Lightning Bliss

@, Darkclaw grinned seeing his way was being respected as he shoved passed the white pony stallion, ignoring the other gray pony with a sleeping bag in the corner. Carrying his two prizes he spread out his wings. "Come Roc, Berack...and even you Stone..." he gritted his beak at the mention of the weakling hippogryph cowering in the back. "The storm is getting worse and I don't want my new harems freezing." With that the large black hippogryph took to the sky with his flock of hatchlings following close behind, though all three were rather annoyed with it. Bliss felt the jerk of the take off and this only sent her into a furray of fear and squirming. She wanted to get loose, to get free and turn back to the stallions...but Darkclaw's grip on her, Clover and Hurricane was firm, he didn't even notice her squirm. "NNN...NO!" She cried out, her screams of sorrow being muffled by the wind.

@, @@purple.teal, @@Pripyat Pony, "But..." Bliss turned then, spotting Everlast with the baby in the sack, safe and looking as small as possible in a threatening situation. Her eyes locked on the baby as well as his did to her...but just when he was about to make a mad squwak and dash towards her, she immideatly gave him a firm look. No...you stay here...don't move...be safe... All said it in her face. The baby cooed sofetly in a saddening tone too low for the others to hear, and pressed up against Everlast for comfort. Bliss sighed, "Alright...we'll play it your way Clover..." she toned down, waiting and hoping the other stallions would back off.

@, (OOC Read above dude, an alpha gryphon has stopped the fighting, hes trying to leave XD) @@Pripyat Pony, Bliss squirmed unmistakably scared, not really for herself but for the safety of the baby Everlast was guarding. "But we can't...we just can't let him take us away!" She whispered urgently back to Clover, "what about the baby! NHGG! He needs me Clover...!" Her bottom lip beganto quiver...she realized more then ever she actually did care for the little one.

@, In that moment of hearing Darkstar's terrible news in the letter...her ears dropped down to her side. Immideatly flashbacks of her father began to surface...She remembered what it felt whe she got the news from her elder sister...that horrible faitful night when...he just...was gone... "Gah..." She suddenly stood up and grabbed Darkstar's hoof, "come with me, to my place. Let's leave the galla, you don't need to be here. Come to my home, meet my husband Nights Hoopla, and we can plan the festivities together." She insisted by pulling on his hoof. This was her only way to dealing with such horrible news, complete and utter distraction with something positive.

