After Scar, Viper, Dolph and Lightning woke up more or less ten minutes later, the boys, Sweetie Belle, Love Tap, Applejack and Bloom went to their homes. The others decided to stay and chat for a while just to pass time, asking random questions and talking about what we did during the day. We were sitting on a circle with our best friends beside us, I with the Guardians, Lightning with the Elementals and Scootaloo with Rainbow and Pinkie.

Scootaloo was still a bit excited because of the fight, commenting on the moves and how the fight ended; she still didn’t believe on how many glyphs Lightning created or how easily Viper summoned Venorior. Yeah, that’s the snake’s name. Ten outta ten.

“That was so cool! Not as cool as Rainbow Dash, but still cool!” Scootaloo said with a big grin.

“Thanks!” Dolph and Lightning said while Scarlett nodded and Viper gave a small smile.

“I couldn’t do much with on the fight though.” Dolph huffed. “Your poison is a bit too strong for fights like this.” She pouted at Viper.

Viper frowned and looked away. “Sorry. I won’t use it next time.”

“Don’t worry about it. Besides, it’s pretty much a two-edged sword.” Scarlett waved dismissively. “But I have to admit that you had a quick thinking over there.” She nodded at Lightning.

“I’m happy I fought alongside you! You mirrored Aguion’s and Fairy’s strategic abilities and then domenated the fight after Scarlett was down!” Dolph said with a giggle, remembering what Scootaloo told her what happened after she was KO’d.

We stared at her blankly for a moment before facepalming. “First, my spell is called Reverse Glyph, not Mirror Glyph. Domenated didn’t suck as much, tho.” Lightning admitted with her hand still on her face.

I removed mine from my face. “Second, you don’t know how to pun. So stop acting like Sans; you’re failing miserably.” I deadpanned.

“I was acting like Toriel.” She said with a lifted finger.

Luna put a hand on her chin. “Now we know why your puns suck.”

We nodded in agreement and I groaned. “Toriel is my favorite character on the whole game, but ‘chairiel’? ‘Bonely’? At least Sans’ puns doesn’t feel so forced. Most of the time.”

We turned back to Dolph. “We’ll let this one pass. But seriously, stop.” Lobis said with a stern glare.

Dolph looked at every one of us before smirking. “Nope!” She said happily.

We all groaned. “Thought so.” Lobis said with a hand pinching the bridge between his eyes.

“Why are you so sad? Puns are funny!” Pinkie said with a big smile.

Moonlight deadpanned at her. “Try tolerating it all day, every day.”

“Yeah Pinkie, puns normally suck.” Rainbow said. “Pranks are much better in my opinion.” She said with a nod, gaining a look from Pinkie.

“I prefer stand-up myself.” I said and some of my family nodded in agreement.

“Hey Flora, Fairy said you’re one of the strongest here. That’s true?” Eclipse asked.

Half of my family shuddered and Flora blushed. “Y-Yes, I am… Even if I don’t really like to fight, my spells are very strong.”

“She’s our support. She cures and protects everyone, but depending on how she wants to act, she can be devastatingly strong.” Scarlett said.

“Think of Alistar. Or Zyra on this case. Depending of the build they can be super protectors or annoyingly bursty.” I commented.

“So you’re all one big family, huh? A few more and the Apples would feel threatened.” Rainbow said with a laugh.

We all chuckled a bit. “Well we’re not really a family per say.” Aguion said. “We’re just part of the same group. I’m only related to Lightning, Amber, Fairy and Scarlett, since they’re my sisters. And also to Niner, but that’s because she’s my girlfriend.”

“You almost sounded sad.” Draco said with a playful tone. “Dranitta is my sister and Dolph is my cousin. And Dranny is Amber’s girlfriend.” He said, ignoring Dranitta’s growl when he called her ‘Dranny’.

“Bella’s my sister and Metta’s my girlfriend.” Lobis said with a shrug.

“Twins!” Moonlight and Sunshine fist-bumped. “Even if we don’t look like it.” Moonlight added.

“Aside from Aguion, I’m not related to anyone here.” Niner said with a smile and hugged my brother.

“Not related to anyone.” Flora said.

“Me either.” Viper said quietly.

“Huh.” Rainbow blinked. “Didn’t see this coming.”

