“I’m sorry, Twi, I just don’t feel the same way.” said a tearful Rainbow Dash.
Rain beat fiercely against the window panes of Twilight’s library. Fierce gusts of wind shook the branches of the massive tree, sending tremors through the structure. Candles shook and flickered in the darkness of the library and their light was all that illuminated Twilight and Rainbow Dash. Looming towers of bookshelves stood over them like the trees of a dark forest and despite Twilight’s presence, Rainbow Dash had never felt as alone as she did in the darkness of that afternoon.
Twilight sobbed into Dash’s chest as tears fell from her face like the rain. “I know how you feel, but I’ll never understand why.”
“It’s not anything you did wrong-” spluttered Dash, tears of her own hanging heavily on her face. She sniffled as she tried to find better words, but nothing came to her.
Something about the darkness of the room seemed appropriate to Dash. Had the two broken up under the sparkling light of an afternoon sun, it just wouldn’t have made sense. Although her mind already quaked from the pain of the emotions as Twilight begged her for a reason, for anything that would make sense to her intellectually oriented way of seeing the world, Rainbow Dash knew she would have broken on the spot if the world had not shared in her mourning.
Dash let Twilight fall from her arms as the unicorn heaved with sobs.
“Dash,” she said as she looked up to the mare who used to be her best friend, used to be her everything, used to be her lover. “I know you don’t love me anymore, but I’ll always love you.”
“Twilight,” started Dash. “You’re not a bad pony. We just don’t-”
“Just go.” said Twilight as she tearfully turned away from the pegasus.
Rainbow Dash took one last look at the sobbing unicorn before making her leave from the library.
Before she shut the door, Twilight began to speak again, but Dash simply let the door swing closed. There was nothing more to be said between the two.
*****
Rain swirled about the mud of the dirt street as a torrential downpour came from above. It was a scheduled thunderstorm intended to help grow the struggling harvests of the seasons and under normal circumstances, Dash would have furiously protested against it. After all, sunshine and rainbows were the normal ways of the Equestrian skies.
She let out a sigh as a peal of thunder hailed from far above and lightning sent shaky throes of illumination across the dark streets. What was it that had led to her leaving Twilight?
Of course, she had found a new lover. From the day she had first spoken to Lyra, Dash simply knew that there was no going back to Twilight. The green unicorn simply made her feel stronger and deeper things than Twilight ever did and though she tried to deny it for so long, Dash knew that Lyra was simply the better pony for her.
All of those explanations were just empty words to her though. No matter how hard she thought, Dash could never quite get to the why of what had broken her desire to be with Twilight. Over time, their sex and their dates had just lost their sparkle and charm. Giving love to the unicorn had turned into a chore over time and even as she shook from orgasms given to her by her unicorn lover, Dash had lost her romantic view of Twilight.
They had gone to couples’ counseling time and time again. All of their friends had stepped in to help mend their friendship; Fluttershy had sat the two down on a couch in her home and talked to them, Pinkie Pie had thrown them a party and the rest had helped in their own ways. Even Celestia had stepped in to offer advice, but to no avail. Each time a pony would try to help them, things would get better for a time, but the feeling that Twilight just wasn’t right for her never left Dash’s mind.
And now here she was, trudging in a darkness of howling winds and pouring rain, on the inside and outside.
The rain continued to howl down from above and Dash took pleasure in the way it wet her mane and mingled with the tears on her face. If anypony were to see her walking down the street, perhaps they would chuckle at how the rain had forced the pegasus to walk, when she loved to fly. To tell the truth however, even if the sky above was as blue as the ocean, Dash would still be walking. Flying was an act of happiness to her and she could feel no joy in this moment.
Well, even that was a lie.
As she walked, Dash could see the lights of Lyra’s cottage up ahead. It had been a long and hard trudge through the storm, but she had finally made it to the home of the pony that she loved more than anything. A happiness she never expected to feel again began to blossom in her heart and her lips turned upwards in an unexpected smile.
Maybe it was her love for Lyra that had simply quenched her affection towards Twilight, thought Dash. Ponies were creatures with a single heart to give; when one’s heart becomes centered on another, it can be hard to split it between two different ponies. Dash settled on it as an explanation for her pain.