@, Berack snarled as the stallion beated on his face, actually causing his beak to bleed some...but this only seemed to make the hippogryph smile with eagerness. While the stallion Quickdraw continued to be distracted with attacking his front, he lowered his tail down and up behind the pony, and abruptly swated him like a fly against the cave wall. "Stupid pony!" He spat his own blood on Quickdraw's face...before he squawked in annoyance by a blinding light emitting from the horn of the stallion white pony with wings and a horn. "GAH! TURN OFF THAT LIGHT!" Stone however was fairing even less so then Berack, as he felt a sharp pain smack his head. He fell to the ground, still holding the black pony in his arms as he groaned in pain. "OUCH! Why me? Why?" He turned to see his attacker and growled in a derp fashion, "hey! I didn't do anything to you! I just want to take my new mate and leave! Go away you pest!" He quickly swatted at the agile flying stallion Steel. @@purple.teal, Roc snarled as he was hit repeatly by floating objects by the gray pony that now was filling his mind to the breaking point with jibberish. "GAH SHUT UP YOU STICK HEAD!" He suddenly snatched the rock that was repeatly hitting him in the face, breaking the magic around it, and throwing it back at the unicorn Everlast, whom seemed to be oddly standing over a brown sack. Roc didn't seem to care or notice as he flapped out his wings, blowing hard wind at his attack to knock him and the sack away. "I'm getting tired of this s**t! I want to leave, and I want to leave NA- AH HEY WHO TURN ON THE LIGHTS?" HE blinked and damped his eyes with his wings, covering Blissy in the process. Bliss meanwhile was struggling to see passed the wings of her attacker to make sure Everlast and the baby were ok...but all she could see was light that had glowed out from Blaze's magic...She didn't have time to assess why she was so concerned for an offspring that wasn't hers...far as she knew...she wanted to be with the baby again...and hold and protect it. @@Pripyat Pony, @, (OOC I see we added another villian...ok I'll work it in) Just when it seemed like all heck was going to break loose and the three gryph attackers were on the verge of having pony stallion for dinner...a new hippo gryph, much larger then even Berack, came storming in, snatching up Clover to Bliss's horror. Blaze's magical light had died down, and the three younger hippogryphs, two of them still holding their prizes, lowered their heads down. "F-father?" Roc whimpered misserably, "w-what are you doing here? I thought you were staying with the flock?" "You and your friends...were taking too long to find food...I came to see why... Seems you found me a little gift..." He smiled with a sadden but devilish face at Clover, along with Lightning Bliss and Hurricane. "So...instead of finding food, you find new mates for your father's empty harem, is that it hatchlings?" "We found them first!" Berack protested, only to suddenly be smacked violently against the wall by Darkclaw, and held up by his throat with one talon, while holding Clover in the other. He gagged and chocked realizing he had stepped over the line challenging the alpha gryph of their flock. "What was that Berack? Didn't quite hear you..." Darkclaw gripped his talon on the smaller fat white hippo gryph. "N-nnn...nothing! For-gi-e-me-" Berack begged. "That's what I thought," Darkclaw let the young hippogryph down and turned to Stone. "Hand her over to me now..." "Yes alpha..." Stone moaned silently as he roughtly handed Hurricane over to him. With that the large black and purple leader hippogryph turned to Roc...his biological hatchling. "You too boy...all the females are mine...How else am I to keep our flock alive without fresh harems to be at my side?" "You never let me have my own females father...can't I just have one?" Roc pleaded with his father. "WE ARE NOT YOUR FEMALES!" Bliss suddenly whinnied out as she pulled free of Roc's talons and flew up into the cave ceiling. "Relase Hurricane and Clover! NOW! OR I'll!" Suddenly Darkclaw reached out and snatched the big earred alicorn like she were an apple on a twig...cutting off her words and tucking her under his arm with Hurricane and Clover, all three wiggling helplessly by this point. "Clover...Hurricane...hmmm," Darkclaw pondered his new females names, "interesting but I suppose I can learn them." He turned then to leave, realizing though that he still had five other pony stallions blocking his path. "Out of the way small ones." He spoke in a thundering, dominant tone, "I don't wish to kill you all just to go back to my flock, I suggest you move now, or else my hatchlings here can have fun with you instead. Could care less either way, the question is do you. Move now and you will be unharmed, fail to do so and I'll give them the order." All three hippogryphs, Berack, Roc and Stone grinned at the stallions then, their beaks drooling in anticipation.

