Night fell silently upon the ponies of Ponyville, the appointed Night Guard, an official title Twilight Sparkle had given to the pony who watched over the night in Luna’s stead, laid out the blanket of stars upon the heavens. One yellow pegasus pony was finishing up with getting all of her little animal friends to sleep, a job that had never really changed no matter how long she did it. Twilight had been the sole ruler of Equestria for some time now, and she only really saw her for their monthly council of friendship meeting, but she wouldn’t deny that it was always nice when she visited. However, being visited by the Princess only moments after the last bunny fell asleep, with a loud zap of magic right in the middle of her living room, left her less than pleased.

“Good heavens, Twilight! What seems to be the problem?” surely, her friend arriving so suddenly and with no regard to her surroundings betrayed that something was of great urgency.

Twilight couldn’t even get a word out before she collapsed into a heap on Fluttershy’s rug. Fluttershy’s eyes widened as she saw her friend sprawled out on the ground, convulsing.

“Twilight! Are you okay?” quickly, with practiced ease, Fluttershy shooed all of the now awake animals out of the living room and to elsewhere in the house, followed by her promptly shutting all of the doors and windows, and turning on the lamp that rested next to her reading chair.

With some effort, Twilight sat up, eyes bloodshot and wide. There were noticeable bags under her eyes as well, which portrayed just how tired the princess was.

“Fluttershy it’s… it’s just awful, I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I'm so dizzy I'm amazed I teleported to the right place!”

Fluttershy nodded and waited patiently for more information, still not quite sure why her friend had come to her specifically for whatever the issue was.

“I mean, I’ve had heats before but nothing like this! None of the doctors can figure out what’s wrong! I’m in actual pain, and I TRIED sleeping with stallions but nothing is working! I feel like I’m gonna end up crawling out of my skin!”

Fluttershy was hardly fazed by hearing her friend was suffering a heat. It was that time of year, Fluttershy herself was probably going to start hers in a couple weeks, but that still didn’t answer why her friend was in heat in her living room.

“And you came to me because…?”

“I don’t know! I panicked!! I thought maybe you might know of some herbal remedy or something! What do you give your animal friends when they have a heat like this?” Twilight pleaded, looking extremely frazzled.

“Twilight, most of the animals don’t go into heat like ponies do, but if you wanted an herbal remedy, why didnt you visit Zec- oops,” Fluttershy stopped herself, Zecora had passed a couple years back, and her daughter had taken over her hut in the Everfree, “ Eshe. She has expanded the old hut and now has other healers working with her. Eshe even set up trading with Meadowbrook.” Amazingly, even as other ponies continued to grow old and pass, the seemingly ancient pillars did not betray so much as the slightest change. Fluttershy didn’t understand a lot of it, but Twilight speculated it was because of the extremely prolonged time spent in Limbo.

“This is way too embarrassing to bring to Eshe, I barely know her! I couldn’t just walk to the hut leaking f-fluids everywhere!”

“And yet you march into mine just the same,” Fluttershy raised an eyebrow indignantly.

Twilight’s eyes widened, and she hung her head in shame, “I’m sorry Fluttershy… I didn’t mean to barge in like this and just… take over your house. I’ll just leave,” Twilight began charging her horn for the long teleport back to Canterlot.

“Wait!” Twilight immediately ceased the spell, “You can stay here, let me give you a check up. If it’s something external causing your issues I should be able to figure it out. I mean, I’m no doctor, but I can still give rudimentary examinations to my animals, and that’s close enough, right?” It was almost like Fluttershy was trying to reassure herself, rather than ask Twilight. As much as things change, they stay the same, with Fluttershy still occasionally struggling with being sure of herself. Twilight chuckled softly.

“I mean, if you’re willing to look, I’d greatly appreciate it. At this point I’m honestly worried it’s a curse or something,” Twilight planted her rump back onto the rug, “but I have to warn you that if you want to ‘examine’ me, you’re gonna have to get a little, eh, ‘personal’.”

