//------------------------------// // The Fall of the Leons // Story: The Son of a Pegasus: A Mother's Wish // by ShutterGuy //------------------------------// Luna was awoken by a painful cry into her ear as Jason began to let out a high pitched wail. She immediately cringed and drew her head up away from the baby. Letting the ringing in her ear subside, she peered down at Jason who was kicking his tiny feet. As Luna delicately scooped him up in her forelegs, she found the bed damp. Jason's diaper was soaked and Luna noticed that her mane had also became matted together from being wet. She gave her mane a slight expression of disgust as Jason continued to yell in discomfort. Twilight knocked on the door, "Princess Luna, may I come in?" Her voice was barely audible above the baby's cry. "Please enter, Twilight," The door slowly opened and Twilight entered the room along with Spike riding on her back. "Is Jason okay? I can hear him from the kitchen downstairs," Twilight eyed the baby with concern while Spike had both claws to the side his head in an attempt to muffle the loud noise. "Is that his self defense tactic, to pierce the ears of those around him? Geez he is loud," Luna shook her head. "The poor thing only wet himself. Would you, by chance, have any diapers on you, Twilight." "Sorry, I don't. I can go and retrieve some real quick." "That would be very much appreciated, Thank you. And may I ask of you, Spike, to provide some milk for the little one?" Spike threw his thumb out and nodded. "Anything to stop him from crying," Twilight turned to the door and was about to step out when Luna caught her attention again. "My dear Twilight may I use your bathroom to wash up Jason and myself." "Of course your majesty. You don't have to ask me for that. Please consider this your home and feel free to do as you please." "Thank you for your kind generosity," Luna glanced down to Jason, who was still fussy. "Come on little one let us go and cleanse ourselves." She lightly stepped off the bed and encased Jason in her dark blue aura. He floated in front of her as she headed her way to the restroom. Twilight followed closely behind her. "By the time your out I will be back with diapers and perhaps some clothes. Doesn't seem that his fur-less body will fair well after being wet," Luna opened the door to the restroom then turned to Twilight. "That is very insightful, Princess of knowledge,"Twilight lightly blushed at her being called a princess; she wasn't quite used to the whole princess thing ever since Celestia bestowed upon her the status of Alicorn. Luna smiled at her and patted her with a hoof. "Your going to make a great princess, Twilight. And whatever happens my sister and myself will be here to aid you in your journey." "Thank you Luna." "You're quite welcome, Twilight. And let me know how much it costs for everything, I shall repay you in full and more for all that you've done," Twilight shook her hoof at Luna. "That won't be necessary, I'm more than happy to help out with Jason," Upon his name being said, Jason opened his bright blue eyes towards twilight and he stared intently at her. "Wow, your right Spike. It's like the sky itself is staring at you. Those eyes are so beautiful." Spike hopped off her back and headed his way downstairs. "Didn't I tell you that they were amazing? I'll be back with some milk for my little bud," Luna nodded after the little purple dragon with a smile. Jason fussiness reminded her that he was still in need of a wash, as well as her mane for that matter. Twilight hoofsteps could be heard going down the stairs as Luna closed the bathroom door behind her. "Okay, little one, lets take off that soggy diaper," Using her magic she gently undid the straps and took off the drenched piece of material. She came to understand immediately why human colts needed to conceal themselves. "Oh... well... it is quite different, isn't it?" Jason being fully unclothed, began to tremble from the coolness of the bathroom. Luna noticed this and brought him into her forelegs to provide some warmth. "Don't worry, I'll get the water going so you can be warm again," She used her magic to twist both knobs on the showerhead adjusting it get the proper temperature for Jason. The water gently trickled out of the faucet and Luna used one of her hoofs to check if it was ready for Jason. Careful not to slip, she encased Jason in her magic once more and lightly stepped into the waters path. The warmth was satisfying and relaxing on her wings and she knew that Jason's wings would also benefit from it as well. Bringing him back into her arms, she gently nuzzled him on the nose and he let out a light giggle. She turned to face the showerhead and sat