//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Snow days are forever // by Onyxfire408 //------------------------------// Chapter 4 The Mysterious Pegasus Scootaloo woke up on a massive soft bed, she couldn't remember the last time she was sleeping like this. She rose up from the bed and looked around, the last thing she could remember was meeting Snow Day and fearing for her life that he would be angry, but last night was the opposite. She walked downstairs to find Snow Day reading the newspaper with some iced tea, she tried to sneak past him slowly, but- "Nice try Scootaloo." Scootaloo froze up when he said her name, he set aside the paper and walked towards her, she shriveled in fear as Snow Day approached her. "Please don't hate me." "What? Hate you? What do you mean? I should thank you." "T-Thank me? Why?" The pegasus said as she was shocked beyond lightning. "Well, ever since you and your friends wrote that article about me, everypony's been treating me with respect and kindness, that brought me joy, and it also made me feel normal. I have to thank you Scootaloo." "Y-Your welcome, but why are you being so kind to me." "Heh, well you remind me of...well...me. When I was young I hid in exile almost all of my childhood, I don't want you to do the same." "Thanks" "But down to the main problem, promise me something." "What is it?" "Never do this to me again, privacy is personal. Also, wanna like...I don't know...live here?" "Wait...what? A-Are you sure?" "But of course, I can't just leave a filly outside in the cold. If you do I'll give you that room you just slept in." The orange pegasus jumped for joy fluttering her wings as she shouted for joy. "WOOOHOOO!!!" As she landed on the floor, she ran over to the stallion and embraced him with tears of joy flowing down her face. "Thank you." "Alright Scootaloo, consider yourself adopted." Snow Day exclaimed as he embraced the filly back. A knocking came from Snow Day's front door, Snow Day opened it to find Rainbow Dash with a concerned look. "Ah there you are Rainbow, what's wrong?" "Well I was looking for you, I mean I found your note last night but I thought you were coming back." "Well I was but look who I found living on the streets." Snow Day moved aside to show Scootaloo who's mouth was hung wide open as she was looking up upon her hero. "Y'see she was actually homeless, so I took the liberty of adopting her and well, yea now she's like my sister or something." "Heh, bet the squirt is happy as Twilight when she got that new book." Said Rainbow Dash "Oh yea Scootaloo, who was your mother and father?" Scootaloo hung her head low in depression, Snow Day wrapped his arm around her for comfort. "Well, I didn't know who my dad was because he died before I was born, but I think I remember my mom's name." "Oh who is it?" asked Rainbow "Her name was Burning Skies." Snow Day flinched for hearing that name again. Burning Skies? Wasn't that the red pegasus that visited Snow Day in his dream. Rainbow Dash looked at Snow Day who looked like he was hit with one of Fluttershy's stares. "Snow Day are you alright?" Snow Day regained consciousness and shook his head, he gave a sheepish smile as he ignored Burning Skies' name. "Huh, oh yea I'm okay." "Well, alright." Rainbow Dash shrugged off her concern and flew outside the house. "Well gotta go guys, gotta clear the skies." The two ponies waved goodbye as Rainbow Dash flew off into the clouds. "Snow Day?" Snow Day looked to the orange filly. "Why did you flinch at my mom's name?" Snow Day let out a heavy sigh, he sat on the couch and hung his head low. "Well it's a long story, might as well get this out now. I had a dream right after I found your article, in my dream I saw a red pegasus mare, she showed me part of my past but I had no idea how she knew. She gave me her name, her name was Burning Skies, but she never told me who she really was." "Wow, I had no idea." Scootaloo scratched her head and jumped as she had an idea. "Wait, is it possible that she might be your mother?" "Hmmm, I haven't really thought about that, but if she could be my mother, then that means you could be my sister." "Awesome, I have a real brother!" Scootaloo exclaimed as she rapidly fluttered her wings gaining small levitation. "Wait wait, I'm not even sure if we're related, we need to make sure." Snow Day scratched his chin. "Hmmm, I got an idea, can you pluck a strand of hair from yourself?" "Why?" "Well, I can mail our hair samples to the Canterlot Science Institute and see if our DNA matches. If it does, then that means that we are siblings." Snow Day explained as he plucked a piece of hair from his head. Scootaloo did as he asked and handed her strand of hair to