Dignity and Decorum

Rarity felt her breath catch in her throat. "B-bathe, Princess?" she asked, her voice thin and insecure.

"Indeed, Rarity." Celestia turned around in the bath, beaming at her. Her pastel tail floated on the surface, making the whole basin shimmer. "Princess Platinum wanted her court not only to be an extension of her power, but also of her beauty. Every noble must be a beautiful pony, for they shall bring out the beauty of the Princess. For this trial you will literally bring out my beauty!" She lifted one of her large wings. A curtain of droplets fell from it and back into the basin. "Or… do you not think I am beautiful?"

"Ah- Most certainly that is not the case!" Rarity sputtered indignantly. "Of course you are! I was merely a bit surprised." She nodded to herself to confirm her own words, then took a step forward. She knew what she had to do, and she was not going to let some filly-like abashment ruin her dream. They were both grown mares, and this was a strictly formal thing.

Nothing to be afraid of. Quite the contrary- Rarity knew exactly how to bring out the best in her coat, mane, tail and hooves. This should be a simple challenge.

"Well then, let's see what we have to work with," Rarity said and went up to the bottles. She magicked them up and looked them over. "Mane Shampoo, hoof polish, conditioner, perfume, tail shampoo, coat shampoo…"

There was one more bottle. A small, restlessly pink one, familiar only because she kept one hidden in the very back of a drawer in her bedroom. It was triangular, designed to resemble an alicorn's upper body with the wings erect. The spray apparatus was cleverly concealed in the head.

"An… aphrodisiac," Rarity stammered. But there was no mistaking this bottle. During spring, when every mare wanted to heighten the feeling of intimacy, this brand was among the most coveted, and the manufacturer had several small details on their bottles to prevent counterfeits. This was the real thing, she knew.

"Oh? Which one?" Celestia almost purred.

"Cadance's Estrus," Rarity answered. She had wanted to ask what Cadance herself thought about her name being used like this, but it had proven to be a difficult topic to fit into a normal conversation.

Rarity put the bottle down. "We'll… get back to that," she said. The implications were not lost on her. The aphrodisiac, Celestia's lidded eyes, soothing voice and her seemingly errant swish of the tail before. It all pointed to one thing. She looked up at the large, slender pony before her, seeing her in a new way. Her regal proportions, her shapely flanks, her long legs, her massive wings.

Rarity pushed the scandalous thoughts away. She was not some common harlot who threw herself at everypony like a filly in her first heat. She knew what she should do, and she was going to do it.

"Well, the hoof polish should be applied and let work for a little while," she mused. She picked up the bottle in her magic. "Will my Princess put her forehooves on the basin rim for me, please?"

Celestia smiled and obeyed. Rarity squeezed out the transparent gel from the bottle and put it one a piece of paper. Then she rubbed the two hooves carefully with it until she was certain they were well covered. Then she put the bottle down and instead, took out coat shampoo. Since Celestia would have to keep her hooves out of the water for a while, she could take the opportunity to wash her forelegs too.

Rarity squirted out a dab of shampoo on her hooves. It smelled like sandalwood. Celestia may be slender, but she was by no means thin. The muscles in her forelegs were slim and wiry, radiating a type of subdued, elegant strength rather than rough, brutal power. Rarity rather liked the feeling of her silken smooth coat over her muscles as she massaged in the shampoo.

"Will my Princess step just a little closer?" Rarity asked. Celestia smiled warmly and hopped forward. Only her hindquarters remained submerged. "With your permission I will start with your body, so as to let your coat absorb the sandalwood scent for as long as possible." It couldn't hurt to let Celestia know that she had a plan with her process.

"Sounds wonderful."

Rarity pushed out some more shampoo, applied it to her hooves and started massaging the area between Celestia's forelegs in circles, covering the coat with foam. She proceeded slowly, meticulously, downwards.

When she was nearly down to the water surface, Celestia's whole body suddenly tensed. "HMMM…!" Celestia's smile was perfectly audible underneath the throaty moan. "Hah, I wonder if that's what a little foal feels like…"

Rarity's face blushed so hard even her ears felt hot. She was touching Celestia's teats! She had not even considered that. A mare's teats are nearly invisible unless she had foaled recently, and Celestia had not!

Also, why was she still moving her hooves for? She could even feel Celestia's nipples as firm nubs under her ever circling hooves. Before Rarity even understood what she was doing, her eyes were drawn to that secret part of her Princess's body.

