Previously: After Winter Breeze agreed to help Applejack, Rainbow Dash learned more about Soul Hook's past and personality. Meanwhile, Sweetie Belle apologized for her tantrum on Rarity and Cheerilee's relationship, allowing the loving couple to unite again with no obstacles. And right when Twilight gets home, her number one assistant Spike greets her after his long vacation to Canterlot. However, Twilight finds nothing but suspicious behavior from the young dragon when she asks why he's several days late... a question he more then happily wants to avoid...
'Cause tomorrow spring is here
Heavy eyes and a discomfort of being ripped away from a nice sleep. These were the problems for Twilight Sparkle the unicorn when she woke up and saw her home from the soft pillow. But there was no need for her to try fall asleep again, because somepony else found good reasons to be awake.
"Morning Twilight! Aren't you coming down for breakfast?" Spike the baby dragon asked from his place in front of the bedroom door. His presence during the week was still a little weird for Twilight, minding his odd behavior ever since his return from Canterlot. Thus, she just turned away from her assistant just to be disturbed by a penetrating light breaking through the window's curtains. Resistance was futile...
"Ugh... yeah, yeah..." she answered with a stain of annoyance and sat up when Spike walked out, letting the blanket she rested under to fall down. Her horn focused up some minor magic and grasped the curtains, pushed them aside and thus finally felt a refreshing beam of sunlight fill the darkened room. She covered her sensitive eyes just in time to not get blinded.
Spring had arrived to Ponyville...
After the routine of brushing her roughed mane and tidying the bed, Twilight accidentally let a yawn escape her mouth while walking down the stairs to the library. This year's winter wrap up had been a stressed one since Applejack's leadership was absent from the plant team due to her problems. Winter Breeze had been with her since a week back and regularly visited to solve all her problems with Apple Bloom and Zecora's relationship. Actually, she hadn't seen or heard from her since then, and Rainbow hadn't visited her so often since hearts and hooves day. It was all a little mystery in itself worrying her head until a very welcome scent filled her snout.
"Breakfast is se~erved!" Spike tuned out, virtually radiating his happy mood all the way from the kitchen where this alluring scent oozed from. A spark of a better mood struck inside Twilight's mind, causing her to smirk and trot the remaining distance to the kitchen so she could behold her assistant's brilliant work.
Her violet eyes immediately landed on the toasted daisy sandwiches already prepared on a little plate together with a glass of apple juice and a selection from Spike's homemade cookies she couldn't really remember the name of next to it. The trusty baby dragon walked up to Twilight from the recently turned off oven, brushing his hands while smiling at her. "Well, you got everything served up, so~o... I'll just go and do some of my chores" he stated and prepared to walk past the purple unicorn.
Even though Twilight felt heavily enticed to just sit down by the small kitchen table and eat, a quick thought ran through her head. She licked her lips for a moment until she realized that the dragon was getting away.
"Spike!" she exclaimed which instantly stopped the mentioned dragon dead in his tracks. "Uh... yes, Twilight?" he asked, still smiling, and slowly turned around, feeling caught even though he hadn't done anything at all yet. It was at that moment he saw the concerned expression on his friend and caregiver's muzzle. "I think we need to talk...".
Spike glanced at every side he knew, seeming to try come up with some kind of excuse. But before Twilight stopped him, his smile became a grin. "Okay! You wanna do it while eating?" his nice side ordered him to say. The unicorn smiled back in a frown and walked up to her seat around the little wooden kitchen table decorated with her delicious treat.
Spike sat down on the other seat across the table, beholding casually as Twilight magically levitated the toasted bread up to her mouth, gently munching it and enjoying the taste. Her satisfaction started to send small signals when the second bite stole another piece.
Spike chuckled. "He he he... good as usual, right?" he asked in order to boost his self-confidence of being a good cook. The eating pony nodded happily and swallowed, almost forgetting what she wanted to talk about there for a second. But her memories didn't play any tricks this time. Thus, she levitated the daisy sandwich back down to its plate and focused on looking at Spike again.
After a clear to her throat, she felt ready to speak. This was after all kind of important. "Spike, we haven't had any time talking during the week before winter wrap up, but... well, I think there are a few things you really need to kno...".
"If it's about you, Rainbow Dash and Applejack... yeah, I know" he cut off casually and leaned on the table, rolling his eyes in the process to Twilight's surprise.
"Er, really? You... knew?" she asked, almost blushing in a silly smirk. Spike sighed ironically. "I heard from Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie confirmed it. Besides, it wasn't easy missing you and Rainbow kissing every now and then..." he said as a sinister look shot at the unicorn. Twilight released the blush, failing to hold back her embarrassment. Oh... kay. And... you're... uh... fine with it? It doesn't trouble you that I'm..." she was about to ask again, pretty much waiting for Spike to cut her off again and finish the sentence.
The small dragon rested his cheek in his right hand, lifting an eyebrow to enhance his more 'cool' side. "Oh come on, Twilight. Minding how many female ponies there are in this town, not to mention in entire Equestria, I can't say it'd surprise me if more then half of them are fillyfoolers..." this little confident dragon explained and used a more sinister look at Twilight. "But hey, I sure didn't expect to come back here and see you had caught the two most obvious ones... at the same time too. You're quite the charmer, he he!" he chuckled and winked.
"Heh... yeah... you're okay... with that too?" she furthered, now virtually grinning to remove her own fear of getting rejected by her own assistant for being with two ponies at once. Spike shook his head. "Nah, I'm okay as long as you're happy, Twilight. And besides, it's not my business who you're dating or sleeping with" he stated to calm the unicorn's expectations once again.
But when she was about to smile and finally brush of the worries from her mind, the purple dragon looked away, still smiling sinisterly. "But I mean, come on: a pony covered in rainbows with a tomcolt attitude and a muscular, hardworking one wearing a stetson... both of them very athletic and not afraid to get themselves dirty. They never land their eyes on any colt, but constantly keeps an eye open for any cute fillies... you'd be blind to not see that one coming"
Those words weren't exactly what Twilight had expected to hear, but she supposed it was all true. Most prejudices pointed at Rainbow Dash and Applejack being those kind of ponies you'd expect most of all to have an attraction for the other sex. However, those were as mentioned just prejudices and nothing else. It could have likewise been a coincidence...
