Brightdawnby Betty_StarlightChaptersChapter 2: PsychosisChapter 3: Cutting TiesChapter 4: ChangesChapter 5: EvolutionChapter 6: The Meeting: part 1Chapter 7: The Meeting: Part 2 The TrapChapter 8: Paradigm ShiftChapter 10: Priority ShiftChapter 11: ChangesChapter 1: Awkward TeaChapter 9: New TerritoryChapter 2: PsychosisAuthor's Note I decided to do something a little different for this particular story. I've decided to go back and forth between the two lovers so we can gain a better insight into their feelings and how they're working through during this relationship... However, Izzy is neurodivergent and fractured, like me! Chapter 2: Psychosis “That stupid moron! How dare she come onto me! Does she not know who I am? Doesn’t she know that I’m unlovable?” I listened to the crazed unicorn hermit screaming in her cell down the hall… I used to listen to her and that made me do bad things, but I don’t listen to her anymore… I turned and trotted the other direction to the other end of the hall towards the door… Misty was coming onto me earlier and I definitely don’t wanna miss this! <*****> The olive green unicorn stares at me right in the eyes and says, “Izzy, I love you!” She keeps saying that? I can feel my lower lip trembling, “I love you too, Misty!” She trots forward a few more inches and without warning, kisses me on the lips! She finally breaks the connection and stares at me from a few inches away and suddenly, I smile when I finally realize exactly what she’s getting at… She likes me as in, likes me! Okay! I say, “Oh, you like me! Gee, why didn’t you just say so?” before grinning even wider and tilting my head to the side. I see her eyes widen before she moves her snout to mine for another loving kiss! I’m ready for it this time, so I tighten the muscles in my face to get ready for her suction! She moves her snout away from mine and is a few inches away when I say, “Again, all you had to do was just say something!” She sighs, “But I did!” I frown at her, “You did! Oh, wow! I didn’t even notice!” How silly of me! I smile, “Sorry about that!” She squints her eyes at me, “Izzy, I uh… I’m sorry I didn’t tell you the right way. Um, I guess, I just uh… “she smiles all of a sudden, “I like you a lot Izzy! I mean, you’re the first nice unicorn I ever met and you’re just um, well, you’re so gosh darn cute and… uh… I like you… “and then, she smiles brightly… I stop frowning, “AWWW, you’re SO CUTE!” Her eyes widen! “Am not! You’re cute!” I smile, “Oh, yeah?” and then I lift my right forehoof and give her a good nose boop! Yeah, that’ll show her! I lower my hoof to the ground as I chuckle at the frowning unicorn, who soon says, “So uh, what do you say Izzy?” I stop laughing to stare, “To what?” She blinks and sorta swallows with her mouth, “T-to being with me?” I widen my eyes, “Oh, sure! I’ll be with you or whatever!” and then I smile at her and throw my forehoof through the air. And then, I suddenly realized what I want! “Does this mean we get ice cream?” She stares at me with a confused look in her eyes, “So uh, you’re with me, now?” I normalize my face, “Didn’t I already say that?” She grins widely at me, “Sure honey! Let's go get ice cream!” My eyes widen again, “Oh, honey! I like that! You should call me honey some more!” She rolls her eyes and starts to trot towards the freezer… I watch her trotting, “Uh, we’re out of ice cream! I thought you wanted to go to the parlor on the East side of town?” She stops trotting and turns her head right to stare at me, “Ice cream parlor?” I smile at her, “Oh, we’re gonna have some fun today!” She frowns, “We are?” <*****> “What do you mean, we’re going to the ice cream parlor? Why would we go there?” “For frozen treats! Duh!” I hear this going on over the intercom as I sat at the monitor, seeing what Izzy had to show me… “Frozen treats are dumb! You’re dumb!” “Oh, whatever!” I narrow my eyes and turn the switch on the panel off with my magick… I then frown as I stare up at the screen and wonder what this other unicorn has in mind from here? I then frown harder when I think about that screaming pony in her cell in the back… What happened to you? <*****> So then, after wandering through a colorful field of flowers and grass and noticing all of the singing birds and suddenly wondering if I could talk to them, I noticed that Misty was talking to me again! She smiled at me from where she sat on the other side of the table in the ice cream parlor near the docks on the far side, and we both see the sun slowly setting there, late in the autumn afternoon… You know, this almost seems surreal and actually um, kinda romantic… Oh! She’s talking to me again! “So, yeah! After well, everything, I really just wanted to take it slow! And so, I’ve decided that maybe we could well, help each other out, you know? Us unicorns gotta stick together, and whatnot?” She utters before smiling her goofy grin at me… You know, she is awfully cute there! I smile, “Sure, oh good friend of mine! I’ll be with you and we can cuddle and talk and kiss and do stuff together and be a couple and stuff!” Her eyes widen, “You keep acting like this is really sudden?” “Well um, what do you think? Still, you are really cute there!” “Have you ever been in a lesbian relationship before?” “Not really!” “Oh, gosh!” “What?” “Neither have I!” I smile even wider, “Oh, awesome! We both get to be gay together!” Her eyes widen, “Well uh, is there rules for this sort of thing, or?” I frown, “I don’t think so? I think you just do whatever you were doing with stallions earlier, except you’re doing it with a mare now!” “Oh, gosh!” Her snout goes agape! “What?” “I’ve never been with a stallion, either!” I continue grinning at her, “Hey, that makes two of us!” She eyes me carefully… “You mean to tell me Izzy, that in the entire period you’ve been alive, you’ve never had a special somepony?” I gaze back at her olive pupils, “Well, not until about an hour ago, no!” “So uh, we’re both new at this?” I nod, “Yeah, pretty much!” She frowns at me, while I just continue to grin widely… I lean to eye her carefully, “What’s up?” “Well, we’re gay!” I nod again, “This is true!” She continues to stare at me… “You weren’t expecting me to say yes, were you?” She sighs and gazes off to the side before affixing her eyes back to mine, “Well, really, I didn’t know what you were gonna do?” I eye her carefully while my mouth straightens and I take a somber tone, “And so, with the inability to prepare for every single scenario, the young unicorn mare instead chose to prepare for nothing!” She looks back into my eyes carefully, “Wow! That’s really deep!” I nod, “Perhaps, but I have a better idea!” Her eyes widen, “Oh? What’s that?” “Why don’t we, “I lean forward as if to whisper. “try doing whatever we feel like in this relationship and just see where it takes us?” She frowns, “Oh, wow! So we’re both gay and new and doing whatever we feel like?” My eyes widen too! “Yup! No rules!” Her mouth normalizes somewhat, “B-but what if I mess up and make you upset?” My mouth scrunches, “Well um, I think we’re supposed to talk about it then, you know? I mean, relationships seem to be built on communication?” She blinks, “Oh, right! Uh, I guess we need to talk regularly then?” I nod, “Right, and talk about feelings and say what’s on our minds and you know, relationship stuff!” She frowns, “Are you sure we’re ready for this?” I blink, “Eh, what could go wrong?” She frowns and her eyes grow wide and I can tell all sorts of thoughts must be racing through her head! I need to act fast, “Hey Misty, relax!” I then stretch both of my forehooves towards hers, past my ultra-chocolate banana split with extra fudge and put them on hers before smiling at her. “We’re both in this together and we can both be there for one another! If you’re serious about being with me, then I’m serious too!” “Oh, gosh!” I smile wider at her, “Hey, you came onto me! What did you expect was gonna happen?” Her eyes dart at me, “Well, you said yes!” I nod, “I certainly did! And now, we’re in a lesbian relationship!” “Oh, gosh!” I act fast again! “Hey, Misty?” Her attention is diverted as her eyes dart back to me, “Yes?” I smile timidly, “Well um, I’m almost embarrassed to admit this, but…” She leans forward with interest and curiosity on her frowning snout, “Well, what is it?” “I kinda uh, well, I want to know you, you know?” Her eyes widen, “OH, GOSH!” My eyes widen when I realize she probably took that the wrong way? “Oh, no! I don’t mean sex! I just wanna, you know? Sit on a couch with you and snuggle and…” “Oh, gosh!” I smile wider, “And kiss you and just be with you, if that makes any sense?” She looks at me much like a deer might see an oncoming train, “You wanna be with me?” I nod, “Didn’t I just say that?” “But not sexually?” I frown, “Well, you’re probably not comfortable with that right now, and besides, if this goes well, we’ll have the rest of our lives to do all sorts of things together!” “Oh, gosh!” I stare at her carefully… “You really didn’t think this through, did you?” She stares at me carefully once again… And slowly smiles… “Uh, relationships?” I nod, “Yeah! That!” Before looking down and widening my eyes when I realize that my chocolatey treat is still there and I never touched it! “Um, tell you what Misty! Chocolate time now, snuggle time later!” and then, levitating my spoon to my right in a pale white glow before I stare down and get to work! <*****> I stare up at the screen once more and think to myself about how all of a sudden, I became the aggressor! When did this happen and why? I thought to myself about what she said to me and how she looked there… I can’t help but smile when I think about how cute she was and I suddenly imagined what snuggling her will be like? I then looked back towards the door when I wondered if that pony was done screaming in the back? I know it has nothing to do with me, but I still thought about her sometimes… I wondered how she got there… (To be continued… ) Chapter 3: Cutting TiesSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.Chapter 4: ChangesLater that night, as I sat on all fours with my body low on the bed behind the blue unicorn, I stared at her rump and asked the obvious question, “So uh, how did we get this far again?” Izzy giggles, “Don’t you remember? You brought up sex and mentioned that you’d never done it before and I suggested that we try it, since I’ve never done it before either!” “So uh, you wanted to have sex with me?” “Well, duh! You’re staring at my ass!” “Right!” I say before widening my eyes and then taking a closer look at her marehood… “Uh, so I just lick?” “Tell you what Misty! I’ll go first and we can go nice and slow and I’ll explain to you exactly how to lick me! And then, when we’re done, you can have your turn and I’ll lick you!” I gulp, “Uh, okay, so uh, I guess I should get started then?” I then see her widen her flanks to invite me… I widen my eyes again, “Okay um, here I go!” then move forward to my task… <*****> Misty stared up at the ceiling as she lay on the bed to my right and says in a weird tone, “That was strange! Uh, definitely different…” I smile and giggle while looking up at the same ceiling, “Yeah, I had a blast! And I think you did too, given the way you were screaming?” “I uh, “I see her gaze off to the right away from me, “Y-yeah… You were a lot of fun, Izzy!” “So you wanna do this again later?” She stares up at the ceiling again and widens her eyes, “Uh, m-maybe!” “Oh, come on! My turn was shorter than yours! I want another go!” I see her snout frown, “Izzy! Is that ALL you think about?” “Come on, Misty! We just found something fun for us to do together!” She frowns, “And now we’re gonna be doing a lot of it, right?” “I don’t know? Maybe? But hey!” I turns my head right towards her and she turns to gaze into my eyes and I see those sweet innocent olive blue pupils of hers, “Whether we have sex again or not, doesn’t matter…” and smile back! “I love you baby!” She frowns, “You’re a jerk, you know that?” I giggle and nuzzle her affectionately before placing a tender loving kiss on her lips… And suddenly, feel that strange fluttering in my stomach from earlier… Then, I look up and make horn glow before the lights shut off… Then, scoot right closer to her and feel her warm bodyfor goodnight snuggles… “I love you!” She finally turns her snout towards mine to plant a loving kiss on mine… Oh, hey! There’s that fluttering again! Remember that? <*****> I sat on the bed on my belly… I smiled thinking about the wonderful time me and Izzy just had earlier this morning… She was so sweet! She made me orange juice and we both had fruit in bed together for breakfast! I had trouble concentrating as I was trying to read the floating book in front of me and I read the beginning of the same paragraph four times already! Suddenly, I see a blinding blue flash in the room! My eyes widen as my magical grip on the book drops and it falls to the floor with a thud as I scream! “AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!” Suddenly, a glowing gag appears on my mouth which is now stuffed and I can’t speak as I stare at the magenta alicorn currently staring at me from the other side of the room with a grim expression on her face, “Silence Misty! This room is now soundproof! I know the other one is in her workshop now and quite thoroughly distracted! Nopony is coming to save you, no matter how much you scream!” I turn my wide eyes to Opaline while my mouth remains gagged with the neon green glowing thingy inside of it… She smiles, “Yes, excellent!” before flattening her mouth. “So, tell me Misty! What do you know about being gay?” I blink as I don’t think she remembered my mouth was gagged? She rolls her eyes, “Oh, yes! Of course!” before adjusting them to me and forcing her horn to glow and the gag suddenly disappears! I stare blankly at this peculiar alicorn, “W-what?” “Misty, stay on point! Being gay! How did you know you were gay?” I frown, “Oh, wow Opaline! Uh, well, eventually, I just kinda realized that there was a good reason I didn’t find any stallions attractive! But well, when I look at some mares, it’s another story!” I smile faintly off to the side before staring back at her stoically, “I uh, kinda realized that I liked them instead…” before staring at Opaline. “Why are you asking me this? I thought you were throwing me away?” She sighs and looks down, “Well I was! At least at first!” before back at me. “That was the original plan! But uh, well…” I continue staring at the befuddled alicorn, “Well, what?” “Well…” Her frown begins to quiver and I can tell she can almost get this out now. “I’ve been uh, seeing somepony… “ My eyes widen, “What?” She blinks, “Well, you know how I was away from the castle a lot of times, when you were still living there?” “Yes?” “I’ve uh, been talking to somepony else… A mare in Bridlewood…” “What?” I repeat myself. She frowns and sighs again, “Well, I wasn’t always just doing things to help me take over Equestria, you know! I’ve uh,” she giggles faintly.” been meeting a friend of mine in Bridlewood and we like to have lunch together…” “Why are you telling me this?” “Because well, I like her and I’m not really sure how to proceed?” “Have you told her about this?” Her brow furrows and snout snarls, “If I had, do you believe we’d be discussing this, you sniveling twit? Now focus!” I blink, “Oh, gosh! Um, well, maybe just uh, “I smile. “tell her how you feel?” She narrows her eyes and frowns, “What? Don’t be ridiculous, you stupid foal!” I frown again, “Well, how is she ever going to know?” Her eyes normalize as I don’t think she considered that? “I uh, well…” I smile, “Love is really about communication! If you have feelings for this other mare, just tell her about it and let her know! Do it in such a way that it makes her feel special so she knows that she means something to you! Maybe try flowers or a sweet love letter?” before widening my eyes when I suddenly realize that I’m now giving the evil Queen Opaline romantic advice! She sighs and brings her eyes to the ceiling, “Ugh! Very well Misty! I shall try this, telling her my feelings with flowers and a love letter and see if that works!” before adjusting them back to me. “But it’d better Misty! For your sake!” and then, vanishing in another blinding blue flash! I frown again and think that it’s probably time for lunch? <*****> Izzy frowns at me from the other side of the red couch in the living room, “We were gonna eat alone tonight for privacy and I told you to fix dinner because it’s your turn!” I smile at her dumbly, “And I did!” “You ordered pizza!” “Well, I prepared it!” “You made a phone call!” “I did ask the specials!” Her eyes narrow, “So you did and you got a good deal!” I nod, “Exactly! See what happens when Misty is in charge?” and smile at her… “Oh wipe that goofy grin off your face!” “But I’m cute, right?” Izzy brings her eyes to me and smiles while leaning towards me for a faint nuzzle, “Well, yeah!” “Yay! I win!” I say before planting another loving kiss on her lips. Suddenly, there’s another blinding blue flash in the room before the couch! Izzy calmly turns her head right towards the magenta alicorn now standing 15 feet in front of the couch and says, “Do you mind Queen Opaline? We’re having a moment here!” Opaline frowns and turns her head to Izzy, “I-I’m your arch nemesis!” Izzy nods at her, “Well, yeah!” Opaline blinks, “I mean uh, are you not terrified?” Izzy blinks, “No… Should I be?” I narrow my eyes at the alicorn, “Why are you here?” She turns her head to me, “Well, it’s about Janice!” I ask her, “Janice? Who’s Janice?” “Janice Fetlocks! The mare I was telling you about earlier!” I frown, “Oh? She didn’t say she loved you back?” Opaline widens her blue eyes, “No Misty! It’s worse than that! She said she loves me too!” Izzy turns her head left to me and says, “Wait! So Opaline is a lesbian like us?” I turn to my love and reply, “Well, apparently!” “FOCUS MISTY!!!!” I hear my former boss scream at us! Izzy turns to Opaline and calmly replies, “We were getting to you Queenie! Settle down!” I turn to the queen and say, “Yeah! We weren’t gonna just forget about you!” Opaline frowns at me for a moment before finally saying, “Why am I here again?” I reply, “Because you’re gay now!” Izzy says, “I guess you don’t have any other homosexuals to talk to, right?” Opaline is silent… “Well uh, not really, no!” Izzy turns her head to me, then back to Opaline, and then to me again before she says, “I’m gonna make tea again, aren’t I?” I turn back to Izzy and am silent… “Make the raspberry stuff this time!” She frowns, “You like that, don’t you?” I smile at her, “Well, yeah!” <*****> “And so, I sat there with the unicorn I love and the wicked Queen Opaline, about to enjoy raspberry tea in what I’m pretty sure is a soundproof room and I can only guess that we’re about to talk about being gay?” Izzy looks me from the right side of the table, “Misty, are you narrating?” I turn my head towards her and nod before coyly saying, “Well, yeah! Kinda!” Opaline says from the left, “You are correct Misty! This room is soundproof!” “Why are you narrating?” “Just to make absolutely sure I understand this situation right!” She smiles, “Oh, well! Truth is stranger than fiction!” Opaline sighs before interjecting, “She’s not wrong!” I frown and say, “Well, right!” before turning left towards Opaline, “So, Queenie! How did you find out you’re gay?” Izzy turn her head right towards the queen, “Yeah! How do you know you’re a carpet muncher, anyway?” Opaline frowns at Izzy’s sudden crassness, “Well, if you must know, I’ve uh, I’ve… I’ve never really been attracted to stallions… “ I say, “So you’ve been attracted to mares this whole time?” Opaline stares at me, “Well, I didn’t think so?” she smiles. “The truth is, before Janice, I really didn’t believe I could love!” I calmly take a test sip of my tea before deciding it’s still too warm and set it down on the saucer before me and I stare back at the evil alicorn, “But Janice made you realize that you could?” Opaline stares at me with fire in her eyes and an evil snarl on her muzzle before lowering her rage and staring off to the side to smile faintly and say, “Well...yeah, kinda…” Izzy stares at the queen and says, “Okay, now this I gotta hear!” And so, the wicked Queen Opaline began to tell us the story about how love started to change her life… (To be continued…) Author's Note I like the way I did this chapter because it both gives a rational explanation for Opaline's homophobia earlier and we see Misty growing a backbone as love begins to empower her... We also see the power of love transforming Opaline as well... Chapter 5: Evolution“This raspberry tea is delightful! I can see why you enjoy it so much!” I say to the strange olive blue unicorn on the other side of the tea table. Izzy at my left, looks at me and smiles, “Yeah, I guess my baby does have good taste!” I frown at the darker blue unicorn, “Baby? I suppose that’s not the only term of endearment you use?” “Not at all, silly! I like calling her sweetie and honey and sugar dumpling and buttercup and…” I widen my eyes, “I get it! You have many affectionate things you call her!” Misty stares at me from the other side of the table, “Well, that’s just part of it! Now that she knows you like her, you’ll need to occasionally let her know you’re still interested!” Izzy adds, “Not too much though!” Misty says, “Yeah, you don’t wanna be too clingy!” I narrow my eyes at the olive unicorn, “Well, how much is too much, though?” Misty frowns, “How would I know? I’ve never been in a relationship before!” Izzy nods, “Yeah, me neither!” At this point, I’ve had about enough… I can feel my lips trembling before I burst at the two of them, “SO WHY AM I EVEN TALKING TO YOU TWO?” Izzy smiles, “Because you’re gay now!” Misty nods, “Yeah, we’re all inexperienced homosexuals here, Opaline! We can help each other out!” I finally stare at the twit across the table from me and furrow my brow, “Why would I ever want support from you?” Izzy calmly says, “Because you’re gay and don’t know how to deal with it.” Misty nods and says, “Yeah, besides! I don’t think we’ve ever just you know, talked like this?” “What do you mean, worm?” Misty smiles, “Just uh, you know? Friendly and chatting over tea!” Izzy adds, “About being gay!” Misty says, “And liking mares!” Izzy says, “And kissing mares!” Misty says, “And doing other things with mares!” Izzy finally says, “Like…” I cut her off! “That’s okay, Izzy! We’re not talking about that here and now!” Misty smiles wider, “But it will come up, won’t it?” Izzy turns to me, smiles, and says, “Yeah! I wanna talk about sex with Queen Opaline!” I narrow my eyes at the two grinning unicorns and am silent… “You two are enjoying this, aren’t you?” Izzy says, “Maybe a little?” Misty adds, “Yeah, kinda!” I roll my eyes, “FINE! We can talk of lesbian sex, if you insist!” Izzy’s mouth normalizes, “That was surprisingly easy?” Misty’s does as well, “Right? I was expecting more resistance!” I stare at them, “FINE! We WON’T discuss lesbian sex then!” Izzy replies, “That’s fine too!” Misty adds, “Yeah, we were just messing with you!” I narrow my eyes at them… “Okay, I’ll just get on with it already!” before staring at the blue unicorn, “Izzy! How did you find out you were gay?” before looking at my sky-blue mug of piping hot red tea and floating it up to my mouth for a cautious sip… Izzy’s eyes widen, “Oh, I’m not gay-gay! I’m bisexual! I could be with a stallion too! Um, if I really wanted to!” “But you’re with a mare now?” Izzy frowns, “Unless there’s something Misty isn’t telling me?” Misty stares at me, “Well, I actually am completely gay! I have zero interest in stallions!” I adjust my eyes to Misty, “Well, why not? Do they not entice you?” Misty frowns, “Well, not really? I mean, I don’t hate them! I just don’t like them in that way, you know?” Izzy stares at me and nods, “Yeah I mean, Misty does just fine with Hitch!” “Even though I don’t really find him attractive!” Izzy frowns at me, “Why Opaline? Do you find stallions attractive?” I arch my mouth down at her as well, “I don’t believe so? At least, that’s never happened before?” “Have you ever found any other mares attractive? Aside from Janice at lunch?” Misty adds, “Yeah! I mean, is this the first time ever in the history of anything, or were there other mares?” I stare at the two curious unicorns at the table with me and finally answer, “Well, if you must know, there was one…” Misty asks, “And she was a mare?” I stare at them as they gaze back with their wide eyes… I eventually sigh and reply, “Well, yes… I liked spending time with her and we were close…” Misty asks, “But what happened?” “Well, I tried to take over Equestria! And when I failed, they banished me! And well, I never saw her again…” Izzy asks, “But wait! You said you never had love before Janice earlier!” I sigh, “Well, to be honest, I don’t really like to think about what happened