“How much longer, Augustus?” I whined, flying down another boulder to sit with all of its brothers and sisters in a pile. “If I have to deal with this humidity any longer I’m gonna lose it.”

I heard a grunt, followed by coughing. “I’m almost done ya baby,” he said, poking his head out from vent. “You’re not the one that has to deal with this dust. Now go grab me one of those small support beams.”

I grumbled a bit, ruffling my feathers to try to cool myself a little and failing horribly at decreasing my hotness. Why I had decided to wear my clothes that day was beyond me. “Ya, ya, I’m getting it,” I grunted, picking a heavy bucking support beam and leaning it up so the human could grab it since it was way too heavy for me to fly up to him. “Remind me why I’m helping you again?”

“Because its hotter than balls in here and I feed you,” he replied, one-handing the wood before he disappeared back into the hole with it. “Now I need two more of those and we’ll be done.”

And we were done...After about like five more hours of work.

“That was the dumbest,” I muttered, eyeballing my dirty, sweaty fur. “Why does this always happen when I’m around?”

Augustus, who was shirtless and covered in a sweaty, nasty coat of dust from head-to-toe, said, “This happens every hundred years or so now, this is a very old temple after all.”

“Yay, but how am I going to get this dirt out of my fur?” I grumbled as I let him lead me through the temple. “I’m sure as heck not going to use that hot waterfall of yours.”

Augustus snorted. “The temples going to get a heck of a lot colder since the vents open again. You give it an hour, maybe two and you’ll be freezing your flank off.”

“Are you sure that things gonna hold up?”

“It’ll hold until I get some stone to fix it properly, now be lets get all of this shit off us.”

I looked up at him, an eyebrow raised. “What, do you have a pool laying around here or something?” I joked.

He looked down at me. “Actually, I do. It’s a floor under the bathroom; I usually use it to clean my clothes and sometimes do a bit of swimming.”

“Next you’ll be telling me that you have a game room,” I muttered, letting the human lead me into a big room illuminated by what looked to be glowing mushrooms.

“Watch out, the pool tends to sneak up on you in this dark.”

Splash!

The bucker got his seven chuckles when fell into his little pool with a yelp- which he should have warmed me a little sooner by the way- before getting out of his pants and hopping into the water with a splash, his laughter increasing when I broke the surface of the water gasping.

“You dick! Why didn’t you tell me about the pool sooner?!” I yelled, still sputtering as I glared at the almost naked human, who was doing a lazy lap around the pool.

“Sorry, I didn’t see it,” he told me.

“But you can see in the dark!”

He just chuckled again, floating on his back toward me. “Just be quiet and float around.”

I made some more grumbly noises, unbuttoning my drenched shirt and throwing it on the shore along with my hat. “Now its gonna take forever for this stuff to dry off…”

“You should have taken them off before jumping in,” Augustus said, grinning when I slugged his shoulder.

“Jerk…” I muttered, gently floating on my back beside him. I sighed contently as the two of us lapsed into silence, just the gentle hum of those weird mushrooms and the sounds of our breathing keeping us company.

“This is nice,” I said quietly, extending my wings in the water and enjoying the sensation of the grim coming off my body. “Hey, Augustus?” I turned toward the human, who had his eyes closed.

“Hum?”

“Are those mushrooms suppose to do that, that buzzing noise and that glowing and stuff?”

“Oh ya, I call those moonglowers. A couple of centuries ago I did a lot of crossbreeding with plants and that was one of the products. Its a good way to keep the darker parts of this place lighten up.”

“So they’re not going to do anything weird to me?”

“No, Daring, they’re not going to do anything to you.”

We lapsed into another silence for a few minutes.

“Augustus,”

“Yah?”

“I gotta a question for you, and remember, you don’t have to answer it or anything.”

He turned toward me so I could see his eyes, which shoned in the dim light. “Okay.”

“So you’re old right?”

“Yes.”

“Like super old.”

“Ahuh”

“And even though you really haven’t been outside this temple-”

“No, I’ve been outside this temple loads of times. You wouldn’t know it but there used to be a pretty big town about two days from here when the Everfree was a lot smaller.”

I frowned at that. “How big was it?”

“Not that big at all, more of a grove really.”

“So why did it get so big then?”

I almost felt him smile. “A tree got sick.”

I turned toward him, a confused look on my face. “A tree?”

“Its a very important tree, and it is also the basis for my little Everfree theory. Now the thing that guards that place….”

Now I was really lost. “Something like you guards some tree. Why?”

“Well, it used to until its artifacts were taken, but it still kinda hangs around.”

“Why?”

