The next morning was bright and sunny. Dawny slowly woke up from her dreams with the faintest hint of a grin on her face. The dreams were vague, but they still brought back those feelings from before; tingles and an underlying need for release. Her waking mind hadn’t thought all that creatively on it, but her subconscious seemed only too happy to explore the possibilities while she slept.

She could feel the dampness between her legs and the cool moisture absorbed into the sheets below her rear. A frown started to come back to her face as she became more aware of it, but after a few moments she just tossed the blanket off of her with a small sigh and started her day.

Her morning business wasn’t out of the ordinary; bushing her teeth and finally having a shower that she needed quite desperately now. But soon enough, she was downstairs and ready to report for breakfast.

Oddly enough though, her mother wasn’t around to cook breakfast and it was getting way past the usual time. Dawny sat on the stool watching the clock slowly tick by, but as patient as she tried to be, her mother wasn’t coming downstairs.

Her eyes widened a little when she thought about it, and a frown came to her face when she realized what happened. Her mother must have left for Twilight’s. “Darn it,” the ticked off filly complained to herself and scuffed the floor with a hoof before trotting off to the library. Hopefully in time to ask her mom for some food before they go and see Carrous.

The hustle and bustle of ponies filled the streets in their morning activities. It wasn’t as busy as any of the Cloudsdale streets, or as fluffy, but there was a charm all on its own here. But the filly had no time to be distracted as she hurried over to the library that was built into a large oak near the center of town, and served as the alicorn’s home.

Dawny opened the wooden door and walked inside the public library, taking a look at the vast amount of books all stacked around inside, but seeing no purple pony to accompany them. “Pr-Princess?”

Twilight was casually reading a book on one of the tables in her upstairs study. Her ears flicked up, hearing the oh-so familiar sound of someone coming in and calling to her; maybe even to check out a book, hehe! Quickly, the lavender pony trotted down the stairs, with a nice smile on her face. “Hello? Oh! Why hello there… Dawny! What can I do for you today?”

Dawny’s eyes fluttered at the thought of the princess knowing and actually caring enough to remember her name. That alone put the first smile of the day on her face. “H-hi Princess Twilight! Has my mom… umm… come to see you yet?”

Twilight brought her hoof to her chin to think for a moment about the past few days, but shook her head. “No, I don’t think she has. Why? Did she have something to tell me?”

Dawny’s eyes wandered around the room, looking at those new iSpy that were off to the side, until she quickly looked back as the alicorn stopped speaking. “Umm… well… sh-she was… going to talk to you about the plant thing… Carrous… s-she violated me… two nights ago…” she said somberly as her head and ears slowly started to droop down.

Twilight’s ears popped up at the mention of the name, looking startled for a moment until her jaw dropped upon hearing the rest. “It what?!” she blurted out, staring at the filly intently before she started to pace. “Oh no… oh no…”

The filly slightly nodded, her ears were folded flat against her head and both of her wings were hugging herself. “Sh-she… was going to come over and talk to you about putting a sign up... or… something…” Dawny said, pausing a little bit between her small sniffles. “…I want to come along, and apologize to Carrous. Tell her that I didn’t want to be her friend… b-but say that I’d help her make real friends… and not just victims…”

The alicorn stopped to listen, watching the filly, but kept shaking her head until finally she put her hoof into the floor hard. “N-no… I… I don’t think you should come along… I umm… h-heard it… could be dangerous,” she said with a final shake of her head as she looked off, “No… this is something I’m going to have to do alone.”

Dawny looked back up, and even though she was sad and insecure about what transpired, there was an annoyance growing in her eyes. “Dangerous? I was already violated,” she snapped back a little. “It can’t get any more dangerous when the danger already happened…” But her eyes slowly changed, giving her the best puppy dog eye look she could muster. “And… you’re an alicorn. You protect a whole town! B-b-but you can’t protect… j-just me? Even if I stay on your back?”

“No. I don’t want to put you, or anypony else in that situation again.” Twilight stood firm, shaking her head once more. “And what if any other pony goes through the same situation? No. I’m doing what needs to be done, alone.” Her horn lit up and opened the front door, looking eager to leave, to do what should have done a long time ago, before anything like this should have happened. “Now come along and I’ll take you to your mother’s.”

Dawny couldn’t help but grab that iSpy book she had been eyeing earlier, hugging it close to her body before she fluttered out and casually landed on the purple pony’s back. “How are you going to fix things?” she started, but the rumble of her tummy made itself known. “…wanna have breakfast with me and my mom first? PLEEEEEEAAASSSEEE,” se happily begged.

“No,” twilight said simply as she quickly trotted along the road. She was a little hungry, but such pleasantries were out of the question right now. This was here, now, and she had to deal with it right away, even if a small part of her didn’t want to. And she knew many mares in town wouldn’t be too thrilled about it either, but sacrifices had to be made.