And speaking of which, Twilight just realized that a very bitter truth waited around the corner for Spike. She frowned and sighed, fully aware that Spike couldn't possibly be this happy unless he hadn't heard about Rarity. "It calms me you're so acceptable to this, Spike. But I'm afraid I need to tell you something else... and you're not going to like it..." she prepared him and looked down at her plate.
Spike turned his head back to his friend, wondering what that was supposed to mean. "Really? What?".
A last moment so she could choose her words, carefully picking each one to not let her favorite dragon fall into a complete state of misery. Sadly, the truth was not only a tool for solving problems, it could also be a weapon for total chaos inside somepony's mind. Her lungs filled with air, unleashing the prelude to her hurtful confession. "Have you... heard about... er, Rarity?" she began and waited for the first response.
Spike shook his head, still calm since he knew nothing bad had happened to her. He even saw her several times during winter wrap up. Suddenly, the closer Twilight got to the truth, the more she hated being the pony forced to tell it. Her eyes shifted up and down between the dragon and the plate with its half-eaten sandwich, soon forcing her to look at something else like the circular window over the kitchen sink behind Spike. He concentrated on her, waiting for what she was about to say.
"She... is..." her mouth hesitated to continue, causing the waiting assistant to cock an eyebrow. "Yeah? What about Rarity?" he asked, more naive then ever in Twilight's eyes. Didn't he understand where she was getting at?
"She's together with... Cheerilee... she's... also a... fillyfooler..." the concerned pony finally uttered, nibbling both of her lips and readying herself for an outburst of shock and sorrow, possibly combined with anger and jealousy. Spike lost his smile and then remained still, not moving a muscle as he stared at Twilight for several seconds. She looked back, feeling like time had stopped just so her assistant could build up his furious avalanche of burning emotions. He still didn't move, nor even breathed or blinked. Any second now, Twilight thought to herself and leaned away from the table.
The baby dragon known as Spike, dependable and always there to help, known for his skills in assisting and supportive behavior aside from his playfulness... finally crossed his arms over the table and inhaled deeply.
"Well... what about that..." he said and reached for one of his homemade cookies next to Twilight's plate. "Is Fluttershy also a fillyfooler then? That would be hilarious, he he he!".
Twilight blinked once, then twice in a row before violently cocking an eyebrow while raising the other. "Er... w-what?" she asked, muddled by confusion and seriously so shocked that she could hardly understand what the hay just happened. "But...b-but didn't you hear what I just said, Spike?" she asked to confirm that he actually heard her. "Yeah. Rarity's a fillyfooler and dating Cheerilee... I heard you" he answered and licked his claws clean from the cake crumbs. "Lucky her. That teacher is also a fine piece of pony...".
This was a total roadblock in Twilight's tolerance. Her fore hooves violently struck down, smacking the table so hard her breakfast vibrated. Spike jumped in fright, unprepared and unaware that even could happen. She stood up with the same hooves on the table, arching both eyebrows as her personality made for interrogation woke up.
"That's it, Spike! You've been acting weird every day since you came back from your vacation and you won't tell me a thing about it either! You walk around with that weird smile all day and never seem to drop it! You're more cocky then before... and when I tell you that Rarity, the pony you had a deep crush on, is a fillyfooler and dating somepony else... you just take it like nothing! What the hay, Spike? WHAT THE ACTUAL HAY?" her furious voice roared out until her lungs had depleted every last ounce of air, forcing her to pant vigorously and keep her eyes on the little dragon still not moving a muscle.
His eyes were relaxed as he sucked his last claw to get all the sprinkles from his cookie, one hundred percent unaffected after Twilight's rage. "Yeah... ain't I'm allowed to have secrets?" he asked casually without any regrets, prepared to entice this lavender unicorn to dig deeper in her anger.
"W-what? What are you... what... I... wha... huh?" she slowly ran out of fuel and sat down on her seat again, trying in vain to control her twitching eye.
Meanwhile, Spike arched his eyebrows, about to turn this scolding straight back to where it came from. "Twilight... I'm just your assistant, not your personal slave. And you're not my mom either. Doing chores and being an assistant is one thing, but when it comes to my private life, you shouldn't dip your curious snout where it doesn't belong..." he stated with his most serious tone, getting of his seat and walking with Twilight's shocked eyes stalking him.
"And if you want to know about me and Rarity... I can tell you that I've given up on her a long time ago... now leave me alone, I just realized that I'm already done with everything around here in the library, so I'm going to bed" he explained while walking out of the kitchen, soon leaving Twilight alone with her toast and juice.
The filly stared straight into the thin air, frozen by the boldness and cocky spirit Spike had gotten while away on his vacation. Her lips trembled together with the twitching eye, proving that she was completely lost for the moment. Was this Spike? HER Spike? The little dragon she hatched herself several years ago? Or... maybe it is, she thought as her logical processing started to work again. Maybe Spike was just growing up, becoming more independent as time progressed.
"No... not this soon..." she mumbled and stared down at the half-finished treat and untouched glass. She was still a little hungry, so levitating the sandwich and eating up the rest of it felt right. As she kept eating in silence and solitude, her thoughts started to surround what possibly could have happened at Canterlot. And Spike did mention something about the princess. And work. And being late because of it.
Her eyes narrowed as the last piece of toasted bread with daisies fell down into her digestion. Now all that remained was the juice which she quickly grabbed with magic and drank up. After the last gulp, she sighed in delight. "Well, I guess I have to ask the princess about it if she knows anything" she stated to herself and levitated the dishes to the sink. That was also Spike's job, but only when time wasn't on her side while studying.
Thus, she obeyed her next instinct and walked out from the kitchen, aiming for the door so she could behold the spring she had helped bring in time. Trotting didn't feel right, so just taking it easy sounded like the best decision.
Her magic grasped the door, but a slight amount of desperation after what happened just a moment ago brought out more force then needed, thus throwing up the door like a fishtail wind forced it open.
