dashing hearts

Chapters

ponyville: the first week
Becoming friends?
What do you think of me?
Marking
The long road home, part 1
The long road home, part 2
making friends with Fluttershy 101
mini chapter: Don't stop

ponyville: the first week

The First Week

I guess some introductions are in order before I begin. Well, my name is Cain, no I have no last name (a product of being an orphan I guess, and yes I am a human. One of the few that live in Equestria) I'm 5'6, slightly on the slim side with long wavy brown hare and green eyes I'm twenty years old, going on twenty-one in a couple of weeks, ummm, I was born in Fillydelphea, or so I'm told. When I turned eighteen I left the orphanage and went into culinary school, and within a year I graduated. In my life I have had my fair share of racism and xenophobia, but was able to brush it off in my own way. Unfortunately it did make it hard to find a good job as a chef in the big city, but ever the optimist I soldered on, to no avail.
One day I received a check for a sizable amount as inheritance from an uncle I apparently had but never knew of.
It wasn't a whole lot but enough to do something with, and since the lease on my apartment was up in a couple of days I figured now was as good a time as any to get a fresh start.

The question now was where? I didn't know aneypony, or have any friends to turn to for advice. Not to mention most ponies in the city took to humans with either fear or distaste at the very least, while others preferred to sling insults or garbage in my direction.

"There must be someplace where a human like me will be accepted, or at the very least tolerated enough to live out a normal life."
I proposed to myself as I paced the floor of my modest studio apartment.
Just then I caught something out of the corner of my eye, a newspaper from a couple of months ago. The front page was a picture of a postcard town called Ponyville. I didn't even bother reading the article, but the town looked perfect. Small and peaceful with quaint little houses and rolling hills adorned with grassy fields, it looked like a little slice of paradise.
"Perfect!" I exclaimed to myself. A small town like this must be in need of someone with culinary skills and I bet I can get a place their for less than I'm paying now. Instantly my mind started to reel with ideas of putting down actual roots in a place I could call home, I could make friends, become part of a community, maybe even meet my very special somepony.

I had had more than a few crushes on more than a few mares in my life but had always been rejected, or outright laughed at by said mares. "Oh well theirs always plenty of fish in the sea" I would say to myself (if you couldn't tell by now I'm a glass is half full kind of person) I just didn't see any point in sulking over things I didn't have any control over. Your ticket to the future is always blank.
Or thats what I always believed. My mind was set, ponyville was to be my new home, and that was where I was going to make my home.

Over the next couple of days I was quite busy, first I cashed the check from my mysterious uncle the sum of which was well over nine hundred bits, enough to live off of for about a year and a half. I sold all of my furniture, resolving that I would buy new appointments once I was settled in my new home. I found a nice enough home to purchase in a local listing nothing much a modest one bedroom one bathroom just off from the main street of the small town.
It sounded perfect for me to start out in, or even spend a lifetime in. As fast as I could, I sent off the first months payment, as well as paying for the last installment for my apartment. After a short packing of my personal belongings, I was standing outside, taking one last look at the tall building I had called home for almost two years. The building seemed to take on a more grey appearance as I stood before it bags in toe.

"Good bye" I whispered to the old brownstone building that had been my only friend. It was old and somewhat run down, but it had been a place I could call sanctuary on dark days and cold nights when all others had forsaken me. It had been there to accept me, never judging. Just being their, tall and strong as if to say "welcome". I was going to miss him and somewhere inside me I felt like he would miss me too, a silly thought I know. But Im sure he would be happy to see me going off to find my own happiness.

A single tear rolled down my cheek followed by a swelling in my chest as I made my way to the train station. The clouds over head started to part, and the warm sun began to shine on my face as if to say that Celestia herself had blessed my new journey. As I strode down the busy street of Fillydelphia boulevard, I began to recite an old poem in my head I remembered from a book I read as a young boy
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little pony must think it queer,
To stop without a farmhouse near.
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his coat bells a shake,
And ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
somehow the poem seemed relevant to me at the moment, and I did have miles to go before I slept, and a promise to myself that I had to keep. I will find my own happiness, their was no doubt in my mind and it would be in Ponyville.

"One ticket to Ponyville, one way please" I said to the mare behind the ticket counter. She was an old mare with a gray mane and a dark blue coat. She glanced awkwardly over her round glasses at me.

"Twenty bits please" she asked in a casual tone. I placed the amount on the ticket counter.

"That train departs in twenty minutes." She printed off my ticket and slid it to me with a hoof before returning to her magazine.

"Have a nice day, sir." she said with one last look that suggested that she didn't encounter manny humans in her line of work, a sort of look that a pony might give to another pony with snakes coming out of there ears.

"Thank you too" I said in my most friendly tone.

I seized my ticket and luged my bags to platform 2B finding the throng of ponies seemed to dwindle as I got closer to my platform. I guess Ponyville wasn't a hot location or something. I reached my platform with sixteen minutes to spare, my hair hung down over my eyes in a haphazardly way, so I took one of my elastic hair ties from my pocket and secured the mess behind my head in a pony tail. I was so excited to begin my journey this morning that I had forgot to comb my wavy quaffer.
With my vision un obstructed now, I took a look around the platform and couldn't help but notice that almost every pony around me was casting awkward looks, most of them sideways glances but I couldn't help but also notice that they all were giving me a wide space.

"Im not going to blow up or anything" I thought to myself looking at my watch so it wouldn't seem like I was paying them any mind. I chanced a glance sideways and saw a family sitting on a bench against a wall, the mother was a green unicorn with a light blue mane. In her lap sat a little unicorn filly who shared her coat color but with an orange main and tail. Next to them sat the father, a dark brown earth pony with a short orange mane like his daughter.
The three of them sat passing the time with idle chat and the occasional shared laughter. They looked so happy together and in the back of my mind I wondered if someday I would have something like that. A smile crept across my face at the prospect of such a warm, happy future. The screeching of train wheels broke my concentration as I realized that my train had arrived. "Ok this is it" I said to myself reaching down to take hold of my luggage, I looked over my shoulder toward the city of fillydelphia and gave a single nod as a silent farewell. Somewhere in that city my past was buried. My parents, the reason why they abandoned me. Many unanswered questions within the brick and concrete. But I've always preferred to keep the past where it belonged, behind me. Ahead of me awaited a new beginning, a new world, and the chance at a life Ive dreamt of since I was small. "Once more into the breach dear friends."

