Thestrals at Twilight

It had been several days since Twilight had been given her cadre of two guards by Luna, with them watching and guarding her castle during the night while she was asleep, taking shifts patrolling the grounds throughout the day, eagerly awaiting the promised day-guard cadre coming in a few days. More and more she would talk with her night guards, getting to know them better and them getting to know her more. Bade Moonglade was becoming less reserved around Twilight, starting to talk about more personal things with her.

"So, remember that time the math teacher sat on that whoopee cushion Minuette teleported into her chair?!" Bade asked, Twilight busting up laughing at the memory.

After she calmed down, Twilight nodded. "Yeah...those were the days, huh?" she said, giving a sigh, "Sometimes I kinda wish I could have done more with my time in my fillyhood than just reading and studying all day...y'know, like making friends. I still remember how you used to come talk to me during the times we were together in the library, how you were the only colt who would talk to me besides my brother. How you tried so badly to be my friend, and I rejected you. I'm so sorry."

"Hey, It's OK Twilight. I told you the last time you apologized, I forgave you for it." Bade comforted, sipping at the still-too-hot coffee Twilight shared with him.

"I mean, maybe I should have had a colt-friend back then too...maybe now I wouldn't be without one and unable to find anypony I can trust, given I'm a princess and a lot more ponies are power-hungry than looking for true love..."

Bade's ears perked up as she said those words, with him never even considering that Twilight was looking for a colt-friend or partner at all. "I mean, I am just a pony, right? Even if I have wings and a horn, why shouldn't I be able to have a stallion who loves me for me and not my position just like any other mare?” Twilight mused, but Bade remained silent. He himself didn't know the answer.

Twilight noticed some crumbs on Bade's cheek as he was eating the coffee-cake she'd also given him a slice of, and before ever realizing it she'd wiped the crumbs off and cupped his muzzle in her hoof, looking for more. "You're such a messy eater for a Royal Guard, Bade..." Twilight teased softly, blushing as she realized she was still holding his muzzle in her hooves as she looked into his eyes, releasing him as she blushed even deeper at the realization of what she'd just done.

"Well, I've seen seen your eating habits 'princess', and you haven't got any room to pass judgment!" Bade teased in response, "Remember when I brought burgers from Hay Burger and—"

"Stop!" Twilight suddenly exclaimed, memories of her diving into the gooey mess of a burger and virtually making a mask of the ketchup making her glaring blush reach an all-time high, with her likely being able to imitate a tomato herself quite well at this point.

Bade himself felt his face flush hot as he realized Twilight's state. "I'm...I'm sorry!" Bade stammered out as he scrambled to his hooves, believing that he crossed a line and going to excuse himself.

"So Twilight, wanna head to my chamber sometime and I can show you my 'toy collection'? I bet I have some you've never seen before! Oh, hi Bade!" Amaya asked Twilight as she walked into the reading room and saw her, one eyebrow raised and a lascivious smile on her face, before noticing her boss standing beside Twilight, greeting and waving a hoof at him, clearly oblivious to their closeness and flushed faces.

Unlike Bade, Amaya Noctis...well, Amaya had been becoming much more open as well in the past days. Much more open. Amaya was technically on duty at the moment given first shift of daytime was hers, letting Bade wind down and relax first before going to bed and resting for the all-nighter guarding the castle together. It had become somewhat of a habit for both the bats to stay up during the morning to talk to and hang out with Twilight, and more often than not Amaya, sometimes more subtly than not, would invite Twilight to her bedchamber. This was not one of those subtle times.

"I'm sure it's quite an...um...impressive collection, but not right now, thanks." Twilight said, brushing her invitation off once more. It's not that the sexual advances were unwanted, as she could have asked Amaya to stop any time she wanted given she was under her command, but she was having trouble coming to terms that somepony was, and quite blatantly at that, asking to have sex with her...and it was a mare asking at that!

Besides that, Twilight wasn't sure how she felt about being romantic, or even sexual for that matter, with a mare. Sure, she'd had the occasional affectionate kiss on the cheek or top of the muzzle with them, or snuggle with one of her friends...or a night of cuddling with them, but sex? She'd never had sex or even penetrative masturbation before even when her estrus burned hottest, leaving her a virgin outside of rubbing herself to orgasm when she couldn't take the itchy-burning anymore. She had always tried to be like her mentor Princess Celestia during her estruses; the mare who composed herself with grace during her own periods of heat and showed restraint from pouncing any nearby stallion even though none would likely refuse her, and many would indeed welcome bedding a princess.