They were the reason the tunnel was allowed to stay open in the first place, the Everfree forest should have been enough of a deterrent to keep curious ponies out. But obviously that had failed, and could fail again. “I… I’m going to make sure no pony ever enters that place again,” the alicorn continued with a grimace, knowing what she was giving up too. There wasn’t really anypony around in town for her in that way. “You… you have breakfast, and don’t worry Dawny. You won’t have to see that thing ever again.”

“You’re the best Princess Twilight!” Dawny squeaked out, stealing a quick hug onto the princess’s mane as they got to the door. She was having an amazing day number two just from getting a piggy back ride from the princess.

“Yea…” Twilight said meekly. She should have done better before that all happened. Dawny fluttered to the floor and opened up the door wide, almost like she was trying to invite someone inside. “Ok… now just stay here with you mom, ok?”

Dawny softly nodded. “Thank you. From me and… other fillies.” Slowly she started to close the door, but looked at Twilight one last time, “Tell her I’m sorry for being a bad friend… and um… that I won’t see her again.”

Twilight nodded. “I’ll tell… ‘her’?” she said, pausing in surprise with the filly’s choice of words. “Just… tell your mother I’m going to go deal with the problem.” She ruffled Dawny’s mane with a hoof a little as they said goodbye. Then the alicorn took flight with the skill that was just slightly above Dawny’s, and headed off in the exact direction of the cave.

Dawny closed the door as Twilight disappeared from view, the smell of tasty waffles floating in the air from the kitchen. Quickly she ran with the book to the kitchen table, plopping down on the nearest chair and opening it excitedly; it was one of the new gold coloured editions. “I’m home mama!”

The food looked like it had already been cooked for a few minutes and was sitting in a stack at the middle of the table. Dawny’s mother came rushing in right after and tightly hugged her filly. “Oh thank Celestia! I… I was worried that you weren’t here… I… don’t go off without telling me where you’re going first… please… I don’t want you to be hurt like last time.” She wiped her eyes after they started tearing up a little. “I made breakfast for you.”

Dawny hugged her back sheepishly, “I’m sorry mama… I thought you left already…”

“N-no… I slept in a little late,” her mother said, looking a little better than she did yesterday when only a few hours’ sleep had sustained her. “It’s ok you’re safe now,” she continued as she gave Dawny a little kiss on the forehead before fixing up two plates of waffles. “Where did you do anyways?”

“I went to the princess’s home because I thought you were there… and I was hungry!” Dawny’s stomach even joined in to further her point before she happily moved her book aside and started to dig in.

Her mother’s face turned a soft shade of red as she sat down, “A-ah… oh you did? Did… did you tell her anything?” she cautiously said with a worried smile on her face. If the princess heard about this in the wrong way, there was no telling what that silly mare would do.

“I told her what you and her were planning to do. Remove Carrous.”

Her mother’s eyes lit up in surprise. “You what?!”

“Yea! But, uh… I asked her to be nice to Carrous cause… she isn’t… umm… I don’t think she’s entirely bad… just lonely…” Dawny said as she grabbed a large mouthful of waffles and shoved them in her mouth, mumbling through them “...and bad at social skills…”

Her mother’s huffed out, trying to calm down. ”Ah… umm… w-well she will probably be able to handle it in her princess ways. She’ll probably know how to umm… be nicer to it and make sure it doesn’t touch another pony like you again.” She tried forcing a supportive smile, to look happy, but she couldn’t help that the news felt like a rainy cloud dampening her day. There goes that little bit of fun she had here.

“Momma?” Dawny started to ask offhandedly, focusing between eating and finding some object in the open book beside her. “Why have you been so nervous whenever I umm… talk about Carrous?”

“Carrous? T-That thing that… touched you? I… I really don’t like that you gave it a name now,” her mother said, trying to sound as ignorant as she could. “I just don’t like remembering something that did that to you… it makes me…” A little tingly every time the name was mentioned. “…worried…”

Maybe talking about Carrous wasn’t good table discussion. “Sorry… she’s just been on my mind all day,” Dawny said as she finished devouring the last of the plain waffles, pushing the plate to the side to pull her book in closer.

A worried expression came across her mother’s face just thinking about the ‘on her mind all day’ comment, but decided not to push, else she get and answer she might not really want to hear. It did feel uncomfortable talking to her little girl about this, but at the same time she felt closer when she was teaching her kid like all parents should try to do. “S-so… how’d you sleep?” she said, trying to push the conversation to something a little more casual and far away from sexual.

Dawny blushed as soon as she was asked. “…umm… I-I… uhhh… think I… dreamt of you… or umm… Carrous… because I had a…” She slowly lifted the iSpy book in front of her shyly. “…we-wet dream… this morning…”

Her mother almost choked on her food; so much for keeping it off the sexual path. “O…oh… y-you did… you um… h-had an…” She sighed a little as she spoke the next few words. “An… orgasm? While you slept?”

