//------------------------------// // Mama Cadence // Story: Foal Adventures. // by Super-Stallion //------------------------------// In the blizzard wasteland outside the Crystal Empire, Cadence and Shining Armor were out looking for something or somepony. When Sombra was defeated Cadence swore she saw his horn rocket of into the sky, she didn't even think about it before but recently she's been feeling a strange dark force out here, so decided to investigate. "Cadence, are you sure it's somewhere around here?" Shining asked. He looked around but the only thing he could see is snow. Cadence nodded, "Yes, it's definitely somewhere around here." she said feeling the dark energy nearby. Walking a bit farther over a small hill of snow, Cadence gasped when she saw what she was looking for on the other side. Shining ran over to his wife and looked down where she was looking, his eyes grew wide as well. In the snow sticking out was a red curved horn that obviously belonged to Sombra, it was pulsing with energy that cracked out of it, like electricity. It was surrounded by small black crystals. "Well there it is, but what's it doing?" Shining asked looking at the horn. Cadence walked closer until she was a few inches from Sombra's horn, "For Sombra's horn to be making power like this without Sombra actually being here must mean he's not actually dead." Cadence said looking at the horn and squinting her eyes, "He must be trying to bring himself back to life by using his horn to collect his scattered pieces to make a new body." Shining walked next to his wife, "Okay, so what should we do to stop that?" "There's only one way to stop something filled with Darkness and that's to fight it with Light," she explained then looked at her husband, "you and me have to work together, with our love we can stop it!" Shining nodded. Lowering his head, Cadence brought their horns together and then both started to glow with intense magic filled with their love for one another. Soon both their bodies started to rise of the ground from their hooves and then taking the shape of a heart together they fired their magical love at the horn. Sombra horn was hit with the intense beam of magic and it erupted with it's own dark magic trying to protect itself from the power of the royal couple's love. Cadence gasped as she saw that the horn was slowly rising from the ground and started to take form. She watched as the shadows around the horn started to make a face within it and stared at the eyes that soon opened up staring right at her with hate and anger. "Cadence!" Cadence looked at Shining Armor who was still firing the magical beam with a determined expression, he nodded to her, nodding back both husband and wife focused harder making the beam grow in power, the shadow screamed as the light was to much for it to handle and it fell to the ground in a dark explosion. Both ponies soon came back to the ground and walked over to the spot that the shadow had laid all that's left was red cape that belonged to Sombra, "Well I guess its over now." Shining said satisfied. Cadence nodded before suddenly something under the cape started moving, "It's not over yet Honey!" she said then they both prepared for whatever may appear. The lump moving under the cape slowly made it's way to the end. It popped out of it, Cadence gasped, poking his head out from under the cape and looking up at the ponies was a little black foal colt with a gray coat and black mane and a red horn and babbling cutely. "OHMYGOSH! He's so cuuuuuute!" Cadence screamed picking up Sombaby and cradling him in her arms, Sombra was cooing and trying to grab Cadence hoof when she put it close to his field of vision. Shining had a bad feeling, "Cadence, what are you going to do with that little colt?" he asked. He was worried because he knew the answer to that question, hoping it not be so. Cadence stopped cooing at Sombra and looked at Shining and smiled, "Shiny I decided I'm taking this baby." she said happily. Shining eyes grew wide, "What? But Cadence, do you know who that is? He's evil! If anything we should destroy him." he exclaimed. Cadence scowled, "Shiny! I said I'm going to take Sombra and that's what I'm going to do. And you know good and well I wanted a baby, and here's my chance." she retorted then walked past her husband back to the Empire with Sombra on her back. Shining sighed, she did always wanted a baby. Just last night he caught her...trying to have her way with him, he would have totally let her if not for the fact there was no protection. And he didn't want to lose his life as a bachelor, at least for not now, "But Cadence-" he cut off when Cadence turned around and stared at him her eyes filled with fire and her mouth full of sharp teath. Shining gulped, "Never mind dear, you can have him." Cadence then smiled and looked at Sombra, "Don't worry sweetie, Mama Cadence is gonna take good care of you." she cooed before she went into a full trot to the