Bumbling through my Education

Chapter 9: Royal Gossip

Shining Armor didn’t care about the frozen tundra around him, nor did he care about the finely prepared meal of eggplant lasagna and tiramisu for dessert. No, what he cared about right now was the feeling of Cadence’s lips and tongue around his cock. The way she batted her eyes at him like she was a naughty highschool filly sucking her boyfriend off behind the bleachers. Her beautiful rump that was wiggling in the air, and how much he wanted to cram his cock down her throat and have her swallow load after load of his cum.

She pulled back, taking a breath, and she turned around, her tail flicking, her little tale-tale sign that she was ready to take him. He wanted her, to feel her, and he got onto his knees. Grabbing her hips, right by her cutie marks, he pulled her back. She let out a soft grunt as she felt him slide into her pussy. She was wet, she was ready, and she so desperately wanted him to practically wreck her. She moaned as he thrust into her.

“I love you Caddy,” he moaned.

“I..I love you too Shining… Oh, oh fill me, please?”

She asked so sweetly, and he was hers to command. He began to pick up pace, more than happy to give her the proper dicking that she deserved, and at that moment when they were both ready to orgasm, that wonderful moment when release was there, the door to their cabin opened. Their heads turned, and instead of the moment being stopped they came hard. Cadence fell forward, her head lying on the seat she was kneeling in front of. Her tongue lolled out, and she began to pant.

“My… My daughter, my beautiful daughter just saw us…”

Flurryheart rolled her eyes, “Seriously? Look, it’s not traumatizing anymore, but can’t you both be like normal parents and not rut everywhere? I can’t even invite what friends I do have over because I’m afraid that they’re going to see my parents rutting in the throne room, the dining hall, the courtyard, on the balcony, or a thousand other places that you’ve been.”

Shining sighed, knowing that what Flurry was asking wasn’t a terrible thing. After she first caught them they tried to keep it in the bedroom, but it was a little impossible. Caddy would begin giving him a fantastic magic job, and he’d return the favor, and then before long they’d be excusing themselves, going to an adjoining room, and he’d be deep in her snatch. There had been rumors about them having an open relationship, but that was nothing more than rumors. The closest Caddy ever came to anything like that was when she created a form that looked like him out of magic and light.

It’d been nearly perfect, and at that point she had him behind her thrusting, his clone was in front of her, getting sucked off, and the moment she came the clone simply no longer existed. It’s entire being disappeared in a flash of light. Of course since then they’ve done something similar again, but that was about as far as actually having an open relationship went. He had wondered at one point if she was going to ever want to herd.

He personally was fine with just the two of them. Maybe that was selfish of him, but he didn’t want to share her with another pony. He began cleaning up, getting his dark navy blue dress pants back on. He could see that his daughter wasn’t watching them, but instead she was looking anywhere but at them. This had unfortunately become something of a ritual. She’d find them fooling around, stay there until they were dressed and presentable, and then lead them to where they needed to go.

It was a little sad that she was having to be more of an adult than she needed to be. He knew that as a thirteen year old she had things she wanted to do, she needed to be a foal, and unfortunately there was times she had to be more of an adult than what was really called for a filly her age should be. Once he and Caddy were dressed, and he noticed that she had used her magic to make her dress presentable once more, the three of them headed out toward the platform.

He saw that the tundra had been replaced by the greenish grass that was the calling card of the Equestrian border. Once through it it was an exceptionally short time until they rolled into Canterlot. Of course he considered seeing his parents. He was certain that they’d be more than happy to see Flurryheart, and she could act like a filly around them. There was also little doubt in his mind that she’d want to take a short trip to Ponyville.

Seeing Auntie Twilight might be the excuse, but he knew about her crush on that baker’s son. Caddy had said it was cute, and he believed it was so, although with her getting older he was a little more worried about the colt’s intentions with his daughter. His thoughts were interrupted as he saw the mountain. It would be a few moments and then they’d be at the station.

“So, why are we visiting Aunt Celestia?”

