‘Now, how should I start my night...With some Infected Mushroom of course.’ Merry puts on his favorite song 1st and puts in his earbuds. With an added bounce to his step and head bobbing Merry went along his way to the park where he last saw Scootaloo’s camp site.

‘This beat gets me hyped, I love it’ Merry takes a deep breath to sing along to the English lyrics.

Without caring if anyone was around to see him, Merry got into the beat and began to dance around while still moving forward. A free style dance if you will, doing his best to keep up with the beat of the music only he could hear. Flipping forward into handstands and doing some messed up break dance moves in the dirt. He was terrible at dancing, but he loved to move none the less.

By the time the song finished he had reached the park and gained a few spectators to his wacky movements. Merry just waved at em and put his iPod away. ‘I think I’ve embarrassed myself enough.’

He sat in the bench he did last night waiting for everyone to leave the park, after about 10 minutes he was the only one still in the park. So he went to the bushes in the back and saw the box again, but this time Scootaloo wasn’t in it.

‘Good, I guess she does have a home, I wonder why the blankets are still here though...’ Merry decided to place his backpack down inside the box. He placed both sandwiches on top of it still wrapped in their little handkerchief cloth, and decided to go for a walk.

Merry ended up at the edge of the Everfree forest again, not too far from the spot he ran too around noon that day. Merry just took a deep breath and stood in front of a nearby tree on the edge of the forest.

“Fucking shit” Merry flung his right fist forward and smacked the tree. “My dick isn’t small!” He took his left hand and punched the tree again. “Fucking pony DICKS!” He brought his right fist into the tree again “How can I compete with shit as big as my ARM!” Merry slammed his left fist into the tree followed by his right several more times until he no longer felt anything in his hands. When he pulled them away his knuckles and fingers were a bloody mess and probably fractured.

Le sigh

Merry just slumped down against the tree he had just finished hitting and placed his hands on the grass to try and keep his torn clothes from getting any more blood and stains on them.

“Am I destined to be forever alone in this new world? Well, not entirely, but if I do take a pony wife, there’s no way in hell I’ll ever be able to satisfy her. Heh, and I’m sure a male pony would tear me apart. Fucking average being a foot long ha-ha-ha...” Merry sighed and looked at his hands, the flesh healed over quite nicely, but his knuckles still tingled when he touched them. “Need more calcium for the bones I guess, I can handle that later. Better head back I guess, maybe a sandwich will give me enough to fully heal up.”

Merry got up and put his hands into his pockets and brought out his iPod. Time for something with feeling, (Kumiko - Lilium)

With the slow piano beat and Kumiko’s beautiful singing voice, Merry calmed down considerably. It seemed that stupid translation he was gifted allowed him to understand her even though she was singing in Latin. Before when he heard her sing, it would simply move him. She was able to convey enough feeling behind her singing voice to bring a tear to his eye. But now that he understood what she was singing about. He realized she was singing about how the lord judges everyone, and so she begs the lord for mercy and when he gives it, it shows how kind and benevolent he is. Whether she sings for her self or a lost lover is unknown. But it gets the point across.

By the time the song was over Merry had reached his way back to the park and started heading over to the box. In the distance he could hear some rustling in the area ahead of him.

‘So she’s camping out again? Or she’s really homeless...’ Merry broke through the bushes and was meet with an orange ball barreling into his chest. “Oof ”

“I knew you would come back! I was worried cause I didn’t see you all day, but then I saw your backpack when I got back and I was so excited! Where were you?” Scootaloo had a big grin on her face, she was even wagging her tail kind of like a dog.

“Heh, I just dropped my stuff off, then I went for a quick walk to relax my mind a bit is all. Did you get the sandwiches I left?”

“Sandwiches?” Scootaloo crained her head back to look back into the box.

