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// Fluttershy becomes a Parent 
// Story: A Boy's Tears 
// by MetalBrony823 
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Colin was fascinated with the structures, shops and the houses on Ponyville. He was taking a piggy-back ride on Fluttershy so he wouldn't have to walk around so much to tire him out. It was a good thing, because Fluttershy would've want the human boy to be too tired for his adoption tonight. Right now, Fluttershy was showing Colin the fast food restaurant in all of Ponyville for everypony to eat a hay burger.

"This is where anypony would get if they would get a hay burger." Fluttershy said to Colin

"A hay burger?" Said Colin.

"Yep."

"Well... In my home, we do have burgers, but they are called... 'Hamburgers' or cheeseburgers, and... And..." Colin didn't want to tell Fluttershy what humans would eat instead of oats, for he was worried that it mug scare her.

"Yes? What is it, sweetie?" Asked Fluttershy with concern.

"They are meat." Colin answered very nervously.

Fluttershy was kind of shocked to hear that, but she said "meat?"

"Yeah... Please don't be mad at me." Said Colin, scared to hear a response from Fluttershy

"Oh sweetie, I'm not mad." Fluttershy said to him sweetly. "I understand if it's a custom to your home and for humans to eat meat."

"It is." Said Colin.

"Hello, Fluttershy." Said a voice out of nowhere that sounded like a little boy's. running up to her was Pipsqueak, the colt from Trottingham with a British accent.

"Hello, Pipsqueak." Said Fluttershy. "How are you?"

"Doing just fine." Pip replied.

"What is it?"

"I heard about this... creature from Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle, and they suggested to me that I should meet him. So... where is he?" He looked at Colin, on Fluttershy's back, and he said "Ah, ello there."

"Hi." Was all Colin replied. The boy then got off Fluttershy's back and landed on the ground softly.

"Colin, this is Pipsqueak. Don't be shy, he's a very sweet colt." Said Fluttershy. "Pipsqueak. This is Colin."

"I've seen him at the party yesterday." Said Pipsqueak. "It's nice to meet you, Colin." He gently let out his hoof, waiting for a hand/hoof shake from him. "Come on, don't be afraid." He said reassuringly. Colin then slowly shook his hand with Pip's hoof, and then smiled.

"See? That wasn't so bad."

"No." Said Colin. "It's nice to meet you, Pipsqueak." Said Colin politely, and a hint of shyness.

Pip smiled at him. "It's very nice to meet you too, Colin." He said politely. "And, you can just call me Pip if you want."

The human boy made a slight giggle and said "okay."

"Well, I must be getting back to my mum and dad." Said Pipsqueak. "It was very nice to meet you, Colin. And, if something is bothering you, or if you want to hang out, come find me."

"Okay. I will." Said Colin

"See you later!" Pip called before heading back home.

"He is a polite and cool guy." Said Colin.

"He's very sweet." Said Fluttershy. She continued to Ponyville to show what other places there are in Ponyville. Their next stop was the Spa. "Here is the Ponyville Spa." said Fluttershy, showing Colin the building. "Me and Rarity go here occasionally."

"Wow." said Colin.

"Let me show you inside." Fluttershy entered the building and looked around. A few seconds after she came in, the ponies Aloe, and Lotus Blossom rushed to see who it was at the door.

"Ah, miss Fluttershy. Hello." said Lotus Blossom, delighted to meet one of her usuals.

"What brings you here on this very morning?" said Aloe.

"I was just showing Colin what the spa looked like on the inside." Fluttershy answered. She turned sideways to the twin sisters to show than Colin, hat way, they'll know what she's talking about. The boy looked nervous and shy as usual.

"Ah, the boy from the party." Said Lotus, she and her sister walked up to Colin to meet him. "Hello." Both she and her sister said in unison

"Hi." Colin replied.

"My name is Lotus Blossom."

"And I am Aloe."

"Don't be shy, sweetie." said Lotus very kindly. "It is very nice to meet you. If you ever feel like coming here with Fluttershy, please do not hesitate to ask for anything, alright?"

"Okay. It's... Very nice to meet you too." Said Colin. The two sisters smiled at him warmly.

