Cadance sat across the table from Twilight Velvet, just enjoying a little tea with an old friend. Her days of foalsitting Velvet’s children were long gone, of course. Twilight was more than old enough to not need a foalsitter anymore, and she’d moved off to Ponyville anyway. Apparently, she’d made some very nice new friends there. And Shining Armor ... well, even when Cadance had first started foalsitting, Shining Armor had been a bit too old to need a sitter. And these days... These days, she had much more pressing interests about him.
“It’s just...” She mused over how to say it without sounding horribly entitled. “I know he’s completely smitten, and it’s already been a while. I don’t know why he hasn’t.”
Velvet laughed just a little bit. A polite kind of giggle. “Oh, I know how you feel. It seemed like it took forever for Night Light to propose to me.”
Cadance leaned in so close she almost toppled her teacup. “How’d you finally get him to do it?”
“Feeling a little impatient, are we?” Velvet raised her eyebrows and grinned.
Slowly, Cadance lowered herself back into her chair. She was supposed to be crowned as a princess soon. She shouldn’t be making emotional outbursts like that. A princess didn’t do such things. Instead, she sat back, calmly lifted her teacup with her magic, and took a sip.
“Well,” Velvet said conspiratorially, “Shining Armor told me this in confidence, so you absolutely didn’t hear it from me...”
“Yes?” Cadance gasped, struggling to maintain at least a little bit of her composure. She wasn’t being entirely successful.
“He’s really quite nervous about it. Been trying to work up the nerve for months. But he knows you’re an alicorn and that you’ll be a princess soon... He can’t help but think maybe he’s not good enough for you.”
“What? That’s ridiculous! If he asked, I’d say yes in a heartbeat!”
Velvet nodded. “I told him as much myself ... of course, framed as something I’d only guessed at, since I wouldn’t want to go spilling any of the little secrets you share with me in our little teatimes.”
Of course not... Cadance had her suspicions about that. After all, Twilight Velvet had just told her about something Shining Armor had said in secret. She had a really hard time believing that things didn’t work the same way in the other direction. That was fine, though. She wanted Shining to know how ready she was for him to propose to her.
“Hm,” Cadance mused out loud, “then how am I ever going to get him to propose?”
Velvet shrugged and took a sip of her own tea. “I’m afraid I don’t know, dear.”
There had to be some way to get him over his nerves... Cadance bent down low over her tea, inhaling the sweet and pungent aroma as she took a deep breath. It really was quite nice tea. Velvet always brought out the very best for her friends. Hm... Actually, friends might be just the thing. Maybe her friends could help her fluff Shining Armor up and make him feel important ... important enough to wed a future princess. She knew a few young mares who’d be happy to do anything – or anypony – with her. It might just work!
“You don’t suppose...” Cadance took a long, luxuriant sip of her tea, drawing out the pause. “...that you and Night Light could go out on a date tonight and leave Shining home alone?”
Velvet smiled knowingly and actually blushed a little. “Oh yes. That sounds lovely, dear. It’s been far too long since I went out on a proper date. Maybe I’ll even have as much fun as the two of you.”
Cadance doubted it, but she’d learned over the years not to underestimate Twilight Velvet.
* * *
Shining Armor took a deep breath and stared at himself in the bathroom mirror. “Come on, you can do this!” he whisper-shouted at his reflection.
It wasn’t quite as easy as that, of course. He’d been trying for a while now, and still nothing sounded right. He could do this, right? He’d been through a lot worse, right? So what if she said no – it wasn’t the worst thing ever. Okay, maybe it would be the worst thing ever. But still, he had to do it, right? He had to take the risk sometime. There just wasn’t any other option. What if somepony else asked her first? He had no idea who that might be, but he was sure whoever it was would be way more qualified to be an alicorn princess’s husband than him. If he didn’t act now, there was no way he’d be able to keep his special somepony for long.
He stared down his reflection and gritted his teeth with effort. “Cadance. Will you marry me.”
