Chapter 5, an awkward moment

Blaze pulled off a three-sixty spin whilst doing a barrel roll, streaking through the sky. As he completed another roll he pulled upwards into the air, flying upwards into the sky like a rocket. He broke through one cloud, another, a third. 'Come on Blaze!' he broke through the cloud layer and closed his wings, folding them against his body. His momentum took him another hundred meters into the air, the wind whipping his mane. He slowed and for a moment floated in the air, still and serene. Below him the world lay out like a carpet, a magnificent painting of greens and blues that seemed to stretch into eternity.

And then he was falling, gravity taking him in its grip. He was diving straight down towards the ground, the wind whipping through his mane and causing his tail to stream out behind him. He hit the cloud layer with a 'whumpfing' sound and soon his face was covered in moisture from the clouds, it gathered into streaks and ran across his face. 'Seven, six, five' he broke through the upper layers, below him the clouds where thinning, ponyville was directly below him. 'Four, three, two' he slammed through the final layer, he was approaching the rainboom barrier, any faster and he would be going too fast to pull up...but screw the risks, he didn't care. 'One' he closed his eyes and opened his wings. As he came to a halt the energy he'd built up went past him and whacked into the ground, manifesting as a half formed rainbow. The ring of colour hit the ground and spread outwards, swiftly dissipating in a wave of multicoloured fireworks.

'And that's how we do it' he thought, admiring the vanishing clouds of colour. When they were gone he smiled and flew home, the wind ruffling his feathers. As he alighted on the porch he could feel the wood beneath his hooves shaking slightly and a faint squeaking noise was being emitted. He stood for a moment wondering what was happening when he heard what sounded like a cracking noise, what he heard next he could only hope he'd imagined.

'What's my name?'

'Mistress Rarity'

'Good boy, maybe somepony deserves a treat'

'Thank you mistress'

Blaze turned around, shivered, and left the porch. 'for the love of Celestia tell me i imagined that' he tried not to focus on what he'd just heard and instead focused on his up and coming date with Sweet cream. 'She said yes, i can't believe she said yes!' from the house behind him there was another cracking sound and a scream of ecstasy, followed by a loud moan and the faint words 'good boy, your mistress is pleased'. Blaze felt bile start to rise in the back of his throat, he was pretty sure that if he could have seen his face, it would have been green. 'Ok Blaze, keep calm. Just fly away, be revoltingly sick in some bush, and pretend you never heard this'

As Blaze flew towards the lake at the edge of the Everfree forest he considered his options for the date. 'sweet cream hates raves, so the concert for the students is out of the question' he thought, lazily dodging a cloud 'she wants to go somewhere quiet, some place private. I can't take her to one of the restaurants, they'll be too busy. And it's not like i can take her to the bakery or something, buying her a pastry won't count as a proper date' Blaze seemed pretty much out of options, the only other thing he could do would be to invite her round to his place and cook her dinner, but that seemed stupid as well 'dad wouldn't shut the hell up about that time i flew into a tree, and mum'll probably try to do the cooking for me and then she'll dress me up like a doll, cover me in perfume, spend the whole evening hiding behind the door whispering suggestions to me and show her my foal pictures' like he thought, no way was that happening.

He landed by the lake and tested the water with his hoof, it was ice cold and probably actually had bits of ice at the bottom. 'Perfect' he laid his pack on the side of lake along with a cloth he conveniently kept with him at all times in case he went swimming, tested the water once more and dived in. He felt a shock run across his spine, and the breath left his lungs. He moved under the water like a torpedo, slicing through the water and pushing up to the surface. He broke through the surface, took a breath and immediately began to swim front crawl. He swam his way across the lake once and stepped out on the other side, as naked as the day he was born. He shook his tail, letting the water droplets fly, and then he dived back in and swum back to his pack. As he stepped out, his mane and tail dripping wet, he heard a swishing noise. He looked up from scraping the water off his hooves and stood stock still, caught like a rabbit in the head lights.

Before him was Weave and the twin unicorn mares Needle and Thread, smiles on their faces and their cheeks red. Blaze stood shocked, his eyes wide. Then he became aware he wasn't covered up, and his wings wrapped tight around him. "...hi?"

"Oh high Blaze, how are you doing?" Needle said, a sly grin on her face.

Blaze slowly stepped sideways to his pack and reached down for his cloth, only to discover that it was gone. "..."

"looking for this?" Thread held up the cloth and waved it in front of him 'keep your cool Blaze, keep you cool. No need to freak out and loose your cool, that wouldn't be very cool' where the hell did this coolness come from?

"can i please have my towel back?"

"this thing? It's not a towel, it's way too thin" Thread balled up the cloth and through it into at the lake 'NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!' Blaze leapt up to catch the cloth, and then realised there was only one way he was going to catch it. 'Sweet cream forgive me' he opened his wings, flashing the three mares as he did so and caught the cloth in mid air. He came to a low hover and swiftly wrapped the cloth around his waist, covering his groin.

"Thanks Blaze" Weave said, and with a giggle, one of the twins used magic to cause them to disappear. Blaze hovered in the air for a few moments more and then landed by his pack, picking it up and slinging it over his flank. After a brief flight home, this time minus any acrobatics, he landed at the porch, and opened the door, heedless of the possibility that his parents could still be busy upstairs. He went up the stairs, entered his room and closed the door.

His room was simple, as simple as any room of a teenage stallion, which wasn't very simple. His walls where covered in posters of mares in somewhat provocative poses, each one devoid of much clothing, he kept them for appearances' sake though, he honestly couldn't give two flicks of his tail for any one of them. His bed was fresh made and white, the sheets and pillow cases seemingly glowed. He crossed over to his chest of draws and pulled out a fresh towel from the bottom one down, he'd already left a trail of water through the house, but he wasn't letting any get into the carpet in his room. His scrubbed himself down and threw the wet towel into his laundry basket by the door, he hit it dead centre.

'well this is shit' he thought, lying down on the bed 'you get one date and from nowhere Weave wants to see my crotch, this is even weirder then that time dad walked in on my reading 'Scootaloos' love for pain' his father still hadn't realised that he was reading it for jokes because Daymoon had sent it to him, and that he wasn't clopping. 'Guess that's another reason I'm not inviting Sweet cream over' for a while he lay on the bed, thinking about nothing. After a while he got down up and went downstairs, finding his parents sitting at the table, staring deep into each others eyes, it was so sweet he felt sick.

"hey" he said as he entered, making his way to the fridge. He opened it and pulled out a carton of apple juice.

"put that back when you're done with it" his mother said dreamily, not really paying any attention.

"Sure" he filled up a glass and drank it down swiftly, he placed it down on the drainage board and went back upstairs "oh and guys, one thing" he said before he was out the door, his father's ears flicked slightly in acknowledgment "For the love of Celestia keep it down next time" and with that he made his way back upstairs, back into his room and lay back on the bed. He sighed, his heart felt both elated and slightly weird after the events of the day.

He'd only been back a day, but it was good to be home