“Wow, interesting…” Twilight said as she began taking notes from me. Apparently, she invited me, Kodi, Kaede, Mason, and his little sister as she wants to conduct research much about our world. I told her that humans uses electricity for many electronic devices like phones, television, and other stuff. Mason even told her about our history about the wars humans went through, the Great Depression, and how our world was made. He seems more smarter than me if he knows all this info.
“I gotta say, who would’ve thought the way how Humans resolve this matter would be warfare and such.” Twilight said, copying every note me and Mason told her.
“Well yeah, but our world isn’t in war anymore. I mean, no one in the nation resulted in war anyway.” I said, smiling happily.
“It’s true, we resolve this matter with peace treaties and the technology today is advanced than the ones back in the 1900s.” Mason added, glancing away.
“I see…” Twilight rubbed her chin in thought before smiling. “Anyway, I’m just glad you guys came over.”
“Anytime Twilight.” I nodded as I turned to Kodi and the girls. Kaede was reading a pop-up book to both Carrie and Kodi while me and Mason were telling Twilight much about our planet.
“Though, I must ask. Why did you want us to tell us about our world?” Mason asked, raising a brow. Is he getting suspicious of her or something? “If you’re planning on stealing info about us and using it to hurt us, trust me, you’ll pay dearly.”
“No no no, I just want to learn much about your planet.” Twilight assured quickly. Good choice there. “We would never go to war with your planet! Ponies don’t do violence that much around this world. We never resulted in war in ages.” Never went to war for ages? What, like...100 years or something?
“...Very well.” Mason said, crossing his arms while he closed his eyes. Sometimes, I’ll never be able to read this guy. “But that is enough for today, thanks for inviting us Twilight.”
“Anytime, I mean we’re friends, right?” Twilight shrugged with a smile.
“Y-yes...I suppose…” Mason glanced away, blushing a bit. It’s been a week since I asked him about his past, but he was afraid of revealing it. Could his and Carrie’s past be so bad?
“Anyway, Ren, about your Hacking Gun…” Huh? “I was curious to study more about it.”
“Well I kinda haven’t been using that thing since there’s hasn’t been much threat to Ponyville.” I shrugged.
“He’s right, with the power from that Hacking Gun, you hold great responsibility to it, Ren.” Mason said with a serious expression.
“Yeah, I guess so…” I replied, rubbing my head in embarrassment. “But I mostly use that thing to levitate my food, drink, and my mangas by using ‘Move’.”
“Well either way, I’m just curious to know how it functions.” Twilight smiled happily. Before any of us could respond, we heard somebody coming downstairs and we turned to see Spike coming down with a bunch of stuff in his hands.
“Twilight, I got the items we need to watch the meteor shower tonight.” Meteor shower?
“Oh right, thanks Spike.” Twilight replied with a smile.
“Huh? What’s it for Twilight?” Kodi asked as he, Carrie, and Kaede finished with the book Kaede was reading to them as they came over to us.
“Oh, it’s for watching for the meteors showers tonight.” Twilight replied, much to our shock.
“W-w-what?! A meteor shower?!” I asked in shock before making an excited look. “Awesome!”
“I want to see a meteor shower!” Carrie exclaimed happily.
“Count me in as well. This is my first time to actually see one.” Kaede said with a soft smile.
“I guess I could see a meteor shower, at least.” Mason sighed, letting out a soft smile.
“Okay, I don’t mind. You guys can go help Spike set up the stuff. Here, I have a list.” Twilight’s horn started glowing as she levitated a long paper, explaining step-by-step of setting up a good spot for a meteor shower. Wow, since when she made this?
“Well, I’ll help Spike prepare our little picnic for the special event.” Mason suggested.
“Really? It might take a while.” Twilight said, raising a brow at him.
“Yeah, besides, I got this.” Spike assured as he started to have trouble carrying the stuff.
“Are you sure?” Kodi asked in concern. “You seemed to have...trouble carrying it.”
“I told, I’m-WHOA!” Spike accidentally slipped and dropped all the items on the floor. He slowly got up and started rubbing his head. “...Okay, maybe a little.”
“You guys go invite the others, I’ll help Spike.” Mason said as he began picking up the items on the floor, with help from his two pet squirrels and Spike. “And Carrie...please be okay and don’t leave Kaede or Ren’s side, got it?”
“Yes Mason, I got it.” Carrie nodded with a smile.
“Alright, we’ll see you guys later. Bye Twilight, Mason, and Spike.” I waved goodbye as I opened the door for the girls and we exited the library.
“See ya Nate and Maddy!” Kodi barked at them, frightening them a bit. Well, at least they’re trying to be friends with Kodi.
“Well anyway, bye.” I said as I closed the door before turning to the girls. “So anyway, let’s split up and meet up with the others.”
“Sounds like a plan. I’ll take Carrie with me and get Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie.” Kaede agreed with the plan.
“You don’t have too!” Huh? I turned around to see Pinkie in front of me, causing me to shriek and fall on my butt. Seriously? How is she doing that? I didn’t even hear her coming….Actually, let’s not ask that. Don’t wanna do the same thing Twilight had to endure. “I already heard everything! I gotta bring me my favorite cake goods! I’ll see you all at the picnic!”
“Hold on, how did you-” With that, she was gone before Kaede could finish her sentence. I got up with a sweat-dropped and a nervous grin. “How did she do that?”
“It’s best if you don’t ask.” I replied.
“That’s a question but without an answer.” Kodi added, sweat-dropping as well.
“Well, I guess me and Carrie will go and get Applejack and Rarity.” Kaede said before turning to Carrie. “Sounds good Carrie?”
“Mm-hmm.” Carrie nodded as I let out a smile.
“Okay, we’ll meet up at the hill later.” I suggested, which they nodded in agreement as we went to different directions of the town. While Kaede and Carrie go get Rarity and Applejack, me and Kodiak are gonna get both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. Well, it might difficult to know where Rainbow Dash lives at, so I’ll just go to Fluttershy’s cottage first.
We finally arrived to Fluttershy’s cottage as I knocked on her door.
“So do you think Fluttershy will be able to come to the picnic?” Kodi asked curiously.
“Course she will bud.” I replied, scratching his chin, much to his amusement. “Sure she might be busy with all her animal buddies, but I’m sure she’ll like to come.” Suddenly, the door opened, revealing…
“Oh...It’s you.” I said, glaring at the white rabbit. Haven’t seen him for a while. “So Angel, do you know where Fluttershy is?” Angel blew a raspberry at me, much to my annoyance. Jeez, what a spoilsport!
“I’m coming!” Fluttershy then rushed to the door, happy to see me and Kodi. “Hi Ren, Hi Kodi.” Fluttershy bent down to Kodi’s height and rubbed his head, much to his joy as he began wagging his tail happily. “So what brings you two here?”