Just for a moment, for a split second, the bubbles and coat parted, and a cute little nub of pink seemed to wink at her before it was gone again.

That moment was all her traitorous mind needed to conjure up an image: Celestia splayed out on a red divan, laying on her side with a loving smile. Her teats ripe and full of milk. Next to her laid the subject of that smile. Rarity herself was being stroked by a massive wing as her mouth suckled greedily. Milk ran down her chin and dripped on the pillow under her.

"I wonder how her milk tastes… sweet and creamy, like honey, I think…"

Celestia panted heavily, and her tail swished in the water behind her.

Rarity finally managed to connect the right synapses in her brain to stop molesting her Goddess. She let her hooves fall to her sides, and Celestia shuddered one last time. Rarity saw the minuscule movement when she tried to push her hindquarters and teats towards the receding hooves.

"I… will proceed with my Princess's back and sides now," Rarity said quietly, uncertain if she had done good or was going to be publicly executed.

"Hmm," Celestia crooned with delight. "Don't keep me waiting."

"Waiting… for what?" Rarity asked herself. Her brain was too fried to understand what Celestia meant. She went on as in trance after that, washing Celestia's back, neck and large wings. The wings were a bit difficult, since Rarity did not have any herself, but Celestia seemed pleased when she was done. After that, Rarity gently washed Celestia's face. Cute muzzle, ears and all.

Then came the difficult parts: the hindquarters tail. The tail especially was important; it was one of the most defining parts of a pony's body with innumerable ways of styling and caring. Rarity left Celestia's smiling face and went backwards, bringing no less than three bottles of shampoo, balsam and conditioner with her. "I will wash your tail now, Princess, if it pleases you."

"It does," Celestia said.

Rarity swallowed, then reached down with her forelegs and fished up the shimmering strands of hair. They were so incredibly soft and thin she barely felt them, even when wet. She started with the shampoo and massaged the foam into the tail, starting at the tip and working her way upwards.

Then Celestia shifted slightly, probably to make it easier for Rarity to reach. But in doing so, she accidentally shifted her hindquarters directly to Rarity's field of vision, and without the fluffy tail, Rarity could see everything normally hidden.

The water surface distorted the view, but Rarity still saw something pink there, between Celestia's hind legs. She flinched back! She could not look; nor could she look away!

"You like what you see?" Celestia asked mildly, finally causing Rarity's eyes to snap away.

"Pardon?" Rarity asked slackly.

"My tail. Do you think it's pretty?"

Rarity nodded vehemently. "Very pretty. I will… need you to step out of the bath, for a moment. So I can take care of your hindlegs."

"I see," Celestia said and easily stepped out, dripping all over. "But do hurry, please. It's a bit cold."

"Naturally, princess," Rarity said. She applied the hoof-polish and then immediately proceeded with lathering the soft coat once again, from the hooves up to the belly, but this time she was careful to not touch Celestia anyplace inappropriate. Thankfully, the tail hung wet and heavy in front of Celestia's most secret place. Nonetheless, Rarity kept her eyes downcast while she worked.

It was a relief when she asked Celestia to step back into the water again.

"Well then, I think that covers it," Rarity said tentatively, releasing a small breath she did not realize she had been holding. She still sat close to Celestia's hindquarters, but at least now she was done.

"Oh?" Celestia's voice was still warm and polite, but there was a smidgen of disappointment in her eyes when she turned to look at Rarity. She could not pinpoint exactly what had changed in the Princess's face, but the difference was clear. "Are you certain of that, little pony?"

Rarity swallowed.

She knew what was missing, of course. Celestia expected her to "take care of"… that place too.

Celestia wanted it.

But… Rarity was not that sort of pony. Not that she had any notion of needing to wait for marriage or something, of course, but she did believe in romance. The act of intimacy, when a mare and a stallion connect on the deepest level, when a mare accepts a stallion's seed into her, that was something meaningful to Rarity. What Celestia asked of her had an uncomfortably businesslike dimension to it.

Not that prostitution was illegal in Equestria. In fact, Rarity had enjoyed such services herself at times. But this was something else. Now she was the object for sale. Or her morals were.

"Rarity, are you quite certain you are done then?"

