A Broken Flame

A Broken Flame

Day 2 part 3

By Luckyfanisaac and Applefai

Day 2

Current Time: 2:30 pm

Sunday, July 9th

While DJ sleeps soundly the maids and Cadence talk about him over tea.

"So, what do you know about the young master DJ?" Purple Mist asked as she poured the tea and sat down.

"Well, I know that he comes from a distant advanced civilized region in the north, he's an omnivore." Cadence said as some of the maids almost choked on their tea, except Golden Tassel and a few others. Cadence took a sip and continued. "He really loves any affection he's given because his parents were so overprotective of him that they barely gave him any, which might be why he is suffering from shell shock and anxiety attacks. He has advanced magic on him due to his overprotective parents." Cadence finished and took another sip of tea.

“How advanced are we talking?” Asks one of the maids.

"Pretty advanced, he even has an A.I. in his cyborg eye piece that protects him from any threat to his life, his name is Burnie and he does his job diligently. He serves as DJ's body guard and he protected him from the doctors when they were trying to dissect him.”

“Oh the poor little colt,” cried Goldie. “He must have been so scared.”

“He was at first but I reassured him that I would be there for him.”

“I guess he truly trusts you, your majesty,” said one of the maids.

“Yeah I think he’s starting too.” Cadence said as she stared into her tea, her reflection rippling in the liquid as she recalled all that she knew about him. "He used to have a hard time making friends when he was little, he still has trouble coming out of his shell. I'm actually thinking of introducing him to Twilight and her friends, hoping that they'll be able to help." Cadence took a sip before continuing. "I would like to get him to fly since he hasn't been able to before, he used to be a red earth pony." The maids gasped in surprise.

"Really, but how did he get wings?" asked Purple Mist as she went and got a tea cake for herself.

"I don't know for sure, but I bet it was something magical." Cadence replied as she sat and sipped her tea before looking at Golden Tassel. "Golden Tassel, I do have a question of utmost importance for you."

Golden Tassel's ears perk up as she hears this. "Yes, your highness?" she asked as she sipped her tea.

"DJ seems to really like you a lot, and I'm not always going to have an abundance of time. So I was wondering how you'd like to be his personal maid?" Cadence asked her, awaiting her answer.

Golden Tassel smiled sheepishly while touching her cheeks. "I would love to be that cute little colt’s maid." she said.

"Wait! Why her?" One of the maids asked, clearly jealous, sparking an argument to ensue from the others until Purple Mist whistled to gain their attention.

Crystal Diamonds then speaks. "Princess Cadence has made her decision loud and clear, our job as maids is not to argue, but to understand and accept her decision. Do I make myself clear?" She says as the maids hang their heads and mumble their understanding.

Cadence looked at the clock and noticed it was four thirty. "Pardon me girls, I need to go check on DJ." she said as she got up to check on him.

Cadence gingerly opens the door and sees that DJ is just waking upon the bed. She comes in and talks to him. "Afternoon sleepy head, are you ready to get a bite to eat?" She asked as DJ hops out of bed.

"Yeah, you're actually lucky I was waking up, I really don't like being woken up abruptly while I'm taking naps." He said as he started to feel something running down his leg. Blushing, he ran to the bathroom saying. "Pardon me, I'll be right back." He locked himself in the porcelain throne room as he stripped down to see he had jizzed in his underwear.

Cadence knocked on the door. "Sweetie? Are you ok?" She asked as DJ blushed.

"Yeah, I'm ok, just freshening up." He called out as he entered the shower and started to clean up, as for his underwear, he contemplated what to do. Should he throw them away, should he ask for them to be washed, or should they be burned? These questions swam through his head as the warm water washed the dirt, grim, sweat, and jizz off him.

Soon after about two minutes in the shower, DJ comes out dressed in a fresh pair of clothes as he had put his dirty clothes in his hunch while Cadence puts on fresh sheets on Goldie’s bed.

"Don't worry little one, it'll be our little secret. Would you like me to clean them for you?" She asks him. When DJ responded with a nod she levitates his dirty yellow underwear out of his hunch and magically cleans them. "Are you ready?" She asked, getting a nod from DJ. They then headed out.

As they headed out DJ hugged Goldie and said goodbye before heading out to get dinner. Goldie embraced the hug as she smiled. She wanted to tell him the good news so bad, but figured Cadence will either tell him or that it will be a surprise. She let go as he let go and waved goodbye and he and Cadence left.

Cadence and DJ got dinner in the dining hall where the chef greeted them with a fine smile. "Welcome your majesty and young master, what may I prepare for you on this fine night?" The chef greeted them with a bow. He was a crystal pony with a light brown coat with a yellow mane.

"Oh, I'd like a plate of oats and sparkling water please." Cadence ordered while DJ contemplated on what he'd like.

"I'd like a platter of cod with a side of tartar sauce and a glass of milk, please." DJ ordered as the chef jotted it down and returned to the kitchen.

While they waited, Cadence brought up a conversation. "So, I told the other maids about me trying to get you flying lessons. Would you like me to teach you?" she said.

"I would like that, but I'd also like an instructor that's an earthagus like myself, so that they'll know my limitations and not push me so hard like a drill sergeant would, I really don't like drill sergeants, I was one of the weakest members in my class and would often be ridiculed because of it." He blushes in embarrassment as he talks about it only for Cadence to caress his cheek.