between me and Ivanna Hoofler…” Izzy frowns, “So you chose to just what then? Block it out? Pretend it never happened?” I sigh again, “Well...yes, basically…” Misty’s eyes widen, “Oh, wow! Opaline is suppressing memories!” Izzy adds, “And her gayness!” Misty says, “Well, not after today!” Izzy smiles, “Yeah, Opaline! Ready to be openly homosexual?” I frown at the obstinate blue unicorn, “What? Who would I be openly gay to, precisely? It’s just me! Without Misty, I am alone!” Izzy says, “Well, you got Janice!” Misty says, “Yeah, Opaline! Another mare to be gay with! Isn’t that great!” I narrow my eyes for the umpteenth time and frown at these two annoying ponies, “I never really wanted to be gay…” Izzy says, “Yeah, nopony does!” Misty adds, “We don’t really get a choice!” … “And I love Janice?” Izzy frowns, “Probably” Misty says, “Well, that’s what you say?” Izzy asks me, “How did you meet her, anyway?” I smile faintly, “Well, I was at a bookstore in Bridlewood!” Izzy says, “The Bridlewood Bookstore!” I nod, “Well, yes! It would have to be that one, wouldn’t it?” “Well, it’s the only bookstore in Bridlewood?” I smile wider and suppress a chuckle, “Right! Well, anyway, I was shopping there one day, because I needed a specific manuscript for my collection!” Misty frowns, “Collection?” I stare down at the weakling, “Yes! I collect vintage books!” Misty’s eyes widen, “You do?” My view narrows yet again, “Yes!” before normalizing, “Anyway, I wanted a specific book and I had tracked it down to that particular store! And they didn’t have it by the time I got there!” Izzy’s view increases, “Oh, wow! Bummer!” I smile at the fluffy blue unicorn, “Quite!” Misty says, “But you found Janice?” I nod at the coward, “Indeed! She’s the cashier and helped me search ALL THROUGHOUT the store! We never found it! But… well, we talked a bit…” Misty asks, “About what?” “Well, she asked me about the weather at first! I said I didn’t particularly have a preference, since well, I haven’t been in Bridlewood and know nothing of the weather there!” Izzy nods, “Well, when did you start to like her?” I look at the red eyed equine and frown, “Honestly, I don’t know? I mean, once I said that, she mentioned that she didn’t care either! We had a small chuckle over it and well, I then looked into those entrancing green eyes of hers…” Izzy coos, “AWWWW! Opaline has a crush!” I frown, “Didn’t I already mention that?” Misty nods, “You did! But uh, well, the only thing that matters now is that you like her and she likes you, right?” I nod at the inferior, “Yes, I would think so?” “Right, so what are you gonna do now?” “I...I don’t know, okay? I mean, I’ve been alone more or less, my whole life and now… Now there’s this!” Misty smiles, “Well, maybe talk to her about it?” Izzy adds, “Yeah! I mean, there’s supposed to be two parts to this relationship, right?” I sigh, “Well, right! But that’s not the only problem!” Izzy frowns, “Oh? Well, what’s wrong?” I spread my wings and say, “I have these, remember?” Misty says, “Oh! Well, again, love is really about honesty! If I were you, I’d let her know about that pretty early on!” Izzy nods, “Well, right! I mean, you’re an alicorn pretending to be a unicorn and that’s kinda false advertising, you know?” I stare at the fluffy one, “Well, I know that! But what I mean is, how do I even bring that up? It’s not like I can just say, ‘Oh, by the way! I’m an actually an alicorn and have wings!’” Misty nods, “Well, right! But what I mean is, be sure to mention that early on, you know? Don’t lead her on and make her think you’re something that you’re not!” Izzy sees Misty say this before turning her head back right towards me, “Yeah, I would think that that would be the moral thing to do?” I nod at the sniveling wretch, “Well, yes! Of course!” before frowning when I suddenly wonder when I began to care about morality? Izzy smiles and nods, “Right! So to recap: you’re gay now! You need to let Janice Fetlocks know you’re an alicorn! And love is causing you to care now!” I frown at this obstinance! “What? I don’t care!” Izzy smiles wider, “But you care about Janice!” Misty smiles, giggles, and says in a cutesy voice, “Opaline loves Janice!” I grimace at this, “Shut up!” and take a slow, but thorough sip of my tea… It actually is quite tasty! Misty and Izzy each take good sips for themselves as well… I set my tea back down in the saucer before realizing that I need to say something now and gain control over this conversation again! “Very well then! I shall show her my wings and let her know my true form! But if I have any problems!” Izzy nods, “You can count on us queenie!” Misty smiles, “We got your flanks!” I smile, “Thank you so much!” Izzy replies, “Hey, no problem queenie! You want a hug?” “Well, I don’t know if uh…” Misty suddenly says, “Let’s hug Opaline!” before getting off her chair to the right and hurriedly trotting around the table towards me!” “Wait!” Izzy shouts, “I wanna hug Opaline too!” and gets off her chair and trots right to me to grasp me in her forehooves!” “EEP!” I squeal!” Misty smiles and hugs me from the other side… So that’s how I ended up in a unicorn-only group hug with two ponies I hate! <*****> Okay, I’ll admit that after I saw the fire alicorn talk about love, I kinda lost interest and took a little nap on the couch behind me… But now, I was staring at the screen again and I saw an olive green unicorn with a bright red mane cuddling me! I definitely don’t wanna miss this! I stare at her from behind as I held her there on the green couch in the foyer… She likes to be the little spoon! “I love you so much Misty!” She fidgets slightly in my hooves and says, “Thank you so much for loving me back Izzy!” I smile, “Well, I couldn’t just say no! You looked so cute there!” “Stop it!” Misty says before fidgeting! “But you are cute!” “Am not! You’re cute!” “You’re cuter than me!” “Am not!” “Are so!” She’s silent and sinks further into my hooves to snuggle me with her back, “I don’t want tonight to end…” “Okay baby… Let’s just snuggle and talk for as long as we can then, and we can eventually pass out together?” I somehow just know she’s smiling right now, “Okay Izzy… I’d like that…” <*****> I open my eyes and see a magenta alicorn with a white mane standing there in front of the couch as I continue to hold the sleeping olive green unicorn in my forehooves… Opaline looks at me with her azure stare and lowly says, “What if I told you that I and Sunny are not the only two alicorns in Equestria?” (To be continued… ) Chapter 6: The Meeting: part 1I stood there about to tell the idiot blue unicorn about Janice’s true identity, when she widens her eyes and says, “Uh, that sounds interesting, but could you come back later please? My Misty Bear and I wanna snuggle just a bit more!” I smile when I think about all of the nice hugs me and my new marefriend have had and whisper back, “Very well! I shall come back in an hour!” before enveloping my body in a bright blue light to teleport back to her house! As the light encased me, I suddenly began to wonder when I began to care about others and their wishes? As the light faded, I found myself in Janice’s living room, once again… I call out, “Janice? Are you still here?” And then, I trotted towards the back hallway as I began to think about what happened between me and Izzy… I know what it’s like to love now… And I wanted to allow that for Izzy… I think to myself as I trot towards her bedroom in the back… I use my magick to open the door at the back right and peer in to see a sleeping blue alicorn with a sky-blue coat and a wispy white mane, draped over her pillow as she snoozed on the bed… I could see how the blankets were raised with her wings underneath and how peaceful she looked… Honestly, she looked really cute right then! I smile when I think of Izzy snuggling her love… I then lower it as I glare at the other pony and I begin to wonder what I can get away with? <*****> I open my eyes to feel hooves over my body and I feel a distinct and comforting warmth coming from behind me… I somehow just know this is Opaline… I smile when I think about how she finally worked up the courage to snuggle me… She was so stand-offish when she first learned who I was! “Un!” I hear her grunt from behind me! “I see you’re braver now, Opaline!” I say with a grin on my face! Her hooves lighten their hold on me as she asks, “This isn’t clingy is it?” “Shut up and hold me!” I tell her! “I-I’m sorry…” My smile lowers, “For what?” I ask her. “It’s just that well, when you’ve been alive for several millennia and haven’t really known love…” I furrow my brow, “And that’s exactly why you need to be holding me!” “W-what?” I smile again as I explain to the fire alicorn, “You weren’t loved before! But now you are and you need to be soaking that up!” while hoping she’ll just buy it and hold me already! I feel her hooves coming off of me! “What are you doing Opaline?” “I-I’m sorry! I don’t think this is right…” I then sternly say in a commanding voice, “Opaline, that’s foolish! If you want to hold me and love me, you’re absolutely entitled to! Now put your hooves back over me!” I patiently wait… And I soon feel hooves going over my body again and I grin widely at my victory… <*****> “Any idea what that was about?” I hear the voice say on the speaker… “No idea! It was about Janice though! But uh, well… “ “We couldn’t right then! We had Misty Bear, remember?” “Wait! When did we start calling her Misty Bear?” I stare at the screen thinking that might be more interesting… <*****> I playfully nuzzle the back of her neck… I don’t know why, but doing that always makes me feel good! “Unn…” I hear her groan in front of me, still held in my hooves… I close my eyes and snuggle into her to feel her warm body near mine… “What time is it?” “Time for you to get a watch!” I say before snickering. “I’m serious! We need to check up on Opaline!” “Oh, she’s fine! She was just here!” “What? Why didn’t you wake me?” I open my eyes and frown, “Was I supposed to? Besides, you looked so cute there, snuggling me!” “Where is she now?” “Don’t know! She teleported!” Misty is silent for a moment… It finally dawns on me what’s going on, “You’re not her servant anymore, you know?” She sighs, “Well, I know that! Of course! It’s just that well, I wanted to make sure she was okay… ‘ “You care about Opaline?” Misty is silent… “Well, yeah! I uh, I guess I do? It’s just that, she’s been alone her whole life!” “And now she has something like what we have?” She snuggles tighter to me, “Well, I just think she wouldn’t be so mean all the time if she just, well, had somepony to love, you know?” “Like we do!” “Well, yeah!” I hold her tighter, “So we should probably do our best to make sure this relationship works out then? I mean, if she’s not mean anymore, then she won’t pose a threat to Equestria!” Misty suddenly says, “Right! We need to get Opaline laid so she’ll be nice and won’t try to take over Equestria!” “MISTY! That’s pretty blunt!” I say, surprised it’s me of all ponies saying this to her! “But I’m right!” She says before nodding her head! I can’t help but chuckle and shake my head, “Alright, fine Misty! We’ll make sure Opaline falls in love! For the good of Equestria!” Suddenly, I hear a feminine voice from behind the green couch where we’re currently snuggling, “I hope I’m not interrupting anything?” I hold Misty tightly for one final squeeze! “That’s okay! I was just wrapping up!” “EEP!” Misty cutely yelps! Suddenly, I see a sky-blue alicorn step around the chair on the right… She has a sky-blue coat and seems to stare deep into my soul with her green eyes. I note her wispy white mane and tail although her wings are almost white, but still blue I think? She smiles at me, “Permit me to introduce myself! I’m Janice!” I blink with my neck craned her way and say, “I thought you were a unicorn?” She rolls her eyes, “Yes! You and all of Bridlewood! I’ve seen you before! Your name is Izzy and you used to be the weird unicorn near the edge of town!” I nod, “Yup! That’s me! You’ve been in Bridlewood before!” Misty finally says, “W-wait! You’re also an alicorn?” She smiles wider, “Well, yes! You see, I’ve been following Opaline to figure out where she goes and that led me here, with you!” I frown, “You don’t really seem to trust Opaline that much?” She frowns, “Was I not supposed to do that? I’ve never been in a relationship before!” Misty finally chimes in loudly, “Lot of that going around!” I say, “If you’re an alicorn, why haven’t we heard of you?” Her mouth normalizes, “Well, probably because I was disguising myself as a unicorn?” I giggle at my silliness! “Oh, yeah! That makes sense! I mean, if there’s another unicorn in Bridlewood, we’re not gonna hear about it!” Misty says, “Izzy! You know what this means, right?” I look down, “Tea?” I look down at her, “You seem to like drinking tea?” “Raspberries!” She happily says! “I’m getting kinda tired of that, though!” “Please!” She retorts cutely! I smile and giggle, “Alright, fine! One last time! But I’m making honey chai next time!” She vibrates, “Yay!” <*****> I see Izzy on my right asking Janice the obvious question, “What happened to Opaline? I figured she’d be with you?” The blue alicorn sighs and stares at me with those striking green eyes of hers, “Well, that’s the thing! She wasn’t there when I woke up and I assumed she’d be here with you!” “But she’s not!” Izzy says before taking a cautious sip of her tea… I take that as a sign and take a slow gentle sip myself… This stuff is really yummy! Izzy asks, “So wait! You fell asleep with Opaline and then you woke up and she was gone?” She nods, “Well, right!” she sighs again. “Permit me to introduce myself! My name is Terramore and I am a water alicorn!” I blink, “Whoa! Water alicorn? Uh, where did you come from, anyway?” She sighs, “A land far to the south! Past a lot of jungles, what used to be a town I think, and a lot of ocean!” “You know the route?” “I did just travel it, you know?” “How do you know you’re a water alicorn?” She sighs, rolls her eyes, and suddenly disappears and a mist suddenly surrounds us as we see thickclouds overhead near the ceiling! I shout, “I believe you! Just don’t make it rain!” Suddenly, the mist disappears and we once again see her sitting at the chair in front of Izzy, with a smile on her snout! “I won't!” I stare at her intently, “Okay, but, why did you go to Bridlewood?” She blinks, “Well, I’ve never been to Equestria and wanted to explore!” “Why Equestria?” She stares at me intently, “Do you have any idea how boring eternal life is? I wanted to see what was out there! And well, that’s when I found this place!” “So how did you get a job in Bridlewood?” “It’s easy to work in a bookstore when you’re the only pony for miles who understands the Pony Decimal System!” I smile, “I can imagine!” before adjusting my gaze to get closer, “So, how did you fall in love with Opaline, anyway?” Izzy smiles and nods, “Yeah! I wanna hear about that!” She smiles before taking a sip of her tea… She lightly sets down the cup on her saucer and says, “Oh, that is tasty! Uh, “she adjusts her gaze to Izzy. “truth be told, I never really thought anypony could make me happy until she started talking to me!” “AWWWW!” I faun over her. “What was the first thing she said?” Her eyes widen, “Well, at first, she was all business and asked about a first edition of Fillies to Mares! Why, I haven’t seen one in years, but well, I just wanted to help her look…” Izzy says, “That must be because you didn’t want her to go so fast?” Her snout frowns while her eyes widen, “I don’t know? I guess?” I say, “Well, it’s obvious! You knew you didn’t have the book, but you searched anyway, so she wouldn’t go!” before leaning closer with a smile on my face. “So, what made you want her to stay?” She takes another tentative sip from her tea and I can tell by this point that she’s just stalling, before gently setting it down again, “Well, I’m not sure? There was something about her?” before frowning and turning her eyes skyward. “Was she forceful or mean to you at all?” She blinks, normalizes her face, and stares at me, “Um, no! Not that I remember?” “So, you got nice Opaline?” She frowns again, “Nice Opaline?” Izzy says, “Well, what Misty Bear here means is, she was really evil and cruel before!” I say, “But she was nice to you!” Izzy adds, “Which can only mean that she also likes you!” She blinks again, “From the very beginning?” I nod, “Well, yeah!” Without warning, everypony in the room hears a haughty feminine voice calling out, “Izzy? Misty? Are you here?” I look at Izzy, “I’ll deal with Opaline! You brew another tea!” She stares back, “Right!” before looking at Terramore, “Stop drinking your tea now, Terry! I need to make some more!” (To be continued…) Chapter 7: The Meeting: Part 2 The Trap“Come in!” I hear the idiot blue unicorn scream from the other room. I bring my eyes to the ceiling, “Ugh! Finally!” before blankly staring at the red wooden door and using my magick to make it swing inward to the right and I trot in triumphantly to see Izzy smiling at me from the far side of the table, I see the back of a reddish mane in the chair nearest to me, and I see Terramore, of all ponies on the left side of the table! I stop immediately after trotting in and turn my neck to her in astonishment, “Terramore! What are you doing here?” Izzy says something to draw my attention, “Hey, Queenie! Come on in and sit to the other side of Terramore! We’ve been waiting for you!” Terramore breaks from her trance to stare left at Izzy, “We have? I thought it was supposed to be just us?” Izzy turns her head right to look at the blue alicorn, “Well, she was gonna show up sooner or later, anyway, right? What better time than now?” Terramore responds, “Uh, how about tomorrow instead? I like tomorrow!” and nods. Izzy smiles and giggles, “No!” before turning towards me, “Come on in Opaline! I made you raspberry tea!” I finally just sigh and trot over to the right side of the table, opposite to Terramore before using my magick to pull out a chair and sit down on my haunches while starring at the blue alicorn across the table, who now smiles at me nervously... I finally smile back and say say, “Hello Terramore!” before suddenly thinking that that might not be the best opener? She smiles nervously at me, “H-hi Opaline!” Suddenly, I hear Izzy say, “AWW! You two are cute!” Terramore finally turns her head right to stare at me with enormous green eyes, “Uh, Opaline! Fancy seeing you here! I’ve known Izzy and Misty for years!” I frown at the smiling alicorn as I think it’s curious that Misty never mentioned a blue unicorn friend coming by the Brighthouse! “Really? Is that so?” She blinks and grins wider, “Well, yeah!” I see Izzy turn her head towards the sky-blue alicorn and whisper the word, “Honesty!” Her muzzle opens to sigh and she says, “W-well, no… Not really… I uh, found out about this place when I followed you…” she bares her teeth at me! “Surprise!” My eyes widen, “What? You followed me? Why?” She sighs and turns her eyes down before raising them back up to me, “Well, I wanted to learn more about you!” and blinks, “I mean, I’ve never been in love before and I wanted to know about you! Where you went! What you did! And that’s when I met these ponies!” Izzy turns her head to me and stares with big red eyes, “Um, hi!” I think that I don’t like this before turning to stare at Izzy and saying, “Okay! I just found out she followed me without my knowledge! Now what?” Izzy blinks, “How would I know! Uh,” she turns back right to Terramore, “You know, you really shouldn’t follow and spy on your lover, right Terramore?” She blinks and widens her eyes at me, “I shouldn’t? Oh, dear! Uh, I’m sorry!” I can already tell I have my partner at a disadvantage… But I also know she’s just as clueless as I when it comes to this sort of thing… I think I should let her go? I stare directly into her eyes, “It’s okay, sweetie…” I smile, “I mean, you just wanted to find out more about me, right?” She smiles at me nervously, “U-um, yeah!” I nod, “Well, right! But for the record, if you EVER want to know anything, simply ask, alright?” “Alright!” I smile, “I mean, the assumption is that I’d have no reason to lie to you, yes?” Her mouth flattens and her verdant eyes widen at me, “Of course!” I nod, “Right!” before sighing, “Okay! I guess I’m here for tea now? Now what?” Izzy looks up at me, “Now, we talk about you two! What’s going on? How you been?” I look at the blue unicorn and frown, “Well, we literally just got together yesterday?” Terramore stares forward and says blankly, “Opaline is an amazing partner! I just can’t believe how caring and sympathetic she can be and I just love talking to her!” This takes me off guard and I stare at the blue alicorn and squint my eyes as I try to think of what to say to that? Izzy stares at me while Misty continues looking onward, “Great! So Queenie! How do you feel about Terry here?” I stare at the smiling blue moron while a green unicorn at my left and a lighter blue alicorn at my front both look at me intently. I turn to stare at Terramore with wide eyes, hoping I don’t look like I’m caught? “Um, Terramore! Yes!” I adjust my gaze to her and smile, although I still have no idea what I’m going to say? “I’ll admit, being with somepony else and not being alone is very interesting, to say the least… I clear my throat! “Ahem, I feel as if something has started here, but I know not what?” before wondering where all those words came from? “And how do you feel about me?” The water alicorn asks. I widen my eyes all the way, “Did I not just say that I loved you?” Izzy says, “Well, not really? You kinda skirted around that, actually!” Misty adds, “Yeah, it’s almost like it’s hard for you to admit?” I say to Terramore, “No, it’s not! I love you!” She giggles and moves her snout to mine for a playful nuzzle, “Oh, now you can admit it, right?” “I admitted it the whole time!” Misty says, “Opaline is cute when she’s in denial!” Izzy adds, “Totally!” I scream at them, “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!” before teleporting out of the room! <*****> I just see the fire alicorn vanish in front of me in a blinding flash of light as I blink and I also notice Misty shielding her eyes with her left forehoof and saying, “Whoa!” I blink as Izzy says from my left, “Whoa! We teased Opaline and she teleported out! I don’t think she’s used to that?” I look at the two unicorns, “Do either of you know where Opaline lives?” Misty looks at me, “Well uh, I sorta do?” I turn my head right towards the green pony and stare at her intently, “Tell me Misty, what do you know?” She smiles nervously at me… <*****> I sit quietly at my chair and think about what happened at that tea party… I think about how I love Terramore and suddenly wonder what she must think after I did that! I frown when I think to myself that I’ll probably need to make this up to her somehow? I suddenly wonder when other ponies’ feelings began to enter into my considerations? And then, I hear a loud WOOSH noise coming from the kitchen down the hall! I widen my eyes when I suddenly realize Terramore probably teleported them in! <*****> I sigh and suddenly wonder why I’m here? “Misty! Why are we in the kitchen?” I say as I glance around the messy room, with it’s many half-open cabinets and various dirty pots, pans, dishes, and bowls near the sink… I hear the green unicorn at my back left say, “Well, I guess I’m hungry and was just thinking I probably want a snack?” I grimace at this. My love life is on the brink, and she’s worried about that! Then I frown when I wonder when I began to have a love life? “Okay, but where is Opaline usually?” Misty replies, “Well, she’s normally either in the study or in her throne room?” “Lead on!” I reply! “Yes ma’am!” Misty says before walking ahead of me and around the large wooden table in the cluttered kitchen among the many unwashed pots and pans. I suddenly wonder if anypony has been here in a while? She trots to the door and uses her magick to open it before trotting out into the hallway and I follow her with Izzy behind me. She guides me to the end of the hallway past several heavy looking wooden doors and opens the one in the far end with her magick to trot forward while saying, “This is the study!” I follow her and Izzy walks in behind me and starts trotting her way to my left as we all enter the expansive room with bookcases lining the walls and many ancient looking volumes lining the shelves. I glance around and don’t see many cobwebs and this makes me think that Opaline is likely well-read? I stare at the green unicorn, “Okay, she’s not here! Where’s the throne room?” Misty looks at me, “You really want to find her, don’t you?” “Wellof course! I love her!” Misty smiles, “Right! I still think it’s sweet that you helped her look for a book that wasn’t there just so she wouldn’t leave so fast!” “I…” I stare off to the left, “don’t know why I did