Maternal Instinct

by Night--Mist

Unicorn and Dragon Siblings, Alicorn Aunts, and One Crazy Uncle

It had been a week since Velvet found Peppermint out in Canterlot. Word had soon reached the ears of Canterlot Castle. Blueblood of course argued that a unicorn could not adopt a pegasus. Celestia and Luna of course set him straight afterwards. When Twilight heard that she had a baby sibling, she was ecstatic. Shining Armor was just as excited to see his little brother, and of course Cadence couldn't wait to offer her babysitting services to her new little brother.... in law.

Speaking of which Velvet just got a letter from both of her children that they would be visiting today. Night Light was busy getting the house ready. And Velvet... well, she was busy keeping an eye on the little explorer. Three days after they had found him, he began crawling all over the place, meaning daddy Night Light had to install gate guards to keep him from getting into places he shouldn't. She watched as he tried to reach for the Television but couldn't reach for how tiny he was. "Are you wanting to watch Daring Do again?" She teased him.

Peppermint Twister gave her a toothless smile. Soon there was a knock on the door. Velvet answered it and was greeted with a small herd. "Hi Mom," Twilight said, embracing her mom in a hug.

"Hello to you too, my little princess of friendship," Velvet said.

"Hi there Velvet. Been a while," Spike said.

"Spike, how's my number one dragon? You've grown. Last time I saw you you were just this big," Velvet said as she made her hoof look like she measured smaller version of Spike, which made him blush and scratch his neck.

"It's good to see you again Mother," Shining said as he nuzzled her.

"And you as well son," She nuzzled back.

"A pleasure to come visit you again, mom," Cadence said.

"And I am pleased to see my daughter of love again," Velvet replied, hugging her daughter in law.

"So, where is the little trooper I keep hearing about?" Shining asked.

Velvet was about to speak when she felt a bump on her rear left leg. She looked down and saw Peppermint hugging her leg. "Here's the little guy," Velvet said as she picked up the baby pegasus.

Cadence's heart was sent a flutter as she said, "Awww, he's the most adorable little colt I've ever seen."

Peppermint giggled as she started tickling him. Shining smiled as he saw his new brother. "Looks like I've got a new royal guard to train up," shining Said.

"And who says the new little prince will be a royal guard. I think I could see him becoming really great philosopher," Twilight argued.

"We'll see, I mean, he's still a little guy," Shining said as he bopped his brother's nose gently. Peppermint grabbed his big brother's hoof and hugged it. "Wow, and he's got quite a grip for a little guy. Hmhm."

The family soon walked in and Velvet soon let him crawl around again. "He's quite the little scamper, isn't he," Cadence said as she sat on the couch with Shining and Twilight and watched Peppermint Twister crawl around the living room.

"Indeed. So much energy, I don't know where he gets it," Velvet said as she sat in her rocking recliner.

As they chatted, they heard another knock at the door. "Were you expecting more company?" Twilight asked.

"No, but let's check it out," Velvet replied.

She opened the door, and there, standing before her, were three very important figures. "Princess Celestia? Princess Luna? Discord? What brings you to our humble abode, your majesties?" Velvet asked.

"We heard there was a new addition to the Sparkle family. So, we thought we would come and see the little one," Celestia said.

"Yes, we have been cooped up in the castle fr days, we needed some time to escape, and we kept hearing about how cute the little colt was," Luna said.

"And I heard this little one's bit of a troublemaker, at least for the snotty nobles," Discord said.

This made everypony laugh. "Come in," Velvet said and the royal sisters and lord of chaos soon trotted in with her.

"Hello your majesties, Discord," Shining said.

"So, where is the new little prince," Luna said.

Velvet soon levitated her son and he giggled as he was lifted off the ground. "This is our little Peppermint Twister," Velvet said.

"Awwww" the royal sisters said in unison.

All of the sudden, Discord wiggled uncontrollably, making Peppermint laugh and clap his hooves. "That can't be right," he said to himself out loud.

"What's wrong Discord," Celestia asked.

"Well, it's not that anything's wrong. It's just odd. I feel... a magical presence coming from Peppermint," Discord said.

"But... how can that be? He's a pegasus," Velvet pointed out.

"I understand that. But he possesses magic. I don't know how to explain it. There must be something we're missing," Discord said as he scratched his chin in puzzlement.

"Well, I can look through the Canterlot archives. I think I may have read something about it, but I have to read through them again just to be sure," Twilight said.

"Well, we better keep this under raps. If news spreads about a pegasus foal having magical capabilities and we tell them we know not why, there will be panic," Celestia warned.

