Author's Note

Well, now we get to the new material, written before this was published, but still 4 months after the rest. If there feels like a shift in focus, it's due to that. Sorry.

Storming The Castle!

Luna, after possibly one of the best night’s sleep that she has had in a long, long time, stretches out on the bed. Memories of her and her stallion’s passionate time together the night before bounce in her mind, fresh in her mind, and her loins. Her tongue runs along her lips, and she goes to kiss her stallion.

Only to find him not there, but she can smell pancakes. She smiled and walked downstairs without pausing to pull on even a tee shirt. Slowly she padded downstairs, hoping to sneak up on her new love.

Button, fully dressed, is ready for sneaking upon, as he hums to himself. He is busy in the kitchen, thanking the fact that his mom always wanted to make sure he knew how to cook, even if he whined about it. He did admittedly feel bad for leaving Luna in bed, but if he was going to ‘have’ a princess as his beloved, he was ready to start proving his worth.

Luna smiled and covered his eyes. “Guess who?”

At first, Button’s response was to be a high pitched scream of surprise. It caught in his throat as he felt Luna’s heaving bosom pressed against the back of his head, and his cheeks turned a bright shade of red. He then paused again, knowing that Luna liked to play games. He only hoped it wouldn’t get him in trouble.

He swallowed hard and shrugged. “C-Celestia?”

Luna giggles before kissing his ear. “Mmm, I don’t like my cake that much.”

He smiled to himself, having enjoyed the giggle, and thought hard as to what might be the best answer he could give, before grinning. “Wow, Snips, your impressions are getting really good!”

Luna wraps her arms around his chest with a happy hum. “Mmm, nuhuh.”

Button let out a happy sigh, not quite realizing how just how little was between his head and her chest. “Well, then I guess the only option is-” His eyes widened as he looked ahead of him, and he yelled, “Burning!” He then shot forward to try to save the pancakes on the pan.

Luna took a step back to keep out of the way, intrigued by just watching him. In the palace kitchen, she knew of no pony who would go to such feats. Rather ,they’d consider the dish destroyed and restart then to serve a less than perfect dish to her or Celestia.

Button frowned as he slid the set of pancakes off, making sure they fell on the left side of the plate he had by the stove. Upon a close inspection, one could tell that there were two piles on the plate, and any pancakes with some sort of screw up on them, or were just smaller, were on the left side. “Don’t worry, Luna, I have more batter.”

Luna smiled before grabbing a pancake from the left side. “I’m feeling adventurous.” She took a big bite of the deformed pastry. “Perfect.”

Button blushed at the praise, went to respond, before shutting up with a small yelp, and finally noticing the sort of dress that his princess had chosen to wear. “U-um, y-yeah. I’m happy you l-like it.”

“Mmm it’s flawed, and that’s what makes it perfect, just like my stallion.” Luna took another bite licking her lips.

Button fidgeted as his eyes took in her naked body, and the thought that it was supposedly his not able to quite leave his mind. Then again, he couldn’t just expect her to be ready at any time a young stallion like him was ready. She was too regal than that. He turned back to his pancakes, rationalizing that it was just her dislike for clothes as he said, “Um, same to you?”

Luna laughed joyfully. “I thank thee for the compliment!”

A soft sigh escaped the nervous colt, happy that he didn’t seem to somehow screw up as he flipped over the next couple pancakes. “So, today we’re heading to your old home, right? Is there anything else you hoped to do?”

“No. I really just wanted to see what remains. Possibly clean it up some.” Luna sighed with a sad smile. “It’d be nice to have a place I can stay other than Canterlot.”

Button for a moment gets a wonderful, but also terrifying idea that he quickly shakes away. It’s a little too early for those sorts of thoughts anyways. Instead, he merely reaches over, and grabs ahold of one of her hands, squeezing it tightly. “Well, that sounds like fun, and I’d love to help you check it out.”

Luna beams. “Wonderful! We can take a picnic with us.”

