A Place for Us All Book 1- A Place In Your Arms

Sweetie and Applebloom loomed over the two girls as they sat on the bench. Everyone had changed back into their normal attire before Shadow Cloud came to. He slid up the cold metal of the lockers pulling himself up into sitting position. “Explain.”

“Yeah, you knew he was ours. You might not have known we were pregnant, but that’s not an excuse here.”

Diamond Tiara looked at her knees, squeezing them with her fingers until they were sore. “I… I don’t want to take him away from you, Crusaders. Did I know you three were in love with him? Yes, yes I did. But I fell for Shadow Cloud too. So much so that I needed to give him everything I had, including my virginity and my womb. Shadow Cloud is… well he’s special to me, just as much he is to you. I never wanted to take him away from you. That thought never even crossed my mind. I knew you loved him and I was fine with that. I just… wanted to love and be loved in return. Just like you.” A tear dripped onto the back of her hand.

Silver Spoon placed her hand on top of Diamond’s, and squeezed gently. “We were both there together. And I watched as he bred her, and she watched as he bred me. I can’t remember being jealous of her in any way. I wanted Shadow Cloud to make her happy. And I want him to make you all happy too. I knew a little more about the situation. I knew you all had sex with him. But I wasn’t mad at it, or thought of it as cheating. He gave you what you needed and deserved. And especially you Applebloom….” She looked up to the yellow mare with the sunset eyes. “Shadow Cloud helped me deal with the feelings I had when I was reliving my own…rape.” She swallowed hard twice to get the vile word out of her mouth. “But he stood by me, just like he’s done for you. And when he left to meet you girls, I knew he was going to fuck you, make you his. But I was okay with that, no I WANTED it to happen. Because I knew he’d give you the same care and love I felt when he carried me in his arms away from those memories. I love him. But I don’t want you to STOP loving him. I want him as a part of my life, but I don’t want to take him from your lives just for my happiness. I.... just want to be his mare, just like you.”

“I didn’t know that you and he had gone as far as sex. I’ve never been as observant as Silver Spoon, I admit it. But what she said is true. He made me feel special, and not ‘the rich girl that everyone should be nice to’ special. You’re happy with him. I’m happy with him. But I don’t want to take away your happiness just so I can be. I want to be Shadow Cloud’s mare alongside you. I’m not trying to be selfish.”

“Yet you managed to do it anyway.” Sweetie huffed, crossing her arms. “I for one don’t believe a word of it. No one could be that socially inept that they could think to just step into a relationship. Stay away from-”

“Hold on, Sweetie Belle.” Applebloom interrupted her. “Silver Spoon, you knew what happened to me without being told.” She nodded. “You wouldn’t lie about something that serious, would you? Because if you did, that would be a crime against all the ponies out there who have actually been raped.”

“Of course I wouldn’t.” She whispered in response.

“Oh what a crock!” Sweetie threw up her hands. “You’d say anything at this point just to get away. Don’t you ever even speak to Shadow Cloud again!” The girls winced as she spat.

“Stop Sweetie Belle.” Shadow Cloud stood.

“Stop what?! I’m still not done with you either, wetting your dick in some whores not even a month after-”

“I said STOP!” Shadow Cloud clenched his fist at his side. The girls all gripped their bellies and let out an erotic moan simultaneously. He looked at his clenched fist and the mark was glowing, cycling through the cutie marks of all four girls. He unclenched and it stopped glowing, and the girls came down from what seemed to be a pretty pleasurable orgasm. He filed that away to address later. “Silver Spoon isn’t lying, and implying that she is won’t help this situation. We’ve all made mistakes in this. Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara weren’t deliberately trying to hurt you, but they didn’t think that doing it might cause an issue. Sweetie Belle, we wouldn’t even have gone to Mount Arris if you hadn’t stirred up that lie to get away from Diamond Tiara in the first place. And I fucked up too.”

He sighed. “I’m new to the whole ‘social and friendly with others’ thing. After I met the Crusaders, I learned what it felt like to make others happy, and so I approached Diamond and Silver with the same. And before any of us knew it, they were in love with me too, and I was with them. I didn’t think to say no. I didn’t even think it might have been wrong. My point is we’re all ponies. We make mistakes. Before I met you I was so afraid of other races of ponies that I could barely bring myself to go outside except for school. Princess Luna set me back on track, but even now I’m stumbling. But of all the mistakes I’ve made, falling in love with all of you, making foals with you, that’s not one of them.

“Applebloom, you’re strong and determined, but inside you can be sensitive and brittle. Sweetie Belle, you’re a born leader and lateral thinker, but you have a big sister complex that makes you feel inadequate. Scootaloo is hot headed and quick to judge, but that makes her equally as passionate. Diamond Tiara can be oblivious at times, but she dreams big and I want to see her reach those goals. And Silver Spoon is smart and organized, but is meek to a fault.” All the girls blushed, trying not to make eye contact with him or the other girls. “Each of you are so very different, but I can’t help but love you for them. So I’m going to be the selfish one here and say that I don’t want to stop. I want to make this work. I want all five of you, and I don’t want to give up on any of you.” He sat back down, running his fingers through his mane, before clamping down on his head. “I don’t want to lose any of you, but I don’t want to hurt you either.”