Bella and Metta both reached for the last bag of chips that was between us. No one was hungry, so we were ignoring it and chatting, but those two both wanted it. They reached the bag at the same time and glared at each other. Seeing as the stare contest was going nowhere, Bella growled and tried to pull the bag towards her, but Metta jumped at her, stopping a few inches before Bella’s face and hissing angrily. Bella released the bag and jumped behind Draco, whimpering.

Metta gave her a victorious grin and sat back at Lobis’ side, snuggling on him and opening the bag. Bella looked at her and whimpered again before glaring at the earth mare. “Bitch…” She growled, pointing a finger towards Metta.

“I love this nickname.” Metta sighed happily.

“Asshole.” Bella growled again, still pointing at Metta.

Metta frowned. “This one not so much.”

“You, you…!” Bella stammered before pointing angrily at Metta. “Nidalee!”

Metta crushed the chip she was holding, staring at Bella with a horrified look on her face before it changed to anger. “Hey!” She yelled, the bracelet on her wrist extending to her hands and forming sharp claws. “Everything has a limit!” She pointed at Bella, her claws glinting with the sunlight.

“Now, now, Metta.” Lobis said, putting a hand on his girlfriend’s shoulder. “Calm down.”

“Did you hear what she called me?!” Metta said to her boyfriend.

“Yes, just ignore it.” Lobis said. Metta turned back to her ‘enemy of the moment’ and hissed again. Lobis rolled his eyes and put his hand on Metta’s head, scratching gently behind her ear. Metta slowly calmed down and sat back down, snuggling in Lobis’ side and purring softly. “Now, share it with her.” He said. Metta looked up with a pout but obliged, offering the open bag to Bella. Bella grabbed a handful of chips and left Metta a little more than half of the bag. Metta started nibbling on her chip, her tail swishing behind her.

Spike, Eclipse, Sapph, Soul, Luna, Rainbow, Pinkie and Scootaloo all stared at the earth pony for a long moment before Luna finally decided to ask. “What the flying fuck just happened?”

“The kind of shit we have to put up with, day after day.” Scarlett and I said together with a heavy sigh.

“I have so many questions.” Spike said in disbelief.

“Poison joke.” Flora said with a finger pointing to the plant on her hair.

“And they’re all answered.” Spike concluded with a nod. “Aside from one; why Nidalee is an insult?”

“Metta’s a Miss Fortune main, and got stomped so hard by a Nidalee that she got traumatized.” I explained, remembering the match. No matter how good I am with Thresh, I could never protect Metta with my hooks; she ended the match with a 8/17/6 KDA and cried on a corned for half an hour. Spike nodded in understanding.

“Why do you have this thing on your hair in the first place?” Rainbow asked, eyeing the poison joke on Flora’s head.

“I got joked too. The effect is already permanent, so I’m immune to its effects. Also, this one is deactivated.” Flora explained.

Rainbow nodded. Pinkie jumped to Flora’s side and started to poke the flower, as if conferring it was deactivated. Flora closed her eyes and another poison joke appeared on her hair. She grabbed it and gave it to Pinkie, making her blink. “Is this what you’ve been joked?” Pinkie asked while cocking her head to the side and examining the flower.

“More or less… I was a Spirit-wielder when I was a child, but I loved the Nature and Plant elements much more than my own. One day when I was playing with Metta, we stepped on a poison joke field and I picked one for me since I never saw anything like it. The other day, plants started sprouting in every soil I stepped on and Metta was acting like she was a cat.

“Our parents tried to discover what happened with us; and when they discovered, we only had one day to the effect turn permanent, and the only one they knew could make a potion to it lived on the other side of the country. We couldn’t get there in time even if we went by the fastest train on the country, which didn’t pass on our birth city, Animallos.” Flora said, looking down. She looked back up to Pinkie and smiled. “The joke was having the element I wanted but with no control over it. Eventually I started controlling the plants I sprouted and Metta didn’t mind her joke one bit.”

“What can I say? I love cats.” Metta purred. “I might get one, eventually. I had one but she disappeared a few months ago.”

“Yeah. Kat-arina.” I deadpanned. “I’m surprised you’re not helping Dolph with her puns. And you don’t even play LoL all that much!” Metta threw her empty bag of chips on me and stuck her tongue before snuggling closer to Lobis.

“If I remember correctly, she saw that Kitty Katarina skin when it was released and fell in love with her.” Lobis said with a chuckle, still scratching Metta’s ear.

“Too bad she sucks as Katarina.” Draco said with a sigh.