It was a cozy home; a shack of wooden logs with glass windows from which candlelight flickered and a mailbox stood opened outside the house. Curtains served to hide the interior of the home. Smoke lazily drifted from a chimney and a brick pathway led to the entrance. Dash’s heart was furiously beating as she walked up the pathway.
Finally, she was in front of the door. It was a beautiful piece of carved oak with a heart scrawled on the front. Dash raised her hoof to knock-
But before she could, it swung open to reveal Lyra.
Dash’s words caught in her throat and she couldn’t say a thing. There were so many words that crawled up her throat in that moment, so many explanations bulging at the base of her skull, but nothing would stick to her tongue.
“Dash?” asked Lyra curiously. “I thought you were going to spend today with Twilight?”
“We need to talk,” said Dash as she pawed the ground.
*****
Dash heaved with sobs over the table.
Lyra had prepared a few cups of tea for the pegasus and they sat at her kitchen table before a curtained window. The tea sat un-sipped in its cups and a pink candle flickered within the center of the table. Bright lamps shone across the room to fully illuminate it in the depths of the storm.
“I understand why you did what you did.” said Lyra.
“Do you?” meekly asked Dash through her tears.
“I do.” reaffirmed Lyra. “And I feel the same way towards you, you know.”
“Do you think we can be-” started Dash. Before she could get her words out, Lyra silenced them with a kiss and both of their faces turned crimson.
“Lovers?” said Lyra, moving her head back to break the kiss. “One day. But you need to heal, Dash. You’re hurting.”
“I know,” said Dash as she began to sob again. “I’ll just go-”
“I can help you.” sputtered Lyra.
“Help me? How-” asked Dash.
Lyra took the pegasus in her hooves and kissed her deeply on the lips again. Dash’s eyes widened and then shut as she embraced and accepted the kiss. Their tongues began to intertwine in their mouths and soft moans swept the interior of the cottage.
No words were spoken as Lyra’s hoof moved in-between Dash’s legs. The pegasus shuddered and groaned as her marehood began to moisten rapidly from the quick, expert stroking of Lyra’s hoof.
It moved back and forth quicker and quicker. Dash let out a squeal of affection as her pussy began to grow wetter and wetter, then groaned as relief swept over her body.
“Lyra, I love you.” she gasped in the aftermath of the orgasm.
“It’s your turn.” breathed Lyra. She spread her legs invitingly.
Dash leaned her head down in-between Lyra’s legs, the mare’s dripping pussy inches from her face. Her small tongue flickered out and penetrated the folds of the mare’s vagina quickly, eliciting soft moans and grunts from the squirming unicorn. Faster and faster her tongue swirled around the passionate juices of the quivering mare until Dash could feel hooves pressing down on the back of her head.
“Dash, I’m going to-going to-” said Lyra before her words vanished into a loud moan of euphoria.
Dash sat up and wiped the juices from her mouth. The two kissed as they held one another amongst the sound of rain beating against the glass of the cottage’s windows.
“So what are we?” asked Dash to Lyra.
“Dash, you’re in too much pain for new love. But when you get lonely, I’m here for you.” explained Lyra. “When the time is right, we can come together as lovers.”
“But it’s just sex for now?” blurted Dash.
“Just sex.” smiled Lyra. “But once you heal, it can become something more.”
“That sounds good to me.” smiled Dash appreciatively.
They embraced once more as the storm outside began to clear.
"What do you think love is?" asked Fluttershy.
It was half past three in the afternoon when a tearful Rainbow Dash had knocked on her door. Fluttershy hastily welcomed the distraught mare into her house, as nopony had seen her for a few days. Twilight was equally distant, sending Spike to live with Rarity for an indefinite amount of time and turning away any visitors to her house, even Princess Celestia herself. It was a time of great distress for both Fluttershy and the rest of her friends as the ponies closest to them weathered the breakup in their own ways.
Fluttershy had just been thinking about Dash when she came knocking on her door in her fit of tears. Although Fluttershy didn't love mares in the same way that Dash did, she still deeply cared about and was worried for her friend. Fluttershy knew what a breakup felt like from personal experience and knew how important friendship was in such times. So pushing aside her own anxieties, she opened the door to welcome her friend inside.
"Love is..." trailed off Rainbow Dash. Her lower lip jutted out in frustration and she paused.
