Chapter 6 : Checkmate

I stood before a giant ever expanded silhouette of Celestia in a selective spotlight. Below my feet a planet grew from the ground. I felt like a giant on this planet, watching the skies as I spun on the planet like a plate in a microwave. Before I could get comfortable I saw myself on a silver disk. I drunkenly looked about.3 strings surrounded me, a T-shaped bar, another disk held up by 2 strings, and something else on the other side. I couldn’t get a bead on it since it kept flickering in and out, but it was definitely blue. Wherever I was wouldn’t stay still, and I couldn’t reorient myself either. Nothing would stay still. All I could see are flashing images and colors spinning . Suddenly, with a flash of light. I found myself in a colorless city, on my knees. Alone in the streets with my hands tied behind my back. “Callum?” I hear from a feminine voice in the distance.

“Callum?”

My eyes shot open at the sound of Luna’s voice. I sat up in bed, my head was pounding. My sweat dampened the bedding below me leaving me with this harsh salty smell. I heard a few knocks on the door and slowly opening.

“Good morning Callum,.” She said with a yawn.

“Good morning Luna” I replied returning the yawn

“You’re anxious about today aren’t you?”

“Huh? Oh, is that was that all meant?”

“I believe so, human dreams are certainly strange. ”

I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and finally pulled the covers off of me. That’s when I finally saw how wet my pillow was from last night.

“Er...sorry about that.”

“All is fine, that’s what servants are for.” she said with a giggle. “Speaking of my staff, I told my advisor Night Eyes you would be meeting with her.”

“Well, I’d better not keep her waiting then.”

I reached into my bag for tomorrow’s ensemble and heading towards the door.

“The shower is in the bathroom which is on your left. Night Eyes will be waiting in the Lunar parliament's meeting room, which is the farthest door down the hall.” Just as I turned I heard her spark up again. “I understand your worry Callum, but everything will be fine if you just tell the truth.”

I nodded her way and gave her my farewells.”To her, casual sex is a vile atrocity.” Luna’s words from yesterday rang in my mind. I slipped into the bathroom for a quick shower and a hygiene check. The warm water did wonders for my worries. I felt refreshed and ready to go afterwards. I cracked open the door and stepped inside to meet the confidant.

The first thing I noticed were the sharp fangs and batlike wings she sandwiched herself between. Her oversized glasses magnified her half open violet eyes. The mare’s messy dark purple mane swirled towards the back of her neck in two tufts and her grey coat looked like it was overdue for a brushing. I can’t blame her for looking like a mess considering she’s probably really tired. I got the same “total brainiac” feeling about her that I did from Twilight Sparkle or Healthy Heart.

I took the seat directly across from her and got comfortable in it. Her face morphed into a defensively disinterested one. I was smiling at her, but she was looking at her notebook.

“Hi Night Eyes, I’m Callum Jamison.” I held my hand out.

“Hello.” she said reluctantly shaking my hand.

“Hey, didn’t Luna say there would be more than one advisor?”

“Well yes, but they all fell asleep.”

Her eye contact was shaky and she kept fidgeting. I could tell something was wrong with her, but maybe if I knew what, I could probably help.

“Is there something on your mind?”

“It’s nothing…”

“Are you sure? I wouldn’t want it to get in the way of our work.”

Her snout was tilted more downwards and her forelegs came closer together. She looked away for a second and then her eyes returned to me.

“Yeah, I’m sure. Let’s just get this over with so I can get to bed.”

“Okay.”

The batpony flipped through her notebook and then opened it up to a blank page. As she lifted the notebook to fold it back, I caught a glimpse at indented paragraphs with short lines of text scribbled above them on one of the pages. Her eyes shifted around with uncertainty before heading back to me.

“We’ll start with our position, then we’ll discuss our argumentation and in a few weeks I should have a detailed plan to communicate our ideas to the public. So tell me what you have and we’ll work from there.”

“Creatures of different species should be able to have sex, but only if they’re sentient.”

“I think you mean sapient, but yes. Simple enough.”

“Aren’t they the same thing?”

“No, the terms are completely different. Sapient is the ability to think and reason whereas sentience is merely the ability to be aware of your senses.”

“I’ve never heard that word before.”

“Well, it was originally used to describe the ancient sapien creatures in the mountains who passed knowledge from generation to generations.You seem to be some kind of variant of them.”

“How do you know so much about words?”

“Part of influencing ponies is understanding what the words you’re using mean and why they mean them. That’s how I make it easier for lunar ideas to be understood.”

I felt a little orange aura coming off of her. She was smiling the entire time. I smiled back at her, but she rolled her eyes at me when I caught her.

