I stuffed another whole pancake in my mouth and chewed happily, “Goof loth thief if ta besh shing Is e’ah ea’eh” I mumbled out through a mouth full of pancake and syrup.

Bee looked at me and then to Shy, “What did he say?”

She tilted her head thinking for a minute, “I think he said, ‘Good lord this is the best thing I’ve ever eaten.’”

Her mom nodded, it made sense, after all her pancakes were to die for, or so everyone told her. She looked at Pinkie, “What about Pinkie there?”

We all looked at pinkie and she was stuffing pancake after pancake in her mouth non-stop. “I agwee!” She said with a giggle.

We all just shrugged, “That’s just Auntie Pinkie being Auntie Pinkie.” Goldy said.

I nodded and swallowed the last bit of pancake I had in my mouth, “Phew, that was good, so what’s everyone’s plans for today?”

Dipper got up and brushed off his suit from any crumbs he had on it, “Well sadly I have to work, you’d think I’d have Sunday’s off but nope one of our tour guides at the museum quit last night so I got called in to take his place.” He sighed. “Sorry everyone, I wish I could spend more time with you all but duty calls.” He gave Bee a kiss and Fluttershy a peck on the cheek and ruffled Pinkie’s and Goldy’s hair on his way to the door.

“Again it was nice meeting you Chris, you’re a good stallion. See you all later.” He closed the door with a soft puff, cloud houses yo.

“Well what about you 3?” I turned back asking Pinkie, Bee, and Shy.

“What do you mean us 3?” Bee asked.

“Well I was gonna go and spend the day with Goldy, have a little father-daughter bonding time. Explore Cloudsdale more.” I said, putting a hand on my daughter’s head.

“Oh well in that case, how would you girls like to have an US day hm?” Be asked.

“I’d like that.” Shy said with a polite smile.

Pinkie just nodded vigorously, her mouth being sufficiently stuffed with more pancakes.

I clapped my hands together, “Alright, it’s settled then. Goldy, are you done eating?”

“Yep! I’m ready whenever you are daddy!” She said getting out of her chair.

“Ok ok, just let me put the dishes up.” I said getting up myself and grabbing our plates.

“Ah ah ah, don’t worry about it, I’ll take care of those, go spend the day with my little ray of sunshine.” Bee said with a bright smile.

“Alright, ok Goldy, let’s go.” I held out my hand and she took it and we made our way into town.

“Hey daddy?” Goldy asked, gaining my attention as we were walking down the sidewalk.

“Yeah baby girl?”

“How does Auntie Pinkie eat that much and not gain any weight?”

I looked down at her with a smile, “I wish I had the answer for you, best I can say is all that bouncing around she does.”

“Ok, another question.”

“Shoot.” I said.

She looked around, “Why does everyone keep staring at us?”

I blinked not expecting that question. +Well she is a smart girl, she was bound to notice eventually+ Ixis said.

‘Fair point but I wish she hadn't’ I sighed, “It’s because we’re different Goldy. Despite how much love and tolerance is promoted in Equestria they’re still scared of things they don’t understand. Actually it’s like that everywhere, it’s just nature I suppose.”

“That’s silly, it’s not like we’re mean or anything.” She said with a pout.

“No we aren’t mean, but they don’t know that, all they know is that we look different, and we’re predators Goldy, sure we won’t hurt any of them but we still give off that feeling, you’d be surprised how much ponies in Ponyville avoided me at first. What we have to do is show them that we’re good people. So don’t let the looks get under your skin or scales, heh, prove to everyone that you’re different to what they think you are, can you do that for me?” I asked her.

She nodded confidently, “Ok! I’ll make tons of friends and be the nicest person so everyone loves me.”

I kissed her forehead, “That’s my girl, now, where do you wanna go first?”

“Well I did see a library yesterday… if that’s ok?”

“Haha, you have been hanging around Twilight way too often, but that's fine.” I picked her up and put her on my shoulders, “Alrighty you’re the driver, drive away.”

She grabbed my horns, “Forward MARCH!”

I saluted, “Yes Ma’am!” And started walking. After a while she pulled my head left and left I turned and then a few blocks later I went right and then left and then left again.

“It’s just a few blocks straight ahead.” She tapped my head twice. “Full speed ahead.” She said.

“Are you sure?” I asked, I didn’t want to hurt her.

“Yep, full speed ahead.”

“Aye aye captain.” I gave another salute. ‘Ixis, will she be ok?’

+Mmm yes, she’ll be fine, she has the durability of a dragon and pegasus, they were built for things like this.+ She said.

“Alright, Goldy, hold on tight, I don’t want you falling off.” I felt her grip my horns tighter and wrap her legs around my neck. I crouched down and got into a sprinter’s stance. I closed my eyes and slowed my breathing, mist coming off my skin and puffs of mist and fog coming out my nose, tensed my muscles like I was pressing down on a spring I opened my eyes, my sight perfectly clear, I could see an insane distance away and I could see the path I needed to take through the ponies on the sidewalk and flying in the air if necessary. I heard a soft growling coming from above me and I turned my head to look quickly. Seems my attitude affected Goldy, her pupils were slits and she was focused, she was as ready as I was. I looked forward again took in one last deep breath before kicking off.
The papers printed a special edition same day, late into the night of my all out sprint. Witnesses said I was there and then the next instant I was gone, just vanished and a few seconds later a small boom from where I standing happened blowing a hole in the clouds and blasting a huge gust of wind from the spot backwards.

Now to me, it didn’t feel any different in fact it felt like I was just running as fast as I normally do, but when I decided to look I noticed that I was passing ponies at an alarming rate in fact we were already close to library within seconds. I don’t think I can slow down in time.

+You have built in air brakes dummy use them.+ Ixis said with a chuckle.

‘Built in...what? Oh! wings right!’ I opened my wings fully catching as much air as i could which slowed me down considerably.

“THAT WAS SO COOL!!” I heard Goldy say, “How fast do you think we were going? It had to be faster than the speed of sound, or close to it!”

I shrugged, “No idea, but that’s new, sure I got a speed boost when I got my tail but nothing that drastic.”

