Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful what you wish for

Chapter 5 – ‘Who you Gonna Call?’

When the first rays of sunlight broke through I woke up to see a familiar face that I wasn’t expecting to see.

“Well, you certainly caused a reason to cancel the date tonight didn’t you?” Discord asked.

I felt Lyra snuggle deeper against me and I looked at him.

“I’m still taking her out tonight,” I said.

“Oh Goodie, I have been looking forward to movie.  Maybe we should go ahead and wake her up!  That way she can weigh in on what movie she wants to watch,” he said.

Before I could argue he snapped his claw and a megaphone appeared in his lion paw.  He cleared his throat and then opened his mouth.

“Lyra,” he whispered.

She didn’t move or budge.  He shrugged his shoulders, tossed the megaphone behind him and stretched his back.

“Oh well, I guess that didn’t wake her up,” he said, “Too bad it didn’t wake up LYRA!.”

She sat up fast and concerned as the sound of his voice amplified as if he was still holding the megaphone.  She looked around the room and spotted Discord.  Instead of being frightened I noticed that her right eye twitched.

“YOU!” she exclaimed.

“Me?” he asked innocently.

“Yes you!  You’re the one that possessed all of those chipmunks and made them run in here and then run off with six bottles of wine!” she exclaimed.

He placed a paw against his chest and looked hurt.

“Why I’m hurt.  I’ll have you know that wine was for a very good purpose.  I used it to celebrate dear, dear Fluttershy’s birthday with.  It was a grand party, although not as much fun as when Pinkie throws one, but still it was quite enjoyable.  Why I even managed to get Celestia and Luna both there.  It was rather funny seeing Celly still soaking wet from her shower, but fun none the less,” he said.

“Discord, did you rip her off?” I asked.

“Rip off nothing!  I left her a card promising one free favor.  In fact,” he said reaching behind her ear, “here it is.”

We both looked at the card with the cartoonish version of Discord on the front.

“To Lyra Heartstrings, one free favor from Discord.  Warning: Favors outcome are at the discretion of the favorer not the favoree,” he read.

She glared at him and after a moment he rolled his eyes and snapped his claws again.  When he did a bag appeared and floated in the air.  He dug through it for a moment and pulled out a large bit.  This one was bigger than the golden coins I had seen them use so far.  He grinned and flipped it onto the bed.

“There you go, one Luna bit,” he said.

Her eyes widened and she looked at the coin.

“No, that’s too much,” she said.

“It was six bottles of wine,” he replied.

“I’ll keep the card,” she said passing him back the bit.

He cocked an eyebrow and smiled.

“Fluttershy and I are going out this evening.  We thought that if the two of you weren’t busy you might want to join us.  Dinner and a movie?” He asked.

She nodded, and we watched as he left.  I was a little surprised about how easy she agreed to meeting with him.  Sure, it was just a double date, or I suppose it was.  Damn, this going to bring all of those fan fictions about Discord dating Fluttershy to light.  It actually made me wonder if that was going on.  Part of my inner Brony hoped it wasn’t.  Mainly because what I had seen on the show I always thought that she and Big Mac would have been a nice couple.

I felt my girlfriend, or I suppose I should say marefriend, trace a hoof down my chest.  She leaned in and gave me a little kiss.

“You are amazing,” I said.

She blushed, something that was still interesting to see, and leaned her head on my shoulder.

“You weren’t too bad yourself,” she said.

I felt like she did.  There wasn’t any reason to get out of bed.  I was happy right here.  I, like every guy I suppose, had heard the stories about what happened your first time.  I’m going to go out on a limb and say that every story was completely formed from bullshit.  It wasn’t that I didn’t feel connected to Lyra.  I did, and I felt like a million bucks, but I wasn’t suddenly confident with all of my new found sexual powers either.

I was still nervous, a little awkward, and completely surprised that this beautiful mare actually wanted to have something to do with me.  She snuggled against me, and I felt a soft kiss on my neck.

“How are you feeling this morning?” she asked.

I smiled and returned her kiss.

“Good, really good,” I replied.

“How good is good?” she asked.

I started to answer when I felt something wrap around my lower appendage.  It began stroking and I could see the fire behind her eyes.

“More than good enough,” I said.

The next hour was satisfying both of our newly awakened hungers.  She was coming off of what had to be a long dry spell, and I was done with what had been a lifelong dry spell.  I was more than happy that Lyra was someone who wanted to show me everything.  She wanted to help me make her feel as good as I wanted to make her feel.

When we finished she lay on me covered with sweat, and the both of us smelled like each other.  She gently nuzzled against my cheek.

“You are so wonderful,” she said.

“So are you,” I replied.

