Octavia and the Alicorn's peace
By. FoxofRarity
Chapter. 10
Disclaimer- My dearest readers thank you for your patience. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust,
“Gold Sky thank you for letting love you as my son, my only immortal son.” Redheart whispers quietly into his ear. “Thank you, my dearest son.”
The Alicorn feels a nuzzle to his left cheek, making him feel so happy to this loving affection and tightens his hug around Redheart because even though he may be over two hundred years old it is not common for a stallion to desires reassurances a mother can provide. He did grow up without Celestia’s motherly nurture. “Redheart, you’re very welcome. I’m pleased to see how happy you are. Really I am happy to a reason for you to love me with your motherly love.”
Redheart nuzzled him again to receive these heart spoken words. “Gold Sky, I know it may be too soon to be asking this but can we do some mother and son activities together?”
Gold Sky lets go of the white mare and covered her with his wing but not after making him and Redheart invisible to everybody else by using his telepathy. “What do you have in mind Redheart?”
Redheart eagerly clapped her hooves a few times for she for one is going to experience the happiness she sees many times in the pictures showing mothers and their sons sharing joy. She already has in mind many things both can do, many opportunities to hug Gold Sky, many chances to kiss him on the cheek, many times to nuzzle him, and many possibilities to tell him how much she loves him. And what she wants the most is to hear him tell her he loves her very much.
“Uh there’s a carnival not far from here so right there can be something we can have fun there.” Redheart upon getting up grabs Gold Sky’s right forearm. “C’mon my boy!” She tugs at it. “C’mon Gold Sky!”
“Don’t worry Redheart, I’m coming.” Gold Sky gets up and joins Redheart.
“EEEEEEEIIEE!” Redheart squeals in delight and bumps the stallion with her shoulder.
Watching from the sky even though she should be somewhere right now but after using shape shifting on Shining Armor even if he didn’t want any of it but went along just to see her smile, Cadance is flying high above watching Gold Sky and Redheart head into the carnival while back in the palace is Cadance but she’s…or more specifically he is blushing with embarrassment. “Just why did I let Cadance shape shift me into her! Can’t believe I’m a mare now! This better last for a short while.”
Cadance with her telepathy camouflages herself from the stallion just so she can study his interaction with Redheart and at the same time gain a better understanding of him. “Hmmm, I never knew Redheart loved him as a son. Nor will I expect for Gold Sky to just let her love him as a son but I can reason he loves her very much and will want her to be happy so by letting her call him son then she can experience her maternal happiness again.” Such precise points created by the Princess of Love.
“Here we are my boy err I mean my son!” Redheart points at the carnival. “C’mon Gold Sky.”
“Oh this is going to be so fun!” Gold Sky’s inner child resurged to hear cheers of joy coming from all around and smelling the sweetness of freshly made kettle corn and who can forget cotton candy.
Redheart shows Gold Sky to a booth where a baseball must topple little milk bottles. “Do you think you can do this without magic?”
Gold Sky nods since he rarely uses his magic. “I’ll be winning you that big teddy bear! Uah!” He threw the ball with a strong force to topple the three bottles. “All right!”
“Here you go and congratulation.” The carny boringly cheered as he gave Gold Sky a small teddy bear.
Gold Sky of course handed the teddy bear to Redheart. “Gold Sky did you notice he said congratulation and not congratulations like he should have?”
“It’s kind of funny actually, I don’t think he like his job much an oh my! What is that!” Gold Sky points at something that resembles a booth.
Redheart follows the direction Gold Sky’s hoof is pointing while contemplating if she should take him on the roller coaster or maybe have a fast pencil portrait of the both of them she sees the booth and instantly smiles. “Oh my dear son that is a photo booth and we’re going in there right now!!” She pushes him in there. “Hold on let me put a bit.”
After placing the shiny bit in slot the duo create many poses and obviously laugh for joy.
From a high cloud Cadance zooms in her vision to see every one of the photos. “Oh how cute the first one has Redheart giving Gold Sky a big kiss on the cheek, the second one has Gold Sky giving her a big kiss on the cheek too, third one has funny faces, forth looks like a family portrait of a mother and son, and the last one is just Redheart with her arms wrapped around Gold Sky like he is the most precious object in existence.” She can’t help but smile at how Gold Sky is making this mare very happy. “He is so kind to spend time with Redheart, I can really see he loves her very much and…” Cadance suddenly snorted her breath out of her nostrils. “Another pony whom he loves and is attached to while he fears me and I bet he knows her scent. Uh oh!” She sees him suddenly pause as he gets out of the booth and cautiously sniffing the air.
“I think he smelled me!” Cadance hides behind more clouds.
Redheart notices what Gold Sky is doing. “Is there something wrong my son?”
“I think I smell something.” He continues sniffing while scanning the sky above and his heart rate slowly increases to the thought of the pony he thinks he smells is here and near. *Sniff sniff sniff* “Hmmm, never mind it must have been me. Hey can I see the photos please?”
