By Darkryt Orbinautz

Sensual Spirals

Chapter 1

Dashing Away From Arachnophobes [Rainbow Dash]

Hmm?

Oh, yeah, hey. 'Sup? My name's Rainbow Dash, but you should know this already. I mean, I am one of, if not the fastest fliers in all of Equestria. I'm even on the short-list for the Wonderbolts! My dream come true.

So, what am I doing in this cloud, you ask? Nothing much. Just chilling. In fact, now would be a good time for me to take one of my famous naps. Yeah, I'll just roll around a bit and snuggle up here … yeah, yeah. Let me tell you, this is a premium quality cloud right here. Nice and fluffy. Think I'll curl up here, rest my head on my hooves and …

"Rainbow Dash! Rainbow Dash!"

My eyes widened as I bolt upright. Ponyfeathers! I promised Scootaloo we'd hang out together today. I totally forgot!

"Rainbow Dash!" The little squirt runs around on the grass, calling my name. "Rainbow Dash, where are you?"

"Up here!" I poke my head over the edge of the cloud and wave at her. She looks up to me, beaming with her little smile. Sometimes I forget how cute she can be.

Ugh. Did I really just say that? I'm starting to sound like Pinkie Pie … or maybe Fluttershy.

"I'll be right down!" I shout at her. She either didn't hear me or didn't care, as she jumped into the air and tries to fly, her little wings fluttering like a cicada's. She gets a little bit off the ground before her wings give out and she hits the ground and eats dirt.

"Aw, man."

As I fly in and land beside her, I can't help but giggle. "Don't worry, squirt. You'll get it right one day."

Scootaloo scrambles to her hooves, clumsily trying to dust herself and make herself look good for me. Heh. I want to tell her she doesn't have to do that for me, but I don't want to embarrass her either.

"So," I put a hoof on Scootaloo, "what do you want to do today, squirt?"

"Well ..." She draws out her tongue and rolls her eyes away. "I wasn't gonna ask today, but after ..." Scootaloo raises one wing and flexes it. "You saw what happened. So, do you think you could teach me some flying lessons?"

"Flying lessons, huh?" I rub my chin. "I don't know … most of the stuff I know is pretty intense." It's true. I know the basics and the advanced stuff, but knowing me – and who knows me better than me? I'll probably push her too hard, too fast. I'd have her doing barrel rolls and somersaults before the day is up, and she can barely get off the ground.

"Aww, come on!" Scootaloo jumps into the air, hovering with her wings without actually flying. "I can take it, Rainbow Dash!"

"Uh-huh." I nod. Still, I'd feel better if we had somepony watching. Like a spotter. "Hey, about we go see Fluttershy?"

"Fluttershy?" Scootaloo's face screws up in confusion.

"Yeah. She's a pegasus. She knows about flying just as much as I do. She might be able to help"

Scootaloo gives me a weird look. I know, I know, it sounds crazy, but Fluttershy went to flight camp with me as well. She knows everything I know … at least until you start getting into things like my Sonic Rainboom. I don't want to admit to her – to Scootaloo – that the real reason I want us to get Fluttershy is because I'm … scared, I guess, of hurting her.

"Come on." I dig my hoof into Scootaloo's back and begin pushing her towards Fluttershy's house. She looks sullen and I can tell she wants to protest, but she respects me too much to say anything.

We reach Fluttershy's dinky little cottage. I hesitates, hearing some noises. Sounds like there's quite a ruckus going on in there – or is it a fracas? Pinkie would get on to me if I got them confused. There's noises and sounds and thuds going on in there. I don't like it. Not from Fluttershy's house. I'm not taking Scootaloo in there.

"Stay here." I tell her. She nods, though we both know she's not going to listen to me, adventurous young filly she is. I can't say I knew much better at her age, though.

Tensing up and putting on my best game face, I rush into the cottage, bucking the door open. Nothing in the living room. I lift my ear and listen closely.

The bedroom!

Not thinking about what other things this could me, I go charging in, smashing the door open with a headbutt to it. "All right, you crazy monster! Let go of Flutter … shy."

