Chapter seventeen: Laying low
Twilight Sparkle woke up first; covered by her bed's sheets, head resting on her pillow and comfortable in the hooves of Blood Moon. She ginned to herself; in the hooves of her coltfriend. She looked up at him, noticing that he seemed much more peaceful than when she had found him yesterday; he slept calmly, holding her gently, was breathing softly and had his head bowed against his chest, as though he was looking over her. She smiled softly and cozied up to him, holding him with her own fore-legs and nuzzling his chest. She had to ask herself; how had it lead to this? She'd known this stallion for six days, two of which she'd known him as nothing but a killer and none of which when nothing was really happening; Blood Moon was nothing if not a magnet for outstanding events.
Over the days she'd known him he'd killed for, protected, trained and took care of her and all her friends. They'd been through so much together in such a short amount of time, and she had no idea why. But what she did know is that she didn't care about anything bad he may have done in the past, not any more, he was a good stallion at heart. He just had a bit of a temper, is all. She wondered about that; he seemed to be able to get worked up about some pretty small things now and then, yesterday's 'cherry incident' was proof enough of that; he was also very touchy about some things, his relation to and how he had left Celestia and Luna, for instance. She'd have to ask him more about that. Then there was the voice that was in his head, and the way that he felt there was no consequence to it, almost like he didn't mind it; he most likely didn't, after all, he'd told her not to worry about it. She gazed over his scarred and wrinkled face; it struck her that her special somepony wasn't some handsome blue blood, she wasn't the type of mare to go purely on looks but with the type of attention she'd got in Canterlot (or at least, that's what she'd been told she'd got, she'd been busy with and cooped up with studying at the time) she'd simply assumed that she'd be paired off with one of them sooner or later, not a heavily disfigured, immortal assassin. And you know what? She didn't care one bit; in fact, she preferred it like this, had she started dating one of the nobles she would likely have been nothing but a stepping stone for them to reach royalty, Blood Moon at least treated her like a mare and not an object or a tool for personal gain.
Twilight looked up at her coltfriend; he knew the hardships of life, he was ready and willing to work, put others before himself, acted recklessly when his own safety was concerned but protected the one's he cared for. He was a stallion who she was willing to love. She blinked.
A stallion she did love.
It took her from the left wing that this stallion who held her, who she held back, was somepony she considered more than a friend, and then, more than that. She loved him. Her heart fluttered as the thought crossed her mind. She loved an assassin. It fluttered again. And she didn't care what he was, all she cared about was that she had met a stallion and she loved him. She felt Blood Moon move; she looked up as she watched him frown and murmur to himself, before his eyes blinked open; he squeezed them together against the rays of sunlight that had managed to creep through the curtains, casting cracks of light into the room, and yawned before he looked down at the mare in his grip, smiling upon sight of her. Her thoughts from a second ago still fresh in her mind, Twilight reached up and quietly pushed her lips to his, engaging him in the most passionate kiss she could muster and smiled back at the stallion that held her when her lips left his.
"Morning" he said softly, still sounding groggy. He held her closer, hugging her tighter, and kissed the top of her head.
"Morning" she replied, before yawning to herself and resting her head against his chest again. She listened to his heartbeat and felt his breath against her mane; she closed her eyes and relaxed against him for a few minutes. She noticed that she rather liked being held by him, it was comfortable, warm. Then it felt hot; she frowned as she felt a heat against her stomach.
"Ah, damn it" she heard the assassin quietly curse. She looked down to see the head of his member peeking between their stomachs, twitching slightly. The mare looked up at him, sighing sadly as she did, grinning and shaking her head at him.
"What am I going to do with you" she asked him. He shrugged with a small, sheepish, grin on his face.
"I could name a few things, but I'm fairly sure you'd slap me rather than go along with it" he answered. Twilight giggled and blushed slightly.
"Yeah, you may be right there" she told him, poking the tip of his stallionhood with her hoof, making its owner shudder slightly.
"Don't play with the hidden blade unless you want to get stabbed" he muttered, Twilight catching his muttered innuendo. She tapped his chest in playful punishment before she leaned into him again.
"Blood Moon."
"Yeah?" Twilight looked up at him, considering what she should say next.
"I…I. I'm…glad you asked me out." Blood Moon picked up on her hesitation but let it go. He smiled and hugged her tighter again.
"Me too." Twilight relaxed into his hold, but inwardly she cursed herself; when she had been younger she'd wondered what the adults meant by 'love is a dangerous word'. It was now she understood what they meant. She looked down at his stallionhood again.
"You should put that away" she nuzzled him again "we're not alone today" she added playfully. He grinned as he shifted his thoughts, frowning before he looked down.
"Huh, it ain't working" he supplied.
"Well get rid of it, I think the others are waking up" she told him, looking around. The assassin nodded and rolled away from Twilight, causing her to whine a little, and deprive his stallionhood of female contact. After a few seconds of tenting the sheets, it slowly went flaccid and hid away. "Are we gonna have to deal with that every morning" Twilight asked him, draping her left fore-leg over his chest as his own snuck under her and pulled her against his body.
"Depends on if we'd slept together the night before" he answered. The mare giggled and relaxed against him, settling into a companionable silence together. Before long, they heard the sound of the others waking up, a few scattered yawns and the grumbled sounds of an awakening pony following. "Alright" the assassin groaned "headcount. Who's up?"
"Morning darling" Rarity answered sleepily.
"Mornin' pardner" Applejack called, sounding just as tired.
"Mrgner" Rainbowdash mumbled.
"Morning" Fluttershy whispered.
"Good morning" Pinkie Pie sung, sounding way too awake for somepony who had just awoke.
"Morning" Sand Stalker growled out in Arabic.
"Rise with the sun, friend" Blood Moon called back, speaking the merc's native language.
"Morning" the cutie mark crusaders said at once, some sounding more awake than others.
"Hunter, you good buddy" the assassin asked his bird, who cawed in response. He then turned to the mouse. "How about you little guy?" The small black mouse sat on his haunches and nodded at him. "Spike, how 'bout you?". The drake snored, spluttered and jolted awake.
"Evil critters, trying to stuff me in a-…huh?"
"Morning Spike" Twilight said, leaning over the side of her bed, tussling his spines.
"Oh, hey, morning" he responded before he yawned and rubbed his eyes.
"Alright that's everypony" the assassin muttered, more for himself than the others. He stood up, causing Twilight to whine quietly again. "Ok, first things first; who can cook, besides Fluttershy you made food yesterday."
"I'll cook" Spike told him.
"Awesome" Blood Moon muttered in response, trotting over to the door. "We-scratch that-you can make breakfast and then we'll… I don't know, see how the day goes and react accordingly" he said as Spike padded over to him, still looking drowsy. Once the two had departed, Sand Stalker stood and, still looking like death, left them.
"Gonna get some air" he muttered as he left. None of them argued as they all sat in silence for a while, still waking up and getting the sleep out of their systems. Before long, Rainbowdash spoke up.
"So Twilight" she started with a grin "sleep well?" The bookish mare didn't let the question faze her.
"Why yes Rainbowdash, I slept very well, thank you" she answered. Applejack chuckled.
"With that colour in yer cheeks, Twi, ah don't doubt it" Applejack commented. Rarity giggled.
"I'll say, why darling, I've never seen you so radiant" she tells her. Twilight sat up and smiled at her friends.
"Thanks girls, I mean it, thanks. I gotta say, Blood Moon's really comfortable to sleep with" she told them. The mares giggled and the fillies looked at each other, blushes on their faces. They sat in silence for a while until Rarity spoke up again.
"Girls, if I may be so bold, I do believe we should wash ourselves" she said "after all, we did spend part of yesterday in the Everfree forest" she added. The mares in the room all subtly smelt themselves, agreeing with Rarity soon after. The Elements of Harmony, plus little sisters, all made their way to Fluttershy's bathroom; once there they set about cleaning each other off, Applejack cleaning off Applebloom; Rarity, Sweetie-Belle; and Rainbowdash, Scootaloo, the two of which acting more boisterously, Rainbow nuggying Scoots to clean her mane. After a while, the fillies and Rainbowdash decided that they'd had enough and dried themselves off, leaving the others to clean themselves.