“Phew.” Cadance wipes off a drop of sweat.
“Here you go.” Redheart stands by Gold Sky as he studies each one. “Aww don’t we look so adorable and loving together! Hey were you blushing when I gave you a big kiss? Oh wait that’s the sunlight.” Redheart placed a hoof on Gold Sky’s cheek. “Oooh it’s a good thing we’re given two strips.”
Meanwhile in Gold Sky’s mind. “Truly me and her do look like a mother and son plus she kisses me the same way mother kisses me, I’m glad she’s happy and I’m glad I’m happy too. It has been a long time since I felt happy.”
“Sure is a good thing Redheart.”Gold Sky took his strip of the photo and placed it in a side pocket of his cloak so he can show it to mother when he goes back to the palace.
Redheart’s eyes catch something. “Gold Sky, let’s get on the ferries wheel.” She suggests.
Gold Sky giggles and races Redheart to the ferries wheel, he has never been on a ferries wheel before and in his time spent in the Griffon Republic he has seen many of them but never took the initiative to ride one before until now maybe when he’ll be riding it with Redheart. “Ha beat you to the ferries wheel!”
“Hey no fair you gave me no heads up and I’m not much into physical activity. I am a nurse remember.” Redheart stopped to pant. “Ok, ok, ok I caught my breath whew, caught my breath. Let’s get on my boy.”
The ferries wheel operator smiled to himself upon seeing the interaction shared between these two, nothing like a stallion spending time with his mommy or as he commonly thinks…a momma’s boy.
Redheart rests her head on the stallion’s cloaked shoulder taking in this dear moment like a mother will usually do just then through her instinct she feels a tremble coming from the stallion. “Gold Sky is it just me or are you trembling?”
“I-I’m trembling. Truth be told Redheart this is the first time I ride a ferries wheel and I feel like this thing is going to just come apart.” Gold Sky grips the front handle bars. “Wh-wh-why is this thing wobbling!”
Redheart places an arm over his shoulders to calm his anxiety and just in case if Gold Sky is really scared nuzzles him on the head. “Never fear my son it’s only the wind making the ferries wheel wobble besides it’s made out of metal so it has to be sturdy.”
To hear the bit about the wind making the ferries wobble made Gold Sky stick out his tongue so he can feel if there’s wind around him, if so he will make the wind die down in order to lessen his nervousness. “You’re right there’s wind. Now there will be no more wind. Táte.” Gold Sky says the last word in a tongue Redheart cannot understand.
“Wha…” Redheart stops herself upon the wind cease to journey around her. “D-d-did that last word you just said made wind stop?”
“Yes. It isn’t magic though it’s something that I inexplicably have and never realized it until by some kind of passed down instinct I just ushered the word with a thought and saw the wind obey me. I can use the wind as method to attack anybody, to defend myself, to change the occurring environment to one of stillness, and of course I can make the wind tell me the stories of the Chero. But let’s drop this and get back to this ride graciously coming to an end!” Indeed the ride finally came to an end allowing Gold Sky to immediately jump off.
“Oh yes solid ground, I am safe on sound solid ground.”
Redheart doing as requested forgets about her boy being able to command the wind at will. Much rather she gently laughs to hear Gold Sky’s funny words of relief. “Oh my boy you can sometimes act so unwillingly funny.”
The white mare gives the stallion a comforting motherly hug and asks him if he will like to share a funnel cake with her to which the stallion happily nods.
***
In Ponyville Octavia trots with much faster pace to arrive to her dear destination where father her dearest, loving father lives. It has been a rather long time since the last time she visited her father even though it has been a mere three days but she loves her father very much and the thought of being away from him and without contact is unthinkable. “I’m here!” *knock knock* Octavia with patience knocks eagerly waiting for the door to open.
“Octavia my sweetheart, I’m glad you’re here.” Allegro Note hugs his dearest daughter while at the same time beats her to the loving gesture.
“Father you took the words out of my mouth.” One will think that with the great Love Octavia possesses for him she call him the affectionate term offspring will call their fathers. Daddy. But Octavia will not call him daddy, she only calls him father because it’s father who raised her and never forsaken her nor failed her in any probable way. Octavia respects Allegro Note so to her prospective daddy is very disrespectful to such a noble stallion. “Will you like for me to make you some tea?”
Allegro Note shakes his head and instead points at the dinner table filled with food. “I made you some of your favorite Paninis especially the one with cheddar cheese and spinach.” He pulls back a chair for his daughter and lovingly kisses her on the head. “Please eat hearty sweetheart.”
“Thank you father.” Octavia moved up to kiss him on the cheek. “As always you cook me a masterpiece.”
Allegro Note sits across from his daughter watching her enjoy the masterpiece.
*Two plates, five cups of soda, and two slices of cake later*
“Octavia.” The father is says upon seeing his daughter wipe her mouth with a napkin. “How have you been?”