that?” “Isn’t it obvious? You felt like you should talk to her some more, and so you did! There’s nothing wrong with that!” I stare back at her, “I wanted to, didn’t I?” “Why else would you do it?” “I don’t know?” Izzy finally speaks up from my side, “Terramore, it’s only natural to want to be loved and to want attention?” I turn my neck left to face her, “It is?” She smiles and nods at me, “Of course! I mean, you’re probably like her in that you’re alone all the time, right?” I frown, “Maybe?” She giggles, “Well, don’t you see? You wanted that from her because you haven’t had that in a long time!” My eyes widen, “I had that at some point?” She smiles widely and her red eyes disappear under their lids, “Um, I don’t know!” before opening them back to me, “But I do know that what you have here is special… I don’t think you should give that up?? I glance at the unicorn curiously, “Am I not here, trying to find her again?” She nods, “Right! Because you care about Opaline and want to make sure she’s okay!” “Of course! Yes! I care about Opaline! That’s right!” I say before nodding my head. I suddenly see a magenta alicorn come into view just to my left as I stare further into the study, “And I care about you too Terramore!” I turn my neck further right to face Opaline, “I love you!” “I love you too!” “Let’s never fight again!” Her eyes widen, “We were fighting?” I frown, “I’m uh, actually not sure?” as I suddenly wonder just how more awkward this can get? Izzy must’ve sensed this, “Uh, that doesn’t matter! You two love each other, right?” I widen my eyes to the other alicorn, “Of course!” While Opaline mutters, “I think so?” Izzy continues, “So what more do you need?” “I don’t know?” Opaline stares at me with enormous blue eyes, “Me neither? Um, Equestrian domination? Maybe?” I stare at her blankly for a moment before finally just admitting, “We’re idiots, you know that?” Opaline stares back at me, expressionless as well… She finally manages to utter, “Yeah, probably?” Another moment passes before I can’t help myself as I start to crack a smile and barely suppress giggles from my throat… Opaline grimaces before her snout begins to grin on it’s own and she breaks out into chuckles herself… I can only say loudly, “YEAH! WE’RE A COUPLE OF STUPID ALICORNS IN LOVE!” as everypony in the room busts out laughing! (To be continued…) Chapter 8: Paradigm ShiftI hear the blue unicorn finally call to me from the tea room, “Alright Queenie! We’re ready for you!” I blankly stare at the red wooden door before using my magick to make it swing inward to the right and I trot in cautiously to see Izzy smiling at me from the far side of the table, I see the back of a reddish mane in the chair nearest to me, and I see Terramore, of all ponies on the left side of the table! I stare with a frown on my muzzle and widen my eyes, “Terramore! What are you doing here?” She turns her head right to stare at me with enormous green eyes, “Uh, Opaline! Fancy seeing you here! I’ve known Izzy and Misty for years!” before smiling nervously… I frown at the beaming light blue alicorn as I think it’s curious that Misty would never mention a different blue unicorn friend coming by the Brighthouse! “Really? Is that so?” She blinks and grins wider, “Well, yeah!” I see Izzy turn her head towards the sky-blue alicorn and whisper the word, “Honesty!” Her muzzle opens to sigh and she says, “W-well, no… Not really… I uh, found out about this place when I followed you… “as her shoulders lower in resignation. My eyes widen, “What? You followed me? Why?” She sighs and turns her eyes down before raising them back up to me, “Well, I wanted to learn more about you!” and blinks, “I mean, I’ve never been in love before and I wanted to know more about the things you do! Where you went! Who you talked to!” her eyes widen. “And that’s when I met these ponies!” Izzy turns her head to me and stares with big red eyes, “Um, hi!” I grimace at this audacity! “Terramore! How dare you follow me!” She gulps and continues smiling like an idiot, “I love you Opaline and I want to know more about you!” I sigh at this stupidity, “You could just ask?” She blinks, “Um, okay! How has your day been?” I’ll admit, that question caught me off guard! “Um, well, it was going pretty good until my love told me that she’s spying on me!” Misty must sense the tension now as she stares at me and calmly interjects, “Opaline, it’s not the worst thing ever! I mean, it’s not like she wanted to hurt you or anything!” Terramore stares at me, “Well, right! I just wasn’t aware there were rules for this sort of thing, yes? Um, except no eye gouging!” and nods. “We definitely don’t want any eye gouging!” At that point, I can’t explain it, but something shifted inside me and I lowered my grimace before saying, “Terramore! You want to know more about me?” Her eyes widen, and she frowns before nodding, “Uh huh! Well, yeah!” her eyes point at me. “Yes! I want to know more about you Opaline!” I can’t help but smile at the panicking baby blue alicorn and say, “Then you shall learn, ALL THERE IS TO KNOW about me!” and then I force both of us to teleport back to my castle! <*****> I see the magenta alicorn standing near the doorway vanish in a bright white flash and I turn my head back right to see that Terramore is also gone! “Uh, you think they went to go talk?” “I hope so?” Misty says to me from the other side of the table with enormous green eyes… But uh, all that relationship talking has me beat! I was kinda hoping we could snuggle and nap together?” before smiling at me, almost as nervous as Terramore was a moment ago… I turned my gaze to the green unicorn as my mind just processes this… This other unicorn that I love, wants to snuggle me and be with me while we rest… Why does that sound like the best thing ever? I smile back, “Sure Misty Bear!” <*****> Um, I don’t know how long I’ve been in here? There’s the florescent lights above, but they don’t bother me so much anymore… I blink as the white jacket encases me and holds my forelegs around my body… I look around the pale blue room… It’s about 12 by 12 feet I’d say and the padded walls are a baby blue color… I think it’s supposed to be a comforting color, but it only just makes me angry that they put me here earlier… I keep thinking about what it was like earlier… Pain! Misery! Despair! No light or love, anywhere! I keep thinking about that and how this whole Misty thing is just going to get Izzy hurt later! Uh, Izzy is there now! I’m who I was earlier! Or uh, maybe I should say that I used to be Izzy? I’m not sure anymore? I know I’m not in charge anymore! That’s for sure! Um, where was I? Oh, yeah! Misty is bad news and love fucking sucks! YES! That! Wait! Am I hearing hoofsteps? Uh, maybe? It’s hard to tell when my mind wanders sometimes… There’s not really much to do in here! <*****> “Mmmmmmm…” I smile in snuggly bliss while cuddling the wonderful blue pony holding me from behind… “What time is it?” “Time to snuggle!” The voice behind me happily replies before I feel the legs going over my body tighten in a sweet warm embrace! “I love you Izzy!” Izzy is silent, but continues to lovingly hold me… “Izzy! Are you okay?” <*****> I trot down the stone hallway… Its dimly lit by I don’t know what and it has a pale blue glow to the walls… Similar to the padding in the room where I was trotting… I don’t hear her screaming right now and I’m not sure if she’s awake? I lower my muzzle as I trot because one thing is certain, I do know it’s time to end this… I turn right to trot down the pale blue corridor, and soon go past two more doors before stopping and turning right to stare at a darker blue door in front of me… It is steel and has a small porthole where I can see the blue pony inside with her disheveled mane going over her red eyes as she stares around the room with a deranged glint in them… I gulp and make the knob on the right side of the door glow blue with my magick and it soon turns… I know it can be opened from the outside… * The door soon turns inward towards the left to show me the full padded baby blue room with the mad blue pony there, locked in her straight jacket and now staring at me directly with her large red eyes… “What do YOU want?” I say calmly to the other pony, “I don’t want to fight you… “ She frowns and says back sardonically, “Kinda late for that, don’t you think?” before blowing the lock of blue hair off her muzzle and after it flies to the right of her face, says, “What are you here for, anyway?” “I’m here to give you what you need…” Her eyes widen, “What?” I trot forward towards her and she scoots back with her hind legs until she’s at the soft cushy wall behind her and says in a panicked expression, “Stop! Don’t get closer!” as her wild mane flies around her head and she looks this way and that for some escape… I take two more paces before lovingly embracing her in my forehooves… She shivers, “W-what?” “I’m sorry… I’m so sorry… “I honestly say to the quivering pony, currently inside my hooves as a tear falls from my right eye… Her body soon relaxes… “What are you doing?” “I’m giving you the love, attention, and support you needed all along… “ <*****> I can feel the warmth of the green unicorn currently encased in my forehooves… I hold her tightly and lovingly to my body… “I love you!” I say softly… “I love you too!” Misty replies… Suddenly, I widen my eyes when I feel something shift deep within my mind… “Misty… I’m going to let go of you and I need you to face me, okay?” “Um, okay?” She says uneasily before moving forward after I release my grasp and she turns her body around to stare at me with those enormous green eyes of hers… “What’s up?” I smile at my love because only then did I finally see her… Her, this wonderful pony that I fell in love with in front of me… She blinks confused, “Izzy? Are you okay?” I move my snout to hers for a passionate, deep, loving kiss as I embrace her wholeheartedly within my hooves… Her eyes widen and I notice their faint glint in the moonlight from my window as I feel her warm body near mine and while I don’t think I’ll ever be able to quite explain it, it just feels like home whenever I’m inside her hooves now… I move my face away from hers to see her smiling face as I whisper, “I love you!” She playfully nuzzles my snout and says back, “I love you too!” “I-you know, I think this is just what I needed?” Her eyes widen in the darkness, “What do you mean?” I sigh again, “I mean, I didn’t think I believed in love and yet, um, here you are!” I see her muzzle form a half-smile, “Surprise!” I snicker at the silly green pony, “Yeah… Hi new partner!” She nuzzles me affectionately before another passionate kiss… <*****> My eyes go wide as I get a certain feeling that emotions somewhere I have shifted? I say to the magenta alicorn, “So now I know your past and why you turned to evil… “ She sighs, and nods her head from the other side of the ancient wooden table with it’s many gnarls and twists in the wood, “Yes! The truth was, they never truly loved or acknowledged me!” “And now I am?” She blinks as she processes this, “Well, yes! I believe so, Terramore!” I lean forward as I want to know more, “Okay but uh, are you still mad?” I hear her sigh, “Well, if I’m being honest, I’m confused… “ I frown, “What do you mean?” “I mean, all this time… I lived in a world without love and if I’m being honest, it all seemed so fake an unreal to me… And yet, here you are!” I smile, “Well uh, now you know what it’s like to be loved!” (To be continued… ) Author's Note *Psychologically speaking, this is an important detail. Chapter 10: Priority ShiftSo, what happened? I sat at my desk, listening to the chatter on my radio… “Something’s changed! The emotions aren’t responding the same!” “Y-yeah! I know! It’s like it just, opened up! Freaking blossomed!” “What?” I stared at the screen to see what Izzy’s eyes were seeing… I just saw peaceful blackness… Odd! It says she’s awake here, but she’s just laying there, with her eyes shut... The emotions are different now… I don’t recognize this… I stared back at the screen right as she finally opened her eyes to the sleeping bluish-green unicorn held in the hooves… “Wait! She’s beginning to stir… “ <*****> Well, it didn’t feel right to just teleport in the middle of their house, and so I phased back into reality in front of the Crystal Brighthouse instead! Then, I heard screaming! It sounded like Misty, so I widen my eyes and look up at the window near where Misty and Izzy were staying before phasing out of reality yet again! <*****> I widen my eyes and smile ecstatically as I feel the wonderful sensations of Izzy’s tongue between my hind legs! Suddenly, I see a blinding flash that makes me squint my eyes and my grin lowers a bit as I suddenly behold a magenta alicorn there, with a white mane and a really concerned look in her blue eyes! “Misty! Are you alright?” I hear her ask as Izzy’s snout begins to leave my crotch… I frown in horror as I say, “I’m fine Opaline! What are you doing in our room?” “I heard you screaming!” “She came twice, by my count!” I hear a whimsical feminine voice say from behind me! I close my eyes and feel heat rush to my cheeks as I cringe in embarrassment! “Oh! You two were just having sex! I am SO sorry!” I hear Opaline apologize! I hear Izzy behind me say, “That’s okay Queenie! Just uh, for future reference, Misty here is a screamer” I feel my cheeks continue to grow warm as I say emphatically, “Opaline! Get the hay out of our room!” I hear a zap again and finally open my eyes to see that Opaline is no longer there… I hear Izzy say from behind me in her happy squeaky way, “Now, where were we?” before I feel her snout enter my crotch again… I widen my eyes again, because I know what’s cumming next… <*****> I teleport into Terramore’s kitchen… I glance around the room and I don’t see her at the table, or near the fridge or coffee maker… I widen my eyes, Not unusual! She’s obviously just somewhere else in her house! I think to myself before glancing to the right and using my magick to open the door there… It swings outward to the left and I see a mist slowly come out of the new opening… I stare into it and I see Terramore there, standing on her hooves with her eyes closed and smiling a strange grin, as if she were in some sort of trance… “Terramore?” I say out loud… She opens her eyes and cranes her head to me, “Opaline? What are you doing here?” “Why are you meditating in a freezer?” I ask the obvious question… She frowns, “I’m water based and this is how I slow down… “ I frown as well, “What?” She smiles demurely, “Well, what do you think makes water slow down?” “What?” I repeat myself… She sighs and trots out of the freezer, and closes the door with her magick before embracing me in a tight warm hug! “I love my freezer time as ice, but I also miss my Opaline!” Her Opaline? I think to myself, “Freezer time as ice?” I repeat her… “Yeah, you know how water freezes as ice?” I widen my eyes when it suddenly starts to make sense to me! <*****> Misty froze there on the bed in her hooves with her face buried in the front… “I can’t believe Opaline walked in on us doing that!” she screams! I widen my eyes and bring my forehoof to the top of her head to rub the back of her neck and maybe comfort her? “Well, believe it baby! Opaline caught us having sex!” “I’m never leaving this room again!” “Oh?” My mouth makes an O shape. “Yeah! Bring me my meals!” Misty whines! “Oh, it’s not the end of the world, sweetie!” “Yes, it is! Opaline knows I’m sexual now!” “She didn’t earlier?” “Well, uh… “ I frown, “I figured she would’ve caught you during self-pleasure once or twice, by now?” “AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!” She screams suddenly and I think I hit a nerve as her body tenses up on the bed! “Uh, is that a yes?” I say quickly as I increase my comfort rubbing… “Maybe!” She frantically screams back as I continue rubbing the back of her neck with my right hoof… I lower my body to hers and embrace her with my right hoof while bringing my body to hers so she can feel me and know that I’m here for her, “Well, we’ll just deal with this later, okay sweetie… Uh, you want something to eat?” Her body begins to loosen, “How could you think about eating when Opaline caught us having sex?” “Um, well, I was feeling hungry and… “ “What are we gonna do?” She cuts me off… I sigh as I don’t think I’m getting through to her? “I keep telling you, we can hash this out with her later, okay? Now, we skipped breakfast today and you need to eat something!” She lifts her face from the mattress and I see her eyes are bloodshot and teary, “Uh, um, y-yeah… I guess you’re right Izzy?” “Of course, I’m right! Now go sit down and I’ll use my wok and make us some broccoli lo mein!” She smiles for the first time in two hours and my heart lifts momentarily, “I’ll brew tea!” I don’t know how she keeps doing that, but I suddenly begin to feel better…I smile back, “Sounds fun!” <*****> I sat there in the control room, staring at the emotional readout… “It just bloomed! I don’t understand what this is or where it’s going?” I hear the voice on the radio… I widen my eyes as I stare at the screen… I can see she’s kissing Misty again and they’re ignoring the tea, despite the fact that the cups are still about half full… I see them on the side of her view, but her eyes are locked on the half-open green eyes of this blue unicorn sitting next to us… Us? There’s more than one of us in here! It makes me wonder about the crazy pony… She hasn’t screamed in days now… I haven’t checked on her… I frown when I realize that I really should do that… I don’t know how she’ll be like, though… I sigh when I realize this is just going to be more kissing and cuddling and I might as well just do it now… I finally scoot the chair back and return to all fours on the control room floor… I turn around in the faded green room with it’s many screens on the walls displaying various diagnostic data about Izzy’s operation… None of that was nearly as concerning as the emotions we were detecting… Or what was going on, on the screen… I turn and trot to the door before opening it with my magick to reveal the open stone hallway behind it… I gulp because I don’t know what’s out there… I’ve been in here for days now, just drinking coffee and staring at those same screens and trying to figure out just what I was seeing… It’s odd, but I feel the same, basically… I’m still me… I’m still the same pony… Clop clop clop… I trot towards the door… It’s everything else that’s now different… But it was finally time to see… I exit the control room and turn right to trot down the stone hallway towards the isolated little room in the back… There are many wooden doors here that I pass, but only the metal door in the back interests me… Clop clop clop clop I hear my hooves tapping on the same stone floor… As I trotted down the same hallway… The walls were lit by a greenish hue now, although I still have no idea why the light changes color or where it’s even coming from… Clop clop clop clop I hear more clopping on the floor as I approach the steel door with the little porthole window there… I stop in front of the door and take a look inside… I see a lilac unicorn with a big fluffy blue mane and a confused look in her red eyes! She has no straight jacket either, which is weird, because I don’t remember her being released? She widens her eyes when she sees me and opens her mouth, “Oh, wow! Who are you? You look just like me!”* <*****> I stood there, now in a blue parka as I stared at the smiling blue water alicorn in the freezer, “So uh, how long do you have to do this?” “As long as it takes! Sometimes, I’m out in a few minutes! Other times, it can take longer! One time, I was back here for three days!” I widen my eyes and repeat her, “Three days?” She giggles, “Yeah, but don’t worry! I probably don’t need that much time, since you’re here!” and sighs… “Yeah, that was a long time ago and something happened… “ I frown, “Me? What do I do for you?” She widens her eyes and explains, “Just having you here makes me feel better! I don’t get so stressed or wild when you’re around… “ “It does?” She nods, “Oh, gosh yes, Opaline! Why do I constantly have to reassure you that I like having you around?” At that point I stopped… Reassuring me? “What do you mean?” She moves her head forward, “Well, you’re always unsure of yourself… “and frowns… “It’s like I have to tell you where you’re at with me?” I growl, “I’m not used to love, okay?” Her eyes widen when I think she realized her mistake? “Oh! Yeah! Right! That!” I stare at the other alicorn intently, before a thought suddenly occurs to me… “Do you ever turn to steam?” Her eyes widen, “Oh, dear! You don’t want that! That’s bad!” “It is?” She shudders with her eyes closed and stares back at me, “Yeah! So whatever you do, make sure I never get too hot!” “Oh?” My mouth makes an O shape… She sighs, “Yeah, but that hasn’t happened in like, three hundred years, so you’re probably safe!” and smiles… “I mean, as much as I love you!” As much as she loves me? I blink, “Uh, okay!” I say before gazing at the blue pony again… “You haven’t moved in two hours!” She beams brightly from her muzzle, “Yeah, I know… I am at peace… I love it when it’s slow like this… “ It was so strange… I was bored out of my mind, and yet, with this other pony here, that wasn’t an issue… It didn’t matter that I haven’t done anything for hours, because Terramore was here with me… <*****> I don’t know how long I’ve been here in Izzy’s hooves and I just don’t care! This is so wonderful! I don’t want to move! “I love you Izzy!” I whisper back to her as she’s holding me and I probably have a happy smile on my muzzle? Uh, probably! “How long have I been holding you, Misty?” I hear the energetic voice I love saying from behind me… “I don’t know and I don’t care! Hold me! Love me!” I happily squeal before cuddling into the other bluer pony behind me! “You act like you didn’t get much affection before?” I’m silent… “Oh! Right!” She says before tightening her hooves around me… “Are you okay, Izzy?” I tentatively ask, because she doesn’t really seem there right now… “What do you mean?” She chirps back to me. “Well, you just seem weird! Ever since we started this whole afternoon snuggle-fest thing, you’ve been crazy affectionate and well, I mean, I’m not gonna say no! And I’m definitely not saying I don’t like it! But uh, what gives Izzy? Where did all this come from?” Izzy is silent for a moment while she continues to hold me… “Izzy? Are there? I asked you a question!” “I know! I just don’t know how to answer!” My muzzle frowns, “What do you mean?” She sighs, “Well, it’s like something shifted inside me a little while ago… I think of myself as a new pony all of a sudden… “ I frown, “New pony?” I feel her nod behind me, “Y-yeah! I just feel like, you know? Maybe it’s not just that I can be loved, but uh, maybe I should be loved? I dunno if that makes sense?” I think on it for a moment before replying, “Oh, like uh, maybe I should love you?” “Yeah!” I feel her nod again. “It’s exactly like that! Like, you’re here for me and I can count on that!” And for some stupid dumb reason, that comment makes me smile… “I love you Izzy!” “I love you too Misty Bear!” She says happily before squeezing me lightly and joyfully! (To be continued…) Author's Note *This pony represents Izzy’s root chakra and she’s actually the source of the strange new love encapsulating her heart at this point, but nopony knows… She was recently permitted to produce love again and she’s very confused now… Chapter 11: ChangesI sat there staring at the other pony in the other control room chair… It’s so weird, but I could’ve sworn she was older earlier? She finally stops staring at the front screen and turns her head right to stare at me, widens her red eyes and squeakily says, “So, this is where you work?” “Um, yeah! I’m not really sure how I got here, but life has pretty much always been this way for me! Uh, there’s a coffee maker in the back… “I stare at her intently as I’m really not sure how to ask this? “Why did they keep you locked up in a straight jacket?” Her face comes alive again!”Oh, that! Yeah, when you start talking about how awful other ponies are and how you really shouldn’t be around any of them, they don’t normally like you around!” she frowns, “Well, not usually?”and stares at me intently, “You mentioned a coffee maker?” Once again, I pause as I’m not sure how to ask the next question either? “How did you get free from the jacket?” Her eyes once again widen and I can already tell I’ll need to get used to that! She squeaks, “I have no idea!” I frown, “What? What do you mean, you have no idea? You were in a straight jacket this morning, and now you’re not! What changed?” She frowns tentatively, “How would I know?” I stare at this strange filly in silence… “Well, you were there, right?” Her eyes widen! “Um, yeah!” and she nods, “Idefinitely was there alright! I had on a straight jacket and everything! Well, I did earlier!” her eyes normalize. “Now I don’t!” I frown harder… “Okay, see if you can follow me here!”I wave my hoof around. “This morning, you had on a straight jacket, yes? Correct? And uh, now you’re not in said straight jacket! How did you get out?” She jitters as she replies, “I don’t know!” I’m silent again as I stare blankly at the wall behind her in thought… I then turn back down to stare at her, “Well, what do you know?” Her eyes widen, “Well, this morning, when I woke up, I was in a straight jacket!” I nod, “This is true!” “Okay, and uh, well, one moment I was in the jacket, and the next, I wasn’t!” I’m silent again as I’m not really sure what to make of that? I adjust my view to her, “So, the jacket just what then? Poofed out of existence?” Her crimson eyes widen again, “Uh, yup! Pretty much!” I’m silent once more… “And now, you’re not in a jacket?” She throws her forehooves in the air and flails them, “Nope! I’m free now! I can wander the halls again! Yay!” … I’m trying not to grin, but she is kinda cute right now… And I suddenly frown when I think about this… It’s so strange, but she seemed bigger earlier… And older… I’m pretty sure of this? I decide to ask her, “Uh, what should I call you?” “Oh! Call me Wendy! Uh, what’s your name?” I frown when I suddenly can’t think of anything to say to her! “I don’t know?” She frowns too, “What? What do you mean, you don’t know? I mean, you got a name, right?” “Uh, yes! I mean, I think so? I uh, I’m actually not sure?” As I frown and bring my eyes to the ceiling as I try to remember the last time somepony asked me my name? She blinks her eyes, “Well, I can’t just call you nameless pony during our relationship, can I? Uh,” her eyes widen again, “what do you wanna be called?” I stare at her intently and I’m not sure what comes over me? “You will now refer to me by the name of, Betty!”