It was the big day, it was time to go home and we were gathered at the Castle; in the conference room that I first met Ixis’ sister, Enis, in. Things were going smoothly… or so I would like to say… well, ok things were going smoothly for literally everyone else. Shy was currently freaking out because we had no one to watch the house, her parents couldn’t due to work and her brother went off to do whatever it is he does, look I kinda decided to not interact with him 100% until he figured himself out, she wasn’t necessarily happy about it but she understood.
Anyways, the reason we even needed someone to watch the house was because Shy didn’t want to bring our pets along as she wasn’t sure what the portal would do to them. To be fair we didn’t know what the portal would do to us, but Shy cares about animals so I respected that and didn’t debate it. I should’ve because we wouldn’t be in this situation.
I sighed and rubbed her back, right inbetween her wings, “Shy, it’s ok we left Angel and Hedgy alone when we went up to your parents’ place, I’m sure they’ll be fine.”
She relaxed slightly at my ministrations, slightly, “That was only a few days though, we’re going to be gone for at least 2 weeks right?” I nodded, “What if they run out of food and Angel can’t get to the bag or the fridge? Or what if the house catches on fire and they cant get out because the doors are locked?” She started to hyperventilate.
“Oh oh or what if a giant meteor came out of nowhere and squashed only your house and it was filled with body snatching goo blobs that kill and replace them, making them mindless pets that when put in a tense situations turn into even worse and scary monsters?!” Pinkie blurted out, popping in from, well wherever she pops in from.
Shy started to breathe faster and I shot Pinkie a look making the pink pony to laugh sheepishly and quickly leave. I turned my attention back to Shy, “Look I doubt the last two would happen, the first one is much more likely but Angel is… resourceful. I’m sure they’ll be ok.”
“M-maybe, if only Discord was here he could watch them.” Shy said quietly.
As if on cue the air cracked and splintered as the world shook violently and then in a flourish of light and confetti and the sound of glass shattering. The cracks in the air blasted open to reveal a mishmash of a creature that had long serpentine body that started with a head that looked like a mix of a pony, a goat and a dragon. It had a horn of a dear and a dragon as well as a tail and right leg of a dragon, it’s left leg was that of some cloven hoofed creature and its arms were the right paw of a lion and the left talon of an eagle or some bird of prey. However it was only in that spot for a split second before it popped over to me and wrapped it’s lion paw around my shoulders.
“You rang?” It said with a chuckle before being sent through several walls.
Now I won’t lie and say I was startled but I will say that my strength was starting to come back so that’s good.
The creature stood up and dusted himself up before popping out of existence and then popping back into existence next to me once again, and when I say popping I mean he inflated like a balloon and popped, “Well, I haven’t been hit hard enough to feel it in… well actually I can’t quite remember when the last time was so color me surprised!” It said with a wide grin while his body turned a bright shade of white and his mane, beard, and sparse amount of hair at the end of his dragon tail turned sunlight yellow.
Fluttershy when wide eyed and looked over the creature, “Oh my! You aren’t hurt are you Discord?”
“Oh posh my dear, it takes more than a good punch to do me in, although a good punch would be quite refreshing after breathing in all that dust.” He summoned in a glass full of red liquid, what I’m assuming to be punch, tipping it to take a drink only to have the glass drain down his gullet and the punch to remain, he then proceeded to smash the punch against his forehead, crumpling it like a soda can.
I blinked as my brain was trying to comprehend what was going on.
+And it is failing quite miserable I might add.+ Ixis said as she chuckled at my flabbergasted state.
Discord looked at me once more, “Oh my dear pegasus aren’t you going to introduce us?” He said to Shy not taking his eyes off of me, quite literally I might add.
“Oh! Of course, Discord this is Chris, Goldy’s Father.” She said gesturing to me, “Chris, this is Discord, he’s a friend.”
Discord held out his eagle talon and his eyes rolled off my shoulder and up his body back into their sockets, he smacked his head with his lion paw causing his eyes to roll around in his head before they settled into a natural position, “That’s me, Discord, Spirit of Chaos at your service, I used to be disharmony as well but after being reformed that went to someone else, Pleasure to meet another mish mashed creature!”
I looked at his talon and his smiling face, that’s when things started to click in my head, I shook his talon, “Pleasure to meet you as well Discord.” I said giving him a polite smile.
“Very good, now Fluttershy you called me?” He asked trying to turn away but he couldn’t remove his talon from my hand, and he turned back to me, “Well I didn’t know you liked handshakes so much, but I would very much like my talon back, normally I wouldn’t be opposed to lending someone a hand but I do like getting him back.”
My smile turned a bit more twisted and there was a very clear gleam in my eye if you were paying attention, “Oh I’m sorry about that, you and Shy said Discord correct?” He nodded and I closed my eyes and nodded in understanding, “Ah ok, just making sure.” I then reared my right hand back, forming it into a fist before slamming it into the side of his head as hard as I could. Of course this would have done what my last punch did and sent him flying through the castle walls, however I was still gripping his talon so that couldn’t happen. So what occurred instead was I drove my fist and his head along with the rest of him into the floor, creating a decent sized crater that obliterated the floor. Now this caused everyone to gasp and look at us, more specifically me.
I leaned down, my hand now open and gripping his head, pushing it further into the floor, I growled into his ear, “That was for betraying the girls and throwing away their friendship you absolute tool, you ever and I mean ever do anything even remotely close to that again I’ll make you wish you were trapped in stone, are we clear?”
Discord grunted under my hand and through the gravel, “Crystal.”
I let him go and stood up a smile adorning my face again, “Good. Now I do believe Shy has something to ask of you.” I said before dusting myself off and climbing out the crater I made, I walked passed Shy and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek and apologized about what I just did before walking over to the others.
Luna was giving me a smirk whilst everyone else was just looking at me shocked, “What?” I asked the Lunar Princess who just shook her head and gave a small chuckle.
“Dude… what was that about?” Rainbow asked, slowly flapping to maintain a hover.
I shrugged, “I may not know exactly how you guys defeated Tirek, considering in the stain glass window none of you had Elements but I did hear how Tirek even getting to the point where something Element level was needed to deal with him was due to discord, I just… didn’t know that that was Discord.”
“How did you NOT know that was Discord, we kicked his tail almost twice and there’s a window for that too dude!” Rainbow said.
I stared at her, looked over at the rest of the girls, spike, and the princesses and at their nods I face palmed, of course there’s a window for discord how did I miss it, “Look I obviously missed it, really I guess the only thing that would’ve changed is I would’ve done what I did as soon as he burst through reality instead of being super confused.”
“Ok, yeah, but that still doesn’t really explain why ya did that in tha first place sugar cube.” AJ said.
I was about to answer but was cut off by Luna, “Lady Apple Jack, our dear friend and nephew Christopher is one to be protective, if your accounts of what happened with Sombra are to go by. He learned that our, and I hesitate to use this word, friend Discord happened to betray you all and put your lives at jeopardy, his friends… his family… and most importantly his daughter.” At that everyone’s eyes widened in realization, yes even all knowing Celestia’s, “Remember he nearly killed Sombra for merely harming Fluttershy, while you all may have been in danger I doubt it was to the scale of what Tirek was at. With Sombra we would have eventually found a way to defeat him but with Tirek and his magic absorbing abilities I doubt that would have ever have happened, thus it could have been the end of the would Christopher has come to know and the one that accepted him into it’s loving arms. Discord threatened all of what he held dear with his betrayal, truly I say what he did was letting Discord off easy.” She then looked at me and gave me a warm smile, “Was that close enough dear Nephew.”
