Luminous Skies: Element of Courage

by Luminous Skies

And then there were three! (Griffon the brush-off) FINALLY COMPLETED!

Previous Chapter

It’s a beautiful night in Canterlot and everything seems alright in the world. …Well, everything besides a certain pegasus stallion by the name of Luminous Skies, who is currently being chased by a really horny alicorn Princess. (Take a wild guess which one it is.)

”AAAAAAAAAHH!!”

”Bring forth thy flank, colt~”

For all of the readers that don’t speak ‘Luna’, she just said ‘Bring dat ass here, boi!’

”Oh god... AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!”

*record scratch*

*freeze frame*

Yup, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation. Well, for that we’re gonna have to go way back. Let’s start from the beginning.


(In order to catch yourself up on what’s going on, please refer to the previous chapter)

“So, I understand you have your eyes on me, your highness.” Luminous says, walking up to a blushing Luna.

Celestia smirks. “You know, me and Griffin have some things to take care of, so we’ll talk to you two later.” She then turns her smirk towards Griffin.

Griffin looks at the Sun Princess confused. “Uhhh, can I help you?”

Celestia gives him bedroom eyes and caresses is face. “No. But maybe I can help you~”

Now Griffin is scared. “Uhh, I-I need an adult.”

“I am an adult~” Mo-I mean Celestia begins to charge up her horn, still looking at Griffin with the same look in her eyes.

This time Luminous is the one to smirk at Griffin. Looks like Griffin’s finally gonna get some. My man!

Griffin looks at Luminous and mouths something at him. “Help me”

Luminous just closes his eyes with raised eyebrows and shakes his head, still smirking. “You’re on your own.”

Griffin’s pupils shrink as he and Celestia disappear.

After that, Luminous turns to Luna. Who was still staring at him. “So you DO like me.”

Luna shakes off her blush and scoffs at Luminous, frantically trying to cover it up. “W-What would make you think such nonsense??”

“I’m not blind. I see how your face turns into a tomato every time you look at me.” Luminous says with a grin.

Luna blushes again. “W-What?”

Luminous smiles. “Yeah, it pretty obvious. But I’d be lying if I said you weren’t one of the most beautiful mares I’ve ever seen.”

Keep in mind that I said ONE of the most beautiful. My marefriends still take the cake.

Luna gasps with a hopeful smile. “Really?”

Luminous nods. “Really, Really. But I’m already dat-“

Luna didn’t let him finish and practically flew into his arms with a huge smile.

“You didn’t let me fini-OH MOST WONDROUS OF NIGHTS!!” Once again Luminous is interrupted by Luna as she exclaims in joy.

(I don’t know about y’all, but she’s seeming uncharacteristically eager. Both her and her sister.)

“Wait, it’s nighttime?! I gotta get back home!” Luminous gets out of Luna’s grip and looks around for the exit. “God, how do you get out of this place?” Suddenly Luminous gets covered in a blue aura and is levitated towards Luna, who is giving him bedroom eyes.

“Where do you think you are going~?” She says sultrily.

“Well, it’s late and I gots to get home. Rainbow and Twilight are probably waiting for me.” Luminous says, with a tinge of uneasiness regarding Luna’s tone of voice.

“Oh? But we still have some business to attend to~”

Now he’s a little scared. “Uhh, may I ask what kind of business that may be?”

“Hear for yourself.” She puts him down and teleports them to a big double door with a sun in the middle. He looks out a nearby window to see the stars are out and about in the sky.

“Where is we?”

Luna points to the door, still wearing bedroom eyes and a sultry smile. “Listen.”

Luminous walks over to the door and presses his ear to it. “Hey, I hear voices. Is that Celestia? And Griffin too! Just what is going on in there? Wait, is that the bed I hear creaking over and over again? Why is Celestia giggling? Oh god, she’s moaning now. He’s screaming in fear, WHY IS GRIFFIN SCREAMING IN FEAR?! WHAT ARE THEY DOING IN THERE?!?!” Luminous is getting more and more scared by the second.

“They,” Luna slowly walks towards Luminous, swaying her hips. “Are doing what WE will be doing tonight~”

Luminous’s pupils shrink as he realizes what Celestia and Griffin are doing in the room. He also realizes why the Princess are acting the way that they are. They’re in heat.

Using the Royal Canterlot Voice Celestia taught him he shouts,

”NOPE, I’M OUT!!!”

He immediately leaps out of the window.


And that’s how Luminous ended up running through Canterlot with the Princess of the Night in pursuit.

While Luminous is running, the ponies still on the streets in this hour notice him.

“Is that who I think it is?”

“That’s Luminous Skies!”

“Oh my Celestia, it is!”

“Omygoshomygoshomygosh!”

“EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!”

“Marry me, Luminous!”

“HAVE MY CHILDREN!!”

