//------------------------------// // Chapter 7: First Friend // Story: Tales of Fate: A new Future // by Navanastra //------------------------------// Authors note: Sorry that this chapter took much longer than expected for 3 good reasons. 1. I had allot of problems writing this chapter for some reason, it was difficult for me to find the right words and inspirations to work with so I had allot of moments were I just didn't know what to write. 2. I was pretty busy so I didn't had allot of time to write anyway. 3. My internet was busted for almost a whole week which also hindering me to get this chapter out much earlier than planed. I will try to get chapters out a little bit faster now but I cant make any promises on that, but whatever lets just get on with this chapter. /Chapter 7: First Friend/ “Stupid traffic.” I thought out loud as I was sitting in my car waiting for the traffic light to finally go green. Yesterday me and my two fillies were mostly busy trying to get my room back to shape after Luna and Celly pretty much trashed it in their little plushie and pillow war. My plan for today was to drive over to the Mall and to get some basic thinks like a new table lamp or a bed watch but to also get some few groceries simply because I am all out of tea. Some people would maybe think why I wouldn’t just order all this stuff or send someone else like John to go get these things for me, well the answer is very simple it gives me a perfect excuse to leave the mansion for ones and a while and into the outside world. While I was still waiting for the accursed traffic light to go finally green I automatically started to think about Luna and Celestia. It had already had been two years sense these two came into my life and sense that time they have never even once left the mansions property and stepped beyond the walls and gates even thought the property was like a size of a Olympic park. I really don’t want them to grow up by only knowing the world from the TV books or internet, I want them to be able to go out into the world to be free just like everybody else and maybe even make some friends along the way instate of just me and John, but there is one problem with my wishes, Both Luna and Celestia are two talking winged Unicorns right out from a children’s story book, those two shouldn’t even exist and I have no idea how the world would react if these two would ever be seen. As I was thinking about the future of my two little fillies I was suddenly interrupted by the sounds of car horns blowing from behind me. “Move it kid I don’t have all day you know.” I hear someone shout behind me. I snapped out and saw that the lights were already green and that the drivers behind me were telling me to finally move, and I did just that driving away and to the direction of the Mall. “I have to think about this again later.” I thought as I continued my drive towards my destination. .................................................................................................................................... (Celestia’s POV) “Well that was the last one.” I huffed with exhaustion as I dragged the last bag of trash we collected from dad’s room to the outside. Dad had told me that It would be better to wait for John’s return and let him do all of this hard and heavy work for me but I still felt incredible guilty for what me and Luna had done and I begged dad to let me carry (or drag, these bags were mighty heavy) them outside. After many attempts of pleading and puppy eyes Dad finally agreed to let me at least try and told me that I should be careful and not strain myself to much. Of course I was really happy to hear him say that but I was also very sad to her that dad was going into town again which means leaving us behind here all alone, I don’t know why but I always start to miss him greatly every time he leaves even when dad always tells us that it would only be for a short while. Just like now even thought he only left about 15 min ago I already started to feel me wishing that he would just be here with us, Whenever dad is around us we would always feel safe and happy, protected and cared for, it make us feel joyful and lucky to have him as our guardian as our father. I let out one finally sight before pushing the last bags towards the rest of the pile and making my why back inside, as I was making my towards our room my thoughts immediately began to go back to dad and the wonderful two years we have been in his care, all the fun, all the laughter, and all the things we have learned, sure there were moments too were things just didn’t happened as planned just like what we did yesterday, but whenever we did something horrible wrong dad would always stay calm and easily forgive us without any shouting or punishments. I don’t know how Luna views are but for me he is the best Daddy ever, I don’t care if we for some reason look so completely different compared to dad I really don’t care at all he is my daddy and I love him no matter what. While being trapped in my own thoughts I completely forget to notice that I somehow managed to walk past my own room door. I just scratched my head at that and simply walk a few meters back to towards my door. The first thing seeing is my sister Luna being once again occupied by a piece of paper and a box of crayons, she saw me and happily waved at me while I did the same. I quickly went to my drawer to get myself a comfy little pink shirt sense it was actually a bit chilly out there and quickly put it on, After tying my mane and tail in to into ponytails (yeah ironic I know) and making sure that everything looks fine affront the mirror. I told my sister that I would be outside at the front garden if she ever needed me and then made why through the long corridors again and back outside. While I stepped outside and into the midday sun I was immediately assaulted by the scent of exotic and beautiful flowers and fauna around me. “Mhmm I really like the smell of these flowers around here.” I happily thought to myself as I could only admire the beautiful batches of flowers all over the front garden. I don’t know really but I seem too really like the wonderful scent of all these exotic flowers and plants that dad has in his garden it’s really a shame that john doesn’t allow me to pick them up and maybe even try to make a beautiful flower crown out of them, but if john says no than I can