“Digressions aside, can you expand on that point?”

“I’d say we just tell them that sex is a way to connect with somepony of a different culture? If you can appreciate the human-I mean pony qualities of a member of another species, then why couldn’t you start a relationship? Furthermore, have sex. Even if there’s no children involved.”

“You seem to be more prepared than I’d imagine you’d be.”

“I’m just saying what I think is right.”

My bright orange aura glowed like a fire. It further ignited the aura she emitted and practically overpowered it. I had relit her dying candle. I could see the passion return to her eyes.

“I’ll play devil’s advocate then. What about sexually transmitted diseases? Especially since they live in completely different environments.”

“I understand that they’re dangerous and potentially deadly, but that’s the price some ponies are willing to pay. If these do happen, then you get to study them as they arise and try to eliminate them, which could make it easier to stop them if they try to spread from other sources.”

“Impressive. What else do you got?”

“Ponies should be free to do whatever they want as long as it doesn’t harm anypony else or it could have dangerous consequences. I haven’t read about it on your planet, but on mine, prohibition only puts more people in danger.”

I could feel the intensity in her eyes as she scribbled away in her notebook. She looked significantly more awake now than she did before. I could definitely see that she loves what she does.

“What’s next?” I asked.

“Well, here’s where we might have some trouble…” she said with her energy starting to fade back to its initial state. “My friend Spicy Scoops, who owns a printing press, is in the hospital.”

“Doesn’t she have a secondhand pony?”

“Hand..? Oh. No, she doesn’t. Her company is really small, but hers is the only one willing to feature our advertisements.”

“Really, Why is that?”

“The larger companies want to be represented by lunarian ideas mostly because of their...exploratory nature.”

“So what happened to Ms.Scoops?”

“I-I don’t feel comfortable sharing that.” She said looking up to me with shame.

“It’s okay, you don’t have too if you don’t feel like it. I still need you to figure this whole thing out. Okay?”

“I’ll do my best.” her voice staggered with pessimistic uncertainty.

I pushed the chair back and got out of the room. I managed to play it cool until I left, but my stomach was in knots. “This is really bad…” I whispered under my breath. The pressure was back on and it was unrelenting. Should I lie to both of the alicorns? As I walked to the throne room I saw a guard.

“Could you find me a quill and parchment by any chance?”

He pointed me directly to the throne room and explained the royal library would sate my plight. I thanked him and left in that direction. I quickly deflected the thought of going another way or turning around. I stood in front of the giant wooden door. As if I didn’t feel small enough, it towered over me by several feet.

Breath in.

Breath out.

I slowly pushed the door open and found myself in front of Celestia. She looked at me expectantly, which almost made me feel like a criminal. What the hell was I thinking?

“Hello Callum. Do you have something to tell me?”

My eyes scanned from left to right and I could feel the sweat raining from my face. Gritting my teeth and tightening my lips locking my diminishing confidence behind them. I closed my eyes and slowly pried them open.

“Yes.”

“Well, go on.” She really looked concerned now. Which made me feel even more pressure.

“T-that thing that I wanted to tell you was…”I gulped. “I...I” There’s no way out of this. If I can’t lie to Twilight or Applejack then how the hell was I supposed to lie to Princess Celestia of all ponies? But, if she finds out about what I’ve been doing I could be toast. If I do lie it might buy us enough time to legally prove the harmlessness of my actions before she finds out. Here goes nothing. Dammit, I told my mother I would do the right thing. I’ve disrupted Lyra’s friendship, I’ve hurt Twilight's feelings and here I am trying to convince myself to lie to the pony who literally ripped a hole in the universe just to make my dreams come true. Even if every event from here on out ends in a disaster, I could at least do this one important thing right.

Breath in.

Breath out.

“Princess.” I said. She looked at me inquisitively. “I-I’ve been having sex with some of the residents here.”

I knew this feeling. I knew it from when I first met Applejack to when Twilight had pulled me aside after my first meeting with Fluttershy. Something about the way she looked communicated that she really didn’t like what I said. Disappointment. Anger. Calm. It was almost uncanny, yet I could see the stilted transition like an animator flipping through unfinished work. Her spectra flared uncontrollably. I felt my heart stop for a moment as her brief glare shot straight through my heart like a bullet. She flicked her chin up and burst into a hysterical laugh. Bubbles of pinkish red laughter spectra exploded from her. Rather than clumping and evaporating, the spectra bumped and exploded. A rather odd detail I had to peel my eyes off of to make sure I didn’t further compromise my intrapersonal security.

