Applejack came out from the hallway with a red and white checkered blanket. He went into the kitchen and picked up a small basket, which he put on his back on top of the blanket. He sighed and looked at Dusk Shine. “You ready?”

Dusk Shine bit his lip. “I don’t know if I ever will be,” he said.

For a moment, Rainbow Blitz could see a little shimmer appear in Applejack’s eye. But before he could tell if it was there or he was seeing things, Applejack blinked and it disappeared. He steeled himself and started towards the door. “Well, then, let’s go.”

“We’ll be heading out, too,” Red Gala said. “You know, make sure no one’s here to bug you. Blitz, you want to walk into Ponyville with me?”

Blitz nodded. “Sure. I probably should pick up lunch from Sugarcube Corner anyway.” He turned to Applejack and Dusk Shine. “Enjoy yourselves. For what it’s worth.”

Neither Applejack nor Dusk Shine replied.

Rainbow Blitz started hovering in the air alongside Red Gala as they made their way along the road out of the ranch and towards Ponyville. The slight breeze of his gently flapping wings felt comfortable and the smell of fresh apples tempted him to take just one from the trees as he and Red Gala went towards the exit of the ranch.

“Busy time for you this year?” Blitz asked Gala, trying to make polite conversation.

“Yeah,” Red Gala said. “It’s almost time for cider season, and we have to get the apples to market.”

“Is it just you and Applejack?”

“Applebuck helps where he can,” Red Gala said with a shrug. “But mostly it’s just me and Applejack.”

“Hard work?”

Red Gala nodded. “I like it, though. I’m not the biggest and strongest in our family for nothin’.”

Blitz couldn’t deny Red Gala was larger and stronger than most stallions in Ponyville, including her brother. “Certainly don’t show it very often, do you?”

“My strength is only reserved for apple trees or defendin’ the Acres,” Red Gala said as they exited Sweet Apple Acres and entered Ponyville’s main street. “I don’t ever think I could use it against another pony.”

Blitz nodded, then smirked. “Probably scare off the stallions, though.”

“They’re never exactly fans of mares stronger than them, yeah.”

“I don’t know why, though. You’ve always been rather sweet and kind to just about everypony.”

Red Gala smiled – blushed? – and even broke out in laughter. “Well, thanks, Blitz. I’m guessin’ that ain’t somethin’ you admit very often, is it?”

Blitz felt his own face get hot and a smile come on to his face. “Not really, no.”

Red Gala stepped over to Blitz and gently nuzzled his neck. Blitz felt a shiver go down his spine and just about fell out of the air. “You should do so more. You’re kinda sweet, too. But… like Macintosh apple sweet; a little tart on the outside but with a sweet finish.”

Blitz bit his lip. He… he wasn’t imagining Red Gala saying that, was he? “Uh, he he… I like to imagine myself as having an ‘awesome’ outside and a ‘cool’ inside.”

This only caused Red Gala to laugh harder than she had previously.

But… whereas some previous mares that Blitz had dated immediately went to derisive or mocking laughter when he said that (at which point he’d try and act like he had been trying to do that all along), Red Gala was genuinely amused by it. It was light, happy, as though Blitz had just told her a joke.

“How about we change that to a ‘cool’ outside and an ‘awesome’ inside?” Red Gala asked almost musically.

Blitz would have laughed along with if he wasn’t so confused. What… where was Red Gala going? What was she doing? And, furthermore, why was she doing it? Blitz usually knew his way enough around mares to tell how close they were to wanting sex, but Red Gala… had almost zero signs.

And yet here she was, laughing at him like he just told her a joke and looking at Blitz with a blush on her face and a strange twinkle in her eye. Blitz transitioned to looking at Red Gala’s cutie mark, half a green-colored apple on her flank, so that she couldn’t see the confusion.

“You… you want to have lunch with me?” Red Gala asked shyly as they approached Sugarcube Corner.

Blitz looked over to Red Gala, who was almost pouting. “I’d love to, but I’ve spent longer than I planned at your house already. I really should just buy a sandwich and get to kicking clouds.”

“Oh,” Red Gala said.

Blitz opened the door of Sugarcube Corner and let Red Gala go in first. She smiled and dipped her head politely at the gesture before approaching the counter and ordering a loaf of fresh honey-glazed wheat bread. Blitz ordered his sandwich and both left the store.