Sadly, once the door opened to let her out, she heard that it hit something and also stopped halfway from being totally wide-open. Her eyes widened in shock and fear, believing somepony probably got hit by the hard piece of wood right in the muzzle.
"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry, I..." she instantly apologized and walked outside to push the door shut again. But her apology quickly turned into a dumbfounded tone once she saw exactly who's face she just smashed. The last sound being heard was the very door she just pushed away hitting the door-frame.
Twilight was forced to tilt her head up in order to see this pony's face. And once she did, the dark green eyes brought her into a deep look. An extremely uncomfortable feeling surrounded her neck, threatening to choke her if she even breathed. Like darkness had consumed her, all fears and anguish poured out together with the small stain of sweat breaking from her horned forehead. The height, the black mane, the purple coat and not to mention the scent of smoke. It was that earth pony colt she had seen a few times before with Rainbow Dash and Winter Breeze.
But what triggered the major part of her fear was without doubt the fact his snout was bleeding... and the cigarette he had in his mouth had been crushed into his bruised muzzle. His eyebrows slowly arched down, strengthening the murderous aura he radiated. At that moment, Twilight struggled to not whimper in fear, fully convinced that this male soon would put a hoof around her neck and break it with the other. Like life itself seized to exist, killing all hopes of a future experience in the warm sun, the colt kept his mean glare at the poor unicorn who already shivered.
"Hello, miss Twilight Sparkle. I'm sorry for standing in the way of your door..." he quickly stated calmly without any ardor in his apology, dropped his dead cigarette to the ground and flipped up a small package from nowhere so he could get a new one, only to lit it with a lighter, also from nowhere.
Twilight blinked once, then twice. Her mind almost blew up there. First Spike and now this, what was up with those unexpected reactions bringing her to the edge of sanity due to nervousness the moment she received them? Her courage, however, finally found some space to exist in. "Er... wha... ehh... yeah, but ain't... I'm the one supposed to... apologize?" she asked, still getting used to that creepy ambiance around this male she actually knew was pretty much harmless.
A cloud of smoke left Soul Hook's throat as he took his first inhale from the deadly stick. After shifting it over to the right corner of his mouth, he glanced down at the purple pony and dried his snout from the tiny trail of blood escaping his nostril with a fore hoof. "I guess so. But it doesn't matter right now... miss Winter Breeze sent me this morning before she walked to Sweet Apple Acres. She said I am to take you there..." he explained and gently scraped his dirty hoof on the ground.
Twilight jerked her head back in surprise. However, it was a very welcome surprise this time. "The apple acres? Is it about Applejack? Can I finally see her again?" she asked desperately as a feeling more pleasant then Soul Hook's aura hacked into her mind. She practically leaned towards the tall colt with pleading eyes, hoping her lover was alright after all this time she hadn't been allowed to see her. "Yes, but I'll explain more on the way..." his deep bass voice said as he turned around.
It was wonderful for Twilight to see the prospering spring with its warm sun, growing flowers, singing birds and casually bypassing ponies not shivering to the bone. But the walk itself had been an experience filled with less wondrous events.
Whenever somepony walked towards them, they instantly skipped aside with worried expressions. Not a single pony dared to be closer then five meter, freezing out the two ponies walking down the street towards its perimeter. However, it was obvious that they avoided the tall, indifferent colt walking right next to the significantly shorter filly who frowned every now and then. She finally leaned a little towards him.
"Doesn't it bother you?" she asked, waiting for the obligatory answer unless Soul Hook understood what she meant, which he didn't. "What?" he responded without turning his emotionless face away from the direction he walked, still puffing out the defiling smoke from the corner of his mouth. Twilight sighed. "That everypony avoids you, I mean. If you walk around with such a strong radiation of... well... " she failed to find the more subtle and kind word, something the dark purple colt noticed.
"Evil? Darkness? Suffocation?" he came up with different examples, still seeming completely indifferent. Twilight bit her lower lip in disappointment and hung her head down for a second before looking up at her company again. "Yeah... it's so strange. At first sight you look so terrifying and ice cold, but once somepony gets to know you, there is a complete new side not even close to what your your expression and aura says. I mean... is it some kind of..." she almost had time to finish her sentence and question until Soul cut her off.
"Defense mechanism?" he ended, still uncaring. Twilight nodded in agreement which triggered the male to answer. "Both yes and no. It works perfectly to stay out of involvement with most troublemakers... but also as a weapon against the weaker kind of ponies".
The lavender unicorn raised an eyebrow when hearing that. "But... that's not very helpful. Ponyville is such a nice town with one of the lowest criminal records and..." she was about to continue in a failed attempt to convince Soul Hook, sadly instantly interrupted like a train hitting a giant boulder.
His eyebrows arched slightly. "In a friendly town like Ponyville... yes" the deep voice answered, then remained silent for the rest of the walk. Twilight didn't feel much more comfortable, but still well aware that she was out of harm's way...
Out on the crop fields not too far away from the Sweet Apple Acre farm house, a most muscular and well-shaped stallion brushed away his sweaty mane hanging over the red forehead. A short sigh and a little longer glance up at the sun, that was everything Big Macintosh needed to know what time it was. Not that he knew what the sigh was needed for, but still.
A proud smile decorated his muzzle as he strengthened himself to drag the plow mounted behind him. The dirty ropes tightened, resisting to follow in vain as this hunk of a stallion easily walked towards the edge of the field. But when his gentle eyes glanced towards the dirt road leading to the acre farm house, he saw a true beauty to the eye traveling up along it. However, he stopped walking when his eyes landed on the other, definitively more worrying pony right behind Twilight.
From the rather long distance, Big mac furrowed his eyebrows just a second before the colt known as Soul Hook glanced at the red stallion. Like there was electricity between their eyes connecting them with hostile emotions, both males stared at each other for several seconds. The hardworking pony saw straight into the other male's inner, recognizing a look he'd seen before. Thus, he arched his eyebrows, signaling the dislike without any need of gesticulation or words. Soul Hook just looked away, ignoring what he just saw and proceeded towards the farm house.
Twilight gulped, prepared for the worst as she knocked on the door. Her eyes shifted to the windows, searching for any sign of life while the dark purple colt crushed the burned out cigarette to the ground beneath his hoof. With not too many seconds of delay, the door opened and revealed a not so expected pegasus.