@, Berack turned on Quickdraw having heard the loud booming sound echo just passed his head. He snarled and turned to where it came from, still holding Clover under his arm. "Foolish pony thing..." he shrugged, as if looking at the stallion with the odd boom stick, nothing but wasted time, "I don't have time to play with you. Be gone, I'm trying to inspect my new mate." Suddenly he snapped his beak on Quickdraw's weapon and pulled it firmly from his hooves and tossed it aside. "What kind of weapon was that? Don't you have talons?" He shoved his face hard into Quickdraw's stomach, knocking the stallion over, "You only have hooves? Weakling! You don't have talons so you must be prey!" He turned to Roc then, "Prehaps we should eat these weaklings?" "I'm not hungry enough..." Roc shrugged, still putting pressure on Everlast. @, Still clinging to Hurricane, Stone sat up and rubbed his head...though the shrewd words of his new mate only made him feel worse. "Hey I'm not a bird brain!" He snarled at her, "you be a good female and maybe I'll let you prune my feathers and clean my coat!" He suddenly shoved her face into his filthy dirty winged feathers, "they really do need to be cleaned! I've not bathed in months!" Meanwhile Bliss continued to struggle in her bag Roc held her in, only to discover to her horror that the baby was also trapped within the sack too. He was about ready to squawk and cry when she grabbed his beak and pressed his head against her chest. "Shh....they'll hear you...we've...we've got to get you out of this sack!" She desperatly tried to focus her magic then...trying hard to teleport the little one out...but every time she attempted, the magic relasped back into her horn..."Gah...what in the world?" She blinked at the baby, seeming to be unphased by the magical intrusion. "It's almost like your...repelling my magic...?" There was no time for this now, she had to rescue the baby...if these males found out he was with her, who knows what they might do to it. She suddenly kicked at the bag's top, disloding the owner's talon and felt herself along with the baby falling down with a OOMPFH! @, "OUCH!" Roc snarled as he let go of the sack. To his annoyance, soon after his new prize, fluttered out of the sack, snatching it in her mouth and flying towards the exit. "Oh no you don't missy!" He suddenly snatched her tail in thin air yanking her back. "SSSSSSSSSSSOUCH!" Bliss whinnied as she tossed the sack with her little secret still inside, towards Blaze, hoping he would protect the baby at least. "LET GO OF ME NOW!" Bliss turned around and shot a beam of rainbow at her attacker's face. But to her shock, the beam merely dispelled around his face...making him sneeze only slightly. "ACHOO!" He snarled and pulled her back into his talons, "you naughty female! Looks like I got to teach you some manners when we get home!" Bliss realized then that this hippogryph Roc had let go of Everlast. Hoping and praying the unicorn might have a chance to use his own magic, she struggled and kicked, trying to buy him some time.

@, (OOC Thread would be better, or a PM if you like, never had issues doing RPs in PMs, but that restricts others who wish to join in) She titled her head to the side, sensing he really wasn't telling her the truth but sighed and let it pass. "Well really we just need to bring ourselves, oh and I'll need to bring my recipie book on apple pie and the ingredients, maybe some clothes and belongings etc." She went on.

@@purple.teal, Roc who was caught the attetion by Stone, quickly turned his head on the gray unicorn who was levitating a book...somehow...but how or why he didn't know, he was merely annoyed that his party was stopped. With Blissy in the bag, muffled screams and wiggling inside, he stomped over on three legs, holding his prize in his other talon. "You want to know about us? HA!" Roc laughed at the seemingly smart creature, "we don't even know what you are...With your little stick protruding out of your head...And what is that thats' surrounding it?" He reached out and snatched Everlast brutally by the horn and lifted him up, sitting back on his pony hunches. "What a stupid thing to have..." Roc continued, "all it does is conjure some...misty useless twinkle stuff!" He then viciously tossed the unicorn aside, and held him down with his other talon. "To answer your question, meat...Mating rituals? HA! He thinks we're having mating rituals fellas!" Stone and Berack managed a healthy laugh before they were silenced by the snap of Roc's beak. "We don't even know what that word means! 'Ritual'...raaa....reeeeee..." he tried to pernouce exactly, "blah, that makes my head hurt thinking so much about it..." "Oh ya you don't want him to think too hard," Stone hopped over, still holding Hurricane next to him and shoved his beak into Everlast's face, "he gets angry when he thinks to hard and his head hurts and-" Suddenly Roc bit Stone's ear and kicked him aside, while managing all those gestures without hurting Stone's new 'mate'. "SHUT UP YOU!" He snarled, "How dare you speak when your leader is talking! It's MY PROBLEM! NOT YOURS!" Berack merely shrugged and held up Clover to continue inspecting his new prize.