“Do you… I liked talking with you, Blitz,” Red Gala said.

“Yeah,” Blitz said. “You’re pretty cool, too. Applejack should bring you along whenever we meet up more often.”

Red Gala’s face went even redder. “I… I’d like that.”

“Hey… before I leave, what were you going to ask me earlier?”

“Hm… oh, it was nothing. Thanks for walking with me, Blitz.”

Red Gala nuzzled Blitz’s cheek once more before heading off down the road. Blitz stared at Red Gala, watching the red and green flank sway back and forth down the street for a while. It wasn’t until Blitz was sure that Red Gala wasn’t turning around that he rubbed his cheek where Red Gala had nuzzled it and took off towards the clouds.

Lunch and cloud-kicking didn’t take long. A simple kick or slice of the wing would cause a cloud to vanish in a puff, unlike in Cloudsdale where he had to make sure the cloud wouldn’t smack into the side of a building. It wasn’t long before Blitz finished with his duties and eating his sandwich and went to check at the local weather patrol.

The weather patrol cleared Blitz and told him he was done for the day. Blitz looked around to make sure no one was watching him as he left the weather patrol offices and bolted through the streets to Carousel Boutique. The sign on the door said ‘Open’ and Blitz quickly slipped inside before any pony could see him around the place.

Elusive was sitting at a ponnequin adorned with a simple black dress with white outlines. He held a needle and spool of black thread in his magic and was working at it with almost simple and determined strokes like a painter. Rainbow Blitz quietly sat down and watched Elusive as he took the needle and thread and sewed together various portions of the white bottom.

“There,” Elusive said quietly, almost to himself. “That should do it. Now, all that needs to be done is the white diamonds along the neckline…” He backed up, looking pleased with himself, walking once around the ponnequin and examining almost the entire thing over.

Blitz smiled as Elusive quietly went back into position and began working on smoothing out the neckline of the dress. Elusive’s ass was swaying ever so slightly from side to side and Blitz found he couldn’t help but follow the tailor’s gentle, precise movements.

“Blitzy, dear, can you get me my chest of diamonds?”

Blitz almost hit his head on the ceiling with how high he jumped.

“I’m aware you’ve been watching,” Elusive said, a slight purr coming through his voice. “I’ll only be a few minutes.”

Blitz nodded. He quietly went over to a small desk on which stood multiple boxes. Blitz opened a few of them, looking for the right one until he found one with a bunch of small, white, finely-cut diamonds with flat bottoms. He picked it up and brought it over to Elusive.

“Now, now,” Elusive said with a smirk on his face, “don’t get anything on the dress.”

Blitz cross his hooves over his growing arousal. “I can’t help it,” he said. “You’re teasing me.”

“Since you walked in the door,” Elusive replied cheekily. “But I do have to get this job done.”

Blitz set down the chest of diamonds and flew away a few feet; Elusive threw him an old towel and he wrapped the thing around his waist, hoping to not drop any pre on Elusive’s floor. He watched as Elusive regained his determined and focused expression and slowly started to fix each diamond individually with a tiny amount of a specialized glue and placed it on each diamond. His movements were smooth and flowing and Blitz found himself once more just steadily focused on Elusive’s movements and less on what he was doing.

“I’ve never seen you so interested before,” Elusive said.

“I’ve never seen you work like that before,” Blitz shot back.

Elusive smiled. “I can’t help it,” he said. “Not with you watching.”

“Try, at least,” Blitz said, feeling tortured yet extremely pleased. “I don’t know how much longer I can hold it.”

Elusive rolled his eyes, but increased his speed. After a few minutes, the neckline was littered with diamonds that sparkled in the light and momentarily dazzled Blitz.

“That is one thing I don’t understand about you,” Blitz said. “Why everything must be covered in jewels.”

Elusive took a few measured paces towards Blitz. “It’s…” He flicked his tail up so that it brushed lightly against Blitz’s cheek, and watched with an even more satisfied smirk as Blitz looked down at Elusive’s pure white flanks with the three diamonds in the side. “…eye-catching, to say the least.”

A spot on the towel became wet.

“Oh, dear,” Elusive said, giggling. “I believe I spent too long.”

Blitz felt his face go red hot for the second time that day. “You always take too long.”