Snow Day. Snow Day placed the two strands of hair in different plastic bags, he placed them in a package and wrote down a note to Dr. Eureka, he folded up the letter and taped up the package. "C'mon, let's bring this to the post office." The two ponies made their way through the streets of Ponyville they saw Rainbow Dash soar through a massive wave of clouds along the way. As the two reached Ponyville they heard a scream calling out Scootaloo's name. "SCOOTALOO! LOOK OUT HE'S RIGHT THERE!!!" Two fillies screamed as the popped out of a push but sunk back in as Snow Day gave a confused look at them. "Girls it's okay, he didn't mind the exposure, just a little ticked that's all, you can come out now." The two fillies came out of the bush, both had nervous looks on their faces. "Girls, I'd like you to meat my new brother. Snow Day." "Y-Your Brother!?" Both exclaimed as they heard Scootaloo's announcement "Wah this ice stallion's yer brother?" Asked the yellow earth pony. "Now hold on Scootaloo-" interrupted Snow Day. "we need to see if the test results are positive, if they are then we're siblings, if not then I'll adopt you as my daughter, or sister if you'd like." "Oh, alright." agreed Scootaloo. "Now how about you go on and play with your friends." Scootaloo joined her friends, she stood in the middle of the two as they all faced toward's Snow Day. "Future brother or dad, I'd like you to meet my best friends, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle. And we are-" The three fillies pulled out capes and immediately wrapped them around each other's necks and screamed. "THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!" Snow Day dropped the package to the floor as he shielded his ears with earplugs made from ice, but there was no use since the chant was so loud, it broke through his ice. "Ugh, my poor eardrums." Snow Day picked up his package, he gave a small smirk as he looked at the fillies who had confused looks on their faces. "Hey crusaders, how's about you become some package deliverers?" The three gave a long gasp as they swiped the box with beaming smiles on their faces. "Thank you, thank you Snow." Applebloom said as they took the package and screamed. "Cutie Mark Crusader Package Deliverers!!!" Snow Day covered his eyes in a stronger sheet of ice, this time it only made a crack. Snow Day turned to Scootaloo. "Scootaloo, you can stay out as long as you want, as long as you come back home at around 8 o'clock. Okay?" "Yea, I'll be back by then." "Cool, see you at home." Snow Day walked along the streets of Ponyville, he found most of the citizens waving to him or asking him to do a trick with ice. He felt like a clown, but the good kind of clown, or is that a street performer? Well for Snow Day he had no problem with it, as he walked his stomach crumbled in needs. "Eheh, guess I forgot to eat, I gotta find something to snack on." Snow Day spotted a nearby apple cart and walked towards it for a quick snack before he would head for Sugar Cube Corner. He stopped to find a orange mare running the apple stand. "Hello, do you run this apple stand?" "Wah sure I do?" The mare put out her hoof in greetings. "M'names Applejack, you must be that Snow Day pony everyponys been talkin about." "Yea, that's me. You're Applebloom's sister right?" "Huh? How'd you know that?" "Take a wild guess pardner." Snow Day imitated in a cowpony accent. "Oh right, the accent. Is it really that noticeable?" "Yea, about 80 percent of the time. But back to the main subject, can I have an apple?" asked Snow Day "Yah sure, that'l be 2 bits." The snow pony hands the mare two bits and receives an apple in return, he took a bit out of the juicy red apple, full of flavor. "So, I take it your Rainbow's coltfriend." Snow froze up and coughed out his apple as she figured out what's going on between them. "N-N-N-NO, ugh... we are just friends." "Uh huh, so tell me mister snowy guy, when Rainbow first read that article about you, she hurried her tail off like she was stung by a bee, care to explain?" "Uh..." Snow Day's cheeks turned scarlet red, he bit his lip looking for an excuse. "Eye's front, cause there's no where your lookin around for an excuse." Snow Day was dead, he had no other evidence to lie to Applejack. Snow Day let out a long sigh as he hung his head low. "Yes you got me, we're dating." "Ah knew it, now lemme just tell ya one thing." Applejack leaned in closer to Snow Day's ear. "If ya hurt Rainbow in anyway, I will tie you up and barbecue you until ya caramelized like the inside of an apple, ya hear me." She said as if her voice was as dark as Celestia's shadow. " *Gulp* C-C-Crystal." Applejack spit on her hood and stuck it out, she glared