+That’s because each part you get directly impacts one of your abilities greater while the others get a small boost. Your eyes gave you better reflexes and perception you’ve just never truly use it until now. Your teeth, well it allowed you to eat anything . Your horns increased your strength and attacking power immensely, magic as well as physical, have you tapped into it? No, not truly not even when you fought Sombra. Your tail gave a huge boost to defensive capabilities and a little bit bigger boost to attack power. Your wings, as you can see gave an incredible boost to your movement speed and like your tail gave a slightly larger boost to defense than normal. So all in all you are… probably able to go on par with luna at 80% strength now.+

“Wow, ok so I’m guessing when when I get my full transformation everything will be boosted to all new insane heights?” I asked out loud.

+The likes of which none have seen before, you’ll probably be the most powerful ice dragon to have existed.+

I gulped, “Ah well… then…”

“Daddy who were you talking to?”

“Huh? Oh sorry sweetie, I was talking to Ixis, she’s well she’s a dragon spirit that lives in my head, it’s why I’m part dragon and why you’re part dragon, I guess technically she’s your grandma as well?” I tilted my head in thought, ‘Actually how would that work? I mean you are the parent of my dragon half so I guess that's right.’

+I suppose so, I don’t really mind, I’m just glad our species isn’t extinct honestly, I’ll gladly be her grandparent.+

“I have a grandma living in your head?” She giggled, “That’s silly.”

I couldn’t help but chuckle, “I agree, but she said she’s happy to be your grandma.”

“Yay, I have another grandma, can you tell her I said hi?”

“She can hear everything you say and she says hi back. But we’re here, ready to go inside?”

“Yep, I hope they have lots of new books!” She said happily, hopping off my shoulders and running inside.

“I’m sure they will!” I sighed happily and followed, ‘She’s such a bundle of energy.’

+So were you when you were younger.+ Ixis said.

‘Yeah but a lot of things were different when I was younger. You know that.’

+Yeah I do. Hey Chris, can I tell you something?+

‘I’d hope so you are living in my head after all.’

+I never told you why I left Equus or how I got your world did I?+

I shrugged, ‘Never really gave it much thought, was to busy you know being in a different world and all that,’

She laughed sadly, +Fair point I suppose. But I… I guess I should tell you, actually I feel like I should tell you everything since you’re going to be going public tomorrow about being a prince.+

‘Oh? Why didn’t you tell me whatever it is before?’

+Just wasn’t the time, I suppose. You remember the other night when Luna helped us put HIM away?+

‘Yeah, I do, why does this have something to do with the look you two shared?’

+Yes, yes it does.+

I looked at Goldy, she was just running around everywhere grabbing book after book, ‘Alright tell me then, while Goldy is distracted, I don’t want her to sense anything wrong.’

+Right, well… You asked.. I mean…+

‘Ixis, look you don’t have to tell me if you really don’t want to.’

+N-No… well fine I’ll hold off on that then, thank you. But I’m still going to tell you why I left.+

‘I’m listening.’

She took a deep breath or what the equivalent was, +I left because I was scared, I was sad, not because I was dying, that… that happened because I used all of my energy and magic to rip a portal into your world.+

‘You were dying because you came to Earth? And what were you scared about?’ I asked.

+Yes I was dying I didn’t expect a world with absolutely no magic to exist so my body couldn’t pull in any from the air or the ground to heal or replace what I lost so I was basically running on fumes when I landed, but I what I was scared of was… I couldn’t have children, I couldn’t produce an heir.+

‘Well yeah I figured as much I mean you’re an ice dragon right? No way you could reproduce with a fire dragon or anything.’ I said.

+Chris, you had a child with a pony and you’re part human, if you were full blooded human you would NEVER have been able to have children while you were here, you’d be in the same mess I was. Dragons… are, we survive no matter what we pass our DNA to what we can. How do you think the water dragons existed in the first place? Because before the war ice Dragons and Fire dragons mated all the time and then from there it just increased to having more types of dragons inhabiting Equus. But not me, I tried so many times so so many times, I would lay the eggs in my first clutch and wait years for them to hatch but none would and at first I thought it was taking just a bit longer, after all We’ve had other females whose eggs took a bit longer than the rest to hatch of course those were the runts of clutch but still. But I waited and waited until one day I decided to do what no mother would ever dream of, I broke open an egg to find the the wyrmling inside was long dead, was for years.

I panicked and I checked the rest, dead, they were all dead. But I thought maybe it was just a fluke, it happens sometimes so I tried again but no each clutch I had the eggs would die almost immediately. So one night when I was more distraught than I’ve ever been I left I couldn’t bear it I didn’t want to be near anyone so I left and that's when you found me. As I was dying I realized that I could have you be my child, sure I didn’t hatch but you would have my DNA my blood, some of my memories, you would in essence be my child.

I’m so sorry Chris, my selfishness of wanting a child, someone to have my DNA caused you everything these past few years.+ She was crying, I didn’t even know she could do that.

‘Ixis, hey… I’m sorry for… I don’t, I’m sorry that you weren’t able to have kids. Truly I am. But I’m the one that asked to explore somewhere the human race has never been to, subconsciously or consciously you brought me to Equestria, I’m long over that. I’ve forgiven you many times over for it and you know that. But I have to thank you.’ I thought with a smile.

She sniffled, +Thank me, for what?+

I pointed to Goldy who at this point had a huge stack of books and was walking to the counter to check them out. ‘Because of her. You told me that if it wasn’t for my dragon DNA, your DNA I wouldn’t have been able to have kids here. Because of you, of what you did I was given the greatest gift in both worlds. And yeah I would’ve been able to have kids on my world if I never found you but who’s to say I would be as happy as I am today? I have a lot to thank you for Ixis, I just wish you were a physical person so I could give you a hug, I’ll do it tonight in my dreams though I promise.’

Ixis laughed softly, +Hehe, thank you Chris for being so a nice person.+

I frowned and watched goldy walk over to me with a ginormous smile on her face, ‘You and I both know I’m not a nice person but I do the best I can for her.’

+And that’s what makes you a nice person and a good father.+ I just pouted in my head ,’Bleh’

I knelt down to Goldy’s height, “You got everything you need?”

“Yep, I have so many cool books, I can’t wait to show mommy and Auntie Twilight” She beamed me a smile.

“I bet she’s gonna be jealous, so where do you wanna go next, it’s only 12 in the afternoon.”

“Oh oh oh, can we go see Grandpa Dipper at the Museum?!”

“Sure and after how bout we go get some ice cream yeah?” She nodded, “Alright, climb on up.” She climbed back onto my shoulders.

