"This is your house? Seems… I don't know, small?" Ahuizotl walked in the little building behind Daring Do, her head rotating around to look at the mess. "Is it always like this?" She gestured with one foreleg toward the papers scattered everywhere, the books thrown willy-nilly around.

Daring Do knew just what he was after. Striding over all the scattered books, he reached under the bookshelf and pulled out a little notebook. "Well, of course it is a mess. I am surprised you never came here to ransack it like all the others do. Caballeron was the worst. For a year he actually paid some henchponies to mess it up every month. I… might have given up cleaning about then."

"Were they after that?" Ahui stepped over the detritus to reach her stallion. My stallion… I love thinking like that. I should say it more. Reaching around with her tail, she began putting books back on the shelves.

"Who knows. Last time I came back here I had one of the bearers of the Elements of Harmony with me. Useless in a fight but boy could she fly." Daring held the book in one wing and flicked through it with the other. He stopped and turned to Ahuizotl, "Flying isn't everything. She might have been a pegasus but she was three hands short of the mare I want by my side."

Ahuizotl stared at Daring, heart beating in her chest. That was the sappiest thing I have ever heard, the worst ever. She smiled and stepped forward to kiss "her stallion" on the cheek. It was great! "Don't think I won't get jealous of her, you are the hottest stallion ever to raid the Temple of The Amorous Amazons, after all." She wanted to do things—a lot of things—but there was a time limit on this one apparently. "So who do you think did it this time?"

Daring blinked in surprise at the question and it took Ahui waving one foreleg in a gesture to the room to remind him of the house and its state. "Oh, well it certainly wasn't Ahuizotl." He smiled widely, cocking the grin a fraction to one side. "And I think 'Doctor' Caballeron is a little too busy to have gotten here in time."

"Whoever it is," Ahuizotl turned for the door and made sure to give Daring Do a great look at her plot, "I am sure I can… handle them, later." The little hand on the end of Ahui's tail flicked a finger, catching Daring on the nose as he stared after her. "Come on, if that is all you need we should head off."

His heart beating like crazy in his chest, Daring lost all track of time, reality, and decorum as the plot of his dreams literally walked from his house. Without Ahui in sight, Daring trotted to catch up. "Well, of course. Still worries me who it might be, I normally like to plan ahead when it comes to the baddies' plots." Daring froze, looking at Ahui. "I mean, a mare's schemes. No, wait, my enemies' schemes!"

"I know what you mean, come on Daring, and close your mouth." Ahuizotl almost purred out loud at how easy it seemed to be to manipulate her stallion.

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As it turned out, Ahuizotl's hopes of spending time on the train "in flagrante delicto" were shattered when Daring Do lifted out writing materials. "Daring, what are you doing?" She watched the stallion settle the pad down and start writing on it. "Hey, that's my name!"

"Well, of course." Daring Do leaned over and closed his mouth around the finger pointing at his work. Gently working his teeth on the soft flesh, Daring eased back his bite and sucked on the finger as he pulled back. "This, is what brings in the money. My stories."

"Ooh, and I am in this one?" Ahui curled up beside Daring, pressing to his side. "Is this our latest adventure?" She looked down at the pad and saw that Daring had continued, holding the quill in his wing.

"Yup, not sure how I am going to get around all the things we did, these are meant to be for young mares, not-" Daring cut off sharply as Ahui's ever-sneaky tail curled up and under his own; the stallion knew before it even got to its target where it was going. The fingers closed around the base of his balls and he gave a soft sigh. "Not naughty mares who just want one thing." He tilted his head and kissed Ahui.

"Then target them at older mares." Ahui began to rhythmically squeeze and release the base of Daring's jewels; and this close she could hear his soft sighs each time. "I am sure there are readers, like maybe this Element bearer would like to know how hard your adventures really are. Keep writing, if you stop I will squeeze tighter."

"What-" Daring froze as a tighter squeeze did come. "What if squeezing tighter is what I want?" The question might have gotten the mare to ease up if it wasn't for the strained note in his voice.

"I think somepony is lying. My stallion," oh it is nice to say, "likes a little attention there, but not too much." She eased back the grip and watched as Daring's quill started rushing across the page, writing up a storm—a very naughty storm. It wasn't sex, but Ahui had learned to appreciate other aspects of their games. "We didn't kiss then, I think I groped you." She reached one foreleg up to tap the applicable spot with a digit.

"Artistic embellishment." Daring Do wasn't sure he ever would be able to think of sex without their little dominance games again. Leaning up, he nipped down on Ahui's ear. The retribution was swift and had him groaning in a way that had nothing to do with real pain.

"Let go, Daring." Ahuizotl was wincing a little, Daring had a rather sensitive part of her ear in his teeth. She started to grip tighter and then sighed; letting her grip loosen, she rubbed his balls instead of strangling them.

