The time have passed quickly and Chloe's birthday came closer and closer, and now there's only one week left before Chloe will turn 9 years-old, and she got excited but also worried at the same time, as she hoped that her mother, Celestia, will not forget to celebrate her birthday, as well as she also hoped that her new friend, Aylene the Pegasus filly, will also come to her birthday party she's going to have.

When the day where Chloe supposed to celebrate her birthday have finally arrived, she went to tell her mother, Celestia, about it, but Celestia said to her that she's busy and that she have no time to be with Chloe right now, and so Chloe believed that her Alicorn mother have decided to forget about her birthday, and so Chloe went to ask Luna to help, but she said she's too busy to be with her too, and so Chloe decided to go to the Castle of Friendship to ask the mane seven if they have some time to be with her, but upon arriving there, she found that there's nopony inside, but she also found a letter that Twilight had left for her to read.

Dear Chloe, we're so sorry we couldn't be here for you right now, but we're busy too and we have no time to be with you, and please try to come back here later.

From Princess Twilight Sparkle.

When Chloe finished reading the letter that Twilight had left for her to read, she became saddened and confused, and so she left the Castle of Friendship and she went out of Ponyville and she went towards the Everfree Forest to have some time to be alone, because nopony would like to be with her right now.

In the Everfree Forest, Chloe sat down near a small lake and she looked down at her own reflection in the water, and then she said "Well, I guess no one will celebrate my birthday after all.", and then she added "I should've known I shouldn't trust everypony to throw me a birthday party, and now, there's no way I can celebrate my birthday at all.", and then she covered her face in her hands and she started to cry for not being able to celebrate her birthday.

However, just then, Chloe suddenly heard a fierce growl and when she turned around to see where the fierce growl came from, she saw an adult male Bengal tiger looking at her from right behind the trees, and she soon stood up on her feet and looked right at the tiger, but something impressed her about this tiger - instead of being orange with a white belly and black stripes, the tiger was completely black, just like a panther.

Then, the black tiger began to slowly approach Chloe, but this time she didn't backed away, because she tried to shake off the bad and traumatic experience she had with tigers back on planet earth. When the black tiger got even closer to her, she shouted at him "Go away! Leave me alone! I taste bad!", but the tiger still approached her as he didn't cared for what she just said, but when Chloe looked right into his eyes, she suddenly recognized the black tiger as the same one who appeared in her nightmare.

However, instead of suddenly speaking, the black tiger just growled at her, and Chloe said to him "Stop it, please! We know each other! You tried to protect me in my nightmare! Listen up!", but the black tiger just growled at her angrily like if he was trying to say to her that he don't even knows her or what she's even talking about. Then, the black tiger jumped on Chloe and pinned her to the ground with his paws, and then he's about to bite her on the neck to finish her off, just like other carnivores finish off their prey, but before anything bad could happen to Chloe, However, the totally unexpected happened.

A male voice suddenly called "Tony! Let that girl go! She's a human!", and the black tiger suddenly responded and he decided to let go of Chloe and he jumped off and away from her, though he still stayed nearby, and just then, and adult human male suddenly came into sight right from where the black tiger came from. The adult human male appeared to be at least around the age of 40 and it seems that he knows the black tiger very well.

Then, the adult human male approched Chloe and he said to her "It's okay, little girl. you have no reason to fear my black tiger. he won't do you any harm, and it's because of me as his responsible owner. I have raised him since he was just a newborn cub. his name is Tony Black, due to his pure black color mutation, which can be found in panthers such as jaguars and leopards.", and when Chloe heard what the adult human male said about he being the black tiger's owner, she asked him "So, does that means that this black tiger of yours obeys you because you raised him?", and the adult man answered "Exactly.", and then he added and introduced himself "My name is Yigal Peterson Yosefsberg, and I'm the youngest of my brothers. My tiger, Tony Black, also obeys my brothers too, but he's much more closer to me than to them.".

"My name is Chloe. Chloe Williams. I'm just 9 years-old but I also live in this world.", Chloe said to Yigal as she introduced herself to him, and then he asked her "Anyway, what are you doing here all by yourself?", and Chloe answered "I was supposed to celebrate my ninth birthday today, but no one will ever throw me my birthday party, just as usual.", and then Yigal asked her "What do you mean by that.", and then Chloe explained "Ever since my grandmother died, my family never celebrated my birthdays each and every year, and they didn't even wanted to, so there was no cake, no candies, no cookies, not even a birthday party. That's simply nothing.", and Yigal said to her "Oh, I see.", and then he asked her "Anyway, how did you even got here?", and Chloe answered "I ran away from my family and home eight months ago, then I accidentally entered a dangerous forest, got attacked by wolves, fell down a bottomless waterfall with one of them, and that's exactly how I got here.".

"So, I guess my brothers and I we're no longer the only humans living in this wretched pony world, isn't it?" Yigal said as he turned away from Chloe and towards his tiger, Tony Black, and then he asked him "What should we do with that poor little girl?", and Tony Black just stood there for a minute, before he turned around and ran away deeper into the Everfree Forest.

Then, Yigal turned back to Chloe and he said to her "Let's go, Chloe. My tiger wants to lead us to my house. There I'm sure my older brothers and the rest of our animals will throw you a real birthday party you'll never forget that you truly deserve after the way those ponies treated you when they didn't wanted to throw you a party to celebrate your birthday.", and then he began to follow in the direction where his tiger ran away to, and Chloe decided to follow Yigal close behind to see if she can trust him and his tiger better than she can trust the ponies whom are her friends.