“Twilight, I’m a grown mare. Don’t worry about it, I live around sex constantly. Animals don’t exactly have the modesty that most ponies try to uphold.” Fluttershy hid a giggle behind a hoof as she saw Twilight blush. “But anyhow, it doesn’t faze me, so there’s no reason to be worried or anything Twilight. Just let me know if I do get too personal for you, okay? Let me fly upstairs and grab my examination kit that I use for the animals, it should help at least a bit.” The pegasus alighted and flew up her stairway, leaving Twilight momentarily by herself in the living room of her kindest friend.

Twilight was somewhat unwillingly grinding against the rug beneath her. She had been experiencing an insatiable heat for well over two weeks now, and she hadn’t slept in over five days. She was desperate because she was beginning to push the threshold of severe insomnia, edging ever closer to the inevitable crest and fall when she would start hallucinating and lose control of herself entirely. She hadn’t known where to turn to after the best doctors in Canterlot had turned her away after a basic check up, claiming everything to be in order, and one doctor was even so bold as to say, ‘Honestly, Princess, just find a nice colt to buck. Although, he may need a step ladder to reach your holiness,’ and only the laws of the land had stopped Twilight from eviscerating him on the spot. She fined him for disrespectful and inappropriate conduct towards a Princess of Equestria, and informed him that if he ever said anything like that again, to any mare, that not only would he have his medical license revoked, he would be banished to the moon for an unforeseeable amount of time. That had shut him up really quickly.

Twilight had then panicked, after another day of no relief, even after convincing a couple guards to join her in a threesome. It had been very nice, but she had still felt just as awful afterwards, even though she had made them go four rounds, aiding their libido with some well placed spells and making sure they still had more to give each time. That many sequential ruttings should have guaranteed her pregnancy, which was all she had been hoping for at the time. Her last heat the previous year had been almost nonexistent in symptoms which was strange but not unwelcome. In fact, for the past several years her yearly heats had been very very manageable and she hadn't even been forced to seek a contraceptive as she had not felt the need to mindlessly buck a stallion. She knew there were spells for suppressing heats and she had tried literally every single one she could find in all of the Canterlot archives. She also tried several herbal remedies given to her by some of the earth pony sanction she had stationed in Canterlot. When she had first moved there, or rather back there, she noticed how there was a high population of unicorns with very few pegasi and little to no earth ponies, and that sort of discrimination did not strike the Princess of Friendship as very friendly. And so she had established a few wineries and simple orchards and vineyards within Canterlot, allowing for more earth ponies to rise in society as well as making the ponies of Canterlot more diverse. She did several similar things in other places in Equestria. Such as; establishing a small town magic school in Appleloosa, establishing a more consistent mode of transport from the ground up to Cloudsdale, as well as fashioning clothing with the help of Rarity and Starlight that, when worn, would grant cloud walking to the pony wearing it. Using castle funds, as well as some of the revenue that Rarity gained from now owning four boutiques, the newest being in Yakyakistan, to make the scarves very available and cheap, costing no more than a slice of bread. So now there were all races living in diverse communities all throughout Equestria, not to mention the work she was putting in to integrating the other creatures of Equestria into Equestrian society while still making sure to preserve their unique cultures. This was made possible by changing all education to now have mandatory classes on the history of all of the races of Equestria. Twilight could ramble on to herself about politics and friendship all day and night, but she focused her attention back to the stairs as Fluttershy was now carefully walking down them rather than flying.

“So sorry that took so long,” Fluttershy said, slightly muffled by the handle she was holding. She had brought down a small kit of equipment, and also a towel and a bucket of nice warm water. Twilight noticed a small container of soap in the kit as well. “I figured I should grab some other things as well.” After setting everything down and organizing it to her standards, the yellow pegasus turned to the much larger form of her alicorn friend. “Okay Twilight, if you could just stand up please.”