Crap! He was forcing it so hard it sounded like one of his old drill sergeants back in the Guard. Why was this so difficult? It was just a simple little thing. Why couldn’t he just say it like a normal pony? And if he was having this much difficulty just with his reflection, how would he ever manage to say it to the real Cadance? He’d have to practice more – much more – practice until he finally—
There was a knock on the front door. He could barely hear it from here, but it was definitely a knock. Who could that be? It was getting pretty late for visitors, and it couldn’t be anypony to see Mom or Dad – they’d gone out on a date tonight.
That left Shining Armor to see who it was ... so continuing his rehearsal would have to wait a little while. Hopefully whoever this was wouldn’t take very long ... and then he could get right back to torturing himself.
It was a quick trip through his parents’ house to the front door. He knew he should probably have found a house of his own by now, but he spent so much time the Guard barracks that it never really seemed to make sense finding a place of his own. What would he even do there? He was barely ever home as it was.
“Who is it?” he called out before even getting close to the peephole.
“It’s me.” That was Cadance’s voice from the other side of the door!
Shining rushed to open it, almost tripping over his own hooves in his clamor. Was ... was this his time to propose? The thought hit him like a sledgehammer. No! No way! He wasn’t ready, not yet!
When he opened the door, he found Cadance smiling at him on the other side ... as well as a few other ponies.
“I thought I’d pop in for a surprise visit,” Cadance said. “You don’t mind if I brought a few friends over, do you?”
“Um ... sure.” He looked at the other three ponies – all unicorn mares – who’d come with Cadance. They looked back, smiling pleasantly enough, but it still made his chest tighten even more. Okay, that settled it. He definitely wouldn’t be proposing tonight. The thought of it was stressful enough without the prospect of doing it in front of an audience! What if she said no? Of course she would say no! Then, in addition to being devastated, he’d be humiliated in front of these other ponies when all three of them watched him break down and blubber like a baby at being rejected. No. He’d play it safe tonight. No risks whatsoever. Just a nice friendly visit.
The front door led right into the relatively small house’s living room, and once Shining stepped out of the way, Cadance came inside, followed by her three friends. All three of them mares, all three of them unicorns. Was that just a coincidence? He closed the door behind them all.
Shining stared at them ... pretty blatantly. “So, um, honey... Who are your friends here?” He was pretty sure he’d seen them with Twilight at some point, but he’d never learned their names. Twilight had certainly never seen fit to introduce them.
“Oh, of course,” Cadance said, holding out her hoof toward the closest – a blue and white mare. “This is Minuette. She’s studying to become a dentist, and she’s really quite good at taking care of ponies with those talented hooves of hers.”
Minuette smiled a little and winked at him. She winked! What was that supposed to mean?
Cadance continued on without pause, “And this is Lyra Heartstrings. She’s one of the best up-and-coming musicians in Canterlot. Travels all over for concerts. And as good as she is with her chosen instrument, her oral skills are pretty great, too.”
Lyra bounced excitedly from behind the other two, grinning wide each time she popped up behind the others. Oral skills? Shining was pretty sure that wasn’t actually the proper way to say that she was also a good singer. That was what Cadance meant, right?
“And this is Twinkleshine,” Cadance concluded. “She’s working on getting her therapy horse license, and she’s just the softest, gentlest pony anyone could ask for.”
Twinkleshine looked at him and blushed slightly before looking away. Okay, this was really getting weird. Why would she blush? And why had Cadance brought them all, anyway? And... “Hey,” he said out loud. “Um, this might sound a little weird, but aren’t all of these Twilight’s friends? From school?”
Cadance shrugged. “Why would it be weird? Twilight and me are pretty close, so why shouldn’t some of her friends be my friends, too?”
“Uh...” Shining Armor didn’t have any answer to that. He glanced around between all four of the mares who’d just come into his house. It seemed really full and almost a little cramped in here with so many ponies. “So, uh, what did you want to do tonight? I mean besides meeting your friends. They’re um ... great. Mom and Dad aren’t home, but maybe I could cook up something?”
Cadance looked positively gleeful. She was definitely planning something. Or was she just amused at the prospect of him cooking something?
He gulped, hoping he wasn’t already ruining things. “I’ve got a tortellini in cheese sauce recipe I’ve been working on. It’s pretty delicious, if I do say so myself.”