“Guess what? Twilight is inviting us for a picnic and watch some meteor showers. Would you like to come with us?” I asked with a smile. Fluttershy brightened at that idea while blushing and replied “Why I would love to? I would even bring Angel with me. Sounds good, Angel?”
Angel tapped his foot impatiently while glaring at me. Man, I picture bunnies as cute and adorable pets, but this one is just an exception, he’s the opposite of that.
“I’ll...take that as a yes.” Fluttershy chuckled nervously before turning to me.
“Sounds good, wanna walk together?” I suggested, much to her surprise.
“R-really?”
“Of course, I don’t mind.” I smiled, noticing the blush marks on her cheeks.
“Yeah, we’re all friends anyway.” Kodi nodded happily.
“Okay, just give me a second, would ya?” Fluttershy asked politely as she walked back into her cottage and as five minutes passed, she came back with a basket on your hooves. “Okay, I’m ready.”
“Yay, let’s go!” Kodi exclaimed as he started running.
“Hey Kodi, wait for us!” I called out to him before me and Fluttershy went after him. As soon as we caught up with Kodi, I looked back at Fluttershy and said “Anyway, what’s with the basket, Flutters?”
“Oh, just to carry some supplies for the picnic, also to carry Angel.” She explained as the little white devil in rabbit skin came out of its basket and blew a raspberry at me. Jeez, what did I ever do to him to get to his bad side?
“I see, well we should arrived to the hill in about five minutes…” I said, trying to remember where the spot Twilight told us to go to. As we kept running, something crashed into me.
WHAM!
“OW!” I fell on my butt again while rubbing my aching head. Oh crap-baskets, what the heck was that?!
“Hey, watch it!” I slowly opened my eyes to see…
“Rainbow Dash?” It was her as she was rubbing her head to get rid of the pain she received. Though, she wasn’t alone as Scootaloo was with her too. “Scootaloo? What are you two doing here?”
“What do you think? We were heading to the picnic Twilight talked.” Rainbow replied, flying back up.
“Huh? Hey Dashy, how did you know that?” Kodi asked, tilting his head in confusion.
“Oh, I was sleeping on a tree branch near Twilight’s library and overheard the conversation, so…” Rainbow rubbed her head bashfully while chuckling nervously. “So I thought that maybe I should join in as well, along with Scootaloo.”
“Yeah, and once she told me about watching the meteor showers! I was so excited that I couldn’t say no to my favorite pony!” Scootaloo exclaimed.
“Aww, that’s nice.” Fluttershy commented
“Yeah…” I slowly got up and smiled nervously. “Well anyway, I guess there’s no need to tell you then.”
“Good, now come on! We might hurry if we flew or run or whatever!” Rainbow then flew off with Scootaloo on her back.
“Hey!” Kodi exclaimed.
“Don’t worry, we’ll catch up! Good thing I brought this with me.” I said as I took out a capsule and hit the button, throwing it on the ground before it poofed and into my hoverboard. Apparently, a while back, I discovered a button on my hoverboard, and curiously, I pushed it and it reverted into a capsule. It was like something from Dragon Ball Z. It was so awesome! Whoever created that hoverboard, I give you my thanks!...I guess.
“Hop on!” I said, jumping onto my hoverboard. Kodi jumped on it and grabbed ahold of my legs by biting on my pants, not that I mind. Fluttershy started flying and said “Good idea Ren, looks like we don’t need to walk all the way up the hill. It does feel nice flying.”
I gave her a thumbs up and said “I always come prepare...sometimes.” I chuckled a bit before we started flying towards the hill.
Mason’s POV
Okay, that should be the last of them. Me and Spike finally finished up decorating the hill. It was finally almost time for the meteor showers to begin as we finally prepared everything necessary for the picnic.
“That should be the last of them, right?” Twilight asked, levitating a clipboard.
“Of course Twilight, we worked real hard on this.” Spike responded with a salute.
“Yes, everything is all set up.” I nodded as I started feeding both Nate and Maddy some peanuts while they sat on my head.
“Good, now the others should arrive here right about…”
“We’re here!” We turned to see Applejack, Apple Bloom, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Kaede, and Carrie finally arriving.
“Now.” Twilight checked that off her clipboard.
“Hey big brother, sorry if we took so long.” Carrie apologized to me.
“Nah, it’s okay Carrie, we were just finishing up the decorations.” I assured, ruffling her hair a bit, not that she mind.
“Hey guys!” We turned to see Rainbow Dash flying towards us with Scootaloo on her back. “You all here to watch the meteor shower as well?”
“Yeah, and you finally arrived early like all of us.” Kaede said happily before noticing something. “Hey, where’s Fluttershy, Kodi, and Ren?”
“We’re right here!” We looked behind Rainbow Dash and became shocked to see Ren flying down towards us...in a hoverboard. Huh, I guess he wasn’t exaggerating about that part.
“Sorry if we’re late.” Fluttershy apologized.
“No no no, it’s okay Fluttershy, you three finally arrived.” Twilight assured with a smile.
“Yeah, thank goodness we didn’t arrive late. I didn’t want to miss this for the whole world.” Ren rubbed his head bashfully as he jumped off his hoverboard, along with Kodiak and pressed a red button on the underside of the board, transforming it into...a capsule? Why do I have a feeling I’ve seen something like that?
“Me neither, I bet it’s going to be so amazing!” Fluttershy nodded in agreement.
“Yeah, me too!” Kodi started wagging his tail happily as Fluttershy was about to put down her basket.
“Oh wait, allow me!” Spike came over and set up a picnic blanket over for them.
“Oh, thank you.” Fluttershy thanked.
“Yes, and have some snacks.” I brought over a bowl of fruit and punch, and a bunch of cups. Ren, Carrie, and Kaede grabbed some cups and pour some punch on it before drinking some.
“Wow, so delicious!” Ren complimented.
“This is probably the best punch I ever drink!” Kaede agreed.
“Thanks big brother!” Carrie thanked me.
“A-anytime…” I blushed a bit, hearing a chuckle from my two pet squirrels. I then noticed Rainbow Dash lowered her head and grabbed an apple with her teeth. Kodi did the same thing as he got his own apple and started eating it.
“Wow, Twilight! You’re lucky to have such a rad assistant. I wish I had someone to do whatever I told them.” Rainbow complimented.
“Ooh! Ooh! Me! Me! Me!” Scootaloo exclaimed, bouncing up and down. “I’ll do whatever you want, Rainbow Dash!”
“Oh yeah, Pipsqueak?” Rainbow Dash asked, making a sly look. I sighed and shook my head at her. She’s just using Scootaloo for her laziness. “How about taking out the trash?” She threw her finished apple in front of Scootaloo.
“Yes ma’am!” Scootaloo nodded as she picked up the apple with her teeth and ran off. Well, I stand correct.
“And don’t forget my big brother, he also help setting this up as well.” Carrie reminded them.
“Oh right, sorry if I didn’t thank you Mason.” Kaede apologized.
“It’s quite alright. I was just helping out, that’s all.” I assured with a soft smile.