“Can we fly there?” She asked.

“Once we get outside.” I picked up her bag of books and left the library, “Ok hold on, I won’t go as fast this time but taking off is still going to be a bit rough” She held on just like she did last time. I spread my wings wide and with one powerful flap I shot high into the sky and was hovering in place with steady flapping. “You ok up there?” I got a thumbs up. “Ok, I’m going to go horizontal with my body so you’re going to have to climb on my back between my wings ok?

“Ok, and I know you said you did want to go fast buuut.”

“You’re curious aren’t you? I won’t lie I am too, but you’ll have to lay down along my back and hold onto my horns ok?” Another thumbs up.

‘Ixis?’

+Yes Chris?+

‘And I wanted to thank you for the coolest set of powers in existence.’

+You’re welcome but a word of warning, you are going to be much faster flying than you will be running, I’m not exactly sure how much fast but a considerable amount.+

‘Noted’ I prepared myself much like I did last time and flapped once and I rocketed off like missile. I didn’t need to flap again because we were already at the museum.

‘Ok, never doing that again.’

+And I think you were still holding back.+

‘What?’

+You know I can read when your body is giving it’s all and let me tell you, it wasn’t or at least I’m pretty sure it wasn’t.+

I looked back at my wings and got a nod from Goldy letting me know she was ok. I swallowed, ‘What… what did these wings do to me?’

+I… don’t know. Like I said there’s more energy and magic stored in your body since you’re wings came in differently and I think that’s why. This has never happened before, I would suggest not flying or sprinting for a while, maybe a light jog but.+

I nodded in agreement “Uhm we’re here.” I flapped weakly and slowly, getting us to descend and landed on the ground before wrapping my wings around me again. “Goldy…”.

“Yeah daddy?” She looked up at me with wide eyes.

“D-Don’t mention that to anyone yet ok?” She nodded, “Good, well let’s go inside.” I pushed her softly on the back to get her to move forward.

We made our way into the museum. And saw a receptionist at the desk, “Hi, We’d like to, to well, I guess just look around, does that require anything monetary?”

She shook her head, obviously a bit freaked out by how I looked, I sighed, “Look, yes I look strange I get that, it’s whatever but my daughter loves to learn and I thought I’d take her to the museum and show her around so it would be great if you could answer my question, please.”

She coughed, and looked away blushing, “S-sorry, uhm, no sir, the museum is free to look around in but if you want to catch the Astrologonomy showing, yes that is what it’s called,
at 1:30 you’d have to pay 15 bits for adults 5 for foals.”

“I see and who’s doing the showing?”

She flipped open a book and nibbled at the eraser at the end of her paper, “Ah that would be Curator and Professor Soaring Dipper.”

“Grandpa is showing it? Oh can we go see it daddy please?”

“Of course. You said 15 for adults and 5 for kids right?”

“Yes sir, but did she say grandpa?” The receptionist asked.

Goldy put her hands on the counter and stood on her tippy toes, “Yep he’s my Grandpa dipper, he’s super nice and smart and funny, Daddy, mommy, and I came to see him and Grandma Bee this weekend with Auntie Pinkie.”

I chuckled, “Yeah this is Golden Skies, she’s a bundle of adorable hyperactivity and my daughter. Fluttershy’s daughter.”

She looked at Goldy, “So you’re his ‘Little ray of sunshine?” Then she looked at me, “And you said she’s Fluttershy’s daughter as well?”

“Yep, you know Shy?” I asked fumbling around with a small bag of bits I carried on me.

“Well outside of her being one of the Elements of Harmony, yeah. I was friends with her and Rainbow Dash up here at flight school. Though I doubt they talked about me. My name is Glimmer, just Glimmer.”

“Well nice to meet you Glimmer, I’ll tell Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash you said hello, oh and here’s the bits.” I said holding out my hand.

She shook her head, “Don’t worry about it. Mr. Dipper told me to let any of his family see any of his shows for free.”

“Hmmm alright well… wait hold on.” I pulled a dozen or so bits out of the bag for later when we go get ice cream and I plopped the rest down onto the counter, “Take that for yourself then. Treat yourself.”

“Sir… I-I can’t do that, there has to be at least 100 bits in here.” She said lifting up the bag.

“200 actually, I took out what I needed for the rest of my time out with my daughter. It’s fine.” I turned around and wave her off, “Like I said. Treat yourself. Oh My name is Chris by the way, and try to read the news tomorrow or be in Canterlot whichever you prefer.”

Glimmer stared at the bag of bits and was at a loss for words except to sa a simple thank you and gesture for us to be on our way.

I looked don at Goldy, “Well we still have some time left before your grandfather’s Astrologonomy show, what do you want to go look at first?”

She paused to think before leading me to a section of the museum labeled Theinventions of Equis throughout time.

It was an interesting little section of the museum. Of course throughout my travels while i was training as a prince I learned all about the inventions of Equis, from each various nation. I didn’t know EVERYTHING about every invention, hell i didn’t even know every invention, but what i did know was that in the early years of the planet their development was very similar to our own in terms of technological advancements. That was up until their ‘Bronze’ age, bronze was the first metal they found that could conducted magic, even though it was a crude and unrefined conduction, often leading to less than…. Desirable results. Then their ages from there were much much different, the bronze age was followed by the gold age, the gold age was followed by the crystal age, which is when the first signs of modern society started to form. Surprisingly the first cities built were by the diamond dogs in their tunnels FAR underground as they learned to channel magic through crystal to produce light. The dragons followed in those steps as they lived in caves mostly but expanded their cities’ reach to the out door, which lead to the more surface dwelling races to develop their own variations of light crystals giving them more adept knowledge as to what crystals could and could not do. The obvious pinnacle being the crystal empire and the crystal heart, though the location wasn’t probably the best, for creatures who weren’t meant for the cold.

The crystal age lasted for a very long time then the Age of Chaos began, When Discod first appeared, it lasted for millennia. And with the world in such disarray the universe decided that a balance was needed and such Luna and Celestia were born into being, it took many many years before they would have the power to trap Discord. Afterwards the next age stated, the current age, The Age of The Sisters, with the most current thing in the museum being an article and a shard of Tireks horn from Twilight’s recent battle.

Goldy spoke up when we reached the end of the exhibit, “You know, I was learning this in class the other day, and it didn’t go into this much detail. Do you think my class can ge a field trip up here?”

