorn's swooping down to the colours and taking precise shots on the hopeless victims. A merciless grin began to form on the pegasus' face, it seemed the entirety of the rebellion was here, and the Lord knew from previous minor events that they refused to retreat, either win or lose, this was surely the victory day against all resistance. The second wave of alicorn soldiers had arrived, the battle was then clearly showing an advantage for the Lord's army.
It was then at this moment that a slight advantage was starting to kick in for the rebellious forces, for the fast-paced attacks of the clones was becoming less and less subtle in approach. Two alicorns were shot to the ground as they stayed within the unicorn soldiers' sights for too long. The ruler, however, took this as if walking onto a stone. It was a short term problem. Every ten minutes that passed led to more and more soldiers attacking the commoners. The battle was now becoming more fair, for more of the rebel colour's prepared for the drops. It was also at around one in the morning that the battle began including more firepower, cannons were sent to near the front entrances, but the Lord was prepared for this. Upon the few successful attempts of breaching the entrances, the clones are to attack with full force at the opposition attempting to enter. There was a flaw in the pegasus' plan, however. For once the entrance was knocked down, he never took into consideration the rebels' preparation.
Surrounding the unforgivable Jay was stone, as cold as his heart on one of his happy days. Yet, the sudden rise of firepower from the opposition was creating a feeling he had not felt on such a high scale for a long time. The Lord couldn't believe what he was feeling, he refused to at first. How could he feel such things? But as he viewed over the battle once more, he noticed how quick they were now able to take down his army's waves of what he deemed overpowered clones of alicorns. The opposition had learnt from the past experiences. He wasn't prepared, he was afraid.
Japooter felt threatened, his waves of clone alicorns were failing. He had one chance to keep his reign safe, and that was to increase the amount of alicorn clones produced per wave and hope they are enough of a distraction to try and reach lab entrance and begin his desperate attempt of saving himself. He flew through his invaded abode, gaining the sight of wandering rebels and being either chased or shot at. The pegasus never felt so determined to disappear in his life, it almost felt to him as if this was the day it was to end. He tried his best to not believe it, though, as he reached ludicrous speed in his fast-paced flying escape, everything an unrecognisable blur around him. Apart from straight forward. To the lab entrance. To increase the soldier numbers. When the significant blue painted door came into the Lord's view, a sense of hope emerged on the deperate blue pony's face. This was when karma struck its final blow.
Awaiting Japooter at the entrance to the lab entrance was three rebel unicorns, firing condensed beams of light at the fast moving blue blur hurtling towards them. While successful at dodging the first couple by sheer luck, the Lord was in too much of a panicked state to concentrate. Within moments, the once singular overall ruler of the land had been shot in his right wing, crashing at the feet of the unicorns.
"Tr...traitors." The Lord spoke with weak delivery, as his voice became damaged and was immobile apart from the usual slight head movement. The middle rebel leaned into Japooter's eye sight, as if taunting the moments ago powerful figure.
"The game is finished, you monster. Five years of inequality and cruelty beyond anyone's belief. Now, finally. We can finish this," The now obviously male unicorn in oral speech spoke in a slight Scottish accent, with an obvious sense of anger while he talked, but mostly it was joy. "Of course. We aren't monsters like you. We'll let you decide your own fate," With this said, the two unicorns beside the speech giving stallion positioned their horns in sync to face the crippled Japooter. "Immediate death, or delay the inevitable and die in front of a crowd of your enemies?" Japooter slowly looks up towards the the ponies, then grins. He was clearly in pain, but was pleased.
"The second option." He spoke with utmost confidence. Moments after, the unicorns were pummeled to the ground in three quick blows from behind. From the shadows emerges a purple mare, who desperately continued to beat the unicorns with what was now seen to be a heavy metal pole from Ivory's room. By the end of the beating, Calcie was under slight exhaustion. "Calcie! My devilish guardian. I am glad to see you!" He embraced his lover. "Though, Ivory should be monitored. You know his importance to both of us." A slightly anxious expression arrived onto Japooter's face, but calmed when he heard the sounds of an agitated foal from the same shadows that Calcie emerged from.
"I wouldn't leave you behind, so I brought Ivory along when I arrived just now." The earth pony blushed slightly.
"Now then, time to investigate where my clones are." With haste, Ivory made his way into the laboratory, where he found his clone machines. The clone machines were 10 machines in a row in a blue metallic colour all around, with the exception to the doors, which were of a grey chrome colour. Presumably, the doors had to be shut for them to function. To the side of the far right cloning machine was a box labelled "DNA input", which in itself had been broken into and was now empty. "They have taken the DNA sample! Imagine what they could do with that!" Ivory was becoming paranoid, he then took a deep breath while Calcie attended to him.
"It's going to be okay, perhaps we should consider the final plan you always go on about." With this, Japooter turned to her.
"The final plan is dangerous, we could die upon doing it. Basically, we go into a separate chute, all three of us, and then device automatically rips through to a random dimension, where we can rebuild our army." The face of Lord Jay turned more and more excited until he paused and became more serious. "This is unstable. We could die at any point during the method and there is a small chance we could end up in different dimensions. Hell perhaps even stay right here in this dimension." Calcie simply responded calmly.
"You are my hero if this works, I am willing to take any risks." She became slightly flirtatious in tone. "Perhaps there will be something else in it for you too...." With this, Ivory takes a deep breath and then scans his hoof-print on a wall scanner, a set of metal panels open up to reveal twenty chutes.