I could see Augustus smile. “You remember when I told you most of the dungeon master really weren’t monsters?”

“Yah…”

“Well, some of us are, and some of us have no business being in the Everfree.”

I shook my head. “Alright, I’m done, I’m sick of all of your ‘I’m a super smart wiseman and I know things you don’t’ thing.”

“Well, don’t you have your question?”

“Huh, what question?”

“The question you wanted to ask before you got sidetracked.”

“I got sidetracked?!” I shook my head and maneuvered myself so I was rightside up in the water. With a few strokes I was at the edge of the pool with Augustus following. Putting my head on the stones edge I avoided his gaze.

“Well, um, now remember you don’t have to answer this.”

He laid his head close to mine, looking at me. “Alright.”

“Now I don’t want you to get mad or anything.”

“Just spit it out.”

I tried not to blush as I forced my gaze to his. “Since you’ve been here a long time you must have done a lot of stuff.”

His mouth twitched at that. “Do you mean stuff or ‘stuff’?” I socked him again in the arm, trying not to shake it out as he stifled a chuckle. “Well if its stuff you’re referring to, then yes I’ve done a lot of stuff. If its the other thing, well…”

He grinned. “Let’s just say that I’ve been around the block once or twice.”

“The block?”

He his eyes narrowed at that, “Are you sure you’re a teacher? I mean a teacher has to hear stuff like that all the time, especially at a college....”

“What do you mean?! Of course I’m a teacher! I just wanna know what you’re talking about.”

“Well, you’re references might be a little bit different… But Faust got it when I told her that…” he sighed, “I’m talking about sex.”

I had to fight to keep my wings from moving but I couldn’t keep the blush off my face as he continued.

“Yah, I’ve gotten around with about every species on this planet,” he smiled as he reminisced. “Minotaurs, Diamond dogs, griffins, I even had a camel once. I always liked the diamond dogs, with with their long tongues and all. If you were okay with the wet dog smell they were really fun to get down here in groups with a minotaur and-”

You see, the problem with Augustus was, whenever you got him talking, he wouldn’t stop, even if he was talking about something that could really rile a mare up, especially when that mare might have a teeny crush on him.

So I did what any rational pony would do, I took charge of the situation and stuck my tongue down his throat, using the element of surprise to all but fly him onto the stone bank and falling on top of him as I explored his mouth.

I closed my eyes as I let out a little moan, my wings starting to stiffen as I played with the shocked humans tongue, not bothering to question whether he was okay with this or not. The human in question stiffened slightly before relaxing, letting my tongue explore.

Heh, I thought gleefully as I played with Augustus’s limp tongue. It looks like- What I didn’t know was that the human had led me along, waiting for a sign of weakness to strike.

Yes, I know I’m explaining foreplay like chess game, now be quiet, you're ruining the mood.

I squeaked when the human’s arms snaked out, running his hands through my feathers as his tongue simultaneously battled with mine, making my squeak quickly turn into a moan, my body just freezing at all of the sensations that were wracking my body.

I felt the human grin before he finally broke the kiss, the two of us panting as I laid my head on his chest.

“Well, that was...unexpected,” Augustus finally said, still gently playing with my stiff wings. I looked up at him, huffing slightly.

“Just be quiet and let me have my way with you,” I grunted, slowly grinding my marehood onto his thigh.

He chuckled, his fingers digging into my wings a bit harder, making me bite my lip. “Yes ma’am.”

With that my mouth crashed back into his, our tongues viciously attacking each other. I felt something poke my flank, making me smile as I grinded into him again, harder this time, the two of us moaning as a heat spread from my ladybits and went outward, said ladybits becoming wet by the time I broke the kiss, ready for more.

Panting and red in the face, I got up on shaky hooves and turned around, staring at the human’s little Augustus proudly standing at attention. Though it looked a little different from a stallions I couldn’t keep the smile from my face, licking my lips, situating myself so I was looking down at the throbbing cock before me.

“Ooooh, someponies excited,” I said with a little giggle, bopping his dick with my muzzle, making him groan eagerly. I smiled when I spied a little bit of precum leaking from the humans tip. “I bet you wanna mouth hug, huh big guy?”

“Just suck on it!” He complained, thrusting his hips upward. I let the thing bop my nose, my giggling intensifying before I blew on his tip, making him squarm uncomfortably.

“You know you’d think an old man like yourself would be able to handle a little teasing,” I taunted, using a hoof to gently stroke his underside.

It was kind of amusing when he tried to snort, it coming out as a moan-y grunt. “I could g-get,” he gritted his teeth when I gently touched his tip with a hoof, giving him a little stroke before letting him continue, “y-you off with one hand tied behind my back.”

