Carnelian was asleep on a very stormy night, another dream came to him. He started to dream he was in a castle, and wearing a royal guard's uniform and holding a spear that was much taller than he was. The sun was setting and the rain continued too fall on the armor of all the soldiers that were staring out too the sunset. After the sun set, many bright lights filled the night sky and only got brighter as they got closer.
"Take Cover!" was yelled by many royal officers on the castle walls.
All of the stallions panicked while placing the heads between there legs behind the castle walls. As Carnelian looked closer he noticed it was a swarm of flaming arrows heading toward him. He quickly hopped off the wall and took a fall too the dirt as the arrows wounded and killed the soldiers around him. He heard the screams of pain all around him. A officer picked him up, and screamed into his face.
"Soldier! What are you doing? You are going to fight or die for the ones you love, being a coward is not a choice."
The officer started to push Carnelian too the castle gates.
"What do you mean, I'm not a soldier! I am a conductor!" Carnelian screamed.
"How are you so quick to forget the things that had happened, your family is held up in the castle and you were drafted to protect the Canterlot Castle, now get too the gates to replace the fallen ones on the battleground!" The officer ordered.
He was pushed to the gates, with many other Stallions staring at the gate with there spears held up in a very uniform fashion. In the distance you just heard screams and metal clashing against each other.
"Open the gates!" The commander screamed on the walls.
The walls began to open and a bright light shined. Carnelian woke up early in a shock, and jumped up in bed. He looked around to see Majestic was still asleep and he looked down at himself to make sure he wasn't wearing any armor. He took a deep breathe, got out of bed and started to walk down the hallway to check on Octavia. He slowly opened the door while it creaked,and headed inside of the room too look at Octavia sound asleep in her crib. He looked around the room too notice a cello bow sitting on the top shelf of her room. He took it down and started too look at it more closely. He saw a inscription inside that said
"Manhattan Orchestra."
He took the bow and sat it back on the top shelf and just heard Octavia say.
"Daddy!"
Carnelian quickly turned around too hear more closely.
"Did Daddy, just hear you talk, or is Daddy going crazy?" Carnelian said in a very confused state.
"Daddy!" Octavia said once more.
Carnelian couldn't hold his joy in and started to jump around the room and Octavia just stood up in the crib and started to jump around the crib like Carnelian was doing in her room. Carnelian smiled and grabbed Octavia and ran her to the bedroom. He sat her on the bed and started to wake Majestic up.
"Baby, wake up, wake up!" Carnelian started to say poking Majestic.
Majestic woke up slowly to see Octavia and front of her and Carnelian behind her smiling. Octavia leaned over to hugged Majestic on the neck.
"Love You!" Octavia said.
Majestic eyes widen and Carnelian heard what she said and join in the hug. Majestic started to tear up with joy while being hugged by her family. While trying to be careful not to crush Octavia in the middle. She stood up and wrapped her hooves around the family. Carnelian didn't have to work that day so he decided he wanted to spend some time with his family since Octavia is almost six months old now. Later that morning, Majestic decided to make a big breakfast of Octavia's favorite food of apples and oats. As Carnelian was preparing Octavia and himself for breakfast, he was trying to get Octavia to say Mommy.
"Can you say, Mommy...........MOMMY!" Carnelian was asking Octavia.
After Carnelian started to repeat Mommy over and over. Octavia was getting ready to say it. Octavia took a big breathe and got ready too say something while Carnelian was waiting to hear the word "Mommy."
"Minny!" Octavia said with a blah.
Carnelian started to laugh and brought her into the dining room to eat her food. As they sat at the table, Carnelian started to continue to try to get her say Mommy but she would only say Minny and Marny. Majestic walked in to say while holding the breakfast plates.
"Carnelian, she will get it one day. She has already said three words and grew a full mane in the matter of a month, I don't want her to grow up to quick."
Carnelian laughed and continue to play with Octavia. After Majestic made Octavia's meal, she looked up too Majestic too say.
"Love You!"
"Love you too baby!" Majestic said with a tear and a smile.
Carnelian jumps in and asked Octavia something.
"You know who else loves you?"
"Daddy!" Octavia replied too not knowing really what she was replying too.
Carnelian laughed and said.
"And you better believe it, Daddy's never going to stop loving you!"
Octavia's plate was set down in front of her and she dug into the food. Carnelian noticed that the pink bow in her hair was coming undone and started to tighten it to make sure it stood on. Carnelian grabbed his food and started to eat while Majestic joined in with her food. After they were done eating, Carnelian decided to go out and get something for Octavia. Carnelian and Majestic got Octavia ready and they sat her inside of the carriage and started to head out. They went through the market section in Canterlot in search of a toy store. They saw one named, Fillies for Fun, and started too head inside of the store. Octavia was amazed with all the toy they had in there and started to laugh. She looked around amazed with all the colors of the store and all the other fillies around, but she was more amused with the colors than anything. When they started to walk down a aisle, Octavia saw what she wanted and stood up in the carriage and started to reach her hooves out to it. Carnelian looked at it and it was a toy cello for fillies. A plastic cello with a plasic bow. Carnelian looked at Majestic.
"I think she likes the Cello." Carnelian said
Majestic smiled while Carnelian was reaching for the toy and after he grabbed the toy he gave it too Octavia and rolled the Carriage up too the counter to purchase the toy. Carnelian reached into his bag's pocket to grab a couple of coins and sat them in the clerks hoof. They started to head home so Octavia can enjoy her new toy.
Finally they got home, Octavia held her new cello really tightly while they lift her out of the carriage. Carnelian and Majestic sat down to show Octavia how to play the instrument.
"Okay, Octavia this is called the Cello, you take the bow and rub it across the strings like this." Majestic said while demonstrating how to play.
Octavia did what she was told to do and took the bow and rubbed it across the cello really really really fast but it had a tune already inside of the cello so when you rubbed the bow against the strings it would play that same tune over and over. Octavia just kept rubbing the bow against the strings and Carnelian and Majestic just started to clap there hooves.
"I am going to go start on lunch, honey." Majestic told Carnelian
"No, let me do it, I want to make something special for the two of you." Carnelian said while sitting Majestic back down.
He started to walk toward the kitchen to cook the food. Majestic smiled and rubbed her hooves through Octavia's mane while she continued to play. She smiled and said to herself.
"I wish your grandmother was here to see this."