“Hey, where’s Pinkie?” Ren asked, looking around.
“I’m right here!” Huh? Ren turned around and shrieked upon seeing Pinkie right behind him. But...how did she do that? I didn’t even hear or see her come right behind him. “Sorry if I’m late for the party! Just went to grab these!” Pinkie showed us a tray of cupcakes towards us, much to our joy.
“Hooray!” Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, Carrie, and Scootaloo exclaimed as they each took cupcakes and started eating some of it.
“This is so good!” Ren said, grabbing two cupcakes for himself and Kodi. “Thanks Pinkie!”
“Don’t thank me, thank Spike for asking me to make these for the picnic!” Pinkie explained. I glanced at Spike and smiled softly to see that he would do something so nice for us. I haven’t even thought of that at all.
"Well, do we have Spike and Mason to thank again for this amazing spread? Aren’t they simply amazing?” Rarity asked, smiling softly towards the dragon.
“Oh, come on!” Spike rubbed his head bashfully while blushing.
“Y-yes, we were just helping, that’s all.” I replied, trying to hide my blush. Suddenly, Spike was pulled into a noogie by Pinkie as she exclaimed “Little Spikey-Wikey! Who knew that big ferocious dragon started off so cutesy wootsy?”
“Yeah, you too big brother!” Carrie exclaimed as she hugged me tightly.
“Yeah, thanks…” I nodded to her while returning the hug to my little sister.
“Spike and Mason, you two are such little stars that me and Kaede made this little bow tie for you guys.” Rarity replied as she and Kaede presented two big bow ties, which was studded in gems. Rarity then placed the ties on Spike using her magic while Kaede put it on my necktie of my sweater.
“Yep, this is all for making those delicious breakfasts for us.” Kaede said with a smile. I looked at her with confusion before looking back at the bow tie she gave me, wondering why they would give something like that to me.
“Gosh, you guys are embarrassing me.” Spike replied with a blush. “Stop it.” Everyone went silent before Spike turned to me, Ren, and Twilight. “Alright, your turn Mason.” I glared at him as he soon realized that I wasn’t gonna appreciate him. He’s taking this praising too seriously, besides, I don’t like being praise for things...well, not that much.
“Well, you always do awesome things! Thanks Spike and Mason!” Ren complimented us, causing me to glance away nervously.
“Yeah, I don’t need to be thanked. I was just...helping out, nothing at all.” I added with a sigh.
“Come on, you aren’t!” Ren said with a big grin on his face. “I mean, you helped us a lot, and we had to do something to thank you.”
“Yeah, you were always cooking, cleaning, training, and helped us.” Kodi began summarizing all the things I done for them while we started living in this world. I told them before, there’s no need to thank me. I was just helping out, like I did for her….No, no need to worry. I’m sure me and my sister can find our way back home so that we can see her again.
“They do have points, I just don’t understand why don’t you love being praise?” Twilight questioned me.
“I-it’s just that...Never mind.” I shook my head and tried to ignore their curious expressions by playing with my two pet squirrels. You know, I could’ve sworn that I almost felt my sister looking at me with sadness, probably because she understands how I feel.
“Hey everypony! Look!” Sweetie Belle pointed upwards to the nightsky. “It’s starting!” Soon, Carrie, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo sat right next to Sweetie Belle as we began to watch the night sky. Just then, a spec of light fell down in the sky and soon, many fell down, starting the meteor shower. I smiled softly upon seeing the meteor showers and saw everyone’s reactions. Fluttershy and Twilight were sitting next to Spike, Kodi, Ren with smiles on their faces. I don’t understand how can an average kid like him could get girls to like him. Probably from his optimistic personality of his or something. Kaede, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie were amazed to see so many fallen meteors. You know, it is quite beautiful, seeing so many meteors falling down...falling down...falling-
“UGH!” I exclaimed, putting my hand onto my forehead. What the heck? Where did this sudden headache appeared? What’s-
Suddenly, I instantly saw a bunch of meteors crashing into the streets of our home, so many of them. Falling down, destroying everything wherever it’s crashing into. It was like...the end of the world.
“Big Brother?”
“Mason?”
“You okay?” Huh? I turned to see my friends looking over me with worried. The comments were from Carrie, Rarity, and Ren.
“Y-yeah, just a headache, that’s all.” I responded, covering my mouth with my scarf. What...was that? An illusion, or what is...No, I better not thinking about it. Not right now, at least.
I then felt something grabbing onto my arm as I looked down to see Carrie holding onto me with a worried look.
“Hey, are you sure big brother?” Carrie asked.
“I told you, I’m fine.” I chuckled nervously, causing her to pout a little. Soon after the shower ending, the girls, Ren, Kodi, Kaede, my sister and I gathered in the picnic Spike and I set up and began eating more of the treats. Pinkie, Ren, and Kodi were happily munching on one of the chocolate cookies, leaving many crumbs on their mouths. Though, I’m surprised for a dog to eat a chocolate cookie. But then again, this is a planet filled with magic, so it makes sense for some talking dog to eat chocolate and/or fudge. Kaede and Carrie were eating some chocolate strawberries and Fluttershy dipped her head into the cookie bowl and gently took a cookie with her teeth and began munching it.
“Aren’t you gonna eat, Mason?” Kaede asked, munching on another chocolate strawberry.
“Sorry, but I’m not a fan of chocolate.” I replied, much to a certain pink pony’s shock. She instantly grabbed my scarf and put her face close to mine.
“What?! How can you not be a fan of chocolate?! Chocolate is the most delicious thing in the whole wide of Equestria!” Pinkie exclaimed.
“I-I’m sorry?” I apologized with a sweat-drop and surprise expression.
“Really? Didn’t know you hate chocolate.” Ren said, biting on another chocolate cookie. I let out a ‘hmph’ sound and crossed my arms and ignored him.
“Oh well, at least we still have to thank Mason for setting this party and Spike asking Pinkie to make these cookies, huh Spike?” Twilight called, but receive no answer. “Spike?”
“ZZZ...ZZZ…” Wait, isn’t that snoring? We turned around to see Spike sleeping, but his head was inside of the punch bowl.
“Ooh, poor little thing.” Rarity said with a concern expression.
“Aww...He’s worked himself to the bone.” Kaede added.
“And no the punch has been...spiked!” Pinkie joked, causing everyone, except me, to laugh happily.
“Nice one, eh Kodiak?” Ren called, wiping a tear from his eye before noticing that he didn’t get a response. “Kodi?” He turned around to see Kodi sleeping with a stuffed stomach.
“Oh boy…” Ren went over and picked him up with a soft smile on his face. “Seems like he’s all tired out. Well I guess I’ll see you all later.”
“Yeah, I better get home as well.” Twilight nodded before she walked over and picked Spike up on her back. “It was fun watching the meteor shower with you guys!”
