After the night that still seemed to be a part of the present, things happened quickly for our group. Blayke had to leave this town for ever and never come back, Ditzy also had a need, to have him by his side and the stallion was not against this idea. After getting dressed in a hurry, everyone put away their belongings, the mare and filly some clothes and other memories, the stallion took his dozen suitcases full of instruments and books himself up without hesitation.
Ditzy agreed to clarify the situation with Dinky, who had found a new hobby with this revelation. Calling Blayke "Daddy" seemed to be the most disturbing thing for him, she didn't know why, being the one saying the insults, but she took advantage of it for a long time.
The time it took to pack up, the ride to the train station, and pretty much the entire trip back to Ponyville to be precise. And the worst thing for the stallion was that shouting at the filly to shut up didn't seem to dissuade her, having already understood that her new father figure would never dare to raise a hand to her.
Stupid intelligent filly.
He don't stop on anyway, seeing that Ditzy was laughing at the situation, and Dinky herself as well. Now that he had just made out with the Pegasus mother, Blayke felt like he was even more involved with the girls than when he had accepted them into his home. Now he couldn't leave them, and he would never say so, but that's what he wanted as he annoyed all the passengers with his complaints, just to see them smile after yesterday's incident.
The wind blows little, enough to be felt through the manes and tails but not enough to be a cold snap. According to Celtic tradition, it was a harbinger of a good day, which would end particularly well during the transition to the next one. That is to say the night.
And just as the three ponies were on their way home together now, Ditzy already knew that she would let Blayke and Dinky take care of organizing the place.
She flew as fast as she could to a certain local grocery store, after a shy kiss on the cheek of her first stallion, for fear of being seen, Ponyville was not to know about it for the time being. She knew that the mare she was looking for would not only be easy to find, but would also be on her own when she told him what she had in mind, and that she would have attracted just about the whole town by the appointed time.
Ditzy had been feeling smarter since the stallion had come into her life, and nothing could make her happier than that on this truly auspicious day.
"Go apologize! And everything will be okay, I promise!" She declared in front of the principal concerned, a stallion with black skin, tail and mane, leaving his torso remarkably muscular in the eyes of all and wearing only brown pants most of the time.
A stallion who had just changed the mare's life about as much as she and her daughter had changed it for him. A life to which they wanted to aspire for longer, which is why they were here and why the grey mare had asked for it.
All of this of course organized by Pinkie pie himself, the confectionery mare being just as good at creating parties for a few hundred guests in just a few hours.
Ditzy didn't know how she did it, but it was the salvation that she and Blayke needed. The stallion had been briefed by his mare behind the stage that the pink lady had set up at her request, in a few words "apologize as sincerely as possible and don't yell at anypony".
As much as it was going to be complicated, especially knowing that the stallion didn't consider himself at fault all along. And there would be a debate about that, but the stallion wouldn't, and the public wouldn't agree to do it anyways.
Especially when they see him.
"Stallions and mares, if you are gathered here today it is thanks to Ditzy who asked me to bring you together for a special occasion. Indeed, our mare announces us to have her own stallion in her life, if it's not adorable !" Declares Pinkie on the stage, bringing joy to some, but confusion to many.
Ditzy was considered as a mare... nice, but with too much awkwardness and problems for herself that justified the fact that she didn't have a relationship. Of course, she had some real friends like Thunderlane, Flitter or Cloudchaser. These same ponies were the only ones to start feasting for their friend at this moment. Most of the weather team was actually her friend, except for Rainbow Dash because of the overuse of her non-valuing nickname 'Derpy'. Oh, if Blayke heard her pronounce it, he'd surely fall without as virulent a rage as the incident at the movie studio, Ditzy thought. She hoped that wouldn't happen.
All this to say that few could imagine the kind of ponies falling in love with the grey mare, even though she was pretty of course, but what mare isn't pretty these days.
"And she asked me to get you all together tonight so he can introduce himself, that's great. Without further wait because I'm way too excited, here he is."Said the crazy mare to end up discovering the new inhabitant and a new friend, leaving her place on the stage.
It was the moment of truth, and since there was no point in waiting, and the tract was not in Blayke's dictionary, he stepped forward from behind the wall that hide it from everyone. He was able to reach the center of the stage where Pinkie had been before and finally saw the crowd.
And as he expected, confused glances on the one hand, but a multitude of eyes unhappy to see him here again. Just before the crowd spat out its hatred towards him, all could hear from the left a "bad pony" coming from Pinkie Pie, who was pointing at the stallion, almost spanking back the tears from last time.
And the mare's tears would be enough to revive the horde of ponies. They started shouting all the insults they could think of, as the stallion was not really affected. At first because he had heard much worse, but also remembering Ditzy's debrief.
