The song of love.

Chapter 13. The essence.

The sun was shining in Sweet Apple Acres. It was a beautiful day to just have a walk around.

A group of four mares and a colt were walking toward a certain place.

"So... we came here so quickly with a teleporter spell?" Applebloom asked to the colt.

"Yeah. I had to learn it in High School. An extracurricular activity."

"But why did you studied it? My dad says that he choose Hoofball as his ex... extra... whatever!" Sweetie Belle came around the conversation.

"Well... I had many options to pick one. However, due to my... problem..." He said while tapping his chest with his hoof. "I had to choose one that didn't was too rough on me. So, Advanced Magic seemed to work."

"Advanced Magic? Do you mean you can do other cool things with your magic?" Scootaloo flew over them while listening to their conversation.

"Well... i wouldn't say they're THAT cool. It's just some regular spells that i learned to master quickly. Spells like levitation, somethings about matter manipulation, and stuff like that."

"Matter manipulation?" The three fillies asked in a great confusion.

"... transformation spells." Soft answered while reminding himself to use simple terms.

"Hey, look! There it is!" Scootaloo said while flying faster toward a tree in front of them.

The group got to a clear part of the farm, where a tree-house stood between the branches of a big tree.

"Oh, my. Did you three built this... house by yourselves, girls?" Rarity asked while watching the tree-house.

"Nope. It was Applejack's first. But now, as she doesn't uses it anymore, she lend it to us." Applebloom said while walking toward it.

"Wow, that's a cool tree house, girls."

"Thanks, mister Soft. It's the Cutie Mark Crusaders hideout!" Sweetie Belle came jumping around.

"Wow, cool! The insides must be great, too!"

Soft started to climb in the small tree. He was about to open the door when the three fillies came around and blocked the door.

"Sorry, mister Soft. No colts allowed in here! Only fillies!" Sweetie Belle said while she and her friends slipped inside the tree-house.

Soft Heart learned to respect other ponies intimacy. Therefore, he didn't insisted. He got down and sat in the grass. Rarity came and sat at his side.

"Aren't you angry, Soft?"

"No." He said while closing his eyes. "Hmm... everything's so calm over here."

"Yes, that is true." Rarity affirmed while looking around.

The two of them stood in there while listening to the calming sound of nature, being occasionally interrupted by the three fillies mares in the tree-house.

The sounds in the tree-house became even louder. Soft guessed that they were searching for the book desperately.

"Hey girls! You sure you don't need any kind of-- AAgghh!" Soft's offer was cut off by a jar containing a yellow liquid that fell from the tree-house and landed on him.

The three mares came down as quickly as they could.

"Mister Soft! We heard you shouting! Are you-?" Sweetie Belle came almost shouting.

"Mister Soft! What happened to you?" Applebloom asked while getting closer to inspect the fluid that was spilled upon him.

"... You tell me. This thing fell from your window." Soft answered, seemingly annoyed by the yellow liquid upon his fur.

"Well... you'll have a lemonade-like essence for the rest of the day." Applebloom assured him.

"... Lemonade?"

"At least that's how you smell at this moment."

Soft started to smell himself, discovering that the essence Applebloom said was truly like lemonade.

"Huh... oh, well. I'll have to take a bath. Meh, whatever. Did you found the book?"

"Yep. We have it right here!" Sweetie Belle showed him a book.

"NO! IT'S NOT THAT... one..." Scootaloo shouted while wearing a deeply concerned look.

"What? It's not like if this book were going to tell something... bad..." Soft said while eyeing the book, discovering a page with the title "Love poison".

"... Love... poison?" Soft asked in a suspicious way.

"... uhh... yeah... we wanted to use it to... " Applebloom said.

"To... what?"

"... we wanted to join him with a mare in the Hearts and Hooves day!" Sweetie Belle almost shouted.

Usually, Soft would always find a sarcastic word about the matter at hoof. Surprisingly (even for him), he was speechless.

"...You wanted to... WHAT?" Soft asked.

The three mares suddenly started to cry loudly. Soft instantly went there to ease them.

"Look. What's done it's done. Fortunately, you didn't caused a big mess this time."

"Never mind about that. Girls, go and search for the book you were searching. After that, we'll head back to the town." Rarity came in.

The cutie mark crusaders found quickly the book. Therefore, they made their way to Ponyville.

The market in Ponyville was always full of ponies. Shopping the necessary stuff and that. And Sweetie's parents were in there that day.

"Well... let's see... we need these things." The father said while checking on a list.

"Why do you want to get these things, hon?" The mother asked to him.

"Well... i want to organize a lunch and apologize to this Soft and Sweetie-" He interrupted himself while eyeing to a certain point between the crowd.