It was dark and cold, I shivered from my hands down to my toes. I wasn't myself. I was a small boy and I was all alone shivering in the dark. Slowly I moved forward calling out for somepony, anypony to please help. But there was nothing, only darkness and cold. My eyes began to tear and I dropped to my knees warping my arms around myself to try and fight the bitter cold, but still I shook. The moisture from my eyes threatening to turn to ice as it rolled now freely down my cheeks. Was I going to die? Was this how it would all end? Without knowing love or warmth. No pony would even attend my funeral, who could morn something like me?
Just as I was about to lie down and await cold death to claim me, a flash occurred in the sky above me. My eyes shot up to behold an amazing sight. A circle of a dozen colors expanding into a huge booming halo overhead, and from its center a brilliant ray of rainbow light shot down at me. The moment it touched me I was bathed in a warmth I had never felt before. It was almost like this light was touching my insides, and all of a sudden, I didn't feel cold or scared anymore.

I stood upright, and looked up at the multi colored light, but found it was to bright to look directly at. The circle of colors continued to expand and as it did it caused a low rumble in its wake. It was subtle, but it seemed to echo into my bones. Just then I heard something, it was a voice. A voice I had never heard before but it was soft and kind, it seemed to come from inside me. I closed my eyes and tried to focus on it to try and decipher what it was saying, slowly it started to come to me clearer and clearer tell it was just on the verge of my understanding.
"Cain" the voice said. It sounded so soft and gentle, like how I imagine a mother would speak to her foal. I wanted to listen to it forever, a voice full of love and compassion and it was speaking to me.
When I opened my eyes, I was greeted by the interior of a train car. The rumbling of wheels on track was faint in the background. I was dreaming, but of what? I remembered it being scary at first but something told me it was good towards the end. I shook off the thought, noticing that in my slumping my hair was a mess again. I removed my hair band and re arranged the wavy locks back again, securing them with the elastic band. I let out a deep sigh and took a look out the window to my right, we must be far from the city by now on account of the trees becoming forests that gave way to rolling grassy hills and flower filled meadows.
I placed my head against the glass of the window and caught a glimpse of my face in its reflection, I prided myself on being an optimist but sometimes I couldn't help but wonder why in Equestria I hadn't just been born a pony like everypony else.
Maybe then I wouldn't have to live such a difficult life.
But enough of that, it was time to start looking forward to my new life and my new home. Right on cue the outline of a small town appeared just over the horizon. It almost seemed to shimmer in the noonday sun. In its background, large mountains seemed to vault against the sky, one of which held the city of Canterlot which shined like a golden star. I felt anxious and just a little bit nervous, I had never left Filly in my life, what was Ponyville like? Would the other ponies their welcome me or just throw trash at me like in the city?
Only one way to find out I thought as the train came to a steady halt at the station. I rose from my seat, took a deep breath, and garbed my bags from the overhead storage. It wasn't much, but it sure felt heavy. I had packed what was left of my stuff after selling what I couldn't take with me. My whole life was in those bags, which wasn't much to gasp about. Some blankets, a couple dishes, cups, cutlery, a pillow, and three or four books. Aside from a few odds and ends and my clothes from the apartment. I had enough bits though to get myself some modern comforts for my new home.
I stepped out of the train car and walked through the small cover of the tinny train station. Greeting me was Ponyville. One large building stood like a tower in the center of the town which I assumed was town hall. The sun was bright and the sky was dotted with puffy white clouds. A grey pegasus pony carrying a mail bag zipped by my view and I followed it with my eyes, taking in the town.
It was peaceful, quaint, and a lot quieter than the city I had just come from. Ponies were roaming around doing their daily business, and seemed to be enjoying this lovely day as well. I stepped off from the station steps and retrieved the piece of paper from my pocket which had the directions to my new home written on it. I wasn't to far from my destination at all turns out, I returned the slip of paper to my pocket and garbed my bags. "Well, this is it" I said to myself as I began walking toward my new house.

So fare it was going well, no pony was giving me harsh looks or slinging insults or trash at me but most everypony I passed did look at me as if they had never seen something like me before. Especially one particular mare. She was an off cream color with a purple and pink mane and three pieces of candy as her cutie mark. She stepped back a good three paces as I passed her

"Hello" I said to her with a smile for the sake of making a good impression. She didn't respond but that was to be expected. It was going to take some time for the citizens to warm up to the idea of sharing their town with a human.
So I continued on. Ahead of me was a small house with a thatch roof and a brick chimney coming out from a red brick body.
It was by no means the most swanky home on the block but it looked cozy. In a rush of excitement I ran up to the little house and stood just in front of the arched dark wood door. I dropped my bags at my sides and gently placed my right hand on the rough worn surface of the door. It was time to introduce myself.

"Hello, my name is Cain" I said softly to the silent home before me.

"I guess were going to be living together from now on. But don't worry, I promise to take good care of you." Maybe it was just me, but the old house seemed to feel warmer under my palm. As if it was overjoyed to have someone live in it again.
The yard was surprisingly well kept, it had a variety of flowers around the property line in all different colors, and the grass was short and springy. I looked forward to tending it in the future but right now I had to get inside. I quickly located the rock next to the door, underneath was the small bronze key to the front door as indicated by the real-estate agent in the confirmation letter she had sent. The lock clicked as I turned the key and the door slid open with a creek.
I stepped into the sunlit entryway of my new home and was instantly greeted with a big surprise. A chair, a sofa, and tables, the living room was furnished! And not shabbily either, their was a lush red upholstered couch and matching hoof chair, as well as a dark brown wood coffee table. The pony who lived hear before must have left it all when they moved out. To the right just behind the chair was a median sized circular window. Outside I could see the house of the ponies that lived next door, maybe latter I could introduce myself and hopefully they wont slam the door in my face like my old neighbors in Filly had.
I continued my self tour of the house, next with the kitchen which was connected to the living room. It was a little cramped but had plenty of space for me to move around and I couldn't wait to cook my first meal in it. Somewhat modest, with a refrigerator, an oven slash stove top, a variety of shelfs and drawers, as well as a small pantry. Next to the kitchen a short hallway lead to a door, to the left of that was another door against the wall of the hallway. I strode down the hall and peered through the door at the end to reveal a modest but spacious bathroom. Not much to speak of, toilet, sink, and a somewhat short bathtub along with a brass shower head. I flicked the switch next to the door and the light bulb sprung to life. A small layer of dust was on the surfaces of the sink and medicine cabinet. I would have to clean that up latter, but for now I turned off the light and went to inspect what was behind the other door. The old wood creaked as I gently pushed it open. The light from outside shined through the window onto the planks of the hardwood floor. The first thing to catch my attention was the bed in the middle of the room, it was a queen sized frame with a mattress to boot! My luck just got better and better. A new home fully furnished and a big bed with mattress to go with it. I inspected the mattress more closely and sure enough it was almost brand new, not to mention free. I was really going to sleep good tonight.
In my excitement I hadn't noticed how stiff my arms and legs were. I rotated my left arm and heard a loud pop of the joint. Maybe I should take a walk to shake out the stiffness, and I did need to get familiar with the town and find out where I could buy something to eat as well.
So with that thought I grabbed my key and slipped out the front door closing it behind me. I clicked the lock and looked up at my new home.