“I’ve been well father, but I still ask myself why didn’t you come to my last performance? I always buy you a front row ticket for every performance and seeing your spot empty I almost messed up.”
“But you didn’t sweetheart. I know you are incapable of messing up because you practiced so much that basically you can play with your eyes closed of course I felt ashamed for not being there but I knew you will perform flawlessly after all the Princesses themselves were there.” Father knows everything.
Octavia nodded. “Yes, yes they were there as if I didn’t have enough pressure on my shoulders that night but I simply thought of you…” She paused, because father isn’t the only pony she thought of before blessing everyone there with her talent on the cello. “An-and somepony else.” Octavia says the last part with a fast nervous pace.
Allegro Note's head tilts to the last bit. He knows every one of Octavia’s mannerisms like when she’s nervous, sad, too happy, and angry so like right now by seeing Octavia having her head in a downward angle with a tense smile tells him Octavia has something to tell but is hesitant to reveal it. “Sweetheart will you kindly tell me about this somepony else.”
*Long sigh* One thing is certain though Octavia trusts her father in everything and never has she kept anything from him. “He’s a stallion father and his name is Gold Sky.”
“Gold Sky. Hmm from that name I can guess he’s a Pegasus.” Unknowingly he’s half right.
However, Octavia shook her head. “He’s a Unicorn father and I met him when I was practicing on the hills outside Ponyville, he stopped to listen to my music making me feel so happy to see somepony get taken away in their happiness in my practice rather than my perfection. He’s kind of bashful something of which I figured when he stuttered.” Her father injects.
“A speech impediment does not always equate bashfulness sweetheart, maybe he never had speech therapy to correct his impediment nevertheless, I can’t discredit your intuition so please continue.” Says the father.
“Well if you put it that way I guess I can’t say he’s completely bashful but he did blush a few times.”
“Hmmm.” Allegro Note agrees with a raise of both eye brows and small of wave of his left arm. “I can credit your intuition I guess.”
Octavia smiled by emitting a giggle. “I invited him for lunch only to find out he really loves Pinkie Pie’s cupcakes and back to the bashful part I smiled at him only to see him blush like a cutie pie. Heh! Can’t believe I said that, hehehe! Any who, he’s a nice a stallion father and a good friend.” The gray mare ends by smiling to the thought of Gold Sky.
Allegro Note just has to ask an obvious question every father will ask. “Do you like him?”
“Yes I like him father, he’s my good friend. Also you won’t believe me when I say this but I’ll tell you anyway, while me and him were having lunch in the Sugarcube Corner, Pumpkin Cake, the Cake’s daughter began to cry and they couldn’t do anything to sooth her I mean both of them tried in vain to sooth her. Until with so much love in his eyes Gold Sky ask if he can take the filly to which after getting permission he took her in his arms like a natural annnnnnd with a voice rich with love starting to sing to her soothing the little filly to point she fell asleep in his arms. I couldn’t believe it! I mean really this stallion did what the mother and father couldn’t do. Oops.” Octavia accidently tipped over an empty cup. “Getting back, uhh oh! So guess what the Cakes asked him father!”
The father thinks a quick bit. “Hmmm, before I answer I will like to say he is one heck of a stallion! Really one of a kind, I bet some mares will find that very extraordinary therefore making him a big catch for any mare and probably some mothers might not like him or maybe see him as a big catch too. Ha!”Allegro Note laughs at his opinions he expressed for Gold Sky. “Did the Cakes ask him how he was able to easily sooth their daughter?”
“No father, they asked him if he can babysit their children because they had an important event to attend. Gold Sky at first flat out rejected the plea on the basis that it’s mostly mares who foul sit children but the Cakes using their…stuff convinced him…they used cupcakes as one way but what really sank the nail in is him turning to me and asking the Cakes if I can stay with him so I can help him.”
Allegro Note's right eyebrow arched up. “He asked you, somepony with absolutely no experience in child care to help him foul sit two fouls.”
Octavia shrugged in agreement for even she knows her limitations in things considered necessity or trivial. “If you put it that way father then you make me realize that I will be a terrible foul sitter. Buuuuuuut getting back to topic the only reason he asked me to help him because he felt that if a mare is around then it will make everything look more normal. Do you get what I mean by that father?”
“Yes I understand sweetheart, this must have been something that Gold Sky did not expect…” In the tone Octavia speaks about Gold Sky like her admiration in his skill with children and him stopping to listen he can in this case assume something. “Sweetheart perhaps I may be going a step too far in saying this but I take you like him.”
Octavia thinks her father is being too modest. “Oh father he’s my good friend of course I will like him.”
Allegro Note will go a step further. “You misunderstood Octavia, I meant is do you really li ok well not that, ahem have you fallen in Love with him?” He just has to know given the fact Gold Sky sounds like a stallion he’ll allow to be close to his daughter after he meets him first.