"Take your time." soothed Fluttershy as she poured the mare more tea.
"Well, I don't really know." continued the pegasus. "I loved Twilight, but that went away. And I love Lyra, but that hasn't gone away and I've loved her for longer than I even knew Twilight."
"Well, what about friendship?" asked Fluttershy.
"What do you mean?" inquired a curious Rainbow Dash.
"Friendships come and go, but some stick around for one's entire life." continued Fluttershy. "Some ponies might only be friends while they work a job together or attend the same school, then stop talking entirely once they're not forced to spend time together. Some ponies only catch up once every month, or even year, but never lose the spark of friendship that bonds them."
"I think that helps." said Rainbow Dash as she dried her tears.
"How so?" asked a smiling Fluttershy.
"It makes the breakup feel more...normal. As in, my time with Twilight was never meant to last, but it was good while it was around." explained Dash.
"And keep in mind, what makes two ponies want to be together is often very complicated and not at all simple." breathed Fluttershy in a low voice. "There's thousands and thousands of factors just under the surface that can make two ponies work or not work and there's no way to control all of them."
"She was too controlling during sex." blurted out Dash.
Fluttershy's face turned red from awkwardness as she imagined Twi and Dash together in bed.
Before she could silence her friend, she continued. "She was always so analytical and never gave into me fully. She would always stop and just think about what I was doing and how I could improve it. She never just gave herself over into it and let go."
Fluttershy nodded with a crimson face. "I've had that problem with stallions too-"
"Wait, uh, you've had sex?" blurted a wide-jawed Dash.
Fluttershy's face would put Applejack's ripest harvest to shame, thought Dash to herself. "How many?"
"Um, well, um, a dozen." stammered Fluttershy.
Dash's jaw was now fully on the floor. She didn't even know that Fluttershy was capable of getting horny, let alone that her meekness and innocence was harboring such a voracious sexual appetite.
"Yeah, well anyways, what's your point?" asked Dash.
"Did you try talking about the sex issue?" stated Fluttershy.
Dash nodded in response. "Every time I tried to correct her about how bad our sex was, she got offended. Like, I know she was used to taking dick before she realized her true passion was for pussies-"
"Twilight had sex?" asked an open-mouthed Fluttershy.
Dash smiled and shook her head. "She got dicked up and down during her time at Canterlot's School of High Magic and you'd be amazed at what she could do with a load of cum. I mean, have you seen her tight little ass?"
Dash's smile turned into a frown and she gazed dismally towards the ground. "I was what made her realize her passion for girls. But it hurts too much to remember anything about her for now."
"I understand and you don't have to tell me any more." said an understanding and kind Fluttershy to her hurting friend.
"I need to get my mind off of Twi," said Dash as she stretched back into a yawn. "Tell me about your sex escapades some, Fluttershy."
The mare's face turned red. "I-I-"
Dash chuckled. "It was just a joke, Fluttershy. I know that stuff makes you too uncomfortable-"
"No, I'll share." said a determined Fluttershy. Though it truly did make her awkward beyond relief to recall her past stallions, she knew it would help her friend and pushed herself into a recollection.
And besides, thinking about dicks made her horny, she thought to herself with the smallest of grins on her face. She knew she was going to spend some quality time with her right hoof after Dash was long gone.
"The first words he said to me were, I like your rabbit." giggled Fluttershy.
Dash's smile returned and she slapped her leg as she let out a guffaw. "Oh man, that's a classic! Where did it go from there?"
"Well, I told him I had a lot of rabbits back at my cottage and invited him back." said Fluttershy in the most feminine of voices. "But to tell the truth, I just really liked his ass."
Rainbow Dash collapsed into a bout of red-faced laughter. "Dudes sure have nice asses, but you can keep everything else. Go on?"
"Well, he was genuinely interested in all of my animals, but I could tell he really wanted to fuck me. So I said I was going to get my special prize bunny from my room." explained Fluttershy.
"And I came out with a condom in my mouth." she spurted.
Rainbow Dash's jaw nearly become unhinged from her body. "That could have gone. So. Bad."
"It could have," said Fluttershy through her giggling. "But it went just the way I wanted."
"Oh yeah?" said a blushing, giggling Dash.