* I nod, “Yes! Betty! Call me that!”* Her mouth straightens and eyes widen, “Oh! A mare’s name!” and smiles, “I like it!” She likes it? What? “So Wendy! Uh, what do you do?” “Oh!” She perks up!” Well, before they locked me up, I liked to play and do fun stuff!” I frown… “Fun stuff?” She happily nods, “Oh, yeah! I liked to play, and goof around, and watch movies with the other!” “The other?” Her eyes widen, “Yeah! Our partner! Uh, “she frowns as if a sudden realization just hit her… “That would be Misty now, right? Uh,” she looks down… “I wasn’t very friendly back there, was I? Um, sorry… “and she brings her gaze towards the floor… I frown harder as I have no idea what she’s talking about? “Uh, I guess not, no? Um, why do you keep getting younger?” She raises her head to gaze at me with wide, albeit smaller red eyes, and says in a now squeakier voice, “Uh, what do you mean? I’m a filly! I’ve always been a filly!” I cringe at this as I really don’t know what to make of it? “NO! No you haven’t been! You were older earlier!” She frowns and pauses for a moment… “Are you sure about that?” “Yes!” Her tiny eyes widen and I see freckles beginning to form on her cheeks as she squeaks, “I was? Oh, wow! And now, I’m a filly! Hooray!” and flails her forehooves in the air again! I frown really really hard before deciding that I want another cup of coffee! <*****> As I stared at the green unicorn, with her crazy curly mop of a red mane, I see her smile at me and beam with her cute freckled cheeks as she says, “So uh, we snuggled for about two hours!” I smile as I feel a shift within me and say, “Yup! We sure did!” Her eyes narrow, “After Opaline caught us having sex!” I nod, “Yup!” She frowns and looks to the side, “I still have no idea what I’m going to say to her or if I ever want to see her again?” “Well, she’s reformed now and having touch with you will remind her of her obligation to be good! Talking to you is probably a good thing, as it will help her move past her old ways!” I say before frowning as I’m really not sure where that came from? Her face normalizes and she turns to face me, “Well, that’s probably true? Still, we don’t know when she’ll show up?” I stare blankly at the wall as it just feels like Opaline will show up now… Misty notices and asks her, “Uh, what are you doing Izzy?” I shake my head and stare at her, “Sorry! It just suddenly felt like Opaline should show up or something?”** She frowns, “Are you okay, Izzy?” I look at her, widen my eyes, and happily reply, “Never better! Why?” She stops for a moment… “Well uh, what should we do in the meantime?” I frown as well, “Live our lives, silly! I mean, what else would we do? She’ll be back eventually, and we can just deal with it then! Until that point, don’t worry about it!” and then I smile back at her. “Just choose to be happy, y’know? There’s really no point in getting bummed out about something that hasn’t happened yet!” She smiles back, “Um, y-yeah, I guess you’re right?” before staring off to the side… I stare at her intently, “Or we could just have sex again?” She turns to me and widens her eyes and frowns, “But what if Opaline comes back?” I smile, “It’s fine!” and flit my hoof in the air. “She knows you’re a screamer now! So, if she hears you yelling, she’ll just assume you’re having sex again and won’t come in like she did earlier!” She cringes and her face blushes! I lower my hoof to stare at her and smile! “I love you Misty Bear! I’ll go make us lunch!” <*****> I widen my eyes at the suddenly delirious magenta alicorn in her blue parka coat, with the hood over her head, but not quite covering her horn, “What do you mean, you caught Izzy and Misty having sex? You knew they were doing that, right?” She frowns, “But it was Misty!” I nod and frantically reply, “Yeah! And she’s with Izzy now, remember?” She closes her eyes and cringes to the side, “Yeah, but Izzy… Izzy had her snout back there! She was… she was… “ “Giving oral sex to Misty?” I say before frowning. “EEEEEEEEE!!!!!” She ee’s suddenly and scrunches up her face! I widen my eyes again and lean forward, “And you obviously don’t wanna think about that!” “NO!” She emphatically screams while staring back at me with a serious look in her blue eyes! I nod and continue, “Right! You don’t wanna think about Izzy’s snout deep inside Misty’s backside with her tongue flailing!” “AAAAAAAHHH!!!!” She screams at me! I stare at her, “Okay, yes! None of that!” She stares at me intently, “Stop talking about sex!” I frown, “Well, this morning, you and I… “ “That’s different!” She emphatically states! I widen my eyes, “How is that different?” She nods, “Well, when it’s us, it’s you and me and… “ “Not Misty?” I cut her off. She nods again, “Yes! That! It’s not that worthless curly filly that used to hang out at my castle!” she states before frowning… “Worthless?” I repeat her. I frown as well, “She seemed okay to me?” “I uh,” she shakes her head before staring off to the side, “I need to think about this? She’s not my servant anymore and is apparently sexually active and well… “ “You just have to deal with the changes… “ She adjusts her gaze to me, “What?” I smile, “Things change all the time! It’s really the only constant in the universe! Misty is another pony now and you just need to adjust to that!” She stares at me blankly for a moment before saying, “I knew there was a good reason I liked you around!” I frown again, “You were gonna get rid of me?” “No! Of course not!” She flits her forehoof in the air. “I mean, maybe the thought had crossed my mind once or twice, but I don’t think I’d ever actually do it!” I widen my eyes, “You don’t think?” She stares at me blankly and suddenly frowns as I think she suddenly realized what she just said? She frantically says, “No, Terramore! NO! A thousand times, NO! You’re simply too valuable to be gotten rid of!” while shaking her head! I smile and giggle as I trot towards her to embrace her in a tight warm hug! “It’s okay Opaline! I love you too!” “EEP!” She quietly eeps in my hooves and returns the embrace… “Misty is banging Izzy now and you’re just gonna have to deal with that… “ I feel her cringe in my hooves with her head on my shoulder as she says, “Okay, but we don’t have to talk about it either!” “Deal!” I quietly say to the other alicorn as I continue holding onto her and chuckle a little bit… (To be continued…) Author's Note *Shameless half self-insert in 3...2...1… BOOM! **Yeah, I do that way too much in my writing! Izzy is just breaking the 4th wall again here… Chapter 1: Awkward TeaOh, gosh! She’s smiling at me! I think to myself before smiling… I probably look nervous? The blue unicorn smiles at me, “Hiya Misty! What’s up!” I blink and gulp, “Um, can I talk to you?” Her pretty red eyes widen, “Oh, sure! I was about to have my afternoon tea! Do you want some?” before frowning at me cutely… I smile wider, “Oh uh, I’d love some tea Izzy!” She nods, “Well, come on to the tea area!” before turning to trot to her weird tea contraption… I trot closer to her and the machine… She forces her horn to glow and the machine neatly folds out as if it were lotus flowers and I see two baby blue glass cups on the petals there before her… She looks at the matching baby blue tea kettle back near the center of the flower and forces it to glow and levitate over and pour us two fresh hot cups of tea… She smiles while staring at her work and floating the kettle away, “This is green tea with jasmine! It’s not my favorite, but it’s still pretty yummy! You like two sugars, right? Kinda sweet tea for Misty?” I smile, “Oh, that’s nothing! Opaline usually had me add five whole spoons of sugar to her tea whenever I made it for her!” before lowering my grin… You stupid idiot! Why did you bring up Opaline? I think to myself… She turns with two glowing baby blue saucers before her, each with a cup of steaming tea on it, before forcing the one on her left to glide towards me in the air and saying, “Here’s yours, Misty! No, wait!” her eyes widen and the saucer stops flying towards me before the other one begins to glide my way. “That’s MY cup! Not yours!” My eyes widen, “But don’t we both like it with two sugars?” Her own pupils enlarge, “Oh, yeah! Both of these teas are exactly the same, aren’t they?” she smiles. “Don’t know why I didn’t realize that?” I gotta laugh at the ultra-cute scene, “Yeah, it doesn’t really matter which one I got!” before looking at the blue saucer in front of me and concentrating to make my own horn glow. “Got it Izzy!” “Okay!” I feel her release her magick and she sets her saucer down on the table to her right… I take a cautious first sip of my tea… And widen my eyes when I realize it’s still really hot! Her eyes widen as her mouth opens, “Oh, Misty! Be careful! I just brewed that tea!” I set the cup down on its saucer while keeping my eyes wide, “YEAH! Really hot!” and then I sputter… “Are you okay?” She asks me with genuine concern in her cherry pupils. I widen my own gaze, “I’ll be fine, Izzy! Thank you!” She smiles, “Yeah, you gotta give it a few minutes before you take that first sip, silly!” I smile back, “Yeah! Uh, hey! There was something I wanted to talk to you about…” Her eyes widen again as her snout goes agape, “Oh?” My smile lowers, “Yeah, Izzy! You see uh, I like you!” She smiles again, “I like you too, Misty!” I gulp, “N-no Izzy! Not like that! I mean, I really like you!” Her smile lowers a little, “Oh, definitely! Us unicorns have to stick together!” I blink, “I l-love you, I-Izzy!” and smile… She smiles wider, “I love you too, Misty!” “NO! I mean, I REALLY love you!” I yell and I can’t believe I’m almost screaming this at her! She shouts back! “I REALLY LOVE YOU TOO, MISTY!” I frown at her… I can’t believe it? I’m trying to tell my feelings to this other unicorn and for whatever reason, she’s just not getting the message! At that point, as much as I absolutely hated to admit it to myself, there was really only one thing I could do… I looked down and sighed before scooting my stool back and flopping from my haunches to all-fours on the floor and I begin trotting around the left side of the table… Izzy is watching this with her curious red eyes as she asks, “Uh, Misty? What are you doing?” I stop just shy of her stool and look at her right in the face… I can feel her warm breath on my face now as she looks at me with concern, “Misty?” I stare at her right in the eyes, “Izzy, I love you!” Her mouth begins to quiver as I’m not sure she understands? “I love you too, Misty!” I blink, Oh, for goodness’s sake! I think to myself before trotting forward just a few more inches and planting a loving passionate kiss right on her lips! I eventually release her face and stare at her curiously from a few inches away…. She smiles, “Oh, you like me! Gee, why didn’t you just say so?” and grins even wider while tilting her head slightly to the left… She just looked so gosh darn cute right there, I couldn’t help myself! I moved my face to hers again and planted another kiss on her mouth! This time, she almost seemed ready for it, because I could feel her snout tightening and readying itself as my lips remained locked on hers! I release her again and she stares at me to say, “Again, all you had to do was just say something!” I sigh, “But I did!” She frowns, “You did? Oh, wow! I didn’t even notice!” and smiles once more. “Sorry about that!” I squint my eyes as I can only take so much of her cuteness, “Izzy, I uh… I’m sorry I didn’t tell you the right way. Um, I guess, I just uh… “I smile, “I like you a lot Izzy! I mean, you’re the first nice unicorn I ever met and you’re just um, well, you’re so gosh darn cute and… uh… I like you… “and then, I beam brightly at her… Her frown straightens, “AWWW, you’re SO CUTE!” My eyes widen! “Am not! You’re cute!” She smiles, “Oh, yeah?” and boops my nose with her right forehoof! She giggles as I frown at this audacity… I widen my eyes when I begin to realize that this whole time, she never told me to stop or said no… I blink again, “So uh, what do you say Izzy?” She stops giggling and stares back at me, “To what?” I blink and gulp, “T-to being with me?” Her eyes widen, “Oh, sure! I’ll be with you or whatever!” she smiles while flitting her right forehoof in the air. “Does this mean we get to have ice cream?” I stare at this other unicorn in confusion… I pour out my feelings to her, she agrees to be my marefriend, and is really only concerned with frozen treats? “So uh, you’re with me, now?” Her eyes and mouth normalize, “Didn’t I already say that?” I eye the blue pony carefully… It was already hard enough when I realized I was gay earlier… And now, I have this… I smile like a crazy pony, “Sure honey! Let's go get ice cream!” Her eyes widen, “Oh, honey! I like that! You should call me honey some more!” I roll my eyes and begin trotting towards the freezer on the other side of the kitchen… And while I can already tell that this is gonna be a weird day, I’ll take it over what I was doing earlier… (To be continued…) Chapter 9: New TerritoryHer vibrant green eyes stared deeply at me as she stated, “I am from Mount Arcanis!” I widen my eyes at Terramore, “Mount Arcanis? Where’s that?” She smiles, “I’m surprised you don’t know! Did Celestia and Luna not tell you?” I frown, “I already told you that I was mostly ignored growing up! They were just so busy with their wonderful retirement and it’s unfair that I never got the chance to have power!” Her smile lowers and she nods, “Right! Because Harmonia gave birth to you after Twilight Sparkle had already assumed power!” * I sigh and look off to the right, “I never really had a chance, you know? And my sisters flat out ignored me when I was sent to live with them…” I turn back towards her. “Seriously, though! What is Mount Arcanis?” “Well, you know how Harmonia is from that island far to the east and basically colonized Equestria with ponykind?” “No!” Her eyes widen, “Well, Mount Arcanis is a city of alicorns and it’s far to the north!” “In all that ice and snow?” She nods, “Yes, well, they have an artifact called The Crystal Heart that keeps the city itself clear and balmy!” “Then how did Harmonia get to the island?” She widens her eyes, “Wow! Somepony REALLY needs to brush up on their history! You see, alicorns are originally from that island! However, many alicorns moved after The Crystal Empire fell and reclaimed the heart for ponykind! Seeing how the rest of Equestria was divided and everypony was keeping to themselves, they decided to settle to the north in the mountains, in order to both, keep the relic safe and keep it in Equestria! That’s how Mount Arcanis was first discovered!” I raise my eyebrow, “Oh?” She smiles and nods, “It’s a mountain with a flat crater for a top, so building a city in there was easy, once we were able to keep the ice and snow away with the heart!” ** I widen my eyes, “Oh, interesting! Um, no! Harmonia gave birth to me on the island where my sisters were!” She sighs, “Right! And you say they never spent any time with you?” I frown, “Of course not! They spent their days together, but never with me!” “Did you tell your mother about this?” I flit my hoof in the air, “She always brushed me aside! “before straightening my neck. “And so, at that point I decided that I should have power! If love wasn’t an option, then I’ll take what’s mine instead!” “So that’s why you wanted all the magick in Equestria?” I nod, “Yes! Heading to the Dragon-Lands and getting dragon fire was fairly easy!” “But you needed more?” I sigh and stare off wistfully to the right, “I only had enough time to drain one dragon before I was discovered! I needed more to become fully powerful!” “They fought you back?” I smile at my love, “Well, dragons don’t like their power being taken away!” before lowering it, “But you never told me your story. How in Equestria does one become a water alicorn anyway?” She widens her eyes and raises her neck slightly, “Ice giants!” My view enlarges once again, “What?” She smiles and nods, “Yup! I met ice giants!” I frown at this strange information, “What are you talking about Terramore?” Her smile lowers slightly, “Well, in Mount Arcanis, they tell you never to travel too far to the east and to especially avoid a valley there… “ I narrow my eyes, “You went there anyway, didn’t you?” Her smile lowers all the way, “I can’t explain it Opaline, but I somehow just felt like I had to!” I nod, “Okay, so what was in the valley?” “Well, amidst the snow and winds, there’s a big city nestled in the valley! It’s so strange, but it’s also fairly warm there and it doesn’t seem to be affected by the ice and wind, much like the alicorn city… That’s when I met the ponies who live there… They look like earth ponies, only much larger! At first, I raised my shield and told them to stay away, but they told me that they didn’t want to hurt me and that they were my friends!” I widen my eyes and exclaim aghast, “And you believed them?” She giggles slightly, “Um, I guess so? They told me that I was the chosen one as foretold by prophecy!” “There was a prophecy that a blue alicorn would travel to their valley?” Her smile raises, “Well, I used to be red!” “Oh, wow!” She nods, “Anyway, they told me that bathing in the Fountain of Truth will reveal my true nature and allow my soul the freedom it needs… “ “And so you became a water alicorn?” She giggles, “And I’ve never been happier!” “What about Mount Arcanis? Why did you not travel back there?” “Well, I didn’t want to! I wanted to well, stay in Equestria and meet other ponies, who weren’t’ alicorns, you know? Granted, they aren’t very powerful, but I wanted to see what Harmonia brought here!” she frowns. “Even though they wouldn’t be too friendly to ponies like me…” I stare at her carefully and see the blank look in her eyes, suggesting that it’s a bit of a sore spot, “And well, I’m guessing you chose Bridlewood because you can hide your wings with a vest, but the horn is more problematic?” She nods and gazes at me, “Well, right! So now you know about me! And I know why you wanted magick earlier!” “Well um, right!” She lowers her view and then says something that shocks me… She asks, “So you in fact, don’t want power now, but your confused on how you feel? Where exactly is this confusion?” I eyeball this mare and it occurs to me that she’s genuinely concerned for me and my problems when I reply, “Well, I don’t even know if my sisters are still alive and I think Twilight is gone as well!” “They were all your enemies, right?” I nod, “Well, them and Sunny, yes!” She smiles, “I think having less enemies in the world is a good thing!” and lowers her grin halfway, “And what of Sunny? How do you feel about her?” I frown and honestly answer, “I don’t know!” She frowns herself, “What do you mean, you don’t know, Opaline?” I close my eyes, “Well, life is really confusing! I thought I knew who my enemies were! I thought I knew who I needed to be fighting!” and open them to gaze upon her lovely form once more, “But now, you’re here and you’re friends with, with Izzy and Misty!” I say as I lean forward and stick my tongue out. “Those ponies were supposed to be against me, and now you’re all helping me be gay and… and…” before closing my eyes again… “I just don’t know what to think anymore? I don’t know where I fit in?” and turn my face downward. I keep my eyes closed and I can hear her hoofsteps walking around the table, “You wanna know where you fit in Opaline?” I open my eyes to see my love trotting around the left side of the gnarled round oak table and turn my head to her, “Where pray tell, is my place?” She stands just next to my chair and smiles down at me as I gaze up at her, frowning and unsure of what she’ll say next… Then, she hugs me… “With me Opaline… Your new place is with me now… “ <*****> “I uh, I don’t know how long we’ve been snuggling?” “I don’t know either!” The blue unicorn replies while holding me in her hooves and cuddling me under the covers of her purple bed… “Do you know what time it is?” “I have no idea!” “I still can’t believe we had sex twice!” “I can! I was there!” I smile and giggle, “Yeah, but you were so giving the whole time!” “Of course silly! I love you!” I straighten my mouth and sigh, “Great! Now I feel like I need to improve and be a more generous lover for you now!” “No you don’t!” I widen my eyes, “W-what?” She giggles, “It’s not about what you get Misty! I enjoy loving you and so that’s what I’m going to do! You just have to accept that love and that’s what makes me happy!” “Oh, wow!” She giggles and holds me more affectionately… I sit there in her warm embrace… “For somepony who’s never been in a relationship before, you sure seem to know a lot about it?” “Well, can I be honest with you Misty?” “Uh, we’re lovers in a relationship right?” “A lesbian relationship!” I nod while still being held in her hooves, “Well, right!” She sighs… “I have had several relationships before and most of them were straight! Although uh, I don’t think I can do that anymore?” “Be straight?” She giggles, “Well, yeah! I like mares!” I’m silent for a moment before finally asking, “Why didn’t you tell me you’ve had other partners?” She’s quiet too before sighing and saying, “I was scared, okay? I…” her hooves tighten around me. “I just don’t want to lose you!” “It’s okay if you’ve had other partners, Izzy! I’m not intimidated! I mean, they’re not here, right?” She snickers and lowers her grasp, “I hope not! I mean uh, yeah! They aren’t here anymore… “before tightening her hooves again! “I love you!” “I love you too Izzy! But now I’m really concerned about Opaline!” “Oh, she can take care of herself! Don’t worry about it!” <*****> “I have no idea what I’m doing!” I say as I stare at the smiling blue alicorn in bed with me… She giggles, “Neither do I! But I really want to explore!” before leaning forward to plant yet another affectionate kiss on my muzzle. I widen my eyes and she moves her face back a few inches to continue smiling at me… I gaze at the grinning face of this other pony carefully… Explore she says, saying that she wants to be with me… “Well uh, I guess I’ll try anything once? Where do we begin?” Terramore’s eyes widen, “How would I know!” At this stage, my irritation is great! But for some reason I don’t yell at her… The truth is, I don’t know if I can by this point? No… I carefully face this other pony in bed with her and plant a loving kiss on her muzzle… I think I shall give this a try! And as my instincts take over, I find myself lowering my body down hers to bring my snout in between her hind flanks… And before I get to work, I hear her say, “I think it would be a good idea to bring you to Mount Arcanis later!” I look at her unmentionables before saying, “Yeah, Terramore! I’d like that!” before closing my eyes, opening my mouth, sticking out my tongue, bringing my snout to her genitals… (To be continued…) Author's Note *Surprise! Opaline was born after Twilight was already in charge and her sisters were much older and retired by that point! There will be no retconning on my watch! **Kinda like Mexico City, but without all the pollution!
