There was no mistake about it, I needed a day away from Ponyville, the quietness was beginning to grate me slightly and having time away from the ponies would surely give me some breathing space, so that when I come back, I'll be all fine and dandy once more.

I woke up very early in the morning with that feeling in my head, wondering where I could go for my day out. In Equestria, there are plenty of places to go and whilst Canterlot and Cloudsdale are good places, they don't really seem to be as ideal vacations away from the centre part of the world. It was time to go further and with my very own world map, finding a place to have a vacation shouldn't be hard.

There were many far places I could go. Fillydelphia is out of the question as going back there will bring back bad memories of my past, so not a chance. Baltimare would be nice, but then again, it would be too close to Fillydelphia, so perhaps not there. Manehatten sounds like the ideal place for me, but I wouldn't know anypony there and from what I heard, it's a city where ponies will try and step on one another to make it big at all costs.

Appleloosa and Dodge Junction are not really my kind of style, leaving Vanhoover and Las Pegasus as the only two reasonable options. Seeing that I have a relative in Las Pegasus, I decided that this is where I'll have my vacation and when I get there, I will make sure that whatever happens over there, stays there.

So, putting on my clothes and grabbing the stuff I needed, I exited my house and locked the door behind me. It was still early morning in Ponyville, there was nopony else walking around and not even one store was open. Well apart from the general store by the train station which just opened up, as I made my way to the station.

"One return ticket to Las Pegasus, please." I said to the ticket officer.

Taking several bits of out of my bag, I bought a ticket, must not lose it for when I need to get back here. Soon, the train arrived and got on board. It was very quiet with not many ponies on, but then again, it was in the early morning. Taking a quick rest on the seats, I was on my way to Las Pegasus.

Waking up from my nap sometime later, I looked out the window to see the glimpse of flashy buildings and huge signs. I was approaching Las Pegasus, a little quicker than I thought too. Soon, the train pulled into a rail station that had a lot of sparkles around the signs and I'm not talking about Twilight or Rarity here.

I got off the train with my ticket and bags of money safe in my pockets, before leaving the station and taking a moment to look at the surrounding. Despite it being the daytime, there was a lot of hustle and bustle, even more so than I was at Fillydelphia...no, I don't wanna think about that right now, this is a time for being random, not depressed. Anyways, if the city is like this during the day, I can only imagine how it'll be when it's night-time.

I explored most of the city and soaked up the sunshine whilst trying not to get an unwanted tan, have you seen the prices of getting a fur tan removal at the Ponyville Hospital? No, you haven't. Thankfully, I have my clothes on to cover most of my fur body from the sun. It wasn't long before I came across the high street with several stores, consisting of stuff that Ponyville doesn't even have, it kinda reminded me of how simple Ponyville can be sometimes, but then again, if I hadn't moved there, I wouldn't have made friends the six mares....and of course, falling love with Trixie who I hope to see again.

Speaking of which, I then remembered that long ago, my older sister left Fillydelphia for Las Pegasus and that she works at the Shamal Hotel. I haven't seen her since she left the family home many years before I left. I wondered if she still remembers me, cause when she moved, me and my parents didn't hear from her.

After walking around for a while, I found the Shamal Hotel and it was lunchtime, so I decided to have a meal inside. Turns out that when I walked on past the entrance and inside, it was more than just a hotel. There was a Casino and a Restaurant beyond the reception area, it was like a huge area of luxury that Rarity could only dream...well, unless she has a major breakthrough selling a fashion dress to a celebrity pony.

I walked on over to the Restaurant and the stallion employee working there, greeted me in a formal matter.

"Welcome to our finest Restaurant sir, may I check your..." he paused himself when noticed my alicorn status. "...an Alicorn sir? That is quite a rare sight, if I say so!"

I giggled inside. "I know and ponies think that the Princesses are the only ponies to have that status, but not me, I'm just like any other pony."

"But you're an alicorn, sir and you must be treated more royally than other ponies. I was about to ask you if you had your name registered, but that won't be necessary, sir." he said.

"Sweet!" I cheered.

"This way sir, to table six." he showed the way, escorting me to my table.

It was a very fashionable-looking Restaurant, lots of golden decorations, but it did have an outdoor area for the hot summer days. I sat myself down at Table six, it was in a quiet area that had a VIP sign above, probably intended for the most famous ponies in Equestria.

"Impressive suit design and may you enjoy your time at our Restaurant, sir." he complimented as he walked off.

"Many thanks." I replied, as I looked at the menu.