+You know, there isn’t much about dragons here after i disappeared, I wonder why...?+ Ixis mumbled in the back of my head.

I scratched my head, “I don’t know, maybe, you’d have to ask Cheerilee, though i doubt she would be against it.”

“Then I'll do just that.” she said with a smile before walking around the museum more.
We wandered for a while, visiting different exhibits before we sat on a bench when it hit 1:00 pm.

Goldy was swinging her legs when she looked up at me, “Hey daddy?”

“Yes Goldy?”

“You aren't from Equestria are you?”

I looked at her for a few seconds before laughing, “No, no I’m not, I’m not even from Equis.”

She looked at me wide eyed, “Really, Where are you from?”

I though for a second wondering if i should tell her everything, no she wasn't ready for that, but I could at least tell her where i'm from.

+She’ll learn sooner or later.+

Fairpoint, alright then, “So I'm from another world, Earth, similar to Equis, but no magic and much further along in technology. I was born there and I have 2 sisters and a few friends. There's a lot about my world that it would take forever to explain.”

“Well we have thirty minutes, what can you explain in that time?” SHe asked.

I shrugged, “What do you want to know about?”

“Uh… What was your favorite thing about your world?”

“My favorite thing…. Huh, you know I don’t know I never really thought about it, in hindsight i guess it was probably… my home.” I said, “My home was given to me by my mom, your grandmother, when she died. I lived in it alone for a long time a long long time and it was nice, at the time i was living alone because i wasn't in the best of times in my life, but every day i woke up i was reminded of my mom, and the things she loved, the night sky, her kids, my dad, he job, her fans, everything. Back when i was younger and things were better with my family.”

I sighed and looked at Goldy and rustled her hair, “You remind me of her you know that? So does Shy, you both are so kind and love your family so much. She would’ve loved both of you.”

“Is that grandma the same Grandma thats in your head?” Goldy asked.

Ixis just laughed and i did too, “No no, that's my biological mom that i was talking about just now, Ixis, is more of my adopted mom, she's the one who sent me to Equis on a wish I made and she keeps me out of trouble.”

She nodded in understanding, “Do you think we can go see Grammy’s grave one day?”

That caught off guard, “I...Yeah, i'll find a way, im sure she’d love to meet you.” I gave her a soft smile.

+Are you ok?+

‘Yeah, I’m fine just didn't expect that, Honestly I never gave much thought about going back since we first left the Crystal Empire. I don’t even know how we would in the first place, especially if Twilight doesn't know.’ I thought solemnly.

+True, and we don't know if time flows differently, me coming your world was…. Experimental on my part and I honestly could have come out at ANY time.+ She explained.

‘I know… Let’s shelf this for now though.’ At that w had an agreement.

Not but a few minutes later the intercom in the museum chimed in and let us know that Dipper’s show was about to start, so Goldy and I made our way to the viewing room, which was a massive dome in shape, with a few minutes to spare, of course there were some ponies in there already, not really a surprise, it was the weekend after all. But that didn’t stop Goldy from running up to her grandfather and giving him a hug.

Dipper laughed and picked her up, “Hey sunshine, did you come to see my show today?”

She nodded happily, “I sure did, Daddy brought me, we’ve been having a fun day.”

Dipper looked p and waved at me, i waved back, “So what're you doing in a stuffy old museum seeing an old stallion like me on such a nice day?”

Goldy laughed, “You aren’t old and like you said, We came to see your show, also I really like museums, Auntie twilight takes me to the one in Canterlot all the time.”

He gave her a soft smile while suppressing a chuckle, “Of course she does.” He set her down, “But go back to your dad, i have a show to start, I’ll talk to you after ok?”

Goldy nodded and ran back to me, taking a seat in the chair next to mine, “So do you know what he’s going to do for the show?”

Goldy nodded but whispered, “It’s a secret, you’ll have to watch and find out.”

I sighed in defeat, I wear the girls in my life just love to tease me in one way or another.

+You can’t blame us, you just get so flustered so easily, it's amusing.+

‘Oh shut it before i start singing THAT song in my head.’

+You wouldn’t dare.+

‘Try me dragon lady.’

She sighed in defeat, +Fine, I’ll be good.+

‘Good, now hush, the show is starting.’ The lights were turned off and the room was pitch black until Dipper turned on the cylindrical projector in the center of the room. It lit up everything like a disco ball, no like the night sky, because that's exactly what it was.

Dipper started to point out constellation after constellation, until he got to a major one, Orion, and no not the same orion in our starry night sky. This Orion, unlike ours was a peaceful pony who did nothing but care for the world around him, until a great beast known simply as Gust appeared and threatened to destroy the very world we stood on. Many great heroes of the time tried to defeat this creature but it wasn’t until Orion, The Peace Walker, attempted to do the one thing that no one else tried that Gust was defeated. What Orion did to take down this horrible monster you ask? He asked it politely to leave as this planet was teeming with life and it was not it’s time to be taken into the great beyond.

What blew me away was that he told this while the stars themselves danced around the room portraying this scene, and it happened with every constellation afterwards. I took a moment to see how he was doing that, as if he were a unicorn i could understand how but he was, after all, a pegasus.

What a saw was even more entrancing than the show itself, Dipper was deftly and swiftly moving his hands and wings along the projector which, now that I look at, was littered with tin movable pin holes into an ever changing light crystal. Dipper’s limbs looked like they were soaring in a blur over a tiny universe and it was one of the most amazing things I’ve ever witnessed.

We sat and watched the show to completion, it lasted about 2 hours and it was worth every minute. When it was over ponies were gathered around Dipper telling him that it was great as always and they cant wait to see the next one. After the crowd was gone, he came over to talk to us.

“So how did you like the show, Chris?” He asked, genuinely curious about my opinion.

“You know… I traveled the world for nearly five years and seen many wondrous and beautiful things, but that was something else, the show was great. But if I were to be honest the real show had to be how you were moving that projector.” I said looking at it, only just realizing that Goldy was examining it, that child.

“Yes, well I worked on it for years and it took me even longer to fully operate it as well as I do now, most of the time I practiced doing little shows at home for Fluttershy and her brother.” He stated.

Ok, what, “Wait, Shy has a brother?”

Dipper looked confused, “Yes, didn’t she ever say?”

