Smoke

Taking a vacation wasn’t my idea. Taking it in the Crystal Empire sure wasn’t my idea. And hiking through the snow to get to some forsaken cave a couple miles outside of town? That definitely was not my idea. My secretary pushed, though, said I needed to get away for a while, so I swallowed my pride and packed my bags. She’d been good to me; she knew my tells. If she said I needed it, I probably did. So there I was, shivering my tail off because the “wonderful Crystal Empire getaway package” included this hiking tour, and I couldn’t take not getting every bit out of what I paid. Honestly, I was having fun. I truly was glad for a warm jacket, though.

The mare leading my tour group snapped me out of it when she raised her voice suddenly. “Alright, everypony! We’re nearly there! See that dark patch on the mountain ahead? That’s Great Geode, a beautiful cave filled with the most colorful crystals you’ll ever see! Not even King Sombra’s rule marred its beauty! I can’t wait to show you!”

She certainly was easy on the eyes. Bright Jade, she’d said her name was, and she lived up to it. Dark green mane and tail, done up fancy like every mare in the Empire seemed to, and a bright green coat that absolutely sparkled in the sun like a gem. No idea how crystal ponies pull that off, but damn if having one dancing in my cabaret back home wouldn’t be a draw. The Tall Tail could really use a mare like her. I reminded myself to try offering her work before the tour ended, adjusted my fedora, and followed the group, our hooves crunching in snow that shined shined brilliantly in the midday sun. Just how snow was still on the ground in late May was I didn’t know, but it’s called the Frozen North for a reason.

The group trekked along through the barren, snowy plain leading up to the mountain wall, chatting happily about our destination. Everypony seemed eager to get there, but several of the stallions seemed to have my idea—Bright Jade was more interesting than any cave. Even without that crystal coat, she would’ve been at home in the fashion magazines. As a pegasus next to me whispered to his friend and offered a knowing wink, gasps from up ahead caught my attention. We were there.

“What’d I tell you, mares and gentlecolts? Even from out here, there’s no place like it in all of Equestria!” Bright Jade trotted back and forth, selling us on the place instead of taking us in, but you could hear the smile in her voice. I had to admit, it was a bit infectious. I craned my neck to look past the ponies in front of me and stared, struck dumb.

Even from just outside, I could see the cave was special. Amazing, even. Stones of every color and no color at all lined the walls and ceiling, and a clear mountain stream poured in through a hole somewhere in the cave roof. Sunlight hit the water and shined everywhere, and light of every color you could ever want went every which way as it ran deeper into the cave. There was no question. This was everything Jade had said, and then some. Like some country rube, I stared with my jaw hanging, and I didn’t even notice as Jade sneaked up on me.

“Boo!”

“Wha? Hey, what’s the big idea?” I smiled and laughed along with the tour guide, and she offered a mischievous grin as the rest of the group cracked up. I felt my face get hot, but I couldn’t help smiling. Bright Jade was gorgeous, but it was her personality that fit her name best.

“Even our straggler back here was amazed, everypony! You just can’t beat Great Geode!” Jade poked me playfully with a hoof and headed back to the front of the pack to lead us in. The group filed in, and I followed, biting my lip to avoid smiling so much at our guide. You’d think running a nightclub, I’d shrug off pretty mares. You’d think wrong.

Jade trotted front and center again, stopping the group with her cheery voice. “As you can see, this beautiful, clear stream runs well back into the cave! We’ll be following it the whole way. If you think it’s beautiful now, just wait until you see the big room by lantern light! We call it the Vaulted Chamber, because the roof goes up nearly a hundred feet! We’ve got special lanterns and mirrors set up in there for you, so even such a high roof will shine beautifully. Now, if everypony will get out the lanterns I gave you at the start of the tour…”

Jade chirped on about safety as we tugged lanterns out of bags and lifted them. For just a second, I smirked—with a lantern handle in her mouth, even Jade would keep quiet for a bit. My timing was off, though—she caught my grin and thought it was a more honest smile.

“Ah, even our straggler’s smiling again! Wonderful!” I lowered my head, embarrassed—I couldn’t believe I was letting some filly get the best of me like that!