Downstairs, Blood Moon was stood in the kitchen with Spike, watching the drake in an impressed awe as he moved around the room, picking out ingredients, bringing them to his workplace and slowly turning a bunch of different elements into perfect pancakes. He swore he could smell a faint…something in the air but couldn't put his hoof on it. While he was setting up the final touches to his breakfast, the dragon spoke up.
"So, uhhh, you and Twilight, huh?" The assassin looked the dragon in the eye as he glanced at him.
"Yes" he answered simply. Spike stopped with his preparations and turned to the dark stallion. He looked at him with little emotion in his gaze, but the assassin could see the glare hidden behind it. He cocked his head to the side. "Why, you have a problem with it?" The dragon didn't answer; instead he just kept on looking at him with that emotionless stare. Blood Moon leaned up off of the sideboard he had been leaning on and trotted over to the drake, Spike feeling the cold air gather around him as he got closer. "You're a dragon Spike, you live for yourself, which means you protect everything close to you; gems, mates and your friends. Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbowdash and Pinkie Pie are all your friends, ergo, they are close to you. It's natural you'd want to protect them." He stopped but a meter away from the drake, who was now holding back a gulp. The assassin leaned in and narrowed his eyes. "My loyalty is seconded only by the love I hold for the ones close to me. I respect the dragons, ergo I respect you, but you must understand that Twilight is more than a simple friend to me now, and I plan to treat her as such. She is an element of harmony, the element of magic, she needs all the protection she can get; be it her dragon assistant or the assassin who is now her coltfriend." He backed off and sighed. "Listen, I don't need to make an enemy of you, nor do I desire to, so either we form a truce or things get awkward between us." Spike looked the assassin up and down; he didn't know exactly what he'd done but he knew it wasn't anything good, that said, Twilight trusted him, and he trusted his big sister/mother's judgment. With a slight hesitation, he held his claw out for him and the stallion took it, shaking it as they put aside their differences for the one they cared for most. The assassin gave a lopsided smile that the drake returned, hoof/claw bumping him as they disconnected. The stallion backed off after that, their peace made, and retired to the side of the room. After a while a thought passed through his head; he sniffed his leg-pit, smelling the-
'Did my muzzle just shrivel up and die?'
"…"
'Hey, you okay?'
"I'm pretty sure I just died."
'Screw you; they're your pits too.'
"Yeah, yeah; just get a shower before you kill some of the critters."
'Whatever.'
Blood Moon straightened up again, heading for the doorway. He looked back at the drake who was still cooking before he left him, heading for the bathroom; he trotted up and pushed through the door, stopping at the mirror and looking at it. He took to staring down the dark, buck ugly, stallion that looked back at him.
Off to the side, Twilight Sparkle and the rest of the Elements of Harmony stood in complete silence, watching the stallion trot nonchalantly into the bathroom and stare into the mirror with hatred in his expression, not noticing any of them. They watched as he ran a hoof over his stubbly chin and through his greasy mane, before he rested back on all four hooves and shake his head at his reflection disapprovingly.
"Well, isn't that a face only a mother can love" he muttered to himself. He relaxed his neck muscles and his horn thudded against the mirror, rocking side to side. "How you managed to get a mare like Twilight I'll never know Hunter" he told himself, hitting his head against the mirror. He groaned to himself, his temporary insanity passing through his system as he continued to beat his head against the glass. He straightened up and sighed, turning on the tap and letting the water fall through; his horn glowed and an orb of water filled steadily in mid-air before it floated up over his head before he let it drop over himself. Twilight gulped at the sight of the soaked stallion; she knew that mares generally looked more attractive when wet (by ten present if her math was correct) but she had never expected to see a stallion in such a state. She had to admit; she didn't mind it. All around her, the other mares were having similar reactions; Rarity was blushing with wide eyes, full of desire, a line of drool running from her maw; Applejack was eyeing the stallion all over shamelessly, red hiding beneath her freckles; Pinkie Pie was looking at him with curiosity and other mixed emotions she couldn't put her hoof on, but definitely liked the way they made her tingle; while Fluttershy had started getting wet again and had to restrain herself from repeating yesterday's events. The animal caretaker, after yesterday's activates, was easily the most aroused of the five sat in her bathtub, letting out a small squeak as she watched the assassin tense and relax his muscles as he tried to release some tension.
He blinked when he heard the noise, looking up and slowly, hesitantly, he turned his head to the point he'd heard the small noise originate from and spotted all five sopping wet mares, still fresh from the shower they were in the process of taking and blushing heavily. He looked over their shimmering, glistening bodies and felt the heat run to his loins, his member standing to attention at the sight of five of the most highly attractive mares he'd ever seen but a meter away from him. His cock twitched in the direction of the bathtub, where it knew it could find some company as he tried to form words but his erection was hogging all the blood, turning his thinking power to doing little more than just staring at them.
"B-Blood Moon" Twilight asked, hoping they hadn't broken him somehow. The stallion swallowed and his lower jaw hung open.
"I...I should really do the gentlecoltly thing and leave, but I REALLY don't want to" he told them, drool running from his own maw as he continued to stare at them. It was the same as a deer in the train-lights; none of them could do anything, none of them could think or react. They just stood there, staring at one another; though, to be more accurate, the mares were taking in his well-endowed member, while he was wishing one or two of them were turned around, then again, the old 'wet look' had always been a bit of a weakness for him. Their respective silence continued until Rarity spoke up.
"Well, why don't you join us, darling?" Every set of disbelieving and wide sets of eyes were instantly on Rarity, the mares giving her a 'WHAT' look and the stallion with a 'where'd that come from' expression on his face. Rarity looked around at the mares she called friends. "It's the least we can do after all he's done for us" she insisted. Applejack had a look on her face that argued with the seamstress but, ever the terrible liar, everypony could see through it; Fluttershy had a cute pink blush on her face but made sure to offer no argument; Pinkie Pie was, as ever, grinning impossibly at the whole situation, either oblivious to the situation or quite pleased with the idea of bathing with a stallion; Twilight was glancing between Rarity and Blood Moon with a split mind, on the one hoof she agreed with her friend wholeheartedly and wanted her coltfriend to jump in the tub with them right now so she could show just how much she appreciated what he was doing for her and her friends, but on the other hoof, she'd rather it was just him and her in here. The assassin was still trying to comprehend what he'd just been asked.
"Please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE say yes. If you don't I'm gonna tear you apart from the inside."
Blood Moon was, admittedly, leaning towards complying with Rarity and joining five of the most beautiful mares in existence but his first move was to glance at Twilight. She caught his look and looked down in thought; she bit her lip and glanced up, nodding at him as she did. The dark stallion grinned and nodded back at her, graciously, and trotted slowly over.
"Sure, if none of you mind" he answered. In response Rarity and Applejack grinned, Fluttershy's blush intensified, Pinkie Pie's giant smile turned playful and Twilight looked like she was a mix of Rarity and Applejack's expression, grinning and blushing. The five mares made room for the assassin, watching as he climbed in. They then took positions; Rarity sat behind him, leaning on the back of the bath with the stallion between her legs (which, unbeknownst to the other mares, aroused her massively) rubbing his shoulders and back; Twilight sat on his chest, moving her soaped up hooves around his chest, his still erect stallionhood mere inches away from her plot; Pinkie Pie and Applejack took his hind-legs, neither of which minded because Applejack could now admire his powerful muscles and Pinkie Pie because she found herself not minding what she got, just as long as she got to be in the same tub as him; and Fluttershy was left with his lower torso…and staring at his cock.
The mares took to washing him off, some giggling, most blushing, all a little wet (and not from the bath water) and Twilight making idle conversation while she sat on his front and scrubbed his chest.
"You girls are too kind to me" he told them as he relaxed, feeling his tense muscles unwind after a few days of battle, espionage and little chance to rest. Behind him Rarity, who was demonstrating some damn good skill in massaging, smiled warmly.
"As I said, it's the least we could do. After all, your muscles are so tense I'm surprised you could walk, never mind fight or even go shopping yesterday" she said, kneading her hooves into his shoulder and upper back, causing him to growl in satisfaction and lean his head back onto her, looking up at her as she looked down.