I raised an eyebrow teasingly, “Oh? And how are you-” I was cut off from more teasing when Augustus’s hands shot up, firmly grabbing me wings and running those soft but firm and all around awesome fingers through my wings, eyes crossing at the sensation.

“You’re forgetting, girl, I know more about Pegasus anatomy than most ponies. Like if I do this-” I tried to keep from moaning by biting my lip but it didn’t help when I felt him bury his fingers into my secondary feathers and gently tugging them, forcing me around until I was sitting on his chest.

“Not so uppity now, heh, Daring?” He taunted, leaning up and gave me a peck on the cheek before he pulled me upwards until I was almost sitting on his neck. “Hum, someone’s excited,” he commented as he eyed my soaking wet marehood.

He threw me a wink before I felt his strong hands grabbing my flank and pulling me closer to him as I panted, gently blowing on my marehood, making me wince. This went on for a little while until I finally shouted, “Alright I get it, I’m sorry for teasing you!”

Augustus didn’t comment and I felt that more teasing was underway when I felt something trailing up my sex. “Oh buck yes!” I happily screamed, my hoof going to the back of the humans head as he almost angrily attacked my sex, using a mixture of kissing, licking, sucking, and even biting to send me into an awesome stupor.

“Y-You w-were r-right, A-Augustus, you r-really know w-hat y-ou’re- eep!” My wings extended almost painfully when he finally stuck his tongue into me fully, also using his fingers to massage and tug onto the swollen joints of my wings.

I threw back my head in a silent scream as that amazing tongue of his swirled around, my sex clamping down on him as the human eagerly lapped up my filly cum while I gently ground my pussy into his face, shuttering slightly as everything from his tongue to the unshaven hairs on his face brought me closer to my finish.

“HARDER, HARDER!” I commanded as I grabbed one of his hands and brought it down to my rump, Augustus getting the idea and groping me as he gently sucked on my button. Finally, in what seemed like an embarrassingly short amount of time, I was at the finish line.

“DON’T YOU DARE STOP, HUMAN!” I yelled, my sex clamping down on his tongue as I reached my peak fast and hard, pleasure racking my body as I came, Augustus holding me still as he lapped up everything I send his way.

With a happy sigh I slumped forward, breathing heavily on Augustus’s lower stomach as the human’s tongue gave me another quick cleaning, making me moan softly again as I looked up at him.

The human gave me a little grin, licking his lips as he chortled, saying, “You ponies taste just as sweet as I remember, though most of them lasted a good bit longer,”despite still basking in my afterglow I frowned as he continued. “You sure this isn’t your first time, Daring?”

Oh no he didn’t! Now this wasn’t just about sex! Now my sexual prowess was at stake!

“I-I’ll show y-you,” I murmured, forcing myself back on shaky hooves, staring at my soon-to-be most favoritest cock in the whole world.

I took a deep breath, enjoying the musk that the human was giving off as I stuck my tongue out and gave his head a little lick, savoring the taste as he groaned. “Hmmm, salty,” I said, gently blowing on his cock again, said cock twitching as another glob of precum leaked down his head.

Make fun of my stamina will you? I thought as I positioned my mouth over my human, Augustus stiffening as I slowly, teasingly wrapped my mouth around his tip, giggling as he groaned.

I gently began to suck, getting a feel for the cock as it were, my tongue slowly swirling to collect whatever precum I tasted as the human gritted his teeth, trying to keep himself from thrusting his hips into what I was sure was one of the best blow jobs that he had ever experienced.

I giggled, fondling his balls with a hoof, slowly beginning to bob my head up and down his cock, being careful not to take to much of him into my mouth as I felt the humans hand go to the back of my head. I gradually began taking more and more of him until I was hitting base with each bob, my tongue still swirling around his veiny member, Augustus beginnning to gently thrust into my mouth.

Heh, I’m better at this than I thought, I thought gleefully when I felt his cock throb hard, his whole cock flaring slightly as more and more precum leaked out of him.

Sensing that he was close to his finish I went into overdrive, sucking hard and groaning, the human’s hand leaving the back of my head with his thrusts gaining more force, his cock throbbing harder and harder until I felt his balls tighten, my eyes widening as I felt the first spurt of cum hit the back of my throat.

I stopped my bobbing, just content with running my tongue all over my cock as the human sent spurt after spurt of cum into my mouth, me greedily swallowing everything until Augustus’s head laid back down on the floor, his eyes closed with a smile on his face. I also did the ladylike thing, my tongue doing one last swirl to check if I missed anything, it would have been a waste to leave any of that sperm after all .

