I see you are here for me to regale what you would call a very odd tale. Filled with laughter and love, this might be a tale from the heavens above. And ever…
Ever… Ever…
Well, yes, the rhyming does seem unnecessary for this situation. Okay, you’d prefer that I spoke normally, then I shall; I no longer have to speak in rhymes all the time, not since… Sorry, force of habit.
Who am I, you ask? Well, I am called Zecora in your language -- Zecora the witchdoctor of the Everfree, and until very recently, one of the loneliest mares this side of the Black Mountains.
As wonderful as it is living in the Dread forest, as my people call it, or the Everfree forest, as you ponies call it, living in a dangerous forest makes finding your soulmate quite difficult, or any mate at all, for that matter.
What also makes it difficult is how…. What would be a kind way to describe it to you? How easily... spooked you ponies are. You saw me as, and still some of those who live in Ponyville see me as, a dangerous and evil witch that summons dark spirits in an evil forest.
You fail to see a mare who has left everything she had ever known to achieve her lifelong goal of becoming the greatest botanist the world has ever seen.
To achieve this goal, I had to come to the most dangerous, and the least understood forest known to any race this world has to offer, which was also where the rarest and least known flowers and herbs were said to thrive in, The Everfree forest. And what did I find after living in this forest of horror, dread, and despair?
I found that this place is remarkably beautiful and, to those who figure out nature’s unspoken rules, a place of safe haven where you are free to study what you will in peace. It is also makes you more isolated than anypony has any right to be. You ponies are right; the Everfree is a very dangerous place to live, but you have confused dangerous with evil, condemning anyone that lives in it as a monster.
That was why I was so lonely. Like any other creature, I want companionship with somepony that loves me -- someone to hold at night as the chill creeps in, but that was denied to me as a resident of this sacred forest.
Whenever I came near a town, merely looking for supplies or company, not even trying to find a special somepony, I was shunned, too odd looking and strange. I was rebuffed time and again when I looked around for a mate. Even using your kind’s ancient ritual of rhyming to find a mate failed me.
So as my wisdom grew in flowers and herbs, my loneliness bloomed with it. I tried to offset it by throwing myself into other fields, such as potion making, but no matter how hard I tried to distract myself it would come back.
So as the months and years went by, I noticed how empty my hut and bed felt, and I yearned for somepony who would make me laugh, that would kiss me,hold me, and tell me that they loved me with all of their heart.
So I prayed nightly to the sun and the stars that I would find such a being, hoping against hope that my love would be sent to me.
And by all the stars above, it came true, though I was too foolish to see it at the time. I can see by the look on your face that you wish to know who this person is.
Yes, person, not pony, as I’m sure you thought it would be; by the stars, that’s what I thought it would be, too. Are you going to let me explain it to you in my own time, or are you going to keep asking me questions? Now please shut your muzzle and let me get back to the story.
So no, this was not a pony, or even a creature that is born in this world, though he thrives so well in this forest that it seems like he has lived here his whole life. What is the race called, you say? If I remember correctly, he called them humans, Homo sapiens, or wise men --whichever you prefer.
I myself prefer wise man, although the first time I met him, he didn’t seem all that wise. In fact, even now he’s still not someone you’d call wise without laughing your flank off.
I remember it as clearly as if happened only a day ago. I was carefully mixing ingredients in my cauldron, trying to craft a particularly difficult potion, when I heard a knock on my door.
I wonder who that could be? I thought as I stopped stirring, a small frown on my muzzle, though I was delighted at the prospect of company. It had been days since my young friend, Apple Bloom, had joined me for gathering herbs, and the familiar pangs of loneliness were starting to resurface again.
Checking the concoction and seeing that it would be fine if left alone for a little while, I trotted over and opened my door, a small, almost irrepressible smile appeared on my muzzle. I opened the door, revealing another who I was happy to call a friend, a mare called Twilight Sparkle.
Behind her was a creature I had never seen before. I do not say monster because of two reasons: one, because my definition of monster is very different from most, and two, because I have a special moss growing all around my hut and the path that led to town, which any creature that wasn’t sapient couldn’t stand.
It was stocky and much larger than either I or Twilight, its body covered in clothing from head to foot, with a small patch of brown hair on the top if its head that sharply contrasted with its pale skin. It also had a rather small and flat face and a pair of grey eyes that happily inspected me and everything in the hut.
Even though the rhyming didn’t work on you ponies, I couldn’t help but continue to use it. It kept the mind sharp and.... I don’t know, but to me, it made me stick out from amongst others. So cocking my head at the strange creature, I waited for my purple friend to speak, my mind getting ready to rhyme.
“Hello, Zecora!” the unicorn happily said, seemingly not worried one bit about the creature behind her.
“Hello, my friend, your presence makes me feel welcome in the end,” I said, almost flinching at the bad rhyme; I was getting out of practice. And looking up at the creature, I nodded my head at it. “What do my eyes see? Twilight, what is this creature before me?”
The bookworm giggled as the creature snorted. “Does she always do that, Twilight?” it asked.