"Well, we might as well be going." Said Fluttershy.

"Bye, Fluttershy." Said the twins, and then the yellow pegasus exited the spa with Colin on her back, waving at the two.

"He's just so adorable." Lotus said to her sister

"I agree." Aloe replied.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy continued walking and the yellow pegasus decided to go to the Ponyville pet store, her favorite place in Ponyville besides her cottage, next. 

"Um, Fluttershy. I think I want to walk on foot." Said Colin

Fluttershy smiled at him and stopped in an instant. "That's fine, sweetie. I don't mind." She said sweetly. She knelt down to the ground so Colin walk on foot

"Hey, Fluttershy!" Said a voice. Two pegasus mares were running up to her. It was Cloudchaser and Flitter. The two pegasus sisters that were good friends with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. 

"Oh. Hello Cloudchaser. Hello Flitter." Said Fluttershy. 

"Hey, Fluttershy" the pegasus twins politely replied in unison 

"Do you know where Thunderlane and Rumble are? We were supposed to meet them at Sugarcube Corner to..." Cloudchaser paused when she and Flitter saw Colin. "aw, hey there, little fella." Said Cloudchaser kindly. Turns out that she and Flitter are taking a Like on Colin too.

"Oh, Colin this is Cloudchaser and Flitter. They are good friends of mine and Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy introduced. "Cloudchaser, Flitter, meet Colin."

"Hey." Said Colin, feeling shy again. 

"Hey there." Said Flitter. "It's really nice to meet you, Colin."

"Yeah, it's a pleasure." Said Cloudchaser.  The human boy began to warm up them them like he always did.

"Thanks." Colin said. "And... Cloudchaser, right?" The boy tried to remember the name of the spikey-haired pegasus. 

"Yep, that's me." Cloudchaser replied with a wink.

"You... you're mane is very cool. " Colin replied. 

Cloudchaser was touched by that compliment.  "Aw that's sweet." She said. "Thanks." She gave Colin a small short kiss on his cheek to tell him thanks.

"And Flitter I... I really like you're bow." Colin said to the younger sister this time. 

"Aw, thank you Colin." Said Flitter,  touched by his compliment.  She gave Colin that kiss like Cloudchaser did next.. the boy flustered from the kisses and rubbed his head with embarrssment, but he enjoyed them.

""Anyway, no I haven't seen Thunderlane or Rumble recently." Said Fluttershy. 

"Oh, okay. Thanks Flutters." Said Cloudchaser,  then she and her sister turned back to Colin. "See you later kid." The spikey-haired pegasus said kindly. She gently and playfully rubbed the boy's head, making him laugh a little. "We should hang out some time."

"Yeah, and we can do something fun together." Flitter added. 

"Sure." Said Colin with a smile. 

The sisters than told them their byes and continued their search for Rainbow Dash, leaving. Fluttershy and Colin to continue going to the pet store. Once inside, there were cages of some animals like cats, dogs, snakes, parrots, and other types of pets.

"Wow." Said Colin, admiring the interior of the pet shop. "So, why are we here?" Coli. Asked curiously.

"Well, every once in a while, I come hear to take care of the animals in the pet store for free.

"Ah, Fluttershy. How's my favorite customer?" Said a male voice. It was a unicorn stallion with lime-green fur, and black dreadlocks on both mane and tail with a goatee on his face. His voice sounded like that of a Jamaican, Haitian, or African person. His cutie mark was a Dog's paw print.

"Hello, Paw Print." Said Fluttershy. "I came here to help again."

"Ah, splendid." Said Paw Print. "I am in need of some animal feed, and cleaning the cages." He saw Colin, and he said with a smile "And what creature have we here?"

"This is Colin." Fluttershy answered. "He's a human"

"A human?" Said the shopkeeper. "I have never heard of a human before." He walked up to Fluttershy to get a good look at the boy, ad he asked politely "tell me, little one, where are you from?"

"We'll, it's... It's a long story. I'll tell you about it later." Colin answered.

The dreadlocked pony smiled warmly at him. "I understand completely, Colin. Would you like to help out with the animals?"

"Yeah! I'd love to." Colin replied. It turns out that the boy really loves animals with a passion.