”Oh crap, fangirls!”

The fangirls give chase as well alongside Luna. And she is STILL giving Luminous that same sensual look.

Luminous says, “Man I haven’t been this scared ever since I was stranded in the North Pole as a foal!” He immediately pauses the entire scene and stops running.

WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE. He was never a foal! He was only for Equestria for five months! If this is true, then why does he have these memories? This could only mean one thing...

Luminous looks at the camera with wide eyes. I’ve been in this universe for so long that I am physically, mentally, AND chronologically morphing into this existence and the memories of my old life are becoming replaced by sudden manifested memories of my new one!! In other words, I’m getting LORE.

Eh, my past life was shit anyway.

With that he snaps his feathers and the scene starts up again. “Alright, enough messing around.”

Luminous stops running and turns back to face Luna who had finally caught up with him. But before she could do anything, Luminous gives her a two-feathered salute, winks at her, and turns around again and takes off.

ZOOOM!

Luna looks at the streak of light Luminous made when he took off and looks on into the distance with a longing smile.

Someday, we will be together. Meus amor lux.

(It’s Latin. I kinda forgot what it means, so look it up and tell me what you find, yeah?)


Two tenths of a second later...

“Ahhh,” Luminous smiles as he opens the door to his mansion in the sky. “Home sweet home.” When he walks in, he immediately stops in his tracks. “Something feels odd. I feel like I’m boutta get ambushed.”

”Lulu!!”
”Lulu!!”

Suddenly he gets glomped by his adorable marefriends from both sides, causing him to fall on the ground. “AHHH! Surprise attack of adorableness! My only weakness!” He makes fake dying sounds as he clutches his chest with his hooves, only making the already giggling Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle laugh harder. Luminous finally exhales and juts his tongue out.

Twilight and Rainbow look down at him, then look at each other with mischievous grins. Luminous opens his eyes and notices the look they are giving. His eyes begin to narrow.

”DON’T.”

”Oh, we’re gonna do it.”
”Oh, we’re gonna do it.”

”Did you guys rehearse this?!”

”Would you believe us if we said we started rehearsing before you even left?”
”Would you believe us if we said we started rehearsing before you even left?”

*sigh* ”I’d be shocked otherwise.”

”Five.”

”You don’t have to do this!”

”Four.”

”Can’t we talk about this like adults?!”

”Technically, you’re still a teenager. Three.”

”Noooo...”

”Two.”

”No no nooooo...”

”ONE!”
”ONE!”

”NononoNONONO—AAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!”

Rainbow and Twilight begin to smother their coltfriend with tickles and kisses until a few minutes later where he lays on the ground covered in smooch marks, breathing heavily. All of this as his marefriends snuggle with him.

“Rainbow, you never told me that his laugh was so adorable!”

“I know right?!”

“W-What?! My laugh isn’t adorable!”

”Denial.
”Denial.

Luminous just puffs up his cheeks in a pout and blushes, which only make Rainbow and Twilight nuzzle his cheeks affectionately.

”Awww, so adorable!”
”Awww, so adorable!”

”Alright, that’s it!”

Luminous wraps each of his large wings around each of his mares, rushes out of his door and jumps off the island towards the ground down below.

”WOOOOOO!”
”AAAAAHHH!”
”AAAAAHHH!”

Suddenly Luminous conjures up a platform of light and all three land on it. Rainbow and Twilight slowly open their eyes. And the sight they saw was breathtaking. They appeared to be over a glimmering ocean with clouds brilliantly illuminated by the moon.

“W-where are we?” Rainbow asks in awe and shock.

“While you two had your eyes closed, I used my super speed to take us here. I spent a few days arranging the clouds to make it look like this. And also, to do this.”

Using Aurora Borealis, he somehow made the sight even more breathtaking.

Luminous looks at his marefriends and finds their jaws completely dropped, their eyes as wide as can be. Did he see tears in Rainbow’s eyes?

“Rainbow? Are you okay there?” Luminous asks.

“Y-you did all of this...for us?” Twilight asks, tearing up a bit too.

“Well, yeah. I’d do anything for y’all.” Luminous says with an “isn’t it obvious?” smile.

“THAT!” Rainbow points at him. “That right there is what I don’t understand!”

“I’m confused, what did I do?” Luminous says with tilt of his head.

“T-this! You always put others in front of yourself! It took you about a WEEK to do this, AND YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T EVEN SLEEP!!”

Luminous raises an eyebrow. “Okay so what? Do you not like it?”

“What?! FUCK NO! THIS IS THE BEST THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE FOR ME!!” Now she really is crying a lot. “And thank you so, so, much for this!”

Luminous is worried now. “Then why are so upset?”

Twilight speaks up softer than Rainbow. “I think she’s trying to say is that sometimes—”

“ALL THE TIME!!” Rainbow yells.