I raised an eyebrow as Twilight looked up at it. “Now, Caius, be nice. That’s just how Zecora talks.”
The creature I now knew as Caius looked back at me, mirth in his eyes. “So she’s a rapping Zebra? Not the oddest thing I’ve seen since I’ve been here.”
I quietly growled at the rude creature. “Creature, watch your tongue, lest you offend, or it’ll be me with who you contend.”
Twilight also verbally lashed out at the creature. Glaring up at him and kicking his shin she said, “Caius! What did I tell you about being mean to ponies?”
The creature flinched at that, looking slightly guilty. Squatting down to get at my eye level, Caius said with regret in his voice, “Miss Zecora, I’m sorry if I offended you. I swear calling you a rapping zebra is a compliment, not an insult.”
As I looked into his eyes, searching for any signs of dishonesty and finding none, I couldn’t help but feel a little regret myself, thinking that I may have reacted too harshly to this being. Sitting on my rump I patted Caius’s shoulder reassuringly. “It is okay, my friend; I can see that you did not mean to offend,” I said before smiling sheepishly. “I feel I must say my bad, I may have overreacted just a tad.”
Then he did something that, though I didn’t know it yet, would excite me to no end. He gave me a big, happy, toothy, smile. “Thanks, Miss Zecora.”
I smiled at him in turn, offering him a hoof. “There is no need for that, my dear. Just call me Zecora whenever I am near.”
Taking my hoof with his odd-looking claws, he nodded. “Well, it’s nice to meet you, Zecora. You can call me Caius.”
“That is an odd name, my friend, I hope that statement does not offend…”
“My parents… were odd people, and they liked to give their kids odd names, so no biggie?”
“…Biggie?”
“Heh, you didn’t rhyme that time…..God damnit, now you got me doing it…”
So after that unpleasantness was out of the way, I found out why Twilight and Caius needed my help. I was told that, somehow, beyond his knowledge or control, the human had been transported to Equestria.
After many weeks of trying, the princesses themselves declared that there was no way to send the human home. Rather than being disheartened with the news, the human couldn’t have been more excited. And why was he excited, you might ask?
He burst out at me enthusiastically, “Because I’m a biologist! I get to study a whole world filled with creatures and other stuff that humans have never even dreamed of seeing! I don’t know about you, but I think this is the hypest shit ever!”
When I asked him about what the hay a Biologist was, he explained to me that he was one whose job was to study plants and animals. What he specifically was was someone that studied the effects that different plants had on a human body. “For medical reasons,” he explained.
When I asked why he needed my help, Twilight, who had been quiet during the human’s explanation, frowned and said, “Because he has a death wish!”
Caius just laughed at that. “I don’t have a death wish, purple smart,” he said, patting her on the head. “Zecora here lives in the forest and does fine. And where else to study rare plants when the rarest live right here? Besides, the princesses agreed to pay me for whatever I find, and I really don’t want to walk all the way from town every day.”
After asking for further explanation, I was told that the human wanted to live with me to more easily study the wildlife that Everfree had to offer. And since I had lived here for years, they wanted to know if I’d help him settle in and teach him the ways of the forest.
“Think about it, you’ll have a great roommate! All you have to do is make sure that I don’t die!” Caius happily told me. I looked up at the human like he was a moron. He was going to live in a dangerous forest just so he wouldn’t have to walk from town? I could tell that I couldn’t talk him out of it so I agreed to it, besides, now I finally could have company!
It took weeks to teach the human the ways of the forest. After much trial and, well for him, painful error, Caius learned how to respect mother Everfree and treat everything like it was dangerous. Simple rules maybe, but you break these rules and you wouldn’t last long here.
And as I taught him, he made my time with him some of the happiest moments of my life. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I showed my human friend around the forest, a notepad and pen in his hand, and a smile on his face whenever he went.
Caius was quite witty when I got to know him, and many days he would just spend the day trying to get me to laugh. Sometimes, he failed spectacularly. Others, I laughed so hard that it would hurt to breath the next morning, something that he accomplished more than once, though I usually gave as good as I got. I may not look it, but back in Zebricy, I was the funniest one in my tribe. If you remind me I’ll tell you the one about the lion and the hyena later…
Many days, we would just sit outside and talked about ourselves as Caius sat on a stump or a rock and just drew things. From poison joke to a Manticore, the human’s drawings were excellent, so excellent that whenever I looked at them I thought that they might jump off the page.
He also had the horrible habit of testing the plants on himself, stating if it wasn’t safe for him it wouldn’t be safe to use on a pony. He seemed to have a minor fascination with ones that would make him feel good or make him see things.
The dummy poisoned himself so much that I’m quite pleased to say I had mastered how to extract an antidote from over two hundred kinds of herbs in under ten minutes. He didn’t like it much when I brought him down from his highs though, so I also became quite good at human wrangling.
But in between the treks through the forest and the days spent treating the human because of his foolishness, he and I would just talk. First it was about simple things, like the weather, but over the months, we began to speak of more personal matters.