Bright Jade turned to a unicorn stallion near the front of the pack, and gave a flirty smile. “Would you mind holding my lantern, so I can talk, sir? I really do envy you unicorns during this stretch of the tour!” Even in the dim of the cave, you could see him blush as he agreed. Yeah, I wanted Jade working for me.

“Alright, everypony! Onward and downward!” Jade marched on, her increasingly cheery group in tow. I kept to the rear. Even as we went deeper, stones of caught the lantern light and created an amazing display. Our path narrowed to a tunnel, but walls were still covered in every color imaginable, and with Jade farther away, I got to enjoy the view in peace. Attractive or not, I didn’t want to spend the whole tour getting teased.

After several minutes of “oohs,” “aahs,” and the occasional pause to show off some extra shiny bit of rock, we came to a fork in the stream, and the group was held up as somepony just had to know about the other branch.

Bright Jade’s ever-cheerful voice was just a touch apologetic as she explained. “Sorry! As you can see, that branch runs under a low ceiling! For everypony’s safety, we have to stay where we don’t need to duck! You wouldn’t want to hit your noggin, would you? We’re waiting until it warms up further to even send ponies in to map it out, in case they get wet. Don’t worry, though! There’s plenty to see up ahead!” Jade turned and gave a little swish of her tail as she began to march forward. “Onward!”

That little swish upped my signing offer a good fifty bits a week. My establishment was nice and clean, but a little flirting with the clientele never hurt anypony. I followed the pack a few steps before looking back at the branch with its low ceiling and paused. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The tour group was far too distracted to notice one hanging back, and once they were out of sight, I ducked my head and slipped onto the dark branch.

I was only a few feet in before I had to crawl to keep moving, but my lantern provided plenty of light in front, and I could always take in the sights on the tour proper later. Real entrepreneurs never leave stones unturned, and I could feel the unexplored route calling me.

After just just a hair more crawling with my belly rubbing cold, damp rock than I’d really wanted, the ceiling opened up, and I could stand once more. I raised my lantern high, eager to see what sort of gorgeous cave I was first to set eyes on. What a let down! There were crystals in here, in just as many colors as back behind us, but they were all clouded. My lantern’s light sank in. Nothing shined anywhere. I stepped forward into the large cavern, and noticed some sort of smoke, and a large pool of murky, brackish water where the stream ended. I sniffed the air and wrinkled my nose at the weird, acrid scent—this wasn’t coming from my lantern, and it didn’t smell like any wood or paper I’d ever burned.

I kept walking forward and sniffing, the smoke clinging to my coat and wrapping around my legs. My eyes began to water, and the stuff burned my nose, but I sniffed anyway, trying to place the smell. I stopped and stood, breathing the smoke in, and felt stranger and stranger, but I didn’t move away. Somehow, I wanted it.

“There you are!”

I blinked. Bright Jade’s head was just sticking out of the low tunnel. When had she gotten there? As she bit down on her lantern and wiggled her way into the large chamber, I looked around. The smoke seemed to have cleared down low, but plenty was left up above. I and realized rather suddenly that I had a raging erection.

Bright Jade managed to get to her hooves and stepped forward, stomping toward me angrily. She set her lantern down and resumed yelling. “I have been looking for you for nearly an hour! I had to take the tour group all the way back to the city and come back! What is the matter with—” Suddenly, Jade stopped mid tirade as she caught sight of my engorged shaft. “Oh, sweet Celestia!”

Something in my head clicked. This was her! The mare I wanted earlier. I wanted her to be mine; I wanted to have my way. “Hey, Jade. How about it? Nopony else around.”

Jade’s eyes bulged and her jaw dropped. “Are you out of your mind? Why would I ever? I can’t believe you! Come on, we are leav—mmph!”

I leaned forward suddenly, pressing my lips against hers, kissing hard. She opened her mouth to protest, but I held the kiss tight, moving as she did. I could feel it then, smoke moving from within me, from my mouth into hers. Jade struggled for just a moment as it entered her lungs, then grew strangely calm. When she began to return the kiss, I exhaled, and she took in my smoky breath as if it were pure mountain air. I stepped back.

“Tail up, Jade.”