Cadence smiled at her daughter before resting a hand on her shoulder, “She told me that Aunt Luna has found a special somepony, and I thought it would be a good enough reason to get out of the empire. Besides, I do want to make sure that her special somepony is going to be good to her. Aunt Luna hasn’t been able to, ummm, Flurry, you know what your father and I have is a very loving relationship.”

Flurryheart rolled her eyes and nodded, “Yeah?”

Cadence’s face fell a little, “I don’t know all of it, but from my understanding Aunt Luna hasn’t had a relationship like that. She’s always been with somepony in order to make Equestria stronger. I don’t know all of it, but from what Aunt Celestia has told me several of her former relationships were… very abusive. They weren’t good to her, they didn’t make her feel good, and so I want to make sure that this special somepony is the kind that is going to make her feel good about being her. Like how your father does that for me.”

Flurryheart understood what her mother said. She might not enjoy knowing that her parents rutted everywhere, and she was certain they had rutted in her bed when she was at her studies, but they made each other happy, and they made each other feel better about being themselves. In essence they truly loved one another, and she could understand her mom wanting to make sure that Aunt Luna’s new special somepony would be like her Daddy.

She watched as the station came into view, and soon it stopped. Waiting there for them was a small platoon of her Aunt Celestia’s Royal Guard, and once her parents, their guard, and herself were off of the train they were being escorted. Only it wasn’t to the palace, but instead it was to what looked like a very nice house. Outside of it were several Lunar Pegasi that seemed to be yawning, but still standing guard.

One of the Solar Guard saluted her Lunar counterparts.

“Celestial Guard ready to assume guard positions,” she said.

The Lunar Guard nodded, whistled, and soon the group of were moving into the building. The female Pegasus guard that had been leading them took the Lunar Guard’s position, and then they opened the door for Flurry and her family. Once inside she saw several of the Lunar guard heading toward the stairs, climbing it, and obviously heading toward some rest and relaxation. But at the kitchen counter was a gray Pegasus mare with a blond mane, the oddest golden eyes she’d ever seen, and a small group of ponies surrounding a stallion, with Princess Luna near them. On the other side was Aunt Celestia. She was smiling brightly, and obviously they’d missed a rather good practical joke Aunt Celestia had played.

Luna looked up and saw the arrival of Mi Amore Cadenza, or Cadence as she preferred to be called, and breathed a sigh of relief. Her herd, and her stallion, had suffered something of a near collective heart attack when her sister caused the room to glow brighter than the sun, awakening them all, and then pronounced in the Canterlot Voice that she demanded to know what they were doing to her sister!

In a magical attack Bumble, skilled as he was in enchantments and archain studies, would be no match for Celestia. Still he tried to get in front of all of his mares, her included, and she smiled because every other time she had been asked to marry for Equestria those stallions were terrible. They would have pushed her away from them, and said that she could have her back. After it was revealed as nothing more than a trick sweet Bumble had promptly had a minor breakdown of sorts.

Of course his mother had rushed into the room, and Luna had seen Pegasi mothers before, she knew how protective they were, and all of them in that room, all of them mated to her son were her foals. She counted herself lucky to be in that number because that gray Pegasus stood defiant against Celestia, and she had even shoved her way past her Lunar Guard. She would, for the life of her, never forget her sister getting corrected by a pony that was a good two heads shorter than herself.

It had been a sight that was quite welcomed, and one that she believed she would cherish for the rest of eternity. She watched as the bubbly gray Pegasus, who seemed to be keeping her good eye on her sister, was making breakfast for them. There was a collection of muffins, but she had went out of her way to make some pancakes, a small coffee cake for her sister, and some food for the guards that were staying there.

She was certain that her sister had already canceled her court, and of course Luna believed she would do the same this evening. Although to be honest it would be best if she did oversee it. True, it would mainly be the nobility, coming forth to squabble about perceived slights that they believed were done to them, or perhaps they would be complaining about the business district of Canterlot. That was one she was quickly getting tired of. Nobles coming into her court, when they could not see her sister, and complaining that the cheap housing in the Business District was bringing down their own property values.