“Oh, we have something much more delicious in mind,” Lyra said excitedly. “Don’t we, girls?”
The other two tittered nervously, smiling and blushing.
Shining Armor backed up a couple steps. “So, um...?”
Cadance came up next to him and laid one wing comfortingly over his back. “We’re going to suck your cock, Shiney.”
His jaw dropped. “You’re ... what?” His eyes darted around. “You mean like ... all of you?”
“Mmm-hm.” Cadance kissed him on the cheek. “You are okay with that, aren’t you?”
He nodded dumbly, unable to do anything else. It was more of a reflex than anything. His body was already saying yes when his mind hadn’t even caught up with the idea of what was about to happen.
“Well come on, then!” Without waiting for any further assent from him, Cadance lifted him up with her powerful magic, hovering him across the room and plopping him down on the middle of the sofa.
By the time he came to terms with what had just happened to him, he looked down to see all three of Cadance’s friends squeezing in together between his outspread hind legs. His momentary instinct was to close his legs, pull his tail in, cross his forehooves in front of himself. But no ... there was no question of being modest here. No propriety. Everything he had was already spread out for them to look at ... and more than look. Lyra and Minuette, to his left and the right respectively, bent down and began tonguing one nut each. And Twinkleshine, squeezed in the middle between the other two, licked her way up the crease between his balls with a gentle little hum of contentment. While the other two had their eyes fixed on the prize, she let her eyes drift closed and just enjoyed the tight, smooth skin against her mouth.
And Cadance... Cadance came up next to him on the couch, rubbing his chest with one hoof. “They might not be quite as good at this as I am, but they’re pretty good, aren’t they?”
“Uh-huh!” Shining nodded. He wasn’t about to say so within Cadance’s hearing, but with all three of them down there combining their efforts to pleasure his balls and tease his cock out, it actually felt better than any time Cadance had tried to do the same. Every last bit of his sack was being absolutely lavished with these three mares’ tongues and lips. Already, his cock was beginning to bulge a little way out of his sheath, despite how little warning he’d gotten and how mentally unprepared he was for all of this.
“Ooh,” Cadance said, sliding her hoof down the front of his body until it nudged against the emerging nub of his cock. “And look – a special treat just for me!” She bent down low and slow, tracing her muzzle down over his body just like she’d just done with her hoof ... before she finally ended up in the same place. But instead of just bumping up against the growing tip of his cock, she opened her mouth and took it inside, enveloping him in her wet warmth.
Shining groaned. Yes! As nice as the three mares tending to his balls were, there was just nothing quite like having Cadance’s soft, soothing lips wrapped around his tip. “Cadey,” he said breathlessly, “this is...”
Cadance just gazed up at him with her lips still kissing against his sheath. Oh, that knowing look in her eyes! She knew exactly what she was doing to him, exactly how she was making him feel. His cock swelled ... and she stayed right where she was. It grew inside her mouth, filling her as it invisibly slid out into her. She just looked all the more pleased to feel his cock moving into her, looking up at him so lovingly and adoringly as his unworthy cock intruded between what should have been a pristine, precious, princessly pair of lips.
Of course, it wasn’t the first time. She’d done this before. But never with three of her friends making his balls tingle with their soft, warm tongues, and rarely so subserviently, so willingly taking everything he could give her. This was really something special!
And, of course, his body reacted just as both he and Cadance knew it would: his cock grew even more, quickly filling her mouth and reaching the back of her throat. She just let it slide right in, still looking up at him adoringly. Not the slightest hint of discomfort. She wasn’t hiding it, either, he knew. Cadance was just amazing like that. Having his cock glide into her throat as it hardened was no problem at all for a mare as incredible as her.
Cadance swallowed as he grew, helping pull him even deeper all the more easily. He couldn’t fathom why a mare as special as herself would even do this kind of thing at all. She sure didn’t have to. Shining would have done anything for a mare as wonderful as her, even if she’d been one of the ‘waiting until marriage’ types. She was the most perfect, most amazing mare he’d ever met, and that was before considering how amazingly she was taking his cock into her throat. She even hummed contentedly while she did it! How was she so good at this? Hmm ... maybe she did it because she was good at it? That was the only reason Shining could imagine why she’d want to do it with a regular old stallion like him!