"I agree. We must be careful about who we let know about this little one's magical potential. Now that does not mean you can't take him out and meet other ponies. Just don't let word slip. The new little prince will get enough publicity with his new status," Luna agreed.

"Alright, we'll be sure that we don't reveal that little bit of information," Velvet said.

"Well, now that that's settled, I do believe we have presents for the little prince," Celestia said.

"You read our minds aunt. We did too, as did Twilight and Spike," Cadence said.

Spike was the first to give him a present. Velvet helped him open it and it revealed a hoof gauntlet. "Spike this is rather unique," Velvet said.

"Well it took a while to find the right material with help from Twilight. It's known as a Ember Gauntlet. wear it, and you'll be impervious to any attack that involves fire, magic based or by dragon breath. Had to shed a few scales of mine to help achieve it. It's difficult to find or make these, since most Dragons in the area are ill tempered," Spike informed Velvet.

"Well it's very thoughtful of you Spike thank you," Velvet said.

"Anything for my new little brother. Oh, I should mention that it has a spell that was cast by Twilight so that while he grows, it does as well," Spike said.

"That's good to know," Velvet said.

"Twi, it's your turn," Spike said.

Twilight, of course had given him a children's book for a present. It was the first book Velvet had read to her when she was a little filly when she went to sleep at night. Shining revealed toy armor for foals, showing he was definitely eyeing his new brother to become part of the Equestrian Royal Guard. Cadence revealed a soft comfy pillow that was in the shaped of the crystal heart that floated at beneath the Crystal Castle. Discord of course had given him a goofy puppet show, Celestia was one to kindly give him a gift through magic that would help his wings and legs grow strong with each passing year as he got older.

Luna was last. "Well, I know he probably won't need it, but, being adopted by a mortal descendant of my line," she paused as she revealed a black crown with a crescent moon in the center with her magic and continued, "I feel it is only right he should have the attire to help ponies recognize his position."

Everypony smiled and Peppermint crawled over and hugged his, well, shall we say grandmother, on the muzzle with all four hooves, hiscrown dropping over his eyes a few times. Luna could only giggle at his cuteness along with everypony else. Just then, the little prince yawned. "Aww, I think it's time for this little pegasus to get some rest. Velvet soon levitated him gently and set him in his favorite blanket, wrapping him snugly, before sitting in the reclining rocking chair and rocking her son to sleep. Everypony dawwed at the moment, well, except for Spike and Shining who had fallen asleep to the lullaby with their new brother. Soon Velvet set him in the cirb set up in the living room and place a sound mute spell on his ears, so no noise would wake him.

"It seems even to this day, your lullabies are undoubtedly effective to this day on some pony and some dragon mother," Twilight said, as she dawwed at all the boys sleeping.

"Shining never could let go of his colt side. That's why I know my own son's weakness. And Spike is of course still a baby dragon, so, it's no surprise there," Velvet giggled.

"Indeed," Twilight agreed.

"Well, I can see that you inherited my voice of song. And that lullaby was simply angelic," Luna said.

"I see many great things for that little colt in the future. But for now let him have peaceful dreams," Celestia said.

Everyone agreed and soon chatted about things that had happened over the months. There would be much they would find out in the days to come.

Author's Note:

End of chapter 2. Hope you enjoyed it and comment. So Peppermint possesses magic. What could this mean? Who is he? Where does he come from? Stay tuned for future chapters and you will find out that *Stardust blown in the face.* Night Night. *Fall asleep by Luna on the Lunar bed.*

Luna: Always the rebellious one aren't you. Now sleep my little one.

Me: *In my sleep.* Can I have mowe peanut buttew cookie Mama?

Luna: *smiles as I sleep.*

Comments

[StarzGecko]

Yay finally updated!

[Finalmagnus]

More chapters please!

[Princess Elytra]

GG has no power over me. *sticks tongue out at her*

[Night--Mist]

6987834 Bonnie: *Holds you in a levitation spell in front of her face.* You were saying?

[Princess Elytra]

6987913 Uhhh... GG is best grandma. *smiles sheepishly*

[Bronzedragon]

him becoming ( a ) really great philosopher [ ? ]
cooped up in the castle fr days [ for ]
the crystal heart that floated at beneath the [not needed ]
hiscrown dropping over his eyes a few times [ his crown ]

[Shotgunboy848]

Do you plan on coming back to this story?

[Lord BLACKHUNTER]

Another cute story by the infamous Night-Mist. May he finally finished his storys soon... Or at least update them.... PLEASE