“Heh yeah, I got you an Alfalfa one at Fluttershys today. Figured you would be camping out again and forget food in your rush.” Merry just got up and walked over to the box and brought out both sandwiches. He handed the Alfalfa one to Scootaloo and split his in half then took a few bites of one side. Scootaloo took a few bites from the sandwich and began to tear up.

“What’s wrong? Did I make it wrong or something? I’m sorry I didn’t know what you would like.” Merry just scratched his head in confusion.

“Its not that...” She wiped the tears from her eye’s “You brought me food again, even though you don’t know me. No adult has ever paid attention to me, the flightless Pegasus. Besides Rainbow Dash a few times, but I’m too ashamed to let her know I’m always camping out in the cold starving.”

‘Holy fuck, I was hoping I was wrong about her being homeless.’

Scootaloo began to sniffle a bit more “I used to live in an orphanage in Cloudsdale, But no one wants to adopt a flightless Pegasus. So I ran away one day, hoping to find parents on the ground. But I’ve had no such luck, After I came to Ponyville, I met Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle.” Scootaloo was crying now “They, They were my 1st real friends, so I didn’t want to leave. I couldn’t leave! Even if I couldn’t find parents, I-I have my friends at least, Right...right?” Scootaloo had put her sandwich down and was full on bawling now.

‘I swear to god, if I could cough blood from shock and sadness, I would right now’ Merry just moved over and picked her up in his arms and hugged her tightly. “Hey now, don’t cry, I’m here for you now. I’ll do my best, but I’m a big screw up in my own right, But I’ll try my best ok? So finish your sandwich. I’m not gonna leave you.” Scootaloo calmed down a bit and looked at Merry with her big eyes.

“You promise you wont leave?” Merry just looked her into the eyes and kissed her forehead

‘Damn my weakness for sad children.’ “I promise Scootaloo, I wont leave you.” She nuzzled into his neck and Merry patted her mane. “Now finish the sandwich I got you and lets get to sleep.”

She nodded her head and went back to eating slowly “Its good.”

“Hehe, glad you like it.” Merry finished the first half of his sandwich and watched Scootaloo finish hers.

“You still hungry Scoots?” Merry just looked at her with a smile.

“Yeah a little bit, do you have more?” Scootaloo went over to Merry’s backpack.

“Yeah here, have the other half of mine.” Merry extended his hand out with the other half of his sandwich and Scootaloo just gave him a look of confusion.

“But, that’s yours...” Merry just shook his head.

“Don’t worry about me and just eat to your hearts content. You’re still growing, I’m already old so I don’t need as much food as you do.” Scootaloo slowly walked up and looked at Merry again.

“Are you sure Merry?” Merry just nodded his head, so she took the half sandwich and ate it happily.

“Excellant, now lets go to sleep yeah?”

“Mmm, can we listen to your iPod some more?" Scootaloo looked at him with her big eyes all wide and pleading

“Hehe, Sure Scoots, what do you feel like listening to?” Scoots thought for a moment then spoke

“How about Some more of that Dragon band or something like it?” Merry thought for a moment then smiled

“How about this one then?” Merry Brought out his iPod and put on one of the best songs of all time, Go Go Power Rangers! Redux.

Scootaloos face lit up at the beat and guitar “Wow! ...Who are the Power rangers?” Merry just chuckled to himself

“The Power rangers are some of the earths mightiest warriors. Composed of both boys and girls each having a different color. They go around fighting back evil monsters and when the battle got hard, They Morph into their Zords. A Zord is a giant fighting robot, they climb into it to beat giant monsters. Not only that they are highly trained to fight and each have a unique weapon.” Scootaloo just Smiled and nodded now knowing who the Power Rangers were now.

“Go Go Power Rangers!” Merry chuckled as Scootaloo sang along to the chorus. When the song ended Merry paused his iPod.

“Alright Scoots time for sleep now.” Merry grabbed her blanket and tucked it in around her. When he figured she was nice and warm he wrapped an arm around the bundled filly and draped his other arm over her.