Even though I kinda didn’t want to, I let his softening cock go with a wet plop, turning myself around and laying my head on the still panting humans sweaty chest. “So how was I for a first timer?” I mocked, Augustus chuckling and wrapping an arm around me, running his fingers through my mane.

“Well, Daring, I can honestly say that you’re a cocksucker,” Augustus said, the two of us giggling at the joke as I laid a wing over him.

“Well you’re a cuntlicker, buddy,” I shot back, closing my eyes and expecting the two of us to pass out in this embrace, you know, like what happens in the movies. Fortunately, that didn’t happen.

I gasped when I felt hands grab my flank and began squeezing, and looking up I still saw that there was still lust in the humans eyes. “Now what are you doing, Mrs. Daring? I’m not done with you.”

I couldn’t help but grin at that, my wings slowly unfurling as the human’s member regrew in length. “Are you sure you’re ready for another round with the Daring?” I challenged, slowly getting to my hooves and shaking my rump in his face.

Augustus snorted, rolling over and getting to his knees and began to stroke himself to full hardness. “Don’t ruining the mood , ‘The Daring’, now how do you wanna do this?”

I answered by giving him a saucy wink and lifting my tail out of the way to expose my marehood. I smiled when I saw the human licked his lips and made his way over to me.

I let out a little moan as I felt his hands gripped my flanks and gently lifted me into position as I moved him out of the way to grant him access. “You ready, Daring?” Augustus asked making me looked back at him, my face flushed and my heart thumped in my chest.

“Aha,” I lamely said, biting my lip when I felt the human run his cock’s head along my lips before he slowly, almost agonizingly entered me, my walls clenching tightly him, the two of us moaning.

Wow, I was a little iffy about that weird conehead-shaped dick of his a first, but sweet Celestia! My lust-filled mind thought as Augustus, panting, finally bottomed out in me. I let out a happy sigh as I felt him twitch inside of me. “Oh~!”

“Are you alright, Daring?” The human breathless asked, concern laced in his voice.

I shook my head rapidly. “I’m fine,” I assured, grinding my flank into him. “Just keep going for Celestia’s sake!”

Instead of answering to me I felt him adjusting his grip on my flanks before he slowly started to pull out, making my whine. “Come on, harder! I’m not going to break!”

“If I’m not careful I could break you,” the human almost snarled at me, his fingers digging into my flank. “Now shut up and let me do a couple of test thrust on your loose ass.”

My eyes twitched as I flexed my muscles as hard as I hold, almost trapping himself inside me as he moaned. “Loose?”

His eyes widened slightly, probably regretting his very poor choice of words. “I-I didn’t-”

I silenced him by tightening even harder, biting I lip as I felt every vein on him.

“Alright! I’m sorry! Just loosen up!” Augustus begged, making me smile, letting him go.

“Now fuck me!” I snarled, slamming into him hard.

The human gritted his teeth, starting a slow but firm pace, making me bite my hoof in pleasure as he lifted me slightly, his cock rubbing against my wall hard as my filly cum made the ride almost frictionless.

“For buck’s sakes harder you bitch!” I moaned out, thrusting my hips in time with his thrusts, enjoying the wet slapping sounds when I went weak in the knees. Augustus snarled, his thrusts becoming harder and faster as he held my back legs up, pleasure coursing through me as he twitched hard.

“Come on, big guy, I’m almost there!” I almost screamed, almost violently slamming back into him as I raced to the finish line. With a final moan I stiffened, my wings flaring as I clamped down on Augustus hard, my orgasm crashing over me as the human continued to thrust, gritting his teeth as my insides massaged him hard.

“Daring where-”

“Inside you bucker!”

I felt him twitch harder, his cockhead flaring as, with a final thrust, he came. I gasped as I felt the first burst of his seed shoot into me, the human hilting as he groaned, sending load after load into my wanting cunny.

I let out an unhappy sound as the human pulled out of me with a wet plop and rolled onto his back with a groan. “Are you already done?” I tiredly mocked, making me way over to him and falling into his chest with a groan.

“Just give me a few minutes, miss hot stuff, and I’ll be ready to fuck your brains out again,” the human replied, wrapping his arms around my lower back. “You know, you should have just told me that you liked me.”

Despite everything that happened, I couldn’t help but blush, looking down. “... I should have huh?” Real smooth, Daring, I thought to myself as he started to scratch my ears.

“Well, I gotta say I’m kinda honored, I mean its not everyday a guy become the apple of such an awesome ponies eye.”

My blush deepened. “R-Really?” I asked looked up at his grinning face.