She had to desperately remind herself that this was not a thousand years ago, she could not have them stripped, flogged, and sent back to their homes with magic inhibitors on their horns and forced to be the servants for the very ponies they wished to be rid of. Instead she had to listen to them, inform them that the Business District was a vital part of Canterlot, and remind them that their country was built upon the principle that all ponies were created equal.

She felt Bumble move, and she helped scoot in closer, her wings extending in a protective manner over her herd. She wasn’t the alpha, but she would act as a protector. She had finally found something she had once believed wasn’t meant for her. She found a loving relationship that made her feel good about herself.

Bumble wanted to crawl into a hole. He wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out again. Princess Celestia wasn’t supposed to prank ponies. She was their ruler, she was supposed to be proper and kind, and not make a pony have a mild heart attack when she shouted at them wanting to know if they’ve rutted her sister.

Physically… He hadn’t touched Luna like that yet, but in the dream, the dream he realized he shared with Honeypot, he’d rutted the living Tartarus out of her. He wasn’t sure what to think about it. She was courting them, all of them, and he was accepting that she was going to be part of his herd, but it left several things open that he wasn’t sure he wanted to think about.

Did this mean that he, and his family, would be considered royalty or nobility? Did his mother declare war on Princess Celestia? He’d seen her use her chew the solar Princess out, and even give her a corrective slap. It wasn’t one that was meant to hurt, but one that was meant to tell the other pony they were being an idiot and stop doing what they were doing. He’d been on the receiving end of a few of those, and while they stung, and they did sting, they never really did much more than that. It was just a reminder to stop doing something that wasn’t right.

He felt his mares around him, and he felt the warmth of their bodies. It was almost as if they were letting him know that it was okay, that they wouldn’t let anything happen to him, and at the same time he felt like he wanted to protect them as well. It wasn’t a new feeling. At least it wasn’t completely a new feeling. There was aspects that were certainly new. Being in a herd relationship was certainly new, but wanting to help protect those he cared about wasn’t.

He could remember getting teased about being clumsy, but when they started teasing Dinky he quickly stood up to the ones trying to tease her. Of course shortly afterward he had met his best friend in Ponyville. Button Mash had introduced him to tabletop RPGs, video games, and even the joyboy he had with him now. Well, it was back in his dorm room. In a way Button had helped him realize what he wanted to do. Those gaming sessions when he played the tabletop RPGs, especially Ogres and Oubliettes, had inspired the idea behind the medical golems. It was funny how things worked toward where he was now. His wanting to protect Dinky had lead to meeting Button Mash, and that had lead him to wanting to help ponies with his Medical Golems.

He looked up the other members of royalty that came into the room, and he was certain that he needed to crawl off into a hole. He wasn’t ready for this. He didn’t know how to act around royalty; he didn’t even know how to act around Mr. Rich! Perhaps it shouldn’t have bothered him, especially since Luna seemed to think that he was special enough to want to be with, but that raised more questions. Did he call her Princess Luna, or Luna, or Princess, or anything else that she want to be called?

He began to wonder what would happen on Hearth’s Warming. Would they spend it in Ponyville, or would it be best at Canterlot? What did you get a Princess as a Hearth’s Warming Present? Would he be able to get her something she’d like? He felt his breathing quickening, beads of sweat began to form on his forehead, and then he felt it. The reassuring squeeze.

“Bumble, it’s okay. Don’t freak out, we’re here, it’s alright.”

He looked at Honeypot and gave a small smile. Slowly the Princess of love, and co-ruler of the Crystal Empire, walked toward them.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, but please call me Cadence. After all, from the looks of things we are going to be family.”

He stretched out his hand toward her, “B..Bumble Hooves, but everypony just calls me Bumble.”

She grinned, “Then I shall call you Bumble as well. Oh, this is my husband Shining Armor, and my daughter Flurryheart.”

He smiled, “It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Flurry looked at him, “You’re a nervous wreck.”

“Flurryheart!”

She looked at her father, “Sorry, but he is! Look at him Daddy! We’re making him so nervous and he doesn’t know how to handle it,” she smiled, “I bet that you’d like it if there were fewer ponies here huh?”