“Really? That’s all you had to tell me?” she said wiping a tear from her face. I could feel a hint of anger in her voice.

“W-well yeah.”

“Oh, Callum. You looked like you were going to pass out for a moment.”

The rusty red aura wiggled and vibrated from her. It gave me a strong sense of betrayal. It was troubling, but the fact that I wasn’t instantly incinerated for my misdeeds was a blessing in and of itself. I wiped the sweat off my brow.

“Why don’t you call Twilight over to the dinning hall? I’m sure she’d get a laugh out of this little story.”

I nodded breathing a heavy sigh of relief. I’ve never felt happier in my life. I felt like I was floating my way to the library. Twilight sat at a desk with her face stuffed in an oversized book.

“Hey Twilight, what are you reading?”

“The Finished Works of Starswirl the Bearded. Did you know that the wormhole spell you came here from was actually derived from the one in this very book?”

“No wonder why it looks so tiring to use. By the way, what would that actually do to a unicorn?”

“Well, according to starswirl, the spell was so powerful that he couldn’t control it and ended up becoming trapped in it.”

“Holy shit...I’m guessing it’s a lot safer to use now, especially for a pony like Celestia.”

“I’m surprised she’s even able to keep the sun up. It could take months to fully recover from something like that.”

“Oh…Speaking of recharging. Celestia invited us to go eat.”

We chatted on the way to the dining room. Memories of when I first came to equestria flooded back into my headspace. As we waited for our food, twilight and I engaged in various conversations ranging from her fillyhood memories to the changeling attack on the castle. At last our food arrived, but I wasn’t quite ready to indulge yet because something was still on our mind.

"So earlier today, I told her about the thing."

"You mean that thing?" her voice escalated.

"Yeah, that thing."

"ARE YOU CRAZY?!” Twilight yelled.

“I know you’re worried. I’m worried too, but it’s best that we try not to panic. ”

“Worried doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel right now. This is bad like, really bad. If-” She cut herself off with her own hoof.

“Luna told me that everything would be fine and Celestia was weird." As I said that her face morphed into absolute madness. "But hey, I'm not a smoldering pile of ash right?”

“That's horrible! She probably invited you here so she could listen in on us on her way back from Luna’s room.”

I could clearly picture a tinfoil hat on her head. I almost made me laugh for a second.

“You’re being paranoid, and besides, even if she is I have a mostly solid backup plan for worst case scen--mmm.”

She quickly stuffed the handkerchief wrapped around my neck into my mouth. She looked left to right briefly and shushed me. I shrugged my shoulders and decided I was better off just eating my food than trying to argue with her. That I did. The pancakes left my stomach inflated like the balloon Twilight came to Ponyville on. I was practically dragging a cinder block around just trying to move.

“We should get back to ponyville as soon as possible.”

“Yes! Let’s get going!”

She very hurriedly scurried back to the library and I slogged much farther behind. I still had to tell Luna some important things. Of course I had to make absolutely sure it got to Luna safely. As I grabbed the quill I braced myself. If I told Luna about Spicy Scoops injury she’d definitely investigate and Night Eyes was obviously very uncomfortable with what happened. I wouldn’t feel right just ratting her out like that. I walked to Luna’s door with the note in hand and slipped it underneath. On my way out I ran into Celestia again.

“Princess, with all due respect, what are you doing here?”

“Hello Callum.” she said pulling a bundle of tickets out of her crown. “This will get you back home.”

“Thanks.”

“It was my pleasure, thank you for coming. I hope to hear more from you soon.”

We exchanged farewells and stayed on my path. The interaction was so strange that the weirdness resided on my face, slowly sliding off like the grime on a jalopy. Just outside of the castle I saw Berry and Heart giggling to each other about something. I caught up to them and they looked at me, unable to contain their laughter, they snickered some more. Not knowing whether or not I was going to like or hate what I was going to hear, I opened my mouth.

“What are you two laughing about?”

“Well let’s just say we were just sharing some...retrospective evaluations.” Healthy Heart said hardly able to retain her laughter.

“That’s one way to put it.” Berry added.

“Retrospective evaluations?” I asked with a very inquisitive look on my face.

“You know, about...your performance.”

Suddenly it hit me faster than an orgasm. Of course they were talking about sex.

“Geez Cal, you’re more dense than usual today. What’s going on?”

“Eh...It just reminds me of what happened with Celestia.”

I hated that I had to recount those events a 3rd time today, it just made me feel that much more uncomfortable about it. I felt like I was covered in mud and had no way to wash it off. The azure mare seemed indecisive at first, her eye kept darting between her friend and me. She closed her eyes and then her lips curved into a devilish smile and her friends reaction was pretty much the exact opposite. Berry punched my knee playfully.