I coughed, blushing heavily, really… I can’t help it she only calls me nephew when she’s in maximum caring mode, not saying she doesn’t always care but it’s more of a motherly and protective extreme when she does other times she’s still protective and caring but understands I like space. I nodded, “Yes, spot on Aunty Luna.” I looked at everyone and sighed, “Look I’ll admit it was a bit overkill and I get that you all have forgiven him.” At a few of their hesitant looks I chuckled, “Ok, mostly, forgiven him... but it’s going to take a lot more than whatever he did to even get as far as he has with all of you and more than he currently has to offer to get to the point he’s at with Shy. You all are my world, my everything, like Luna said, he put that at the most risk it’s ever been at and honestly I’m seething internally but Shy wouldn’t approve so I’m dealing with it.”
Speaking of, Shy just joined us again smiling widely, “Discord said he’d watch the house for us.”
I sighed, “Alright as long as it’s still a house when we get back.”
“Oh I’m sure he wouldn't do anything like that, would you Discord?”
The walking Picasso lazily drifted over to us and stopped, “Heart my cross and hope to eye, stick a fly in my cupcake.” He said before ending off an odd series of movements by sticking an open zipper in a cupcake… really? We all looked at him in utter confusion, “What it’s a Discord Promise, you know, like a Pinkie Promise but its a Discord Promise.”
“Yeah but instead of locking you into to what you agreed I bet it lets you do whatever you want.” Rainbow said under her breath.
I groaned, I did not have the patience for this right now, I turned to Twilight, “Is the portal up and running?”
She blinked, looked at her notepad, scribbled a few things and gave me a smile, “Yep, it’s all good to go, but since it’s locking onto a new universe all together you’ll need to go through first so it can get a baseline connection of something that’s intimately linked to your world and ours.”
I grabbed mine, Shy’s, and Goldy’s bags and stood in front of the portal, “Makes sense… uh does it have an exit spot or is it random?”
Twilight looked back down at her notepad, “I actually don’t know, maybe if you think of a mirror somewhere secluded it’ll have that as it’s base portal exit from here on and into the future?”
I shrugged, “Worth a try I suppose. Alright, Aunty Luna you’re in charge there’s money in the cookie jar on the fridge, the emergency gem is in my office and make sure your sister and my sister don’t burn down Equestria while I’m gone ‘kay? Oh, and no turning into an avatar of eternal nights and no parties got that?” I said giving them a mischievous grin as they just gawked at me. I turned towards Shining Armor, “And you mister, no baby making with my sister while I’m gone, I know what you children do when you have free time… honestly half the Crystal Empire does at this point.” Shining’s jaw just dropped and Cadance was blushing furiously, Twilight’s mouth was just opening and closing like a dying fish at that and Rainbow and Lyra were on the floor gasping for air. Finally I turned my attention to Discord, who audibly swallowed, “And you, if I find one thing out of place anywhere I will rip off that poor excuse of a beard and freeze it so far up your tail hole that even your magic won’t be able to fix it.” Everyone winced at that.
His eyes shrunk in fear and surprise, “When you mean anywhere-”
I cut him off, “I mean this world, this universe, this reality and any possible realities, timelines, or universes.”
Discord nodded quickly and saluted an Army helmet popping on his head, “Sir yes sir not a thing out of place upon your return.”
Bon Bon whistled, “Haven’t seen someone get Discord in place like that other than Fluttershy.”
“Well they are getting married darling so it only makes sense that he would be able to reign in that ruffian.” Rarity said.
“Welp, see you all on the flipside.” I turned towards the mirror, so just think about a mirror I want to pop out of huh? Sounds easy enough, I took a deep and stepped through/
~In a world a ways away and then some~
Lilac sighed as she fumbled around her keychain looking for the right key to the front door, normally she wouldn’t have a problem but she just got back from a long day with her daughters, they went to an amusement park after they kept their good grades throughout the year, she did promise after all.
“Having trouble getting the key mom?” Her oldest daughter,Vivian, age 15 asked.
“Sorry sorry, one moment I don’t even know why I have all these stupid keys.” Really she didn’t, she didn’t even remember what over half of them went to, something her ex husband had or some other things, she couldn’t remember but because of that she couldn’t get rid of them because what if she ran into the thing she needed one of the keys for? It was an endless cycle.
Lilac felt a tugging on her pant leg and looked down to see her youngest there, Tina, age 8, looking up at her, “Do you need a light mommy?”
“Actually, that would help, Vivian could you shine a light over here?”
The teenager groaned, hating her full name being used, “Yeah, one sec mom.” She pulled out her phone and turned on the flashlight, shining it on the bundle of keys her mother was fumbling around with.
“Thanks sweetheart. Ah here we go… you know getting the floral key cover really only helps during the day.” Lilac said to no one in particular.
Vivi, what she preferred being called, scoffed, “Well if you’d just get rid of the other keys it wouldn’t matter. It’s not like dad is coming back to tell us what they’re used for.”
Lilac sighed, Vivi was always like this when it came to anything related to her father, they’ve had many arguments about him, but she understood where her daughter was coming from, after all she had to deal with that from Andrea regarding their mother, only difference is her ex husband was still alive… somewhere. Lilac felt another tug on her pants and looked down at Tina, she smiled and ruffled her youngest’s hair making her laugh. Tina, never knew her father, he left only a few months after she was born.
Not like it mattered, Lilac thought. She shook her head clear of those thoughts, it’s been 8 years no need to dwell on it anymore… at least that’s what she tells Vivi, she should follow her own advice.
She finally got the door unlocked and open, she stepped inside the large house and felt along the wall for the light switch until she felt it, she flicked it expecting the entry way lights to turn on, only for nothing to happen, “Strange…. I know I paid the electric bill this month.” She flicked the switch a few more times, was there a power outage? She looked behind her to see the street lights were still on, ok that means the breaker in the house was flipped by a surge of some kind.
“Vivi can you run around back and flip the-” She was cut off by a loud crash coming from the second floor, “Girls, go wait by the car.”
“But mom-” Vivi started.
“I said go wait by the car!” She snapped at her daughter and looked at her, seeing that Vivi was scared, “Sorry, just, please go wait by the car, If I’m not back in 30 minutes call the police ok?” She looked down at Tina, “Go wait with your sister ok sweetheart?”
Tina nodded and walked over to her sister, “Be careful mommy.”
“Thanks sweetie I will.” She looked at Vivi and gave a quick nod before heading inside, she snuck along the bottom floor hallway until she reached the stairway. She crept up the stairs, avoiding any of the squeaky panels she’s come to know over the years of living in her mother’s old house. She stopped at the second floor landing and waited for another sound to happen, nothing did so she decided to walk quietly and quickly down the hall before she heard quick pitter pattering behind her, she froze deathly still ready for whatever was about to happen.
