MLP Windingo War Part 8

The following day, Svenja was sleeping on the couch were she had fallen asleep, due to her medication. A cream-colored unicorn mare in a maid attire walked over to Svenja, with a smile on her face.  

The mare leaned over and whispered, "It's time to get up, Ma'am."

Svenja moved her head and moaned, "Not now, Buttercream. Tell Mutti she can bucking wait."

"But Master Louis is packing up and ready to leave. We're going with him."

Svenja opened her eyes before lifting her head. She saw Buttercream's smiling friendly face, then she scanned the room. It took her a couple minutes to compute her surroundings, as it wasn't the mansion.

"I'm at Gutenburg's place, aren't I?"

Louis walked over to her, "You are. Go get something to eat then we have to go to back to my home."

Svenja stretched and walked into the kitchen. She made herself a Whetgrass sandwich. She, basically, inhaled the meal before taking a quick shower. Then she joined Louis and Buttercream for their long trip to Liechtrotenstein.

"Why is Buttercream here and what happened with my folks?"

"Your mother disowned you, as well as the rest of the family. You may bare the Ritchoovan name, but you are not a Baroness anymore." Louis sighed, "All of your belongings were shipped overnight to my mansion. Buttercream wanted to join us, to stick by your side."

"Thank you, Buttercream." Svenja smiled.

"Anytime, Ma'am. I really didn't want to stay there nor be homeless again." Buttercream smiled, "Should I call you as 'Mistress', as you are, esstically, the Mare of the Mansion?"

"Only when we have guests." Svenja smiled, "Any other time, please use my name."

"Okay, Svenja." Buttercream smiled, "I understand."

They continued the trip, which was about a few days, until they arrived in Schaan, Liechtrotenstein. When the carriage pulled up to the mansion, Svenja noticed that it was bigger then her Vater's.

"Well, that's not modest. That's huge."

"One of the perks of being a Duke; Bigger then needed home." Louis sighed.

When the Carriage stopped, they climbed out. Buttercream looked at the sheer size of the place.

"It is going to be a major hard task to keep it clean."

"I have more then enough maids for the cleaning." Louis sighed again before looking at her, "Ever tried your hoof at cooking? I seemed to be down two chefs as one retired due to old age and another one was arrested for public drunkeness, which is an automatic cut from my payroll."

"I have, but I mostly made sweets in order to scrape by before Svenja brought me to her place." Buttercream smiled, "We were both young. I had just recieved my mark when Svenja came to me. She was still a blank-flank at the time. Soon, after she joined the military, she earned her wings and Mark as well. Her marking, as she is now, is sort of useless."

"Yeah." Svenja sighed, "What's the point of having a pair of Military wings when I am no longer a military mare."

"Maybe we could find something that you could do to occupy your time now." Louis smiled.

He showed her the new bedroom that she'll be staying at. Buttercream was given a Chef Uniform and was showned the Kitchen. When Dinner came around, she was asked to make the best she could do. Buttercream made a spicy stuffed Portobello Mushroom Burgers. Svenja loved it, while Louis had to drink about a gallon of water, as he wasn't accustomed to the spicyness.

"It wasn't that spicy, Louis." Svena smiled.

"Maybe for you, but for me, it was quite spicy."

Buttercream came into the room, "How was the supper?"

"It was quite delicious." Svenja smiled as she spoked, "Louis probably agree, but the spicy affected him."

"I'm so sorry about that, Sir." Buttercream lowered her head.

"It's quite alright." Louis smiled, "I should've been prepared for it."

Everyday, for two weeks was Louis showing Svenja the beauty of Schaan and the nearby capital of Vaduz. Whenever he was working, Svenja was exploring the mansion. She eventually found the library, then the music room. She walked into it and start singing to some music from a book she found. One day, Buttercream had set up a record player, but have it set to record instead. When Svenja came in and did her singing, the player was recording her entire singing. As soon as Svenja left, Buttercream entered the room and retrieve the record. She placed it in Louis' private study, which is his Special Police office away from the office. He saw the record and start playing it. He heard Svenja's angelic voice singing to some Big Band songs from their Grandfathers' time.