“—y-you’re too selfless for your own good.” Twilight finishes.

“Okay, MAYBE I could have gotten some more sleep while setting this up. So what? It’s not like I do this everyday.” Luminous says.

“That’s the thing! YOU DO! As Guardian of the Night, you always go on patrols EVERY NIGHT without getting ANY sleep! Explain that!” Rainbow shouts, her voice cracking through her crying.

Luminous’s pupils shrink. “Ah shizzle, I completely forgot about my patrol! I gotta go!” He puts on his cloak of darkness. He begins to stand up, but Rainbow forces him back down and gets on top of him to keep him from moving.

“Hey Rain! Stop playin’, c’mon!” Luminous says uneasily.

“You see?! This is what I’m talking about! You always do amazing and thoughtful things for anyone else, but almost no one returns the favor!” Rainbow starts sobbing. “You don’t deserve to have someone as selfless as you.” She fully breaks down in tears. “I DON’T DESERVE TO BE WITH SOME ONE AS SELFLESS AS YOU!!”

Luminous, instead of feeling empathy, feels anger. “THAT’S BULLSHIT!!”

He grabs Rainbow’s head by the cheeks and gets her to look at him. “Listen here. Don’t you EVER let me here you say some shit like that again because you ARE DESERVING. I don’t do the things I do in hope for everypony to return the favor, I do it because I love seeing the joy on their faces after I do it. The reason I did THIS for you two,” He smiles, “is because I love you, and I love being able to light up your world.”

Twilight gives a huge smile with tears at the corners of her eyes. “Awwww, Lulu!” She goes over and kisses him a hundred times, but Rainbow hasn’t moved. Both of them look at her to find that she is still crying, but has a huge smile on her face. Before Luminous could respond, she tackle-hugs him off the edge of the platform and they fall through the sky, smiling at each other.

“I love you too!” She shouts out of joy. She then connects her lips with his. The scene zooms out to see Luminous Skies and Rainbow Dash kissing each other and slowly spinning through the sky, with the illuminating colors in the background.

Twilight peeks over the platform and looks at the two with jealousy.

“Man, I need to get me some wings.”


The next day

Luminous wakes up to the knocking at his front door.

“Ugh, can’t a celebrity superhero get some well-needed rest in the middle of the sky on a floating island mansion?” Luminous asks himself with a grumble.

He eventually goes downstairs and opens the door, and his visitor immediately gets him out of his morning slump. But it does confuse him. Kinda. But he really isn’t thinking about that because of the cuteness overdose he is currently getting because of the adorable look Fluttershy is giving him.

”H-hi.”

”HNNNNNNNGGGHH!!”

Luminous doubles over on the ground, overtaken by adorableness. But Fluttershy believes she did something to hurt him so she takes the flower out of her hair and rushes over to him.

“Luminous! I’m s-so sorry! I never meant to hurt you!” Fluttershy says, tearing up with guilt.

Suddenly she feels Luminous wipe the tears from her eyes, and opens then to see him smiling warmly.

“Don’t worry, Flutters. You didn’t do anything wrong. I just found you so adorable that my body simply couldn’t handle it.” Luminous says with a chuckle.

Fluttershy gasps with a blush. “Really?” She asks as she slowly grows a smile.

Luminous nods. “Yep, why did you go all adorable with the flower in the first place?”

“W-well I talked to Rainbow and she said that adorable mares were your type and I-eep!” Fluttershy covers her mouth with both hooves as she realizes she said too much.

Luminous’s eyes widen in realization as his face starts to glow. “You…you were flirting with me.”

Fluttershy is so embarrassed she wants to run away, but she can’t take her sight off of Luminous’s beautiful, glowing eyes. (Her words, not mine. And keep in mind that Luminous’s irises naturally glow Aurora Green, he doesn’t have any hypnosis powers or some shit.)

“You like me, don't you?” Luminous asks with a small smile.

Ever since Luminous saved her from timberwolves, he’s always had feelings for Fluttershy. But they literally just met so he pushed those feelings aside. Also he never thought she would ever return his feelings, so he settled with being her best friend. So realizing that she had feelings for him as well put a smile on his face. This goes for Fluttershy as well.

Just like Luminous has shown Rainbow Dash how to be less cocky, he also taught Fluttershy to be more outgoing and assertive. He also taught her to be brave and take some risks.

Fluttershy may be shy, but she isn’t dense. She can tell that Luminous likes her, so she slightly nods with a small smile.

Luminous gives her a warm smile and walks up to her. “Hey, how about we go for a fly? Come on! I know a cool cloud formation nearby.” Luminous takes off, and Fluttershy follows without hesitation.


As Luminous and Fluttershy fly through the clouds he found his friend looking around, trying to find something.

“It’s been a long time, Colored Question.” To that, the stallion in question (get it?) looked up.

