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// Chapter 5 – Family Forever 
// Story: Cross-World Brotherhood 
// by Mareofkindness 
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Once the snuggling was over, Luna sat everyone down for dinner. All be it that dinner was at seven in the morning, and that it seemed like breakfast, but no one complained. If anything, it gave Teotle an idea of how his father Shadowflame lived in his universe, once upon a thousand moons ago. Oh wait-
“I made you both French toast sticks!” Luna smiled as Jaden stared at them. Teotle, however, takes extra precautions to make sure his eyes and nose weren’t deceiving him. He has seen Spike cook French toast before at the old library, but he had never seen it in the form of “sticks.” Luna looked at Teotle first. “Is something wrong with them?” She asked. “Nothing at all, it’s just I’ve never seen French toast look like… blocks. Or whatever you call them-“
“SHTICKS!” Jaden yelled with his mouth full. Luna did the courteous thing and gave Teotle 5 sticks on his plate and placed them in front of him. Jaden meanwhile, was attempting to set an Equestrian record of “Most French Toast Sticks Eaten in One Sitting.”
Luna sits down at the table with her breakfast for dinner, and looks back at Teotle after telling Jaden to stop eating all the French toast sticks and to finish his milk. “So, erm, Teotle. What was that spell you happened to perform earlier.” Teotle ate his first stick and took a sip of orange juice, looking back at Luna. “It was a spell that Twilight taught me.”
Luna swallowed some egg and started coughing at the comment, eventually drinking some water to wash it down. “So you know Twilight Sparkle?” Teotle nodded as Luna was quite intrigued.
Out of nowhere, someone pounded on the door, yelling “Princess Luna you in there?” Luna got up from the table after using her napkin. “Coming!” Before she could get to the two doors, they almost flew open and guards swarmed the kitchen. “Seize that thing!” Yelled one of them, as Shining Armor grabbed Teotle, fighting him. “Shining Armor, it’s me! Teotle! What is everyone else doing here??”
Shining Armor looks down at Teotle and grunts from Teotle’s resistance. “Am I supposed to know you?” Jaden ran and hid under his bed, as Luna was trying to get answers about the current situation.
“Not here, but elsewh-”
Suddenly, Princess Celestia entered the room and all suddenly became quiet. Teotle knew darn well not to speak when she did, and Jaden was just as nervous if not scared. “Let him go, Shining Armor.” The stallion refused to let go, adding “he’s a wolf, Princess! With all due respect, he’s dangerous!”
“The only one in danger here is you if you don’t let me go!” Teotle grabbed Shining and wrapped his hind legs around him and slammed his head into the ground. Shining fought back with a punch to Teotle’s shoulder, and sent him several feet across the room. He yelped after hitting the wall, eventually getting back up.
Teotle whimpered a little as he realized he dislocated his shoulder. “Shining Armor. Stop. Now.” Celestia’s horn began to spark. “Leave him be or suffer the consequences.” Shining, on edge from the blow to the head he received, sat down and huffed. “I’m not going to fight him.” Shining grabbed his head as it was throbbing with a massive amount of pain. “He used a move that I knew and taught. He just seems too strong.”
Teotle relocates his shoulder, adding “I didn’t want to fight you anyways. Though Celestia jumping in was a step in the right direction.” Celestia walked over and stood above Shining Armor. As he looked up, Celestia looked down in disapproval. ‘Why did you hurt him?” She asked in a shaky and upset tone. Shining Armor hesitated, not knowing what to say. “Your majesty, in all due respect, he’s a wolf-”
“I could care less if he was a hippogryph, a pegasus, or a wolf!” Celestia interjected. “He’s a creature of origin and he should be treated with kindness and respect… as any pony or creature should be!” The Princess began forming tears. “To think that you, the brother of my star pupil, would just hurt a wolf like that without even thinking of the outcome of your actions!”
“Princess Celestia, I’m sorry-“
“I don’t want to hear that you’re sorry! I declare that you are relieved of your position for 2 full weeks! Give yourself some time to think about the crudeness you demonstrated today.” With that, Shining Armor took off his armor and walked out with most of the guards.
Celestia, after blowing off some steam, saw a flash of light for several seconds before coming to her senses again. She looks down and says “it’s great to see you again, Teotle.” Teotle gets up and exchanges hugs with Celestia as he says “it’s great to see you too, auntie.” A loud thud could be heard coming from the guest bedroom as Celestia quickly turned her head. Luna gulped and began sweating, knowing she would have to prepare an elongated impromptu speech explaining everything.
Celestia quietly opened the door and heard whimpering under the bed. Celestia got down on all fours and looked under the bed and spotted Jaden. He immediately jumped and hit his head on the bed frame, backing up. “Jaden, it’s fine. You can come out.”
Jaden refused without hesitation. He heard the guards talk about a mare with fire as hot as napalm. She would engulf everything she knew in flames, and she looked just like Celestia. Jaden backed into the furthest corner of the room where Celestia couldn’t reach him, despite her long legs and her magic.
Teotle sighed and went over to the bedroom. “Excuse me, auntie.” Teotle found a walking stick in Jaden’s closet and stood it up. He held the stick and rearranged the bed and the frame to make a small tent. He gestured Jaden to join him, in hopes that Jaden would speak up. Jaden was a little confused, but since he trusted Teotle, he dived into the tent laughing before Celestia could grab him. The filly and the cub happily played under the tent as Luna joined her sister.
“So Luna, déjà vu?” Luna leaned on her sister and smiled. “Indeed so. It only seems like so long ago that I raised one of my own, but now I have one who will make Equestria a better place.” Celestia embraced Luna’s company. “So what’s his name?” Celestia asked. “Jaden, I believe he said. Jaden Mist.”
“Sounds like a perfect name to me.” Celestia added. The noise in the tent had stopped for a few minutes, as the sisters had noticed. “What are they up to, I wonder?” Luna whispered as she peeked inside the fortress, blushing at what she saw. Celestia joined her, as they saw Jaden and Teotle cuddled together, fast asleep. Luna closed the cover as she walked into the living room with Celestia.
“So you’re not upset with me?” Luna asked with embarrassment. Celestia giggled a little, lightening the mood. “If anything Luna, I’m proud of you. I’m so very proud of you.”