"You're good at this" he complemented, really getting into this and melting into her. Above him, Twilight grinned as she watched the assassin turn to putty in their hooves; she continued moving her hooves over him, as he did the same with his own, washing off his marefriend's chest. Twilight caught his eye and held his gaze with a grin on both their muzzles as she moved her efforts lower down his body and closer to her own, leading his gaze to her marehood where he couldn't rip it away, making Twilight blush cutely and prompting Rarity look at the bookish mare, who felt her gaze and looked up at her to catch her wink. Behind Twilight, Applejack and Pinkie Pie were moving their soaped up hooves up and down the stallion's hind legs, getting dangerously close to the throbbing, twitching stallionhood. The whole thing; massage on his back, marefriend on his front and hooves getting too close to his stallionhood, did nothing to kill the boner that he had been vainly trying to kill.
Fluttershy who had been sat between his legs, the space between her own growing extremely moist and not because of the water in her bathtub, was still staring at the assassin's member; her lower jaw was hung low with no chance of being raised, a trail of drool still running from her maw. She felt her mind wandering; wondering what the stallionhood in front of her tasted like, wondering what it would feel like in her maw, imagining her lips moving around it and its owner groaning and her friends around her gasping and…wait, she wasn't imagining this.
Applejack and Pinkie Pie had seen it first, the butter yellow caretaker leaning forwards, her tongue peeking out and a strand of saliva dripping from it and onto the big, black stallionhood in front of her. She nudged Twilight's damp tail out of the way, and act that attracted her attention just as her hot and steamy breath hit his hard wanting penis. Twilight had turned and spotted Fluttershy just as she wrapped her wanting lips around his dick. This prompted a surprised gasp of pleasure from Blood Moon, a shocked gasp from Applejack and Pinkie, a whispered 'oh my gosh' from Twilight and a moan of pleasure from her that sent erotic vibrations through his stallionhood. The mare closed her eyes as she bobbed her head up and down, taking him in, moving up, suckling on his head and going back down to deep throat him again. As her friends watched in silent disbelief, she used her hooves to stroke herself as she wrapped her tongue around his rod, moving it up and down around him as she continued to suck him off. The assassin was beginning to relax into this whole ordeal, which surprised him but he wasn't going to argue against. That was until he realised Twilight was still sat on him. The mare in question looked back at the stallion, her with eyes that were wide and dazed from the whole ordeal and him with a look that demanded to know what was happening. Turning back to Fluttershy, Twilight finally found her voice.
"F-Fluttershy, w-what are you doing?" Fluttershy gave a cute and innocent 'hmm' as she opened her eyes and looked up, disengaging her blow-job, letting her tongue linger on him as she pulled her mouth away, as strand of saliva connecting her maw to his maleness.
"What? I'm not doing anything." Her eyes widened and a blush, rather literally, exploded across her face as she realised what she'd just done, right in front of her friends to boot. Right in front of Twilight; the stallionhood's owner's marefriend. She darted out of the bath, taking to the air and hovering a distance above the floor as she pushed her hind-legs together and put her fore-hooves to her mouth in shock.
"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh. Twilight, Blood Moon I'm SO sorry, I-I didn't realise what I was" she landed and hid her face behind her hooves, crying into them. "Please, I'm so sorry, I-I." She didn't finish, instead she took to the air once more and flew out of her bathroom, bawling to herself the whole way. The mares and stallion watched in disbelief the path she had taken; Blood Moon with wide eyes and gobsmacked at what had just happened, quickly going flaccid in his shocked aftermath; Twilight with just as much disbelief as her coltfriend, and wondering, nay, demanding what in the hay had just happened; Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie Pie were looking on with, unsurprisingly, just as much disbelief as the other two. After a few minutes of silence, the assassin spoke up.
"I've never been one to ask stupid or obvious questions but, it's times like these that make me appreciate just how unavoidable they can be. And on that note; what, in the everlasting buck and the eternal plains of Tartarus, just happened" he demanded of nopony in particular. The rest stayed silent for a while before Rarity spoke up.
"I…I think you just got treated by Fluttershy" she told him, still awestruck "w-well, she did say she was trying to be more assertive." The response made Blood Moon hang his head.
"That's what I was afraid of" he admitted. He used his magic to lift Twilight off of him and placed her on her hooves, getting out and standing next to her. "I'm sorry I didn't react sooner" he told her, feeling ashamed that he hadn't done anything to stop the mare. Twilight put a hoof on his shoulder.
"Don't worry about it, it's not your fault" she said, not wanting him to stress about this. The other three got out of the tub, drained the water, and dried themselves off; something that should have been much lighter hearted but was a more depressing act after the events not a minute ago. The four of them then trotted back to Fluttershy's room and found Rainbowdash and the CMC stood outside, looking worried.
"What's going on" the stallion asked, the down tone in his voice not lost on any of them. Rainbow answered.
"Fluttershy flew in and kicked us out. She was crying and said something about being sorry. What happened?" The assassin grunted and said nothing, scratching the back of his head and looking at Twilight.
"I'll tell you later" she said, motioning at the fillies, Rainbow getting the picture. With a sigh, she approached the door, knocking on it with her hoof. "Fluttershy, you in there? Are you okay" she asked.
"Go away" a teary sounding Fluttershy called back. Blood Moon sighed, shaking his head.
"We've gotta get in there" he said. Him and Twilight concentrated their magic and pictured the inside of Fluttershy's room. It didn't work. "Damn, she doesn't want us in there" he muttered. The rest of the mares looked confused, so Twilight explained as the stallion set to work on picking the lock.
"If somepony doesn't want you in a room badly enough, and with the right emotions say, desperation or fear, or if the room is enchanted against it, a unicorn can't teleport in there" she told them, finishing as the last tumbler fell into place. The assassin turned to the mares.
"Twilight, you and me should talk to her, the rest of you, stay out here" he instructed. The mares nodded, Twilight stepping forwards as she did, and entered the room; inside they could hear the faint sound of a crying Fluttershy, who they found curled up in a corner, shaking as more sobs came from her. Twilight gulped as she trotted carefully forwards and put a hoof on her friend's shoulder.
"Please, leave me alone" she wept. It broke both Twilight's and Blood Moon's heart to see her like this. The assassin sighed.
"Fluttershy" he began, unsure where to take this "why did you do that?" The teary eyed mare looked over her shoulder.
"I-I don't know. I just…did, I couldn't stop myself, I didn't even realise what I was doing until Twilight said my name" she told them. She took to weeping again for a few minutes, Blood Moon and Twilight sitting by, watching her with sad expressions on their faces.
Twilight didn't know what to make of all this, she'd never known that Fluttershy could get like that, or if she even knew about that sort of stuff, what with her being so innocent and all. After witnessing the heart-breaking and soul shredding image of Fluttershy crying for far too long, Twilight decided that this was something that Fluttershy and Blood Moon needed to work out between them, if her theory about why this had happened was correct.
"Fluttershy" Twilight spoke up, leaning in to her friend "it's okay, I forgive you." The butter yellow mare looked over her shoulder again, tears still in her eyes and staining her face; she looked at her friend incredulously before she leapt up and wrapped her friend in a hug, coming close to squeezing the life out of her.
"Thank you Twilight, I'm sorry it's just" she paused again, filling her lull of words with a tightening of her hug. Twilight was hugging her back, smiling into her shoulder but was quickly turning blue.
"F-Fluttershy… air" she called out. The mare quickly released her, looking sheepish.
"S-sorry about that" she mumbled. She glanced at the stallion, who was looking on with a raised eyebrow, and looked at the floor bashfully. The assassin cocked his head to the side.
"Fluttershy, I do have to ask though, why did you do that" he asked of her, genuinely curious of her answer. Fluttershy looked up at him, blushing heavily.
"I-I don't know, honestly, it just…sort of felt like the right thing to do at the time. I'm sorry." The assassin loosed a breath, looking to the ceiling for answers.
"Ahhh, don't worry about it" he told her, a smile on his face as he tussled Fluttershy's mane, prompting the mare to smile back. He opened his fore-legs with a smile. "Hug it out?" Fluttershy smiled back, moving into his embrace. The stallion wrapped his hooves around her and pulled her into his chest, getting a nose full of her strawberry-scented mane. The mare wrapped her own under his, nuzzling his chest drying her tears on his fur. Besides them, Twilight smiled.