Dawny slowly peeked just over the top of her book, hiding the spreading blush. “What’s an orgasm? Is that like um… when I exploded inside?” she guessed, remembering back to when she came hard those few times.

Reluctantly, the now crimson faced mare nodded. “Y-yes… it’s… when you explode inside and get all those good feeling through you. Was… was that what happened while you slept?”

“Yea…” Dawny said with a tiny nod as her eyes drifted back to the book in front of her. “Was it bad if you were in the dream too? Mama?”

“Oh…” Her mother paused for a moment, taking in what her little filly had just said. “U-um… should I ask… what was I doing?”

Dawny shrugged. “Moaning, and um… I think… licking me? It was kinda vague…”She sounded uncertain, not sure how to piece together the fragments in her head.

The mares face turned an even darker shade of red at the very thought, her mind instantly going to lewd images of where her head should never, ever be. “L-licking you? Like… on your shoulder or something? R-right?”

Dawny got a little bit closer to the book, trying to find the last item on a particularly hard page. “No, lower…” She mumbled a little.

“L-lower?” her mother gulped, hesitantly continuing. “L-like… um… on your… private place?”

“YES!” Dawny squeaked out gleefully upon finding the last piece in her book, earning a sharp wince from her mother in the process. “Huh?” Dawny asked as she finally looked up at her mother and flipped the page. “um… y-yea… there…”

Her mother bit her lip a little, worried and not even sure how to handle something like that. Her daughter just said she was getting eaten out by her own mother of all ponies! “You know that I would never touch you there. Ever… Right?”

“I know!” Dawny said with a smile and a light blush. “If you did, I know it would be only to teach me and stuff. Cause you’re my mom.”

“R-right…” Her mother said, not particularly liking that answer but felt that the point had been understood well enough. Regardless, the waffles were done and this place did need some cleaning up, so she decided to start on that, disappointed that her plans in the forest next week were getting canceled right now.

Dawny migrated to her room when her mother got to doing the regular chores around the house that needed to be done. Searching through the book only occupied her for so long though, and started to lose interest after about an hour, finally letting out a few yawns of boredom.

The weekends were fine, but during the week, none of the ponies her age were available yet, not at least until school was over for the day. It didn’t help that she couldn’t tell if she wanted to go out and do something, or maybe just stay home and relax. Either way she didn’t want to do it alone.

“Hey… mama?” Dawny called out as she searched the house, finding her mother up in the air cleaning the week old dust in the ceiling fan. “Mama, wanna go do something?”

“Do something again? And have an awesome day like we did yesterday?” her mother said with a smile as she glided down onto the ground and put her duster onto a nearby counter. “Did you have anything in mind? Maybe go out flying?”

Dawny shook her head, not really feeling that idea just at this moment. “Maybe we could take a bath together?” she said as she fluttered up with a bright smile on her face and softly laid down on her mother’s back, snuggling cutely into her mane. “We can act like we’re at the spa!”

Her mother rolled her eyes at the adorable request. She hadn’t done something like that with her daughter since she was a little foal, but it did seem like a good way to relax and bond. “One trip to the spa it is then!” She smiled, heading to the upstairs bathroom, carefully holding her filly between her wings, even if she didn’t need help like that anymore.

“Wub chu mommy!” Dawny squeaked out again as she got carried like royalty over to their makeshift luxury resort. The tub was filled to the perfect temperature, and Dawny cheered like the ecstatic little filly she was when asked if she wanted bubbles or not. The decision was obvious, and the tub turned into a pool of frothy white bubbles.

Dawny floated down to the ground and gave a bow. “After you, princess,” she said as she smiled up at her with her perfectly white teeth.

“Oh princess now? I didn’t know I was royalty,” her mother said with a little smirk as she started to get into the relaxing water.

“You’re royal the way you treat me mom,” Dawny said with a bright smile as she slipped into the tub too. Almost instantly though, the filly scooted over to nuzzle into her mama’s chest and tried lathering it with the soapy bubbles. “I love you.”

“I love you too Dawny,” her mother said, petting her little filly’s mane in kind. It did feel kind of cute being in here with her little girl, and the warmth of the bath was pretty comforting. Her mind drifted off for a moment about the other spa like pool in the middle of a cave, how warm and nice that was. Though it felt weird thinking about that now, and usually what happened in the cave stayed in the cave. But her daughter kept reminding her about it, whether the filly tried to or not.

Dawny giggled as she gave her mother a royal bath, treating her nicely after all she’s done to protect her and make her happy; returning the favour in some way.

“Hehe, Dawny you know you don’t need to clean me right?” her mother questioned, but still accepted the filly’s cute little demonstration.