"Don't yell at anyone, don't yell at anyone, don't yell at anyone."He kept thinking, patiently waiting for everyone to calm down and looking for another species to be present, just to justify if he cracked.
Luckily he quickly found, not a dragon or a batpony, but the mare he was facing this situation for, Ditzy having joined Rainbow Dash's weather group, smiling for Blayke to give him the strength he needed. Almost all of the crowd's cries were distant echoes as they stared at her perfect face. Seeing the stallion's lack of reaction, everyone finally calmed down (they were short of breath, I could have gone on for an hour at their own place), and their silence meant that they were willing to listen to him.
"Derpy, can you explain us why he came back !?" Said suddenly a voice louder than the others, that of the cyan mare, turning towards the designated mare.
I heard it well... HE CALLED HER...
"DITZY, MY NAME IS DITZY, RAINBOW DASH, IT WOULD BE COOL FOR YOU TO REMEMBER !" Suddenly the grey mare reacts, spanking that the stallion no longer thinks when he hears her once soft voice reaching such decibels.
They all ended up turning towards her, not knowing that she could be bossy when she wanted to be. Even Rainbow Dash hid her face behind her hands due to the sudden attack, and flew away behind Thunderlane as if it were a rabid Ditzy shield.
"And I'd like you to listen to him now, please." She said in her innocent voice and turned to the crowd with a look, certainly sideways, but touching. When she spoke, most of the screaming ponies lowered their eyes in shame, seeing that they were reproducing the same behavior they had experienced.
"We're sorry, Ditzy." Said the black stallion with his mohawk, then turned to the stage where Blayke was still waiting. "We're listening." He said for everyone, having learned his lesson.
Blayke hadn't heard the stallion's call though, staring at the interchangeable mare that had surprised him. He realized that Ditzy might still be hiding things from him, making the stallion want to know more.
Fuck, I don't fall half in love.
He put his head back in place and stared at the now calm crowd, waiting for him to finally speak. He could finally start, not too soon.
"I guess you're surprised!" He started without needing a microphone, having hesitated to say thank you first, but hell he doesn't sound like him, they should have just kept quiet first.
It's with that mindset that you're going to make something other than enemies Blayke, you're fucking right.
Having captured the audience's real attention with his first sentence, he continued.
"To you, Ditzy, she's just a dumb mare with an eye defect, the kind of pony you don't particularly want to know about because you're more interested in people with talent." He went on and on, and then he didn't stop. "Well I understand you, that's exactly how I saw her the first time, except that I was just trying to be alone and quiet during my vacation here in Ponyville. But through his daughter, I got to know both of them, until I agreed to show them Mahenattan by hosting them at my house this weekend. A disgusting city that I advise you never to set foot in, but that's not the point."
Rarity raised an eyebrow at this statement, for knowing a few ponies living in Mahenattan, she found it a bit strange.
"All this to tell you that I realized that the Ditzy you knew is the Ditzy I love, and Ditzy loves me too, and we've decided to live here in Ponyville." He revealed, winning a smile from some ponies while others keep their faces focused but no happier than others. Still others just pursed their lips as if to wake up from a nightmare. "And since we didn't get off to a good start and we're going to have to deal with each other on a daily routine, I'm here to start all over again. I'm sor..." he started, then stopped abruptly, as if pronouncing that word suffocated him. "I'm sor..." could almost feel his hands wanting to squeeze his neck, to force him out.
And meanwhile, he looked bitter, staring down one by one with confused looks, all asking what was the point of making it so hard to pronounce the truth. Only Rainbow Dash seemed to both understand him, admitting she had wrong was extremely hard on her too, but she was also the most excited to hear him come out, smiling stupidly at Blayke from her seat.
Blayke almost gave in when he saw her silly expression, but Ditzy who had come back beside the sky colored ass mare and the stallion with the old-fashioned cut put him back on the right track. For him, it wasn't his fault, but he had to lie, for his own good and Ditzy's, now.
Fuck, you and your sexy face, you'll gave me a fuck after that.
"I EXCUSE MYSELF! IT'S OKAY FOR YOU!" He shouted without warning to the crowd, couldn't hold back any longer. Catching his breath through his nostrils as flexible as a minotaur, he could only wait for a reaction, and he would make a mess if it wasn't in his direction.
But the ponies turned their gaze to the left, where a pink mare well known to the audience stepped into the stage, but as carefully as Fluttershy, they think. She massaged her hands between them all the time, even when she asked and broke the silence that weighed a second.
"So, does this mean we are... friends ?" she said, the crowd moving their pupils towards Blayke like a pack of robots.
The darkened pegasus suspected he had to say yes, but he didn't feel like lying twice in a hurry. He would rarely ask for help with anything, he didn't like ponies so he might as well not need them, but he would make an exception for her mare. He turned his eyes and opened her arms wide, inviting her to give him a hug with a "yes" on the head.