Octavia blushed to brightest hue of red while her body heat follows suit by going up. “I-I-I-I-I th-think you just went a step too fa-far Gold Sky is a nice stallion and yes I like him a lot! But, but to fall in Love with him, he’s too bashful to know what Love even is! He freaked out more than I did when we woke up in the same bed…”
“WHAT!!” Allegro Note interrupts.
Octavia saw she has gone into more detail earlier. “Father it isn’t what you think…”
Allegro Note jumped to his feet. “It isn’t what I think!?” He interrupts again. “You said both of you woke up in the same bed! *GASP!!* Don’t tell me you engaged in premarital oof.” A quick gray hoof to the mouth stopped him from finishing.
“Father I did not engage in that! I repeat I did not engage in that!! And I’m sorry for skipping important details.” She slowly removed her hoof from his mouth. “My performance moved Princess Luna that she herself invited me to the palace to have tea with her.”
Allegro Note’s eyes widened! “You’re kidding right?”
“No father I am not kidding. Princess Luna invited me to the palace, now here’s the part that I should have said much earlier. When night came around she showed me to a guest room so I can sleep, it was too dark in the room for me to see Gold Sky was already sound asleep and he slept there because he knows Princess Celestia so she showed him to the guest room too. Now when morning came we both freaked to see each other in the same bed, of course he freaked more than me”
“Oh…now it makes so much sense now.” Allegro Note apologized for his assumption. “So both of you know a Princess. He knows Princess Celestia and you know Princess Luna, wow, that is amazing, you always surprise me in many ways Octavia and I’m very happy your talent pleased her very much.” *Ting* “Hold on, how does Gold Sky know Princess Celestia?”
Octavia felt a tingle of guilt run down her spine when remembering how she unintentionally made fun of Gold Sky for saying mommy. “He said his parents knew Princess Celestia especially his mother but instead of mother he said mommy.”
“Oooooh how cute! He must be a mama’s boy.”
Octavia waved her arms like her father said something really out of line. “About that father…at first I laughed at him for saying mommy he on the other hoof didn’t react at all to my laughing then I asked him how his parents are doing to be told his parents died when he was very young.”
“Oh my.” He feels some guilt. “I take you felt very guilty.”
“Yes I did.” Octavia looked down at the table showing her shame. “He forgave me and did get offended at all. *sigh* Father, Gold Sky is a good stallion and he’s my friend…”Interrupted.
“He’s a good catch err I mean he’s a perfect stallion.” Oh this father implying what some fathers will apply when they see somepony pony good for their daughters.
Octavia made a serious light hearted face. “You sound like you’re secretly telling me to marry him.”
“Maybe or maybe not, but what I do know is your heart will tell you when you found the perfect stallion” Allegro Note came to his daughter and took her into his arms. “Of course Octavia I already know what you’re going to say.”
“I already got one stallion in my life father and it’s you.” Octavia loves her father with all her heart, spirit, and soul. “I wish I can show you my love for you father. I love you father.”
*Quiet sigh* “Sweetheart soon it will be time for you to find a new stallion in your life.” Allegro Note tells himself. “I raised you Octavia into a fine mare and I trust you in every decision you make.”
“Thank you father.” Octavia rests her head on father’s shoulder. “Then I know tomorrow you can meet Gold Sky when I show him his surprise.”
Father and Daughter, can anything else be so beautiful.
***
In the Palace.
Princess Celestia notices someone important is missing. “Hmmmm where is Shining Armor? I saw him a few minutes ago.”
She spots Cadance sitting on a chair next to a griffon body guard sharing a bottle of apple cider. “Ahh there’s Cadance.” Celli makes her way to the cerise mare. “Cadance have you seen Shining Armor?”
Cadance pushed the bottle to the griffon bodyguard. “I am Shining Armor.”
“Hahaha.” Princess Celestia laughed. “That’s a good one Cadance, I needed a good laugh.”
Cadance’s ears dropped while on her face is a lukewarm expression that has more of the cold than warm. “Celli I am Shining Armor! Really it’s me!”
Celli laughed again. “Cadance you’re really in a joking mood today.”
Cadance rolled her eyes. “Celli shift your vision to true nature.”
“All right.” Celestia shifted her vision to see the true nature of things and as Cadance or in this true case Shining Armor wants her to see, Celestia sees Shining Armor. “Shining Armor why in the world are you shape shifted like Cadance! Wait a minute are you completely a mare or is this just a cosmetic type of shape shifting?”
Given the fact of the current situation and Shining Armor’s thought that he doesn’t have testosterone anymore he sort doesn’t want to answer Celli’s question. “I had to pick up my tail so I can pee…” Okay that’s more in Shining Armor’s frequency of expressing his sheer embarrassment.
“Oh dear I never knew Cadance mastered that sort of magic and how does that make you feel?”
“I missed.” From lukewarm to completely cold.
Celli now sees the depth of this. “Now can you tell me why Cadance did this?”