"Alright beautiful, but you know the Summer breeding season's coming soon, right? If you don't have somepony to help you with it, I'll gladly help get you through it." Amaya said impetuously, not dissuaded by Twilight's umpteenth gentle rejection. She knew Twilight was likely just shy about 'getting into it' with a mare, and as she'd not outright told her to stop asking directly, she knew she may just need some more persuasion...and Amaya was nothing if not persuasive...or persistent.

Twilight nodded. She'd never looked down on those of her friends who did have sex with each other in a 'heat-buddies' way, or with stallions, when they were in heat though. She knew that even if she didn't, it was very common for mares to have a magically or herbal protected mating or few with a stallion just to end the burning for a while. Rarity, for example, secreted herself off to a special 'estrus bath house' that everypony knew was slang for 'a place to go get rutted or rubbed under the tail until your heat dies of exhaustion, protection optional' for the duration of her estruses.

Fluttershy did much like Twilight had and stayed indoors for her estrus, though there were myths of her 'getting help' from her animal friends to end her heat. There was no proof of that outside of her connecting with animals on a whole other level than anypony else, and that that may indeed extend to romance.

Applejack always stayed indoors to ride her estrus out, or so it was thought. There were rumors of ponies seeing stallions leaving Sweet Apple Acres at odd hours of the night, some limping slightly. Nopony would dare say anything aloud about her though, the stallions themselves never admitting to anything, nor did many care. It was mating season after all, and Earth-ponies were well-known for their very bad heats and strong breeding urges. Those are reasons why many Earth-ponies have such large families, after all.

Rainbow Dash was very much the opposite of many of her other friends, openly flirting with stallions when she was in heat, openly offering them to 'rut her in her in-heat pussy' as she put it, hiking up her multi-hued tail at anypony, mare or stallion, that she viewed as 'awesome' enough to handle her. The way she bragged and how many takers she got each year, it was quite a ride they got.

Pinkie Pie was much like Rainbow Dash, but she didn't quite have the standards of 'awesomeness' that Rainbow Dash did. Every year she'd have an openly-announced, freely-attended 'Pound Pinkie's (and Other Ponies') Puffy Proliferous Pony Pussies Pregnant’' breeding party and invited all the stallions and mares who would come. Twilight of course was the one asked to provide the protective and contraception spells for the mares involved, if they wanted protection, even if she herself never got involved in the huge orgy it always became.

"Yes, well...we'll see, OK Amaya?" Twilight said with a sigh, reminded once more that her estrus would likely be coming any day now, getting a nod from her guardian.

"Are you bothering Twilight about having sex again?" Bade asked as he stood beside the couch he and Twilight were sharing, giving her a soft glare, "I mean, have you ever thought of going into town to pick up a stallion or a mare if you're so horny as to break protocol repeatedly and ask our client for sex?"

"What's it to you?" Amaya asked but there was no hostility to her tone, more playful if anything, "Besides, I've already tried. All the stallions in Ponyville think I'll suck their blood right out of their cock or something given I'm a thestral, and the mares want to braid my mane and tail or some such girly crap like that before we actually screw, despite both of us needing relief. Twilight's never acted like that with me."

Bade winced, his blush remaining as his underling was talking so boldly in the presence of a Princess. "So instead of going with other ponies, you're sexually proposing to the Princess of Friendship who is my charge to protect, and going against regulation. That's what it is to me, your rank superior..." Bade stated seriously, getting a laugh from Amaya.

"Well she's my charge too, bird-brain! In addition to that, she has even higher superiority than you and could have asked me to stop anytime and I would have." Amaya riposted with the same teasing tone as before, before looking to Twilight, "You haven't asked me to stop though, have you Twilight?"

"Well...no, I haven't asked her to stop." Twilight said, a light blush burning on her face as she admitted that. To be honest with herself, Twilight kind-of liked the attention. She'd never really been given any kind of real romantic or erotic attention at all before this besides a few stallions smelling her heat and offering to rut, whom she'd politely declined, or Pinkie's invitation to her breeding-season 'party'; being a shut-in, then a librarian, then a princess were all quite a repellent for potential serious partners.

"See? There's no problem here, mister 'I'm Master-Sergeant Bade Moonglade and I'm all super serious about regulations and stuff'!" Amaya said, getting a huff and roll of the eyes from Bade as he left the room, making Amaya give a victorious smirk.

"So anyways, where was I...OH! Anyhow, I have this one dragon toy that's almost as long as your whole foreleg...!"