“I don’t expect to be as fast as you,” Elusive said, turning around and bringing his face right next to Blitz’s. “But you could stand to have a little more elegance.”

Blitz smirked. “Ah, but sometimes being fast and spontaneous is the way to go.” And he kissed Elusive.

Elusive giggled. “Well, I suppose I can’t argue with that one. Just give me a second…” The white unicorn went and flipped over the sign in the window, presumably so that it read ‘Closed’. “Shall we… head upstairs?”

“Wouldn’t mind it,” Blitz said.

He kissed Elusive again, though this time it was slower and more deliberate, allowing his tongue to gently probe the outside of Elusive’s mouth. He felt Elusive’s mouth open as the stallion gently caressed his spiky mane, smoothing it down with even strokes. The touch was almost hypnotic, and Blitz relaxed into Elusive’s hooves as the white stallion’s tongue entered his own mouth.

It was Blitz who tried to release first, but Elusive brought him back in for a second. The warm touch of Elusive’s lips and the tender care and attention Elusive was giving him made Blitz almost dizzy with ecstasy and he didn’t resist as Elusive pulled him in for a third and a fourth before finally managing to work up the energy to push Elusive away.

“Not here,” Blitz panted. “Your… your room.”

“Oh, very well,” Elusive said, releasing Blitz and giving him a mock-pout. “I suppose I could last that long…”

“It’s only up the stairs and down the hall… And you’ll give me a break.”

“O-ho-ho, but where’s the fun in that?”

Blitz got himself up, tied the towel around his waist, and followed Elusive across the shop’s lobby and up the stairs. Elusive was once again placing extreme emphasis in his placement so that the white butt swayed just so in front of Blitz.

“Oh, I almost forgot to mention. How did the date go?”

“It… went off to a rocky start,” Blitz said, managing to tear his focus away from Elusive’s flanks.

“That’s not good. Did Dusk seem amicable to allowing Applejack to take him on a date?”

“Not… not really. The atmosphere seemed kind of chilly when I left. Applejack was going to take Dusk on a picnic in the hills.”

“Ah… something small, romantic, and intimate,” Elusive said with an almost longing sigh. “I’m sure even if Dusk doesn’t agree to more he’ll see that our dear Applejack is genuine in his affections. Certainly, that must count for something.”

“I… ngh!… would hope so,” Blitz said, trying to contain himself.

Elusive turned around as they approached the door to his bedroom and smiled playfully. “Can’t wait, can we?”

“It certainly is ha—” I won’t give him the satisfaction. “—difficult, I mean.”

Elusive licked Blitz’ nose. “Then let’s not wait any longer, darling.” He opened the door with a flourish and let Blitz walk in first before closing it.

By the time Blitz had taken off the towel, Elusive had come over with a bottle of a white liquid in his magic. He held a single hoof underneath it and let a tiny squirt of the liquid – more of a cream, really, Blitz noticed – into the hoof.

“I dare say you’re lubricated enough,” Elusive said teasingly, “but one can never be too careful.”

Think of a mare, Blitz said to himself. Just close your eyes, get this over with, and think of a mare…

Blitz’s eyes were clamped shut, but he could hear Elusive gently rubbing his hooves together. He braced himself, but it still wasn’t enough to contain the gasp of pleasure Blitz felt as Elusive’s hooves rubbed gently up and down his dick, gently massaging it and spreading the smooth cream all over his exposed skin.

Not so bad, Blitz thought. Not so bad… just don’t open your eyes… don’t look. Mares have done this to you before.

“There…” Elusive purred. “Now we’re ready.”

Blitz dared to open one eye. Elusive was on the bed, legs spread apart and waiting eagerly for Blitz. He motioned to Blitz slowly and rhythmically with a single white hoof, eyes half-lidded and a playful smirk across his face.

Blitz moved across to Elusive as though in a dream. He gently got onto the bed and stood over the stallion, settling himself down as he felt something soft and fleshy touch his skin. “You’re already excited?” he asked disbelievingly. And there goes my peaceful imagination of a mare…

“You’re not?” Elusive replied with almost the same tone, though Blitz still saw the smile on his face.