She nearly jumped out of her skin when she felt something brush against her leg, she looked down to see Cookie, her brother’s cat snaking her way through her legs, purring heavily before giving off a raspy meow.
She let out a breath and smiled, “Silly old cat, you almost gave me a heart attack, was that you making the noise up here?” The cat looked up at her and just meowed. Lilac laughed, very much relieved. However that relief was short lived as noise that sounded like whispering was coming from one of the rooms in the hall, she gulped and slowly moved down the hall. She followed the voices until she stopped in front of a door she actively avoided, it was her brother’s room, how was there anyone in there, the windows are locked and so is the door, from the inside unless you have a key. It didn’t seem like a forced entry, at least not from the doorway, she put an ear up against the door and listened, she did indeed hear voices… feminine voices? That sounded like they were arguing about something?
“Pinkie darling would you mind getting off of me please?” Said a very posh voice.
“Oops sorry Rarity, hehe, I can’t see where I’m going I think I tripped over something.” Said a bubbly high pitched voice.
“Yeah that something was me…” Groaned out a country accented voice.
“Be quiet, please, I have no idea if this place is empty, if it is great, if it isn’t we really don’t want anyone to know we’re here… yet.” Said a familiar male voice in the tone of a harsh whisper.
Lilac backed away from the door, there were strangers in her house, multiple from the sounds of, maybe a group, maybe they were college students and wanted to break into a big house as a prank? She didn’t know and wasn’t sure, but they didn’t sound dangerous. Well, Lilac, you’re about to do something dumb, hope you know what you’re getting yourself into.
She reached up towards her hair bun and pulled out the pin holding it in place, once she removed it her hair fell around her face and over her shoulders, she looked at the hair pin and mentally prepared herself, she had the key to this room turned into a hair pin, the end of it still maintaining the shape of the key. She felt it would be the best way to keep it safe since she kept her hair up most of the time. She inserted the key pin and turned it, hearing the tale tale click of a lock unlocking.
She slowly opened the door and peered inside the room, for a split second she thought she saw a blue eye glowing at her until she blinked and it was gone, but not what it belonged to, it may have been dark in the room but she could still see the black outlines of several people.
“W-Who’s there?” She stammered out, oh real nice, ‘who’s there’? Who’s going to answer to that, especially with that stutter at the beginning.
But before she was able to finish berating herself the same male voice as before spoke up, “Sorry about this Lady, we didn’t know anyone lived here and-” He was cut off as the familiar hum of electricity whired through the house and the lights flickered back on.
Lilac closed her eyes at the sudden assault of light to her pupils, she slowly opened her eyes, blinking away the blurry image that was still present but before her vision was clear the male spoke once more.
“L-Lily… is that you?” The voice said with genuine surprise.
Lilac on the other hand froze, no… no it couldn’t be, only 2 people every called her Lily and they were both gone, no this had to be a trick or a dream or something. She blinked one last time and let the blurriness fully clear and she gasped at what she saw.
It was her older brother Christopher, this had to be a dream right? But… no, she’s had dreams about Chris before. She always dreamed of him exactly the last way she saw him, tired, broken, pudgy, and ready to run and escape from everything. But this person standing in front of her was alive, colorful, full of joy and hope…. Happy, this couldn’t’ve been her brother… he was so different, oh my god his eye, those scars… what happened, why was he wearing an eye patch? Wait the other eye…. No… this was her brother in that eye she saw the one thing that was ever present whenever he was around her no matter how bad things were going for him. A smile, a smile that shook her to her very core, one she hasn’t seen in so many years.
“Lily, my little flower, is that you? It’s me Chris.” He said with a sad smile, god that smile… Lilac had longed to see it ever since she was a teenager.
But that was that was the breaking point for her, she leaned against the door frame and slid down it until she was on her knees, she felt tears running down her face, she was crying, she didn’t know why she was crying but she was, was she happy? Was she sad, maybe mad? She didn’t know but what she did know is that it was too much. She stayed on her knees and let her tears flow, that was when she felt arms around her pull her into an embrace.
“Oh my little flower… I’m so sorry.” He said, her brother said.
She hiccoughed and buried her face into her brother’s chest, “Please… please don’t let this be a dream.”
~Chris’ POV~
I’ll admit I was expecting to see my family but not this fast… I looked down at my baby sister and just ran my fingers through her hair, I then looked at everyone behind me. They all had different looks on their faces, ranging from concern to mild jealousy, heh, I shook my head.
I continued to run my fingers through her hair or a few more seconds before I spoke up, “I see you decided to let your hair grow out like you always wanted.”
Lilac sniffed and gave a weak laugh before pulling away from me some, “That’s the first you thing you’ve said this entire time.”
I smirked, “Is it? I figured calling you by mom and mine’s nickname for you was the fist me thing I said.”
She laughed and rolled her eyes, “This really isn’t a dream is it?”
I shook my head, “No, Lily, it’s not, I’m back.”
She eventually stood back up and I joined her in that I finally got to look at her, she looked… older. Like I told the girls years ago, she was my adopted sister. She’s actually Asian, Japanese to be exact. She was about 5’5, had a smooth, heart shaped face with almond shaped eyes with iris a nice chocolate brown. She let her hair grow out from the short bob she had to where it was now a few inches past her shoulders. Like most Asian women that you see in media she was petite but that didn’t mean she didn’t have a figure, in fact a lot of boys were pining after here when she was in high school, it was amusing to see how uncomfortable she got. Really all in all she looked… good, tired but good.
“What happened to you, where did you go, who are all these people?” She asked gesturing to my friends and family.
I hesitated for a second, “Can we go downstairs and discuss this in the living room, it’s a bit cramped in here, also kind of dusty.”
Lilac nodded, “Of course I just need to- THE GIRLS!” She yelled out, eyes going wide at the realization of something.
I cocked my head to the side, “The girls?”
“Yes, my girls, I need to go get the before they call the cops. You know the way downstairs, I’ll meet you there?” She asked.
I nodded, and she left quickly, I turned around and looked at everyone, surprisingly they all looked relatively the same, except they were now fully human, but they did retain their hair color. The Apple Siblings were white, though they had very obvious tans, guess being out in the sun all day translated over. The Belles were just as snow white as their coats were back in Equestria. Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash also had heavy tans due to their outdoor activities.
Fluttershy was pale, not ghostly so but more like… angelically pale, which I found confusingly amusing considering she also spent a good amount of time outside. Pinkie was just normal skin tone white and Twilight was well… funnily enough she had a tan skin tone very similar to mine, neat.
Bon Bon and Lyra were also white but Bonnie had a slight tan to her, not as heavy as AJ or Rainbow’s but it was there and Lyra, like Pinkie was just an even skin tone.
It was Spike and Goldy who shocked me the most. Spike was, like twilight a skin tone very close to mine if not a slight bit lighter and he had spiky green hair.
Goldy very much was the lightest skin tone in terms of natural brown skin tones of the group, but I expected no less from being me and Shy’s kid, and she still had the pale gold hair and bright blue eyes.
I clapped, “Well, welcome to Earth everyone, and welcome to being human.” They all fully looked at themselves and one another.
“Oh thank Celestia I’m not a dog this time.” Spike aid with a relieved sigh.