"Ok sweetie, I'll see what I can do, there's no need to be embarrassed." She kisses him on the forehead and ruffles his hair.

The chef came out a few minutes later with a cart to prepare their meal in front of them, he smiled as he fried the cod over an open flame, he drizzled the fish with some lemon as he placed the cod on a plate with a saucer of tartar sauce and poured a glass of milk. He then serves DJ as he starts preparing the oats for Cadence and a glass of sparkling water. He then serves her, smiling as he stands by his cart and watches them enjoy his craft.

DJ took a bite of the fried cod and smiled. "This is really good, it's flaky but not too flaky." He said as he took another bite, dipping it in the tartar sauce to give it extra flavor.

"I'm glad you like it, young master." The chef said as he bowed in respect. "If there's anything else I can get for you, please don't hesitate to ask." He finished before heading back into the kitchen.

As the chef is in the kitchen, Cadence starts up another conversation. "So, how good are you at magic, like what level are you at?" Cadence asks as she sips her sparkling water.

"Well, I'm a weak twelve." DJ says as Cadence nearly chokes on her water, doing a spit take as she gets surprised at this revelation.

“Wow, really is that normal for your people? When ponies are born they are like one to four.” Exclaims Cadence.

“Really? My people are born at ten or twelve then they go up to like twenty.”

“Twenty!!! Your people must be really advanced in magic to go up that high.” Exclaims Cadence in shock.

“Yes we are pretty advanced.” Says DJ Hopper nodding his head.

“What kind of spells do your people cast at level twenty?”

“Usually we can create stars, planets, and creatures but creatures are more complex on level twelve.”

"Wow, it seems your people are really powerful." Cadence says as she ponders the possibility for an alliance. "Do you think an alliance is possible between us and your country?" Cadence asked.

"Perhaps, but we'll have to build more trust first, the last alliance we had the other party betrayed us and took advantage of our technology. We have been at war with them for over twelve thousand years now. It's known as the Great Dimensional War and spans over three point six thousand dimensions."

"Really?" Cadence asked as she wondered. "I've never seen a war happening around here." She says as she finishes her oats.

DJ finishes his fish and puts his silverware at three o’clock and looks at Cadence. "Can you keep my secret if I tell you?" DJ asked.

Cadence does a Pinkie promise. "I promise I won't tell a soul."

"What's with all those actions you made?" DJ asked as he watched her do the movements.

Cadence giggled and picked him up in her magic and placed him in her hooves. "It's a Pinkie promise, dear."

"A Pinkie promise?" DJ asked as he tilted his head.

"It's a promise a friend of mine made, I hope to introduce you two to each other someday." Cadence said, “Now what was it you wanted to tell me?”

DJ takes a deep breath in and exhales. "I'm an alien from a different planet called Sakatoria." He confesses and trembles in fear of Cadence's reaction.

Cadence stands there in shock for a few moments before giving a warm smile and puts a hoof on DJ's shoulder. "I actually should have known, given your unique clothes and body structure. Don't worry, it'll stay between us." Cadence said as she kissed him on his cheek.

DJ smiles at Cadence and stops trembling. "You're really kind, thank you for all you have done for me and accepting who I am." DJ says as he wraps his hooves around Cadence's neck, giving her a warm hug.

"Can you tell me more about Azure please?" DJ asked with a blush on his face as he let go of Cadence.

Cadence caught this and smirked. He must really like her, perhaps he may have a bit of a crush. She thought to herself as she thought of what to tell him about her.

"Let's see, she's really advanced in her magic, she's even made some spells of her own, like the long distance teleportation spell and a changeling displacement spell. But I don't permit the spell because I only blame Chrysalis for the invasion and think we can become friends with the changelings." Cadence said as they got out of their chairs and walked down the hall remembering DJ likes to have dessert a bit later.

"What are changelings?" DJ asked as Cadence stopped in her tracks, remembering the ordeal.

"They're a race of bug-like ponies, they disguise as the one you love and feed off your love. It happened to my husband, Chrysalis captured me and trapped me, I nearly didn't make my wedding." Cadence said as she glanced out a window.

“So they can transform into different things?” DJ asked with a blush feeling his cheeks warm up.

"Yes, anypony and almost anything. They could even be the chairs we sit on, that chandelier, or a pony here in the empire." Cadence says as DJ's wings pomf out causing Cadence to gasp and blush as she raises her right hoof to her mouth.

DJ Hopper looks back at his wings and quickly covers his face with his hooves as he lays his head on the floor.

“I’M SORRY!! I’M SORRY!! I’M SORRY!!” DJ exclaims.

"No, I'm sorry. I shouldn’t judge what other ponies find attractive." Cadence says as she strokes DJ's back.

"I'm not thinking that." DJ denies as he blushes bright red while Cadence smugly grins. “Just the thought of a slow transformation taking over someone and finding out what I find attractive makes me feel funny.”

“Like I said before, what you are feeling is normal for winged creatures so enough about that, I want to gauge your physical prowess." Cadence said, causing DJ to tense up.

"Um, do we have to?" DJ asked nervously, shyly looking up at Cadence through his hooves.

"Oh don't worry, it's just basic stuff." Cadence said, reassuring him by shaking a hoof casually.

"Ok, I do like basic stuff, I like the small burns it gives my muscles." DJ said and got up as they continued heading towards the indoor training grounds.

