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// A Day With The Family 
// Story: Гром на Твилигхт 
// by FalloutFilly 
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	Cadence woke up just before the sun was up, she looked over at Thunder and Twilight who were cuddling in their usual position, Twilight and Thunder both had smiles on their faces.

"Shining. Shining honey. Look." Cadence said shaking him awake.

"Huh? What?" Shining said as he snapped awake.

"Look at Twilight." Cadence said pointing to Twilight and Thunder.

"Oh, that's nice." He said looking at them.

"I hate to do this, but we should wake him up." Cadence said walking over to them and nuzzling Thunder's neck. Thunder slowly woke up and saw Cadence there.

"Huh? What are you doing here?" Thunder said forgetting they were there last night.

"Your memories slipping, isn't it?" Cadence said. "We came here yesterday and fell asleep in front of the fire place, remember?" She finished.

"Oh yeah, I knew that." Thunder laughed a little.

"Come on, we're going to Canterlot." Cadence told him.

"Wait, what? Did we agree to that last night?" Thunder asked.

"No, Celestia asked us to." Cadence answered.

"Oh, OK, well I'll get Twilly up and we can go." Thunder replied.

"Alright then." Cadence said kissing him on the cheek. "It's good to see you again." She added.

"Yeah, I've missed you." Thunder said kissing her back. After that he woke Twilight up and told her about the plans.

"That sounds fun, Luna's going to be jealous though." Twilight said. 

"Why?" Thunder chuckled.

"She and Celestia can't do this." She said leaning in and kissing him.

"Oh, yeah, that they can't, well they could, but that'd be awkward." Thunder said. Twilight burst out laughing.

"So should we get going?" Cadence asked them.

"Oh yeah, are we taking the train or all flying?" Thunder asked in return.

"We could take the train, it'd be a pain to fly this early." Cadence said.

"Makes sense, besides I still have to practice with these." Twilight said unfurling her wings. Thunder got a quick idea, he nipped on the tip of her wing. She had no idea and squeaked loudly.

"Don't do that, it tickles!" Twilight jokingly scolded him.

"Well at least I'm not doing this." He said nibbling at the back of her neck. She jumped and laughed.

"OK, OK, I get it!" She squealed excitedly. He stopped and got up, pulling her up to. They all got ready, ate breakfast, did all that and went to the train station. Upon arriving:

"OK, next!" The train attendant said.

"Four to Canterlot, please." Thunder said.

"Alright that'll be 215 Bits sir." He said working on a calculator.

"OK, here." Thunder said handing the attendant the money.

"Huh, never known anypony to carry that many loose Bits, but anyway here are your tickets." The attendant looked up to hand him the tickets and almost had a heart-attack when he saw the four Alicorns just standing there. However, unlike most, he didn't fanboy over them.

"Huh, would you four like a private car? No charge." He said.

"Yeah, that'd be fine with me." Twilight said bumping her flank in to Thunder's. The attendant noticed this.

"Are you two together?" He asked them.

"Yeah, you could say that." Thunder said as Twilight rested her head on his shoulder. Cadence and Shining were chuckling quietly behind them. Fortunately the attendant didn't know Thunder was Cadence's dad and Cadence was Twilight's ex-foal-sitter as well as Shining's brother.

"OK, well, you four have the car second to the rear. If you need anything please speak up." He told them.

"Much obliged." Thunder said as himself, Twilight, Cadence, and Shining walked in the train and headed to their car and got comfortable. Thunder and Twilight on one bench seat, Cadence and Shining on the other. After a second or two Thunder looked at Twilight and she got the hint. He rolled on his back and she climbed on top of him and pushed her head in to his neck and he returned the favor by wrapping his wings around her. She made a soft cooing sound that caught the attention of Cadence and Shining, they looked over and saw them.

"You know what, I'm getting used to it, but it's still awkward seeing Twilight and my dad cuddling like that. It is cute though." Cadence commented to Shining.

"No better for me, my sister cuddling with my wife's dad." Shining said chuckling. Cadence laughed at this. Thunder nipped at Twilight's neck and she made a 'eep' noise. He then continued to kiss under her muzzle, she made light sighing noises and kissed the side of his muzzle. At this time the train started moving and a few moments later the attendant walked through the car.

