The room Ice Drop woke up in was lighten up by the sun. He faced the window away from the door and watched as the sun rose. The sun was brighter than usual and felt warm on his fur which is made of Ice. He quickly sat up to close the curtains and went back to laying on his bed. After a few minutes he was able to feel his eyes becoming heavy and his mind dulling as he fell deeper into the trance.
It was at that moment when he started to feel something wet on his side that was making a large ruckus and a good amount of strange vibrating feelings that made him want to laugh. It slowly moved down to his stomach when it started to intensify. I small giggle came from his throat and he instantly twisted to see what was happening. He found Cotten Candy leaning over and blowing into his stomach. Ice started to laugh harder as Cotton started to blow harder and he consorted to trying to shove Cotton off of him.
His attempts to get rid of Cotton proved futile and started kicking at him. Cotten just moved to the side to avoid the kicks from the colt. Ice Drop started yelling at Cotten but he kept going at his stomach. Eventually he stopped and let Ice Drop catch his breath before he went back at it and Ice went back to yelling. "Stop it! That makes me feel weird!
Cotten pulled back from his attack on Ice Drop to make room for his own words. " It's supposed to silly. Have you never been tickled before?"
"No!"
" Wow. I can't believe no pony has ever tickled you before." Ice Drop gave him a strange look to show how he felt about the subject. He quickly changed it as memories from his recent trip came to him.
" I saw you last night. With Ditzy. Care to explain?" Cotton went wide eyed and gave Ice Drop a questioning stare.
" So that was you snooping around last night." The sentence was more of a statement than a question. " Why does my business matter to you"
Ice Drop was quick to respond. " Because, your my dad now and to trust you, I should know you. You know a good amount of my past but I know next to nothing about you or who you are. What I saw last night was more than just you and her but what you’ve been hiding. Your wings! You’re even hiding them right no!.” Ice was pointing at his shirt. “ Further than that, your wings had blue dots on them about the size of my hoof. I think that you should have to explain yourself!”
Cotton stared blankly at him. He sat without much of any actions and seemed to be more surprised than anything. No words fit what he wanted to tell him so he decided to tell him part of the truth. “ Magic. Everything about me is magic.” Cotton turned his head to make sure nopony was at the door. “ My skin is magic, my coloration is partially magic, and nearly everything else that you see about me.” Cotton’s words were blunt. “ My wings had blue dots on them because my concentration was broken in my sleep. The reason you saw blue is because my natural fur color is blue, just like your own.” Cotton left Ice Drop in the room alone to think.
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Ice Drop went into the living quarters of the house. To him it still wasn’t home but it was as close as he had ever gotten since the day he left his own. There, he found Cotton, Sugar, Dinky, Scootaloo, and Ditzy. Every one that was in the house the previous night. He went up to Sugar who was sitting alone. “ I had a dream last night, and this pony named Luna, who apparently is a princess, gave me a little visit to talk about my dad.” Cotton looked down at him with a strange look and a little bit of nervousness. “ She said that after I left my house, he followed me for about a year or so. He later settled down in a small town named Ponyville. That wouldn’t happen to be you would it.” By now, everypony in the house was staring at them.
“ We need to talk about this privately.” Cotton led them into a small room within the house. The room was rather small compared to any of the other rooms and stored many things like brooms and rakes. Cotton knew it was a small storage room.
“ Ok. Some crazy blue alicorn visits you in your sleep and her name is Luna. Do you really believe a pony that you don’t know?”
“ I-I don’t know. She said that it wasn’t really a dream and… I never said she was blue and I never said she was an alicorn.” Ice felt that it was him time to finally be scorning somepony. “ You know her don’t you?”
Cotton was just realizing as Ice Drop finished his small speech. “I” His I was held out for several seconds before he said anything else. “ I do know who you’re talking about and yes, she is a princess. She and her sister rule over Equestria together. But you know what? you’re a very smart colt and I think you have every clue you need to figure out the rest of the mystery that you’re trying to put together and should distract yourself with that.”
“I already pieced it together. You told me that most everything about you was magic. From what I can tell, your disguise is magic and that is where you got the appearance you have now. You found somepony who had strong enough magic abilities to give you your appearance. Luna already knew who you were but never said anything about a sister knowing who you were. I don’t think anypony is just going to forget that they gave another pony a magical suite so i’m guessing you got Luna to do it and thats why she knew so much about you. You’re wings had blue splotches on them which seemed similar to somepony I know. As you lost your concentration when you slept, those splotches got bigger showing more blue. If you are who I think you are, the only reason that you can concentrate while sleeping is because, like me, you’re made of ice. Luna, like a said earlier, told me that my dad followed me around for a small amount of time before coming to a town named Ponyville which is this town right here. The only thing that is believable here is that you are my father, and you were my father before you adopted me.”
Cotton looked stunned at Ice’s conclusion. He clearly wasn’t expecting it wasn’t to happy that Ice Drop had figured out so much so fast. “ You, sorrowfully are not correct.” Cottens head dropped. “ Your dad isn't alive. He was the one that followed you here and he was the one that settled down here before me. Your dad had also gotten what ever your mom had and died the same death. His illness was the only reason that he stopped following you. I received a letter and I came to this little town to see your dad off. I first visited Luna to get this skin that you see now because the ponies here aren’t ready to know of our kind. I came to see your dad took him to a place that nopony would find or disturb him. I myself, am only your uncle.”
Ice Drop looked heart broken. All of this and now he was left knowing that his dad, just like his mom, was dead. He had gone through so much and now he was left with nothing. “ So. Why did you stay here if what you came here for is done” Ice Drops words were slow to come out.
“ I stayed here because I had a child.” Cotton was now being straight-forward with him. “ and I would never leave a child behind and I would never take a child from his own mother. Of course, after we broke up, the option was completely available but Sugar was to young to survive in the environment that I used to live in.”
“ But he’s part ice pony isn’t he?”
“No. At least he doesn’t show any signs of it. Flesh and bones seem to be dominant here but that doesn't matter. It’s more comfortable anyway.”
Ice Drop was appalled at what he had just heard. “ What's that supposed to mean.” While sounding like a question, Ice was also yelling at him.
“ Hey, keep it down. We don’t want to be heard.” Cotton peered out of the door to make sure nopony was listening in. “ It’s hard to describe to such a young kid, but you seem pretty smart. Like I said earlier, it’s magic. It’s just a different kind of magic, lets sa-”
Ice Drop stopped him before he could go on. “ Your not made of Ice anymore because you used black magic!”
Cotton stared at Ice Drop a little angered by being interrupted. “ No. Lets say when I came to town, I meet a few ponies. Most of them were female because in this place thats all that seem to be here and you got close to some of them. Two of them stick out to you and you really like them. Well, apparently, there's more magic in these emotions then there are in friendship and this magic is able to change you if you let it. Well, thats what happened. I don’t want to go any further because thats a little bit out of my knowledge area but i’m sure you get it.”
The two walked out of the closet and back into the main room where everypony was waiting. Ice Drop moved to the couch that sat on the left side of the room while Cotton went to a chair that only sat one pony. Ice was deep in his thoughts when Scootaloo confronted him. “ Hey. What were you talking about in there?” Ice Drop turned to her.
“ Stuff.”
“What kind of stuff?”
“ Just stuff.”
“ What’s that supposed to mean?”
“ It means that it’s something that I don’t want you to know about.”
Scootaloo’s voice dropped to a hush.“Oh.” She backed off of him for the time being.