Inside the arena there are dumbbells, yoga balls, and other exercise equipment littered throughout the area. The room was almost pure white only having gray as accents, the ceiling stood high as DJ cocked his head back looking up.

"This is the indoor arena, we use it to train guards on rainy days or who are new. So I figured it'd be the best place to train you here at first." Cadence said as she took out a rolled up mat just in case DJ Hopper fell during his flying session.

“Where are all the guards?” asked DJ, looking at all the empty rows and rows of exercise equipment.

“They are probably all outside training with my husband Shining Armor.” said Cadence as she rolled out the mat.

“Your husband’s a guard?” asked DJ tilting his head to the right.

“Yes he’s captain of the Crystal Guard and the Royal Guard.” Cadence says as she stands on the mat. “He’s the one who came into the dining room when we were having breakfast the other day.”

“Oh him,” said DJ in an upset voice. “The unicorn who scared me.”

“He didn’t mean to scare you.” said Cadence as she put a hoof on his back trying to comfort him.

“He probably didn’t but he’s still a unicorn guard that I don’t trust.” he said sitting down on the mat crossing his hooves.

“I’m sure you two will get along someday.” Cadence comforted patting his back. “He really isn’t that bad and I’m sure he won’t be like your instructor.”

“Maybe he won’t be like him when he’s off duty but I bet he still yells orders to move faster when the guards are already too tired.” DJ exclaims.

“Oh I’m sure my Shining is fair with his guards.” replies Cadence trying to defend her husband.

"Okay, let's start with some flying exercises and get your mind off that.” Cadence expresses.

“Hold on, let me put on some gym clothes so I don’t get my robes stinky from sweat.”

“Okay DJ, the bathrooms and lockers are behind you over there.” she said pointing to the wall behind DJ.

“Okay I will go into the boy’s locker room and change.” DJ then goes into the locker room and is met with rows of blue lockers.

He walks over to a bench and sits down before rummaging in his hunch before pulling out a red t-shirt and a matching pair of red shorts. He takes off his robe, his undershirt, and pants and folds it up before placing it in his hunch. He then puts on his gym clothes, grabs his hunch and soon exits the room. He walks up to Cadence and places his hunch next to the mat.

“Okay I’m ready,” he says to her.

“Okay, Just relax and move your wings in an up and down motion like this."

(The only gif image I could find of Cadence flapping her wings.)

Cadence moves her wings in an up and down motion. DJ does the same as he mimics Cadence to a tee. After a few minutes, Cadence starts to lift off the floor, beckoning DJ to do the same as he slowly lifts into the air but only a few inches, shaking a bit as he tries to maintain balance.

“You're doing great, DJ just stay calm, now add a little force to your flaps as you propel yourself.” Cadence says while hovering above him.

DJ tried to flap his wings a bit harder but the muscles weren’t used to carrying his weight yet so he only managed to get eight inches off the ground. He tried flapping them harder but it seems like his hooves were a magnet to the floor.

Cadence could see the exertion on DJ’s face as beads of sweat ran down his face.

“Okay DJ you can stop now. Let’s try a different approach.” Cadence says as she extends a hoof to stop a relieved DJ and he starts panting heavily once he’s back on the ground trying to recover his energy.

"We should work on building up your muscles, your stamina seems pretty good, but we should gauge it more with wing exercises." Cadence said as she jotted down notes on a piece of paper that she summoned from her magic.

DJ watched her jot down notes as he wondered what they were. "What's that, Cadence?" DJ asked after she was done.

"They're wing exercises, I'd like you to do ten of each." Cadence said as she gave DJ the list. The list included wing ups, tug of war, trots, and stand up stretches and a few others.

“Okay Cadence I’ll do my best.” replied DJ determined to do the exercises for Cadence.

“Do you need me to demonstrate the wing exercises?” asked Cadence.

“That would help, yes.” said DJ nodding his head.

“Okay to start us off we are gonna do some wing ups. First you want to lie down facing the floor and keep your back straight while you raise and lower your body with your wings.” Cadence then lays flat on the floor and pushes herself off the floor with her wings to demonstrate.

DJ follows her lead and lays flat on the ground and tries to bend his wings to push himself off the ground. He struggles a bit to figure out how to angle his wings but then remembers how to flap them. So he flaps his wings down and bends the base of his wings and angles them towards the ground and starts to push himself up. He then starts to do some wing ups following Cadence.

“One…Two…Three…Four…Five…Six…Seven…Eight…Nine…Ten.” he counts out loud.

“Well done! Now let’s do some trots.” Cadence praises before going onto the next exercise.

“Okay I know how to do trots.” said DJ as he jogs in place and counts how many times he raised and lowered his legs ten times.

"Ok, now stand on your hind legs and stretch to your right for ten seconds." Cadence instructed DJ.

DJ does as he is instructed and stretches to the right, counting the seconds as he does so.

"Good, now do the same thing but to the left." Cadence says as she joins him counting together as they stretch.

“Now stretch all the way behind you until your front hooves touch the floor and arch your back.” Cadence explains. So DJ did just that and stretched all the way until his hooves touched the floor as he arched his back for ten seconds.

"Good. Now stay right there, I'll be right back." Cadence says as she walks to a small equipment closet and pulls out a rope with a gauge on it.

"What's that?" DJ asked while standing still.

"It's a gauge, I want to see how much force you can pull out, we use this to train a guard's pull capacity." Cadence says as she hands the rope to DJ. DJ tugs at the rope with his hooves as if he was playing tug of war while Cadence measures the force, the numbers stop at one-thousand two hundred foot pounds of force leaving Cadence awestruck.