at Snow Day forcing him to shake her spit covered hoof. Dude I think you just signed with the devil!!! I KNOW! HELP!!! Snow Day was sweating icicles down his head, he was slightly shaking with fear as soon as he shook his hoof with the cowpony. He quickly let go of her hoof and looked for something to change the subject. "SNOW, APPLEJACK, HELP!!!!" Snow and Applejack looked to two fillies running towards them with scared looks. It was Applebloom and Sweetie Belle, they reached the two gasping for air as they tried to talk, Applebloom was the first to talk. "Scoot...is...ice...fall..ing...well..." "Woh, woh, woh take it easy Applebloom, take a breather." Snow Day instructed as Applebloom did what he asked. "Alright, let's start over, what happened?" "Scootaloo fell into a well. And we can't get her up, she's also got a sprained ankle." "Show me." Said Snow Day as the two followed the two crusaders to an old well. "What where you three doing there?" Asked Snow as they were leading them to the well. "We tried to be Cutie mark crusader wishers, but Scootaloo tried to balance on cobblestone walls and fell down the well." Sweetie Belle explained as the four reached the well. "Scoots, are you still there?" asked Sweetie Belle as she yelled down the dark well. "Yea, I'm okay, but my ankle still hurts a lot." Scootaloo replied as her voice echoed from the bottom of the well. "Don't worry Scoot, we got mah sis and Snow here. Sis do you have ya rope?" asked Applebloom "No, sorry AB, but Ah left it at home." "I might have an idea." Snow Day suggested. He climbed in the well and froze the walls solid into ice. "This might get a little dangerous, so stay back." He collided his arms and legs to the frozen walls of the well and slowly slid down the hole. Hmmm, I can't use my ice slide, this place is a little too small for that. Time for the picks. Snow Day thought to himself as he reached Scootaloo at the bottom of the well. "Scootaloo are you okay?" "Y-Yea, but my ankle still hurts." "Alright, I have a plan, but your gonna have to wrap your hoofs around my neck, okay?" "Yea." Snow Day picked up Scootaloo and brought her to his back, she wrapped her hoofs around Snow's neck. Snow Day closed his eyes as he brought up both his hooves as they began to freeze solid, sticks of ice began to form from Snow's hooves as they curved into a form of a crescent moon. He began to stick the ice picks into the ice walls he had formed, he started to climb up the walls of frost as he began to breath harder. He started to sweat real sweat as he started to lose strength, he gave all the stamina he had left until he finally reached the top. He climbed over the cobblestone wall and slowly put Scootaloo down to the ground. "Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, take Scootaloo to the hospital." "Right." The two fillies said as they carried the injured Scootaloo to the hospital. Snow Day slumped to the side of the well, he felt weak and warm as he started to loose strength. "Snow, you okay?" asked Applejack. "N-No, Applejack can you get me some water?" "W-Why?" asked a concerned Applejack "I used too much ice power and strength, I just need some water to regenerate my strength, if I don't in a matter of time, I'll melt like an ice cube in Saddle Arabia." Snow Day explained as he glared at Applejack with a beggar's look. "Sure, stay here ah'll be right back." Applejack ran off to Ponyville park as Snow Day created a small shelter against the cobblestone wall of the well made from ice to stay out of the sun, he sat against the wall to gain some rest after spending so much energy. Snow Day started to doze off as he waited for Applejack's aid, he looked around to find his ice melting, but not producing water, he was running out of time. He started to see darkness as he saw an orange blur galloping towards him, but he couldn't make image of it. He was gathering as much strength as he could until he couldn't hold his eyes anymore, he closed his eyes, to rest. Suddenly he felt a small cold splash hit across his face, he shot his eyes open to find Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and the CMC all with worried looks on their faces. Rainbow Dash rushed over and embraced Snow Day, she sobbed all over his shoulder as she missed him, a lot. Snow Day hugged back and brushed her mane to comfort her. "Shhh, it's aight Rainbow, I'm aight now." "I know, I just...I just thought you were dead." "It's gonna take more than exhaustion and dehydration to kill me. Anypony got water?" Applejack nodded as she walked towards Snow Day with a canteen, she handed him the canteen as Snow Day swiftly took the canteen and chugged it down whole. After he chugged the whole