My voice trails off as my eyes take in the sight in front of me. Fluttershy, my friend, has her hooves on the snake tail of her weird shape-shifter of a girlfriend, Sunset Shimmer. Sunset's tail is large, way large and it kinda freaks me out. It's all over the room and looks pale. Fluttershy and Sunset are staring at me with surprised expressions.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Fluttershy." I babble out. "I heard noises outside and thought you were in trouble." My cheeks turn as pink as Fluttershy's mane. "I'll just go on out the door-"

"Rainbow Dash?" Scootaloo pops her head in. "What's going on?"

I instinctively put a hoof over Scootaloo's eyes. Young fillies should not be able to see these kinds of activities.

"No no it's okay!" Fluttershy takes her hooves off Sunset's tail and waves me. She puts one hoof back on Sunset and pulls back, peeling the skin of Sunset's tail. Uh, ew. "She's just molting! It's not anything … naughty." Fluttershy says it like the "naughty" is the dirtiest word in Equestria. I can think of ten words off the top of my head even dirtier. Some of them aren't even swear words or sex related!

"Uh-huh." I nod my head. "You hear that, Scootaloo?" I take my hoof off her eyes to let her see. She sees Sunset and waves. Sunset waves back. Scootaloo seems pretty okay with the whole Sunset being a part-snake, part-human monster. I guess Fluttershy already told her.

"Say ..." An image of Twilight's face appears in my mind. "Why does a shape-shifter need to molt anyway?"

Good question, Imaginary Twilight Head. "Hey, Fluttershy?"

"Yes?"

"Why does Sunset need to molt? Can't she just shift into another form?"

"Oh, um. Normally, yes." Fluttershy said. "But Sunset spends so much time in this form she needs to address its, um, bodily needs."

"It is my favorite form." Sunset admits.

"Okay." I nod my head, eying Sunset a bit. Her relationship with Fluttershy kinda creeped me out. See, it all started when Sunset came in from another universe, lured Fluttershy into a cave and brainwashed Fluttershy into having sex with her as part of some convoluted way to get revenge on Twilight. The actual relationship began when Fluttershy had the perfect chance to turn Sunset in to Twilight and the authorities and … didn't. Sunset appreciated that so much they fell in love with each other. Or at least, that's how they tell the story.

Yeah. It's all creepy and questionable. Can you tell I'm super not-okay with any of this? I mean, I'm the most emotionally sensitive of ponies and even I know THAT is NOT how you start a relationship with somepony.

"Was there something you and Scootaloo needed, Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy asks. She's so sweet, even when I barge in on her helping her girlfriend … molting. Yeah, sure. That's what you were doing. I believe you, Fluttershy.

Oh, uh. Here's a hint: I don't actually believe her.

"Oh yeah. Scootaloo here wants me to teach some flying lessons." I ruffled Scootaloo's mane. "And I was sorta hoping you would be able to spot for me, Fluttershy."

"I would love to." Fluttershy says.

I look at Scootaloo and then at Fluttershy. I walked up to Fluttershy and motion for her to come over. I lean in and whisper in her ear. "And, uh, make sure I don't push her too hard, okay? I know I can get … overzealous."

Fluttershy nods in understanding. A giggle erupts behind us.

"What are you laughing at?" I ask Sunset, a little aggressively. I'm not gonna play whatever game you want to me, ya freak!

"Don't look now, Rainbow Dash ..." Sunset says between giggle fits. She points at my hoof. "But there's a spider on your hoof!"

"WHAT!?" I lift my hoof and start shaking it back and forth, flailing. "Get it off get if off get it off get it off!" Fluttershy tries to calm me down, watching my leg for the spider. She catches my hoof between her legs and locks eyes onto the big hairy tarantula clinging into my leg for dear life.

"Fluttershy ..." I stutter. My eyes are shrunk and my heart is pounding. "Get this tarantula off me."

"It's not a tarantula." Fluttershy puts her hoof on my leg and nudges the spider. The disgusting, terrible arachnid, probably eying for Fluttershy as a potential meal, hops off my leg and onto her hoof. "It's just a garden spider. We get them in the house sometimes. They're harmless."

"Whew." I wipe my forehead of sweat. "Okay. Great, Fluttershy. Now throw it to the ground and stomp on it."

"Oh no!" Fluttershy said in her sweet little voice. "I couldn't do that." She goes up to the window, pulls the window up and puts her hoof on it. The spider apparently decided not to eat Fluttershy after all, as it climbed off her limb and crawled outside, where an eagle can swoop down and eat it for all I care.

I really, really hate spiders.