“Having no fur feels so weird, I can feel all the air directly and it’s cold! Is this what you feel all the time Chris?” Lyra asked.
“Well, cold? No, heat yes, all the time, before I got my draconic powers yes that's what I felt all the time.” I said, “Ok, but let’s get to the living room, we’ll do introductions there, and besides I’m curious as to who these girls are.” I lead the way downstairs to a very large living room, enough space for everyone to sit somewhere comfortably.
“Whoa, Chris, dude, this is your house?” Rainbow Asked.
I nodded, “A small part of it yeah, and I doubt it’s my house anymore. I’ve been gone for so long.”
“Oh no, it’s still your house, as it’s mine. Andrea’s and Dad’s, though we both know they would never live here.” Lilac’s Vice rang out as she rounded the corner.
“Yeah but I’ve been gone for years, I thought you all would’ve just declared me dead.” I said.
“Trust me we got a lot of suggestions to do that but we, mostly, never gave up hope, but enough of that for now, we can discuss it a bit later, I want you to meet two people.”
I smirked, “I’m guessing your girls?”
She nodded and looked at the corner she rounded, “Vivi, Tina, quit being shy and come say hi to your Uncle Chris!”
I mouthed, ‘Uncle?’ to myself but it clicked as I saw two kids round the corner, one clearly a teenager and the other one I’d say was at least 7, they looked almost exactly like their mother. The major difference being their hair as curly instead of straight and their eyes were green. There were more subtle differences between them but nothing worth really mentioning.
The youngest one looked up at Lilac, “That’s my uncle mommy?” She asked pointing me.
“Yes Sweetheart, go say hi.” Lilac said, giving her a little push.
The little one slowly made her way over to me, “He-Hello, I’m Tina.” he said quietly, not looking at me.
I smiled, “Hi Tina, I’m Chris, you want to know a secret?” She looked at me slowly and nodded, I got really close to her ear and whispered, “My middle name is Tina too.”
She gasped, “Really?” I nodded, “Mommy, did you hear that? Uncle Chris said his name is Tina too!”
Lilac laughed, “I know sweetie, you’re named after him.”
Tina looked at her mother and then at me, eyes wide with wonder, “I am? But why do you have a girls name?”
I laughed hard at that and I heard laughter behind me as well, “Well that’s because Grandma and Grandpa were very sleepy when I was born.”
Tina made an O shape with her mouth and looked over at her mother, “Were you sleepy when you named me too mommy?”
Lilac tried to say something but was just kind of looking panicked. I looked at my little sister, she really was sleepy when she named her wasn’t she? I snorted and then that snort turned into full blown guffawing.
“You totally were sleepy when you named her weren’t you?!” I said between breaths.
Lilac blushed, “I was not… ok I was but I did purposely name her after you I just decided it in a half awake state.” She said with a pout.
That just made me laugh harder, I was going for a good minute before I calmed down, “Hoo, sorry sorry, that’s just too funny.” I ruffled up Tina’s hair, causing her to giggle and she decided to sit in my lap.
She looked to left of me, looking at Fluttershy, “Hi I’m Tina, are you Uncle Chris’ wife?” That question caught everyone off guard and made Fluttershy blush as she stammered to get and answer out.
I coughed, “We’ll get to that little one. Now, who’s miss grouchy over there.” I asked looking at the teenager.
Lilac smiled and put an arm around her, “This one is Vivian, she’s obviously my oldest. Vivian that’s your Uncle.”
“I know, I was paying attention.” She walked up to me and held out a hand, “Hey, I’m Vivian, but everyone calls me ViVi.” She saw me looking at her hand, “What?”
I raised an eyebrow and set her little sister to the side, on Fluttershy’s lap, “Really a handshake?”
“Well yeah, what were you expecting?”
I smiled and grabbed her, pulling her into a hug, “I expected a hug.” I said quietly to her, she squirmed at first but eventually she gave in and hugged me back. “See was that so bad?” I asked her as I let her go.
“No… not really.” She mumbled out.
“Good, well now that that’s out of the way I guess I should introduce everyone. Everyone this is Lilac, Lilac this is everyone.” I said with a smile… which then turned into a sigh as Lilac and Shy both glared at me, “Alright alright… sheesh.” I stood up, “Everyone, this is Lilac, my adopted baby sister, I call her Lily. Those are, I guess, my nieces; Tina, named after me and Vivian… named after mom?” I asked as I looked back at Lilac just to be sure, she gave me a confirming nod, “Yes named after my mom.”
I then turned towards the girls and stood next to Lilac, “Lilac these are my friends and family. We have the one with striped purple hair, the studious and magical Twilight Sparkle, who’s also my sister in law through adoption.” Never really thought about it like that really.
“Hi!” She said with a happy smile.
“Her little brother and mine, adopted, and number one assistant the one with the spiky hair, Spike.”
“Yo.” Said the dragon turned human.
“Next we have the hard working and honest Apple Jack and her equally hard working little sister Apple Bloom.”
“Howdy.” Said the stetson wearing woman.
“Nice to meet ya!” Said the bow wearing girl.
“Then we have the lovely and generous Rarity, and her little sister who could woo a crowd with her voice, Sweetie Belle.”
“A pleasure Darling.” Rarity said with refine.
“I like your name!” Sweetie said with a smile, causing Lilac to chuckle.
“The loyal and courageous Rainbow Dash, and her number one fan and adopted little sister, Scootaloo.”
Rainbow looked upset but smiled quickly, “Don’t forget fastest, and it’s awesome to meet you!”
“What Rainbow said, I can’t wait to see all the cool stuff you have here!” Scootaloo said happily, getting excited over all the possibilities.
“Then you have my two best friends the candy maker extraordinaire, Bon Bon and her annoying but happy go lucky wife, Lyra.”
“Aww that’s sweet of you Chris. And it’s nice to meet you Lilac.” Bon Bon said.
Lyra pouted, “Why did I get the mean description?”
“Not mean, accurate.” Bon Bon said giving her wife a sly smile, this just made Lyra pout more.
I laughed, “Well speaking of laughter, we have the woman who can make any party for any one and have the world’s biggest smile doing it, the party planner supreme, Pinkie Pie!”
Pinkie jumped up and threw out confetti from somewhere, “That’s me, I can’t wait to throw a return home part for Chrissy here, he’s been looking forward to coming back.”
Lilac raised an eyebrow and looked at me, “Don’t question it, its Pinkie.” Is what I said to her.
“And last but not least is the always kind and the love of my life, Fluttershy, my fianceè, and our daughter, my sunshine on cloudy days, Golden Skies or as we call her Goldy.”
“H-Hello, nice to meet you.” She said with a small smile.
“Hiya Auntie Lilac!” Goldy said happily.
Lilac looked at Shy and then at me, once again raising an eyebrow and then giving me a smirk, I knew that look.
“Hey shut up, you know how I am.” I protested.
“You’re right I do, that’s why I know what attracted you to her in the first place.” Lilac said with a giggle.
“Shut it.” I quickly said.
“Fine fine, but I still have so many questions like how did you all meet, why did you leave and what have you been doing these past 17 years? And why didn’t you come back until now?” Lilac spouted out, going a bit too fast but spending enough time with Pinkie will train you for it and I definitely caught that number she said.
