Hunter Shorette - Just a wee bit

KillerBeast1998 - Why would it be 'make-up intercourse'? And you may be surprised by this chapter ;)

Kyguy - Eeyup

PyraohXBlaze - Hmm... Not gonna lie; I honestly haven't decided what I'm gonna do just yet. I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter though :D

SquirtlePWN - It's cool. To save a little on space though, I'm going to answer all three here. Well, to be fair, no one said she was going to leave him, and after what he's done, it's understandable for even someone like her to be upset; I mean, he only almost killed a pony that he had no evidence, besides what race she was, had ever done anything wrong. And you can still love someone with all your heart and still realize that they're not right for you. No one ever said Cadance was going to divorce him, she's just upset with him, and understandably so; just because he didn't actually harm Shimmer doesn't change the fact that the intent was there. As for Luna, well, the situation was just different. (As in, 'I don't want to fill up this whole section with everything that made what Luna did not as bad as what Shining did'. I may actually write that into a future chapter, come to think of it.)

Spiked29 - O.O Umm... Well alright then...

theflammablefiredragon - We'll just have to wait and see what Cadance decides ;)

centaurus2 - Hmm... Well, that link doesn't bring up any results, so I can't watch the video to know for sure, but based on what you've said; no, Falathiel is not an Ego weapon, her power is pretty much fixed.

coldshadow92 - Right? But is there more to it than that?

DragonLord RyuKizoku - I think it would still be triggerhappy

shadows being - Lol. Don't feel too bad; I was the one writing the thing, and even I shed a few manly tears at that scene.

Chaosstripe - Just a wee bit. Who knows what he'll do, or when we'll see him again.

Lone The Dark Hearted Wolf - Lol something like that.

The Ten Ton Hammer - Yeah, that pretty much sums Shining up...

ShadowfireAngel - Yeah, pretty much.

KillerWow - Hmm... I wqouldn't say 'falling apart', but they're definitely hectic.

Zero the Warrior of Chaos - Who knows what will come of that feeling? It's possible that even I don't... Or, maybe I do...

Mikalzilla - Lol and I said (more-or-less) That were she my daughter, I would have done far worse to her than that for what she did. (Nothing violent, more like grounding her forever) :P

TurnupGrain43 - Lol. Yeah, I admit; I love the Austin Powers movies, especially the second and third ones. This chapter was a bit o an emotional rollercoaster, wasn't it?

DarkSpider11 (Ch92) - Yeah, those scenes are always my favorite to write

DarkSpider11 (Ch44) - It's never too late to leave a review for a chapter. I've toyed around with the concept, but I've never really decided if I'm going to do it or not... guess we'll just have to wait and see together ;) Definitely before; In fact, I doubt we'll even see Discord in this story.

A/N - Howdy everypony! Just two days left till Christmas, are you all excited? And I hope those that don't celebrate it are excited for their respective Holidays as well. Not much to put here, unless you all really want to hear about the horrible stomach cramps I went through a few days ago, that left me with several pulled muscles in my abdomen. As always, don't forget to follow/favorite, review, and most importantly; enjoy! And Happy Holidays!

After I managed to calm her down a little more, I sent Cadance upstairs to one of the washrooms to freshen up while I sat Twilight and Luna down to tell them what had happened. I convinced Dinky and Scootaloo that Cadance could use a friend or two with her while I brought the other two up to speed, and they left with her. Fortunately, the pair seemed far more curious of Shimmer than afraid of her, so it didn't take much to convince them that she was a friend.

With her and the fillies safely out of earshot, I started recounting what had happened after I got back to the house, skimming over the less important details like the baking of the cupcakes, focusing on what had happened after and assuring them that Falathiel was doing well, and merely needed more time to recuperate after waking up.

Luna was shaking her head by the time I finished telling the pair what Shining Armor had nearly done, and Twilight could only sit there with a dumbfounded look on her face. "I wish I could say that I never would have expected Captain Armor to do something like this, but after what he did to you, I can't say I'm entirely surprised."

