His Little Pet

The Daily Life of Twilight Sparkle, and Spike, and Fluttershy and Company - Volume 15

For the purposes of keeping everyone's thought separate Applejack will use orange ink.

After three long weeks Applejack has finally 'joined' us. I use quotes because she hasn't really officially joined us. Not the way Fluttershy has. Applejack is being very on-th-fence about the whole joining a herd thing. Which I find strange, as you'd imagine somepony as traditional and by-the-book as Applejack would be all about a traditional herd formation but apparently her parents were in a monogamous relationship, and a lot of ponies in Ponyville followed the trend, so, even though she wants to, she's hesitant to really get into a relationship with the three of us, at least, a more permanent one than the fooling around that we've done so far. But she can explain it better than I can.

I guess that this started a couple of months ago. From what Twilight tells me I brought it on myself when I kissed Spike. But what can I say, the little guy can be really cute sometimes and I figured I might throw him a bone, y'know, tease him a bit. Twilight apparently took it as a serious interest, and while I admit I am interested in a relationship, particularly if two of my closest friends are already in on the deal, I'm not sure if I'm ready for something like that, or even if I want it.

I guess it comes down to this. Spike is a nice guy, but is he husband material? Father material? Could he become those things as he matures? I know, in my head, that he's old enough to be making these decisions, but he still looks like a kid to me. I also know, in my head, that he's only a few years younger than me and, were he a pony, I would consider him my equal and most definitely dating material, at the very least. But it's just that... He's barely the size of Apple Bloom, and with the whole dragon thing, he might not even grow to be the size of a regular pony in my lifetime. Then there's the whole different species thing. Twilight says that with dragons being incredibly magical creatures that she'd be able to cook up a spell to help with foaling, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Spike is a dragon, with all that that entails. Fingers, spines, claws, fire breathing, and gem crushing teeth. Now look at me. Strong legs and hooves, teeth for munching grass, (even though ponies can't actually eat grass anymore) and complete lack of magic. With two parents so different in body, how could we raise a foal? Parenting is difficult enough when all those involved are the same species and know what's going to happen. What if we have some sort of pony dragon hybrid? We'd have no idea what would be happening with it, heck, we might not even be able to tell the difference between it being healthy and it being sick.

I know these questions are premature, but Granny always said take the long view, and I took that to heart. Perhaps, with a whole herd it would be different, but I still worry, y'know?

But I suppose my personal worries aren't what I'm here to write down. No, what Twilight wants is the nitty gritty details of my and Spike's 'relationship'. Though it's not much more than kissing and talking at this point. I'm told it properly started the first day Spike came by saying that he wanted to help out around the farm because he likes helping his friends. I knew that he helped out Twilight at the library, Rarity at her shop, and Fluttershy with her animals, so I didn't think anything of it. At first I just asked him to pick up any apple that missed the buckets, as it was one of the easier but one of the most time consuming tasks on the farm. He essentially became my shadow there for the first couple days before I trusted him enough to help me with the more precise tasks of feeding the animals and sorting the overripe apples from the ripe ones. On occasion he would help out Apple Bloom with her chores when Mac and I were hauling loads to the different barns on the farm.

Granny Smith was a bit wary of him at first because, in her words, "Dragon's be dragon's, whether they be little ones or big ones. Big Red's gone now, so the boy might think Ponyville's free territory, but when Big Red comes back in a thousand years I don't want another dragon fight in my front yard. The first one destroyed most of Ponyville, and that was back when it was just a little village. I couldn't imagine the lost of life and money that would come from another one when it's a proper town." And that reminded me that everything from the Smokey mountain in the west to saddle lake in the east and from the edge of the everfree in the south to the Canterlot mountains in the north is the territory of Big Red. Granny had told me when I was younger that Big Red is why we never got dragons swooping down on us like some of the places in the far north or south. Ponyville and the surrounding area is his territory and most dragons respect that. But with him gone off for the next thousand years that mean we don't have any protection once the others find out, but Granny smith said it's fine, but we'd have to be careful during the next few migrations, even though we probably wouldn't be around to see them.