Suddenly the public displays of affection that I would see working in retail hell didn’t seem so odd.  It seemed natural to have these kinds of reactions and displays of affection.  I kissed the tip of her nose and shifted under her a little.  She stretched out, and I could feel the heat rolling off of her.  Slowly she began to get up, and I watched the muscles in her flank as she moved to get out of bed.

Lyra was toned.  All of her yoga, running, and other cardio showed as she moved in front of me.  I wasn’t in bad shape, but I had a ways to go before I would even be considered in fantastic shape.  Standing beside the bed she looked back at me and flicked her tail.

“So, if we’re going to have a date tonight we better get cleaned up.  I could use a little help with my bath,” she said.

A smile crossed my lips as I followed her.  So far I had ended up being one of the luckiest sons of bitches that ever lived.  Once inside of the bathroom I noticed that Lyra was already running the water in the tub for a bath.  I watched as she filled it to where it needed to be and she slowly got into the tub itself.  She floated a bar of Durden’s spearmint body wash over to me.

I took the body wash, and the wash cloth on the side of the tub, and began to work lather onto the cloth.  I then squirted some of the body wash on her and began working it into her coat.  She leaned into the side of the tub next to me as I worked the body wash in.  I then worked the washcloth into the finer areas.  I took my time, doing it as lovingly as I could, until she was ready to be washed off.  I began dipping the water out of the tub and dumping it on her.  Like before I worked the soap out, instead of in, and continued.  When I was finished she was clean, and I handed her a towel.  She smiled and emptied the tub.

She motioned toward it and I began to fill it.  Like her once it was filled I got into the tub, and this time she worked on me.  Everything I had done she did.  She took her time with me.  I could feel her teasing, but then that teasing became something different.  I felt her magic working a new washcloth under the water.  I leaned back and felt her hooves on my chest. I looked up into her eyes and saw all of the promise and want in them.

“How long is it until the movie starts?” she asked.

“I’m not sure,” I replied.

She bit her lip, something that looked remarkably cute, and then shook her head.

“We shouldn’t keep them waiting.  They said dinner, and that means this evening.  We can get out a little bit, and I want to get something for our date,” she said.

“Oh?”  I asked.

She nodded.

“Yeah, I want to look really good for it,” she said.

I raised an eyebrow.  To be honest I wasn’t sure what she wanted to do.  It could be that she wanted to have a spa day, or she might want to do a little clothes shopping.  From the show I knew she had a dress, but it had been worn to Candace and Shining Armor’s wedding.  I wasn’t sure if she had another dress.  I knew she had other clothes.  Her workout clothes were evident enough of that.

“What do you want to get for our date?” I asked.

I could see her thinking about it for a moment before a devilish smile crossed her features.  She gave me a small kiss on the cheek and batted her eyelids at me.

“You’ll find out later,” she said mischievously.

I got out of the tub, and she floated a towel over to me.  I began to dry off and opened the drain for the tub.  The water flowed out of it, and I followed the mare that had opened me up to so many new experiences, the same mare that had captured my heart, and watched as she dug through her dresser for a moment.

I could swear that she flicked her tail, moved her hips, and sung to herself to tease me a little.  I grinned and looked at the clothes from the previous night.  They would have to be cleaned.  And my clothes for the date tonight looked fine.  I started to put on the clothes when Lyra cleared her throat.

“Let me see them,” she said.

Before I could argue she floated the clothes out of my arms and began to trot down the hall.  I followed her and found what looked like a retro made fairly new washing machine and dryer next to each other.  She quickly measured out some Summer Harvest Everything and dumped it into the running washing machine.  She then looked at the tags on the clothes and made sure that all of it was machine washable.  Once she did I watched as she set it to small load and then turned around to look at me.

“It’ll take about an hour for them to wash and dry.  I know you have your new clothes, but I’d like to see you just wear those for the date tonight.  You don’t mind hanging out here for a little while right?  I mean if you would rather I could go to your hotel room and get you a change of clothes if you don’t want to stay here,” she said rubbing her hoof on the ground nervously.

“I’m fine waiting,” I said.

She smiled again, leaned up on me, hugged me, and gave me a sweet kiss before she trotted back up the stairs.  I watched the washing machine and took a seat on a small wooden bench in the basement.  She came back down after a couple of minutes.

“You don’t have to stay down here you know.  I want you to feel free to treat this as your home too,” she said.

“Thank you, but I wanted to switch my clothes over when they were ready.  That’s all,” I said.

She nodded and trotted back upstairs.  I watched her go and turned back around to face the washing machine.  The next hour looked to be fairly uneventful.  For the first twenty minutes I didn’t do much except for listen to the hyptonic sounds of the washing machine.  The next ten had me pacing in front of the washing machine, and then it stopped.  I gave a small thanks to whoever was listening and changed the clothes over.  I had seen some of these older appliances in some of the other stores that were around the one I worked in.  I closed the door, set the dial to small load, and then walked back to my bench.