Twilight's jaw worked up and down as she tried to process what she'd just heard. "B-but…" She finally managed to squeak out. "Why would he do something like that…? And… Where will he stay?"

I shook my head. "I'm sorry Twilight… I know this is a lot to deal with, but I don't trust him to stay here… not after that. If you want, you can set up the library so he can stay there, but I won't have him in my house again."

"As much as I hate to admit it, I agree with Blake." We all turned to the source of the voice to see a much-refreshed looking Cadance make her way down the stairs. Her eyes were still puffy from crying, but she'd done a good job of calming herself down and freshening herself up. "As much as I love him, I don't know if Shimmer would be safe with him around. And… I don't particularly want to see him right now either."

Shimmer sighed from her position next to me, where she had taken to sitting on the floor. "I know you say it isn't my fault… but I can't help but feel like I did this."

I rested a hand on her shoulder. "Shimmer…" She looked into my eyes at the sound of her new name. "Please, trust me when I say that none of this is in any way your fault; you didn't do anything to provoke Shining Armor, and he had no right to attack you simply for being what you are. Like I said before; this entire situation is his fault. And perhaps mine for not warning him ahead of time."

Cadance walked in front of me and looked me in the eyes as well. "Blake… you hadn't seen us for the entire day, there was no way you could have warned us unless you spent your day tracking us down. This isn't any more your fault than it is Shimmer's." She looked around to everyone else gathered, minus Scootaloo and Dinky, who were upstairs still, likely getting out of their costumes. "Now, Blake baked some pumpkin cupcakes before Shining and I walked in; I say we enjoy them and put this whole mess behind us for now."

"YAY!" We all turned to the top of the stairs to see a pair of excited little fillies bounding down them with excited grins plastered on their faces. "Come on everypony, Papa made pumpkin cupcakes!" The pair scampered into the kitchen as we all watched them, and I could feel their antics lifting the spirits of everyone in room.

I looked to Luna and smirked. "Well… I didn't want to make a liar out of us…" She smiled warmly at me, and I turned my attention to Cadance. "Come on Cady, what say we go help those little fillies frost some cupcakes?"

I saw her eyes shimmering with unshed tears as she reared up and hugged me. "Thank you… for being such a wonderful friend…" She whispered, too softly for anyone else to hear.

I returned her embrace warmly. "You've been just as wonderful to me, Cadance." I whispered back, just as softly. After a moment, I pulled back from the embrace. "Now, let's go frost us some cupcakes." Cadance smiled and followed me into the kitchen, where the four of us proceeded to make a mess and have a good time frosting the fresh cupcakes.

When we were done, I carried the small pastries out into the living room on a platter, along with a pitcher of milk and several glasses. Everyone grabbed a cupcake and filled their glasses with cold milk before taking a bite. Cadance was the first to speak up. "MMM! These are amazing, Blake! How did you make them?"

I shrugged as I took a bite of my own miniature cake. "I didn't do anything special; just used fresh pumpkin like my grandma taught me to do."

She giggled and took another bite. "'Grandma's secret recipe', hmm? No wonder they're so good."

Shimmer picked up a cupcake and sniffed it. "Are… are these something ponies usually make at this time of year?" She asked in her usual, slightly warbling voice.

I was actually rather fond of that warbling undertone to her voice, it gave it an almost melodic characteristic. "They are." I replied as I watched her examine it. "Would you like to try one?"

She looked to me and nodded. "I would, very much. We don't get anything out of eating food, but changelings can still eat like regular ponies. I think it's so we can blend in better."

I smiled and motioned to her. "Well, dig in then, you don't need to ask permission to eat here; everything in this house is open for you to have, unless someone specifically reserves something for themselves."

She looked at me, not blinking for several moments. "Why would they do that?"

It was Luna's turn to answer this time. "There are several reasons. For example, if somepony were to give me something as a gift, something that was meant only for me, I would want to honor their wish and ensure that I was the one who ate it." She took a bite of her cupcake and washed it down with some milk before she continued. "Ponies also have favorite foods; foods that they prefer over all others, so they would want to make sure that those foods were available to them to eat when they wished."

