Chapter 1: Good with the Bad
"Mommy." A young filly Alicorn said as she ran into her mothers' hooves; her mother being a unicorn and father being a Pegasus. It had just been luck that she is an alicorn. Her navy blue mane and tail flailing around wildly. Her fire red coat shining in the moonlight coming in through the window of the Golden Oaks Library.
"Blaze, how was your day with daddy?" A purple unicorn said smiling widely.
"We had a fun time today." Before Blaze could continue, her father walked in tiredly. He could barely stand up.
"Radiant, how are you dear?" Radiant Star smiled happily, partly because he is home, the other is because he always walks in to see his Twilight waiting for him. It had always been a pleasant gift to come home to. Radiant walked over to his wife and quickly gave her a quick kiss. Radiants' coat is blue and his mane red and so he and Blaze are the same in color.
"It's good to have you home love. Dinner is waiting for you, I would have waited for you but my assistant just had to eat." Just then Spike came in.
"Yeah, sorry about that Radiant, I know how you hate it when we eat before you get home but I hadn't had a thing to eat all day and Twilight ate a little bit before I did thanks to Rarity and the others taking her out for dinner." Spike explained.
"Don't worry about, I took Blaze out to eat, sorry dear." Twilight shook her head with a smile dismissing it. "You are so understanding love."
"Can we stop with the mushy stuff, it's disgusting." Spike said hearing everything before he came into the room. Of course Radiant and Twilight kissed just to tease Spike. "I'm out of here." Spike said retreating to his new room since Twilight and Radiant married. He had been in a different room for seven years now. Luckily Twilight found out about a construction spell. The library is now bigger then it was before by a lot. There are now three extra rooms, each for a pony to sleep in.
"Blaze, it's now past your bed time." Blaze knew what her mother is going to say and instead of hearing the dreaded words, she took off for her bedroom. Blaze couldn't stand hearing the words bed and time next to each other. She also knew that her parents would get her to bed one way or another and so leaving before a word was said had become easier. Twilight and Radiant watched as their daughter ran off to bed making sure that she is out before the awful words could be spoken. Twilight then turned to her husband and cuddled up. "So I had a very interesting day today dear but first tell me about yours."
Radiant chuckled and then wrapped a hoof around his wife. "Well, Cadance and Shining were there today. That was fun, more so for Blaze. She got to see her cousin today which actually helped me help the princess. I still can't believe that I took your brothers place as a royal guard. More specifically as Captain of the Canterlot Royal Guard. So for me the day went well without Blaze hanging around me the entire time. Though in a small way, I wish she had been. I don't get to see her enough considering my position. She is always asleep before I get home and never awake before I leave. I'm just glad that the princess is so flexible. I do have some not so good news however. I'm to leave in two days for a week and a half. The princess has come upon an incident. Somehow Timberwolves have found their way to other parts of Equestira despite the fact that Ponyville is far closer to the Everfree Forest." Radiant had said all he needed to and then turned to focus back on Twilight. "Now tell me about your day."
"First of all be careful when you leave and second, wake your daughter before you go to tell her goodbye." Radiant nodded and then Twilight continued. "As for the way my day went, Pinkie pie invited us all to a party today for Applejack. It being her birthday and all, Pinkie had to do something. So the six of us got together and had a girl's day out. At the same time today well." Twilight then whispered something into her husbands' ear. Radiant face lit up like the sun, it would have made Celestia jealous to see how bright his face is.
"You are; you really are?" Radiant asked as his face got even brighter which to say is hard to believe.
"Keep up that glow coming off you and Celestia may banish you for taking over her job." Twilight teased. "Yes love, I really am. We can let the others know in the morning. For right now though, let's get some sleep. I'm sure that you're exhausted probably more so than I." Twilight stood up off the couch.
"What do you mean probably, if it weren't for Blaze, I would have fallen asleep on the way home?" The two chuckled as they made their way up to their bedroom.
The sun rose into the sky and shone in through the windows waking up Twilight and Radiant. Radiant had actually been excited about being able to wake up to the sun. He only had two of the seven days of the week off and so he didn't get to wake to the sun very often. He had been getting up long before the sun rose to get to Canterlot on time for work. The only reason that they haven't moved is because Radiant hadn't wanted Twilight to one, be away from her friends in case the elements are needed again and two, this is her home and Radiant would rather get up early everyday then make Twilight move.
The two adults headed downstairs to be greeted by their very hyper daughter and Spike who is making breakfast for the four of them. "I'm glad that daddy doesn't have to leave today." Blaze said happily bouncing around the room and then into the kitchen before Twilight could stop her.
"Blaze, Spike, please come in here. We have some good news and some not so good news." Twilight and Radiant sat down on the couch and waited for the two to get there. Once the two arrived, Twilight turned to Radiant and the two nodded.
Radiant is the first to announce his news. "Spike, Blaze, the princess is taking me away for a while. To be specific, a week and a half. I leave in a day." Spike hadn't taken it too hard but Blaze's eyes began to fill with water. Radiant got down on his knees and wrapped his daughter in a tight hug. "I don't want to leave but I must." Radiant kept his hold on his daughter even as she cried and whined about her father being taken from her. Radiant just held her tighter.
"Let's lighten the mood a little and tell you the good news." Twilight then turned her head to Blaze since it would effect her the most between Spike and Blaze. "Blaze sweetheart, you're going to have a little brother or sister. How does that sound to you?" Blaze smiled somewhat still sad about her father leaving. She couldn't deny that she is happy though.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed and please review, thank you.