It was nearly 10pm as Twilight and I were out in my backyard finishing up a little animal sanctuary for Shy to have in the middle of town since the cottage was sold and all that.

Honestly it was strange Twi came over at around lunch time and asked if I needed help with anything, I told her I didn’t but she persisted and so here we are, building a large fenced in area in our backyard with different enclosures and fixtures so I can give Shy something back that she gave up for Goldy’s sake.

I wiped a bead of sweat off my brow, yes I still sweat, especially when it’s warm out and it was like 80 today ok? Anyways, I put down the large wooden post I was holding, happy with the progress I made today, “Alright Twiggy, I think that’ll do for today, it’s getting late and I for one can’t wait to take a nice cold shower and clean off. I bet you can’t wait to go back to the Castle and do the same.”

She made a small choking noise, “Are you sure this is it for tonight? I mean from the plans you have drawn up, it looks like there’s more to be done.”

I cracked my neck and nodded, “Yeah, I’m pretty much done for today, I’m actually further along thanks to your help so I’ll even take tomorrow off, maybe.”

Twilight laughed, “B-But! I mean… wouldn’t it be better to finish it as soon as possible, I mean I can stay and keep working while you go and rest, yeah, besides I’m not tired.” She let out a large yawn causing me to raise an eyebrow, “Force of habit?”

I shrugged, “Fine, knock yourself out Twiggy, just don’t be out here too late ok, don’t need the Princess of Friendship to collapse from exhaustion.” I patted her on the shoulder and made my way into the house to shower and go join Shy in bed.

I was woken up by a loud thumping noise coming from out back, I looked out the window to see it was still very much dark out and that Twilight was still out working by the light crystals outside of the house, “Jeez… what time is it?”

Ixis groaned in my head, +It feels like it’s 2 or 3 in the morning.+

“Seriously? She’s still out there?”

Shy stirred slightly, “You should go talk to her, that noise has been keeping me up all night.”

I nodded and scooted off the bed, making my way out back, “Twiggy, what are you still doing out here?” She didn’t answer so I moved closer to her and realized she was pounding a wooden stake so far into the ground that it was thumping against a large boulder that was buried several feet past where the post should’ve been stopped being buried.

“Twiggy?” Still no answer, I looked closer at her, her eyes glazed over and staring off into the forest. I shook her slightly, “Twiggy, you ok?”

She came too at my touch, “Huh? Oh… yeah… guess I most have zoned out.” She looked at the hole in the ground she made, “Oh my, did I do that?” I nodded, “Oh… I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine… I’ll just… fill it in tomorrow and replant that post.” I said looking around to see that she might have expanded on my plans by just a little, “...And I guess get more fence wire as well. Twiggy, go home and get some sleep, you’re clearly exhausted.”

She visibly tensed at that suggestion, “N-No I’m not, I’m perfectly fine.” She have me a wavering smile.

I sighed, I knew I wasn’t going to convince her, “Alright, well at least go and see Pinkie, I remember saying she would be up late trying out new pancake recipes for our get together tomorrow morning, maybe you can help her out. I just don’t want you out in the dark all night, ok?”

She nodded reluctantly, “Alright, are you still coming to the get together tomorrow?”

“Yeah, wouldn’t miss it for the world, I’ll see you tomorrow, good night Twiggy.” I headed back inside, waving her goodbye as she went to the front of the house from a gate leading to the back.

I flopped down in bed and promptly drifted off into a great slumber.

The next morning we were all sitting at the cutie map, using it as a table, as it was… technically a table, each one of use had a plate full of pancakes, mine were full of mangoes, lemon, and gems, it was heaven, “Pinks, these are the best pancakes you’ve made to date.”

She slammed her face into her pile, eating of them, leaving her face covered in whipped cream, which she eagerly licked off, “Thanks! Twilight spent all night helping me pick the right flavor. I thought I picked the perfect flavor but she insisted that I make more, and more and more and more.” She staked more pancakes on her pile with each more, “Eventually I just settled on something special and unique for each of you, I call it the friendship surprise! The surprise is that I lost the measuring spoon in the batter.” She ‘whispered’ to Rarity, “Someone is going to get a very special pancake!” She finished in a sing song voice, at which Rarity checked her pancakes.

“She was up all night huh? Is that why she’s covered in sticks and mud and sleeping sitting up?” Rainbow asked, pointing to our mutual friend, who was snoring.

“I don’t mean to sound unappreciative, but has anyone else noticed that Twilight has been a bit… too helpful recently?” Shy asked.

“Yeah, I love auntie Twilight, but she was at our home last night making noise until like 3 in the morning, helping daddy with his project!” Goldy said, Shy and I nodding in agreement.

“Now that ya mention it, the other day she was helping out at Sweet Apple Acres and stuck around near midnight, digging up over 50 apple tree planting holes when I only needed 10.” Aj explained on her end of things.

“She spent an entire afternoon rearranging a single gem drawer at the boutique! An entire afternoon!” Rarity added.

Rainbow said her peace as well, “You think that’s weird? She raced me 100 times yesterday and lost every time. Best out of 5, best out of 10, best out of 20, best out of 100! She just kept going, I mean I know hanging out with me is awesome but it seemed she’d rather keep going than-”

“Leave?” We all asked.

Rainbow nodded, “Yeah, I mean who does that?” Twilight face planted into her pancakes and cuddled them.

“Someone who’s trying to avoid something that’s who.” AJ said, looking at her skeptically.

“Indeed, I suppose we’ll have to ask her when she wakes up.” Rarity said.

I saw pinkie smack the edge of her plate and consume her huge stack of pancakes in one go, “Pinkie, be careful, you could choke on something.” And as if on cue, she did in fact start choking on something. AJ, proceeded to hit her back causing her to cough up the measuring spoon she lost, sending it flying at me, which I caught and raised an eyebrow at.

Pinkie smiled, “I win!”

Her little outburst woke Twilight up, a pancake hanging from her horn, “I’m pancake… I mean, awake.” She said groggily.

Rarity pulled the sticky sweet breakfast food off Twilight’s horn with her magic, “Darling, you know we love you and love having you around but lately it seems like you’ve been… avoiding something.”

Twilight’s eyes widened as she looked at us nodding in agreement, she let out an exhausted sigh, “I can’t hide anything from you all… to be honest… I’ve been avoiding this place.” She said looking up at the cavernous ceiling in the map room.

