Fluttershy’s ears perked up at the sound of a wolf howling in the distance. A chill entered her as another followed soon after. It wasn’t long before the night was filled with the howls of a far off pack; a call to ceremony. A call to fight. A call for a new alpha. She blinked a few times, attempting to rid herself of the tears she felt well up, but failed to stop one from sliding down.
The winter night’s chill entered her deeper, forcing her closer to the blazing fireplace as she thought. She would most likely get rejected, like with the last pack, but that didn’t mean she could just leave him alone, could she? A sharp breath of cold air cleared her mind. She always did all she could for her animals, and tonight would be no different.
With an emergency saddlebag of supplies slung over her back, Fluttershy stepped into the night. The light snow on the early winter ground crunched beneath her light pink boots as she stepped to the edge of the treeline of the Everfree. Fluttershy’s chest rose as she shut her eyes, and crossed the boundary. On the other side, she opened her eyes, and forced herself to not look back, lest she end up failing in her duty, before even trying.
The sounds of the forest helped as she trotted along, making sure that she was not alone with the crunch of the snow. Instead, she heard small voles chittering to their families, owls seeking prey, and the last words of birds to their young, just before they themselves fell to sleep. A yawn escaped Fluttershy as she stopped, her ears straight up, listening for a clue to its direction. Barely, she heard the barks of wolves, and tentatively started down the path in that direction. A howl soon after sped up her hooves, a sign for it to be the end of the challenge.
Her thoughts raced with her galloping hooves. She had been so focused on where she needed to go that she didn’t know what she was going to do when she got there. He would fight her on any offer she made. Such was the way things went when one failed to become an alpha. However, she still had to try. They could start a new pack elsewhere, find refuge from the cold while they thought, or, as Fluttershy hoped for the most, become a protector of Ponyville. They would want to die though, and she still had no idea how to convince them not to.
With the guidance of other animals in the forest, she finally broke through the brush, and ended up in a clearing. The moonlight streamed through the canopy here, illuminating the white field. She caught her breath, taking in the pristine view of it all, barely touched by any creature, except for the one laying on a slab of stone towards the other edge. There, the snow became a trail of red, before coming to the great, large, white wolf that lay against the boulder.
He was almost three times as large as Fluttershy, and most would classify him as a dire wolf because of it. She knew better though. He was just a strong, wise wolf that nature had blessed. He had been an alpha for almost a hundred years, if his tales were to be believed, and now he lay against a rock, his wisdom and strength bleeding out of him. She would have come closer than halfway across the clearing, but a growl from him stopped her. The wolf then turned his head to her, and narrowed his eyes.
“Why are you here, nymph?”
She swallowed hard, her ears laying flat due to the harsh tone. She knew she should be in little danger though, at least, from this range. “I… I’m not a nymph, Rauser, I am merely a pony, as I always have been. And just as always, I am here to help you. To heal you.”
Rauser stared at her for a few moments, before pushing himself away from the rock. For a moment, he stood, towering over Fluttershy and getting her to step back. As he tried to move forward though, he was quickly brought to the ground with a heavy crash. “How I am hurt, you cannot heal.”
Fluttershy shook her head, trying to shake the fear and pain that resided deep within her, before unfolding her wings and stepping forward, trying to keep up her confidence. “Pride will mend with time, especially if one finds reputable service. That is what you always told Xig when he came to my hut.”
Rauser chuckled, before letting out a light groan and striking against the ground, throwing up a cloud of snow. “I’m… I’m sorry. It just hurts, and the growls and strikes helps curb the pain.” He shook himself, freeing some of the snow from his coat, while also inviting more. “If it were merely my pride, I would have come to you in a heartbeat. Time, and your care, have taught me to never put my own pride before others, and I think that helped me keep my position for as long as I did. I wish not to become a burden though, and that is all I can be now.”
The yellow mare stepped even closer, the stench of blood now filling her nose, along with the great beast’s sweat and musk. It was a sickly combination, but she managed to keep her nausea down, for her friend. It was only now, so close to the beast, that she saw the leg that she had assumed was being hidden by hair. “Oh, no…”
“Xig tried getting me to back down, but knew that I would not go down unless I absolutely had to.”
Fluttershy stepped back, a hoof coming across her eyes to clear them. She then held it over her mouth, and took in a deep breath to try to calm herself. “X-Xig challenged you? What about Hacken or Trys?”
Rauser smiled for a moment, before flexing a paw when Fluttershy tried pulling out her bandages. The two made eye contact for a moment, before Fluttershy looked down. “They never had the courage to do something like this, just like you had better not about this wound. I wish for it to kill me, and cement his rule.”
Fluttershy’s body shook, a few tears hitting the snow beneath them before she nuzzled against his side. “I… I won’t, I promise. But please, at least let me comfort you. Make your last moments not so painful.”
“I am supposed to fall alo-”
“I don’t care!”
Rauser looked upon the mare, her tears now streaming down her face. His instincts told him to force her away, hurt the nymph if he absolutely had to, just to be alone. Memories of her service came to mind though. Of her helping deliver his pups, clean his wounds, and save Xig with the help of some blue pegasus after he fell into a ravine, and he let out a deep sigh. “I wish I could offer a way for you to comfort me, but I will not take your medicine. I wish to not prolong this any further then it already will take.”