Before Blitz could respond, Elusive had taken his face in both of his hooves and pulled it towards him. Blitz only had a moment’s time to prepare before their lips touched and Blitz’s wings flared open. The cyan pegasus could hardly keep his disbelieving glare as Elusive gently teased him, putting his tongue along his lips and begging for entrance through his teeth.

Elusive’s hooves left Blitz’s face and the cyan pegasus felt his partner’s hooves begin to gently massage his back, though one went down and went between them and stroked just above his balls. As though it was a signal, Blitz let his mouth slacken and allowed Elusive entrance into his mouth. He could feel the other stallion’s tongue gently caressing his own as he wrapped his arms around the white unicorn’s neck. Elusive gave an involuntary buck, but that didn’t stop either of them from closing their eyes in ecstasy and Bitz began fighting Elusive’s tongue out of his mouth.

It wasn’t long before all of Blitz’ stresses had melted away into the softness of Elusive’s coat and bed and the warmth of his lover’s embrace. Elusive gave off another buck, then another, and Blitz soon felt his own member slowly sliding out and alongside Elusive’s, causing them both to groan and moan yet neither pulled away even as Elusive ejaculated and soon coated both of their stomachs in sticky white cum.

It wasn’t long before Blitz had backed off a few inches. His dick was already dripping with cum caused by Elusive’s skillful touch, and he slowly, carefully, inserted his member into the unicorn. Blitz gently placed his hoof to it and began to stroke it, feeling the smooth, soft texture as he felt more and more of his dick go up Elusive's asshole. It was only when his dick was completely inside the white stallion that he stopped touching Elusive and collapsed on him, already feeling exhausted.

"You're not done yet, are you, big boy?" Elusive said. Blitz looked up to find the stallion, face framed by his purple mane, smiling at him with a rather similar shit-eating grin that Applejack would give him if he was about to win a competition.

"No," Blitz said, panting with both exhaustion and lust. "I haven't started yet."

Elusive was about to respond, but Blitz pulled out just a little bit then bucked hard into Elusive. The stallion flinched momentarily before his eyes went wide open and he gasped. Elusive’s eyes rolled back in ecstasy as Blitz started to pull out just a little bit, taking his time and slowly backing up before swinging back forward. He repeated the motion again and again, allowing himself to move in a gentle, even, perfectly-timed swing. Elusive was trembling and writhing underneath him, each buck causing him more and more pleasure couple with a growing warmth that caused him to cum again.

After a while, Blitz slowly leaned backwards. He himself was trembling now and was quite pleased to see the unicorn looking as though he could barely see straight, eyes rolling around his head in pure joy. Ought to keep you from teasing me again… With one final swing he rammed hard into Elusive’s behind and came, causing himself to fall over trembling on Elusive as the stallion shivered and shook violently beneath him.

It wasn't long, however, before both had settled down in the darkening room and laid with their hooves around the other, basking in the soft glow of the evening sun. Elusive gently stroked Blitz’s mane and back with a hoof, and Blitz buried his head into a rather large patch of soft fluff on Elusive’s chest, neatly folding his wings against his sides.

“You… have no idea… how long I’ve been waiting for that,” Elusive said silkily.

“Waiting?” Blitz said, still not entirely out of his daze. “For what?”

“You,” Elusive said simply. “To be able to experience that feeling… it seems the mare’s around town were right.”

“What? That I suck?”

“No.” Elusive placed a gentle, tender kiss on Blitz’s forehead. “You’re amazing.”

“I suppose that works,” Blitz said. “I’d rather like to think I have an ‘awesome’ outside and a ‘cool’ inside. I suppose that’d be pretty amazing.”

Elusive gave off an almost musical giggle. “How about a ‘cool’ outside and an ‘awesome’ inside?” he said. “You’re sweeter and kinder than you give yourself credit for, Blitzy.”

That tone… it’s the same as Red Gala had earlier, when she… “You’re not the first to say that to me today.”

“Oh, I’m not? Well, that just proves my point, now does it? Who said it?”

The feel of Elusive gently nuzzling his forehead pushed the thoughts of Red Gala out of Blitz’s head. “Oh, nopony in particular,” he said, a small smile creeping onto his face as he drifted off in Elusive’s hooves.

Author's Note

I can't tell if Elusive's a manipulative bastard or not.

Also... REVIVED! Somewhat. I'm at least making progress on this again.

Consider this a sort of Christmas gift.