Given Shape
Ch20 - 3 - Thoughtfulness
Previous ChapterNext ChapterMuffins blinked at the foal chatting away with her wife. Walking over to the pair, she leaned in to kiss Rainbow. "Finding other mares now?"
Cuddle looked up at the strange pony, a bit confused at the mix of alicorn and changeling. "Who are you? Oh, you chased Slice!" As if that made everything better, the filly trotted over and hugged one of Muffin's legs. "You were one of the ponies Please told me to talk to."
"Please? Oh," Muffins put the names together, "Please Do, Daring's sister." She dropped down and got on the same level as the filly. "If you ever do have any problems, you tell me, okay?" Something tickled at her senses, or more, a lack of something. "You…" She cut herself off before saying something she would regret.
Green fire burned around the filly, restoring her changeling form. "Taa daa!" It was a surprise for both of them, but more so Muffins, whose wings flared up in surprise.
"Probably should have led with that. Cuddles, this is Muffins. Muffins, this is Cuddles." Rainbow Dash reached a wing down to ruffle the filly's mane-fin. "She is the best alicorn in Equestria."
Cuddles' eyes were wide. "But… what about the princesses?" She began to trot around Muffins, inspecting the mare. "She is big, but why is she the best?"
"Because she is my wife." Rainbow leaned down to kiss Muffins on the cheek.
Something clicked for the filly, she narrowed her eyes, looking from one mare to the other. "You are married?" The innocence of the question brought a smile to Dash and Muffins, each looking to the other and nodding. "Good, you can both be my mommies!"
Daring didn't wait for the train to pull in. She opened the door and jumped off the step. Diving into a roll from the motion, she snapped out her wings and use the momentum to launch herself into the air. Beating at the air hard, she rocketed toward the one place in the town where she knew she could get answers quick.
Landing in front of the well-lit castle, Daring ruffled her wings as she folded them. Looking up she had a moment to see a strange changeling as it dashed toward her before, like a limpet, the creature wrapped its forehooves around her. "Dare! I am so glad you are back!"
"Only one pony ever called me that…" Daring Do shrugged off the hug. "How long have you been impersonating my sister?" She practically shouted the words.
Please managed to hold her surprise for a few seconds, seeing her sister deadly serious about her misconception only made it impossible for her to keep back her giggles. "Dare, it is me. Please Do. Look, there was-"
Daring squinted at the changeling. "When we were foals, you made up a word to describe my mane color." It was both statement and question.
"Poopy rainbow." Please's smile was as wide as ever. "I called your mane a poop-colored rainbow."
Taking a deep breath, Daring centered herself. "Okay, I believe it is you, but how… what is this?" She gestured at the changeling, clearly indicating her changelingness.
"That is a long story… well, it isn't, but it is a strange one. Come on in, princess poopy-mane." Please put a leg around Daring's shoulders and started walking back inside only to feel Daring stiffen again. "Oh, yeah." Please gestured to the stallion who had drawn Daring's surprise. "Doctor Caballeron was here looking for you, I was glad he found me."
"My greatest adversary." Caballeron stepped forward, holding out a hoof. "I hope your journey was a success?"
"No thanks to…" Daring stopped, realizing that she hadn't had a single bit of Caballeron-induced resistance. "Well, yes it was. The tribe had the artifact, they kept it hidden in the temple of Whatmadeyoulook." She reached back into her pack and was lifting it out before realizing. She quickly shoved it back.
"Oh, please, I am not going to steal it. For one I have nopony paying me and, the second, I have already been paid in kindness." Caballeron grinned at the complete confusion on the adventurous pony's snout. "Sometimes, a smile from a mare and a filly can be all the payment a stallion needs."
Daring watched as her 'enemy' casually walked past her and Please, trotting from the castle as though he had not a care in the world.
"Was that really him? Could a changeling have taken his place?" Daring Do blinked at the back of the stallion, only turning back to her sister when she heard the changeling give a softly buzzing sigh. "What… oh… oh no!"
