Chapter 04: Secret Manga Meeting and Rainbow's Crash

written by TheCrimsonDM

Fluttershy was mulling around the books on various magical creatures of Equestria. From an anthology of local fea beasts, to exotic and erotic, a bestiary for the sensually dubious. She was having a hard time finding one that would match the cute critter currently living with her. She looked over at Spike as she was going through the books she'd picked up. He was leaning back in his chair and reading the new volume of Pony Ball. She got second dibs on it, but for now it was research time. Still she was studying his expression for any signs of what could be in store with the new volume. From some laughs, to him blushing for a moment as his eyes widened on a panel, she was praying this was going to be a new shower scene with Bulma, then to a grin and fist pump, probably from one of the high octane fight scenes. Something Fluttershy loathed to admit she loved seeing in these fictional works.

Once Spike finished he set the book down near Fluttershy. "Don't worry, I won't give spoilers but your going to love page 183."

Oh Spike, he knew her all too well, they'd shared some... private manga between each other from time to time. Since they both liked mares it was easy to share such explicit materials. Of course Fluttershy would never, ever let Twilight know about those. Or the late night talks about who was the sexiest character, or the fact he'd snuck in on her private doujin room before and had read her most secret, most illicit, most depraved manga, manga she had personally written, drawn, and inked herself. It wasn't very good, but it was downright filthy. Something she would hide from her friends forever. Even if Twilight had almost found it in her basement once by mistake. She was just so thankful the mare just couldn't seem to see it.

It was strange though. Remembering it, she could recall Twilight having just walked in front of the room. Peeked inside, shrugged and walked away. When asked what she saw, Twilight just asked why all the rooms were empty. Sure the light had been turned off, but could Twilight have really missed all the... adult things in that room? Really?

Fluttershy decided if anypony would have an answer to that particular question it would be the little but very mature dragon right next to her. "Spike, I have a question if you don't mind."

"Go for it."

"Does Twilight... sometimes just... not see things?"

"What do you mean?"

"Remember my um... private room in my basement. The one you've been in."

"Oh the hen-"

"Yes the 'hen' room. That one."

"Ha, right sorry. Um, the H room. Yes I remember that."

"Well one day Twilight teleported into my basement by mistake, her mane was all burnt up and she looked like she survived a volcano. I think she um, might have actually been in one. She smelled like... gross eggs."

"Sulfur, yeah, volcanoes smell like Celestia's bad farts."

"Excuse me!"

"Hehe... don't tell Twilight I said that. She'd punish me, and not in the fun way."

Fluttershy suddenly got an image she was... going to save for later. "Okay, um, the uh, point is, she looked directly into that room, turned around and walked away like she didn't see anything. She even told me the room was empty, but you and I both know it is far from empty."

"Fluttershy, your basement has 3 things in it. Only two of which any other pony besides me know about. Sillyweed, snacks, and perversion. Are you saying Twilight didn't see anything in there?"

"Nothing."

"Maybe she didn't understand what... ah, no, that's probably not all there is to it."

"What do you mean?"

"Okay, so you asked if she sometimes just doesn't see things. And your totally right, ever since she was like real young she seemed to be entirely visually and audibly oblivious to things of the uh... lets say adult nature."

"Huh?"

"Well as a dragon I have a near perfect memory when I pay attention to things. Or when I try really hard. I can even remember what it was like being in my egg. Something Twilight still doesn't believe. But I know for a fact that when she was little, she accidentally stumbled upon Shining Armor and Cadance, they had snuck into Celestia's bedroom and well you know how horny teens are right? They got up to all the sex. Twilight saw that by mistake since she was sleeping under Celestia's bed at the time, she liked to surprise Celestia like that, it was pretty cute.

"The weirdest thing though, she can't remember that event. And ever since then if she sees or hears anything sexual her brain just doesn't register it. She's walked in front of ponies having sex before and just didn't see them. I have almost no idea how she couldn't see that. So I did some research, half my job is to keep Twilight's mental health in check you know, so I know a thing or two about pony brains. I think she has a mental block from that event, a trauma that caused her to just not see that stuff. To shut it all away and be entirely ignorant of it."

Fluttershy nodded, that sounded on track for the purest member of their team. "At least she didn't see them on the kitchen table, she might have gone blind."

"HA!"

The pair shared a wicked laugh at that. They didn't mean to make fun of Twilight exactly, just that she was so adorable with her purity, though if it came as result to a trauma, that would be sad. Surely Celestia already knew, but if that was true, Fluttershy would want to help her friend get better from it somehow. Though she wouldn't know where to start. Looking down at the book she was mindlessly flipping through she paused at the picture of the weird critter that had landed in her home.

Fluttershy "Aha, I found it. A... ragamuffin."

Spike rose an eyebrow at that. "Whoa, seriously?"

"You know what those are?"

"Yeah their basically sentient sexual rag dolls. Created by some forgotten god as a way to put lost souls at peace. Celestia seems to dig them as she had a few in the secret chambers in her castle."

"How do you know about that?"

"I am not going to say anything about having or having not used their services... Also Miss Smarty Pants is not related to them in anyway, and certainly has not caused riots in the castle."

Fluttershy nodded once again. "They um... only do that stuff with ponies right?"

"And dragons, and griffons, and well basically if it can talk, and is of mature sexual age, it will play 'adult' games with them."

