//------------------------------// // Family Fued // Story: Road to love // by Mes Amis //------------------------------// "Come on Dante, you need to stay put." Scarlet said as she shoved him back onto his bed. She had finished patching up Dante's injuries hours ago and helped him up stairs, but he refused to get some sleep. "I... have... to... get... to... Fluttershy." Dante let out as he struggled against his sister's hooves. "You're not going anywhere, you need to get some rest. Those injuries won't heal if you're running all over town." "I don't care about these stupid bruises. I need to go now!" "Scarlet, there you are. Where have you been? Marcy has been worried sick about you." Stonewall said as he walked into Dante's room. "Dante, what the hay happened to you?" "Nothing. I need to get going." he replied. "Rainbow Dash attacked him because she and Fluttershy thought he was cheating on her with me, then me and Dante's friend Reda brought him here so i could patch him up, and now he won't stay here and get some rest." Scarlet said as she got in her brother's way once again. "You were always such a taddle tell, you know that right?" Dante mumbled to himself. "Big sis!" Marcy yelled as she jumped onto Scarlet, appearing from nowhere. "Marcy, what are you doing here? I told you to stay with your mother, or did I not?" Stonewall said as he frowned at his daughter. "Marcy, sweetheart, I thought I told you barging into other's homes is impolite and unladylike." Treasure said entering the room. "I'm sorry Stonewall dear, but she kept begging me to follow you until I finally yielded. Please forgive me." she finished lowering her head. "If you'll excuse me I have somewhere to be." Dante said as he walked for the door. Stonewall quickly shut the door and stood in Dante's path. "You're not going anywhere. Scarlet is right you need rest, those injuries will worsen if you go out now in this weather." "I don't care, I need to talk to Fluttershy!" Dante yelled. "Is this mare worth risking your life over!?" Stonewall replied. Treasure motion the girls to get to the other side of the room. "Is she important enough for you to make your family to worry!? We're trying to keep you safe and don't want anything happening to you, but you're attempting to run in this storm so you can talk to a mare who doesn't even seem to trust you and..." "You don't know anything about her!" "Don't you raise your voice to me!" "I don't have to listen to you!" "You will listen to me, I am your father! I'm here to take care of you!" "I'm a grown stallion, I can take care of myself!" "It doesn't look that way, seeing that a mare did this to you!" "STOP IT BOTH OF YOU!!!!!" Scarlet screamed. "Scarlet sweetie, please let them handle their own business." Treasure said as she placed a hoof on her shoulder. "No mother, I won't!" Scarlet said as she removed her mother's hoof. "I'm not going to sit here and watch my father and older brother argue over, especially not in front of Marcy!" Everpony in the room turned to Marcy, she was curled up in a ball and was crying, barely audible. "Now do you see what you've done, you both traumatized my baby sister! And over what, you refusing to get some sleep and talk to Fluttershy in the morning." Scarlet yelled as she point her hoof at Dante. "Scarlet sweetheart, please." Treasure pleaded. "Don't you start blaming me, this wouldn't have happen if you just let me leave!" Dante said defending himself. "We're trying to take care of you, but you're to stubborn to listen!" Stonewall remarked. "That's it! Come on Marcy we're leaving." Scarlet sad as she picked up her little sister and put her over her shoulder. "Scarlet, where are taking Marcy?" Treasure asked. "Away from this family. Marcy is gonna be staying with me until Father and Dante stop this pointless fighting." Scarlet then left with Marcy. "You know what, I don't care anymore. Leave, go see that mare. I don't care what you do with your life anymore, because from this moment on you are not my son!" Stonewall then left in a rage. Dante sat on his bed, taking in what his ex-father said. Treasure sat next to him and put her hooves around him. "Dante, are you okay?" "I... Don't know." he said shaking. "I know what your father said was terrible but he'll come around. He has to understand that Fluttershy really means a lot to you, but your father cares about your safety too much to see why. She's a nice, down-to-earth filly who's great with animals and very caring. She's also an extremely beautiful mare, she isn't like most mares these days acting like sluts and wanting expensive gifts from their coltfriends and your lucky to have her in love with you and not some punk who would only  use her." "You're right mom. She's the kind of anypony would want to marry, stallion or mare. I'm just extremely lucky that nopony had taken her, but now I feel if I don't go see her she'll hate me." "So are you going to see her now?" "No, I can't. If the worst is to happen, I don't want to lose two ponies I care about in the same day." he said as he hung his head. "I see. Well I guess I'll go home to check on your father. When you feel that you want to settle things with him, just come by will you?" "Sure mom, I will." "Great. Good-bye Dante, and please get some rest." Tresure said as she left Dante's home and to her own. ________________________________________________________ After leaving Dante's house Scarlet realized something, she had no idea where she could go. Most shops would be closed by now, and the ones that weren't exactly foal friendly. Scarlet didn't want to admit it but she had just messed up. "So exactly where are we going, sis?" Marcy asked. She had finished crying and recovered pretty quick, but she wasn't ready to talk about what happened. "I don't really know. I don't have many friends here anymore so I guess we have to stay at the inn." "Why can't we stay with Reda?" Marcy offered. "W-what?" 