“Bye!” Everyone said while I waved goodbye to her before we all departed our way back home. Me, Ren, Kodi, Kaede, and my little sister were walking back to our home-ship as Ren was carrying a sleeping Kodi and I was busy carrying a tired Carrie.
“So, how do you like that special bow I made you, Mason?” Kaede asked with a sweet smile. I blushed a bit and glanced away and replied “I-it was a nice gift, but like I said, I don’t need something just because I just helped out.”
“Of course you do, Mason.” I looked at Ren in confusion as he smiled and continued “I mean, you helped us a lot and we didn’t know how to repay you. Think of it...as a thank you from us.”
I sighed and let out a soft smile and said “For a kid, you sure know how to stay optimistic and say some encouraging words.”
“Hey, that’s just my personality trait.” Ren blushed a bit as soon as we arrived to our home.
“Well, I guess I’ll see you guys in the morning, goodnight.” Kaede let out a yawn as she was the first to enter the place and went to sleep.
“Yeah, see ya in the morning you two.” Ren added before entering the home-ship with the sleeping dog in his arms. I sighed and looked at the ribbon while holding my sister on my arms. It does feel nice to be appreciated for my work, I guess…
It sorta reminds of her kindness back then. I don’t know how I got inside of that pod, but right now, I need to stop worrying and wait till Princess Celestia finds a way to bring us back home….I hope.
“ZZZ…” Huh? I glanced at my sister, who apparently now fallen asleep. Heh, I guess I’ll take her on her bed and go take a nap as well. But still? What did I saw back then? A bunch of meteors fallen into the streets? I know it wasn’t a dream? Just...what the heck was that?
Mason’s Dream
I was walking through the streets with a three year old girl in my hands. We saw how dark it was getting here in the city, so we immediately sat down on a park bench and just sat there.
“Mason...I’m scared….” The little girl started crying as she hugged me tightly and I hugged her back and whispered “It’s going to be okay, we’re gonna be alright. I promise.”
I...I remember this. This is from back when our parents completely left us, well more like, they left each other. Am I….dreaming this? That little girl...is Carrie when she was so young.
I then felt my sister’s stomach rumble as we ended our hug and my sister rubbing her aching stomach.
“I-I’m so hungry…” Carrie whined. I couldn’t buy anything due to us not having any money. I feel like such a helpless brother. I can’t do anything to help no one…
Huh? I then noticed a bunch of people talking, some dark-skinned and light-skinned were having some sort of conversation and they were wearing fancy suits like those rich people wear. But my main concern...is that purse that light-skinned woman was holding. It must have some money, but...is it right to steal?...
Why am I even asking that? I have no choice, it’s either kill or be killed, and I rather sacrifice my life in order to protect my sister. I told my sister to stay here as I slowly walked towards the strangers, not even bothering to listen to their conversations. As I slowly reached for the woman’s purse and I finally got the twenty out of her pocket, someone grabbed me by the hand as I looked to see one of the men who was in the conversation. He had a slightly tanned skin wearing a black suit with a white necktie and brown shoes.
“Who’s the kid?” One of the men asked. I instantly grew afraid that they might try to hurt me or worse.
“Don’t know, I have never seen him in my life before.”
“You think he’s just some random kid?”
“Who knows? Eh? Hey, was he steal some money from your wife, Carter?”
The man who was holding onto me looked closely at my right arm and saw the money I stole.
“I-it is…” The man then turned to me with soft expression. “Young man, you should know that stealing isn’t a good thing.” He said in a stern, yet calm and not enraged voice.
“What? This kid’s a thief! Don’t worry Carter, I’ll take care of him.” A man wearing dark sunglasses and with a white beard about to approach me and probably hurt me until the woman that I robbed stepped forward.
“I won’t allow you to do that, Eugene!” The woman exclaimed, surprising the old man named Eugene.
“But he tried to steal from you!”
“But I still got my pouch back now, don’t I?”
“That is not the point nor does it excuse what he done!” The old man known as Eugene argued.
“Then what does, if I may ask?” The man named Carter questioned, crossing his arms. I noticed that he loosen the grip around my arm. Now’s my chance! I instantly ran away and ran back where Carrie was sitting on the park bench.
“M-Mason, what’s wrong-”
“We need to go now! Come on!” I instantly got her to ride on my back and we instantly ran away.
“Hey wait!” Huh? We then saw our pursuer, a little girl who had light skinned with two blonde pigtails and wearing a pink dress. I-Is she after us too? I r-really screw up this bad! Me and Carrie run towards an empty alleyway and tried to evade her, but she was quite quick. Suddenly, we stopped ourselves in front of a dead end as I went pale and saw the little girl walking towards me.
“Hey, it’s okay. I won’t hurt you, I promise.” Does she take me for a fool? I put Carrie down and whispered “Please stay here and don’t move.”
I then confronted her with a serious expression and said “Hey, l-leave us alone! We were trying to find some money! We’ll leave you alone for good if you leave us alone!”
“B-but, I promise that I won’t hurt you.” Huh? I gave her a surprise expression. Is she….serious? Does she care for me?
“Oh, don’t worry, I’ll handle him.” I was then punched in the face before falling down on the ground and began falling unconscious.
“Big brother! Big brother!” Carrie...I’m sorry that I got you into this mess.
“Eh?...” I slowly woken up from that dream...no, that nightmare. I realized that I was in my bed in the second floor of the home-ship. I then noticed a tear on my left eye coming out. Why...was I crying? Hold on, I remember, from what I’ve seen from my nightmare. It was actually something from my past, on how I became when I met her. If it wasn’t for her, she wouldn’t have watch over Carrie for me because of my training as her...no, it’s best not to think about it for a while. I just...wish I knew where she was.
That’s when I noticed that Carrie was sleeping right next to me, with my two squirrel friends, Nate and Maddy sleeping with her while she gently wraps them her arms. I smiled softly at her while she rest up. It was nice seeing her soft smile. Wait, I then started smelling something. What’s that burning smell?
“No! That’s not right! GAH!” What the?! I slowly got out of my bed without waking up of my sister nor my two little friends as I quickly made my way downstairs and saw that Ren and his little dog friend were cooking something from the stove. What the heck?!
“Ren, I don’t think an omelette is supposed to be burn!” Kodi exclaimed.
“I know! I know! I’m trying!” Ren exclaimed, trying to stop the smoking.
“What’s going on?” I asked, widening my eyes in shock. Ren and Kodiak turned to me with surprised expressions.
“Oh hey Mason…” Ren grinned sheepishly at me as I gave him a glare.
“Ren? What’s going on?” I then turned to see Kaede walking out of the dining room, still wearing her pajamas. Wait a minute, how did she went past my room while I was sleeping? Was it...because of that dream?
“Huh? Mason? I never expected you to wake up that early!” Kaede exclaimed in shock.
“Alright, what’s going on?” I asked, raising a brow at them.
“We were just making breakfast for you.” Kodi answered, his ears drooping.