Fluttershy smiled widely. A little too wide and having caught Spike's worried look she tried to ignore it. "D-don't worry, I'll um... make sure the ragamuffin gets a nice and proper home." Probably in the dungeon Fluttershy thought to herself.

***

Twilight was still working through the catalog of books to order for the library. She was given a wealthy sum of 'princess money' for her allowance, but was given strict restrictions on what she could do for the library based on government spending money. She was not supposed to use her own money for the library unless it was deemed an emergency or of value to the entire country. Apparently buying a copy of Star Swirl Behind the Swirl of Stars was not considered valuable to the country. So that had to go into her private collection. What this really meant was that Twilight was put into a position where she had to actually think about how to spend her money, a task she still struggled with from time to time.

"Ugh, why can't I just buy all the books, I have the money, but noooo, its not government funded, ooohhhh so bad." Twilight complained to an audience of nopony.

She laid her head down and tried to do her best to think about what she needed the most. Looking at this impressive catalog she just wanted to claim all the books, but that was not allowed and another scolding from the princess was not in her plans. So she tried to think through it logically. There were so many romance books here, so freaking many. She couldn't even understand why ponies liked them so much, the editing was atrocious as large sections of some of those books were just blank pages. Whoever was in charge of them needed a strongly written letter. Yet after the fiasco with TORN publishing and how Twilight may have, or may not have threatened the owners of that company for firing one of her favorite writers for the Wayvern Joust series, she might have been put on a 'do not talk to publishers' rule as well.

Why didn't Celestia understand, all Twilight wanted to do was fix the world. The world of publishing and writing...

No that was unfair, Twilight understood. She knew for a fact that the real reason she was banned from doing these things was because it interfered with ponies lives and the freedom of choice. They may not have allowed Celestia to even think about stepping down from monarchy, or diarchy now, but that didn't mean Celestia didn't value freedom. She perhaps more than any other pony in the world valued freedom the most. She wanted her ponies to be free to do, say, and act as they pleased so long as they were not directly harming each other in the process. Which did mean a lot of mean words would get thrown around, but words were just words, sticks and stones and all that.

Still she had managed to instead help that very same author start their own small publishing company and with a word of favor from herself as pupil to the princess of the largest star in the sky, it had gone very well. She could help others in ways like that. Help people grow, but do not stop the growth of others. It was hard to do sometimes, but perhaps that was exactly why she was put on such a strict leash here in the Golden Oaks Library. A lesson to learn about self control, moderation, and-

"OH MY GOODNESS THEY HAVE A NEW STARSWIRL BOOK!"

Twilight's scream caused her current visitors to come stumbling out of the antechamber looking quite disheveled. Twilight laughed nervously and waved the off. She had found the next purchase for the library. Star Swirl book for the library done, and it just barely managed to fit within budget too. She could get a book she liked and share it with the world, what could be better than that?

A loud crash followed by the sound of shattered glass filled the room as Twilight looked over to see a disheveled blue and rainbow mess land in a crumpled heap at the front of her desk. They were unhurt but the same could not be said for the window. Well... at least the windows were allowed to be repaired by her own money instead of the government budget.

Twilight leered down at the world's fastest flier. "Rainbow Danger Dash."

Rainbow Dash raised a hoof and wiggled it showing she was okay. "Bingo."

"No, not bingo. Try 'destroyed window'"

Rainbow Dash stood up, flexed those impressive wing muscles and lean athletic limbs and grinned boyishly at Twilight. Something about the way she looked was just so... handsome. "Aw come on Twi, its only the second time this month. I'm on a good record."

"You do not get a gold star from me until you get down to 'one window' a month. Understood."

"Yes ma'am." Rainbow snickered. Her carefree attitude was almost infectious and it helped Twilight relax a lot. "Heh, sometimes your more strict than Rarity."

"I don't see you breaking her windows."

"That's because the things she'd do to me would be worse than what you'd do."

"Should I have her be the one to dull out punishments then?"

Rainbow's eyes widened a bit and then she grinned. She looked from side to side, biting her lower lip. Something felt weird about her response. "Hmm... maybe you should. hehe..."

"I suddenly don't feel like that would be a good idea." Twilight ignored the almost sad look in Rainbow's eyes as she went back to her own book keeping. The ice pack below her had long since melted and now she was feeling like the water was actually getting warm, a lot warmer than it should in that bag. She realized her rump might be on fire with how hot it was. Curse this time of year. And she had a party to attend tonight too.

Rainbow Dash turned to leave and was half way out the door before Twilight reached out with her magic and held onto that tail. Accidentally lifting it up to get a good clear view of Rainbow's rump. By golly everything was perfect, and looked almost delicious in some way, like Twilight could just shove her head there and start licking it. Which would be beyond weird, ponies didn't do that kind of thing. "Miss Dash, you are not excused until after you clean up your mess."

"Yes ma'am."

Twilight let go of that tail and felt a little disheartened to loose sight of the precious petals. A tried and true routine began of Rainbow Dash cleaning up the shattered glass and throwing it away. Twilight swore, Rainbow Dash might be more familiar with the cleaning closet than even herself, and Twilight lived here!

Author's Note

Hello one and all, here's a new chapter with a rainbow to fall...
okay rhymes aside, hopefully this is nice and cute and funny XD