easily resist the urge to maybe pick them and besides I think that these flowers are far too beautiful to be picked anyway. It’s also a real shame that these flowers would die off soon anyway sense it’s the start of winter again. My mind immediately went back to dad and in how I would wish that he would just come back as soon as possible but before I could even resume my little fantasies I was interrupted by a butterfly AGAIN landing right on the tip of my nose, unlike the last time (yup I can learn to) I just simply stared at it for maybe like a few minutes until I decided to maybe say or do something. “Hi I’m Celestia.” I happily greeted the butterfly on my muzzle, of course I didn’t expected to get any form of responses but for whatever reason the little butterfly began to flutter its wings right after I introduced myself to it taking me a bit by surprised but eventually receiving a kind smile from me. “Do you want to maybe play hide and seek?” I asked the butterfly with a smile in which it fluttered its wings again. “Ok I hide and you seek ok.” I told the little butterfly and I could have sworn that I even saw it nods its tiny head right after I said that. The little butterfly flew away and I quickly went for a hiding spot behind some trees and benches and made sure nothing from me was visible, I started to giggle a bit and thinking that the little butterfly would never find me here but just under a few second of hiding I started to feel something itchy on the tip of my nose and realize that it was the same butterfly. “Uhm....ok.” I mumbled in surprise with no idea how fast he managed to find me. “Well I guess it’s my turn than huh.” I simply announce as I let the butterfly fly away to hide from me while I close my eyes and counted to 10. .................................................................................................................................... (Julius POV) “Well this is going nowhere.” I thought bitterly as I was stuck at the end of a very long line towards the cash register for almost 15 min without moving, for some reason the cash register somehow managed to break down right after I went into the line and now these idiots over there are trying to get it to work again while me and a bunch of other people are still stuck here, oh and did I ever mention that this store only has one operating cash register. “Well at least I got what I originally wanted here.” I thought with a slight sense of accomplishment. After getting some few groceries and other minor thinks at the Mall I went into this particular store to just buy a simple bed lamp and a new alarm clock and now I’m wasting 15 min of my life standing here just so I can go and pay them. While standing there innocently and minding my own business right out of nowhere something hits me right into my back with enough force to lose my gip on my items and dropping them to the floor. “Oh jeez I’m so sorry here let me get those for you.” A very panicked voice said from behind me as I was still trying to understand what the heck just happened here. “Here you go sorry for bumping into you mister I wasn’t really paying attention to where I was going because I was looking at my phone and.....” When I first had a look at the guy who bumped into me I saw a very young man probably the same age as me around 19 or so. The moment the guy saw me his eyes went wide in surprise and he stayed like that for a couple of seconds. “Are...are you Julius Corness head of one of the worlds largest Corparations?” He suddenly asked me. “Uhh...I guess I am.” I casually answered His eyes went wide again in surprise for a moment until he suddenly began to shake my hand violently. “Wow what is such a famous and rich man like you doing here?” He asked me “Buying stuff.” I simply answered him. “So just out of curiosity who were you calling on your cell phone if you don’t mind me asking.” I began trying to maybe start a conversation to help me pass the time here. “Just my little brother nothing to private.” The guy said affront of me. The two of us simple started talking throughout the entire time while waiting patiently on the back of the line, in the end I managed to know that his name is Matt Keiser a former college student from Munich. I asked him how he could possibly be a FORMER College student when he is just 19 years old and he told me that he was a A grade student all in all, and thanks to his very rapid progress he was allowed to take the exams much, much earlier and just graduated just 2 months. As far as he told me the course he took was accounting and for almost a month sense graduating he spend most of his time trying to look for a job without any luck so far and he is in a hurry too. He told me just right after a few months away to his graduation his father died from a long term illness. Even thought his uncle possesses his own bakery it was mostly his father that helped the family financially and sense his death he and the rest of his family had to struggle for a few months trying to get money to pay of allot of bills. After his quick graduation he immediately tried to find a job to help his family with these problems but never had any luck finding any even thought of his talents. I also tried to asked if his mother was ok but he quickly told me that this was simply a subject that he really didn’t want to talk about it. It really depressed me to hear that from him because it automatically reminded me of my own rough life many years ago after I lost my own parents. I of course told him also of my own predicament and over our conversation we started to slowly relate and understand each other as our exchange of words went on. After all of this I began to realize that the line had started to move again and after a while the both of us managed to pay for the items we had and made our way towards a fast food restaurant, I insisted to pay for everything sense he really hadn’t much money on him anyway and we began to talk again mostly about his employment problems and how hard it is for him to keep his little brother and granduncle on the line sense his father died. “So you’re looking for a job is that right?” I asked him. “Uhm yes..yes I am, as I already explained...why.” Matt asked me. “And your studied accounting right?” I asked him again. “Yes.” He answered me. “Well I can easily give you a position if you want.” I casually told him while