Twilight couldn't help but think about the hurt look Bade had given her as she'd admitted to not stopping Amaya from hitting on her, Amaya meanwhile going into great detail of just how the barbs of the manticore dildo felt deep inside herself. Could Bade possibly...feel something for her, Twilight wondered. She'd have to consider that more later.

~

Bade lay alone in his chamber, muzzle buried into his pillow. He was resting up for the night-shift and thinking instead of sleeping for his second nap, thinking about Twilight and how Amaya was so shamelessly hitting on her; how Twilight wasn't resisting her advances. As he squirmed to lay on his back he looked at the ceiling in his evening-lit chamber, the orange sunlight of late evening streaming in as the last sunlight of the dying day was slowly extinguished, slowly being replaced by the purples and blues of the night in kind.

Bade wished to himself that he had the kind of shameless confidence that Amaya had, to admit to Twilight his romantic feelings for her and possibly...

He shook his head before that thought could fully manifest. There was no way he could bring himself to ask Twilight, Princess Twilight, to date him...or even just 'get physical' with him in a 'heat ending' kind of way. As he looked down to his now-hardened stallionhood, he sighed. Every time he thought about Twilight in private after seeing her leaving the bathroom one day, her mane wet and stuck to her, her soaked tail also pasted to a leg and giving him a full view of what lay underneath – with her not knowing he was there as she walked to her chamber after forgetting a towel – he would get a boner. The thoughts of what he'd like to do to Twilight had been fuel for his past masturbation fantasies for many, many years, in fact since he'd hit puberty. Now that she was a princess and he was her guard, that only made them that much more naughty to him. More taboo.

As Bade thought more about Twilight's shapely rump – Amaya was right, it was very sexy – and her wings, which were a major turn-on for many Pegasi and Thestrals alike, as well as her pert pussy and anus that he'd gotten a full view of that day, he felt his fully-hard cock throbbing against his belly softly now, at its full length. As he thought of taking one of those feathered alicorn wings into his mouth and biting onto it softly as he was on Twilight's back, his hooves gripping her sides as he mounted her and thrust forward into her heat-swollen marehood, Bade was rubbing himself with a wing before he'd even realized it, getting pre-cum all over the soft, warm and smooth membranes of the wings encasing his cock as he stifled a moan.

After all, he thought, if he rubbed one out now, he wouldn't have to worry about another event like last night. He remembered how the previous night, he had smelled a mare's estrus on the wind, its drug-like effects making his penis drop from its sheath and harden quickly, dragging his thoughts from his patrol and instead to seeking out the fertile mare and breeding her. Instead of following through with that nagging urge though, Bade had simply found a nice quiet room indoors to quell himself of his urges, purging himself of his seed while imagining that the mare in heat was indeed Twilight and he was filling her up instead of using his wing to contain his seed, before cleaning up and returning back to patrol again as though nothing had happened.

Bade knew it was against protocol leaving his post like that, but also knew that if he'd not done it he would have probably left his post anyways to actually find that mare in heat and possibly make a foal with her. Thestrals were very prolific breeders and very forward with their desires after all, with their breeding drives being much stronger than even Earth-ponies', even if some thestrals were more shy than others in actually executing them.

Bade moaned quietly as he now wrapped his aching erection in his warm, fleshy wing again and stroked it once, feeling a pulse of pleasure go through him as he then developed a swift pattern while thinking of breeding Princess Twilight once more.

~

"So, you gonna run back to the castle again to jack off again tonight and leave me to patrol alone, or are you good? I mean, I don't mind, nothing ever happens anyways." Amaya suddenly asked as she and Bade patrolled the grounds again, making the stallion stop dead in his tracks.

"W-What...how...?" Bade stammered, completely flustered and caught off-guard, trying to figure out how she'd known.

"Well, it's not hard for a pony to smell when a mare's in heat nearby y'know, even for us mares..." Amaya said, smirking back to her companion, "...and I know how hard it is for a thestral stallion to keep it in his sheath when a mare's in heat nearby. Plus your right wing was still wet when you came back out from when you cleaned it off. I mean, if you wanted somepony to rut during breeding season, I'm all yours sexy..."

"W-what?!" Bade asked, completely thrown for a loop. He knew Amaya was promiscuous, but this was the first time she'd actually proposed herself to him. He couldn't even tell if she was serious or not, that cocky grin she always held making such distinction nearly impossible.

