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Blue got on moments later and instantly went to the gaming floor, pushing the cart out she looked at her sister "huge isnt it? I haven't seen the whole floor, I just bascailly came in, took straight to the teleporteres and took note of which lead to where and that was about it, this is meant to have nearly every game ever made in th human world, our world, the magical world and any world in between, apparently Lady Wicca is a huge fan of games, her and Coven play at least once a week, more if her mother and Coven arn't busy. Care to explore?"

"Alright then, we shall ask him later" she said as she looked at Coven "well then, I guess that settles it, we shall ask Red to do it, given its a favor for you, im sure he will say yes" she said winking at Coven.

Coven blushed slightly "erm...I...I don't know what you are talking about..." she said as she quickly looked down at Tira and nuzzled him, majking sure h was fine.

"Someone has a crush on Reeeed" Lemonade teased as the blush just went darker on the other earth pony "we are all friends here, its fine if you have a crush on him, though I just suggest not telling your parents if anything did happen, we all know what they think of Red."

"Yes, well, nothing will happen so it doesn't matter, are we ready to do this other thing?" She asked, thinking it was best to just move on from this conversation.

"im sorry but not yet, shes still having a little trouble it seems, wont be long now, promise" Hydra said as she looked back to the ghost beside her to try and sort out what was wrong.

"That can be arranged" Blue aid as she went over to a near by shelf and picked up a map and then walked back and handed it to her sister "apparently they needed to make tese since people got lost all the time, first timers were worse for obvious reasons so we now get maps of the place, where would you like to start first? They have nearly everything, like I said, they have ancient games like Senet, an old Ancient Egyptian board game, video games and their consoles, normal board games and every other game in between, so take your pick" she said to her sister, deciding to let her pick their first stop.

Coven smiled at the two "it's alright, I understand shes just playing around but she is righ, my parents have no love for Red at all, he has paid his dues, spent time in jail but some things just can't be taken away regardless wether you have paid your dues or not, he did alot of bad things, Lord Jack did as well, though some things Red did with the encourgment of Lord Jack when Lord Jack wouldn't do them he would sit back and egg on Red who would have said something like "fine, I will do it since obviously you are too chicken to" or whatever. Red ended up being worse then Lord Jack but not by much, Lord Jack did terrible things as well but he has reformed and redeemed himself and Red ended up spending time in jail on charges of theft, black market running, obtaining illegal ingrediants, making and selling illegal potions and even went so far as to ding fraud, he impersonated my mother, he never could get down my fathers voice or look perfectly but he could get down my mothers so he was able to get even more illegal items, learn illegal spells, gain entry to places only Goverment House counsel members are allowed, gaining entry to only elders are allowed, getting his hooves on important, secret documents that only elders are allowed to read and more.

Obviously, for the fraud alone, he is hated by my parents, the rest was just icing on the cake and whilst he has become a better person and changed his ways since the old days they just don't want to know or care to know, to them, he has no trustworthy qualities about him, he is always going to be a criminal to them and whilst I understand, being the next in line to become an elder myself, I know that I could never be with someone who has caused alot of trouble to the magical realm when we are still putting the place back together after Ravens mother tore it apart, it would be contridicting of our laws and hypocritical to so I just have to keep my distance regardless what I feel." Coven said with a sigh as she kissed Tira's head and whispered in his ear so that no one else could hear "always follow your heart little one" she said as Tira looked up at her and smiled at her, Coven was unsure if he knew what she was talking about but she assumed he wouldn't so she smiled somberly back at him and looked back at Lemonade and Darmani and smiled at them also "so, like Lemonade said, Red is forbidden to even be near me let along talk to me, dating him would probably have me thrown in jail, of course though my parents know he and I, at times, will have to run into each other or talk to each other so they don't go that far though give them half a chance and they will do such a thing regardless how unreasonable it is" she said finishing off her slice.

Lemonade looked at Coven in shock "Red and my..." she said trailing off, looking at her mate and then back at Coven, unsure what to say.