He nodded. Shining sighed, realizing that his daughter done exactly what her special talent was. She felt what he was feeling, and she had explained to them what they needed to do to make him feel more at ease.

“Guards, all but the bare minimum please relocate yourselves outside, or upstairs.”

Several saluted him, and headed out leaving only a couple behind.

“But I just made everypony breakfast!”

Bumble looked at his mother and saw her disappointed face.

“We’ll take it upstairs, thanks for wantin’ ta feed the lot of us,” a Lunar Pegasus cadet said as she and another two Lunar Pegasi began gathering up the plates for the guards and carrying them up the stairs.

Shining grinned and took a seat near the table, “I understand. I’m not really an introvert, but my little sister was one, and at times she still is one. She’s fine around ponies she knows, but get her among a large group and it takes a few days for her to get back to normal.”

Bumble breathed out, “My mom isn’t in trouble is she?”

Celestia grinned, “No my little pony, she isn’t in trouble. I’m afraid that my joke wasn’t handled very well. So, I do apologize that I caused you feel so strained and worried. However, I was rather pleased to see you willing to take whatever anger would have been directed toward your herdmates.”

Luna grinned, “He is a more worthy stallion of mine affections than any that were chosen before.”

Celestia’s face fell a little, “I know, and I’m sorry Lulu. Those marriages, and my own, were not something I ever want us to experience again.”

Cadence watched and looked at the stallion sitting there. She could feel the love he had for the mares around him, even for Luna, and she smiled. This was what she was hoping to feel. Granted the feeling toward Luna was fresh, as if it was just starting, and it certainly felt as if the love was rooted in the fertile ground of lust. That in and of itself wasn’t a terrible thing. Wonderful love, powerful love, was sometimes grown from lust.

“So, Bumble, why don’t you tell me about yourself?” Cadence asked as she shuffled in her seat next to Shining Armor.

He looked at them, unsure of where to actually begin, and slowly he decided the best place was the beginning. He told them about being Princess Twilight’s student for Arcane Studies and Golem creation. He went on to explain his plan with the Medical Golems, how he had created them to be practically instructable, able to handle all ranges of temperatures, and how he was creating a large database of healing spells within them.

He smiled as he explained that Honeypot had helped him realize that including healing potions and other remedies might be beneficial for ponies that needed a slower recovery due to the fact that they might be suffering from magical poisoning, or too weak to handle a full recovery spell. To her credit Cadence sat there and listened to every word.

While she wasn’t the spell caster Twilight was, she did understand most of what he was talking about. It was also easy to understand why Twilight had personally taught him. He was brilliant, driven, and far too adorkable like she was. Cadence saw so much of Shining Armor’s more geeky tendencies inside of his younger sister, and she could see them here in this young Unicorn stallion.

He was also caring, sweet, and from the love she felt she could tell that he held his mares in the highest regards. Her eyes moved from him to the rest of his herd. There was two Earth Ponies, and her eyes widened as she looked at the pink one behind him. There was Earth Pony Mares and then there was Earth Pony Mares! That young mare had breasts that simply went on for days. She grinned as she tried not to keep looking.

It seemed that pink Earth Pony Mares seemed to have an overabundance of breasts. She thought of Twilight’s friend Pinkie Pie. Much like this young mare she was blessed with some very large, bouncy, and somehow gravity defying breasts. Cadence blushed slightly. She would never want another stallion. Shining Armor was the only stallion she would ever want, and there was absolutely no lie on that, but she would by lying to herself if she didn’t admit that the idea of possibly herding with another mare would be terrible.

Shining was loving, and caring, much like this young Unicorn stallion, but there was simply a few things he didn’t quite understand. Things that she would love to do that Shining didn’t quite grasp the subtle nuances that made them more enjoyable. It was things that she knew another mare would understand. Seeing this herd, feeling the love from it, even though it was just beginning, it was intoxicating and she began to formulate a plan on the possibility of convincing Shining Armor into starting one with her. After all, what stallion could say no to having two mares at his disposal?