down on her haunches, allowing Jason to be hit on his back by the stream of mild warm water. His tiny midnight blue wings flapped wildly, sending water everywhere. He let out an adorable little laugh as he did. Luna couldn't help the smile forming on her face, just to see him enjoying himself brought her joy and happiness. She gave him a content giggle as she levitated some soap into the air. Jason paid no attention to her actions, for he was having a blast exercising his wings. Lathering the soap, she hugged Jason close to her body and gave him a kiss on the forehead. "Lets get you clean, little one." While she gently cleaned Jason's little figure, she had many questions forming in the back of her mind. One of which kept returning, "What happened to Starlight to cause her to die?" She wore a frown as the thought passed her mind once more. Lifting Jason back up to the waters stream, he let out another series of giggles and laughs from the water tickling his body. Luna stared into his eyes and smiled at his laughter. It seemed to brighten everything around her, making her whole world seem to melt into joy. Pressing his little body against hers, she closed her eyes and imagined what it would be like if she had a foal of her own. How she would love to be with them and watch him or her over the years as they grew into a stallion or mare. The thought caused a tear to drop and blend into the draining water below. It wasn't that she couldn't have a foal of her own, but the time to bare one would impede on her royal duties to the kingdom and therefore she knew that having children of her own was out of the question. However, the moments spent with Jason was starting to make her think otherwise. "Perhaps one day, I'll have a foal to call my own." A knock against the bathroom door made Luna pop her head away from Jason. "Yes?" "It's me, Twilight. I have the diapers and some clothing for Jason." "Please come in, Twilight," It opened up to Twilight trotting in with the items encased in her purple glow. She sat them on the counter. Luna saw the clothing that Twilight was speaking of and eyed it with interest. It's was an autumn orange, one of her favorite colors. "Twilight where did you find that piece of clothing?" "Oh, my friend Rarity gave it to me. She said I could have it since spring is nearing and her fall collection is put away." "That will be perfect for Jason, thank you for finding us that." Luna switched off the water and levitated Jason in the air as she stepped out of the tub. Twilight immediately blushed lightly at Jason's naked figure. She made mental note to include her new findings into her notebook, which she begun writing last night. Tilting her head slightly to one side, she gave Luna a confused expression. "Us?" Luna placed Jason gently on the counter and was placing a diaper on him. "My apologies, I mean him." Luna lightly frowned at her correction and Twilight slightly knew why. She knew that her kingdom came top priority and that Luna must have her mind clear to maintain it. Deciding that it would be best to drop the subject, she moved closer to study Jason. "Luna? What happened to his mother, Starlight? I mean how did she die?" At this question, Luna almost stopped altogether as she tried to get the orange clothing on Jason. "...You know, Twilight. I still don't know, if your willing, we can figure that out through Jason's memories." "Are you sure that you want to do that knowing that she's gone?" Luna finished dressing Jason and brought him into her forelegs. "Yes, Twilight. I need to know what became of her after three years of living with humans," Twilight secretly became excited about seeing more of the mysterious creatures known as humans. "I don't believe this a whole new race to study and analyze. There's so much to find out. I know I'm going to write down a categorized list of questions to answer," She thought to herself. Exiting the bathroom, she turned her head back to the blue alicorn. "I'll be ready in a bit," Luna sadly looked down to Jason, who was happily sucking on his fingers as he stared up into the starry flowing mane of hers. "That makes one of us, then." +_+_+_+ Downstairs, Spike was shaking a baby bottle filled with warm milk. He hummed a catchy tune as he shook the bottle up and down. Spike didn't notice Twilight and Luna approach him from behind as he began to sing. "A dragon is the finest creature ever there's more to him than just guarding his treasure." When Jason gave him a baby's giggle, he spun around with his cheeks filled up with redness. Luna and Twilight both laughed lightly at his embarrassment. "Um... How long were you two standing there?" Twilight smiled at her assistant. "Not very long, very nice