Rarity gasped, “Whatever for? This place is truly marvelous.”

Pinkie agreed, evident by her vigorous head shaking, “Yeah, the tall dark ceilings! The cold hard crystal floors! And the long empty hallways!” She said causing an echo to ring throughout the castle, “Ok, I get it.”

I tilted my head in thought, “But you’ve had this castle for little over a year Twiggy, why is it only now that you aren’t comfortable living here?”

Twilight shrugged, “I guess because I haven’t actually been in the castle for too long at any given time. I’ve had so much going on after the Tirek incident, then you came back and we went to your world, and then the whole Starlight Glimmer incident, I never had a chance to really think about how much this place doesn’t feel like a home.”

“That’s an easy fix, just decorate, make it feel like home.” Rarity said.

“I don’t even know where to start, it just so daunting.” She groaned out.

“You can start by letting us do it for you. We’ll make this the castle of your dreams while you go to the spa. I’m saying this with love, but have you seen yourself lately you look a little-” Rarity stalled thinking for a word.

“Frazzled?” Shy offered.

“Yes! That’s exactly what I was going to say!” Rarity said, giving a nod of thanks to the not so shy anymore pegasus.

“Well I guess I could use a day to relax… and I know you all will do a great job, after all you are the ones that know me the best.” Twilight said, giving finally to get some well need rest and relaxation.

“Just leave it to use sugarcube, we’ll have this place feeling like home in no time. We’ll even celebrate with some cider when you get back.” Aj told her.

Rainbow shot into the air, “There’ll be cider?!” At our looks she laughed nervously, “I mean, let’s get to decorating.”

Spike came in through the large double doors, wiping sleep from his eyes, “Oh no did I miss the pancakes?” He asked rushing to Twilight’s pile and grabbing some.

“Spike it’s a good thing you’re here!” I told my younger brother.

He looked at me confused, “It is?”

“Yep, you’re going to take Twilight on a spa day, she needs the help.” I said with a snicker.

Spike smiled as he scarfed down some pancakes, “Great, I’ve been meaning to get my claws done.” We all stared at him for a moment before he blinked, “Oh you mean right now? Alright fine, but I’m taking some of these.” He grabbed a plate from the table and took out the doors with him, Twilight following behind.

“Come on y'all we’ve got work to do!” AJ said, and a mandolin started playing.

Rainbow Dash started, “ Let’s all work together. To make this castle shi-i-ine.”

Rarity followed suit, “Once we add some sparkle. It'll feel, it'll feel, it'll feel…” The rest of the girls joined in, “It'll feel divine.”

Apple Jack was up next with her verse, “Crates of apples an' bales o' hay. Just makes ya feel at home”

I held up my hand, “AJ I don’t think-” But my words went unnoticed as Shy’s part started.

Fluttershy, “Furry friends and some popinjays. So she won't be alone.”

“That’s a sweet thought Shy, but I think stuffed animals would be more-” Once again I was cut off by the music going past my words, what sounded like a chorus, “And we'll make, and we'll make, and we'll make this castle a home!”

Before I could even think to say anything else Pinkie Started up, “There's nothing like balloons and confetti to greet you every time you walk through the door!”

“I don’t think neat freak Mc Orderly would enjoy that too much…” But once more I was cut off and with a groan I just decided to stay silent.

Rainbow Dash begin on her second part, “She'll need this and those. Posters of all my heroes, how could anypony awesome ever ask for more?”

At that I threw my hands up and walked out the castle leaving them to inevitably come to the conclusion I already had, “Daddy, where are you going?” I heard Goldy say behind me.

“Daddy is going to see Auntie Celestia and Luna, Grandma and Grandpa Velvet and Night Light, and Auntie Cadance and Uncle Shining armor.” I told her.

“Why?”

“Tell me sweetie, what did you noticed your mommies and aunties doing?” I asked my bright young daughter, hopefully the weird density of this world didn’t rub off on her.

“They were bring in stuff to make Auntie Twilight’s home feel more like home.” She said, confused why I’d even ask.

I nodded, “Yeah, but home for who? Twilight or themselves?”

At that Goldy had a revelation, “Ooooohhhh, I get it, yeah that’s silly.” She paused for a moment before continuing, “Is that why you weren’t singing with them daddy?”

I shook my head, “No, the music magic can over power anything and everything, it just means that that wasn’t a moment for us. You weren’t singing either silly.”

“You’re right I wasn’t so will we get our own music magic moment?” She asked, I shrugged, “Oh, so why are we going to see all of them?”

“Because who better to know what Twilight likes best, excluding her friends, other than her family?” I crouched down on one knee allowing goldy to climb on my back.

“That makes sense, so who are we going to first?” She asked, holding on to my horns as I stood up.

“Well since it’s on the way Grandma and Grandpa.” I told her, spreading my wings open and taking off, heading towards the residential area of Canterlot, once I spotted the Sparkle household I landed and let Goldy climb off my back.

I knocked on the door and waited patiently until the door creaked open revealing a gray unicorn that had purple and very very light gray mane, “Oh Christopher, it’s lovely to see you again.” Twilight Velvet looked down to see Goldy, “Oh and Golden Skies, come give your grandma a hug.” She looked up at me with a smile, while she hugged Goldy, “What do I owe the pleasure of having my 3rd son visit.”

I rubbed the back of my head, “Hi mom.” I saw Twilight Velvet and her Husband Night Light, quite often as they visited Shining armor in the Crystal Empire, mostly since Velvet was a historian and Night Light was an astronomer, so new area of the sky to study and new historical records. It didn’t help that her son and daughter in law happened to rule the new kingdom… so free pass to look at whatever they wanted.

During that time they met me and insisted that I called them mom and dad, and wouldn’t let me off calling them anything less, so it just kind of stuck. Huh… it just struck me, I guess I may have lost my family back on earth but I gained a new one here, and it just keeps growing.

“Well, one to just see how you and dad are doing and two it involves Twiggy.” I told her.

Velvet rolled her eyes but still had a smile on her face, “Of course it does, come on in you two I’ll go get Night Light and you can tell us what your sister did this time.” She moved out the way and let us in, I used my tail to close the door behind us.

Goldy and I made our way to the couch and waited for Velvet and Night Light to join us, they did a few moments later, Velvet with a tray of cookies and milk, tea for her and Night Light, Goldy went for a cookie and I gave her a look, to which she nodded and swallowed the cookie she just consumed, “Thank you Gramma Velvet.”