"Can I get you anything?" The attendant asked Cadence and Shining.

"No, thanks." Shining answered.

"Can I get some apple cider, please?" Cadence asked.

"Of course. Would you two like anything?" The attendant said turning to Thunder and Twilight who were kissing at this point.

"How about a blanket and a couple pillows. Can you think of anything, Twilly?" Thunder said asking Twilight.

"Nothing I can think of." She said, not breaking from the kiss.

"OK, we will have it here soon." The attendant said, turning to Cadence and Shining tilting his head to Thunder and Twilight. Cadence mouthed 'yeah you get used to it.' The attendant walked out and came back a minute later with the blanket and pillows and gave them to Thunder and Twilight and gave Cadence her apple cider. They all thanked the attendant and got back to what they were doing.

"Hey Cadence, does this seem familiar?" Twilight joked taking the blanket and covering herself and Thunder. Cadence sighed and laughed, as well as Shining.

"If the car starts shaking were taking the blanket." Cadence joked.

"We'll keep that in mind." Twilight said going back to Thunder, assaulting his tongue again.

"If I didn't know any better I'd swear they were teenagers again." Shining joked. Cadence laughed and decided to join in and jumped on Shining and did what Thunder and Twilight were.

"Watch those hooves, mister." Twilight said laughing.

"OK. how about this?" Thunder said as he lightly grabbed her cutie mark, making her squeak. Cadence laughed and rested her head on Shining.

"Seriously you two? Do I need to send you to your rooms?" Cadence said, realizing she set them up for a joke.

"Please?" Twilight said simply. Thunder laughed and started nibbling on the base of her wings. She made a laughing moan. Cadence laughed and went back to Shining, Thunder and Twilight kept to themselves for the rest of the ride. When they arrived the went straight to Canterlot Castle and were greeted by none other than Celestia.

"Welcome everypony, I take it the ride went well?" Celestia started out the conversation.

"Yes it was good, though I think some ponies had a little more fun than others." Cadence said nodding her head towards Thunder and Twilight.

"I figured as much, they share a pretty large amount of passion." Celestia said smiling. Twilight blushed and nuzzled Thunder, he kissed the top of her forehead.

"Something like that." Shining mumbled to himself.

"Come, please, you four, me, and Luna have some catching up to do. Is there a specific room you prefer to meet in?" Celestia asked them.

"Would the library be OK?" Twilight said. No one was shocked when she asked that, not even Thunder.

"Sure, there's always plenty of comfortable places to lay down, I take that's why you asked that?" Celestia said with a chuckle.

"Was it that obvious?" Twilight said looking to Thunder.

"More or less." He said giving her a soft kiss on the lips.

"Still awkward every time." Cadence said.

"Oh, yes, that's right Thunder's your father, that slipped my mind."

"Hey dad now I know where you get your loss of memory." Cadence joked. Thunder looked at Celestia and rolled his eyes. Celestia laughed and ushered them in. Cadence went in followed by Twilight and Shining then Thunder. Celestia stopped him and whispered something in his ear.

"There's something I wish to discuss with you and Twilight. Nothing bad, I would just like to give the happy couple something." Celestia told him.

"Oh, OK, yeah, when ever you want just let us know." Thunder replied. They followed Celestia and meet up with Luna.

"Hey Luna, come meet us in the library, we have some interesting news." Celestia told Luna.

"Of course, that sounds fun actually. I don't remember the last time all of us talked together." Luna said turning around and following them. They reached the library a minute or so later. They all sat on a couch, Cadence and Shining on one, Celestia on her own, Thunder, Twilight, and Luna on another. Thunder sat in the middle with Twilight on the right and Luna on his left.

"Even as fillies Luna was always Thunder's best friend." Celestia smiled as she told Cadence, Shining and Twilight. Luna smiled and nuzzled Thunder.

"They even had their own dance, very similar to Cadence and Twilight's" Celestia continued. Thunder and Luna's faces drew red.

"I don't remember that, it was a long time ago." Thunder told them. Luna thought back, unlike Thunder she remembered it very well.

"Come on you remember." Luna said poking Thunder's side. Thunder shook his head no, even though he remembered a little.

