"Mommy..." Fluttershy felt a light nudge on her cheek. "Mommy, please wake up..."
Fluttershy yawned silently and rubbed her eyes. She opened her eyes tiredly and saw the room was still dark. She then looked at Playtime beside her and she looked spooked from something and looked around, "Yes?"
"I had a bad dream." she scooted closer to her out of fear.
Fluttershy pulled her closer with her wing and lightly hushed her, "It's okay, sweetie. No need to be scared." she nuzzled her and smiled, "It's okay, I'm right here."
They both then heard a bird screech in the forest. Playtime whimpered, closed her eyes, hid her face on the mare's side and started to shack.
Fluttershy kissed her cheek, "It's okay, it won't hurt you." she said in her soothing, calm voice. She started humming a lullaby to her and did her best to calm the filly down.
Playtime looked at her with little dots of tears on the edges of her eyes. She started to get a little drowsy and yawned. She rested her head on Fluttershy's side and slowly closed her eyes.
Fluttershy continued humming for a few more minutes till Playtime's breathing became rhythmic and gentle. She kissed her cheek once more and kept her close, "Sweet dreams, Playtime." she whispered to her and wrapped head and tail around her to keep the filly warm and snugly.
When Fluttershy woke up again, she felt light breath on her side. She opened her eyes and saw Playtime asleep with a sly smile. She smiled and kissed the filly's forehead.
"Good morning, Miss Fluttershy." She looked and saw Nebula's head resting on her pillow, looking at her with a smile and tired eyes.
"Good morning." she blushed bashfully and smiled back.
For the first time sense they met, she felt him warm up instead of her. She couldn't help but move closer to him to warm up and blushed a little more. She caught a glimpse of him and saw he was blushing as well, but kept on smiling at her.
She wanted to feel more of his warmth, so she pretended to shiver a little and tuckered in her hooves. She got it; he wrapped his wing a little more and dragged her and Playtime closer to him.
She was just so happy that her and Playtime's dreams were coming true, but she still needed to show him how she really felt about him.
She could just kiss him again, but what if he thinks it’s just another "thanks for saving my life" kiss, or just a "thank you" kiss. She need to tell him, but... why is she so nervous? She was more nervous than Twilight getting a test from the Princess herself.
She loved him so much it hurt her heart from love over-load... but she was so nervous to tell him.
She started to stress a little from thinking too much, but when she felt Nebula's slow breathing; she relaxed herself and just listened to his thumping heart.
When she listened to it, she felt happiness and euphoria pour into her from him. He was strange, weird, and all that, but he was hers and hers alone. He barely left her and Playtime alone, she didn't have a single problem with it, and she preferred it like that.
Playtime stirred in her sleep and yawned cutely. They looked at the filly and when she looked at them, her eyes went wide. The sunlight coming from the window beamed down on them and it was like she was in heaven with her new parents.
"Good morning, Playtime." Fluttershy nuzzled her little nose and smiled at her.
Playtime smiled happily at them both, and then her eyes started to glow a little and her cutie mark as well.
Both Fluttershy and Nebula then felt nothing but positive energy coming from her.
All of a sudden, Fluttershy's courage started to peek up to the top. She lightly gulped and looked at Nebula before her courage meter went back down to zero.
She just kissed him on the lips with her eyes closed. She felt Nebula twitch a little in surprise, but after a moment, and she would never forget this moment in time when she felt him kiss her back.
She felt her body melt down and smiled while they both kissed. She never wanted it to end, but her lungs told her otherwise. They separated and she took a moment to let it sink all in, her happiest moment in life.
She then heard him, "Do you love me?" he asked.
She opened her eyes and looked at him, "Too much." She was so happy; dots of tears started to form at the edge of her eyes and smiled her widest smile ever.
He smiled back, "I love you too." He Said It! She leaned up and kissed him once more.
"Yay! One Big Family!" Playtime yelled happily. She got out from under Fluttershy's wing and started bouncing around them on the bed.
Fluttershy moved closer to him, and when they separated, she wrapped her head around his, "I'm the happiest mare ever..." she said to him.
She now had the happiest, strange daughter ever and a loving dragon. One would call them a weird family, but being normal isn't always the best way to go to be the happiest family, and every family she met weren't always normal, but they were the happiest.
Playtime then squeezed herself in between the two and looked up at them with a bright smile and glowing, euphoric eyes. Fluttershy leaned down and kissed the tip of her nose, causing the filly to giggle and tried to cover her face on the mare's neck and looked up at her with her eyes.
After some time just enjoying each other's company, they got out of bed and got themselves and the animals some breakfast. Fluttershy still had her little Butterfly hair pin on and just kept on smiling and smiling throughout the morning.