Shimmer nodded and looked back down to the pastry in her hooves. "I understand." She moved the cupcake up to her mouth slowly, and sank her teeth into it before chewing slowly. She shivered as the flavor reached her tongue. "It tastes… strange… I think I like it." She took another bite, chewing more quickly this time.

Twilight seemed to be watching her intently as she ate her cupcake. "Shimmer, may I ask you something?" She turned her attention to Twilight, and nodded. "If… if you don't get any nutrition from eating food… what does your body do with it?"

Shimmer looked at the half-eaten pastry for a moment. "I… I'm not really sure… I never really thought about it before… my duties were to tend to the Queen, so things like that were never really on my mind."

Twilight nodded slowly, seemingly unsurprised. "I see. Would you be willing to allow me to run some tests on you later? Nopony has ever interacted with a changeling on friendly terms like this, and I'd like to learn more about your kind."

Shimmer gave her an apprehensive look. "Will these tests… hurt?"

Twilight's eyes went wide, and she waved her hooves in a somewhat defensive gesture. "No no, not at all! I just want to run a few scans; you won't even be able to tell I'm doing anything."

Shimmer paused for a moment, thinking. "Ok, I'll let you run your tests. But… may we talk while you're doing them?"

Twilight smiled brightly. "I'd love to talk with you more, Shimmer!" She gestured to the pastries left on the table. "For now though, why don't we put that out of our minds and enjoy these yummy cupcakes that Blake made for all of us?"

Shimmer nodded and happily took another bite of her pastry. As she ate, something caught my attention; unlike all the others with horns, Shimmer was eating her pastry with her hooves instead of her magic. "Hey Shimmer?" I asked, deciding to address the observation. "Why don't you use magic to eat your cupcake, like everyone else?"

Shimmer stopped for a moment, looked to the pastry, then shrugged. "I can't use my horn for anything but disguising myself; only the Queen can do that." She seemed to be not at all bothered by the idea of having a horn, but no magic to speak of; I could only guess that it was because that's what she'd known her entire life.

I decided not to press the issue further, and let her enjoy her meal in peace, even if it didn't have anything to offer her besides a pleasant flavor. We were silent for several minutes, enjoying our cupcakes in peace, until Luna decided to speak up. "I'm glad to see that you're making such a rapid recovery, Shimmer. It would be quite some time before a pony recovered fully from the condition you were in mere hours ago."

Shimmer looked down at herself. "Really? I don't really know much about myself, so I just thought it was normal to do that."

Our conversations dulled after that, with Shimmer unsurprisingly becoming the center of attention quite frequently.

After we all ate our cupcakes, I took the girls upstairs and tucked them into bed, reading to them as I sometimes did, until they were fast asleep. After they were put to bed, I waited up with the others for Applejack and Derpy to come home.

I was disappointed that I didn't get to spend any time with either mare, but they each reassured me that they understood. I finally got to see Derpy's modified costume, and it brought a smile to my face; Rarity had modified her paper bags to have fake fangs and eyes, and flap around as she walked, giving the impression that they were biting at anyone who passed too close. This effect was amplified by the fake blood around each bag's 'mouth'.

Fortunately, thanks to Cadance, Twilight and Luna, neither mare took much convincing that Shimmer was no danger to anyone. The lot of us decided shortly after that it would be best if we got some sleep; as fun as it was, Nightmare Night had also been stressful on us all.

Sometime after I fell asleep surrounded by my girls, who had covered me in my favorite blanket of warm bodies, I was awakened again by a particular one of them kissing me lightly on the lips.

My eyelids fluttered open, but all I could make out in the dim light was a horn protruding from their forehead. I didn't need to guess who it was though; the sweet taste of strawberries on their lips told me exactly who it was. I wrapped my arms around her gently and kissed her back. "Hey there Twi… feeling a little frisky are we?"

She giggled quietly above me. "You could say that…"

I smirked in the darkness. "Well… what say we head into one of the guest rooms then, so we don't wake up this lot?"