She smiled, “You’re welcome sweetie, so you’re here because our Twily, I’m guessing, is in trouble?”

I chuckled, grabbing a cookie myself, “In a sense.”

“She’s sad, not in trouble daddy.” Goldy said, correcting me.

Night Light looked at Goldy and then me, “What does she mean by she’s sad, son?”

I finished off my cookie quickly, “She’s not comfortable in the castle. She says it doesn’t feel like home.”

They nodded in understanding, “Ah, yes, she did send us letters talking to us about it, she said she was going to try decorating but never had the time. We’re guessing it finally got to her?” Night Light asked.

“ Heh, that’s an understatement she’s been avoiding that place like a plague unless we’re all there with her. We had a talk with her and convinced her to let us take care of decorating the castle while she goes to the spa to relax.”

Night Light choked on his cup of tea, Velvet patting his back and looking at us surprised, “Our Twilight, going to a spa?” I nodded, “she’s changed so much since she was the little filly who lived here.”

“I’m guessing that's a good thing?”

“It is, so if her friends are decorating the castle why are you here, instead of there?” She asked.

“Because they’re being silly.” Goldy explained, without really explaining anything.

“What she means.” I interjected, “Is that they’re decorating the castle with stuff that makes them comfortable, not Twilight.” I took a drink of milk and grabbed another cookie, “So, I decided to see her family, if her friends won’t figure that out fast enough, also good to have a back up plan.”

Velvet and Night Light nodded, “So, why did you come to us exactly, son?”

“I wanted to get a keepsake from each of you, maybe something that she loved as a filly that she left behind?” I asked hopefully.

Velvet’s eyes lit up happily, “I have just the thing!” Her horn flared up and she teleported away.

Night Light chuckled and his wife’s antics, “She went to grab the first book Twilight ever read and memorized front to back.” A second later Velvet reappeared with a decently thick and well worn book in her hands, and handed it to me.

I read the cover, “ 'Advanced Thaumological Mechanics and Formulae’, really?” I shrugged, “Well that’s definitely Twiggy, to a T.”

“It is, she loved that book when she was a filly, funnily she may have memorized it but she didn’t understand any of what the book was talking about until she read the previous editions.” Velvet said with a laugh, “I know she’ll loved to have it back.”

I stood up and tapped the book against my pocket crystal, it disappearing in a flash, “Thanks mom and dad, I’d love to stay but time is of the essence, I’ll promise to visit soon, I’ll bring Twilight and Spike with me next time.”

“Be sure that you do son, we’d love to see her.” Night Light said, walking us to the front door.

Goldy looked at the plate of unfinished cookies still at the table, Velvet caught her eye, “Go ahead Sweetie take as much as you like.”

Goldy looked up at me with big eyes, “Can I daddy? Please?”

“Of course, just don’t eat to much, you’ll spoil your dinner later.” I told her as she quickly scooped up a handful of cookies and made her way back, handing me her cookies to store in my pocket crystal.

“Where are you heading to next?” Night Light asked us.

“We’re off to see Celestia and Luna, we know Luna won’t have much to give us but Celestia definitely should.” I told them.

“That they should, well safe travels, and when you see Shining Armor and Cadance, tell them we said hi.” He said, I nodded, allowing Goldy to climb on my back again and we headed towards Canterlot Castle.

I landed on the balcony outside of the throne room, I heard noise coming from inside, oh right, I guess Celestia would be in court right now…

+Hmm, most likely, but she always did seem to enjoy interruptions to get out of it if only for a little while.+ Ixis said humming lightly.

‘True, well I suppose I could crash the party.’ WIth that I threw the balcony doors open, making everyone look in my direction, Goldy happily made her way up the throne steps, the guards doing nothing to stop her, wait are those? Yep, makes sense.

“Auntie Tia!” Goldy said happily, climbing onto Celestia’s lap, giving her a hug.

Celestia for her part giggled softly and hugged her back, “Hello, Golden Skies, how good it is to see you, but what are you doing here?”

She gave Celestia a big grin, “We’re here to see you and Auntie Lulu!”

“Oh, we?” She looked off to the side and saw me standing at the bottom of the stairs, then she looked out into the crowd, “Loyal subjects, welcome my nephew, Prince Christopher McGrath ad Regim Glacies.” At that the crowd gave out a resounding, “Welcome your highness.” and bowed. The guards stood to attention.

I laughed, “Hey, no need for that, but I’m going to have to freeze this court for a moment, go take a break everyone.” The guards couldn’t help but groan at the pun, especially the two at the very top. Despite this however, no one moved an inch and instead look to Celestia.

She gave them all a confused look, “What are you looking to me for? A prince of Equestria said that court is on break, so go have some coffee.” She said shooing the Nobles and some more common ponies out, a good chunk of the guard left as well, only leaving the two at the top, closest to Celestia.

“So Christopher what brings you and Golden Skies here?” Celestia asked, walking down the stairs and summoning up a table and some chairs for us to sit at.

“Well we came here to see you and Luna… so let’s wait for her to get here, in the meantime Lima, Sapper, get your sorry selves down here and talk to you friend.” I called to them, they looked to each other and nodded, making their way to the table and standing there at attention.

“Hello sir, it’s good to see you again.” Sapper said.

I groaned and clonked him on his helmet, causing it to ring, Lima laughed at that, “Oi, relax, no one else is here and I know for a fact that Celestia doesn’t care, do you Tia?”

She was paying with Goldy, but quickly looked at me, “Not at all, just act like I’m not even here.”

Sapper and Lima shrugged, taking off their helmets, and sitting at the table, “So how’s it been guys?” We sat for about 15 minutes waiting for Luna to show up and when she finally did she was half asleep as she stumbled to the table.

She sat down and had a cup of coffee brought to her, “You better have a good reason for waking us up Tia, we were having the most wonderful dream.”

“I’d say seeing me is a good reason, and how did she wake you up? She was right here the entire time.” I asked.

Celestia just giggled and Luna moaned in pain thinking about it, “Our prankster of a sister can shine the sun directly in your face if she knows your exact position, it's useful for waking important ponies up for the day. Or, at least, that's what she says.” She took a sip from her coffee mug that simply had ‘Best Princess.’ engraved on it, “And it is always wonderful to see you nephew, and you brought Golden skies along with you, it’s a pleasure to see her always.”

I looked at Celestia, “I knew it, I knew you shone the sun on my face in the mornings on purpose, how many others do you torture like that?”