singing spike." his cheeks reddened even more so as he turned around to face away from them and held out the bottle. "This is for Jason. I used one of the old bottles Twilight used to feed me with." Luna gave the small purple dragon a warm smile. "Spike would you mind feeding him? I know he could use a big brother like you." Spike spun around quickly and his green eyes shimmered with twinkle of hope. "Wait, does that mean he's staying here with us?" Luna glanced to Twilight as if to repeat the question. Twilight stepped back in light protest. "Sorry I'm already living two lives as is, I don't think I could take on another responsibility on top of everything else. Perhaps before becoming a princess I would've strongly considered it. Sorry, Spike." "Then what did you mean by being his big brother, Princess Luna?" She gently lowered Jason into his arms and spike cradled him. "There shall be a day where this little one will be able to walk on two feet and when that day comes I hope you'll be there to show him how, " Spike's eyes lit up again. "You mean..." Luna nodded. "Yes! Finally another creature that can walk on two legs. Me and you are going to get along nicely, little brother." He lifted the bottle to Jason's lips and he quickly latched on with his eyes set on Spike's. Both alicorns looked at two and silently awed their moment together. Luna's face then went serious as she turned her head towards Twilight. "Are you prepared to see what Jason's memories hold, Twilight?" "Right now? Won't we be leaving Spike alone to care for Jason?" "Yes, but I can't think of any better time to visit his memories than now while he is calm and still in my possession. And don't worry what may seem like hours for us will only be mere minutes for them." Twilight nodded her head with a determined expression. "Okay, princess. Let's do it," Luna closed her eyes and moved closer to Twilight as her horn began to glow with a bright light. In a quick flash, both Princess were gone leaving Spike alone with Jason. "Well, little bro, I guess it's just you and me for now," Upon finishing the bottle, Jason smiled up to the purple dragon. "Ya know I think orange is a good color on you," Taking the bottle over to the kitchen, he sat it on the counter to be washed then returned to the main room. He looked around and the silence was a little awkward for him, but he was content being with Jason. "I know, I can read you a book. How about..." Using one of his claws he scanned the bookshelf. +_+_+_+ Somewhere in the depths of Jason's subconscious Darkness surrounded them as they seemed to just float in the inky blackness. A tiny rapid beat of a heart could be heard as a distant motherly voice echoed around them. "Oh my little baby boy... Ken what should be name our son." Twilight and Luna looked at each other as male voice could be heard echoing close by. "What about hmm... Kevin, I always liked that name..." "Kevin's a good name, but there's one in particular name that I feel fits him." "What's that my love..." A sliver of light could be seen in front of Luna and Twilight. It was only a thin line, but it slowly opened to expose more bright light in as the motherly voice said out his name. "...Jason," The light faded to reveal a human female with long flowing bright blue hair. She was lovingly staring down at them with the biggest grin she could possibly manage. Luna's eye's slightly began to water. "Starlight..." She said under her breath. Twilight shook her head. "Wait, That's Starlight... The Pegasus! But... How?!" Luna glanced over to her. "I helped her to be that way, It was what she wanted more than anything." A single tear fell in her memory of Starlight's death. Ken was leaning over the bed, that Starlight laid in, and smiled down at his son. "Jason... Yeah... I love it. Jason, my baby boy... He's got your eyes my love." Starlight giggled. "Yes, but he's got your hair." "I don't know about that. I can see some blue in there somewhere..." The two stopped immediately as Jason started to lightly cry. Starlight gave him a concerned expression as she began to rock her arms back and forth, causing Jason to slightly become more relaxed. She leaned in and kissed his forehead then began to sing a song that was painfully familiar to Luna, "Hush now my love, precious please don't cry. Listen to your momma's lullaby Know that I'm by your side Don't worry for I will be your guide. Be strong my sweet love, always be true Your Momma will always be proud of you. Jason's eye's closed leaving Luna and Twilight back into the darkness that they started the memory with. Twilight glanced around her realizing that they were viewing everything from Jason's perspective. "Princess Luna, any chance