"I am sorry" Coven said to Lemonade "I never meant to paint your father in such a bad way, it was wrong of me" she said sincerly to her friend, it was rude of her to speak so poorly about her friends father, she was taught better then that.

"I am not bothered about that, it is fine, I understand, it's just he never spoke about any of this to us, regardless how many times we have asked or its just come up in conversation or whatever, I knew my father had a bit of a 'bad boy' sort of reputation with Red with they were both younger, best friends since they were both kids but I never knew the extent of their reputation, it is just a little shocking thats all" she said as she thought things over in her head, wondering curiously what else her father never told her.

"Then video games it is" Blue said as she looked down at the map and placed it into the cart "this way" she said leading them towards the video game section "perhaps buying two consoles whilst we are here also?" She suggested to her sister "one for our sister as well as one for Tira? That is, if we find anything for Tira in the video game section that is, we arn't sure exactly what games a little boy could be into and which could be educational" she said as she started to wonder where their uncle was.

"He has been good since he was in jail, he took cooking classes, he opened up his own restraunt, granted that was all Lord Jack's doing in his name since he opened it when he was in jail, Frostbite worked at the restraunt as sort of manager while he was in jail, only allowed to visit his restraunt once, maybe twice a week and only for 10 minute periods as that is his 'excercise' instead of going out the back of the jail cell with the others, he likes that though, he prefers it that way and Frostbite looks after everything else. Of course, he didn't go out without an escort but he has changed, like I said, the cooking classes and his own restraunt has made him actually belive he can do more then just make a nusense of himself and the time in jail has made him reflect on what has happened, Maria was found soon after he was let out of Jail and that helped him more to be a good pony, knowing there was someone who looked up to him made him realise more that he couldn't go back to his old ways and taught Maria how to look after her lycanthorpe powers.

So Red has changed, you can see it yourself, it is had to belive that someone like Red could be as kind and as caring as he is after what he did back when he was an idiot, he adores your children, he loves this place, he loves being able to help his old friend out with their family, he has a job as chef and he is still with Maria which is most important to him, he couldn't want a better life, if Lord Jack hadn't talked my parents into letting him come here he wouldn't be here now. My parents didn't think having someone like him come to this world was a good idea let alone having him work fora normal family but since it was Lord Jacks family they decided to take a chance and he has worked out well, it was wrong of Lord Jack to place his family in the hooves of what ould have been potential danger but he belived Red had changed so much that he took that chance but not only that I highly doubt Red would do anything to this family anyway.

Red and Lord Jack, as I said, go way back, Red would never do anything to have Lord Jack deem him untrustworthy and vice versa, those two would do anything for each other, Lord Jack even wanted to go into jail for Red, saying it was all his fault and that Red shouldn't be to blame, too bad that the proof was causing Red to be the guilty one or else Lord Jack would have been in Jail in place of Red. These two are basically brothers, Lord Jack would always think of Red as his actual brother then his actual brother, some say thats what had Lord Jack end up killing his brother, he wanted Red as his brother and no one else and thus the murder of his brother and another roumor was that his brother wanted to kill his brother so he had rightful inheritance of the family honor of doing their fathers job.

Whatever the real story is no one will ever know except for Red and Lord Jack and they have sworn never to tell a single soul besides their family and who knows if its the real version anyway? Anyway, Red is here now and he and I can't be anything more then friends and that is pushing it, so I just have to deal with it or defy my parents which I don't really feel like doing" she said with a sigh as she took another slice and nibbled on it.

Lemonade looked at coven and back at her mate, going over what she said and started to wonder "what if..." she said as she lent up and whispered in her mates ear so Coven could't hear "we tried to help? I know it would be going against Lord Pagan and Lady Wicca's instructions but still, I will get daddy to take care of them, Red and Coven deserve some happyiness" she said to her mate, looking back at Coven, it was horrible not being able to be with the one you loved and Lemonade knew Red had a liking for Coven also, one of the passwords for one of his secret voice activated compartments in his room was 'lovely Coven', not that she would have known that had the door not been ajar so she heard whilst waiting to knock on his door but still, it would be nice for them to be together.