She whistled and looked away, “I have no idea what you’re talking about Christopher, now why did you want to see us.”

I growled at her, blowing cold air in her direction, causing her to shiver slightly, “Don’t think you’re off the hook, you’re gonna get it this winter. Anyways, I came her because Twiggy needs help.”

The caught Celestia’s attention, “Twilight, what’s wrong with my former student?”

“She’s not happy living in her castle.” Goldy explained, “Said it doesn’t feel like home.”

“Ah yes, young Sparkle has been having recurring dreams about the Golden Oaks Library, her former home. We assumed she has been getting homesick.” Luna said.

I nodded, “Yeah, and the girls are currently ‘decorating’ to make her feel at home. But they aren’t really putting things that will make Twilight feel at home and-”

“Are instead putting things that would make themselves feel at home without realizing it?” Celestia finished, I gave her a look, “What? You think as a former wielder of the Elements I wouldn’t be able to see a friendship problem and the solution to it right away? Come now, I invented giving vague easy to solve problems, did Twilight ever tell you about the first Grand Galloping Gala they attended?”

I shook my head, Celestia just laughed, “Well I sent her 2 tickets, one for herself and one for her plus 1, when she had just gained 5 new friends, plus she had Spike as well, what would you have done if presented with such a problem?”

I pondered it for only a second, “Well my first option would be to give it to who’s been my friend the longest, so Spike. However I would realize I had 5 new friends I would want to take so I would asked you for 5 more so that they could come with me.”

Celestia nodded, “Exactly, what do you think Twilight did?”

“Freak out?” I asked.

“Essentially.” Luna said, “Young Sparkle asked her friends their reasons for wanting to go and decided that they were all good enough reasons to give them the extra ticket but needed some time to figure it out. During said time her new friends were doing favors for her nonstop, despite her numerous request for them to cease doing so. After several more attempts from her friends and then the Pink one getting the town involved she got fed up, sent my troll of a sister a letter essentially saying, ‘Fuck it, if I can’t take all my friends I don’t want to go at all.’” The night princess finished the story with a long drawn out drink of her coffee.

I looked at Celestia, “Are you serious? You did that just to teach her a lesson?”

Celestia looked hurt, “In my defense I expected her to figure it out immediately, however I must admit my former student does tend to overthink things, and her friends follow this trend as I gathered from their friendship reports, that I still get from time to time, would you like to see my favorite?”

I raised an eyebrow, “Sure?” She poofed in scroll and gave it to me, I opened it up and read it outloud, the hand writing clearly showing me it was Apple Jack who wrote this one, “Dear, Princess Celestia, I wanted to share my thoughts with ya… ahem… I DIDN’T LEARN ANYTHING!” Sapper, Lima, and I busted out laughed at that and after a few moments I caught my breath and continued, “I was right all along! If you take yer time to do things the right way yer work will speak for itself. Sure I could tell you I learned a lesson about how my friends are always there to help me and I can count on them no matter what. But, truth is, I know that already too.” I snorted and laughed even harder.

“H-Holy shit are you serious? She sent that?” Lima asked, nearly falling off her chair laughing. Sapper actually did fall off his chair and Luna just rolled her eyes.

Goldy just looked kind of confused but was having fun nonetheless, “Wow, that is 100% Apple Jack, no wonder that’s your favorite, there is no formality or humility just gloating and hilarity”

Celestia nodded, “Indeed, so they’re not realizing a simple solution to a simple problem? Nothing new, so what did you need from us?”

I shook my head, “Well I was hoping you could give me something from the past that Twilight would like, something she left behind but was proud of or loved?”

Celestia thought for a moment before smiling, “I have just the thing.” Her horn lit up and a picture frame with something in it appeared next to her, “This is the first test Twilight aced as my personal student, the day she did she was so happy, she couldn’t stop hopping in circles around me until I took her out for ice cream.” and she also brought in a large bundle of scrolls, “And these are every friendship report I’ve ever gotten, I think she’ll enjoy having them.”

I took and looked at it and then at her, “Are you sure Tia, this is a sentimental thing for you as well.”

She nodded, “It’s quite alright, I made copies, however, those are the original.”

“Well thank you, I know she’ll love this. Luna do you have anything?” I asked my dark furred aunt.

She thought for a moment, “Nothing that pertains to her, however we do have something from our first real moment together as friends.” Her horn glowed dark blue before a small plush spider poofed into existence, “This is from our time in Ponyville during nightmare night. It is where we learned that not everyone was afraid of us and some chose to be afraid for fun, not because they hate us.” She said looking at the stuffed spider happily, before handing it to Goldy, who squeed and hugged it tightly.

“Luna… thank you.” I said.

“It isn’t a problem dear Nephew, now would you mind telling us what you have planned fully?” She asked.

I stayed silent before telling them, they said it was a good idea and wished me safe travels, once more Goldy was on my back and we were heading to the Crystal Empire, “Hey daddy, what’s the Crystal Empire like?”

I thought about it for a second, “It’s stunning, your auntie Rarity would say it’s the most beautiful thing she’s seen. It’s also freezing outside of the shield that protects the city.”

“Is it cold for you?”

I laughed, “Of course not, we’re ice dragons Goldy, that place was actually our home back when more of us were alive, now it’s just me and you.”

“Oh… will there ever be more?” She asked.

“Only if I give you a little brother or sister or if you have a daughter or son.” I told her, “But something really cool about the Crystal Empire, as an Ice Dragon or I guess an Ice Kirin, in your case, we’re much stronger there, I bet you could even do some of my stronger magic while we’re there.”

“Really?” She asked excitedly, “I could even do the Ice Dragon’s Roar?”

I chuckled, “You probably could, but I wouldn’t risk it, your mother would kill me if you got hurt, but hold on tight, I’m going to pick up the pace.” I felt her hold on to my horns tighter and I made for the Crystal Empire and made it there within the hour, When we arrived I was greeted to a fan fare. I sighed as I covered Goldy’s ears, to protect them from the loud noise.

“Really guys? How many times have I told you to not do that?” I asked the Crystal Guards, uncovering Goldy’s ears.

The commander of the troop that was outside of the palace saluted, “Sorry your majesty, it is by order of your sister.”

I groaned, “I know, I’m not mad just… annoyed, you’re free to return to your duties, actually before you go, is court being held?”

“No sir, it ended just over 10 minutes ago.” The commander said.