“O—okay.” With no hesitation, Jade turned away from me and lifted her tail, flipping it over her back. The kiss had left her dripping wet and more than ready. I would get what was mine. Mounting her, I grabbed a mouthful of mane, and slid my flare between her lips, eliciting a startled gasp from the mare below. Her warmth was amazing, almost too hot. Pushing in slowly, I exhaled through clenched teeth, keeping my hold on Jade’s green mane. I was hardly in when I hit a wall. I smiled. One push, and it was final. One push, and Bright Jade was mine. I moved my hips, and the wall gave way to my hard cock. It was tighter than I could’ve imagined, and the deeper I slid my dick, the better the warmth was. I’d taken what nopony else ever would, and that was every bit as exciting as the sensations themselves.

I began to pump, sliding in and out as deeply as possible. Despite her lost virginity, Jade began to moan with each thrust. She started pushing back, and I thrust harder and faster, bringing her from moans to cries to screams as she climaxed to the dick inside her. Her forelegs gave out, and I dropped forward with her, still holding her mane in my teeth, still thrusting, and then it happened. I burst inside her, pouring load after load into her waiting vagina. As I did, I felt something leaving me, beyond cum. It poured into her, but it was replaced in me—I was a conduit. Whatever was in that cavern was flowing through me and into Jade as I came and came. As she filled, she writhed on the ground in ecstasy, her eyes rolling back, and her tongue hanging out.

I kept humping, driven, until she began to leak. I moved around in front of Jade, lifted her front half from the ground, and mounted the wrong end, pressing my dick against her lips. Unbelievably, she began to respond. Her tongue traced my tip just once before her mouth opened wide, accepting as much of my rod as it could. Before I could even begin to move, I came again, pouring seed and something else down her throat at a terrible pace. Shot after shot flowed into her, and I felt more and more of the power in the cave flow through me. I never emptied—whatever left me was replaced squirt for squirt as I fucked Jade’s mouth. Before long, I saw her stomach begin to swell ever so slightly as it filled, and I pulled myself from her mouth, unleashing all over her face before I stopped.

Somehow, I wasn’t empty. The cavern wasn’t empty. As Jade struggled to remain upright, I moved back behind her and pressed my cock under her tail one last time, higher. Carefully, slowly, I pushed into Jade’s ass. I could feel her relax the hole as she pushed back, and my dick was swallowed by her sphincter impossibly easily. Forelegs wrapped around her full stomach, I pulled into her, and she backed up, wrapping her last hole around my shaft as if it were natural. The tightness of her vagina didn’t begin to compare to her virgin ass, but I inched deeper and deeper nonetheless, her tight anus stretched obscenely around my cock. Once more I let loose inside, and again, Jade screamed her incoherent delight into the echoing cave. Once more, I was a duct as something flowed into my mare through me. As Jade’s legs gave out at last, I sprayed the last contents of my balls into Jade’s full body, and pulled out.

Somehow, the murk of the pool no longer bothered me, but the mess did. “Clean us up, Jade.” No response. Jade’s eyes were rolled back, her tongue hung to the side, and her stomach was visibly swollen from my seed. I sighed, pulled her to the edge of the cloudy water, and splashed her with it. “Get it together!”

“Ugh…” Jade moaned as she blinked back to reality. I sat down and repeated myself.

“Straighten us out.”

This time, Jade pushed herself to her hooves, and without a word, waded into the icy mountain water, scrubbing off the stray cum with her hooves. I walked up to the edge, and Jade splashed the frigid, murky water onto my messy cock, earning a scream of shock.

“Hey! Warm it up first!” I scowled at Jade, and she nodded, dunking her mouth into the pool to take its water in. After several seconds of waiting, Jade gently pulled my dick toward her, and slowly let water out of her mouth, pushing our mess off in the flow. Good enough. I ordered Jade out of the water, and up she came, dripping all over. I frowned as she shivered.

“Take my jacket. I can’t have you sick.” I wrapped the warm down around her, and she gave a nervous, grateful smile. That was more like it. I patted her on the back.

“C’mon. We’re going to your place. My hotel is lousy.” As Jade led me from the chamber, I took one look back. Even the smoke up high was gone.