The girls looked to each other, some biting their lips, some with trembling brows. After a moment Sweetie turned to him. “I need you to wait outside while we talk this out.”

Shadow Cloud sat just outside the front door of the Annex. The girls had moved further inside so he couldn’t hear them talking. He took the opportunity to examine his hand. The five girls marks were all still there, appearing as he twisted his wrist left and right. He figured out they morphed into another mark after he hit a certain angle, and he couldn’t figure out how to stay on one without having to hold his wrist in that position. He paused on Scootaloo’s mark, and he traced its outline, sighing. “Oh Scoots. What am I going to do about you?” He looked up at the skyline. “Even if the girls do come up with a solution, will you even hear them out?” No answer came with the breeze. “If I had known how you were feeling I could have DONE something!” He balled his fist, clenching his teeth. “Damn it!”

The door opened and Applebloom smacked him on the back of the head. “STOP THAT!” The impact made him release his fist and it stopped glowing again. “Geez, you’re a bigger boob than Luna’s tits combined.” She muttered as she went back into the gym.

It took another half hour in silence before the door opened. Silver Spoon came to fetch him. He was led back into the weight room, where each of them sat on a piece of equipment. Sweetie Belle was the first to speak. “When the Crusaders agreed on becoming your mares, we were prepared for the possibility that you wouldn’t choose all of us. We made a pact that we would support whoever you chose. That we would never get angry or jealous of one or the other.”

“We never thought there might be a chance that the opposite would happen. That you might want to have more than just the three of us.” Applebloom was the one that spoke next. “But the pact we swore then can still apply now. We’ll be happy with those you chose, as long as Silver and Diamond swear on the same.”

“And we have.” Diamond Tiara said. “I don’t want anyone to be hurt or jealous. I lived that life for far too long. Now learning that my actions for love made you all hurt again, I’m ashamed.” Silver nodded.

“But there are going to be some new rules.” Sweetie Belle raised a finger. “One. You need to tell us right now who else you’ve had sex with.”

He swallowed nervously. “Does the blowjob your sister gave me count?”

“It does not. Though if she used one of her lower holes it would.”

“Then also Starlight Glimmer.” The room went dead silent. “But she forced it on me, collecting my sperm in condoms to test it for magic or something. I didn’t want to, and her Cutie Mark isn’t on my hand either.”

“OooooohKAY then.” She cleared her throat. “Rule two. You can’t bring on any other mares without agreement of the group. And by agreement, I don’t mean a majority, it has to be unanimous. Though I’m sure there are plenty of great girls out there, if we feel slighted in any way we are going to vote no. Is that clear?”

“Yes. Very clear. I have no plans towards that effect anyway.”

“You had no plans towards us either until the day you blasted your load into Diamond Tiara.” Silver Spoon pointed out. “This is just future proofing.”

He nodded in agreement. “However none of this is going to matter, unless Scootaloo agrees.” Diamond Tiara said. “She’s the one hurting the most right now. Honestly I don’t blame her for the blowup. That was several years in the making. If she doesn’t agree, Silver and I are prepared to sever ties. But we need to find her first.”

“I don’t think you two searching would be the best idea. With her being as mad as she is, it’ll just push her into hiding.” AB played with her mane as she thought. “Shadow Cloud either. We’ll look for her ourselves. SC, you go back to the clubhouse and wait there. I know she won’t go there because that’s the first place we’d look.”

“We can at least ask others if they saw her, right?” Silver Spoon said. “I give you my word we won’t search for her directly. We’ll look for clues of what direction she might have gone and bring them to the Crusaders.” They agreed and began to split up.

Shadow Cloud realized that he was forced to wait a lot today. He drew Scootaloo’s picture on the chalkboard of the clubhouse. Or… at least what he thought looked like Scootaloo in his head. He never was an artist, and this was possibly the most abstract drawing he had ever seen, looking more akin to a chicken than his beloved missing mare.

The girls came back emptyhanded as the sun began to set. Exhausted, sweaty, and achey. “Shadow Cloud… massage my tits….” Sweetie whined as she peeled off her coat. “My boobs weren’t made for running before, and they sure aren’t now.”

AB fished out two cold juices from her cooler and rolled one over to the girl before easing herself into a seat. “I can’t believe we found nothin’. We checked her apartment, the school, Rainbow Dash’s house, anywhere she would normally go.”

“This is Scoots we’re talking about though.” Sweetie Belle sighed as Shadow Cloud worked his fingers into her flesh. “Ooh, right there, work out that knot please. She’s always been the best at hiding. If she doesn’t want to be found, she’s not going to make it easy on us. This time I think she might have us duped. Okay, now go to the other one, lover.”

Shadow Cloud spent a few minutes in thought as he was directed to pamper the girls. “If Scoots doesn’t want to be found, then we just need to make her come back.”

“But how are we gonna do that?” Applebloom asked as he massaged her temples in his lap.

“We need Luna.”