fiddling around with a lone French fries. There was a moment of silence after that with matt simple staring at me and me eating the one French fires I was playing around with earlier until he slowly started to blink his eyes and started to speak. “Really you can get me a position because that would be really great, but I already tried to get a job in one of your offices and there rejected.” He told me I really don’t know why my executives didn’t immediately hired such an excellent and intelligent guy but just as always it was up to me to correct there dumb decisions and fix them by doing things myself. “Well I can easily get you a very nice position right away and for the rejection don’t worry I am the boss so whatever I say goes.” I told him with a friendly smile. Really, I’m mean wow that would solve so many problems for me in an instant thank you sire Julius. He responded to me with excitement.” “No problem and please just call me Julius without the sir crap.” I simply told him. “But again many thanks.” I answered me with a smile. “No problem.” I answered him. “Well than let’s go to my place and get some small paperwork done and to find a perfect occupation for you.” I announced as the two of us finished up our meals and made our way to the exit and out towards the parking lots. Once close to the exit Matt suddenly stops in realization with his hands on his head. “Wait I don’t have a car or anything I came here with the city bus.” He suddenly told me when we made it to the exit of the mall. “Don’t worry we can get there with my car.” I simply told him. “Really, because..well I don’t want to be a burden or anything and....” He protested but I cut him off before he could finish his sentence. “Nonsense it’s absolutely fine,” I told him as we made our way towards my black Mercedes. We got in and I drove out of the parking lot and out into the main roads towards the direction of my home. .................................................................................................................................... (Celestia’s POV) “Haha found you.” I shouted as I managed to once again find my little butterfly. I have been playing with my little friend here for almost 2 hours and for the most part it was really fun for me too but it was also pretty bit exhausting how he always find me in just under a few minutes and how it takes me at least more than that is actually a bit unfair to me. I decided to lay down on the grass for a bit after a long and tiring game of hide and seek and simply gaze up towards the beautiful blue and cloudless sky above me. I slowly began to close my eyes in an attempted to maybe dose off a bit but that idea was quickly kicked off of my mind as I started to feel something landing on the tip of my nose, as I opened my eyes again I could see that it is my butterfly friend. I only smiled at him as he was once again using my nose as a landing platform to sit on. “Well I’m not really sure if you can understand me or not but I had a really nice time playing hide and seek with you.” I told the little butterfly with a sweet smile. My little insect friend only fluttered his wings in response which is always cute to look at. I don’t know how but over the course of our little playtime I actually slowly started to understand him a bit, being able to better read his movements and being better in guessing in what he is trying to say. I really don’t know how but I somehow just do for some reason. But it really doesn’t matter to me anyway because I pretty much gain a new friend besides my dad and sis even though my new friend now is a cute little butterfly. After a few minutes of laying there on the grass with my little butterfly friend happily sitting on the tip of my nose I decided to get back up and to walk around for a bit. As I was walking around the front garden and once again admiring the beautiful scenery around me my attention was suddenly drawn towards the front gate. I steadily trotted over there and simply stared beyond the iron bars and into the distant city and lands around it. It really makes you curious to think what might lay out there in the big open world, I have never ever stepped outside these gates or walls of this place sense the day dad found us and to be honest I really don’t care. All I or we need is for dad to be there for us, it really makes to different to us if the outside world is open or closed to us, as long as we have dad with us everything will be ok. But still I can’t help to wonder what may lay out there beyond the boundaries of our home and out there in the big open world, to be able to view all of these wondrous things with my own two eyes and not only see them inside books or the internet. I could see that from behind the gate that right next to it is a road going down the hill towards some houses down at the bottom and on the other side I could see the road continuing further up the hill and then disappearing somewhere into some woods behind my home. I only sighted while looking out into a big open world that I can’t explore, I decided to turn around and to walk back into the mansion to get myself something to drink but as I was making my way back inside I started to get this strange feeling that someone was watching me someone completely different that wasn’t dad my sis or John. I actually felt myself a bit creped out by that feeling sense it was the first time ever I felt it. “Oh oh this can’t be someone friendly can it” I thought to myself. I gulped and slowly turned my head back toward the direction I came from and what I saw was both startling and surprising at the same time. Right there almost out of nowhere on the other side of the gate was a little human boy probably the same age as me and looking at me with the same wonder and curiosity as I am. I had no idea where this stranger suddenly came from judging from the fact that I didn’t saw anyone earlier when I was looking out the main gate but it really didn’t matter to me sense he was here now staring at me while I was staring back at him. The boy in front of me had black hair and brown eyes and was at least twice the size I am. He was wearing what looked like a red shirt with a logo that says teenage mutant ninja turtles, blue looking shorts and was pulling a red looking cart with allot of stuff and toys in it. We stared at each other what felt like an eternity until the stranger affront of