“Thank you commander, on your way.” I took Goldy’s hand, “Come on, let’s go see your Aunt and Uncle.”

As we made our way through the castle, guards stopped and saluted and maids and various other servants bowed, giggled, or murmured amongst themselves. It was something that they did ever since Sombra’s defeat, in fact there was a statue of Spike and I out in the center of the city, it was kind of overkill but it made the citizens happy.

+And happy citizens means a powered Crystal Heart, which means a safe city.+ Ixis said in monotone, followed by a sigh, +I love Cadance as much as you do, but she drilled that into our head hard.+

I just snorted as we made our way to Cadance’s personal chambers, it’s where she went whenever court was over. The guards saw me and moved aside, standing to attention, “At ease fellas.” Of course they didn’t but I think it’s just nice for them to know they can relax if they want. I knocked on the door and waited for Cadance to tell us it was ok to come in.

“You may come in.” She said from her room.

Goldy looked up at me, expectantly, I nodded and she opened the door and ran inside, tackling her aunt, completely catch her off guard and knocking her out of her seat, onto the ground, “Auntie Caddy!”

“Golden Skies? Wait if you’re here then?” She looked up and saw me standing in the doorway, a shit eating grin plastered on my face, “Chris!”

“Hey sissy, how’d you like my cuddle missile?”

“I loved it, she’s adorable and exactly what I needed.” She said, happily nuzzling her niece, causing Goldy to purr happily.

I shrugged and shook my head in defeat, “Well that plan backfired, hard day at court?” I asked joining them on the floor.

She moaned out, “You have no idea.”

“Eeehhhh, I have some idea, I did handle court some days remember?” I reminded her.

“Right you did.” She sat up, “So what brings my little brother back home?”

“Well, I’d tell you but I’m already repeating myself today so I’d rather wait till Shinny gets here. If you don’t mind calling for him?” I asked.

She gave me a straight look, “You could’ve asked any of the guards on the way up here.”

I shrugged. “Didn’t cross my mind.”

“Of course it didn’t, Private Clear, call for my husband please!” She said to one of the guards outside her room.

“Yes your majesty, right away!” He said, quickly going to find him.

We waited for close to an hour, and like back at Canterlot we just caught up and talked until Shining Armor showed up, “You called for me Honey Bun?” Shining said in a seductive voice outside the door.

Cadance was about to say something but I shushed her, “I sure did big boy!” I said in my best impersonation of Cadance, which sounded like a needle being dragged against a chalkboard.

“Are you ok Caddy? You don’t sound right?”

“Oh I’m fine, I just feel a bit sick, I could use some love to make me feel better.” I said back.

At that he opened the door and saw us on the floor, Goldy and Cadance holding in their giggles, and I was just looking at him with a wide grin, “Hey big boy, what took you so long?”

He face palmed, “Celestia… help me. How do I always fall for that?”

I shrugged, “Dude I don’t know, you think more with your lance than with your head.”

At that Cadance fell back in full guffaws, taking deep breaths in between, “He…. He… Does… it’s…. Adora-adorable! HAHAHAHAHAH!”

Goldy didn’t fully understand what was going on but she knew that her uncle was embarrassed and found it hilarious so she was laughing too.

Shining blushed, which was easy to see against his white fur, “Really Cadance? You have to throw me under like that?”

She was still laughing too hard to respond properly until she started cough, forcing her to catch her breath and calm down, “I’m sorry, Honey, You know I love you.”

He smiled and walked over to her, giving her a kiss, “I love you too, and how’s my favorite niece doing?” He asked ruffling her hair.

Goldy giggled, “I’m your only niece Uncle Shiny!”

“You’re still my favorite though. So why are you here?” He asked me.

“Your sister, she’s kinda feeling home sick.” I told them.

Shining cocked his head at that, “Homesick? Can’t she visit Canterlot?”

I shook my head, “Not that kind of homesick, homesick in the fact that her old home got blasted apart by a demonic minotaur that your wife and aunts cockblocked from their magic.”

“Ooooh, that kind of homesick.”

“Yeah, and the girls are kind of being dumb right now.”

“Dumb how?” Cadance asked.

“They’re making the castle feel like their homes and not auntie Twilights.” Goldy explained once more.

“Oh… that kind of dumb, Friendship Lesson Dumb. We’ve all suffered from it at one point or another.” Cadance said, solemnly, Shining nodding in agreement.

I looked at them, bewildered, “Wait what, you have a term for it?”

“Yep, it's weird in hindsight we can see how easy the solution was and for us not directly involved in the friendship problem we can also see how easy the solution is.” Shining explained.

“Oh my god, am I going to be caught up in it at some point? I know music magic effects me, will this?” I asked in a legit panic.

Cadance shrugged, “You won’t know until after it happens.”

I groaned, “Greeeeat….” I took a deep breath, “Well I’m here for a reason I need something that Twilight loves deeply that she either left behind or forgot about.”

As soon as I finished that Cadance and Shining looked at one another, “Smarty Pants?” She asked him.

“Smarty Pants.” He agreed.

They both looked at me, “Smarty Pants.”

“You mean her doll?” I asked and then looked at Goldy, “Doesn’t Big Mac have her?”

“Yep, Applebloom told me he keeps it on a shelf in his room.” Goldy said with a giggle.

“Oh that isn’t a problem, Shinny and I can make another no problem. Twily, when she was a filly, lost Smarty Pants all the time, so we got really good at creating duplicates.” Cadance explain.

“Oh, well, that will work.” I said, this was a much easier trip overall than expected.

“Well we’ll have it ready for you soon, why don’t you go see if you left anything behind in your old room.”

“Can I stay here with Auntie Cadance?” Goldy asked me.

“Of course you can, you rarely see her spend some time with her.” I looked to Cadance, “If you need me, you know where I’ll be.”

I left them to what they needed to do and made my way to the room I stayed in while I was here, once I was inside I looked around, exactly how I left it, “Oh hey there’s my old journal!” I walked over to it and picked it up, I sat on the edge of the bed, and cracked it open, flipping to a random page, reading it over.

+Oh man, I forgot how bad this was.+ Ixis said, her cringing evident by her voice.

“You’re telling me, man my first several months in Equestria suuuuucked, but that was my own fault, I was so stuck in my depression and angst it just… over powered everything. I’m glad they made me confront my past, and I’m glad I met Cadance.”