"What do you think little one? Zephyr a good name for you?" She nuzzled the feather head baby...the only response she got was a frowny face along with a growl of disapproval as he continued to sleep. "Hmm...even in his sleep he's cute, huffy face or not. I don't think that name would suite him though...It just, feels like his own personality hasn't been established yet...Don't worry his name will come in time." She smiled to the others, "But for now, I'm gonna get some shut eye, I'm freezing my tail off!" She quickly tucked her tail back in under the sleeping back, and planted her head, falling fast asleep. [Attack Scene: Take note, these hippogryphs, are magic immune, throw back, primitive creatures. Yes they can talk but they are tribal, savage brutes at this point, who developed that one key defense against other creatures, magic immunity. No matter what kind of spells you throw at them, it has no effect. BUT! You can manipulate the space around them *hint hint*, however the plan is, they will marenap all the mares, and more likely attempt to beat you stallions up. Feel free to take control of these hippo gryphs at any time for any scene you wish, but keep to the point of this plot, the gryphs marenap us mares and take us away to their caves, you stallions have to rescue us! So here we go...] Atmosphere Outside the cave in the cold blizzard...a leading hippogryph with gray feathers and a black pony body, dove down to inspect his former kill he had left behind to freeze. The bloody female...he shrugged to himself, she dared to dismiss MY affections? Pfft, oh well she'll make a good popcycle meal for me... As he landed though, he came to a startling conclusion. "WHAT THE?" He squwaked several feet from the cave where he couldn't be heared, "MY FOOD IS GONE!?" "What's the problem Roc?" A golden hippogryph came down behind, landing down behind the bigger gray male. His landing was less then graceful as he slipped some...and his feathers and fur were dirty and sticking out in random places, "Woa slippy!" "Shut up Stone!" Roc the gray gryph smacked his less intelligent comrade in the beak. "OUCH!" Cried Stone as the fatter, more aggressive looking of the hippo gryphs, a snow white male with black spots fluttered down, giving off a good laugh at the misfortune of Stone. "Always the baby Stone? So pathetic," the white gryph, known as Berack stomped passed the moping Stone and stood ground with Roc. "What is it now Roc..." "My food is gone..." Roc shrugged and sat down. "That female that you turned you down? Shame really, I would have had a go at her if you didn't slit the back of her spine out..." Berack shrugged as he stomped towards the cave just a few feet from it. "She made me mad, not my fault, she should have adored my affections! I am the best male around these parts!" Roc stomped up and smacked Stone again to take out his rage. "OUCH! What I do now???" Stone held up his wings in submission. "YOU'RE HERE! SHUT UP!" Roc shrugged and stomped away, "Now what do we do...I'm bored...no more females and no food..." "Hey..." Berack called out to his brothers, "I think I just found our fun....Get a load of this boys..." He gestured a talon over to them, to which the other two males quickly huddled over and peaked the large eage heads inside. There inside to their delight, were a bunch of smalle creatures they've never seen before. One thing was for sure, several of them all had feathers...and even more so...at least three of them appeared to be..."females".... "Our luck just got better boys!" Roc squwaked with joy and flew in, causing a huge breeze amongst the beings, and went straight for the white mare sleeping in her bag and snatched her up. Bliss was jolted awake, feeling herself being ripped out of her bag by her mane and dangled up exposed. "GAH!!! WHAT THE?? HELP!" She whinnied loudly. Berack went for another female, appearing to be a grayer version of the white being Roc grabbed...Clover, while Stone snatched up a blacker version...Hurricane. @, "Look at my female!" Stone chuckled with joy as he snatched Hurricane up by her tail and then grabbed her wings and stretched her out to his brothers. "She's got this painted looking image on her rump! And she's got pink highlights! Odd though...she doesn't have a beak but OH!" He chuckled and hugged her tightly to his chest, "She's so adorable! I claim her! MY MATE! I followed the rules!" @@Pripyat Pony, "Shut up Stone, could care less if you want that one," Berack snorted as he held Clover up by her torso for inspection, "Mine has a horn and wings...No beak though...how odd...strange but oh well, I'm not picky. Maybe I could stretch this nose of yours out darling..." He held her head up and lightly scratched at her cheeks, getting a thrill out of seeing fear in her eyes. @@Lightning Bliss, "You aren't a hippogryph sweety," Roc held Bliss by her mane and started deeply into her eyes, "what are you and your sisters called? You're all so cute!" "GAH!!! LET ME GO! You're...handling Princess Lightning Bliss! Princess Clover! And Lady Hurricane!" She snorted and attempted to swing and kick her attacker in the face but missed. "We're Pony Citizens of Equestria and I DEMAND YOU LET US GO NOW!" "Oh I like this one boys! Defiently my mate!" Rock chirped as he held her up to his brothers, "Ponies? I never heard of ponies, have you two?" "Nope," Both Berack and Stone said in union. "Huh, oh well, we got our mates, time to head home." Roc smiled as he didn't seem to care his new mate was thrashing about wildly with her wings and tail and hooves, seeming to spurt out small sparks of magic as well. He snatched up the bag he grabbed her from, and tossed her inside and turned to leave. @, @@purple.teal, @, "Ah...Roc?" Stone stopped his brother then, "what about these ponies though?" He pointed to the stallions Quickdraw, Blaze, Raze and Everlast along with Steel.