I laughed nervously, “I’m sorry, it sounded like you said I’d been gone for 17 years, I’ve only been gone for 5, give or take a few months.”
Lilac look just as confused as me, “No it’s been 17 years, I had ViVi when I was 20, I’m 35 now. You disappeared when I was 18.”
I blanched, “W-what I’m only 26. I know I’ve only been gone 5 years, I had Goldy 5 years ago, kind of and that was when I was new where I was.”
Lilac shook her head, “That makes no sense you should be 38.”
I blinked trying to wrap my head around what was going on but Twilight was the one who spoke up.
“I think I know what’s going on.” She said.
Lilac and I, along with everyone else looked at her, as they were just as confused as we were.
She slightly shrunk away from all the sudden attention, “Well… you see… uh basically if I’m correct our universes move at different speeds from one another, this one moving 3.4 times faster than ours to be exact, which makes some amount of sense. I don’t think many universes would run at the same speed depending on how and when they were created. I could go more into it if you would like… but I get this distinct feeling no one would really get what I’m talking about.”
“Probably not, but thank you Sis, I understand.” I said.
Lilac however was still very confused, “I don’t…. other universes, time moving at a different speeds, what are you talking about?”
I sighed, “I was really hoping to avoid all this but… I guess you have a right to know. You see… I left when I saw felt the ground rumble in the forest outside of the house.”
Lilac nodded and then gasped, “The crater the shooting star left?” I raised an eyebrow, “The authorities said that a meteorite fell from the sky and landed in the forest, i went to check it out myself one day and there were just a big crater with nothing in it, I asked them about it and they said that someone probably took it and pawned it off for money or something. Is that what you did? So you could travel or something?”
I shook my head, “Why would I need to pawn off a space rock for money, we’re loaded thanks to mom. And no, it wasn’t a space rock that landed in the forest it was something… else.”
I told my story of how I met Ixis, the girls, my escapades in Equestria I even touched up a bit on some of the time during my training. Recalled events as they led up to right now.
“And now here we are, back home.” I said taking sip of some water that i got halfway through y recalling.
Lilac looked at me, and everyone else, incredulously, “So you’re telling me, that you made a wish to a dying dragon, that breathed ice, and you got sent to an alternate dimension, where in actuality; everyone here, except Spike who is a dragon, is an anthropomorphized pony that ranges from normal, pegasus, unicorn, and Alicorn, whatever that is, and you are half dragon and your daughter is also half dragon and pony and some human thrown in for good measure and you have the spirit of a dragon living inside you head? Also, you got adopted into royalty because you simply…. Asked?” I nodded, “And you lost your eye and are using an eyepatch to cover it up because its tainted by ‘dark magic’ and your weird mental tick of blaming everything on a different aspect of yourself got infused with that world’s ‘magic and dark magic’ and became an entity all on its own?” I nodded once again, “Also also, this isn’t what any of you actually look like and there is a portal connected to the mirror in your room and that magic made you look human, and human again to better suit this world?”
“Well that last one is speculation on my part but considering that according to Twilight when she went to the actual parallel world to Equestria she was made more humanoid, I would assume that yes that is the case.” I said.
Lilac blinked and sighed, “Yeah I’m sorry but I just don’t believe that, do you know how ridiculous that sounds?”
I leaned back into the couch, “Yes, I do, but here’s the thing, when have you ever known me to lie about something serious on this kind of level?”
Lilac opened her mouth to say something but closed it, before opening it again, “I… you… that one time with…. I mean… crap.”
“Yeah, exactly, come on, you know me better than that. Honestly, I expected you to not believe me in the first place, it’s why I had something made just for this occasion… amongst a few others.” I stood up, “Excuse me for a second I need to go grab a bag I brought along.” I quickly made my way upstairs and heard talking coming from the living room as I left.
‘Hey, you there? I haven’t heard you since we came here.’ I asked Ixis.
+Yes I’m here and sorry about that but the magic in this world is… weak, stronger than when I was last here but still weaker than Equestria.+ She said, sounding kind of muffled and distorted.
‘Oh, well I guess that makes sense, do you need to rest at all or?’
+Yes, I think that would be for the best.+ She said, her voice getting more subdued.
‘Ok, well you do that, get rest and keep as much of your attention on Wrath’s door that you can, we don’t want him causing any trouble, if he even can.’ I said, I felt her give a weak nod and the noise that normal accompanies her presence faded away.
I felt my shoulders sag, it was going to be weird not having her being able to chime n whenever she wanted. Oh well, time to find what I came looking for. I dug around the pile of bags and suitcases in the room before seeing what i needed, probably was it was underneath one of Rarity’s huge suitcases that didn’t have wheels, seriously?
I groaned, “Ok, well, let’s see if we can get this off shall we.” I moved closer to the bag and put my hands against it and took a deep breath. I propped myself at an angle that gave me good leverage and I gave the suitcase a good shove, a really good shove… ok I may have sent it flying into the wall.
“Well good to know I kept my strength, even if it’s a bit lessened.” I bent down and picked up a small pink, blue, and white bag. Good, everything looks intact, now back to my family.
I made my way back to the living room, “Ok I have what I need, now here, one for each of you.” I pulled out tiny crystal orbs, all holding different colored swirls of magic with in them.
I handed a multi shaded purple one to Twilight.
The rainbow one to Rainbow.
The royal purple, blue, and white one to Rarity.
The orange one to Aj.
The blindingly pink one to Pinkie.
A yellow and pink one to Shy.
A yellow and blue one to Goldy.
A teal and off white one to Lyra.
A purple, pink and cream one to Bon Bon.
A pale yellow and red one to Apple Bloom.
An orange and purple one to Scootaloo.
A white and two toned purple one to Sweetie Belle.
And a pure green one to Spike.
Finally I took one out for myself, it was swirling with white and blue, with small specks of black popping into existence within the marble every now and again.
“Oooohhhh, swirly…” Pinkie said, her eyes following the pink swirls in hers.
Twilight looked at the orbs, “Are these what you had Ontogenesis working on?”
I nodded, “Yep, it’s also why I asked for you all to demonstrate your specific magics to me.”
“Ok that explains why you randomly asked me to pull off a sonic rainboom a couple of days ago, but that still doesn’t explain what these are though.” Rainbow said, examining her little rainbow crystal, which she shook, causing the colors to swirl faster within.
I smiled, “Anyone want to take a guess?” After several long seconds of silence Fluttershy was the one to raise her hand, “Go ahead Shy.”
“W-well when you came back you looked like how you do now, no horns or wings or tail or teeth, but the you broke one of these little crystals and it all came back.” She said, this of course was news to everyone except her and Goldy.
Twilight looked at me, “Wait so you mean to tell me that these crystal orbs-”
“Transform you, yep, into whatever you pre program them into.” I said cutting her off, “Although it’s temporary as the magic of the world does not like you going against it’s wishes. This was something the R&D department up at the Crystal Empire came up with, mostly as a means for me to disguise myself as I traveled, after all me walking around with horns and a tail, kind of extra obvious, sometimes it paid to be… discreet. Now, as I'm sure you noticed the magic of my world is… weak, which in turn is draining your magic faster and making you all weaker than you normally are, same goes for me. This little crystals are infused with enough to your magical energy to have you running at full power for a maximum of an hour and a minimum of I’d say…. 10 minutes, that’s only if you’re really drawing on your magical reserves through, which we shouldn’t need to do here.”