+I am too, due to it we were able to lock Wrath away and finally give you some peace of mind. You’ve come a long way Chris. I’m proud of you.+

I smiled at that, “Thank you Ixis, you know I still have my doubts.”

+You always will, but we’ll work on it together.+

“You’re right we will, how about we look around some more, I wonder if that’s still here.” I rummaged around my old room for a while finding a lot of things I forgot I had, some souvenirs I got from the Empire I was going to give to the girls. I found the first sword I properly trained with, it was an old saber, the blade was dinged, dented, and bent in odd places, I practiced a lot sue me. I was told by Lima to go and get it repaired all the time but I liked the history it held and besides once I got a better handle on my ice sword it’s what I primarily used.

That's when a thought struck me, an item I long forgot, I wonder if it’s still here. I made my way to the wall opposite of the door and punched a hole in it, the crystal turning to dust around my fist. I felt around until I felt a soft fabric brush across my fingers and I quickly grasped at it, pulling it out of the hole. Once my arm and the item were freely out of the wall, it sealed itself back up, the empire, especially the castle has minor self repair abilities and huge damage, like the fight I had with Sombra takes intervention from the citizens.

I unfolded the fabric I had in in my hands, it was my very first ever cloak, it was midnight blue with swirling white accents that constantly moved across its surface. I loved it but I needed something that represented I was aligned with at least cadance so, the cloak that was made in her colors and donned her cutie mark is what I had to wear on my travels.

Luckily for me, all the cloaks I had had size altering properties imbued in them so just in case one of my… icesplosions caused me to grow to massive., “Good, now I can give this to Goldy, it should shrink to fit her…” I shrugged, well I guess we’ll find out.

As I was caught in my musings a heard a knock at my door, “Enter!” The door opened, a guard standing in the way, “Sir, Princess Cadance and Prince Shining Armor have asked for your audience.”

I nodded, “Thanks, I’m guessing they’re still in their room?”

“Correct sir, would you like me to escort you?”

“No, I’ll be fine, I lived here long enough to know where to go, but thank you. You can return to your post.” I told the crystal guard, he saluted and resumed his patrol down the hallway. I left the room, it completely empty of contents, as I stored everything away and made my way back towards Cadance’s room, as I got closer my ears twitched as I heard giggling come from behind the door. I smirked, I hope they weren’t planning something.

I tentatively reached for the doorknob and opened the door slowly, ready for the impact of something, anything, but nothing came, instead I saw Cadance, Shining, and Goldy sitting on the bed playing with Smarty Pants. I let out a sigh of relief, cool, “Well looks like you got it don and ready.” they looked up at my interruption, Shining quickly standing up, his face a deep crimson.

Goldy got up and ran over to me, holding Smarty Pants up to me, “Look daddy, She looks brand new and old at the same time! It’s so silly.”

I gently rubbed her head between her horns, “It is silly isn’t and hey guess what, I have something for you.” I pulled out my cloak from the gem and we swapped items, I put the doll in the gem.

Goldy took the cloak and opened it, a frown on her face, “Daddy… this is too big.”

I chuckled, “Put it on, trust me, it’ll fit.”

She looked at me skeptically but did as was told and as soon as she clipped it around her neck it shrunk to fit her form perfectly, she looked down at herself and smiled, “Now I look like you! My wings are too small to wrap them around me, but now i don’t have to!” She demonstrated, her tiny wings barely tenting the cloak.

“Yep, and when they get big and strong you won’t have to use it if you don’t want to. But are you ready to go?”

She looked back at Cadance and Shining and then looked back at me, pouting, “Do we have to?”

“Unfortunately, we have a mission to finish, but… I suppose you can always come and visit whenever you want, but that’s up to your Aunt and Uncle.” I said, looking at my adoptive sister and brother in law.

Cadance beamed at that, “We’d love to have her around, especially if you and Fluttershy need a break.”

I smiled in relief at that, “Thanks, I’ll be sure to let you know in advance, oh, also Mom and Dad say hi, and that they’ll visit when they can.”

Shining groaned and Cadance rolled her eyes but never lost her smile, “I swear those two can’t be away from any of their children for long.”

I shrugged, “Can you blame them? All of their children, in laws or not are super successful and doing well, they’re proud and just want to see us.” I looked down at Goldy, she was staring at her cloak, fascinated by the swirling pattern, “I know I would. Well, we have to get going, it’s getting late and by now I’m sure the others figured out what they needed to do.”

Cadance got up to hug me and gave me a kiss on the cheek, “Come back soon, I miss having my little brother around, ok?”

“I will I promise.” I broke away from the hug and fist bump Shining Armor, “I’ll see you two in a couple of months. Come on, Goldy, let’s go and finish my plan.” I took her hand and left the room, closing the door behind us, once it was closed I heard Cadance speaking and it was followed by a quick yelp from Shining, I shook my head and laughed.

As I was flying through the air with Goldy on my back, her cloak fluttering in the wind, we were getting closer and closer to Ponyville and it looked like the girls were walking through town holding what looked to be shovels and a wheel barrel? What were they planning?

I told Goldy to hold on and swooped down, speeding towards the ground before flaring out my wings, stopping my decent hard, kicking up dust and dirty before gently Landing in front of them.

They were coughing, mostly because of the dust, which was fair, Goldy climbed off my back. Instead of waiting for the dust to settle I flapped my wings hard, blowing the dust away from everyone, getting screams of surprise.

“Really, darling, must you be so callous in how you treat us?” Rarity asked, giving me a stern look.

I shrugged, “A bit of dust and wind isn’t going to hurt you, so what’re all y'all doing? I’m guessing you finally realized you all were being kind of… silly?”

They all blushed at that, “Yes, well, we did realize our mistake and had our items removed from the Castle.” Rarity confirmed.

“Good, but that doesn’t explain why you all are carrying shovels and a wheelbarrow… wait did Twilight kill someone and you all are helping her hide the body?” They all were looking at me like I just killed their family pets.

Until Pinkie snorted in amused, “No silly, Twilight would be able to just poof the body away, she wouldn’t need out help.” I nodded, she made a fair point, but everyone else was now looking at Pinkie in surprise.

“Ya know… I’m not sure who’s rubbing off on who here…” AJ said, slightly disturbed.

“I’m not sure if I want know.” Rainbow agreed.

“But at least you two are good for each other.” Rarity said, shaking her head, “Now, we are not helping Twilight cover up a grizzly crime, or anything of the sort, we’re going to the remains of the old library.”