Not as hard as lying for the stallion, but certainly uncomfortable, especially since this Pinky must have been the kind of girl who wouldn't let go of a hug once it started, he would have to be careful. Turning his gaze away from everyone's face to look at him as the stage wall, he timidly opened his arms, as if they were rusty and required a lot of effort. But once he did, Blayke only felt a hoof step before he felt it plunge on his chest, she had just jumped on him like a kid, but weighed much more.
No wonder when you work in a candy store, eating food is a low-calorie job.
He thought so strongly, but refrained from proclaiming it, too busy trying to figure out which part of the body needed cleaning afterwards. That is, all his top, as the mare hung her arms around his neck and her legs around him, in addition to digging her muzzle into his left shoulder. The stallion wondering if she thought they were going to fuck in front of everyone, he remembered the looks still on him, so he acts cautiously.
Slowly bending one arm towards Pinkie Pie's back, Blayke tapped her very lightly, four or five times as much, while trying to whisper in the horrible frilly mane.
"There, there !" He simply said, not knowing what else to do in such a situation. He had met some crazy mares before, but this thing was the devil himself, taking on the characteristics of a smiling mare must have been the best way to go unnoticed.
Ending his pats on his back, he could hear the crowd cheering and applauding the stage. As if he was accepted just because he didn't tell this mare that he would throw her into the Tartarus himself for sticking to him like a leech.
It's for Ditzy, Blayke, for Ditzy. Hoping not to get a hard-on thinking about her now.
He could hear the laughter and words of congratulations from strangers as the Pink demon finally withdrew, Blayke having the reflex to feel after she had moved a few inches apart.
"I have a new friend, awesome. And you're Ditzy's boyfriend, too, and you're gonna live in Ponyville, which is triple awesome." She was bursting with fanfare as other ponies came up to the black stallion and asked him questions. As if it was the first time he had seen him.
This village is crazy, but it's my village now, Blayke thought, looking at Ditzy again, winked at him. Coming from his not-right eye, it seemed so adorable that he allowed himself...
...to smile at the mare he loved.
After the evening that the not so small village because a princess lived there had come to an end, Blayke had to start to really integrate into the life of Ponyville. Having spent a quiet night in his new home and with his first mare, we can say that he was expecting the road his life would take now.
Working still seemed to be a necessity for the time being, the income he had left over from his short acting career wouldn't last long and Ditzy's job as a mailmare wasn't particularly well paid. So he decided to open a household help offer, consisting mainly of lifting heavy loads for those who were physically or magically unable to do so.
Beyond the fact that few stallions were muscle-bound here, or even just the fact that there were few stallions at all, the activity quickly became a lucrative business. The inhabitants were hesitant at first to give it the necessary trust, so the mayor of the city asked first, and was going to be her biggest client in view of the many events organized during a cycle. My second most prolific mare for Blayke would be this demon with a cloudy hairdo, organizing parties always full of ponies asking for arms to set things up. The stallion hesitated at first, Pinkie Pie could start to get a little too tactile with her torso in particular, close to sexual assault in some cases, but no one seemed shocked by her behavior here. To them, Pinkie is just... Pinkie, but for Blayke, it was just even easier money than his first activity.
Of course it was hard at first to work with strangers, but without taking it for granted, Blayke forced himself to be more understanding of others. Keeping quiet, getting the job done and getting paid was everything to him. Some people wanted to talk while working, but most of the time, the black stallion closed the deal in a matter of minutes, leaving no time for boring discussion to take place. He didn't scream as much as he used to and that was enough to be appreciated for what it was, a muscular stallion giving an efficient hand for a handful of parts, so the other ponies smiled at him as they would at anypony else when they crossed him.
And as for his free time, he spent it of course taking care of Dinky, who could now call him Daddy without it seeming weird when he left school, although Blayke would stand his ground on the subject, whispering an insult before taking her by the hand, sit her on her neck or let her frolic on the side and leaving. Fortunately, the other lungs were more afraid of him than anything else, dealing with their laughter at him was not part of the in addition to assisting Dinky, he would continue to teach her the art of Celtic music, taking advantage of the breaks to talk to him about other fascinating aspects of this period and these people, wanting to make her an adept just as much as he had become one.
Finally, he would spend his time alone at home, without his two daughters or any other request for help from a pony making their own garden behind their roof. These were the few seeds that the city florist had given him instead of pure money for transporting goods, but he was okay with that. Why would they need money if they could support themselves ? That was a way of thinking that was the same as the stallion's way. Ditzy and Dinky could see the progress every time she came home, and to see them smiling had nothing to similar with the other ponies in Ponyville.
They were the only ones to whom Blayke would give them back their expression.