"Dante looks like we have some rainy weather so how do you feeling today?" Eris asked happily as her face was pressed against the window, her butt flaunted about as she shook it in front of you.

"Happy if you stopped shaking your ass in front of my face. Seriously can you ever take a day off of putting your ass in front of my face." You asked as you pushed her away.

"Ya know you love seeing it." She said with a smile as she tickled your nose with her tail, she was currently in her pony form she didn't really love her pony form all too much she loved being human something that was odd but you guessed that she was accustom to being a human even if it was an illusion.

"Yes I just love seeing your butt all the time." You say to Eris giving off a sarcastic tone.

"Man I just love the rain have you smelled outside after it just stopped pouring you can't get enough that smell." Eris said happily as she laid on your shared bed. You nodded as you closed the curtains making your room grow dark aside from the light bulb that illuminated the room. You used blackout curtains that way if you wanted to take a nap it would simulate nighttime making you instantly fall asleep.

You remembered when it rained in Canterlot, you always loved going out in the garden laying on the wet grass letting the raindrops go down on your face hearing the drips outside of your balcony floor. Though you might've gotten muddy over the weather you still enjoyed the rain almost as much as you enjoyed the snow.

"Still thinking about Fluttershy?" Eris asked

"Yeah it's been a stressful few weeks I want to tell her back off but."

"But?"

"But I don't have the heart to break hers." You were a little upset by the fact that Fluttershy loved you, you of all ponies sure you were kind of sentiment about others feelings but her choosing you was a bit of an overkill.

"She could do a lot better, she can have someone who cares for her wellbeing, someone who'd be by her during her time of need."

"You just described yourself Dante! For the love of god just admit it you have a thing for Flutters and you're afraid to say a thing."

"I'm not saying anything E, for god sakes she's cute. Yes, but to have a relationship with her? I at least have to keep my dignity."

You shook your head and walked over to your window, letting in the gray clouds color in your room you peered out and spotted Derpy acting a little odd. She seemed to be jumping into the puddles happily giggling as the water splashed up on to her faded jeans.

"Damn Derpy looks sexy I mean look at her you can't deny it." Eris said as she looked out the window.

"Yeah she's cute. I'm going to ask why she's out there I'll be back in a few." You started to walk away only to walk backwards continuing to look at Derpy as she played. You almost fell over a couple of books you kept in your room.

"Whoops forgot I took those off your bookshelves uh just keep going." You let out an awkward chuckle before turning and running out your room and downstairs towards the streets.

"Dante, you predictable idiot ain't I right Lola?" Eris asked as she closed the door to your room and closed the curtains laying on your bed closing her eyes for a long nap.

Canterlot...

"Aleks that was amazing you have the makings of being one of the greatest musicians." Aleksandr smiled and blushed as he rubbed the back of his head. Aleksandr was a midnight purple coated stallion with a jet black mane and tail mixed with a midnight purple tone, his eye colors differed from what time of day it was during the day his eyes were green but at night his eyes were crimson red. His style was on the prim and proper side wearing a suit instead not having his suit jacket on him, thinking it could get in the way of things.

"Thanks Soot you're a really big help." Soot was a fiery red coated bat pony with light orange streaks going across her muzzle and body, around her belly and breasts is a bright orange patch in which the colors clash at. Her mane color is a mix of black and orange her distinct mane style of choice is long and luscious. Her eye colors were a mix of purple and pink, purple on her left eye and pink on her right. She differs from other bat ponies who mostly have either gray or black coats. Soot wore a black strapless dress most of her fashion tastes come from Aleksandr who influenced the young bat pony to change her style.

"I'm just tryin' to repay you for all you've done for me." Aleks smiled and nodded knowing that the young bat pony was certainly a handful during their first time meeting one another. Seeing as both were relatively young when they were introduced.

"Yeah well your intuition for making me practice always help especially when you threaten to drink my blood when I'm sleeping." Soot only giggled and walked from Aleksandr.

"So are you sure about the whole idea ya know leaving Canterlot for awhile to see Dante?"

"Why not he's been pretty good to me. I mean before you he's pretty much the guy who influenced me to become a musician plus he did promise to help me with my problem." Soot shook her head and started to look through several books thinking of ways to prevent his problem from changing into the extreme.

"Aleks I know you're worried about that issue, but taking time out of the prince's day to help you isn't going to make it go away."

"I know Soot just trust me he'll have an answer for it. Or at the very least help out." Soot sighed and nodded before walking towards him hugging him

Equestrian Archives...

"I can't go there, they'll send me to an orphanage again." Raiden said slightly afraid to enter Equestria's archives.

