Snickers: On the Road

“Behold! The Great and Powerful Trixie has led you foals from the Forest of Woe… with only a little woe inflicted upon some of you… and herself, twice. But,” Trixie announced to the panting and sweaty foals behind her, with a flourish, “you are now free to follow Her to the city of Frand, where the grass is certainly greener than whatever this stuff is.”

The foals watched Trixie move to the side of the road and step off, sniff the grass, and return. They all exhaled a sigh of relief and moved past the pompous mare and left the road for the first time, as a group, that day. They collapsed in a rough patch of long and short grass, chests heaving and muscles aching.

Gil landed, breathing slightly more than usual. “So, are we taking a rest, or just preparing for the next five mile trot?”

Trixie startled him with an explosion and appeared from a cloud of smoke. “Ha! That wasn’t even close to five miles; it was more like twenty. Trixie just kept up a good pace for you all to show you that Trixie is a mare of her word. Sunset is in about half an hour, so let’s celebrate with a fire and a rousing round of Everypony Listen to Trixie!”

There was a round of groans as bedrolls were pulled from packs and single tents were quickly set up. Kiwe went around and, with what little magic he could muster, helped as he could. Silver, Snickers, and Diamond almost crawled into their tent and fell asleep right away, they were so exhausted from the day.

Trixie looked at all the foals crawling into their tents and she stomped her forehooves. “Trixie should have more respect than this from you foals!”

Kiwe and Cress shared a look, then Kiwe nodded to Cress as he went into his tent. Cress stood outside her tent and gave Trixie a hard look. “You’re on first watch, Miss Trixie, and that first watch will be until midnight. Wake me up then,” she yawned, “and I’ll take over. Just… need some sleep after running all day.”

Trixie nickered. “Hey, who said Trixie was going to stay here and…” she trailed off, “... watch you all night?” She sighed and used her magic to clear a large area. She then created a firepit and lit it with a small spell. “Dumb foals, relying on Trixie when Trixie was just fine going to Frand on her own.”

Laxxie sat with a quiet thump beside Trixie. “Should Laxxie talk like Trixie? Laxxie likes how Trixie talks, and how everypony listens to Trixie.”

Trixie rolled her eyes. “Sure, a wood golem is going to upstage the Great and Powerful Trixie? Well, timberpony, I’ll have you know that Trixie is one of a kind, and she does not give you permission to speak as she does.” Trixie looked away, indignantly.

Laxxie cocked her head. “Why do you have one eye?”

Trixie lowered her head, and she glanced at the timberpony. “That is a story I hope never to share. Now, go away! Trixie needs her rest.”

Laxxie quickly moved back from the fire and Trixie tossed a bundle of sticks into the fire to warm her even more than she already was.
…

At about one in the morning, Cress peeked her head from her tent and saw Trixie lying near the fire, asleep and pawing at the sky. Laxxie kept guard at the edge of the firelight for the showmare while Trixie ‘recovered from such tiring foalsitting’, as she’d called it.

Laxxie wasn’t sure what foalsitting was, but the mare didn’t sit once since they’d begun their trek, so it just confused the timberpony even more when she tried to think it through.

“Hey,” Cress said when she reached Trixie.

“...amaze you with… prestidigitation… nopony has seen since… falafels,” Trixie mumbled and smacked her lips, turning over to curl around her hat. She began nibbling on the tip when Cress struck the back of her head. “Ouch! Who dares wake the Great and Powerfully Sleepy Trixie from her… oh, it’s you,” Trixie yawned. “The filly that likes to play guard. Crest, right?”

Cress didn’t react beyond a slight twitch in her left eye. “You were supposed to stay up and wake me at midnight.”

Trixie yawned again and rubbed the back of her head before lying back down. “Yeah, yeah. Your golem is doing that just fine. Trixie is a busy mare and has a lot to do when we get to Frand, so let her rest until sunrise when she’ll lead you down the path to the city itself.”

Cress growled and her bat wings slowly opened. “Do you have any idea where we are? What could be behind the next bend? What could lurk in the shadows out here?”

“Trixie--”

“Is an idiot who might have cost one of these foals their lives tonight!” Cress snapped.

Trixie sat up and wiped her eye. “Look, if anything had gotten close, the alarm wards would have--” There was a flash of light that blinded Cress, followed by a bang and zapp. A creature wailed, and then there was silence.

“That. Now, if you’ll excuse me,” she yawned again, “I have to replace an alarm ward before I go back to sleep.”

Cress wiped her eyes and hissed as Trixie left the filly in the figurative dark. The only thing Cress could see was the fire and what it lit. “Shit, my night vision’s shot for the next few minutes,” she whispered and sat down. She barely caught the glint of yellow from Laxxie’s eyes as the timberpony moved towards her.