“Well aren’t you a curt colt.”

“Oh no, this is awful...” Heart muttered

“Calm down Heal it’s clearly not his ghost we’re talking to. I just checked.”

“Yeah, but I want too…” She blushed and shot a troubling averted gaze. It made my heart quell.

“H-Hey, maybe we’re better off talking about sex?”

“How about something much better than just talking?”

Berry nodded and beckoned me to come along. Her confrere followed her without a word. She seemed to know where the flirtatious mare was taking me. The fact that they weren’t telling me anything was making me, a little bit on the nervicited side. While I liked sexcapades as much as the next guy, I liked knowing as much.

After dragging me around for longer than it would take to learn a few foreign languages, we finally made it. The gargantuan baroque mansion in front of me had to be the second largest building in Canterlot. The first one had to be the one that held the price tag. I couldn’t help but find it a little strange that they brought me to a place like this. I decided to keep my mouth shut for this, because it looks like there’s something to show for it.

She flashed a quiet smile as the risque rascal give the intricately designed door a good knock. The apprehension built faster than a lego enthusiast on Adderall as I heard hooves clacking and a door knob clicking. Slowly the door opened..and wow. She was tall and slender, her body was roughly in the shape of Celestia. She had a glowing white coat her ruffled pink mane to the left drifted with my eyes. Her ass was more pronounced than the short “A” sound in a southern accent. She definitely had the prettiest face I’ve ever seen. It was very definitively curved into a pleasantly symmetrical rounded V. Her cheek bones had just enough volume to make her bright indigo-violet eyes explode from her face.

Her image was etched carefully and flawlessly onto my cerebrum. My penis on the other hand, couldn’t decided whether or not to burst out of the belt and hook her towards me, or try to launch me like an unsuspected pogo stick. It definitely tried to do both and was--to our mutual dismay--restrained by my pants. I heard the uproarious laugh of my company of two slowly fade in as I tuned into reality. The mare in front of me slightly giggled as well. I was already blushing so the only thing in me that changed was the feeling of embarrassment.

“C’mon sugar, she wants to hear your introduction, not see it.” She said elbowing my waist

“W-well, I’m Callum Jamison, the ambassador of planet earth. What’s your name?”

“My name is Fleur De Lis. You don’t strike me as much of a diplomat, but I’ll take your word for it.”

“To be fair, that wasn’t entirely my fault.” I said scratching my head.

“I get that everytime a stallion runs into a streetlight.” she said flicking her hair.

“Well at least you’re giving my friend Healthy Heart plenty of business.”

“Hey, mild to severe head trauma is a serious issue.” Heart interjected playfully

We laughed for a bit. More quips were exchanged and the conversation continued inside. The place felt even bigger on the inside. The entrance fountain was like something out of secret agent movie, but then again entrance fountains are kind of like that to begin with. Of course, knowing the chauffeur, she didn’t take me here for a tour. We soon found ourselves in a lavish bedroom. I was happy to know where this was going. I really needed to get away from today.

“Well, go at it Lis, I trained him well.”

“Please…” I added laying on the bed with an alluring pose. I held a recently retrieved flower in my mouth for effect.

“Well, I don’t know Berry.”

“Why’s that?”

“I know you’re trying to make me feel better and all, but…”

“But what?” I softly interjected.

“Nevermind…” she added looking towards the floor regrettably.

The tall and elegant mare inched herself closer and closer to the bed. Her hooves shaking ever so slightly as she approached. This odd black scribbly aura came off of her. Her discomfort reminded me of when I talked to Celestia earlier today. I cringed at the memory looking away as if not to send the wrong signals. I also got a lot more uncomfortable as the aura grew and jagged olive green lights sprouted from the black tangled mess. My eagerness to proceed was diminishing. After a few minutes she worked herself onto the bed. Her friends looked at her with a look of regret.

“Hey Berry this doesn’t sound like a good idea anymore.” Heart whispered to her confrere.

“You’re right, but I don’t think we can change her mind.”

“It’s not too bad. Just like the old days right?” She said laughing uneasily.
Her unease was really starting to get to me. The more she tried to hide her discomfort, the more it showed. I was really starting to catch wind of it myself.

“I’m starting to get some weird vibes right now.”

“What’s wrong?”

I started to get up. She looked at me with rather sad eyes. My penis was pulsating from my pants, begging me to just hurry up and plow her. I tried my hardest to push myself away from those thoughts, but the more I tried the harder it was. I could feel my desires slowly getting the better of me. With a flash of blue my will to deny them any further was gone. I laid with my side on the bed and combed through her mane with my right hand only to reveal the large bruise on her forehead. I acknowledged it in the moment, but saw it only as nothing more than something to avoid during foreplay.

