Hawk Eye paced back and forth in the waiting room of Cloudsdale Hospital. His wife, Nimbus Trail was due to having their first baby that day, and it had been two hours after the doctors told him to wait outside. As hours ticked by, Hawk Eye began to grow weary.
"What's taking so long?" Hawk Eye thought to himself. "It's been two hours."
Just as he sat down on a chair to relax himself, his ears perked up at a sound of a baby crying coming from inside the delivery room. It was a sound that made his mind at ease. Then some minutes afterwards, the door to the delivery room opened and the doctor came out toward Hawk Eye.
"Well, Doctor?" Hawk Eye asked.
The doctor smiled. "Congratulations, Hawk Eye. You have a healthy baby colt. You can go in now."
Hawk Eye walked in to the delivery room to see his beloved wife in a hospital bed, holding their new born son wrapped in a blanket. His eyes became filled with tears of joy to know that he was now officially a father. He came closer to one side of the bed to meet his new born son for the first time.
"Here's our baby boy." Nimbus Trail showed their new born son to Hawk Eye. "Isn't he gorgeous, honey?"
Hawk Eye's eye widened when he saw his son. He saw that his new born son had a solid black colored coat with a solid red colored mane. The colors of his new born son did make him a little concerned.
Nimbus Trail tilted her head as she noticed her husband's concerned look. "What's wrong, sweetheart?"
"Why does he look like that?" Hawk Eye thought to himself, before turning to the doctor. "Doctor? Are you sure there's nothing wrong with our son?"
"You're son is fine, Mr Hawk Eye." The doctor said. "He's very healthy and normal."
"Well, why is he that color? Red and black? That doesn't look normal to me. Are you sure?"
The doctor nodded. "I assure you, Mr Hawk Eye. There is nothing wrong with you're son. Ponies are born with different colors all the time."
"Yes, but I don't think red and black is one of them." Hawk Eye said.
Nimbus Trail stroked her concerned husband with her reaching hoof. "Sweetheart. If the doctor said nothing's wrong, then I believe him. I don't care what color he is, as long as he's healthy. Because no matter what, he's still our little boy."
Hawk Eye turned to his wife, and looked at her with a calmer, but still unsure look. Seeing this, Nimbus Trail instantly thought of one way to ease her husband's mind. She offered Hawk Eye their son to him.
"Here, sweetheart. Hold him."
After a brief hesitation, Hawk Eye accepted to hold his son for the first time. He held on to his baby boy sleeping quietly in his hooves. After a few moments of looking down at his sleeping, newborn son, he began to calm down and forget about his concerns. The sight of how little he was made his heart melt with a smile.
"Now do you see?" Nimbus Trail asked. "There's really nothing wrong with him."
Hawk Eye sighed calmly and smiled. "You're right, honey. He maybe a different color...but he's still our little boy."
One of the nurses came over to the new parents. "So what are you going to call him?"
"I don't know." Nimbus Trail turned to Hawk Eye. "What do you think, Hawk Eye?"
Hawk Eye looked down at his little boy sleeping peacefully in his hooves for a moment, before smiling proudly and giving his answer. "Raid Raptor. That's what we should call him. Raid Raptor."
"Raid Raptor." Nimbus Trail and Hawk Eye snuggled lovingly with their new born son. "Our little Raid Raptor."
The moment that they first meet their son was a happy moment. And right there was the start of a new life, for a raptor was born and was going to someday spread his wings and soar into the sky.