“Are you okay, Cress?” Laxxie asked.

Cress nodded. “Yes, thank you. Can you help me keep guard for a little while? I can’t see as good as normal right now.”

“Okay, Laxxie the Pony will help keep you safe.”

Cress glared at the timberpony. “Don’t do that.”

Laxxie giggled. “Just kidding.”

…

Gil grabbed Snickers’s herd’s tent post and shook it violently. “Hurry, wake up! There’s a monster attacking!” he shouted, giving a controlled roar from his beak.

There was screaming and the tent uprooted from its posts as three foals ran in opposite directions. Snickers ran into Gil, who fell over laughing, while Silver and Diamond swerved from where they were blindly galloping, and leaped over Snickers.

“Save yourself, Diamond!” Silver shouted, panting as her eyes scanned the area.

Diamond was trembling and her tail was slightly damp from the fright, but she noticed the laughing gryphon and realized what had happened. She got up and walked around Snickers and Silver. Then, she turned and bucked her hind hooves into the gryphon’s side. Gil rolled several times, finally stopping with a wheeze.

He got to his paws and talons and coughed, sucking-in air. “What’d you… do that for?”

Diamond sneered at Gil. “Are you fucking serious?! You scared us half to death with that little wake up prank! What if Snickers ran into a tree and hurt himself? What if we did that? What if we ran over Kiwe’s egg in our panic?! Don’t say a word to me, unless it’s an apology! I have to clean up our tent,” she finished and turned to see Silver helping Snickers up.

Gil looked abashedly between the ponies around the campsite. “It was just a joke,” he said.

Trixie shook her head slightly. “Even Trixie knows that wasn’t very funny. Oh, little pink pony… your tail…”

Diamond looked back and blushed, then hurried to a bunch of bushes to relieve herself completely. She slapped her tail on the grass with no real effect and then decided to roll in the grass to cover up the smell before it became prominent.

Snickers and Silver gave Diamond a comforting hug, then the three of them fixed their tent and cleaned their area. They packed everything up, and sat for a breakfast of light grazing and meal bars.

The silence was broken by Kiwe when he said, “I think we should move on, this has been a bad trip already. The sooner we get to the city, the better we will be.”

Everyone agreed and Trixie took the lead down the gravel path. Over the next hour the path turned into a worn cobblestone road. Then, before they knew it, they were walking on well-maintained cobbles and mortar.

The steady pressure on their hooves traveled up their legs and took some of the aches they’d been having away, thanks to their shoes. All the ponies took a few moments to appreciate the even road by pronking and chasing one another, until Trixie scolded them to calm down.

“Hey, is that that city you were talking about?!” Snickers eagerly asked Trixie.

“What, that place? That’s Stirge, the first real town on this side of the veil. There was a fake town full of changelings that set up shop on the other side of the Forest of Woe, but it seems you were smart enough to stay away from that place. Trixie is proud of you for that.”

The group exchanged looks, then stayed silent as Trixie began singing a traveling song. As the Magic of Harmony began to build between the whole group, Snickers looked between the creatures and noticed he was walking in step to a melody that began playing. Snickers forced the magic deep within himself and rushed ahead of the others.

“Nope!” Snickers shouted back as even Gil sang a line.

As Snickers neared the town, the others were right behind him, finishing the song with smiles and giggles. Silver and Diamond sided Snickers. “Awe, don’t you wanna sing just one song with us?” Silver asked, flipped her frayed braid across her back.

“No.” Snickers flatly replied. “Not gonna sing. I bet I have a terrible voice and I’m not starting now.”

They giggled and looked at one another over his back. Then they both kissed him on his cheeks. “I think you’ll like it when it does happen, sweetie,” Diamond said.

“And we’ll be there for it all, honey,” Silver said.

Snickers shook himself free of his fillies and walked down the main street into the town with Kiwe and Gil behind him while Cress and Trixie kept the lead. It was a crowded place with a dozen shops crammed side to side, but it wasn’t grimy or dirty at all. Sellers shouted their wares to shoppers, shoppers haggled, and golden bits and other silver coins traded hooves.

While Snickers walked ahead, Laxxie stopped. Silver and Diamond stopped with her. “I will wait back here, I don’t have a good feeling about this place,” Laxxie said.

“Okay, we’ll bring you something, if there’s anything worth getting,” Diamond said, patting Laxxie’s grassy mane.

Laxxie shared a nuzzle with Diamond, then walked away from the village to hide in the woods, still watching the group as they moved on.

Snickers didn’t know what to expect, but a town of all ponies wasn’t totally at the top of his list. Ponies selling gifts, trinkets, and various wares lined the street and there weren’t any walls or gates, which added to the idyllic feeling the town gave off.