I would tell him about the plains and valleys of my homeland. He would speak of living in a small town in the mountains. Neither of us would speak of our families and about our lives before, I could tell that his past was a bit painful and it wasn’t my place to pry. Besides, he wasn’t the only one with family issues…
Caius, though, was happy to tell me all about the wonders of the world -- about how humans had things that we of this world couldn’t even dream of. Though I didn’t feel that my stories held a candle to his, the human ate up tales that I told him of the Zebra race. He was partially fond of the tale of Slender Heart, a Zebra shaman of legendary power and beauty.
We were in my hut when things, for lack of a better word, escalated. I had just finished telling him another tale of Slender Heart when he cut in,“So you wear those neck rings to honor this beautiful zebra?” the human had asked me this when I had told him the tale the first time, but at that time, I’d been making an antidote and telling him the tale to distract him from running amok through my hut after he had chewed on a particularly potent bulb, which made him bounce around like Pinkie Pie on an expresso bender, and made him just as manically chipper, too. I nodded my head my hoof brushing against my neck rings.
“Yes, my friend, because of the maiden’s sacrifice, the tribes survived the Lannister’s invasion. We mares wear them to remind those who might forget her sacrifice.” I said, trying to force myself not to rhyme when I spoke to him. He had gotten a kick out of me telling him about why I rhymed, teasing me to the point to where I couldn’t do so without the human falling over holding his sides in laughter. So I had gotten used to speaking to him like a normal pony. “And besides,” I added, a bit of heat coming to my cheeks, “These rings show our maidenhood.”
The human looked down at me with mischief in his eyes. “So you’re saying that nobody’s popped lil’Zecora’s cherry?” Caius asked as I squawked in outrage and embarrassment.
“No, no, no!” I almost yelled, my whole face on fire. “These rings merely show that I haven’t married somepony yet…” I finished sadly, my head down.
My friend’s grin was replaced with a look of concern as he knelt down and wrapped me in a hug. “Trust me, Zecora. Anypony would be lucky to have you.”
I looked up at him, holding back tears, and said, “Really? The sight of me does not offend in the end?”
“You’re rhyming again,” Caius said as he gently brushed a stray tear from my eye.
“And who would you offend, Zecora? You’re an awesome zebra that knows more about some of these plants in Everfree than some ponies could even begin to imagine, and if we put your rhyming to music, you’d be laying down some sick beats whenever you opened your mouth,” He added, giving me a cheesy smile.
Ignoring the last part and wiping a muzzle with a hoof, I tried to prove myself as ugly or as too different to be loved, something that I had thought the case when nopony reciprocated my advances.
“But I must be an ugly sight, for my coat is just black and white!”
His grin growing, the human said, “I don’t see why you should despair, for I think black and white has the perfect flair.”
I grunted at this, looking up at the beaming human with a frown. “That isn’t funny.”
“And I find that Mohawk of your divine, even among the ponies, that is a rare find.”
My frown was threatening to become a small smile, but I beat it down. “Alright, now I understand why ponies think the rhyming is annoying…”
Caius ignored me as I felt his hand play with one of my earrings. “And these are a sight to behold; I’d say that they increased your beauty tenfold.”
I swatted his hand away, a blush working its way up my neck and to my face, even as I felt a strange anger heat my blood. “For Celestia’s sake, will you quit it?”
I felt a hand go to my flank in the form of a light slap, the human laughing as he ran around the hut as I squeaked in surprise.
“And let’s not forget that behind, for when you see it, it’ll blow your mind.” He said between laughs as I picked up a stone pot and hurled it at him, the nimble human laughing as he dodged.
“Get back here, you bucking coward!” I roared, grabbing a boom with my mouth and chasing him with it. Dodging a swipe Caius made for the door, a very angry me in pursuit.
“So you those reasons you see, you’d make anyone happy.” The laughing human, with the tears in his eyes preventing him from seeing the path properly, tripped on a log and tumbled over. I looked down at my prey with a predatory smile; boy was he going to get it! Instead of looking scared like I would have liked, he was beaming up at me. “Though you have a temper that is as hot as fire, I’d think that no one couldn’t help but desire that sexy zebra ass.”
I stopped and spat out the broom. “That didn’t rhyme!” I growled, an involuntary smirk on my face as I tried my best not to laugh at the human’s antics.
Caius’s smile grew even bigger. “I know, but you feel better now, right?” I stopped advancing, and my anger ceased to exist. Yes, yes I was feeling better. I must’ve looked silly because the human chuckled, and, for the first time since I had met him, I felt a warmth in my chest as he got up and ran his fingers through my mane soothingly.
“Don’t worry Zecora, you’ll find that special someone eventually,” he told me before looked back toward the hut. “Alright, let’s cook up some grub huh? I’m so hungry I could eat a Manticore.” As my friend made his way back to my hut I couldn’t help to stay glued to where I was as I thought over the events that had just transpired.