"Rainbow? Are you here too?" she said and flashed up a smile. The mentioned filly with her rainbow colored mane and tail stepped aside, inviting the ponies inside as she spoke up too. "Yeah, Winter Breeze thought it'd be best if we both meet AJ now. Some shrink-talk I didn't really understood but..." the tomcolt paused when she tilted her head to see the other pony visiting. "Hey Soul Hook! What's up?".
Her face practically lit up when seeing the indifferent pony. Sadly, she only received a slight nod as response. "Hello, miss Rainbow Dash".
The mentioned filly cocked an eyebrow, still smiling but a little more expecting this time. "Aw, come on. I've told you to skip that 'miss here' and 'miss there' a dozen of times!" she stated as Twilight and Soul walked past her into the house with its dry air. "Yes, yes... dozens of times" he replied without any idea of furthering the small talk. Somehow Rainbow got the hint, thus ignored to bring new life into the subject by shrugging.
"So where is she?" Twilight asked out of concern to see her lover again, throwing a worried frown at her other lover who shut the door. "Upstairs... in her room" the blue pegasus answered slightly annoyed, something the unicorn noticed as she was about to head towards the stairs. She stopped and turned her head. "Something wrong, Rainbow...?".
There was a moment of hesitation inside the pegasus' mind. "It's just... you do love me and Applejack evenly, right? Nopony is the favorite... right?" she asked, breeding a hope that she wasn't number two. There were many things she never wanted to be second to, but when it came to Twilight's love and attention, it was something much more important.
Twilight smiled and relaxed her muscles while working up a gentle smile. "Of course you are, sweetie. But I haven't seen Applejack for a week now, and I've been so worried minding what probably has been going through her head during that time. I would have been the same if this was all about you..." she explained carefully and finally took a step forward. Rainbow smiled back and followed her together with Soul Hook. "Thanks, Twilight. I needed to hear that" the lavender filly heard when she reached the first step up the stairs. She found no words to return the appreciation, instead smiled heartily and kept trotting...
In the secluded room on the upper floor, the beige pegasus mare Winter Breeze sat on the edge of the only bed in this room known as Applejack's. It was moderately furnished with just a simple wardrobe, a mirror next to it, a rugged carpet in the middle of the room and some decorative pictures on the walls. There was only one window letting inside the light, but more then enough to fill the room as the warm rays landed on a golden blond mane. Applejack, sitting just a hoof away from the mature mare and without her recognizable stetson covering her mane, had a gloomy expression aimed at her hindlegs. She was accompanying Breeze on the bed's edge.
"Do you still feel ready?" the pegasus asked and pushed back the glasses resting on her snout up to the eyes again. "Yes..." A-J answered, lacking any signs of doubt and fear. However, the shrink right next to her had her own doubts. "Are you sure about that? It's just been a week, so if you feel you need more..." she halted herself when she met the green eyes of an honest and strong soul, causing her words to take another path. "... well, I trust you know best about what you want and need, so..." she interrupted herself again when the door into the room opened.
Using the most discreet peep Twilight knew of, her purple snout and violet eye stuck out before the rest of her head revealed itself. As she walked in with no words, Rainbow Dash came out too and stood next to her and Applejack's common love interest. Soul Hook, however, remained in the door opening.
There was a definite tension in the air, but everypony knew there were no hostility between any of them or any heavy emotions threatening to cause a conflict. "H-hi, A-J" Twilight said quickly, still exalted over seeing one of her most beloved ponies in whole of Equestria. "Sup, Applejack!" Rainbow followed, beaming a glad smile at the exact same pony. In that moment, Winter Breeze looked at her dark purple apprentice. "Well then... now that you two are here, I'm just taking up space" she stated and got up on all four which attracted everypony's eyes to her.
A satisfied smile dressed her lips. "And I believe you girls want to be alone. We'll be waiting downstairs in case of, but take your time... there's no rush" her calm and pedagogical voice said as she walked to the male pony. He turned around and walked away, allowing Winter Breeze to close the door after she waved to her patient.
Silence fell after the click, leaving all three ponies in the room staring at each other. The earth pony shifted her eyes between the two other, trying to come up with anything while looking more gloomy and filled with more depression than even before. The unicorn had a strong urge to just run up to Applejack and hug her, asking about everything that happened, how she was, if everything was alright and lots of other things she temporarily had forgotten were the same thing. But the pegasus standing next to her had a graduation in opening conversation the most blunt way possible.
"Hey, what's up with that sad muzzle? Don't you feel better now when you can see the sexiest egghead in Equestria again?" she asked with intentions of trying to cheer Applejack up, thus still smiling from the heart. This was something Twilight wanted to facehoof because of, but instead blushed with furrowed eyebrows at the blue filly.
But she didn't expect those words to work at all...
"Ahm actually glad ta see ya'll too, Rainbow" the apple-pony said and actually smirked, even though there was hardly any strength in her lips. Both ponies who still stood in front of Applejack tilted their heads back, especially the blue tomcolt. "Uh... really?" she replied with a noticeable amount of surprise. AJ nodded, widening the smirk into a smile as she looked into Rainbow's rose colored eyes.
"Yeah. Ah'll be honest an' say that ah didn't have too high thoughts about ya when ah knew ya an' me both shared feelings fo' Twi here..." she paused and looked at the purple filly who waited for the full version of the explanation. Applejack sighed in relief and locked her sight at the pony she was about to praise. "But after seein' ya talkin' sense into those lill' gals back at that club house o' theirs... ah really started ta respect ya more then as a friend. Ya proved there was more in ya air-head then jus' braggin' an' a thirst fo' attention... an' it was a true relief ta me, knowin' ya'll could be so serious when it came ta relationships an' such".
Twilight and Rainbow focused on the talking filly, both slowly growing happier for each word she spoke. And then, when she got up from the bed and gently walked up to her friend with benefits, the finishing touch came right after a well placed hoof on Rainbow's shoulder. "Ah'd say Twi is a lucky filly ta have such a fine pegasus like ya'll" she ended as her hoof slid up to the blushing cheeks.