"Ill be back latter ok" I whispered to my house before turning around, a gentle breeze brushed past me wiping through my hair and caressing my cheek. I sighed lightly at the refreshing gust, already feeling like this was the start of something good.
Across the street their was a dark pink earth pony mare with a green and white mane, the house behind her was one that looked somewhat like my own. Next to her was a little dark green colt with a matching mane, he was desperately trying to catch a butterfly by jumping up and down repeatedly. It was cute to say the least, but I soon noticed that his mother was eyeing me with a look like I was a manticore dressed like a clown, dancing in front of her. I flashed my nicest smile and gave her a wave.

"Good afternoon." I called out to the confused mare. She just watched me silently, but her colt who had also taken notice of me was now waving a hoof with a gleeful expression on his little face. The pink mare quickly raised a hoof and lowered the waving one of her colt.
The mare watched me closely as I began to walk down the cobble stone path of my new neighborhood. No doubt taking the little colt back into their home once I was out of sight. Like I said, it was going to take time.
The streets of Ponyville were just as nice and peaceful as I had imagined them to be. Their were ponies eating lunch at a local restaurant, (a good place to inquire about possible employment maybe). Their were ponies shopping at local stores, or going about their daily jobs. The streets were lined with street lights and every house and building seemed to shine with happiness. My eyes caught sight of the cream colored mare I had seen earlier today. She was in the middle of purchasing some scrolls from a pony at a street cart when she suddenly dropped one of her bits on the ground in front of her. Slowly she bent over to retrieve it with her mouth. Her rump pointing up in the process. Now living in Equestria, its completely normal to see nudity on a daily basis. But being human meant that I had to wear clothes, (custom made of course) to cover myself. One might think that Id be used to seeing pony rump's, but something about seeing a mare bent over with her flank in the air was very tempting, especially when they'd flick their tails slightly to the side as if to give me a quick look at their smooth slits and tight anuses just under their soft tails.
The cream colored mare swished her tail from side to side giving me just the slightest glimpse of her soft cream colored snatch, and her puckered pink asshole. Whats more, she started moving her rump from side to side as she tried to reach her lost bit. Thoughts flashed through my mind of her on my bed doing the same thing, beckoning me to move behind her and rut her as hard as I could until I added my own cream to her already creamy coat.
AH! what was I thinking? I had to get some air, and away from the sight of that mares ass. I darted away at a brisk walk, trying my hardest to shake the image of the mares round inviting rump from the forefront of my mind. I had just moved to Ponyvill today. I had to make a good impression, and ogling like some perverted old stallion was not the way to do that.
The last thing I wanted was for the ponies of Ponyville to think that I was some sex crazed human. My thought process was interrupted when I noticed that something soft was under my feet.

Grass, I was standing on some very green well trimmed grass.
(Hay at least it had taken my mind off pony ass right?) I took in my surroundings and soon realized that I was indeed in a park. I took a cursory glance around and before me was a beautiful pond with crystal clear water and ducks drifting about on its surface. Stretching from one end of the pond to the other a bridged arched over the surface of the water.
It looked like the picturesque place for a summer picnic, if only I had somepony to share it with. "Sigh" oh well we will just have to see now wont we? I thought to myself. I looked around a bit more taking in the pristine nature all around me. But something stood out to me, it was in the sky so I looked up. The sun was at my back and above me starting from the top of the mountain that Canterlot sat on and arching down into the valley below was one of the brightest rainbows I had ever seen in my life. It seemed to radiate an inner light, but something else about it kept me transfixed, like I had seen it somewhere before but just couldn't put my finger on it.
Oh what was it? I know I've seen something like it recently. My mind conjured images of the train car that had brought me to Ponyville, and then just like that it finally hit me. And I felt so stupid for not remembering sooner.
I had seen a rainbow or something like one in my d-

just then before I could finish my train of thought, something came at me out of right field. It was to fast for me to catch a glimpse of, and before I knew what was going on I was flat on my back being dragged along the grass and dirt until I began to form a small crater around me. Which finally brought me to a halt.

Ow, was I could think. It felt like I had just been hit by a carriage being pulled by four burley stallions, galloping at full speed. I was sure that I was going to feel this tomorrow morning.
Their was a cloud of thick dust all around me obscuring my vision, but I didn't need to see to know that I was on my back in a crater of dirt. I took a breath, realizing that the force of the impact had knocked the wind out of me but regretted it. I coughed hard as the thick dust in the air hit my lungs and tasted like, well, dirt.
But something other than the dust in the air kept me from getting a proper lung full of air. Something on top of me just over my chest to be precise. As the smoke began to clear and I raised my head to look closer at the meteorite that had seen fit to strike me down, I saw what it was that had hit me.

"Beautiful" was all I could think, but really I couldn't come up with an explanation of what was on top of me. It looked like the blue sky and a rainbow had conceived a child, a child that had fallen out of the sky and was now laying what seemed to be unconscious on top of me. It had wings of cyan blue feathers and rainbow hair. Yes rainbow hair! Upon closer inspection I saw that it also had a tail of the same coloring as its head.