Chapter 2: PsychosisAuthor's Note I decided to do something a little different for this particular story. I've decided to go back and forth between the two lovers so we can gain a better insight into their feelings and how they're working through during this relationship... However, Izzy is neurodivergent and fractured, like me! Chapter 2: Psychosis “That stupid moron! How dare she come onto me! Does she not know who I am? Doesn’t she know that I’m unlovable?” I listened to the crazed unicorn hermit screaming in her cell down the hall… I used to listen to her and that made me do bad things, but I don’t listen to her anymore… I turned and trotted the other direction to the other end of the hall towards the door… Misty was coming onto me earlier and I definitely don’t wanna miss this! <*****> The olive green unicorn stares at me right in the eyes and says, “Izzy, I love you!” She keeps saying that? I can feel my lower lip trembling, “I love you too, Misty!” She trots forward a few more inches and without warning, kisses me on the lips! She finally breaks the connection and stares at me from a few inches away and suddenly, I smile when I finally realize exactly what she’s getting at… She likes me as in, likes me! Okay! I say, “Oh, you like me! Gee, why didn’t you just say so?” before grinning even wider and tilting my head to the side. I see her eyes widen before she moves her snout to mine for another loving kiss! I’m ready for it this time, so I tighten the muscles in my face to get ready for her suction! She moves her snout away from mine and is a few inches away when I say, “Again, all you had to do was just say something!” She sighs, “But I did!” I frown at her, “You did! Oh, wow! I didn’t even notice!” How silly of me! I smile, “Sorry about that!” She squints her eyes at me, “Izzy, I uh… I’m sorry I didn’t tell you the right way. Um, I guess, I just uh… “she smiles all of a sudden, “I like you a lot Izzy! I mean, you’re the first nice unicorn I ever met and you’re just um, well, you’re so gosh darn cute and… uh… I like you… “and then, she smiles brightly… I stop frowning, “AWWW, you’re SO CUTE!” Her eyes widen! “Am not! You’re cute!” I smile, “Oh, yeah?” and then I lift my right forehoof and give her a good nose boop! Yeah, that’ll show her! I lower my hoof to the ground as I chuckle at the frowning unicorn, who soon says, “So uh, what do you say Izzy?” I stop laughing to stare, “To what?” She blinks and sorta swallows with her mouth, “T-to being with me?” I widen my eyes, “Oh, sure! I’ll be with you or whatever!” and then I smile at her and throw my forehoof through the air. And then, I suddenly realized what I want! “Does this mean we get ice cream?” She stares at me with a confused look in her eyes, “So uh, you’re with me, now?” I normalize my face, “Didn’t I already say that?” She grins widely at me, “Sure honey! Let's go get ice cream!” My eyes widen again, “Oh, honey! I like that! You should call me honey some more!” She rolls her eyes and starts to trot towards the freezer… I watch her trotting, “Uh, we’re out of ice cream! I thought you wanted to go to the parlor on the East side of town?” She stops trotting and turns her head right to stare at me, “Ice cream parlor?” I smile at her, “Oh, we’re gonna have some fun today!” She frowns, “We are?” <*****> “What do you mean, we’re going to the ice cream parlor? Why would we go there?” “For frozen treats! Duh!” I hear this going on over the intercom as I sat at the monitor, seeing what Izzy had to show me… “Frozen treats are dumb! You’re dumb!” “Oh, whatever!” I narrow my eyes and turn the switch on the panel off with my magick… I then frown as I stare up at the screen and wonder what this other unicorn has in mind from here? I then frown harder when I think about that screaming pony in her cell in the back… What happened to you? <*****> So then, after wandering through a colorful field of flowers and grass and noticing all of the singing birds and suddenly wondering if I could talk to them, I noticed that Misty was talking to me again! She smiled at me from where she sat on the other side of the table in the ice cream parlor near the docks on the far side, and we both see the sun slowly setting there, late in the autumn afternoon… You know, this almost seems surreal and actually um, kinda romantic… Oh! She’s talking to me again! “So, yeah! After well, everything, I really just wanted to take it slow! And so, I’ve decided that maybe we could well, help each other out, you know? Us unicorns gotta stick together, and whatnot?” She utters before smiling her goofy grin at me… You know, she is awfully cute there! I smile, “Sure, oh good friend of mine! I’ll be with you and we can cuddle and talk and kiss and do stuff together and be a couple and stuff!” Her eyes widen, “You keep acting like this is really sudden?” “Well um, what do you think? Still, you are really cute there!” “Have you ever been in a lesbian relationship before?” “Not really!” “Oh, gosh!” “What?” “Neither have I!” I smile even wider, “Oh, awesome! We both get to be gay together!” Her eyes widen, “Well uh, is there rules for this sort of thing, or?” I frown, “I don’t think so? I think you just do whatever you were doing with stallions earlier, except you’re doing it with a mare now!” “Oh, gosh!” Her snout goes agape! “What?” “I’ve never been with a stallion, either!” I continue grinning at her, “Hey, that makes two of us!” She eyes me carefully… “You mean to tell me Izzy, that in the entire period you’ve been alive, you’ve never had a special somepony?” I gaze back at her olive pupils, “Well, not until about an hour ago, no!” “So uh, we’re both new at this?” I nod, “Yeah, pretty much!” She frowns at me, while I just continue to grin widely… I lean to eye her carefully, “What’s up?” “Well, we’re gay!” I nod again, “This is true!” She continues to stare at me… “You weren’t expecting me to say yes, were you?” She sighs and gazes off to the side before affixing her eyes back to mine, “Well, really, I didn’t know what you were gonna do?” I eye her carefully while my mouth straightens and I take a somber tone, “And so, with the inability to prepare for every single scenario, the young unicorn mare instead chose to prepare for nothing!” She looks back into my eyes carefully, “Wow! That’s really deep!” I nod, “Perhaps, but I have a better idea!” Her eyes widen, “Oh? What’s that?” “Why don’t we, “I lean forward as if to whisper. “try doing whatever we feel like in this relationship and just see where it takes us?” She frowns, “Oh, wow! So we’re both gay and new and doing whatever we feel like?” My eyes widen too! “Yup! No rules!” Her mouth normalizes somewhat, “B-but what if I mess up and make you upset?” My mouth scrunches, “Well um, I think we’re supposed to talk about it then, you know? I mean, relationships seem to be built on communication?” She blinks, “Oh, right! Uh, I guess we need to talk regularly then?” I nod, “Right, and talk about feelings and say what’s on our minds and you know, relationship stuff!” She frowns, “Are you sure we’re ready for this?” I blink, “Eh, what could go wrong?” She frowns and her eyes grow wide and I can tell all sorts of thoughts must be racing through her head! I need to act fast, “Hey Misty, relax!” I then stretch both of my forehooves towards hers, past my ultra-chocolate banana split with extra fudge and put them on hers before smiling at her. “We’re both in this together and we can both be there for one another! If you’re serious about being with me, then I’m serious too!” “Oh, gosh!” I smile wider at her, “Hey, you came onto me! What did you expect was gonna happen?” Her eyes dart at me, “Well, you said yes!” I nod, “I certainly did! And now, we’re in a lesbian relationship!” “Oh, gosh!” I act fast again! “Hey, Misty?” Her attention is diverted as her eyes dart back to me, “Yes?” I smile timidly, “Well um, I’m almost embarrassed to admit this, but…” She leans forward with interest and curiosity on her frowning snout, “Well, what is it?” “I kinda uh, well, I want to know you, you know?” Her eyes widen, “OH, GOSH!” My eyes widen when I realize she probably took that the wrong way? “Oh, no! I don’t mean sex! I just wanna, you know? Sit on a couch with you and snuggle and…” “Oh, gosh!” I smile wider, “And kiss you and just be with you, if that makes any sense?” She looks at me much like a deer might see an oncoming train, “You wanna be with me?” I nod, “Didn’t I just say that?” “But not sexually?” I frown, “Well, you’re probably not comfortable with that right now, and besides, if this goes well, we’ll have the rest of our lives to do all sorts of things together!” “Oh, gosh!” I stare at her carefully… “You really didn’t think this through, did you?” She stares at me carefully once again… And slowly smiles… “Uh, relationships?” I nod, “Yeah! That!” Before looking down and widening my eyes when I realize that my chocolatey treat is still there and I never touched it! “Um, tell you what Misty! Chocolate time now, snuggle time later!” and then, levitating my spoon to my right in a pale white glow before I stare down and get to work! <*****> I stare up at the screen once more and think to myself about how all of a sudden, I became the aggressor! When did this happen and why? I thought to myself about what she said to me and how she looked there… I can’t help but smile when I think about how cute she was and I suddenly imagined what snuggling her will be like? I then looked back towards the door when I wondered if that pony was done screaming in the back? I know it has nothing to do with me, but I still thought about her sometimes… I wondered how she got there… (To be continued… )
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Chapter 4: ChangesLater that night, as I sat on all fours with my body low on the bed behind the blue unicorn, I stared at her rump and asked the obvious question, “So uh, how did we get this far again?” Izzy giggles, “Don’t you remember? You brought up sex and mentioned that you’d never done it before and I suggested that we try it, since I’ve never done it before either!” “So uh, you wanted to have sex with me?” “Well, duh! You’re staring at my ass!” “Right!” I say before widening my eyes and then taking a closer look at her marehood… “Uh, so I just lick?” “Tell you what Misty! I’ll go first and we can go nice and slow and I’ll explain to you exactly how to lick me! And then, when we’re done, you can have your turn and I’ll lick you!” I gulp, “Uh, okay, so uh, I guess I should get started then?” I then see her widen her flanks to invite me… I widen my eyes again, “Okay um, here I go!” then move forward to my task… <*****> Misty stared up at the ceiling as she lay on the bed to my right and says in a weird tone, “That was strange! Uh, definitely different…” I smile and giggle while looking up at the same ceiling, “Yeah, I had a blast! And I think you did too, given the way you were screaming?” “I uh, “I see her gaze off to the right away from me, “Y-yeah… You were a lot of fun, Izzy!” “So you wanna do this again later?” She stares up at the ceiling again and widens her eyes, “Uh, m-maybe!” “Oh, come on! My turn was shorter than yours! I want another go!” I see her snout frown, “Izzy! Is that ALL you think about?” “Come on, Misty! We just found something fun for us to do together!” She frowns, “And now we’re gonna be doing a lot of it, right?” “I don’t know? Maybe? But hey!” I turns my head right towards her and she turns to gaze into my eyes and I see those sweet innocent olive blue pupils of hers, “Whether we have sex again or not, doesn’t matter…” and smile back! “I love you baby!” She frowns, “You’re a jerk, you know that?” I giggle and nuzzle her affectionately before placing a tender loving kiss on her lips… And suddenly, feel that strange fluttering in my stomach from earlier… Then, I look up and make horn glow before the lights shut off… Then, scoot right closer to her and feel her warm bodyfor goodnight snuggles… “I love you!” She finally turns her snout towards mine to plant a loving kiss on mine… Oh, hey! There’s that fluttering again! Remember that? <*****> I sat on the bed on my belly… I smiled thinking about the wonderful time me and Izzy just had earlier this morning… She was so sweet! She made me orange juice and we both had fruit in bed together for breakfast! I had trouble concentrating as I was trying to read the floating book in front of me and I read the beginning of the same paragraph four times already! Suddenly, I see a blinding blue flash in the room! My eyes widen as my magical grip on the book drops and it falls to the floor with a thud as I scream! “AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!” Suddenly, a glowing gag appears on my mouth which is now stuffed and I can’t speak as I stare at the magenta alicorn currently staring at me from the other side of the room with a grim expression on her face, “Silence Misty! This room is now soundproof! I know the other one is in her workshop now and quite thoroughly distracted! Nopony is coming to save you, no matter how much you scream!” I turn my wide eyes to Opaline while my mouth remains gagged with the neon green glowing thingy inside of it… She smiles, “Yes, excellent!” before flattening her mouth. “So, tell me Misty! What do you know about being gay?” I blink as I don’t think she remembered my mouth was gagged? She rolls her eyes, “Oh, yes! Of course!” before adjusting them to me and forcing her horn to glow and the gag suddenly disappears! I stare blankly at this peculiar alicorn, “W-what?” “Misty, stay on point! Being gay! How did you know you were gay?” I frown, “Oh, wow Opaline! Uh, well, eventually, I just kinda realized that there was a good reason I didn’t find any stallions attractive! But well, when I look at some mares, it’s another story!” I smile faintly off to the side before staring back at her stoically, “I uh, kinda realized that I liked them instead…” before staring at Opaline. “Why are you asking me this? I thought you were throwing me away?” She sighs and looks down, “Well I was! At least at first!” before back at me. “That was the original plan! But uh, well…” I continue staring at the befuddled alicorn, “Well, what?” “Well…” Her frown begins to quiver and I can tell she can almost get this out now. “I’ve been uh, seeing somepony… “ My eyes widen, “What?” She blinks, “Well, you know how I was away from the castle a lot of times, when you were still living there?” “Yes?” “I’ve uh, been talking to somepony else… A mare in Bridlewood…” “What?” I repeat myself. She frowns and sighs again, “Well, I wasn’t always just doing things to help me take over Equestria, you know! I’ve uh,” she giggles faintly.” been meeting a friend of mine in Bridlewood and we like to have lunch together…” “Why are you telling me this?” “Because well, I like her and I’m not really sure how to proceed?” “Have you told her about this?” Her brow furrows and snout snarls, “If I had, do you believe we’d be discussing this, you sniveling twit? Now focus!” I blink, “Oh, gosh! Um, well, maybe just uh, “I smile. “tell her how you feel?” She narrows her eyes and frowns, “What? Don’t be ridiculous, you stupid foal!” I frown again, “Well, how is she ever going to know?” Her eyes normalize as I don’t think she considered that? “I uh, well…” I smile, “Love is really about communication! If you have feelings for this other mare, just tell her about it and let her know! Do it in such a way that it makes her feel special so she knows that she means something to you! Maybe try flowers or a sweet love letter?” before widening my eyes when I suddenly realize that I’m now giving the evil Queen Opaline romantic advice! She sighs and brings her eyes to the ceiling, “Ugh! Very well Misty! I shall try this, telling her my feelings with flowers and a love letter and see if that works!” before adjusting them back to me. “But it’d better Misty! For your sake!” and then, vanishing in another blinding blue flash! I frown again and think that it’s probably time for lunch? <*****> Izzy frowns at me from the other side of the red couch in the living room, “We were gonna eat alone tonight for privacy and I told you to fix dinner because it’s your turn!” I smile at her dumbly, “And I did!” “You ordered pizza!” “Well, I prepared it!” “You made a phone call!” “I did ask the specials!” Her eyes narrow, “So you did and you got a good deal!” I nod, “Exactly! See what happens when Misty is in charge?” and smile at her… “Oh wipe that goofy grin off your face!” “But I’m cute, right?” Izzy brings her eyes to me and smiles while leaning towards me for a faint nuzzle, “Well, yeah!” “Yay! I win!” I say before planting another loving kiss on her lips. Suddenly, there’s another blinding blue flash in the room before the couch! Izzy calmly turns her head right towards the magenta alicorn now standing 15 feet in front of the couch and says, “Do you mind Queen Opaline? We’re having a moment here!” Opaline frowns and turns her head to Izzy, “I-I’m your arch nemesis!” Izzy nods at her, “Well, yeah!” Opaline blinks, “I mean uh, are you not terrified?” Izzy blinks, “No… Should I be?” I narrow my eyes at the alicorn, “Why are you here?” She turns her head to me, “Well, it’s about Janice!” I ask her, “Janice? Who’s Janice?” “Janice Fetlocks! The mare I was telling you about earlier!” I frown, “Oh? She didn’t say she loved you back?” Opaline widens her blue eyes, “No Misty! It’s worse than that! She said she loves me too!” Izzy turns her head left to me and says, “Wait! So Opaline is a lesbian like us?” I turn to my love and reply, “Well, apparently!” “FOCUS MISTY!!!!” I hear my former boss scream at us! Izzy turns to Opaline and calmly replies, “We were getting to you Queenie! Settle down!” I turn to the queen and say, “Yeah! We weren’t gonna just forget about you!” Opaline frowns at me for a moment before finally saying, “Why am I here again?” I reply, “Because you’re gay now!” Izzy says, “I guess you don’t have any other homosexuals to talk to, right?” Opaline is silent… “Well uh, not really, no!” Izzy turns her head to me, then back to Opaline, and then to me again before she says, “I’m gonna make tea again, aren’t I?” I turn back to Izzy and am silent… “Make the raspberry stuff this time!” She frowns, “You like that, don’t you?” I smile at her, “Well, yeah!” <*****> “And so, I sat there with the unicorn I love and the wicked Queen Opaline, about to enjoy raspberry tea in what I’m pretty sure is a soundproof room and I can only guess that we’re about to talk about being gay?” Izzy looks me from the right side of the table, “Misty, are you narrating?” I turn my head towards her and nod before coyly saying, “Well, yeah! Kinda!” Opaline says from the left, “You are correct Misty! This room is soundproof!” “Why are you narrating?” “Just to make absolutely sure I understand this situation right!” She smiles, “Oh, well! Truth is stranger than fiction!” Opaline sighs before interjecting, “She’s not wrong!” I frown and say, “Well, right!” before turning left towards Opaline, “So, Queenie! How did you find out you’re gay?” Izzy turn her head right towards the queen, “Yeah! How do you know you’re a carpet muncher, anyway?” Opaline frowns at Izzy’s sudden crassness, “Well, if you must know, I’ve uh, I’ve… I’ve never really been attracted to stallions… “ I say, “So you’ve been attracted to mares this whole time?” Opaline stares at me, “Well, I didn’t think so?” she smiles. “The truth is, before Janice, I really didn’t believe I could love!” I calmly take a test sip of my tea before deciding it’s still too warm and set it down on the saucer before me and I stare back at the evil alicorn, “But Janice made you realize that you could?” Opaline stares at me with fire in her eyes and an evil snarl on her muzzle before lowering her rage and staring off to the side to smile faintly and say, “Well...yeah, kinda…” Izzy stares at the queen and says, “Okay, now this I gotta hear!” And so, the wicked Queen Opaline began to tell us the story about how love started to change her life… (To be continued…) Author's Note I like the way I did this chapter because it both gives a rational explanation for Opaline's homophobia earlier and we see Misty growing a backbone as love begins to empower her... We also see the power of love transforming Opaline as well...