“She said something about spying on a pony named Gold Sky and to study whatever she can get from him because he’s highly connected to love so she has to study him with weather eyes. Uhh, that is more or less what she said I think.” Shining Armor suddenly shivers. “The longer I stay a mare the more my curiosity to try on Cadance’s dress grows on me and then maybe I might go to Rarity and have her make me a nice pink with some shades of light yellow on the sleeves…*gasp!*” He clamps his mouth shut. “Oh my this isn’t good! Now I’m starting to think like a mare!” Now Shining Armor really wants to be turned back into a stallion. *Sigh* “But for the sake of my dear Cadance I will do this.”
Celestia happily reached out to rub Shining Armor’s cerise chin. “You are a good husband and a strong stallion.”
Unfortunately. “You’re trying to be funny in the last part are you?”
“No I’m being serious Shining Armor.” Celli says to pacify Shiny’s discontentment.
“Oh ok.” Shining Armor or Cadance in this temporary instance shrugs in acceptance to Celli’s words.
Celli however is quite puzzled for Cadance’s not so common intentions along with the sudden emergence of this type of curiosity for Gold Sky. “Cadance is taking a huge risk by doing this given the fact he deeply fears her and if he discovers her spying on him then that will continue giving him motivation for staying afraid of her even though they both have something pure in common. Hmm, of course he can smell her too I hope Cadance has a plan to conceal her scent from him.”
The mother resumes her diplomatic duty and reluctantly pushes her son to the back of her mind.
***
“Oh look at him enjoy his funnel cake.” Redheart whispers to herself. “He eats it likes it’s the first time he’s ever tried it.”
It is by the way.
Redheart who only took two bites of her funnel cake before completely stop to imagine Gold Sky not as a stallion but as a young colt sitting in front of her eating his funnel cake. “Oh look at my little boy having a lot of fun with me in this theme park I have the opportunity to be with him, gaze upon him, walk by him, and tell him how much I love him.” The white mare rests her head on her hooves to provide her neck with some support to allow her to continue watching Gold Sky. “Perhaps I should ask him if he’ll like to join me for dinner so I can cook him up a nice meal. Oh!” Redheart notices something out of place on Gold Sky’s face.
“Gold Sky, my boy please stay still.”
“Huh?” Gold Sky got still only to feel Redheart’s napkin covered hoof clean off some powdered sugar that implanted itself on the edges of his lips. “Oh, thanks.”
Redheart swayed the napkin off her hoof and began stroking Gold Sky’s cheek while giving him a motherly smile. “Of course my son.”
Nearby mares accompanied by their husbands, mothers with their children, fathers with their children, and children, all see Redheart’s affection as they pass by the table. What all of them have in common is one thought that is in unison the same and going through their heads. “Aww look at that mare spend time with her son, how sweet of her son to bring her to the carnival.” Though the thought shared in all these witnesses are not worded exactly it is still unison in conclusion.
Gold Sky hears the running thoughts and smiles at the white mare. “Well I love Redheart very much and I’m glad she’s happy.” He can’t help but remind himself how important Redheart is to him.
“Redheart.” Gold Sky mummers while pushing away the plate of the half eaten funnel cake.
“Yes my son?” Redheart answers.
“Are you going to finish your half of the funnel cake?”
“Oh.” Redheart realized she forgot about her funnel cake. “Yes, yes, I’ll finish it up.” *Nom nom*
Once the funnel cake has been consumed by the white mare she asked the stallion if he wants to go on the roller coaster again but the stallion declined given that they just finished eating so the white mare asks if he’ll like to leave the carnival to which he agreed to. Once out of the carnival the mare asks if she can give him a checkup for medical reasons. The stallion said yes.
“Come in my son. Say you never been to my house have you?”
Gold Sky awaits for the door to close first before he answers. “No I’ve never been to your house Redheart and I must say it’s quite exquisite also I can do this.” He removes his silk cloak. “Where do you want me to sit so you can give me my checkup?”
Redheart got hold of her stethoscope. “I would prefer if you will lie down instead I-I want to examine your abdominal area.”
“The scar.” The reminder of his endless attempts to atone for taking the lives of one thousand four hundred and twelve innocent of the most innocent lives plus three freshly hatched baby dragons. Nonetheless, he wants to confess the innocent blood he shed and he wants to tell somepony but he can’t…he’s a monster and monsters cannot be loved. “Redheart.” Gold Sky just stops Redheart from starting the checkup.
“Yes my son.” Redheart again gazes upon Gold Sky with her motherly eyes.
“These words that I’m going to say I want to you to tell me what you connect them and please think thoroughly before you tell me. Ahem, the most innocent of innocent beings.”
“Hmmmm?” Redheart places a hoof under her chin to think thoroughly about the words and connect the words to a correct definition. “Children! You’re referring to children right?”