"I'm gonna leave you two to settle this yourselves" she told them as she trotted away. When she'd left them, the assassin let go of Fluttershy and sat on one of the beds, patting the space next to him, offering the seat to the mare.
"So" he began "it 'just felt right' did it?" Fluttershy blushed and looked at the floor.
"I-I don't know what came over me, it's just…when you did your 'toxin examination' yesterday, I was feeling a little funny afterwards and, well, you know what I did" she said. The assassin raised an eyebrow.
"Is that it? It was just me-"
"It wasn't just a medical thing for me" she interrupted "I've never been touched by a stallion that way before, I'm always too nervous or something to even try and approach somepony I like. But then, when I was sat there, with your…umm, thing in my face I just couldn't resist, I didn't think I'd ever have another chance like that again" she told him. The two sat in silence for a while after that, Blood Moon considering what she had just told him, when a thought occurred to him.
"Hey, Fluttershy" she looked up at him "Twilight told me that she'd never really had a coltfriend before, and you just said that you hadn't either; have any of you ever been in a relationship before?" The butter yellow mare thought about it.
"Me, Twilight and Pinkie haven't before, I think Rarity has dated a few stallions before but none of them really lasted for more than a month. Applejack spent a year or two in Manehatten as a filly, and doesn't really talk much about what happened, she may have had a coltfriend there but I know she's never had one in Ponyville before. Rainbowdash…I don't really know, she hasn't had a coltfriend in Ponyville or in Cloudsdale, but I'm not sure if she'd really…exclusive to stallions" she answered. The assassin nodded, grinning to himself slightly, looking over the mare.
"Why not? You're all real pretty and are great mares to know, I don't understand why none of you have ever had a coltfriend before" he told her. After thinking about it for a while he shrugged. "Their loss I guess" he said.
"I guess so" the mare murmured before she looked around the otherwise empty room and scooted a little closer to the stallion. "Uh, umm, Blood Moon" she whispered. The assassin hummed his listening as she leaned in.
"Yeah?" Fluttershy blushed and looked at her hooves.
"H-how was it, I mean the-the…you know." The stallion grunted a laugh, but decided to give her a boost in confidence. He leaned into her with a grin on his face.
"Almost wish it never ended" he told her, technically not lying to her. The mare squeaked and blushed. Blood Moon chuckled at her reaction, the two sitting in silence for a while until they heard the sound of Spike's voice.
"Hey, guys, breakfast is ready" he called, reminding the dark stallion that he'd left him making pancakes and prompting his stomach to rumble. The two got off the bed and trotted downstairs, finding the other mares and fillies already sat at the table and Spike in a chef's hat, serving up his creation.
'Where in Tartarus did he get that hat' was the assassin's only thought as he sat between Twilight and Scootaloo. The group of ponies, minus Sand Stalker, sat in relative silence most of the time, Fluttershy earning glances from all her friends, Spike looking between them all wondering what was up and the assassin grinning at the awkwardness of the situation. The butter yellow mare glanced at Blood Moon and Twilight every now and then, wishing she was in Twilight's position. Fifteen minute later and they had finished with their food and settled into the front room, making idle conversation, some with cider in glasses next to them. Hunter and the mouse had joined them before long and sat with the assassin, Hunter on the back of the sofa he was sat on and the mouse on his head, reclining into his mane.
"Are gonna name him" Twilight asked looking at the black mouse "he seems to have taken a liking to you, and you him" she added. The mouse leapt off his head and stood on the side of the seat, Blood Moon looked at the arm of the sofa, finding the mouse looking back at him.
"What do you think" the stallion asked him. The mouse shrugged. "How about…" He looked over the mouse, trying to come up with a name for him as he scratched between the little critter's ears. "Dusk" he suggested, looking at Twilight as he said it, getting his idea behind the name and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"I like it" she told him. The mouse put a paw to his chin before he nodded and climbed back onto the assassin's head.
"Well, he seems to have his favourite perch" he commented. The group of ponies settled into silence again, more idle conversation passing between them. After a while, Blood Moon felt himself drifting off, and was about to fall asleep when Sand Stalker burst through the door with a bunny on his back, looking pissed off and alarmed; Fluttershy looked up in alarm at his sudden entrance, flying over to him and the white rabbit. The mustard stallion moved to the window and stood beside it as Fluttershy picked up the bunny.
"Angel Bunny" she exclaimed, holding the rabbit Blood Moon recognised as the one who had worn the army helmet. "What's wrong" she asked, motherly concern completely washing over her as she held her pet. The dark stallion was more interested in the merc's reaction.
"I'll tell you what's wrong" he hissed, motioning for them to approach the window. The assassin was there first, creeping over and peering out; out there he saw a pair of stallions, one in gold armour, and the other in gold and purple, they looked to be talking to each other. "We've got company" the elderly stallion finished. Twilight got to the window next, brightening up when she looked outside.
"Shining Armour" she exclaimed before the assassin clamped a hoof over her maw and pulled her away from the window. Unbeknownst to them, the guard Captain had glanced at the window, shrugging when he saw nothing.
"You know him" Blood Moon asked. The mare nodded.
"Yeah, he's only like my B.B.B.F.F." she explained. The assassin blinked at the lack of information he'd just received. Twilight rolled her eyes. "My 'big brother best friend forever', why can nopony ever figure that out?" The assassin squeezed his eyes shut and opened them wide when she explained it to him properly.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Your brother, your big brother, who, if past experiences are anything to go by, will be very protective of you, is the mother-bucking GUARD CAPTAIN, and you never thought to tell me, you're a) coltfriend and b) an assassin that Celestia hates. My math is as follows: a big brother tends to look after his little sister, ergo, kills every coltfriend she brings home and a guard Captain is authorized to put down any and all who stand against Celestia. I, at the moment, stand against her and am dating you, his little sister." He sat down, leaning against the wall, running a hoof over his face. "I just know, me and him are gonna get along famously" he droned, sarcasm dripping from his voice. Twilight grinned but didn't laugh, the tension didn't allow it.
"Uh-oh" Sand Stalker muttered, he was peeking over the sill and watching the events going on outside.
"What" the assassin responded.
"Twilight, your brother is coming to visit" he said as he leaned back down. Twilight didn't look bothered.
"That's good, I can talk to him and find out what happened." Blood Moon shook his head.
"No, that won't work, I…'spoke' to one of Hardhoof's guards and he told me that the orders had come directly from Shining Armour. I know you trust your brother but I'm not willing to risk it" he told her. The dark stallion turned to Fluttershy. "Fluttershy, can you talk to him, get rid of him?" The mare squeaked and held her confused looking bunny in front of her. The stallion trotted up to her. "Come on 'Shy, we need you right now, you're our only chance of getting out of this" he told her. The mare looked to her friends for support; Twilight was stood with the assassin; Sand Stalker was still looking out the window, growing more and more pissed by the second; Rainbowdash and her other friends were looking at her with pleading eyes; but it was the wide, fearful eyes of the cutie mark crusaders that swayed her in the end.
"Ok" she conceded quietly, landing and putting her pet bunny on the ground beside her. The assassin smiled at her bravery and put a hoof on her shoulder.
"I'll be there with you every step of the way" he reassured her before he looked at the rest of the room's occupant. "The rest of you, head up stairs while Fluttershy deals with this" he told them. They did as they were told, Twilight pecking him on the cheek as she passed him by.
"Good luck, I know Shining and he's smarter than he looks. Don't underestimate him" she whispered. The stallion nodded and grinned.
"What, you forget our pillow talk already" he asked, making Twilight grin back and kiss him on the lips quickly before she left them.
The Elements of Harmony, little sisters and Sand Stalker headed up and into the bedroom, hiding up there and trying to listen in, but even when they strained their hearing they couldn't make out what was being said. Shining Armour had begun knocking on the door, prompting the assassin to hide behind it as the mare opened it.
"Fluttershy, hey there" the guard Captain greeted brightly.
"Hello there Shining Armour, what brings you here" she asked, obviously nervous about what was going on.
