Embracing the Sun

Celestia Pov.

I cracked my eyes open, wondering with weary as to who or what decided to wake me when this was my special time with Joshua. For them to interrupt what I have worked hard for is a trigger to my frustration that builds like the rising sun I do not control.

The sun of this world shined brightly into my eyes through the crack in the curtain, forcing the habit of me to wake up while my beloved rested soundly under my wing.

To my annoyance I found myself turning over with a careful release of my wing, only to find my sense of smell lured with a powerful aroma that has become the only scent I crave to smell.

It was cherries, Joshua's cherries, the same cherries I smell within his growing hair when he leaves the shower.

To my dismay of being awake, I groaned and murmured before turning over once more to adorn my need for his hair to be pressed against my muzzle. I blinked lazily at the back of his head, my sense of right and wrong betraying me with the hazy lust that crawled my shivering fur.

When I sniffed that luscious smell, I moaned hotly at the aroma his body released when I touched his chest, the silky feeling drove me to a vigorous conflict of respecting his boundaries...or giving myself to him.

"Joshua" I whispered, reaching over to turn his face to mine while he snored so lightly, revealing the peace I have never seen on someone's face.

For me to lay in bed with my mate is a reality that I am happy to have, but the idle sound of his breathing corrupts the benevolence I carry as the goddess of the sun. Such simplicity from him makes me feel free to be myself, to be a pony that does not have to worry about others thinking it is wrong of me to be normal.

I have never felt the touch of a male, nor experienced my first night of sleeping with the one I am falling for...until now.

Tis wrong to invade the privacy he has requested when at night, but now I fear that I will lose him, I quiver at the thought of everyone back in Equestria trying to take him from me.

But what about the foals, how would they react to the villains Twilight has defeated being foals that are under Joshua and I's care?

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Suddenly the snoring ends with a gentle snort from my beloved, his breathing increases to the steady pace of him waking up as I crumble in terror of how he would react to us sleeping together.

It was cold though, I felt cold even though I have magic and fur, but most of all...I needed to feel him against my body.

Now he was cracking his eyes open to me, muttering to himself as the sunlight teased him next with the light that is not in my control.

"Too damn early" he mumbled, burying himself into my chest without recognition that we were sharing his bed right now.

He was definitely aware of us being in the same bed, but I think he was too tired to scold or complain after all the hours we endured together when the foals got into the pantry and ate the sweets.

They were asleep, still resting on the couch with their blankets...so why is it so cold?

I stopped thinking when I blinked my eyes...because the breath I released became visible. The moment was gone, my happiness drifted into worry of what was happening to us as the sun alarmed me of the blizzard finally being over.

Though we have sunlight, I discovered quickly that the lamp was not coming on, it was still without the light I wanted to be radiating from it. We were without light for some odd reason, and the warm air that should be generated throughout the house was not flowing as it should be.

Wait...nothing was flowing...the vents were empty of the rumbling that echoes from the heater.

That's when I realized the trouble.

"Oh no" I said to myself, reacting quickly with the gentle kissing and pushing that would awaken my beloved.

His pale skin was so cold and dry that I worried of death already having him, but the sound of his breath, and remembering that he mumbled, relieved me of such worries before his eyes lifted to mine with a cute flicker.

He was now awake.

"Tia" he whispered, his grogginess keeping him from realizing that I invaded his privacy.

"Joshua, something's wrong, you're house is freezing" I stated urgently, causing his peaceful slumber to die with the speed of his realization that shot him off the bed.

His hands glided across my flanks, the unknowing touch making me shiver before hopping off the bed to follow him. His running was the pace I kept up with as we ran upstairs to what is the room that holds these strange switches for the house.

When I stopped behind him, the sound of buttons being pressed continued as he cursed in the language his species use.

"No, no, no, fuck me with a fire hose"

"What?" I quipped, my chin resting on his shoulder as he punches the strange metallic box.

His anger still resides, but it soothed away as his hand moved to my muzzle that presses into his neck for a morning kiss that I want to gift him with. He rubbed my head so lovingly that I pecked and nuzzled him some more while our predicament became the ticket I need to draw him closer into my heart.

The circumstances could not be anymore perfect, I just wished that it didn't involve everyone being in trouble.