that we might be able to observe from outside of Jason's mind." Luna gave her a nod and lit her horn up. In a blink of an eye they teleported out of Jason's head and into the hospital room. They continued to watch as Ken leaned in and kissed Starlight on the lips. "Wow, did you just make that up honey." Starlight smiled and shook her head. "No it was the same lullaby my mother used to sing to me. I'm so happy that it works with our son... Ken?" Starlight held her loving gaze at Jason, but it became one of concern as she felt Jason's back. "Yes, Starlight?" "Aren't you worried about what others might think about our baby having wings?" "What should I care what others think of him... He's my son and I will always love him. I would do anything to make sure nothing would happen to him." Starlight gave Ken a wide loving smile. "I know you would... Your going to be the best daddy ever." Upon them embracing each other, Luna and Twilight both picked up another male voice that was coming from the hallway. "I don't care if he's an infant or not. He's a miracle to science and as such should be studied." Luna brightened up her horn and teleported Twilight and herself outside of the room where a doctor was conversing with some female nurse. "He's their child doctor, we have no right to make calls to take him away like that." "Too late, I've already reported my findings to the officials and to be honest I'm content that I did. Something like that shouldn't be left unexamined. I'm glad to think I'm thinking in the better judgment of science, than to allow impulsive emotions run my decisions for me." The human in the white coat turned and stormed off, while the nurse marched into the room where Ken and Starlight were still adoring their child. Luna and Twilight followed after her. The nurse stepped quickly towards the couple and she tapped Ken on the shoulder. "You have to go... now." Ken's face was filled with worry. "Wait what? Why? My wife hasn't recovered fully from the delivery yet." The nurse seemed frantic. "Trust me that's not your biggest concern. They're coming to take your baby away from you two." Both of their faces held a shocked look on their face. Ken then showed that he had rage building up inside him as he clenched his fists. "I like to see them try," Ken's teeth gridded together. "Who? "I don't know, some organization from the government. Please you have to leave right away, if anything happened to your baby I couldn't forgive myself." Ken gently grabbed his son from his wife and made his way to a wheelchair that was sitting on the side of the room by twilight. Ken seemingly marched straight through her like she was just air. Starlight slowly rose from the bed and limped over to Ken, who was gathering his family's belongings. Once everything was set to go Ken lowered Jason into Starlight's arms and began to push her out of the room. He paused momentarily to hug the nurse. "Thank you for helping my family..." The nurse hugged him back. "You're welcome Mr. Leon, please take care." "We will..." He glanced at her name tag which read 'Jennifer'. "I don't know how to repay you." "You don't, just go now." Ken pushed the wheelchair out of the room and hurriedly made his way to elevators at the end of the hallway. "...please be with them..." the nurse said after them. Twilight gave the nurse a quizzical look. "Who is she talking to..." Luna shook her head. "I don't know, Twilight. Let us move forward in this memory." Lifting her horn upward she laminated the hallway around her. The next moment both alicorns were sitting in some grass outside of a two story house. Twilight analyzed her surroundings with wonder. Flameless lights lit the streets of the urbanized setting and metallic wheeled machines lined up on the sides of what seemed to be hardened gray clay. The moon above was giving them the ability to see everything almost as if it had been daytime. Twilight trotted about taking everything into her mind for her to further research back home. "Human's are quite the ingenuitive race, we share some of the same materials and yet they've seemed to come up with something extraordinary of their own. They must possess some sort of magic. How do they harness flameless lights otherwise?" Lights flashed across Twilight's face as another wheeled machine pulled up in front of the house. Ken jumped out of the car and walked around to the backside of the machine where Starlight was sitting with Jason wrapped in a blanket. Opening the door Ken tenderly grabbed Jason away from her so she could stand. "Come on, my love. We must hurry it's only a matter of time before they find us. I have to get us to safety before that happens." Starlight stood up from the car