Svenja walked into his office, "Buttercream told me that you were in. How was work?"

"It was good." Louis smiled, "Not as good as your beautiful angelic singing."

Svenja blushed, "H-How?" then she remembered, "The Record Player! I never thought of wondering why the disk was moving."

"You are so good at singing. Why not try that as a career?"

"I don't have the confidence to sing in public, let alone around my own family."

Louis walked around his desk, to get closer to her and hugged her, "Maybe we can work on that."

"Danke." Svenja smiled.

It took her about a year to gain the confidence and small-time performances to take the idea of singing for a living seriously. She decided to use the name "Svenja the Crimson Angel of Liechtrotenstein" as her monkier, but sometimes just simply using "Crimson Angel". She soon became famous for her singing. One time, she was doing a holiday concert at the Hoofgarian Castle. She decided to sing "Santa Baby". She was wearing a lime-green dress with one side cut up to her hip. Elsa asked her to tease Ambrus a little, just for fun, as he seemed to be a bit stressed out, and Elsa doesn't want Ambrus to cuss, again.

The moment her part began, Svenja subtlely teased every colt in the room, even the Piano Player was enamaled by her beauty. As she decended the small staircase, she knew she was getting them drooling. She walked up to Ambrus, while singing, in a teasing fashion. She was stroking his chin, and sang some more of the song in his ear, but everyone there heard her. As she was walking away, with a sway in her step, caused Ambrus' wings to pomfed. Even Louis' wings, as he was there as additional security, as the Princess and Prince from Swisherland and Liechtrotenstein were there as well, had pomfed. At the end, pegasi wings were pomfed and unicorn horns were sparking. Only Prince Noah's horn and wings remained normal.

"I'm so glad Marlene and Dominik are too young to stay up this late." Elsa thought, "I said a little and the whole room went nuts."

After the concert, Elsa was with Svenja in the backstage area.

"Sorry about setting the whole room nuts with my performance, Elsa." Svenja sighed as she cleaned off the make-up, "That always seemed to be the reaction I get whenever I do my singing. And to think about two to four years ago, I was too scared to even sing in front of my family."

Elsa sighed, "It's alright. I know I asked you to tease him a little, but guess it accidentily went passed that mark." then she looked at the folded paper, which was showing the editorial page, "Guess that is another reason why some whom hate you refers to you as the 'Crimson Siren'.

Svenja sighed and nodded, "Ja. I knew there would be haters, but It's a pain having that moniker." then she unfolded the paper, "It was coined by my former mother, as she had disowned me. She called me that moniker after seeing one of my performances for the Germaney Elite. She said, 'Look how low you had fallen, Svenja. You are nothing more then a Crimson Siren whom charm colts and take the easy way out.' As if! I worked hard for my Career. FAR MORE THEN SHE EVER DONE!" then she tossed the paper into the trashcan, "Like she's one to talk!!"

"Clearly, you have mother issues." Elsa sighed, "Ambrus is the same way."

"Did his mother disowned him?" Svenja raised an eyebrow.

"Sort of." Elsa sighed, "But once she had died, everything she had against him was removed and he became King."

Svenja sighed, with a huff, "I know I should be happy, as I'm living with and dating a Duke, but it still annoy me that Mutti had done that to me."

"If I was in your hooves, I would be just as annoyed as you are now." Elsa placed one hoof on Svenja's shoulder, "Just let it go."

Svenja nodded, "Yeah, I should."

Elsa smiled, "I got a question, if that's alright."

"What is it?"

"Could you perform at Dominik and Marlene's Birthday Party? They're turning six soon."

Svenja smiled, "I'll be delighted. Any special requests?", then she giggled, "Beside the normal foal-friendly songs."

"Well, Dominink likes songs from Amareica, if that helps with anything."

She nodded, "It sure does. I'll listen to Amareican music stations and I'll get some ideas."

"Guess we'll see you then."