He gave me a little peck on the lips. “Of course, smart, passionate, and just all around fun to be with? Sounds like a catch to me…. Though you’d be better if you were funny…”

I slugged his shoulder. “Shut your mouth.”

“Don’t tell me what to do,” Augustus replied childishly, sticking his tongue out at me.

I couldn’t help but giggle, laying my head into his chest and closing my eyes, the two of us lapsing into a comfortable silence.

Until the human finally broke it.

“Hey, Daring,” he said as he ran his fingers through me mane. “You didn’t hear this from me but you might want to go and see if that jar of knowledge is as heavy as it was before.”

I looked up at him, blinking. “Really? All somepony needed to do was…”

He shrugged. “The answer to the riddle is supposed to be love, or sex, I can’t remember. If you would have brought a coltfriend or something and it would have worked.”

My face got a little red again. “I didn’t have a coltfriend or anything back home… But now?...”

He chuckled, kissing me on the top of the head. “I’d be honored.” he said, me letting out a little sigh of relief. “Now how about we get cleaned up huh?”

…

Canterlot, a month later…

I couldn’t help but smile as Augustus looked around the Canterlot train station with wonder. “Neat huh?” I asked, giggling, dumping him with my rump.

“It’s weird not seeing just trees still,” he replied, the two of us ignoring all of the gawking ponies, making out way toward the castle. “So did you send that letter to the Princesses?”

I nodded as the castle came in view. “Yep, they said that they were excited to see-”

“AUGUSTUS!” A voice roared, cutting me off as the human was tackled to the ground.

In a flash I had my Whipsy out, ready to clock the bucker who attacked my coltfriend, turning to see princess Luna, her hooves wrapped around a laughing Augustus’s waist.

Needless to say I was sorta confused.

“Loony, it’s been ages, I mean look how big you are now!” Augustus said, wrapping the giddy alicorn in a hug. “How have ya been?”

My eye twitched when the princess giggled like a filly, letting the human up and giving him a little nuzzle. “We have been fine, Augustus,” she said, “We see thee have been freed from thou’s curse.”

He looked at me with a wink before scratching the princesses head. “That graverobber of yours knew what she was doing. Say, where is your sister?”

“Right here, Augustus.”

I turned around, quickly bowing when I saw that it was princess Celestia, flanked by two royal guards.

Augustus grinned, spreading his arms out wide. “Now, Tia, that’s no way to greet a guy that’s kinda your godfather. Now come on and give me a hug.”

My eye twitched again when princess Celestia, Princess Celestia, giggled like a school filly, trotting over and wrapping the human in a big hug. All-in-all it was one of those gushy-mushy, so-sweet-that-it’ll-rot-your-teeth-out kind of thing, but when I princess turned toward me I couldn’t keep the smile off my face.

“Daring Doo,” the princess said as Augustus started petted Luna again. “You have my thanks for freeing a family friend from his curse, but, if I may ask,” she licked her lips, “Did you retrieve the artifact?”

Even though I was a little thrown off during the whole thing that was going on I nodded my head, gently taking the jar out of my saddlebags and presenting it to her. “The jar of knowledge, as ordered!”

The princess grinned, taking the jar out of my hooves and staring at it almost reverently. “Finally, after all of these years….” She popped the top of and reached a hoof inside as everyone in the street- there were a lot of ponies staring at us- held their breaths as she pulled out a piece of paper.

“I finally have the greatest chocolate-chip cookies recipe in the world!”

I swear to Celestia when the princess said that the world stopped to look at her in confused shock. “...What?” One of the guardsponies asked, blinking owlishly at the giggling princess.

Augustus was the one who clarified. “Fabricante de la Galleta was considered one of the greatest cookie maker’s to have ever lived,” he said while still playing with Luna’s ears. “After she died the Marian’s built a temple in her honor. I came to guard the thing a few centuries later.”

“...So I was sent to get a cookie recipe?” I asked, bewildered. Both of the princesses nodded, my eye twitching now in outrage.

“Alright!” I snapped after a minute of two thinking everything over. “I’m done!” I threw down my hat and started walking away to-

Hum, what?

Oh, ya, Augustus and I are still going out.

Yep, I’ve just been tugging you along for free booze, now since I’ve told you most of my little story and I'm thoroughly plastered I’ll be going.

Crash!

Hey… Could you do me a favor and carry my drunk flank home?

HEY! where are you going?!

Author's Note

For some reason this last bit reminds me of an old porno...

Well, with just a bit of editing something I don't think is great is done. If anyone cares I'll be doing a diamond dog one shot or maybe a fleur de lis one...

Whelp, time to get started on the next Chapter of 'What is Love'...