This odd creature, this human, had made that loneliness that had dogged me since I began living in this forest, disappear. Because of him, I enjoyed getting up in the morning. He was someone who wasn’t frightened nor disgusted by my appearance or by what I did. He embraced me for who and what I was. Most importantly though, he made me laugh and he cared about me.
I was brought out of this reverie by Caius yelling at me from the door. “Hey, Zecora, are you alright?”
Blinking owlishly, I turned toward him. “Oh, yes, I’m fine. Thank you for brightening up my mood, by the way.”
He waved it off. “Don’t mention it” I shivered as he smiled at me. “I couldn’t have you all mopey anyway; you’re the only one that has any skill as a cook around here.” As this dear, sweet human turned around to go back inside my hut, I couldn’t help but notice one of his hands gripping the top of the doorway as he leaned down to get into the kitchen. I couldn’t help but lick my lips in awe of those hands, more importantly, those fingers. I had gotten first hoof experience on how strong they were and how much dexterity each finger held. I couldn’t help but think about what else those fingers could do.
Grinning, I made my way to my humble abode, a tingling in my nethers and a new purpose in my life. I had just found my soulmate, and I was going to make sure that Caius knew it!
So my human and I went back to our day-to-day routine. We would go out into the forest, and he would draw and collect samples of anything that he human found interesting. We would then go back to my hut, and he would experiment on whatever he had collected to see what properties it had. Assuming he didn’t end up either high as a kite or staring down a certain black-robed mare with a scythe, we would then eat, and he would be my helper as I made my potions to sell to the pony folk.
Or, at least, that was what the human thought. What was actually happening was my careful seduction, something that only the sharpest minds could see. The mind of a zebra is sharp and subtle. You pony folk really seem to be lacking in your grasp of discretion and artifice. And though I loved Caius, nopony would ever call him sharp.
First I started off with light flirting, which the human happily returned. And for a time, I was just happy to do that, but eventually, that turned to watching as he was bathing in the lake close to my home, among other…. less than ideal things that are better left unsaid while in polite company. Whenever he left for town, I would pray that he would return as soon as possible, even while I lustily called out my future love’s name as I grinded a hoof into my aching, sopping, sex.
For some reason, I never could tell the man how I felt about him , how I wanted him to take me and make me his, so I had everything banking on seducing him so well that he would give himself over to his lust. So along with the flirting, I would ‘accidentally’ drop something and have to pick it up. My flank would just so happen to be in the perfect position for Caius to better a good look at it. Then there were all of the times that my tail couldn’t help but brush along the man’s thigh or lower stomach.
I never grew disheartened as my future human didn’t notice my silent advances. I kept switching tactics, making our discussions more sexual whenever we talked, or sitting closer to him whenever we sat down together. Either humans seduced each other in ways I couldn’t even fathom, or Caius was truly clueless, because nothing I did seemed to be working. I even wondered more than a few times if he was just gay.
So spring turned to summer, which turned to fall, then winter. I was starting to lose hope that the human would become my lover. But, there was another rule of nature that I had forgotten. Mother Nature can give and she can take away. And as Hearts Warming Day came around, Mother Nature gave me something, or more specifically, she gave Caius something that would make our love blossom, though when it was given to the human, I had feared the worst for him.
It was while he and I walked through the snow-covered forest, enjoying the crispness in the air The human was collecting a certain flower that grew from the forest’s trees during the winter, which, due to its sweet taste, was called Sugar Belle. We didn’t really need them for anything other than treats, but I admit it was rather nice walking close to Caius as the winter wonderland stretched out before us. I looked up at the human with a smirk on my muzzle as I watched him pop another one of the flowers into his mouth. “You’d better watch out my, friend, or fat you will be in the end.”
He snorted, swallowing the pure white plant before answering me. “Like I’d get fat, with you running me like a rat.”
It was my turn to snort, even though I had a small smile on my muzzle. Patting his thigh, I told him, “Don’t worry me, dear. If you keep trying, my skill at rhyming you might come near.”
Instead of acting like a rational being, the human just spat out a mouthful of his treat before giving me a raspberry. “That’s for your rhyming skills.”
I rolled my eyes. “You’re a big baby.”
Caius ignored me and reached for another sugar bell, or at least that was what I thought it was, before I noticed that the small white flower in the humans hand had blue tips. I knew that many deadly poisonous flowers looked almost the same as sugar bell, as did many completely harmless kinds. “Caius, wait!” I yelled, but I was too late. I tackled the human to the ground and drove a hoof into his stomach, hoping that he would spit this mysterious flower out before it did something potentially harmful to him .
“What the fuck, Zecora!?” Caius snarled as he rolled around on the ground, clutching his midsection as I panicked.
“Don’t swallow that! That wasn’t Sugar Belle! I’ve never even seen that plant before; for all I know, it could be dangerous!” Panic surged through me as the human paled, causing me to groan. “You swallowed it, didn’t you?”
“I thought it was Sugar Bell!” Caius said, trying to defend himself.