One thousand four hundred and twelve lives taken by him to prevent a blade from slitting Ruby’s neck only to see her get turned to ash by a purple dragon and after he killed the purple dragon he got called mother by the three dragon hatchlings so out of vengeance and mercy the necks of the baby dragons got broken by his magic. Gold Sky fell to his knees screaming for all the innocent he spilt, he screamed and he screamed, he does not deserve to live especially if there’s the Razor to make him shed innocent blood again. He took hold a sharp tooth from the crushed head of the purple dragon and stabbed himself in the belly to end his life, to atone the innocent lives he ended by the sword. His spilled intestines slithered back into his belly, he stabbed himself just asking anyone, anyone to let him die to pay with his sparkling blood the lives of the innocents. But his tissue regeneration prevented him from seeing the white light so he aimed for his heart, however, every time he launched the dragon’s tooth forward some kind of an invisible force will deflect the dragon’s tooth. He couldn’t take it anymore…he failed to end his own life, he spilt innocent blood, and couldn’t save Ruby, he just went completely insane. Reality became nothing while he became immaterial walking a world with a mind that is empty and undone.
“Yes, you said what I thought you’ll say.” Gold Sky rests his head on a pillow. “Now you can start with the checkup Redheart.”
“All right.” Redheart with softly touches Gold Sky abdominal area while gently sinking her hooves in the four quadrants to feel for any abnormalities she does of course feels the scar and stops the checkup to just pass her hoof over it.
Gold Sky meanwhile tries hard not to laugh because Redheart is unintentionally through her rubbing of his scar is tickling him.
“My son, I know you don’t ever want to talk about but I need to know why you tried to take your own life? Please my son what can drive you to not only think about suicide but to commit the deed?” She moves her eyes from the abdominal area to the neck looking at the scar over the trachea.
Gold Sky will not tell Redheart about the innocent blood however, he will tell about its side effects given to him by the spilt innocent blood. “I became desensitized, I can take lives without any form of hesitation and I will not feel anything in the end. I fought in a war in the Griffon Republic…I may be the first of all ponies in the history of Equestria to fight in a war and get eight hundred forty seven kills. I killed eight hundred forty seven fascist griffons in the battlefield with a sane mind Redheart, you see when I became insane after seeing that I couldn’t end my own life I regained it when I witnessed the slaughter of innocent children and their parents and there in that instant I swore that at least I will protect the innocent children of the Griffon Republic along with their parents. So I put on the bronze armor of the Griffon Republic and fought knowing that I am the Ultimate…Killer though you will much rather call me the Ultimate Soldier because you cannot even think of me being a killer. But I am more than a killer, more than a soldier, I am desensitized. I wish I wasn’t.” Gold Sky reaches out to Redheart to which she places a hoof on his head. “But I am what I am now. A killer with a heart so full of Love.”
“No.” Redheart shakes her head. “I don’t believe you my son, y-you a-are not a killer you are a sweet pony whom I delivered into this world and handed you to Sylva. You are my son, Gold Sky and I know you’re incapable of killing much less fight in a war.”
Gold Sky slowing blinked to having to resort to telepathy and to let her hear a ballad the soldiers of the Griffon Republic created and sometimes used as a battle cry. “You must and you will believe Redheart. I am completely desensitized and can take a life like it’s a simple no not simple a mundane decision nor will I feel anything afterwards.” He sits up with his left wing up so he can cover Redheart with it. “In the end it doesn’t matter.”
“What?” Redheart nearly gasps in disbelief.
“For what purpose will I feel guilt when I can’t feel anything telling me to not take the life. For what purpose will I even care? Purpose gives me no reason so why should it matter? For purpose is empty to me. It’s means nothing just like hope, when desensitized, not many things seem matter at all.”
“Nihilist in the surface but truly believing in love’s purpose in the inside of his heart.” Redheart concedes in her mind.
“Let me show you one of the battles I flew into and came out covered in fascist blood.” Gold Sky’s horn touches Redheart’s forehead to ensure complete connection to her mind.
*
“Approaching fascist forces get ready to engage.” Commands General Sherman of the Republic forces.
“Sir.” Calls a nearby marine of the 501st Marine Corp. “How many troops are in the Vanguard?”
Sherman looks down at the enemy’s ground. “One.”
“O-ONE!!” The marine screams in shock.
“Yes one. That pony with the wings and horn is one hell of a killing machine. Whoa!” An arrow zooms past the general. “The moment has come, dive, dive, dive!!!” The Republic forces bank down to engage the enemy.
A bronze sword slices open a fascist, a hoof flattens a head, bolts of magic disintegrate flesh, body parts litter the ground not only giving a sight for the Republic forces to see but to nourish the soil with blood. “Is this the best you fascists can give me!” Gold Sky holding a fascist above rips him apart to get showered with the enemy’s blood. After dispatching of the body the Alicorn carries on slaughtering fascist after fascist with unending merciless brutality.
“Incredible…” Sherman breathes out. “He took out an entire company of Elite fascist troops.” *Gasp* “Gold Sky wait!!” Sherman stops the Alicorn from killing the last fascist. “He probably has valuable information.”