I gave him a look, “Wouldn’t be asking if she did, now would I?”

He held up a finger and was about to say something before stopping and lowering it, “Good point, yes, my little song bird has an older brother, Shooting Star. He’s a traveling musician, does his own thing, but he visits every now and again. Though Fluttershy did say he never writes her whenever we bring him up, that might be why she never said anything about him, might not be happy with him. Which is sad because they used to be so close when they were younger.” He finished with a dejected sigh.

“Huh well, I’ll definitely talk to her about it but, I have a question if you don’t mind.” I said getting his attention. I pulled out a smaller bag, that had a small box in it and relayed to him what I was planning for tonight and h couldn’t have been happier.

“I say you should talk to my wife about it too, but all things considered, I think she’ll love it.” He said with a smile, “Or if you want I can tell her, I’ll be heading home right after this, so she can help Flute get ready.”

“That would be much appreciated, thank you Dipper.” I said, giving him a short hug.

“Of course, anything to make my daughter happy. Now I have to get packed up so I’ll see you later.” He walked over to the projector and talked to Goldy really quick, before giving her a hug and walking off through a side door.

I walked over to Goldy and picked her up and set her on my shoulders again, “So now what?”

“Ice cream.” She said with such determination I couldn't help but chuckle.

“Ice cream it is.” And for the rest of our time together we walked around Cloudsdale eating our ice cream, luckily, thanks to ice magic it never melted.

We got back home around 6 O’clock, Pinkie was sitting downstairs on a cloud couch fiddling with… something, when she looked up and saw us.

She immediately bounced up and over too us and squeezed us both in a huge hug, “Chrissy, Goldy, how was your day?”

I laughed and Goldy tried to squirm out of Pinkie’s death hug, I just accepted it at this point, “It was fun Pinks, had ice cream, learned a few things, got a plan for tonight.”

She let us go, “Oh I know, Mr. Dipper told me and Mrs. Bee, she’s upstairs prettying Fluttershy up.”

I looked up the stairs and wondered how Shy would look, then I looked at Pinkie who was looking at me with these huge puppy dog eyes.

I sighed in defeat, “Do you want to go too Pinkie?”

She put her hands behind her and and kicked the floor, it was really cute, “I mean I don’t want to intrude on your super special night.”

I psshed. “Nonsense, your our best friend, you wouldn’t be intruding one bit.”

She looked at my with the widest grin I’ve ever seen, “Oh goodie! I have the perfect outfit too!” She bolted upstairs and all that was left here was a cloud of pinkie shape dust.

+You know, i could’ve sworn she knew about this before you did.+ Ixis said, completely confounded.

‘Imma have to agree with you on that… eh oh well, what's the worst that can happen?’

+You should know better than to ask that.+

She had a point, “Hey Goldy, do you mind spending time with Grandma and grandpa for tonight? Daddy, mommy, and Auntie Pinkie are going to go out for some adult time.”

She shook her head, “Nope, i can tell them all the cool stuff i saw today and all the cool stuff you told me about me and the cool stuff you can do.”

I chuckled a bit nervously, “Ok but remember no mentioning the thing, that’s still a secret.”

“I know daddy, I promised I wouldn’t tell, so I won’t tell.” She said happily before going to go find her Grandfather, as he was the only one who wasn’t in a room getting changed.

“Huh… I guess she gets the promise thing from me.” I shrugged.

+That's a good thing though, it means that you’re doing better than you thought.+ Ixis said, happily.

I thought about that, ‘You know what… maybe you’re right.’

+Good, glad you’re starting to listen to eason, now go get changed The girls can’t be the only ones looking good tonight.+ Ixis said, hurrying me up.

“Ok ok, yeah let’s go get ready.”

After 2 hours of getting ready, yes it took that long, i had to groom myself to look presentable, as did the girls, I was waiting downstairs, dressed in a black and blue tuxedo, the vest, tie and accents of it being the same blue as my scales so my wings, and tail matched it nicely. Seaking of them, I polished and cleaned them to a shine so perfect that it looked like you were staring into the bluest ocean.

Like i was saying, I was waiting downstairs for the girls and first to come down was Pinkie, and she was stunning. She was wearing this light blue dressed that hugged her body nice and dipped low enough around the nek to get your imagination going, she had gold piercings in her ears, and her hair was done in twin ponytails, her tail was also tied up with gold hair bands to give it a separated poofy look, she had cream colored arm sleeves on and stockings to match and her shoes were pumps the same color as her dress with some gold accents. Honestly for a split second my mind did not want to work right.

Pinkie walked up to me and giggled, “Chrissy you might want to close your mouth, You’ll catch flies.” She said pushing up on my chin and closing my mouth.

I stammered, “I… uh sorry, you just look really good.”

“You flatterer you, If you think I look good, wait till you see Shy, She’ll knock you dead out of the water.” She said with a happy little bounce, i was thankful that the dress was able to contain her… assets.

I swallowed, if Pinkie looked this good I’m actually terrified of what Shy would look like. But I didn’t have to wait that much longer as she came downstairs a few seconds later and I swear to god if Pinkie was an 11 in her dress, Shy broke the scale, set it on fire, and shot the ashes into a black hole.

She had her make up done meticulously, and it was perfect, her hair was brushed out, and made to look s full and shiny as possible, while there were normally two curls within her hair there are now multiple. And he dress, good lord her dress. He wore a dress that fit to her body like she was sealed in it, that went to her thighs, and yet she still moved comfortably, her curves were shown to great effect. And her dress was designed to have a hole in it that was a semicircle that opened up showing her tight stomach and wrapped around her back, showing that off and allowing her wings to be free. He had on black stilettos that made her legs just look more appealing. Her dress and stilettos were accented with this beautiful rose gold crossing fleur de lis pattern that accentuated her curves even more and it was all topped off by a rose gold necklace.

I actually had to physically sit down from that, Pinkie leaned down behind me and whispered in my ear, “I told you she was going to knock you dead out of the water.”

Shy looked, well, shy and quietly asked, “Do I look good?”

I honestly couldn't respond, there were no words, nothing in any language known could say how truly gorgeous she looked so i did the only thing I could do, I stared.

She shuffled in place, upset, “I knew it I don’t look good, I’ll go change.” She turned to go back upstairs before Pinkie stopped her and whispered something in her ear, which caused Shhy to look back at me and squeak in embarrassment.