Rainbow Dash had a warm and fuzzy feeling in her stomach, causing her to bit her lip and glance down in embarrassment. "Gee, Applejack... I, uh... don't know w-what to... say" she practically stuttered and laid her own fore hoof over the orange one. It was certainly more than she had expected to ever hear in her life from such a proud and honest pony who last time she saw her was in a complete rampage.
Twilight was also affected by hearing this, but her worries had an advantage among her thoughts. Thus, she took a step closer to the farmer and laid a hoof on her neck, instantly snapping up her attention.
"That's wonderful to hear, A-J. I'm glad you've recovered so well during the week with Winter Breeze. But... are you sure everything is alright now, with Apple Bloom's decision?" she asked, fully aware it was a recently cleared mine field she walked over with no guarantees of being fully secured. However, Applejack could smile from her heart yet again when hearing that question.
She let go of Rainbow's cheek, feeling the blue hoof instead searching for a spot on her neck together with Twilight. The farmer now stood with two different pads touching her soft coat. "Yeah. Ah was jus' really, really worried 'bout mah lill' sister, an' seein' her with Zecora sure didn't calm the angry beehive in mah head down. Ah did sumthing horrible, an' if it weren't for ya'll, Rainbow, ah would've dun sumthing absolutely much more horrible" she stated and landed her green eyes on the mentioned pegasus. Rainbow smiled and rubbed the orange neck with soft motions, signaling it was nothing worth mentioning.
"Ah agreed with that shrin... ah mean, miss Winter Breeze... that ah should visit her sumetime an' apologize, an' also tell Apple Bloom ah'll respect her decision an' support her. From now on, ah'll only kill Zecora if she breaks mah beloved sister's lill' heart...".
The other fillies widened their eyes in shock until Applejack ended that sentence.
"Figuratively speakin', of course" she said and chuckled heartily.
A joyful stream purged Twilight and Rainbow's mental system, filling them both with rejoice the moment before they threw both forelegs around their friend and lover's neck. "Oooh, I'm so happy for you, Applejack! I love you so much!" the happy unicorn exclaimed and pressed her purple lips to the orange ones. A-J didn't hesitate to return it, thus pressed back in the sweet connection as she closed her eyes.
"Yeah, that's awesome, Applmhh..." Rainbow was about to add when the embraced earth pony suddenly dropped her kiss with Twilight and pressed her lips to the tomcolt's. With wide, rose eyes, Rainbow didn't even struggle as she felt the warm electricity cuddling her brain. The blue eyelids slowly dropped down, giving in to the superior ecstasy this simple kiss blessed her with.
Twilight didn't mind watching her girls kiss, and when she saw Applejack's mouth open to slid her tongue inside Rainbow's, it just turned out more exciting. Sadly, as the two ponies kept making out, slightly moaning and causing squishy noises, the unicorn slowly developed a curious face. Being pressed to the orange, freckled cheek, she could hear exactly every muffled sound they made together, how their wet tongues collided and slithered around to extract more saliva with every little sloppy move.
Before anypony knew it, Twilight was ostracized. "Uhm... can I join too?" she asked before moving her right foreleg down the well-formed and athletic body, gently sliding it further away to the three apples.
The farmer was fully occupied with her partner until she suddenly tensed her nether muscles. A long and vibrating sensation stroke all the sensitive buttons in her mind, teasing it to warm up her entire body just with an even more simple act. Twilight had learned a thing or two during her sessions with both of her marefriends, something Applejack soon would learn what that included.
She slipped back her tongue and finished with a light peck on Rainbow's lips, then giggled together with her while looking at the poor unicorn. "Shucks, Twi. Of course ya can join..." she stated, turning on her bedroom eyes in the process. She could still feel the nice massage on her cutie mark, continuing so send a stimulating wave of pleasure acting perfectly as foreplay.
But before either Rainbow or Applejack could turn their heads and focus their attention on Twilight, a transparent shroud of purple magic surrounded the orange pony. A bit surprised and temporarily confused, she levitates quickly to the only bed in the room, softly landing on the comfortable sheets as the magical enchantment vaporized into thin air. Just a second later, two eager ponies under the names of Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash jumped up in the now unmade bed, looking down with seductive eyes at the orange filly laying on her back like a defenseless critter.
"You know, A-J... I haven't seen my very special apple-farmer for a week, and I've missed her a lot..." the little more experienced unicorn said with her natural sexy voice, slowly bending down to nuzzle Applejack's cheek and moving up to her ears with a sinister goal in mind.
The resting pony chuckled, unaware she was supposed to play along due to her humbleness as the purple muzzle stroke her coat. "Aw, ya'll don't need ta do that, Twi. It's a... oh, Nelly!" she suddenly exclaimed when her twitching ear received a tender lick, only to instantly feel a quite harsh nibble on it too. "Oh... ya... don't... ahhh... need ta... uhh... just... a... little... harder..." her voice uttered as a heat started to consume her cool and relaxation.
The even variety of licks and nibbles on her soft ear was like a direct lever to her total instinct for mating, awakening a lust she subconsciously had held back during the week-long therapy. Her forelegs embraced Twilight's waist, forcing her to lay over the strong body she wanted to taste again. Without even the tiniest struggle, the unicorn now rested over her lover, continuing to lick, nibble, and now even add a little warm pant every now and then into the sensitive ear. All this treatment unlocked more and more walls of Applejack's ability to restrain her hunger, thus killing all her resistances so the vulgar needs for intimate sex could escape its rational prison.
Rainbow noticed with a confident smile how the orange hindlegs spread inch by inch, bringing up a fun little idea when she could see both of her ponies' plots. So before Twilight noticed how wet both she and her lover had gotten, the blue pegasus laid down and pressed her snout against the two musky flowers. "Hnnng... R-rainbow... whut are... ya... aaahhhh!" the apple-pony virtually yelled as the agile tongue of Rainbow dash playfully stroke over the soaked labia.
Her lap was so long, it moved up to Twilight's own slit, forcing out an adorable squeak as the tomcolt widened her tongue to stretch the pink opening. Yes, she discovered a very fun opportunity here, and using combined with abusing had never felt so right before. Just when her smile grew into a wicked grin, she licked her lips and wrapped her forelegs around the orange thighs.
