Creating A Hive

5 Kids (And Counting-SHH)

AN: There are mentions of child abuse here. Including and not limited to: actual hitting of a child, emotional abuse of a child, downward thought spirals, way too many panic attacks, and references to parents that aren't nice. If something triggered you and I missed it, I am BEGGING you to tell me. I don't want to scare people, I just wanna tell a story about a family.

==CAH==

It was a beautiful, quiet day in Ponyville. This was the intention of the weather ponies, of course. They'd been working to make this the quietest Ponyville had ever been, or ever would be if one were being honest with themselves.

Fluttershy knew this very well. She gathered the loudest ponies in town. Pure coincidence that those ponies were her closest friends. Yep, definitely not an intentional thing. No, Fluttershy just wanted to see her friends. She wouldn't scold them for being loud, she would never dream of it. She would just very politely whisper it.

The pegasus stood in front of her friends. Thorax was kneeling down to be level with Raspberry's shoulder. Raspberry stayed still so as not to disturb him. Killjoy sat in the back, leaning on a tree. The rest of her friends were vibrating on their hooves. Everypony was so excited for the Breezies to come on through. Fluttershy built up the event for ages. Ever since she was selected to study the Breezies, this event was all she would talk about. A lot of that week for Twilight was tied in with the memory of tending an ailing Discord.

"Okay, everypony." Fluttershy began. Her friends quieted down, smiling happily at Fluttershy. Most of them, anyway. Killjoy was paying more attention to the knife in her hooves. "As you know, the adorable fairy creatures known as Breezies are about to come through Ponyville."

Pinkie squealed loudly. "Yes! Ooh, it's so exciting! Ah! I can't wait for Rainbow Dash to make the breeze for them so I can see how cute they are up close!"

"I've never done it before, not that I won't be totally awesome at it, because I totally will!" Dash agreed.

Fluttershy was already seeing what she had to work with here. "And that breeze is very important, but so is cheering on those teeny-tiny little things, so they have the confidence to ride that breeze to their native land. Did I mention how tiny they are? So tiny! I was thinking we could do a special Breezie cheer!"

"I love cheers!" Pinkie squealed loudly again.

"But these cheers should be quiet cheers." Fluttershy explained. "We don't want to startle them. They need to be able to concentrate. Why don't we try it? You can do it, Breezies."

Her friends shouted in her face. "You can do it, Breezies!"

She heard three ponies quietly whisper "You can do it, Breezies!"

Fluttershy blinked at them all. "Oh, my."

"Heh, sorry, Fluttershy." Applejack spoke up first. "I had no idea how hard it was to do a cheer quietly."

"Oh, it's okay. Quiet doesn't come naturally for everypony." Fluttershy assured them. "Raspberry, Thorax, Killjoy, you did a good job. Could everypony do it like they did?"

"How did you do it?" Dash asked.

Raspberry blinked at Dash. "I have kids. They sleep at night, I don't."

"You learn or you die." Thorax added.

"I learned so others could die!" Killjoy cheered.

"Another kid?" Twilight pointed out. "Four wasn't enough?"

"Six. She wanted to stay human, so she's in another dimension." Raspberry explained. Thorax looked up at her. "I introduced you to Nina, I know I did."