When it was finally finished I had a clean set of clothes ready to be worn.  I quickly dressed in everything, including a clean set of underwear and socks, and went back upstairs for my shoes.  Once I was fully dressed I walked outside.  I had no idea of where Lyra had gone, but if I was going to do this I wanted to do it right.

I walked up toward Rose’s flower cart and noticed that the owner wasn’t there and the cart was empty.  I scratched my head and looked for another cart that sold flowers.

“How is the date planning going?” came a familiar voice.

“I’m trying to find Lyra some flowers,” I said.

I turned to see Discord, who was wearing his Cheshire Cat grin, standing behind me.  He produced a bouquet of beautiful red and gold roses.  There was at least ten of each rose in the bouquet before me.  They were wrapped in a silver and gold foil, and looked as if they had been freshly prepared.

“There, perfect,” he said.

“Ummmm… Thanks,” I said.

I looked at the beautiful flowers, wondering exactly where they came from, and almost as soon as I wondered I put it out of my mind.  Discord had his moments, for the most part he had been trying to help make sure that I was able to go out on a date with Lyra.  It could be that Fluttershy’s friendship lessons were starting to take effect.  I hoped that was the reason.  I smiled, and extended a hand.

“Thanks Discord,” I said.

He looked puzzled for a moment and then took my hand in his claw and closed it in a firm grip.

“It’s perfectly fine,” he said.

“Maybe one of these days we can have a guy’s day out,” I said.

His eyes widened at that.  He then put his lion’s paw on my shoulder and let out a deep laugh.

“I’d like that,” he said.

I carried the roses with me and walked toward Sugarcube corner.  Discord seemed interested in what I was doing, and once he realized that I was getting Lyra some chocolates he bought a box as well.  I watched as he looked at it, snapped his claws, and Fluttershy appeared.

The little butter yellow Pegasus looked as if she was sopping wet.  She looked around, blushed, and then looked at Discord.

“I just wanted to give you a small gift to say thank you,” he said handing her the box of chocolates.

“That’s sweet, but ummm… could you please send me back to my bathtub?  I was in the middle of really relaxing,” she whispered.

He snapped his claws again and as soon as she was there she disappeared.

“Well, we’ll see you tonight,” he said.

I looked at what I had, put the fact out of my mind that I was going to go on a double date with a god of chaos and his friend, and walked back to the Doo Drop Inn.  I changed into my other new set of clothes that Discord had given me and quickly went about getting a few last minute items ready.  Finally, I grabbed the chocolates, the roses, and walked downstairs and over to Lyra’s.  What I was greeted with took my breath away.

Lyra looked stunning.  She had a dark midnight blue dress that was v – cut down her chest giving the view of her mint green coat.  She wore a golden necklace that had a pearl shaped ruby in the center of it, and on either side was a cyan gem stone cut to look the same.  Her earrings looked like they were made from carefully crafted black onyx that had been woven together slowly.  She walked toward me and gave me a bright smile.

“How do I look?” she asked.

“I…  Wow,” I managed to get out.

She laughed, and then looked at the roses and chocolates.

“You are so thoughtful, and the roses are gorgeous.  They look just like the ones inside of the Royal Garden at Canterlot,” she said.

I closed my eyes at the realization of where Discord had gotten the roses.  We walked together to the café and once there we met Discord and Fluttershy.  The four of us laughed, ate, joked, laughed some more, and the entire time Lyra seemed to practically beam.  We soon left and walked up to the theater.

“So, which movie do you want to see Lyra?” I asked.

“I’ve heard so much about all of them, but how about Ghostbusters?  I’ve never seen it and everypony I’ve talked to says it’s an amazing movie,” she replied.

We walked in together and all four of us took a seat.  I felt Lyra’s forelegs wrap around my arm when the library scene happened, and then she laughed at the testing scene next.  She alternated between laughing, holding on to me, and then laughing again.  Surprisingly I could hear Fluttershy giggling a little at some of the funnier parts.  It seemed like the night was really going to go well.  It got to one of my favorite parts and I had to say the line along with Dr. Peter Venkman.

“Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!” I said at the same time.

I was surprised by the entire evening.  I was expecting some kind of prank, but instead Discord looked completely content to watch the movie.  A moment later the scene with Gozer the Gozerian began.

“Sub-creatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the Traveler has come! Choose and perish!” she shouted.

“The Choice is Made, the Traveler has come!” she shouted.

Suddenly the entire theater went dark.  The movie simply stopped and outside I heard the sound of something heavy pounding in the distance.  We all ran outside to see a hundred foot tall Marshmallow mare walking toward Ponyville.