"Ahh! Ohhh... y-yes, Rainbow... ghhh... ah, ah... uuh... oh mah..." her accented voice moaned out. However, the lavender filly she embraced had stopped licking that weak little spot she recently discovered, instead joining the lustful noises with her own puny whimpers and gasps of arouse. It was like she begged for mercy.
But Rainbow wasn't known for her gentle behavior. This little prelude was nothing compared to what she had planned after Twilight's idea of spending attention on Applejack. Thus, she went straight to business and lapped all over the two fine marehoods, collecting their delicious tastes and mixing it up in her mouth. The dripping nectar was a little more then usual from both of them, but she knew the reasons were a little too obvious in order to ask why it was so. Two fillies with an ever growing thirst, of course they couldn't hold back their love juices once a skilled and equally needy pony licked their flowers which ached for attention.
Slowly over the thick lips, a brief pause to swirl a little over the pearl, then up to the next precious spot and up the pretty opening. Just for the sake of teasing, Rainbow held her tongue straight and penetrated Twilight's love hole for just a second. The lavender receiver gasped in ecstasy, tensing her inner muscles when the injection of enhanced pleasure rushed through her brain. A painful groan escaped her lungs since she was fully aware it was just a tease and nothing else.
But the pegasus knew what she was supposed to do, thus instantly turned down to her friend's tasty preciousness. Her lips pressed up against the warm slit, spreading the labia so her teeth and tongue had free space to move inside the pink flesh. The skillful organ slipped out, instantly penetrating the tight cave of fragile but still pressuring muscles. "Mmhh..." she groaned as her lips started to suck up all the flowing juices. But what shout it down was without doubt Applejack's loud moan. Her warmth imploded when she felt the strong impale fighting against her inner walls. Her body had practically forgotten how intense this filly was whenever it came to licking a good, warm and soaked marehood.
Like a spear, she dug inside as far as she could, twisting and flickering her tongue, enjoying the convulsing flesh embracing and squeezing back. The very thought of this love hole acting like it was a hard cock it massaged turned on Rainbow more then she expected. It had been a few days for her too, so it was only natural her own soak started to extract from her special place. But before she even dared thinking of pleasing herself, she played her ace in the hole, something that climbed several levels up Applejack's ladder of resistance.
"Aaah! Ah! Ah! Ohhh! Yes, yes... aaaahhh... ahhh...hnnnaaah... O-OH SWEET CELESTIA~A!" the orange farmer moaned out as a gush of her fluids flushed through her cave of pleasure. Rainbow groaned when the sweet mare-love hit her tongue, deeply enjoying to feel a mare's cum on her tongue again after using the homemade technique she didn't really knew how to explain.
However, Applejack's body kept trembling and her embrace around the purple waist tightened to levels Twilight didn't really expect. She lost her air for a moment, only to soon get it back again when the limp forelegs fell off from her back.
There she laid, panting with a wide grin on her lips, her eyes rolled back and treated by a hungry pegasus licking her dripping marehood clean. "Oh gosh ta darn it... ah had no idea... hah... how much ah... needed that" she spoke between each pant. "Yeah... I could see that" Twilight agreed and giggled while drying some perspiration from her warm muzzle, believing it was all over now.
Which it wasn't...
"Hey, Twilight!" Rainbow asked as she appeared from behind. "Can you use your magic to bring up a strap-on? That'd be awesome!".
Twilight turned her head around with a frown, unable to understand. "What? But... aren't you tired?" she asked in hope to get a positive answer. But Rainbow raised and eyebrow and shook her head. "Not even by a long shot. Geez Twilight, it's still forenoon and I'm randy as hay. Besides, Applejack's already getting soaked again. And you're up too, you know" the cocky tomcolt stated and pointed at her lover. "Yeah... an' ah like Rainbow's idea too..." Applejack said and caressed Twilight's neck with a fore hoof.
When she thought about it... she was also hot, needing for a good session with her beloved ponies. Her eyes suddenly sparkled like a bolt of lightning flashed by inside her iris. And as the warm grin on her lips expanded, Rainbow almost wondered what happened.
"Oh, I can give you something much better then a simple toy..." her hissing but still sexy voice echoed inside the two ponies' heads...
Applejack stood on all four in the mess of a bed, extremely exalted while her eyes beheld the pure beauty just an inch away from her snout. Twilight stood up on her hindlegs, leaning on the earth pony's shoulders and glancing over at the stunned pegasus behind Applejack trying to understand what had happened to her body. An ambiance even warmer and steamier then the previous one had claimed its resting around the ponies, just waiting to consume them all in a smothering world of passionate, true mating.
Rainbow Dash didn't find any reason to look away from the long, hard, and virtually aching stallionhood carrying her blue colors between her hindlegs.
"It's a piece, isn't it? Tee hee hee" Twilight, who had a purple colored version of the male sex between her hindlegs, giggled as she tossed the kind of teasing question. However, Rainbow's eyes were so focused on the fine rod that she almost missed what her lover asked.
"Huh...?" she responded, still glued to the sight she never had experienced before, much both to Twilight's pride and disappointment. "It's a spell I've been working on for a little while, and according to the book I found it in, it should work just like a regular stallion genital. However, even if it creates physics and muscular abilities, it only modifies our female ejaculations into a substance resembling of male seed, it's still doesn't contain any sperm and is thus infertile. Also, even if we..."
Twilight had been rambling for several seconds until she realized both Rainbow and Applejack finally looked up at her, only to give expressions telling they didn't understand a word of what she said. With a sigh, the well-read unicorn furrowed her eyebrows and rephrased.
"We can have sex and cum but won't have any foals" she cleared.
"Aha..." the other ponies said, finally actually understanding.
After surviving the dangerous mood-breaker, the earth pony intended to get stuck between those rods licked the inside of her lips. "Enough chit-chat! Ah want those inside me: now!" she demanded and wrapped both forelegs around Twilight's hips, hanging onto the standing pony while effectively taking the raging hard-on closer to her mouth.