“But how can I repay you for making me happy again?” Dawny said as she massaged into one of her mother’s wings. The filly giggled a little more as she reached up with a bubbly hoof and booped her mother on the nose. “Turn around, and I’ll wash you mane!”

Her mother smirked a little as she booped her daughter right back with a generous helping of bubbles and giggled as it sent the filly quickly clearing her face.

Dawny expertly washed her mother’s mane when she finally spun around. Slowly she moved to the mare’s back, then her tail. “Do you want me to wash your flank too?” she asked with a soapy luffa in hoof.

Her mother bit her lip for a second, but shook her head, knowing where that might lead to with her filly’s new found exposure to sex. “Hehe, no it’s fine darling,” she started to say as she turned back around, “Here, let’s get you washed up now.”

Dawny nodded as her mother grabbed the luffa from her and started to scrub her down, rubbing along the filly’s back in circles before slowly moving to her wings. “So, whatcha plans mom?” she asked, looking over her shoulder, feeling her mother rub down into her wings, gently getting in between each feather like a pro. It felt heavenly.

She did have plans, but now that was done for. She may have to go kindly ask Twilight a few things later on. “My plans?” her mother started to say.

“Mmm~” Dawny softly moaned out from a pressure point being squeezed in just the right way, like what Carrous did when tightly hugging her. A small blush appeared on the filly’s face, “I-I’m… s-sorry for making that noise…”

Her mother couldn’t help but blush too. “Um… the noise is fine… you just like it, it’s ok,” she said hesitantly, as her hooves moved to quickly scrub the rest of the filly’s body in spots that were a little less intimate. “Well my plans. I got to go back to work in a few days, and you got to go back to school. If you’re um… feeling ok with that.”

“I think I… would like to spend tomorrow with you too… and um, then I’ll go back to school,” Dawny happily said as she dunked herself under the water for a moment to get the soap off, only to pop up and spurt water on her mom.

“Ack, Dawny!” she coughed out, getting some of it in her mouth. Her hoof reached into a pile of bubbles and plopped it right onto the filly’s mischievous face.

Dawny still smiled and grinned as she spat, shook and wiped off the suds until her eyes were free and clear. “But maybe we could go flying again today? Just you and me. I’d like to learn more!”

“Alright, it’s a promise!” the pegasus mare said with a nod. “You’re doing better pretty much every time we go out and practice. Pretty soon you’ll have no problems flying at all, hehe!”

Dawny sat up straight, a proud smile crossing her face. “I’m already getting better at flying. I even had to fly super creatively to get home from Carrous. I almost had to spend the night if I didn’t!”

Her mother tried to look proud of her daughter too, thinking about the trip to and from there. “Oh… that would be uh… terrifying to stay there all night!” Honestly though, knowing the creature, it probably would have been a lot safer and more comfortable to just stay the night and come back in the morning instead of braving the Everfree at night. “How did you make it back so creatively then?”

Dawny wiggled in excitement. “Well…” she said as she started to proudly recount her tail of bravery from the HUGE, vicious crows! “And then with all my might I soared up to a cloud that was super high in the air. My wings were sore, but I was able to just row the cloud back like a boat on a lake. Right up until I saw home then I easily glided all the way down and right onto our porch!”

“Wow! That… that was awesome! I knew you could do something like that if you really needed to,” her mother said and was actually genuinely impressed. “But, night fling over Everfree is not to be taken lightly. Never do it unless absolutely necessary. But you’ll never be in there again so you should be fine.”

“Uh-huh!” Dawny nodded in agreement as she pulled the plug from the tub as the two started to get out. “So… uhh… if I have dreams of you... o-or Carrous… or um… all three of us again… wha-what do I do?” she asked the one thing still left on her mind.

“Well they are only dreams, right? You can’t really control them… but try not to dream of me ok, it’s… wrong,” her mother said as they started to dry themselves off with a towel. “Though if you do have dreams like that, I… I guess you could just try accepting it and enjoy what your mind conjures… it’s much better than having nightmares about it.”

Dawny still had a soft smile on her face as she thought about it for a moment. “Enjoy them even if they are about you and me?”

Her mother frowned a bit, “Um… n-not those ones. Just try and say no in your dreams about that. Family doesn’t think of each other that way.” Well mostly families. She couldn’t help but think of the Apples for some reason.

“Alrighty mama! I’m 100% to soar on from what happened!” the proud filly said.

“Good. I’m proud to have such a strong little filly, Dawny, hehe.”

Dawny shook her head a little and stuck her tongue out playfully. “You um, kind of have the same laugh as Carrous sometimes. You’re kind of making it hard to move on,” she said as she tossed the towel away and headed out from the door before trotting off. “Well I’m going to my room, cya!”

The mare just stood there, giving a small wave of her hoof, now feeling a lot more self-conscious about that particular laugh. Maybe with the time spent there, either one of them could have picked up on any of each other’s mannerisms.

