It's a Good Life
Chapter 15: Remastered Chapter 1: The Unsung Floral Child
Previous Chapter Next ChapterYou tilted your head as you looked towards a small flower bed, your eyes focused on the small flora. Putting your hand closer to the flower a small patch of blue like spores came out of your hand, the spores descended towards the flowers as they absorbed them a small poof of heart like spores came out. You smiled and looked around once more and began spreading more and more pollen from your hand.
The sparkling blue pollen being apparent in the small backyard you were sitting in, more of the heart spores began puffing out until the backyard was covered in elegant and brilliant flowers. You smiled as you looked towards a large patch of vines growing near the white picket fence of the backyard, putting up your hand the vine slowly rose as it began to de-tangle from the fence and began crawling towards you.
The snake like flora made you smile as it wrapped around your arms in a soft tug it began bloom at the ends of the vines. The weak almost dead forest color of the vines were replaced by a strong vibrant green color that surprised you, it felt as if the vines were putting something in you. It didn't feel painful and it didn't feel slimy, it felt refreshing like if you were drinking water from a cup of iced water your mom would give you. The smell of honey was apparent as you breathed in the sweet aroma and began exhaling softly.
Smiling you stood up and took the vine with you, running into the living room where your pregnant mother and your absentminded father had sat in.
"Mommy mommy look!" You shout as you brought up the vines to your mom, she let out gasp at first you were worried she was going to punish you but the soothing smell slowly filled the room as the scent of vanilla over came your mom's senses.
"I'm making that smell mommy! Look." You brought up your hands as you cupped your palms together as a small source of pollen was brought to her attention, she slowly reached for the pollen like spores and felt the same fuzzy feeling you did when the vines wrapped around your arms.
"Sweetheart, you made this?" She asks you nodded and presented the blue pollen once more and even showing her the vibrant green glow from your hands. It was obvious you had some kind of power but what it was, was a mystery to your mother.
"Cookie, if he can make a couple of dead vines come back to life just by touching them, he could have a gift. Maybe we should tell somepony about this." Cookie looked at your happy face and shook her head.
"No, he's too special for us to exploit and a special little guy like you deserves everything we could possibly give you!" She happily giggles as she takes you in her arms and begins playing with you.
You lacked the understanding for what had happened to your hands, but you knew this. You had to make more flowers grow, it was something to understanding why you loved nature so much. Even if it's a tiny hint you felt that eventually everything would come to light.
You laid in bed it was fairly late at night with the moon high in sky, or so you thought. It was a new moon so seeing the moon was extremely impossible, in all honesty you were tired after being dragged by your friends almost everywhere you just wanted sleep.
Slowly your vision began to fade as sleeping was slowly wrapping you. Only for your door to be knocked on several times as you fell off the bed and on your butt.
"Son! Hurry get your coat, your mom's having Rarity!" Your father shouts as the blanket was still over you, clumsily you tossed off the blankets and walked over to your desk where your coat had been left on.
Putting on your jacket you walked over to your bed and put on your shoes, once they were on you walked towards the living room to see your father comforting your mother as she began breathing heavily. Your drowsiness was extremely apparent as your father had to carry you to the next door neighbors who happen to be Lotus and Aloe's mother's house.
You didn't hear any of the conversation though you did see your father and mother leave in a hurry. You drowsiness made your vision blurry one second and the next second clear.
"Don't worry Aiden, you'll be sleeping with your best friends." Dionysus said with a giggle as she laid you in between both Lotus and Aloe. You were way too tired to bother with what she said as you felt two pairs of hands lay on your chest. Deciding not to think any further you slowly began to close your eyes and sleep.
Later...
Letting out a yawn you rose from bed and stretched looking towards the window, you tilted your head to see your room. Your eyes widen as you quickly feel out of bed and ran towards the window, you saw everything in your room. From the several posters, the pictures of your friends on the dresser and even the bit bag Lotus and Aloe made for you.
"Where the heck am I?" Turning around you backed up to see both Lotus and Aloe yawn as you seemed to be sleeping in their room.