Chapter 5: Evolution“This raspberry tea is delightful! I can see why you enjoy it so much!” I say to the strange olive blue unicorn on the other side of the tea table. Izzy at my left, looks at me and smiles, “Yeah, I guess my baby does have good taste!” I frown at the darker blue unicorn, “Baby? I suppose that’s not the only term of endearment you use?” “Not at all, silly! I like calling her sweetie and honey and sugar dumpling and buttercup and…” I widen my eyes, “I get it! You have many affectionate things you call her!” Misty stares at me from the other side of the table, “Well, that’s just part of it! Now that she knows you like her, you’ll need to occasionally let her know you’re still interested!” Izzy adds, “Not too much though!” Misty says, “Yeah, you don’t wanna be too clingy!” I narrow my eyes at the olive unicorn, “Well, how much is too much, though?” Misty frowns, “How would I know? I’ve never been in a relationship before!” Izzy nods, “Yeah, me neither!” At this point, I’ve had about enough… I can feel my lips trembling before I burst at the two of them, “SO WHY AM I EVEN TALKING TO YOU TWO?” Izzy smiles, “Because you’re gay now!” Misty nods, “Yeah, we’re all inexperienced homosexuals here, Opaline! We can help each other out!” I finally stare at the twit across the table from me and furrow my brow, “Why would I ever want support from you?” Izzy calmly says, “Because you’re gay and don’t know how to deal with it.” Misty nods and says, “Yeah, besides! I don’t think we’ve ever just you know, talked like this?” “What do you mean, worm?” Misty smiles, “Just uh, you know? Friendly and chatting over tea!” Izzy adds, “About being gay!” Misty says, “And liking mares!” Izzy says, “And kissing mares!” Misty says, “And doing other things with mares!” Izzy finally says, “Like…” I cut her off! “That’s okay, Izzy! We’re not talking about that here and now!” Misty smiles wider, “But it will come up, won’t it?” Izzy turns to me, smiles, and says, “Yeah! I wanna talk about sex with Queen Opaline!” I narrow my eyes at the two grinning unicorns and am silent… “You two are enjoying this, aren’t you?” Izzy says, “Maybe a little?” Misty adds, “Yeah, kinda!” I roll my eyes, “FINE! We can talk of lesbian sex, if you insist!” Izzy’s mouth normalizes, “That was surprisingly easy?” Misty’s does as well, “Right? I was expecting more resistance!” I stare at them, “FINE! We WON’T discuss lesbian sex then!” Izzy replies, “That’s fine too!” Misty adds, “Yeah, we were just messing with you!” I narrow my eyes at them… “Okay, I’ll just get on with it already!” before staring at the blue unicorn, “Izzy! How did you find out you were gay?” before looking at my sky-blue mug of piping hot red tea and floating it up to my mouth for a cautious sip… Izzy’s eyes widen, “Oh, I’m not gay-gay! I’m bisexual! I could be with a stallion too! Um, if I really wanted to!” “But you’re with a mare now?” Izzy frowns, “Unless there’s something Misty isn’t telling me?” Misty stares at me, “Well, I actually am completely gay! I have zero interest in stallions!” I adjust my eyes to Misty, “Well, why not? Do they not entice you?” Misty frowns, “Well, not really? I mean, I don’t hate them! I just don’t like them in that way, you know?” Izzy stares at me and nods, “Yeah I mean, Misty does just fine with Hitch!” “Even though I don’t really find him attractive!” Izzy frowns at me, “Why Opaline? Do you find stallions attractive?” I arch my mouth down at her as well, “I don’t believe so? At least, that’s never happened before?” “Have you ever found any other mares attractive? Aside from Janice at lunch?” Misty adds, “Yeah! I mean, is this the first time ever in the history of anything, or were there other mares?” I stare at the two curious unicorns at the table with me and finally answer, “Well, if you must know, there was one…” Misty asks, “And she was a mare?” I stare at them as they gaze back with their wide eyes… I eventually sigh and reply, “Well, yes… I liked spending time with her and we were close…” Misty asks, “But what happened?” “Well, I tried to take over Equestria! And when I failed, they banished me! And well, I never saw her again…” Izzy asks, “But wait! You said you never had love before Janice earlier!” I sigh, “Well, to be honest, I don’t really like to think about what happened between me and Ivanna Hoofler…” Izzy frowns, “So you chose to just what then? Block it out? Pretend it never happened?” I sigh again, “Well...yes, basically…” Misty’s eyes widen, “Oh, wow! Opaline is suppressing memories!” Izzy adds, “And her gayness!” Misty says, “Well, not after today!” Izzy smiles, “Yeah, Opaline! Ready to be openly homosexual?” I frown at the obstinate blue unicorn, “What? Who would I be openly gay to, precisely? It’s just me! Without Misty, I am alone!” Izzy says, “Well, you got Janice!” Misty says, “Yeah, Opaline! Another mare to be gay with! Isn’t that great!” I narrow my eyes for the umpteenth time and frown at these two annoying ponies, “I never really wanted to be gay…” Izzy says, “Yeah, nopony does!” Misty adds, “We don’t really get a choice!” … “And I love Janice?” Izzy frowns, “Probably” Misty says, “Well, that’s what you say?” Izzy asks me, “How did you meet her, anyway?” I smile faintly, “Well, I was at a bookstore in Bridlewood!” Izzy says, “The Bridlewood Bookstore!” I nod, “Well, yes! It would have to be that one, wouldn’t it?” “Well, it’s the only bookstore in Bridlewood?” I smile wider and suppress a chuckle, “Right! Well, anyway, I was shopping there one day, because I needed a specific manuscript for my collection!” Misty frowns, “Collection?” I stare down at the weakling, “Yes! I collect vintage books!” Misty’s eyes widen, “You do?” My view narrows yet again, “Yes!” before normalizing, “Anyway, I wanted a specific book and I had tracked it down to that particular store! And they didn’t have it by the time I got there!” Izzy’s view increases, “Oh, wow! Bummer!” I smile at the fluffy blue unicorn, “Quite!” Misty says, “But you found Janice?” I nod at the coward, “Indeed! She’s the cashier and helped me search ALL THROUGHOUT the store! We never found it! But… well, we talked a bit…” Misty asks, “About what?” “Well, she asked me about the weather at first! I said I didn’t particularly have a preference, since well, I haven’t been in Bridlewood and know nothing of the weather there!” Izzy nods, “Well, when did you start to like her?” I look at the red eyed equine and frown, “Honestly, I don’t know? I mean, once I said that, she mentioned that she didn’t care either! We had a small chuckle over it and well, I then looked into those entrancing green eyes of hers…” Izzy coos, “AWWWW! Opaline has a crush!” I frown, “Didn’t I already mention that?” Misty nods, “You did! But uh, well, the only thing that matters now is that you like her and she likes you, right?” I nod at the inferior, “Yes, I would think so?” “Right, so what are you gonna do now?” “I...I don’t know, okay? I mean, I’ve been alone more or less, my whole life and now… Now there’s this!” Misty smiles, “Well, maybe talk to her about it?” Izzy adds, “Yeah! I mean, there’s supposed to be two parts to this relationship, right?” I sigh, “Well, right! But that’s not the only problem!” Izzy frowns, “Oh? Well, what’s wrong?” I spread my wings and say, “I have these, remember?” Misty says, “Oh! Well, again, love is really about honesty! If I were you, I’d let her know about that pretty early on!” Izzy nods, “Well, right! I mean, you’re an alicorn pretending to be a unicorn and that’s kinda false advertising, you know?” I stare at the fluffy one, “Well, I know that! But what I mean is, how do I even bring that up? It’s not like I can just say, ‘Oh, by the way! I’m an actually an alicorn and have wings!’” Misty nods, “Well, right! But what I mean is, be sure to mention that early on, you know? Don’t lead her on and make her think you’re something that you’re not!” Izzy sees Misty say this before turning her head back right towards me, “Yeah, I would think that that would be the moral thing to do?” I nod at the sniveling wretch, “Well, yes! Of course!” before frowning when I suddenly wonder when I began to care about morality? Izzy smiles and nods, “Right! So to recap: you’re gay now! You need to let Janice Fetlocks know you’re an alicorn! And love is causing you to care now!” I frown at this obstinance! “What? I don’t care!” Izzy smiles wider, “But you care about Janice!” Misty smiles, giggles, and says in a cutesy voice, “Opaline loves Janice!” I grimace at this, “Shut up!” and take a slow, but thorough sip of my tea… It actually is quite tasty! Misty and Izzy each take good sips for themselves as well… I set my tea back down in the saucer before realizing that I need to say something now and gain control over this conversation again! “Very well then! I shall show her my wings and let her know my true form! But if I have any problems!” Izzy nods, “You can count on us queenie!” Misty smiles, “We got your flanks!” I smile, “Thank you so much!” Izzy replies, “Hey, no problem queenie! You want a hug?” “Well, I don’t know if uh…” Misty suddenly says, “Let’s hug Opaline!” before getting off her chair to the right and hurriedly trotting around the table towards me!” “Wait!” Izzy shouts, “I wanna hug Opaline too!” and gets off her chair and trots right to me to grasp me in her forehooves!” “EEP!” I squeal!” Misty smiles and hugs me from the other side… So that’s how I ended up in a unicorn-only group hug with two ponies I hate! <*****> Okay, I’ll admit that after I saw the fire alicorn talk about love, I kinda lost interest and took a little nap on the couch behind me… But now, I was staring at the screen again and I saw an olive green unicorn with a bright red mane cuddling me! I definitely don’t wanna miss this! I stare at her from behind as I held her there on the green couch in the foyer… She likes to be the little spoon! “I love you so much Misty!” She fidgets slightly in my hooves and says, “Thank you so much for loving me back Izzy!” I smile, “Well, I couldn’t just say no! You looked so cute there!” “Stop it!” Misty says before fidgeting! “But you are cute!” “Am not! You’re cute!” “You’re cuter than me!” “Am not!” “Are so!” She’s silent and sinks further into my hooves to snuggle me with her back, “I don’t want tonight to end…” “Okay baby… Let’s just snuggle and talk for as long as we can then, and we can eventually pass out together?” I somehow just know she’s smiling right now, “Okay Izzy… I’d like that…” <*****> I open my eyes and see a magenta alicorn with a white mane standing there in front of the couch as I continue to hold the sleeping olive green unicorn in my forehooves… Opaline looks at me with her azure stare and lowly says, “What if I told you that I and Sunny are not the only two alicorns in Equestria?” (To be continued… )
Chapter 6: The Meeting: part 1I stood there about to tell the idiot blue unicorn about Janice’s true identity, when she widens her eyes and says, “Uh, that sounds interesting, but could you come back later please? My Misty Bear and I wanna snuggle just a bit more!” I smile when I think about all of the nice hugs me and my new marefriend have had and whisper back, “Very well! I shall come back in an hour!” before enveloping my body in a bright blue light to teleport back to her house! As the light encased me, I suddenly began to wonder when I began to care about others and their wishes? As the light faded, I found myself in Janice’s living room, once again… I call out, “Janice? Are you still here?” And then, I trotted towards the back hallway as I began to think about what happened between me and Izzy… I know what it’s like to love now… And I wanted to allow that for Izzy… I think to myself as I trot towards her bedroom in the back… I use my magick to open the door at the back right and peer in to see a sleeping blue alicorn with a sky-blue coat and a wispy white mane, draped over her pillow as she snoozed on the bed… I could see how the blankets were raised with her wings underneath and how peaceful she looked… Honestly, she looked really cute right then! I smile when I think of Izzy snuggling her love… I then lower it as I glare at the other pony and I begin to wonder what I can get away with? <*****> I open my eyes to feel hooves over my body and I feel a distinct and comforting warmth coming from behind me… I somehow just know this is Opaline… I smile when I think about how she finally worked up the courage to snuggle me… She was so stand-offish when she first learned who I was! “Un!” I hear her grunt from behind me! “I see you’re braver now, Opaline!” I say with a grin on my face! Her hooves lighten their hold on me as she asks, “This isn’t clingy is it?” “Shut up and hold me!” I tell her! “I-I’m sorry…” My smile lowers, “For what?” I ask her. “It’s just that well, when you’ve been alive for several millennia and haven’t really known love…” I furrow my brow, “And that’s exactly why you need to be holding me!” “W-what?” I smile again as I explain to the fire alicorn, “You weren’t loved before! But now you are and you need to be soaking that up!” while hoping she’ll just buy it and hold me already! I feel her hooves coming off of me! “What are you doing Opaline?” “I-I’m sorry! I don’t think this is right…” I then sternly say in a commanding voice, “Opaline, that’s foolish! If you want to hold me and love me, you’re absolutely entitled to! Now put your hooves back over me!” I patiently wait… And I soon feel hooves going over my body again and I grin widely at my victory… <*****> “Any idea what that was about?” I hear the voice say on the speaker… “No idea! It was about Janice though! But uh, well… “ “We couldn’t right then! We had Misty Bear, remember?” “Wait! When did we start calling her Misty Bear?” I stare at the screen thinking that might be more interesting… <*****> I playfully nuzzle the back of her neck… I don’t know why, but doing that always makes me feel good! “Unn…” I hear her groan in front of me, still held in my hooves… I close my eyes and snuggle into her to feel her warm body near mine… “What time is it?” “Time for you to get a watch!” I say before snickering. “I’m serious! We need to check up on Opaline!” “Oh, she’s fine! She was just here!” “What? Why didn’t you wake me?” I open my eyes and frown, “Was I supposed to? Besides, you looked so cute there, snuggling me!” “Where is she now?” “Don’t know! She teleported!” Misty is silent for a moment… It finally dawns on me what’s going on, “You’re not her servant anymore, you know?” She sighs, “Well, I know that! Of course! It’s just that well, I wanted to make sure she was okay… ‘ “You care about Opaline?” Misty is silent… “Well, yeah! I uh, I guess I do? It’s just that, she’s been alone her whole life!” “And now she has something like what we have?” She snuggles tighter to me, “Well, I just think she wouldn’t be so mean all the time if she just, well, had somepony to love, you know?” “Like we do!” “Well, yeah!” I hold her tighter, “So we should probably do our best to make sure this relationship works out then? I mean, if she’s not mean anymore, then she won’t pose a threat to Equestria!” Misty suddenly says, “Right! We need to get Opaline laid so she’ll be nice and won’t try to take over Equestria!” “MISTY! That’s pretty blunt!” I say, surprised it’s me of all ponies saying this to her! “But I’m right!” She says before nodding her head! I can’t help but chuckle and shake my head, “Alright, fine Misty! We’ll make sure Opaline falls in love! For the good of Equestria!” Suddenly, I hear a feminine voice from behind the green couch where we’re currently snuggling, “I hope I’m not interrupting anything?” I hold Misty tightly for one final squeeze! “That’s okay! I was just wrapping up!” “EEP!” Misty cutely yelps! Suddenly, I see a sky-blue alicorn step around the chair on the right… She has a sky-blue coat and seems to stare deep into my soul with her green eyes. I note her wispy white mane and tail although her wings are almost white, but still blue I think? She smiles at me, “Permit me to introduce myself! I’m Janice!” I blink with my neck craned her way and say, “I thought you were a unicorn?” She rolls her eyes, “Yes! You and all of Bridlewood! I’ve seen you before! Your name is Izzy and you used to be the weird unicorn near the edge of town!” I nod, “Yup! That’s me! You’ve been in Bridlewood before!” Misty finally says, “W-wait! You’re also an alicorn?” She smiles wider, “Well, yes! You see, I’ve been following Opaline to figure out where she goes and that led me here, with you!” I frown, “You don’t really seem to trust Opaline that much?” She frowns, “Was I not supposed to do that? I’ve never been in a relationship before!” Misty finally chimes in loudly, “Lot of that going around!” I say, “If you’re an alicorn, why haven’t we heard of you?” Her mouth normalizes, “Well, probably because I was disguising myself as a unicorn?” I giggle at my silliness! “Oh, yeah! That makes sense! I mean, if there’s another unicorn in Bridlewood, we’re not gonna hear about it!” Misty says, “Izzy! You know what this means, right?” I look down, “Tea?” I look down at her, “You seem to like drinking tea?” “Raspberries!” She happily says! “I’m getting kinda tired of that, though!” “Please!” She retorts cutely! I smile and giggle, “Alright, fine! One last time! But I’m making honey chai next time!” She vibrates, “Yay!” <*****> I see Izzy on my right asking Janice the obvious question, “What happened to Opaline? I figured she’d be with you?” The blue alicorn sighs and stares at me with those striking green eyes of hers, “Well, that’s the thing! She wasn’t there when I woke up and I assumed she’d be here with you!” “But she’s not!” Izzy says before taking a cautious sip of her tea… I take that as a sign and take a slow gentle sip myself… This stuff is really yummy! Izzy asks, “So wait! You fell asleep with Opaline and then you woke up and she was gone?” She nods, “Well, right!” she sighs again. “Permit me to introduce myself! My name is Terramore and I am a water alicorn!” I blink, “Whoa! Water alicorn? Uh, where did you come from, anyway?” She sighs, “A land far to the south! Past a lot of jungles, what used to be a town I think, and a lot of ocean!” “You know the route?” “I did just travel it, you know?” “How do you know you’re a water alicorn?” She sighs, rolls her eyes, and suddenly disappears and a mist suddenly surrounds us as we see thickclouds overhead near the ceiling! I shout, “I believe you! Just don’t make it rain!” Suddenly, the mist disappears and we once again see her sitting at the chair in front of Izzy, with a smile on her snout! “I won't!” I stare at her intently, “Okay, but, why did you go to Bridlewood?” She blinks, “Well, I’ve never been to Equestria and wanted to explore!” “Why Equestria?” She stares at me intently, “Do you have any idea how boring eternal life is? I wanted to see what was out there! And well, that’s when I found this place!” “So how did you get a job in Bridlewood?” “It’s easy to work in a bookstore when you’re the only pony for miles who understands the Pony Decimal System!” I smile, “I can imagine!” before adjusting my gaze to get closer, “So, how did you fall in love with Opaline, anyway?” Izzy smiles and nods, “Yeah! I wanna hear about that!” She smiles before taking a sip of her tea… She lightly sets down the cup on her saucer and says, “Oh, that is tasty! Uh, “she adjusts her gaze to Izzy. “truth be told, I never really thought anypony could make me happy until she started talking to me!” “AWWWW!” I faun over her. “What was the first thing she said?” Her eyes widen, “Well, at first, she was all business and asked about a first edition of Fillies to Mares! Why, I haven’t seen one in years, but well, I just wanted to help her look…” Izzy says, “That must be because you didn’t want her to go so fast?” Her snout frowns while her eyes widen, “I don’t know? I guess?” I say, “Well, it’s obvious! You knew you didn’t have the book, but you searched anyway, so she wouldn’t go!” before leaning closer with a smile on my face. “So, what made you want her to stay?” She takes another tentative sip from her tea and I can tell by this point that she’s just stalling, before gently setting it down again, “Well, I’m not sure? There was something about her?” before frowning and turning her eyes skyward. “Was she forceful or mean to you at all?” She blinks, normalizes her face, and stares at me, “Um, no! Not that I remember?” “So, you got nice Opaline?” She frowns again, “Nice Opaline?” Izzy says, “Well, what Misty Bear here means is, she was really evil and cruel before!” I say, “But she was nice to you!” Izzy adds, “Which can only mean that she also likes you!” She blinks again, “From the very beginning?” I nod, “Well, yeah!” Without warning, everypony in the room hears a haughty feminine voice calling out, “Izzy? Misty? Are you here?” I look at Izzy, “I’ll deal with Opaline! You brew another tea!” She stares back, “Right!” before looking at Terramore, “Stop drinking your tea now, Terry! I need to make some more!” (To be continued…)
Chapter 7: The Meeting: Part 2 The Trap“Come in!” I hear the idiot blue unicorn scream from the other room. I bring my eyes to the ceiling, “Ugh! Finally!” before blankly staring at the red wooden door and using my magick to make it swing inward to the right and I trot in triumphantly to see Izzy smiling at me from the far side of the table, I see the back of a reddish mane in the chair nearest to me, and I see Terramore, of all ponies on the left side of the table! I stop immediately after trotting in and turn my neck to her in astonishment, “Terramore! What are you doing here?” Izzy says something to draw my attention, “Hey, Queenie! Come on in and sit to the other side of Terramore! We’ve been waiting for you!” Terramore breaks from her trance to stare left at Izzy, “We have? I thought it was supposed to be just us?” Izzy turns her head right to look at the blue alicorn, “Well, she was gonna show up sooner or later, anyway, right? What better time than now?” Terramore responds, “Uh, how about tomorrow instead? I like tomorrow!” and nods. Izzy smiles and giggles, “No!” before turning towards me, “Come on in Opaline! I made you raspberry tea!” I finally just sigh and trot over to the right side of the table, opposite to Terramore before using my magick to pull out a chair and sit down on my haunches while starring at the blue alicorn across the table, who now smiles at me nervously... I finally smile back and say say, “Hello Terramore!” before suddenly thinking that that might not be the best opener? She smiles nervously at me, “H-hi Opaline!” Suddenly, I hear Izzy say, “AWW! You two are cute!” Terramore finally turns her head right to stare at me with enormous green eyes, “Uh, Opaline! Fancy seeing you here! I’ve known Izzy and Misty for years!” I frown at the smiling alicorn as I think it’s curious that Misty never mentioned a blue unicorn friend coming by the Brighthouse! “Really? Is that so?” She blinks and grins wider, “Well, yeah!” I see Izzy turn her head towards the sky-blue alicorn and whisper the word, “Honesty!” Her muzzle opens to sigh and she says, “W-well, no… Not really… I uh, found out about this place when I followed you…” she bares her teeth at me! “Surprise!” My eyes widen, “What? You followed me? Why?” She sighs and turns her eyes down before raising them back up to me, “Well, I wanted to learn more about you!” and blinks, “I mean, I’ve never been in love before and I wanted to know about you! Where you went! What you did! And that’s when I met these ponies!” Izzy turns her head to me and stares with big red eyes, “Um, hi!” I think that I don’t like this before turning to stare at Izzy and saying, “Okay! I just found out she followed me without my knowledge! Now what?” Izzy blinks, “How would I know! Uh,” she turns back right to Terramore, “You know, you really shouldn’t follow and spy on your lover, right Terramore?” She blinks and widens her eyes at me, “I shouldn’t? Oh, dear! Uh, I’m sorry!” I can already tell I have my partner at a disadvantage… But I also know she’s just as clueless as I when it comes to this sort of thing… I think I should let her go? I stare directly into her eyes, “It’s okay, sweetie…” I smile, “I mean, you just wanted to find out more about me, right?” She smiles at me nervously, “U-um, yeah!” I nod, “Well, right! But for the record, if you EVER want to know anything, simply ask, alright?” “Alright!” I smile, “I mean, the assumption is that I’d have no reason to lie to you, yes?” Her mouth flattens and her verdant eyes widen at me, “Of course!” I nod, “Right!” before sighing, “Okay! I guess I’m here for tea now? Now what?” Izzy looks up at me, “Now, we talk about you two! What’s going on? How you been?” I look at the blue unicorn and frown, “Well, we literally just got together yesterday?” Terramore stares forward and says blankly, “Opaline is an amazing partner! I just can’t believe how caring and sympathetic she can be and I just love talking to her!” This takes me off guard and I stare at the blue alicorn and squint my eyes as I try to think of what to say to that? Izzy stares at me while Misty continues looking onward, “Great! So Queenie! How do you feel about Terry here?” I stare at the smiling blue moron while a green unicorn at my left and a lighter blue alicorn at my front both look at me intently. I turn to stare at Terramore with wide eyes, hoping I don’t look like I’m caught? “Um, Terramore! Yes!” I adjust my gaze to her and smile, although I still have no idea what I’m going to say? “I’ll admit, being with somepony else and not being alone is very interesting, to say the least… I clear my throat! “Ahem, I feel as if something has started here, but I know not what?” before wondering where all those words came from? “And how do you feel about me?” The water alicorn asks. I widen my eyes all the way, “Did I not just say that I loved you?” Izzy says, “Well, not really? You kinda skirted around that, actually!” Misty adds, “Yeah, it’s almost like it’s hard for you to admit?” I say to Terramore, “No, it’s not! I love you!” She giggles and moves her snout to mine for a playful nuzzle, “Oh, now you can admit it, right?” “I admitted it the whole time!” Misty says, “Opaline is cute when she’s in denial!” Izzy adds, “Totally!” I scream at them, “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!” before