I turned over and put a hand on her cheek. Her pupils filled her eyeballs with surprise. She let out a quick gasp that decayed as quickly. The two mares slowly made their way out of the room. I brought my attention back to the lady of the hour. She looked down and then back at me with half closed eyes. She reached over to my crotch area shaking the whole way through. She was acting like Fluttershy, which really threw me into high gear. I unzipped my pants, working them off hurriedly and tossing them aside. It’s a good thing I decided to go commando today. I moved my foot so I could lay in an open leg position. She pulled herself forward so that she’d be lying right next to my face. Her legs positioned so that all she had to do was pull herself up onto my cock.

I could feel her soaking wet entrance on the base of my penis. I moved my hands down her soft furry shoulders and onto her flank. I gave her ass a squeeze. I massaged her cutie mark with my forefingers. I pulled my hands back up to her thighs so I could feel her boobs. I was never much of a “horse boob” kind of guy, but for this one I made an exception. They were practically human sized. I circled her areolas with my index finger and gave the big boob a squeeze. Her entire face ripened with excitement. Her legs shivered and she cooed. I felt the cool feeling of the paper white mare’s juices flowing down my balls constantly like a river. My cock throbbed rubbing against her labia urging more fluids out of her body.

I decided that it was finally time. I grabbed onto her ass and with the help of her thighs pulled her on top of my cock. I winced at the shock. While I didn’t catch the abnormally loud squeal, it decided it was going to stay in my ears. Her vagina fit my cock like a glove. Unlike a glove it (To be continued) I pulled her face in for a kiss which she only caught at the last minute. My tongue wrapped around hers like it had a black belt in jiu jitsu. I felt her pussy coming up a few inches and then crashing back down. She tossed her pink mane back as she broke the kiss. The mare pulled her waist from my cock and turned around backwards instead for a reverse cowgirl position.

I grabbed her butt with both hands and let her do her thing. Her back wiggled left to right when she bounced pulling my penis back and forth. The tight grip of her juicy corridors were starting to get the better of me. My cock was like a stirring spoon and her sweet honey pot was the one doing the stirring. Her waist moved masterfully, and I was more than okay to let her drive. She bounced like a pogostick. Going higher and higher with each bounce. She went so high that she a few inches off of my cock and back down. I couldn’t keep up with her energy. My orgasm was quickly approaching. She bounced off of my cock again, but this time it throbbed towards me causing her to push it down in my direction before I came.

“Fuck.” I muttered

Yikes. My suit had strings of my own sticky white cum hanging from it. I almost felt like that was a metaphor for something. It was iced finely like a desert. Fleur wasn’t paying attention and she kept rubbing labia up the base of my cock pumping more cum from it. I even had some hanging off of my chin. I was stunned with a look of disgust at the mess I made. She looked back at me with shock.

“Oh my, I’m sorry.”

“It’s no big deal, we had a good time didn’t we?”

“Well…”

Oh shit. She didn’t cum. I felt kind of guilty for that. I gestured her to lay on her back and I fingered her until she blasted me with her juices. She then blasted me with apologies. I asked her where I could get my clothes washed. She sent me to a bucket with a stick and told me that it would be easier to explain if I didn’t bring it to the dry cleaner. After giving my clothes much needed attention, I was left shirtless. At least it was easier to fit in now. There were a few things on my mind.

On my way through that maze of a house, I ran into Berry Blast and Healthy Heart chatting on the entryway fountain.

“Hey Cal, did you have fun?”

“Yes and no.” I said then going to explain what happened to my suit. I was predictably laughed at.

“Did you get too excited to take it off or somethin’?”

“Yeah, something like that. Anyways, what’s with the Fleur De Lis?”

“Well that’s up to her to reveal sugar.” she solemnly replied.

We walked back up to Fleur’s rooms and we saw her looking mournfully at a picture of a foal and a stallion. It was a quiet moment. After all I went through today, that was all I could ask for. With this all I could do was ponder. What will Celestia do? What will I hear from Fleur? What happened to Spicy Scoops and what does Night Eyes have to do with it? There’s was a lot on my mind. But for now, it was better for me to be still.

Author's Note

YIKES! Writing this author's note is going to put me a few minutes past my deadline, but I don't really care. I would have been fine that power surge hadn't killed everything for a few hours, so I'll be comfortable in that at least. But more about the struggles of writing the chapter later. For now thank you for reading and I'll catch you guys on the follow up blog post.