I shook off my stupor and stood up, “Shy, you look absolutely stunning, hell I might have to fight people off of you.”

She blushed deeply, “R-Really?”

“Yes really, your mom picked this out?” I asked gesturing to her dress.

Shy shook her head, “I did, I thought you would like it.”

+Oh you definitely do, the amount of dirt running through your head right now is a dead give away.+

‘Oh hush, i can’t help it.’ I quickly thought back before responding to Shy, “Well I definitely like it, a lot.”

She smiled, “Well I’m glad.”

“Oh! What about me Chrissy? Would you fight off guys for me?” Pinkie asked with an expectant look in her eyes.

I blinked and looked at Shy who was giggling and nodded, “Yes Pinkie, i would fight off guys for you as well.”

She clapped happily, “Yay! Well, let's get going!” She said, leading the way out of the house to the club we were going to.

I grabbed Shy’s hand and we followed her and chatted along the way, it took us about 20 minutes to reach Cloud 18, why not Cloud 9? Probably too cliche is what I’m guessing. Also, it wasn’t as much of a club as it was a REALLY fancy karaoke bar.

When we walked through the doors we were stopped by the doorpony, “Do you have a reservation?” She asked.

I stepped forward, “Yes it should be under McGrath.”

She trailed her finger down her list, “McGrath...McGrath...McGrath… Ah, here you are. Oh, you were the one who booked the outside stage. Although you did let others use it if they wanted, offering to pay for them a well, how strange. Well, not my place to ask question, please come in and enjoy your time.”

“You paid for everyone who came in to use the outside stage?” Shy asked as we made our way through the crowded building to the back doors to get outside.

“Yeah, I wanted tonight to be special for us but I wasn’t going to stop others from having fun either, I consider it my first ‘princely’ act.” I said with a slight chuckle.

“Well that was really nice of you.”

I shrugged, “What can i say, i guess the element of kindness is rubbing off on me.”

“No, you’ve always been kind.”

“I think Sombra would disagree!” Pinkie quickly interjected.

I just gave her a deadpanned looked and gently rubbed my eyepatch, “Anyways, here we are girls, and it looks like there's already a bit of a crowd.” A bit was an understatement, literally every table was taken up and even then there were even more ponies standing, they all just finished clapping for a Young looking Mare walking off stage.

“Oh oh Oh, Chrissy, Can I go up and sing some songs?” Pinkie said excitedly.

“Sure go ahead, just let the band members know what song and who’s party you’re with tonight.” I said waving her off, “Oh and we’ll be at the only empty table left!” I called after her as she ran off to the stage. Luckily the table I was talking about was a very large one in the dead center in front of the stage, it had a big card that read Reserved for McGrath Party .
Shy and I sat down at the table and as we did a spot light shone down on us and there was a pitch black stallion with a golden tail and hair, wearing a suit to match, on stage with the microphone.

“Mares and Gentlestallions.” He stated, his voice was one of those silky ‘made for radio’ voices, “Let us welcome someone who through his boundless generosity-” “Yeah and my endless amount of cash!” I called out good heartedly causing the crowd to laugh, “Yes, and his endless cash, bought out this entire venue and yet still allowed the rest of the ponies in this fair city to participate whilst also paying for us, tabs and all.” I shrugged as the crowd clapped for me, “Well, the next singer up is one of the two lovely mares who accompanied this fine gentlestallion, and is also an element of harmony, Pinkamena Diane Pie!” he called out handing the mic to Pinkie.

When the spot light shone on her a good chunk of the stallions, and mares, in the crowd wolf whistled, of course some of them got hit by their partners, another chunk gave me thumbs up, and the last bit glared at me.

“Hiya everyone! I’m Pinkie Pie and I have a great song, are you ready boys?!” She asked looking back at the band who nodded.

Pinkie looked dead and me and gave me the most devilish smile I have ever seen as the stallion who was on stage prior joined her. And then the synth started and the Stallion started first his voice changing entirely.

“Greetings loved ones. Let's take a journey.” He started.

Something in my head was whirring at that, it sounded familiar and then Pinkie started and I was looking at her in pure shock.

“Nooooo.” i said quietly. Ixis was just screaming in my head

Shy looked at me curiously, “Chris, you know this song?”

I looked at Shy and i swear I probably looked like I’ve just seen a ghost.

“This is a song from my world, how does she know this?” I said scared for my life.

Shy giggled, “It pinkie, you know better than to question what she does, i’d say just enjoy something from your world.”

+Of course she’d be the one to see the silver lining of all this. It's going to be stuck in your head for weeks which means I’m going to have to deal with it.+ Ixis said with an exasperated sigh.

‘Yeah, but she’s right, I haven’t heard a song from my world in quite some time.’ I replied.

“Yeah you’re right Shy, this is so Pinkie, pulling off something impossible just to make a friend happy.” I looked back at Pinkie, and she was having so much fun, she was dancing on stage and the crowd seemed to enjoy it so who was i to say this was bad. So we sat and enjoyed this song and a couple of more that pinkie sang and when she was done she bowed and handed the mic back to the black stallion.

She joined us back at the table where we ordered a drink for her, i was drinking water don’t worry, we started to converse as another pony went on stage to sing fo the night.

“So how was that, were you surprised?” She asked taking a drink from her glass.

“Yeah, i was, honestly and it was great, thank you Pinkie. I’m not going to ask how you got songs from my world but thank you, it was nice and I thought I was the only one with a surprise tonight.” i said.

Shy looked at me, confused, “What do you mean, Chris?”

I chuckled, and stood up, “Don’t worry about it Shy, you’ll see.”

I walked up the stage as the last pony was coming down and was handed the mic upon reaching the top of the stairs, “I’ll be singing - and -” i told the and walked out on to the main area of the stage as a spotlight shone down on me.

I stared up at it and covered my eyes and then looked back out towards the crowds, whistling at how much more impressive it all looks from up here, “So it seems like we got a big crowd tonight.” I said into the microphone, getting a cheer in response.

“Well good, so these songs I’m about to sing are… personal to me, many of you won’t understand why or what the mean to me. The thing is, you all aren’t meant to, the only ones who are are the two mares i brought with me tonight.” I finished looking at them with nothing but love and happiness shining in my eye. Then I took a deep breath, the lights dimmed, and i began to sing.