Quickly Dawny trotted back into her room, book in hoof, and opened the window shade so she could play her game on the windowsill and watch the ponies below. It was nice feeling the afternoon air on her fur; lovely warmth mixed in with a hint of the autumn’s crispness. Various ponies in town walked by every so often on their daily routines.

Though after a long while of book searching and pony watching, a small purple blip appeared on the horizon and was coming right back into town. It was Twilight.

With wide eyes Dawny watched the mare fly right over the town, heading back to her tree house. Dawny suddenly could hear a bell ring out in the distance, the familiar sound of the school day being over.

“Oh. My. Gosh,” she said, getting and epic idea in her head, knowing that there was a certain trio of club fillies that always visited the princess to learn and stuff. Dawny instantly galloped off to find her mom once more. “Hey, mom? Can I go to Sweetie Belle’s?”

Her mother naturally agreed, knowing that before the filly usually just walked out anyways sometimes. “Just be back for dinner. And Dawny…” she finished in a serious tone, kneeling down to eye level. “Your whole experience with… ahem…. Carrous… you should keep this a secret between only you, me and Twilight. Don’t be telling any of the other ponies in town. They could get scared from something like that out there. Would you like it if every filly in town was too terrified to even go outside because that thing might get them if they heard what happened to you?”

“Momma!” Dawny giggled, hearing mama’s warnings were already obvious. “I know that! But, um… I’ll just tell them not to go near there. But really, I don’t want to relive that by talking about it!”

“Just… be safe sweetie…” her mother said and let the filly on her way.

One hug and a short flight later, Dawny knocked on Rarity’s door. After a very friendly greeting by the fashionista, the unicorn went looking for her sister. “Sweetie Belle? You have a classmate here to see you!” she called upstairs before trotting back to the filly ogling her clothing on display. “Do you like them dearie?”

Dawny nodded her head a lot, astounded by the fashion wonders around here. A pair of pink socks with Celestia’s cutie mark on them was displayed on a mannequin and they caught her eye. “Do you have any of those in my size?”

Rarity gave them a look. “I will check for you sweetheart,” she said and went to go check in the storage room for some more appropriately sized.

After a few moments Sweetie Belle called out from upstairs. “Who is it?” Sounding like she was coming down, eventually.

“It’s me! Dawny Soft!” she called up the stairs. “I’m the new girl!”

A small mutter came from upstairs, “Dawny? Dawny? Hmm…” Then she called out again, “Oh hey Dawny! One second!” After a little while the white, cutiemarkless filly came charging down the stairs to come and greet the new filly with a bright playful smile on her face. “Hey, Dawny! I haven’t seen you since… like… well before the weekend. I don’t you remember you at school today either.”

“Heya!” Dawny looked over the very pretty filly with a toothy grin. “No, I wasn’t there, but um, uh… I was wondering if I could ask you a big favour. And maybe we could hang out too!”

“You want to come hang out? That would be great!” Sweetie said, her light-purple mane bouncing a bit as she nodded in agreement. “Um… let’s go to my room then!” She led Dawny up the stairs and couldn’t help but give the new filly’s flanks a quick glance to see if there was a certain mark there or not; and the blank on that flank was as blank as flanks come.

Going into Sweetie Belle’s room was certainly a step up compared to Dawny’s own room. “Whoa…” Dawny couldn’t help but say, seeing what happens when someone like Rarity designs something as simple as a bedroom.

Sweetie just closed the door behind her and caught the filly staring. “What? Oh… my room? Yea, it’s nice” she said so nonchalantly.

Dawny had a hard time peeling her eyes away, but finally managed when she remembered why she was here. “Hey, so um… I was wondering… I was told not to bother to ask, cause it’s like a personal thing of yours, but um… may I meet Twilight with your friends and you?”

Sweetie’s face instantly looked a little more suspicious and hesitant, knowing all too well what happened last time they went down this path, promising not to do it again. “You want to go meet Twilight with us?” Sweetie said, losing the chipperness in her tone as she spoke more cautiously, “Like for our Twilight time?”

“Wel-well, yea… but I promise just once!” Dawny said as she timidly rubbed her hoof side to side on the floor. “I… just… would love to have one time with her… teaching me how to fly.”

“I… don’t think you should come to Twilight time without, um… asking her permission,” Sweetie said cautiously, worried how it could escalate out of control again if she said yes. “And I don’t know if you know this but she’s not really that great of a flyer. She only got her wings a little while ago. You were here for that!”

“O-oh w-well yea…” Dawny said, taking a hit to her spirit. But still, to hold out hope and fly with a princess just once? It was hard to pass up and she wasn’t going to be deterred so easily. “Like I said… I just… wanted to fly with her once… um… cou-could you help me… set that up in anyways Sweetie Belle? Please?”