Please blinked. "What's wrong? Daring, what's wrong?"
"No, no no no. You can't have a thing for him!" Daring clopped a hoof down. "Can't you see reason? He is a bad pony!"
"He saved my plot. And did it for a filly." Please pointed inside. "I think I heard her arrive just before, you should come and meet her."
"You have a filly already? How long was I gone for?" Daring's world had come off the tracks and now everything had become suspect. Her sister just laughed.
"Oh, thank goodness you are still open." Fluttershy had her filly in a little pack on her side as she watched Sweetie Drops fetching her order from little glass cabinets. "I had meant to come and pick these up yesterday but Angel was getting more fussy than normal about his food."
"You just caught me, actually." Sweetie gave a chuckle. "Vinyl spread word that we are having a party every week now." She caught movement from the corner of her eye, familiar movement. "Nuzzles, not one more step!"
"But… but it's Fluttershy! And she tastes so good… I can smell the milk…" Nuzzles didn't take another step, but his head was pushed so far forward he almost contacted the yellow and pink pony. "I am thirsty!"
"Oh, hello there." Fluttershy spotted the little plant-based canine. "What do you dr-" She stopped, she saw each of the two heads looking under her belly with avarice. "Is this the creature that drinks-" Before he could get under her she dropped to her belly.
"Nuzzles!" Sweetie clopped over. "She is not your Fluttershy." She put a hoof in the way of the pegasus' snout, blocking the flower that was rushing toward it. "Take your flower back."
"But I am thirsty!" Nuzzles looked between Fluttershy and Sweetie, then padded under the earth pony.
"Is he going to-" Fluttershy got to watch, from her ground-level vantage, as Nuzzles moved up and under the bulging udder, that looked every bit as swollen as her own felt. "He-" She watched as a head took a teat each and the creature began to suckle.
"Sorry, going to… to need… a little…" Sweetie waved on her hooves, almost falling over before Fluttershy got up and steadied her.
"You really keep him fed like this?" Fluttershy had a wing over and around the mare, guiding her slowly to the floor and over to her side.
Sweetie nodded, blissfully. "Sometimes worse. He wouldn't have really gone for you…" She sprawled, her body trembling in delight at the sensations. "Okay, he would have, but he thought you were… uh, the other Fluttershy."
"He is kind of cute." Fluttershy crouched down and brought her hoof in gently, stroking one of Nuzzle's heads. "You are very hungry, aren't you?"
The head the pegasus had stroked released its teat and tilted up. "I was, did you know they only give me three meals a day?"
"This is your fourth, from me." Sweetie spoke the words with warmth. "And I know Lyra fed him as well. What are you doing with all the energy?" Nuzzles tilted his head back down, taking up the loose teat again, drawing a sigh of delight from Sweetie. "I swear, if it didn't feel so good…" The mare chuckled. "Mooo-"
Fluttershy snorted, then giggled. "I feel the same way sometimes. All little Slipper wants is milk, sleep, and changing." She lay down opposite the mare, making sure her back legs were firmly pinned together. "Have you and Lyra thought about having a little filly or colt?"
Sweetie realized the conversation had somehow gotten more serious, she reached a hoof down to stroke Nuzzle's back in the wrong direction. It took three strokes for the cute little abomination to let go of her and lap her teats a few times to clean them. "I want another later." He curled up where he was, resting his snouts against the mare's belly.
"I think that answers your question, a little." Sweetie reached a hoof down to stroke Nuzzles between the ears. "I don't think we are really ready for that sort of thing-"
Fluttershy giggled as her little filly crawled out of the pack, revealing a dusty orange fur covering them, with a pink mane and tail that would rival her mother's for adorableness. In the middle of the otherwise perfectly pony-like filly's forehead, was a changeling horn. "You think I thought I was ready? It was my first time… he was so gentle, and caring." She flushed hotly, brain winding back to the feelings Gel had given her, how he had made her feel so amazing.