“That it has, Luminous!” He says with a huge smile.

“It’s very nice to meet you, Colored Question.” Fluttershy says politely.

“Feeling’s mutual, Fluttershy.”

While they were flying, Luminous and Fluttershy ran into one of Luminous’s old friends named Colored Question. He’s a pegasus stallion with a mane and fur the same color as Pinkie Pie’s, with a rainbow-colored question mark as a cutie mark. Apparently he’s really good a questioning things. No one really knows.

“Find anything hilarious lately?” Luminous asks, as him and Fluttershy land on the rock Colored Question is sitting on.

“Yep! Radio Wave found Rarity on top of your roof, sleeping. When he asked what she was doing up there, her face went crimson and she just froze. She ended up getting too scared to get down.”

Luminous let’s out a laugh. “Really?! What else?” He prods for more.

“Let’s just say found something unique about our Element of Generosity.” Colored Question smirks. “It turns out that Rarity’s normally Canterlotean accent actually changes with her emotions!”

Both Luminous and Fluttershy are equally shocked, but intrigued.

Colored Question continues. “So we already know that Rarity gets an Australian accent when scared, and a full on Cockney accent when she’s angry. But we now found out that when Rarity’s afrangry, or just simply agitated, her accent becomes Scottish.”

Luminous laughs. “No shit?!”

“Yeah! He even got it on video!” Colored Question gives him a glowing orb.

“Hey, I’ve seen those before. I heard they can show projections on other unicorns’ horns! With their consent, of course.” Fluttershy says.

“Yup!” Colored Question confirms. “Ponies sometimes use these instead of phones because the orbs have more holographic qualities. And they’re good for pondering!”

“Well? What are you waiting for? Turn it on!” Luminous says eagerly.

Colored Question touches the orb and a projection appears.

In the video, as Radio Wave tries to get Rarity down from the roof, he also tells we not to put all of her weight on the roof, afraid that she might fall. This agitated Rarity and she screams,

"WUH, WUH, WHERE THE FUCK UM A TAE PUT MA WEIGHT? WHERE?! I CANNEY PUT MA WEIGHT UN THE ROOF IS DEAD THIN I CANNEY HOLD ON TAEY GUTTER WHAT AM MEANT TAEY DO WAEY IT? ‘OH HEY ER RARITY HOLD IT FOR FIVE MINUTES!’ YA FUCKIN' WANK-STAIN! DON'T PUT, DON'T SHIFT YER WEIGHT WHIT TA FUCK YOU TALKIN' ABOOT?! A CANNEY PUT MA WEIGHT ON TAE FUCKIN THE ROOF?! 'A CANNEY PUT MA WEIGHT ON THE GUTTER WHERE'S IT MEANT TO GO? Know mean? A canney just fuckin MOVE IT! Nae fuckin' wonder that's how agitated am gettin' nu you've really fuckin' agitated me!"

After watching the video, all three pegasi collapse onto the cloud, laughing their flanks off. After ten minutes of side-splitting, Colored Question asks Fluttershy something, and his cutie mark glows. (Only Luminous notices but decides to keep his mouth shut)

“So I’m guessing that Luminous has told you about me.” Colored Question asks Fluttershy.

Fluttershy nods with a smile. “Yes he has! He also taught me this one song you and him sing together when you meet up. Although the lyrics may be...questionable, it’s still a song I enjoy very much!”

Colored Question gasps in excitement and turns to Luminous. “You didn’t!”

Luminous smirks. “I did.”

“You are a gift to this world, you know that?”

“I’m the gift that keeps on giving!”

“So, are we gonna sing the song or what?” Fluttershy asks with a grin.

All three pegasi take a deep inhale, and sing a certain Italian hymn.

Right after they were finished singing, they heard Granny Smith scream from down below.

“Wazzat?” Luminous asks.

“I don’t know, but it didn’t sound good.” Fluttershy says.

“Fluttershy, come on. Let’s see what’s up. Colored, it was good seeing ya.” Luminous says, getting a nod from both pegasi. Colored Question flies off in a random direction, while Luminous and Fluttershy fly to Ponyville to see what’s going on.

Before Luminous could say anything, Fluttershy spots a couple of ducks with their ducklings walking through the middle of the road. Fluttershy immediately goes to help them cross the road, completely oblivious to Luminous’s warnings, as he sees that the ducks are heading in the same direction as a certain bi—I mean Griffon. While Fluttershy was leading the ducks, she accidentally bumps into Gilda who doesn’t take it that well.

“Hey!” Gilda yells right into Fluttershy’s face.

“O-oh, please excuse me.”

“I’m walkin’ here!” Gilda yells at Fluttershy again.