And I keep getting off topic. Spike, and his 'seduction' of me is what I'm here for. Well, at first we'd talk a little during chores. Little things like the new projects Twilight and Rarity were working on, what animals came to Fluttershy for healing, and which ones left to live in the wild, how Rainbow was doing with her new tricks, and Apple Bloom was doing in school. It was nice. Big Mac ain't isn't much of a talker and Apple Bloom doesn't really talk about the same things I do, so I don't get much conversation on my day to day unless I'm tending the stall.

Things got more personal over time. We'd talk about our parents, or lack thereof, and our dreams for the future. He told me that when he becomes a big, strong dragon that he's going to become a Keeper of Knowledge, which is apparently a special scholarly order in Canterlot in charge or recording and protecting all the knowledge that they can get their hands on, and who better to find and remember all that knowledge for generations to come that somedragon who'd going to be there to see it all. I talked about how I'm going to one day get my own farm, maybe here, maybe outside of Manehattan where my cousins live, and let Big Mac and his eventual family run this one here. I know he wouldn't mind if I stayed and ran the farm while he did the finances, but family should know when they're butting in so when Mac is set up with his own herd and foals of his own it'll be time for this pony to mosey on out and find her own place in the world.

Eventually we got talking about the possibility of our having love lives. I'm not to keen on most of the ponies in Ponyville, especially not the stallions. I'm related to most of them anyway. This is kinda a secret, so I'm trusting Twilight and Fluttershy not to tell when they read it, but really the only ponies who really interest me are Fluttershy herself and Rarity. I know, it's a little weird, having a little crush on your friends, but there you go. I've known Rarity since we were in school, and Fluttershy ever since she and her father approached us about buying some of the unused fields near the everfree, which we still owned because nopony ever wanted any of that land. So I've known the both of them for quite a while.

Rarity and I get along for the most part, even though we get under each others skin more often than not if we're together for too long. Fluttershy is so unobtrusive that for the most part I don't really notice her, but she's sweet and cute and has a body to die for. I know you know this, Twilight, but not a lot of ponies in Ponyville had noticed that Fluttershy was a bombshell until that modeling incident. I noticed though, and I'm not to embarrassed to say that Fluttershy had featured a prominent role in more than one of my fantasies. And now she's blushing cutely, reading this over my shoulder.

Should I give you a kiss, Fluttershy?

So Applejack and Fluttershy are making out, and I must say, it's quite hot. Fluttershy is just kinda taking it, though I can tell she enjoys it. But Applejack is being quite proactive, she's got her hooves strapped around Fluttershy's neck and is really going at it, pushing Fluttershy into the couch and climbing on top of her.

Now Fluttershy is being bolder, rubbing her hind leg into Applejack's nether regions. Mmm, I kinda want in on this action. Aww, but Applejack is pulling off and whispering into Fluttershy's ear. Fluttershy is blushing really hard. I kinda want to know what Applejack is saying but she says it's a secret. Now Applejack is coming back over here. I think I'm going to give her a little kiss myself.

Well, that's was fun, I definitely want to play with Fluttershy a little more, but I think I should sit down and have a real think about joining this herd before I do. But back to the story/explanation of my and Spike's relationship, or at least the beginning of it. So Spike and I got to talking, and we got to talking about relationships, and eventually he go around to asking if I would like a relationship with him. But the whole reason I'm here now is I'm not sure. After the gala Spike, Twilight, and Fluttershy explained it to me, about how they're making a herd, and about Twilight and Spike's BDSM tendencies, and when she got involved and how they plan to bring at least one or two more of our friends into the mix, if they're willing. Heck, the way Twilight talks about it Spike is going to be head stallion, er, dragon, of a small village by the end of the decade. I don't know about that. Heck, I'm pretty sure they aren't even going to be able to convince the rest of our friends that this is a good idea, but that's just my opinion, maybe Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie are all closet perverts who want a good spanking, who am I to judge?

Anyway. Spike and I kinda had a little make out session before the gala and we've gone on what I could loosely call a 'date', as it was more of a friendly picnic with him, Fluttershy, and Twilight where they told me what all this was. Anyway, tonight the four of us are going to sit down and have a nice, long discussion about what this relationship could be and if I really want it. To tell the truth I kinda do, but at the same time, it's a tough decision with all the unknowns. We'll have to see.