I helped him up and grumbled, “Well, since you’re not dead, the plant might not be that toxic.” I was paradoxically angry and relieved at the same time. He often tested strange plants by eating them, but he did with me it in the safety of my hut, where antidotes were either readily available or could be created quickly. Nudging my head at the collection of sugar bell lookalike I told the relieved human, “Grab a bundle of those, I might still need to make an antidote for your stupid flank.” Ignoring my remark, Caius stood up and carefully grabbed a dozen or so of the mysterious flowers, a smile on his face.
“Did you think we just discovered a new species of plant? Maybe a subspecies of sugar bell or something like that?” The excited human asked as the two of us made our way to my hut.
I shrugged. “I doubt that we’d find anything new this close to civilization; this is probably just some rare form of the Sugar Belle.”
The human grinned. “That’s what you said when we found that plant that looked like moonshadow.”
I smiled at the memory, looking back up at him. “You were lucky too; instead of dying horribly, you ate a plant that helped to freshen one’s breath.” Caius might have said more, but he dropped to the ground with a groan.
“Holy shit, that hurts!” He curled up into a ball and clutched his sides.
I let out a squeal of panic before rushing over to him. “Caius, what’s wrong?! For Celestia’s sake, tell me what’s wrong!”
Instead of answering me, my heart’s desire just whimpered and started rocking back and forth. Helpless and terrified for my friend’s life, all I could do was sit on my rump and try to give him comfort by rubbing a hoof along his back and whispering to him about how it was going to be okay. It was a miracle that eventually, Caius’s whimpers decreased in volume and frequency as he laid there, his eyes closed as pain washed over him.
I gently nuzzled the poor human. “It’s okay Caius; you’re going to be okay.” I told him as, as gently as I could, I lifted the human on my back and carried him back to the hut. By the time we reached my humble home the human was no longer writhing in pain, he was just simply sprawled out on my back, panting.
As I walked through the door the human weakly said, “Well, that was fucking awful…”
I looked over my shoulder at him worryingly. “Are you alright, Caius?” I asked the human as I led him into my bedroom, gently taking him off my back and putting him under the covers. If the situation wasn’t as dire as it was, I would have jumped my future lover’s bones right there. He gave me a weak nod as I threw a blanket over him.
“It feels like someone’s been kicking me in the balls for the last three hours, but I think it’s over.” He looked up at me and smiled. “Thanks for carrying my fat ass all the way back here, Zecora.”
Despite everything, a flurry of laughter escaped my lips. “You know I couldn’t leave you. Who else would be able to climb trees to get those fury flowers that I always need.”
Caius’s laughter quickly turned into a groan. “You know, if they don’t have that fucking plant documented I’m going to name it.”
Not being able to help myself I once again nuzzled his cheek. “Oh really?” I said as the human closed his eyes and sighed.
“Yep” he said, a hand trailing down to cup his jewels. “It’s gonna be called ‘ball buster’” He froze. His eyes widened. Then, slowly, he groped around his crotch, which was making quite a tent. “Oh, sweet Mary, mother of God, what the fuck is wrong with my dick?!”
I did not flinch at the rough language, though I felt both concern and arousal going through me as I watched Caius grab and inspect his groin from under the covers.
Goddess, I wished I was under those covers…. No -- that had to wait. I first needed to see if he was alright.
“What’s wrong?” I asked Caius as calmly as I could while I clenched my hind legs together.
Looking back up at me, I watched as his face turned bright red. “Zecora,” he said, both in wonder and panic. “Do you remember just a little while ago when I told you eating that plant was awful?” Confused, I just nodded my head. With one last look under the covers, a hand reaching around his manhood, he told me, “Well, I take it back; this plant is the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
“And why is that? Caius, let me look under the covers, I can-”
“NO!”Caius yelled. When he saw me back up slightly in fear, he added, “No, I’m okay; It’s just that little Richard just had a growth spurt.”
I raised an eyebrow. “Little Richard?”
Caius just cocked his head at me. “What? You guys don’t name your junk?”
“… Why you- never mind.” I muttered, facehoofing. “So what were you are saying about your penis?” For the first time since I had met him, Caius’s face turned into an interesting shade of red. Looking away, he muttered something I couldn’t hear. “What? Could you speak up, I can’t hear you.” I said, bringing a hoof to an ear.
Grunting, the red faced human said, “The plant… made it bigger.”
My eyes widened in surprise, the human was no slouch when it came to that department before.
“…Bigger?”
A smile, which had been working its way into the human’s face, blossomed as he realized his discovery, a discovery that I yearned to see, grew three sizes that day as he nodded at me.
“Yep, at least four inches,” he stated proudly.
By now it, was becoming rather difficult to control myself, but with an iron will, I managed to stay where I was as the now ‘bigger’ human continued, “Think about it Zecora, if this is permanent, we could revolutionize Equestria with this stuff!”
“Aha...” I said, my gaze glued at where his manhood was.
The excited human, mostly ignoring me now as he rambled on, tried to get up. “I just need to write some notes an --” As he tried to pick himself up I watched as his arms gave way, Caius now panted at his mild effort.
“Caius!” I said, snapping out of my lusty haze.