She giggled again, and I could just barely make out her head nodding. "Yeah, let's." It was barely there, but I could hear the change in her tone; anticipation and a hint of nervousness tainted her sweet voice.

We made our way quietly into the guest room just to the right of the room Shimmer was occupying, which happened to be right across the hall from the master bedroom. We slipped inside, and Twilight lit up her horn, sparking a few nearby candles to life. I chuckled as I looked around the romantically-lit room. "You had this all planned out, didn't you, you little minx?"

She smiled at me, and it was then that I caught sight of her; she was wearing her Nightmare Night outfit again, only it was somehow… sexier. "I might have hoped something would happen…" She said with a coy smile.

I smirked at her as my eyes drank in her innocent beauty as she stood there in that mage outfit, though I still couldn't place what she had done that made it seem so much more alluring than it had been before. "Twilight…" I breathed quietly.

She blushed and pawed at the ground. "D… do you like it?" She asked with a small smile.

I moved slowly over to her before leaning down and kissing her deeply. "You take my breath away, Twilight Sparkle…"

Her blush deepened and she threw her forelegs around my neck, returning my kiss. I felt her mouth open, and I opened my own, feeling her shiver as our tongues eagerly met, dancing around one another lovingly.

We broke the kiss only to come up for air, and I saw Twilight's dreamy smile as she panted lightly. "I love you, Twilight Sparkle." My voice was tinged with lust, but my words were pure and truthful, and the look in her eyes as I said them told me that she knew it.

"I love you too, Blake Marshall…" I had heard the words from her on many occasions, but hearing them now made my heart soar.

I gently scooped her up and carried her over to the bed, depositing her on top of the plush mattress softly. Without a word, I leaned in and kissed her, my hand sliding down her slender frame and caressing her through her outfit as I sought the edges of the cloth. As I did, I slowly began to pull the costume off of her, being careful not to damage the delicate fabric. Part of me wanted to be rougher with it, to tear the fabric off of her, to show her my need for her, but I restrained that part of myself, not wanting to damage the beautiful creation that Rarity had no doubt spent days or even weeks crafting for her.

She began to moan lightly as my hands slid along her increasingly bare fur, and I could feel her magic tugging at my own clothing, which was little more than an A-frame shirt and a pair of boxers. I reached down and held onto the fabric, holding it in place as I smiled with equal parts warmth and lust. "Use your hooves, Love."

She smiled back and did as I asked, sliding the edge of a hoof under the fabric of my shirt and moving it up, her soft hoof gliding across my own flesh as she lifted the thin fabric off of me. It didn't take her long to relieve me of the covering, and when she did, her eyes roamed across my bare chest, wordlessly admiring my hard-earned physique.

I noticed her eyes coming to rest at the sun-shaped scar on my chest, but before she could linger on the sight too long, I moved downward, wrapping my fingers around the waistband of her costume's leggings; the last remaining piece of her garment, and the only thing covering her most private areas. I looked up to her blushing face, dimly illuminated in the candlelight, and she nodded at me, ever so slightly.

Slowly, painfully slowly, I slid the black leggings down her flanks and over her thighs until they slipped free from her hind hooves. When I reached a certain point, she shifted her legs, crossing them lightly and obscuring my view. I smirked at her and crawled up the bed to her, where I felt her hoof slip into the band of my boxers and slide them down.

I felt her hoof brush against my hardening member, and she shivered at the sensation of touching me there for the first time. Soon enough, the band slid over my shaft, and she paused for a moment, taking in the sight of her lover for the first time in this romantic light.

I could see the lust building in her beautiful purple eyes, and I stopped her as she began to lean down by placing a hand gently on her cheek. "Not yet…" I whispered softly.

I sat up, still cupping her cheek in my hand, and brought out lips together in a passionate display of my love for her. She returned the gesture with just as much passion, wrapping her hooves around my neck once again as out tongues danced and swirled around one another, rousing each of our passions and desire for one another to new heights.

