[World of Dreams]
Nathan was sound asleep in his bedroom, dreaming about his fillyfriend Applebloom in her human form in a two piece bikini, hugging him, as he stood above a pile of beaten up outlaws, "Ya did it Nathan!" Applebloom said, pressing her body against her coltfriend.
Nathan blushed at the feeling of Applebloom's large chest against his own, "And its even better with you," Nathan said, as he wrapped his arm around Applebloom's waist, and made out with the Anthro filly, "Applebloom, your tail's tickling me," Nathan said, before he saw the red tail was nowhere near him, as a flash of light engulfed him.
[Real world]
"Nathan sweetie, time to wake up," Cadence said, tickling Nathan's bare foot with her wing.
Nathan moaned a little before he opened his eyes to his mother, "Good morning Mommy," Nathan said.
"Good morning Cowboy, happy birthday," Cadence said with a smile.
Looking over at the calendar, Nathan saw that it was his and Mavis' birthday today, "Thank you mommy!" Nathan said, wrapping his arms around Cadence.
"You're very welcome sweetie, now go and get dressed. Your father and I would like for you and Mavis to design the cakes you want. We'll be sending them to Pinkie so she can bake them," Cadence said, as she left the room.
Leaping off his bed, Nathan walked over to his dresser to pick out his outfit. He decided to put on a red t-shirt, and denim shorts. Putting his shoes on, he walked out of the room, only to be tackle hugged by a familiar alicorn filly, "Skyla, you know Ah hate it when ya do that!" Nathan scolded, as Skyla just stared at him, "Ah, no use staying mad at ya," Nathan said, as he picked up his little sister, who just babbled and giggled, "Ah bet you were just trying to tell me happy birthday, weren't ya?" Nathan asked, carrying the alicorn filly to Mavis' room, where she was scribbling something onto some paper, "Hey Mavis, what're you doing?"
Mavis jumped when she heard her older brothers voice coming from behind her, "Oh, Mommy Cadence asked me to draw out what I want for my birthday cake, so Pinkie can make it for me," Mavis replied.
"Mind if I make a design too?" Nathan asked.
"Go right ahead," Mavis said, putting the finishing touches on her design. It was a cupcake design, with a pink puffball with really big blue eyes, with heart shaped antennas.
Nathan went straight to work, grabbing a crayon, and drawing his design. It was a Texas shaped cake with the words "Happy Birthday Nathan" on it, "Alright, lets get these to Mommy," Nathan said picking Skyla up, and walking with Mavis to the dining room.
Once in the dining room, Cadence, Shining, David and Alice looked up to see the children, "Ah good, are you two all done with your designs?" Cadence asked.
"We did," Mavis replied, giving Cadence their designs. With a small amount of magic, she sent the designs to Pinkie Pie.
"Mavis, your fathers, Cadence, and I are planning the party later tonight, so if you want, you and Nathan can head to Ponyville in advance so we can get some stuff done around here," Alice said to her daughter.
"Ok Mommy," Mavis said, wrapping her arms around Alice's legs, which prompted Alice to hug Mavis back.
"C'mon Mavis, lets get a move on," Nathan said, as he left Skyla with Cadence, and led Mavis out of the dining room.
"Alright, so you guys have your presents to them all planned out?" Shining asked.
"David and I got Mavis this," Alice said, pulling our a heart shaped gold locket. In it was a picture of Mavis with Alice and David the day they came back.
"Ooh, Mavis is so going to love it!" Cadence said.
"And you Cadence, what did you get her and Nathan?" David asked.
"We got them lockets as well," Cadence said, pulling out two more gold lockets as well. Inside was a picture of each child with Cadence and Shining Armor the day they adopted them.
"Man, the kids are so going to treasure these," David said, as he took a swig of his coffee.
Making their way to the train station with an escort, Nathan and Mavis were walking up the platform, and approached the counter, "Two tickets to Ponyville, please," Nathan asked.
"Look kid, you got to have an adult with ya to purchase a ticket," the pony at the counter said, not even looking up from his newspaper.
"But we have..." Mavis was cut off with a slam on the counter.
"Now look kid, obviously don't have an adult with you, so SCRAM!" the pony snapped, which made Mavis reel back in shock.
"I am an adult," the guard said.
"Good, well, now you can purchase the tickets. Where are you going?" the pony asked.
"Ponyville," Nathan replied, annoyed at the pony's arrogance.
"Alright, here," the pony said, giving Nathan the tickets, "That'll be twenty bits," he added.
Reaching into his bit pouch, Nathan pulled out the requested bits, and took the tickets, "Alright Mavis, the train will be here in a few minutes," Nathan said to Mavis, as they took their seats on a bench.
"I'll stay with you two until the train arrives," the guard said. Within a few minutes, the train pulled into the station, "Alright, stay in the train car, an only get off at Ponyville station," the guard said, as Nathan and Mavis walked into the train car, as other ponies either entered or exited the train. With a blow of the whistle, the train departed, and made its way to Ponyville.
Once seated in the first class car, Nathan and Mavis were treated to brunch. Mavis was munching away at a mini muffin and drinking some orange juice, while Nathan was snacking on some mini muffins of his own, while drinking some cocoa. That's when trouble came around, "Well, well, well, what have we here?" Nathan groaned in annoyance at the familiar voice of one of the more snobbish Crystal foals, Emerald Forrest. Emerald was a green crystal unicorn colt with purple eyes.
"Looks like the wannabe prince and princess sitting in the high class car," Emeralds friend, Goldie Dust said. Goldie was a yellow crystal earth filly with blue eyes. Both were staring at Nathan and Mavis with mean smirks.
"Hate to break this to ya, not really, but the animal cars are in the back of the train," Emerald taunted, knocking away Mavis' muffin.
"Back off, both of ya!" Nathan said, getting in Emerald's face.
"A mere monkey threatens me?" Emerald asked, in fake shock.
"We should get animal control!" Goldie taunted, as she pushed Nathan back against the table.
Nathan only glared at the two, just as their parents came in, "Emerald! What are you doing?!" Emerald's mother demanded.
"And Goldie, we saw what you did too, so don't think you can lie your way out of this!" Goldie's father said.
"Back to the room, now!" Emerald's mother said, pointing in the direction of their rooms, "I apologize for my sons rude behavior Prince Nathan," Emerald's mother said, with a sympathetic look.
"I don't know where I went wrong with Goldie," Goldie's father said.
"Ah, don't worry about it. Also, Mavis and I don't really like being called prince or princess," Nathan said, as the two parents walked away.
"Muffin," Mavis said sadly, looking at the muffin that Emerald knocked away.
"Here, have another," Nathan said, giving Mavis another muffin, who munched away on it. Within the hour, the train pulled into Ponyville station, and the two siblings got off, and made their way to their auntie Twilight's castle.