“Humph!” Gold Sky throws the fascist in front of Sherman.
The general orders the captured fascist to speak and in exchange his life will be spared but the fascist being the slave of pride and to the will of the hunger for power, he spits on Sherman’s face. “Like hell I’ll tell you anything you republic filth! You will all be dead soon when the glory of the fascists comes upon you like the wrath of eternal damnation!”
Before Sherman can usher a word the Alicorn already has the fascist in his grasp. “Then your life shall be mine for the taking pathetic fascist!”
*
“Gold Sky please no more!” Redheart begs in horror. “You killed every one of those fascists in such unorthodox brutality!”
“I did Redheart and hearing the pain in your voice I will stop with the details to let you hear the ballad the Republic made.” Gold Sky’s telepathy plays the ballad in Redheart’s mind.
“A fist of fury, a deadly weapon, rapier of havoc, raised up in anger, born to do battle without compassion, more than a soldier, more than a killer, and in his trail is mayhem, destruction always followed. By stricken enemies of the soldier of no sorrow he shall have his numbers of the hearts that stopped beating and in his glory he shall be seen as the ultimate killer! For in his numbers is his protection, the killer is legendary, for the blood he spilt shall reach his knees!”
Redheart got out from Gold Sky’s wing to take in the fact her son is desensitized and is a very efficient killer.
“I thought so.” Gold Sky tells himself. “She sees a part of me so now she is afraid of me and will completely reject me.” He only expects this given the fact he knows no one can love a monster.
Redheart deeply thinks, she is completely horrified and afraid… “NO! Why am I allowing myself to let fear touch me! He is my son whom I love with all my heart and yes he may be a killer but he had to kill since he is the ultimate soldier who fought in a war. He had to do what he had to do and did so in war so what he did is reasonably justified. He is my son, I will never fear him. I love him, his love rains upon me for I can see it in his eyes. I WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF MY OWN SON!! MY SON!!” *sigh* Redheart turns back around, runs back to her son, and takes him into her arms. “I love you my son and nothing shall ever detract me from it.”
“I’ve been proven wrong…Redheart has a purpose to love me. Thank you, for loving me as your son.”
Redheart thanks the Great Spirit for giving her motherly love.
In the palace Cadance returns her husband back to his true self. “Oh thank you, thank you, thank you my love!” Shining Armor kisses his wife and then becomes invisible in case Cadance has any more not so pleasing ideas.
“Ugh I don’t like it when he does that he’s extremely to find even with telepathy.” Cadance groans while at the same time finds it a normal reaction given the fact she turned her husband into a mare.
After saying goodbye to the last diplomatic guest Celestia goes up to Cadance eyeballing the cerise mare with true nature vision. “Wonderful you are the true, true Cadance and not Shining Armor with ovaries.” Celestia chuckles for a few seconds. “So how did your little reconnaissance mission on my son go?”
Cadance flicked her hair. “Well Tia your son is a very loving stallion that’s for sure.”
“Yes Cadance you figured that out already so why will you bother bringing it back up if it is of no utter relevance.”
Well Cadance sees Tia’s response as the tipping force that will spill the beans from the jar. “He allows Nurse Redheart to call him son.” Now the cerise mare waits to see how’ll the white mare will react to this along with assuming Tia will be succumbing to downcast feeling.
“That’s is so sweet of him.” Instead The Princess of the Sun is very pleased of how kind her son to become a son to a mare who already lost one child. “Tell me more Cadance.”
“They went to the carnival together and had a lot of fun together. Like a mother and son, also what is most surprising is Gold Sky’s ability to control the wind at will but only after ushering a word in a tongue I cannot understand.” Cadance’s magic floats cup of fruit punch to her lips.
“Hmmmmm.” Tia ponders. “I will have to ask him to demonstrate his ability to control the wind and maybe I will encourage him to spend more time with Redheart. Oooooh, I can’t wait to hear every word he has about the time spent with Redheart.”
Some distance from Celestia and Cadance is Luna wondering more about Gold Sky and unlike her sister, she does not find it very proper of Gold Sky to allow Redheart to call him son. In her mind Gold Sky is Celestia’s son and her son alone therefore to allow Redheart to see the stallion as her son is slap to Celli’s face. “I’ll do something about Gold Sky and Redheart until then I’ll have the cooks prepare some food, I think he should be coming back any minute now.” In the deepest part of her mind she wants to ruffle Gold Sky’s hair while stoking his cheek like a loving aunt will do.
***
In the Carousel Boutique.
“Say Rarity.” Rainbow Dash asks. “Can I ask you a question?”
“Why sure Rainbow Dash what is it you want to ask me.” Rarity is ready.
“Earlier today before I took Gold Sky under my wing I checked him out…” Pause to await Rarity’s response.
“Hehehehe!” Rarity giggles like a filly being told a funny secret in the schoolyard. “Did he notice you looking at his muscles?”