"I'm looking for a platoon of guards, last I heard they were around the Everfree palace, but I'm looking all over just in case" he told her. He suddenly looked like she'd remembered something. "Oh, and have you seen Twilight? I was at the library just now and I couldn't find her, not even Spike was there." Fluttershy froze up as she tried to think of an answer, her mind going blank. The assassin couldn't say or do anything besides cringe; he hadn't had the chance to go over a story with her, and Fluttershy didn't seem the type to think up elaborate stories on the spot. He, however, was and thought fast, formulating a plan. In the end he went with the 'desperate time' procedure. His horn glowed softly as he built the spell and fuelled it with magic; a shroud of near invisible grey mist flew from his horn, flowing around Fluttershy and seeping into her pours and mind. The assassin's body went limp as he possessed Fluttershy. For the mare, she had just had one of the most unusual experiences of her life; she felt a presence in the back of her mind, but it wasn't like an invading presence more like a well-mannered sir that knocked on the door and asked her if she would be alright with sitting in the corner for a few minutes, maybe reading a good book, while he took over her body for a second. She liked this voice, he was very polite. In the end, she obliged and let the presence takeover her body, sitting in a corner on a comfy chair and putting her hind-legs up and read one of her favourite books, 'the call of the wild'.
Shining watches this with a raised eyebrow; to him Fluttershy freezes up, sways as if about to fall asleep and then stands up perfectly straight like nothing had happened.
"Umm, Fluttershy, are you okay" he asks, feeling concerned for the animal caretaker. The mare brushes him off.
"No, I'm fine, just a little tired from looking after a sick vulture is all. Anyway, I think Twilight and everypony went to Manehatten for the day, I'd have gone with them but, y'know, the vulture" she/he explained. The guard Captain blinked.
"Oh, ok, I'm gonna keep looking around for them, if you see them tell them to report in, will you?" The mare nodded.
"Alright, I'll see you later. When I see Twilight I'll let her know you were here" Fluttershy told him in way of farewell. The stallion nodded, a sceptical eyebrow raised, and trotted away. He knew something was up with her but couldn't put his hoof on it.
Back inside the house, Blood Moon released his spell; as he did so, Fluttershy blinked herself back into Equestria as she closed the door. Once she'd done so, she saw Blood Moon sitting on his flank, eyes wide and disbelieving. The mare feared the worst.
"Uhh, Blood Moon, what was that?" The assassin didn't look at her.
"It was a possession, highly advanced spell and difficult to pull off. It temporarily puts my mind into yours, letting me control your actions and access… some of your… thoughts" he said, eyeing the door beneath the stairs. Fluttershy gasped and put her hooves to her mouth.
"Nonononono" she panicked. Blood Moon lunged for the door, Fluttershy following him and grabbing his hind-legs in an attempt to stop him from finding her stash. "Please…please stop, there's nothing in there, I promise" she pleaded as she tried to drag him away from the door.
"Yes…there…is" he managed to grunt out as he dragged himself towards the door, using only his for-hooves. He turned over, putting himself on his back and managed to, gently, kick her off him and gallop for the door. Once he reached it, he tested the door; locked. The stallion looked around to see Fluttershy flying towards him, attempting to grab him again, so he teleported her away from him and back across the room where she continued flying for him. He continued this as he frantically pulled his picks from his mane (what, you thought Pinkie was the only one who could do that) and set to work on picking the lock. He frantically moved his hooves around as he worked the door, periodically teleporting the mare away from him as she was about to reach him. The assassin eventually managed to pick the lock and flung the door open; in his shock at the contents, he forgot to teleport Fluttershy away from him and she slammed into his back, sending them both flying into her secret stash of sex toys and bondage equipment.
A mountain of dildos, tight mock-leather garbs, whips, hoof-cuffs, ball-gags and strap-on's fell onto them. The assassin had frozen up while Fluttershy had squeezed her eyes shut, wishing it all away as she held the stallion in a vain attempt to stop him. Blood Moon swallowed once, daring to lower his gaze to the things that surrounded him; it wasn't that she owned this sort of thing that got him, it was the sheer amount of them.
'It's always the quiet ones.'
"Nonononono" she repeated as she scooped up all her toys, pushed Blood Moon out of the way, crammed them in there and locked the door behind her. She looked left and right, biting her lower lip, and put her back to the door, holding it shut, despite the lock being engaged. "Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease don't tell" she begged. The stallion opened his mouth to answer but couldn't, Fluttershy had grabbed him by the hoof and dragged him into the kitchen, displaying some impressive strength in the process. "Pleeeeeease, you can't tell anypony" she told him. The stallion blinked, still a little busted from the experience.
"Fluttershy…I-I…" The mare put her face in her hooves, whining slightly but trying to hold it together. She put her hooves on his shoulders, making him look her in the eye.
"Please. You. CAN'T. Say. ANYTHING" she told him.
"Fluttershy, I-I don't…" She wrapped him in a hug, holding him close to her.
"Pleeeeeeeease Blood Moon, you can't tell anypony, I'll be ruined, humiliated! I'll do anything, I'll-I'll-" she didn't finish; instead she clamped her lips to his in an attempt to buy his silence and keep her secret under wraps. She moved her hoof down his lower body and found his stallionhood, rubbing her hoof up and down his shaft, feeling it unsheathe and harden under her skilled touch. She displayed another impressive feat of strength as she lifted him up slightly as she moved her mouth to the head and took it into her maw, taking him right down to the roots and running her tongue up and down his maleness, pleasing him massively. Blood Moon loosed a groan as Fluttershy, for the second time in a day, used her highly skilled tongue and lips to pleasure him. He closed his eyes, grinning as he put his hooves on Fluttershy's head, directing her movements and enjoying himself. He then realised what was happening.
"F-Fluttershy, stop, I can't. Twilight." He managed to pull her away from his cock, an act he was both thankful for and hated himself for. The mare tried to protest, slipping her tongue out and running it up his length, causing him to growl in ecstasy and almost let her continue with her efforts. When he managed to push her away from his, admittedly disappointed, stallionhood he put his hooves on her shoulders and held her away from her. "Fluttershy stop, please, I'm not-"She stopped him again by mashing her lips to his again, slipping her tongue in and moaning some. The stallion pulled back and held her away from him. "Fluttershy stop, now" he told her, not as gentle as before. She looked at him with tears threatening to spill, breathing hard and looking desperate.
"I'm sorry, I really am, but you can't tell anypony about this. Nopony knows and I'll be humiliated if they ever found out" she told him, hugging his chest. Blood Moon stroked the back of her mane, soothing her.
"Fluttershy, don't worry about it. I won't tell anypony, nopony will ever know." The animal caretaker looked up at him.
"But you'll know" she said. The assassin grunted, amused.
"Why do you care? I won't judge you, you're too cute for that, and I personally couldn't care how you relieve yourself." He paused for a while, Fluttershy knew what he was thinking about.
"Umm, did-did you see…anything else? When-when you were in my head?" Blood Moon let go of her and stood up straight, trotting to the middle of the room.
"I…I did. I found…what you got up to yesterday" he told her. Fluttershy put her face in her hooves, whining to herself in pure embarrassment. He looked to the spot she had cum on with a raised eyebrow, the thought doing nothing to kill his hard on. "You…you were doing... that…while thinking about me?" The mare looked up at him, bashfully rubbing her leg with her hoof.
"I, umm, yes I guess I did." She looked at him, her gaze strayed to his erect stallionhood and blushing hard. "I guess I wasn't being completely honest with you earlier" she told him "when I said 'you know what I did' I…wasn't really referring to when we were in the tub together. It was when I was in here…making…salads" she said, growing quiet towards the end. The assassin put a hoof to his chin in thought, before he stepped closer to her.
"Fluttershy…why did you think about me?" The mare hung her head before she answered.