"Like I said a few nights ago I will not let anyone hurt you." Luna said with an assuring smile, she felt that in order to legally adopt Raiden she had to get the proper papers to inform others that he was and will be her son.

Luna approached the counter as the mare behind gasped and quickly bowed to Luna.

"Please arise my loyal subject I'm here for business I need to speak to someone who can help me with adoption papers."

"Of course what is the-" The mare looked behind Luna to see Raiden digging through a gray trash can.

"Oh boy, half a donut!…with jelly inside!" The mare looked at Luna in total shock

"Is that the child you want to adopt madam Luna?" Luna sighed and walked over to Raiden before he could take a bit from the donut she quickly grabbed it and threw it away.

"Raiden we don't eat from the garbage. I'm very sorry miss." Luna apologizes as she flashed a quick smile.

"It's okay madam Luna it's just surprising is all."

"But...but, its almost a whole donut, do you know how hard its to find one? Like one in…in…" He began to count with his fingers trying to get at least one calculation.

"Ten, its almost impossible"

"That ratio is common Raiden not rare." Luna stated

"Ah…let me start over" He began to count again making sure not screw up the counting.

"What happened to the young colt madam?" The mare asked concerned for Raiden.

"He was homeless and hasn't had a proper education he doesn't know his subjects all that well." Luna whispered back

"I see. Well if you'll follow me I could give you the proper paper work, we can leave Raiden with the other children." Luna nodded as she crouched down to Raiden's height.

"Raiden I'm going to leave you here for a little while I promise I'll be back okay."

"Well…can I have the donut if I stay here?" He asked still wanting the trash donut.

"You can have a whole case of donuts if you do not try to dig in the trash for the donut." Luna insisted as she tried to get rid of his homeless intuition.

"A…A whole case?! Deal!" Raiden says with excitement as he couldn't wait to have the delicious fried doughy sweets.

"Wait, what I'm suppose to do here?" He asked not knowing much about playing with other kids his age.

"Just stay here while I get something done, and please don't get into trouble." Raiden nodded as she exited the area.

What am I suppose to do now? He asked himself as he spotted several fillies and colts playing around the swing sets and slides.

"Hi!" Raiden turned and looked at a young filly she was an earth pony and had an light auburn colored coat with a creme colored mane and tail to match, she seemed awfully cheerful which made Raiden nervous though willing to continue talking to the young filly.

"H-hi um what's up?" He asked trying to play it cool.

"I've never seen you here what's your name?" She asked

"What's yours?" He asked wanting to know the young filly's name

"Morning Sun! What's yours." Her smile seemed to make Raiden blush as she had cute little dimples and her eyes sparkling with a small amount of shine.

"R-Raiden."

Play it cool Raiden she's just a filly. He said to himself trying to stay calm.

"Do you wanna play with me and my friends?" She seemed awfully perky something to keep an eye on usually Raiden would reject offers from others but to him he felt almost happy around the young filly.

"Sure! Uh but I don't know what games were going to play."

"Don't worry me and my friends will teach ya it'll be easy." Raiden nodded as Morning Sun grabbed his hand and walked towards three fillies all of them different in races. One was a unicorn, the other a Pegasus and the last a earth pony.

Whoever they were they seemed happy to see Raiden.

"Girls this is Raiden, Raiden this Midnight Ash." She said pointing towards a Pegasus filly with a indigo coat and baby blue colored mane and tail, her tail had a mix of silver and baby blue, she also had a rose on her ear like the filly next to her. She wore a denim skirt with a white t-shirt and a midnight blue button up denim jacket.

"And this Flora Shine." She said stepping aside giving Raiden a look at a unicorn filly, her coat was pale yellow with a light green colored mane she had a rose on her ear. She wore a long purple skirt with a black t-shirt underneath a twilight purple jacket.

"And last, but not least Screwball." She said pointing towards a lavender coated filly with a mixed purple and white curly mane. She wore a yellow skirt with a pink t-shirt over a yellow zip-up jacket.

"Hello." Raiden said shyly

"Hi!" The three fillies said happily in unison.

"So what are we going to play first Morning?" Midnight asked as she crossed her arms

"We're going to play Freeze Tag!"

"Freeze Tag I'm not familiar with the game how do we play it?"

"Well since you're new to Freeze Tag we'll quickly run through the rules." Morning began to explain the rules to a very simple game to Raiden, he nodded every time they told him something of key importance to the game.

"So I just touch a kid on the shoulder and they freeze into a crazy position and if they move then they're out, but if an unfrozen filly touches him or her they're unfrozen?" The three filly's nodded happily as he got the rules of the simple game.