Nuzzles lifted a head as a little pony got closer. He licked the filly's nose, getting the taste of long gone milk from her, and sharing a drop or two of his recent meal back when she licked him. A hoof rubbed gently down his back, he knew it was a warning but he didn't need it. "You are so cute." He licked the filly's snout again, getting a giggle from her.
Not at all sure how the encounter had started or would go, Sweetie kept stroking her hoof lightly down Nuzzle's back. "You are probably right, I think a foal might… oh Sweetie, don't you dare finish that. Lyra would kick me out of the house for even thinking it."
"Are you sure she would?" Fluttershy shrugged the pack off her back, giving her wings a ruffle and stretch. "If you want to, hint to her. Start it simple, let the idea get under her skin."
Sweetie blinked at the advice she was getting from a mare who she thought as guileless as a rabbit. "F-Fluttershy!" Sweetie thought it over, cursing the other mare three times in her head. The seed was planted. "Oh, that might be an issue… uh, we both have seeds…"
"Noticed that too? Tree hasn't had her cycle since she took a seed. I think, if you ask the tree nicely, it would let you off for a while, particularly for a foal." Fluttershy watched as her filly curled up with the monster from the Everfree. "Nuzzles. If you are a good boy, and ask nicely, next time you can have some milk."
One canine head shot up, looking excitedly at Fluttershy, while the other nuzzled in, getting comfortable with Slipper. "So, who are the chocolates for?" Sweetie felt relaxed, chatting on the floor of her shop. It was an odd situation but with the pressure in her udder eased, she could handle laying down much better.
"Gel, it is the anniversary of when we made little Slipper, I wanted to give him something to thank him." Fluttershy hadn't seen her filly go to sleep quite this easily before. "Maybe I should get her a pet."
"Fluttershy, in your house?" Sweetie chuckled.
"I am so not used to flying so much." Sleek ruffled her wings and gave a happy sigh as green fire took away the aches of muscles that no longer existed. "How do you do it?"
Cherry grinned. "I preen my feathers, I work my wings every morning and every night. Even if I have to spend all day waiting to talk to somepony… which I never do, I keep my wing muscles up." A dark snout nuzzled into her wing and the pegasus spread it back out.
"I will concede, they are lovely." Sleek gently worked her curved fangs through the mare's primaries, ensuring they were all straight and getting a happy little giggle from Cherry.
"Are they up to snuff?" Cherry felt completely at ease with her wife, she wouldn't let any other pony do this to her, that was for sure. She waited for the pondering changeling to wander around and preen her other wing before folding the limbs down.
"I guess they will do." Sleek leaned up and kissed Cherry, both giggling and trotting toward the open doors of the castle. Just as their hooves reached the threshold, the bass beat started. "W-What is that?"
Author's Note
A little green canine, two headed and looking very proud of himself, trotted out on the stage. "Hi! I hear that somepony has a question for me?" After a paper airplane zoomed around a few times it finally lands before him, just for one of his heads to suddenly tear it up.
"Nuzzles, they want to know... who tastes the best." A voice called from stage right.
"Oh! That is easy." Nuzzles' tail wagged quickly. "Fluttershy, Sweetie, Lyra... uh..." One head lifts to sniff the air while the other looks around. "I don't know many others, I can do tests, if there are any volunteers?"
A golden glow lifted the little canine up as a pristine white alicorn, amazing multi-colored mane and tail blowing in an unfelt breeze, waddled a little out onto stage. Setting the puppy on her back securely, Celestia smiles. "Fruit disguised as me? I think I have the best plan for the next Grand Galloping Gala, thank you."
She turns and starts to waddle slowly back off when a raised female voice from off to the side screamed, "I am not answering that, no way, no how!"
"Shining Armor, you are a princess now, you must take Court." Celestia turned to look out at the crowd. "I don't think our newest princess will be answering."
As the alicorn makes her way off stage completely, a little voice piped up. "Can I taste you?"
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