“Yeah, we were trying to do something nice for you by cooking you breakfast.” Ren sweat-dropped and released a sheepish smile. “But it seems like it didn’t go so well.”
“Yeah, I tried to get Ren to let me cook since I’m experience in something like that, but he kept being stubborn and kept saying that he could cook!” Kaede exclaimed, glaring at Ren.
“Well yeah, but the only thing I was good at was making pancakes, but I thought I could make something else for you.” Ren shrugged sheepishly.
“I-it’s quite alright, thanks for the help anyway.” I sighed and shook my head in disappointment. “I can cook it for myself and you guys.”
“Ahh, but we were just doing something nice for you.” Kodi complained, puffing his cheeks. You know, that pup reminds me of Carrie whenever she tries to help me with something.
“I-it’s quite, I told you all that I can do it myself.” I repeated, adding a little force on that sentence. “Though, I guess I could make something different like...chicken omelette.”
“Sounds good, what do you say Ren?” Kaede asked, before we noticed sweat forming around Ren. “Something wrong?”
“Well...haven’t you guys noticed the food around Equestria?” Ren asked nervously. What? Actually, we’ve been eating nothing but pancakes, hayburgers, and anything else that has vegetables, fruits, and something hay-relating….Oh…
“Actually, I see your point now Ren….” I closed my eyes and began to realize that if anypony saw us eat meat, they might see us as a threat. It’s best not to do that.
“Huh? No, seriously, what’s wrong with eating with meat?” Kaede asked.
“Wait, what are you guys talking about? You guys eat meat?!” Kodi exclaimed.
“Yeah, sorry if we didn’t tell you about it Kodi. Though, I thought a dog like you should know since they eat meat as well.” Ren said with a confused expression, causing Kodi to let out his tongue in disgust.
“No thank you! I rather eat sweets, fruits, and vegetables. I’m not a cannibalism or something!”
“I see...sorry for asking bud…” Ren sweat-dropped nervously.
“Well okay, we don’t have to eat meat till we get back home, I guess…” Kaede smiled nervously with a sweat-dropped.
“Huh, what’s going on down here?” Huh? Isn’t that…
“Carrie?” Kodi asked in surprised. We all turned around to see Carrie climbing down the ladder with a tired look and my two squirrel friends on her friends.
“Oh, hey sis, didn’t mean to wake you up.” I apologized to her.
Carrie let out a yawned and said “It’s okay big brother, just a little tired, that’s all.” Suddenly, she started to sniff something in the air. “Hey, why does it smell like something burned in here?”
“I know, I know…” Ren complained with a deadpan expression. “I should’ve just made pancakes instead of omelettes…”
Carrie, Nate, Maddy, Kaede and Kodi chuckled at his reaction while I made a small smile. Sometimes, that boy acts like a little five year old, almost like Carrie.
Later
Ren’s POV
Soon after, we changed out of our PJ’s and ate our breakfast, which consists sliced potatoes and pancakes with maple syrup, which Mason made, with help with his two pet squirrels. Kaede and I helped by setting up the plates and such while Carrie and Kodi sat on the couch in the living room, waiting for breakfast to come. Soon after we finish eating, I noticed Kodiak lying on the floor and Mason’s pet squirrels laying inside of his scarf, their stomachs all stuffed up while Carrie let out a burp.
“Excuse me…” Carrie muttered, her cheeks blushing in embarrassment.
“I’ll take that burp as a thanks for loving my cooking.” Mason replied with a soft smile.
“You know, I’m quite surprised that you know how to cook. How did you know to clean, cook, and stuff?” Kaede asked, causing Mason and Carrie to tense up a bit.
“U-umm…” Mason seems quite stressed, along with Carrie. Does it have something to do with their ‘unpleasant’ memories?
“It’s best not to ask Kaede.” I quickly spoke up, confusing Kaede and surprising Mason. “I mean, Mason probably learned the same way as you did back when we were living on Earth.”
“Oh...Okay, I guess…” Kaede shrugged as she got up from her seat and headed to the kitchen. Mason sighed as he turned to me with a serious expression, but I could’ve sworn that he made a smile through that scarf of his.
“Thank you Ren…” I became surprised to hear him say that as I smiled happily at him.
“Hey, anytime Mason.” I nodded.
“Yeah, you’re the best Ren!” Carrie added, causing me to chuckle a little. Suddenly, we heard the door knocking, strange, wonder who it is? I got out of my seat and headed to the door and opened it, seeing Twilight.
“Hey Ren, glad to see you and the others awake.” Seems like somepony is having a great day. “I need you four to come to the library, I have a surprise for you all.”
“A surprise?” I asked.
“What kind of surprise?” I heard Kaede asked.
“Oh, you’ll see, come on!” Twilight said, running out of the house in joy. What is getting her so excited?
“What’s up with her?” Mason asked as he and Carrie coming over with confusion.
“Don’t know, let’s go after her, I guess…” I shrugged, grabbing my Hacking Gun and following after her. Did something caused Twilight to go this excited. What? A book or something? That’s all I could think of.
“Come on Kodiak!” I called out to him.
“Coming!” Kodi ran for us, his stomach still stuffed up from the breakfast. Jeez, after we finished up with Twilight and the others, I’m gonna take him to exercise.
We arrived to the Golden Oaks Library and found everypony else were already here, chatting near Twilight’s home.
“Hey girls, what’s up?” I asked with a grin on my face.
“Oh, we were just talking about Twilight’s newest assistant.” Rarity answered.
“New assistant?” Kaede asked.
“Yep, say hello to Owlicious!” Twilight introduced us to a brown owl with two black dotted eyes, which seems pretty weird. It was sitting on a hook that birds always sit whenever they rest up or something. However, I was gawking at that name. Owlicious? That seems like a really weird name, I could’ve name it better than that like I did for Kodiak.
“Ahh…” Both Kaede and Carrie began to like that bird. You know, I’ve only seen those things in a picture book once, but seeing it in real life seems quite amazing.
“Intriguing…” Mason muttered in amazement. “Twilight, where did you get this little guy?” Mason walked over and gently scratched it’s chin, causing it to purr. I didn’t even know that it could even purr.
“Oh, I allowed him to stay in the house after he retrieved one of my letters after the wind blown it away. He then assisted me during the night, and so, I decided to make him my ‘junior assistant’.” Twilight explained with a grin.
“Ahh, he’s so cute!” Carrie complimented.
“So we got a new animal friend, awesome!” Kodi exclaimed in joy, wagging his tail in joy.
“Tell me about it.” I nodded in agreement. “Gotta say Twilight, I wish you and Owlicious on a happy friendship.”
“Thanks Ren…” Twilight blushed a little. Wonder what’s wrong with her with all that blushing?
“Yeah, Owlicious is a fantastical, fluffalicious feathery little friend!” Pinkie commented. “I’m...HOOKED!”
We all chuckled at that little pun of hers. “Good one Pinks.” I grinned at her.