"Why did I blow you" she asked shamelessly. "Why did I kiss you? Why did my nether regions feel so funny when I was stood next to you yesterday?" She looked up at him. "Why do I feel more confident when you're around?" She moved a little closer to him. "Why does my heart flutter a little more every time I see you? It's the same reason I'm so jealous of Twilight right now, Blood moon, I think I love you." The stallion swallowed; he'd been expecting this but, against his better judgment, he'd hoped this wouldn't be the conclusion of her answer. He couldn't, nay, didn't want to turn her down; she was the element of kindness and she was, at least thought she was, in love with him. But he was already with Twilight and he wouldn't allow himself to betray her trust, he didn't want to, she didn't deserve it. He looked at the mare in front of him; Fluttershy was looking at the floor, heartbroken and heart breaking tears in her eyes. It was tearing him apart to see her like this, not just breaking his heart, it was shredding his soul, feeding it to the devil who would spit it out and put it through a furnace before he spat on the ashes. He couldn't bring himself to make any more moves to sadden her. He put a hoof to her chin and lifted her gaze to his.
"Fluttershy, I'm honoured that you think of me like that and I'll admit it… I don't feel the same way as I did about you this morning" he told her in a way that made her smile. "Knowing that you love me is the kind of thing that makes me glad I'm immortal, but…I'm with Twilight now, and I don't want to choose between you. You're both the type of mare I can love back but…as I said, I'm with Twilight and I'm not gonna betray her." Fluttershy looked down at the floor in shame; she'd put her own needs before her friends and potentially pulled apart her friendship because of it. The thought of Twilight defriending her pushed her back to near-tears. She pictured her lavender friend turning her back on her and almost fell into sobs again, but she couldn't as she found Blood Moon pulling her into a hug in an effort to stop her from crying again. "Fluttershy, please don't cry; I'm tougher than the average stallion but I don't think even I can stand to watch you cry anymore" he told her. She sniffled and dried her tears on his chest fur, looking up at him with slightly damp facial fur.
"I'm sorry, it's just… I'd rather have said it and got it out rather than not and you never know" she told him, nuzzling his chest as she finished. The stallion stroked her mane, petting her softly.
"That's pretty smart actually and I have to tell you… not being able to love you back properly… I don't like it." The mare looked up at him again, hope in her eyes.
"But-but you don't have to show it, it'll be our secret, nothing actually done just…you and me, knowing we love each other." The assassin shook his head.
"I don't think you'd be able to take it" he told her honestly "I don't think I would either. Let's just leave it as this." The mare, once again, looked down.
"Just-just like this, with us hugging and nothing else?" She sighed quietly to herself.
'Ahhh, damn her and her adorableness.'
He put her hoof to her chin and lifted her to face his again and moved in, pushing his lips to her own and meeting her in a kiss he both loved, and hated himself for. He held her close to him and rubbed her back up and down as she wrapped her fore-legs around his neck and pulled him into her. She was in heaven; he was so gentle with her and made her feel like she was the only mare in Equestria. He was better than she could ever have imagined. She groaned slightly as she slipped her tongue in, closing her eyes, as she began wrestling with his own as he turned his head to the side and pushed their muzzles together more. He pulled her in even closer and stood a little straighter, letting his long, unkempt mane cascade down and on to her a little. Fluttershy blushed as she felt his hoof go a little lower down her back. After a few minutes, but still way too short a time, Blood Moon pulled back and stood over the mare, running his hoof over her silky mane.
"That's enough" he said begrudgingly. The mare sighed sadly, running her hoof down his chest.
"I know, but, I think it… might be enough" she said breathlessly. "Blood Moon." He hummed his attention. "I love you" she told him. He didn't respond, he didn't go throwing the word 'love' around carelessly, but the way his heart beat a little faster told her what she wanted to know.
"Let's head upstairs" he said, leading her away from the kitchen and up the stairs. As they did, Twilight teleported back up from the bottom, where she'd been watching with a small, not particularly happy, but relieved smile. The butter yellow mare and dark silver stallion made their way back upstairs, where they were met with curious gazes.
"How'd it go" Twilight asked as the assassin approached, sitting on the bed and sitting next to her.
"Fine" he said simply, pushing the mare down and meeting his lips to hers. The kiss didn't exactly take Twilight by surprise but it pleased her all the same; she guessed that her coltfriend somehow knew something wasn't quite right with him and her, and she appreciated his efforts to right things between them. She would have to tell him she didn't care about anything between him and her friends, just as long as he was doing it in their best interests; she didn't want to see her and her friends being used, she trusted Blood Moon but she wouldn't risk her friend being used like that for anypony. She suddenly realised that she was still being kissed by Blood Moon; her hooves had subconsciously drifted around the back of his neck and pulled him into her, her tongue had sneaked into his maw and begun wrestling with his, a few moans escaping her. The assassin pulled back in bemused, exited shock when he felt her hooves brush past his flank, gripping it when his tongue hit that sensitive spot. "Heeeeeey" he muttered into her ear, tempted to teleport them somewhere more private.
"Behave" she scolded him playfully, tapping his nose. Behind them, Rainbowdash cleared her throat massively.
"You two need a minute" she asked with a raised eyebrow. Twilight and Blood Moon got up, the mare of the two blushing some, and sat on the bed more sensibly. "So" she started at length, sipping on some cider in a wooden tankard. "How'd it go" she asked, repeating Twilight's question.
"He asked Fluttershy about where Hardhoof and co are. According to him they, for some reason, haven't reported in yet" he said with a grin on his face. "He was wondering where you were" he added, looking at Twilight "but Fluttershy managed to spin a story about you being in Manehatten" he said. Rainbow put her fore-leg around the butter furred mare.
"Nice one 'Shy" she complemented. The mare smiled and looked down at the sheets of the bed she was sat on, her eyes raised to the dark stallion's who smiled and winked.
"Oh, it was nothing, it just came to me" she said graciously.
"Well" Sand Stalker piped up, looking out of the window from his chair "it looks like they've gone. Disaster averted" he told them. The Elements of Harmony and fillies with them all sighed in relief.
"Good" the assassin added, pulling in Twilight and went to kiss her cheek, the lavender mare turning to him just as he met her fur and landing it on her unsuspecting lips.
The ponies went about to do their own things, most scattering to places Blood Moon didn't really care about as long as they stayed within the vicinity of Fluttershy's home. The hours past; some staying in the house and some stepping outside; the fillies had all gone outside to play; Rainbowdash and Applejack helped Fluttershy with a few of her animals; while Twilight settled into one of the Daring Do books, Spike snoozing next to her; while Pinkie Pie played more blackjack with Blood Moon, Hunter and Dusk, Hunter, somehow, holding his cards in his wings while Dusk made an amusing display of holding the cards that were huge on him in his tiny paws. The bird, mouse and stallion had all stuck, while Pinkie was in the process of putting together a five card twenty-one.
"Hit me" Pinkie said. He gave her a card. "Hit me." He gave her another. "Hit me" she said again. He passed her another card, holding his hand in a magical grip as he passed her the cards with his hoof. "Alright" she sang "I'm gonna stick" she told him. The relieved their hands, the assassin had a hand of twenty, Hunter nineteen and Dusk the same number while Pinkie had…
"Uhh, Pinkie Pie, you do know you're meant to be making twenty-one, right?" The mare nodded.
"Yeah, sure I do." Blood Moon looked at his pets in confusion, who looked back in the same way.
"Then why do you have…forty-nine?" The mare threw her cards in the air with a big grin.
"Because I bust" she told him "you know the rules right?" Blood Moon face-hoofed, while off to the side, Rarity giggled.
"You always were a master at that game Pinkie" she commented, as she pulled her sewing box over to her while Blood Moon dealt again. She opened the lid and immediately, her eyes shot open in utter shock, horror and panic. She whipped her head over to the stallion, who was grinning to himself behind his cards. "You, evil stallion" she cursed at him, glaring at him. Blood Moon just kept grinning.
"Don't know what you're talking about" he told her. She grew infuriated at his reaction, a deep red blush spreading over her cheeks as her glare turned to a death stare.
"What's wrong Rarity" Pinkie asked.
"Yeah, what's got you so testy" he added with a stifled laugh. The seamstress was positively, as well as literally, fuming, a dark cloud forming over head as she bristled at him. After a second she managed to calm herself down, swallowing her rage.
"Well, I suppose I'll just have to put it to use later" she said as she slipped it discreetly into her pillow case, making the assassin chuckle and Twilight give a confused 'huh'.
"Hit me" the pink pony said. Blood Moon handed her a card while he continue smirking.