Crystal palace. Shining sighed again, "There goes my life as a bachelor." Back at the Empire, Cadence had already bought everything she needed and with a simple order she had the servants make a nursery in one of the spare rooms, a spare room that was close to hers and Shining with a crib and changing table and lots of toys. Shining watched as Cadence played with little Sombra in the new room, "Cadence are you sure about this? I mean what if he tries to take the Empire again?" Cadence looked up at him, "Oh please Shining, look at him. I don't even think he's even aware where he is, he's just a little foal now..." she pause to look down at Sombra suckling on his hoof, "...he's my foal." Sombra babbled and lifted his arms to be picked up and Cadence happily picked him up and brought him into a motherly hug. Shining sighed, he just walked away down the hall, he didn't want a foal...he wasn't ready. He felt he wouldn't be a good father and that the kids probably would grow to hate him, in other words he was just afraid. As he closed his eyes in thought, walking down the hall he didn't notice the pony in front of him and bumps into him. "Oh sorry, I didn't see you there." Shining said looking up at the pony in front of him Flash Sentry. Flash nodded, "It's okay Sir, you seemed distracted is there something wrong?" he asked. Shining sighed, "Cadence got a new baby and I don't know what to do." he said lowering his head. "Hmm this sounds like a serious life problem...how about you and me go for a drink, Sir?" Flash said, thinking about it for a minute Shining agreed and followed Flash. Later Shining and Flash were at the bar, drinking some apple cider. Flash was guzzling down while Shining just looked at his drink. Flash raised his brow, "Are you going to drink it or are you just going to look at it?" Shining looked at his soilder, "Well, what would you do if you suddenly became a father?" he asked moving his drink away. Flash shrugged, "The only thing to do is to take charge and try to be a good parent." Shining sighed, "But...what if your kids grow to hate you or you don't become the parent they should have?" Flash looked down at his drink in thought before answering, "Well, my friend that I don't really know, but you'll never know till you try, and if you don't... well that alone can make you a bad parent, no parent is really perfect you know just try you best." Flash explained taking a big swing of his drink. Shining eyes grew wide, "You know what? You're right, if I don't try I'll be doing the thing I fear most... I got to go." he said taking his drink, he took a really big gulp of his drink, emptying out his cup then he got out his chair about to leave till he looked back at Flash, "Thanks man you're a real help, I owe you, you know I bet you'd make a good dad someday." Flash smiled, "Hey thanks, and you can maybe pay me back by introducing me to your sister," he said then blushing behind his drink, "I think she's kinda cute." Shining squinted his eyes, "Maybe another mare, but you stay away from my sister hear you maybe a friend but no one's getting her." he retorted. Flash raised his hooves in the air in defense before Shining trotted out the door. Back at the nursery, Shining slowly walked in. Cadence had left when she had put Sombra down for a nap a while back, and now he was walking in getting closer to the crib in the room and looking down at the black foal. 'You know, he is kinda cute." Shining thought to himself and smiled then suddenly Sombra started shuffling around and opened his eyes and looked up at Shining and cooed happily lifting his hooves up to be picked up. Shining willing to comply with his needs picked Sombra up at arms length and looked at him, "Hey you know, this isn't so bad." he said. Sombra started poking his maw feeling his face, he was cooing Shining couldn't help but to smile more, he hugged him. "Yeah that's right...I'm your daddy and your my son, someday you're going to be strong just like me and I'll try to be the best dad to have ever lived." he said tears of joy starting to run down his face. "Well I'm glad you changed your mind." said a voice from behind, Shining looked to see his wife walking up to him and smiling, "So have you come to admit that I'm right and become his father." Cadence asked poking Sombra's belly making him giggle. Shining sighed and nuzzled his wife brining her into a hug with Sombra in the middle, "Yeah were right and you and me are going to be the best parents any foal would love to have." Cadence smiled and hugged her husband tightly. "But there is one thing I have to do first." Cadence let go of her husband and looked at him with a raised brow, "What?" Shining was out on the balcony of the Castle with Sombra, and raising him into the air at arms length for the world to see, "I have a SOOOOOOOOOON!!" he screamed out to the world. The ponies on the ground cheered and screamed in joy by this news and Flash nodded, "You go man, you go."