Ponyville...

You approached Derpy as she happily skipped through the puddles, some of them splashing up near her face.

"Derpy what are you doing out in the rain?" You asked

"Oh hi Dante I haven't talked to you in a long time so how have you been?" She asked as rain began to fall harder and harder.

"Uh fine but don't you think it's a little dangerous to be out in the rain I mean you could catch a cold if you aren't careful."

"I do this all the time, so don't worry about plus its fun to be in the rain." You chuckled and nodded as it began to rain harder.

"Okay so if its really okay how in the hell do you keep your wings from getting wet wouldn't it be harder to fly in rain."

"Who would fly in the rain that's just silly everypony knows that Pegasi aren't suppose to do that."

"So no Pegasus ponies ever fly in the rain? Well that's new I actually never heard that before anyway you could still catch a cold and your clothes are wet you might wanna change."

"Why if I change my clothes then they'll just get wet again. Use your brain silly." You were a little confused as to why she might be out in the cold rain, but you weren't about to judge, but you did know this you were going to have to buy a new phone your old one wasn't waterproof.

"Right, so it's more or less something you do to recapture what you did as a child. Seems logical."

"What do you do to remind yourself about your childhood?"

"Uh not much I was a student throughout my whole life the only time I had to play was a night with Trixie, she and I use to play tag in the dark and sometimes tell scary stories we always met at Canterlot's park."

"Oh can you tell me a scary story? I wanna something to scare me plus it's stormy so that'll be an extra."

"I think we should go inside if you really want to me to tell ya a story." Derpy was contemplating on what to do, she looked like she wanted to continue playing in the rain, but at the same time wanted to hear a scary story.

"Uh Derpy could ya hurry and choose, my shoes are kinda soaked plus I forget an umbrella and you're wearing a white shirt so kind of a showy touchy feeling going on right now." She happily nodded and took your hand walking towards her home. You maybe a gentlemen, but right now you were starting to act like a slight perv looking at her chest as her breasts began to bounce. It didn't help that you were currently being drag by your hand Derpy's slender and soft hand grasping yours.

"Oh god kill me for my feeble mind." You mumbled trying to move away from the sexual part of your mind.

"Are you dating Fluttershy?"

"Uh no why do you ask?" You asked

"Because Vinyl says that Fluttershy likes you a lot. She even says that she thinks about you when she's sleeping and I asked her how does that make any sense. How can somepony think about anyone in their sleep? Do you think about Fluttershy in your sleep?" You were surprised by her questioning something told you she was just curious about what Vinyl had told her.

"Uhhhh well no not really."

"You don't like her?" She asked as she stopped right in front of her home.

"It's not that I don't like her it's just that I don't think of her."

"Oh so you like her, but you don't think of her."

"Exactly anyway let's just go in before we get sick." Derpy happily nodded before she opened her house door pushing it aside as you entered.

You two were soaking wet water dripped from both your clothes to the carpeted floor.

"Okay if you like her does that mean you have something with her?"

"No it means that I enjoy her company as a friend and only a friend." She smiled and nodded happily

"You can take off your shoes if you want. So does it count for me you like me and you think of me as a friend."

"Of course." She smiled and hugged you, her slightly small features made you smile you looked into her bright gold eyes something about them hypnotized you, you began to get closer as she did the same. Her hot breath came in contact with your chin as you slowly tilted your head she did the same you were getting closer and closer to planting a kiss until.

"Ditzy, are you here?!" Derpy gasped and pushed you away and ran over to the counter hopping on top of it and waiting for the voice to appear, you looked down the hall to see a light lavender unicorn filly wearing pajamas almost as if she was woken up. Her mane color was almost like Derpy's but only slightly less brighter.

"Ditzy, are you here?" She let out a soft yawn as she rubbed her eyes she looked forward to see Derpy sitting on the counter a smile across her face.

"What's going on?" She asked as she spotted you, you were still a little surprised by the forwardness of the kiss you were about to give.

"My friend here thought it would be a good idea if he visited me. Huh Dante?" She asked almost as if she was trying to cover up the embarrassment you'd do the same if you had a little brother or sister.

"Yeah I just wanted to see if Derpy was okay since she was outside in the rain."

"Oh she always does that and when she always get sick afterwards. Oh my names Dinky if you're wondering." Dinky giggled and smiled, you let out a small laugh as she walked towards the kitchen.

You couldn't go home and leave Derpy alone with her sister sure she took care of Dinky for years, but you wanted to stay just a while longer.