“There, you should be all nice and warm. So get some sleep now ok?” He was now effectively cuddled up with Scoots now, she kind of reminded him of his stuffed bunny he had at home. That he outgrew of course.

“Good night Merry” Scoots closed her eyes and quickly fell asleep.

Merry just laid there with Scoots all cuddled up under his arms. He figured he might as well try the whole sleeping thing again. Not really wanting to think about Scootaloos entire situation. Honestly things that required a lot of thought made his head hurt, Merry was more of a physical person. His brain was probably the flabbiest muscle of them all. So Merry closed his eyes in an attempt to fall asleep.

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“Twilight, you need to stop freaking out. So what if you found out Merry is mini compared to a pony, He’s an alien after all. Did you expect some super sized alien or something?” Spike just watched as Twilight paced back and forth.

“You don’t understand Spike! The look on his face and the way he jumped out the window! I think I really hurt him, and I never said I was sorry. Worst of all during my drug induced heat I said such careless things. What if he doesn’t even want to be my friend?” Twilight was pacing around so much a fine grove began to form in the wooden floor.

“Twilight you just need to calm down and get some sleep. From what Rainbow Dash told me, He didn’t seem all that bothered by it, more depressed.” Spike just watched as Twilight stopped pacing.

“He was Depressed!? What if he tries to kill him self because of me!” Spike just groaned

“I’m pretty sure he wont kill him self Twi, your worrying is running you ragged.” Spike began to walk up the stairs “I’m going to bed, wake me if he really does end up killing himself.” Spike just yawned and closed the door behind him.

“Ooh, what do I do what do I do?!” Twilight Stopped pacing again and went to the front door “I’ll just go look for him! He was going to Fluttershy’s last, maybe he’s still with her!” Twilight raced out the door slamming it behind her.

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‘Cant...sleep...again....fuck.’

Le sigh

Merry just laid there motionless so he wouldn’t wake Scoots up. ‘So, it turns out I was right. Scoots is homeless, and she ran away from an orphanage in Cloudsdale, in search of parents.' Merry sighed and watched Scootaloo sleep

'Because a flightless Pegasi is unwanted...That’s some fucked up shit. What is Cloudsdale anyway? Just some City far away? How far did this little Filly travel before she ended up here? Questions to be answered at a later date I suppose.’

Merry’s thoughts were cut short as he heard someone galloping by.

‘I wonder who that was. Late night Jogger maybe? What an odd hour to jog. I had my earbuds in yesterday, so I wouldn’t be able to hear anyone jog by.’ Merry just sighed and stared at the top of the box some more. Then looked over to Scoots.

‘I’ll take care of you Scoots, us rejects gotta stick together. Except I’m probably a bigger reject then you. No kid should of had to go through what you did.’

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Twilight had galloped all the way to Fluttershy’s Cottage, taking the shortcut through the park. By the time she reached the little house she was panting and out of breath, but she went up to the door and knocked, only to hear a loud gasp.

“Fluttershy! Its me Twilight I know its late, but I just wanna ask you something.” after about a minute the door cracked open and out peaked Fluttershy.

“Oh, hello Twilight can I help you?” Fluttershy had opened the door all the way and was looking left and right.

“Yes, is Merry here? And if he’s not do you know where he went?” Twilight seemed to be extremely agitated and it frighted Fluttershy a bit.

“Oh, um he left about 2 hours ago...he was walking toward the park...I’m sorry I don’t know where he is. Don’t be mad at me” Fluttershy hid behind her mane distraught from Twilights unkempt mane and out of tune voice. It reminded her of the whole want it need it spell problem.

“The park? Thanks I’ll try there first!” Twilight just sped off again leaving Fluttershy confused and a bit worried about Merry.

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‘I wonder what I can do to get a house around here? Would I ever be able to buy a house working with just Fluttershy? She’s kind and all, but she doesn’t seem to be loaded enough to pay be a big salary. I wonder if I really will have to give out hornjobs at 5 bits a pop? Hehe. I feel like some Korean whore...horse... whore’s...horse...No wonder they got mad, is horse the pony version of a whore? I’ll have to find out later.’