The two took good care of the animals in and out of the cottage, while Playtime drew on a piece of paper on the floor with crayons. She was humming a little made up song and kept drawing with her mouth and her eyes and cutie mark kept on glowing.
When the two got back in the cottage, they saw Playtime drawing nearby with a couple of birds and critters watching what she was drawing.
The little family just relaxed through the rest of the morning. Fluttershy was caressing the sleeping Angel Bunny in her hooves and Nebula kept her close to him with his wing.
Playtime then dropped the crayon on the floor and grabbed the paper with her mouth. She ran over to the two and showed them what she drew.
Fluttershy gasped, "Oh my..."
It was a drawing of her, Nebula and Playtime herself in a little pile and a little text at the top saying "Dream come true" and finished it off with a big pink heart to the side.
Playtime laid it down in front of the two, "Like it?" she asked hopefully.
Fluttershy gently dragged it closer with her hoof, "It's perfect, sweetie." She looked at her; "Thank you." leaned in and kissed her on the forehead.
"Thank you, mommy." Playtime hugged her.
She separated from her and Fluttershy looked at the picture, "Now all it needs a frame." she said. Right after she said it, the piece of paper started to levitate up and with a bright flash, it was framed. The edges were elegant, swirling and twisting at the tips, gold in color.
Fluttershy looked at Nebula with a smile, "Thank you." than pecked him on the cheek.
"Where should it be?" he asked and the three started looking around the room.
Playtime then perked up and looked at the two, bouncing up and down, "The room! The room!" she said happily.
"Great idea, sweetie." Fluttershy said.
The two started going up, following the excited filly. They got to the room and saw Playtime on the bed, pointed right over the head of the head, "There!" she said happily.
Nebula then summoned up a small nail and embedded it in the wall. He hung up the picture, adjusted it carefully and looked at it. He looked at Fluttershy to his side, "How is it?" he asked her.
Fluttershy rubbed the side of her head with affection on his neck, "Perfect." she answered.
Playtime got down from the bed and started prancing around, singing, "Dadddy and Mommy, sitting on a tree! K.I.S.S.I.N.G!"
Fluttershy smiled and narrowed her eyes at the filly. She pounced and wrapped her fore hooves around the filly and started tickling her. The filly laughed and giggled, trying to get out of the mare's loving grasp.
Right after lunch, there was a knocking on the front door. Fluttershy went on over and opened it. She saw a little blue filly with a cap and a saddlebag on and her yellow mother right beside her.
"Good afternoon, Miss Fluttershy. I'm Bella, and this is my daughter, Fiona. We came by to thank Nebula for saving her life." the mother said.
Nebula came into view and looked down at the filly. The two instantly recognized each other and she threw herself to hug him. He smiled down at her and wrapped an arm around her, "Good to see you too, Fio." he greeted her.
They separated, "Hi, Nebula! Thank you again for making me better!" She opened up her saddlebag and took out a little thank you card for him.
He took the card from her. The cover had a large red heart. He opened it and read what it said,
"Thank you for making the bad thing go away, and for the hat too, I love it, mommy likes it too.
Love,
Fio."
And on the side was a drawing of him and her in her little wonder land, a smoking pile of ash right behind them. He looked at the filly with a smile, "Thank you, Fio," the little card then started glowing and turned into a little orb. He gently wrapped it in his fingers as the three looking at it in awe. He perked up his chest and pressed the orb into him. He looked at the filly with a smile, "I'll keep it close to my heart." Literally.
Then Playtime crawled from under him and looked at the two visitors. She came face to face with a new filly and smiled at her, the tips of their noses nearly touching, "Hi!" she greeted with a smile.
The filly smiled back at her, "Hi there! I'm Fio!"
Playtime got out from under her father, "I'm Playtime!"
"Oh! Oh! Wanna Play Tag!" Fio said excitedly and took her saddlebag off.
"Do I!" Playtime replied and started going after Fio, the two laughed and giggled.
The mother looked at the two, "Your daughter?" she asked and they both nodded. She looked a little confused, but just lightly shook her head and looked back at the two playing, "You two have a very nice child." she said.
"Same with yours, Bella. Thank you." Fluttershy replied.
Playtime spun around and was tackled by Fio. They both rolled around on the grassy ground, and Playtime ended up being on top of the other, both giggling.
Within the Everfree Forest, lurked the causes of the attacks. A hooded mare stood hiding behind a tree, glaring at the little group within the shielded small cottage home. It growled, "We need to get rid of him if we want to take over all of Equestria. Yes, yes, we need to get him where it hurts the most. Yeesss... we need his heart." it snickered as it got its new target to focus on.
The mare turned into a swirling black smoke and moved swiftly through the forest, heading in deeper to plot a new plan of attack.
Nebula then spotted a few birds flying off the trees, disturbed from their perches.