One impressive lunch meal and dessert later, I was feeling quite stuffed, but nowhere near like a turkey, unless I was looking for one to gobble, gobble up...oh the joys of my random mind. I waited until a waiter came along with a bill and a pack of mints, I took out several bits and left a bit of change on the side as it was quite an excellent meal I had. I left the Restaurant with a smile and then entered into the Casino which was on the opposite side of where I was standing.

Never have I seen so many fruit machines in all my entire life, not even the small casino department in Fillydelphia had this many. I decided to try my luck at one of the machines, so I slid in a bit, pulled the lever by the side and watched to see what I would get. To my surprise, I got three BAR's in a row, causing the machine to drop out hundreds and hundreds of bits, looks like I was going to need more than one bag.

"Geez, I thought having a normal day was lucky, but this takes all the sweets I've eaten at Sugarcube Corner!"

"Oh, it's just a normal day in the life of an alicorn, bro." a mare voice said behind me.

I startled, "Who said that, no calls me bro except-"

"Except your sister." the voice added as she cut me off.

I turned around to see a strawberry cream looking pegasus with chocolate hair and was dressed in some kind of casino outfit.

"Why the confused look? Don't you remember me?" she asked.

Suddenly, it hit me, it was Sweet Chocolate, my older sister from many years ago, I was shocked to see her.

"Oh my gosh, is that you, Sweet Chocolate?"

"It is and I remember you, Bond Racer."

We both felt emotional and went in for a brother/sister hug.

"I can't believe it's you, it's been so long!" I exclaimed.

"I know, bro, it has been a long while since I moved out of our parents home." she responded.

I then remembered that I had a pile of bits that had just finished falling out of the fruit machine, using my magic, I counted up all the bits...I realized that I had...OVER 9,000! Okay that was a lie, it was 2,000 bits, but that was still way much more bits than I ever had at all.

"2,000 bits, how am I gonna carry all of this?"

"I have a briefcase for them right here." She then opened up the case and I stored the bits inside, I was impressed that it was able to carry that much money. "Come on bro, I'll show you around for a while before heading back to my hotel room, I think we'll have a personal talk about our lives there." she suggested.

"Sounds like a good plan to me." I agreed as we walked around the Casino.

There was more games in here than I thought, Cards games, Roulette, a live broadway band playing swing music there was even a bar in the corner. After a while, she went into a locker room down a hallway away from the busy area, probably to get changed. I waited outside for a while, she then came back out and was out of her casino outfit.

"My daytime shift is over as mine is a part time job, you see." Sweet Chocolate told me. "My hotel room is this way."

We then took the elevator to the second floor and came across to one of the doors that had one of those electronic keypads that require a code to unlock the door. Luckily, they were shaped huge due to the size of our hooves. I looked the other way as my sister put in a code and the door unlocked. We walked inside and I found the place to be very clean with no messy clothes or anything lying around. Compared to how she used to leave to her room messy when we were fillies, I was mighty impressed.

Suddenly, I heard a bit of commotion from outside the hotel, I went on out to the balcony which looked over to the view of the city, I looked down to find the noise of sirens approaching, with ponies in police uniforms showing up and I looked back at my sister, thinking that there may be trouble coming. Suddenly, I felt that my vacation was going to take an unexpected twist and unless I wanted to be apart of it, I knew that I would have to cut my time here short and get back to Ponyville.

"Sweet Chocolate, looks like we'll have to have the talk another time, this is-" I got cut off as I grabbed the case with the 2,000 bits I won.

"No! You can't leave now, I don't care what's happened out there, I need to speak with you." she pleaded.

I sighed, knowing that I couldn't leave my Sister behind and sad, "Alright, sis, but let me use my magic to lock the place up."

"Okay, do it, bro."

That was all the encouragement I needed, I locked the balcony door and made the walls around us have soundproof so that nopony else could hear us.

"Alright, it's all safe." I said to her as we took a seat on the bed. "Now what is it you need to talk to me about?"

"Our past...I left home to come here, but you never knew why I left."

She had a point, I guess it was time to know the real reason, so I sat beside her and listened.

"When I was the only child and before you came along, I was loved and cared for by our Mum and Dad. I was in a place of happiness, I had the best friends, the best school but I had the best family home. But then when they told me I was going to have a little brother which was you, I was so excited that I couldn't wait to have a relative around my age and somepony to talk to. When the birth came, I was there, looking at you. You were incredibly adorable, but there was one thing that confused me. When I was born, I was a pegasus, but when you were born as an alicorn, that was when it all changed."

"What do you mean, Sis?" I asked her with concern.