"The power is out, I'll have to call P.S.O.; until then, I'll have to get some logs and start the fireplace"

Fireplace, as in a warm fire running while we rest next to it; oh this was the perfect opportunity to get My Sweet Joshua closer to me. All I had to do was act like a helpless mare, which I technically am since I am in another world, and make my move that will bring us closer as mates...and to Equestria.

"Is there any way I can help?" I asked cutely, my inner filly coming out with the tittering of an adorable voice while he rubbed his temple to control his frustration.

He looks so arousing without a shirt.

"Yeah Tia, I will need your help" he sighed.

I could not be any happier when he said that, I could have jumped for joy to finally have enough of his trust in being of some assistance. Given that the circumstances are rather forcing him to, I still felt glad to have him open up to me just a little more.

The best part though is that I can say this..."How can I help?"

Over the next couple of hours, I found myself watching Joshua leave the house and return with logs of firewood for what is the fireplace of this humble home he has offered for us. Although it is rather strange to see such a contraption be so small, but the design is what makes it unique and special to this house that is a prison to me and the foals.

Don't get me wrong, I love being around my mate whenever I can be, but I crave to go outside and raise the sun while stretching my wings. The circumstances however prevent me from leaving this house, especially when more humans are bothering my love with all of their threats that reflect to what transpired the day those two ingrates appeared in what is called a truck.

From what I have seen, humans can be rather violent and ill-minded of others whenever they wish to be in the right, which is only a mask over the wrongs they committed.

I won't say that Joshua is perfect and a true gentlecolt, he does have some bad days that make me worry of what he will do to himself in order to be rid of the stress that the foals and I have pressed upon him. In all my years of being a princess, I have dealt with some cases of ponies committing suicide for the reasons of their spouse leaving them, their lives being meaningless, or that they have lived without someone to love.

It makes me worry that he will do the same, but for being overwhelmed with stress.

I remember when Luna was at the brink of her own insanity; that is until a certain stallion came to us and admitted that he is in love with Luna. Such things never passed through my mind, Luna's relationship with the earth stallion never bothered me until I caught them making love when Luna should be on duty with her night sky.

There was nothing to say to such intimacy, except that I felt rather jealous of my little sister finding her eternal mate. With that stallion now being immortal because of Luna, I fear that I will have to endure the chance of making the elements immortal so that we do not have a repeat of finding the specific ponies that are meant for the job.

Though the gemstones reside in The Tree of Harmony, I know great evil will rise again and it will take the power of the elements to stop it.

That's in the future though, what matters now is that I no longer have to be jealous of my sister having true love. My true love is here and now, but it will take some time to grow since Joshua is a rather picky male when it comes to the stages of a relationship.

If it was my choice, I would have already allowed him to be my first and last. His culture gaps our customs though; instead of him taking me like a stallion does with a mare, he restrains himself with showing respect and appreciation of my body and love that is for him.

It is shocking to have him as my mate, seeing as how he won't bear me with his seed, but that's what I love about him the most. Yes I love Joshua, I am in love with him, and soon enough I will have him falling for me.

I just need to give him that right incentive...maybe a little...motivation.

"Joshua, can you answer me something?" I asked bluntly as I stared at the small ember he made in the fireplace, his eyes now meeting with mine as the ember slowly built.

"Sure Celestia" he sat in front of me, crossing his legs. "What do you need to know?"

This was rather embarrassing to bring up, but I needed to know what exactly stops him from being intimate with me. The very fact that he resisted me when I pressed against him has worried me and veered my mind to the assumption of me being not his type.

I know he loves me, I can feel it in our link, I feel it in his heart, so why does he resist me?

He said he has never had a girlfriend, which I assume is another term for marefriend, but I can see behind his eyes that there is a dark past he wishes to keep to himself.

What is he hiding, why is he afraid to love me...why?

I coughed for this one.

"Joshua, why do you avoid me...why do you...reject my feelings for you...for us?"

He was rather taken back by my question, his usual stare of being so emotionless altered to a state of being embarrassed and sad at the same time. The pride he carries as the leader of this house faded quickly with the sorrow that I felt building inside of him...inside of us.

I tried to reach out and touch his hand, but he drew back and looked away while the foals were stirring on the couch. Suddenly I felt this twinge of pain spike through my chest, I felt a new kind of agony that fell deep into my soul as Joshua's depression became my own. His everything that I feel became heavy and painful, the eyes he carries as a proud stallion shifted to a hazy recollection of his life.