me started to talk. “Wow what are you I have never seen something like you before.” The boy in front of me said in wonder. I simply continued to stare at him with both fear and curiosity. “Are you some kind of magical animal or something?” He asked me in fascination. After he asked me that I slowly began to back up from him in fear sense it was the first time ever that I meant someone else other than dad or John, the boy in front of me must have noticed that I was slowly retreating from him in fear as I saw him quickly grabbing something from his cart. It was a colourful cookie shaped like a cute little butterfly, somehow the look of that little cookie in his hand vanquished all of my fears away and I was now more curious than fearful. I slowly made my why back over to the boy and the cookie in his hand until I was just inches away from it, I started to look from the boy to the cookie and then back and saw that he was smiling at me and giving me a look that says “I’m not going to hurt you.” I slowly took the cookie from his hand with my mouth and began to bite down on it. My eyes immediately got wide at the taste of that cookie. “Oh my god this is the best cookie I have ever tasted in my life”. I literally screamed in my mind. The strawberry and vanilla taste of the cookie was just absolutely amazing even it even had a hint of chocolate in them so much better than the ones dad buys for us whenever he goes out to buy things, just astronomically good. I quickly finished the cookie in my mouth and swallowed it and I was immediately sad to know that there were no more cookies left until I realized that this human boy could probably have even more cookies like those in his cart somewhere. “Hey do you have....maybe more of those cookies in there?” I asked shyly. The human in front of me looked at me with a very surprised expression on his face probably not expecting me to literally talk to him which I couldn’t help to giggle at his reaction. There was an moment of silence between the two of us with me just smiling at him kindly and him just staring at me with a completely shocked look on his face, all of this ended when he managed to break free from his surprised state. “Wow...I had no idea that you can talk...nor did I know that you are a girl too.” He said in amazement. I just tilted my head in his odd accusation with a confused look on my face. “Of course I can talk silly and isn’t it obvious that I am a girl too?” I asked with a small giggle. “Well...I guess,” He simply answered. “Well my name is Lukas, Lukas Keiser in full, how about you?” Lukas asked me. “My name is Celestia, or Celestia Corness in full but you can also call just me Celly.” I answered him with a smile. “Oh and this here is my little butterfly friend I think his name is Butter.” I added by gesturing my little butterfly sitting on the top of my horn. After our little introduction something completely interesting came up in my mind that I hadn’t thought before until now and I decided to go and try my luck by asking him. “Hey Lukas.” After I said his name for the first time he completely focused his attention to me with a smile. “Do you...do you want to become friends?” I asked shyly while drawing circles into the ground with my hoof nervously. For a few moment I saw Lukas just standing there deep in thought and for a second there I was actually afraid that he would not accept my friendship offer but after a while Lukas focused his attention back to me with a very welcoming smile on his face. “Sure.” Was all he said and in that moment all of my control and grace completely flew out the window as I began to jump, dance and skip around in pure joy. “Oh my gosh I have a new friend this is so exciting.” I happily screamed in my mind. This could have been easily the most existing moment of my life if it wasn’t for the fact that there were even more exciting moments that I can think off. It really felt good to finally have someone else to call a friend besides Dad and my sis. As I was happily dancing and literally being silly affront of my new won friend I couldn’t help to think of all the fun and adventures that we could possibly have together until I was interrupted by Lukas calling my name and trying to get my attention. “Uhm sorry to interrupted you Celly but you didn’t exactly told me what you are.” Lukas told me with a bit of curiosity. I immediately stopped my little dance to give him the answer. “Well...” I began. “As far as dad had told me and my little sis is that our kind is called an Alicorn which means winged unicorn in short.” I answered him with a smile. He nodded in understanding and we both simply started to talk about things we like and things we don’t like and stuff we have learned and experienced, I told him everything about me and my sis and in how much I love my Dad and all of the amazing things and fun we all had together. It was really fun talking about all of my fun and experience with someone else and sharing it but all of that fun instantly disappeared when it was Lukas turn to tell his tale. He began to tell me that he never really knew neither of his parents especially his mom which was a bit confusing for me to know and was living most of his life only knowing his big brother and his granduncle. I learned that his father died just a few months ago from a very serious illness and that it was a very depressing experience for him to lose the only person in the world he ever looked up to besides his big brother and uncle. I could only feel sympathy and sadness for him and even a bit of guilt for telling him all about my father and sis and all the wonderful and fun time we had together while my new friend had to endure the loss of his daddy. I could see the sad expression of his face after finishing his story to me making me feel even worst and sorry for him than I already was. It really made me think how lucky both Luna and me were and how hard others have it. There was only one thing my hearth told me to do. I slowly walked up to him pushed my head through the bars and began to gently nuzzle him in hopes to make him feel better, I could feel from my nuzzling that Lukas was completely surprised at me for doing that but I didn’t care. All that mattered was me trying to cheer up my new found friend here and nothing else. “Uh Celly what are you doing?” Lukas asked in a surprised tone. “Trying to cheer you up.” I answered