Seven Red X's
By
Inky Shades
Halloween. A time for tricks and treats, wearing rad costumes and all round being awesome. Of course, Rainbow didn’t have to wait for a holiday to be awesome. She just was. But she was also bored of the same routine. There were only so many different ways to trick people, and the thrill of the scare had diminished over the years. So much so that she’d considered sitting this Halloween out. At least until someone slipped a tattered map under her college dorm door.
“Alright, sugarcube, we’re all here now. So what’s the big surprise? You mentioned something about a ‘totally awesome scavenger hunt’,” Applejack said.
Rainbow reclined against the bench, spreading her arms over the back. “Yup.” She reached a hand towards Applejack, map sandwiched between two fingers.
“I’m standing over here, Rainbow.”
“Whoops!”
“Really? You know, maybe if you weren’t wearin’ sunglasses at night, you’d be able to see me. Why do you even have glasses? I’m pretty sure they weren’t part of Rarity’s design.”
“No. I just think they look cool. For the ‘what-ever-you-call-it—the aesthetic!’ Right, Rarity?”
“I mean, she does have a point, darling,” Rarity said. “The glasses do complete the ensemble. Though it can be dangerous if you can’t see where you’re walking. But I have to compliment your dedication to the look.”
Rainbow tilted her glasses in the direction of Rarity’s voice.
“Well, I think she looks ridiculous,” Applejack said.
“Ugh, fine.” Rainbow removed her glasses, but then grinned when she saw Applejack clearly. “You know, ‘ridiculous’ is rich coming from the girl with hay between her tits. What are you supposed to be, anyway? A sexually starved farm girl finally getting laid?”
Applejack placed a hand on her hip. “Excuse me? I’m obviously a scarecrow. And what about you, an FBI trainee that’s trying to pay her way through the academy by working the pole at a club?”
“Seriously, AJ, there’s no need to be so insulting. Obviously I’m not with the FBI.” She reached into her blazer pocket and pulled out an id card. “I’m DOA.”
Applejack leaned in, scrutinizing the card. “Department of Awesome? You’re kidding?”
“Nope. This is like the coolest add-on, Rarity!”
“Thank you, darling. I find that it’s the small details that really make an outfit,” Rarity said.
“Can we get back to the surprise? I want to hear more about the surprise!” Pinkie bounced in place, rustling the pastel blue frills of her dress.
“Alright, alright, hold your horses.” Applejack unfolded the map, and her gaze roamed the page. “Who did you say gave you this?”
Rainbow shrugged. “Beats me. I went to check the hall, but no one was there.”
“So you’re tellin’ me that you want us to venture into the Everfree Forest using a map given to you by a stranger?”
“Yeah! And I want each of us to go to an x.”
“Y-You want us to separate and, and go into the Everfree alone?” Fluttershy bent one of the thin, pink dragonfly wings attached to the back of her costume forward. “But it’s so… so dark…” As if on cue, a layer of clouds passed over the moon, causing her to bury her face into the back of Rarity’s yellow off the shoulder dress.
“There, there, darling.” Rarity reached back and patted Fluttershy’s cheek. “I’m sure she doesn’t mean alone, alone.”
“No. I meant it,” Rainbow said. “What? Don’t look at me like that, you guys! It’ll be awesome! Promise.”
“Applejack, can you hand me the map?” Twilight asked.
“Sure, Twi. Not sure what good it’ll do though,” Applejack said.
Twilight adjusted her glasses. “I just want to see if there’s anything that might indicate who gave the map to Rainbow.”
“Knock yourself out.”
“You’re just wasting your time though,” Rainbow said. “There aren’t any indicators. But we should really get going while the night’s still young.”
“Okay, since no one is apparently willing to ask the important question, I’ll ask it: Why are all our costumes so sexy, Rarity?” Sunset flipped her red hood and pointed an accusatory finger at her.
“Wha-What? Pardon?” Rarity put a hand on her chest. “I’d never—”
“Well, I mean the hems of our dresses are kind of short…” Fluttershy futzed with the purple frill at the bottom of her dress.
“And they’re delightfully airy in the chest,” Pinkie said.
“Is it so wrong for me to want to highlight my friends’ best qualities? Is it?” Rarity asked.
“Of course not,” Sunset said. “But it is a little suspicious that all our costumes are so revealing.”
Rainbow rolled her eyes. “Aw, lay off her, Sunset. Worried you’re going to drive the big bad wolf crazy in that bodice and those fishnets? We look hot as hell in our costumes, right?” She waited for their slow, but collective acknowledgments. “Uh-huh, exactly. And do we like how they make us feel?” More acknowledgments. She placed her hands behind her head. “I rest my case.”
“I can’t believe that you thought I had some ulterior motive. Me! Who just wanted to show off my friends’ natural attractiveness. I am offended,” Rarity said with indignant hands on her hips.
