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// 006 Innocence's Recurrence  
// Story: The Life Returns 
// by Dress72 
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006
Daddy took me skydiving on my sixth birthday. I had been asking and asking for him to take me up to a high altitude, and we worked our way to around 10 kilometers. We had been doing it for almost two years now. But recently, Daddy had been acting strange. He kept screaming in his sleep, waking me up, and I would hear him mumble stuff. Stuff about mom sometimes, that usually what causes his screams. But I also hear him weird stuff about ponies, or wings, or lights or being pure white. Usually, when he mumbles about that stuff, he mentions something called Rainbow Dash.
When we had gone skydiving from the ten kilometers, Daddy had been having the nightmares long enough for when I saw lights, I wasn’t that scared. When my parachute didn’t open, I panicked a bit, but it appeared worse than it was, and based on Daddy’s reaction, I could tell that this had happened to him before.  I asked him if we were going to die, but got a strange answer of going somewhere and changing, and figured that we were going to where Daddy kept mumbling about. 
I think I was right, as we didn’t die, and we became ponies. To be honest, I don’t like being a pony. I feel awkward moving around, the posture that it forces, and how I probably won’t get to eat meat anymore. The only thing that almost makes up for this, is the fact that I now have wings. In fact, I almost didn’t mind being a pony, until I learned that those wings couldn’t let me fly.
“I’ll be right back my little angle,” Daddy started, “Daddy needs to go and talk to a few ponies.”
“But Daddy, it’s my birthday!” I complained.
“I know, but I will be back soon, I promise. And when I come back, I will teach you how to use those wings of yours.” I looked back to see that I did, in fact, have wings.
“Okay,” I said slightly disappointed. “Just come back quickly, okay?
“Alight Jakey, I’ll be back as soon as possible.”
I spent most of the time that Daddy was gone, to figure out how to move my wings. I spent next hour that Daddy was gone, and only got as far as moving them clumsily, but was overjoyed at figuring even this out. When Daddy did get home, I showed him what I had, and he taught me how to move them properly.
Shortly after Daddy’s teaching, we had gone to a town, where everyone or rather everypony, was gathered in the town square, to watch a cake get moved. Daddy ended up getting accused of something, and the whole town got angry. I got scared by everypony’s hostility towards my dad, so I ran to him to get comforted. He ended up sending me into a house made of sweets, where I was told I could pick anything to eat. Looking around the shop, I heard my daddy yell at a deafening volume. 
Not long after, I was picked out a large chocolate icing cake with a marble swirl bottom, fudge center, and a vanilla top. I decided to wait for Daddy to come and eat the cake with me, because it doesn’t feel like a birthday cake, unless my Daddy is there to celebrate with me. The lady that brought me into the store on my daddy’s request, and told me to pick anything, told me that I could start eating, and even brought over a fork, plate, and serving knife, and cut me a piece. However, I said that I would wait. Daddy didn’t take too long after I picked out the cake, to show up, but we soon enjoyed it.
We ate about a quarter of the cake, and Daddy decided to ask me a weird question, “Hey, how would you like to meet the princesses of this place? I can take you to go see them.
“Really? Can you really take me to see actual princesses?” I asked to clarify.
“Of course! I also kind of owe them a slight favor, and need to see them anyways.” Daddy explained
“Why do you of them a favor?” I asked, quite curious.
“Well, I sort of got one of them angry, and need to make things right. I also need to tell her something.” I accepted Daddy’s answer, and offer. We shortly left the gingerbread house, and brought the rest of the cake to the cloud house, which is awesome because it is nice and soft, and we can actually stand on it! 
It had just passed into the afternoon, and we started packing for the trip, that would probably be broken by camping. I noticed that most of the food that Daddy was packing, like breads and greens, where fresh, like they had just been bought. “Daddy, did you just buy that stuff?” I asked.
“To be honest, no I didn’t. These have been here for almost seven months,” he replied.
“Seven months! But they look like they were made yesterday!”
“I know. I find it hard to believe that they are still fresh as well, but a magical world, and nothing can truly be explained.”
Getting that explanation as to why the food was still fresh, didn’t make too much sense to me, but I left it alone. Packed and ready, I dawned a parachute, and was about to leave, when Daddy stopped me. “Let’s eat something besides cake before we go. We will need the energy,” he said. Wanting to get going as soon as possible, I complied, and ate quickly.
Finished with eating, I tried once more to leave, but Daddy stopped me once again. “Hold on there, Jake. Let’s open up that parachute off yours first.” Daddy came over, and opened up my parachute and laid it out, explaining that I will fall less if it is already open. 
Finally being able to leave, I ran out of the house, and into the sky. Daddy was right, I didn’t fall at all. In fact, I was boosted up, high into the air by a thermal updraft. I found that, not only with the wind bringing me forward, but flapping my wings allowed me to move faster. Daddy is amazing though… he kept up with me, despite how fast I was going. It soot got dark, however, and we had to take shelter.