him while still rubbing my cheeks onto his chest. “But why would you do that?” Lukas asked again this time in confusion. “Because that’s what friends do to each other.” I answered again this time with a sad smile on my face. “We are friends right.” I asked with a hint of nervousness. I slowly backed away from Lukas after giving him a friendly nuzzle and saw that his expression was in one of confusion. I was actual a bit worried to see that look on his face and was about to ask him if I said something wrong until he suddenly looked back at me. “Well yes...yes we are but I never had any friends before so I can’t tell what friends are supposed to do.” Lukas told me. I was actually pretty relived to hear that sense I was imagining that I might lose my first friend right after we first declared our friendship but I was also shocked to hear that he never had any friends ever which made me believe that he probably was alone with for the most part with no one else to hangout with or to play and share a good laugh with. Once again I had no choice but to feel deeply sorry for him. I was lucky to have my sis and Dad to be there for me but Lukas over here just had it much tougher than it needed to be and it almost pushed me to the brink of crying for his unfair life just like I did when I found out about my Dad’s sad and lonely past. In that moment I had the same determination to be the best possible friend to him that I can possibly be just like I did with dad. I don’t know why but I just have this inner nature of pity for peoples that have or had a very hard and tough life, just gives me this feeling of determination to help them as best as I can and to try and make their life easier by being there for them if they need it, again just like I have promised to dad. And I was also going to do it with me new found friend here. “Hey Lukas?” I asked trying to get his attention. “Yes.” He simply answered. “Wanna play something.” I simply asked him with the kindest smile that I can muster. Instantly all of the sadness and pity that was present earlier has completely disappeared and was replaced with instant happiness and excitement just as I planned. “Do you want to go with me up the road I know of a nice little pond in the forest which is a really nice place to play around.” “Yeah I would love to let me just.....” I began until I realized that I was here and Lukas was on the other side of the locked gate. My ears and mood immediately dropped after realizing that and only John and dad had the keys to unlock the gate and it just happened to be that both of them are gone at the moment. “Lukas I’m sorry I can’t.” I apologized wile hanging my head low. “Why.” Lukas asked me. “I can’t go for two reasons, one the gate is locked so I’m stuck here, and two this would be my first time ever to leave my home and well....the idea of going outside is actually a bit scary for me.” I told him in a sad tone. “Oh.” Was his only response. I saw him standing there for a few seconds deep in thought which was a bit confusing for me until he suddenly started to smile and turned his head back towards me. “Well than we just play here in state.” He announced. I only gave him and even more confusing look until he smiled and gestured toward the bars of the gate. “There is allot of room between the ground and the gate itself and the bars them self are pretty wide spaced so we can easily stick our arms or like you your head through them and I also have a board game in my cart that we can play here too.” He announced happily and began to search through his stuff and pulled out a white looking box. As he showed it to me I could read that it was Monopoly a very fun game I used to play with my sister and dad during stormy days but this one says that it is the Europe edition. I was really happy to be able to play this with my new friend here but there was one question that bothered me for some reason. “Why do you have a board game in your cart.” I asked him innocently. “Well because I had this with me on a field trip once with my brother and uncle and I was too lazy to place it back on the shelves so I just left it here.” He told me with a happy tone. “Works for me.” I commented We laid the game board onto the ground between us, choose our in game figures and got our self ready to start the game all until a very high pitched but familiar voice came directly from behind me and stopping us from starting. “Sis there you are I was calling for you the entire ti......” Luna began as she came out from around a corner and trotted over to my direction but stopped herself until she noticed Lukas. I saw my sister just standing there completely frozen with wide eyes and a half open mouth not moving or saying anything what so ever. I could clearly see the shock and fear in her eyes and face, and I can’t really blame her sense I had the same reaction too when I first saw Lukas myself. There was an awkward silence after this with my poor little sister frozen in shock, my new won friend simply standing there with a confused look on his face and with me in the middle looking at them while trying to think of a way to end this awkwardness. “Sis who...who is this..this thing?” Luna asked me in a shaky voice. “Hey I’m not a thing I’m a human and my name is Lukas.” Lukas said a bit offended. Right after my friend Lukas said that I could hear a very high pitched but cute yelp of surprise coming from my little sister and saw her immediately jump into a nearby bush to hide herself from Lukas. To be honest I found it really cute seeing Luna reacting the way she did but I quickly decided to focus more in getting rid of this wired situation and to try and introduce them to one another. “Luna come on his not going to bite and if he would he would never get you anyway sense you are in here and he is out there.” I tried to calm Luna while trotting over to her. I gave Lukas a quick apologetic look for accusing him like that and began to crouch down into the bush were Luna was hiding. I saw her curled up into a cute little blue fur ball while covering her eyes with her hoofs which was by the way really cute and a bit saddening at the same time. “Luna there is nothing to fear about him he is the same age as me and a really nice guy.” I told Luna while nuzzling her gently to calm her down. “How do you know?” Luna asked me suspiciously. “Because we his my new friend.” I answered her