Faust smiled quietly as she looked down at her foals, Terran, laid out on his side just a few hoof lengths away from herself. He was asleep for now, though as Faust took a moment to look slightly away from Terran, she noticed her two little girls whispering to one another. She giggled softly, the two little filly's were rather mischievous, from what she could tell. And that certain mischievousness was about to come into play, she could tell.
"Tewwan..." Pouted a small Celestia, moving towards the napping, small colt. Her ears flicked slowly as she crept closer, Luna just behind her as she did so. The colt didn't respond right off, merely shifting in his spot and giving a quiet snore. "Tewwan..." Celestia prodded again, reaching one hoof up and giving her brother a nudge. At last, with this prodding, Terran's steely grey eye opened and he gave a quiet yawn, mere moments after spotting his sister he waved a hoof towards her.
At this, however, Celestia's frown deepened before she leaned her head back, then abruptly headbutted her brother, which caused the colt to yelp and sit up while clutching his forehead just under his horn. Of course, both Celestia and Terran were clutching their foreheads while Luna herself giggled at the sight, though Faust was quick to raise from where she was laying to go to her foals, nuzzling each before giving them both kisses upon their foreheads.
"Momma..." Terran griped, opening his eyes, which in turn caused Faust to smile quietly. Terran, the one of her three foals that had been created with the hematite like coloring of his eyes. It was clear that he was just being fussy, but she still could see his appreciation for the gesture.
"What is it, little Terran?" She asked softly, once both foals had been tended to and smiling again quietly. She waited, patiently, for the complaint that usually came from little Terran, but surprisingly it didn't come. Terran was a mature little foal, at least as far as his age went. He was six now, Faust realised, while Celestia was four and Luna was two...and they got along just like foals of the same age.
"Can we go 'splorin?" Terran asked softly, blushing as Celestia couldn't help but give a happy giggle. He'd promised his little sisters earlier that morning that they would be able to play and, in essence, explore the area around them. Not that they would go out of sight of their mother, she'd always warned them that going too far out of sight while they were small was a bad idea. They still didn't have the magical prowess to defend themselves, if it ever came down to that.
"I don't know, Terran..." Faust began, smiling quietly down at her foals who were all looking at her expectantly. Those eyes, oh how those little eyes could turn her world. "Well, alright, but under one condition." The large alicorn commented, giving a soft giggle as she looked down at the short celebration, "You have to promise that you'll take care of your sisters, alright?"
"Yes momma!" The enthusiastic, grey coated foal commented with a grin, nuzzling his mothers leg as his sisters both cheered happily. Both of the smaller fillies moving to join as they could, nuzzling against Faust's leg before Terran giggled, breaking off before moving further out. His sisters quickly following suit and just about stumbled over each other before Terran slowed, grinning as he moved and scooped up Luna to his back, seeing as his sister was so much smaller than himself.
This action wasn't lost on Luna, giving a happy squeal before giggling and nuzzling against the slightly larger alicorn's body. Nuzzling her head against his neck in appreciation before she then turned towards Celestia, blowing a raspberry towards the white filly which was soon after reciprocated in kind. Though all three siblings soon gave to a fit of, as their mother had called it, the 'giggles'.
And soon, their giggles gave to a fit of laughter that eventually had the three laying by one another, Luna having vacated her spot on Terran's back to curl up between both her larger brother and sister. She felt safe there, her bigger brother that had promised their own mother to protect them with his own hooves, and her bigger sister, whom looked out for her as well. Even taking action in things that Luna couldn't quite do herself...like getting an apple from a tree that she'd spotted a ways from their mother.
The initial tries at getting said fruit turned out to be in vain. The three foals even going so far as to try and get it by climbing on one anothers back. Terran steadily holding the bottom, Celestia holding up Luna, and Luna reaching up to try and shake one of the branches, being sadly too short before they gave up, tumbling to the earth in a disappointed little pile. Once they had gathered themselves, they started off once again in the little circle of 'safety' that was just within sight of their mother.
At Luna's sudden giggles, Terran stopped in his tracks, his ears twitching before he turned to look towards his sister whom was falling behind. He was only just able to make out her light blue hair, trotting carefully towards her as Celestia fell in behind him. At Luna's sudden squeak of disapproval, looking up towards Terran she suddenly smiled, pointing her hoof at...something, and cooing the word, "Cute!". Terran's eyes slowly followed where she had pointed...straight to a rather large, fuzzy, eight legged, many eyed spider. Luna smiled expectantly at them, hoping that they would share her entrancement with the 'cute' little bug.
She was sadly disappointed.
"EEEEEEK!" Came the shrill cry of Celestia, wings spreading behind her before she leapt, ever so ungracefully, onto her brother's back and lay in a shivering mess. Her face buried into his fiery red mane, as if the action itself would make the spider disappear, leaving her with just her brother, sister, and mother once again.
Terran's reaction was much more sedate, offering Luna a small, nervous smile as he waved a hoof to try and shoo the little creature away. After a few moments of doing so, the creature did skitter away, which caused the little alicorn filly to pout up at him. Once sure that the spider was gone, he moved towards his littlest sister, giving her a gentle nuzzle to cheer her up before heavier hoof falls were heard behind him. Apparently at Celestia's terrified scream, Faust had made her way towards her foals, but smiled quietly down at them.
"Whatever is the matter, my little ponies?" She crooned out softly, Celestia bringing her face away from Terran's mane before she hopped down and scrabbled quickly to her mother, hugging against her quickly.
"W-why did you make somefing so scaaary!" Wailed the little Celestia, Luna frowning towards her, in her mind, overreacting sister.
"It wasn't scawy, it was cute!" She said proudly, though Terran's roll of his eyes hardly told which way the colt leaned on that situation.
At Faust's confused look, Terran went into brief detail about the spider, including how he had shoo'd it away. Faust herself smiled quietly before she looked towards Celestia. "Not everything that I create can be pretty, Celestia. And the spider plays a very important roll in making sure that other, more dangerous bugs don't nibble on you. A balance to everything, if you will." She commented softly, leaning down to nuzzle and calm her little white and pink filly.
"I...I still don't wike it." Celestia murmured, a soft yawn escaping her before she found herself lifted to her mother's back with the help of Faust's magic.
"That's alright, little one...for now, let us find a nice spot to lay down and have a little nap, you've had quite an exciting day."
And so, they did.