Fluttershy backs away from the Griffon in fear. “Oh. Um, I-I’m sorry, I w-was just trying to-“

“oH, i’M sOrRy! i’M sOrRy!” Gilda says, mocking Fluttershy. “Why don’t you just watch where you’re GOING, doofus!”

While Luminous was watching this, he was getting angrier and angrier, and the townsponies noticed. They slowly backed away from the scene, knowing that they don’t want to be there when Luminous finally snaps.

Tears of fear begin to well in Fluttershy’s eyes. “I, I-I...”

Having enough, Gilda takes a huge inhale of breath, and roars loudly right in Fluttershy’s face. This causes Fluttershy to burst into tears and run away and hide behind Luminous, still audibly sobbing.

Speaking of Luminous, Gilda notices that Fluttershy hid behind a certain green Pegasus. ’Hey! Don’t I know him?


Earlier in Cloudsdale

“So, how has life been treating you?” Gilda asks her friend, who she decided to visit.

“Actually, a lot better than I expected!” Rainbow Dash tells her. “In fact, I have a coltfriend now.”

Gilda raises an eyebrow. “He’s not a wuss, is he?”

Rainbow chuckles. “Oh, the dead exact opposite! Trust me. You do NOT want to piss him off.”

Gilda grins. “Really? Tell me about him.”

Rainbow sighs dreamily. “Where do I start? He’s sweet, caring, brave, and he’d go to Tartarus and back for those he loves. He has beautiful green eyes, vibrant green and blue hair, soft green fur, and don’t even get me started on those wings~“

Gilda chuckles. “Uh, Dashie? You’re gettin’ a winger.”


Green eyes, blue and green hair, green fur. Man, those ARE some nice wings...oh crap. That’s Rainbow’s coltfriend, all right. DOUBLE CRAP! Dash’s number one rule was NOT to piss him off!!

Luminous looks like he is about to level an entire continent.

Gilda looks at Luminous and realizes that she MAYBE shouldn’t have yelled at that yellow pegasus.

It isn’t even a split second before Luminous takes his Blacklight form. But something worse happens. He immediately changes back. The only thing that is still different about him is his eyes, which were previously green, are now a dark shade of purple. For y’all who still don’t realize why this is worse, Luminous only uses Blacklight for anger. For him to switch back means that he’s way past angry. He could choke the life out of her and never change a shade.

Now Gilda knows she DEFINITELY shouldn’t have yelled at her.

Luminous only utters one sentence. One sentence that NO ONE wants to hear coming from his mouth when he’s like this.

”Oooh, I’m gonna ENJOY this.”


Meanwhile, in Cloudsdale

“Wait, so you’re telling me that Fluttershy has the hots for Luminous Skies?!” Fleetfoot asked in shock.

Ever since arriving at Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle has been ITCHING to go to Cloudsdale, and Rainbow Dash finally took her there. Currently they’re talking to Rainbow’s Wonderbolt teammates.

“Uh-Huh. I mean can you blame her?” Rainbow says.

“Nah. If I wasn’t already dating Soarin, I would be all over him.” Spitfire says with a grin.

“I’m right here.” Soarin says with a deadpan look.

“Come on, Soarin. You know I’m only joking.” She says, kissing him. ”Still...”

Spitfire asks Twilight and Rainbow, “Is there anyone else you know of that has the hots for him?”

“Well you know, besides 50% of the mare population.” Cloudchaser says with a chuckle.

Rainbow says, “Alright let’s see here. We have Pinkie Pie, no surprise there because they were practically MADE for each other. Rarity, who we caught doing...something on Luminous’s roof.”

“Rarity?” Flitter frowns. “Aww, I was kind of hoping that she would at least give Spike a chance.”

“You DO realize that Spike is only 12, right?” Twilight says. “Besides, he’s already hitting it off with her little sister.”

“Sweetie Belle? Since when?”

“Since Luminous knocked someone sense into him and got him to ask her out.”


ABOUT A WEEK AGO, ON LUMINOUS’S ISLAND

(Knock Knock) Luminous?

Coming!

(Opens door) What’s up Spike? You said you needed to talk about something?

Yeah. It’s about Rarity. I’m starting to get the idea that she doesn’t like me the way I like her.

(Sigh) Sit down with me...You are one hundred percent right. She will never like you like that.

W-What?! But why? (Sniff) What did I do wrong??

Let’s start off with the fact that she is twenty-three and you are twelve.

Well when you put it like that...

And two, I’m for certain that her little sister has the hots for you.

(Gasp) Wait, she does??

Christ, guys really are dense! Have you not seen the way she looks at you?!

I guess not. Jeez, I never knew!

...Well?! What are you waiting for?! Ask Sweetie Belle out and see if she says yes!

Really? I guess I could give it a try. But I’ve always had the hots for Rari-I swear to God if you say that shit one more time...


Cloudchaser smiles. “That stallion really is something else. If it weren’t for him talking some sense into those stallions a few weeks ago, they would all still be as oblivious as Spike was.”