And oh was she ever good at it! Now that his cock was really starting to grow to its full size, he could enjoy the snug massage of her entire throat milking him as she worked to swallow him even deeper and coax him to full hardness.
He lovingly and gently brushed his hoof through a bit of her mane, nudging a bit of that adorable little yellow stripe away from her eyes. He could never get enough of how she looked up at him like that.
When Cadance finally pulled wetly up off of his cock, she did breathe in with a deep and long-postponed gasp ... but she also smiled down at the result of her work. Shining’s cock towered up from between his hind legs, glistening wet from every last bit of it having just been inside of her. She licked her lips clean. “Now there’s my Shiney. What do you think, girls?”
The three mares looked up at his length with little coos of admiration, though only Twinkleshine said anything. “Wow ... I’ve never seen one so pink and pale like that...”
Cadance smiled down at her and briefly kissed his tip. “Isn’t he just the perfect match for me?” The color of her lips did match the color of his cock almost exactly.
Well that was a weird way to put it. Was that why she’d picked him over all the other stallions who’d give their tail to be with such a wonderful alicorn mare? It couldn’t be ... pure white stallions weren’t exactly rare, especially in the Royal Guard.
“Want a taste?” Cadance said, devilishly.
Twinkleshine was already raising herself up between his legs, getting closer to her goal. “Mm-hmm...”
Even though Twinkleshine – and both of the other mares – had already been slathering all over his balls, Shining still felt like what she was about to do was different, as if that would finally be the line that was too far to cross. “Cadey,” he said in barely more than a whisper, “are you sure this is okay?”
Cadance came in closer to him. With one hoof she pulled him in for a kiss. Her other hoof, she placed on the back of Twinkleshine’s head. With one motion, she kissed him and also pressed Twinkleshine down onto his cock, cramming it into her mouth despite her muffled little exclamation of surprise. When Cadance pulled away from the kiss slightly – still looking him right in the eyes – she kept holding Twinkleshine there, making her head bob up and down on his cock. “Yes.” She kissed him again, just a little peck and rubbing their muzzles together. “I’m sure.”
Overcome with the feeling of a new mare going down on him – nopony but Cadance ever had before – Shining moaned. Moaned pretty loudly. Twinkleshine wasn’t going nearly as deep as Cadance had. Even with Cadance’s hoof guiding her, she only managed to slightly brush her lips over his medial ring. But it was so different, so special. She did it more tenderly than Cadance, and the inside of her throat was so plush and warm ... so invitingly soft and smooth. It was a really amazing treat to have a totally different mare doing this, not to mention the other two still pleasuring his balls down below.
Soon, though, Twinkleshine began to choke. Cadance let her come back up, but she didn’t go far. Before she’d even caught her breath, she was licking him again, softly and tenderly down the side of his shaft.
“Woah,” Shining said. “How’d you convince all three of them to do this, anyway?”
Cadance smiled and nuzzled him. “It didn’t take much convincing.”
“It didn’t?”
“Of course not.” She rubbed his chest with her hoof. “Don’t you think they’d want to get a piece of a stallion like you?”
A stallion like him? Like what? He wasn’t anything special. Okay, so he was a Royal Guard, and quickly moving up the ranks, too, but that didn’t have nearly the kind of pull when it came to mares that most ponies assumed it did. Most mares liked Royal Guards well enough ... but not so well that they’d throw themselves at anypony in uniform. Shining had certainly never seen – or even heard credible rumors of – anypony in the Guard getting treatment like he was right now. So what was so special about him? Why would Cadance want him in particular, not to mention these other three lovely mares?