"Fluttershy, how can you be so calm about this?" I ask. "That spider wasn't going to eat you! Eat me!"

Fluttershy giggled. "Rainbow Dash, the spider was never going to eat you. Or me, for that matter. Like I told you, garden spiders are harmless little creatures."

I back away. Yeah, yeah, sure, whatever you - you – spider sympathizer.

Fluttershy and Sunset look at each other, then at me. "Rainbow Dash, are you … afraid of spiders?"

My eyes roll over to Scootaloo, as I abruptly remember she's still in the room. She's giving me the weirdest look, like she doesn't understand me, before she looks away and rubs the back of her head.

"No." I answer Fluttershy.

YES. SO VERY MUCH YES. I hate spiders. They're so … ugly and freaky, with their eight eyes and legs and the web they spin out from their rears. They're just so - ugh. Who needs that many eyes anyway? I'll tell ya who; spiders, searching all of Equestria for hapless little ponies they can web up and feed to their babies. Their millions of crawling, skittering little babies. Ugh.

I try to quickly change the subject. "So, those flying lessons?"

"Oh yes." Fluttershy looks at her girlfriend. "Is it alright if I help Rainbow Dash, Sunset? Will you be okay by yourself?"

"Sure." Sunset waves her … haaaand? Is that the right word? She grabs her tail and starts pulling it towards her. "I think I can handle the rest of this by myself."

"Thanks. Mwah." Fluttershy pulls Sunset in for a smooch on the cheek. Both Scootaloo and I turn away from the icky, gross mushy display of affection. Not nearly as gross as a spider, though.

So, Fluttershy, Scootaloo and I all left the house. Thought not before I went behind Fluttershy's back to give Sunset a dirty look, point my hoof at my eyes and point my hoof at her to let her know I would be watching. Sunset seem confused by it, but I'm sure that's just what she wants me to think.

Fluttershy and I had a good time teaching Scootaloo some basic concepts about flying, even if I got bored with some of the academia and wanted to sleep in the middle of class a few times. We still never got Scootaloo quite flying, and she seemed a little disheartened. But I told her it was just a matter of time and all she needed was to grow up some and get a little more size on her wings. That cheered her up.

The next day, I tried sneaking over to Fluttershy's place. Doing my best not to be seen, hiding, rolling, and crouching under stuff, I was already next to the cottage when I realized sneaking to my best friends' house would draw more attention to me. I certainly would be suspicious if I saw one of my friends trying to sneak into my house. But I didn't want anypony to know why I was here.

I knocked on the door. Fluttershy answered. Sunset was there, too, this time as a human holding a cup of coffee. Does she ever spend time as a pony?

"Oh, hello. Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy said. "Can I help you?"

"Uh, yeah ..." I scuff my hoof. "Do you remember yesterday when I said I wasn't afraid of spiders?"

"Yes. Why?"

"I lied." I put my hooves on Fluttershy's shoulders. "I am terrified of spiders."

"Oh. Why didn't you just say that when I asked?"

"In front of Scootaloo? Are you kidding? She looks up to me! Do you know what it would it do to her if she found out I, the Great and Stupendous, the Amazing Rainbow Dash, was afraid of something as lame as spiders?" I was so embarrassed when she came as close as she did to finding out yesterday.

"I'm sure she'd understand." Sunset took a sip of her coffee. "We're all afraid of something, Rainbow Dash."

You stay out of this, you snake.

"Being afraid of spiders is not cool." I explain to Fluttershy. "And I am the coolest. Therefore, I should not be afraid of spiders … but I am. It would be super-embarrassing for me if anypony found out. You're such a big animal-lover, Fluttershy. I figured you were my best bet. What do you say? Do you think you can help? Maybe cure my phobia?"

"I don't know if anypony can cure a phobia, Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy says.

"Fluttershy, wait." Sunset walks up and puts a hand on Fluttershy's back. "What if we introduced her to our new friend?"

"That ... just might work." Fluttershy says after a pause. "Sunset, you're a genius."

"I know." Sunset arrogantly takes another sip of coffee. Hey, arrogantly drinking stuff is supposed to be my thing!

…

That came out wrong.

"I guess we do know somepony who might be able to help." Fluttershy said. "What do you say, Rainbow Dash? Are you in?"

"I'll do anything." I say. "I gotta get rid of this somehow."