"He needed help putting it on, you know. He said I was his second mare." said Fluttershy with her hooves in her lap, a girlish grin on her face. "It was just like helping out one of my animals."
"Fluttershy, I never knew you were such...a girl!" sputtered Dash.
"Oh, I keep it to myself because of my anxiety. I would never discuss this with just anypony." said Fluttershy with a toss of her pink mane.
"So uh, how big was his dick?" asked Dash.
"Oh it was...big." said Fluttershy with a shake of her head. "When it first went in, I nearly started crying. Thankfully he couldn't control himself very well and cummed really quickly."
"Aww," cooed Dash. "You were just too much for him."
"And do you know the best part?" said Fluttershy in the lowest of voices.
"What?" leaned in Rainbow Dash to hear her whispering better.
"He started crying!" she said with a sparkle in her eye.
Both mares threw their heads back and lost themselves in bouts of laughter, coming together in a hug.
"Fluttershy, I'll never see you the same way again, you dirty little slut." grinned Dash.
"Well, don't start crying on me, crybaby." snarked back Fluttershy.
When she said that, Dash's face fell and she looked at the ground, the humor seeping from her face like quicksand.
"Oh, I didn't mean it-" started a trembling, guilty Fluttershy.
"Yeah, it's just sore and it really hurts." said Dash in response.
A gong began to chime and the sound of a cuckoo clock rang across the cottage. "Well, I need to get going." said Dash with a smile on her face to her friend."
"Did I help at all?" asked Fluttershy.
"Oh, it's like night and day." said a smiling Dash. "I talk things out to get over things."
The two embraced once more as friends and Dash made her exit.
*****
"I don't know, I just feel really horny." said a blushing Fluttershy to her booty call.
He was a red stallion with a coal black mane, a local handystallion who would help her around the cottage on occasion. They had started fucking after Fluttershy kissed him as a joke and it spiraled totally out of control. Fluttershy had never encountered a pony with such a sizable cock who knew how to use it so well, but something was missing from the stallion that prevented their sex from blossoming into a relationship.
Not that Hammershaft cared of course. She had already talked to him to discover that she was far from the only mare he was seeing on the side and his lack of loyalty brought Fluttershy no bitterness in her heart.
Hammer sat on her couch and began to stroke his large dick that sprung from between his legs like Celestia's own horn. "Hey, me too."
Fluttershy trotted over and gave him a deep kiss, then trotted around to present her ass to his face.
She felt his tongue lick up and down each one of her flanks, then gasped as it suddenly licked her asshole. She bent over to the floor and began to move softly as he swirled his tongue around her asshole, gradually moving to her pussy. Then he stuck his tongue halfway inside of her and began to move it back and forth as her pussy grew wetter and wetter. Still, there was something missing before she reached orgasm.
"Hey," she said, brushing his face with her tail to gain his attention. "Are you gonna mount me?"
"Well gosh, so soon." he said with a grin that showed his pearly white teeth.
The stallion clambered onto Fluttershy's back. Ahead of him was the back of the mare and the soft pinkness of her mane. She gasped and groaned as he plunged his member into her pussy and began to move it back and forth. He would take his dick halfway out and then slowly slide it back in, only to begin to rapidly move it back and forth, then to go back to slowly fucking her. She squealed and squirmed under the expert movement of his experienced cock, her salivating mouth wrenched open in a moan of pleasure.
Suddenly he leaned his head back to moan as he let himself go across her floor.
She turned around to give him a wink. He looked at her with a puzzled expression and began to form an apology on his lips. Before he could start to apologize in full, she bent her head down to begin to lap up his cum. He sat on the couch and masturbated to the sight of her bent-over flanks and still gaping pussy. Cumming on himself again, he leaned back and sighed, a smile on his lips.
His eyes shot open as Fluttershy took his dick in her mouth.
Her tongue moved up and down his shaft, not missing a single inch of skin on his penis. He moaned and grasped at her mane with his hooves, petting her head as she worked. She licked the lip of his dick and put her tongue in the tip, moving back and forth, causing the stallion to quake in pleasure. He cummed a third time in her mouth and squealed in joy.
He leaned back on the couch and Fluttershy admired the sight of his cock hanging between his legs and the small dot of his asshole as he stretched out his legs.
She suddenly wished they belonged to a pony who she could truly give her heart to.