with a smile. Luna looked at me for a few second in utter shock after I told her that until she started to shout at me. “This thing is your friend.” Luna shouted at me in disbelieve. “Did he brainwashed you like in one of those movies to make you think you are his friend but than in reality he just wants to eat your brains.”Luna added with and angry tone. Now it was my turn to look at her in shock for saying all of those crazy and nonsensical thinks. “LUNA!!” I shouted at her in anger. “He is just as normal and innocent as us and would never do something like that ever.” I shouted. “Lukas over there has gone through allot of hearth ship and problems throughout his life he lost his parents and never had any friends or anybody to play with so I will not allow you to give him stupid accusations or calling him A THINK!!” I shouted angrily. I immediately covert my mouth in shock after saying that and seeing the tear filed eyes of my sister in front of me. “Oh my god I’m...I’m so sorry for shouting at you sis I...I didn’t.....”I quickly apologized. But it was too late Luna already began to cry silently into her hoof making me feel even more worst for shouting at my little sister. “Luna I’m so sorry.” I repeated I was about to try and calm her until she suddenly looked up at me with a teary smile on her little face. “No need to be sorry big sis I...I was just scared that’s all and maybe also a bit worried.” Luna said in a teary voice. “Worried about what?” I asked Luna “Well did you remember what dad said about what’s out there and all the wonders the world has to offer?” Luna asked in which I nodded. “Dad also mentioned that there are also bad things about the world like bad peoples for example and...Well I thought that he might be one of them or something”. Luna told me with a sad voice. I was actually pretty surprised to hear her think that but also a bit happy to know that she would actually remember dad words instate of just hearing them and then forgetting them again in the next day. “Oh Luna.” I teased her. “You have nothing to worry about him he is one of the kindest persons I have ever meant so far, so you can totally trust him.” I told Luna with a smile. “Besides his my friend so there is nothing to be worry about ok.” I added. “Uhm...well I..If I did anything wrong back there I just wanted to say that I’m sorry for whatever I did back there.” I heard Lukas shouting from behind. “It’s ok Lukas you did nothing wrong at all my sister was just scared the same way I was.” I shouted back at him. Before I could even turn my head back towards my little sister I saw her already standing up and walking past me towards the direction where Lukas was standing. I was actually a bit surprise of her sudden change and behaviour but then again this is Luna my little sister who can be very unpredictable or just strait on random at times and to be honest that’s exactly how I like her, she can make me smile even in the most grimmest days or just like right now very emotional. When she came into the few range of Lukas she suddenly change from confident to shy in an instant and was rubbing her hoof in nervousness. I decided to join her to give her more confident and to also make sure that she doesn’t do anything silly towards Lukas. “Ahm....Hi..there.” Luna started shyly. “Hi there you must be Celly’s sister right?” Lukas asked with a smile. “Ahm..yeah I’m am.” Luna answered still shyly. “Hey Lukas try to give my sister one of your cookies like you did with me.” I told Lukas as I made my way over to my sisters side. Lukas of course immediately catches up to my idea and produced another of those (OMG heavenly good) cookies from his bag and presents it to my sister. She was a bit sceptic but after an encouraging nod from me and a friendly smile from Lukas she eventually moved a little closer towards Lukas. She inspected the cookie in his hand for a few more moments which was a colourful bird shaped cookie this time before taking it into her mouth. Both me and Lukas were watching her and waiting anxiously for her reaction and approval but for both of our worries nothing happened. A few more seconds past watching Luna carefully chew on her cookie until she finally swallowed it, her eyes were close and I was worried that my plan might not have worked. But then to both of our surprise she suddenly pushed her head between the bars and directly towards Lukas with her face just millimetres away from his with the biggest smile and sparkle in her eyes I have ever seen on her. “OH MY GOD. THAT. WAS. AWSOME. PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE MORE OF THOSE PLEASE, PLEASE,PLEASE I WANT MORE!!!!” Luna rambled with unbelievable speeds. I could barely contain a giggle at the sight presented to me, Luna jumping up and down affront poor Lukas. “OK, ok here you can have all of them, my uncle is the one who makes them so he can easily make me more.” Lukas announced. “Wait your uncle made these.” I asked him. “Well yeah he has his own Bakery.” He told me. I only nodded and smile at him before I realized that Luna was madly devouring all of Lukas cookies and I wasn’t getting any of them. “Hey Luna don’t eat all of them.”I shouted. “Don’t worry I have another package if you want some.” Lukas told me. “Thanks Lukas.” I thanked him with a smile. “Still want to play some board games?” Lukas asked me. “Off course.” I simply answered him. “Can I join too please.” Luna asked in sweet and innocent tone. “Sure you can the more the better.” Both me and Lukas said at the same time and electing a full blown laugh from the both of us. In the end we all ate the rest of Lukas magnificent cookies and played a game of Monopoly. While playing I completely forget about the fact that Dad was late yet again which would normally make me worry but sense I was having fun with my beloved sister and my new (first) friend it actually left my mind for the first time which was a bit odd to me but I knew he would eventually come back home at some point and until than I’m going to have fun with my new found friend. .................................................................................................................................... (Julius POV) “I swear all the traffic light today hate me for some reason.” I thought with great bitterness. I was driving back home after getting some items and groceries from the Mall and meeting someone