I begin to reconsider my choice of words when Fluttershy and Sunset both get naughty smirks on their faces. It's like they're twins with some sort of psychic link to the feelings of the other.

"Okay." Fluttershy and Sunset stepped out of the house. "Come on. This way."

Fluttershy and Sunset led me to a clearing in the woods. There was a small cave with a waterfall sliding off the side. A silvery mist shined from the river the fall poured into it. Doesn't seem like a bad place to cure a phobia. In fact, I think may have just found a new favorite napping spot -

Wait.

Going to Fluttershy's house and being lured to cave is exactly how the story of Fluttershy's and Sunset's relationship started out.

"Girls?" I stop. "I'm not going to be taken into the cave and hypnotized into having sex with Sunset Shimmer, am I?"

Sunset and Fluttershy grimace. They look at each other. Sunset scratches her chin. Yeah, I'm onto you, snake-lady. Bait me into the cave and then wrap me with up with your tail. Well, it's not gonna happen.

"Rainbow Dash, I can honestly assure you with one-hundred percent certainty you will not be hypnotized into having sex with Sunset Shimmer." I should have paid more attention to the way she emphasized Sunset's name. Might have been a good warning. Should have set off some alarm bells, even I knew Fluttershy would never do something like that … unless Sunset hypnotized her to.

My mind wandered back to why we're here. "So, Fluttershy, tell me about your friend."

"I think you'll like her." Fluttershy said. "She's really nice and quiet, with a soft and soothing voice."

Heh. Sounds like somepony I know. No wonder Fluttershy's friends with her.

"Oh, um, one thing before you head in." Fluttershy said. "She's a jorogumo … an ancient creature from a far away land. It translates into "Spider Queen." Well, it actually translates into "Spider" … something else which I'm not comfortable saying." Fluttershy's cheeks turn a rosy shade of pink.

"Spider Queen, huh?" I walk towards the cave. "Yeah, I think I can handle that."

I stomp my hooves on in anticipation of being cured before galloping into the cave. Fluttershy and Sunset stay behind. I'm guessing they're either staying out of the cave so they can go get help if I scream and something's wrong, or staying behind so they can have sex. Hey, I know I'd take my girlfriend out here every now and then.

"Hello?" My voice echoes through the cave. It's real dark in here. "Is anypony there?" I get no answer. Guess I ought go tell Fluttershy her friend didn't show.

"Hello?" A soft voice answers back.

I turn around and look up at the source of the soft, motherly voice, and I see the most terrifying thing I have ever seen in my entire life. Dragons and chaos gods be damned.

There was a massive monster on the ceiling. She was like a humongous spider, her eight legs sticking to the ceiling and the walls and allowing her to hang upside-down, where she looked down on me as a potential tasty snack, no doubt. Her abdomen was huge and black as night itself. But from where her the head of her spider-body should have been, was instead the front half of a pony, as if somepony had sawed off the front half of a pony and back half of a spider and glued them together. It made me wonder, was there some unfortunate soul out there made of the leftovers who had a spider's head and a pony's hind legs?

This thought and several other thoughts I have disappear from my mind as I'm paralyzed by fear. What is this thing? A pony a on a spider's body? That's not natural!

As I'm standing there, shivering and shuddering and frozen to the spot, she lifts one of her huge spider legs and begins climbing down the cave walls. Oh Celestia, she's coming towards me …

"Are you all right?"

Slowly, ever so agonizingly slowly, I begin to regain control of my motor functions. I move one hoof out, then the next one. I'm about to get a good running start going when she places one leg in front and braces my chest, keeping me where I am and preventing me from running away. She pleads with me. "Wait. Please don't go. Not yet." Her voice is just soft enough to make me calm down - a little bit - and sit down on my haunches.

She reaches her long legs over and picks me up between them, using them as a hammock to lift me up. As the ground below fades me, my vision goes blurry. I know what you're thinking. I spend so much of time thousands of feet into the air, so I shouldn't be bothered by a few feet, right? Well, all those times I went flying were of my own free will and when I wasn't being picked up a giant scary spider!

She lifts up two more of her legs and begins to poke at my wings. W-what is she doing? Oh no, she's probably tear them off and eat them first! Not my wings! Take my hooves if you want, but not my wings! Using her legs, she begins to rub up and down the base of my wings. Which I admit, is a little stimulating. Most ponies don't to access that part of pegasus anatomy in normal circumstances. These circumstances are anything but normal.