She pulled back from the kiss suddenly and slid her hoof down my chest, coming to rest on my abdomen. "Please… Blake, I want to taste you…" Her voice was heavy with a mixture of love and lust, and so I leaned back, allowing her her wish.

She smiled at me and leaned her head down slowly, taking in a deep breath through her nose as she got close and shivering at my scent. Her tongue slid out of her mouth a moment later and she dragged it slowly up my shaft from the base to the tip, curving it over the top and lapping up the small bead of precum that had formed there. She shivered again and smiled at me, her blush deepening. "You taste so… wonderful~" She moaned the words, and sent a shiver up my spine.

I reached down and ran my fingers through her silky, deep blue mane. She smiled lovingly at me and her head dipped down again, her warm, soft tongue flitting around the head of my hardened shaft as she swirled it around in circles.

I panted lightly at the sensation. "If… if I didn't know any better… I'd say you've done this… before…"

She looked up to me with another smile. "I read a book on it… and, I've been practicing… for you…" My eyes widened at the sheer amount of love those last words carried.

My hand slid down to her cheek. "Twilight…" I breathed, truly moved by her thoughtful and selfless act.

Her head moved down again, and I felt the warm, wet walls of her mouth slip around my head slowly as her tongue continued to flick across its surface, sending electric tingles of pleasure through my body. I wanted to say something, to tell her how good it felt, but my mind was quickly fogging with lust, and no words came to me.

She began moaning deep in her throat, and my pleasure increased. Before I could do anything, I felt her slip further down onto my shaft, burying it deep and deeper into her sweet mouth, while all I could do was watch her.

Just as she reached the halfway point, her body heaved, and she pulled off of me, an apologetic look in her eyes. "I-I'm sorry… it's bigger than I thou-" I silenced her by placing my fingers to her lips.

"No apologies Twi… I know I'm bigger than most. I'm well-endowed even by human standards, so there's no reason to be upset that it's too much for you…" She nodded and gave me a grateful smile before her head once again dipped down, and she started where she left off, being careful not to take me too deep. Before I lost myself in the sensation again, I spoke to her. "That feels amazing Twilight… regardless of how deep you go…" There was a slight groan to my words as my pleasure once again built.

I felt her moan again around my solid shaft, and I had to resist the urge to take control, instead allowing her to please me how she wished. I watched her head bob up and down for some time before she finally pulled off, smiling up at me lustily while she slowly stroked me with her hoof. "So, stud… how do you want to claim me?"

Even through my lusty haze, I heard the underlying love she put into those primal words. I sat up and caressed her cheek before kissing her, tasting my own musky flavor on her tongue as it danced briefly with hers, leaving the two of us panting when I pulled away. "Well… you got to taste me… now I want to taste you…"

She gasped as I wrapped my arms stound her waist and flipped her over on the mattress so that I was above her and she was on her back. She watched me with a mixture of love and lust in her eyes as I lowered myself down, and took one of her perky nipples into my mouth, suckling on it briefly before moving down lower, my hot breath brushing across her strawberry-scented honeypot causing her to shiver with excitement.

I dipped my head down and stuck my tongue out, sliding its tip from the base of her hot vessel to her hard clit, taking in the sweet, musky flavor as I teased her virgin folds. I felt Twilight shiver above me as my tongue traced its way through her sweet lips. "So good…" She panted out.

I smirked and slid my tongue in deeper, savoring her sweet musk and the heat of her virgin pussy. She gasped as she felt me going deeper inside her, and I felt her hooves running through my hair as she spread her legs wider, giving me easier access to her tight tunnel. "Oh, Blake… it feels… so good…" She was panting heavily already, and I could feel her slick inner walls clenching down around my tongue as I slipped it in as far as it would go.

I moaned deep in my throat and reached a hand around, sliding it down her tight belly and towards her sex, where I started playing with her sensitive clit, causing her to writhe around above me. My tongue caressed her inner folds as she moaned and squirmed, turning me on as I did the same to her.