Svenja smiled, "Ja."

During the six-ish months since then, Svenja and Louis went on a week-long trip to Amareica where she learned more of their music style and incorporate it into her own. She also did a gig in Itaily, where Ludwig and Filly, with their young foal, Victor, attended. After that, they were in Zebraica, where they had gotten married. Eventually, the two foals' birthday party came closing in.

"How are we doing, Darling?" Louis smiled.

"Good. I'm working on the song selection for the Prince and Princess' birthday party. I'm going to mail out the list to the King and Queen." Svenja smiled back, "I've been thinking."

"Oh? About what, my dear?"

"Maybe after I do this Birthday Party gig, maybe we start expanding our family." she smiled at him, bashing her eyelashes.

He kisses her on the cheek, "Of course, my sweet angel."

Svenja smiled. Then she gave the letter with the list over to the Postal-Mare, whom flew as quick as a flash. By the following day, Elsa had recieved the list.

"This is quite an detailed list, but-" then Elsa took out a bottle of red ink and crossed out songs that was from the Third Reich time period, "None of these Nazi songs will EVER be sung around my children, EVER!"

"Please, Elsa, to write why you rejected those songs." Ambrus reminded her, while reading the newspaper, "It's only proper to do so."

"Thanks for reminding me, Dear." Elsa sighed, trying to calm down as she wrote her reasonale, "Naturally, they want to bring their new friends from school, whom also happened to be blank-flanks as well. What was their names again?"

"Wilhelm and Orynko Johannes, and their other friend, Freya Clausen." Ambrus flipped the page of the paper, "They are the children of Franz and Hilda Johannes as well as the daughter of Fritz and Neon Clausen."

"Ah, yeah. I'm glad our children are able to be friends with theirs." Elsa smiled, "They even came up a name for their group." she sighed, "What was it again?"

"The Order of the Cutie Mark. " Ambrus said, still looking at the paper, "The O.C.M. or they prefer the shorter name 'The Order', and they structured it after our former Knight Templar hierarchy."

"Oh, colt." Elsa smiled, "Who is their 'Grandmaster?"

"I do believe that would be your daughter, Marlene." Ambrus smiled, "Then Wilhelm, Dominik, Orynko, and finally Freya. Through I feel Freya got her rank due to her being an earth-pony."

"Probably, Dear." Elsa said, before returning the letter, in a new envelope, to the Postal-Mare whom flew away, "But at least they have an outlet for their energy and putting them into leadership-like role."

"Igen." Ambrus, finally putting the paper down, "In a much more safe and fun way then our childhood. In a way, you finally got a part of Hoofgarian land that you wanted all those centuries ago that you wanted for helping me out. That I beat you to a bloody pulp over." he smiled at her.

Elsa giggled, and kissed him, "And far more then that, my Dear. I also, " she placed  her hoof onto his nose, "did a checkmate on you and have foals with you."

Ambrus chuckled back at her, "Yeah, the blue Queen checkmated the White King and have light-blue Prince and Princess as a result."

They chucked and kissed and other love-making stuff while their children were in school. After two more weeks, it was the big day, Dominik and Marlene's sixth birthday. Marlene was wearing a white cloak with a black cross with the letters "OCM" underneith it. The black cross also formed the buckle on their cloaks.

Dominik was also wearing the identical cloak as Marlene. The only difference is that Marlene is wearing an amulet with the Black Cross on it, with the letters "OCM" on top and "GM" on the bottom. Before long, two pegasus , a red-coated colt with electric blue mane and a grey-coated filly with grape-purple mane came in. They were wearing the same uniform as the other two, but the colt was wearing a black sash around his neck. Then a bluish-purple filly with an earthy-brown mane came running over to them.

"It's about time our friend of the Earth got here." the Pegasi filly sighed.

"Well, sorry, Orynko. I wanted to make sure that their presents arrived and looked nice within their wrappings." the Earth filly, named Freya, smiled.

"We're just glad that you three could come." the alicorn filly, named Marlene smiled.

