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Secrets Need Be Kept[7January5151]; Rough Cut, open
Topic Started: Sep 23 2012, 03:16 AM (661 Views)
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A few minutes later Rough Cut was getting to the end of the trail. It had gotten easier once it was obvious the colt was falling on his face every third step. Poor thing was spooked and Rough Cut couldn't imagine why, Even the weakest and least impressive Alicorn was bound to be respected, revered or at the very least a little feared. While the last sometimes could yield unpleasant results the former were far far more likely if the colt used his magic for good rather than ill. In any case, she needed to apologize to him and his guardians for spooking him oh and return his hat. Rough liked the hat though it was warmer and more comfortable than her helmet though it provided much less protection.

As she arrived at the home she removed the hat and knocked firmly on the door, fixing a friendly smile to her face as she did.
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There was no response, not for a long time. It almost looked like there simply wasn't going to be one... when-

The earth pony Bountiful Harvest jumped out of the second story window, landing on Rough Cut with a grunt. Being on of their kind had its advantages, durability like this being one of them. He rolled off her, then slammed her into the door just as it opened, sending them both tumbling down.

That was where Square Root came in: With her neon-black magic surrounding a rope, she wrapped it around her legs to hog-tie the earth pony and then her husband pinned her with a glare. "Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

From the doorway to the kitchen, Harmony looked out, frightened and shivering, but still possessing the curiosity of a foal.
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It wasn't that easy. As they rolled into the room Bountiful found himself thrown off and away, Rough Cut after all was quite good at wrestling and a fighter to boot. The rope was harder to avoid, and after more than a little tap dancing around it she was hit again by the father of the household, knocked off balance and quickly tied up. She looked into Bountiful Harvest's eyes and gave him back a pair of half lidded eyes and a sultry smirk, "I don't normally go for the rough stuff, but I guess it's worth a shot." With some luck that'd get him off, but probably not.

In the eventuallity that it didn't Rough looked toward the door where the stenson lay abandoned, "Your charge lost his hat, I was returning it to him." She smiled brightly, it wasn't the first time she'd been tied up, certainly the first time where a stallion was practically mounting her at the same time, but minor quibbles aside this was ending about as well as could be expected, Scare a Prince get attacked by the body guards!
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As it turned out, Bountiful wasn't one of those males that would comically sputter and stammer when confronted with female sexuality. The stallion loved his wife, any other mare was lucky to be considered even half as good as her by him. "You're in no position to be making jokes, Missy." His unusual accent was present and muddling his words a bit, but he made no effort to move. Harmony darted out and grabbed his hat, putting it on his head ad galloping back behind his mother.

Square, for her part, just tightened the ropes on Rough for her off color remark to her husband. She stalked forward, glaring at the earth pony as she kept her her voice lower and level. "You saw nothing; no alicorn, no horn, nothing but a pegasus colt. Understand?"
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Rough Cut laughed a bit, "It was worth a shot, anyway could you get off me? It's not like I'm going anywhere," She waited for some sort of compliance then looked at Square upside down, "I don't see what the big deal is. Besides wouldn't wings be easier to hide than a horn? Oh! I know he needs a helmet err hat strap! I know where you can get some!" She wiggled in her bindings making no other indication that she planned on making any promises.
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Bountiful continued to glare at her, not getting up and letting her possibly get some sort of leverage over Rough Cut; though his wife answered the other pony's question as he held her. "Binding his wings while they're still growing like they are could lead to permanent damage to them; maybe even make it so that he could never fly when they fully develop. The horn was less dangerous to hide; as for the strap, his hat had one, but it broke. We wanted to throw it away, but it's his favorite since Bountiful," she nodded at the earth pony, "gave it to him."

"As for why is a 'big deal." The earth pony was speaking now, still holding him onto the other of his kind. "He was hurt for being what he is; he's had ponies we thought were friends of ours try to kill him for being something unnatural. We ran to here to get away from all that, and I will not let you put my son in danger."
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"Well that's silly, you could just hide them under a jacket or something, no need for ropes or anything." She seen some trussed up pegasi before and it did look painful, "Why would you even think ropes or tape first anyway, I'm sure if you ask the right pony they'd figure out a decent solution." She wiggled a bit, "Speaking of rope, can you undo this one? Seriously not planning on hurting anypony here, Harmony there'll tell you I have a sword I didn't bring." She said brightly.

She paused for a moment then continued smiling, "Besides he's an Alicorn, only really bad ponies would think of doing anything but being nice to them, well OK, maybe not with the sun gone, ponies are getting pretty ticked off at Princess Luna for leaving the moon up and they might try to hurt him to get at Her." There was another pause while Rough Cut took stock of the situation

She could tell by the looks on their faces she wasn't getting anywhere. She let out a big sigh and stopped wiggling, "Look this was fun and all, but can you untie me, I'm not gonna hurt you, I'm not gonna go around bragging that I met some distant cousin of the Sisters or whatever, but if you're gonna let him out of the house without an escort, get him a better hat strap, cause next time, he might run into a pony that might bow and scrape and then tell his friends he met a member of the Alicorn bloodline. Then you're gonna be up crap creek." She had gone over to her serious voice, ditching the bubbly happy voice when it had obviously never started working.
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"Hats can stay on more in more weather than jackets." That was a really easy to cover argument, since they're looked into a lot of options before finally picking out the hat to hide the horn. Square shared a look with her husband, then they nodded and he went over to stand in from the of the door, it having been closed a while ago. Once he was there, the unicorn untied the ropes with her magic, but kept it around to remind Rough Cut that she could still tie her up.