"For me, please?" Luna said looking at Thunder with her big blue eyes.

"Dammit, OK, you lead." He said standing up and walking to the middle of the floor. Luna followed him and they stood face to face.

"OK, go." Luna said as they started.

"One, two, three, four, off to the moon we soar. Five, six, seven, eight, thunder always brings good fate." They said together as they did a dance identical to Cadence and Twilight's except without shaking their butts at the end. Once they finished the others clapped their hooves. Thunder and Luna's face were a soft red. They shared the same color coat and eye color, just Thunder's was a little darker.

"That was cute, how come you don't do that anymore?" Cadence asked. Thunder and Luna went back to sit down.

"I'm not sure honestly." Thunder said looking at Luna.

"Can you tell they're brother and sister?" Celestia added. "See if you look at me and Thunder it would be hard to tell, but you look at Thunder and Luna it's like they're twins." Celestia continued.

"That's because we actually are, just we weren't born at the same time." Thunder finished for her.

"Enough about me and Thunder." Luna said, she never like talking about herself long, same as Thunder. "You told me there was an interesting bit of news?" Luna asked.

"Yes, dad's found himself a new marefriend." Cadence butted in.

"Really, who is she?" Luna asked very interested at this point. Thunder moved his head showing Twilight who was laying on his hoof.

"Aww, I thought you two would make a cute couple, glad you actually got together." Luna said nuzzling Thunder again.

"Wait, wasn't Twilight the filly you used to sit for, Cadence?" Luna asked her.

"As a matter of fact she is. She's grown up a lot though." Cadence replied.

"I hope you don't mind my asking, I'm just curious, but is it awkward seeing them as a couple."

"Yes." Shining answered bluntly, but jokingly. The other's laughed.

"Indeed it is, more so at first, but I'm getting somewhat used to it." Cadence added to Shining's comment.

"Oh yes, Thunder's also your CO as well as Twilight's your sister." Luna said smiling.

'Don't. Remind. Me." Shining said angry, but they knew he was joking still. They all laughed a little harder than last time.

"Come on, Twilly, show them your 'personal blanket'. Cadence said making air quotes.

"Oh, I was not aware of this." Celestia commented.

"What is this 'make Thunder do stuff day'?" Thunder said.

"Please?" Twilight asked him with a soft kiss.

"You ponies take advantage of your cuteness." Thunder said as he laid on his side with his legs and wings open. Twilight laid in front of him and pushed herself into him, he wrapped his forelegs around her as she rested her head on his shoulder and held on to his forehooves with hers. Once she was finished he wrapped his wings around her and she rested her rear legs on his.

"There, that's it." Cadence said.

"That's cute. Is it comfy?" Celestia said. Twilight nodded from behind his wings.

"That's similar to what you and I did." Luna added.

"Before any pony says it, I'm not doing it, why not have Cadence and Shining do something, or Celestia and Luna." Thunder said with a semi-laugh.

"Because, everypony knows what Cadence and Shining do and me and Luna were never as close as you two." Celestia returned.

"Not to interrupt, but why would you and dad cuddle like that?" Cadence asked curiously.

"I never had many friends and Thunder didn't like most ponies he knew, Celestia was always the social-butterfly of the family." Luna said. Celestia made a slight giggle.

"Well how'd you get with mom?" Cadence asked Thunder.

"Actually, Luna set me up with her, she was actually one of Luna's close friends." Thunder said laughing as he thought back a few decades ago.

"What was her name again?" Celestia asked.

"It was beautiful, one I'll never forget. It was Lavender Frost." Thunder said smiling as he started tearing up. Twilight noticed this and hugged him tightly.

"It's OK though. Not only do I have Twilight now, but Cadence, you are almost identical to her, other than your cutie mark that is."  Thunder said putting his muzzle on to Twilight.

"I hope you don't mind my asking, but what happened?" Twilight asked. Thunder sighed.

"Well, when Cadence was about your age she passed away." Thunder said.

"But why?" Twilight added.

"Old age, she wasn't an Alicorn mind you." He told her. "That same year I was only a sergeant in the Marines and was deployed to Saddle-Arabia to help with some peace efforts, that's why Cadence came here to live with Celestia and Luna." By now everypony was listing to the story like kids listening to a grandfather who would tell a fishing story on thanksgiving.

