//------------------------------// // Griffin // Story: The Misfits // by RatchetFlash //------------------------------// "Mama! Daddy!" A young voice shouted from his room at 7 o'clock, just when the sun was setting .... Again. With heavy groans the two parents got up and walked into the room that held the wailing voice. "I-I had a bad dream again.. Mama..." The foal sniffled and looked up to his parents. "Come here Zeus. It's just a dream, no need to worry about it." The white pegasus said softly as the baby ponyequus, as Pinkie Pie had named him at his 2nd birthday, and the name stuck. Zeus sniffled as he walked up to his mom and hugged her tightly as he continued to sniffle. "Shhhh..... Shhhhh....." Ratchet ran a hoof through her son's mane. "Just close your eyes, the sun is going down. You'll be alright, no one can hurt you now. Come morning light, You and I will be Safe, and Sound." Zeus stopped sniffling and smiled as he heard his mother sing. "I love you Mama..." He smiled up at his mother, who was still embracing him tightly. "And I love you, Forever. Now, you have have to get up early tomorrow, do you want to sleep in your room or with me and Daddy?" Ratchet held back a chuckle as she could almost hear the pissed off expression Draco had, he knew Zeus wouldn't ever miss a chance to sleep in their huge cloud bed. "Can I sleep in your bed mommy?" He asks in a innocent voice. The Pegasus nods the three fly upstairs and into their room. Zeus jumped on the bed and snuggled into it. "Zeus, your birthday is coming up soon. What do you want?" Draco asks as he hovers above the ground, swinging his maced tail around. "A kitty cat!" He shouts in a high pitched voice. Ratchet looks over at Draco and grins. "I mean... I saw a orange kitty at Fluttershy's and he was cute... He matches my front legs!" Zeus says as he holds his tiger legs up. "Flash, your birthday is coming up, what do you want?" Draco questions as he floats over. She grins at him for a moment before looking back at Zeus. "Maybe, just maybe." She says with a smile. "Now sleep. School starts tomorrow." "Goodnight Mom, Night daddy. I love you both." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wake up Zeus!" Shouts a voice from downstairs. The young ponyequus wakes up slowly and makes his way downstairs slowly. "Do I have to go to school?" He says through a yawn as he sits at the table. He eats the muffin on the table and yawns. "Yes you do. Now comb your mane, it looks messier than I remember." Ratchet says as she walks over and sits next to Zeus. She puts a comb on the table and he picks it up with his paw and combs his mane. "Good boy. Now grab your saddlebags and lets go to school. Daddy is waiting outside." The two run outside and meet the draconequus before jumping off their cloud home and gliding through the air. Zeus does tricks here and there and fairly soon they reach the Ponyville School. Zeus lands and looks around at the other ponies, already feeling like he didn't fit in. "Mommy... Can we go home?" He asks as he pokes at the ground with his paw. "Aw nah... You gotta to go school buddy. Careful not to hit anyone with you tail, okay?" Draco says as he preens his own feathers. "Your mother and I.... Have things to do." Ratchet lightly nudges Draco in the side with her hoof. "Go on in and chose you seat. We will be here at the end of the day to pick you up." Ratchet lifted up into the air, followed by Draco and they head up into the sky. Zeus looked around and held his tail between his legs. The other fillies stared at him as he walked down the hallways, most of them trying to get away from him. The ponyequus quickly makes his way into the classroom and sits in the middle of the room. Once he sat own he looked to his side and saw a blue unicorn filly look around for a seat, the only seat being left next to him. She takes a deep breathe and takes her seat next to him. Zeus held out his paw for her hoof and smiled. "Hi! My name is Zeus what's yours?" One of the colts in the back shouted out. "It touched her!" The blue filly screamed and flailed so she fell out of her seat. He held his ears onto his head and whimpered. "I'm sorry..." The filly glared up at him before she sat back down. "Don't talk to me... You thing." She relied coldly as she looked forwards just as the teacher walked in. "Hello everypony! My name is Ms. Cheerliee and I am your teacher. Now, I would like every pony to come up here by order of names, but backwards. So Z's first." She looks at her