very talented. I made him a job offering and now we are on our way back to my place to do some paperwork and proper in listing to make it clear that he is working for me. I could also do that in one of my buildings and offices here in town but then I would get all this hazel of “oh my god the boss is here” or “just pretend that your are working” and all of that other nonsense distractions and then there is the issues of going into this room to get this paper and then go to the other room to find this piece of paper, it’s just tedious, and at my place I have everything that is required in one place which of course is much faster and easier. I was mostly concentrating on the driving sense its rush hour and the streets were even more crowded with cars and pedestrians than ever before while Matt was mostly sitting behind me quietly listening to his Ipod. It was hard for me to keep a clear though while driving sense most of my mind constantly wandered off to my two little fillies back at home. Leaving them both alone at home with no one else watching over them was a bit of a worrying idea sense John was gone for a few days back at England, but I knew that Celestia would keep an eye on everything especially at her sister. Celestia even though just a little girl is quiet smart and trustworthy for her age which is actually rare to see now a days. While Luna is more of a rebellious type of character especially towards her sister, always wild, adventures sometimes completely random without any warning what so ever. She is also pretty smart for her age but also a bit naive at times. “Hey look there is my place.” I heard Lukas say from behind me and breaking my train of thoughts. I looked at the direction where he was looking and saw a simple looking white coloured house with a red tiled roof and a small garden at the front of it. It wasn’t too big or too small just a normal one story house with a single garage at the right side of it. Another thing that I noticed was that his home was the last house on the road leading up the hill towards my parents mansion, actually I could easily see my own home from right here. “Is your family at home.” I asked him casually. “Nope the house is empty I think.” He answered me. My uncle is working at the bakery to try and get some money in and my little brother sense its weekend is probably playing outside somewhere.” He added. “Wait your little brother is somewhere outside alone by himself were nobody is watching him?” I asked him in disbelieve. “It’s ok really he always goes to the same place whenever he goes outside to a little quiet pond somewhere behind the hills and for a kid of his age his pretty intelligent so he never does or goes where he is not suppose to go to”. Matt told me. “Also I gave him a cell phone so he can call me whenever there is a problem.” He added with confidents. “Well ok if you say so.” I commented with a shrug. I drove past his home and up the hill towards my parent’s grand mansion, the ride took about a few more minutes and was mostly quiet without any talking or other forms of distraction. I was driving into the drive through of my home towards my front gate until I saw a small kid sitting there right affront of it, I was a bit curious on why I have a small child sitting there directly in front of me until I saw that on the other side of my gate were my two little fillies smiling, laughing and eating cookies from the looks of it. “Wait is that my little brother over there?” Matt asked while poking his head between the front seats. “Well this is an interesting coincident, my little girls are playing around with Matt’s little brother.” I thought. I stopped right affront of them and turned off the engine, both Matt’s brother and my two little daughters must have noticed us now as we exited the car. “Hi big bro.” Was Matt’s little brothers first response. “Hey there Lukas what are you doing here.” Matt asked his little brother. “Playing games with my new friends.” He answered him. “Well this is going to be interesting.” I thought with some concern as he first broke off his attention from his little brother and towards my two little fillies affront of him. Now I was wondering how Matt will react to both Luna and Celestia sense both of them were pretty much creatures strait from a children’s fairy tale book, but I knew that I couldn’t keep Luna and Celly hidden forever and that the day would come that someone other than me would discover them. Might as well be now, it would be a perfect test to see if Matt is really is the type of kind and trustworthy person he claims to be. “Are these your friends over there Lukas?” Matt asked his little brother while pointing a finger at them. As he was staring at them both in wonder and curiosity I started to slowly open the front gate and formulating an explanation and plan if things would go wrong here. “Uhm Julius what....eh...what are those creatures here?” He asked me with a bit of disbelieve in his voice. As I opened the gate both Luna and Celestia immediately started to gallop right towards me with big happy smiles and hugging my legs tightly while Matt was watching all of this with great surprise and a bit of disbelieve. “I am so happy that you are finally back Dad, why are you always so late when your leaving?” Celestia asked me with a smile and later on with a bit of a sad expression. “I’m a busy man.” I simply answered her with a shrug. “Well I wish that you’re not so we can have more time with you dad.” Celestia said with a heart-warming expression. I went down to my knees and started to softly scratch them both behind their ears softly and getting a cute little giggles from them in return. “Wait just a minute did these two creatures just talked?” Matt asked with a very shocked tone. I looked over to him and as I predicted Matt was completely stunned and shocked. I was about to say something but Celestia managed to beat me to it. “Hey were not just some creatures we are normal everyday Alicorns and we have names too you know.” Celestia announced a bit offended. There was a moment of silence after that as Matt continued to stare blankly at the two fillies and with both Luna and Celly staring back at him and tilting there heads a bit in confusion. I was going to try and say something again but this time I was beaten by Matt’s little brother. “Hey big bro.” Lukas said while tugging at Matt’s shirt to get