With a small groan, Twilight stood up, standing on tired and shaking legs.

“Oh, you poor thing,” Fluttershy cooed, “you look so tired. Even if I don’t figure out the problem, I insist you let me make you some calming chamomile tea and allow you to get some rest in my guest room.”

“That would be nice,” Twilight sighed. At this point she couldn’t tell what was worse; her heat or the ever increasing tiredness.

“Okay, please turn around and flag your tail,” said Fluttershy, who herself turned to wet the towel with the warm water.

Twilight blushed at her words, even though they were said with the utmost professionalism. She turned away from Fluttershy, her front half lowering to give some respite to her aching limbs, or at least her front two. Her tail flagged involuntarily due to her position, so Twilight just closed her eyes and focused on breathing evenly. As far as she knew, Fluttershy might shove a thermometer up her pussy. She shivered at the thought, since as unsexy as it may seem, the thought of anything entering her desperate hole caused her arousal to drip freely again.

Fluttershy turned around and was met with a face full of purple princess pussy. Her musk was quite strong, only strengthened after she presented herself, her flagging tail spreading her pheromones around the small living room which seemed to grow only smaller with every passing second. Fluttershy shook her head, not having expected the sight of her friend’s needy snatch to send her into such a tizzy. She had always had a thing for mares, finding them softer, more gentle and caring such as herself, but after she met Discord that had kinda been skewed a bit. She wasn’t even really in a relationship with Discord. She knew he wanted to be, but she also knew that he was a being of pure chaos, and that his fancy would be drawn elsewhere at the tip of a hat. She hated that she knew that mainly from experience. But back to the friend she was currently helping. Fluttershy looked around the side of the great big princess butt in her face, to see Twilight with her face smushed into the carpet, looking like she wanted nothing more than to fall asleep right there.

With a soft yellow wing, she raised the soaked towel up to Twilight's nethers. She knew she couldn’t get any work done if Twilght’s entire lower half was covered with cum stains, both her own and from presumably more than one stallion if she had to guess. No wonder Twilight seemed so desperate, from the look of it she had been utterly ravaged, and yet still her heat remained. It felt almost unbelievable that no stallion had yet planted his seed into her, but no matter. With practiced grace, she began wiping away at Twilight’s hind legs, working her way up and wiping the stains on her flank away as well. She re-wet the towel, and added some soothing lavender soap, and began to really wash her friends behind. She made sure to clean all around her friend’s vulva, not getting any soap inside of course, before moving slightly under her friend’s form to clean around her teats and belly. Twilight let out a long, contented sigh. The almost massage of Fluttershy’s cleaning wing, coupled with the soft lavender scent, helped relax her greatly.

Once Fluttershy deemed Twilight to be clean enough, she moved back to her kit. She heard a grunt behind her, followed by a small flutter as Twilight readjusted her wings.

“Fluttershy, it’s getting really hard to stay in this position, I feel as though my legs will collapse,” Twilight said barely above a whisper, not wanting to break her own tranquility.

“Oh, go ahead and lay on your back if it’s more comfortable,” replied Fluttershy, equally as quiet and soft.

The moment seemed to hang in the air before Twilight finally lowered her hips back down. She was obviously truly and utterly exhausted. She flopped her body onto its side carelessly, too tired for measured movements. She finally came to rest on her back, her forelegs flopped out on either side of her and her hindlegs spread as well. She was fully exposed to her friend and too tired at this point to be embarrassed by it.

Fluttershy trotted over to Twilght's upper body, lying a stethoscope onto the downy lavender fur of her friend. She listened for a moment, and, finding no irregularities, returned to her kit and grabbed a few magical test components. She of course couldn’t do magic herself, but these components were designed to work without the aid of a unicorn or a unicorn even being present. All one had to do was break the seal and then there would be a limited time of use. Of course, all of Fluttershy’s equipment was designed for the care of small animals, so she wasn’t sure how effective they would be on a pony, let alone an alicorn. But she would try nonetheless.