"OH, your a pegasus pony" I whispered in a slightly pained voice to the sleeping pony on top of me. Still it was a sight to see, its mane was slightly messy maybe from the crash, but aside from that I was able to asses that it was indeed a female, because of her long eyelashes and feminine features.
Her mane was by far though the most interesting part of her. In all my life I had never seen any pony with such a mane color and I found myself wondering if it was in fact real, or maybe just some really well done dye job.
I reached up without thinking and took a small tuft of the orange part of her mane and ran it in-between my pointer finger and thumb to see if it felt slightly course or rough from a dye. But sure enough it was as smooth as the finest silks and as soft as fresh cotton. From where I lay on the ground, I could just detect the scent of her mane. It was subtle, but it smelt like fresh rain on a summers day, but slightly sweeter, more fragrant in a way.
All of a sudden a cyan blue hoof came up and swatted my hand away from the rainbow locks of hair.

"Hay!" an angry voice called out to me from on top of my chest. I looked down at the blue pegasus to see she had regained consciousness and was now glaring directly at me with angry rose colored eyes and teeth bearing.

"Who do you think you are!?" the pegasus demanded in a sort of gravely tomboyish tone. I noticed that her cheeks were slightly red, most likely from the anger she was feeling or could it have been because she was embarrassed? Before I could muster a reply she broke the temporary silence.

"I don't like other ponies touching my mane!" she scolded, now scrunching up her nose in an attempt to look tough. I fumbled for a response to try and right the misunderstanding, but all I could come up with was

"But I'm not a pony."

Smooth one dummy. Now she must think that your some kind of smart alec, and she is really pretty now that I can get a good look at her. She was indeed tomboyish with her rough short mane style and gravely voice. But something about her just radiated a different kind of feminine charm.
I half expected to get a hoof across the face, but instead the rainbow pegasus just looked me over with a mix of curiosity and scrutiny. After she had given me the once over she started to look more confused than angry.

"Are you new or something? Cuz I don't think I've ever seen you around town before." she asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Well actually i just moved hear today. Oh and sorry about touching your mane, that was rude of me." I said as friendly as I could in an attempt to get on the right track with this pretty mare on my chest.

"Oh don't worry about it. Just don't let it happen again ok? So wear did you live before moving to Ponyville?" She now was wearing a cheery smile and her rose colored eyes now took on a curious sparkle.

"Well I lived in Fillydelphia all my life, until just a few hours ago. By the way, I hate to be a bother, especially since we just met and all. But can I ask you to get off of me now please?"
The pegasus's face went from blue to cherry red in ten seconds flat, she instantly unfurled her wings and began to hover up off my still laying body.

"Uhh, sorry about the whole crashing into you thing. Their was this bird that I had to avoid. And well, you pretty much can guess what happened next."
She touched down gracefully on the grass next to me and began drawing circles on the ground with her hoof obviously feeling bad about what had happened.

"Oh, its no problem, I probably had it coming. For something or other." I told her in hopes that she would show that happy face of hers again.
She smiled wide up at me and tucked her wings onto her sides.

"My names Rainbow Dash." she said holding a hoof out to me,
well this was new, not only a pony that didn't look at me funny but a pony that was actually introducing herself to me like I was any other pony? I reached out my hand and grasped the extended hoof in front of me, feeling her soft plush coat under my fingers and giving it a shake.

"Im Cain, nice to meet you Rainbow Dash." rainbow dash looked at my hand in a sort of awkward way before I released it, and the inevitable question finally popped up.

"So umm, I was just curious but, well, what are you?" And their it was. Ok, moment of truth, she'll either run away, or she'll show that she's a nice girl and not act weird.

"Im a human actually." I said in a matter of fact way while giving her an. "its ok if you run off screaming" kind of smile. Several long seconds passed between us. Her on her hoofs next to me, and me still in my little crater, when finally she broke the silence.

"Oh, well.... Ok, welcome to Ponyville, Cain the human." She smiled down at me and at that moment my heart skipped a beat or two. I don't think that I was even breathing. At that moment she appeared to be the most beautiful mare in all of Equestria.

"Can I give you a hoof out of that hole?"

Her question snapped me out of my daze and i once again fumbled for an answer.

"Uh yeah, now that you mention it I think that my foot might be broken, OW! Yep, pretty sure its broken." Rainbow Dash's jaw dropped and she took on a sudden look of panic.

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh, I am sooooo sorry Cain, I didn't think that I ran into you that hard!"

Rainbow dash was obviously freaking out, so I thought that Id try to calm her a bit.

"Hey, hey, it was an accident. Don't worry about it, at least today wasn't boring right?" Rainbow dash's face softened a bit and she even let out a little chuckle.

"Heh heh, I like you Cain, and I cant wait to hang out again. But next time, Ill try not to break anything else, promise."

"Well thanks, I would really appreciate that." we both shared a laugh as the sun began to set over the horizon, I hadn't noticed that it had gotten so late but Ill tell you this, Rainbow Dashes sparkling eyes and happy smile in the warm light of a sunset is something I would happily break both legs to see again, "OW!" But right now I needed to get to a hospital before I passed out from pain.
The next ten or twenty minutes consisted of my new friend and me maneuvering for a way to get me up right on my one good foot. It was times like these that I wished that I had four feet to walk on like a pony. Once I was finally on my one good foot, I soon realized that I was about to fall over again when rainbow dash garbed my sleeve with her teeth and flung my arm over her shoulder while she hovered next to me acting as my crutch. She flashed me a warm smile as we slowly but surely made our way over the grassy knoll toward what I assumed was the closest hospital.
Rainbow dash was warm and she felt strong as she helped me limp along. I couldn't wait to get to know her better in the future. But somewhere in the back of my head I had a feeling that after this, I probably wouldn't see her again. Doesn't mean that I cant enjoy this nice moment with her right?

Author's Note

thanks for reading, the first chapter is always hard for me getting all that intro stuff out of the way. And now we can get this ball rolling, i don't want to give anything away but ive got some juicy stuff in store so thanks for reading and see you next time.

p.s. LONG LIVE PRINCESS TWILIGHT!

Becoming friends?