“Okay, okay.” Sunset held up her hands. “I’m—”
“Offended!”
“Sorry.”
“Hmph!” Rarity flipped her hair. “Apology accepted, darling.”
“Well, now that that’s settled. Do you see any clues about the map, Twilight?” Applejack asked.
Twilight sighed, tugging at the ends of her lab coat. “No. I can’t see anything out of the ordinary. No erase marks, and all the ink looks evenly spread, so I don’t think anything is being hidden. Sorry. It does feel a little odd that there are seven x marks, and seven of us, but that’s probably a coincidence.”
“See? Told you,” Rainbow said. “So can we go now? I think I hear November calling.”
Pinkie giggled. “November sounds like a laugh!”
“That’s just the wind blowing through the trees, darling,” Rarity said.
“I don’t know…” Applejack cupped her chin. “Still feels fishy to me.”
“Oh, come on, Applejack,” Rainbow said, throwing her arms in the air. “Do you know how many weird things we’ve encountered since high school? I think we can handle a little map. Besides, what if there’s something awesome at the end of each x? You know you want to know almost as much as I do. It’ll be fun like the adventures we used to have at CHS.” She rose from the bench and nudged Applejack in the side. “Eh, eh?”
“Alright. Let’s say we do this. How are each of us supposed to find an x if there’s only one map, genius?”
“We use these!” Pinkie beamed, holding six other maps.
“Okay, now that is too convenient,” Applejack said. “Where did you find those, Pinkie?”
“Oh, just over there by the trash can.” She gestured towards the garbage.
“Do you see now, AJ? Nothing suspicious at all. Just people who weren’t interested in the scavenging hunt,” Rainbow said.
“I swear those weren’t there earlier,” Applejack said.
“Look, you all do what you want, but I’m going in to find a prize,” Rainbow said, taking a map from Pinkie. “And I’m wearing these too!” She put her glasses back on.
“For cryin’ out—fine! We’ll follow your map.”
“That’s the spirit!” Rainbow wrapped an arm around Applejack’s shoulders.
“Why do I think that I’m going to regret this?”
By the Rocks (Rainbow Dash)
Rainbow squinted, bringing the map as close as she could to her face—practically pressing her nose against it. “I can’t see a damn thing. Alright, this is ridiculous.” She removed her glasses, placing them in her blazer pocket. Though she hated losing the cool factor, she hated not being able to read the map more. But she’d never speak a word of this to Applejack.
“Okay, where am I?” Massive slabs of rock stretched far into the treeline on either side of her. She glanced at the map then back at the rocks. From what she saw, she needed to be on a trail just above the rock line to get to her x. Of course the trail began a ways behind her, farther than she wanted to travel.
Perfect… She could go back. She probably should go back, but she was Rainbow Dash, former CHS sports star and current captain of Canterlot University’s soccer team. A few pebbles wouldn’t stop her. And then she spotted an outcropping of rocks.
“Hmm.” Rainbow rubbed her chin. The outcropping reached to the trail, and it didn’t look to difficult to scale. “Screw it!” She placed her foot in a craggy niche, testing her weight before committing to the ascent.
“Whoa!” Her foot slipped, and she hissed in pain as her knee scrapped against the rock face. But her grip remained firm, so she didn’t slide. Once she was certain that she wouldn’t slip again, she resumed her climb. Upon reaching the top, she leaped over to the trail. “And she sticks the landing.”
Blood dripped from the scrape, and it stung like hell, but in all fairness, it wasn’t that bad. So she shrugged and made her way up the trail, passing by the entrance to a cave. Already the pain started to subside. Now, how much farther did she need to go?
Rainbow glanced at the map. “Just around the next bend. Sweet.” She rounded the corner and saw… more rocks. Alright, her prize had to be hiding somewhere around here. “And behind rock number one is—nothing! What about two? Nope. Three?” But each rock contained even less than the rock before it. Which was still nothing.
“Aw, come on! Maybe I looked at the map wrong?” As she was about to rotate the map, she heard the crackle of gravel. Did someone else beat her here? If they thought they could hide from her… “Hey! I hear you. Come out and show yourself!”
From the corner of her vision she saw a shadow. Rainbow turned to catch the culprit. “Ha! I got—what the hell are you?” A man crawled—no, slithered towards her. She stepped back, and he rose. From the waist down, where his legs should’ve been was a tail, more specifically a snake tail.
Did someone drug her? Was she being punked? She was being punked. “Haha, okay. You got me. That’s a great costume. It looks so lifelike. I can’t even see the seams.” Rainbow ran her fingers down the cream-colored belly of the tail. Which felt silky and suspiciously fleshy. “Um, that feels real.”
The snake-man flicked a forked tongue against her cheek.
“Well, alright then. So like are you from Equestria or…”
“Here,” the snake-man said, brushing a finger down her arm.