"That's amazing, usually small colts measure at eight hundred and forty foot pounds of force, you're pretty strong." Cadence said admiring his feat.

"It's actually pretty weak compared to others of my race, everyone can do roughly two-thousand foot pounds of force or more." DJ admits as Cadence's eyes widen.

"Really? That really shouldn’t surprise me since your people are so advanced and apparently really strong.” Cadence admits rubbing her hoof over her cheek in surprise.

“How much can you pull?” asks DJ.

“I can pull about two thousand five hundred eighty pounds of force since I’m an alicorn.” replies Cadence.

“That’s pretty common in comparison to my people.” DJ exclaims.

Cadence then goes to put the rope away but was stopped by DJ as he grabbed the end of it in his teeth.

“DJ let go.” Cadence replies, turning to face him.

“No!!” He exclaims cheekily through his teeth.

Cadence tries pulling on the rope but DJ won’t let go. Cadence keeps trying to get the rope but DJ just growls and starts acting like a dog.

“Come on DJ let go!!” Cadence starts to giggle at his canine behavior but DJ just growls in response.

“Grrrrr ra rrrrrr.” DJ growls as he keeps tugging at the robe.

“Oh you want to play do ya!? Well you're no match for me!!” Cadence exclaims and joins in on the tug of war using her hooves.

DJ tugged on the rope but Cadence was just too strong for him. She did however go easy on him and let him pull her forward a few times but it seems DJ really wanted to try to knock her off her hooves so he kept pulling. DJ pulled and pulled but Cadence stayed on her hooves. Eventually Cadence thought that DJ had tried enough so she pretended to fall down onto her face.

“Woah oh ah,” she cried. “Oh ya got me!!” She exclaimed sarcastically.

“Yes I did it!! I won!!!” DJ said, pumping a hoof out in mock excitement because he knew Cadence let him win.

“Well done DJ, come here for a second.” Cadence exclaims outstretching her hooves clearly wanting to give DJ a congratulated hug.

So DJ walked up to her and Cadence wrapped her hooves around DJ and gave him a hug while she laid on the floor as DJ panted in her embrace, clearly exhausted. He snuggled into Cadence’s chest fluff as he embraced her hug and she gave him a squeeze.

“Hello DJ.” she exclaims as he looks up to her.

“Hi Cadence.” he smiled back.

“You are just so precious.” she said in a baby voice as she kissed his forehead.

“Thanks,” DJ replies as he blushes and tries to hide in her chest fluff.

Cadence giggles, “Are you feeling shy?” she exclaims.

DJ doesn’t respond and continues to hide in Cadence’s chest fluff feeling a bit embarrassed.

Cadence just giggles, “I’ll take your silence as a yes.”

Cadence decides to let DJ rest for a bit before moving on to some more exercises to let him regain some of his energy. So they laid like that for a few minutes just enjoying each other’s company. A few minutes later Cadence speaks up.

“DJ why were you acting like a dog?” asked Cadence as she looked down at DJ.

“Well I really like tug of war and I really wanted to play it and I always liked to play pretend that I was a non talking animal.”

“Alrighty then,” replied Cadence. “Do you want to get back at it and do a few more exercises?”

“Yes I think I’m still willing to do that.” DJ exclaims.

So for the rest of the day DJ trained with Cadence and they did a few other exercises that are for the wings.

“Okay Cadence are we done yet I’m getting tired?” asked DJ, feeling his muscles burn from all the exercises which he liked.

“Yes, we are done for the day so grab your hunch and let’s get a bath running.” Cadence replies also feeling the strain a bit.

“Um Cadence?” asked DJ.

“Yes DJ?” replies Cadence as she turns back to look at him.

“Can I take a bath in your tub again?” asks DJ, rubbing a hoof on the floor as he shyly looks down at it.

“Of course you can! I would be fine with that since you don’t have a room yet.” replies Cadence enthusiastically.

“Um, is it possible…that you could…perhaps…clean me?” asked DJ as he nervously looked up at Cadence.

“Did you really enjoy me cleaning you that much?” Cadence smiles enthusiastically back at him.

“Yes,” DJ squeaks out. “Especially when you cleaned my head and massaged my ears.”

“Alright I can do that again for you.” Cadence smiles at him.

“Okay,” he shyly replies feeling a bit excited as he follows Cadence to her bathroom.

Day 2

Current Time: 8:00 pm

Sunday, July 9th

Cadence and DJ Hopper enter her bathroom. DJ goes into the toilet room to change into his swim trunks after grabbing them from the side of the tub while Cadence takes off her shoes, her royal necklace, and her crown in her closet and puts them away.

With that DJ Hopper soon exits the toilet room wearing his red swimsuit while his gym uniform was tucked away in his hunch. Cadence then exits her closet without her royal uniform on and heads on into the bathroom with a pair of clean towels.

“Are you ready now DJ?” Cadence asks as he sees him exiting the toilet room.

“Yes, I’m ready.” he replies.

“Okay I’ll start the bath.” she said as she headed for the bathtub with DJ following her.

She puts the clean towels on the bench next to the shower, Cadence then turns on the faucet and sticks her hoof under it until it is at a comfortable warm temperature. Meanwhile DJ watches Cadence fill the tub, on Cadence’s left side. Once the water is at the right temperature, Cadence goes ahead and plugs the tub but doesn’t add any bubbles.

