Dark descends from the skies as he takes a spot under one of the windowsils. He starts mulling over his plan of action. 'It would probably be a bad idea to just rush into it and go in with Blue in there. I don't feel like getting my flank kicked again. I'll wait til after he's gone and the coast is clear.' he thinks to himself.
He slowly creeps up in order to look inside. He sees me, Haily, Dash, and two older looking ponies he assumes to be my parents.
Dedicated troll or stalker? You decide.
Inside the house
I look around as I walk back through the house. Everything is just as I remember. Same furniture, same pictures up on the walls, and same stain on the carpet. Don't ask.
Looking on the walls, you could see old family photos, baby pictures, pictures of me and Haily as kids, different pictures of me with friends during high school, graduation photos, every kind of thing you'd expect.
Dash looks at one of the pictures and giggles as she points at it. "Is that you as a foal, Blue?"
I look over to see her pointing at a picture of my mom holding me in her forelegs just after I was born, me sleeping soundly in her grasp. "Yeah, that's just after I was born." I smile as I look at it.
"Aw, you were so cute." she teases, pinching my cheeks playfully.
I slap her hoof away in annoyance. "Yeah, yeah. Yuck it up. You know I'm still just as cute now as I was back then."
"I'll say." Raindrop says. She wraps her arms around me from behind. "That was the happiest day of my life other than marrying your father and having Haily."
"Same for me." Thundercloud says, putting a hoof on my sholder. "I could tell right away you'd be strong, Blue. But what you and your friends have recently been up to is incredible."
"I still wish you would've let me go and help." Haily says.
"You help? Maybe I wasn't clear on how close to losing we all were against that guy. He was a psycho." I say.
"Well, you can tell us all about it during lunch. i just made a bunch of hay and daisy sandwiches. Good thing I decided to make so many." Raindrop says.
"All right!" I say.
"All you need to do is go wash up first."
I sulk at that. "Realy, mom? I already took a shower before coming here."
"Yes, really. Do you really want to eat after walking around the streets."
"Yes." she gives me a stern look. "Alright, fine."
We walk into the hallway, but as I do, I look back at a mirror and see something black duck under it. Must be that same "bird" from earlier.
"Man, I hate washing up." Dash says.
"Tell me about it. My mom can be a real clean freak sometimes." I say.
Back outside
"Blah blah blah." Dark says, just watching the rest of us inside talk. "When is he gonna go away so I can make my move? This is so boring just sitting here." he continues to look through until he sees Dash, Hail, and myself all start walking away. "Finally!" he quickly ducks as he sees me turning towards the window. He wipes his forehead. "Phew. That was too close. But now, it's show time."
He stands up and straigytens himself up as he wakes over to the door and knocks on it.
Is it wrong to pray for some else's death? 'Cause if it is, I don't care about being right.
A moment later, both of my parents answer the door. "Well, hey there." Dark says "I'm Dark Lightning, a friend of your son."
"Oh, yes. I remember about reading about you." Raindrop says.
"If you're one of Blue's friends, why are you just now getting here when he got here minutes ago?" Thundercloud asks.
Dark had actually planned out an answer for this. "I had some stuff I needed to do and Blue said to just meet them here. He gave me the address."
"Oh, well, please come in, Dark." Raindrop says, preparing the way for him.
"Don't mind if I do." he steps inside and takes a look around. He holds in a laugh as he looks at all the pictures of us when we were younger. He sniffs at the air a bit. "Do I smell lunch?"
"Yes, I just made some sandwiches. I do ask that you wash up before eating though. Blue and the girls should be coming back from there in just a second."
Dark becomes worried as he hears that. "Um, actually, I just remembered I need to do something. Maybe I should be go-"
Before he finishes, he sees us coming out of the hallway. The three of us stop as we notice him. Dash and Haily give him a confused look before looking at me with a worried look. You can literally see steam coming out of my head from the pure rage I am feeling.
"Hehehe, hey, Blue. *gulp* W-What's up, buddy?" Dark says nervously.
My parents are confused from how I'm acting. "Blue, are you all right?"
I lunge at Dark and grab him as I force him against the wall and shake him against it. "Motherbucker, I thought I told you to stay in Ponyville and not to follow us! You no good piece of-"
"Blue!" my mom shouts at me.
"What? I was only going to say junk." I respond, looking at her.
"I will not allow violence like that in this house.
"Fine, then we'll take it outside."
"I'm game for that." Dark says.
"No! Now, I know from what you said that Dark shouldn't have come here, but you two are friends, right?"
"Well, I guess so, yeah."
"Good. Then I say we just let bigons be bigons and make up."
I look between Dark and her before sighing and letting Dark go. "Sorry about that, man."
Dark puts on a smug smile as he looks at me, thinking I'm wussing out by listening to my mom. "It's cool. Now, how's about that lunch?"
"Wash up first. The bathroom's the first door on the left."
"Thanks."
Dark goes off to the bathroom as all the mares go over to the dining room. My dad goes over to me and rests a hoof on my sholder. "Bit of an issue with Dark?"
"Oh, you have no idea."
He chuckles. "Well, I'm sure it'll be fine. et me tell ya, you're not the only one to have obnoxious friends."
"Really?"
"Yeah my old guard buddies could be a real pain. But, as friends, we worked out our issues. Let's just go eat and get caught up on those stories of yours."
"Yeah, sure thing."
This is still far from over.