I raised an eyebrow at that, “Oh? We were too, mind if we tag along?” They had no objections, so we joined up with the group, Goldy running to Shy and Pinkie, I followed her.

As we got to the old library, we stood face to face with a tree that was 70% missing from its original structure and what was left was nothing but a charred trunk with the roots still in tact and a few spindly branches. I quickly scanned said branches, looking for what I needed, and lucky there was one still there, I quickly flew up and grabbed it before rejoining the others.

“So, why did you all come here exactly?” I asked.

“That’s a marvelous question, truly I don’t know, but we all agreed that the library is what we needed to make Twilight feel at home.” Rarity explained.

“Well that’s true, I had the same train of thought, but I knew what I was going to do, you all have barely anytime at all… hmmm.” Rarity and I thought for a moment before we both exclaimed at the same time, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” I asked the alabaster unicorn.

“Indeed darling, do you think you can help Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash here while your Fiancees, daughter, and I take care of the rest?” She asked me

“Of course. You go do what you have to, you need as much time as you can get.” I told her, her nodding in approval, taking my family with her to do what she needs to.

“So uh… what was that about?” AJ asked me.

I looked at the tree, but respond to the farm pony, “She’ll tell you when we get the tree to the castle.”

“Wait the whole tree?! I thought we were talking like a piece of it or something.” Rainbow said.

“We are. Just the roots, pretty sure they’re dead after the attack Tirek did, I’m amazed they stayed this level of fresh for a year. They are dead right AJ?”

Apple Jack touched the ground, feeling the earth with her magic, “Yep, as dead as can be, but how are we gonna lug tha roots of tha tree all the way to the Castle, tha wheelbarrow ain’t big enough for that, ‘sides we’d have ta get rid of tha top half of tha tree.”

I smirked, “leave both of those issues to me.” I calmed my breath and gathered my magic power, slowly but sure I concentrated it into the forefinger of my wings and down off the tips, slowly razor sharp ice formed over them. Once the ice was done forming I opened my eyes before quickly dasking at and past the tree, skidding to a halt on the other side, “Ice dragon’s wing blades.” I said, as the ice shattered on my wings and slowly the top half of the tree slid off and fell over onto the ground.

Rainbow looked dumbfounded, “Woah… that’s just like in those action movies!”

I made my way back to the tree, “Whoo that took more out of me than I thought, it was my first time using ice on my wings. Alright, Rainbow enough gawking, I need you and AJ to start digging on that side, I want to leave as many roots intact as possible.”

“Alright, just tell us when to stop sugarcube.” AJ said as here and Dash grabbed their shovels and started digging.

I dug my hands into the ground and under the tree, grabbing it where I could, I formed ice claws that pierced into it to give me a better grip, after a few minutes of them digging a felt the soil loosen on my side and the tree slightly budged, “Alright that's enough!” I called out to them, “You might want to move out of the way!” They did as they were told and with a grunt I lifted the stump that was left and the roots, cleanly out of the ground, “Alright, now….” I tossed the roots up in the air easily, mostly so I could dig around in my pockets for my spare storage gem.

AJ looked up at the tree in the air, “Woah nelly… did ya reckon he was that strong?” She asked her rival.

“No way! I didn’t think anyone was that strong.” Dash said, following the roots as the sailed higher and higher into the sky.

I heard this conversation barley, as my concentration was on finding that gem, “Come on… where did I put it…” I found a slight smaller blue gem that hummed with power, “Aha, there you are. Now…” I looked up at the roots as they reached their zenith, I don’t know how many feet they were up but they looked like a speck in the sky, “Ah… might have put too much oomph into that.” I shrugged and chucked the gem towards them, a few seconds there was a bright flash as the roots were absorbed and a second flash as it teleported back to my hand, “I knew that spell being put in there would be useful.” I smiled happily, “Now I can have them apply it to the others.” I handed the gem to AJ, “Here ya go, get that back to the library, double tap it, the roots should pop out, now I gotta finish up what I have to do, I’ll see you all back at the Castle.” With that I took off, not before breaking off a section of the tree that was left behind.

I rushed through the doors of the castle, “Am I late?” I asked, looking around, noticing that Twilight and Spike weren’t around, “Oh good.” I breathed a sigh of relief before the front doors were opened again.

This time it was Twilight standing there, “Welcome home!” We all greeted her.

She walked passed us looking a bit disappointed, “I love what you’ve… uh done with the place, you kept it’s integral design.”

Spike gave out an exasperated sigh, “Oh come on! Do you know what I had to do to keep her from coming back here? I never want to see another dust ruffle as long as I live!”

That caught Twilight’s attention, “Wait, keep me from coming back here?”

Rarity let out a nervous giggle, “It took a teensy bit longer than we thought.”

I rolled my eyes, “Only because you all were being dumb.”

Twilight looked at me, clearly confused, “What?”

“I’ll let them explain.” I said, “Since they finally figured it out.”

AJ gave me a glare, which I shrugged off, and took off her hat, “What really makes a home feel like a home, isn’t what it looks like, it’s the memories you make when you’re there.”

“So we made something that celebrates the memories we’ve made with you since you moved to Ponyville.” Rarity added.

I sighed, “Essentially they all brought stuff that would make them feel at home instead of you and it took them too long to figure it out.” I finished, “Come on, it’d be better if we showed you.”

We made our way to the map room/throne room. There hanging on the ceiling, above the map were the sanded down, polished roots of Golden Oak Library. Each root had strings of multicolored gems hanging from them, they glowed each with their own light, filling up the dark empty ceiling and bringing warmth into the room.

Shy flew up to them, “The ornaments on the chandelier are reminders of all the fun we’ve had together.”

Pinkie grabbed a low hanging orange one, “This one shows your first party welcoming you to Ponyville

Shy flew up to a light blue one, “The time we shared donuts after the grand galloping gala.”

“We were hoping being able to look at your beautiful old memories would inspire you to make new ones.” Rarity explained

“And the best part of it is it’s made from the roots of the golden oak library. So you’ll never forget where you came from.”AJ said,

Twilight just stared at it, slack jawed, moving closer, she took a few crystals in hand and looked at the memories within them, “It’s exactly what the castle needed.” She said, turning to us, tears in her eyes. She rushed in to a group hug, “And I am ready to make new memories here!”

“Then let’s start right now with a new memory cake!” Pinkie said excitedly.