“Aren’t you gonna add some bubbles?” DJ asks.

“I want you to get a feel for what this tub is capable of so I’m not gonna add any bubbles because the jets would make too many bubbles once they are on.” Cadence expresses.

“This tub has jets?!” DJ exclaims getting excited as he starts bouncing up and down excitedly.

“Yes it does.” replies Cadence looking at DJ’s excitable behavior.

“Cool!!” DJ exclaims as the water is nearly halfway full by then but soon it reaches three quarters full and Cadence shuts off the water.

“Okay hope in!” exclaims Cadence as she smiles at DJ.

DJ slowly gets into the tub and leans back into the chair on his right. Cadence then turns on the jets as they massage DJ’s sore muscles from all the exercising he did.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” DJ exclaims while relaxing in the tub while his head nearly goes under as he sinks into the water giving off a warm glow of yellow as he enjoys the jets.

Cadence giggles at the display. “Are you enjoying that DJ?”

“Yeeeeeeeeees Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh,” he replies as he fully relaxes into the water continuing to glow a warm yellow.

Cadence has to shield her eyes a bit due to the intensity of light and the heat DJ is admitting. Cadence doesn’t want to interrupt him and gets the feeling that DJ really needed to relax after working so hard in the exercise room. Cadence just sits and watches DJ enjoy the jets for a few minutes but later gets up and heads to the closet to get some sunglasses due to the intensity of how bright and hot the light was. She returns soon after while wearing some sunglasses and getting some air from the hot temperatures as she continues to monitor DJ relaxing in the tub.

After a while DJ’s yellow hue starts to dimmer in brightness and heat and Cadence could see again, to see DJ Hopper sitting up in the tub a bit.

“Are you feeling okay DJ? You emitted quite a bright light and it was very hot, like a sauna, while you were relaxing there.” Cadence said, taking off her sunglasses with her hooves and wiping her brow from the sweat.

DJ yawns, “Sorry about that, I really needed to relax from all the exercising that we did. That bright glow is admitting all of my stress that I was under.” DJ explains.

“Did I stress you out that much DJ?” Cadence asks, a bit worried for DJ’s stress levels as she covers her mouth with her right hoof in shock.

“No, you didn’t but I was thinking about my time serving with the Sakatorian Multiversal Guard while we were exercising. I really needed to let that stress out.” DJ said, calming Cadence down a bit by taking her hoof away from her mouth but was still a bit worried about DJ’s stress levels.

“Maybe he needs to snuggle with me a bit more, maybe that will help like before.” Cadence thought.

“DJ would you mind letting me snuggle with you in the bathtub because I’m really worried about your stress levels and I think it will help.”

DJ Hopper shot straight up in the water, totally surprised. “But Cadence… Really I’m fine now. I got it out of my system, you don’t have to do that.”

“Are you sure DJ? It seems like you are still under a lot of stress.” Cadence expresses, rather worried.

“I’m fine…really…you don’t need to come in here and cuddle me but I guess you can if you want too but drain some of the water and add some cold water because when my people generate tons of heat like that water starts to boil and evaporate.”

“Really!?” She exclaims as she turns off the jets to find some bubbles were still there as if the water was indeed boiling.

“Wow DJ, that seems like you could get hurt sitting in a tub of boiling water. Are you okay!?” Cadence exclaims.

“Yes I’m fine, my people are used to hot temperatures.”

“Wow DJ, you never cease to amaze me.”

“I know,” DJ Hopper giggles.

Cadence pulls the plug and let’s out some of the boiling water and opens the tab by the faucet, by doing so brings cold water into the tub, once the water has cooled down enough, by DJ swishing it around, Cadence enters the tub after she plugged it again, joining DJ as he blushes. He soon gets used to it as they start to bathe and play in the water.

They then helped each other bathe as they took turns scrubbing each other's backs and belly. They both took turns standing up in the tub while the other scrubs. Cadence gently but firmly scrubbed DJ's back and then DJ leaned back on his back and she scrubbed his belly with a loofah and DJ did the same while Cadence sat down in the tub. Cadence then lifted DJ's arms up and washed under them causing him to giggle. She then helped him clean his ears and face with a warm cloth. DJ then copied her and washed Cadence’s arms, arm pits, and face.

“Can you let me clean your tail now?” asked Cadence.

“Okay…um how are we gonna do this?” asked DJ, noticing the water was much higher than it was yesterday morning.

“Just stand up and put your tail straight in the air.” replied Cadence.

“Oh okay.” says DJ standing up in the tub and sticking his tail straight in the air like Cadence said. Cadence then puts some shampoo on the loofah and starts scrubbing DJ’s tail. After she was done DJ then sat back down and swished his tail in the water to rinse out the soap.

“There you are! Do you want to do mine now?” asked Cadence.

“Um…ssssssure,” replied DJ. “Hoof it over here.”

Cadence carefully turns her butt towards DJ and lifts it out of the water just enough to get her tail out of the water so she doesn’t flash the colt. DJ then took the loofah and scrubbed Cadence’s tail and scrubbed around the base of it, staying clear of what was below it.

DJ then finished cleaning Cadence’s tail and exclaimed, “Okay all done!” Cadence then sits back down in the water and also swishes her tail in the water to rinse out the soap.

“Okay do you want to scoot over to me and I can do your mane?” asked Cadence turning in the tub to face DJ again.

