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// Chapter Ten 
// Story: When Will it End? 
// by Whirl Wind 
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Chapter Ten: Two Years Later


Whirl was making goofy faces in front of a small light teal unicorn colt that had a dark green mean with a bit of light green in it. The colt was giggling and laughing. He reached forward and grabbed Whirl’s snout and when Whirl lifted his head, the colt was lifted with it. Whirl chuckled and gently pulled the colt off of his face. “Now Bold, what have I said about hugging my face? If you do that then you are going to be tickled!” Whirl said playfully before setting the colt on his back and started to tickle him playfully.

“Whirl, are you torturing Character with tickles again?!” Derpy called out from the kitchen. 

“I thought we decided to call him Bold!” Whirl called back as he continued to tickle the colt.

“Why not just name him Bold Character?” Sunny suggested as he set down his newspaper.

“Ohhh, I like that.” Derpy said as she flew into the room with the colt’s breakfast.

“Great idea Sunny, Bold Character it is.” Whirl said with a smile. “What do you think? Bold character sounds pretty cool huh?” He stopped tickling the colt and took the bottle from Derpy and started to feed Bold. 

“Thanks again for agreeing to watch Bold Character while we are at work, Sunny.” Derpy said with a giggle.

“It’s no problem at all. Whirl agreed to bring my work to my place after the work day is over, so I am more than happy to spend time with your little colt. Still can’t believe you beat the odds and had a unicorn.” Sunny said with a grin.

Derpy put her uniform on and grabbed her lunch. “We have to go Whirl, otherwise we are going to be late.” 

Whirl gently gave Bold to Sunny and gave Bold’s mane a quick pat. “Love you Bold, see you again after work.” he said softly before heading out the door. 

Sunny finished feeding Bold and set him down. “So what do you want to do huh little guy?” 

Bold walked over to Whirl’s desk and jumped up onto the chair. Sunny followed him over and watched as the little colt took a quill and started to write big letters on a piece of paper. “BALL” is what he wrote down before he set the quill on the desk and looked at Sunny. 

Sunny was a bit dumbstruck but just smiled. “Ball it is then.” he said as he picked up the colt and set him on the floor. Sunny took a ball and rolled it over to Bold. Bold let out a laugh and rolled it back to Sunny. Sunny kept his attention on the ball and when he rolled it back, Bold was gone. He gasped and looked around the room quickly. He didn’t notice Bold sitting at the desk again writing some more and ended up frantically flying around the house looking for him.

Bold sat there writing all over the place, on the desk, on the walls and all over Whirl’s paper work. Sunny flew back down stairs a moment later to see quills flying all over the room writing on everything and Bold sitting in the center of all the quills laughing. Sunny started to walk over to Bold and the quills started to write on him too. He walked up to Bold and started to tap his hoof. Bold looked up to Sunny, who was covered in writing, and frowned. All of the quills dropped to the floor and Sunny chuckled. “Bold, let’s go get you some stuff to write on.” 

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After a quick bath and clean up session at home, they were off to town. Bold was being a bit restless in his saddle carrier and Sunny had to stop walking. “What is it Bold?” Sunny asked as he looked at the little colt. Bold was reaching his fore hooves up to the sky and Sunny looked up. He saw Derpy flying overhead and smile. “Let’s go say hi to mommy.” he said before he gently took off. He flew up next to Derpy with a smile. “Hey Derpy! Bold and I were going to Quills and Sofas to pick up some quills.”

Derpy giggled and gave her colt a gentle kiss. “Well have fun sweetie.” she said lovingly to the colt. “You have fun too Sunny, I have to get back to work.” She turned and dove down and Sunny turned to land outside of the store gently. 

“Did you enjoy the ride little guy?” Sunny asked as Bold laughed. “I’ll take that as a yes.” he said as he trotted through the door. He bought some foal safe quills and a small book with blank pages. Before he was able to leave though Bold levitated a gilded quill over to himself and hugged it. Sunny smiled and purchased it too before leaving and flying back home. When they got home they were greeted by Whirl. “You’re home early.” Sunny said with a chuckle.

Whirl smiled and nodded. “Storm gave me the rest of the day off. Said that our work had set them ahead too far and if I kept going I would be out of work for a whole year.” 

Sunny laughed a bit and walked inside with Whirl. “So it seems that your little colt loves to write. I figured I wouldn’t discourage him so I went and bought him some writing materials and the gold quill he is currently hugging to death.”

Whirl looked at Bold, who was indeed still hugging the quill, and smiled. “Well, let’s see what he writes.” he says as he takes Bold out of his carried and sets them on the floor.

Bold takes his new quill and dips it in ink before writing on Whirl’s face, ‘And they lived happily ever after. The End.’