“I heard there was a secret chord.” and slowly the music followed in.
As I sang the energy in the crowd began to shift from one of excitement to a calm stillness. I poured all of my emotions into this, all the pain and suffering I’ve been through. All the sorrow, all the hatred, all the sadness, all the heartbreak. I looked down at Shy and Pinkie. Shy was sitting there crying, with an understanding smile and Pinkie was being Pinkie and bawling her eyes out. Laughter and Kindness, the two elements they represented, I’m glad that they’re the two that are here tonight, they understand this better than anyone. As I finished singing and the music started to fade out I felt tears on my cheeks and once i was done singing i wiped them away and stood tall, smiled, and laughed.

The crowd looked at me in bewilderment, after all, who could sing something like that and just laugh after it?

“I’m sorry, it’s just years ago I would never have been able to do this, and it dawned on me how much I’ve changed thanks to my friends, my family, the ponies who have accepted me here and other who have made this place truly my home. But I still have a lot of work to do and that is why this next song is dedicated to, especially the lovely yellow pegasus mare who stole my heart.”

The guitars started up followed by a piano and I guess a maraca, I don’t know instruments.

“Baby, don’t understand why can’t just hold on to each others hands.” I started

As the music continued and as I continued to sing the energy changed again, it was still calm, but instead of the burden of the past, of mistakes made, of hardships. It was he feeling of renewal, of new chances and opportunity, of love and hope.

My wings shot open and I launched into the air as I sung, “Take these broken wings” and hovered in mid air untilt the next repeat of ‘take these broken wings’ and started to descend back onto the stage as I walked towards shy still singing.

I grabbed her hand and and pulled her up, she was standing with her hands covering her face, and kept singing and on a part where I wasn't singing I told her to hold on tight. On the start of the chorus I took her into the sky with me and she held on tight until she relaxed and started to hover with me and we danced slowly in the sky as i kept singing.

+Smooth, real smooth.+ Ixis said with no hint of sarcasm as i finished singing and he instruments were starting to wind down, meaning that me and shy were starting to descend as well.

‘I know, thank you for helping me come up with it.’ I said back to her.

+Of course, I live in your head, if I don’t help you make your mare happy i suffer too.+ She said smugly.

‘Ouch and I thought you just cared about me.’ i said with a small chuckle.

+Of course I do, but i care about me a bit more.+

I rolled my eye and shook my head in defeat. As we landed back in front of our table, the crowd was clapping and a nodding with approval. I walked back to the sage and handed my mic back before sitting down at our table.

“Chris that… was sad, but wonderful. I see why you brought us to this.” Shy said, taking m hand into hers.

I rubbed the back of my head with my free hand, “Yeah, There's just so much wrong with me you know? But instead of letting it eat me alive from the inside i think i’m ready to handle it and move on, but I’ll need your help.” I said looking at them.

“Of course silly pants, we promised you that years ago. The girls, the princesses, spike, everyone, remember?” Pinkie said, I nodded.

“And I’ll always be here for as long as you want me to.” Shy said, kissing me on the cheek.

“Speaking of you being here, aren’t you going to go and sing something, Shy?” I said back.

She blushed and tried her best to hide behind her hair, “O-Oh me? N-no I couldn’t.”

I tried encouraging her, “Come on Shy, you have a beautiful voice we’ve all heard it.”

“Yeah, come on Flutters, you can do this its just like singing for the Ponytones except you’ll be up there by yourself with tons of ponies staring at you.” Pinkie said, which just made Shy just sink lower in her chair trying to hide some more.

I shot Pinkie a look, “Shy, look, I’ll still be here, and Pinkie will still be here, just concentrate on us ok? That’s what I did, trust me I hate crowds too, but finding someone you can look at and focus on, especially if it's someone you trust and love helps. And besides I’m sure you have a song you want to sing.”

She poked her head out from behind her hair and had a determined look in her eyes, “I-I do and I would really like to sing it for you.”

“Then go on stage and sing it.” I said giving her a wide smile.

She nodded and stood up, “O-Ok, and like you said, just focus on you.”

“Right, go knock ‘em dead honey.” I told her and she smiled and walked slowly on stage.

When she got up there and a low light shone her, and the crowd had a repeat of pinkie syndrome Shy tried to walk away.

That's when i stood up and let out a bone rattling roar which got the audience to quiet down and most of the wolf whistlers to look away from my gaze, “Good, you’ll do great Shy, remember focus on me and Pinkie.” I said turning to her and sitting back down and took a swig of my water

She gave me a grateful nod and with slight hesitation the band started up and I almost spit out my drink.

I looked at Pinkie and whispered, “Did you tell her this song?”

She shook her head, “Must’ve been the magic of music.” she said before turning back to watch Shy perform.

+There's no way she could’ve known about this.+ Ixis said just as flabbergasted.

‘I know, but… i don’t know I guess I shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.’ Wow… that is apt.

Shy finished her song and came back to the table, “How was I.”

“Perfect, you could give the original a run for its money.” I said dreamily, god i loved that song.

“Hehe, good i’m glad you did, something told me you would.” Shy said.

“Yes well… hey, Shy, i want to take you somewhere, mind coming with?” I said standing up and holding out my hand.

“Of course but what about Pinkie?’ She asked gesturing back at the pink pony who was back up on stage.

“She’ll be fine and keep things going. Besides she knows about this.” I told her.

“Well… ok, lets go.” She took my hand and we took to the sky, well further into the sky.

We flew for a little bit before Shy spoke up, seeing the destination we were going towards, “Why is the weather factory lit up so late at night? Normally they turn the exterior lights off this late.”

“I asked the to keep them on and add some color, looks like they didn’t disappoint.” i explained.

“The weather fator is where we’re going?”

“Kind of, you see that cloud a little ways up above the factory? That’s where we’re going.” i told her point to a decent sized cloud that was floating several feet about the factory.

“How, ponies aren’t supposed to be around the factories towers if they don’t work there.” She said looking around nervously.

I laughed, “Calm down, its ok, did you forget who I am and who we’re friends with? I got some special permission.”

She sighed in relief and followed me as we made our way to the cloud, Thank god pollution isn’t a thing in this world or else it would be horrible sitting above the factor, here it's just a steady stream of warm air. On the cloud was a basket and a towel laid out with some plates and some wine glasses, with of course a wine bottle next to it stored in the cud itself to keep it cool even though we didn't ned that, considering.

