The Bonds of Sisterly Love

3:00 pm, The Walk back to Ponyville

I let Rainbow Dash, Gilda, and her sister trail behind so they could get to know eachother and catch up, I didn't feel like interupting a family moment, even though RD and Gilda are just friends, they seem almost like sisters. I washed off my fur at a nearby lake, I don't think anypony would appreciate a wolf covered in blood entering the somewhat 90% cheerful town. Then Gilda and her sister started to walk up to me...

"T-Thanks mister..." Mother of Gawd! Gilda's sister sounded just like Fluttershy, except the voice was a little raspy.

"Don't mention it... I mean don't tell anyone." I didn't want to attract any attention going into town, plus the fact that I just wasted an entire Bandit Group in less than 5 seconds, minus the leader of course.

"Don't feel sorry for those creeps, parading around, acting like hot stuff. Truth is, they hit helpless targets all the time, carriages, wagons, anything that's not armed, they'll take what they can and leave no survivors." Gilda was trying to make me feel better, it was working a little, "If anything, it's best they're gone now... Thanks, you really are a legend."

"I'm not..." I was quick to object... I noticed my voice turning harsh and cold... then tried changing the subject.

It started to snow, perfect.

"It's the first day of winter and it's already snowing," I tiled my head towards Gilda in my best Mike Myers impression, "D'you think they're compensating for something." Surprisingly she got the joke and giggled, apparently she's older than she let's on to be. I get up and dust myself off. I stick my paw out to Gilda's sister.

"I'm Aoi, we've never met. Well, Gilda and I have, but not you and I." She suddenly turned bright-eyed in reaction to my now charming demeanor.

"Chloe..." She took my paw in her claw and slowly shook. She was the very polar opposite of Gilda.

Rainbow Dash caught up and assumed I was finished with my mini-melodrama, then surprised me from behind.

"WOW! HOW'D YOU MOVE SO FAST!" 'Goat faint activate, BOOP' Chloe started giggling, Gilda lifted an eyebrow, confused. After snapping out of it I got back up and we all headed back to Ponyville, the snow building up along the way. I didn't really have to put on anything extra, nature took care of that for me, as for the others... not sure.

"So what are you going to do now Gilda? You've got Chloe back and everything's back to normal?" Gilda looked down at Chloe and Rainbow Dash.

"I think... I'll stay for a while, Ponyville... isn't so bad in the winter time..."

"You sure you want to stay in a town full of 'lame' ponies?" remembering what Rainbow Dash said.

"Hey man... I'm down with it, just as long as there are some cool peeps like you and Dashie here." Gilda winked at me. I raised my eyebrow. Wait, I'm back in Ponyville.

"FAHK!" I rush back to my house and barricade the door. THAT'S IT! I'm going into hibernation... wait, WOLVES DON'T HIBERNATE! DAMMIT! I hear a knock on my door.

"Hey, why'd you lock the door?" Rainbow Dash, Thank GAWD! I open the door a crack to let Rainbow Dash, Gilda, and Chloe in.

"... hush! SHE is watching..." by she I mean Fluttershy.

"Ohhhh...." Rainbow Dash whispered my predicament to Gilda.

"You see, on the last day of fall, Aoi's coat changes..."

"You don't have to whisper, I can hear you just fine." Wolf hearing FTW! Rainbow Dash continues.

"...from brown to white, and it becomes all super mega puffy whenever it's dry." Gilda's trying to keep a straight face so bad... "...and so..."

"...and so Until Spring,or whenever the hell my fur changes back, Fluttershy will have the eensy teensy, itty bitty GINORMOUS BUCKING URGE to SQUEEZE ME TO DEATH!" there ARE children in the room after all. Gilda simply cannot take it any longer and bursts into laughter.

"I'm doomed..." I say nonchalantly as I dump a giant bucket of freezing water on Gilda to make her shut up. She Immediately turns into an Ice statue.

General Rule of the Cartoon universe: When temperatures become cold enough around a character, they will literally turn into an Ice statue.

Rainbow Dash starts teasing Gilda...

"What's the matter, COLD enough for ya?" I facepaw and dump water on RD also. She turns into a statue with mouth in Grin position.

"That's why you don't tease people, Wait WHAT THE FAHK AM I SAYING!?" I take two tiny hammers and crack them out of stasis. Did I just PURPOSE to them? Meh... i decide to put on some tea.

General Rule of the Cartoon Universe: Exposure to TOO cold temperatures will actually cause a cold.

"PFFT, Who drinks tea?" both RD and Gilda refuse the tea, while Chloe seemed hesitant.