On the other hand… everypony, stallion and mare, from the lowest beggar to the purest of saints had fantasized about how Celestia looked under the tail. Everypony had, in the depths of darkness, when their special somepony was soundly in Luna's care, thought about rutting Celestia. And Rarity had just received a glance… just a tiny titillation. Could she really say no?

Celestia was offering… begging Rarity.

Celestia wanted it.

Rarity wanted it too. She was not above such lurid fantasies herself, after all. And it didn't have to be business, did it? Why not just see it as Celestia and Rarity… enjoying themselves? Pleasures of the flesh could be exactly that, pleasures. It simply felt good.

"No… I seem to have forgotten something…" Rarity said breathlessly, a violent blush creeping up her cheeks. She swallowed. "Will… my Princess step a little closer?"

"My little pony, just what have you forgotten? I feel pretty clean," Celestia said, but the desire in her voice and sparkle in her eyes was unmistakable.

"Ah… my Princess's… p-pussy… and tailhole," Rarity said.

Even Celestia blushed just a little when she folded her large tail a little bit to the side.

Rarity's breath caught in her throat. She liked to play in front of her mirror back home, so she liked to think she knew how a white mare's parts looked, but Celestia's was the same concept elevated to a work of art. Her lips were white as new-fallen snow and pouting just a little as if to invite a stallion to breed her. Between them laid a slim, pink slit, ending with a hard, cute little nub. A clear liquid had moistened the slit and innermost part of the lips. Further up, just underneath the beautiful tail, Celestia's tailhole could be seen. It was just a shade darker than the rest of her, eggshell rather than snow, but it didn't feel dirty. It was too cute for that. Really, it was just another dimension for Celestia's pleasure.

The scent was faint, but wonderful. Something sweet, something warm, something sensual and… something more, something indescribable that spoke of rapturous lusts and decadent trysts, stolen under the light of the moon. Celestia's scent made even Cadance's Estrus appear bland and barren.

Rarity moistened her lips. How did she usually pleasure herself in the bath? Because she was certain she had to satisfy her Princess's cravings, while also washing her hind parts just as carefully as the rest of her body. Ideally, she should do both at the same time.

Rarity had the idea that she, herself, was a pretty sensitive pony. Celestia might take longer than she did to climax… She would have to start off gently and figure out how sensitive Celestia was.

She pieced up a soft sponge and poured a helping of coat balsam on it.

"Will my princess… lift her tail for me?" Rarity asked, feeling her cheeks burn. Celestia all but cooed and lifted her large tail straight up, baring herself completely. Rarity felt her breaths come faster when she reached out with her hoof. She put the sponge on Celestia's right buttock, just behind her cutie mark. It was soft and warm, like a luxurious pillow. Rarity smiled when she started to cover her hindquarters in thick, white lather, kneading and circling Celestia's beautiful ass with her hoof. By the way Celestia's tail twitched, the princess approved.

Rarity worked herself inwards slowly. When she was about a hoof's width from Celestia's heavenly mare-hole, she removed the sponge, applied more balsam and started again on the left buttock.

Rarity had to bite back a tittering laugh at how Celestia stomped impatiently under the water. This was not a laughing matter. Rarity had to remain professional and collected.

But to think… the mighty Celestia herself, flustered like a filly.

Eventually Rarity was done teasing. Celestia's buttocks were both washed, leaving only two little places. The scent was stronger now.

Rarity was shivering when she reached forward with the sponge touching the root of Celestia's tail and moving her hoof slowly downwards. She didn't stop long at the tail hole, even if she caught Celestia's lustful sigh when she brushed over it. Since Rarity herself was unfamiliar with that kink, she did not want to chance it.

Especially not when she had the crème de la crème of pony pussy right in front of her begging for attention.

Although… She didn't want to rush either. She kept her hoof moving down, closer and closer to Celestia's entrance, but also began pulling her hoof away, just a little. Once she actually did reach Celestia's clit, she barely touched it. She just let the very fringe of her sponge brush over the sensitive flesh.

Celestia whinnied happily. Her pussy was a little bit open all on its own from the arousal, letting Rarity glimpse the fleshy, warm and moist tunnel.

Celestia's foals would be formed inside, if she ever had any. Perfect little foals inside a perfect pony.

Rarity sighed, just thinking of such salacious things. The scent of Celestia's pussy was nearly overpowering. She wanted more! She wanted to make even more of the musk leaking from her hole. She placed one hoof at the side of Celestia's pussy and gently pulled her open a little. With surgical precision, she began pushing the foamy sponge in the crease between Celestia's outer and inner lips.