'Why would she even mention staying with him, we just met each other today.' Scarlet thought. "I said why can't we stay with Mr. Reda?" "I heard you, but I don't understand why would you want to stay with him?" "Mr. Reda is a nice pony, he teaches music classes at the school, and he's really nice to everypony. He said if we ever needed anything we could come to him for help." "I don't think he meant that we could stay at his house though." "He said anything, he even told us that he wouldn't mind if anypony asked to stay at his home." "I don't know Marcy, it seems a little rude to go todo something like that." 'But its the only option we have at the moment.' Scarlet thought. 'I guess it would fine, he did want to spend more time together. Nonononononono, Scarlet get your head out of the gutters. We're considering this because we need a place to stay, and not to do such things with somepony you just met. Especially Dante's best friend, and your sister's music teacher.' Marcy stared at her sister as she shook her head to get rid of such thoughts, leaving Marcy to wonder what was wrong. "Sis, are you ok?" she asked. "I'm fine, Marcy. I thought it over and we'll go to his house and 'ask' if we can stay. Do you understand?" Scarlet said as she looked down at her sister. "Yes!" "Okay then, where does he live?" "I know the way follow me." Arriving at the door of Reda's home, Scarlet knocked on Reda's door lightly. Hearing a few soft clops coming from the other side of the door, Scarlet looked over her shoulder to look at her wings, nothing out of place, then her hair a few strands separated from the others, easily put back in line with the rest. Her breath, she hadn't eaten besides breakfast with her family so it shouldn't leave any odor. Marcy looked over at her sister checking her features as if preparing herself for a date. Marcy let it slide in her mind as she wanted to make a good impression with her teacher. The door opened to show a groggy Reda, looking as he had just woken from a deep slumber. "Yes, how can I help you?" Reda said as a yawn took over, not even bothering to see who it was. "Oh, um... Hello Reda." Scarlet greeted, twiddling her hooves together. "I was wondering... If we could, um, stay here for the night. But If this is a bad time we'll  leave, seeing that we must've woken you from your nap." Scarlet remarked shyly. Reda now fully awake,  sorta, looked to see his closest pal's sister and his favorite student standing on his porch, asking if they could spend the night. Not completely sure why the two were together, Reda let them in and motioned them to the couches. "So, I guess the first question I have to ask is why you're both here? At the same time?" "Well, after I patched Dante up, I led him upstairs so he could get some rest but he kept trying to leave. Then our father came in, saying that he was looking for me. I told him what happened and then he wouldn't let Dante leave. Soon they started fighting in front of us, and..." "Wait us?" Reda interrupted. "Me, mama and bis sis." Marcy said. "Big... Sis?" Reda said as he looked at Scarlet with a 'You can't mean...' look on his face. It made sense now, why they were together, why they seemed so close, even why Marcy was his favorite student. It all made sense to him now and he facehoofed at the realization. "Well that explains mostly everything." Reda muttered. "Well they argued and then Marcy started crying and that's where I drew the line. I wasn't going to sit idly by as my brother and father fought in front of Marcy, traumatizing her. So I spook up told them how I felt then I left and took mercy with me." Scarlet then lowered her head in shame. "And that's when I noticed I had nowhere else to go." "What made you think of me?" Reda asked. Scarlet started blushing at the simple question. She opened her mouth to say something but couldn't find an answer. Marcy luckily came to the rescue. "I told her that you were always wanting to help your students and I thought that maybe we could stay with you." Marcy remarked. "Well I'm always willing to help my students, especially my favorite, and coincidently my closest friend's baby sister." "I'm not a baby, I'm seven years old!" Marcy replied in an angry tone. Scarlet snickered at her little sister's rage. "So you don't mind if we stay for the night?" "You can stay as long as you want just, um, don't tell anypony." Reda said in an awkward tone. "You wouldn't want the town to think we're dating or anything, would you?" Scarlet looked at Reda, then to Marcy and back to Reda. "No. No, I guess we should give anypony the wrong idea." Scarlet said. Reda detected some sadness in her tone but ignored it. "Okay then I'll be right back." he said as he made for the guest room. Looking inside, Reda saw that the room was full of junk, only leaving enough room for a young foal to sleep. Reda, as he does every time he does, say, or thinks something wrong, facehoofed. Reda went back to the living room finding that Marcy was asleep on her sister's lap. "Um, we have a slight problem." "What's wrong?" Scarlet responded. "Well I have things stored in the guest room, leaving only enough space for Marcy and none for you." "Oh my." "No need to worry though, you can always have my bed." he said reassuringly. "Oh no, I couldn't do that. You're already letting me and Marcy stay here, I couldn't possibly kick you out of your own room. I'll sleep on the couch." "But..." "No buts. I'm sleeping on the couch and that's final!" Scarlet said forcefully. Reda sighed. "Fine, I'll set up the sleeping bag for Marcy, and then get you a pillow and blanket." "Thank you." "Not a problem." After a couple of minutes getting the sleeping bag prepared and grabbing a blanket and pillow for Scarlet, Reda went to his room and on his bed. "Man, I meet a fine looking mare, and then I find out she's my best bro's sister. Stop Rainbow Dash from killing said bro, carry him to his house, then find out that my favorite student is his baby sister, and I'm having both of his sisters stay with me until a family affair blows over. Dante, when this is all over, you owe my big time." Reda thought to himself. Soon he found himself fast asleep.