Sweetie scrunched her face just a little but relented. “Well… if you really wanted I could come with you so we can ask her.”

“Really?!” Dawny squeaked as her face lit up like a tree on hearth’s warming eve, beaming with delight at levels only her mom could normally do to make her smile. “Oh my gosh, I would totally do anything for you forever if you could make that happen!”

The little unicorn blushed a bit in embarrassment from the sudden praise. “N-no… it’s fine. I don’t even know if she’ll accept it yet! But, we could go and ask her right now. I think I saw her trying to fly back to her house when I was coming home.”

“Yay!” Dawny cheered, giving the cute filly the biggest of hugs, and sniffed her fur a little. “… you smell reaaally good…”

“Thanks! And you’re… um… really soft.” Sweetie just smiled a little, giving her new, excited friend a tiny hug back.

One could call it an oddity, but she had one of the softest furs in town. “I don’t use anything fancy,” Dawny Soft said with a small shrug as she broke the hug. “Just was born with a soft coat, just like you were born to look super cute!”

Sweetie’s face kept blushing from all the compliments. “You sure are a super nice pony!” she said as she motioned to the door. “Let’s go and talk to Twilight for you.”

Dawny jumped in the air as she flapped her wing excitedly and followed her ambassador. Rarity was still downstairs drinking tea, and gave Dawny a hint to come find those socks at her boutique in a few days. Soon enough though they were out of the shop and off to see Twilight.

As they walked right up to the door, Dawny was fluttering around Sweetie and still thanking her heartily for setting this up. She was still flabbergasted that she had the chance to spend time with an actual princess, and that this could actually be happening.

Sweetie knocked on the door three times and politely waited outside of Twilight’s house and public library combination.

Twilight quickly came to the door and opened it, but her mane looked slightly messy compared to what it was earlier. Probably due to flying or fighting, right? Right? The mare wasn’t really smiling at all either, but at least seemed pleasant. “Oh, hello there Sweetie Belle. What bring you here to-“

Twilight paused for a moment as soon as she noticed Dawny, her eyes going wide in surprise to see the filly so soon. “O-oh… um h-hello Dawny.” The alicorn paused as she looked at the two fillies. “Ah... w-what brings you two here today?”

Sweetie was about to give the introduction but Dawny quickly blurted out words first. “I wanted to learn how to fly with you, your majesty and um… ask how you got rid of Carrous?” Dawny giggled a little bit seeing the princess’s disheveled mane, having a pretty good idea of what happened. “You had a battle with her it looks like!”

Twilight just paused as her cheeks blushed rosy red again, piercing through her purple fur quite easily. Sweetie Belle just looked Dawny a little confused. “Who’s Carrous?”

“J-just somepony who I had to deal with far away from here!” Twilight quickly said, then looked at Dawny sternly and started to sound demanding as she slowly opened the door with a hoof. “Dawny. Can I speak with you alone, about your flying lessons? Now.”

Obliviously, Dawny just looked at Sweetie with a smile as she trotted inside the tree home. “Yay! Thanks!” she whispered out as the door slowly shut, leaving the marshmallow unicorn confused and wondering why the new filly got to go in while she was left outside.

Twilight quickly tried to gather herself in the middle of the large wooden room before she quietly asked, “Ok… ask your questions here. In private.” The princess’s voice sounded more than a little annoyed right now.

Dawny furrowed her brow a little, surprised at the princess sudden rudeness. “He-hey! What did I do? I’m just trying to be nice to you, and that isn’t fair to be mean to a filly.” She gave out a short huff, forcing herself to cool off just a little. “…what did you do to Carrous? Battle her, right?”

Twilight put a hoof to her face and breathed a bit to calm down, before saying in a calmer tone, “I’m sorry. I’ve just been through a lot today. Carrous… it is taken care of. There’s no way anypony’s ever going to get into those caves again.” She put her hoof back down, and tried to seem a little less grumpy right now. “I… I talked to it… explained the situation and then sealed the entrance. I didn’t need to battle it.”

Dawny blinked a few times. “Umm…” Again her gut was telling her something was off, and remembered how the creature had lured her inside when she tried talking to it. “…I don’t believe that’s the whole truth,” the filly mumbled, her hoof rubbing her other one as her head lowered down a little. It felt like the biggest risk she was ever going to take in her life to call a princess out for lying, but she just couldn’t shake that feeling.

Dawny continued as she looked back up, “be-because… even I-I can tell by you being grouchy and snapping at me… tha-that things didn’t happen as easy as ‘I moved a rock in front of the cave’. Cause… even I couldn’t speak to her properly until I was trapped inside with her…”

The purple unicorn’s face looked more crimson than anything as she blushed an even redder hue. “I uh… it took a lot of energy with shields and spells to uh… keep it away… and then to seal the entrance. I’m just a little tired… yea… tried… and nothing more than that at all.”