“Gettin’ kinda friendly there, buddy.” Cool rock dug into her back as she pressed her index finger against his chiseled chest. “I could kick your ass right now if I wanted to.”
He cocked his head, and a flash of white passed over his slit eyes as they roamed her body. “And do you?”
“No.” Rainbow grabbed him by the back of the head, and crashed her lips against his. “What the hell?” Her cheeks burned, she shoved him away. “I don’t know why I did that.” It was as if her inhibitions no longer existed.
“Did you like it?” He slid her blazer down her shoulders.
“I—” the snake-man lifted her chin “—yeah.”
“Then what’s holding you back?” he whispered into her ear, causing a tingle to travel up her spine.
What was stopping her? Maybe it was the excitement of the holiday. Maybe she was enchanted by some strange magic. Maybe it was the fact she hadn’t been physically affectionate with another person in months, thus she craved the intimacy. Who knew? She didn’t. But a college girl had needs. Sure the man was half snake—and that was weird, but weird had been a part of her life since high school. Besides, the dude’s non-snake half was pretty hot, looking like one of those carved Greek statues except he actually had pupils.
“Ah, to hell with it!” Rainbow leaped onto the snake-man. Thoughts be damned. She was a woman of action.
The snake-man gripped her thighs. “That’s right. Let yourself be free.”
Their mouths entwined. “Why don’t you show me how good you are with that tongue of yours?”
“It’d be my pleasure.” His tongue caressed her lips before prodding ever so gently.
Rainbow parted her lips, feeling the tip of his tongue slip into her mouth. “Mmm,” she moaned, wrapping her arms around his broad shoulders, pressing her body against his.
The snake-man pulled away, flicking his tongue over her lips. Fire swelled within her cheeks. “Not bad,” she said, flipping her head back. “But you’re going to have to do more than that to impress me.”
He trailed kisses down her jawline to her neck. “With pleasure,” the snake-man said, lifting her higher in his hands.
“Whoa!” She held tight to him as he laid her on a slab of rock.
His hands traveled up her thighs and his fingers curled around her panties. With ease, he slipped the garment down her legs, discarding them off to the side. The snake-man’s tongue flickered, and she shifted expectantly as he parted her thighs. His head disappeared up her dress.
Rainbow’s breath hitched as the snake-man’s tongue grazed her labia. His motions slow, circular, and teasingly deliberate. Her hips rocked to his motions, but she wanted more. And then his tongue found its way to her clit. She moaned, taking a fistful of his brown locks to keep him in place.
“Yeah, right there. That’s good!” Rainbow arched her back, free hand traveling to her breast. A tingle grew inside her pelvis.
And then the snake-man rose from between her legs, and she saw two ribbed dicks pop out of a slit where only one dick would’ve been if he were human. Rainbow bit her bottom lip, propping herself on her elbows to better view his package glistening with precum. He motioned with his hand, and she flipped over, favoring her left knee so as not to reagitate her wound.
The snake-man’s dicks rubbed her ass and pussy as he leaned over her. “Are you ready?” he whispered.
She grinded against him, feeling his slickness coat her entrances. “Yes.”
It took him a moment to get into position, and it took more will power than she’d care to admit for her to not slam herself on those dicks right away in the interim. But when he was ready, he slid the tips of his dicks inside her—just the tips, giving her body a chance to adjust before sliding in a bit more. The ribs caressed her inner walls; Rainbow bit her bottom lip in pleasure. And then he he took her hips and pushed all the way inside her.
“Fuck yeah!” She tossed her head back. The sensation of having both her holes filled sent a tingle through her body.
Rainbow rocked to his thrusts. “Ahh!” her fingers clenched. “Fuck me hard!” The snake-man slammed into her, scales smacking her ass.
She heard a distant scream. “What was—ohh, yeah! Mmm.” On second thought, maybe it was just the wind blowing through the tree branches. Yup, totally that.
The tingles flowed into her core and transformed into a shock that made her shudder. A moan escaped her lips as she clenched around his pulsing dicks. Rainbow rested her forehead against her arm. The snake-man pulled out of her, and she felt a drop of his warm, sticky cum slide down her inner thigh.
“Wow, that was—” Rainbow turned to look at the snake-man, but he was no longer there “—awesome?” She sat up and peered around, but she didn’t see any trace of him. “Well, that’s weird.” Wouldn’t she have heard the gravel crackle as he slithered away?
Oh well. Love ‘em and leave ‘em. She shrugged. “Eh, alright.” At least she got a good fuck out of following the map. Sure it was a little disappointing that there wasn’t a prize, but maybe someone had come before either the snake-man or her. “I wonder if the girls had better luck.”
After pulling her panties back on, Rainbow made her way back down the trail until she saw Applejack stumble out of the cave, straps to her costume askew on her shoulders. “Hey, AJ! Have any lu—is that spider web in your hair?”
Applejack blushed. “I don’t want to talk about it.”