Fluttershy - Your Opportunities at a Glance.

Chapter 17

The Heat Comes into Play...

As you begin to regain consciousness after a strangely pleasing dream, you feel warm... you then feel a wet sensation around your cock... You try to think back to the dream you had, but drew a blank. You looked around you and Twilight was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly you hear an “Mm-mm” come from... below?

You look down and look under the fuzzy blanket you and Twilight were wrapped in for the duration of your slumber. There you see light emanating from her horn, she looked straight up at you with those dark purple eyes sparkling bright.

“Good morning. I just wanted to try something I read somewhere a while back, which seems to have worked.” Twilight said, rising up and now is just below you, the two of you still wrapped tightly against each other in her blanket. “Feels good to wake up like that, doesn't it?” She giggled as she licked her lips.

Oh God how you wanted to have been awake when she started.

Suddenly she leans in, and you freak out slightly, realizing she's going to kiss you. The thought of the taste shivered down your spine; this wasn't the way to wake up from a dream, this was waking up from a nightmare!

She leaned in and just rubbed her nose against yours, a lovey-dovey Eskimo kiss. Phew, disaster averted.

You get and Twilight get up and stretch.

“Well, Twilight, I'd love to stay, but I really should get back for breakfast.” You tell her.

“Oh, just stay over here, I've been wanting Fluttershy over for the longest time.” She tells you. You're ok with that, but wonder how to contact her. As you look at Twilight she's already on it; writing on a piece of parchment, then wraps it and taps it with her horn and it disappears. “Now, she'll be here in two hours, which gives us time for breakfast and to freshen up.”

You smile and you both head into the dining portion of the library, which was tiny compared to everywhere else... guess this place is supposed to be for books though.

You go to grab some stuff for a loaf of bread. But you're instantly halted by Twilight.

“Ah ah ah. We still gotta at least get you started on training that magic. I can't have Fluttershy come over and we didn't get anything done. So no food unless you do as I say.” You sigh and reluctantly agree inside.

“Yes Mistress Twilight” You say sarcastically.

“Hm...” She stares at you with an expression of deep thought for a second, “We should have you call all of us that... show's we're in charge... for now I want you to continue calling me that, the others? We'll wait and see.” Twilight grabbed the loaf of bread and placed it on the middle of the table. “OK, so first we're going to work on basic manipulation and telekinesis. Now stand over here.” Suddenly she disappeared and reappeared on another side of the room, guiding you to stand back from the table.

“OK, so now what?”

“Now, we need you to gather the magic inside you already. Most unicorns use their emotions to fuel magic, but that's not exactly the best idea. Think about it, what if you lost control of your emotions?” You wait for a second and then realize she was asking you a question, snapping out of a daydream.

“...You'd lose control of your powers?”

“Exactly, and in some of the books here they show that as being something heroic, to save the day with some untamed power. But in reality, not controlling it will lead to it ending up hurting ponies, whether it was intended or not.”

You nod, it's pretty straightforward stuff. You close your eyes and clench your hand, trying not to use emotion to draw it out, you search inside. You hear Fluttershy's voice inside your head, but tell yourself that you need to just focus more. Twilight keeps telling you in the background to look inside and find it. Suddenly, in the darkness, you see a light. You reach out your hand and grab onto it and...

*Fwoosh!* Your hand now is once again enveloped by magic similar to Luna's mane, but there's something odd about it. There's more color to it now... Instead of the dark and lighter blue it was, there seemed to be essences of two shades of purple and even a light pink floating in there. When Twilight notices, you hear her gasp.

“Wow! I've never seen someone's aura look anything like that.” She stares close at your hand, it feels warm, as if your hand was the match lighting your magic ablaze. “It looks like you... absorb the magic emanating from those who use it around you. It's gorgeous... if you got enough of everyone's different auras, it would look like you could recreate a supernova in your hoof... I mean hand.”

“...so what next...?” You ask, almost getting impatient now.

“Oh right!” She continues, “Now I want you to focus it on the bread and try to lift a single slice. Just try and visualize what it'll look like in your head” You do as she said, imagine flying bread...

After a few minutes of concentration, combined with Twilight still offering advice while you get it to a sufficient height, she tells you to hold it and look. You open your eyes, and there it was. Flying bread surrounded by the same aura that surrounds you hand.

“Now, I noticed when you were gathering the power, you seem to think of it like a flame, am I not correct?” She could tell just by looking at the way the aura rests? Clever girl...

“Yeah... you're correct...”

“OK, so now I want you to toast the bread by doing something similar. I'll keep the bread still, I want you to focus on creating a larger flame around that hand.”