Becoming friends?Thousands of years ago (Celestia only knows how long ago exactly) ponies were slaves to the human race. They were dark times. Ponies suffered without end at the end of either the whip, or the grueling heat as they toiled under burning sun or biting cold under their human masters rule. Year after year ponies were forced to plow fields, haul heavy equipment, with only the promise of death when they became to old to work or if they should get injured from serving their greedy masters. Parents were powerless as their foals were ripped from their hooves and sold into servitude.
Unicorns with their magic not fully developed to the point that they are today were made to live as pets to spoiled human children or forced to do tricks at side shows, the humans in their fear put down any that showed potential for greater power, or would saw off the horn completely as a warning to all ponies who would oppose, While pegasus having the great gift of flight could do nothing but watch from the clouds as their fellow ponies suffered and prayed to the sun and the stars for freedom and salvation.
History gets fuzzy around this point, for it was so long ago. Some ponies say that a great uprising accord, added by the pegasus ponies. In this way it is said that afterward the now liberated ponies decided to be more merciful to their former masters and let the surviving humans go free.
The other way tells of three powerful beings that freed the enslaved ponies. The first was a pony that shone like the sun, the other was one that whore a vail of the night sky, and a creature (the last of its kind) that held great and terrible power.

But that was a long time ago, regardless of this fact, old prejudices die hard. (as they say)

I slowly opened my eyes to catch the first glimpses of the celling tiles of a white, sterile hospital room. My head hurt slightly as I slowly sat up, pushing back the thin hospital sheets.
The sun had just barley peeked over the horizon as a white mare with a light pink mane and a nurses hat on gently opened the door to the small hospital room.
"sleep well mr. Cain?" The mare asked with a cheery smile. Aside from her smile I could tell she had been working all night from the dark bags under her eyes, WAIT! wait, hold up, Im getting ahead of myself let me rewind back a bit.

The day prior.
After mine and Rainbow dash's "run in" and brief moment of getting acquainted, she had insisted on helping me hobble my way to the local Ponyville hospital. She hovered next to me at shoulder level with my arm over her back as we gimped along through the ever darkening streets of Ponyville.
The street light cast shadows of us as we passes under their warm glow. The contrast between filly and Ponyville was evident in that moment, it was completely silent. Only the sound of crickets sounded in the distance and the rustle of leaves as a gentle breeze blew through their branches.
We didn't speak much, I was to focused on trying to walk straight but more so by rainbow dashes body being in such close proximity to my own. Her wings felt strong as they beat gently only a few inches behind my back and her body was warm and soft but firm at the same time. Her hoof held on tight to my hand on the other side of her shoulder in an attempt to hold me up, and I was sure I was blushing at that moment (thank you darkness).
My mouth was getting dry as i tried to think of something to say to her but not coming up with anything good.
Nice night? no no! that sounded lame even to me, she'd think I was a looser for sure!
"I........I.....like your hair."
The comment hit me out of the blue, did she really just say that? I looked in Rainbow dashes direction as she quickly darted her head off to the right. Was she trying to strike up a conversation like I was trying to? And in the process get embarrassed from what she said?

"She is so so so cute!" I thought to myself quickly thinking of a response.

"Thanks, but its nothing compared to that rainbow you have for a mane and tail." I replied returning my gaze to the path in front of me.
Rainbow dash feeling better about her somewhat dorky complement of my quaffer let out a little giggle and returned her own gaze to the same path as me.

"Oh ya this, I guess you could call it a gift from my old man." She stated with a hint of sadness towards the end that I never did understand.
"You ok?" I asked feeling a bit concerned at her slight drop in mood.
"Oh, ya im fine its just, well........ok this might sound a little silly but, sometimes I get the feeling that I had......... another dad. But whenever I try to remember what that means its all just, blank." Rainbow dash looked at me with a puzzled look as though somehow I could explain it to her.
I searched my thoughts for someway to comfort her quandary but all I could come up with was
"Huh."
"Heh heh, sorry for bringing it up, I told you it was silly." Rainbow dash said looking back down at the dirt path, it felt like she was trying to cast off the subject but I decided to drop it to and give her space on the matter, Celestia knows I also had some parent issues as well (or lack their of) but I could have sworn that I heard her say "daddy" under her breath as the night air breezed past us and we continued on.
We finally reached Ponyville hospital which from what I could see was a lot smaller than the hospitals in Fillydelphia.
It was a modest two story professional looking building with the picture of a red cross for its sign. Rainbow dash and me gimped in through the front doors reviling the waiting lobby.
The walls were painted a lime green color and a long wood bench with green seat cushions stretched from the door along the wall to the receptionist desk.
As we entered a white earth pony mare with a light pink mane looked up from the desk and she quickly darted around to wear we stood.

"Goodness what happened?" The nurse asked, her care giver instincts kicking in.
Rainbow dash continued to hover in place as she took on a look like that of a filly about to tell her mother how she broke a vase.

"Well I was out training when some stuff happened and long story short, I think his...uh what did you call it again?"

"Foot" I told her raising the appendage in question for emphasis.

"Ya that, might be broken" Rainbow dash concluded with a wry smile.
The white nurses face quickly looked like she had heard this story all before and didn't look amused,

"Miss dash!" she stated in a way that said mother might scold said filly after such a lame explanation of how a perfectly good vase was now in pieces on the floor.

"This is not the first time you have come to us with broken this or that, but it is the first that you have brought us somepo-."
She paused for a moment to correct herself.

"Human" I interjected.
"Er human, with an injury that you caused!" the nurse concluded giving Rainbow Dash an un-approving glare.

"Ya it was my bad, sorry to make you work harder nurse Red Heart." Rainbow Dash concluded apologetically.
I decided to jump in to try and save the awkward moment.

"It was my fault ma'am, I wasn't watching wear I was going." I explained to the mare.

"Uh huh" nurse Red heart replied obviously not buying it. She then trotted over to the reception desk and pulled out a clip board with a slip of paper and a pen before trotting back over to wear me and my companion stood.

"Well anyway, Ill just need to get some basic information from you and then I can take a look at your hoof, oh I mean your foot."
She pulled the pen from the clip board and prepared to wright. "Ok your name please." She asked in a slightly more chipper tone than before.

"Its Cain ma'am", she jotted the information down quickly before looking back at me.
"Age please"

"Im twenty" I replied trying not to think about how much my foot actually hurt.
The questions continued as nurse Red heart continued to scribble down the information I gave her, ranging from hight, birth date, address and so on. When she had finally concluded her questions she then turned her attention to Rainbow dash.

"Allright then, miss Dash, all I need now is for you to sign next to the X at the bottom."
Rainbow Dash looked slightly taken back by what the nurse was requesting of her.

"Huh, why do you need me to sign?" she asked.
Nursed Red heart rolled her eyes a bit at what she thought should be obvious.