"Unfortunately the peace efforts did not go as intended, there were some ponies who felt they were being miss treated and left, only to declare war, which mind you was unheard of at the time as well as now, soon more and more ponies left and joined them, forming North Saddle-Arabia, or NSA as we called it. They made a request to us for some support, but we mistakenly sent to many, which was no one's fault, just bad communication. They saw this as a return of war and attacked. It lasted only a couple moons, but we suffered hundreds of casualties, fortunately I wasn't one, but I did suffer a wound. Got an arrow in my right hip, nothing damaged, but I did get a scar out of that to." He said shifting himself so they could see it.

"After that I got a year of medical leave, as well as some extra time for Lavender. I was awarded the Medal of Honor because I managed to save a squadron from a crashed cart. Remind me later, I'll show you all my room which has all of my stuff from then, I know Cadence's mom seen it, Cadence did once a long time ago, but I don't think anypony else did. It was also tough because my best friend, besides Luna, was one of the few casualties suffered in the war. He had no family then, his parents died when he was young and had no siblings, so he joined the EQMC and that was his life. We considered him Cadence's uncle, but he actually wasn't. I also remember Fluttershy's grandfather as well as Rainbow Dash's, I didn't know them that well, but I saw them a couple times, fortunately they both made it unscathed." At this time they were all starry eyed, lost in the story.

"After the conflict the brass sent me Shield Flare, Cadence's uncle's, medals, uniform, flag, and a bunch of other stuff. Not much to tell after that other than when I went back they promoted me to an officer, Captain at the time, and after the commanders all either passed on or retired I took over as commander. Then I moved back here with 'Tia and Luna and trained new recruits and stuff like that since then, that was probably 20 years ago. I didn't talk about it much, Cadence was young, 'Tia and Luna had their own thing going on and I wasn't married anymore and wasn't dating at the time. Then 'Tia asked me to go to her meeting with Twilight and her friends and the rest you should know." He said with a huge sigh.

"That was quite a story, is that the first time you told anypony it?" Cadence asked.

"Yeah, I was saving it for when I meet somepony new, like Twilly here, and we were all talking like this." Thunder told her. "Speaking of which, Cadence I have the dress your mother wore at our wedding and I wanted to know if you wanted it, I wish I could have gotten it to you by your wedding with Shining."

"I would love to have it, maybe I could wear it when we renew our vows, what do you think Shining?" Cadence asked him.

"That works for me." Shining answered simply.

"Speaking of that, I haven't seen you since the wedding, what'd you think of it?" Cadence asked Thunder. He laughed and thought back to his and Lavender's wedding.

"It reminded me of mine and your mother's, I actually have a picture that looks identical to yours, in fact if you didn't know any better you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Seeing you up there you looked just like your mother 30 some years ago, when I saw you up there I instantly thought of me and her back up there. I assume Celestia and Luna remember that. Celestia was the pastor and Luna was my best mare." Celestia and Luna nodded yes and thought back to then.

"Of course the military uniforms changed a lot in 30 years, yours look much better than ours did." Thunder laughed looking at Shining.

"Enough about me, surely somepony else has some stories." Thunder asked looking around. Every one else shook their head no.

"Seriously? Come on, I can't be the only one with interesting stories." Thunder added.

"Nope, me and Celestia just raised then sun and moon for thousands of years, except when I was Nightmare Moon, but you know about that." Luna told him.

"Yeah, me and Shining have only been together for a couple years." Cadence added.

"And I'm the youngest one here." Twilight joked.

"Well, that was all I had so..." Thunder said.

"Well tell us about you and Twilight." Luna suggested.

"Yes, I have not heard this story either." Celestia agreed. Thunder looked at Twilight and smiled, kissing her softly, she happily returned it.

"This again." Cadence joked. Thunder and Twilight laughed.

"Well, when Cadence was my foal-sitter and I just became your student I was playing in the castle grounds and saw Thunder training some recruits as usual, and may have got a little filly-hood crush on him." Twilight started.

"Remember those pictures she had of a large, blue stallion, Celestia?" Cadence threw in. Twilight's face turned red again.