Merry suddenly heard the galloping again, only this time it stopped and was accompanied with a familiar voice, it was faint, but it sounded like Twilight was calling his name. ‘What could she possibly want at this hour? Has she come with 5 bits? Hehe’

“Merry? Please answer me, I have something I want to tell you.” Twilight sounded really upset.

Le sigh ‘Scoots better not wake up from this’ Merry carefully and slowly brought out his arms from around Scoots and as quietly as possible got up and out of the box. He made his way to the park where he saw Twilight with her horn aglow.

“I guess he's not here anymore...” Twilight dropped her head and began to walk back toward the town.

“Hey babe, what cha doing up so late?” Twilight just brought her head up and looked at Merry who just had a grin on his face.

“I’m so glad you’re ok! When Spike said you were depressed I thought you might of gone to kill yourself because of my careless acts today. But now that I know you're Ok, I feel a little better.” Merry just looked at her.

“How...what? Why would I commit suicide? Do I looked that weak?” Merry just cocked an eyebrow “So what did you want to say exactly?”

“I just wanted to say I’m sorry for being so rude and insulting you like that. Spike was right, what was I thinking you’re not a pony, we would just have to find a way around it. I guess I just wasn’t thinking too clearly.” Twilight had a look like she was about to cry.

“If you’re really sorry, lets go back to the library and you can get me something to eat yeah? Need something for breakfast, cant keep getting apples from Applejack, she’s mean.” Twilight just looked at Merry and nodded her head.

“Heh, Good, now wait here a sec, I need to grab my backpack real quick.” Merry walked back to the box with Scoots and saw she was still asleep, hopefully she would stay asleep until he got back this time.

“Alright lets head out Twilight.” Twilight just nodded and walked next to Merry silently back to the library.

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When they reached the library Twilight just turned to look at Merry “I’m really really sorry and I hope we can still be friends, so please don’t hate me forever!” Merry just cocked an eyebrow and smiled.

“I cant hate you, even if you were quite mean. But you are sorry, so I forgive you, we can be friends.” Merry got down on one knee and hugged her. Twilight was a bit shocked but hugged him back shortly after. After a bit Merry broke the hug, and on the way back up, he moved in and licked her horn along its length. Twilight just shuddered and blushed.

“That one was on the house, to show you that I do indeed forgive you. Now lets see what’s in your fridge yeah?” Twilight just blushed and lead Merry inside. When they got to the kitchen Spike was rummaging through the fridge.

“Spike! I thought you went to sleep.” Spike just spun around with a mouth full of hay fries.

“I see you found Merry, And I'm just having a late night snack, after you slammed the door I was having trouble falling asleep.” Spike went back to going through the fridge and pulled out a rather large blue gem. Merry questioned why he would keep a blue gem inside the fridge, that is until he took a bite out of it.

“So do all dragons in this world eat gems?” Twilight and Spike just looked at Merry

“Dragons don’t eat gems where you come from?” Merry just shook his head.

“Well only Gem Dragons, but I’m not entirely sure. I do know the evil dragon's ate people and would destroy villages, its kinda the reason my race set out on Crusades to slay all dragons. Not all are evil though, Makes me sad that dragons are no longer around now.” ‘Heh, no reason to let them think dragons are just a myth on my world.'

“Humans killed dragons?” Merry just nodded his head

“Yes, the mightiest of our warriors would be able to single-handedly slay an adult dragon. But those days are long lost in time, I’m one of the people that would of loved to be around when dragons still lived. Heh, Check this out Spike.” Merry took off his shirt to reveal his dragon tattoo.

Spike just awed at it. “What kind of dragon is that supposed to be?”