"Well, at first it was just a few normal days but then a few years passed and by then, you were at that Filly School and I had just finished my last year which was 3 years before you left the school. Mum and Dad were paying so much attention to you I began to feel jealous of how smart and how funny you were when you showed it in front of our parents. However, one fateful night which was the night I left home to move here, I came home a lot later than I promised and our parents were mad at me for breaking my promise and then, because they accused me of being jealous, they wanted me to leave home and find a place of my own. I had never felt so angry at our parents, but I lost my temper and afterwards, I packed what I needed and I went straight out the door, vowing to never contact them again."

"Well great, that's my vacation ruined." I said out of the blue.

"I'm sorry, Bond, but that was years ago. However, I did make one other promise which was what happened after I had left the house. The one where our Mum and Dad...lied to you about." she looked at me.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"After I left the house, I went straight to our aunt asking if she can have us stay in touch, which I'm so glad to hear that she did. Telling her that I was forced to leave home and I said to her that I was going to start a new life in Las Pegasus, you were told all this by your aunt when our parents brought you around which is why earlier today, you then remembered it all."

After hearing all of this, it took a long moment for me to swallow the whole story, I looked down in sadness. Of course, I remembered a brief glimpse of those days, but it was what happened that made me leave Fillydelphia which was the worse part of my past. But my Sister doesn't know about it since she never wished contact with our parents since that night, I looked back at her sister who felt quite upset, telling me all this.

"You know what, Sweet...I don't blame you for being jealous, you had your reasons to be, it's just that I was born as an alicorn through just dumb luck...or a rare blessing according to Princess Celestia." I said to her as I opened up my forelegs, asking for a hug.

Sweet looked like she was about to ask me how I met the princess, but she smiled and accepted the hug.

"But either way, I missed you so much, Bond!" she cried.

"I've missed you too, Sweet, I'm so sorry to hear that you went through all of that." I said tearfully.

"Don't be, I was the one who made one bad choice."

We pulled out of the hug.

"At least things have changed for the better on your end, right?"

"They have, I have the best job, the best hotel room and as of today, I have you back in contact!" she giggled.

"Well, whoo-pee-doo, let's share a medal!" I exclaimed randomly.

Sweet laughed, "That's my little brother."

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

"Sweet Chocolate, are you in there?" A male voice boomed from outside the room. "It's your boss, the issue we had has been removed from the Hotel, we wanna know if you're alright."

"Everything's alright in here and I'm fine." she said loudly.

"Okay, but come down to the Staff Room as soon as you can, we need somepony to take over one of our member's night-time shift." he said before hearing the hoof beats and then nothing more.

"Well, I guess I better get going." I said quietly, "I'll make my out through the balcony door and fly off."

"Alright bro, but how are you getting home?" Sweet asked.

"I have a return ticket to Ponyville which I can use one more time."

"So that's where you live now, that'll explain why you've met the Princess."

"Yeah, but it's nothing special really alicorn or not, I'm still the same pony since the day I came into this world and you saw me for the first time." I said confidently.

I grabbed the briefcase and got myself ready to fly off.

"Before you go, Bond, I just wanna thank you for talking to you, I feel so much better now."

"I feel the same way, sis, I'll see you soon." I smiled.

"Same to you, bro, take care of yourself."

I nodded and then opened the balcony door, it was already approaching sunset, so I had to get to the train station as soon as possible. I looked back once more and waved at my sister, before using my magic to hold on the briefcase and began to fly up, leaving the Shamal Hotel and landing towards the station. I got on the platform and I was just in time as the train had just pulled in. Using my return ticket, I got on board and found myself a comfortable seat.

Looking through the window, I was glad to have my vacation away, but it was time for me to go home, I kinda began to miss the six mares and their friends and I was wondering what they were up to while I was away since the morning. The journey took the same amount of time as before, the train pulled into Ponyville Station and it was the beginning of nightfall, I got off the train with my briefcase and walking out of the station. It was good to see Ponyville again...and I wanted to get a drink from Berry Punch, but it was getting dark and I was getting tired, so I decided to leave it be.

I then unlocked the door to my home and I walked in to find that nothing had changed, it was all the same. I placed my briefcase on the table and opened it up to find my 2,000 bits safe and sound. I used my magic to carry the bits and into my huge bits jar which was now completely full. I took off my suit and shoes and walked straight to my bed. It was a great vacation and I got to meet my Sister again, but now that I knew what really happened to my sister, I no longer had any respect for my parents, but then again, my reasons for moving to Ponyville still remain a secret to all and it was gonna take a while for me to let it all sink in, a few months during the Winter would do me good since it was coming soon... Next Chapter: Winter Wrap Up Estimated time remaining: 27 Hours, 26 Minutes