teleporting out of the room! <*****> I just see the fire alicorn vanish in front of me in a blinding flash of light as I blink and I also notice Misty shielding her eyes with her left forehoof and saying, “Whoa!” I blink as Izzy says from my left, “Whoa! We teased Opaline and she teleported out! I don’t think she’s used to that?” I look at the two unicorns, “Do either of you know where Opaline lives?” Misty looks at me, “Well uh, I sorta do?” I turn my head right towards the green pony and stare at her intently, “Tell me Misty, what do you know?” She smiles nervously at me… <*****> I sit quietly at my chair and think about what happened at that tea party… I think about how I love Terramore and suddenly wonder what she must think after I did that! I frown when I think to myself that I’ll probably need to make this up to her somehow? I suddenly wonder when other ponies’ feelings began to enter into my considerations? And then, I hear a loud WOOSH noise coming from the kitchen down the hall! I widen my eyes when I suddenly realize Terramore probably teleported them in! <*****> I sigh and suddenly wonder why I’m here? “Misty! Why are we in the kitchen?” I say as I glance around the messy room, with it’s many half-open cabinets and various dirty pots, pans, dishes, and bowls near the sink… I hear the green unicorn at my back left say, “Well, I guess I’m hungry and was just thinking I probably want a snack?” I grimace at this. My love life is on the brink, and she’s worried about that! Then I frown when I wonder when I began to have a love life? “Okay, but where is Opaline usually?” Misty replies, “Well, she’s normally either in the study or in her throne room?” “Lead on!” I reply! “Yes ma’am!” Misty says before walking ahead of me and around the large wooden table in the cluttered kitchen among the many unwashed pots and pans. I suddenly wonder if anypony has been here in a while? She trots to the door and uses her magick to open it before trotting out into the hallway and I follow her with Izzy behind me. She guides me to the end of the hallway past several heavy looking wooden doors and opens the one in the far end with her magick to trot forward while saying, “This is the study!” I follow her and Izzy walks in behind me and starts trotting her way to my left as we all enter the expansive room with bookcases lining the walls and many ancient looking volumes lining the shelves. I glance around and don’t see many cobwebs and this makes me think that Opaline is likely well-read? I stare at the green unicorn, “Okay, she’s not here! Where’s the throne room?” Misty looks at me, “You really want to find her, don’t you?” “Wellof course! I love her!” Misty smiles, “Right! I still think it’s sweet that you helped her look for a book that wasn’t there just so she wouldn’t leave so fast!” “I…” I stare off to the left, “don’t know why I did that?” “Isn’t it obvious? You felt like you should talk to her some more, and so you did! There’s nothing wrong with that!” I stare back at her, “I wanted to, didn’t I?” “Why else would you do it?” “I don’t know?” Izzy finally speaks up from my side, “Terramore, it’s only natural to want to be loved and to want attention?” I turn my neck left to face her, “It is?” She smiles and nods at me, “Of course! I mean, you’re probably like her in that you’re alone all the time, right?” I frown, “Maybe?” She giggles, “Well, don’t you see? You wanted that from her because you haven’t had that in a long time!” My eyes widen, “I had that at some point?” She smiles widely and her red eyes disappear under their lids, “Um, I don’t know!” before opening them back to me, “But I do know that what you have here is special… I don’t think you should give that up?? I glance at the unicorn curiously, “Am I not here, trying to find her again?” She nods, “Right! Because you care about Opaline and want to make sure she’s okay!” “Of course! Yes! I care about Opaline! That’s right!” I say before nodding my head. I suddenly see a magenta alicorn come into view just to my left as I stare further into the study, “And I care about you too Terramore!” I turn my neck further right to face Opaline, “I love you!” “I love you too!” “Let’s never fight again!” Her eyes widen, “We were fighting?” I frown, “I’m uh, actually not sure?” as I suddenly wonder just how more awkward this can get? Izzy must’ve sensed this, “Uh, that doesn’t matter! You two love each other, right?” I widen my eyes to the other alicorn, “Of course!” While Opaline mutters, “I think so?” Izzy continues, “So what more do you need?” “I don’t know?” Opaline stares at me with enormous blue eyes, “Me neither? Um, Equestrian domination? Maybe?” I stare at her blankly for a moment before finally just admitting, “We’re idiots, you know that?” Opaline stares back at me, expressionless as well… She finally manages to utter, “Yeah, probably?” Another moment passes before I can’t help myself as I start to crack a smile and barely suppress giggles from my throat… Opaline grimaces before her snout begins to grin on it’s own and she breaks out into chuckles herself… I can only say loudly, “YEAH! WE’RE A COUPLE OF STUPID ALICORNS IN LOVE!” as everypony in the room busts out laughing! (To be continued…)
Chapter 8: Paradigm ShiftI hear the blue unicorn finally call to me from the tea room, “Alright Queenie! We’re ready for you!” I blankly stare at the red wooden door before using my magick to make it swing inward to the right and I trot in cautiously to see Izzy smiling at me from the far side of the table, I see the back of a reddish mane in the chair nearest to me, and I see Terramore, of all ponies on the left side of the table! I stare with a frown on my muzzle and widen my eyes, “Terramore! What are you doing here?” She turns her head right to stare at me with enormous green eyes, “Uh, Opaline! Fancy seeing you here! I’ve known Izzy and Misty for years!” before smiling nervously… I frown at the beaming light blue alicorn as I think it’s curious that Misty would never mention a different blue unicorn friend coming by the Brighthouse! “Really? Is that so?” She blinks and grins wider, “Well, yeah!” I see Izzy turn her head towards the sky-blue alicorn and whisper the word, “Honesty!” Her muzzle opens to sigh and she says, “W-well, no… Not really… I uh, found out about this place when I followed you… “as her shoulders lower in resignation. My eyes widen, “What? You followed me? Why?” She sighs and turns her eyes down before raising them back up to me, “Well, I wanted to learn more about you!” and blinks, “I mean, I’ve never been in love before and I wanted to know more about the things you do! Where you went! Who you talked to!” her eyes widen. “And that’s when I met these ponies!” Izzy turns her head to me and stares with big red eyes, “Um, hi!” I grimace at this audacity! “Terramore! How dare you follow me!” She gulps and continues smiling like an idiot, “I love you Opaline and I want to know more about you!” I sigh at this stupidity, “You could just ask?” She blinks, “Um, okay! How has your day been?” I’ll admit, that question caught me off guard! “Um, well, it was going pretty good until my love told me that she’s spying on me!” Misty must sense the tension now as she stares at me and calmly interjects, “Opaline, it’s not the worst thing ever! I mean, it’s not like she wanted to hurt you or anything!” Terramore stares at me, “Well, right! I just wasn’t aware there were rules for this sort of thing, yes? Um, except no eye gouging!” and nods. “We definitely don’t want any eye gouging!” At that point, I can’t explain it, but something shifted inside me and I lowered my grimace before saying, “Terramore! You want to know more about me?” Her eyes widen, and she frowns before nodding, “Uh huh! Well, yeah!” her eyes point at me. “Yes! I want to know more about you Opaline!” I can’t help but smile at the panicking baby blue alicorn and say, “Then you shall learn, ALL THERE IS TO KNOW about me!” and then I force both of us to teleport back to my castle! <*****> I see the magenta alicorn standing near the doorway vanish in a bright white flash and I turn my head back right to see that Terramore is also gone! “Uh, you think they went to go talk?” “I hope so?” Misty says to me from the other side of the table with enormous green eyes… But uh, all that relationship talking has me beat! I was kinda hoping we could snuggle and nap together?” before smiling at me, almost as nervous as Terramore was a moment ago… I turned my gaze to the green unicorn as my mind just processes this… This other unicorn that I love, wants to snuggle me and be with me while we rest… Why does that sound like the best thing ever? I smile back, “Sure Misty Bear!” <*****> Um, I don’t know how long I’ve been in here? There’s the florescent lights above, but they don’t bother me so much anymore… I blink as the white jacket encases me and holds my forelegs around my body… I look around the pale blue room… It’s about 12 by 12 feet I’d say and the padded walls are a baby blue color… I think it’s supposed to be a comforting color, but it only just makes me angry that they put me here earlier… I keep thinking about what it was like earlier… Pain! Misery! Despair! No light or love, anywhere! I keep thinking about that and how this whole Misty thing is just going to get Izzy hurt later! Uh, Izzy is there now! I’m who I was earlier! Or uh, maybe I should say that I used to be Izzy? I’m not sure anymore? I know I’m not in charge anymore! That’s for sure! Um, where was I? Oh, yeah! Misty is bad news and love fucking sucks! YES! That! Wait! Am I hearing hoofsteps? Uh, maybe? It’s hard to tell when my mind wanders sometimes… There’s not really much to do in here! <*****> “Mmmmmmm…” I smile in snuggly bliss while cuddling the wonderful blue pony holding me from behind… “What time is it?” “Time to snuggle!” The voice behind me happily replies before I feel the legs going over my body tighten in a sweet warm embrace! “I love you Izzy!” Izzy is silent, but continues to lovingly hold me… “Izzy! Are you okay?” <*****> I trot down the stone hallway… Its dimly lit by I don’t know what and it has a pale blue glow to the walls… Similar to the padding in the room where I was trotting… I don’t hear her screaming right now and I’m not sure if she’s awake? I lower my muzzle as I trot because one thing is certain, I do know it’s time to end this… I turn right to trot down the pale blue corridor, and soon go past two more doors before stopping and turning right to stare at a darker blue door in front of me… It is steel and has a small porthole where I can see the blue pony inside with her disheveled mane going over her red eyes as she stares around the room with a deranged glint in them… I gulp and make the knob on the right side of the door glow blue with my magick and it soon turns… I know it can be opened from the outside… * The door soon turns inward towards the left to show me the full padded baby blue room with the mad blue pony there, locked in her straight jacket and now staring at me directly with her large red eyes… “What do YOU want?” I say calmly to the other pony, “I don’t want to fight you… “ She frowns and says back sardonically, “Kinda late for that, don’t you think?” before blowing the lock of blue hair off her muzzle and after it flies to the right of her face, says, “What are you here for, anyway?” “I’m here to give you what you need…” Her eyes widen, “What?” I trot forward towards her and she scoots back with her hind legs until she’s at the soft cushy wall behind her and says in a panicked expression, “Stop! Don’t get closer!” as her wild mane flies around her head and she looks this way and that for some escape… I take two more paces before lovingly embracing her in my forehooves… She shivers, “W-what?” “I’m sorry… I’m so sorry… “I honestly say to the quivering pony, currently inside my hooves as a tear falls from my right eye… Her body soon relaxes… “What are you doing?” “I’m giving you the love, attention, and support you needed all along… “ <*****> I can feel the warmth of the green unicorn currently encased in my forehooves… I hold her tightly and lovingly to my body… “I love you!” I say softly… “I love you too!” Misty replies… Suddenly, I widen my eyes when I feel something shift deep within my mind… “Misty… I’m going to let go of you and I need you to face me, okay?” “Um, okay?” She says uneasily before moving forward after I release my grasp and she turns her body around to stare at me with those enormous green eyes of hers… “What’s up?” I smile at my love because only then did I finally see her… Her, this wonderful pony that I fell in love with in front of me… She blinks confused, “Izzy? Are you okay?” I move my snout to hers for a passionate, deep, loving kiss as I embrace her wholeheartedly within my hooves… Her eyes widen and I notice their faint glint in the moonlight from my window as I feel her warm body near mine and while I don’t think I’ll ever be able to quite explain it, it just feels like home whenever I’m inside her hooves now… I move my face away from hers to see her smiling face as I whisper, “I love you!” She playfully nuzzles my snout and says back, “I love you too!” “I-you know, I think this is just what I needed?” Her eyes widen in the darkness, “What do you mean?” I sigh again, “I mean, I didn’t think I believed in love and yet, um, here you are!” I see her muzzle form a half-smile, “Surprise!” I snicker at the silly green pony, “Yeah… Hi new partner!” She nuzzles me affectionately before another passionate kiss… <*****> My eyes go wide as I get a certain feeling that emotions somewhere I have shifted? I say to the magenta alicorn, “So now I know your past and why you turned to evil… “ She sighs, and nods her head from the other side of the ancient wooden table with it’s many gnarls and twists in the wood, “Yes! The truth was, they never truly loved or acknowledged me!” “And now I am?” She blinks as she processes this, “Well, yes! I believe so, Terramore!” I lean forward as I want to know more, “Okay but uh, are you still mad?” I hear her sigh, “Well, if I’m being honest, I’m confused… “ I frown, “What do you mean?” “I mean, all this time… I lived in a world without love and if I’m being honest, it all seemed so fake an unreal to me… And yet, here you are!” I smile, “Well uh, now you know what it’s like to be loved!” (To be continued… ) Author's Note *Psychologically speaking, this is an important detail.
Chapter 10: Priority ShiftSo, what happened? I sat at my desk, listening to the chatter on my radio… “Something’s changed! The emotions aren’t responding the same!” “Y-yeah! I know! It’s like it just, opened up! Freaking blossomed!” “What?” I stared at the screen to see what Izzy’s eyes were seeing… I just saw peaceful blackness… Odd! It says she’s awake here, but she’s just laying there, with her eyes shut... The emotions are different now… I don’t recognize this… I stared back at the screen right as she finally opened her eyes to the sleeping bluish-green unicorn held in the hooves… “Wait! She’s beginning to stir… “ <*****> Well, it didn’t feel right to just teleport in the middle of their house, and so I phased back into reality in front of the Crystal Brighthouse instead! Then, I heard screaming! It sounded like Misty, so I widen my eyes and look up at the window near where Misty and Izzy were staying before phasing out of reality yet again! <*****> I widen my eyes and smile ecstatically as I feel the wonderful sensations of Izzy’s tongue between my hind legs! Suddenly, I see a blinding flash that makes me squint my eyes and my grin lowers a bit as I suddenly behold a magenta alicorn there, with a white mane and a really concerned look in her blue eyes! “Misty! Are you alright?” I hear her ask as Izzy’s snout begins to leave my crotch… I frown in horror as I say, “I’m fine Opaline! What are you doing in our room?” “I heard you screaming!” “She came twice, by my count!” I hear a whimsical feminine voice say from behind me! I close my eyes and feel heat rush to my cheeks as I cringe in embarrassment! “Oh! You two were just having sex! I am SO sorry!” I hear Opaline apologize! I hear Izzy behind me say, “That’s okay Queenie! Just uh, for future reference, Misty here is a screamer” I feel my cheeks continue to grow warm as I say emphatically, “Opaline! Get the hay out of our room!” I hear a zap again and finally open my eyes to see that Opaline is no longer there… I hear Izzy say from behind me in her happy squeaky way, “Now, where were we?” before I feel her snout enter my crotch again… I widen my eyes again, because I know what’s cumming next… <*****> I teleport into Terramore’s kitchen… I glance around the room and I don’t see her at the table, or near the fridge or coffee maker… I widen my eyes, Not unusual! She’s obviously just somewhere else in her house! I think to myself before glancing to the right and using my magick to open the door there… It swings outward to the left and I see a mist slowly come out of the new opening… I stare into it and I see Terramore there, standing on her hooves with her eyes closed and smiling a strange grin, as if she were in some sort of trance… “Terramore?” I say out loud… She opens her eyes and cranes her head to me, “Opaline? What are you doing here?” “Why are you meditating in a freezer?” I ask the obvious question… She frowns, “I’m water based and this is how I slow down… “ I frown as well, “What?” She smiles demurely, “Well, what do you think makes water slow down?” “What?” I repeat myself… She sighs and trots out of the freezer, and closes the door with her magick before embracing me in a tight warm hug! “I love my freezer time as ice, but I also miss my Opaline!” Her Opaline? I think to myself, “Freezer time as ice?” I repeat her… “Yeah, you know how water freezes as ice?” I widen my eyes when it suddenly starts to make sense to me! <*****> Misty froze there on the bed in her hooves with her face buried in the front… “I can’t believe Opaline walked in on us doing that!” she screams! I widen my eyes and bring my forehoof to the top of her head to rub the back of her neck and maybe comfort her? “Well, believe it baby! Opaline caught us having sex!” “I’m never leaving this room again!” “Oh?” My mouth makes an O shape. “Yeah! Bring me my meals!” Misty whines! “Oh, it’s not the end of the world, sweetie!” “Yes, it is! Opaline knows I’m sexual now!” “She didn’t earlier?” “Well, uh… “ I frown, “I figured she would’ve caught you during self-pleasure once or twice, by now?” “AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!” She screams suddenly and I think I hit a nerve as her body tenses up on the bed! “Uh, is that a yes?” I say quickly as I increase my comfort rubbing… “Maybe!” She frantically screams back as I continue rubbing the back of her neck with my right hoof… I lower my body to hers and embrace her with my right hoof while bringing my body to hers so she can feel me and know that I’m here for her, “Well, we’ll just deal with this later, okay sweetie… Uh, you want something to eat?” Her body begins to loosen, “How could you think about eating when Opaline caught us having sex?” “Um, well, I was feeling hungry and… “ “What are we gonna do?” She cuts me off… I sigh as I don’t think I’m getting through to her? “I keep telling you, we can hash this out with her later, okay? Now, we skipped breakfast today and you need to eat something!” She lifts her face from the mattress and I see her eyes are bloodshot and teary, “Uh, um, y-yeah… I guess you’re right Izzy?” “Of course, I’m right! Now go sit down and I’ll use my wok and make us some broccoli lo mein!” She smiles for the first time in two hours and my heart lifts momentarily, “I’ll brew tea!” I don’t know how she keeps doing that, but I suddenly begin to feel better…I smile back, “Sounds fun!” <*****> I sat there in the control room, staring at the emotional readout… “It just bloomed! I don’t understand what this is or where it’s going?” I hear the voice on the radio… I widen my eyes as I stare at the screen… I can see she’s kissing Misty again and they’re ignoring the tea, despite the fact that the cups are still about half full… I see them on the side of her view, but her eyes are locked on the half-open green eyes of this blue unicorn sitting next to us… Us? There’s more than one of us in here! It makes me wonder about the crazy pony… She hasn’t screamed in days now… I haven’t checked on her… I frown when I realize that I really should do that… I don’t know how she’ll be like, though… I sigh when I realize this is just going to be more kissing and cuddling and I might as well just do it now… I finally scoot the chair back and return to all fours on the control room floor… I turn around in the faded green room with it’s many screens on the walls displaying various diagnostic data about Izzy’s operation… None of that was nearly as concerning as the emotions we were detecting… Or what was going on, on the screen… I turn and trot to the door before opening it with my magick to reveal the open stone hallway behind it… I gulp because I don’t know what’s out there… I’ve been in here for days now, just drinking coffee and staring at those same screens and trying to figure out just what I was seeing… It’s odd, but I feel the same, basically… I’m still me… I’m still the same pony… Clop clop clop… I trot towards the door… It’s everything else that’s now different… But it was finally time to see… I exit the control room and turn right to trot down the stone hallway towards the isolated little room in the back… There are many wooden doors here that I pass, but only the metal door in the back interests me… Clop clop clop clop I hear my hooves tapping on the same stone floor… As I trotted down the same hallway… The walls were lit by a greenish hue now, although I still have no idea why the light changes color or where it’s even coming from… Clop clop clop clop I hear more clopping on the floor as I approach the steel door with the little porthole window there… I stop in front of the door and take a look inside… I see a lilac unicorn with a big fluffy blue mane and a confused look in her red eyes! She has no straight jacket either, which is weird, because I don’t remember her being released? She widens her eyes when she sees me and opens her mouth, “Oh, wow! Who are you? You look just like me!”* <*****> I stood there, now in a blue parka as I stared at the smiling blue water alicorn in the freezer, “So uh, how long do you have to do this?” “As long as it takes! Sometimes, I’m out in a few minutes! Other times, it can take longer! One time, I was back here for three days!” I widen my eyes and repeat her, “Three days?” She giggles, “Yeah, but don’t worry! I probably don’t need that much time, since you’re here!” and sighs… “Yeah, that was a long time ago and something happened… “ I frown, “Me? What do I do for you?” She widens her eyes and explains, “Just having you here makes me feel better! I don’t get so stressed or wild when you’re around… “ “It does?” She nods, “Oh, gosh yes, Opaline! Why do I constantly have to reassure you that I like having you around?” At that point I stopped… Reassuring me? “What do you mean?” She moves her head forward, “Well, you’re always unsure of yourself… “and frowns… “It’s like I have to tell you where you’re at with me?” I growl, “I’m not used to love, okay?” Her eyes widen when I think she realized her mistake? “Oh! Yeah! Right! That!” I stare at the other alicorn intently, before a thought suddenly occurs to me… “Do you ever turn to steam?” Her eyes widen, “Oh, dear! You don’t want that! That’s bad!” “It is?” She shudders with her eyes closed and stares back at me, “Yeah! So whatever you do, make sure I never get too hot!” “Oh?” My mouth makes an O shape… She sighs, “Yeah, but that hasn’t happened in like, three hundred years, so you’re probably safe!” and smiles… “I mean, as much as I love you!” As much as she loves me? I blink, “Uh, okay!” I say before gazing at the blue pony again… “You haven’t moved in two hours!” She beams brightly from her muzzle, “Yeah, I know… I am at peace… I love it when it’s slow like this… “ It was so strange… I was bored out of my mind, and yet, with this other pony here, that wasn’t an issue… It didn’t matter that I haven’t done anything for hours, because Terramore was here with me… <*****> I don’t know how long I’ve been here in Izzy’s hooves and I just don’t care! This is so wonderful! I don’t want to move! “I love you Izzy!” I whisper back to her as she’s holding me and I probably have a happy smile on my muzzle? Uh, probably! “How long have I been holding you, Misty?” I hear the energetic voice I love saying from behind me… “I don’t know and I don’t care! Hold me! Love me!” I happily squeal before cuddling into the other bluer pony behind me! “You act like you didn’t get much affection before?” I’m silent… “Oh! Right!” She says before tightening her hooves around me… “Are you okay, Izzy?” I tentatively ask, because she doesn’t really seem there right now… “What do you mean?” She chirps back to me. “Well, you just seem weird! Ever since we started this whole afternoon snuggle-fest thing, you’ve been crazy affectionate and well, I mean, I’m not gonna say no! And I’m definitely not saying I don’t like it! But uh, what gives Izzy? Where did all this come from?” Izzy is silent for a moment while she continues to hold me… “Izzy? Are there? I asked you a question!” “I know! I just don’t know how to answer!” My muzzle frowns, “What do you mean?” She sighs, “Well, it’s like something shifted inside me a little while ago… I think of myself as a new pony all of a sudden… “ I frown, “New pony?” I feel her nod behind me, “Y-yeah! I just feel like, you know? Maybe it’s not just that I can be loved, but uh, maybe I should be loved? I dunno if that makes sense?” I think on it for a moment before replying, “Oh, like uh, maybe I should love you?” “Yeah!” I feel her nod again. “It’s exactly like that! Like, you’re here for me and I can count on that!” And for some stupid dumb reason, that comment makes me smile… “I love you Izzy!” “I love you too Misty Bear!” She says happily before squeezing me lightly and joyfully! (To be continued…) Author's Note *This pony represents Izzy’s root chakra and she’s actually the source of the strange new love encapsulating her heart at this point, but nopony knows… She was recently permitted to produce love again and she’s very confused now…