@, [OOC could do an RP where we journey to Appleloosa for the festivities and we run into hiccups or 'threats' along the way and the reward through it all as that we better enjoy our time for the holiday, that way it would just be me, you, my husband's OC (and possibly my new OC assistant that I've yet to make yet but will be coming soon)] Bliss noticed Dark seeming to restrain himself after he read his 'secret letter' and wondered whether or not it was her place to ask. Then again though she was Princess, if she was that curious about she could look for herself without a fight she supposed...but she never liked exercising that right. "Is everything ok DarkStar?" She asked instead of directly questioning the letter.

@, She shrugged, "No...I couldn't be its mother or guardian...I just couldn't..." she argued, "he could do better... I'm a Princess...I have roles to forfill back home after this...How would I ever make time for him? No..." she tried to convience herself, "he deserves the best mother in the world that will give him every second of attention he deserves." She heared the baby coo softly as it fell asleep, making her smile gently at it. "Still...I guess calling him "Babe" for now or Baby will be alright...can't just keep calling him "it"."

Well sounds like some of us have a bit of Scrooged Syndrom...Hope that clears up for ya soon! Anyways I love Christmas! Despite yes...I admit it can be a little stressful at times. I mean it's gotten so stressful for me that I've actually had to shut down my store here on the forums just so I won't be pestered with requests and get anxiety. Saving money to buy presents while worrying about what I want at the same time? I actually had a hard time figuring out what I wanted this year, beause I basically have what I want, or rather, what I need already. My Husband teehehe. But still, how me and my family celebrate Christmas... Well a couple days after Thanksgiving, we set up the Christmas tree, then watch the news about how stupid people are when it comes to Black Friday...It just ain't worth it people! My step father will then set up the lights on our house, always a good thing. Then all of us start coming up with our list of presents. Afterwards the Christmas shopping does commence, but on our own time since most of us 'kids' are grown up and have our little ones to think of as well. There will be the Trail of Lights we do as much as we can, we eat plenty of candy, drink loads of hot chocolate, and watch as many Christmas movies as we can! I love Christmas music too, its the one month out of the year when I can listen to all different kinds the entire month. I know that for some they get sick of it, even my husband does lol but not me! Then on Christmas Eve we have a lovely dinner, maybe watch another classic Christmas flick, and maybe if we're lucky, open ONE present before bed. On Christmas Day, the whole family gets together to open up presents and my mom makes her famous breakfast keshi! It's sucha wonderful holiday.

@, (OOC I'm not sure on this because it would be A LOT of OCs for me to handle, a huge pony sized family of OCs I don't think I could keep up lol) Bliss nodded and giggled at the aspect that for once it wouldn't be her husband that's guarding her on her outting to see family, but a former, well no longer former, unicorn guard would be escorting them this time. "I hope you're as good with magic as being a guard," she giggled, "but then again after that display with Chase Razor, I shouldn't be questioning it. I think I just voice it because of my husband, he may be a little uneased to not have his duty... But I'll worry about that, he needs to learn to relax once in awhile."