still in her hospital gown and she slowly made her way with Ken to the house. Reaching the door, Ken pulled out the keys to open the door. Just as he inserted the key into the lock, bright lights flooded the side of the house and multiple men came rushing at them. Luna and Twilight watched in horror as the men seized Starlight and Ken, but just as they tried to take Jason out of Ken's arms, Ken threw his leg in between the males thighs. "GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY FAMILY!!" "Please, Mr. Leon. There's no need for violence..." A sultry male voice came from in front of Ken. As the lights died out, A man could be seen standing no more than a few feet away from Ken and Starlight. "We are negotiable like civilized men, so instead of action how about we use words. How say you to that?" Ken's eyes flashed in anger. "How about you get your men to get their hands off my wife before I cave in their faces with my fists?" The man snapped his fingers and the two men that held Starlight let her go, but didn't move away from her. "Who do you think you are?!" The man summoned a younger male over, who held in his hands a briefcase. The young male's face was expressionless and stern like that of a seasoned warrior. On reaching the man, he handed him the briefcase and the man cleared his throat. "I am agent Simon and this is my younger associate, Mason. We are from a branch of the CIA and we specialize in the matters of unnatural things on our lovely planet." Simon pointed to Starlight. "Like your wife." "You better watch what you say about my wife..." "Like I said Mr. Leon," He opened the briefcase and pulled out a vanilla folder. "There's no need for violence." Ken eyed the folder. "What's that?" "Just some information, that was given to us by an anonymous source," He placed the briefcase down on the grass and stepped lightly forward. "Victoria Lynn Leon or what you prefer to call her, Starlight Skydancer Leon," Ken's and Starlight's eyes went wide with shock. "It says here that you greatly dislike being shocked. Says something about you showing your true character," Simon looked up from the folder and stared at Starlight. "Care to show us what that means, Starlight?" At him saying 'Starlight' he snapped his fingers and the man behind starlight brought a taser to her neck. Ken noticed this and screamed, "NO!" Jason now was crying loudly as Starlight shook from the electricity flowing through her body. She gritted her teeth and her eyes were clinched while her body started to change form. She fell to her forelegs as her hands disappeared back into hooves. Ken's worst fear had happened, his love, his secret was now revealed to the very men threatening to take her away. Simon snapped his fingers again and the man that tased Starlight pulled out what looked like an epi-pen. Before Ken was able to kick the man away, he stabbed her into her side injecting the contents inside of her system. "What did you just put in her... TELL ME NOW!" Mason stepped forward towards Ken. "I'm afraid that is no longer your concern Mr. Leon." Ken knelt down and gently handed a crying Jason to Starlight. "Like hell it is..." Mason continued with another step. "You come any closer and I will defend my family." "You will certainly try... And fail." At the word 'fail' Mason dashed up on Ken, who threw a fist out and missed as Mason ducked below him. Grabbing Ken's arm Mason twisted his body around bending the arm in a way that it shouldn't. Ken let out a scream of pain as he held his broken arm. Mason stepped back a little and gave Ken swift kick to the chest sending him back towards Starlight. "Ken!" Starlight's breathing started to become hard as she struggled to get clean breaths out. Mason turned to Simon. "Sir, she appears to be having an allergic reaction to the solution." Simon held a expression of disappointment and frustration. "The first Pegasus in a thousand years and it had to be one to have allergies." He let out a sigh and shook his head. "There's nothing we can do for her." "What about the child?" Simon glanced that Mason. "Take him, he's just as interesting as his mother." Mason nodded and began to walk towards Starlight. Starlight began to panic slightly as she saw Mason making his advancement on her. Twilight teleported herself in front of Mason and screamed, "You stay away from her!" "Twilight... It is only a memory we can not interfere with what's already happened." Luna's voice was filled with sorrow. Twilight started to cry as mason just fazed through her. Starlight sat up and held Jason in her forelegs, she searched for someway to escape Jason being taken away. Upon looking up she saw the moon and seemingly remembered that promise that Luna