"Stick" he said.
"Me too" the mare said. They all showed their hands; Hunter, the git, had a twenty-one of a king and ace of spades; Dusk had a hand of eighteen; Blood Moon had twenty again; while Pinkie had…
"Pinkie Pie, where did you get that 'get out of jail free' card?" The mare shrugged happily. Besides her orange card with a pony prison guard on, she had; an ace, an ID mug shot of her pulling an amusing face, a business card for Sugarcube corner and a memo telling her to get some apples from Sweet apple acres. "Yeah, you bust" he told her. He put the cards that belonged in the pack back into the deck and shuffled them before he stood up. "I'm gonna get some air" he said as he trotted for the door, passing Twilight on the way out, leaning over as she kissed him while he went past.
"Love you" she murmured into his ear. Those words, those two simple words, stopped him dead in his tracks, making his heart stop and his breathing literally stop; he continued staring at her bright, wide, beautiful, purple eyes and just stopped. He could barely think either; the last time somepony had told him they loved him had been…a long while ago, and it hadn't ended well. And now Twilight was admitting the same thing? He wasn't sure how to answer her, what to say in response, how to react to her. Or did he? The ending to his last, loving, relationship had turned him wary about the subject and he didn't allow himself to go into the same standard of bond without much thought before-hoof. He was scared at how it would turn out, how it would end. "Blood Moon" Twilight asked, suddenly worried about him, and what he might be thinking and say next. He continued to look over his marefriend. His marefriend, who's just told him she loved him.
'To Tartarus with the consequences.'
His horn flashed as he teleported them both outside, around the back of Fluttershy's house; it was a nice day, maybe four in the afternoon, and the sun was casting a pleasant glow over the animal caretaker's cottage. That wasn't what interested the assassin, what did was the mare in front of him, the mare who'd just told him she loved him. His marefriend. He clamped his lips to hers, turning his head into it and pushing her back against the wall, pushing his tongue into her maw, Twilight gladly accepting, and going between wrestling with her tongue and teasing over that sensitive spot in her mouth. He kept this up for thirty seconds, until Twilight singled she needed to breath, and pulled back but didn't disconnect; putting their tongues together and pushing against each other, he kept them linked while the mare gasped for breath for a few seconds until the stallion reconnected their kiss. He pushed her up the wall, making her stand on her hind-legs as he supported her; he pulled back and kissed down her neck, holding her in place with his right hoof, wrapped under her left as his left hoof ran over her body, returning the favour from earlier by paying due attention to her flank and cutie mark. She squealed and moaned as he fondled her plot, touching her in all the right places to make her feel good. She'd have to ask him how he knew all her sensitive spots. He pulled back and looked her in the eye, saliva connecting their tongues and breathing as hard as she was. "Twilight" he started, his hoof still on her rear-end, making her blush.
"Yeah" she replied, her fore-legs still around his neck, ready to pull him in.
"I love you too" he told her. In response, Twilight blushed, squealed and pulled him in violently, pressing her maw to his and keeping them together with a raging battle between her tongue and his love, care, desire and just a hint of lust passing between them (all left on the stove to simmer for twenty minutes while-sorry, wrong joke). She disengaged the kiss sooner than the last, resorting to just tightening the hug she held him in and holding him with intent of never letting go. And she wouldn't have, had Fluttershy, Rainbowdash and Applejack not stumbled across them.
"Hey Twi, what are you doin' out here" Rainbow asked, startling the mare and making her jump, pushing her off the wall and onto Blood Moon's front, who had fallen onto his back.
"Hey, RD, what's goin'-oh, uhhh, howdy there Twi, we uhhh, interruptin' somthin' there" Applejack asked as she turned the corner and found the same scene as Rainbowdash had a second ago. Fluttershy then floated around the same corner, about to say something when she saw Blood Moon and Twilight lying on the ground behind her house. As she looked on her mind quickly jumped to a conclusion, her eyes snapping open and her face turning red.
"T-T-T-T-T-Twilight, Blood Moon! What are you doing?" Applejack's face was about as red as Fluttershy's when she made the connection, a small grin stretching over the corner of her mouth.
"Ah'm not so sure we wanna know, sugarcube" she said before anypony else could speak. Twilight got up, looking sheepish, and brushed herself off before she helped Blood Moon up.
"Very funny" Twilight commented, rolling her eyes. Applejack looked at Rainbowdash in confusion.
"Who's jokin'?"
"I was just" she glanced at Blood Moon "showing my love for my coltfriend" she told them. Applejack was about to say something when Twilight cut her off. "NOT like that" she insisted. Applejack chuckled.
"Ah believe yah sugarcube" she told them, still snickering to herself. Behind her, Rainbow was laughing into her hoof, while Fluttershy was pawing the ground, smiling good naturedly. The apple bucker looked to the sky. "Are ya'll gonna come inside or stay here, ah think we're about tah have-" the heavens opened and rain poured from the sky, drenching them "rain" Applejack finished, as the rainwater plastered her mane to her face and neck, the same happening to Fluttershy, Rainbowdash, Twilight and Blood Moon.
"I think I'll take the former" the assassin replied, sparking his horn to life before he looked up to see the shower flowing over an invisible shield and dripping off of it at the edges. "Alright, everypony huddle up" he said as the mares bunched around him, unwilling to get wet; Twilight and Fluttershy were either side of him while Rainbowdash and Applejack trotted besides them. They cantered to the front door where they burst through, finding Sand Stalker shaking himself off like a dog would, kicking one of his hind legs to flick off some stubborn water and the cutie mark crusaders shivering. The assassin trotted over to the fireplace, a spark lit at the end of his horn and grew into a flame that flew onto the logs and turned to a pleasant, warming fire.
"That's better" Applejack said as she approached the flames with Applebloom, warming her and her sister.
"Sure is" Twilight agreed, standing between Blood Moon and Applejack, closer to Blood Moon than strictly necessary. Applejack leaned into her with a grin on her face.
"Ah don't think ya'll want to warm up using just a fire, Twi" she whispered. The lavender mare blushed slightly and looked at the floor.
"Shut up" she mumbled, remembering sitting in the bath tub with Blood Moon and blushing harder. After a while of standing in front of the fire, warming themselves up, they made their way up stairs, some carrying cider with them. Up there, they found Pinkie sat on one of the beds, still playing blackjack with the assassin's pets and Rarity busy fixing his garb, having already finished his cloak and now working on the vest. They all sat on their respective beds, Sand Stalker on the chair, and relaxed, watching the rain come down. Twilight turned to Blood Moon.
"Hey, Blood Moon." He turned to her from the window.
"Yeah?"
"I just remembered; I never did ask you anything, when you woke up in my spare bed. I was wondering about a few things." The assassin sat up straighter
"Well, no better time to ask than now" he said, glancing at the rain that kept pouring. "Ask away."
"For starters; 'Umbra Linguam'?That doesn't sound like any language I know, or even heard of. What is it?"
"Latin" he replied plainly.
"Latin? I've never heard of that."
"I'm not surprised, Latin is a very unique language; it's a universal language. Every society, every world, every universe and plain of existence has a form of Latin; for some it's a dead language, for others it's the primary language spoken and for other's it's just another tongue. I can speak it fluently but it's a mostly useless skill when nopony else can speak it, but hay, it's good to know that if I'm whisked away to another dimension, I have a chance" he said. Twilight nodded, scribbling it down on a notepad Blood Moon recognised as the one he kept in his belt. He raised his head and look at the wall.
'Wait, I don't have my belt on me, where did I…"
He shuddered as the thought passed through his head and frowned as the wall he was looking at started to bend, twist and basically screw up, the assassin watching as he suspected he'd just broken something important. He closed his eyes and shook the thought away; when he looked back the wall was back to normal. He didn't think about it again.
"Blood Moon, you okay" Twilight asked from the side, sounding concerned. He looked back and smiled slightly, not wanting to think about it.
"Yeah, fine. Any other questions?" She nodded.
"How does your immortality work?" This question made everypony in the room perk up and look over at the assassin.