Shy stared at the set up, “W-Whats all this?”

I sat down on the cloud and patted next to me, “It's dinner, this is our date. What was down there was a group thing I just wanted to do, this is for us exclusively.”

She sat down next to me, “Oh Chris, you shouldn’t have.”

I waved it off, “Hush, i wanted to, now how about a drink?” I asked pouring some wine in our glasses.

She look between the glass and me worried.

“What? Oh right my aversion to drinking… yeah i still don’t like to really but as a prince you have to learn to get over those kinds of things when entertaining, or being entertained by other members of royalty. So now I drink on on very special occasion and not enough to get drunk, maybe a glass or two.” I explained, finishing pouring the wine.

“O-Ok, but what’s this all about?” She asked taking a sip from her glass.

I started to pull out our food, a salad prepared by the best chef I an into whilst roaming the world, and a plate of fish and jewels for me prepared by the same chef, “Well what your mom said about the ring i ade you got me thinking. I didn’t actually properly propose to you o give you a proper ring i suppose.”

“Oh, its ok, she wa just being protective.” Shy said, trying to defend her mom.

I discreetly tapped one of the communication ges i had on me, “Maybe so, but she did have a point, so this was my answer to that, I pulled a lot of favors for a lot of this to be honest, but most of them were more than willing to accept and help. The factory and cloud? Celestia talking to them. The food? A chef I met on my travels. The karaoke bar? Cadence. And that.” I said pointing up to the sky which should the most beautiful star shower I have ever seen.

Shy looked up at it and gasped before looking back down at me only to see me on one knee.

I was holding a golden box that had the Crest of Arms that was associated me, a white dragon curled around a jagged snowflake, “Fluttershy, I know I asked this once but I don’t think it was prope of me to do it at that time, so i’ll ask now. Will you make me the happiest anything alive and do me the hoer of being my wife?” I asked opening the box showing a black obsidian ring that had a space carved into it that had small gems of different colors placed inside of it leading up to a larger pink and blue diamond in the center.

She looked the ring and then looked at me, tears building her eyes before nodding and quickly hugging me, “Of course I will, I said yes before and I’ll say yes now. Nothing would make me happier than being your wife.” She pulled away and let me put the ring on her finger.

She looked at it some more, “What do the gems represent?”

“Well, the diamond is me and you obviously, something like that would be impossible on my planet, but each gem is a special diamond infused with a bit of magic essence from all of our friends and family, that's why they’re the color that they are.” I explained, “Honestly i asked for this to be made last night, honestly I didn’t think this would get done in time, but the person I asked… well lets just say she’s very skilled in what she does.”

She looked at the ring, the set up, the stars, everything again, “I really don’t deserve this.”

I took her hand, “Shy, I’m the one who doesn’t deserve you. You deserve this and so much more, i only hope that i can give you everything you want.”

She looked deep in my eyes at me saying that, “All i ever want is you and goldy, my family, my friends, that’s all i need to be happy.” She said cuddling up to me, resting her head on my chest, purring slightly.

“I forgot you did that.” I said with a soft chuckle before staring at the stars for a little while. I then broke the silence with a mosty rhetorical question, “Still wondering how you knew that song though. Pinkie said it was the music of song”

“Pinkie told me about it, she didn’t tell me the words though, so she wasn’t entirely lying.” Shy said simply.

I laughed, “Of course she did, maybe I should marry her too.”

Shy pulled away and looked at me hard which caused me to stammer, “I-I’m kidding of course i would never and-”

“I wouldn’t mind if you did.” She said cutting me off.

“I… what?”

“I said, I wouldn’t mind. I know you have feelings for Pinkie too and herds aren’t illegal, not as popular sure, but no one would care.” he said so boldy and calmly, so un-Fluttershy like.

“I know that… i found out when i was training. I… are you serious.” I asked her, I was completely out of my element.

+Not like you would mind though. You know you’d love it.+ Ixis said, teasing me.

‘Hush, it's not if I would like it or not, it's up to Shy and even then I need to think about it.’ I told her, my thoughts not being n the right place right now as she should know.

“Of course I’m serious, I know it would make you happy. And I’m ok with sharing you as long as it's with Pinkie, and Golden Skies likes her and so do my parents and I’m sure our friends would be ok with it.” She said, but she wasn’t finished, “Besides, Pinkie doesn’t have anyone else, Her last coltriend left her, and she doesn’t let it show but the reason why she wanted to come along with us on his trip is because she wanted to get away from it for a bit.”

I didn’t really know what to say so i stayed quiet.

“She’s liked you from day one you know. She just isn't the kind of pony to pursue a relationship unless asked. She’s silly like that.” Shy said with a giggle.

I smiled, “Sounds a lot like you. But if you are serious I need time to think about it. This is kind of a shock to my system and I need time to adjust to that thought.”

“Of course, i’m not going to rush you.” She said with a yawn.

“Yeah, thank you, and i’m tired too, let's get going, I’m sure Pinkie can find her way home.” We got up and left the cloud, someone was going to come clean up our mess, i arranged it.

Shy and I got home, Dipper and Bee were still up downstairs waiting for us, we told them everything, and they agreed with Shy on the Pinkie thing and Bee was ecstatic about the ring but we were all tired so we made our way to our rooms to go to bed. Goldy was in her room already asleep, we stopped by and kissed her good night on the forehead i washed over he with some cold magic, trust me it helps our kind sleep, and then shy and I went to our own room. Pinkie came home later, drunk off her ass and accidentally stumbled in our room and passed out on the foot of the bed, we didn’t have the heart to send her to he room so we just gave her an extra pillow and blanket and went back to sleep.

Author's Notes:

So here's the most recent chapter... kinda. I stated this was a chapter where the first half, specifically when they get to the museum, was written 2 years ago. And Trust me I know about all the mistakes I made in previous chapters, I know about the mistakes in this chapter. I just have this problem with reading comments, I read some of them, I have a problem with criticism and I'm working on it. Starting next chapter since it will be the REAL start of me writing again I shall start reading every comment, maybe this chapter too. Anyways, i noticed something wrong with this chapter that i'll address next chapter, so enjoy this for now.

Yes, I'm putting a link to the Q&A blog in every author note, for those who stopped at mid points in the story, It's for reaching 25 chapters being written, even though 25 is still being written: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/831885/qs-for-the-qa-chapter