“Ok, but how does this disguise us exactly? I Understand how it’s able to empower us, buy popping them between our fingers it forces our magic into our bodies, sort of like a small short term magical battery. It’s the transformation part I don’t understand.” Twilight said.
“Right well if you all would examine your orbs closely, please tell me what you see.” They did and Sweetie was the one to speak up first.
“Oh! I see little flecks of blue, sparkly white, and black disappeared and reappearing.” She said.
At the this the others started to notice it too, “Chris, what are those?” I heard, Bon Bon ask.
“Those, my dear candy making friend, are bits and pieces of my magic, every aspect of my magic. You see, the funny thing is, even if you store a transformation spell within the orbs it really only acts as an illusion, all your bits and parts still exist, they’re just... hidden. I, however, am a special case due to how my magic works and the fact that i can, or will be able to, transform at will my magic in those orbs actually changes your physical make up when it’s combined with different magic signatures, it doesn’t turn you into the thing completely but more merges who you are with traits from whatever the magic in the orb is from. Interestingly enough only one aspect of my dragon magic comes through, you all will get itty bitty fangs, but really it’s not noticeable unless you’re trying to pay attention to that.”
They were all looking at their orbs with amazement shining in their eyes, Twilight and Rainbow the most. Though i’m pretty sure those were for two opposite reasons.
“Now remember.” I started saying, “This is temporary, the magic of the world, as faint as it is, will force you to turn back eventually, so really I’d say these are emergency use only.”
I turned to Lilac and my nieces, who looked confused as all get out, “Sorry Lily, I know that must have been confusing. I’d say it gets less confusing from here on out… but I’d be lying if I did, just…. Watch the show I suppose.”
~Lilac’s Pov~
Lilac… really wasn’t sure what was going on, her brother told her all these wild stories about a magical land called Equestria on a planet called Equis… honestly she was beginning to wonder if he actually went insane over the years and these were really just doctors helping him cope.
Then he went upstairs and came back with a bag full of marbles, he called them crystals but they looked like a mix of those glitter balls and the tooth paste marbles that she used to collect when she was a kid. She was debating just leaving and calling the cops but decided against it, this was her brother and whether he was crazy or not she missed hi and wanted to see him.
She was about to say something to get him to stop but that's when she heard a pop come from the hand of the rainbow haired one, rainbow liquid leaking over her hand and then a bright light started to emit from the liquid as it slowly expanded and surrounded the woman, is glowing and flashing all the colors of the rainbow.
That’s when the rest of them all nodded and proceeded to pop their respective marbles, all being covered in light the colors that were swirling in the marbles.
Lilac looked at her brother who was the only one who didn’t pop his marble, oh no, she knew that smile, it’s the one he gave when he knows he’s won something. No there was still a chance he hasn’t done-nope nevermind, he just winked, well she was screwed.
Chris popped his marble and light surrounded him as well. Lilac was… needless to say, surprised but she was also terrified of what she was about to see, she looked over at her daughters, her youngest was smiling widely and rocking back and forth, clearly excited. Her oldest, however, had wide eyes of concern but she noticed that there was also excitement deep behind the concern. Lilac… couldn’t help but smile inwardly at that.
Her attention to her children did not last long however as the rainbow light cocoon started to shake violently before a brief flash of what looked like a cloud producing a rainbow lightning bolt flashed into existence and the light cocoon shattered, leaving a sky blue anthropomorphic pegasus in its place.
Lilac blinked, well… son of a bitch, he was telling the truth, but wait that means… she looked at the rest of the cocoons and one by one they started flashing pictures. 3 diamonds, 3 apples, Multicolored balloons, A microphone with music coming out of it, an apple with a nail being hammered in it, a flaming wheel, an angel harp, 3 candies, 3 butterflies, and a six pointed purple star with 5 smaller white stars surrounding it.
Chris’, Golden Skies’ and Spike’s were the ones that were different. Spike’s while being green at first and in the shape of an oval like everyone else’s, when it was time for his image to appear, a green flame like aura did instead. Golden Skies’ turned crystalline and shiny, with a very light blue and gold aura, and it glinted in the lights that were given off from everyone else’s cocoons.
Chris’ was the most diverse, it turned crystalline blue like Golden Skies’, had an imagine of a dragon entwined with a snowflake, and had a white and black flame like aura emitting from it. Quickly one by one in the order that the images appeared the cocoons broke open leaving anthropomorphic ponies in her living room, a tall purple and green lizard, a smaller blue, white, and pale gold dragon that also had fur… how strange but she supposed that made sense.
Finally her brother’s cocoon cracked apart and burst open, revealing him but he looked drastically different, he had large white horns that followed the curve of the top of his head before curving and pointing straight up, ending in a sharp point. He also had a blue reptilian tail that had white spines that ended off in a spiral point. She would guess was around...4 feet in length that was a decent thickness, but nothing too unwieldy. However the most prominent thing was his gigantic wings, they reached up a decent distance above his head at the knuckle joint, which had 3 small claws, and they were only were a couple inches off the ground. He stretched and yawned, his mouth full of razor sharp teeth and a long snake like tongue. Once he opened his eye she saw he also had an icy blue eye with a slit pupil.
“So, you think I’m crazy now?” He asked, cold air starting to pour off of him, this being the last straw causing Lilac to pass out.
~Chris’ POV~
I jumped forward quickly and caught Lilac before she hit the ground, “Whoa ok, did not expect that to happen.”
Tina looked up at me, no surprise or fear evident in her eyes, just pure wonder, “Is mommy going to be ok?”
“Yeah, she’ll be ok, she just got a bit too much excitement happening.” I turned my attention to ViVi, “I’ll wake her up, do you mind getting her a glass of water?”
ViVi shook her head numbly and walked to the kitchen, I chuckled, that’s the reaction I was expecting. I brought Lilac over to the couch and laid her down, “Hey, Tina you wanna see something cool?” She nodded with a wide grin, “Cool, watch this.” I held up my hand and cooled it down rapidly to the point where fog and mist were pouring off of it, I lifted up the hem of Lilac’s shirt slightly and slipped my cool hand onto her stomach.
This caused a reaction of her quickly sitting up, yelping in surprise and displeasure, making Tina laugh, and then Lilac punched me squarely in the jaw, “YOU JERK!!” She shouted out before quickly realizing that she just punched me in the face, “Oh my gosh, i’m sorry, you aren’t hurt are you?!”
I laughed and moved her hand, “I’m fine, promise, really didn’t even feel it.”
She looked up at me, and then at everyone else and then back at me, “What are you all?”
I smiled, “I told you they’re ponies; earth, pegasi, unicorns, and in the case of Twilight and a handful of others are alicorns, there are a few other sub species but it’s such a long list I don’t feel like going on about it.”
ViVi came back with the glass of water and sat next to her mother, still trying to process everything. Lilac happily too the glass of water and chugged it down, “Ok that explains them, but Spike, Golden Skies, You?”