his attention. “These are my new friends, the white one is Celestia and the dark blue one is her little sister Luna.” Lukas announced. That seemed to have ended Matt’s stunned state as he began to break his focus from my two fillies towards his little brother and back. Again I was planning to say something but for the third time in a spam of 10 minutes I was once again interrupted by Celestia and I had to force myself not to groin in annoyance for all these interruptions. “Wow so you must be Lukas big brother, he has told us so many great things about you...and... maybe we can become friends too.” Celestia suddenly said with a friendly smile. “Uhh....really?” Matt responded less on the edge. At this point I basically decided to just give up trying to handle things myself and decided to just let things sort them self out here on there own. “Uhm sir Juli...I mean Julius, it would be really nice if you could maybe explain to me what is going on her.” Matt asked me sheepishly after regaining his composure. “Well I think it would be better if you address those problems to my little daughter here.” I told him with a smirk. “Your...daughter?” Matt asked a bit sceptic while scratching his head in confusion. “I will tell you all about that later.” I simply answered. He was a bit put off by my answer but eventually agreed and then focused his attention back towards my two little fillies. Celestia only smiled friendly to him which seemed to completely remove any fear or doubt in him instantly. In the end Matt and I did the paperwork and enlistments needed to give him the position I had in mind for him. After seeing all of his grades and records from his school and college I was immensely impressed to see that he was telling the truth about being a very talented student and decided to give him a much higher position right away suited for his talents and also sense he and his family have some very serious financial problems. While I was doing most of the paperwork on my computer Matt took this time to learn from Celestia in who there are what there are and most importantly how I became their father. I could see that Matt at first was a bit surprised at her answerers and also a bit sceptic but over time I could see that he slowly began to understand and accept all the things Celly was telling him and simply because some of them were very relatable to him sense it reminded him of his own past days. I was pretty impressed in her ability to recount every single event and things she has learned but then again she is a very smart girl for her age but just as every child she still has allot to learn and to understand but she will eventually get that done over time as well. While she was answering all of Matt’s questions and telling him all of her experiences and stories I couldn’t help to notice that every single time she was looking at Matt’s little brother who was sitting right next to him her smile would slightly grow every time there would look at each other. I could easily tell that these two have already become really close friends after only knowing each other for only a few hours, how exactly I’m not sure right now but it really doesn’t matter anyway sense I am just happy to know that my little Celly has already made her first friendship with someone other than me or her sister. It took me a while to finish but I eventually did it and welcomed Matt into my company and showed him his occupations and responsibilities of his new job on my computer. Of course he was very happy to finally be able to help and support his granduncle and little brother whit his new job and I was just happy to have helped a once desperate young man in need. After all of that we and Matt simply started to talk while Celly and Luna were showing their new friend around the mansion and eventually playing and having fun in there room. “Well I guess I have to go now need to be home before my uncle does because believe it or not I’m the one who has the house keys.” Matt suddenly said. Simply nodded and we both went outside for the front gate and out to the road. “Well I hope you still remember your schedule don’t try to be late on your first day.” I said with a laugh. “Ha don’t worry I’m a very punctual guy.” Matt responded. “Wait what about my brother?” he suddenly asked right after he was about to leave. “Don’t worry he will be ok, just let him have some fun with his new found friends.” I said to him. “I will also make sure he gets home safely when its time don’t worry” I quickly added. Matt only nodded happily knowing that he can trust me and was again about to leave when this time I stopped him. “Wait.” I began. “Please don’t tell anyone about Luna and Celestia existence, I don’t think the world is ready to know them just yet.” I pleaded. “Don’t worry I won’t tell anyone I promise.” He responded with a smile. I only nodded in thanks and was about to say my goodbyes to him when all of the sudden I began to hear some very familiar clopping sounds coming from behind me. “Dad?” I heard Celestia say from behind me as I started to turn around. “Yes Celly?” Was my response. “Can we...uhm...can we please go with Lukas to play on that one small lake somewhere close to here I promise I will stay safe and keep a close eye on my sister and be home before dark, really I promise.” Celestia asked me with pleading eyes. It took me a few moments to thinks this through but I eventually decided that it would be better to just let her go and have fun with her new found friend here. “Sure you can Celly, but please stay safe and come back before sundown ok?” I answered her. Both Celly and Luna immediately galloped and jumped up to me giving me thankful hugs and nuzzles while holding massive smiles on their faces. “Oh thank you, thank you, thank you dad, thank you so much.” Celestia and Luna rapidly say in pure happiness. “You two can ride on my cart if you like I can pull you both over there.” Lukas suggested in which Luna and Celly of course happily agreed and quickly hopped onto Lukas red looking cart. Both me and Matt watched as both his brother and my little girls began to disappear up the road and into the nearby woods. “Well can’t let them locked up inside my home forever I think it’s time to let them explore the world a bit.“ I though as I said my goodbyes to Matt and went back inside and to await my little daughter return from their first real adventure.