The tired human waved me away with a groan. “I’m alright; just a little tired is all. The plant must have used a massive amount of calories transforming my penis.”
“That’s one theory. You were in a pretty bad spot of pain back there; it looked like it really wiped you out.”
“I need to see this plant’s effects, for science!”
Now I was beginning to become worried again. “You just lay down here and I’ll get an antido --”
“Nope, I’m doing this and no buts about it.”
“Caius,” I began, only for a hand to clamp my muzzle shut. Looking into his eyes and seeing the pig-headed stubbornness that I loved, I sighed, “Fine, but if you blow up then it’s your fault.”
Patting me on the head like somepony that hadn’t slept in days, Caius closed his eyes, smiled up at me, and said, “That’s fine.” He wrapped his arms around my middle, which was the best that he could do for a hug at the moment.
“Thanks for trying to fix my dumb mistake. You’re the best zebra a guy could ask for,” he said, sounding like someone who was about to pass out.
I took his hug and raised him a nuzzle, gently tightening the hug as the human sighed. This was what I had been aching for these many long, lonely years, and I was going to enjoy it! As I lay there with Caius, as happy as I was when I had gotten my cutie mark, I was possessed by something to tell the human how much he meant to me. Steeling myself, I said, “Caius, we need to --”
“Zzzzz…”
Stopping what I assure you was going to be a love-filled and heartwarming speech, I looked up to see the human quietly snoring. My eye twitching, I went through several emotions as I looked up at the sleeping human’s face. Annoyance that he would of course have to ruin my speech, delight that he saw still holding me in his arms, and finally acceptance, because I knew that I had to help get the silly human out of his clothes and boots. In maybe an hour or so, I didn’t know if I saw going to get this opportunity again after all…
So after I had my fill of human cuddles I started to gently pull off Caius’s coat, then his boots, and so on, careful not to look at anything that I wasn’t supposed to… okay, at least not touching anything…. Okay… at least not touching anything for long.
Then it was a trip over to the human’s room to put his clothes away and to have a little ‘alone’ time. Checking up on the slumbering man every hour or so, I decided to start analyzing the mysterious plant that had caused all of this trouble in the first place.
“There really isn’t all that much difference between whatever this is and the sugar bell,” I mused aloud as I held the flower in the air. Setting it down, I started to go through the huge volumes that I had collected over the years, some of them written by myself, that held the names of every flower, herb, and root that was known to pony kind, trying and failing to find out what the plant was.
So we DID discover something new. I wonder why I had never noticed that a new species of plant right outside my doorstep? Going over to a desk I grabbed a quill and an inkwell, then sat all of it down by the flower.
It must of looked so similar to the sugar bell that I thought they were the same thing. So it was a good thing that Caius ate it after all… I thought amusingly, then immediately dispelled the thought, my friend’s well being was far more important than discovering a simple plant!
Dipping the quill I started to write down what he had already found out about the plant.
Name:?????
Species: Unknown
Family: Unknown
Description: Almost identical to the Sugar Belle, this plant is only distinguished by the light blue tips on its petals.
Further notes:
This mysterious plant has adverse side effects when eaten. First, the subject suffers from horrible cramping of the stomach and pain in the groin area (at least for male humans, more tests are needed for other species). The effects have very rapid onset; faster than any other species I have knowledge of.
Will need to keep antidotes handy if more trials are necessary. Toxicity to species other than Homo Sapiens is unknown.
It then causes the male penis to lengthen and thicken by a significant amount. A subject then becomes exhausted. Further tests are needed to see if plant effects female, or has any other effects on the body.
Note: The subject that these effects happened to was a human. It is not certain if the same results would have been obtained from a different subject.
I was about to write more when I heard a moan come from my room. Perking my ears and turning toward the door to my room, I called, “Caius, are you alright?”
I started to worry when I didn’t hear him answer so I got up and went to see if he was alright. As I got to my door knocked.
“Caius? Is everything-”
“DON”T COME IN HERE!” The human shouted from the other side of the room.
Flinching, but still concerned, I asked, “What’s wrong?”
I could hear Caius panting through the door before he answered, “I just found another side effect of that flower.” Now I was even more concerned, was he alright? The only way I could know for sure is if I went in and looked.
“Caius, I’m coming in.”
“NO, DON’T!”
Ignoring him, I slowly opened the door, carefully looking around the room for the human. I had to be careful; I had no idea what awaited me. What I saw inside broke my heart and frightened me at the same time.
Caius was hugging his knees as close to his chest as he could manage while he was rocking back and forth on my bed. He had my blanket wrapped around his body to tightly that it was starting to rip in places But the worst thing was his face.
Pale and covered in sweat, Caius’s face showed something I couldn’t recognize as his eyes darted around the room. When he saw me I saw his whole body stiffened as he tried to crawl away from me as far as the bed would allow.
“Zecora, you can’t be in here,” He said in a shaky voice, closing his eyes.
“Caius, Caius what’s wrong? Are you in pain? Is there anything I can do to help?” I asked as I took a careful step forward in his direction, ready to defend myself in case he went berserk.
