//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: New Discoveries // Story: The Last Child on Earth // by ThePonyCritic //------------------------------// "What the hell are you two DOING!?!" Silvia screamed. That woke up Aiden almost instantly, as he shot up from his laying position, though his vision was blurred from the light coming in through the window, blinding him. As his vision came back, he could see the door to the other room opened, and that Silvia must be in there since she was curled around him. But as he got up, he heard more shouting from her and a stuttering Tony. "Silvia, I can explain-" Tony started. "Explain what? I can see you two right now!" Silvia interrupted angrily. Aiden got up and headed to the door to check up on them. "Guys? What's going on-" Aiden started to say, but as soon as he started speaking, the door was closed by Silvia's magic, and locked from the other side, as he heard the click of the doorknob. This made Aiden more confused, as he went over to the door and put his ear up against it. He could only hear bits and pieces of their conversation, which didn't help, so he looked around for a glass cup or something of the sort to hear better with. He didn't have enough time to look, as Silvia walked angrily out of the room, and Tony looked out of the door, only showing the first half of him. "Come on Aiden, let's give them their privacy." Silvia said as she used her magic to almost drag Aiden out of the room with her. Aiden looked back to Tony, who had a look of nervousness and disappointment. Aiden shrugged and followed Silvia. Silvia led him to the next floor, using the stairs. Once they had gone into a room to look for supplies, she started mumbling loudly to herself. "The nerve of him! How could he do this to me! And Rebeca?! Unbelievable, those two!" She said. Aiden was still very confused and still a bit tired from the sudden yelling from before, so he decided to ask her about it. "Silvia? Are you ok?" He asked "Ok? OK?! Do I look ok to you!?" She responded, facing him with the same angered look. Aiden gave her a confused, and slightly scared look. This made her change her look, a calmer one perhaps. She goes over to Aiden and hugs him, which he hugs her back. "I'm sorry for yelling at you, it's just..." She started to say as she let go, but trailed off after a loss of words. "What happened in there?" Aiden asked. Silvia's expression got a bit harder, but not worse like before. "It's hard to explain, adult stuff really, you don't need to worry-" She started, but Aiden asked something else. "We're they like...you know, THAT type of adult stuff then?" He asked. Silvia understood what he meant, but gave a questionable look at him. He saw this and said, "I'm not your average kid, remember? I know about what adults do, even THAT, and I know animals do it too." Silvia had forgotten about that, and now he was mentioning it made her smile lightly, but only momentarily. "Yes, it was that." She answered. "Is there a reason why you’re mad about it?" He asked, making her smile disappear. "Yes...it's because he had done the same thing with me." She replied. Aiden gave her a shocked expression, which she saw, so she continued to try and explain. "It was before we found you. After he joined us, the group seemed complete. We would have our laughs and fun times, whenever something good happened. We protected each other, but I think he protected us the most. This I took note of, and well, one thing led to another, and I had grown close to him. Then one night, when we were stuck inside from the rain, and Rebeca was asleep, I decided to tell him the way I felt toward him. And the next thing I knew, I was..." She explained, but at the end she trailed off again, not wanting to give details, which Aiden understood. "So, what happened after that? What happened between Rebeca and Tony to do, this?" Aiden asked. Silvia sighed, looking down at the ground. "About a week later, we were in a gas station, we found some...alcohol. We celebrated by having a lot, me having the most. I passed out after a while. The next morning, I find them...like today. Tony said that they would never do it again. Obviously I trusted him and Rebeca too much." She replied. Aiden looked at her, hating to see her like this. He tried to smile and make a joke out of it, saying "Well, at least nothing bad can come from this, right? Nothing to make us go downhill." She tried to smile and nodded, then looked to him. "Aiden, I need to tell you something." Silvia said as he turned around to keep scavenging. He nodded in acknowledgment as he kept searching. "I think Rebeca and I could be pregnant." She said. This made Aiden stop instantly. He turned around and looked at her. "For reals?" He asked. She nodded in response. He leaned against the counter that he was searching. "Whoa..." He mumbled. "Are you okay?" She asked, hoping he wouldn't stay away from her or anything. He nodded and said, "Yes, I'm alright. And if that's true... I'm here to help, 100 percent." He said, smiling lightly. She smiles brightly and quickly goes over to him and hugs him. "Thank you, for understanding." She said. Aiden hugged her back, smiling a bit more. She lets go and goes to the door. "Come on, let's head back." She said, as she led him back downstairs. "Are you going to tell them?" Aiden asked. Silvia nodded, looking a bit worried, but brushed off the feeling as they headed to their room. //later...// Aiden was waiting outside the room, as Silvia told Tony and Rebeca what's going on. From what Aiden could hear, they were taking it okay. He heard no screaming or crying, so they must be okay with it, one way or another. The door opened, making Aiden turn his head back to it. The ponies exited the room. Tony looked a bit worried, but wasn't mad or sad about. Rebeca looked well too, some tears were shed, from the dried tears on her face, but she seemed to take it all in better than he had thought. Silvia had a happy expression, meaning she had not only explained it well to them, but was happy now that everyone was informed and dealing with it. "Is everything alright?" Aiden asked. They all nodded and exchanged smiles. Everyone was okay now. Aiden gave a sigh of relief as he looked away, past Silvia's side, but something on her flank caught his eye. "Hey Silvia, since when did you get a tattoo on your butt?" He asked. This question confused Silvia and the others, so Silvia turns her head to look to her flank. The image looked like a big pink heart, with a halo on its side, and a smaller heart behind it. Silvia looked back to the Tony and Rebeca, think they had something to do with it, but then looked at their flanks. "Wait, you guys got ones as well!" She said, pointing with her hoof to their flanks. Rebeca and Tony looked at their flanks to see what theirs were. Rebeca's was a golden shield with wings attached to it. And Tony's was a rose, wrapped and protected by the rose's thorns. "W-what are these?" Rebeca asked aloud, but no one knew... No one, except Aiden.