canteen, he returned the bottle back to Applejack and stood up, he stretched his entire body and let out a wide yawn. After his revival, he leaped into the sky and slid around the sky in ice, after his exercise he landed in front of his friends and smiled at them with impression. "Thanks girls, even though my pills keep me from dying in the sun, doesn't mean that it works permanently." "I'm just glad your okay." Rainbow Dash said as she leaped in and kissed Snow Day, he returned the kiss as he wrapped his hoofs around her and pulled her in for a more passionate kiss. Applejack smiled at the new couple, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle awed at their kiss, while Scootaloo made a sick expression on her face. As the two released their kiss, they looked to the other ponies with an embarrassed look on both of their faces. "Eheh, sorry guys." "Wah it's okay, s'long as your happy. Now c'mon girls, ah need your help on the farm." "YEA!!! Cutie Mark Crusader Apple Farmers!!!" The three fillies screamed as they followed Applejack back to Ponyville. Snow Day and Rainbow Dash looked at each other in the eyes, Snow Day saw clouds and rainbow's in her eyes, as for Rainbow she saw snowflakes in Snow's eyes. The two leaned in closer to each other as they exchanged another kiss, they stayed together for most of the day. The night had struck as they cuddled together near the well, Snow Day stood up and smiled at Rainbow Dash as she had an eyebrow raised in confusion. "C'mon, I wanna show you something." Rainbow stood up and followed the snow white stallion, Snow Day led Rainbow to Ponyville lake, he took off his necklace and placed it on the ground. "Let's skate." "W-What? But the lake is just... well, a lake." "Oh I can fix that." Snow Day said as he approached the lake, he dove in head first and swam towards the bottom of the lake, as he reached the bottom he sat down at the lake floor and closed his ice, solid ice began to form in the water around him, the frost grew as the lake froze solid. Outside, Rainbow's eye's grew wide as she saw what was once a lake is now an ice rink. She slowly stepped on the frozen lake as she started to slide around, she noticed that Snow Day was swimming, yes swimming in frozen ice. Rainbow's mouth dropped as she saw the snow pony moving around in solid ice, Snow Day popped his head out of the ice and gave a smirk at Rainbow. "Pretty cool huh?" he said with a smug on his face. "I've said this before and I'll say this again. There are no words to describe how AWESOME that was." She said as her face was amazed more than becoming a wonderbolt. "Well, wanna go for an ice swim?" He asked as Rainbow had a confused look on her face. Snow Day answered her confusion as he swam over to Rainbow and grabbed her hoof, she pulled her into the watery ice until she was under the surface. She held in her breath and closed her eyes to prefect suffocation, but was interrupted as Snow Day tapped her awake. "Don't worry you can breath under the ice, trust me, snow pony magic is reeaaaaly complicated. No time for me to explain, and don't worry, this ice may be cold but you won't gain hypothermia or a cold." He said as Rainbow Dash opened her mouth, she breathed air is if it came out of a tree, she swam around looking around the mirrored beauty among the lake, Snow Day followed along as she had a playful look in her eyes. She began to swim around in the ice, she did most of the time as Snow Day swam peacefully in the ice, he began to grow weary of swimming and swam to the icy surface. As he reached the surface, he reached his hooves out and planted them on the ice as he pulled himself out having him stand on the ice he just swam in. Snow Day looked inside the ice as he signaled his hoof telling Rainbow to get out, she swam towards the surface as Snow Day stuck a hoof inside the ice and help her up and out. The two walked over to the grassy fields as they lied down and gazed upon the stars of the night. Rainbow Dash looked over to the stallion she was next to, she took her hoof and wrapped it around Snow Day's hoof, he turned to Rainbow's sparkling eyes. Rainbow Dash opened her mouth to speak, "I love you Snow Day." "And I love you too, Rainbow Dash." He said as the two leaned in for another blissful kiss. *Meanwhile in a nearby bush* "Oh my gosh girls, I think that Rainbow's going to be my sister!" whispered one filly as she had a beaming smile on her face. "Oh mah gosh, ya may be raght." said one with a western accent. "Y'know, maybe she might marry him." Suggested another filly. "C'mon, you need to go home." "Yea your right, or else Snow will freeze me." The filly said as the three split their ways and walked to their homes.