Twilight chuckled, “Well let’s go to the dining room, it’s a little sparse but at least there's tables and chairs… that aren’t the map.” She said opening the doors that lead directly to the dining room, “Whoa! What happened in here?” She asked.

I leaned in past everyone, the dining room was decked out wall to wall in some of the fanciest decorations, and there was a statue of a unicorn on the table… what?

“Last I checked this place was empty.” Twilight said confused.

“I-I couldn’t help myself. It was just begging for the personal touch.” Rarity admitted with a small smile.

“Truth be told, I couldn’t either. Your kitchen might have some rustic farm decor, Twilight.” AJ said.

Rainbow spoke up next, “And there may or may not be some Daring Do posters up in in your library.” She shrugged.

“And some stuffed animals in your bedroom!” Shy added, only for a loud pop to be heard and confetti was blown everywhere.

“What was that?” Twilight asked.

I laughed, “One of Pinks’ confetti cannons.”

She looked at them innocently, a cannon poking out of her hair, the cake destroyed, “What? it’s not my fault I hid them so well!”

“What about you Chris? Did you leave anything in the castle for me?” Twilight asked.

“Eh, no. That was all them, I’m glad they toned it down though. I was out and about doing my own thing all day. Well Goldy and I were.” I added, my daughter nodding happily.

“Oh? And that was?”

I smiled, “Come on, I’ll show you.” I lead them all to the spot where Golden Oaks used to be, luckily the sun was still setting so there was enough light left to do this.

What was left of the spot was what looked like freshly laid soil, and sheets covering somethings. Everyone looked around confused, “Well here we are, my gift to you to make you feel more…. Ok with the castle.”

“Uh… not to be a spoilsport but there's nothing here Chrissy.” Pinkie said.

I smiled, “Oh there’s something here alright, come come.” I lead them to the center of the darker dirt, “AJ, Pinkie, Twilight, You all need to put your hands to the ground and focus your earth pony magic, everyone else, put your hands on top of their and concentrate your magics.”

“Iffin’ ya say so. Come on Pinkie, Twi, let’s see what this does.” AJ said, the other two followed.

“Alright now everyone else.” They all placed their hands on top of the other, and finally I placed mine on top of theirs, once my magic flowed through them, they shuddered as my magic signature, next to Twilight’s was the strongest, but it didn’t actually overpower them.

It took a few minutes for anything to happen but the ground started rumbling and everyone moved back quickly, the rumbling growing more intense, until something pushed its way out of the ground.

Slowly an oak sapling pushed its way out of the ground a majority of its leaves being green however, there was at least one leaf that was the color of each of our unique magic signatures, it stopped growing when it was slightly taller than me, it’s growth having been super charged by all of the magic flowing into the seed in the ground.

Twilight was shocked, and looked at the sapling, “I-Is that?”

I nodded, “Yep, it’ll still take many years until it reaches it’s parent’s size if not outgrowing it.” I walked over to one of the sheets, “But until then.” I removed it said sheet, “This is the future sight of Harmony Oaks.” I walked over to the other sheet and removed it, showing a huge pile of keepsakes and items. The major ones being the book her parents gave me, the reports and test Celestia gave me, the spider plush toy Luna gave me, and Smarty Pants.

Followed by items from the girls that their family’s or house residents gave m or I found, in terms of Shy. One of the trophies Rainbow was going to put in the Castle, a few of Rarity's old dresses for Twilight, AJ’s very first hat when she was younger, the first party cannon Pinkie ever made, Shy’s first stuffed animal thats she stored in the attic, Spike’s first comic, and one thing from everyone else in the town. “These are items from everyone in town, I kinda had to raid some of your houses girls sorry, but I made sure it wouldn’t be anything you’d really miss. But everyone wanted to contribute to this when they saw me running around town getting the sign made and asking for items for the girls they all pitched in. It’s kinda why I was late.”

“But there is one thing missing, something from Goldy and I, come here small one.” I called my daughter over, holding out my hand, “Place your hand over mine, like you’re cupping water.” She did as I instructed, “Good, now concentrate, we’re going to make this for you Aunt, it’ll be your first construct of ice with me, we’ll be making a star, like her cutie mark, all you have to do is invision and push your magic into your hand and it’ll start to form.”

She nodded and closed her eyes, “Ok daddy, I’m imagining it.”

“Good, now push your magic to your hand.” I did so as well, the air around us cooling rapidly, slowly but sure our magic swirled together slowly forming a star in the shape of Twilight’s cutie mark started to form in our hands, I noticed something, Goldy’s ice had a more purple hue to it than mine did so the star was formed a mix of blue ice and purple ice. Luckily I made sure it would never melt. Once it was fully formed I placed it on the pile, “For our shining star.” I said.

I turned to Twilight who was crying silent tears, the girls hugging them, “You know, none of us would be here without you. If you didn’t make friends with the girls I would never have met Shy or Pinkie. I wouldn’t have met AJ, Rarity, or Rainbow Dash.” I placed my hand on her shoulder and gave her a warm smile, “I wouldn’t have a family if not for you Twilight. Sure I still probably would’ve came to Equestria but without you Equestria wouldn’t be how it is today to allow me to have my family.” I pulled her into a hug before holding her at arm's length, “Thank you for this Twilight, for giving me a chance to start over. I thought I’d return the favor and give the tree, the place you learned to love and call home a chance to start over, and now… we’ll always be apart of it. If I’m not mistaken due to the infused magic, nothing short of the world being engulfed by the sun would destroy it.”

Twilight dropped to her knees suddenly, tears flowing more than they were before, she around at the girls and then landed on me, “Thank you, everyone… I don’t know what to say, this is… this is perfect. Today has been perfect.”

We all remained silent at that but just joined her sitting on the ground as the sun slowly set over the horizon, the end of the day, and the start of the next chapter.

Author's Notes:

Sorry about this chapter taking so long to come out, It's been written for a about 3 weeks, like I said I'm several chapters ahead, however for those who read these, you all know my kid was supposed to be born today so I've been dealing with that and what comes along with it for the past couple of weeks. However, he's still not here yet, so I'm going to give you this chapter today and the next one tomorrow and I might Have to go on hiatus for the next Arc, after all baby needs tending to. I will try to get chapters out though.

Anyways, I'm sure most of you caught on that this chapter was inspired by something, for those who don't know, this is what it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2F6OKQu4JI

So enjoy that, I'll see ya'll tomorrow.