Her legs continue to feel around my wings and circle them. It's almost as if she was … massaging them? How did that make any sense?

"Please, don't be afraid."

I look up at her. She still looks freaky as heck, but I look into her earthy-brown pony eyes and I don't see a hint of evil in them. She continues to massage my wings with the tips of her legs.

"Does that feel good?" She asks, almost like she wants me to tell her if she's doing something wrong.

"It feels … fine." I tell her. "Good, even." I blurt out when I see her face saddening. Honestly, I'm still more than bit freaked out … but I feel better now.

"Excellent." She says. "Now, let's move onto the next step."

I gulp. "Next step?"

She lifts another one of her legs up and I'm afraid she's going to stab me. She takes the leg, curls around my back, and slides it down. It reaches my Cutie Mark, goes past my Cutie Mark, and gets way too close to a … certain Cutie Mark-related area. A certain intimate Cutie Mark-related area.

I was so not okay with her going there. Needless to say, I struggled free of her grip and flew screaming like a rocket out of the cave. Hyperventilating, I set my hooves down outside the cave entrance. Fluttershy and Sunset are still there, and it looks like they were sitting down and talking. They look at me, look at each other, and get up to greet me.

"Rainbow Dash, are you okay? Was she too rough?"

I slap Fluttershy's hoof away as she tries to get near me. "Fluttershy! What … the hay? I tell I want to be cured of my fear of spiders, so you try to make me have SEX with one!?"

"Oh. Well, um … I didn't want to make you do anything." Fluttershy mumbles, shrinking away. She knows I'm mad at her and she's trying to put some distance between us.

Sunset puts her hands on Fluttershy's haunches, comforting and reassuring her. If I wasn't so mad, I'd almost say it was cute; Sunset was telling Fluttershy she would protect Fluttershy from me, and without saying a word.

"She did warn you she was a Spider Queen, Rainbow Dash." Sunset says, trying get me to keep my anger in check.

I rub my head. "I thought that meant she had some sort of telepathic control over spiders! Duh. I wasn't prepared for a … spider … pony … abomination!"

My comment was insulting enough for Fluttershy to find her misplaced backbone. "She is not an abomination! Just because she is strange and usual doesn't make her a monster."

"Well, of course you would say that ..." I say with a knowing glance at Sunset Shimmer the part-time part-snake lady.

"Rainbow Dash." Sunset says, putting herself between Fluttershy and I before one of us decides to hit the other. Well, more before I decide to hit Fluttershy, because Fluttershy never got physical, no matter how angry she got. "We could go about this three ways." Sunset continues. "Either you can go back in there and have sex with Tsukuyo ..."

"Not gonna happen." I pay little attention to the fact the spider monster has an actual name.

"Or we can bury you in a tank and fill it up with spiders."

I wince at the mental image of being one of those extreme dare T.V shows and being helpless inside a tank while thousands of big, hairy spiders crawl over my body. "Also not gonna happen."

"Or you can keep your fear of spiders and admit it to everypony, including Scootaloo." Sunset concludes her speech. She crosses her arms and smirks at me, knowing she has me between a rock and a hard place.

I open my mouth to say something, but my voice remained empty. I couldn't think of anything to counter Sunset with; it was either pony up, go back and have sex, or live with the embarrassment of my fear of spiders until the end of my days. I … what am I gonna do?

I have a reputation to upkeep .. and Scootaloo would be so disappointed. Ugh! Fine.

"Alright." I hang my head in defeat and turn around, beginning my reluctant walk back into the cave.

"Thatta girl!" I hear Sunset yell her support. "Go get her!"

"Sure, unless she gets me and eats me first." I mutter under my breath.

I walk into the cave deep enough to find the Spider Queen again. She hasn't moved an inch from where I was when I bolted as fast as I could. She notices me.

"Did I make you uncomfortable?" She asks. "Oh, I knew I should have gone slower."

"Y-yeah." I stutter. "You should have. Like, way slower. No, wait ..." I place a hoof over my forehead and shake my head. "What I mean to say is … maybe we got off on the wrong hoof. Can we start over? I"m Rainbow Dash." I offer my hoof for a hoofshake.