“Yes please!!” he exclaims excitedly wagging his tail.

Cadence then used her right hoof to squeeze out some shampoo into her left hoof, she rubbed it in a bit and then applied it to DJ's head, she rubbed the shampoo into his scalp, massaging his ears as she goes. DJ enjoys the massage and starts wagging his tail and starts glowing again with a look of utter bliss on his face. Cadence smiles at this and giggles as she watches DJ act like a happy puppy.

“My cute little puppy!” Cadence exclaims at DJ.

“Arf!” exclaims DJ in response as he wags his tail harder.

After a while they started sculpting each other's mane with shampoo, Cadence sculpted DJ's straight up as DJ sculpted Cadence's to look like it was curling inwards. Then they looked at themselves in the mirror and laughed.

“Okay, why don’t we rinse out the soap and do each other’s wings and legs afterwards?” Asked Cadence.

“Okay Cadence we can do that.” replies DJ.

Cadence then takes one of the shower heads and turns it on and rinses out DJ’s mane with a rinsed out loofah to make sure there wasn’t any soap left in his mane. Once she was done with DJ’s mane she turned her attention to hers and rinsed out the soap. She turned off the faucet and put it back in its place.

“Okay Cadence, now that that’s done we can clean each other’s wings and legs but I’m not sure how we are gonna do my legs.” DJ says confused.

“How about I pick you up in my magic and I will clean them for you?” Cadence suggested.

“Okay I guess that will work.” DJ answered a bit nervously but getting used to Cadence using magic.

DJ opens his wings and Cadence gently scrubs them, she then grabs the shower head in her magic and brings it closer to rinse the soap off DJ's wings. Cadence then picks up DJ in her magic, concentrating on both him and the shower head as she turns him around to face her so she can clean his back legs.

Cadence starts scrubing both his legs as he giggled a bit. "Sorry, I'm a bit ticklish." DJ said while blushing. Cadence giggled at this and rinsed off the soap with the shower head.

"Umm, can I please have the loofah and shower head so I can clean under my swim trunks?" DJ asked. Cadence nodded and handed him the loofah and shower head as she turned around.

DJ takes the shower head and loofah in his magic and pulls down his swim trunks and carefully cleans himself around the entire area. Once he is done, he rinses off the soap and carefully pulls up his trunks. "Ok, you can turn around now and open your eyes." DJ said, causing Cadence to turn around.

Cadence had been concentrating the whole time keeping DJ aloft. She gingerly lowers him back into the water and disspells her magic.

"Would you like me to help you clean your wings now Cadence?" DJ asked. Cadence just opened her right wing in response and brought it closer to DJ. DJ gingerly scrubs her wing and rinses the soap off.

Cadence then lowers her right wing and opens her left for DJ to repeat the process, after DJ finished her wings Cadence stretches out her right leg for DJ to clean. Seeing her leg, glimmering with water made DJ blush as he gently scrubbed and rinsed. When he got to her hoof, she couldn't help but giggle, being ticklish down there too.

DJ rinses off the soap again as she stretches out her left leg and DJ repeats the process. Once he finished, DJ returned the shower head back to its proper place and turned it off.

“Now that that’s done maybe we can play in the tub for a little bit.” Cadence exclaims.

Cadence then uses her magic to take out a few sponges from a nearby drawer, they were varied in color. Cadence placed them on the side of the tub. They then started racing the sponges as boats. Since none of Flurry’s toys were in there, Cadence improvised.

"Arrrg, 'tis be the ship the S.S. Suds." Cadence said in her best sea pirate voice causing DJ to giggle.

DJ brought out his own sponge ship and dubbed it the S.S. Soap. "Arrrg, 'tis be the S.S. Soap, prepare to be boarded." DJ said as he engaged in sponge nautical warfare.

DJ gently nudged his sponge against Cadence's sponge and tried to get it to sink, he used another sponge as a cannon ball trying to weigh it down. Cadence does the same thing and after a while, Cadence's sponge boat sank.

After their epic sea battle Cadence decides to show DJ another game and takes out more sponges so they could play sponge Jenga. Cadence stacks the sponges in a tower and DJ stares in confusion.

"What are you doing?" He asks.

"I want to show you how to play sponge Jenga, all you have to do is take one from the bottom like this." Cadence takes a single sponge from the bottom and places it on top. "And place it on top without the tower falling down." She finished.

"Oh, that sounds like fun." DJ said as he took his turn, he managed to do the same thing Cadence did and she went again.

While Cadence carefully moved one sponge out from underneath to place on top, the tower shifted a bit. DJ went next, carefully he pulled out a sponge and the tower collapsed as water splashed over Cadence and DJ causing them to giggle as it fell.

"That was fun." DJ said as he slid closer to Cadence.

After a while DJ started to cuddle against Cadence's belly, he rubs his face against her soft fur as he murs.

"I love you, Cadence." He says unaware of it as Cadence blushes and gasps, she holds a hoof to her mouth as a tear of joy appears in her eyes. She thought DJ fully trusts her now and he finally came out of his shell and opened his heart to her.

DJ realized what he said and looked up. "I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that, it was just a slip of the tongue." DJ said as he panics.

Cadence wraps her wet wing around him to calm him down. "Shhhh, it's ok if you want to say it, I love you too, my student." Cadence says as she strokes his head with her wing.