"What is it, hon?"

"... Nothing... I thought that i saw Soft between the crowd."

"... Well... that wouldn't be THAT weird, hon. He has a house, and he also has hunger sometimes. Therefore, he needs something to eat. Personally, i wouldn't find it weird for him to be here."

"... yeah... you may be right."

The couple got out of the crowd, leaving the market behind and heading toward Rarity's house.

"...Have they gone?" Soft asked from beneath a cart.

The three mares remained in their hooves, looking for Sweetie's parents.

"... yes. They're gone."

"Uff... that was close. I thought they have seen us."

"Well... looks like, but i think he didn't recognize the girls in their adult... features." Rarity said while turning around.

"Yeah... maybe. Anyway, we should head back to my home."

Soft started to walk between the crowd, sometimes, being pushed by some ponies in a rush to find something.

After a while of walking, he noted something: the girls were nowhere in sight. He started to walk around in order to see if he could see them. However, the constant pushes of the ponies made it difficult for him.

One mare was the only one to apologize.

"Huff! Sorry, didn't saw you, miss." Soft said while trying to remain in his hooves.

"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't wanted to hurt you, sir!" A pale pegasus with pink mane started to apologize frantically to Soft.

"Huh?... Miss Fluttershy? Hey, good to see you again."

"Huh?... oh... umm... mister... what was it?" Fluttershy asked in her typical shyness.

"Soft Heart. We met two days ago, remember?"

Fluttershy looked to the ground while trying to remember. Suddenly, she blushed while remembering the stallion whose nose she broke in that day.

"...Oh... it's... you..."

"Yeah..."

Suddenly, an uncomfortable silence fell between them, being broken only by the wind gust that came from behind Soft. Fluttershy suddenly started to smell something.

"... Is that... lemonade?" She said while smelling around.

"...Huh? Oh, yeah... yep. It's lemonade."

"... It is... you?"

"Yep. The girls accidentally threw it over a window and it fell over me."

"Ohh... well... at least... that's a good essence. It suits you." Fluttershy suddenly said, breaking her usual shyness.

"Umm... thanks?" Soft said, evidently surprised by the change in Fluttershy's attitude.

What came next was something weird.

Fluttershy suddenly wore a seductive look while approaching toward him.

"... Umm... is anything wrong?" Soft asked, growing more concerned about her.

"No... nothing at all..." Fluttershy said while moving even closer, until the point where they were almost nose-to-nose.

"... Umm... Yeah, you know? I lost the girls a while ago and... I have to... look... for... them... you're getting too close, you know?"

"Yeah, I know."

She was about to kiss him, when a flash of golden light surprised her. Soft was behind her this time.

"You know? I really need to look for the girls. Soo... Bye!" Soft said while, in a blur of yellow and brown, he got out of there.

Fluttershy stood in there. Wondering to herself what just happened. Suddenly, she got a particular smell.

"Aaaahhhh..." She sighed, while starting to follow the smell.

"Geez... what happened back there?" Soft thought to himself. "... Maybe it's... THAT time of the year?"

He was walking around in the market, while searching for the girls. Suddenly, they spot them.

"Girls!"

The mares looked in the direction of the call. Once they saw Soft, they went running toward him.

"Mister Soft! Where were you?" Sweetie Belle came running toward him.

"I could ask the same. I have been looking for you for a while."

"Well... Rarity said she saw some good things in a store."

"Of course i saw them. Do you believe that I would pass over them while they're such beautiful diamonds?" Rarity said while bringing a huge sack of diamonds with her.

"Wow... those are... too many diamonds, don't you think?"

"No. There's never too many for a beautiful dress."

"...if you say so."

Suddenly, a gust of wind startled them. Soft suddenly shake.

"You okay, mister Soft?"

"Yeah... just a chill. Ir was the wind hitting me in my back."

"Oh, well..."

Suddenly, the four mares started to smell the air.

"Oh, I see you still smell like lemonade." Scootaloo assured him.

"Yeah..."

Suddenly, Soft felt a slight Deja'vu, while all of them suddenly turned to him.

"Umm... is everything okay, girls?"

"Yeah... actually... pretty good." Sweetie Belle said while getting closer to him.

"Say... do you want to see my... wings? They're pretty cool." Scootaloo said. Like Sweetie Belle, she was getting closer.

"Maybe, he wants to see a pair of good and strong legs, you know?" Applebloom said while she made  the same move of her friends.

"... Umm... yeah. You, know what? We must be in our way to-"

"THERE IS HE!" Soft's voice was cut off by a mare who pointed at him.

Soft turned to see a whole crowd of mares who started to run toward him. All of them with the same expression in their faces.

"Oh, Rats."