Suddenly Rainbow and Twilight started laughing. “That reminds us of this one thing he did where he gathered all of the local stallions and brought them to his house...”


WEEKS AGO, AT LUMINOUS’S HOUSE

A’ight bros, I gathered y’all here to get a commonly asked question straight: Do you consider clopping to be a sport? Well, I don’t know about you motherfuckers, but I consider that shit to be a sport, okay? If people can sit back and label goddamn golf, which is the boringest fucking sport in the world, a goddamn sport - if you can label that shit as a sport, and if you can label goddamn fishing as a sport - I know damn well you can label clopping a sport. Think about it, what the fuck, athletically, are you really doing in, in golf, my zigga? All you're doing is hitting a goddamn golf club...'Oh my god, man, that's a long-ass birdie, man, nice birdie, nice putt, man! It went 250...' Get the fuck outta here! No one cares about that boring-ass shit! Who the fuck really watches golf, my zigga? Nobody gives a fuck; it makes ziggas fall to sleep! Fishing, on the other hand...What are the fuck are you really doing, athletically, my zigga, in fishing? All you're doing is that you're sitting your bitch-ass up in the boat - usually it's old-ass snaggle-teeth motherfuckers that ain't got no goddamn teeth up in their fucking grill, or up in their mouth - they're just sitting up in the goddamn boat - you know what I'm saying? - throwing a goddamn rod. It could be any kind of goddamn bait upon the end of the rod. It could be a worm, it could be a caterpillar, it could be a centipede, it could be a dead-ass butterfly, it could be the fucking beak of a damn bird, it could be a fuckin' - It could be anything! You know what I'm saying? 'Oh my God, we caught a big-ass salmon! Reel that fat bitch in! Yeah!' Motherfucker, what are you doing athletically? How the fuck is that working up a sweat, my zigga? What, you're working out your front legs because you have to reel that motherfucker in? Zigga, that's not a sport, man! Well, fuck it, you know what? It is a sport! Fuck it! If you guys want to consider that shit to be a sport, clopping is a fucking sport to me. Clopping and beating your motherfucking dick to porn is a sport.

(CHEERS FROM ALL THE BROS IN THE ROOM)


After laughing for a straight five minutes after hearing the story, the pegasi (and unicorn) brought up a question.

“Speaking of Luminous, where is he?”

Suddenly they see a scared shitless Griffon flying towards them. It is none other than Gilda.

“Gilda! What are you doing here?” Rainbow asks.

Gilda grabs her friend’s shoulders. “Please, Dashie! You gotta talk some sense in to your boyfriend! He’s trying to fucking kill me!” She says in fear.

As if on cue, everyone turns to see a green pegasus heading straight towards them. Or should I say, straight towards Gilda.

“Aww, leaving so soon, Gilda? We can’t have that, now can we? I was just starting to have some fun!” Luminous says with a sadistic smile.

Rainbow turns to her friend. “Gilda, what did you do?!”

“W-well, I was just walking around the town when all of the sudden this yellow Pegasus got in my way. So I got a little mad, and I maaaay have yelled at her and made her cry-“

“YOU WHAT?!” Everypony around shouts at once.

“Well, no wonder he’s so pissed off! You gotta go, right now!” Rainbow says to Gilda.

“No can do, ladies. She’s gotta pay!” Luminous cheerfully says, still smiling sadistically.

Rainbow Dash flies up to him. “Listen, you gotta calm down. I know what she did, but she just wasn’t thinkin’ at the time. Just let it go, babe.”

Luminous’s smile falls into an angry glare. “Oh no no no no NO! See, now this is what we’re not gonna do! You’re not about to stop me from serving justice by saying ‘It’s not worth it!’ or some other pacifist crap! Because right now, it’s feelin’ pretty worth it! Fluttershy is the first friend I’ve ever had!”

“And Gilda’s the first friend I’VE ever had!” Rainbow retorts.

Luminous’s glare then drops as he puts himself in her shoes. If the roles were reversed and Fluttershy was the one in Gildas place, Luminous would stop at nothing to protect her. He then realizes what he has to do, and reluctantly calms down. He turns around and flies off, not speaking a word to anyone.


A few minutes later…

Luminous flies back to his house in a VERY bad mood, and I think you all can understand why. However, the glare Luminous has falls off as soon as he sees somepony laying by the edge of the floating island.

“Fluttershy?” “She seems to have calmed down. That’s a relief.”

The mare in question opens her eyes and looks up to see Luminous and smiles sweetly.

“Hi Lulu, I’ve been waiting for you~” She says with now-lidded eyes.

Luminous definitely notices the change in behavior but decides to keep it in the back of his mind for now, and continues. “What’re you doing here? How are ya feeling after what happened?” He asks, landing on the island.