Calcie places Ivory in the first chute, then her and Japooter stand in the other two chutes. Within seconds, they power up and the individuals disappear from existence, they have evaded the rebels.
Zappy was always seen as the mother. She was a green-coated unicorn with dark brown hair drooping over her head and extending down the back of her neck. She was of average height, but that didn't stop her being assertive from time to time. Her cutie mark was that of rainbow coloured coffee in a maroon cup over the same coloured saucer. Zappy never felt any strong feelings towards other females, which made it reasonable to anyone who knew this why she had doubts about the relationship she grew with Red. The mare was strong. However, one thing kept her worried more than ever during this time. Ivory. Ivory was seen at a slightly earlier than normal age getting mixed up emotions about things, like puberty had hit early and his hormones were all over the place. Reddie felt this clearly, she was easy to brush the whole ordeal off; Zappy was persistent to herself that something else was wrong.
It was due to this that the unicorn became more and more annoyed at the lover, overtime their relationship started to feel more and more weak, and weaker it became, until the bonds holding it in place simply wore away. The unicorn wasn't fully brokenhearted, for she felt it coming from months before the climactic finale of the fiasco. The mare simply gave up, hoping to keep the lovers together as friends. One thing led to another, the next minute, Ivory only had one carer, Zappy. Ivory still cared for his "father", he enjoyed the time they had spent, this made it worse for him when the day came that he left. Ivory was distraught and had tantrums whenever he was alone, to let out the building anger.
Zappy was especially careful around the small, blue pegasus. She did her best to comfort him and stay strong when around him, but this didn't stop her from breaking down when out of line of sight, from hugging all the way to being out of the house for day. She once had a child. There was a time when the mare was very eager to be wild and adventurous. This was when she met her match. A stallion unicorn who was quite fond of the lady. Zappy loved him so much, which is what led to her having her baby with the unicorn. They had a beautiful blue-furred colt, similar to Ivory, before times changed. One day, the newly married husband of Zappy simply vanished, soon after so did the colt. Unlike the disappearance of the father however, Zappy knew exactly where the little one went, an orphanage. She simply didn't have the power to look after the blue baby, and so had to let him go. Not soon after, the unicorn had given up on the wild side of life and began to live simply. This is why she wanted to protect the ever-growing Ivory, she was very keen to have a son...Ivory was the one she lost's replacement, even if the young one couldn't fully fill the void created all those years ago.
She enjoyed reading about science-fiction and adventurous stories, tales that she still dreams deep down she could encounter. Alas, never had Zappy felt so weak to try and do anything. The unicorn was under a constant panic that one day she will be unable to look after Ivory, and the previous events of before would unfold before her once more. There was of course one pressing matter to think about though, an earlier date when the two mares were together led to a big problem now that they were separated, the pregnancy. Worse, Zappy had been to get it checked, twins. Three mouths to feed, as if the times were tough enough for the unicorn. At the time it was a miracle, a way to have a family biologically due to newly discovered scientific methods, mare and mare having young. Now, it was beginning to look like the end of days.
At least she was earning a good bit of money, hopefully enough to just survive the events to come for the mare. Zappy made a fair amount of profit from her private coffee business, which started off in the outskirts of Canterlot, where she was raised. There was always an image of a beautifully coloured town from the natural sun that beamed on the city, but she couldn't tell whether or not it was the childish thoughts in her mind blocking away the reality of what the city looked like. She had seen the city through media, but not at the times and sights she recalls to remember as a filly. Since then, the older mare now had a quite successful business in Ponyville, which unfortunately wasn't as well paying as Canterlot, for Ponyville was as it stated, a village...or a town. Her hopes for the business were that one day she could return to Canterlot, but this time in the main city, creating a very successful business of coffee, so she could relax over the money she needs.
Ivory was a hope for the mare, if Ivory could be educated and taught to become a great intellectual hopefully he could save them. She just needed to make sure enough money was able to go around to keep them all afloat. Zappy took Ivory to school like any regular parent, no news was heard about Ivory's education until the parents evening came. The unicorn prayed for weeks prior that there would be a dawn of hope for the soon to be larger family, that Ivory could do well and then finally good news would be present for the household. Hopefully good news would then be the main type of news which reached the ears of Zappy, for she couldn't take much more of the opposite.
Eventually, the unicorn had to go to the event. The matter to decide whether Ivory was on the right track with his education had been decided, and the news was to be told to the single parent. As they arrived at the clearly well-treated school, Zappy couldn't help but panic slightly at the worst possible outcome. They entered the classroom, where the teacher sat, writing in documents based of the previous parents and their meeting - she was unaware of their presence. Zappy felt like this was the chance to leave, give Ivory an excuse like "The teacher was busy" or something pathetic like that which a kid could possibly accept as reasonable reason. Zappy was really afraid to hear the truth. It was with this that Ivory caught the teacher's attention by coughing, of which the teacher grinned in a way which frightened Zappy, as if she was notifying her indirectly that the mare will receive bad news in the most polite way possible. The mother and son sat down and heard what the teacher had to say. The few seconds before the chat began, felt like an eternity for the unicorn.
"Ivory...has a temper...we need to try and get this under control," the teacher spoke in a concerned tone, but changed to keep the hopes up of the mare. "However. His grades, are phenomenal."
With this, the teacher nodded. Zappy, was fulfilled.