“…you’re blushing like my mother does when she talks about it…” Dawny said as she thought aloud. But on her face it was clear as day when she was struck by an incredible revelation as her eyes went wide. She just might have been jumping the shark on the assumption, but she did have a mare’s intuition.

“YOU AND MY MOM BOTH HAVE BEEN TO CARROUS!” Dawny yelled out loud. “Because I’ve been blushing too every time I talk about her!” Her wings flared out aggressively and her hoof snapped out, pointing accusingly at the stunned princess. “And she used both of you… and you’re both lying?!? How can I even tru-“ She tried to say as a lump caught in her throat, as she felt her bottom lip quiver and tears building in her eyes.

“Who’s the real monster? Huh!? My only parent who lies to my face, along with my hero, my idol, my PRINCESS! Who lies to me too about a monster that used ponies! That hurt me! V-violated me! At least she was honest with what she was going to do to me!” Dawny’s cheeks were soaked in tears by the time she stopped screaming at Twilight in her shrill voice. “I doubt you even locked her up. Y-you’re saving her for yourself… o-or for my mommy!”

The princess’s annoyance was gone and replaced with stunned silence at being told off by a filly, who was more right than she might have known. Her eyes got a little damp too, feeling the ardent rage from a wronged soul.

Twilight couldn’t fathom what to put into words right now, but maybe she could take one from Applejack’s book and try to at least tell the truth. “I… I… umm… y-you’re right… we lied to you about Carrous,” Twilight admitted as she tried to put a hoof on Dawny’s shoulder, but the filly just stepped back out of reach.

“But, I am being truthful when I said I did seal it up. No one is going near that cave. Not you, not your mother, not anypony,” Twilight said as she brought her rejected hoof back, feeling terrible for telling a filly something that she should have been too young to know, but also felt it in her heart that it may be the right thing to do, finally giving the wronged filly the answers she was looking for.

“No! I want you to take me, right now!” Dawny said with a stomp of her hoof as she shook her head in disbelief. She had already been lied too before and there was no telling when it would actually stop. “If you don’t… I’ll tell EVERYPONY the truth about what you and my mom do, and the ginormous danger that’s just waiting right inside the Everfree. A monster that violates fillies, and is allowed to do so because Princess Twilight Sparkle enjoys it too much!” Dawny snapped at her with her biting words.

“I am not kidding!” Dawny threatened, pointing a hoof at the door. “I’ll tell Sweetie Belle, who will tell your friend Rarity, while I tell others. And it will spread! A simple hug an-and a cookie… isn’t going to give back what she took from me… o-or stop the nightmare I am having each night!”

The princess grimaced through the spiteful outburst, closing her eyes and lowering her head in shame. “Al-alright… I will take you there,” Twilight said sounding almost defeated. This wasn’t something she would ever consider doing under normal circumstances, but the filly did need some actual closure right now that smoke and mirrors weren’t going to bring. Although with the mention of her friend Rarity, the alicorn took some solace in the filly not knowing how far the entertainment actually spread.

Dawny gave her a hard look, one that slowly faded as her demands were being met. She felt some satisfaction, almost like some kind retribution. But her valve felt broken, being young and still very emotional, and ready to snap at a moment’s notice.

“I… I learned in school that drugs are bad… m’kay? N-now...they are bad because they are addicting. Just l-like Carrous… sh-she… has my mama addicted.” The next words she practically spat with venom, “…has you addicted.”

Dawny paused to for a moment as the waterworks dribbled to a stop and her voice slowly went back to her normal one. “…and… sh-she’s trying to make me… addicted… th-through wet dreams.” The filly slowly started to turn around to the door and opened it. “And when we get there… I can decide if Carrous is a misguided thing… or a drug thing…”

Dawny stopped right next to the confused Sweetie Belle, waiting for her fallen idol to follow, not knowing how else to go on. But she trusted that in her heart she knew what was right. Her mama instilled that in her.

Twilight gave Sweetie a glance as she walked out and closed the door with her magic. “Sorry, I’ll see you later Sweetie Belle,” she started to say, ready to leave and get this done as fast as possible. “Do you want to fly, or let me fly you there? And we’ll talk while we’re in the air?” Twilight offered as she glanced nervously at Sweetie Belle, praying that through the high pitched yelling and shouts that the innocent filly didn’t hear any of that. “Please?”

Dawny turned around, but even as the flame in her was burning low, she felt like had the biggest moral choice of her life. She almost thought it was bigger than anything Twilight ever had to deal with, but she shook that thought from her head. “Ha-hang on… I… I need a minute to think,” she said as she sat down and looked at her hooves, mentally choosing between Twilight and Sweetie Belle. “Ple-please, stay Sweetie Belle…”

The two onlookers didn’t move a muscle; Twilight looking like she was about break down in another panic attack of epic proportions, and Sweetie Belle confused as to what this new filly did to make Twilight this way.