With majority of the group settling down into the cave, and with the mother's body finally buried, Bliss could only attempt to relax, and levitated her cloak back over where she orginally had carried the baby and used it as a pillow. She then turned to her saddle bags and levitated out her sleeping bag and was attempting to snuggle in for the night, when the baby chirped. @, She looked and realized that Quickdraw had curiously touched the little one and it seemed excited to be aquainted with another one of his 'mother's' kind. It chirped and snuggled under Quickdraw's hoof, it clearly was very gentle and sweet towards any stranger that associated with her. It then noticed she was slumping into her sleeping bag and immideatly leapt up, out of its nest and quickly ducked head first into the side of her bag, quite litterally squishing up next to her. "HOOF! Hey!" She snorted feeling a sharp beak poke her thie unintentionally, "watch those talons you little...um..." she sighed as the gryph turned around and poked its head out, giving her big puppy baby eyes at her. It looked sad, fearing it had done something wrong to upset her. "Gah...oh...whatever..." she sighed again and quickly smiled to reassure the poor thing, "just...go to sleep...no whining, I don't want to hear any crying tonight ok?" She lightly patted its head and laid her head down. The hippogryph hatchling copied in turn and laid its head down, snuggling it close into her neck. She sighed realizing this wasn't going to be easy finding a new home for the little guy...Blaze was right, she knew she shouldn't get attatched in the hopes to at least doing so...but a spark was slowly forming deep in her heart...She attempted to keep it low...and hope the earning burn of motherhood didn't surface fully. She drooped her ears back till they were covering the little one's head, listening to the sound of Steel's soothing flute...It made the baby go to sleep within seconds! @, Bliss then spotted Hurricane, still seeming in shock by the sight earlier, and could only offer a worried glance. "It will be ok Hurricane...we'll find a way out of here...I'm sure we will. Long as we have each other." She smiled. (OOC Think after everypony says what they need to say I'll set up the attack.)

@@Eloquence, @, She snickered back, "And guess who's the pony in charge of making that apple pie!" She drew a hearty hoof towards herself, before turning to Eloquence, "and well its ok if you don't make it Elo, you can always visit afterwards! I can write the address down for you if you like?" *Squees*

Bliss shivered, now being exposed to the cold indefiently since she used the cloak to wrap the baby up. She looked at its big golden eyes and smiled at it, but felt unsure on what would be held in its future. Surely I can't take care of you...she thought to herself as she weakly followed everypony else into the cave, you're so small and deserve better...I'm just a big earred Princess...probably would never have the time to raise you properly! What would Hoopla think if I brought you home? No... She sighed and shook the snow from her legs as she placed the soft little bundle of fur and feather near Everlast, and Clover as everypony made way for the cave despite the risk that the 'murder' could still be lurking inside. "If the attacker was still here..." she shivered, "I think it would have made itself known by now...Whomever attacked the mother, was clearly a barbaric evil creature! And would see us as easy prey, being little ponies...I bet you!" She sniffed and snorted at once, clearly still shooken up from the horrible scene that Clover fixed by giving the mother a proper burial. Suddenly the little hippogryph, chriped, realizing it had been put down and immideatly galloped over to Bliss and hugged her front legs. "Mama!" It cried with joy and began pulling on her hoof, "mama, mama!" It called as it continued to pull her towards Quickdraw. He appeared to be, unnoticably, standing next to a small nesting area made of hay and twigs. Once she was close to the bundle, the little one hopped into it and galloped around in a circle on the hay, before flipping over and rolling on its back, clearly happy to be back in its bed once again. Bliss noticed some bits and pieces of egg shell that were scattered about, but what she observed immideatly was that the shells still had evidence of embryo liquid covered on them. "He must of just hatched hours ago..." she said as she laid down outside the nest, "maybe...while his mother was out fordging, he hatched...maybe he even hatched after the attack took place...That's why he must see me as his mother, I was the first thing he saw!" She gulped a bit and then looked to see the little gryph had in fact laid down close by to her. She titled her head a bit, and he did the same in return. "Huh?" She blinked and flicked her ears. To her surpise the young one did the same as she did. Testing her therory, she lifted her lioness tail up and shook it fast. To her delight the little baby copied in turn, while also laying in the same position as she was. "Well now...he's imprinting me..." she blinked, now feeling more unsure then ever before. "This isn't good...I can't just suddenly adopt a baby...can I?" She laid her head down and gave a hearty yawn. Only to some slight annoyance the baby did the same in return, laying its head down and yawning loudly. "Surely we can find another family for it...once the blizzard dies down or something...?"

