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Crescendo stirred in what little early morning light the dark forest grove allowed in. His mind was telling him that it was still far too early to wake up, and everything else within him was agreeing. The only disagreement was the little nudges against his body every few minutes. The stallion offered a grunt in response, and moved slightly to turn his back on the nudges.

"Del...stop...s'too early...still tired..." He mumbled, unaware that his mate was still sound asleep on the other side of the baskets between them.

The sound of silence greeted him in return. Crescendo smiled a bit to himself and tried to completely fall back asleep. It wasn't long after that, that the nudges returned...this time joined by light nips. The green stallion grunted again and rolled over once more to avoid the disturbances.



A little green nose popped in and out of it's basket several times over the course of the morning. Often times biting at the grass and other plants littering the forest floor, but occasionally managing to bump against something else. Something larger, warm...and still green!

Little pink eyes soon followed the nose, peeking out from under the lid of the now fraying basket. With each grunt from the stallion beside the basket, the little filly crawled out further. He kept moving away! How was that fair at all? Getting her front legs out, the rest of her toppled into the grass with them. With a light sneeze and a smile, the little green filly pulled herself up and tumbled again this time against Crescendo. She smiled after a moment and snuggled into the warmth his body provided.

Once she felt safe, she raised her head and watched the nearby peachy colored mare and two fraying baskets, similar to her now abandoned one.

Lyric took longer to emerge, though it stayed true to his future personality. He had been content in his basket. It was comforting, dark, and rather familiar. He could ignore the tightness around his frame for the time being, since his body had grown big enough to feel slightly cramped. But, cramped was okay. Cramped was just fine.

Oh.

He heard a grunt near his basket, form twitching slightly within his own basket. Hrmpf, maybe it was too cramped, but that didn't mean he needed to leave anytime soon, right? Well, then there was the nudging he could feel coming from one side. It was consistent, as if something was telling him: "Get out already!". Well, what if he didn't want to? The nudging, however, had other plans.

Fine, maybe he should escape, if it was possible. It had to be, right? With a weak little squirm, the foal managed to burst a leg through his basket, as his sister had done. Some squirming was forced, as he quickly realized he wasn't getting anywhere on his back. The basket wobbled, then flipped and opened for the little foal. He came out rolling, colliding into his mother, who was closest. Bright blue eyes whipped open in alarm before he sat upright, calmed. A quick glance in both directions and he spotted a sleeping mother, father, and two other creatures who were wide awake and looked similar to him, minus the wings on the back of one.

With a flick of his green mane, the foal tilted his head and leaned back to nudge the winged sister, who was also closer. Well, maybe he was happy he left that stupid basket.

Claves beamed happily at the greeting from her mother and stood back up on her wobbly legs. "Mommy!" She called out, attempting to leap past her siblings to get closer and inevitably falling on her face. Claves grunted and looked up in frustration, jealous that both her siblings were standing and she was having such problems.

Crescendo quickly raised his head, quite alarmed at his mate's yelling. "What?! What happened Del--" The sight of the three little ones before him effectively silenced him. "Out already huh...?" He asked, standing up and gently nosing the fallen filly back to her feet. "It's a shame Pach and Beat aren't here right now..." He mumbled, nuzzling each of them.

The little green filly returned his affections then took another wobbly step towards her mother. She was determined to get there no matter what it took. Unfortunately it was taking her longer to get over there than she had hoped. "Momma...." Claves whined softly at her, collapsing in a frustrated heap at her feet.

Del gave a small gasp as the green filly seemed to have such problems. She was relieved to see that her brother was already willing to comfort her and soothe her. "Oh, little one." she said carefully moving just a bit away from the pink filly so that she could lean down and nuzzle the two foals at her hooves. "Give it a little time. You'll be just fine in a bit." she said gently.

She then looked up at Cres and giggled a bit. "I hope you figured out some names, because I wasn't really expecting girls at all, and only came up with more boy names." she said with a sheepish smile.

With that she looked down at the colt still nestled with his sister. "And I think...Lyric." she then nodded. "Yes, I definitely think you are a Lyric. What do you think little man?" she asked giving him an affectionate nudge.

The pink filly perked at the sound of names. She bounced forward to be more in between her parents and siblings and flicked her wings several times. "Me! Me! What's my name, Papa, Momma?" she giggled and bounced a few more times her little wings fluttering as she seemed unable to keep still or her hooves on the ground.

Lyric was taken aback by Claves upset state, immediately moving to nuzzle her cheek gently. Her flop only caused even more concern as he smoothly, swiftly nudged her against his side and rested his head onto the back of her neck, humming quietly. He didn't like seeing his sister upset! Only a few minutes in this world and he was already fretting!

However, Crescendo spoke and bestowed a name upon the filly, leaving Lyric with a face of wonder. Claves and Timpani. What interesting names. A name was a label, right? Those names were who those two were, right? So who was he? What name did he earn? The male decided that he'd worry later, focusing on Claves and Timpani quietly. Claves seemed to like her name and she appeared to find joy in finally having a name. Good. She was easy to please at the moment. Now to see if Timpani accepted her name!

Lyric watched Tipi with a raised eyebrow before looking back towards Rondel. Suddenly, it hit. She had spoken to him before. His head jerked up to nuzzle her, an apologetic gesture. Her smile caused, immediately, his own to appear, though it was smaller and a tad more reserved.

"I like it." His voice came out smooth and gentle as he seemed to accept the name. Lyric. He was Lyric. He was someone. With another nuzzle, again apologetic, he seemed more inclined to nestle into his mother now as he watched his sisters seem to embrace their names.

Crescendo nodded and smiled back at his mate reassuringly. "I'm sure Pach and Beat will be home to visit soon. They should know how to find us here...I hope." He stopped to think about that for a moment. He was sure they had brought both the boys here before after all. Tipi's snuggling brought him back out of his thoughts and he smiled down at her.

"Having fun exploring the world?" He asked, nuzzling her gently.

Claves huffed slightly and threw herself back down into the grass where she looked between her parents and siblings. Pink eyes then focused heavily on Timpani and her father. What were those pretty, sparkly things on their backs? She quickly turned her head to look at her own back and became increasingly disappointed that she didn't have any.

Her attention quickly turned back towards them. Claves pushed herself up after a moment and moved towards her sister, nipping at her wings. "Gimmie--!"

Claves accepted the nuzzle from her mother, but kept eyeing Timpani's wings carefully. She huffed and puffed again, slightly agitated by the fact she didn't have wings like her sister did. How was that fair at all?

Eventually she turned around to find where her brother went, giving him a good once over for wings as well and not seeing any. "...how come we don't have wings...?" She mumbled, trotting away from Rondel to go bug her brother.