"Why were you waiting for them to arrive?" Marlene's brother, Dominik, asked.

"Well, one of them came from Canterlot, Equestria and the other one came from Amareica."

"Marlene, I think we should say our creed before we forget, as we are all in our Order uniform." Orynko's brother, Wilhelm, nods towards her.

"Agreed." Marlene smiled and raised her hoof up, "Hooves together!"

Once the other four did, they said in a unified voice, "We are the Order of the Cutie Mark, This isn't a lark, We will continue to help our fellow ponies in an everlasting motion, As this is our Notion!"

Soon, they gathered at the stage, with other ponies, to watch Svenja perform. About thirty minutes later, Marlene and Dominik was opening up their presents. Freya got Marlene a law book from the Oxford University of Law's bookstore, from Canterlot and a collection of Sport books for Dominik. From Orynko, they got a Daring Do book and a wing stregthening gadget. Wilhelm gave them a Sports book and a cookbook, but accidently labelled the cookbook for Dominik instead of Marlene, while the Sports book was labeled for Marlene. Wilhelm face-hooved at his slip-up.

Before long, the party was over and Svenja had to leave, to head to her doctor appointment. Ten minutes later, she was at the office.

"How long will this take, Doc?"

"The procedure about couple minutes, but no more then two hours total." the doctor-unicorn smiled.

"Okay." Svenja sighed as the doctor was starting the procedure.

In less then two minutes, the doctor had sent samples to the hospital labatory for testing. Two hours later, they came back to the doctor, whom recorded the results and he walked back into the room.

"The results came back, Mrs. Gutenburg."

"What does it say?"

The doctor sighed, "You...are sterile. You won't be able to bare any foals. I am sorry.", then he gave her a copy of the results before leaving.

Svenja continue to sit there, for another five minutes, before leaving. When she saw Louis, tears begin to fall. He walked up to her and hugged her.

"What's the matter, Darling?"

"I-I-I" Svenja sniffled, trying to control her crying, "Can't bare any foals. I'm sterile."

"Shh. It's okay. We can still adopt." Louis smiled, "Let's take our honeymoon early. We can go back to Zebrica."

Svenja nodded. The following day, they were on the zepplin bound for Zebrica. Four days later, they landed and were exploring the locale. Soon, Svenja spotted an adoption center. Curious, as well out of necissity, walked into it, with Louis in tow.

"Welcome to the Zebrica-to-Equestria adoption center. Is this your first time?" the Equestrian unicorn-mare smiled.

"Yes. I never thought about adoption before now. What is it?"

"Well, we take in orphans whom were either abandoned by their parents, or their parents died, or some other means." the mare smiled, "Let me show you around."

They followed the mare around. They soon noticed one Zebra, of about six years of age, sitting in a corner.

"Who's that?" Svenja pointed at the young Zebra.

"Oh, that's Tabitha. She's unique, and none of the other Zebra fillies and colts want to be around her."

"Why is that?"

"She's a unicorn-Zebra and she's-" the mare whispers in Svenja's ear, "really a colt."

"Really!?" Svenja surprised by the news.

"Yeah. Hated her birth name so much that she refused to respond to it, but she does respond to 'Tabitha'. That also explain her love for dresses."

Svenja walked over to Tabitha. The moment the Zebra, her eyes lit up.

"You are the Crimson Angel the music specialist. I always wanted to meet you, and it was on my list." Tabitha smiled.

"It's okay to be different, Tabitha. I can't fly anymore, and I know ponies whom were different then what others see them as." Svenja smiled, "How come you are here in the orphanage, Tabitha?"

Tabitha sighed, "Mother wanted a filly, with all of her willy. Father wanted a colt, whom can bolt. The end result was me. Whom wasn't exactly whom they wanted to be. In the end, they abandoned me and I ran. As fast as I can. When I got here, I was in tears. When the other fillies and colts found out about my secret, they beat me up and create my fears."

Svenja jumped up, and one look into her eyes told Louis that she was determinally-angry.

"I know that look." Louis smiled, then look at the mare, "Tabitha will be coming home with us, Ma'am."