"You brought him in miss Dash, that means your responsible for him. Its just standard procedure." Nurse Red heart explained giving her bit of a glare.

"Oh, ok then" Rainbow dash responded with a bit of a smile. Nurse Read heart passed the clip board and pen in Rainbow dashes direction and.

"Could you get that for me please?" Rainbow dash asked realizing that both her hoofs were full. I took the board and pen from the nurse and held the pen up to Rainbow dashes mouth for her to take.
Her delicate lips parted and she leaned forward gently grasping the righting utensil between her teeth, being so close I could see just how soft and delicate her lips really looked, and her hair gently brushed past my cheek giving me another whiff of fresh, sweet sumer rain.

"Fanksh", she mumbled through the pen between her teeth. I held the board up to her and she quickly scratched down her name next to the indicated X before I passed the board back to the white mare standing before us.

"Very good, Mr. Cain if you would like to have a seat Ill be right back with a wheel chair so I can take you to get examined."
Nurse Red heart gave a quick smile before she cantered off down the hall.
Rainbow dash helped me over to the bench and dropped down slowly as I sat on one of the green cushions. She then took a seat next to me and a silence soon washed over the waiting room.

"Sorry again about, you know what happened." Rainbow dash said apologetically rubbing her foreleg with the other and looking at the floor with a sad expression.

"I told you not to worry about it, accidents will happen." I looked over at her but she didn't look up, she seemed tough but I could tell that deep down she had a lot of emotion just waiting to be let out.

"I may not look it but I am pretty tough you know, one little crash from a pretty pegasus won't keep me down long." Celestias hoof! did I just blurt out that I thought that she was pretty? (well to be fair "gorgeous" was more accurate)
Rainbow dashes cheeks flashed a light shade of pink and she quickly looked over at me with a slightly shocked look on her face, her mouth partly open.

"We-well I-I guess next time Ill just have to try harder then wont I? heh heh." she blurted out bringing a hoof to the back of her head in an attempt to look cool.
So hoofing cute.
Nurse Red heart returned a few minutes latter pushing a wheel chair with her forelegs and placed it next to where I sat on the bench. Rainbow dash got onto her hoofs and held out a foreleg to help me maneuver into the chair, I held onto her hoof and found that she was in fact very strong as she had no trouble at all helping to lift me from my seat into my new mode of transportation.

"Thanks for the help Rainbow dash." I said looking over at the blue mare to my left.

"Oh don't mention it, it was the least I could do after what happened right?" Rainbow dash looked up at me with her rose colored eyes and in them I saw something that I had never seen in a pony that ever looked at me.
They weren't filled with fear or hate or a sense of caution like one might show to a potential threat. But instead they were filled with concern and a happy glimmer. I wanted to hold that look in my memory forever, so that I could look back on it when times were dark or sad.
But like all good things it came to an end as nurse Red heart began to wheel me back to the hallway that no doubt led to the exam room. She stopped when we reached the reception desk and she trotted behind it to retrieve another form. I turned the chair to my right and looked over to the door expecting to see Rainbow Dash as she was leaving. But instead I beheld as I saw her siting on her haunches in the middle of the room, a sheepish smile on her face and now a sad look had come to her rose colored eyes. She almost looked like a little puppy watching as her owner left for work, and it pained me in a way I didn't understand at the time.
"Hay come on, don't look like that. I told you I'm fine, You should get home, its getting late. Thanks again Rainbow dash." I said trying to distract her from the blues she looked to be feeling. Her eyes kept the somber appearance but she nodded her head slowly and looked down at the floor tiles.
I was about to turn my chair back towards the hall when suddenly she called out.

"Cain?"
I quickly looked back over to the sky blue pegasus to see her eyes had regained their happy sparkle and her smile had widened more.

"Ya?" I replied a little taken aback to hear her say my name out loud.

"You can call me Rainbow." she stated widening her smile a little more.
What? did I hear that right? did she just give me, a human who ponies usually feared, spat on, or avoided like the plague, permission to call her by her first name?

"Ill remember that" was all I could think to say.
Nurse Red heart returned with a slip of paper held between her teeth and she began to push the chair off down the hall.

Good bye Rainbow, was what I thought as the space between us grew wider. It was better this way, living in a small town would only cause trouble for her if she were seen with a human, and I couldn't bear to see a sweet mare like her go through the same loneliness and ostracization that I had.

We were after all, humans I mean, the most unlovable and evil creatures in all of equestria.

Nurse Red heart and I finally made it into the small exam room at the end of the hall and I proceeded to remove the shoe (custom made of course) on my now swollen foot.

"Ok mr. Cain just relax and well see what the damage is, so to speak. Luckily I happen to have studied some human anatomy in my last year of university."
She let out a small giggle and raised my foot to get a better look at it.

"Im in your lovely care my good lady." I said turning on the charm. Just because I wasn't popular with mares didn't mean that I didn't know how to flatter them when the mood struck me. Now if only I could have used it more on Rainbow Dash, Oh, I mean Rainbow. But their was something about her that made me want to do more than just lay on cornball lines in an attempt to strike up a conversation.
But what did it matter now right? She was gone and hopefully she had done herself a favor and forgotten about me, but I knew for a fact that I would never forget her.
It turned out that my foot wasn't broken but a couple of toes were, thank goodness. Waiting on a busted foot to heal would greatly slow down my search for a new job and my inheritance wouldn't last forever.
Nurse Red heart bandaged up my toes after "re aligning" them in the most excruciating way possible and told me that shed like for me to stay overnight so that she could check on it in the morning. I begrudgingly accepted after much scowling from her.

"Ok then, before I take you to your room Ill give you some herbs for the pain." she said with more than a hint of exhaustion in her voice, she must have been working all day and would probably be at it tell morning from what she said about looking at my foot then.
She turned away from where I sat facing her and propped herself up on her back hoofs as she rummaged through a medicine cabinet on the wall. My eyes slowly drifted from where she was busy looking for the herb down her curved white back down to the red cross she had as her cutie mark and rested squarely on her rump which was sticking out as she leaned against the wall.
Her light pink tail curved outward slightly and from my sideways angle I caught just enough of a glimpse of her tight puckered anus. It was a light pink color and blended in almost perfectly with her white coat, I found that my foot didnt hurt so much any more but my jeans were starting to get tighter around my waist.
Her flank swayed from side to side and her pink tail followed like it was waving at me to touch the delights within. just then Nurse Red hearts shapely butt was replaced by one that was cyan blue and was accented by a rainbow tail. but this rump was a little smaller and much more toned and had shapely athletic legs connected to it. like an echo I heard Rainbows voice in my head, she was saying my name like she had before but this time it was with a sound of lust and urgency, as if she was begging for me to bend her over and take her.