Chapter 11: ChangesI sat there staring at the other pony in the other control room chair… It’s so weird, but I could’ve sworn she was older earlier? She finally stops staring at the front screen and turns her head right to stare at me, widens her red eyes and squeakily says, “So, this is where you work?” “Um, yeah! I’m not really sure how I got here, but life has pretty much always been this way for me! Uh, there’s a coffee maker in the back… “I stare at her intently as I’m really not sure how to ask this? “Why did they keep you locked up in a straight jacket?” Her face comes alive again!”Oh, that! Yeah, when you start talking about how awful other ponies are and how you really shouldn’t be around any of them, they don’t normally like you around!” she frowns, “Well, not usually?”and stares at me intently, “You mentioned a coffee maker?” Once again, I pause as I’m not sure how to ask the next question either? “How did you get free from the jacket?” Her eyes once again widen and I can already tell I’ll need to get used to that! She squeaks, “I have no idea!” I frown, “What? What do you mean, you have no idea? You were in a straight jacket this morning, and now you’re not! What changed?” She frowns tentatively, “How would I know?” I stare at this strange filly in silence… “Well, you were there, right?” Her eyes widen! “Um, yeah!” and she nods, “Idefinitely was there alright! I had on a straight jacket and everything! Well, I did earlier!” her eyes normalize. “Now I don’t!” I frown harder… “Okay, see if you can follow me here!”I wave my hoof around. “This morning, you had on a straight jacket, yes? Correct? And uh, now you’re not in said straight jacket! How did you get out?” She jitters as she replies, “I don’t know!” I’m silent again as I stare blankly at the wall behind her in thought… I then turn back down to stare at her, “Well, what do you know?” Her eyes widen, “Well, this morning, when I woke up, I was in a straight jacket!” I nod, “This is true!” “Okay, and uh, well, one moment I was in the jacket, and the next, I wasn’t!” I’m silent again as I’m not really sure what to make of that? I adjust my view to her, “So, the jacket just what then? Poofed out of existence?” Her crimson eyes widen again, “Uh, yup! Pretty much!” I’m silent once more… “And now, you’re not in a jacket?” She throws her forehooves in the air and flails them, “Nope! I’m free now! I can wander the halls again! Yay!” … I’m trying not to grin, but she is kinda cute right now… And I suddenly frown when I think about this… It’s so strange, but she seemed bigger earlier… And older… I’m pretty sure of this? I decide to ask her, “Uh, what should I call you?” “Oh! Call me Wendy! Uh, what’s your name?” I frown when I suddenly can’t think of anything to say to her! “I don’t know?” She frowns too, “What? What do you mean, you don’t know? I mean, you got a name, right?” “Uh, yes! I mean, I think so? I uh, I’m actually not sure?” As I frown and bring my eyes to the ceiling as I try to remember the last time somepony asked me my name? She blinks her eyes, “Well, I can’t just call you nameless pony during our relationship, can I? Uh,” her eyes widen again, “what do you wanna be called?” I stare at her intently and I’m not sure what comes over me? “You will now refer to me by the name of, Betty!”* I nod, “Yes! Betty! Call me that!”* Her mouth straightens and eyes widen, “Oh! A mare’s name!” and smiles, “I like it!” She likes it? What? “So Wendy! Uh, what do you do?” “Oh!” She perks up!” Well, before they locked me up, I liked to play and do fun stuff!” I frown… “Fun stuff?” She happily nods, “Oh, yeah! I liked to play, and goof around, and watch movies with the other!” “The other?” Her eyes widen, “Yeah! Our partner! Uh, “she frowns as if a sudden realization just hit her… “That would be Misty now, right? Uh,” she looks down… “I wasn’t very friendly back there, was I? Um, sorry… “and she brings her gaze towards the floor… I frown harder as I have no idea what she’s talking about? “Uh, I guess not, no? Um, why do you keep getting younger?” She raises her head to gaze at me with wide, albeit smaller red eyes, and says in a now squeakier voice, “Uh, what do you mean? I’m a filly! I’ve always been a filly!” I cringe at this as I really don’t know what to make of it? “NO! No you haven’t been! You were older earlier!” She frowns and pauses for a moment… “Are you sure about that?” “Yes!” Her tiny eyes widen and I see freckles beginning to form on her cheeks as she squeaks, “I was? Oh, wow! And now, I’m a filly! Hooray!” and flails her forehooves in the air again! I frown really really hard before deciding that I want another cup of coffee! <*****> As I stared at the green unicorn, with her crazy curly mop of a red mane, I see her smile at me and beam with her cute freckled cheeks as she says, “So uh, we snuggled for about two hours!” I smile as I feel a shift within me and say, “Yup! We sure did!” Her eyes narrow, “After Opaline caught us having sex!” I nod, “Yup!” She frowns and looks to the side, “I still have no idea what I’m going to say to her or if I ever want to see her again?” “Well, she’s reformed now and having touch with you will remind her of her obligation to be good! Talking to you is probably a good thing, as it will help her move past her old ways!” I say before frowning as I’m really not sure where that came from? Her face normalizes and she turns to face me, “Well, that’s probably true? Still, we don’t know when she’ll show up?” I stare blankly at the wall as it just feels like Opaline will show up now… Misty notices and asks her, “Uh, what are you doing Izzy?” I shake my head and stare at her, “Sorry! It just suddenly felt like Opaline should show up or something?”** She frowns, “Are you okay, Izzy?” I look at her, widen my eyes, and happily reply, “Never better! Why?” She stops for a moment… “Well uh, what should we do in the meantime?” I frown as well, “Live our lives, silly! I mean, what else would we do? She’ll be back eventually, and we can just deal with it then! Until that point, don’t worry about it!” and then I smile back at her. “Just choose to be happy, y’know? There’s really no point in getting bummed out about something that hasn’t happened yet!” She smiles back, “Um, y-yeah, I guess you’re right?” before staring off to the side… I stare at her intently, “Or we could just have sex again?” She turns to me and widens her eyes and frowns, “But what if Opaline comes back?” I smile, “It’s fine!” and flit my hoof in the air. “She knows you’re a screamer now! So, if she hears you yelling, she’ll just assume you’re having sex again and won’t come in like she did earlier!” She cringes and her face blushes! I lower my hoof to stare at her and smile! “I love you Misty Bear! I’ll go make us lunch!” <*****> I widen my eyes at the suddenly delirious magenta alicorn in her blue parka coat, with the hood over her head, but not quite covering her horn, “What do you mean, you caught Izzy and Misty having sex? You knew they were doing that, right?” She frowns, “But it was Misty!” I nod and frantically reply, “Yeah! And she’s with Izzy now, remember?” She closes her eyes and cringes to the side, “Yeah, but Izzy… Izzy had her snout back there! She was… she was… “ “Giving oral sex to Misty?” I say before frowning. “EEEEEEEEE!!!!!” She ee’s suddenly and scrunches up her face! I widen my eyes again and lean forward, “And you obviously don’t wanna think about that!” “NO!” She emphatically screams while staring back at me with a serious look in her blue eyes! I nod and continue, “Right! You don’t wanna think about Izzy’s snout deep inside Misty’s backside with her tongue flailing!” “AAAAAAAHHH!!!!” She screams at me! I stare at her, “Okay, yes! None of that!” She stares at me intently, “Stop talking about sex!” I frown, “Well, this morning, you and I… “ “That’s different!” She emphatically states! I widen my eyes, “How is that different?” She nods, “Well, when it’s us, it’s you and me and… “ “Not Misty?” I cut her off. She nods again, “Yes! That! It’s not that worthless curly filly that used to hang out at my castle!” she states before frowning… “Worthless?” I repeat her. I frown as well, “She seemed okay to me?” “I uh,” she shakes her head before staring off to the side, “I need to think about this? She’s not my servant anymore and is apparently sexually active and well… “ “You just have to deal with the changes… “ She adjusts her gaze to me, “What?” I smile, “Things change all the time! It’s really the only constant in the universe! Misty is another pony now and you just need to adjust to that!” She stares at me blankly for a moment before saying, “I knew there was a good reason I liked you around!” I frown again, “You were gonna get rid of me?” “No! Of course not!” She flits her forehoof in the air. “I mean, maybe the thought had crossed my mind once or twice, but I don’t think I’d ever actually do it!” I widen my eyes, “You don’t think?” She stares at me blankly and suddenly frowns as I think she suddenly realized what she just said? She frantically says, “No, Terramore! NO! A thousand times, NO! You’re simply too valuable to be gotten rid of!” while shaking her head! I smile and giggle as I trot towards her to embrace her in a tight warm hug! “It’s okay Opaline! I love you too!” “EEP!” She quietly eeps in my hooves and returns the embrace… “Misty is banging Izzy now and you’re just gonna have to deal with that… “ I feel her cringe in my hooves with her head on my shoulder as she says, “Okay, but we don’t have to talk about it either!” “Deal!” I quietly say to the other alicorn as I continue holding onto her and chuckle a little bit… (To be continued…) Author's Note *Shameless half self-insert in 3...2...1… BOOM! **Yeah, I do that way too much in my writing! Izzy is just breaking the 4th wall again here…
Chapter 1: Awkward TeaOh, gosh! She’s smiling at me! I think to myself before smiling… I probably look nervous? The blue unicorn smiles at me, “Hiya Misty! What’s up!” I blink and gulp, “Um, can I talk to you?” Her pretty red eyes widen, “Oh, sure! I was about to have my afternoon tea! Do you want some?” before frowning at me cutely… I smile wider, “Oh uh, I’d love some tea Izzy!” She nods, “Well, come on to the tea area!” before turning to trot to her weird tea contraption… I trot closer to her and the machine… She forces her horn to glow and the machine neatly folds out as if it were lotus flowers and I see two baby blue glass cups on the petals there before her… She looks at the matching baby blue tea kettle back near the center of the flower and forces it to glow and levitate over and pour us two fresh hot cups of tea… She smiles while staring at her work and floating the kettle away, “This is green tea with jasmine! It’s not my favorite, but it’s still pretty yummy! You like two sugars, right? Kinda sweet tea for Misty?” I smile, “Oh, that’s nothing! Opaline usually had me add five whole spoons of sugar to her tea whenever I made it for her!” before lowering my grin… You stupid idiot! Why did you bring up Opaline? I think to myself… She turns with two glowing baby blue saucers before her, each with a cup of steaming tea on it, before forcing the one on her left to glide towards me in the air and saying, “Here’s yours, Misty! No, wait!” her eyes widen and the saucer stops flying towards me before the other one begins to glide my way. “That’s MY cup! Not yours!” My eyes widen, “But don’t we both like it with two sugars?” Her own pupils enlarge, “Oh, yeah! Both of these teas are exactly the same, aren’t they?” she smiles. “Don’t know why I didn’t realize that?” I gotta laugh at the ultra-cute scene, “Yeah, it doesn’t really matter which one I got!” before looking at the blue saucer in front of me and concentrating to make my own horn glow. “Got it Izzy!” “Okay!” I feel her release her magick and she sets her saucer down on the table to her right… I take a cautious first sip of my tea… And widen my eyes when I realize it’s still really hot! Her eyes widen as her mouth opens, “Oh, Misty! Be careful! I just brewed that tea!” I set the cup down on its saucer while keeping my eyes wide, “YEAH! Really hot!” and then I sputter… “Are you okay?” She asks me with genuine concern in her cherry pupils. I widen my own gaze, “I’ll be fine, Izzy! Thank you!” She smiles, “Yeah, you gotta give it a few minutes before you take that first sip, silly!” I smile back, “Yeah! Uh, hey! There was something I wanted to talk to you about…” Her eyes widen again as her snout goes agape, “Oh?” My smile lowers, “Yeah, Izzy! You see uh, I like you!” She smiles again, “I like you too, Misty!” I gulp, “N-no Izzy! Not like that! I mean, I really like you!” Her smile lowers a little, “Oh, definitely! Us unicorns have to stick together!” I blink, “I l-love you, I-Izzy!” and smile… She smiles wider, “I love you too, Misty!” “NO! I mean, I REALLY love you!” I yell and I can’t believe I’m almost screaming this at her! She shouts back! “I REALLY LOVE YOU TOO, MISTY!” I frown at her… I can’t believe it? I’m trying to tell my feelings to this other unicorn and for whatever reason, she’s just not getting the message! At that point, as much as I absolutely hated to admit it to myself, there was really only one thing I could do… I looked down and sighed before scooting my stool back and flopping from my haunches to all-fours on the floor and I begin trotting around the left side of the table… Izzy is watching this with her curious red eyes as she asks, “Uh, Misty? What are you doing?” I stop just shy of her stool and look at her right in the face… I can feel her warm breath on my face now as she looks at me with concern, “Misty?” I stare at her right in the eyes, “Izzy, I love you!” Her mouth begins to quiver as I’m not sure she understands? “I love you too, Misty!” I blink, Oh, for goodness’s sake! I think to myself before trotting forward just a few more inches and planting a loving passionate kiss right on her lips! I eventually release her face and stare at her curiously from a few inches away…. She smiles, “Oh, you like me! Gee, why didn’t you just say so?” and grins even wider while tilting her head slightly to the left… She just looked so gosh darn cute right there, I couldn’t help myself! I moved my face to hers again and planted another kiss on her mouth! This time, she almost seemed ready for it, because I could feel her snout tightening and readying itself as my lips remained locked on hers! I release her again and she stares at me to say, “Again, all you had to do was just say something!” I sigh, “But I did!” She frowns, “You did? Oh, wow! I didn’t even notice!” and smiles once more. “Sorry about that!” I squint my eyes as I can only take so much of her cuteness, “Izzy, I uh… I’m sorry I didn’t tell you the right way. Um, I guess, I just uh… “I smile, “I like you a lot Izzy! I mean, you’re the first nice unicorn I ever met and you’re just um, well, you’re so gosh darn cute and… uh… I like you… “and then, I beam brightly at her… Her frown straightens, “AWWW, you’re SO CUTE!” My eyes widen! “Am not! You’re cute!” She smiles, “Oh, yeah?” and boops my nose with her right forehoof! She giggles as I frown at this audacity… I widen my eyes when I begin to realize that this whole time, she never told me to stop or said no… I blink again, “So uh, what do you say Izzy?” She stops giggling and stares back at me, “To what?” I blink and gulp, “T-to being with me?” Her eyes widen, “Oh, sure! I’ll be with you or whatever!” she smiles while flitting her right forehoof in the air. “Does this mean we get to have ice cream?” I stare at this other unicorn in confusion… I pour out my feelings to her, she agrees to be my marefriend, and is really only concerned with frozen treats? “So uh, you’re with me, now?” Her eyes and mouth normalize, “Didn’t I already say that?” I eye the blue pony carefully… It was already hard enough when I realized I was gay earlier… And now, I have this… I smile like a crazy pony, “Sure honey! Let's go get ice cream!” Her eyes widen, “Oh, honey! I like that! You should call me honey some more!” I roll my eyes and begin trotting towards the freezer on the other side of the kitchen… And while I can already tell that this is gonna be a weird day, I’ll take it over what I was doing earlier… (To be continued…)
Chapter 9: New TerritoryHer vibrant green eyes stared deeply at me as she stated, “I am from Mount Arcanis!” I widen my eyes at Terramore, “Mount Arcanis? Where’s that?” She smiles, “I’m surprised you don’t know! Did Celestia and Luna not tell you?” I frown, “I already told you that I was mostly ignored growing up! They were just so busy with their wonderful retirement and it’s unfair that I never got the chance to have power!” Her smile lowers and she nods, “Right! Because Harmonia gave birth to you after Twilight Sparkle had already assumed power!” * I sigh and look off to the right, “I never really had a chance, you know? And my sisters flat out ignored me when I was sent to live with them…” I turn back towards her. “Seriously, though! What is Mount Arcanis?” “Well, you know how Harmonia is from that island far to the east and basically colonized Equestria with ponykind?” “No!” Her eyes widen, “Well, Mount Arcanis is a city of alicorns and it’s far to the north!” “In all that ice and snow?” She nods, “Yes, well, they have an artifact called The Crystal Heart that keeps the city itself clear and balmy!” “Then how did Harmonia get to the island?” She widens her eyes, “Wow! Somepony REALLY needs to brush up on their history! You see, alicorns are originally from that island! However, many alicorns moved after The Crystal Empire fell and reclaimed the heart for ponykind! Seeing how the rest of Equestria was divided and everypony was keeping to themselves, they decided to settle to the north in the mountains, in order to both, keep the relic safe and keep it in Equestria! That’s how Mount Arcanis was first discovered!” I raise my eyebrow, “Oh?” She smiles and nods, “It’s a mountain with a flat crater for a top, so building a city in there was easy, once we were able to keep the ice and snow away with the heart!” ** I widen my eyes, “Oh, interesting! Um, no! Harmonia gave birth to me on the island where my sisters were!” She sighs, “Right! And you say they never spent any time with you?” I frown, “Of course not! They spent their days together, but never with me!” “Did you tell your mother about this?” I flit my hoof in the air, “She always brushed me aside! “before straightening my neck. “And so, at that point I decided that I should have power! If love wasn’t an option, then I’ll take what’s mine instead!” “So that’s why you wanted all the magick in Equestria?” I nod, “Yes! Heading to the Dragon-Lands and getting dragon fire was fairly easy!” “But you needed more?” I sigh and stare off wistfully to the right, “I only had enough time to drain one dragon before I was discovered! I needed more to become fully powerful!” “They fought you back?” I smile at my love, “Well, dragons don’t like their power being taken away!” before lowering it, “But you never told me your story. How in Equestria does one become a water alicorn anyway?” She widens her eyes and raises her neck slightly, “Ice giants!” My view enlarges once again, “What?” She smiles and nods, “Yup! I met ice giants!” I frown at this strange information, “What are you talking about Terramore?” Her smile lowers slightly, “Well, in Mount Arcanis, they tell you never to travel too far to the east and to especially avoid a valley there… “ I narrow my eyes, “You went there anyway, didn’t you?” Her smile lowers all the way, “I can’t explain it Opaline, but I somehow just felt like I had to!” I nod, “Okay, so what was in the valley?” “Well, amidst the snow and winds, there’s a big city nestled in the valley! It’s so strange, but it’s also fairly warm there and it doesn’t seem to be affected by the ice and wind, much like the alicorn city… That’s when I met the ponies who live there… They look like earth ponies, only much larger! At first, I raised my shield and told them to stay away, but they told me that they didn’t want to hurt me and that they were my friends!” I widen my eyes and exclaim aghast, “And you believed them?” She giggles slightly, “Um, I guess so? They told me that I was the chosen one as foretold by prophecy!” “There was a prophecy that a blue alicorn would travel to their valley?” Her smile raises, “Well, I used to be red!” “Oh, wow!” She nods, “Anyway, they told me that bathing in the Fountain of Truth will reveal my true nature and allow my soul the freedom it needs… “ “And so you became a water alicorn?” She giggles, “And I’ve never been happier!” “What about Mount Arcanis? Why did you not travel back there?” “Well, I didn’t want to! I wanted to well, stay in Equestria and meet other ponies, who weren’t’ alicorns, you know? Granted, they aren’t very powerful, but I wanted to see what Harmonia brought here!” she frowns. “Even though they wouldn’t be too friendly to ponies like me…” I stare at her carefully and see the blank look in her eyes, suggesting that it’s a bit of a sore spot, “And well, I’m guessing you chose Bridlewood because you can hide your wings with a vest, but the horn is more problematic?” She nods and gazes at me, “Well, right! So now you know about me! And I know why you wanted magick earlier!” “Well um, right!” She lowers her view and then says something that shocks me… She asks, “So you in fact, don’t want power now, but your confused on how you feel? Where exactly is this confusion?” I eyeball this mare and it occurs to me that she’s genuinely concerned for me and my problems when I reply, “Well, I don’t even know if my sisters are still alive and I think Twilight is gone as well!” “They were all your enemies, right?” I nod, “Well, them and Sunny, yes!” She smiles, “I think having less enemies in the world is a good thing!” and lowers her grin halfway, “And what of Sunny? How do you feel about her?” I frown and honestly answer, “I don’t know!” She frowns herself, “What do you mean, you don’t know, Opaline?” I close my eyes, “Well, life is really confusing! I thought I knew who my enemies were! I thought I knew who I needed to be fighting!” and open them to gaze upon her lovely form once more, “But now, you’re here and you’re friends with, with Izzy and Misty!” I say as I lean forward and stick my tongue out. “Those ponies were supposed to be against me, and now you’re all helping me be gay and… and…” before closing my eyes again… “I just don’t know what to think anymore? I don’t know where I fit in?” and turn my face downward. I keep my eyes closed and I can hear her hoofsteps walking around the table, “You wanna know where you fit in Opaline?” I open my eyes to see my love trotting around the left side of the gnarled round oak table and turn my head to her, “Where pray tell, is my place?” She stands just next to my chair and smiles down at me as I gaze up at her, frowning and unsure of what she’ll say next… Then, she hugs me… “With me Opaline… Your new place is with me now… “ <*****> “I uh, I don’t know how long we’ve been snuggling?” “I don’t know either!” The blue unicorn replies while holding me in her hooves and cuddling me under the covers of her purple bed… “Do you know what time it is?” “I have no idea!” “I still can’t believe we had sex twice!” “I can! I was there!” I smile and giggle, “Yeah, but you were so giving the whole time!” “Of course silly! I love you!” I straighten my mouth and sigh, “Great! Now I feel like I need to improve and be a more generous lover for you now!” “No you don’t!” I widen my eyes, “W-what?” She giggles, “It’s not about what you get Misty! I enjoy loving you and so that’s what I’m going to do! You just have to accept that love and that’s what makes me happy!” “Oh, wow!” She giggles and holds me more affectionately… I sit there in her warm embrace… “For somepony who’s never been in a relationship before, you sure seem to know a lot about it?” “Well, can I be honest with you Misty?” “Uh, we’re lovers in a relationship right?” “A lesbian relationship!” I nod while still being held in her hooves, “Well, right!” She sighs… “I have had several relationships before and most of them were straight! Although uh, I don’t think I can do that anymore?” “Be straight?” She giggles, “Well, yeah! I like mares!” I’m silent for a moment before finally asking, “Why didn’t you tell me you’ve had other partners?” She’s quiet too before sighing and saying, “I was scared, okay? I…” her hooves tighten around me. “I just don’t want to lose you!” “It’s okay if you’ve had other partners, Izzy! I’m not intimidated! I mean, they’re not here, right?” She snickers and lowers her grasp, “I hope not! I mean uh, yeah! They aren’t here anymore… “before tightening her hooves again! “I love you!” “I love you too Izzy! But now I’m really concerned about Opaline!” “Oh, she can take care of herself! Don’t worry about it!” <*****> “I have no idea what I’m doing!” I say as I stare at the smiling blue alicorn in bed with me… She giggles, “Neither do I! But I really want to explore!” before leaning forward to plant yet another affectionate kiss on my muzzle. I widen my eyes and she moves her face back a few inches to continue smiling at me… I gaze at the grinning face of this other pony carefully… Explore she says, saying that she wants to be with me… “Well uh, I guess I’ll try anything once? Where do we begin?” Terramore’s eyes widen, “How would I know!” At this stage, my irritation is great! But for some reason I don’t yell at her… The truth is, I don’t know if I can by this point? No… I carefully face this other pony in bed with her and plant a loving kiss on her muzzle… I think I shall give this a try! And as my instincts take over, I find myself lowering my body down hers to bring my snout in between her hind flanks… And before I get to work, I hear her say, “I think it would be a good idea to bring you to Mount Arcanis later!” I look at her unmentionables before saying, “Yeah, Terramore! I’d like that!” before closing my eyes, opening my mouth, sticking out my tongue, bringing my snout to her genitals… (To be continued…) Author's Note *Surprise! Opaline was born after Twilight was already in charge and her sisters were much older and retired by that point! There will be no retconning on my watch! **Kinda like Mexico City, but without all the pollution!