"I think it's time to get out now." Cadence said as she stepped out of the tub and onto a cloth bath mat. She levitates a blue towel towards her and starts drying off. Cadence pulled the plug and drained the tub. After the tub drained, Cadence gingerly wrapped DJ up and lifted him out of the tub. He stayed there because he didn’t want to get water everywhere from his fluffy coat.

Cadence then gingerly dries off DJ, playing peek-a-boo with him every time the towel covers his eyes. "Peek-a-boo." Cadence would say, causing DJ to giggle. She would then continue to dry him off.

The towel would cover his eyes again and this time he removed the towel. "Peek-a-boo." DJ said, laughing as Cadence smiled.

After drying him off, Cadence wraps the towel around him and picks him up and cradles him in her arms, she looks down at him and smiles. "You're such a cute and handsome young colt, I bet fillies will be all over you someday." Cadence says as she gently rocks him.

DJ blushes bright red. "I'm not so sure about that, I'm sure the cuteness will fade as I get older." DJ said, trying to stay modest.

"Oh, I'm sure the fillies will be all over you someday, even if your cuteness fades because you're nice and sweet, and that's what mares love." Cadence replies, tickling him with her wing before putting him down to let him get dressed in his PJs.

DJ gets a pair of short sleeve PJs out of his hunch and gets in them because he gets really warm in long sleeve ones due to his fluffy coat. "May I sleep with you again, Cadence? Please?" He asks as he finishes putting on his sleeping clothes and gives Cadence puppy dog eyes.

"Sure, you don't have a room yet, and I don't want you to have another nightmare. Come on, I will get a maid to bring dessert. What would you like for dessert?" Cadence says as she walks to her room.

DJ Hopper thinks about this for a moment and says, “How about some peanut butter cookies?”

“Sure, let me just call a maid.” Cadence then pulls on a rope near her bed and one of the maid’s enters. She was a crystal maid with light blue fur and a darker blue mane. She had a blue gemstone on her flanks but couldn’t be seen under the maid outfit. She was one of the maids that was on duty and didn’t get to meet DJ Hopper yet.

“You rang your majesty?” She greets doing a little curtsy.

“Please alert the chef to bring us a plate of peanut butter cookies and two glasses of milk please.”

“As you wish your majesty,” she then curtsyed again and left the room.

DJ and Cadence went over to a small table that seats two people near the bathroom door.

“Why do you have a small table in your room Cadence?'' he asks as he hopes into his chair.

“It’s for when me and my husband want to eat in our room.” Cadence answers as she pulls out her chair and sits down on it.

“Ohhhhh,” replies DJ.

DJ sits down with Cadence as he fidgets his hooves. "Can you tell me more about Azure please?" He asks.

Cadence shook her head from side to side. "Unfortunately, I've already told you all that is relevant other than she is from Fillydelphia and has four older brothers." She said as DJ's ears drooped and he gave a sad expression. "Oh, but don't worry, she'll come here soon and you can ask her yourself." Cadence said as DJ felt a bit better.

"Can you tell me more about you, please?" He asks, giving her puppy dog eyes again.

Cadence smiles as she begins to speak. "Well before I was an alicorn I was a pegasus, Princess Celestia made me into an alicorn when I was younger after I defeated an evil enchantress who came into our fishing hamlet. After that, I foal sat Twilight for a while. She and I used to have so much fun, I then got married to her brother and had a daughter, Flurry Heart." Cadence levitated a picture of her, Shining Armor, and Flurry Heart to her, DJ gushed at how adorable she was.

"She's so adorable, I'd like to meet her someday." DJ said as she put the picture back.

"Maybe that can be arranged, and I'll work on getting you a room tomorrow." Cadence replied, reaching over the table as she ruffled his mane. "So, what would you like in your room?" Cadence asked.

DJ thought about it before speaking, he then spoke. "I'd like for the room to be themed yellow because yellow is my favorite color. I want the room to be close to you, and possibly Flurry Heart, with an adjustable bed big enough to fit two alicorns with a bathtub big enough to fit them too." DJ said as Cadence jotted down notes.

"Go on." She said as DJ thought some more.

"I'd like a desk to write personal letters on, a bookshelf, lots of room to decorate with some personal items, a door with my cutie mark on it, a room adjacent to that one so I can use as a memory museum hall with enough room for visitors, and a few extra rooms for friends if they come by." DJ finished as Cadence wrote it all down.

"Oh my, that's a long list, but I'll see what I can do." Cadence said as Topaz came in.

"Your cookies are ready." She brings them in and sets them on the table, before she leaves she looks at DJ and gives him a noogie. "You are such a handsome young colt young master." She says.

DJ blushes a bit. "Thank you miss." He says as she nods and leaves.

The cookies were fresh from the oven and warm to the touch. DJ noticed this and smiled as he took one. As soon as he bit the moist cookie it could be felt on his tongue with an explosion of flavor.

"So what was it like foalsitting Twilight?" DJ asked.

"It was fun, even back then she was great at magic." Cadence said enjoying a cookie of her own. "Even back then she was studious, she had a few friends, but they weren't close, I think I was the first close friend she had. We would swing on the swings and talk about our dreams." Cadence giggled, remembering a memory. "Occasionally we'd prank Shining." Cadence said remembering those times.

"What made you quit foalsitting?" DJ asked, taking another bite of his cookie.