Dawny seriously thought about something that she felt was even bigger than Carrous. Normally a filly would sigh and give up, but she was tough like her mama so she had to make a decision.

Either A, go to the cave with Twilight to see it blocked off, and feel comforted that the liar actually told the truth.

Or B, tell Sweetie Belle right now what they were hiding.

Keeping Carrous blocked off wasn’t a permanent solution, and that wasn’t even what she wanted in the first place! She wanted to teach Carrous friendship, like her old idol would have done, but that was impossible when the Princess of Friendship was just a horny liar.

“Okay…”

Dawny looked up past Twilight and right to the filly unicorn. “Sweetie Belle, there’s a big monster in the Everfree and it… it… v-v… violated me!” She finally burst out, keeping both eyes firmly shut.

“Dawny!” Twilight said trying to stop it, but it was no use.

“An-and Twilight and… and my mommy are trying to cov-cover it up! So they can enjoy the monster, a-and for other fillies like us to get taken and used by it! They don’t care nothing but for themselves!” Dawny finished, openly bad mouthing her liar of a princess. Her only parent, and now her princess were untrustworthy. She had to trust what she wanted, and not them.

Both ponies were absolutely stunned, jaws practically dropping to the floor. Sweetie just looked confused and worried, but her expression was slowly turning into fear as she looked to the princess for guidance.

“D-Dawny…” Twilight meekly spoke out, feeling how much of a problem this could be.

“No!” Dawny snapped out at Twilight’s apology or whatever it was that was coming, crossing her hooves while sitting there. “And trapping Carrous and using her ISN’T HELPING EITHER! It’s like you’re taking advantage of somepony and who doesn’t know better, LIKE ME! A-and telling me, and making me do the wrong thing by being silent, it’s just as bad as using Carrous!”

“I honestly believe she’s nice! B-but ponies like you and my mom, are not helping her get better! So long as you are happy in the end. Her wellbeing, nor mine, nor any other filly, matters? Cause, you are happy?” Dawny said as she huffed out and stood back up, trotting over to Sweetie Belle to talk to her exclusively. “Wa-wanna go spread the word w-with me?”

The unicorn filly looked almost frightened, stuttering out “I uh… I umm uh…”

But Twilight quickly interjected, “Dawny… I… I do care about the wellbeing of all of you. I’m trying to do something that I feel is right by locking Carrous away. The ponies won’t be able to use her anymore, and any accidents with fillies will never happen again… even if it means Carrous will be alone in that dark cave forever.”

The alicorn gave a sympathetic glance to Sweetie. “But now… now I don’t know about that anymore. When ponies find out about this, they might try to destroy it instead of talk to it. I wanted to stop this from the beginning, and I was even trying to make it into a sanctuary so that both ponies and it could be happy. But now... I don’t know…”

Dawny tried apologizing to Sweetie as the princess spoke, feeling a little hurt that she had to drag her into this, but just sighed as the alicorn finished. “Twilight, why don’t you go do what you’re supposed to, and be the Princess of ‘Friendship’ and do something.” She sniffed. “But, how can I trust you’ll do it this time… when you failed already today?”

“I didn’t fail!” Twilight defended herself. “I closed the cave off for good! I can show you, prove to you that it’s done. Forever.”

“...okay,” Dawny said reluctantly, giving Sweetie an apologetic look. “I’m so sorry for everything, but... I’m telling the truth.” But she only got a look back that was filled with a mixture of pity and fear, almost like the unicorn was looking at an alien.

Dawny trotted up to Twilight, finally feeling like her fire was out after letting it turn into an inferno for those past few minutes. As kindly as she could she asked, “Ca-can you carry me? P-please?”

Twilight shook her head as her horn started to light up. “No… we need to do this now. Prepare yourself.”

The magic enveloped Twilight and Dawny. The filly pegasus was about to say something, but instead just felt a strange sucking sensation towards a central point between her and the alicorn. In a blinding flash of light she felt completely gone for a moment, until it felt like her body was returning and being shot out from a tiny hole and into the normal world.

The air around smelt of ozone and magic, and both Sweetie Belle and Ponyville were gone. Though now there were trees all around and they were standing on a well-traveled dirt path. But Twilight was here standing beside her, inside the Everfree forest.

Author's Note

This story was made a while ago, and someone could probably guess pretty close to the date if they looked closely enough.

But, I hope this chapter was acceptable to some of you. There might have been some slow dialogue parts that had to be worked on quite a bit even get them anywhere near presentable. Though, hopefully it was at least ok. Tis the nature of this story it seems.

Now Dawny finally got to react and blow off some steam after learning the truths to some lies. But now in the middle of the Everfree and headed back to the cave, will Dawny find out Twilight’s being honest? Will she meet Carrous again? And just what will happen if they do?