Fluttershy popped the seal on a fertility crystal, holding it by its string over Twilight’s midsection. She waited for the color to change. Red meant pregnant, green meant fertile, and purple meant barren. What she wasn’t expecting was for it to start flashing colors rapidly, some colors not even listed on the instructions. Twilight looked down her own body once she noticed the light show going on.

“What’s that all about, Fluttershy?” Twilight asked in confusion.

“I.. I don’t know? This crystal is meant for animals, so maybe that’s why it’s freaking out? Although… I did use it on a reindeer once, and they are very close to us ponies in their genetic makeup.” Fluttershy continued to stare at the crystal, growing silent.

“Why’d you use it on a reindeer?” Twilight asked, suddenly.

“Oh! Um, well, you remember how Pinkie went and visited the reindeer in the grove to the north? Well Pinkie came to me one day and said that Alice was looking for help. She didn’t think she could go to the regular doctors since reindeer, at least the magical kind, are meant to be a secret, as there are only the three in the grove.”

“Well… why’d she come to you then, and why’d she have you use a fertility crystal on her?”

“She wanted to know if she would ever be able to have a child. She said that though their age appears to differ, her and her reindeer counterparts were all created at the same time. Pre-equestrian magic is what spawned them into existence, like Discord or Cerberus. They’ve been around for eons. She wanted to know if it was even physically possible to birth a child of her own. The, uh, the crystal worked, but the reaction wasn’t exactly pleasant. She was barren,” Fluttershy looked downwards sadly, remembering how Alice had cried after learning that, and how she had gone home still devastated, “but I had used these same crystals, and as far as I know, a reindeer and a pony are similar enough that if it had worked on her, it should work on you as well.”

“But… it didn’t, it’s acting like the lights at a DJ Pon-3 concert.”

“Yes, it’s very strange… perhaps some sort of curse really is in play.” Fluttershy sat back on her own haunches. “Although, I don’t know of anyone that could possibly help with figuring out a curse, especially since you already saw the best doctors in Canterlot.”

The two mares sat in stunned silence, pondering solutions to themselves, when suddenly, the curtain spoke.

“Honestly, forgetting me again,” the curtain said, before morphing into Discords mishmash of a form. “I swear, none of you ponies ever think of me when there’s a magical mystery to solve.” He crossed his arms and pouted, free floating in the living room as he didn’t care much for gravity.

“Oh, hi Discord! I thought you would be asleep by now, hun.” Although Fluttershy was not officially in a relationship with Discord, she still interacted with him as though he were her boyfriend and not just her really good friend that she slept with every heat season. “I appreciate you coming to help, but we’ve talked about eavesdropping disguised as inanimate objects,” Fluttershy raised an eyebrow.

“I know, I know, I’m sorry. I just couldn’t help but overhear that miss Sparkle is having a bit of a conundrum.”

Twilight sighed heavily. She knew she would be stuck with Discord for eternity, and she also knew that when he wanted to “help” he would do so even without permission. “Okay, Discord. Do you know if somepony has cursed me?”

“Hold on, let me see if I can recall any magical surges in… how long has it been, Princess?”

“Two weeks,” Twilight gritted out, the pain returning to her nethers due to nopony having touched her in over five minutes. “Fluttershy, you said something about calming chamomile tea?”

“Oh, right, let me just go and heat up the stove. Be nice, Discord.”

Author's Note

I swear I woke up and found this on my computer. I vaguely remember writing it out (with horrid spelling and grammar) last night at like two in the morning. Today, I went through and cleaned it up a bit so I could post it. I plan to write more of this but I've no idea when. Please let me know if there are any errors since I gave this two pass throughs but one can never be sure.

This chapter doesn't have anything super messed up or weird, except for the possibility of a curse being placed on Twiliight.