made those couple years back before she arrived. She took in a deep breath, "Please, Luna help me." Mason hesitated slightly, then continued to approach her. Starlight began to kick away from him. "Please, Luna save me!" With Mason no more than yard away she threw her wings over herself and her son. "LUNA!" Suddenly her body was enveloped with a blue light and she disappeared. Ken lifted his hand to where his wife was and let out a painful cry. "Star... Light, I'm so sorry... I failed you." His body went limp as the memory began to fade away. Twilight's tears fell over the body of Ken as he slowly faded into darkness. "Ken... " She put a hoof where his head once laid. "How can human's be so cruel to another?" Luna merely shook her head as her eyes narrowed and her wings flapped in anger. "Those foul humans hasn't tasted thy wrath. If I ever met those humans, I shall givith them a nightmare they won't forget." +_+_+_+ Present Day back on Earth "So your from a land completely filled with talking, multicolored ponies?" She smiled at him and nodded "Yep I am. I helped with keeping the night sky clear." Ken's face was dumbfounded. He never once thought he would ever met a creature like her, let alone start dating her. "I think it would be smart if we came up with a human name for you." Starlight looked out of the window of the car and became excited about the first thing see saw. "Ooo, I know how about Victoria Secret." Ken busted out with laughter. "What? I don't know about that..." "Well I do have a secret, right? So it only seems natural that I have a fitting name to go with it." "Victoria, I like, but perhaps we can discuss a last name over some lunch... Have you ever tried meat before?" Ken blinked his eyes at the overhanging light. Remembering the day Starlight and him first went out into the city to shop for some clothes for her. He shook his head as the migraine came throbbing back. "Starlight... I pray that your okay..." A metallic door swung open and agent Simon entered the room with some sort of device that looked like a laser. "Mr. Leon good to see you finally awake," He sat down and placed the menacing piece of technology on the table. Ken eyed it and then glared back to Simon. "Mighty sorry that Mason broke your arm there, but you were just being too unreasonable. You really should learn to take better hold of that, could lead to an unhappy life. Speaking of which I have some terrible news for you and well rather great news for me," Ken spat a wad of saliva onto Simon. "I don't want anything from you!" "Not even if it concerns your wife and son, huh? Some father you are," Ken found himself strapped to a chair as he attempted to attack Simon. "Now please just listen to me... For I think the good news might intrigue you," Ken continued to give Simon a stare of death. "Very good... We have located your wife's home planet through the tracker that was in the injection we gave her. So your son is still within reach my good sir." Ken actually became slightly hopeful that he still might see his son once more. "But I can't say the same about your wife." Ken suddenly became drained of his color and life. "W-What?" "According to the tracker, her life signal was lost upon arrival. She's dead Ken and for that I'm sorry." Ken twisted and turned in his anger. "SORRY?! YOUR SORRY?! Is that just going to be the jest of it all?! My wife is dead, my son is gone, and to make it okay again is a simple SORRY!" His voice went horse from screaming at him. Simon was unmoved as he simply stared Ken in his brown eyes. "No, a sorry won't do enough for the pain that you must be feeling. So I am going to be a generous man and I'm going to leave you with a present on the behalf of the CIA." Ken scowled and growled at him. "Yeah and what is that?" Simon snapped his fingers and two men came from behind Ken and grabbed his head. Simon moved around the table and made the device approach Ken. "Wait, what are you going to do with that?" "I'm a kind man Mr. Leon and I know how much losing someone close to you can be one of the most painful experiences that one could ever face. So I'm going to make it like your wife was never here. No memory equals no pain. No need to thank me, just accept it as my condolences for your loss." Ken squirmed in the chair. "No please you don't understand I want to remember her. I would rather be kept in a prison than to lose any of my memories with her." Simon was unaltered as he turned on the laser. "Sorry, Ken. It's for the best." The men held back Ken's eyelids as the laser began to wipe away most of the precious memories of Starlight. Ken's screams echoed in the room as everything he held dearest to him was stripped away from his mind. .