"Oh, yeah, I thought they looked familiar." Celestia said laughing.

"What were these pictures you're speaking of?" Luna asked.

"A certain little filly drew some pictures of a certain stallion when she was younger." Cadence told Luna.

"Oh, that's cute." Luna said. Twilight pushed her head in to Thunder.

"I hate this story." Twilight said laughing.

"It's all right, remember, I drew pictures of Cadence's mom, and that was only 30 or 40 some years ago. Remember Celestia?" Thunder said looking at her.

"It's true, he did, they were actually pretty good, I must admit." Celestia commented. After that Thunder finished up the story.

"I must say, that is a very touching story. Seems like something out of a romance novel." Luna commented.

"I do read a lot of those." Twilight said laughing. Everyone else shared in the laugh.

"So, you mentioned showing us what you had from mom?" Cadence asked Thunder.

"Yes, I did, if you all would like we can now." Thunder said. The others agreed and they all walked down to Thunder's room.

"What you're looking for is over there." Thunder said aiming to the wall on the right side of the room. They walked over and looked at everything.

"So what's what?" Cadence asked.

"Well, to start, that's your mother there." He said pointing to a picture of a Pegasus mare with a pink coat and contrasting purple and ice blue wings, she had a light purple mane with light blue streaks. Her cutie mark was a simple purple flower with ice crystals on it.

"What's her cutie mark mean?" Twilight asked.

"It means that even in the coldest times beauty can still shine through, even making the coldest ones beautiful. That's what she told me anyway." Thunder explained looking at the picture.

"This is my medal case here, this one is the Medal of Honor I told you about, this one is Medal of Valor and this one is Marine Commanding Unit." He said pointing at the corresponding one. "Those are just a couple major ones, it would take a while to tell them all." He said.

"Who's flag is that?" Cadence said referring to the folded flag in a gold-trimmed wood case.

"That was the one they gave me at the funeral when your uncle died." Thunder said. His eyes were tearing up slightly, but kept going.

"That's his uniform and medal case there." He said pointing to them. "This one is my uniform from back then, the one I wore when me and Lavender got married. Here is the picture of when we finished our vows, here they are written, mine is on the left, hers is on the right." He said pointing at them. "If you look at this picture here I bet no one can tell if it's me and Lavender or Cadence and Shining."

"Yours?" Cadence guessed.

"Nope, it's actually yours, you can tell by the fact if you look closely you can see your mane through the veil." Thunder said putting his foreleg over Cadence holding her close.

"Oh, yeah, I suppose so." Cadence said looking closer.

"That's all for over here, all I have left is your mother's dress from our wedding." Thunder said letting go of Cadence and walking to his closet, opening it up and moving a few things.

"Here we are." Thunder said finding the dress and taking it out. "Looks just as good as the day she wore it, I can still see her wearing it to this day." He said looking at it. "It hasn't been out in a while though, here, you should try it on." He said handing it to Cadence.

"Right now?" She said surprised.

"Yeah, why not, you're the same size now as she was back then." Thunder told her.

"Alright then." She said taking it and going in to the bathroom and putting it on. After a minute she walked out in the dress.

"Well what do you think?" Thunder asked.

"It fits almost perfectly." Cadence said looking at it. Thunder didn't say anything, he just stood there looking at her. "Is something wrong, dad?" Cadence asked looking at Thunder who was tearing up again.

"No, that's the thing, nothing's wrong, you look just like your mother did 30 years ago." He said with his voice catching in his throat. Cadence walked over to him and hugged him tightly.

"OK, you should probably put it back so it doesn't get damaged." Thunder said with a heavy sigh. Cadence nodded and walked back to the bathroom and put the dress back. She walked back out with the dress in the bag.

"Do you want to keep it in here until you head back to the Crystal Empire?" Thunder asked Cadence.

"Yeah, just be sure to remind me." She told him.

"I can do that." Thunder said. After he finished Luna yawned.

"Oh I apologize, but I'm heading to bed." She said looking outside where she just finished raising the moon. She walked over to Thunder and hugged him and then walked out saying good night to them, everyone returned it.

"Yeah, I think me and Shiny are going to bed as well." Cadence said yawning to. She then walked over to Thunder and hugged him, Celestia and Twilight and took Shining and went to another room.