"Nice to meet you, Rainbow Dash." She extends one of her extraordinary long legs and touches it to my hoof. Forcing myself to keep a smile, I oblige and shake her leg. "My name's Tsukuyo. I'm a friend of Fluttershy's, and she tells me you have a fear of spiders she thinks I can help with."

I rub the back of my neck. "Yeah."

"I can do it … but I'm going to warn you this time." She winks at me. "For this work, it's going to be intimate."

I wince and recoil. "Does it have to be?"

"Yes. Nothing builds trust like some intimacy between two willing participants." Her voice is so soft and quiet, I could almost hear Fluttershy saying speaking instead of her. "Are you still up for it?"

I squint my eyes and shiver where I am. Then, I think of Scootaloo. I sigh. "Yes. I am."

"Okay." Tsukuyo reaches her legs towards and picks my up in them again, creating a hammock of way-way-too-long hairy spider legs for me to rest on. "But if you ever get uncomfortable, I want you to yell, alright?"

I nod my head. "Alright."

I move closer to her. She stretches her front legs and reaches out to me, gesturing me to come forward. I move even closer to her, and she picks me up in her legs like a pair of pincers. She lifts me further up, close to her body, and wraps more of her legs around me. It's like I'm being nested between two giant combs.

"I'll go nice and slow this time." Tuskuyo says. She brings two legs out and begins digging at my wing stems again. She pokes and prods and draws circles, trying to stimulate me. I guess … this isn't so bad. Her legs are full of tiny hairs which are a little ticklish on my skin, but they also make me feel comfortable.

I feel myself being pulled higher and higher off the ground. "Hey, what's up?" I look up to see she's climbing down the wall. I guess so she can free more of her legs up for my … treatment. Resting about two legs on the edge of the cave, she lifts another leg and pokes at my Cutie Mark on one side.

"Hey ..." I giggle a bit. "That tickles."

"Sorry. Do you want me to stop?" She asks as she drags her leg over my Cutie Mark, tickling me with her hairs.

"N-no." I shake my head. "It's fine. Just be careful, will you?"

Tsukuyo nods. She continues to rubbing my wings and brushing my Cutie Mark. I look up again to see her doing something with her legs. She's making webbing. She's pulling it out from … wherever she's making it from and knitting it with the tips of her legs. Why is she making webbing? Am I not tight enough already in her legs?

Creating what looks to be a net of some sort, Tsukuyo lowers the webbing towards me. She lifts me up and moves to put me inside the web, but she can see me beginning to shiver. I gulp and nod for her to continue, despite my increasing anxiety.

She touches my body to the webbing and lets me out from her legs. It's sticky and really soft. Like, really soft. I almost want to throw out all my old blankets and replace it with this stuff. I begin to cuddle and nuzzle into it. Have I mentioned how soft it was? Because it is incredibly soft. I almost want to take a nap in it, but I didn't want to be rude to Tsukuyo … well, ruder than I had already been.

"Do you like that, Rainbow Dash?" Tsukuyo asks me.

"Yeah." I notice the webbing is hanging from two of her hind legs. It's as if I'm a fly on an actual spider web. I shiver again, thinking Tsukuyo is gonna show her true colors and gobble me up while lying to Fluttershy that I decided to live with Tsukuyo in the cave. Wouldn't that serve me right for trusting a spider?

Instead of opening her mouth to eat me, Tsukuyo lifts her legs up to me again. She starts brushing me and combing me, digging at my wings and my Cutie Mark. On both sides this time. She takes one leg and runs it through my tail, and it feels more like a hairbrush than anything that's come before.

"Are you feeling relaxed, Rainbow Dash?" She asks me.

"Y-yeah." I admit. "I am."

"Good." She coos in her soft little voice. Her legs continue stroking my Cutie Mark, digging in and prodding further than before. It feels really good. Her webbing is soft … I want to stay in it. I keep snuggling into the webbing, rolling around so I can feel all over my body. I twist and turn and tumble, eventually getting myself wrapping up in the webbing. It's over my stomach, my wings, my legs … even my mouth. I didn't usually think of myself as into bondage, but I'm finding this more than a bit appealing. The feeling of helplessness, the tension in my body as I know I'm leaving myself in Tsukuyo's hooves …

"Oh." She notices I'm a little … tied up. "Would you like some help with that?" She slides one leg in to the webbing over my mouth and lifts it up, cutting it away and letting my speak again. "I guess you really like how my webbing feels, huh?"