Fluttershy blinked a few times, trying to stem the flow of tears down her cheeks. She wished not to see the noble creature die, not when it had been her friend for so long, and had protected and trusted her so many times in the past. A thought passed through her mind, causing her heart to almost stop. A way to give him one last gift, for all the good memories, and to celebrate his life. It was only while watching the wound that she found the resolve to even suggest it, and so steeled her nerves. “What would you think of perhaps m-ma mati...” She swallowed hard, staring at the ground.
Rauser stared at her for a long moment. “You are not brave enough.”
“For a dying friend I admire, I… I know I can.” She looked away, a faint, crimson blush touching her face.
He felt it stir against his will as he watched the pretty nymph act cute, as she had many times before. “It may be too large.”
Fluttershy felt her throat closed, but demanded herself to speak. “N-not for my… my hooves and…” She turned away again, visibly shaking now.
Rauser stared for another moment, before lifting a paw, and gently stroking the side of her head. His member soon unsheathed itself, hardening at the prospect of having such an avatar of nature touch it. It was long, thick, and twitched in the air, and Fluttershy swallowed at the sight of it. It was almost as long as one of hooves, possibly even wider, and by no means done growing. She would not back down though, not when she heard Rauser say, “I… I agree to have this as my final honor.”
Fluttershy wiped at her eyes again, clearing them before she placed a hoof upon the beast. He growled for a moment, and she stopped, before she saw him relax. Her muzzle came next, nuzzling against the bulging mass. She kissed one of his veins while wrapping a hoof around the entire girth, and could feel the blood pumping within. It trembled at her touches, and she took in a deep breath, trying to calm herself. She was by no means unaware of what she was doing, but to do it with something of this size, and under such circumstances chilled her to the core. She would not allow this chill to stop her though, not for one she almost loved.
She pecked the cock again, taking in the strong musk as she began rubbing her hoof along more of the shaft, gently pulling against it, keeping the pressure of her body against him that the position allowed. The whole mass quivered and throbbed against her body, wanting more friction than she could provide right now. She swallowed hard, and glanced back to him. “Do you think Xig will be a good leader? I know he could be brash at times.”
A small chuckle escaped Rauser as his cock ifted Fluttershy slightly off the ground. The nymph’s muzzle felt great against him, and for a moment a spasm of regret shot through him for never making her to be one of his mates. She would never have taken him though, for the two lived too different of lives, and she was too much her own being. “I do. Your lessons and care made certain that his fiery will was tempered, and when I fought him, he was nothing like the pup he once had been. He had been strong, proud, but wise too.”
Fluttershy took her tongue away, now using the thick dick to support her as she massaged it with both hooves. One teased his knot while the other tentatively rubbed just below his tip, teasing the ridge there as clear liquid began to come out. She brought the top hoof up, gently coating thee end with his precum, before going back to the gentle, sensual rubbing of before. “I… I’m happy to hear that. May his rule, um, b-be blessed?”
The teasing of her hooves brought another shudder through his body, and he barely contained the want to thrust against her, to get more of the soft, gentle body to rub against him since she could not take him. “Yes, let it be blessed. I hold no hate for him now.”
Fluttershy nodded, slowly moving onto his shaft, keeping her body tight along the member, and letting herself drag along the girth. She felt no pleasure from it though. No amount of musk, or girth, or even sticky precum could make her. Not when she knew why she did this. “I’m… I’m overjoyed to hear that, and will make sure to pay him respects when I… I recover.”
Rauser growled in pleasure as her muzzle came against the tip of his cock. At this point, the blood loss forced him to feel weak, but she made him feel strong, young, and important. Her rough tongue cleaning his tip, taking his salt, and the devotion of her body against his was all easing the pain. Easing the fear. “I… I see now why you ponies wish to be together… during these times.”
Fluttershy met his gaze, tears brimming her eyes as her hooves did not stop her work, continuing to glide and massage along the shaft she now laid upon. “Please, save your strength.” She did not wait for a response, nor got any more then a groan as one. Instead, she worked furiously, stretching her muzzle as far as it could go so as to suck on his tip, her tongue gliding along the pointed girth.
She could feel every rhythmic pulse of his cock. The spasms of the veins as they tried to keep blood to it, and keep it how it needed to be for her treatment. Her pussy ground against the knot, and she could feel its rough bumps and ridges trying, and failing, to please her. When almost all of this motion stopped, she prepared herself.
Rauser would not have it though. His paw came up and brushed her off of him, just as thick strands of white came out and matted down his fur. Fluttershy was quickly back on her hooves, but found herself only staring deep into the dying alpha’s eyes. All was still as they stared at each other. Rauser had not wanted her to be tainted with his final seed, to mess up what he considered to be the epitome of natural beauty. Looking into the smaller pegasus’s blue eyes, h managed a final smile, before whispering, “Thank you,” and collapsing to the side, his own, red eyes, now shutting.
Fluttershy merely stood, stunned. She had seen so many die before, but this was a king in his forest. A creature she never had thought would fall. And now, it lay beside her, having breathed its last in one final phrase. She felt the tears begin to come down again as she moved around to his side, and curled up beside him. There she would stay for the night, cold and alone, not wanting to leave her old friend.
From the edge of the clearing, bright, shining eyes came from the bushes. They were not there to harm the two though. Instead, Xig has made sure she was able to be with him, and stopped the forest from breaking the peace that filled the clearing. One final tribute to his father’s legacy, and a gift to the mare who had helped the pack know their beloved king would now find peace.