Screwing his eyes tighter shut and taking a few deep breaths he told me, “Zecora, remember when you described what heat was like for you?”
Lightly blushing, I nodded, then remembering that his eyes were closed, I answered, “Yes, why?”
“Because I think this plant is forcing me to go those same symptoms.”
It took me a few moments to process what he said. “So you’re…”
The human nodded. “I’m losing my damn mind right now, and I don’t think I’ll be able to stop myself if I look at you.” He trembled as he spoke, blushing furiously.
I blinked at what he said, my heart suddenly racing. “What are you --”
With his eyes still closed, Caius gave me a wry grin. “Remember what I told you about your ass? I really did mean all of that stuff.” He said, gritting his teeth.
“Sexiest zebra, hell, sexiest mare that I’ve ever seen in my life…. Goddamnit, you’d better go Zecora, or I swear you’re going to have a sex-crazed human to deal with in the next ten seconds.”
A warmth spread through my chest as I quietly trotted over and hopped into bed with the poor human.
“Zecora, what the fu --” was all he managed to get out before my lips connected with his, giving him the most loving kiss I could. I hummed happily, Caius, my dear love, needed my help with something that I was more than happy to fix. Caius’s eyes shot open in shock. He stared down into my eyes when I broke the kiss.
“Z-Zecora?” Heh… by the stars was that shimmer cute.
I nuzzled his cheek before looking up at him seriously; I had to know if he really meant what he was saying “Now, is that you talking or is it the plant?” I sternly asked the human, ignoring my own lust. My marehood touched ever so lightly against his leg for the briefest moment. He flinched and again clenched his eyes shut.
Flinching, Caius closed his eyes again. “Me… I’ve kinda had a crush on you for the last couple of months…”
“And you decided not to tell me because?...” I asked, now slightly annoyed, though very delighted.
“I don’t know!” The human snapped, wringing his hands together. “I-I didn’t want you to think that I was a weirdo.”
Giggling gently, I nuzzled him again. “Well, if it makes you feel better, I don’t think you’re a weirdo.”
The silly man asked softly, “Really?” I nodded happily at him before hopping into his lap, enjoying his shutter as something long and hard poked my flank.
“In fact, how would you feel if I told you that the feeling was mutual?" I watched amused as both of the human’s eyes opened to stare at me. “Are you fucking with me?”
Purring, I ground my flank against the humans erect member, causing him to hiss. “Not yet...”
I saw Caius beat back the lust in his eyes. “Are you sure that you’d…” I responded by grinding into him harder, the human, now, my human moaned. “That’s great,” Caius hissed, his eyes closing at the sensations I was providing him. “‘Cause this thing could cut down a tree.”
I grinned and replied, “Well, my friend, it’s time for your lust to end.” I’m sure Caius would have said something witty back at me, but he was preoccupied with a Zebra tongue, not that he seemed to mind. Unlike the last kiss, this one was greedy, both of our tongues battling ferociously against each other as we moaned in bliss.
Without breaking the kiss, Caius used a hand to grope my flank and the other to all but rip off his socks; the blanket fell down about his broad shoulders. I couldn’t believe it; I was finally going to have someone to love who felt the same way about me! We broke the kiss to breathe, gasping as he looked at each other, dopey grins on our faces. I hungrily watched him take off his shirt. The bare skin was at last revealed, and I couldn’t have been more excited. He looked at me with a grin as he reached for his pants, but I stopped him.
“No, let me,” I purred, pushing him down with a hoof and sitting on his chest. Leaning down, I tried to unbutton his pants with great difficulty. Caius wasn’t making it any easier; I couldn’t concentrate with his hands greedily exploring my flank. Giggling as those wonderful appendices that ran over my cutie marks; I swatted his hands away. “Quit it for a second and help me take this stupid thing off.” I said, running a hoof along the tent in his pants.
Groaning, the human’s hands moved past me and unbuttoned the infernal thing. Since he couldn’t get out of his pants with me on top of him, I elected to help him by lowering those bucking pants as slowly and sensually as possible. Though the moaning human couldn’t see it, I saw grinning like a mad mare. He had kept me waiting for so long that it was only right that I tease him a little.
“For fuck’s sake, just take ‘em off already!” Caius hissed, his hands going back to playing with my flank.
Looking over my shoulder at him I smirked, “Are you sure? I can give you a show too exquisite to endure.”
“Just fucking take my pants off and fuck me for fuck’s sake! Please!” my human begged, his fingers digging into my flank so hard that I couldn’t help but moan.
After having quickly torn off his pants, I couldn’t help but growl when I saw that he was wearing boxers.
“How many layers do you humans have?!” I growled, though I couldn’t help but smile as I stared at something that definitely wasn’t part of the ensemble.
“It’s the last one!” Caius promised, bucking his hips toward my face. Rubbing my hooves together eagerly I all but ripped the boxers off, recoiling as his member bopped me on the nose. That flower really did a great job.