"Good morning Aloe." Lotus said to her sister, it was silent as Lotus seemed a little annoyed.
"I said good morning Aloe." She informs with a more aggressive tone.
"Aiden what're you doing here?" Aloe asks with surprise as she looked at you.
"Aiden?" Lotus asks as she finally turns to see you, standing there in complete silence.
"Uh y-yeah ooooh I'm a ghost and not really your best friend." You say to them as you waved your arms and walking into the door next to you.
"That's the closet, and if you were a ghost you'd be able to go through it." Aloe points out as you exited the closet and letting out a sigh.
"Yeah I have no idea why I'm here, I remember my dad saying something about Rarity and mom, after that I sorta blacked out." You mention shrugging as you walked towards the exit door.
"Oh um maybe mommy knows more." Lotus mentions as Aloe happily agreed knowing as two rose from bed in their nightgowns.
"And maybe after we get answers we could get breakfast!" You happily informed at first your two friends were silent, but nodded and agreed.
The three of you entered the kitchen to see your best friends mom cooking pancakes, on the table was orange juice with honey frosted flakes cereal box near it a pitcher of milk.
"Oh you finally woke up, I was wondering when you'd wake up." Their mother mentions smiling as she puts a plate of pancakes on the table. "Oh ahead and eat! It's a super special day for Aiden."
"Is it my birthday?" You asked curiously as you tilted your head.
"Well not exactly. It's someone close to you, birthday." You were now confused, you knew it wasn't your dad or mom's birthday. Those already passed and your birthday wouldn't come until December. "You'll see I promise just eat breakfast and I'll take you to see who's birthday it is."
You were still unsure about whose birthday it could be, but you couldn't dwell on it for too long.
Later...
You had dragged to the hospital by Ms.Dionysus, she seemed extremely happy as she held your hand. This was nerve racking for you, with your mom and dad gone for almost the whole night and you being worried about your little sister inside your mom's belly.
"How may I help you?" The receptionist asked with a smile.
"We're here to see Mrs.Cookie Crumbles."
"I'm sorry only family is allowed, is a family member here with you?" She asks, Dionysus nods as you were told to back up for the receptionist to see.
"Ah we were told about him, Aiden Hart correct?" She asks you nodded shyly as she grabbed a slip of paper. "On the 4th floor near the maternal ward. Please escort him to his mother's room we don't want him to wander around." Dionysus nods and takes your hand as your best friends followed from behind.
You were really, really nervous, everything about the situation absolutely scared you. You didn't want to see your mom hurt and if she was, you had no idea what you'd do.
It didn't take too long but as you approached the room your nervousness increased tenfold. Your legs were shaking as your hands felt twitchy, nothing was harder then this.
You opened the door and as you entered you spotted your mother, she was sleeping and next to her was a small white filly with what looked like a bit of purple mane and tail beginning to grow. There was a sticker at the end of the see through crib and the sticker had all kinds of info on her.
Name: Rarity
Birthdate: 9/15/97
Blood type: O
Approaching the crib you slowly peered over to see her suckling on her pacifier her lovely cute face made you smile, her eyes slowly open as she looked at you. She let out a soft giggle making your heart melt from the pure cuteness she showed.
"Aiden, that's your little sister Rarity. Rarity that's your big brother." Your mother mentions as she had woken up from her sleep, you looked at a Rarity to see her happily coo and giggle.
"Hey there little gal, looks like you're my little sister. I hope you'll grow to like your weird older brother." She smiles and continues sucking on her pacifier.
"You two look absolutely adorable." Dionysus mentions with a smile as Cookie giggled a bit.
She was little and precious little sister she will be, hell you didn't even know that you'd be helping your little sister constantly save Equestria in the future, but all things come in small packages you suppose.
5 Years Later...
"Waaaahhh!" You heard Sweetie cry as you rose from bed and walked over to your little sister, her cries were ear shattering but they had to quelled.
"There, there Sweetie, big bro has ya." You said approaching her and grabbed her milk bottle from the bottle warmer. "See you were just hungry is all."