"Alright then, well now I can tell you what I told you about earlier Thunder." Celestia said to Thunder and Twilight.

"Oh, yeah." Thunder said.

"As you know Cadence and Shining are in the Crystal Empire so they only use the guest room when they are here." Celestia said. Thunder nodded, but Twilight was lost. "The room they had when they were here is open and, as a symbol of my happiness for you two, I would like to offer it to you two when ever you're here together." Celestia finished.

"Yeah, that's OK, with me." Thunder said.

"Alright then." Twilight agreed.

"Good, I imagine you'll be spending the night?" Celestia asked. They nodded yes.

"OK, let's go show you to your room." Celestia said walking through the castle. Thunder and Twilight followed close behind. They got to the room at the end of a corridor.

"Here we are." Celestia said opening the door. Inside was a large cloud-looking bed with a silk red blanket on top and plastic rose petals scattered around. 

"Oh, my." Was all Twilight was able to say.

"It was their 'honeymoon suite' so to speak, feel free to clean up the petals and do whatever you would like to make yourselves comfortable. There is a sauna/shower in the back room and a closet with some assorted sleepwear, pick through what you would like. So I'll leave you two to get settled. If you need anything ring the bell next to the door and a maid should arrive shortly." Celestia explained as she showed them everything.

"Wow, why are you letting us have this?" Thunder asked.

"Well they were the last one's to use it and they moved so it just collects dust." Celestia said simply. Twilight was in awe and couldn't speak. Celestia nodded and left without another word. Once she did Twilight immediately spoke up.

"Well I'm going to take a shower, but I'm not used to being this big so I might fall, I need someone to keep an eye on me." Twilight said in a low sultry voice. Thunder managed to catch that one.

"I think I can help with that." Thunder said jokingly serious. Twilight giggled and walked to the shower room with Thunder close behind. Twilight took off her crown and gold slippers as Thunder took off his armor. Twilight turned the water on warm and slowly stepped in. Thunder followed close behind. She put her head under the water, letting it flow down her mane. She got under the stream and looked at Thunder with 'bedroom eyes' and he slowly got close and finally placed his lips on hers.

"What do you think Cadence and Shining would do if they saw this?" Twilight asked with a smile.

"Wish they would have thought of this." Thunder smiled back. Twilight went back to kissing him and Thunder ran his hoof across her side stopping at her cutie mark, she instinctively raised her leg. Knowing the water rushing would muffle it she started making light satisfied moans. This excited Thunder and he gently pushed her against the wall, she wasn't expecting it and made an excited squeal. He grabbed her hooves and held them against the wall, she acted like she was pushing back, but he just held her. She started poking his mouth with her tongue, he decided to get the jump and as soon as he opened his mouth he pushed his tongue against hers. She made a quick squeak. He teased her by rubbing his wings along her thigh and cutie mark, she would twitch when he hit a more sensitive spot. She got excited and pushed him on the floor, pinning him playfully, he felt the water hitting Twilight and running down her side and landing on him. Twilight broke the kiss for a second.

"Do you think we should, you know?" Twilight asked with a innocent look in her eyes.

"Only if you want to." He answered. She bit her lower lip and nodded, slowly positioning herself on top of him, she made a loud moan as she started feeling him.

After a few minutes they had finished and Twilight was laying on his chest panting heavily, he was rubbing her back and panting to. Once she regained her energy she got up slowly and turned the water off. They got out and dried off and walked back into the main part of the bedroom. They walked over to the closet Celestia told them about, Twilight opened it and saw a silk robe similar to hers and a pair of nylon pants. She smiled as she grabbed them and turned to Thunder.

"How about this for tonight?" She said holding the up for him to see.

"That looks sexy." Thunder said. Twilight went back to the bathroom and put it on and came back out. He just looked at her for a second. Twilight ran and jumped on him, pushing him down quickly.

"Now what are you going to do?" Twilight said teasingly.

"Well, I can do this." Thunder said taking his wings and tickling her sides. She jumped and fell on top of him laughing loudly.

"Damn it, I always fall for that!" Twilight said laughing as she fell on him, releasing her grip. Once she did Thunder eased up and went back to rubbing her lightly