I would know since I could feel it drawing me in with every second I tried ignoring it.

He remained locked to the fire, his gaze never leaving the growing wicker of flames that mirrored the anger I had over who or what has created this depression inside his kind soul. There was indeed a source to all of this pain and sorrow, there is a someone that made my mate fall so hard into the realities of what is betrayal.

And just when I thought I would be given silence once again...he answered me...

"It's not you Celestia, it's just that...there was someone special to me, someone I thought I could trust...but she hurt me"

This is good, this is really good because this is progress in our relationship. With just that little bit of information, I knew I was getting closer to Joshua. All I have to do is keep pushing his buttons a little, and maybe find myself not being in a bad situation of him arguing over becoming an alicorn in order to keep things...normal in Equestria.

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I do hope he doesn't hate me when I suggest it.

"Who was this mare?" I asked with an incredulous smile, my distance from him now closing with the crawl I performed. "Was she special to you, or just a friend?"

"A friend that I knew since kindergarten-"

Kindergarten...must be a grade school for fillies and colts.

"But after she found out that I became the heir to my grandparent's fortune, she became an obsessed woman that I no longer see because of some bad circumstances that happened between us"

"Circumstances?" I questioned, not really following what he meant by cocking my brow.

He sighed and rubbed his temple, taking in what I felt to be a large sum of courage. It was obviously not easy for him, probably heartbreaking, but this regret he carries has driven him to depression that I feel every waking moment.

His pain is my pain, and I want to take his pain away.

"Yeah...circumstances Celestia...she...she killed a couple of dogs I had when I rejected her because I knew she didn't have feelings for me, just for the money. What's worse is that she...well she shot me under my armpit after I called the police on her for killing my pets"

I knew some relationships and friendships have turmoil from time to time, but to hear that my mate was hurt by a female made my blood boil. If I wasn't trapped here because of the weather already changing back to harsh winds, I would be searching for this female just so that I could take her with me and Joshua to Equestria for my own means of punishing her.

If I had the right to punish her in this world I would have her facing life in the dungeons.

Unfortunately I can do no such a thing since I am not a resident of this world, I am here just to help Joshua adjust to being a part of me while Equestria's laws of reality draw him closer to being a reality in my world.

The real drawback of my anger though was that Joshua didn't lie when he said he was shot with what he calls a shotgun. After he stopped chuckling at his recollection of such memories, he lifted his arm to show me that a large circular scar was there.

"Shotgun slugs...not the best thing to feel when it goes there and gets jammed in your ribs" he chuckled musically. "The doctor said I was lucky to have nothing major be hit by the bullet"

I said nothing to him, I only gasped and rubbed a hoof across the scar that is the size of a small rubber ball. Just feeling the mark made me want to rip apart the wench that did this to him, for it is her fault that My Joshua is afraid to love me.

The only thing I could do is purse my lips and bite on them in order to keep myself under control before I decided to go ballistic in searching for the monster that did this to him.

Fortunately I had something to calm me down, something soft and wet that pressed against my lips after I closed my eyes and collected my emotions. When I felt the touch of my mate, I opened my eyes to see that he was indeed kissing me while cupping a hand to my cheek.

To my disappointment, I felt his lips part from mine the next second, causing me to lean in and hold them as long as I could before he was out of reach. The hurt I felt over it ending made me want to lose my mind, but the words he said next compelled me to taking things further than they should.

"You're not like other girls Celestia, you've been quite patient with me; though you are a little upfront on rare occasions, I feel something for you...and I want us to be together"

It didn't register with me yet, but when those words did I pushed back for this one minute of being loved by him. With his lips willingly against mine again, his very breath mixing with mine for a heated moment, I pressed further into his mouth with the slight gap that was in his teeth.

Surprisingly he did not just kiss me, but also slipped his tongue into my mouth while falling onto the floor with me, allowing our bodies to intertwine before the foals wake up.

Just one touch was I needed to know that Joshua has feelings for me, but what he didn't know was that this would make him mine more and more every day. With the link now having his acceptance, I can finally slump from my usual curiosity about him and just let things take their course.

"Joshua" I whispered, feeling his everything mold with me as he laid on top of my chest, his body now being my pillow to hold.