“So, what’s the deal with this town?” Gil asked Trixie, noticing the color schemes of the ponies were mostly darker colors, and many eyes were on him, specifically.

“Trixie has frequented this town many times. They specialize in nothing, so don’t expect much. Simple ponyfolk doing their daily work to put food on the table every night. Like most small towns in Equestria, now that Trixie thinks about it. They accept bits, so don’t worry about exchanging currency until Frand, where they know the value of a bit… more or less.”

Silver squeaked and touched her necklace. “Look, eyeglasses! Nopony just sells those! Can I go look, Snickers?”

“Sure, just stay close!” Snickers shouted as the filly rushed away.

Diamond looked between Silver and Snickers, then rushed after her herd-sister. “I’ll keep an eye on her. Plus, I have the most bits.”

Snickers looked at Gil and then Cress. “Well, what do you wanna do?”

Cress looked carefully around and then saw something that gained her interest. She walked away without saying a word and left the males together in an awkward silence.

“Well, what’re you ponies going to shop for? Something to make your manes smell like breezy farts?” Gil mocked.

Both colts shared a look, then looked around for something to catch their eye, when Snickers squealed and reared up to clap his hooves. “A spa! Thank goodness, I can get cleaned up.” Snickers exclaimed and galloped down the street to the hanging sign of a mane, when he stopped suddenly and felt elation when he saw a pony inside the business being brushed.

Snickers looked behind himself to see Kiwe catching up, when Snickers entered the business.

“Moisturize me,” the mare on the table requested.

There was just a single room for a single pony to be taken care of, and Snickers knew he’d have to wait. The owner, he presumed, and the customer looked at him as the door swung closed behind himself. “Um, can I have next turn?” Snickers asked.

Both mares shared a look, after the mare of the bed craned her neck a little, and then seemed to come to an agreement. “Certainly, you seem like a fine chap, should fit r’igh in next slot. Might be, whatcha say, a few minnits, Earthy?”

“Bah, none’a that, love,” Earthy replied. “A handsome chap like ‘im deserves it now. Ah’ll be waitin’ aside, though. A traveler, from the looks of ‘im.”

Snickers’s ears flicked, and he cocked his head as the mares spoke. “You have weird accents,” he said as the owner cleaned Earthy’s back of oils and helped her to her hooves.

“Name’s Win’er, nice ta meet ya, mister…?”

“Um, I’m Snickers… is your name ‘Whiner’ or ‘Winner’?” Snickers asked.

“Ah,” both mares laughed, “he’s such a doll! Must be from Equestria, he is.” Winder said. “Name’s Winder, like whatcha do ta keep clocks workin’.”

“Oh, sorry about that, ma’am,” Snickers tapped the floor with his forehoof.

“Don’t give me none of that ‘ma’am’ business, now bring yer blank flank up here so I can give you a mark,” Winder said, tapping the freshly laid sheet she’d placed on her table. Snickers, with the help of a little nudge to his backside from Earthy, stretched out on his belly and rested his lower jaw on a headrest, for just that purpose.

The mare started first with a brushing that made Snickers moan more than suggestively several times, making the mares laugh. The second brushing brought outright sexual moans from the colt as well as causing part of him to show itself and make him have to readjust himself several times, to Earthy’s subtle delight.

“My, yer sure gifted, ain’t cha? Got a mare yet?” Earthy joked.

Winder laughed and grabbed Snickers by the side while brushing his blank flank and rolled him a little, taking a peek. “Oi, with that, I’d say he was a proper stallion, he is. Are you just hidin’ yer mark?”

A gentle brushing across Snickers’s leg made his leg twitch and kick as the colt blushed enough that his ear tips felt hot.

“No, I have two fillies traveling with me,” Snickers admitted. “Traveling to get my mark… oh, oh yeah, right there.”

Both mares giggled again. “Found his sweet spot,” Winder stated and brushed the spot again, and again. As Snickers began to feel an ache needing to be filled, reminding him of nearly having sex a couple days before, he began rocking his hips and Winder kept her pace. “Just let it out, darling, I’ll consider it a discount if you produce enough.”

The door opened suddenly and Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara rushed in, talking between one another. They heard Snickers moaning, saw him dry humping the table, and both glared at the mare.

“Oi, ladies, here to watch him finish, or join in?” Winder said with a laugh.

“Stop giving our stallion a happy ending!” Diamond commanded.

Earthy laughed. “Darling, we just began grooming him. And this is a free service offered here to healthy colts and stallions. Travelers like ya wouldn’t know that, but this here town’s all about happy endings.”

The fillies blushed. “So, the stallions at the shops were serious about offering discounts for a minute giving us a ‘c’ massage.” They shared a look and awareness dawned on them.