A smile crosses Button’s lips as he nods, and then he decides to finally address the elephant in the room, at least, to him. “That does sound nice, but I doubt you’ll wanna lay on the stone with, um, nothing on.”

Luna glanced down and blushed, “Ah, yes I should go upstairs and get dressed huh?”

Button’s own cheeks turned scarlet at this point, but he decided he should do something to at least acknowledge that, while it made him uncomfortable, he had actually enjoyed the nice, morning visit. He reached over, his hand brushing against her bare thigh, and whispered, “When we need to go, yeah.”

Luna smiled and held his hand there stroking it. “We don’t need to go right away… but I should put something on. It’s a bit cool this morning, and I was hoping we might be able to talk about well us?” Her cheeks flushed a bit as she glanced down.

Button thought for a few moments over the proposal, before flipping his hand over, and squeezing hers. “I can do one better! Why don’t we take these pancakes to go, and that way we’ll have something to talk about while we walk through the castle? If things become problematic, well… then we don’t have to just leave. We can just separate for a bit to clean up. How does that sound?”

“Sounds wonderful! Let me go and get dressed and we can get going.” Luna beamed and headed upstairs to dig through her duffle bag.

Button smiled as he watched her go, before the thought occurs to him that he should probably make sure he doesn’t end up with a stiffy in public. No reason to try to embarrass Luna like that at least. When he looks down though… nothing.

He didn’t actually get hard from Luna just standing there, or having her tits being pressed against his head. He blinks a few times, wondering what the hell happened, before also realizing that he still had pancakes to put away. He couldn’t quite shake the thought though.

Luna walked back downstairs in baggy jeans and a hoodie. “Alright, are you ready?” She smiled, holding her backpack.

Button beamed back at her, plastic bag in hand with the pancakes, as he realized he forgot to do something. He walked over, and, without saying anything, stood on the balls of his feet, and pecked Luna on the lips. “Y-yeah, I am.”

Luna pressed back against the kiss, extending it a bit. “You are so sweet, mine stallion.”

He gently took her hand as the two began to walk out of the house, a blush applying itself softly to his cheeks at the words. “My mom always told me that there wasn’t any reason to be mean, so why not be sweet? E-especially to those you l-love.”

Luna squeaked, then smiled. “I love thee as well.” She scuffed her sneaker a bit, nervous at having said it.

Button bit into his cheek, worried about having brought up their topic even before they got to the Everfree, but swiftly pushed it away. He’d said that she mattered a lot to him before, and what they had done last night should have erased all doubts in him. He stepped closer, wrapping his arm around her, before he whispered, “I… I want to make sure you know that I mean it. It’s part of why I can’t even believe I can say it, because the idea of a stupid little pauper like me somehow loving a princess, and getting it returned… it’s terrifying to me if I think about it too hard. But,” he said as he squeezed her tight, “any time I look at you, that fear eases, at least a bit.”

Luna smiles, squeezing his hand. “Would you believe that I hold that same fear? I worry how others will feel about this… but I find I care not.”

A small smile crossed Button’s lips as he thought about people yelling at him to get away from their princess, before he wipes the floor with her in Dungeon Fighter. “It might help if we made some sort of event out of it. Let them see the two of us playing video games together like we always have.”

“Aye, twoud be fun… Oh! What if we sponsored a… Lawn party at the palace?” Luna smiled her ears perking up.

Button raised an eyebrow at her. “So everyone could come with their grills, before realizing you meant LAN?”

“Ah… Tis that how it is pronounced?” Luna blushed giggling a bit. “Yes, a LAN party.”

He smiled at that, before nodding and taking in the scenery of the Everfree as they walked into it. “I don’t see why we couldn’t. There would be plenty of space to hook up computers and such. Only issue might be getting enough people for a real use of all that space.”

“What about the ponies we game with? We could have a competition LAN Party at the palace. Winner receives… A kiss from my sister….or some such similar thing?” Luna shrugged, moving a branch over her head.