"Ok hear we go," Nurse Red heart said spinning around and making me have a mini heart attack. I tried to regain my composure as she approached me with a blue bottle in her hoof.

"Are you all right mr. Cain? your all red."
Im sure that I was, after what I had just imagined.

"Oh! yes, I'm fine, just a little tired I guess, it has been a long day." I looked away from her in fear that she would be able to see what I had been thinking if she looked into my eyes.

"Well just take some of this and Ill get you all settled in for the night ok?"
I swallowed hard on the horrible tasting herb trying not to gag on it as I chocked it down. Afterward nurse Red heart wheeled me up to the second floor and into one of the patient rooms, their were two beds and not much else.
Nurse Red heart produced a large green hospital gown that looked more like a curtain than a gown (since their were mostly only ones for ponies) and stepped out of the room while I got changed. She then helped me into bed and turned off the lights as she left.

"Sleep well mr. Cain" she said in a warm tone.

"Thanks for all the help ma'am." Nurse Red heart flashed me a sweet smile before shutting the door and trotting off down the hall.
Alone now in the dark and silence of my hospital room I closed my eyes and awaited sleep to come but found that instead of the darkness behind my eyelids, all I could see was Rainbow smiling back at me, not a bad way to fall asleep.

PRESENT DAY
Nurse Red heart woke me up bright and early the next morning and I sat up groggily pushing back the hospital sheets from my upper body.

"Sleep well mr. Cain?" nurse Red heart asked sounding more tired than last night, I couldn't help but admire her devotion and fortitude, being a cook I knew a thing or two about working crazy hours.

"I did, thank you" I stated in reply even though I had some rainbow colored trouble falling asleep. Nurse Red heart asked me to take a few steps to see if I was able to walk properly.
I was in fact able to walk more straight today even though my toes still hurt a little bit.

"Well then mr. Cain, your free to go but don't hesitate to come back if you should have any other troubles, oh and hears some more herbs for any pain you may still have."
She passed me a small blue bottle containing the bad tasting prescription and I took it cringing at the thought of taking another dose of the terrible stuff.

"Thank you so much for all your help ma'am, sorry to trouble you."
Nurse Red heart gave me a tired smile and waved a hoof dismissively.

"Its no trouble at all it is my calling, and actually you were the last patient I had to take care of so now I'm off." She stated with another smile.
After my farewell to nurse Red heart I got dressed in my street clothes and began to slowly make my way down the hall toward the stairs. I wondered if Rainbow had made it home alright but realized that I wasn't back on the mean streets of fillydelphia.
With some small difficulty I was able to negotiate the stairs and started toward the lobby I had come in through the night before. I would have loved to talk to Rainbow more and find out more about her but like I said this was for the better.
She had shown me things that no pony had ever before, kindness, caring, and most of all her smile. I would never forget that for one brief moment somepony had cared.
But despite my affirmation about how this was for the best, why did I feel so bad about it? It was like when I left my old apartment in filly, it was sad to have to leave but at the same time it was something I had to do.
Why did I always feel the need to do the right thing at the expense of my own feelings? Why couldn't I just be selfish and take what I wanted?
Enough of that Cain, today is a new day and I have a new life to start and I can't be getting down about my emotional hang ups, and I certainly can't let myself get distracted by some kamikaze rainbow peg...a...sus.
The lobby had the morning sunlight beaming in through the glass windows shining on the form of a cyan blue pegasus pony with a rainbow main and tail and a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt as its cutie mark. The pony was sitting on its haunches leaning back against the wall as it slept with a look of content on its face.
Rainbow? what was she doing hear? wait, theirs no way that she slept hear last night waiting for me is their?
I slowly walked up to her sleeping form at the bench and crouched down on one knee in front of her.
Her chest slowly rose and fell in time with her soft breathing. She looked so peaceful and at that moment of just us two I wanted to reach out and touch her coat.
Feel the soft texture of her plush blue coat against my fingers but being the gentleman that I am I decided not to.
Then I thought to perhaps just leave her sleeping and go home but something told me that wouldn't be very nice. Maybe it was my curiosity at why she was asleep in the hospital she had brought me to. But the other half of me was just happy to see her again and wanted to talk to her some more.
I reached out and lightly took hold of her shoulder giving it a gentle shake.

"Rainbow.....Rainbow wake up."
Rainbow began to stir on the bench and I scooted back a few inches.

"Uhhh...ummm... five more minutes." she mumbled opening her eyes only a crack before she shifted to her side.
All of a suden her eyes shot open and she swiftly shifted her head right at me a happy sparkle soon enveloping them.

"Cain! are you ok hows your hoof? or foot I mean."
Was she really that worried about me?

"Its fine, thanks for asking, just a flesh wound really." I said with a smile in reply, Rainbow hoped onto her hoofs and returned my smile with one of her own.

"Glad to hear it, guess you really are a tough one huh?"
I took on a bit more of a serious look as I asked the question that was tapping at me.

"Rainbow, why are you hear? you didn't sleep hear last night did you?"
Rainbow looked at me like I had just asked her who princess Celestia was and her face turned a light red.

"W-well, nurse Red heart did say last night that I was responsible for you right? I wouldn't leave you hanging after agreeing to that."
It sounded like a silly sentiment but it was one born from a good heart, I shouldn't have expected anything less from her.

"Sooooo since your good to go maybe I can walk you home? if thats cool with you that is." Rainbow asked with a shy sort of inflection.

"Id like that very much, if thats cool with you, that is" I replied with a bit of sarcasm.
We shared a short laugh before taking to our feet and hoofs and walking outside the hospital to greet the sunny day before us.
I looked down at Rainbow and she looked up at me her eyes closed and a big smile across her cheeks that brought one to my own before we began our walk back to ponyville proper.
The streets of ponyville were alive with ponies going about their day in the early spring as me and Rainbow made our way to my home. Rainbow hovered next to me as I recalled the directions back to my humble abode. But I soon took notice that Rainbow seemed a bit uncomfortable as we passed the other ponies on the street.