"Same thing as everyone who foalsits, Twilight grew up, she started going to Celestia's school for gifted unicorns and she became more obsessed with books than socializing, but that all changed when Celestia sent her to Ponyville." Cadence said, tickling DJ's belly as he laughed after giving a grumpy face when Cadence mentioned Celestia’s school. “But enough about me I want to hear about you.”

"Well when I was younger, most of my cousins were in middle school. They talked about boys a lot and some of the boys liked to mud wrestle. It was then I decided I'd rather hang around girls, because I don't like getting dirty." DJ said, taking another bite of his cookie.

Cadence took a mental note of that and thought, "Maybe I should probably introduce him to some school ponies around his age." she thought to herself. "How old are you?" She asks him.

"I'm twenty years old, but I prefer to hang out with older ponies than ones my own age." DJ answered as he took another bite of his cookie.

"I'd still like you to try to befriend ponies your age, I'll talk to some fillies in their late teens or early twenties. I actually have one in mind that's friendly to all new members of the empire, I'll introduce you two tomorrow." Cadence says also taking another bite.

Cadence then grabs another cookie in her magic. "Why don't you tell me more about your parents?" Cadence asked as she took a bite of the cookie.

DJ nodded as he began to speak. "Well, my father Drax was a traveling repairman and a Time Lord, one day when he was on his home planet of Gallifrey he met my mother who crash landed there. He offered to fix her ship and even gave her a room at his house." DJ told Cadence, stopping to take a drink of milk.

"Your father sounds like a good guy." Cadence said while DJ took a break.

DJ put down the glass of milk and continued. "He was, but he lacked common sense before my mother, Twinkle Twish, helped to fix that." DJ chuckled remembering a story. "There was one time my father was armed with a shrink ray, the logical thing to do was to shrink the enemy, but he shrunk himself instead so the enemy wouldn't get him. It was things like that my mother helped him fix." DJ said, taking another cookie.

“My mother was a unicorn scientist specializing in dimensional growth, travel, and chemistry. She decided to have that as her career because she was too shy to be a tail dancer.” DJ explains.

“Most of my family has careers that relate to the dance theater. The dance theater is called Purple Saga, named after a few rain leaks that it would get in its early days of operation. My grandma’s family built the theater over three thousand years ago for entertainment purposes because of the strong muscles in their tails. My Grandma wanted to be a dancer instead of working as a special service person for the crown.” DJ explains taking another cookie and taking a drink of milk.

“I have four aunts and one uncle on my mother’s side and I know I have one uncle on my father’s side but I’m not sure if my dad has any other siblings and I can’t remember his name off the top of my head.” DJ iterates bringing a hoof to his chin to think.

“From oldest to youngest there’s…

Twirly Pink who has twirly pink hair fading to magenta and white hair cascading down the sides of her head and tail, has a magenta coat and has pink and magenta hued eyes. She likes cooking and making treats for the family theater, has a warm voice like honey, a fancy accent, and fell in love with her supplier, a mint white coated stallion with mint hair with pink stripes along the sides of his mane, called Mint Chip. Her daughters are Twinkle Shine and Curly Treats.

Whip-it Twish who has a pink almost white coat with purple hair with a big white strip going down her head and tail but mostly pink and has pink and white eyes too; She likes to dance and has a daughter called Star-shine Melody.

Purple Skies has a navy coat, with a purple wavy mane and tail, magenta and dark purple hued eyes; She likes writing songs about the sky. Her children are Thunderbolt a boy, Purple Leaf a girl, Twinkle Toes a girl, Purple Clouds a girl, Navy Skies a boy, and Purple Bolt a boy.

My mother Twinkle Twish has a purple coat, purple hued mane, purple tail with a white stripe that’s 3/4 inches from the top and 1/8 inch thick, purple eyes. She likes tying tiny bells in her tail just to make a jingle sound. When I was younger she would sometimes put puppets on her tail and put on a puppet show for me.

Star Gaze has a blue coat, with purple mane and tail with a white lock of hair, purple and pink hued eyes. She likes gazing up at the night sky and the night life. Her children are Star Sparkle, Star Sprint, Star Song, and Star Sprinkle.

And lastly Mike Bound who is my uncle has a gray coat with black and white striped mane and tail, purple and white hued eyes. He is a DJ spinner and mic announcer at the family theater. He has a daughter called Melody Park and that’s all the cousins I can list off the top of my head.” said DJ concluding his list of aunts, uncles, and his cousins that he knew of and was very eager to go into detail of his family finishing off two more cookies.

“Most of my closest Family grandparents are around 3,000 years old and live in the NW of Retora. A lot of more distant families live in the NE. 2 relatives live in the south of the main city. My Grandpa’s family lives up north and my Grandma’s family lives in the west. I inherited the fuzzy coat from my Grandpa from his family up in the North Eastern direction of Toria, Sakatoria’s capital city.” He said as he let out a yawn and put down his now empty glass of milk and finished his sixth cookie.

"I think it's time to hit the hay." Cadence said as she finished her cookies and milk.

DJ finished his, Cadence had a total of five while DJ had six, before going to bed Cadence set aside one cookie for her husband, got up from her chair and walked to her bed.

Cadence gets on her bed and opens her wing. "Climb on in DJ, I'll be here for you." Cadence says inviting DJ to muzzle into her wing.

Climbing into the bed DJ snuggled under Cadence's wing, her soft down feathers were like a blanket, the heat from her body warmed him up as the sound of her heart lured him to sleep.