Rainbow Dash blushed. “No he didn’t notice me checking him nor did he hear me call him hot.”
“You called him hot!?” Rarity squeals. “Oh darling you have to tell me more!” Indeed Rarity loves to hear these sort of things.
“Well…I…I think I may have a tiny, itsey witsey crush on him. I think!”
“Oh my!” Rarity’s azure eyes widen while the pupils dilate to adorable grade wideness. “Is that bashful stallion appealed to you! I mean you Rainbow Dash! A tough as nails mare who always lives life on the edge and never shys away from a chance to display her awesomeness may have a little crush on a bashful stallion.”
Rainbow quickly comes to Gold Sky’s defense. “Rarity I give you props in your points but what I can’t give you props is you calling him bashful. He isn’t bashful one bit around me.”
“I’ll take back the bashful part however, you said Octavia is the perfect mare for him so how can you have a crush on him if you think he is love with her?” Rarity hates to rain on Rainbow’s happiness but it has to be done for the good of things.
“I know that Rares, that is why I said I may have a small crush on him but I need your smart words in this topic.” Oh here it comes. *sigh* “Here is the question, Rares, do you think I should do something with him so I can figure out if my crush is really a crush or I’m feeling this because I’m amazed by his physique not wait let me add to that question should continue having him under my wing knowing that I can unintentionally start developing feelings for him?”
Rarity sits next to the cyan Pegasus and with loving care places a hoof on the pegasus’s shoulder as to say the words that will becoming are heartfelt. “Rainbow Dash, you see something special in Gold Sky something really special and I think you have never seen anything like that before. He is a sweetheart yes and I you must decide what you I mean you! Must do.”
“What do you mean Rarity?” Rainbow is truly confused by Rarity’s cryptic response.
“What I mean Rainbow Dash is to do what you think is best. I’m afraid I can’t help you but I can encourage you to look into yourself while you have Gold Sky under your wing. Perhaps you see him as a reflection of your younger self even though he’s much older than you or maybe it’s the first time ever you have an Alicorn under your wing or maybe he’s charming without him knowing he’s charming or you just like him for who he is, that right there is my most probable deduction for you think and I stress think because I could be wrong when I say think, that you have a little itsey crush on. Hmmmm.” With her left hoof under her chin and eyes looking for the duration of a formatting thought Rarity searches for the right words. “I have an idea Rainbow Dash. The next time you’re spending time with him study him, study his voice, his form of interaction with you, his methods of affection because from what discovered on him.” Rarity holds her head high like she discovered something really important about the stallion. “He is very affectionate.”
Rainbow tilts her head. “How did you discover that?”
Rarity flicks her hair the way that will cause beating hearts to appear in Spike’s eyes. “I’m Rarity darling that should say it all.”
“Can’t argue with that.” Rainbow confesses.
*Knock knock*
“OOOOH!” Rarity squeals in unmeasured delight. “He’s here!”
“Gold Sky??” Rainbow instantly due to the stallion still being ripe in her mind.
Rarity leaps off from the chair and heads for the door. “No darling it’s Spikey-Wikey!”
“Oh.” *Ting* “Are you two going on a date or something?” Not sure how Rainbow came up with that question.
Rarity stops herself from opening the door. “Yes, we’re going on a date Rainbow uh I think Spike said Twilight gave him a green light to make up for a shape-shifting prank…Rainbow, will you like to join me and Spike? We will be happy to have you join us.”
Rainbow flapped her wings to be asked to join in this loving bonding event. “Really! You want me to join you guys!?”
“Yes Rainbow so you can have some fun and so you can have something else to think about.” Rarity opens the door allowing the purple dragon to come in. “Spike!”
The white mare and the purple dragon lovingly rub heads before embracing one another.
“Oh this is so sweet.” Rainbow tells herself.
When the embrace came to an end Rarity asks Spike if it’s okay with him if Rainbow Dash can join them to the movies and dinner. Spike who enjoys sharing, said yes, and asked Rainbow to join them. So the trio went out of the Carousel Boutique to enjoy their come time and for Rarity & Spike to bond more enhancing their relationship to higher levels.
“Hey what movie are we going to watch?” Rainbow asks.
“We’re going to watch Crimson Danger, Rainbow Dash.” Spike replies.
Rainbow giggled in anticipating delight. “Hey that movie sounds awesome like me.”
“It’s a love story Rainbow Dash.” Rarity hates the fact she rained on Rainbow’s party.
“What?” The cyan Pegasus’s ears drop. “You mean that movie with such an awesome name is a romance?”
More or less. “Yes.” Rarity & Spike answer at the same time.
“Well…uh.” Rainbow pretty much went speechless. “I can lose my daredevil license for this but what the heck! There’s nothing wrong with experiencing something new so let’s go!”
Spike, Rarity and Rainbow Dash will be having a grand time together because all of them will be bonding.
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