“Well besides that, he’s just so cute…” Kaede said, petting Owlicious a bit.
“He’s just so cute.” Huh? We turned to Spike, who was sitting on a branch, reading a book. He had that irritated look, wonder what’s got his tail? He then noticed us and said “Uh...yeah. Cute. He’s quite...the charmer.” Seriously, what’s going on with him? I have a feeling this has something to do with Owlicious, right?
“Spike? Is there something wrong?” Mason asked, raising a brow at him.
“Nothing…” Spike turned away in anger.
“Well, Owlicious is just such a star that I just had to make this little bow for him.” Rarity spoke up, putting another bow on Owlicious. Hey, that bow looks identical to the ones Mason and Spike were wearing. Suddenly, I noticed Spike’s face was turning red as he got off the branch and went back inside of the library, slamming the door shut.
“What’s he all saddle sore about?” Applejack asked.
“Don’t know…” Kaede replied in a concern expression. “But if I had to guess, I say he’s…”
“Jealous?” Rainbow suggested.
“Yeah, that.” Kaede nodded.
“Maybe Spike feels threatened or worried that Owlicious will replace him?” Fluttershy suggested.
“What? Pfft!” Twilight started laughing at that possibility. “That’s crazy! Spike knows he can’t be replaced.” Twilight assured.
“I don’t know Twilight, from the way he acted, it is possible that he is jealous and fears that you might get rid of him.” Mason said, surprising us all.
“What? Are you sure about that Mason?” I asked in worried.
“Yeah, I’m sure Spike will know soon, right?” Kodi added.
“Yeah, but still, I can understand his anger though.” Understand his anger? What do you mean by that? “I’ll...be right back.” With that, Mason headed inside of the library, leaving us in confusion.
“Sometimes, it’s hard to read that guy.” Rainbow shook her head. You can say that again…
“Well either way, you think Mason is gonna try to talk to Spike about his behavior?” Fluttershy asked in worried.
“Don’t worry, I know my big brother will do alright.” Carrie said happily. “He’s always there for me and everyone else!” Wow, the way Carrie said it. It seems as though he’s like a worldwide famous butler or something, but still, he told us he was a prodigy of Kendo, so...just who is he?
Mason’s POV
As soon as I walked in the Golden Oaks Library, I saw Spike sitting on a couch, his head was covered with a book.
“Spike, we need to talk.” I called to him, gaining his attention.
“Oh hey Mason…” Spike grumbled in anger, causing me to narrow my eyes at him.
“Spike, I want you to be honest with me. Are you jealous of Owlicious?” I asked, causing Spike to scoffed and replied “Of course I am! How can Twilight do something like that?! Taking in a new assistant, and she already loves him more than me!” I knew it, so that’s the cause of his jealousy.
I sighed sadly and look at him with a concern expression. “Spike, I think you’re over exaggerating about this.”
“But Mason, Owlicious is being so much better than me! Twilight will probably abandoned me and will never love me again.” Spike sighed sadly. He fears that Twilight might forget him.
“Don’t say that…” I made a serious expression, confusing Spike. “Twilight will never abandoned you, you were always with her from the beginning, right? So that means she cares about you and will never leave you. She’ll always be by your side.”
“R-really?” Spike asked, with widened eyes.
“Yes, just try to be nice to Owlicious and don’t get into trouble with him, please.” I said with a stern look.
“Yeah, I promise…” Spike nodded, as he began chuckling. I raised a brow at him as he cleared his throat and blushed. He better not even try to do something to Owlicious, sometimes jealousy will only lead you to trouble.
“I see….good day…” I turned around and began heading out of the library, meeting everyone else outside.
“So, how did it go?” Kaede asked.
“It went well, he’s just a little upset because Owlicious keeps helping Twilight a lot.” I replied with a sigh.
“Well even so, I would never replace him!” Twilight exclaimed.
“I know you wouldn’t…” With that, I took my leave and began heading back home. I got nothing else to do except for training anyway.
“Mason, wait up!” Carrie, Kodi, Ren, and Kaede tagged along with me, not that I mind.
“Well, see ya partners later then.” Applejack called as she and the other girls waved goodbye to us. I’m still worried about Spike and the way he was chuckling so darkly. I just hoped he doesn’t let his jealousy get himself into trouble.
Ren’s POV
Phew, finally done. It took almost a day, but we’re finally done cleaning the home-ship. When we got back home, Mason was planning on cleaning the place, so we offered if we could help out while he goes relax. At first, he was about to decline, but luckily, thanks to Carrie for keep begging him with the adorable puppy eye stare, Mason allowed us while he go meditate and stuff.
We were just finishing up cleaning up the living room, with Kodi and Kaede’s help. Kaede was wiping off the counter, Kodi was cleaning the floor by using wipers that we found in the pantry, and he was skating around the kitchen’s floor by having using four wipers as ice skating shoes while I re-stocking the fridge with food, that was also from the pantry. I haven’t been putting in new food for a while, but I don’t mind. Mason went to meditate, like he said after Carrie begged him that we would help cleaning up the place for once, just for him.
Carrie was in the living room, folding the blankets, with help from Mason’s pet squirrels. After I finished stocking the fridge, I let out a sigh of relief.
“I think that’s all for tonight.” I wiped away a sweat from my brow. We haven’t been doing anything except cleaning all day, and it was almost night time. Man, and I was planning on reading another Pokemon manga with grape soda and chips in my room. Oh well, I could at least still do that tonight.
“Wow, who knew Mason had to do all this…” Kaede muttered.
“Tell me about it.” Kodi added, getting tired out.
“Yeah…” I nodded in agreement before seeing Carrie entered the kitchen.
“Yeah, but big brother always does this everyday, he says it’s his responsibility to do this everyday.” Carrie explained, much to our surprise.
“What? Everyday? Why’s that?” Kaede asked.
“Umm….Sorry, it’s a secret.” Kaede said with a smile.
“Come on, can’t you tell us?” I begged.
“But even if I told you, it wouldn’t be a secret.” Carrie replied, much to my surprise. “That was something Mason told me back then.”
“I see…” I sweat-dropped and sighed. Well, she can at least answer one question for me. “Well, can I ask you something then?”
“Sure, what is it?” Carrie asked.
“Well...back when I was talking with Mason the other day, I overheard him say something about ‘young mistress’...” I then noticed Carrie widening her eyes and made a small gasp. “Do you anything about it?”
“U-umm….no, not at all.” Carrie shook her head. Huh? She hesitated for a sec, is that name seems familiar to them or something?
“If it’s uncomfortable to you, I won’t press you further.” I assured, much to Carrie’s relief.
“Okay…” Carrie nodded sadly. It’s best if I ask Mason about that when the time is right. Just what is their past?
“Hey, isn’t that Spike?” Huh? I noticed Kaede looking through the window with a confused expression. Me and Carrie walked over to the window while Kodi jumped onto the edge of the window as we saw Spike running off towards...the Everfree Forest.