I slipped my tongue out for just a moment to adjust my angle, and when I moved to enter her again, she bucked her hips, moving herself up and accidentally lining my pointed tongue up with her tight little rosebud. She gasped loudly when my wet organ made contact with her tight ring, and she looked down to me. "B-Blake… Wh-what was that…?"

I looked up to her with a sheepish grin. "I kinda… licked your tailhole…"

She cooed and pressed lightly on the top of my head. "D-do it again… please…"

I grinned lewdly at her. "Such a dirty mare…" I leaned my head down once again, and lined myself up once again with her tailhole.

Without hesitating, I brushed the tip of my tongue against the tight ring, and felt it contract for an instant before loosening slightly. "Th-that feels… so good…" She panted out above me.

The tight ring of muscle lacked the unpleasant flavor I had been anticipating, and so I dove into it with a newfound passion, sliding the tip of my tongue deeper into her as I heard her moaning louder above me. I gasped suddenly when I felt something rubbing against my shaft, and looked down to see that Twilight had engulfed it in her magic and was slowly stroking it while I went to town on her sensitive hole.

My tongue finally penetrated her defenses, and I felt her body seize up as my hot, wet organ slipped into her lower depths, an act I never would have imagined myself doing before this very moment, an act that I especially never would have imagined myself loving as much as I was.

Twilight looked down to me with a pleading look. "Blake… please… take me… make me yours… please… I want the world to know I belong to you…" I felt my cock twitch in her magic, and my heart soar at those words, filled even more with love than lust. Slowly, I crawled up to her so that my hard shaft was lined up with her dripping pussy. I looked deep into her eyes, searching for a hint of doubt, and she nodded to me. "Please Blake… I want this… I want… I need YOU!" Her voice was husky and filled with lust as she pleaded with me.

There was no hesitation, no teasing; I lined myself up with her steaming hole, and slid myself in, slowly at first so I didn't hurt her. Twilight moaned lewdly as I filled her, her tight pussy squeezing down around me as more and more of me slid into her virgin depths. She reached up and wrapped her hooves around my neck, looking me in the eye as I entered her. She gasped suddenly when I bumped into her cervix, deep inside her. I could feel that I still had a few centimeters to go, but I knew the kind of pain trying to press past that barrier could cause her, and so I rocked my hips back, pulling out just slightly before I sunk myself back into her, a satisfied groan escaping her lips as I buried myself nearly back to her cervix, filling even her innermost depths.

She panted loudly as I increased the speed of my thrusts, and it wasn't long before her body locked up, her inner walls closing in around me as she came hard. I groaned and pressed on, determined to draw out her orgasm, wanting her to feel one more before my own crashed down on me. I had wanted to last longer for her, but Twilight's beauty, coupled with my love for her, drove my body into overdrive in its desire to spill my seed inside her. What Derpy and I had done hadn't helped the situation either.

Shortly after the first, I felt a second orgasm crashing down on her, and this time, the tightening of her walls drove me over the edge, and I looked deep into her eyes as I felt the pressure build. "I-I'm gonna…" I groaned out.

She groaned loudly before wrapping her hind legs around my waist. "Please Blake! Do it inside me!"

Her words were the final straw, and I let the dam burst; my hot, sticky seed gushing into her as she came one final time, her soaking pussy doing everything in its power to wring my pulsing shaft dry as rope after sticky rope of my hot seed poured into her.

Finally, the deluge died down, and I rolled over onto my back, carrying her with me, her head resting against my chest as we both struggled to catch out breaths. Twilight looked up to me, love filling her lust-hazed eyes. "I… that was…"

I leaned down and kissed her sweetly. "There aren't words, Twilight…"

Her eyes shimmered for a moment, and she rested her head against my chest once more. "I love you, Blake… so much…"

I leaned down again and kissed the tip of her horn. "I love you too, Twilight… I'd be lost without you…"

The two of us drifted off peacefully to sleep in one another's arms, too exhausted to even make our way back to the master bedroom. Neither of us cared though, we were already exactly where we both wanted to be; safe and happy in one another's tender embrace.