She tabled the idea, deciding that while it was something she certainly wanted to bring up later, it just simply wasn’t something she wanted to discuss at the moment. No, this was about showing support for Luna, and of course informing Bumble’s former teacher about the situation. She grinned at that thought. It would be interesting to see her sister-in-law get flustered at the thought of Luna marrying into a herd.

The only way it could be better would be if Auntie Celestia was joining as well, she thought as she watched the interaction.

Her eyes lingered on Celestia and she sensed it, the attraction, and a soft chuckle escaped her.

“Sorry, I was just thinking of how we could present the news to the public.”

Bumble looked worried, but again his herd kept him from feeling too conflicted or worried. Celestia raised an eyebrow at her, “What’s your idea?”

Cadence smiled, “We’d need to inform Twilight first, of course, but afterward having the three of us support it would silence any objections from the nobility. I believe that would be the best idea. Of course, if we managed to get Blueblood on board he could help twist the right arms in making sure that it went smoothly.”

Celestia smiled, “That is a fair point. Blueblood might be vain, but he is gifted when it comes to dealing with the nobility. I’ve overlooked many of his tactics since he often is able to keep them from trying to pass any laws that would make it impossible for the common pony to live and work here in Canterlot.”

Cadence laughed, “You do understand of course that comes from the fact that he has a rather public secret relationship with the public relations mare you’ve hired.”

Celestia smiled, “Trust me, I know… There has been times I’ve seen their secret meetings.”

Derpy looked at them and sighed, “Why not just tell them if they don’t like it they can take a long walk off of a short cloud?”

The two of them turned toward her, “Your highnesses, I mean, if my little muffins want to love one another, then it’s not anypony’s business.”

Cadence grinned, “Of course there is that approach as well.”

Luna cleared her throat, “Fair Derpy Ditzy Hooves is correct. If the Canterlot Nobility does not want to acknowledge my courtship of Bumble and his herd, then they are quite welcome to suck my tail hole.”

Celestia’s, Cadence’s, and Shining Armor’s eyes widened and their mouths fell open. Flurrheart however began to laugh at that. The talk went on for a few hours, and finally the herd took their leave, heading upstairs, toward the large shared room, and it left the three Princesses, Prince, and mother of the stallion that had gained the attention of Princess Luna down in the kitchen.

Derpy looked at them, her good eye trained on them for a bit, “My little colt, my little muffin is happy, don’t make me have to correct any of you if you try to make him unhappy.”

With that she left. She walked upstairs, and past the room where her colt was being taken care of. They were good mares, she knew that much, and she hoped that they would see his needs as he saw to theirs. Inside of the room Luna was on her back, her eyes wide as Bumble was currently licking inside of her pussy. To dream it was one thing, to actually feel it here, in the physical world was different. She felt something, and looked up to see dark pink lips of one of her herd mates snatch above her.

Her tongue stretched out and she began to lap at the wonderful prize presented to her. She felt her hands suddenly straddled and she began to pleasure them as well. She moaned deeply as she loved. On each side, in every possible way, she was surrounded by ponies that was loving her and not abusing her because they felt slighted that they were not given a chance of having her sister as a bride.

She felt Bumble’s wonderful, and gifted tongue leave her snatch. She began to whine before she felt the head of his cock pressing against her. She almost screamed as she felt him pushing into her. The dream as one thing, but feeling here, really here, going inside of her was absolutely wonderful. Her hips bucked as he pushed completely into her. She could hear the moans around her, feel Pina above her shift and her pussy grinding against her muzzle.

“Oh… Oh yes eat me out, Mmmm… you’re so good at this…” Pina moaned.

Luna moaned in response. She couldn’t answer as she saw fit, but it didn’t matter. What mattered was that for the first time in her immortal life, she was happy with something, and she was happy that her herdmates were enjoying her body. She...She felt beautiful for the first time in her immortal life.

Author's Note

(AN: Well, anytime Royalty gets involved things get more complicated don't they? There's still a ton more left to do, so have no worries, we still have much uncharted ground to cover.)