The unicorn yelped at first, unprepared of the eager spirit Applejack had when it came to a good penetration from an even better cock. She would never deny it, she loved feeling something long and hard inside her body thrusting in and out. Thus, when Twilight didn't have time to react any further, the farmer's tongue stuck out to greet its fourteen inches long playmate.
"Oh! Ohh... hahhh... oh sweet goodness!" she exclaimed and laid her forelegs around the pretty head dressed with a beautiful golden blonde mane. Her hooves buried into the soft hair, squeezing it gently when the burning satisfaction put her entire body on fire. Applejack was no stranger to what the stallions liked, it was just all about licking the head at the start, slowly going over to taking the top inside her mouth and then circle it with her tongue. Her plan was to take it easy, knowing males could be pretty weak to this if done properly. And according to her records, she certainly knew how to handle a shaft like a pitchfork.
But being completely inexperienced with such a tool of satisfaction, it didn't require much more then just a slight sucking on the top to break every barrier Twilight held up. "Ahhh! Aahhhh! OH HOLY... BUUUUCK!" the usually so gentle and well-mannered unicorn screamed out.
Her cheeks had gained its crimson color, fitting perfectly to symbolize what she felt right now after such a sweet handling. Applejack's eyes widened as she backed away to leave the pulsating cock alone, Twilight's grip wasn't that hard to break from either. However, it was already too late. A mediocre salvo of the white fluid shot from the lavender cock, staining the frowning earth pony's freckles. "What the hay, Twilight?" she asked out of frustration even though she liked getting cum on her face.
But the mentioned filly just panted, exhausted and temporarily satisfied. Her head hung low, allowing a drip of saliva to fall down from her open mouth. "I'm... I'm s-sorry... hahh... A-J. I've just... never... never had an... opportunity to try it with... some... ugh... somepony else..." she explained and almost brought Applejack to a saddened state. "But! Since I'm actually a female... I can orgasm several... times!" Twilight added with a smile. "Really?" the orange pony asked due to suspicion. A confident nod was the answer she was given.
Meanwhile, Rainbow was still admiring the majestic piece she always had thought of, thus completely cut off from what the others talked about. "Okay, lets give it a try again, then..." the farmer said with a cheeky smile and looked over her shoulder. "Hey! Rainbow Dash! Ah can't feel anythin' back there!".
Suddenly, the tomcolt woke up. "Huh? Oh, yeah... he he he... yeah..." she snickered and got up on her hindlegs, leaned on the orange behind dressed with cutie marks, and carefully guided the hard piece towards its wet destination. At the same moment, Twilight strengthened her grip around A-J's head when she felt the warm lips around her spear of meat. In that split second, Rainbow's erection pierced through the wet labia, meeting almost no resistance once it really had slipped past into the hot cave.
"Haaah... ah... ahh! Oh buck me... buck... hah... aahhh... this... feels even better then... I imagined..." the blue filly said as her cock went deeper inside Applejack's body, filling them both with pleasure as the hard rod went deeper and deeper thanks to its length. But what made it even better was without doubt its healthy diameter, giving this starved pony a tight intruder meant to please her.
All the intense pressure, her love hole acting by instinct, the inability to simply resist squeezing Rainbow's fine cock, the wish to feel her inner getting filled with semen, all those thoughts twisted her emotions into nothing but pure passion and will. "Mmhyeshh!" she moaned with Twilight's long shaft in her mouth, sucking gently to not bring her over the edge again.
Her body started to move with a rhythm, letting Rainbow's well-trained thighs bounce against her butt, sending her forward into Twilight's rod who sent her back. All in a loop she never wanted to end. Bouncing back and forth, constantly penetrated and pumped with cock wherever she went, it was her image of a quality day with two handsome stallions if there weren't any pretty mares nearby.
Moans filled the air as all fillies worked harder. Rainbow clenched her hooves over the apple cutie marks, pulling out her fleshy dick faster so she could ram it inside the tight hole again. Her ability to hold back was much better, so keeping up to prolong this didn't take her out immediately. But it sure was hard to suffocate the groans of ecstasy and arouse knocking her head full of need. There was neither a moment in which she didn't felt how much Applejack's inner walls struggled to milk her cock to its limits. It slid in easy, but taking it back was a whole new world of problems steadily pushing her closer to a sweet climax.
Twilight on the other hoof had screamed out several times already, failing to hold back all the rocking good stimulation raping her senseless. On the bed, you could see several stains of cum which had fallen down from Applejack's mouth. She could only swallow so much, and blowing somepony that could cum so quickly and yet so often was an extraordinarily rare treat. She just had to lower her head and take half of the thing in her mouth, choking just a little to fully surround as much as she could. Then, there was a moan from Twilight, sending a flash of vibrations up her spine and all the way down to her sticky shaft. As time had passed by, she could hardly stand up any more after filling the earth pony's mouth five times in a row.
Applejack kept drinking, kept taking the pounding from behind, kept enjoying this fun double penetration. Her loud gulps could be heard by Rainbow, and she loved hearing it too. Seeing Twilight's painful expressions didn't add so much to the pleasure, but knowing she grimaced and panted like a madpony because it felt so indescribably good eased her mind. But this had to end, and just like that... Rainbow felt a flash work past her brain, securing a way down to her hardworking piece.
"Ah, ah, ah, ahhh! I... I think! I think... aahhh... I'm going... to cum! Is this how... it feels? I... I... AAAAUUUGGHHH!" the radical pegasus roared and slammed herself balls deep inside her friend's trembling marehood, splitting her walls for the last time as a healthy dose flowed through her hard meat. Applejack's womb was filled to the brim in a few seconds, leaking out the rest as her tight hole stuffed full of cock overflowed with seed. The sap green eyes widened just as she swallowed Twilight's shot. The frown exploded over her face. "Mmmmhhhhhh!" her muffled throat moaned, signaling her own fluids was about to blend with Rainbow Dash's.
There was no way to stop it. And thus, a rain of thick and sticky cum poured down on the bed and along the orange hindlegs. The blue pony stopped breathing for a second as her last drip poured out from her. In the next second, she let go of the soft, mangled flank and fell off the bed straight down to the floor, hitting her head so hard it added to the incoming faint. Laying still and numb, the tomcolt was unconscious.