“Leave that to the professionals.” Scarlett said, proud to call herself a Katarina main.

“You play too?” Eclipse asked Draco in surprise, forgetting that just the day before he said he played.

“I’m more of a console gamer, but I play sometimes.” Draco nodded. “I’m a main Jarvan IV.”

Eclipse nodded before looking at the others. He looked at Metta and Bella and snickered. “Heh, Bella is the one wearing a collar but Metta is the one acting like a pet.” Some of us sputtered and started to laugh.

Metta sat up and gave him a half-lidded gaze, a smile on her face. “I’m a pet in more ways than one, y’know? I could even show you~” She winked, making us laugh harder.

“And I’m out.” Scootaloo said and walked away. Poor kid, a small part of her soul burned with that sentence.

Eclipse blushed heavily and Luna fell backwards, tears streaming down her face. “I need an adult.” Eclipse said.

“I am an adult~” Metta purred, tracing a finger on Eclipse’s chest.

“And you’re too.” Spike said, gasping for breath.

“What you need is to stop being gay.” Luna said, wiping a tear off. “Seriously, after what happened last year I already started thinking you’re a coltcuddler.”

Eclipse deadpanned at her. “I’m not a virgin like Spike, y’know? I’ve slept with a girl before.” He said making Metta smile widen.

“Hey!” Spike grumbled.

I cocked my head to the side. “What happened last year?” I asked.

They both looked at me with nervous smiles on their faces. “Nothing!”

“Subtle.” Scarlett said with a half-lidded stare.

“You know we’ll discover eventually, right?” I said with a nod and the two started to sweat.

“Ok, stop. Let’s not make him more nervous than he already is.” Metta said before turning back to the zebra. “Now, you really don’t want me to sleep with you?” She asked with a pout and puppy dog eyes. A weird thing for a kitty mare to do.

Eclipse looked to Lobis. “Help?”

Lobis shrugged. “Your problem.”

Eclipse stared at Lobis. “She’s your girlfriend.”

Flames erupted around Lobis and he revealed his normal form. “And even if I’m a changeling, satiating a nymphomaniac is almost impossible alone.”

“And that’s another thing that the poison jokes made with us.” Flora said. “After a few years my hair turned into leaves and Metta started acting like she was always in heat.” She pulled the poison joke on her hair and the strands glowed pink before turning into green leaves. “Weird thing is that it didn’t happen with my tail.” She pointed to her tail, which was still hair.

Spike put his hand on my hair, feeling it. “I’ll never get used to that. Every time I look to your hair I swear it’s made of strands, but…” He pulled, plucking one feather. “It’s just really long feathers… Why’s that again?” He asked.

“Fuck if I know. My best bet is the spell my father used.” I shrugged.

Looks like nobody noticed us, because Eclipse was still looking at Flora before turning to Metta. “So you still have your heat periods but acts like you’re in heat all the time?” Eclipse asked and Metta cocked her head to her sides a few time as a ‘more-or-less’. He looked between her and Lobis. “Are you sure it’s ok?” He asked the changeling.

“She’ll make it up for me later, so yeah.” Lobis shrugged.

Eclipse looked back to the mare that was slowly crawling to his side. “Ok, sure.”

“Yes!” Metta shouted and threw a fist high into the air, making us chuckle. “What? I want to mate with every species that exist, and I never slept with a zebra.” She said with a shrug, but her smile never left her face.

“You fucked a naga once. I’m surprised you never did with a zebra.” Moonlight deadpanned.

“Well, not with a zebra guy…” She trailed off.

“Ok, it’s been fun, but nighttime is near and I need to get back to Canterlot before my sister decides to come retrieve me by my hair.” Luna said, getting up. “Bye, it was a pleasure to meet you all.” She said and teleported away as we waved.

“Better go home too.” Aguion grunted as he stood up. “Let’s go?”

We nodded and stood up. Rainbow took flight and waved to us before flying to her house. Pinkie waved too and jumped happily towards the city. We started to walk to our houses, Metta following Eclipse to his, and I smiled.

‘My friends are here and Luna only gets stuck on Canterlot on Sundays because of the court. Looks like living here will be way better than I first thought.'

Author's Notes:

I was worried I wouldn't be able to make a chapter with more than 2k words.

Then I decided to have a little fun with Metta's 'condition'.

This happened.

I'm sorry.

Put a little Brazilian joke while changing it so everyone can understand. Let's see if the BR HUE's can find it.