Storm Gateway

by RDgamer321


Unwanted Addition to the Family

"I didn't ask for this!" Lightning practically shouted at her parents. Though lying back first on her family couch didn't really help her in this situation. "I'm training to become a professional flier, I can't be sitting here forever waiting for it to happen!"

"Well then maybe you should have thought this would happen when you went with a stallion, at night, by yourself, and failed to realize the danger." Her mother, Star Dust, scolded her youngest daughter who was at this point sixteen.

About eleven moons ago, Lightning had been hanging around a pleasant but poorly behaved unicorn stallion. He had asked to have her come over to his house earlier in the day. Lightning's parents did not agree to this and promptly said that Lightning was not aloud to visit him. This did not stop her, she snuck out late and visited the young unicorn. He was either not in a good mood or in a very good mood but regardless. He had his way with her in his room against her will, and now even with him arrested she was still paying the consequences of her actions. She had shown the signs shortly after, and was forced to halt her practices while the foal developed. She was now nine months in, confined to the couch, and bored beyond any relief. Her parents had hammered this into her brain, it only made Lightning more aggravated as the cycles rolled onward. Her official training would began once she became the appropriate age of eighteen. Her parents had agreed to take care of her foal once she had given birth, but would not give it a name. That was to be Lightning's decision to make upon returning from the academy. She groaned again, whether from pain or frustration her parents could not tell.

"I was picked by a former Wonderbolt himself at flight school. I will not disappoint him because I am not able to... ugh. It's kicking!" Lightning began to argue further before pain shot through her abdomen and she realized that the foal was ready to burst through at any moment. Her parents finally no longer having to argue with their daughter sprang into action. Her father began to carry her out and towards the nearest hospital while her mother alerted her only sibling presently at home, Sky Stinger. He rushed down the stairs from the guest room and followed his family a short distance to the hospital. Lightning was rushed to the emergency center towards a private room where she was allowed space to proceed with the birth.

After a couple hours the doctor on duty encouraged the parents and Sky to enter the room. They did so and were met with a sleeping Lightning Dust and a foal doing the same a few feet off to the side. It was a filly, crimson red which brought a horrid reminder of the stallion as that was where she likely got it from. Thankfully that was where his genetic gifts ended. The filly was a Pegasus, she had a two tone mane and tail with shades of blue along with a similar orange compared to her mother. As they approached the newborn she reacted by opening her eyes, revealing bright fiery orange irises that looked strikingly similar to that of Lightning's. Sky gave a bit of a giggle.

"Look, she's got her mothers eyes." He said, realizing the irony of the situation since he had been a firm believer that it happened to fillies and their mothers more often than not. The parents also gave a slight chuckle at his comment. While Sky Stinger was nowhere near as good as a flier compared to her he made up for in personality and he was devoted to his family and even more so to his closest friend Vapor Trail who his parents encouraged him to hang out with. They were perfect together. He suddenly realized he had planned on having lunch with said white mare and excused himself from the room leaving the parents with the doctor and the filly. This doctor knew this family very well, especially since Lightning had been there before for a multitude of reasons not limited to failed attempts at practicing. They had shared the information of the event and had arranged with him to leave the name slot on the birth certificate blank. Hours later they retrieved the filly from her room, while they carried her out she couldn't help but look and the slumbering pony across the room. She had no idea who she was or if she would even remember her. However, destiny had only one plan for this unknowing foal and it started with punishing her mother for her poor choices.