I nod. "Uh-huh." My head wobbles. I'm beginning to feel drowsy. Why do I feel drowsy? Am I being brainwashed? Oh no, I bet she's had a poison in her leg hairs this whole time, leaking into my skin on contact. I've been such a a fool! I want to struggle, but I … don't want to. I want to stay. I want to keep being wrapped in her webbing. It's so soft …

What-what's happening to me? My head is getting foggy and it's getting harder to think. I want to say "this is the end!" but I can't bring myself to. Tsukuyo looks … so beautiful. I want to stay and let her keep rubbing me.

"Oh, shoot." I hear her say. "Sorry. I guess I must have let some sedative slip through my hairs." Ah-ha! So I was part-right. She did have something secret from her hairs into my skin. "It's supposed to make prey relax so it's easier for me to eat, but don't worry, I'm not gonna do that to you."

"You're … not?" I ask. Ugh, my head still feels foggy. I want her to keep touching me. It's almost like I'm being … I don't know, hypnotized or something.

Tsukuyo giggles. "No. I'm not. What I am going to do is this ..." she lifts one leg up and begins trailing to it the region between my Cutie Marks. "That is, if you're up for it this time."

Half-lidded and hypnotized by her expert massaging, I nod. "I'm up for it ..." I want her to touch me as much as she can. Her little hairs feel lovely on my skin …

She takes her leg and plunges it straight into previously-mentioned intimate region.

Oh...dude, dude, you have no idea how good this feels. She's inside me, seesawing her leg in and out. All those tiny little hairs on her legs are now rubbing against my interiors, bringing me an incredible sense of stimulation. Each one of those millions and millions of little hairs is brushing against my insides. Aaaah … ooooh … it feels … Sooo goood. So very, very, good.

W-what she's doing? I see her lift two more of her legs, and she shoves them into me along with the first. Now she's seesawing three of her legs inside me, rubbing me with three times as many of those wonderful, ticklish hairs. This is amazing. This is, without the doubt, the best sex I will ever have in my life. My eyes roll to the back of my head. Oh, I want it, I want it … go faster, Tsukuyo. I start to hack and cough.

Tsukuyo grimaces. "Should I stop?"

"No!" I choke out. "No. Don't stop. Please don't stop." I beg.

Tsukuyo smiles. "In that case ..." She pops one or two legs and curls them around to her abdomen.

"W-what are you doing?" I ask.

"You'll see." Spinning her legs around, Tsukuyo coats the tips of her limbs in spider silk. She aims the limbs square at me, going up and down before forcing their way inside me. I lurch. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. She's shoving her web-covered legs inside my privates. Oh, forget what I said before; THIS is amazing. It's like she's shoving a blanket inside of me. A wonderfully soft, thin, sticky blanket.

I can't take. My coughing and hacking gets more intense. My webbed-up wings start flapping in place. Flapping, but not going anywhere. My tail flicks it and my legs kick out as her legs continue to pump in and out of me.

"TSUKUYO!" I scream. I pant. I heave. I lurch. I'm not going to be able to take this much longer.

For her own sake, I hope she has a shower somewhere around here.

"AAAAH … AAAAAH … AAAAAAH!"

Fluttershy and Sunset are lying outside the cave. They evidently decided to lie down and cuddle in the grass. Fluttershy is on her side, with Sunset resting her head on Fluttershy's stomach.

I limp out of the cave, still wincing from my orgasm. My legs drag behind me as I stumble. Fluttershy and Sunset notice me and perk up. They both get up and approach me.

"Did it work?" Sunset asks.

Fluttershy has more serious concerns. "Are you okay? I'm still worried might have been too rough on you ..."

"It worked!" I boldly proclaimed. "I'm cured! I no longer have a fear of spiders."

"Really?" Neither Sunset nor Fluttershy look like they believe it.

"Yup! In fact, I'd go as far to say I love spiders now." I say. "They're so cute, with their little legs and tiny webs ..." As I go on and on about extolling the virtues of the arachnid, Sunset and Fluttershy turn to each other.

"Oh my." Fluttershy said. "I think Tsukuyo may have done a number on your head, Rainbow Dash."

"What? Are you kidding me?" I say. "I feel perfectly fine. In fact, now that I don't have to live with being embarrassed about my fear of spiders, I'd go as far to say that I feel better than ever."