"Brilliant." Said Paw Print

"But... I don't know about cleaning up their poop." The boy said uncomfortably.

Fluttershy and Paw Print giggled at his comment. "Do not worry, child." Said Paw Print. "You don't have to do anything too grotesque such as what you just said. Come, let me show you around." He gently took Colin's hand with a hoof to show him around the pet shop.





Twilight and Spike arrived in Sweet Apple Acres. Twilight was going to tell Spike, Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle about the adoption party for Colin. There, they saw the girls playing tag. Applejack, and Big Macintosh were busy doing their daily chores.

"Hello, girls." Said Twilight. 

The three stopped hearing Twilight's voice. "Oh, hey Twilight." Said Applebloom. 

"What brings you here?" Said Sweetie Belle. 

"I want to talk to you about something really important. " twilight answered. "and you too, Spike." She then said to her brother/assistant. 

The girls gathered around Twilight, as did Spike. 

"So, what's this about?" Said Scootaloo.

Twilight cleared her throat and began "Fluttershy was thinking about adopting Colin, and Pinkie Pie was thinking about throwing him an adoption party tonight. Would you all like to help later?"

Spike and the girls gave out gasps of surprise and excitement. They sounded more than happy to help Colin be adopted by Fluttershy herself. Indeed, there was a special connection between them

"Really?" Said Scooaloo, so happy for both Colin and Fluttershy. Twilight nodded a yes to the kids.

"And do we get to be his sisters?" said Sweetie Belle

"And I can be his brother?" Spike added

"Well you could say that." said Twilight, but yes, adopted sisters.

The smiles on the children became wider that their mouths kind of ached from it. They all gave smalls sounds of excitement. It turns out, they really like Colin, and want him to stay here and for him to be happy.

"Can we help you with it, Twilight?" Spike asked eagerly.

The purple alicorn giggled and said "Of course, Spike. That's why I came to the girls so that i can talk to you."

"Alright! So, when should we help?" said Scootaloo

"In the evening." Twilight answered. "At the center of Ponyville."

"Great, we'll make sure that Colin will enjoy the party." said Applebloom proudly. The other two and Spike nodded their heads in agreement, very proud of themselves.

"Should we invite everypony in Ponyville?" asked Sweetie Belle

"I was just doing that." said Twilight. She looked around to and fro rapidly, and whispered to the kids, "But We want it to be a surprise for Colin."

The crusaders winked and Spike gave a thumb up, saying that they will keep it a secret, making Twilight smile at their promise. "Good." She said. "Come on Spike." She turned the other way on the route, and Spike followed her, leaving the crusaders to resume the game of tag.





It was eight in the evening. The crickets were chirping and the owls were hooting. It was almost time for Colin's new party to start. Speaking of which, Colin and Fluttershy were feeding all of the critters in the cottage dinner. So far, the boy was getting better and better at this animal feeding, like he was a little farmer. His little visit to the pet store in fact, made his skills even better.

"You are doing great, sweetie." Said Fluttershy. "And you did a great job feeding the animals in the pet store too."

"Thank you." Said Colin, feeding the last batch of food to the animals. After they were done, many animals cuddled and crowded around Fluttershy and Colin. The boy giggled as he felt the ticklish fur and fur from certain animals like raccoons, badgers, and other animals.

"Thanks for helping me, Colin." Said Fluttershy.

"You're welcome, Fluttershy." Said Colin.

"So Colin, do you like to take care of animals?" The yellow pegasus asked out of curiosity.

"Oh yeah." Colin replied. "I love animals. Back in my home, me, mommy, and daddy would go out to the woods and feed rabbits in the spring and summer."

"Feeding rabbits?" Said Fluttershy, fascinated. "That's so cute. Did you do that often?"

"Yep, a few times every summer and spring." Colin answered. "My grandpa lives on a farm out of the city I live in, and we would go visit him sometimes."

"How fascinating." Said Fluttershy.

"I just hope he knows I'm okay." Colin's voice began to become sad and depressed again.

"Oh, Colin." Said Fluttershy sympathetically, wrapping around the child's small body. "It will be okay." She then gave him a motherly kiss on his forehead to make him better, and it worked as he began to smile again.