Fluttershy doesn’t answer the question and stands up, still giving Luminous ‘the eyes’. “I saw everything, you know.” Fluttershy says, slowly walking towards him. “You chasing her through the sky, threatening to make her suffer. All of that, for me~“ She finishes off with a sultry smile.

Part of Luminous’s brain begins to feel uneasy as she walks towards him with swaying hips. ”Oh god, not again!” But another part of his brain was thinking back on how they planned to spend the entire day together, but were placed on “hold” when SOMEONE started terrorizing the town.

So because of this, Luminous decides to just wait and see how this thing plays out. And he would be lying if he said that he wasn’t digging this new side of the normally-shy pegasus.

At this point, Fluttershy’s face is inches away from Luminous’s. However, he still feels like shit for not giving Gilda her well-deserved karma and wussing out like a little bitch. “But, aren’t you still upset that I didn’t go through with what I said I was gonna—MMMMPH!?”

His eyes widen as Fluttershy closes the distance between them and silences his mouth with her own. Luminous, who is now one HUNDRED percent on board, closes his eyes as Fluttershy wraps her front legs around his neck.

After almost a minute of kissing, Fluttershy finally pulls back with a red face. “I-I’ve wanted to do that e-ever since the E-Everfree Forest.” She says, clearly having gone back to her normally shy demeanor.

Luminous, who is still reeling from the events that just occurred, quickly comes back to his senses. ”DAMN!!” He exclaims with wide eyes and smile. That. Was. Hot! “I’m surprised I don’t have a nosebleed after that! How come I’ve never heard about this side of you before??”

Fluttershy, who’s more embarrassed than ever after realizing what she just did, hides behind her mane. “B-b-because, I-I’ve n-never had this s-side of me before. I-I’ve only ever f-felt this way…f-f-for y-you.”

Luminous is completely shocked. He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “Fluttershy…what do you mean by that?”

She covers her face with her wings. “I-I don’t know what’s wrong with me! E-Every time I th-think about you, every time I think about how you saved my life, how much you care about me,”

Her voice slowly becomes less shaky as she moves her wings from her face,

“how kind you are to me, how you comfort me when I’m scared,”

she moves her hair away from her face,

“and how you’re always willing to protect me,”

Fluttershy moves closer towards Luminous once more, her eyes filled with emotion.

“Every time I think about those things, I always feel so confident, so safe, so warm, so loved.

Not before long, the two pegasi are face-to-face with inches to spare once more.

“I feel like I want to be with you more than anything else.”

Luminous grows one of the most genuine and loving smiles he has ever worn. “Well, what’s stopping you?”

Fluttershy’s eyes glisten as she shows a smile as genuine and as loving as her soon-to-be coltfirend’s. “Nothing.” She says as she begins to close the gap between them. “Nothing at all.”

And the sky above them seems to glow just a little brighter as the two friends turned to lovers share a loving and passionate kiss.


EVENING, AT SUGARCUBE CORNER

The sounds of Gilda’s “Welcome to Ponyville” party can be heard inside the building. And right outside the door are a grinning Luminous Skies, and a very scared Fluttershy.

“Alright, time to set things straight! We’re gonna give that griffon bitch a piece of our mind! Ya ready Fluttershy?” Luminous says.

Fluttershy, who isn’t paying much attention due to the sound of her own heart pounding in her ears, stutters out an incoherent answer.

“Hey,” Luminous puts a hoof on her shoulder which causes her to look up at him. “You got this!” He says with an encouraging smile.

Fluttershy looks into her lover’s eyes, and her fear slowly fades away and a determined smile takes its place. “O-okay, let’s do this!”

With that, Luminous turns the knob and swings the door with enough force that it hits the outside wall of the bakery with a loud BANG! Said noise immediately gains the attention of everyone inside, especially Gilda’s after she sees where and who the sound came from. When the two pegasi begin to walk towards her, fear begins to set in as she remembers what the green one did after she yelled at the yellow one. Still, she manages to keep a straight face.

As Luminous and Fluttershy continue to move, Luminous’s immediately sees through Gilda’s façade and takes delight in the amount of fear she exudes. Luminous believes this will make what him and Fluttershy are about to do all the more satisfying.

The eventually reach the griffon and the entire room is silent. Fluttershy stops in front of her, but Luminous keeps walking. “Don’t you worry none, I ain’t gonna hurt ya.” He says with a smirk as he walks past Gilda.

Gilda breathes an audible sigh of relief, and then Fluttershy begins to speak. “Gilda. I do not appreciate what you said to me.” She says in a firm tone. “But as an Element of Harmony, it is my duty to keep the peace.” As she says this, it’s almost as if she’s looking through Gilda instead of looking at her. “So, as the Element of Kindness,” Fluttershy puts a hoof in Gilda’s shoulder and gives her a totally genuine smile. “I forgive you.”