Fluttershy looks at the ground, not entirely believing me, but not willing to disagree with me and risk a confrontation. "Okay … if you're sure."

"I'm sure, Fluttershy. You wait and see."

It's been a few weeks now since I went and saw Tsukuyo. At this point, I can tell the difference between a garden spider, a tarantula, a black widow and a billion other types of spiders. I've learned all kinds of useless spider-based trivia. Hey, you want to hear about trap-door spiders? I can tell you all about them. What they eat, their habits, how to spot their webs ...

I'm meeting with my friends today. Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy are all giving me funny looks.

"Uh … Rainbow Dash, are you sure you're all right?" Twilight asks.

"What? I'm fine. Why would you even think that, Twilight?"

"I'm … happy you've overcome your fear, darling." Rarity says, putting a hoof over her mouth in thinly-disguised disgust. "But don't you think you've taken this a bit too far?"

"What? I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Rainbow Dash, you know how much I love animals, and even I think you've gone a bit overboard." Fluttershy says.

What? That's silly. Just because I've been letting dozens of spiders live on my body, with their webs hanging between my front legs, my haunches, and my wings, doesn't mean I've gone overboard, has it?

"H-hey, Rainbow Dash." A stuttering Scootaloo comes up beside me.

"Hey, Scootaloo." I turn to her. She's shivering and shuddering with a spider crawling on her cheek in imitation of me.

"Well ..." Twilight grimaces. I can tell she and Rarity don't want to be part of this scene. Well, fine. Whatever. I don't need you. I've got Scootaloo.

"Excuse us, darling, but we really do have somewhere to be." Rarity says, even though I know she's making it up so she has an excuse to get out of here. "We, uh … promised Pinkie we'd help bake. Isn't that right, darlings?"

"Hm-hmm." Twilight and Fluttershy nod before all of three zoom off in a direction which I know won't lead them to Sugarcube Corner.

"Hmph." I ignore them and go back to Scootaloo. "So, Scootaloo, I see you've learned about how wonderful spiders can be, huh?"

"Uum ..." Scootaloo keeps her eye on the spider moving down the side of her face. "Not really. The truth is, Rainbow Dash, I started doing this because you did. But I actually … really hate spiders."

"What?" My eyebrows raise about thirty-degrees. "But a few weeks ago – when we were at Fluttershy's, you gave me this weird look."

"I know." Scootaloo says. "But that was because I couldn't believe it! I'd always been so embarrassed about being afraid of spiders, I couldn't believe somepony as cool and awesome as you would be, too! And I guess it's cool you learned to get over it, but … I haven't. So, could you, uh, take this off my hooves?" She points at the spider on her cheek.

I smile at her. "Sure." I put my hoof out to her cheek and coax the spider over. "Hey. You. Yeah, you. Come on over, big guy. That's it. There you go ..." I speak to it as the spider crawls off Scootaloo's cheek and onto my hoof. Scootaloo is shivering and sweating the whole time, but she tries to keep her smile up.

"Whew!" Once the spider is on me and not her, Scootaloo wipes the sweat off her forehead. "Thanks, Rainbow Dash. Of all the stupid things I've done because you did it too, I can honestly say this was the WORST thing. Okay. Thanks. Bye!" She hurriedly thanks me and turns around, screaming as she gallops as fast as she can in the other direction.

As I watch Scootaloo fade into the sunset, I decide to take a second look on the spiders I've been letting live on my body. I'm infested with the things. They're crawling over me, and I have webbing stuck to everywhere on my body.

Yeah, okay. Maybe I have gone a little overboard.

Author's Notes

I tried to delve into a more touch-based hypnosis. I remember reading a comment a long time ago about someone, don't remember who, who wanted to see more varied forms of hypnosis than just the standard eyes. One of my motivating factors for continuing this series is to utilize other forms of hypnosis.

That said, I feel like the hypnosis is too subtle in the finished product. I mean, I always knew the story was going to be brief, since the quick and to-the-point Rainbow Dash is narrarating, but it still feels like the sex is too short and the hypnosis is too subtle. What do you guys think?

In the early planning stages, the Jorogumo here and and the Lamia in With Honeyed Claws shared the same name (Tsukiko) to go with being somewhat Oriental-theme creatures. So if it says "Tsukiko" in this story, that's a typo and should read "Tsukuyo."