Meanwhile, back at the royal castle, Celestia, Luna, the mane seven, the CMC, and Twilight's dragon assistant, Spike, were all working together and they're all preparing the birthday party they're about throw for Chloe, which it's exactly the reason why they said and/or wrote for Chloe that they're too busy and that they don't have time to be with her, and because they wanted to keep the birthday party a secret from her so they can throw the birthday party for her when she comes back to the royal castle, because they all wanted it to be a surprise for her.

Once everypony finished all the preparations and with everything they needed for the birthday party for Chloe to be successful, Celestia sent Twilight and Rainbow Dash to search for Chloe and to take her with them back to the royal castle so everypony can throw the surprise birthday party they all prepared for her.

Meanwhile, Chloe followed Yigal and his tiger, Tony Black, deeper into the Everfree Forest until she finaly stopped when she reached a huge house, and it was indeed where Yigal and his older brothers and their animals all live together, and so she decided to enter the house to see what's waiting for her inside. When Chloe entered inside and searched for Yigal and for his black tiger, she met two other adult human males, one of which is around the age of 43, and the other is around the age of 46, and they both seemed to look a bit different than Yigal.

Then, the younger of the two adult men appoached Chloe and asked her "Who are you, little girl? What are you doing in our house? Who let you in?", and then Yigal came out of nowhere and then he said "I did.", and then he quickly added "But don't be harsh on her. she's just nine years-old and she wants to celebrate her birthday, brothers.", and then he turned back to Chloe and he said to her "Chloe, i want you to meet my two older brothers.", and then he pointed at the approximately 43 years-old man and said to Chloe "This is Gilad, he's the middle brother among us.", and then he turned to the older man and then he pointed at him next and then he added "And this is Ezra, he's the oldest among us.", but then Gilad asked Yigal "Why did you brought her here, brother?", and then Ezra asked "What did I told you about bringing human children to our home?", but Yigal said to the two "It's okay, brothers, she might be a human girl, but I'm sure we can make a great ally out of her.", and then he added "I'm sure she needs our help for her being just a little girl who got lost away from her own family and needs to be raised into adulthood.".

Then, the four humans suddenly heard Tony Black growling, but roars, screeches, and even a loud trumpeting sound were heard all around them, and this made Chloe nervous and afraid as she stepped aback a little. Just then, Tony Black came out of nowhere, but he's not alone - five other animals from different species also came out of nowhere and surrounded Chloe, Yigal, Gilad and Ezra.

When Chloe saw the five other animals surrounding her and the others, she asked and said worriedly with great fear in her eyes "What's going on? Where all of those animals came from? I'm scared!", but then Yigal said to her "Don't be afraid of any of them. My brothers and I have raised them all ever since they're very young, just like we raised Tony.", and then Ezra said to the animals "It's okay, all of you. Yigal just brought here a young visitor. She's just a bit afraid of you all, that's all I can say about her.", and then Gilad said to the animals "Please, don't hurt her. She's just a little girl. She just needs to learn about you all before she gets some comfort.", and then Yigal turned to Chloe and said to her as he began to point at the five other animals "It's okay, Chloe. they won't hurt you. In fact, they're very nice and they always get excited when they meet new people, especially children around your age or younger.", and then he added as he began to introduce the five other animals to Chloe.

"This is Shujaa, he's an albino orangutan." Yigal said as he pointed at the adult male albino orangutan which stood with a brown panda by his left side and with a rhinoceros by his right side. Then, Yigal pointed at the brown panda who stood by Shujaa's left side and then he said "This is Kenai, he's a brown panda.", and then he pointed at the rhinoceros which stood by Shujaa's right side and then he said "This is Saut, he's a hybrid between a southern white rhinoceros and a northern white rhinoceros.", and then he turned around and pointed at the two last animals which stood behind him, his brothers and Chloe, and then he said to Chloe as she turned around to see a white lioness and a huge african elephant with thick layer of wool covering its huge body and with massive mammoth-like tusks protruding from right below his trunk, just like all other elephants and even mammoths, and then Yigal said as he pointed at the huge woolly elephant "This is Lin Raju, he's a cloned hybrid between an african elephant and a woolly mammoth.", and then he pointed at the white lioness who stood right by Tony Black's side "And this is Agatha, she's a white lioness, and she's the only female animal we raised among the six.".

Then, Agatha approached towards Chloe and then she stopped and gave her a paw, and when Chloe saw Agatha stretching her foreleg and paw close to her, the human gril asked what is she doing, and Yigal answered "She wants you to give her your hand. You know, like a handshake between an owner and his pet.", and when Chloe turned to Gilad and Ezra, the two nodded in agreement, and then she turned around to see Tony Black also approaching her and then stopping by Agatha's side and giving her his own paw as well, and Chloe reluctantly decided to give each of them one of her hands, by giving Tony Black her right hand to shake his paw, and by giving Agatha her left hand to shake her paw, and this made the two big felines growl smoothly and nicely as Chloe continued to shake her hands with their paws, and once she finally stopped shaking their paws, she let go and then she said to Tony Black "That's nice to meet your friends, Tony.", and the black tiger gave her a smile before he growled to the other animals to signal them that Chloe managed to get some comfort with them, and this also made Yigal, Gilad and Ezra very happy too, and then they decided to throw Chloe a birthday party, and when Chloe asked when it's going to happen and where, Yigal said to her that he, his brothers and their animals have all already thought about a place where they can celebrate Chloe's birthday, and so they took Chloe with them out of their huge house and they took her with them to the place where they're going to celebrate her birthday with her.