@, @@Pripyat Pony, @@purple.teal, @, "M-maybe they didn't see him..." she reasoned the situation, trying to distract herself from the horrible scene, "it looked like the mother was just about to go into the cave...but something...or someone ambushed her...M-maybe he then...waited for her for so long...he must have gotten so hungry..." She looked into the cape, ignoring the fact she was exposed to the cold as she stared into the face of the orphan foal, "he must have gone out looking for her...and got confused thinking I was the mother...but..." she sniffed heartly, "Now what do we do Clover...? Hurricane? Blaze? Quickdraw? Steel? Raze? Everlast?" (OOC Sorry if I go to fast, I do plan, if Polnareff agrees, to have three rogue male hippogryphons attack us, and mare nap us females at some point, but figured everyone wanted to catch up first, make their say, probably make camp in the cave or something, that or continue onward, before being attacked. I'm actually getting chocked up...sucha sad scene.)

@, @@Eloquence, Bliss smiled and nodded to them both. "If it helpse DarkStar, I'll tell them you're one of the my guards, it will at least give my Nights Hoopla some time off from being one and just being my husband for once hehe," she grinned and turned to Eloquence. "The invitation is there for you too if you want it Elo."

@@purple.teal, The little one, still clinging to Bliss's back, sniffed the apple with curiosity, then at lightning speed, stabbed its beak it the bright red fruit and happily began sipping the juice, before tearing away at the pulp, swallowing it all bit by bit. After a minute of attacking the apple, it gave a happy beltch and smiled to Everlast, before darting back under Bliss's cloak she used to cover it. She smiled and giggled, "Well I think fruit is defiently something he likes! That's a relief!" She then turned her head upward, spotting a cave entrance, just a short climb of some icy sharp rocks. The little hippogryph chirped, seeming to recongize where he was as she spread her wings to fly above the ice to reach the open mouth of the cave. @@Pripyat Pony, @, @, "Well, its dark," she noticed first, calling to the others as she was about to touch down in front of the cave, "doesn't seem like anypony is ho--oooooome UMF!" She suddly slipped, landing on an odd object, that was uneven and soft at the same time. The little hippogryph whined from the sudden jolt, but recovered and continued to nuzzle into his serogant mother's mane. "What in the name of...Oh in the name of Harmony and Equestria..." Her eyes bulged with terror at the sight of what she had slipped on, and now lay next to... It was a radient...beautiful...but dead body...of a similar rainbow colored hippogryphon...She could immideatly tell it to be a female based off the curve of her beak being so slim, and her large thick eyelashes...that were covered with ice, along with the rest of her body. The creature was huge for any pony standards, larger then the average gryphon even as she compared herself to the body...She looked over then, and realized there were puddles of frozen red...and large open wounds on the back, wings and sides of the mother creature...Something had attacked it...and left her to die in the frozen snow... Bliss quickly fluttered away towards the others, making sure that the little baby didn't see its truth mother...and her fate. "Oh Luna and Celestia no...." she began to cry as she wrapped the baby up, holding it close, keeping its eyes away from the terrible scene. "His mother is...she's..." she sobbed and held the little foal.

@, "You seem to forget that we are Appleloosians in heart my friend!" She beamed again, "we love to share our hospitality with others. My mom thrives in caring and giving back to others. She practically glows when she's given the opprotunity! Then there's my step father...There's not many stallions in our family and...well heh I speak on his behalf, he'd probably love the extra stallion talk here and there if you were to come." She grinned knowing for sure Shy Hammer would love having another stallion around. When he married her mother, he practically inherited four daughters, and two more sons to go with his other two sons that have moved on to have familes of their own. They didn't visit him much, so this would be a real treat for him. "And besides," she went on, "there won't just be food. There will be games and activities, we'll be racing each other and out flying each other. I know my brother inlaw of Fire Heart, Comic Coin, he's a unicorn too and likes to show off his little tricks to us pegasi well...and alicorn family since we don't know much about magic. Having another unicorn around would probably brighten his day too for the holiday get together."