"Well, you're a sexy, kind stallion, and I've got some herbs from a Zebra friend of mine that prevent pregnancy...I mean how did you think that I, a young, super-fertile bat-pony mare, didn't get pregnant all the times I've had sex in my heats? Plus we've been friends for, like, ever ya doof. I'm surprised you never asked to be 'friends with benefits' with the way I've seen you looking at me when you think I'm not looking."

She was serious, wasn't she."Honestly, I try not to think about my friends having sex at all..." Bade instantly responded, too quickly, and Amaya could still see he was bothered about something...or trying to resist saying something, "...and besides that, being in a relationship with a fellow guard is against protocol."

Amaya internally growled at that statement and how she could tell he was lying about not thinking about having sex with friends, seeing it in his eyes, but stayed collected on the outside. "Oh, and about you sneaking off to rub one out, I won't tell Twilight, though I'm sure she'd understand. I noticed a stack of books on her desk aaaaalllll about us thestrals...and all of them were of a...very sexual nature. All about our breeding habits, mating rituals...stallion and mare thestrals' sexual anatomy and biology...yep. She probably knows more about your and my body than we know about ourselves."

Bade sighed in relief internally for Amaya letting him off the hook for sneaking off on-duty, but what she'd said also making him wonder just why Twilight had been reading about bat-ponies and especially why she'd be interested in their...sexual details. The mention of Twilight also brought up another subject he'd been meaning to discuss with her. "Amaya, what's with you hitting on Princess Twilight all the time by the way? You know it's against protocol to...to sexually solicit who you're charged with protecting!"

"Protocol, protocol, protocol...you sound like a broken record sometimes, you know that?" Amaya said, giving an aggravated sigh, "Look, Twilight told us to treat her like we would a fellow guardspony...so I am. "

"I...you mean you..."

"Yep, I hit other guards up for sex all the time in the barracks, and more often than not they accept. Just because you're a virgin still, and I'm not implying that's a bad thing, doesn't mean I or the rest of Equestria have to be. I don't see why it's a problem anyhow."

"It's a problem because Royal Guards are supposed to have some sense of decorum! We're supposed to be a step above the rest, we're supposed to be—"

"We're all just ponies Bade! Yeah, all of us royal guards? We're just ponies with simple wants and the same needs everypony else has, including those sexual! We mare guards go into heat just like any other mare, Royal Guard armor or not, and need to sate it just like them! We're not squeaky-clean paragons of justice, not the pure saints that the media makes us out to be! I just wish you'd could see how hard it is for a thestral mare who chooses to stay in the guard during her heat. How hard it is to control the urg—" Amaya nearly snarled as her wings flared out, finally fed up with Bade's seeming bad attitude against sex, before getting cut off.

"Stand down Amaya, that's an order!" Bade demanded, and instantly Amaya complied, her wings folding in again as she calmed herself down. It was harder than she thought it would be to though.

They walked in silence for a while after that, Amaya lagging a bit behind and pouting. Then suddenly, a thought came to her. "Is...is this about me flirting with Twilight? Cuz I'm not trying to steal her from you or anything! It's just that heat season's coming up and...well, she's a very attractive mare..." she asked, still not looking at him. As he looked at her, he saw that she was indeed quite upset, with this being the first time in years they'd snapped at each other over anything.

Bade mulled that over as they walked, considering just how he felt about that. "Well, it's not only that you're flirting with her, a mare you know I'm interested in and know is way out of my league, it's just...you're also breaking so much Royal Guard tradition by doing it. I mean, hitting on not only a Princess, but also the pony you're protecting...?"

Amaya snorted. "Yeah, and I say again, cuz Shining Armor didn't bag himself a princess either...but alright, fine, I'll take it easy on the flirting with her. To be fair though, I wasn't planning on being too romantic with her. Just a 'heat-buddies' setup or something...plus you're sure as hay not making any moves on her anyways..."

Bade wasn't sure if that made it better or worse that she was just planning on 'using' Twilight like that only to help her heat, but that last statement sure got him thinking. "Whatever, I need to get back to work. Go take your nap, I'll keep watch and get you up for your patrol." Bade said, more than a little anger in his voice as he walked away.

Amaya sighed as he left, knowing she'd screwed up and hoping that the hostility from her best friend was only temporary. Even still though, she couldn't help but think that she was doing nothing wrong in her mind. After all, it's not like she loved Twilight or anything...

Amaya halted in place as that thought crossed her mind. She didn't feel that way about Twilight after only knowing her for a few days, she thought, but she wasn't so sure anymore.

...did she...did she have feelings for Twilight?