"Dinky could you keep Dante company while I shower?" Dinky nodded happily and walked over to you taking your hand as she brought you to the living room. You were still dripping wet and doubted that they'd have clothes for you. All you could do now is just use a towel and try to soak up some of the water.

A few minutes later...

"Go fish!" Dinky said as you grabbed another card from the deck not much could be in Derpy's house mostly because going out was out of the question.

"Hey Dinky, how old are you?" You asked curious if you could tell her a story from your youth.

"Eleven why?" She asked tilting her head

"Do you think Derpy will hate me if I told you a scary story?"

"Well it depends how scary is it?"

"It's uh no sleep." You simply stated

"Hmmm sure why not."

If only mares were that easy to deal with.

Canterlot...

"Tag you're it!" Midnight shouted happily as she ran from Flora. The young fillies and single colt played happily enjoying their youth.

Raiden finally felt happy that now he had his childhood back knowing that he could stop running, running from the past, he so happened to unfortunately have.

"Alright you win, Midnight, you win!" Flora happily giggled as she tiredly panted

"Ha I didn't know you got tired easily." Midnight stated as she happily hugged her friend.

"I never knew you two were so close. How long have you been friends for?" Raiden asked

"A few years actually she's been with me ever since me and Morning first arrived to Canterlot."

"You and Midnight are you two related?" He asked

"Yeah! Morning's my baby sister."

"I'm not a baby Midnight!" Morning shouted as she glared at her older sister.

"I'm just messing around." Midnight walked over to her sister and hugged her giving her a small kiss on her forehead. Raiden smiled as he over watched the sisterly love that went between the young fillies he never knew family had a strong bond.

"Raiden where are you sweetheart?!" Raiden quickly turned to see his mother walking into the day care.

"Mom I'm over here!" He shouted the four fillies looked forward to see Princess Luna approach the young kids.

Raiden ran over to Luna and hugged her as she hugged back. The four fillies gasped as they witnessed the young colt hug a divine entity.

"How have you been?"

"Great mom I was just playing with my friends. Mom this Flora,Midnight,Morning,and Screwball."

"Raiden I only see three fillies." Luna stated

"Three? No there's four." The four fillies groaned before taking Raiden away from Luna excusing themselves.

"Raiden we should explain Screwball can't be seen by Adulys so we're the only how can see her. She told us that a few weeks ago." Raiden nodded before walking over to Luna.

"So mom did you finish what you came to do?" He asked

"Of course I have finished the paper work and you're now my son welcome to the family."

"R-really! I...I...I...I thank you." She only smiled and kissed his forehead.

"I love you mom."

"I love you too sweetheart. Now let's go and get your donuts." Raiden gasped and held Luna's hand.

"Bye girls." They all waved goodbye to Raiden as he walked alongside Luna.

"Looks like we got a prince as a friend cool huh!" Midnight said with a smile

"Yeah." Flora said in a soft tone

Ponyville...

"I'm at your bedroom window come over and you'll see I'm at your bedroom window. The disembodied voice said creepily as the girl rocked back and forth covering her ears knowing she was in complete and total darkness." You looked forward to see Dinky holding on to Derpy as she slightly shook.

Derpy joined in a few minutes ago seeing as you were telling Dinky a scary story. You felt kind of bad making Dinky scared, but she did want to hear a scary story.

"Don't worry Dinky it's just a story." Derpy said calming down her young sister

"Yeah sorry if I made you scared you kinda brought on yourself when you asked." You let out an awkward chuckle as Derpy glared at you.

"It's not your fault, it was mine. It was dumb of me to think I was brave enough to listen to one of your stories." She said with a sigh

"Hey hey don't say that, Twilight couldn't handle one of my stories when we were younger." Dinky only smiled and nodded before walking away from the two of you.

"Sorry Derpy I didn't mean to make her ya know so afraid." She shook her head before rising from the floor.

"It's not your fault, anyway I think the rain lighten up you should go home before it gets late." You nodded as you started to walk towards the front door as you exited the home you felt Derpy's hand on your shoulder you turned and felt her lips on yours, her hands rested on your shoulders as your hands slowly sank down towards her hips.

You felt her tongue beg for entrance as you let her in. Her tongue explored your mouth feeling your canines as her hands slowly started to go down your shoulders and towards your chest as she pushed you away.

"Bye Dante." You only nodded as she closed her door.

You walked down Ponyville's town square and look at a familiar figure.

"You little player." A familiar voice said with a smile

"Aleks?" You asked

"Yup. Glad you remembered me." Next Chapter: Past #4 Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 51 Minutes