“It’s a Copper Dragon. They were considered good dragons even if they were tricksters, it was all in good fun I’m sure. Hey Spike, tell me, what kind of things can you breathe?” Merry was curious as to what he could breathe exactly, The only knowledge he had on dragons were that of myth, legend, folklore and games.

Spike just huffed, “Just a small green flame, I can use it to send letters to Princess Celestia, but that’s about it, I cant get it much better, let alone keep up a stream yet.”

‘Hmm, from what I know, A purple dragon doesn’t breath fire, its breathe weapon should be more of an energy blast, that’s probably why its green. He’s seen other dragons breathe fire, so he thinks that what he should be doing, and his body is converting the energy into a flame, but having it mail letters? That’s new. As for him eating gems, he looks nothing like a gem dragon, Maybe he’s some kind of a mixed breed?’

“Hey Spike do something for me yeah? I wanna test something.” Spike just finished his gem and looked at Merry

“Alright sure. What did ya want?”

“Just breathe yer green flame onto my hand, don’t worry about hurting me.” Spike was confused a bit then got a worried look on his face so he faced Twilight who was also worried.

“Umm, I don’t think that's wise Merry.”

“Hey, don’t worry about me I heal fast, I just wanna check something.” Twilight nodded to Spike, so Spike took a deep breath and blew some of the green flame into Merry’s hand. The green flame danced around on his hand for a bit while Merry just took a deep breath. While examining his hand and the damage it was taking, Merry noted it was nothing like what a fire should be doing, It also didn’t feel the same as when his face was being burned by the flames coming off the timber wolf. It felt more like an electrical shock.

“Hm I see, Alright Spike. Now I want you to do the same thing again, but this time, don’t breath fire, just Breath what ever comes out naturally.” Spike just cocked an eye

“What do you mean?” Spike was still shocked his hand had finished healing in front of him like that after being burned.

“I mean like, where ever you were getting the fire from, don’t think of it as fire, just think of it as...Energy, and then breath it out onto my hand again.” Spike just shrugged more impressed that his hand could heal so fast.

Spike took another deep breath, but this time a large amount of green mist flew out of his mouth and washed over Merry’s hand. The mist Swirled around his hand and began to strip the flesh away showing the bone. Merry yelped in actual pain and shook his hand to try and get the green mist off, causing Twilight and Spike to panic. After most of the flesh from his hand was stripped off into nothing the mist dissipated and Merry’s regeneration began to take place again.

Spike and Twilight watched as the flesh began to grow back starting from his wrist and work its way up.

“Well holy monkey balls, that was interesting.” Merry just sighed as he watched his flesh regrow.

“Oh my Celestia! Are you ok!? I didn’t know it would do that!” Spike had run over to look at Merry’s hand

“Heh, yeah I’m fine, just surprised is all, But my suspicion is confirmed, It would seem you’re a mix of a Purple dragon, black dragon, and some type of Gem dragon. At lest from what I know.”

“What do you mean? I thought dragons just had different colors, but were pretty much the same like ponies.” Twilight decided to chime in, seeing as how ponies knew little next to nothing about dragons. She saw this as an opportunity to see what he knew.

“Well, let me put it this way. A Purple dragon uses energy as a breath weapon, and it can be manipulated to what ever is needed, but to a lesser extent as opposed to just pure energy. The energy can also be shaped into a weapon with enough practice. But the mist you breathed was like an acid, and only black dragon’s can use acid as a breath weapon, however since you could also breath fire, I’m gonna assume its still energy based with acidic properties. Now as for why I think your some type of gem dragon as well, its because you eat gems, and only Gem Dragons eat gems because the are pretty much made of them. Dragons normally eat meat of prey animals.”

Twilight just looked at Merry in confusion. “I thought you said dragons are no longer in your world, why do you know so much?” Merry just chuckled

“Because I love dragons, I was born year of the dragon, and I became a little obsessed with them is all. I did all I could to learn about them in my spare time. I had a lot of time on my hands...Anyway, I'm kinda hungry now, Lets find something to eat shall we?” Twilight and Spike just looked at Merry unsure of what to make of the situation.