You were now 8 years old and your little sister Rarity had recently turn 5 years old, she was already excited for many things in life which mostly amounted to school things.
"Wanna go see what your big sister is doing?" You asked smiling as she continued drinking her milk. "I'll take that as a yes."
Walking out of Sweetie's room with her in your arms, you walked towards her room to see it empty with only a few pieces of construction paper with a few scattered crayons near the paper.
"Rarity where are you?!" You shouted exiting her room only to hear humming coming from your parents room. You let out a sigh and knew where it would go from here, pushing the door open you spotted Rarity trying on make up. The lipstick smeared almost clumsily while the mascara was just above her eyelashes. The eye shadow was untouched you thought she just feared putting it on her eyelid.
"Rarity what're you doing playing with moms' makeup, you're not allowed to touch her things." You said approaching her as you swiped the lipstick.
"I wanted to look pretty for you!" She happily admits with a giggle.
"Rarity, you're not old enough to mess around with stuff like that. Now put it away and wipe it off your face."
"But I spent all day getting ready." She slowly began tearing up as you sighed and approach her.
"You don't have to be pretty for me just keep that natural smile of yours, and I promise you'll look cute no matter what." Blushing a bit she nods as she begins using napkins to clean off the makeup from her face, her smile was cute as she looked at you carrying Sweetie.
"Now let's go and make some dinner, and after that we could watch a little TV." She happily nods as you carried Sweetie downstairs and entered the living room. Turning on the TV you placed Sweetie in a rolling chair as she happily moved giggling while she moved.
You thought of making something simple, grilled cheese with some chips on the side. Beginning to create the food for your sisters you heard scratching near the backyard door.
You smiled and chuckled a bit, walking over to fridge you decided to take out some of the meat your mom bought for you and carried it outside. You smiled seeing a pregnant husky, her fur was a soft light brown with the usual white fur, her eyes were green and blue.
"Hey there girl, I thought you weren't coming today." She happily barked making you smile a bit as you scratched her jaw.
"Here I had to fork over some of my allowance to get you this." You mentioned with a smile as you presented a thick slab of steak. Cow meat was an extremely rare commodity that very few could experience, so begging your mom was hard enough with your secret pet practically begging for you to buy her more meat.
"I bet your puppies will absolutely love the food girl." She let out a soft bark as she took the slab of meat elsewhere.
Re-entering the kitchen you heard giggles coming from the living room, your suspicion grew as you saw the cookie jar gone. Once in the living room you spotted Rarity and Sweetie eating a cookie, the jar still full you swiped it and took back the cover.
"Awww we only got one cookie." Rarity complains with a pout.
"You're lucky you two only got one each, I still have enough to make that ice cream sundae you love." The two gasped and happily smiled.
"Sundae! Yay!" You smiled and walked back into kitchen and began making food for your sisters.
Later...
Days have passed since you've babysat your sisters and everything went well, Rarity and Sweetie were absolutely nice and had fallen asleep with ease. Sure you've seen movies and TV shows that had kids be an absolute disaster, in all honesty it was fun and nothing too stressful.
You were outside in your backyard and nothing had happen, your friends were busy and your sisters were gone with your mom and dad to who knows where. As you laid on the grass you felt something like your elbow, looking to your elbow you spotted a small puppy. It had a light cocoa brown coat, with the usually pristine white. It's eyes were blue and a light gray blue.
"Hey there little guy who are you?" I asked patting its head as it let out a bark, the bushes near the fence opening you had at your house began shaking as three more differently colored puppies popped out along with the pregnant dog that wasn't pregnant any more.
"Hey there little gal, I see those pups are with you?" You mention smiling as she let out a bark. "That's great! I knew those pups would look adorable."
One in particular kept jumping into your arms and trying to climb up your body, she was cute the way she whimpered when she failed to even scale you forearm. Though after wagging her tail she ran forward and managed to climb onto your shoulder, constantly licking your cheek as she happily barked.