He kissed me again, he licked my lips, his arms wrapped around my tingling neck that is privileged to shiver at the sweet sensation of his nibbling teeth. I was in ecstasy of these touches, my mind was going blank with just the small intimacy he was sharing with me as a way to tell me that I am the mare he wants.

And as we laid on the floor, basking in the fire of our feelings, I could hear myself give audible moans that passed his ear when I felt him nip at my neck. Joshua was not treating me like a cheap rut, he was appreciating me with every ounce of his growing love. He touched me, caressed me with those soft hands of his, and best of all...he aroused me to the point of overflowing.

That is until we parted again.

"I know you want more Celestia, but having sex with a pony is illegal in my country...and I'm not anywhere near ready for that"

It's illegal to mate with ponies...but...bu...WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE CREATURES!?

Knowing that now, I lost all sense of trying and just fell back into his chest when we rolled over. After letting him out of my grasp, I pouted into his chest while my back was rubbed by his hands.

I was being childish without a doubt, but I wanted us to claim one another. Still we kissed a little, but nothing was said when we continued pleasing one another without the right mind of needing to keep things age appropriate.

Eventually we stopped kissing, but only after he was led from my grasp by one particular filly that was awake and cuddling him for warmth.

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How ironic, a villain that I banished now needing someone to love her like she is family.

As much as I feel uncomfortable about this, I cannot help but feel happy to see the filly curl up in her blanket, looking like a teary eyed ball of fur while her new father wraps his love around her.

"Hey babygirl" he cooed, his loving smile worming its way between his cheeks as he pecked her head. "What has you so needy this morning?"

"I'm cold...and hungry" Nightmare Moon pouted, her whining being such an adorable sound to the both of us as we stood up and chuckled at her cuteness.

"Okay baby, let daddy go get a shirt on and I'll take you all out to get something to eat before we go shopping for human clothes" he whispered, soothing her needs with his voice while I felt a sparkle form in my eye.

That's right, he planned on buying us clothes so that we can be with him throughout the day as normal humans.

Finally I was going to have a chance to be free of this house for a little while, but to have Joshua chauffeur us is something I am not used to. However I cannot complain when he is finally going to take us out of this house for a few minutes.

With getting away in mind, I gleamed with a warm smile while taking Nightmare Moon from Joshua so that he could dress himself. Nightmare Moon wasn't fond of me though, she was reaching out to Joshua as he went into his room to retrieve some clothing before heading out in this dreadful weather.

Ponyville doesn't experience winter like this; then again...I am in another world.

And so for the next few minutes of our time, I laid next to the fire with all three foals curled up to me for warmth while Joshua was on his communication device. I am not sure what it is called, but to see that it rests against his ear makes me wonder if it would possibly explode by some strange chance.

It does run on electricity, so one can only assume.

However there was something odd about all of this, something that has me curious while watching my mate speak with another human through that strange device.

As I grew more curious of something particular, my mind drifted to question of why these humans don't use letters to communicate. Surely that would be easier for them...right?

"You're kidding right; there is no way I am letting you come here" Joshua sighed, sounding as though he was frustrated about something. "I don't care, I want nothing to do with any of you, nor do I want to know you whatsoever...goodbye"

"Everything okay?" I asked, only to have another session of feeling his stress while the foals curled deeper into my chest and wings.

Poor dears are freezing.

"Honestly Celestia, I just got off the phone with-"

So that's what the strange device is called.

"With my biological parents, and they are 'miraculously' wanting to come over and make amends for selling me to my grandparents" he answered, but was waving his fingers in a peculiar manner when 'miraculously' was said.

Obviously he was being sarcastic...but why?

Of course I asked some more while raising my brow.

"And is that a bad thing?"

"Uh yes it is" he clarified. "Because they sold me and now after twenty-three years of abandoning me...they want to return and make amends"

I could see his point, but for him to harbor such a grudge is rather unhealthy of him. I'm not disagreeing that he should not allow them into his life, but the least he could do is let them know he does not hate them.

It's not my place though, so I can't tell him what to do.

"Come on everyone, let's go get in the car"

With being said, I knew today was going to be hard for him, but for me it was going to be a living nightmare with one valid thing about me.

Because of our small intimacy...I was aroused, or in human language...horny.