Gilda cracks a hopeful smile. “Ya really mean that?” She asks as she thinks, “Huh, maybe these ponies ain’t so bad after all!”

Fluttershy’s “genuine smile” immediately disappears as she just says, “No.” and moves her hoof from Gilda’s shoulder to the back of her head, yanks her head towards her and headbutts Gilda’s forehead.

This sends Gilda backwards, and she doesn’t even have time to react or even scream in pain before Luminous—who’s been waiting behind her the whole time—elbows her in the nape. Gilda only has time to let out a strangled yelp before Fluttershy hits her with a left hook to the nose. And there’s Luminous again waiting to deliver a backhand to her ear.

One he does so, Fluttershy turns around. And as hard as she can, BUCKS her in the chin and sends her airborne! And to finish it off, Luminous jumps up into the air with a b-twist and then delivers a tornado kick to her temple, sending her back to the ground with a loud *THUD!*

Everypony inside is frozen in shock as Gilda lays unconscious on the floor. Fluttershy walks up the the unconscious griffon with a glare. “Listen here you little shit.” She says through gritted teeth. “You’re probably too unconscious to hear this, but I’m going to say it anyway.”

Now was the time for Luminous to be shocked, for two different reasons. One, Fluttershy just used profanity. Two, if you couldn’t tell Luminous planned this ENTIRE thing out from the beginning. From Fluttershy’s little deceptive speech at the beginning, all the way to the six-hit combo at the end. Their original plan was to simply leave after that. What Fluttershy’s doing right now, though, Luminous had no part in.

“If you EVER say any of those things to me, or talk to me that way ever again, I’m going to feed you to Harry. And let’s just say that he likes to play with his food.” Then her glare turns into a smirk. “Besides…” She says as she turns around and starts walking towards Luminous, with those same lidded eyes, and that same sultry smile as back on the island. “The only one allowed to yell at me, berate me, or degrade me in any way…” She holds his face in between her wings, looking into his glowing eyes. “…is him~” Fluttershy pulls Luminous’s lips to hers, and then proceeds to make out with him in front of everyone.

Fluttershy can’t believe what what she just did, or what she’s doing right now. Everypony is watching her and she’s literally shaking with fear and embarrassment. Yet, for some reason, she can’t stop kissing him. Her mind’s telling her no, but her body’s telling her yes. She feels like she’s about to collapse, but then Luminous caresses her cheek. Then he starts kissing back. Then she slowly stops shaking as everything and everyone else begins to fade away. And now, the only thing on her mind, is loving him.

Their make-out session goes on for another three minutes until they pull away, both breathing heavily. Once they calm down, Fluttershy is the first to speak. “Um, d-do you, want to come by my cottage? I-If it’s okay with you.” She asks with a blushing smile.

Luminous smiles as well. “Do ya even have to ask?”

With that, they finally take their leave, hoof-in-wing. They would continue to walk to Fluttershy’s cottage, where lots of hugging, kissing, and cuddling ensued.


After what happened, everyone inside Sugarcube Corner was still dead silent. Even Rainbow Dash—who was in the bathroom the whole time and completely missed the whole ordeal—was at a loss for words when she saw her best friend on the ground unconscious. Spike was the first to mentally process it all and he finally breaks the silence.

“OHHH SHIT!! OHH SHIT!” He grabs onto a speechless Twilight and starts laughing hysterically. Meanwhile, everyone else begins to snap out of their stupors as well. The room was then filled with gasps of shock, or whoops of joy and excitement from the colts and stallions. “Ahh shit, no! That is NOT happening right now! NO!” Spike starts going around the room, high-fiving everypony. “Hey, did y’all bucking see that shit?!”

“What happened?!?!” Rainbow Dash shouts in disbelief.

“Dash, you shoulda been there! It was the best shit I’ve ever seen in my life!” Spike exclaims. Twilight is too shocked to chide him on his profanity. “Alright so what had happened was, we were partying and everything, having a good time, right? Then all of the sudden Luminous and Fluttershy BARGED through the door and walked right up to Gilda! And then they proceeded to BEAT HER ASS, talk shit to her WHILE SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS, and then they MADE OUT in front of EVERYONE, then DIPPED!” Spike finished, laughing some more. Being satisfied with his storytelling, Spike then walks off to get some more high-fives saying, “I told y’all Lulu was about that shit!”

Rainbow Dash kept silent after that, for the woman was too stunned to speak.


Author's Note

I’m back! Sorry for the wait y’all, but it took me a really long time to get my life back together. But don’t worry, I ain’t going anywhere anytime soon, and I’m already working on the next chapter as we speak!

I lost count of the references in this chapter, so who ever finds the most and lists them in the comment section gets to have their OC in the next chapter!

See y’all in a few!