“‘C’ means cervical?! Ew, ew, ew, ew!” They both said at the same time and pranced in place, shaking their heads at the grossness of having strange stallions bribe them with sex. “Snickers, get off there right now!”

“No!” Snickers gasped after his exclamation. “I’m getting groomed, the good feeling can stop, but I’m almost clean again.”

The fillies moved to a bench by the door and took a seat, glaring at Winder. “Groom him, and that’s it.”

Winder shrugged. “Who am I ta stop a family from having their fun? Sorry there, colt, but yer mares have the say in the matter.” She patted Snickers’s side with the brush and went on to brush his tail and mane with the fillies watching closely as the mare worked.

Snickers was rolled over and each mare, and several passing ponies outside the shop, got a great look at his penis before it was covered with a towel. “Don’t worry, darling,” Earthy said, “happens to every stallion and colt that comes through. Even the gay ones. At least us mares don’t show like that, right?”

The fillies nodded and relaxed, finally. Winder began cleaning rocks and twigs from Snickers’s hooves and finally admitted her work was done, took several bits from him, and gave him the number to a mane stylist and a farrier to see about shoeing him again, or at least give him a hoof trim.

Snickers took his seat and Diamond climbed up to replace him. “Give me the works and make me look beautiful again,” Diamond requested.

Snickers watched as the mare groomed Diamond. Snickers’s jaw slackened as her polished hoof slipped under Diamond’s tail and between her thighs. Diamond shot a look back at the mare, then her eyes fluttered and she replaced her chin in the rest as Winder rubbed her.

Diamond bit her lip, moaned, and pawed at the sheet until it pulled back enough so that the wooden table was exposed. This showed chips and wear from other hooves marking the same areas. Snickers’ nose flared as he took in the scent of his alpha filly, his ears locked forward as he heard the noises her body made. A towel was placed between Diamond’s legs as her tail swayed and she began breathing more heavily.

With a whicker and stomp of her forehooves, Diamond reared up while prone and moaned as she climaxed and called out Snickers’s name, then Silver’s, and nickered as she relaxed with a smile. She laid her head down again and sighed a long sigh. “Finally, I was really holding that back. Thanks, Aloe, I needed that.”

Winder chuckled. “Name’s Winder, dear. That’ll be an extra charge for the finish, ya know, right?”

Diamond’s eyes widened and she slowly turned to look around the room. She turned beet red when she saw Snickers staring at her with wider eyes and a blush that turned his head to a brick red color. Earthy looked between the two and got to her hooves quickly to usher the colt from the shop.

She led him, stumbling, several paces away and draped a towel over his back to hide his very visible erection from passers by. “I take it ya ain’t seen that before?” Snickers shook his head. “And that’s yer filly ya saw getting relaxed?” Snickers nodded his head. “Well, wait out here and I’m sure the silver filly will be out here ta watch over ya.

“Ah’m actually s’curity fer my sister’s shop, so I can’t go too far, but I’ll let you know that Winder means the best and didn’t mean nothin’ by it.”

Snickers leaned against a wall, his mind fuzzy from what he’d just experienced, and nodded weakly. “‘Kay.”

“That’s a good colt,” Earthy said and left him by the door to another shop.

Diamond rushed out before Silver and moved beside Snickers. “Oh, Sweetie, I’m so sorry you had to see that. I was lost in the moment and--” She went silent when his lips met hers. She tried to talk when he’d take breaks, but his hooves cupped her muzzle and stole her voice as she gave herself to his lips.

“That… was so hot,” Snickers admitted. “I want you... so bad right now. Let’s find a secret place... and do it.” Snickers suggested while kissing her.

Diamond hummed and mewled as she was kissed, but managed to pull back and shake her head slightly. “N-no.”

“What do you mean ‘no’?” Snickers asked, incredulously. “I thought you wanted me now.”

Diamond shivered from her mane to her tail. “Not without Silver, and not in front of a dozen strangers. There aren’t any secret places in a small town like this, just like back in Ponyville. Remember when you… broke my broken muzzle?” She asked.

“I just split your stitches, it wasn’t that bad,” Snickers said, looking at the passing ponies.

“Still, I was caught by a mare looking out her window. Trust me, we’d be watched. I want it to be special, with just us. And I’m sure Silver does, too.”

Snickers sighed and looked Diamond over. “Yeah, I guess you’re right. Where’s Silver, by the way?”

Diamond smirked. “Starting with the ending, she said.” Diamond laughed at Snickers’s expression. “Just kidding! She’s getting groomed and ‘not letting some strange mare touch her back there’. Let’s wait for her and… where is Kiwe and Gil? Didn’t we leave you together?”

There was a crack and boom, followed by many oohs and awes. They shared a look and said in unison, “Trixie.”