“1st, explain what your hand did, and then 2ed what exactly is the year of the dragon?”

“My hand? It got melted and then it started to regenerate, you guys cant regenerate like that?” Twilight just looked at him with squinted eyes.

“No not without powerful healing spells. We cant regenerate like that naturally.”

“Well in my defense, I get really hungry when I use it excessively, and if my body runs out of fuel, or building blocks, the regeneration stops. So its not all powerful, and even though its untested, a severe head blow would kill me.” Merry looks at his hand and notices that it hasn’t fully regenerated yet.

“There see, I got hungry and now it stopped, my hand is still damaged, workable, but it feels odd.” Merry stretched his fingers and moved his hand around a bit testing it.

“As for the year of the dragon, its just some human thing, apparently everything I do is on a grand scale and I'm generous with money, causing me to be broke most of the time, but it never lasts long. Just a bunch of stuff that’s only about half true for me really, cant remember it all.” Merry was walking to the kitchen as he spoke.

“Now lets see what you got in here.” Merry began to go through the fridge ignoring the look from Spike.

“I told you he would be fine Twilight, but that regeneration of his is a bit odd.” Spike softly spoke.

“I know it is Spike, I wonder if its common for his race, he did tell me they were quite violent. Maybe its an evolution trait.” Twilight whispered back to Spike. Then she went into the kitchen to check on Merry if he needed any help.

“Did you find anything to eat Merry? I'm not sure what you would like, but we have some eggs and vegetables.” Twilight watch as Merry turned around with two carrots in his mouth and a handful of eggs.

“Yeah this should work, where can I find a pan to cook these eggs?” Twilight opened a cabinet with her magic and levitated a pan out and onto the stove top.

“Thanks a bunch babe.” Merry began to cook the eggs and finished the carrots. He decided to cook them quickly and just eat them sunny side up. Merry also rinsed out the shells and ate those as well, he figured he needed the calcium. “Do you have any bread I can make toast with?”

“Yes, here let me do that for you.” Twilight brought out some bread and began to toast it. In the Toaster, that wasn’t powered with electricity. Speaking of, the stove looked like an electric stove, Gems are really versatile.

After everything was cooked Merry just took the pan off the stove and ate the eggs out of the pan, taking the toast and using it to sweep up the yolk and juices in the pan. Merry’s hand was fully healed by the time he finished the food, and he moved it around to test it.

“Yup all better now, Hope you don’t mind, but I'm gonna come by in the morning for breakfast before I head over to Fluttershy's for work.”

Twilight got a smile on her face. “Of course! I'm just glad you don’t hate me after what I did.” Twilight looked down at her hooves “I’m glad you still want to be my friend...”

“Hey don’t worry about it, I bounce back easy. Also, I kinda figured my size would of been a problem to begin with. Anyway I’m off, Ill be back later.” Merry waved to Twilight and Spike as he left.

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“Hey Twilight, I think Merry may be able to help figure out who I am and where I came from. He seems to have an extensive knowledge of dragons, I didn’t even know dragons could breath things other then fire. I have an energy based acid breath, but I guess that explains the green fire. When I heard dragons are supposed to breath fire, I did my best until I was able to make fire.” Spike had an excited look on his face while Twilight just looked worried

“He probably can, but honestly Spike I would prefer the fire, did you see what it did to Merry’s hand?” Spike just looked down to ground having lost his newly gained excitement.

“Well he did say it was ok, and it was just a test, its not like I meant to hurt him Twi!” Spike held his hands out and waved them in the air as he spoke.

“I know I know, just be more careful from now on with your new found 'breath weapon', as Merry calls it.” Twilight squinted her eyes and looked at him.

“Jeez, I know that Twi, its not like I plan to do anything bad.” Spike just kicks at the ground

“Good! Now lets get back to bed shall we? We are having a guest over in the morning for breakfast.” Twilight trotted up the stairs followed by Spike.