“It is, though, why is he going to the Everfree Forest?” Carrie asked in concern.
“Everfree Forest?” Kaede asked in confusion.
“It’s a dangerous forest filled with wild animals and monsters.” I answered, turning to her with worried.
“What? Then why would Spike go to somewhere like that?!” Kaede asked.
“I don’t know.” I shook my head. He can’t be visiting Zecora this late, he knows better, and he seems quite...distress. Something must’ve happened.
“I’ll go check it out and find him.” I said, grabbing my Hacking Gun before turning back to the others. “I’ll be back, just stay here.”
“But what about Mason?” Kodi asked in confusion.
“Don’t worry, I’ll tell big brother where Ren went.” Carrie responded.
“I’ll be right back!” I said, running out of the home-ship and chasing after Spike into the Everfree Forest. As I was about to enter, somepony called my name.
“Ren!” Huh? I turned around to see a familiar purple unicorn mage.
“Twilight, what are you doing here?”
“I’m looking for Spike! I think he ran away!” Huh? Apologized to him? Wait…
“Twilight, what happened?” I asked in worried.
“I scolded him earlier ago for lying to me and trying to blame Owlicious for killing a field mouse by using a toy one and ketchup to make it look like blood, and so I send him off back to the library to think about his actions, and before you know it, I went to apologize to him, only to find out that he wasn’t at the library!” Twilight explained, feeling anxious. So that explains why Spike was looking so distress.
“You’ve seen him anywhere?!” I nodded my head and replied “Yeah, and if I’m right, I say he’s in danger!”
“What?!” Twilight yelled.
“I’ll be back! I promise! Just stay here!” I assured as I ran into the Everfree Forest, leaving a shocked and confused Twilight.
Where in the world is he?! I was searching through the single pathway of the Everfree Forest. Dang it! I’m starting to get worried and scared. As I continued to walk, I felt something underneath my foot. What the heck? I looked down and saw...ketchup? I looked up to see much ketchup on the ground in a trail. Wait, didn’t Twilight say that Spike used some ketchup for his prank on Owlicious. Then that means that some of the ketchup must’ve caught up to his feet and he just didn’t know that. If I followed it, then I might be able to find him.
I followed after the trail, going off the path of the Everfree Forest and into the bewildering forest. As I felt like I was going on forever, I heard something…
“ROOOOOAAAR!”
“AAHHHHH!”
Oh...crap-baskets…
I quickly ran straight for the noise and saw a giant cave. Oh man, please don’t be a dragon. Please don’t be a dragon. Please for my sake, don’t let it to be a dragon. As soon as I entered the cave, I finally found Spike, who was on the ground, scooting backwards from a….
Oh, you have got to be kidding me. Yep, it’s what I feared, a giant green dragon. Why can’t anything go what I want?! The giant dragon was glaring down at a cornered Spike, causing me to grabbed my Hacking Gun.
“Paralyze!” I shot ‘Paralyze’ directly at the dragon’s eye, causing not to be paralyzed from the shock, but almost blinded by that attack.
“Ren?!” Spike turned to me in shock.
“No time Spike, we need to get out of here!” I exclaimed in anxiety because I don’t think that paralysis is gonna hold long.
“O-Okay.” Spike nodded as he tried running away, but the dragon shook its head and growled angrily at us.
“Knock-Back!” I shot ‘Knock-Back’ at it, but it slashed it away with its claws. Okay, let’s try this!
“Burn!” I then fired multiple ‘Burn’ shots towards him, seemingly damaging the dragon. It barely held any damage to it and retaliated by shooting fire back at me. I quickly dodge it and set the dial to ‘Dance’.
“Dance!” I shouted, shooting the ‘Dance’ bullet towards him, but the giant dragon blew its fire at it, destroying it. Well that was useless. The dragon roared at us, causing me and Spike to fall on the ground. Dang it, this dragon is just too powerful, almost like that hydra back then. As the dragon released its claws at us and planned to slashed us, I felt my hoodie get grabbed as I was pulled back and instantly dodged that slash attack.
I looked back to see...“Mason?!” It was him. He had that serious expression as he set me on the ground, farther away from the dragon. Twilight was even there out there, much to my shock. I thought that she was back in Ponyville, waiting for me to return Spik back home.
“Ren! Are you alright?!” Twilight asked in a worried yet panic look.
“Y-yeah, I’m okay. Wait, what are you two doing here?!” I asked, getting to the point.
“Carrie, Kodi, and Kaede told me that you went after Spike when you guys saw him enter the Everfree Forest, and so I went after you and Spike, but not before I bumped into Twilight.” Mason explained.
“Yeah, I was getting worried about you and Spike’s safety, so Mason let me tag along.” Twilight smiled at me sheepishly.
“I see, well thanks anyway.” I sighed before noticing that we’re one person short. “Wait, where’s Spike?” I asked frantically.
“I’m right here!” We turned to see Spike...flying?! But how is he...Wait, I noticed that he was being carried by…
“Owlicious?!” I exclaimed in shock, seeing the tiny owl bird carrying Spike by grabbing onto his back and flying off with him. He then set Spike on the ground gently, with Spike looking back at Owlicious with a surprise yet happy expression.
“Thanks Owlicious, but why would you save me after what I did to you?” Spike asked in confusion.
“Hoo hoo…” Owlicious replied, but it was kinda hard to understand it since we don’t speak owl.
“You, why did you save me?” Spike asked, getting a little irritated.
“Actually, I think Owlicious did this as an act of forgiveness.” Mason suggested with a soft smile on his face.
“Yeah, that’s what I think too.” I nodded in agreement.
“Really?” Spike asked before turning back to Owlicious, who didn’t express any emotions still, but just blinked. We smiled happily at them, relieved that they’re about to make up. Suddenly, we started to hear footsteps as we turned around to see the dragon, who snarled at us.
“And the moment’s been ruined…” I muttered with a deadpan expression. Yep, should’ve seen that coming.
“Twilight, we need to leave now!” Mason exclaimed.
“On it!” Twilight said as her horn started to glow, but before we could the dragon let out a roar, blowing us back. As soon as I got up from the blow, I saw that the dragon was about to attack Owlicious, causing me to glare at the dragon and point my Hacking Gun at it.
“Break!” I shot ‘Break’ at it, directly at its other eye, causing it to roar in pain. Ha! Bullseye! No pun intended!
“Owlicious!” Spike yelled for him.
“Leave it to me!” Mason shouted as he ran straight for the owl as the dragon started rubbing its eye, trying to get rid of the pain. Owlicious was a little shaken by being attacked by the dragon, but it didn’t mind once Mason grabbed onto him and ran back to us.
“Twilight, get us out of here!” I called for her as the dragon started to wave off the pain. Twilight slowly got up and shook her head. Her horn then started glowing and she started concentrated. The dragon growled at us in anger as it was about to attack us with its claw again. I widened my eyes in shock while Mason growled angrily at it and prepared to take out his bamboo stick, but Twilight managed to get us out of here with her teleportation spell.