You focus again, this time trying to gather as much magical energy as possible, then focusing it into your hand again. It lights quickly, it's getting easier to do this now, you think to yourself. You open your eyes, and the flame, which was just surrounding your fist now had grown to dance at about another arm's length up.

“OK, so... I want you to stand there, but toast this slice of bread.” She said, you smiled and nodded. -Insert Hadoken joke here like, you lean down, down-forward, then forward.- You throw the fire at the bread, which has a darker core where your fist once was. As it passes through the bread, the bread disappears. “OK, while that was impressive for a first try, you need to control it. That was too intense of a flame.” She lifts another slice and nods, “OK, try again.”

After a dozen, or so, tries you've tried every amount of energy you could throw at it, every time it burns up as the dark core goes by it. You've even tried aiming below or around it, it still was too intense. Then it hit you... what if you kept the core heat of the flame in your hand? It was worth a shot.

“Is it alright if I try doing it a little differently?” You ask Twilight, who gives you a doubtful expression. “Don't worry, I'm still going to stand right here, I just had an idea, is all.” She nodded and you were down to the last two pieces of bread.

OK, so this time, hold the core of the flame in your hand and try to push it forward while still holding onto it, you tell yourself. As you do so, Twilight notices you've gone back to the large flame in hand and tries to say something. You shake your head, you know what you're doing now, and she merely smiles and watches patiently.

As you try to push the energy forward, you feel the core of it trying to escape between your fingers, you slow down for a second to redo your grip and to refocus. Now, this time you open your eyes and watch. The flame shoots out forward, at first it was going to incinerate the bread again, but you had just enough time to pull back and lightly kiss the surface of the bread with the flame. Once you extinguished your hand, you looked and there it was, a perfectly light toasted piece of bread. Twilight sends it over to you and you catch it in your mouth... finally breakfast!

As you chew on the bread, you notice Twilight about to do hers. You lift your other hand, levitating the last slice of bread, and with all of your focus, recreate the perfect toast again. She smiles at the kind gesture, her purple mane showing her cheeks blushing rather easily.

“You caught on really fast, I'm surprised.” Twilight tells you as you both sit at the table, eating a small breakfast of magically toasted bread. It's magically delicious though, so you can't complain too much.

“Thanks Twilight” You smile at her, and she returns the smile, then her expression sunk as she cleared her throat loudly.... “Oh! I meant, thank you, Mistress Twilight” She then smiled and nodded, barely averting disaster.

“One more trick I want to teach you is from an old tome I discovered about your species' exploration of magic. Now I want you to hold out one hand, with those... fingers stretched out and pointing upwards.” You immediately comply and do so. “Now gather magic again, and it should end up a little differently.”

As you do this, you noticed your hand didn't suddenly combust into an open flame, but instead two of your fingertips light up, each with a little flame dancing on top.

“Now, this can be used to gauge how much magic you have left, and you seem to have... Two fifths of your limit. Now if you do this same technique, but with both hands, you'll get a more accurate amount shown to you. This can be used whenever you need to know how much magic you have left before you're completely exhausted. It said in the tomes that it was used by human's in battle. Since we ponies, don't have fingers, we can only see when our magic is either full, half empty, or almost completely empty.”

This actually seemed like a good technique to use, just in case things get... chaotic with Discord.

“Now...” Twilight continued, “My brother actually used the information I gave him in this tome to develop a method for us to use.” Her horn glowed, and suddenly a ball of energy appeared with only a tiny fraction missing from the top. “Now this takes more time, and magic, but it made it much easier for us to gauge our own levels.”

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, Twilight dismissed herself to answer it as you cleaned up the crumbs left over from breakfast.

“Speaking of Discord” She laughed, your heart skipped a beat. But reassured yourself you haven't done anything wrong... yet. “You remember Fluttershy's Pet from the dinner with Princess Celestia, right big brother?” As they entered the dining room, you saw Shining Armor for the second time, this time by himself. He comes over and sits with you, you shake his hoof and ask how he is, he ignores it. It's alright, he came to see his sister after all.

“Now, Twilight, could you get the list of books you've identified from the archives I sent here?” Shining Armor asked her politely, must be all that time around royalty that has him this polite. That explains where Twilight got those old books at least.

“Yeah, ok Big brother, I won't be too long.” She nods, smiling knowing he'll approve of the progress you both made yesterday. She left the room, and suddenly he turned to you, clearing his throat. Uh-oh.

“OK, um Pet?” Shining Armor said, suddenly talking with a serious tone rather than the casual and polite one he had just seconds ago.

“Uh... yeah?” You reply, this whole being named “Pet” thing is awkward around stallions...