list and calls out. "Zeus, please come up and introduce yourself." Zeus looked up and walked up in front of the classroom, dragging his tail behind him, making a awful noise. He looked down once he was in front of everyone. "I'm Zeus... I live in the sky with mum and daddy.... Pinkie Pie calls me a ponyequus...." The blue filly snickered and shouted out, "Ponyequus? She should call you a thing!" The colt spoke up again. "God, he is more hideous than that Lavender lizard thing!" "Enough!" Cheerliee called out. "Zeus, you may take your seat again." The ponyequus sighed and dragged himself into back into the seat. The few more ponies went up before a certain name caught his attention. "Soaring Spectrum, come up and introduce yourself please." Zeus watched as a white filly with a yellow, orange and red mane with a purple green and blue tail walk up to the front of the room. He smiled at her and she looked right at him and smiled a bit. "Ew! Get your tail away from me!" One of the foals screamed as Zeus started to wag his tail back and forth. "Sorry..." He mumbled before he looked back down at his desk. The colt behind him tapped his back after a few minutes and handed him a note. Zeus open the note and read it. 'Watch our for mummy. Daddy might eat her.' Zeus shook his head and wrote back. 'Daddy would never hurt mom.' He handed the note back and could hear the colt chuckle. He took the note back. 'You haven't heard the stories? Of how the draconequi would eat ponies late at night in the old days, I think daddy might have gone back to his old ways.' Zeus growled and he threw the note on the ground. "That would never happen." He says with a glare. "Go check on mommy, you misfit. Mommy can't fly and daddy isn't even a pony. Nice genes you got going on there." "No!" Zeus growls again. "What? Isn't that what daddy sounds like when he bites mommy?" "Don't talk about my parents like that!" He says with a booming growl as he buzzes his wings and drives himself straight into the colts chest, the little tips of his tiny green horns putting two small holes in his skin. "Don't." Zeus lifts up his paw and pulls his toes back to reveal sharp, unused claws. He brings his claws down on the colts face just as Cheerliee pulls him away. "Don't!" Zeus buzzes his wings and hovers above everypony else. "Don't insult my father." He looked over at the colt with the blood dripping wound on his face. "That's gonna leave a mark." A grinning white filly says as she flies up next to Zeus. "Spectrum! I missed you so much!" He says as he hugs her in mid air. "ZEUS! Get down here right now." The teacher says, and Zeus obeys. When he lands he leaves a bloody paw print on the wooden floor. "Now, young colt, why did you lash out on him like that?" She says in a stern voice. "He was saying that daddy was gonna hurt mommy! He was calling me a thing... I'm a pony like everyone else." "But you aren't Zeus, and you have to control your strong urges to hurt other things." "I only wanted to hurt him because he hurt me..." "Go home Zeus. I have a actual pony I have to take care of." Zeus looks up at Spectrum who is still hovering in the air before he flies out the window. He found a cloud to rest on and laid down on it. "Maybe here no one will call me a thing... I'm a pony... I'm a pony..." He says as he flutters his eyelids closed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Zeus? Zeus?" The ponyequus rolled around on the cloud, trying to get the warm fuzzy paw to leave him alone. He just wanted to be alone. "Zeus buddy, it's daddy." "Daddy?" "Yes, I'm here buddy." Zeus didn't open his eyes, but he felt something warm wrap around him. "Did you hurt mommy?" He asks as he nuzzles closer into his father. Draco doesn't answer for a few moments. "No...Why would you think I ever would even think of that?" "The colt at school said you would eat mama... That you would hurt her... They called me a thing daddy... They treated me like a animal... Daddy, am I an animal?" "No... You are a pony. No matter what they say. You are a pony. You got that Zeus?" "Yes..." "I think I have something you might like buddy." Zeus opened his eyes and looked up. Draco handed him a box that had lots of holes in it. Zeus looked up at him with confusion. "Mommy got her birthday present early, so I thought, it's only fair you do too." Zeus opened the box and a orange cat looked up at him. "A kitty!" Zeus yelled as he picked up the cat and held it close. Draco laughed a little bit. "His name is Griffin."