All of a sudden, "POOF!" A cloud of purple mist appeared out of nowhere, and there was a creature with many body parts attached to him. "Hello, Fluttershy." Said the creature,

"Discord. Hello." Said the yellow pegasus delighted to meet the master of chaos himself. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, i wanted to come and thank you personally for the tea time we had the other day, and I must say the dar jeeling was delicious." Discord replied, giving Fluttershy a very tight hug.

"Thank... You..." Said Fluttershy, trying to breath for air, and then Discord let her go in an instant.

Discord noticed the boy staring at him without getting his eyes off of him. "Why hello there, little one." Said Discord kindly. "What's your name?"

"Colin." The boy replied. "Colin Fraser."

"We'll it's very nice to meet you, Colin." Said Discord. All of a sudden he vanished into thin air and proofed behind Colin startling him as a joke. The boy looked behind to see the Master of chaos as he poofed himself behind the boy. "I am Discord, the master of chaos." The creature said. "But don't worry, I am a very nice guy, and a silly one too." He poofed up funny Groucho glasses while making a funny face, sticking his tongue out. This trick made the boy laugh at the stunt Discord just did.

"That is so funny." Said Colin laughing a little.

"Why thank you." Said a touched Discord. "Well, I might as well be going. See you soon Fluttershy."

"Okay, Discord." Said Fluttershy. The master of chaos winked at the boy and poofed out of existence again.

"He's funny." Said Colin.

A knock on the door was heard, and Fluttershy came to answer it. It was Rarity with a new line of clothes that didn't look like a pony would wear, but a human would wear. Next to her was Twilight.

"Rarity, Twilight." Said Fluttershy, happy to see the two. She moved her face closer to their faces, and whispered so that Colin wouldn't hear them talking. "Is everything ready?" Fluttershy whispered

"Oh yes, the darling is going to love it." Rarity whispered back, very excited. "But first, I need to do something. Colin!" She called to the boy,

"Yeah?"

"I made some new clothes for you." Rarity said. "I looked at the design of your clothes, and it took forever, but I finally did it."

"Really?" Said Colin excitedly. "Thank you Rarity."

"You are ever so welcome, darling." Said the white unicorn in response.

"Colin, we have a surprise for you." Said Twilight in a sing-song tone.

"What's that?" Said Colin.

"It will spoil the surprise." Fluttershy said teasingly.

"Come on, Darling." Said Rarity. "We will show you." The three mares walked to the destination with Colin walking behind them. 





In Ponyville, outside of the town hall, Rarity said to Colin playfully in a song-song voice, "close your eyes, sweetie, right in there is your surprise."

"Okay." Said Colin. He shut his eyes closed and followed Rarity into the town hall. He was very eager to see what the surprise was. 

"Alright, Colin. You can look now." Said Twilight. 

Just like that, Colin opened his eyes and then "SURPRISE!!!" Said everypony minus Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Colin. Thee boy gasped as he saw everypony in the town hall, along with Princess Celestia, Luna, and Cadence as well. Even Shining Armor was there. There was a wallpaper with a bunch of colorful balloons tied to it. The wallpaper read "Colin's New Home Party!" On it.

"What... what is all this?" Said Colin, amazed by what he was seeing.

"Well, we feel so bad that we lost your parents." Said Fluttershy sympathetically. She bent down to Colin's level and asked "Colin.... can I call you... my son?"

Colin was surprised by this. He gave a tear of joy when she said that. Besides his parents, his brother, and some of his friends at school, these creatures around him were very nice to him, and showed him a great amount of kindness. "Fluttershy I... I..."

"Yes?" 

"This is really nice of you but... I don't want my mommy and daddy to be mad at me." Colin admitted shamefully. 

Everypony gave out an "Aww"

"Oh sugarcube. " said Applejack, putting a comforting hoof on Colin's shoulder. "I'm sure they would never be mad at you. "

"Yeah, Buddy." Said Rainbow Dash joining in. "We care about you. And... we din't want to see you suffer like this."

"It breaks our hearts to see you lose your parents like this." Said Rarity.