Twilight panted so hard it hurt her throat, and when Applejack let go of her waist, she mumbled something incoherent before falling down into the comfortable pillow, still panting and mumbling while lying still.
Applejack grinned and licked her lips clean from the trails of sticky cum, finding the will to say something in order to give her thanks for everything and say how much she loved her special pony. Sadly, she only had time to think that far... then collapsed...
Down in the dining room, Soul Hook and Winter Breeze sat next to each other in front of a table with two glasses on it, sitting with crossed forelegs and neutral expressions like absolutely nothing had happened.
At the same time, a significantly older mare walked past the table, smiling with her wrinkled lips disfiguring half of her muzzle. "Well, I'd say! That sure was sum party them fillies had up there! Did ya'll hear that? Ehe he he he..." Granny Smith asked with her high voice as she slowly turned her creaking hips to sit down on the other side of the table.
Both visitors remained silent, fully aware what was going on upstairs. You had to be more deaf then the very mare they sat with to not hear all the lusty gasps and long moans echoing all the way down to the stairs.
"Ahem... yes. Yes, we heard, miss Granny Smith" the beige shrink answered with her casual smile, also doing her best to hide the sweat breaking from her forehead.
The wrinkled old mare slammed a hoof to the table, failing to even cause a vibration to the plates of biscuits and cups of water. "Ha ha ha! Oh, nelly. She's in tha' t'age, ya know. When ya have ta use your body ta its limits, pleasurin' all the colts an' practicin' with the other fillies!" she exclaimed as the dark purple pony took up his glass of water and drank.
"Ah remember back in ye ol' days! When ah was a pretty little young thing too... hah! There was no colt stayin' safe fra' me when ah had mah first heat cycle! Ah even took five at once one time...".
An explosion of water erupted from Soul Hook's mouth, covering the wooden table while he coughed up the remains from his throat. Winter Breeze just sat still and slowly dropped her jaw in shock. But Granny Smith didn't notice any of it, thus kept talking.
"An' ah can still do it today! Wanna me ta tell ya how's it done?" she asked, causing the colt's eyes to widen for a second before he looked with a his old, indifferent face again at the old pony. "NO!" his deep voice exclaimed to Granny's big surprise. Then, the other mare decided to end this once and for all. "Uhm... er, thank you for the hospitality, miss Smith! We need to go now! Thank you again!" she repeated while virtually jumping of the seat and trotting to the door, tightly followed by her apprentice.
The old earth pony mare followed her guests with her eyes until they had reached the door and closed it. Now she was alone with her own thoughts and some biscuits, yet she spoke out in a mumble. "Hmpf... then they won't hear 'bout that time ah took seven at once...".
Outside the door and in the warm sun, Soul Hook immediately flipped up a cigarette and lit it, inhaling deeply to calm his abstinence. "Well! I guess my work here is done, don't you think so?" Winter Breeze asked ironically after what they've just heard and almost had to hear more of. The tall colt nodded and walked forward, starting of slowly so his mentor easily could catch up to him.
A little thought hit her mind. Even if it was rather disturbing to hear a couple having sex, in this colt's case it could much well be something useful. Perhaps he could learn what the difference between sex and love was, perhaps he could understand what this physical stimulation meant, perhaps he... she thought until her cheeks caught a hint of red and pink. Yes, she had to ask him, now while they were alone too.
But fate wasn't on Breeze's side.
Just when the shrink was about to turn her head and begin a conversation, she noticed a blockade standing in the way of her and Soul Hook. The obstacle was nopony else then Big Macintosh, wearing an angry glare aimed at whatever stood right next to her. She realized soon it was her apprentice the red stallion looked at. "Hello, Bic mac. What... seems to be the problem?" she asked, hoping to find out whatever was going on here. Her question was spot on too, there was definitively a problem here.
The grand, hunk of a male equine kept his angry stare at the tall colt. Even in Bic mac's case, he had to tilt his head just a little in order to look deeply into the two pools of dark green.
Silence remained as the ambiance grew serious and uncomfortable. Soul Hook took a short step towards the other male, leaving just a muzzle of distance between their snouts. The cigarette smoke flowed before Big Mac's head, ending up ignored thanks to the hate in his eyes. Winter Breeze grit her teeth in fear, afraid to see a violent outcome from this encounter. It was at that moment she remembered that Soul Hook and Big Macintosh never had met before.
Suddenly, the silent and calm stallion leaned forward and spoke to the uncaring and expressionless face.
"Ah don't like ya'll kind, so stay away fra' this farm..." his handsome and deep voice stated. Then, he leaned back and glanced down at the not so surprised mare. No, she wasn't the slightest confused anymore, knowing this was very common for her apprentice to hear. However, the next thing she was about to hear... was of a more rare nature.
"Ya shouldn't be near ta this colt, miss Winter Breeze" he said to the mare.
She cocked an eyebrow and almost smiled. "Oh, that's alright. I know him well and..." she tried to explain.
"Ah don't care how well ya know him or how much evil he shows off... but ah'll never trust anypony with the eyes of a murderer...".
Winter Breeze froze, finally shocked and taken by surprise. And when she slowly glanced up at the apprentice she would dare entrust with anything, there was no such thing as 'understanding', not even in her tolerant and open-minded world.
Soul Hook smiled maliciously at Big mac.
END
Author's Note:
Thank you, season finale, you totally effed up not only Royal Pleasures, but this story too. And Tears of Ecstasy! They switched it from "FILLIES and gentlecolts" to "MARES and gentlecolts". What the bleeding hay? Whatever, I'll keep calling the mane six fillies since they are approximately around the age of late teen ^^' And... I'll keep Vinyl's eyes scarlet in ToE, it's way more awesome and not too far from her canon color.
Don't got too much to say except that the last two episodes were... amazing...
And that there will be more explanations... so there's no need to ask for example "what's up with Spike?" and such. Just think a little: imagine how much I'd be forced to spoil of the future plot just for that. Huh? Yeah, that's a lot, trust me.
Anyhow, here's to a patient wait for the third season to get on the air! And keep effing up the world of fanfictions with Queen Chrysalis! Woop!
Brohoof on ya all!