“I told you already, Spike is a dragon, Golden Skies is a Kirin, and I’m half dragon half human, a new race I deemed Drakon.” I explained, sitting back down between Goldy and Shy.
Lilac looked down, clearly thinking before she nodded and started laughing, “So everything you told me, was the truth?” I nodded, “Ok, so you told me what happened, how you left, you never told me why you left, or why you came back now instead of any time earlier.”
I sighed and sat forward, “You ain't going to be proud or happy with me for this… but at the time I thought there was nothing for me here anymore. I just wanted to leave, do something that would give me, I don’t know, purpose?”
Lilac gave me an intense look, “You left to find purpose? What purpose, you had us, your friends… your family.”
I snorted, “I’ll give you friends, hell whatever one's stayed here, the rest left and didn’t bother checking in on me.”
“What?! They were worried sick about you, you just never responded to any of their calls or messages, so what else were they supposed to do, keep checking in on you? They aren’t your keepers, maybe they oh I don’t know felt like you just wanted some space and respected that.”
“I… yeah I know… I know and I know I should’ve responded or at least tried to get back in touch with them… but…”
“But what? And what do you mean you’ll give me friends? What about your family?” She asked.
“My family-” I said with some spite, “Was falling apart when I left. Andrea left because she hated Mom and what her and dad’s divorce and mom’s death did to him, so she ran from the problem. Dad, became a drunken shell who’d lash out at his children. I was fucking broken because mom DIED and I was left dealing with the fallout from Andrea’s and Dad’s bullshit, and when I had the opportunity to leave I took it because I couldn’t deal with it, you could’ve come with, gotten away from it all but you decided to stay.” My voice was rising, getting close to shouting as I went on about my family’s issues.
Lilac blinked, before standing up and actually shouting, “You think I wanted to stay?! Had to because you all were leaving, yes dad might have been an abusive drunk but he was just as broken as the rest of us after mom died! Do you know how much it hurt him hearing Andrea spout off the toxic shit she said about mom?”
I shot into a standing position, my tail flicking side to side angrily, “Well he sure as fuck didn’t ever stop her!”
“That’s because he figured she would eventually get over it… he was wrong, obviously and when Andrea left, he got even worse.” She said, still just as angry, but more quietly.
My tail slapped the floor, leaving a slight scuff, I heard my name being called from behind me, I ignored it, “I know, I remember, it got much worse after Andrea left.”
Lilac nodded and looked at me… no into me, “And you took the brunt of it, you always did when it came to me, you protected me from anything he would try to do.”
“I did and eventually it became too much and I had to leave, it’s why I left, I couldn’t deal with it, from his physical drunken abuse to Andrea’s verbal emotional tirades whenever we’d see her, I just needed to leave, hell my own personal life outside of family didn’t help either. It’s why i wanted you to come with me, to live here, so you could get away from it all!” Once again I heard my name being called and I decided to ignore it.
“You leaving was destroying Dad even more but you didn’t see that because of how angry you were, but I didn’t stop you because I knew you staying wouldn’t have been good for anyone. It broke him completely, Chris, you leaving was what finally broke him completely.”
“Yeah, right, he still had you there, I doubt me leaving bothered him…” I blinked and just had something dawn on me, “He… didn’t hit you did he?”
She shook her head, “No, he didn’t like I said, you leaving completely and utterly broke him, yes I may have been his daughter too, but I was adopted, you were the last thing to remind him of Mom. He had nothing left, but he also didn’t want to push away the one person who stayed through everything. He got real sick after you left you know? The stress was too much and I had to take care of him.”
“Why bother, you should’ve just let the bastard die at that point.” I said coldly, before I felt a hand on my shoulder and I looked in that direction, only to come face to face with a very angry looking Fluttershy.
“Chris, that’s enough, calm down, look at your sister, look at your family, look at us, what do you see?” Shy said, tears welling u in her eyes as her eyes went from angry to worried.
I looked behind me at my family from Equestria, they were scared… they were worried, I turned my head back front and looked at my nieces, they were also scared and worried. I then looked at Lilac, she had the same look in her eyes but also sadness. I looked between them all and then down at my hand, my eyepatch was in my hand… when did that happen? I gasped and then quickly put said hand up to my eye, feeling the dark magic aggressively flowing out. I turned away and quickly refastened the eyepatch over my eye.
I took a deep breath and turned back to Lilac, I kept my distance however, “I-I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t have left like that. There was so much I should’ve have done and so much I shouldn’t have done. How… uh…. How is the old man and Andrea?” I asked, giving a weak smile.
Lilac sighed, “Dad died 2 years after you disappeared, he lived long enough to see Vivian born but after that he said that it was good that the last choice he and mom made, adopting me, ended up ok. After all he messed up with you two so at least something good happened. He only got weaker after that until one day he just died in his sleep. After that I moved here with Vivian and Tina’s father and I’ve been living here ever since. I haven’t really heard from Andrea since dad’s funeral so I have no idea how she’s doing, I do know where she lives though. I think you should go see her though, she needs to see her family.”
I nodded, “That was the plan, was to come back and apologize to everyone and to properly say goodbye.”
“Goodbye, you aren't staying?” Tina asked me, with big eyes.
I smiled at her, “Sorry for scaring you and your sister Tina, but no I can’t stay, I have things to take care of back in Equestria.”
She looked down at the ground, “Oh… well I understand, I have stuff to take care of too and I know that it’s important that I do or I’ll get in trouble.”
I ruffled her hair, “Hey it’s ok I’m going to be here for a while so it won’t be goodbye too soon.”
“Speaking of, how long are you going to be here?” Lilac asked.
“Good question, it was around two weeks if I’m not mistaken. But, hey Twilight, how long can we push the portal open?” I asked, the Alicorn.
“Well Equestria side we can push the portal open for little over 2 weeks until it starts to deteriorate, that will give us exactly 2 months here.” She said.
“2 months, that's so little time compared to 17 years… but I’ll take what I can get. Now it’s getting late, and it is well past Tina’s bedtime.” This caused the 8 year old to whine out in protest, “Now now young lady, we both know you get cranky if you don’t sleep enough.”
I chuckled, “like you’re one to talk, if you didn’t get 12 hours you would be the worst person waking up.”
Lilac blushed at that, “Shut up, but they’re are enough rooms in the house for you all to have your own space, however I’d understand if you would want to share some rooms, it does get quiet in the house with everyone so spread out.”
I felt a pulling on my pants and looked down to see Goldy, “Daddy, can I say in the same room as Tina and ViVi?”
I shrugged, “I don’t see why not, but it’s up to them.”
Tina got a very excited grin, “Yes, then we can ask her all about Equestria and everything. Pleeeeeaaaasssseeeeee ViVi?” She asked giving her sister puppy dog eyes.
ViVi sighed but smiled at her little sister, “Sure, it would nice to have someone new in the room.” She walked up to Goldy, standing a good bit over her due to her being older, “Come on shorty, let’s get you settled.” Goldy nodded and followed the sisters.
“Don’t forget your bags in my room!” I called after them.
“So what about the rest of you?” Lilac asked.