“You seem to have made my sister happier than she's been for the last week or two, thanks.” He seems to have lightened up a bit. Which in turn allowed you to relax.

“Thanks, she's a really nice mare once you get down to getting to know her. Plus we're a lot alike too.” You admit, to both Shining Armor and Yourself.

“Glad to hear that. But what I've come here to talk about isn't about those old books. I just needed to get my sister out of here.”

“Why?”

“Because... the season is coming...”

“The season...?” You somehow knew where he was probably going with this.

“The mating season, of course. The mares get rabid for any stallion they can land their hooves on. For them, it's a time of bliss... but for us, let's just say I wouldn't doubt Discord made the mating season.” You could believe him.

“So... you know about that too?”

“Too? It happens to us every year, and since you haven't been here that long, I figured you'd need a little protection.”

“What are you suggesting?”

“Well, most of the unimportant, or scared, colts and stallions go on 'vacation' to avoid this whole situation. But you and I both know, that things still need to be done around here. So usually it's The Doctor, Myself, and Big Macintosh to take over running the town. I come down from Canterlot and sometimes even have to bring a fair amount of my men here just to settle things down... and this year is bad.”

“What makes you say that?” Something felt like it was growing in the pit of your stomach, things were not as nice as they seemed apparently, but then again, you were expecting this. For the most part.

“Well, you remember my newlywed bride, Princess Cadence, right?” You nodded, “Well, she and the rest of the Royalty are the first to show the signs of the mating season. And she's gotten... very aggressive. Luckily I haven't seen much of Princess Luna or Celestia, so it's nothing I can't handle, but I'd rather not sit on my flank anytime soon.”

“Ouch...”

“Yeah... So when the rest of the mares go into heat, we're going to Sweet Apple Acres and we want you to join us inside the Apple Family's barn. It should give a good fortification spot.” You nod, but... wait.

“Hold on... Their barn is on the opposite side of Ponyville from where I am.” Of course there was a problem with this plan...

“And we can't let them know any sign of our plans. Otherwise they'll tie us all down and rut us to near death... again.” A chill went through your very soul as you pictured this image. “The Doctor, Big Mac, and I can try to lure them away and give you a straightforward path to the barn, then we'll loop around and meet you inside... how's that?”

“Are you sure you guys will be alright?”

“Heh, yeah, we'll be fine. We're worried about you, you have no idea what some of these mares are capable of when their in heat...” He scoffed and laughed nervously.

“Actually, I've seen how Luna can be... and Fluttershy is a lot stronger than she looks...” You admitted, Shining armor seemed slightly relieved that you know how important it is then.

“OK, so I think the Doctor said we'll have about one week, but he's always sketchy about time... and arriving, sometimes I think he just disappears off the face of Equestria, just for the fun of it.” Sounds like an old BBC show from the 60's... nah.

“OK... I'll be ready.” Suddenly you hear Twilight come back in, and you two go back to your previous positions. Twilight handed Shining Armor the list of books and Shining Armor took his leave.

But... his words still echoed inside your head... how were you going to get through all this? Would you guys even survive?

----------End of Chapter 17----------

Okay guys, there is no excuse why I'm so damn late on this thing. But I’ll do my best to make it sound good...
*Ahem*
Long story short, I've had distracting issues surrounding multiple things in my life. A couple I can't really mention, or explain very well without it getting very personal. But the one thing I can say is I got the grant back and can resume college instead of working at Walmart, thank god!
I'm trying to be a full-time student, and almost have enough classes... I hope I get to take Japanese though, I've been dying to take that one for years.
Anyway, if I can get enough credits, I can get just about everything paid for, which is absolutely amazing since all this is coming from my own wallet. They even hinted I could get money for transportation and living expenses, so I might even move... But that's very doubtful, still though, having textbooks and classes completely paid for is more than I deserve.
Also, I got a creative writing class for English since I got a good grade the last time I went. So yay~!

Anyway, again, I'm so very sorry for making all my fans (like there are that many of you, but still, numbers don't matter and I’m very sorry) wait this extra time.
I'm moving the release date to Fridays because I'll be in school Mondays through Thursdays, so I think Friday is a good day. It always is.
Anyway, again, again, I'm sorry there is no clop, just story this time. Though I don't think you guys mind too much. And I've been watching too much Doctor Who.

Anyway, I'll be more active now, I just had to get a lot of personal things taken care of ;_;
But now I'm ready to move on and continue where I left off.
I've been gone for a week due to this unseen incident. But with structure comes stability. So I'm hoping that goes the same for my life too. Hope you all don't hate me too much >>;
~Jetsfantasy