The next to step in was Cloudchaser and Flitter. "We promise to treat you with love, and keep you happy. " Cloudchaser said.

Colin thought about it for a moment,  and said "well, you all care a out me, and I thank you all for my birthday party." He turned his attention back to the yellow pegasus,  and said "Fluttershy... can I call you mom?"

Fluttershy gave a gasp of thoughtfulness and said "of course you can, sweetie." She opened her arms, waiting for a hug. "Come here" she said. Colin couldn't hold his tearm of joy any longer. He gave a smile and joyfully cried into Fluttershy as the two hugged.

Everypony then gave another "Aww" and enjoyed the very sweet sight of a new relationship between a mother and son.

"Isn't this precious?" Said a voice out of nowhere. Another poof was heard, and in another purple cloud, once agqin, it was Discord.

Everypony pony rolled their eyes, some of them thinking "oh he's a trickster."

The crusaders, Pipsqueak, and Spike came, with Scootaloo saying "Colin, would you like to be our brother?"

"Yes." The boy replied happily. 

The crudaders, Spike, and Pipsqueak then gave words of joy and happiness. They were really happy to have Colin as one of their own. 

"And... would you like to be my, along with my friends here our aunts?" Said Twilight,  referring to her, and her closest friends.

"Yes!" Said Colin, even more happy.

The three princesses and Shining Armor came in next. Celestia said to him "well then, we just need Fluttershy to sign a few papers for guardianship and you will be part of our family." She showed Fluttershy where the papers were, with Colin following them. After a few minutes of signing, Fluttershy put down her pencil, and said to Colin "Well, I am your parent now."

"Yay!" said Colin. He tightly hugged Fluttershy again. The yellow pegasus gave a big smile and hugged him back affectionately, like a real mother.

"Well, we should probably take the family photo!" Pinkie suggested. Everypony, and Colin gathered around in front of the camera, with Spike holding the camera "Say, Best family photo ever!" he announced

"Best family photo ever!" said everypony. Spike rushed in front of the camera, and the flash went off of it. After the picture, Colin and everypony looked at it. There was the boy, in the very center of the crowd, with Fluttershy next to him, and the kids in front. Everyone smiled at the new family photo. It may be unusual, but family is family, and love is love.

"You look really cute!" said Pinkie.

"And awesome!" said Rainbow Dash.

"Thanks, aunt Pinkie, Thanks aunt Rainbow." said Colin

"You're welcome, Colin." they replied in unison.

Colin gave a little yawn, covered his mouth. Thanks to his very young age, he was sleepy again.

"Aw, is someone getting tired?" Rarity baby-talked playfully.

"No." said Colin, nodding his head. "I'm not tired, aunt Rarity."

Everypony laughed at his comment. "Oh, sweetie. Don't be ashamed, it's okay. It is getting late for all of us anyway."

"And Colin." said Shining Armor

"Yeah?"

"If you ever have any trouble with anything, please... come talk to any of us, and we will be here for you." Shining gave the boy a gentle punch on his arm playfully.

"And, please don't hesitate to ask any of us for anything." Celestia added.

"Okay, Uncle Shining, Aunt Celestia. I promise." said Colin with another yawn. Everypony smiled at him. "I love you guys." Colin said

"We love you too, Colin." said Everypony. This really touched Colin's heart, and made him smile.

"Come on, Sweetie." Said Fluttershy "Let me take you home and tuck you in." Colin climbed on Fluttershy's back again, and they went back home.

Back in the Cottage

Fluttershy tucked Colin in, who was in his pajamas right now. She gave him a motherly kiss on his forehead. "Goodnight, Colin." she whispered softly

"Goodnight... mom." said Colin. "And, mom?"

"Yes, sweetie?"

"Will you promise to love me?" the boy asked nervously.

"Of course I will. I will love you forever." Fluttershy replied. Colin was touched once again, and felt a tear of joy escape his eye, down his cheek.

"Thank you." said Colin.

"You're very welcome, sweetie." said Fluttershy. She then left the room to tend to her animal friends, and then thirty minutes later, Colin was fast asleep, in his new bed, in his new home.

Rights for this song go to White Lion