The mare smiled, "I'll get the paperwork." and she left.

Fifteen minutes later, they were in the office. She had asked for a few hundred bits, which they gave her a couple Thalers. After signing the paperwork, Tabitha left the orphanage with her belongings. She was also a blank-flank, but that didn't bother her as most of the foals in the orphanage were blank-flanks. After learning about some of Tabitha's favorite things, they bought her some new dolls and dresses. By the week's end, they were back in Schaan, and had enrolled her in Germaney Elite Primary School, the same school as the five members of the Order. The following Monday, Tabitha, in her best dress, arrived at her class.

"Class! Listen up and remain silient." their teacher, an Earth pony with a fiery-orange coat and blazing-red mane, said, "We have a new student. Her name is Tabitha Gutenburg. Please make her feel welcomed." then she looked at Tabitha, "Please introduce yourself."

"Hello, I am Tabitha Gutenburg of Liechtrotenstein, and I'm pleased to be here. I do rhyme whenever I talk for all to hear." Tabitha smiled, then she took an empty desk.

After some time, it was recess. While she was sitting on a tree stump, three fillies walked over to her.

"Hey! Why are you, a commoner from a dirt-loving country doing here at Germaney Elite? Only true Aristrocrats belong here." asked the leader of the trio.

"I was adopted and by adoption, I am a Duchess, as my adoptive mother before me. Who are you to be?" Tabitha smiled at the trio.

"I am Hope Diamond and these are my friends; Fine Cuisine and Fancy Cheese." Hope smiled, then she tossed a mudball at Tabitha, "Now go back to Zebrica, you dirt-loving Zebrican."

"Yeah!" the other two said.

"Oy! Leave her be!" Marlene yelled as she ran over, and stopping in-between her and Tabitha.

Soon, the other four ran over, formin a wall. All hope did was scoffed.

"The Order of the Geeks have arrived." Hope huffed, "Just remember this, Zebrican; This is Germaney Elite, as in this school is for the Elite class only of the Germaney bloodline only." then she turned around and flick her tail up in a snotty way, "Let's go, girls. I don't want to be sick by Zebrican Black Magic."

"Yeah!" then the trio walked away.

Marlene looked back at Tabitha, and start cleaning the mud off of the dress, "They are the bullies at this school. They hate Blank-Flanks, non-Germaney-blooded, and non-Elite ponies."

"That means they hate me the most. Which means I am toast."

"We are also blank-flanks. I'm Marlene, Princess of Hoovaria and Hoofgary. Do you want to join our ranks, Tabitha?" Marlene held out a hoof.

Tabitha reached out and shooked it, "Yes, I would love to join. Do I have to give you a coin?"

"Oh, no. Joining is free. We help our fellow ponies whenever possible." Marlene smiled, "It is our creed."

"If helping other ponies is a part of your creed. Then that is all the meed you would ever need."

"That is correct."  Marlene smiled, "This weekend we be meeting at Freya's place. Come there and we will be able to give you your cloak."

"Maybe we should have her recite the Creed. This way she would already be a member when this weekend comes around." Wilhelm walked up to Marlene.

"Good idea, Willy." Marlene smiled, then faced Tabitha, "Okay, Tabitha, all you need to do is repeat after me."

"I am ready, Marlene. This is so surrene."

"We are the Order of the Cutie Mark."

Tabitha smiled, "We are the Order of the Cutie Mark."

"This isn't a lark."

"This isn't a lark." Tabitha repeated.

"We will continue to help our fellow ponies in an everlasting motion."

"We will continue to help our fellow ponies in an everlasting motion."

"As this is our Notion!"

"As this is out Notion!" Tabitha almost yelled the last word.

"Congradulations, Tabitha." Marlene smiled, "You are now a part of the Order of the Cutie Mark."

Tabitha smiled, then they returned to class. After the reminder of class, they returned home, Tabitha was happy to tell her mother everything that had happened at school. Which include the group she had joined on her first day there.

[the end for now]