Once we were teleported out of the Everfree Forest, I let out a sigh of relief and smiled at Twilight.
“Thanks for the save Twilight, for a second there, I thought we were gonna die.”
“Anytime Ren, but I’m glad you guys didn’t get eaten by that dragon.” Oh, thank god for that.
“But anyway, now that’s over…” Mason turned to Spike with a stern look, while he was still holding Owlicious. “What were you thinking Spike? You nearly gotten yourself killed!”
“He’s right! We were so worried about you!” Twilight added. “I was worried about you! Why did you run away?” Spike soon started to act ashamed for himself, and I couldn’t help but feel bad for him.
“And that goes for you too!” Mason pointed to me.
“Huh?” I asked in confusion.
“When Kaede, Carrie, and your little dog friend told me that you went off to go and save Spike, I grew worried and went off to save you!” Mason exclaimed angrily.
“I don’t like taking sides, but he’s right Ren.” Twilight nodded in agreement. “Even I was worried about you, and when I heard that roar, I thought something terrible happened to you and Spike.” I looked down on the ground with a sad look.
“I’m sorry…” I muttered. I didn’t mean to worried them. I was just trying to save Spike, that’s all.
“But beside that, I’ll forgive you.” Mason sighed. “Sorry if I went hard on you.”
“Hey, it’s okay…” I said, smiling softly at him.
“Yeah, I’m sorry too…” Spike spoke up with a sad look. “I thought you didn’t need me anymore, Twilight and that...you didn’t love me anymore.”
“Spike! Sure I was disappointed, but you’re my number #1 Assistant, and friend! And you will always be.” Twilight replied with a smile.
“She’s right. Didn’t you listen to what I said back at the library, no matter what, Twilight will always love you and will never abandoned you just because she has a new assistant like Owlicious.” Mason added.
“Besides, the reason why I made Owlicious my assistant was so I get a little help at night. I can’t ask you to stay up late, you’re a baby dragon, and you need your rest!”
“Really?” Spike asked, widening his eyes in realization.
“It’s true, Owls like Owlicious are nocturnals, so of course why she made Owlicious her ‘junior assistant’ while you sleep.” Mason replied.
“Wait a minute, why would you study late at night, Twi?” I asked, curious about that subject.
“Well I told you before, I love reading books and study, day and night. Why do you ask?” I widen my eyes upon hearing that answer from Twilight. You know, there’s something called overstudy, right?
“Wow, I never knew.” Spike said with a smile.
“What? The studying at night thing?” I asked.
“No, not that.” Spike gave me a irritated look, causing me to smile sheepishly. “I’m talking about Owlicious, I shouldn’t have been so jealous. I’m sorry Twilight.”
“And I’m sorry too, Spike.” Twilight replied with a smile. “I should’ve been more sensitive.”
“And I think you owe a little someone an apology.” Mason said, putting Owlicious on his shoulder.
“Oh, and Owlicious?” Spike stepped forward with a soft smile on his face. “I now know that you weren’t trying to take my job, forgive me?”
“Hoo?” Owlicious tilted his head in confusion.
“Me, forgive me, Spike.”
“Hoo!”
Spike gave us an irritated look, making us both laugh as I said “I think he did forgive you Spike, in owl speak.”
“Speaking of which, how did you guys know where I was?” Spike asked, raising a brow.
“Kaede saw you running off towards the Everfree Forest from our home.” I explained. “So I went after you, and Twilight told me what happened, but also, I found a trail of ketchup with the size of your feet on the ground.”
“Oh yeah, the ketchup, it looked pretty real though, didn’t it?” Spike asked humorously, earning a look from both Mason and Twilight. You’re only digger yourself into a bigger hole, Spike.
“Well anyway, let’s just go home, and I hope you don’t pull such a stunt like this Spike and Ren.” Mason said, giving us a stern glare.
“Yes.” I nodded.
“You got it.” Spike quickly answered.
“Good, let’s go home. “ Soon then, we went our separate ways. Twilight, Owlicious, and Spike heading back to the library, and me and Mason heading back to our home-ship. While we walked back home, I looked back at Mason with a confused look and asked “So Mason, you were worried about me?”
“Of course, it’s my job to keep watch on all of you.” Mason replied with a serious look. “If anything happened to you, I would never forgive myself. I was taught to be strong, be a gentleman, to clean, cook, and protect…” Mason then covered his mouth with his scarf the moment he just spilled those words.
“Huh? You were taught for those things? Why was that?” I asked curiously.
“J-just ignore that, but even so, you’re my friend, right? So I was just looking out for you.” Well I understand you did that, but that last part you mentioned. You were taught to be strong and that other stuff? What did you mean by that? Just what childhood did you and Carrie went through?
“Anyway...let’s just go home.” Mason said as we were almost back to the home-ship. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll find the answer someday...I hope.
Mason’s POV
As soon as we were back home, my sister immediately hugged me, relieved and happy to see me and Ren again. Even Kaede and Kodi were happy to see us alright. We explained to them what happened to us, and they became shocked that we faced a giant dragon, but were relieved to hear Twilight using a teleportation spell to get us out of there. After telling them, we headed for our beds. Carrie and I headed to our room and just getting ready for bed. Carrie put on her PJ’s and I took off my sandals.
I was still thinking on why I nearly gave out my past to him. He’s just a kid, he wouldn’t understand. But still...it was unlike for me to give away so much info about my past. Good thing I didn’t say the name of my young mistress.
“Hey big brother, is there something wrong?” Carrie asked.
“H-huh? Oh nothing sis, just go to sleep. I’ll be up in the bed as soon as I can.” I replied, hiding away my nervousness. Carrie nodded and went to sleep. Phew, oh well, I guess it’s time to rest up, I’ll just get my PJ’s. As I walked into the closet and picked my PJ’s, I noticed something on the ground.
It was a brown box. Where did this come from? It must’ve been inside of the closet the whole time without me knowing, and it was put in deeply inside of the closet, so of course it makes sense that I would miss this.
I picked up the brown box and opened it, and I widen my eyes upon seeing what’s inside. It’s a bunch of toys, and not just any toys, they were Carries’ toys. How did they get here? Not just that, the box also had something inside shiny inside, which I noticed inside. Curious, I dug my hand into the box to pull out what it was. Once I did, I gasp quietly as I pulled out...a golden necklace.
No, it can’t be right. How did her necklace get here? I opened it up to confirm if its her, and to my shock, it was. It was a picture of my twelve year old self, my little sister when she was three, and...her. A tanned skin girl with green eyes and two pigtails of blonde with a white ribbon on her left pigtail and a black ribbon on her right pigtail and she was a fancy dress. No, it couldn’t be…
“Elena?” I muttered that name, the one I protected for so long and the one who helped raise my sister. Why...Why do I have her necklace? Just what’s...going on?
To Be Continued