We landed within a cave, near the top of this weirdly tall, steep mountain.  I was actually able to fly the parachute into cave because the entrance was so big. The cave, however, reeked of smoke, but it was oddly relaxing. *Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle* My stomach growled, and I could feel exhaustion setting in. 
Daddy must have heard my stomach growl as well, because he pulled out some bread and some flowers and stuff, and made two sandwiches, one of which, he handed to me. Despite how the original thought of eating flowers sounds disgusting, they actually aren’t that bad. 
After eating, we went to bed, both of us exhausted. I soon fell asleep and had a wonderful but weird dream.  ‘I was with three ponies my age, a white and purple unicorn, an orange and purple velvet pegasus, and a yellow and red pony. “So what are we going to do today to earn our cutie mark?” the yellow one said. “How about we try paragliding? My Daddy has a bunch of parachutes!” I replied. “That sounds great!” the orange one enthusiastically said. “Yah, paragliding cutie marks. We will be the first ponies to ever have a cutie mark of that!” the white one was bubbling with excitement, realizing this fact.’ 
My dream was interrupted by something loud. It didn’t take long for me to realize the source. Daddy was screaming in his sleep again, “ELIS! WATCH OUT!... NOOOO, ELIS! YOU DAMNED CAT! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO TAKE HER!...” This continued for a good thirty minutes before Daddy jolted awake and sat up quickly.
“Daddy?” I said, worried.
He turned towards me, slightly surprised to see me awake. “It’s nothing Jakey, go back to sleep.”
“But Daddy, you were yelling things!” I told him.
“It’s nothing, just a bad dream. Come on, we need our rest if we want to be awake when we meet the princesses.” 
I was reluctant to give in, but I don’t like disobeying Daddy, so I did give in. “Okay Daddy,” I finally said.  I laid myself back down and went back to sleep. This time, however, I didn’t dream, and all was black for what seemed like a few minutes.
I awoke to the smell of a warm breakfast, and a warmth that spread over my entire back. I rolled over and opened my eyes to find that my dad had made a breakfast, and that a fire had been built within the cave and is what had made my back nice and warm.
“You ready to meet some princesses?” Daddy asked. “Because we still have about half a day travel, and if we don’t leave soon, we will have to stop again for lunch.”
“Yeah,” I said, yawning and rubbing one of my eyes. “Still sleepy though.”
“Ah, then I give you two choices; one, fly the rest of the way to Canterlot, letting the movement wake you up, or two, climb on my back, and you can rest until we get to Canterlot.” Daddy offered the two choices, and I gratefully accepted the second offer. 
I climbed onto Daddy’s soft back, and quickly found myself asleep again as we flew through the air. I dreamt again about the same three ponies. ‘We were within a tree house, talking about something, but I couldn’t make out what they were saying, when I asked them to speak up, they started saying weird things, “Excuse me, do you know where I can find Princess Celestia?” the white and purple one asked. “Why would I know something like that?” I asked back. “And who are you to make such a request?” the orange and purple velvet one asked. “I didn’t make a request, I was answering a question,” I clarified. “Where are my manners? My name is White Wind…”’ I realized that I was dreaming at the mention of Daddy’s pony name, and woke up.
“My name is Shining Armor, Captain of the Royal Guard. Under the orders of Princess Celestia, you are hereby under arrest for Fraud, and destruction of half a forest.” I heard a voice from in front Daddy.
I stood on Daddy’s shoulders with my hind legs, crossed my arms, placed them on Daddy’s head, and then rested head on my arms. “Daddy, are you in trouble?” I asked.
“No, my little Red Wing,” Daddy said to me after lifting me off him, placing me down, hen meeting me at eye level, “I’m sure that this is all just a misunderstanding that can be cleared easily.”
I trusted my Daddy and his words, so I turned around, about to explore, when I saw the city before me. Words failed to describe it, and it was made worse when I found that I was on one of the higher parts of the castle that was within the center.
I heard my dad’s voice directed at me, so I turned back him to hear what he was saying, “…as to not teach my son, here, to resist authority.”
I soon found myself following Daddy, who was following a unicorn, down into the castle, and to a prison, but was lost within the image of the beautiful city, and the scenery surrounding me. I found myself once again being called out by my dad, “Would you like to go with Mr. Shining Armor here to a place where you can be comfortable while I get this sorted out?”
“No!!! I want to stay with Daddy!” I refused, and the bed within Daddy’s was pulled out and placed against the wall for me. I tried following Daddy into the cell, but he stopped me, and I was forced to be outside the cell. I quickly started moving it up to the bars, to where Daddy was, and then it moved next to the bars the same way that it was pulled out of the cell. I decided to ask Daddy about this later.
The guard left and Daddy called after him, “Don’t forget to get Celestia! I would like to clear these charges as soon as possible!” Daddy then suggested we play a game and I was eager to pass the time, although it only took about five minutes for a group to arrive and go to Daddy’s cell. Daddy named them one after another, “Hello Princess Celestia, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie.”