"Alright, what happens is that my 'dead' body is basically replaced; it turns to ash and flows away on the wind. Did you not notice in the palace?" She shook her head. "Anyway, that rule is binding; if I'm burned to ashes, my ashes turn to more ashes and do the same; if I'm burned away to nothing, my magic doesn't have to worry about getting rid of the body so I just reappear."
"And how does that work?"
"Same way as I leave; I'm taken to a spot that's safe and my body is formed from the ashes, I've never seen it happen before, but according to Commander Hurricane it was 'awesome'. That's also one of the reasons I like phoenix's so much" he looked up at Hunter, fussing his head with a grin on his face "we have a lot in common." He looked to Twilight again. "Anything else?"
"What's your exact age?" He grunted a laugh.
"Y'know, if I'd asked you the same thing it'd be considered rude. Anyway, I believe I'm fifteen thousand, nine hundred, eighty-six years, five months and twenty-two days" pause for breath "old. Give or take a few years." Twilight was scribbling furiously.
"How-how can ya'll remember that" Applejack asked, amazed at his ability to recollect things with such detail. He shrugged.
"When you get to be my age, memories are all you have for the most part" he explained "sure I forget a few things, but I try my best to remember what I find important" he told her. The mares looked on, awestruck, and the fillies gave a syncretised 'wooow'. Even Sand Stalker looked impressed. He looked to Twilight again. "Anything else" he asked, directing the question to the whole room. She looked back at the pad-
'Don't think about it, don't think about it, don't think about it.'
And read over what she'd written, before looking up at him.
"No, I think that's all I've got" she replied. He nodded and relaxed, resting his head on his hooves.
"Y'know, I've never told anypony this much about myself so readily before, not really. Nor so many." He shrugged. "Well, just goes to show weather you can trust me or not." Pinkie looked up at him.
"Hey, that was a typo" she declared. Blood Moon frowned at her.
"A what?"
"A typing error" she clarified "just now, it said weather when it should have said whether." Now Twilight was looking at her in confusion.
"Pinkie Pie, what are you talking about." The pink pony rolled her eyes.
"Duuuh, the author wrote the wrong word. It only happened about seventy-four words ago, give or take." Blood Moon and- "Twilight glanced at each other!" DAMNIT, stop interrupting my narration! The pink pony frowned. "No I'm not, I'm still smiling, see." She pointed her hoof at her frowning- "I'm not frowning" she insisted. You're not supposed to be doing this. "Yeah I am, you're the one writing this. Oh, and the computer thinks the comma you put there shouldn't be there, I don't really mind though. By the way, are you saving now just in case the computer freezes from the way this is such and forth-wall breaker? And it won't, you wrote this after you wrote the rest and came back to add this." I'm not going to ask you again, stop speaking with the narrator- "I'm not speaking with the narrator, I'm speaking to you." I AM THE NARRATOR! And quit bending the rules of reality, will you? "No need to be mean, she told him." That last part was my bit, stop taking my narrations Pinkie. "Sorry, I just thought I'd help." Well, thanks put- "BUT, it was meant to be but, another typo!"… BUT, I can do it myself, I've been doing it for the last seventeen chapters, y'know. "Yeah, I know. Well, I'll let you get back to the story now. Oh, and say hi to SonicTheEchidna for me. Oh, and Higgins is about to shake that guy's hand, IT'S A TRAP, but it's only a dream, he'll wake up and Magnum will hear him, running up to see what had happened, but Higgins will say nothing is up although Magnum doesn't believe him." Damnit, Pinkie, spoilers. And don't tell them about what might happen in the story. I'll see you later. "I'll see you too, and you too readers." Probably when you least expect it. "I can still hear you." Damnit Pie, I-I'm…I'm going. The pink party pony, occupancy of the room and the whole of Equestria then heard a door slam somewhere.
Twilight and the rest of the Elements of Harmony all watched Pinkie in confusion, some scratching their heads and others with raised eyebrows. Twilight turned to say something to Blood Moon but found he wasn't there; instead he was curled up in the corner, sobbing quietly to himself, the voices in his head trying to sooth him. Twilight hopped off the bed and trotted carefully over to him; she put a hoof on her shoulder and nudged him slightly.
"Blood Moon, are you okay?" She wondered what was going on in his head.
'WHAT JUST HAPPENED? TELL ME NOW! NO DON'T TELL ME, I DON'T KNOW IF MY BRAIN CAN TAKE IT!'
"Just calm down, don't think about it and…no just don't think about it, that's the best thing you can do right now."
'DON'T THINK ABOUT IT? SHE JUST PULLED APART THE LAWS OF REALITY AND SPOKE WITH…I DON'T KNOW, SOMETHING!'
"Alright, fair enough, just…just think about Twilight."
'I-I…alright, I'm calm, I'm a fifteen thousand year old assassin. I'm an adult. I'm thinking about Twilight, the mare who I love, who has friends, one of which is Pinkie Pie, who just-'
"STOP, right there. DON'T. THINK. ABOUT. IT. Just think about Twilight, okay."
'Alright, I'm thinking about Twilight. I love that mare.'
"Yeah, good, that's it. Just think about her and relax."
'Yeah, yeah, I'm good. Just gonna-gonna think about Twi and then…I don't know, just sleep.'
"Good."
Twilight nudged him again, getting seriously worried now.
"Blood Moon" she asked again. The stallion in question then looked over his shoulder at Twilight, before he turned over completely. "Blood Moon, are you ok?" He didn't answer her, instead he just opened his fore-legs for a hug. She did so, sitting him up as she did, and just sat with him for a while until she managed to coax him over to the bed, where she just held him, trying to comfort him. "Are you alright" she asked him, fearing the answer.
"Just…f-f-FINE. I'm fine, just as mentally stable as before. I just…I just wanna go to sleep" he told her.
"But it's only-" she looked outside to find that it was now late at night, glancing at the clock she found it to be ten at night. "When…how…who…what?"
"Oo, oo, I know, it was the auth-"
"STOP" all other mares, fillies and Sand Stalker yelled in unison.
"Alright, alright. Just sayin' y'know" she muttered. Twilight settled down into the bed with her, admittedly freaked out, coltfriend and snuggled into him.
"Are you going to be okay" she asked him. He looked up and smiled slightly.
"Yeah, just gotta, y'know' repress the memories. Should be done in the morning" he told her. She smiled back, still worried for his sanity, and kissed him goodnight. She felt him relax as she did so. She looked up to see him appear…more stable.
"Did that help?"
"Somehow…yes, it kind of did." She grinned and moved closer.
"Well, in that case…" Blood Moon grinned and moved in with her.
They fell asleep still kissing.
A/N:
New chapter. Yay. Sorry if that ending came out of nowhere but-
It wasn't so bad, you just ran out of ideas and had to come up with something off the top of your head. I thought it was pretty creative.
Pinkie...how did you get here.
I got tired of breaking the fourth wall all the time, so I just installed a door. Now it's waaaaayyyyy easier to get here!
So-so you just...come here...now?
Yuparoonie!
...Cool...I guess?
YAY, do you mind if I help out with the random words you put on the end now?
You mean the Author's Notes?
Uh-huh!
Promise me you won't break the forth wall in the story from now on, and you can stay in this small box of my straitjacket-esc ramblings.
YAY! I promise.
I honestly thought that would dissuade her, Pinkie Promise?
Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!
Alright, well on that note, Productive faff-
Aren't you gonna do the cast?
The...cast?
Yeah, at the end of the show we have a cast, why not here?
I'm just going to...stare at you in disapproval right now.
Great! While you're busy doing that, I'll do the cast!
Wait, wha-
*Sped up Star Wars tune*
Twilight Sparkle...Tapping on the keyboard
Fluttershy...Tapping on the keyboard
Rainbowdash...Tapping on the keyboard
Pinkie Pie...Me!
Rarity...Tapping on the keyboard
Applejack...Tapping on the keyboard
Spike...Tapping on the keyboard
Blood Moon...Productive faffer totally says his lines out loud, but he didn't want me to mention that.
Princess Celestia...Tapping on the keyboard
Shining Armour...Tapping on the keyboard
Blood Moon's voice...Morgan 'God's voice' Freeman
And on that note, Productive faffer and Pinkie Pie out! I don't really know why he says 'out' but-
DAMNIT PINKIE!