"Thank you, but you can squeeze a little." Daring kissed the mare's ear "better" as a reward. But he couldn't help himself, trailing more kisses, he traced down Ahui's head and along her jaw until he connected his lips with hers. Stretching a wing over Ahui's back, he pulled her against him as the kiss deepened.

He is really good at catching me like this. Ahui couldn't really complain, not without breaking the kiss. She let go of Daring's privates and just hugged him with her tail. Eventually they parted and she gave a sigh of happiness. "That doesn't get you out of writing. I want to see the sexiest story ever."

"I can't publish it under my name, I would be ruined." Daring had his wing up and working again, describing the adventure in rough detail first. "I guess I could just publish under 'Daring Do,' nopony would ever suspect it was me."

The sound of the inter-carriage door opening startled both ponies. "Daring Do? Ahuizotl?" A young stallion wearing a conductor's uniform flared his wings in surprise. "That is the best cosplay I have ever seen! On your way home from the Darecon?"

Daring Do looked to Ahuizotl. "Uh, yeah. How'd you guess?" Daring stood up to show off his "book accurate" outfit. "Come on Ahui, let's put on a show!" He trotted to the middle of the train car and posed as if he were reaching for something.

"Incorrigible." Ahuizotl got up and leaped at Daring, half landing on him, reaching for an imagined artifact. Tilting her head, she looked up to the conductor, "Is this a good pose? I hope you have a camer-" her words died in her throat and she pushed Daring to one side as she landed on the other.

A bolt of blue fire lanced between the two. "Damnit, quit moving." The conductor grumbled and started to activate the wand again, this time pointing right at Daring. "Now you die, Daring Do!"

Ahui collided into the side of the pegasus, knocking the wand clear and, grabbing hold of his neck, she pulled him off balance. "No, you don't get to point anything nasty at my stallion." Ahui landed beside the downed pegasus and was just about to lash out with her back legs when a single forehoof collided with his head. "Daring?" She looked up and jumped to Daring Do's neck, hugging tightly.

" 'Your stallion'?" Daring kissed Ahui and had a great view over her shoulder to see nearly six more earth ponies, one of which had another wand out. "Time to run!" Putting his hooves to work, Daring started galloping toward the back of the train, and away from the henchponies.

Her heart thudding in her chest, Ahui gave a whoop of excitement and was running beside Daring, kicking forward and jumping over him when a stray shot nearly hit her. "Are they always this… aggressive?"

Daring hit the doors at the end of the car and braced as he slammed through the next one; the relief of seeing the car empty was short lived, as another bolt of magic fizzed past and knocked a hole in the side of the train. "Not usually, normally they just tie me up or something." Leaping past a large bench, Daring unloaded with his back hooves and sent it flying into a blast that would have hit Ahui dead-on.

"What is the plan?" Ahui—having not slowed down like Daring had—reached the next pair of doors first and unlatched the first and launched herself through the glass of the next one; only to unlatch it moments before Daring came through. "We are going to run out of train eventually, probably before they run out of wand."

"Yeah…" Daring looked around and spotted the hole in the side of the train. "I got an idea. You duck under the train through the hole there and I will make it look like we went to the next carriage."

Ahui had no chance to even hope to counter the plan because Daring was already off at a gallop. "Stupid, stupid, stupid…" She stepped out the hole and grabbed the floor as she dropped. Swinging between the rails and the underside of the carriage, she got a bit of a shock. "Well this isn't so bad."

Daring Do charged to the end of the car and opened the door. Turning, he saw the group of ponies advancing. "What is this all about?"

"The Alicorn's Eye wasn't meant to live in some museum, Daring Do." The stallion with the wand raised it to point right at Daring. "Just jump off and forget this one."

"Like buck!" Daring slammed the door and dove into the last carriage, zigging and zagging to avoid wand-blasts. "Perfect, the last car." He dashed through and all the way through. Out the back of the train Daring flew and then flew back over the top. Eyes settling on Ahuizotl, he felt a moment of panic. "What is she… oh!"

Ahuizotl waited for the ponies to enter the last car before sneaking up and pulling the pin securing it to the rest of the train. "Now, where did my stallion get to… oh, there he is. Down here, Daring!"

"You clever filly." Daring swooped down, spiraling around another blast from a wand. Landing on the ruined carriage beside Ahui, Daring leaned in and nuzzled his former arch nemesis. "You really are a lot more fun on my side."

A few more blasts of wand-magic shot into the sky from the car that was now well too far away from the train to worry them. "Well, back to your notes. I hope they didn't ruin anything or we will have to start all over again." Ahui pressed to Daring's side, nibbling at his ear in a reminder of their game.

Author's Note

And we return for the start of Book 2! They were indeed training hard, but for what? Keep reading to find out!

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