Before Caius was big, but now? There were no words to describe it. I looked down at my human’s member, my eyes eagerly over my first face-to-face human penis, I had seen it from afar or just quickly peeking but never this close or never for this long.
There was a distinct musky scent to the long, veiny, and throbbing pole as I inched my muzzle closer, longing for a taste, but then I had an evil idea. Looking back at my panting lover I gave him an innocent smile.
“Caius, do you remember when you asked me if I was a virgin or not?” I asked my flustered friend.
Before he could answer I eagerly engulfed him in my mouth and sucked as hard as I could. I smiled as Caius bucked and all but screamed, his back arching as he hissed at a sensation probably completely new to him. “Whoa -- ah, fuck!Ugh! Okay, not a virgin!”, he got out, closing his eyes at the sensations he was experiencing.
I couldn’t help but smile as I released the human from my mouth and looked back at him. Red-faced and panting heavily, Caius looked momentarily confused as to why the pleasure I had been giving him just a moment before stopped. He opened an eye and looked up at me, a quizzical look in his eye.
I returned the look, grinding my rump onto the humans chest, hoping that he’d get the idea. Sure, I was happy to help Caius with his lust, but I needed a bit of relief too. Luckily, Caius got the idea, this hands trailing down from my flank, teasing me, before he grabbed my thighs and pulled me toward him.
I panted lightly, eager and at the same time nervous.Was I doing all the right things? What was Caius going to do after we became one? Was he going to become my soulmate or was he just going to cruelly rut me then hang me out to dry?
As these thoughts raged through my mind through my mind I didn’t notice my new lover eyeing my marehood hungrily. What I did notice though, was his tongue greedily entering me. I couldn’t help but shudder as his strong wet muscle entered me, my knees going weak as I moaned, shocks of pleasure racking my body.
“Oooo!” I uttered, spreading my back legs to allow him easier access to my sex, hoping, neigh, praying that that wonderful muscle would enter me deeper and deeper. The human was happy to comply with my wishes, his fingers digging into my legs, holding me in place as he continued his wonderful activities between my legs.
Panting, I all but fell into my lover’s chest as my back legs twitched and bucked as pleasure coursed through my body. There was no tact in Caius’s technique, no flair, there was just hunger as he lapped at my essence like a man dying of thirst, growling as he licked, nibbled kissed, and sucked me into a frenzy.
Closing my eyes, I couldn’t help but grin stupidly as I laid my head down onto Caius’s stomach, humming to myself as he growled almost ferally. The human bucked his hips, something that I had forgotten due to my pleasure hitting me on the top of the head.
Cracking open an eye, I looked up at my poor Caius’s neglected manhood. It was throbbing pitifully with more than a bit of precum on its head. Despite the pleasure I was experiencing, I frowned, mildly sorry for not helping the excited man.
Using my hooves I maneuvered him down to my awaiting mouth. As he drew near, my tongue gently caressed his tip, savoring his taste has my lover bucked, groaning betweening my legs. Taking just his head in my muzzle I sucked lightly, giggling as Caius twitched, a prisoner to whatever I did to him.
I groaned as I took his erection deeper into my mouth, my tongue navigating the odd landscape of veins. His member throbbed continuously, signaling that the poor dear was a bit more worked up than had originally thought.
I wasn’t much better; a sensation that I had not felt in many long years, was building up and threatening to burst inside me. Eager to please my lover, and maybe spur him on, I bobbed my head up and down more quickly, determined to finish my new lover before he finished me.
Unfortunately, Caius beat me to it. Kissing around my quivering lips, he traveled downward, giving my petal one last loving lick before he ruthless attacked my sensitive nub, gently gumming and sucking the bundle of nerves as my eyes crossed. I no longer had any cares, no worries, not even thought as I screamed, my orgasm all but shattering my very being,
My work must brought Caius closer to his breaking point than I had thought, for with a final groan and a thrust into my muzzle, the human unloaded his seed into my maw, his grunts echoing my screams. He thrusted and jerked as spurt after spurt filled my mouth.
With a final groan, I swallowed everything that Caius had given as the humans cock rapidly unhardened and popped out of my mouth. Having giving that wonderful appendage one last loving kiss, I plopped onto the bed, exhausted from the day’s events. Basking in the afterglow, my lover and I looked up at the ceiling with smiles on our faces.
Caius abruptly broke the silence. “Well, shit,” he said, “I really should’ve told you how I felt sooner huh?”
Giggling, I shakily made my way over to him and simply laid on my lover’s chest. “Yep,” I said, nuzzling into his chest as I closed my eyes. “And we’re going to do this and other things again and again and again until you’re the new Mr. Zecora.”
Chuckling tiredly, Caius kissed the top of my head and laid an arm around me. “Silly zebra,” “Married couples use the husband’s name. It’s you who’ll be Miss. Zecora Caius Correlius” Smiling happily at the prospect, I hugged Caius more tightly and kissed him again.
Now I was whole, I had someone who was there to make me laugh, someone to hold me and feel me. I had finally found someone that had chased away my loneliness, and we would always have each other
The end