"I do, and trust me, it's better than that brown stuff that Celestia gets." I show them the tea, a soft light green with a light aroma. The decide to take a small sip. Instantly both of their cheeks become a cherry red and their eyes wide. They chug the rest of the tea and sigh as they place the tea cups back on the plates.

"What IS this stuff?!" Damn, I just converted two hardened individuals to the essence of tea.

Stubborness: 0

Culture: 1

"It's a blend from... Japony, I actually didn't think they still had it. It's mellow so it doesn't overtake your taste buds, but has an easy warm sweetness as you swallow, it's like a lighter version of hot chocolate without the milk. Which Reminds me, I also have some." i pour each of them a mug. Their reactions are priceless. Rainbow Dash actually FLUTTERS over the kitchen table, trying to swim in the air. Dafuq? Gilda Immediately Hugs Chloe softly as a Pink Bubble fog appears. Oh yeah... they like it.

"This... It... THE BEST!!!" How, I mean, wha... I mean..." Rainbow Dash Faints... speechless much? Gilda starts crying...

"It tastes like... Remember Chloe... when mom used to..." What she said made a lone memory come back.

==Aoi, 4 years old==

"But I don't want to drink tea!" I pouted, "I want chocolate!" Mom was very convincing when it came to get me to eat or drink something I didn't like, I liked hot chocolate because it tasted good when mom made it, the first time I had tea it was at a knock off Chinese place. Hence my dislike for tea.

"Now now, I'll make you some chocolate after you drink this tea. Trust me, it wll be the best hot chocolate you have ever had." with that I drank the tea, it was kind of good, better than that restaurant. But what surprised me was when i drank the hot chocolate afterwards. She was right, it was the same hot chocolate she made, same way she made it, but the taste came out extremely different: luxurious, velvety, creamy, yet dispersed when swallowed, no thick aftertaste, and most of all, satisfying. But this was the same hot chocolate, how could the flavor change? Mom explained when she say the look on my face.

"The secret is in the tea," no way that dumb tea could make this taste better, "the tea is light, soft, and hugs your tongue, it doesn't flood it with unfamiliar flavors, but what it does is make sweet things sweeter, rich things nicer, and together they make a perfect combination even though they don't seem like it...

==Present==

"I know... my mom used to make it for me too..." Gilda was surprised when she heard me say it. I stood up and looked out the window, Rear Window moment...

"You wanted to know why it tastes so good? Well, Rainbow Dash, it's just regular hot chocolate..." Rainbow Dash had a confused look on her face when I said it. She looked at the dregs of the mug to find no special ingredient or marshmallow, or anything like that.

"Well then how..." She looked at the wooden tea cup sitting on her plate... 2 + 2 = Bingo!

"You mean to tell me, drinking this tea makes hot chocolate taste better?" I pointed to a picture of Rainbow Dash swimming in air. She blushed with a wide grin and a *squeee*. I wonder if that happends with everypony, happened to me...

"But how does that even make sense?"

"Does it make sense that chocolate chip cookies taste better when dipped in cold milk?"

"I guess not..."

"It the same with most things, the most unlikely combinations make the greatest pair, yet are undiscovered simply because to others they seem... unlikely to happen." Oh yah, definitely Purposing to them, "take you and Fluttershy, for example, you're a loud mouth and Fluttershy barely talks-" I was interrupted by the Second Most Violent Anime kick ever to the back of my head, smashing me through the back wall. Someone give this mare a fuhkin blackbelt or something, GAWD! I stumble out of the wreckage and dust myself off... "*Cough cough* as I was SAYING *glaring at Rainbow Dash*, you go fast everywhere you go, yet Fluttershy stops to take in what life has, and yet noone would think you'd be best of friends. You get what I'm saying?" Rainbow Dash stops fuming for a second to think about what I just said.

"Well... you have got a point there..."

"Still doubtful? Think of what you know about Gilda, ask yourself, would Gilda ask me for help if it was for something trivial?" I had her there...

"Well no..." Rainbow Dash admitted it in front of her best friend.

"Gilda let me ask you something... A good quality of your sister would be she knows how to listen, am I right?" She nods, surprised that I knew this. I looked at Rainbow Dash and she started to fully understand.

"Now your probably wondering, what does this have to do with anything? Quite frankly I think was just rambling on about something, but what you dod with what I just told you is your own business, if you don't mind, I need to repair a big hole in my wall," The three of them laughed and just left, Rainbow Dash glancing back at me before closing the door, silently telling me she found my purpose...

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Dear Princess Celestia,

9001 bits say you and Luna have almost nothing in common.

The Only Child,

Aoi

P.S.: IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!

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