"Haaah…!" Celestia panted. She had bent her neck down by instinct, keeping her head just above the water. "R-Rarity… please use… your hooves instead…! I want to- to feel your hooves…"

"Y-yes… of course," Rarity said, breathless herself.

She wanted to… taste it. Her mind told her to lap up the juices. They would be good for her, her brain said. Healthy.

But she was not allowed to. In the eyes of the trial she was washing her Princess, nothing more. Any transgression would mean she failed.

But one little treacherous instinct, hardwired into her, told her it was worth it. Celestia's juices would do wonders for her own beauty, sexuality and fertility, she was sure. It went against every instinct to just… watch the crystal clear liquid drip from the pussy and into the water below…

"Rarity…" Celestia almost sounded desperate. It was the tiny, pitiful sound of a needy mare.

It served to jolt Rarity out of her scent-induced trance. She had the pony princess's pussy to attend.

Shaking ever so slightly, she magicked the sponge off of her hooves, and then reached forward. She put the tip of one hoof right onto Celestia's pink folds. They parted easily, admitting her entrance to Celestia.

Celestia grunted and relaxed her stance a little. Her body prepared to receive a stallion inside her. It would have to make do with Rarity's hooves.

Rarity began rubbing up and down. The way the rosy flesh slipped around her hoof filled her with childish glee. Celestia was panting. Her tail was lifted high in the air and her stance was broad and stable. She had even lifted her wings to let the stallion grab onto her midsection without risking harming her wings.

Rarity, of course, took it slowly. Pushing her hoof a tiny bit in and out of Celestia's pussy. The spellbinding scent only amplified as she continued her ministrations. There was a steady dripping sound when her marecum fell in the water.

She put a hoof on Celestia's leg and slowly moved it upwards, tracing a small line in the damp fur, until she arrived at Celestia's clit.

It was cute. Sitting there surrounded by her supple flesh like the bud of a rose. Only it smelled better than any rose ever could. Rarity let her hoof brush over it carefully. She did not want to risk harming something so cute and delicate. She just brushed gently.

Celestia was at once groaning and giggling. Rarity saw her forelegs lift and shift erratically.

She needed to cum. Rarity knew how it felt to be just… sitting there, waiting for your loved one to just go a little faster, press a little harder.

Taking one last deep breath of the wonderful scent of Celestia's pussy, Rarity pressed down on the clit hard while also rubbing the other hoof furiously into Celestia's snatch.

The sound Celestia made was more a growl than anything else. A throaty, wanton grunt as she finally, finally got her glorious release! A sudden trickle of warm liquid washed over Rarity's foreleg, which was still working furiously in Celestia's snatch. Rarity's eyes sparkled in awe, but didn't slowed down as the droplets of alicorn arousal seeped around and covered her leg in sweet, intoxicating cum.

Celestia's legs buckled underneath her and she almost fell, but she just barely managed to keep herself standing. She shifted a bit to the side though, forcing Rarity to stop her stimulation. But only for a moment. The second Celestia stood still, Rarity was already on her again, eliciting a startled, squeak from the Princess of the Sun.

"S-stop…! Rarity…!" she stammered and slumped forward, away from Rarity's hooves. Her hind legs nearly gave out, sinking her hindquarters back under the water surface. She collapsed against the rim of the pool and breathed heavily, head resting on her forelegs.

Her orgasm had served to sober up Rarity as well. She stood up and blushed just from noticing how wet she was herself. Beating the thought away, she forced her tail down to a more modest position and went up to Celestia's head. She had a serene look on her face.

"My Princess is clean," Rarity said.

"Mmm…" Celestia made a content sound. "It's been a long time since anypony made me climax like that with just their hooves." She giggled softly, warm and sweet like the morning sun. "You could have been a peerless concubine in the olden days."

Were it any other situation, Rarity would have slapped any pony saying such things. Now, she simply curtsied. "I am honoured to have… ah, made you feel good, Princess."

Celestia giggled. "Rarity, say precisely what you did to me."

Rarity swallowed and averted her eyes. "I am honoured to… to have made you cum, princess."

"Better. Needless to say, you have passed the second trial."

Celestia ascended the pool and with a quick glint from her horn, her coat and mane were both dry, even if her coat looked a little fuzzier than normal since it hadn't been combed.

"And so your final task awaits you. Please, come with me."