Button was already shaking his head though as he ducked underneath the branch. “We’d want to make it a real competition then, as a lot of the people we play with aren’t truly competitive people. Not only that, but you’d need to raise the prize a bit, so that they have a reason to come.”

“What would you suggest then?” Luna glanced back cocking her head. Back before a kiss from Tia would be a feat stallions would kill for.

Button thought about it for only a split second, having seen where the conversation may lead. “Well, a cash prize, or a sponsored set of equipment wouldn’t be bad, and wouldn’t need to be that big. It could also make you a patron to E-sports. As for your kiss idea, it would probably be good to keep as a symbolic sort of thing, though it’d be more appropriate for-” He stopped for a moment, the thought of another stallion kissing Luna almost being enough to make him throw up.

“For?” Luna paused in her stride, concerned.

Button bit into his cheek, before letting a sigh out. “For you to kiss them, since you’re the one who would set up the event, and plays video games.”

Luna blinked, then began to laugh at the joke her stallion had just told. imagine! Somepony wishing for a kiss from my lips rather than Tia!

Button scowled a little bit at the laughter, sharply saying, “What’s so funny?”

“The idea ponies would regard me as greater than mine sister… She has always been beyond me, mine stallion.” Luna shook her head. “I just thought your joke… funny tis the word?”

Button stopped, just before the bridge to the castle, actually feeling hurt from the words. “Then what about me?”

Luna blinked as she tried to puzzle out his meaning, horror dawning upon her. Oh no, he is starting to realize what a poor mate I am… “...We doth not mean to encourage thee to woo our sister!” Luna quickly explained, trying to resolve the situation. “We know we are second rate that you care enough not to see… Please do not leave us for another.”

Button was just confused, and now angry, “L-leave you for another? Luna, your sister could have come up to me, completely naked, and said she was in heat, and I wouldn’t have fucking touched her!” He seethed for a moment, his hands balling into fists at his side. “I don’t love you because you’re hot. I love you because you’re Nightblade; one of the best mares I have ever known. Period.”

Luna simply nodded before turning back to the bridge. “Alright… shall we continue then?”

He wasn’t just okay with an alright though, and too incensed to just back down. Tears now came to the edges of his eyes as he stepped closer. “Did everything I do for these past two days mean nothing? Did you think they were just a ploy to be able to sleep with you? Is that the sort of stallion you think I am?”

“No! I think thee to be a wondrous stallion! You chose to be with me… As worthless as I may be.” Luna shook her head. “Tis an amazement I can scarcely believe true and were I not able to traverse dreams, I would believe mineself to be within one.”

Finally, Button calmed down, able to hear the real pain in her voice now, and he walked over to her, placing a hand on her cheek so she could look him in the eyes. “Luna, no. You’re an amazing mare, with a kind, warm heart that I wish more could see. You are only possibly below your sister because you decide to be, but you are far from worthless.”

He swallowed hard as his hands began to shake a bit. “You’re worth far more than some stupid, shy colt who wouldn’t say we could just get an apartment, if you really needed somewhere away from the castle.” He then tried for a half hearted smile, hoping she understood.

“An...apartment?” Luna looked down into his eyes.

Button nodded slowly, trying to make sure he could get the words out, and hating as his voice cracked every few words. “Y-you may be a princess, but when you need to get away from it all, wouldn’t just an apartment, taken care of by s-someone you trusted be enough? L-like the one you l-loved?”

Luna stopped, her mouth opening a bit at the idea. Not a palace full of servants and chefs… an apartment with just the two of us… living as normal ponies cleaning after ourselves… cooking… “I...” She shook her head, and then smiled. “Yes!”

Button wrapped her in his arms, after almost being tackled to the ground by her sudden hug, smiling himself. One question burned in his mind though. Not if he was going too fast, or if this was a bad idea. No, none of those.

Much more pressing was how he was going to tell his mom.