And oh were they lovely! Lyra was starting to work her way up his shaft as Twinkleshine went downward. And Lyra’s licks were much different. She pressed hard against him each time, going at him like she was trying to lick an ice cream cone – she slid her tongue firmly and energetically all around the base of his cock, tracing every vein. Then there was Minuette, still down below. She’d brought her hooves up now, pressing his balls upward so she could better enjoy them now that she had them all to herself. To get her face down that low, she ended up having to lift her rump pretty high. That gave Shining a gorgeous view of her pert blue ass – her nicely rounded curves, the little dimples in her lower back above each cheek, and her tail raised high above. He could only imagine that if he saw her from behind, he’d see her pussy winking like crazy, showing off flashes of hot pink in the middle of all that blue.
As Twinkleshine and Lyra shared his cock, beginning to help themselves to his entire length now, Cadance came up close to him, nuzzling his cheek and coming in for a kiss. At least there was one lovely ass within his reach! He slid his hoof around behind her body, reveling in the feeling of warm pink fur over her curves. And he spent a little time squeezing her stunningly perfect ass cheeks between his hoof and foreleg before going in for where he was always inevitably going to end up: right between those cheeks, rubbing those pleasantly plush pussy lips until the soft inner part of his hoof was coated in Cadance’s slick juices.
“So, what do you think? How are they?” Cadance asked him quietly.
Before he could get out an answer, he was reduced to only being able to moan as Lyra took him into her mouth ... and then into her throat. She was good at it. Really good. Maybe not on Cadance’s level, but she was easily able to take him past his medial ring and almost all the way down to his sheath. And what little Lyra wasn’t able to reach, Twinkleshine took exquisite care of, mouthing the base of his shaft from the side, so close that her lips kissed Lyra’s. He could barely see past them to where Minuette still nuzzled his balls, but he could definitely feel her playing down there. With the three of them combined, it was like every last bit of him was enveloped in tingly-warm and wet pleasure. He’d never felt like this before, not even with the best of Cadance’s efforts.
And as soon as Lyra came up for air, it seemed that Minuette took that to mean it was her turn. She rose up between the other two mares, and even though his tip was already beginning to flare wider, she squeezed it into her mouth and plunged herself down on it.
Shining moaned again. Minuette wasn’t even able to go very deep – she stayed pretty much just with his swelling tip – but she was doing an amazing job when it came to that. It was just something about how she used her tongue, swirling it around inside her mouth against his sensitive tip. Of course, it didn’t hurt that Twinkleshine and Lyra had begun pressing his shaft between their two mouths and sliding up and down his length in unison. It made it feel like he was thrusting into something even though he wasn’t moving – thrusting into Minuette’s surprisingly talented mouth.
As much as he might have wanted to stare down in awe at the trio of mares pampering his cock, he had ... other distractions. After all, his hoof was still wedged down against Cadance’s soupy-warm nethers, and the intensity of the other mares’ efforts on him was making the movements of his hoof falter more than a little bit. He wasn’t doing a particularly good job of pleasuring Cadance. Far from it.
Cadance didn’t seem to mind all that much, though. She seemed to enjoy watching him with his cock inside another mare’s mouth. So much so that she came in close again, nuzzling against his face and kissing him. She drank in his moans as if she was causing them herself. Maybe she was ... if only indirectly for most of it.
She enjoyed it so much, in fact, that she kept moving closer to him, all the way until she slipped one hind leg between him and the other mares. The base of his cock replaced his hoof in rubbing against her pussy lips. Her pressing against it made it bend downward a little, giving the other mares a different angle to work with ... which actually helped Minuette get a little deeper on him, despite the way his flare was growing. He was really getting close now, so tense – he could barely breathe! It wouldn't be long.
Cadance seemed to know that. She rubbed herself shamelessly against the top of his shaft, and she stopped trying to kiss him. Instead, she just looked hungrily into his eyes, just waiting to see the moment of his climax. And through it all, through everything that was happening to him, he could distinctly feel the warm slickness of Cadance’s pussy. It was thicker ... more syrupy and slipperier than anything the other mares were leaving behind. And in this position, he could almost imagine that he was simply inside Cadance ... that suddenly her pussy had become far more than just warm and tight on the inside. There was an encircling ring of warm flesh – Twinkleshine and Lyra’s mouths – that kept pumping up and down all the faster the harder his cock swelled. And then there was the delicate motions of Minuette’s tongue against his tip, always somehow just shy of overstimulating him, giving his broadly swelling flare as much as he could possibly handle.