"And you'd be lying if you told them that. Harmony isn't related to the Royal Sisters, even distantly; there isn't even royalty in our bloodlines no matter how far back you go. He was born an alicorn... but we have no idea why. And you're mistaken about one thing more: Nopony wants what they see as a fae-touched pony around; or worse yet, something they see as a threat to the crown or a seed planted by Discord to start another war." Square sat down and hugged the little alicorn close as he sniffled at this. "My son has been called all three of those, and worse. I want him to have a normal life, not grow up with the stigma of being some... accidental alicorn."
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Rough Cut shrugged, this was really getting no where fast, "Alright, your foal your decision. Just I hope you three can trust me, I ... really hate to see ponies so scared of me when they've done Equestria no wrong." She gave an awkward smile, "Anyway, you've got his hat, I've done what I came to do. If you don't need me for anything, then I shall take my leave I suppose." She tried to catch another glance of Harmony, leaving the little colt still afraid of her was threatening to leave a lump in her stomach.
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Bountiful Harvest looked to his wife to see if he should move or not, and Square Root seemed to be conflicted about whether they should or not. Harmony, for his part, looked out from behind his mother, then squeaked in fright when he saw that Rough Cut was looking toward him.

With a sigh, Square looked toward her son and closed her eyes. She had made her decision.

"You're a protector, right?" Her horn glowed as a box was levitated in from another room and down in front of her. "Harmony has lived in fear for a long time... and not without reason." She opened the box and levitated up several pictures of the young alicorn. All of them family moments, but most of them sharing one thing: Harmony was sporting an injury in them. Whether it was a picnic with him sporting a black eye; or a parent's day photo with his leg in a cast; or even a picture of him celebrating a birthday with him bed-ridden with several bandages wrapped around his chest. "All of these pictures... ponies did that to him, ponies we thought we could truest. I don't want him to be afraid of things like that happening to him again, neither of us do." Bountiful wordlessly nodded, looking down at the floor. "I want to trust you, I really do, but I also don't want this to happen to him again. If you're a protector, can you promise me things like this won't happen to him anymore?"
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Rough Cut looked at the pictures and shook her head, Shameful. Those foals should have been punished. She frowned as she looked up from them, "I can promise nothing I'm afraid, just asure you that the ponies of Equestria and especially Ponyville are not the sort to act out with violence. Stories tell of a Zebra that once visited this town, they shut her out rather than deal with her. Eventually as the story goes she was accepted into the community, but nopony ever threatened to hurt her. Ponies around here mostly hide from threats rather than face them head on, they leave that to those of a bold nature such as myself." She put her hoof up on the picture of Harmony bedridden on his birthday, "It's sad that he had to grow up even for a portion of his childhood in such conditions."

Rough cut sighed, "It sounds to me like you want somepony to defend him, I have learned in my life that the best defense is a strong offense. You have to be able to stick up for yourself and your friends." Admittedly Rough Had scant few friends and fewer still she could visit on a whim, but that mattered naught when it came down to it, if you couldn't stand up for your friends in the event they got bullied or pushed around, then how could you expect respect in return? "I'd say find him a magic tutor, as an alicorn his most potent abilities will eventually come from that horn on his noggin and earlier he should be able to at least fend off bullies until he's bigger than them, then they'll leave him alone for sure." She sighed, this wasn't exactly the best pep talk she'd given in recent weeks...
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Square Root sighed, putting the pictures away along with all the bad memories; contrary to what Rough Cut was thinking, it hadn't been just foals that had done all that to him.

"W can't just take your word on that, unfortunately." Bountiful was now speaking up. "I lived my whole life in Trottingham; I thought I knew all those ponies, thought they were good and decent people. Then they hurt my son; and, when the night stopped ending, they put the blame on him and we had to run before they killed him. Zebras are one thing, and they're not too popular over there in Mareica either, but an alicorn... they just didn't want to deal with something they saw as either an usurper to the throne of the sisters or something made by Discord to bause strife and suffering."

"As for magic," Square spoke back up while still hugging Harmony too her, "I've been teaching him some of what I know. But my special talent is in mathematics, so my magic leaves quite a bit to be desired. And we just don't trust some random unicorn to keep quiet about him; we barely trust you to." The mare sighed, levitating her son up onto her back. "I just don't know what to do; I know we can't keep him a secret forever, but I don't want him to be hurt by scared ponies again either."

"Or worse..." Bountiful spoke again. "Taken away from us."

A silence followed the earth pony's word as Harmony clung to his mother's neck and the two parents shared another look; none of them wanted to be separated from each other.
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Ahhh sweet Celestia this was sappy. Rough Cut was used to sappiness, it was after all a part of being a pony but this was so very sad and sappy and it was like they were trying to tug at her heartstrings, "Look, I don't know what you want, I'm not gonna tell anyone, on my Honor I won't." She backed a bit toward the door, now she was rather sure she didn't want to stick around any longer, at the rate they were going they'd try and make Rough Cut be the poor colt's outside the house guardian and she really wanted nothing to do with that noise.
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Both of the adults gave a sight of resignation and looked at each other once more. Finally, after a long moment, Bountiful stepped away from the door and next to his wife and son. In truth, they had hoped they could get something like that, since they didn't trust anypony to be as non-violent as Rough Cut was saying they were. However, like last time, they would have to accept that it was just the three of them in this little story of there's.

"You can go." The earth pony stallion said, nodding to the door. "We're sorry we wasted your time."
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