"Hahaha s-stop! You're tickling me." You shout laughing as she continues barking. The mother approaches you and nips at the puppy's neck managing to carry it off your shoulder and onto the ground as it continued wagging her tail.
"So now that your pups are out what're you going to do now?" You asked curiously, the puppy who previously was on your shoulder was pushed forward by the mother and licked its head. "You want me to keep her?" The mother nods smiling as the puppy sat in your arms, wagging and barking.
"I dunno what to say, thanks little gal. I'll keep her safe." The mother smiled before approaching the puppy once more and nuzzling her, the puppy did the same almost if she knew what it meant. Turning away her siblings followed their mother as the mother pushed up the broken piece of wood, letting her pups out of the backyard as she followed from behind.
"Looks like you're my little puppy, so let's get you name huh. I always wanted an Evie." She smiled and barked. "Alright Evie Hart, lets get some wet dog food for you, I think I have some bits to buy some food. Cmon." She barks and follows from behind I you rose from the ground and continued towards the house.
Once you locked the house and walked into town most ponies spotted you and happily waved at you as you did the same. The weird glances eventually all left as everyone got use to you, when new ponies came to town they'd give you glances, but if they entered businesses or restaurants the owners would tell them to give you a chance.
Always ended great for you, continuing towards the pet store as you did you bumped into someone.
"Owww my head, hey watch where you're going!" You heard a filly shout, looking up you spotted a filly, she was a rather short and petite filly, she had a light hazel brown coat with pristine white splotches on her body, her mane color was vanilla white and oddly enough she had a hat on her head it looked as if it was a cherry.
"Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." The filly shook her head and gasped as she began backing up from you.
"W-who are you?! W-what are you?!" She shouts in complete fear.
"Hey hey calm down, I'm Aiden Hart I live in Ponyville." She only looks at your hand and just backs up again. "I'm not gonna hurt you. Look you're new in town right?"
"Y-yeah my mom brought me to Ponyville after my dad and her separate." She seemed a little upset, but you had to keep her positive and smiled.
"Well welcome to Ponyville, and this is the friendliest place in Equestria. Oh and my little gal friend here can help you be happy too." Evie happily barked and nipped at her hooves making her giggle as she picked her up.
"Wanna join me, I'm going to get some wet dog food for her. She'll need it." Giggling a bit she nodded and smiled, as she walked alongside you carrying Evie in her arms.
2 Years Later...
You were once again in your backyard, the flowers had grown quite a bit as they had been growing since you left them. Your floral magic had grown exceptional well too, able to heal wounds and further extent to your magical abilities you burnt yourself so many times when your mother or father was cooking that it doesn't hurt as much as it use too.
Holding out your hand over the fire felt soothing rather in excruciating, sometimes the fire would even try to get closer to the palm of your hand but you were confused, were you using fire or floral you had to test it out.
Taking out a match box you walked over to a small pit, inside the pit circled around were rocks and inside the rock circle wood was there along with scraps of newspaper. Striking a match you tossed it in, suddenly a blaze of fire began forming. You steeled yourself hoping it wouldn't hurt, as your hand got closer to the fire you cringed trying to predict the fire's potential seconds passed then minutes until nothing happened.
Opening your eyes a little you looked to see a thin layer of pollen and what looked like banana leaves covering your hand, you tilted your head and moved away from the fire and examined the leaf. You tugged at it only for your arm to be pulled as well, unraveling the leaf from your arm you spotted a small stem growing from elbow. From the stem there was blood being pumped into the leaf or at least that's what you thought it was, your nose got closer and closer to the stem until you smelled an extremely sweet almost honey almond scent coming from the stem.
"I'm producing tree sap!" You shouted in complete surprise, you let go of your leaf as it slowly began to ravel itself on your arm once more and the pollen flowed back to your elbow. Creating a protective shield around the small and sensitive stem. It was weird you didn't feel the honey and smell was only there when you got close to your elbow. You shook a little before steeling yourself and walking towards the house you knew you had to tell someone.
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Very very sorry for my scheduling in posting these chapters, I hope you aren't mad and I also hope you're enjoying.