Or more than he could handle, actually, because before he knew it, he found himself squeezing Cadance tightly between his forehooves, burying his face against the soft fur of her neck, and letting out a strained little whimper as his body tensed uncontrollably.
Usually, at this moment of orgasm, he’d be holding himself still as deeply as he could inside Cadance, or she’d be kissing his sheath and waiting for him to pump his cum straight down her throat. But not this time. This time, the other mares kept at it. Twinkleshine and Lyra kept pumping up and down his shaft even as it began to pulse. Minuette kept working his tip even as it swelled bigger than should have been able to fit in her mouth.
It wasn’t until the first blast of his cum splashed out of Minuette’s mouth that they stopped. And then, it was only for all three of them to rush up to his tip, holding their mouths open to catch everything they could. Shining could just barely see them over Cadance’s shoulder, even though a little bit of her mane was in the way. Even in the state he was in, it didn’t escape his notice that Cadance was leaning back to hold his shaft with one hoof, helping to aim his cock into their waiting mouths.
They didn't have to wait long. The next thick rope of his cum shot out, and as it came, Cadance sweeped his cock expertly to the side. Her aim was perfect. How was everything about her so perfect? With one spurt, all three mouths were splattered; all three tongues were drenched. Shining shuddered as he emptied his balls onto the three mares. As more spurts came, Cadance traded them off, filling each mare in turn. One big one for Lyra, whose mouth overflowed with his cum. Another one just as big for Minuette, a bit of it splattering out and forcing her to close one eye. And by the time Twinkleshine got hers, he was beginning to taper off a little ... but she still seemed pleased to receive it, looking up into his eyes and blushing as he pumped her mouth full. And since each of the three mares already could barely contain what he’d already given them, Cadance used the last few throbs of his cock to decorate their faces with thick squiggly lines of white that began slowly dripping down.
Finally, Shining collapsed against the back of the couch, breathing heavily. This ... this was the most amazing thing he’d ever experienced! And that was saying something, for a stallion who regularly bedded a mare as wonderful as Cadance.
If he thought the experience was over, though, he was quite mistaken. Cadance quickly shimmied down off of his softening cock and gathered the three mares around her. One by one, she got down low and kissed each mare deeply. Lyra emptied her swollen cheeks eagerly into Cadance’s mouth. Twinkleshine kissed Cadance back deeply, which turned out to be a very messy way to return his cum. And Minuette actually went for a little distance, drooling his cum into Cadance's open mouth from above, so that he could see it draining into her. All the while, Cadance was busy gulping it down. He could see her throat pulsing as she swallowed three whole mouthfuls of his sticky cum.
His jaw dropped as he watched her ... and his cock did exactly the opposite – rising back up. Cadance truly was a very special special somepony!
When she had finally collected all of his cum from the three other mares, Cadance wiped her lips with one hoof, then came back to him. She climbed right back up onto his lap, straddling him with her pussy just above his quickly recovering cock.
He’d never felt quite so full of adoration and admiration of her. She was just so amazing! He wanted to be with her forever! And he was just so hopped up with the whole experience he’d been through, he couldn’t help it – it just kind of slipped out: “Cadance, will you marry me?”
Cadance lowered herself onto his cock, and as slick as it was from the three other mares’ recent efforts, it slipped right into her, quickly sinking to the hilt in her warm, inviting depths. The tightness of her entrance was kind of like a ring slipping onto him. “Of course I will,” she said softly, so low that only he could hear it.
Shining grabbed onto Cadance’s hips with both hooves as she began to move on his lap, grinding her pussy lips against his sheath as she moved the entire length of his cock inside herself.
“And you know what?” Cadance glanced back at the three other mares, who were all watching as if they were seeing the most adorable thing ever, even though their faces were still streaked with his cum. “I think I know just which ponies deserve to be my bridesmaids... After all, this couldn’t have happened without them.”
Even as Cadance kept moving on his cock, Shining slipped one hoof up her back, to her mane, where he pulled her closer. And there he shared his first kiss with her as her fiance.
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