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Merry was walking back to the park with his hands in his pockets kicking rocks along the way.

“Damn, I forgot to ask her how I can go about getting a house. Well I can always ask her during breakfast.”

Merry’s vision and brain suddenly did an inverted loop causing him to snap at attention and get a bad feeling in the back of his head. Like something was a miss. The 1st thought that came to his head was about Scootaloo, But she should still be sleeping right? Hopefully she was a heavy sleeper, and didn’t notice he was gone...But she did notice he was gone last time.

Merry began to sprint back to the park, and in a few minutes he made his way back to the box. The blankets were empty.

‘Fuck fuck! Where did she go?! Why is she such a light sleeper?!’ Merry began to run around looking for Scootaloo, fearing the worst. He eventually ran out of the planted area and out into the park. He scanned the area and saw some dome thing with holes in it. The play equipment was all empty but maybe she was inside that dome thing. ‘She has to be right?’

She wasn’t in it. Merry got desperate and shouted “Scoots! Where are you?!” Suddenly Merry heard the sound of little hooves coming from the direction of the fountain. He turned and saw Scootaloo carrying her little firefly lantern, and she was soaking wet.

“Scoots! What happened? Where did you go, and why are you wet?” Scootaloo just put down the lantern when she got close enough and looked at Merry with sad eyes.

“When I woke up you were gone, And I saw your backpack was gone. I thought maybe you went to the fountain to get a drink, but when I didn’t see you anywhere I got up on the fountain, but fell inside.” Scootaloo looked so sad sitting there all wet. “I-I- I thought that you...”

Merry scooped her up in his arms and held her close even though she was soaking wet. “Hey I told you, I’m here to stay. Also were gonna go to Twilight’s in the morning for breakfast, that’s why I left. I went to see if it was ok with her. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you 1st." Merry just rubbed his cheek against her wet face. "Now, lets go get you dried off, so you don’t catch cold.” Merry carried her back to the little box and took off his shirt which he used to dry her off.

“But now your shirts all wet, you cant put it on now...” Merry just chuckled

“Don’t worry about it Scoots. Now come here, I’m not gonna leave again.” Merry laid his naked upper half into the box and motioned for Scoots to get in as well. He pulled Scoots in close and covered her and his upper half in the blanket, then brought out his iPod.

“I’m sorry Scoots I didn’t mean to leave like that all unnoticed. Wont happen again ok?”Scootaloo just nodded her head and looked at the iPod

“Were gonna listen to music?” Scoots just looked at him with a yawn.

“Heh, yeah but its just gonna be something to help us sleep.” Merry flipped through the list and picked out (Relaxing Violin music) He put the music on ultra low and gave one ear bud to Scoots and one for himself. He then fixed up the blanket and bit and pulled Scoots in close to help her from catching cold after becoming soaking wet in the middle of the night.

“Mmm this is nice.” Scoots cuddled up in Merry’s arm and closed her eyes. “Night again Merry.”

“Night Scoots.” Merry just sighed as she fell asleep in his arm with her head on his chest.

‘Scoots is so lucky she’s still just a kid and I have a weakness for children.’ Merry just laid there as motionless as possible, when the song ended he turned off the iPod. He then spent the rest of the night counting how many different specs, little fibers, and lines the top of the box had. It was incredibly boring, but when the sun started coming up he gently woke up Scoots by petting her mane.

“Hey sleepy head, lets go to Twilights and get some of that breakfast yeah?”

Scootaloo just blinked repeatedly and rubbed her eyes a bit. With a yawn Scoots just looked to Merry “Alright, but isn’t it really early?”

“Hmm I suppose it is, heh. Well finish waking up and lets head out ok?” Scoots just nodded her head and began to stretch out. After a few minutes she claimed to be ready to go. So they headed on over to Twilights place of residence for some food.

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