“Well… I’d like a room that’s close to the library, that is if you have one?” Twilight asked.
Lilac and I smirked, “Have you seen this house? You’ve only been in a fraction of it, of course we have a library, and there are some rooms close to it. Lilac or I will show you to it once we get all of our stuff separate from the pile upstairs.”
“I’ll go with Twilight, been living with her my entire Life, it would be weird to be separated now.” Spike said with a shrug.
“You sure you don’t want your own room man?” I asked the young drake.
“Nah, I’ll be good, besides the house is big enough to get lost in right? If I need some me time I’ll just wander somewhere.” He said, both him and Twilight leaving off to the stairs to go get their luggage.
“Lyra and I will sleep anywhere really.” Bon Bon said.
“Anywhere close to the kitchen and a bathroom, Lyra needs her midnight snacks and Bonnie needs quick access to the puke bowl.” Lyra said, referring to herself in the third person and embarrassing Bon Bon.
I raised an eyebrow, “The puke bowl?”
Lyra giggled, “Bonnie gets really pukey at night.”
“L-LYRA!” Bon Bon yelled, chasing after the teal unicorn, following her upstairs.
Rarity laughed, “Oh I hope to find my one some day, but alas I need to focus on business. Speaking of, you wouldn’t have anywhere that would suit my tastes would you Christopher?”
Lilac looked at me, “Her tastes?”
I shook my head, “Not like that, she’s a fashionista and a tailor back in Equestria.”
“Ooooohhh, actually we should, you ever go into the small side room next to the library?” Lilac asked.
“No I can’t say that I have.” I said to her, I recalled the door but I never found much interest to go into it.
“It’s a Fashion studio that has a living space above it.” Lilac explained.
I blinked, “Well… that’s convenient.”
Rarity gigged excitedly, “Oh that will do wonderfully! Sweetie Belle, darling, will you be staying with me on this trip?”
Sweetie Belle shook her head, “I’d actually like to stay somewhere close to where I could practice my music?” She looked at me hopefully.
Rarity nodded, “I understand Sweetie, well, I should be off to gather my things.”
I chuckled, Rarity has always been an understanding sister, “Sure, there’s a sound studio on the second floor, where I stay, it’s at the far end of the hall so it doesn’t disturb the rest of the house.”
She smiled happily, “That’ll work for me.”
“I just want somewhere to sleep peacefully and get up early.” AJ said.
Lilac looked at me, “Guest house?”
I nodded “Guest house.”
AJ looked between us confused, “Guest house?”
We both nodded, “Guest house.”
“Ok?” She looked at Shy, “Do ya have any idea what they’re goin on about sugarcube?” Shy shook her head in response.
“Oh I know, there’s a small guest house behind this one for anyone who needs extra privacy.” Pinkie said.
“And how do ya know that Pinkie? Pinkie Sense?” AJ asked.
“What? No, I can just see it out the window.” She said pointing to the window pointing out in to the expansive backyard that had a smaller building with lights on visible from inside.
“Oh, I suppose ya can, alright, that’ll suit me fine.” AJ said with a curt nod.
“I’ll probably just steal a room with Sweetie, I get a chance to sleep in and not do farm work? I’m gonna take it.” Apple Bloom said.
“What about you Rainbow? We have a room that’s on the top floor has a large skylight that can open up, it also has a balcony.” I said wiggling my eyebrows, knowing that it would tempt her.
She glared at me, “Oh come on, what do you take me for some kind of chump?” I decided not to answer that, “Of course I’ll take that room, you gonna bunk with me Scoots?”
“Of course, it would be awesome!” The young pegasus said, her wings fluttering.
“I know it would, so let’s go and get our stuff squirt.” Rainbow said, taking off through the house.
I shook my head, “Well that settles everyone.” I said with a clap.
“What about me Chrissy?” Pinkie said, clearly confused about my declaration.
I looked to Shy who nodded at me, “You’re going to be sleeping with Shy and I, Pinks.”
Pinkie blushed, which is impressive I might add, and stammered a bit, “I… but… you and Shy.. what?”
I gave Pinkie a sly smirk, “Well would you look at that, I made Pinkie speechless. Yes, Pinkie, you’ll be staying with Shy and I.”
“I-I…. why?”
I shrugged, “Let’s be honest everyone who came here had someone. Lyra has Bon Bon. Most of the girls have their younger siblings, adopted or otherwise. I have Shy and Goldy. You really don’t have that equivalent, so you’re sleeping with us while we’re here, if you really want though you can sleep in a different room.”
Pinkie shook her head rapidly, “Uh… N-No, it’s ok I’ll take your offer, i’m just going to go…. Unpack yep that’s it!” she took off leaving a Pinkie shaped cloud behind, Shy and I just laughed at that.
“Fluttershy was it? Can you go help everyone unpack, I’d like to talk to my brother alone.” Lilac said with a dark tone.
She looked at me and I nodded, “O-Ok, I’ll see you upstairs in a few Chris, I’ll make sure Pinkie is settled.”
She made her way upstairs and now it was just me and Lilac left downstairs, “So what did you want to talk to me about Lily.”
“What do you think you’re dong suggesting another woman sleep in the same bed as you and your fiancee, don’t give me that look, I noticed the rings.” She said with a glare.
I held up my hands, “Hey it’s not what you think.”
“Not what I think? I think it looks like you’re trying to get a second woman in your bed.”
“Yeah, I know, but did it look like Shy wasn’t ok with it?” I asked her.
She thought about it, “No, but still, it’s wrong.”
I shrugged, “How so? I’m not cheating and besides Shy was the one who suggested it.”
She stared blankly at me, “She… what?”
“She was the one who suggested it, see in Equestria, herds or polygamy is legal, not as prominent as it once was but it’s not looked down upon. Besides, like I said, Shy was the one who suggested it, she knew I liked Pinkie as well and she wanted to bring her in on things.” I explained.
Lilac was embarrassed, “O-Oh, sorry, well as long as everyone is ok with it. Does Pinkie know?”
“No, but I plan on asking while we’re here. I have a plan and everything.”
“You always were one to fall for too many girls at once, but at least it actually worked out in our favor this time, you need someone to take care of you like that.” She said, putting a hand on my shoulder.
I chuckled, “I get that a lot these days, hey can I ask you something?”
“Sure, I don’t see why not.”
“Their father, where is he?”
She stiffened up at that, “I… he left shortly after Tina was born.” She saw the look on my face, “Calm down, it’s not that big of a deal I don’t even know why he left, he just did, one day I came home and he wasn’t there and he never came back, he’s alive and I know that for a fact because our friends have seen him around with another woman. If I had to guess he couldn’t handle raising a second child so he just left.”
I snarled, “I see, were you married?”
She shook her head, “There was so much going on that we didn’t have the time. Though I suppose in hindsight it was a good thing we didn’t.”
I nodded, “Yeah and It’ll be a good thing if I never run into him too.”
She sighed and placed a hand gently against the left side of my face, “Chris, big brother, don’t ok? I appreciate it, really I do, but it happened and it’s over and done with, come on let’s get everyone settled in their rooms.” She walked passed me before pausing, “It’s good to have you back Chris.”
I turned to follow her, “It’s good to be back Lily.”