"Hay uh, Cain?" Rainbow said with an inquisitive tone.

"Whats up, you ok?" I asked looking to my left at her as her eyes darted around at the other ponies.

"Do I have something stuck to my face?" She asked turning her face toward mine for me to inspect.

"Nope, why do you ask?"

"Well, maybe its just my imagination, but it feels like everypony is staring at me." I couldn't help but laugh a little at her innocence, but after she gave me an irritated look I told her.

"Their not staring at you Rainbow, their staring at me." I explained in a mater of fact way.

"But why, are humans so rare that everypony stares at you like that?"
I gazed down at the ground and knew that sooner or latter shed either find out or I would have to tell her myself so I decided on the latter dreading what that could mean for me and my newly acquired friend.

"Ill tell you when we get to my place Rainbow."I stated in a serious tone that Rainbow must have picked up on. We walked for a little bit before Rainbow broke the silence.

"Soooooo, if you dont mind me asking what did you do for a living in Fillydelphia? Her inflection perked up as she asked.

"Well, I worked as a cook at a couple of restraints actually."
Rainbows face lit up instantly at my reply her wings fluttering slightly faster than before.

"Really you can cook? Thats awesome! What can you make?" Rainbow's barrage of questions kind of shocked me, it wasn't that big of a deal to call it "awesome" but I humored her anyway.

"I can make a vegetable wrap with sautéed carrots fried rice and roasted red peppers that I think is-."

Just then a loud grumble came from the pit of Rainbows taunt stomach region that broke my train of thought and made Rainbows face turn three shades of red in a heartbeat.

"Uhhh, sorry, guess I haven't eaten at all today, heh heh" Rainbow rubbed the back of her head with a hoof giving me a sheepish smile and rubbing her stomach with the other hoof. I took the roaring of her stomach as a great complement and decided to reward her by offering the blue pegasus something to eat.

"Tell you what, show me where the market is and Ill make you lunch"
Rainbow beamed me a smile and took my hand in her hoof dashing off down the street at a speed I almost couldn't keep up with. Those herbs didn't sound so bad now.
We came to the market and I almost fell over when Rainbow came to an abrupt halt. The market was without a doubt the most charming one I had ever seen. Much more peaceful than the crowded super markets back in fill, it felt more like a farmers market than anything with fresh fruits and vegetable stands as well as home goods such as cookware as well as hoof made dishes and stuff.
Shopping around with Rainbow was like a dream I had always had, we laughed and talked like we were old friends getting re acquainted, I didn't even notice the other ponies stares as we made our way from the different stands. I wondered if this was what it was like to be on a date, having never known the act myself.
We finished our shopping after I had an adequate amount of ingredients and cookware needed to prepare our lunch, it hadnt even cost me forty bits for all the stuff I had bought although I had to relinquish a small hand full to one stand owner who asked for six bits in exchange for two tomatoes and I had to hold off Rainbow before she was able to pummel the stand owner for demanding such a steep cost but lets face it calling Rainbow a "loudmouth tomboy" was going a bit far.
Once I was able to calm down Rainbow, we gathered the bags and made the short walk back to my house.
once we were at the front door I placed the bags I was holding and put my hand on the firm wood door. Rainbow hovered behind me with, im sure a puzzled look on her face.

"Hay sorry, I know I said that Id be back soon but some stuff happened, don't worry though Im ok." I said softly to the silent building.

"Cain, what in Equestria are you doing?" Rainbow asked raising an eye brow at my strange custom.

"Heh, sorry, old habit I guess." I pulled my key from my pocket and unlocked the door before grabbing my bags and letting myself in and stepping to the side to let Rainbow float through the entrance.

"I know its not much but welcome anyways." Rainbow took a few looks around the modest room before she turned to me with an approving smile.

"Nice place ya got hear, so tell me, had any mares over yet?" She asked with a sly grin and a nudge of her hoof to my arm.

"Actually your the first" I responded in a tone that said that I had no idea what she was talking about.
She was so easy to tease. Right after I told her that her face burned bright pink and she began to fumble with a response.

"W-w-well this is my first time for me to......I -I-I mean this is the first time, you know being in a guys house and all."
She began to draw circles on the floor with a hoof and at that moment I really wanted to hug her and tell her that she didn't have to act tough with me. But I had something to tell her, something that would probably mean that I would be eating lunch alone today as usual. I took a seat on the couch before looking over at Rainbow still drawing circles with her hoof.

"Hay Rainbow, theirs something I need to talk to you about can you sit down for a second?" Rainbow looked up at me with a small amount of worry in her eyes like she was about to get some bad news.

"Oh ya, ok" she said flapping her wings to pick herself up off the floor and positioning herself over the chair to my left before dropping into it with a flop.

"Whats up is everything ok?" she asked in a way that implied she knew everything was not ok. Not being one to beat around the bush I decided to get right to the point.

"Rainbow, I don't think you should hang around me anymore." The ten words that came out of my mouth hurt like pulling a fish hook out of my tong, but not as much as the look she gave me after I was done saying them.
She looked like somepony had just told her that her cat died and I should have expected the question that followed.

"What, but why?" she asked with a hurt tone that stung me to my core.

"Rainbow look at me, I'm different, you saw how everypony in town was looking." Rainbow now took on a defensive glare narrowing her eyes at me a little.

"Ya so? your a human, I get that their aren't many of you around, but so what they'll get used to it, I mean may-"

"Rainbow, its not because I'm rare it's because of what I am." I sighed deep before I continued on.

"Not all ponies know this but manny do and the ones that don't have heard stories about it, long ago humans did terrible things to ponies." Rainbow looked at me wearily, almost as if she was scared to hear more.

"What do you mean terrible things?" she asked with a bit of hesitation.
I looked down at my hands and recalled the history that my ancestors had seen fit to curse me with.

"They made slaves of them Rainbow, beat them, whipped them, slaughtered them, took their foals and made them watch as they were sold and branded, cursed to live as slaves just like their parents. That is why they look at me funny, sure some of them just think I'm strange looking but most of them know what my ancestors did and they see that in me too."
I couldn't bring myself to look at Rainbow for fear that the look in her eyes would now see me as the monster everypony else did.

"Thats why you shouldn't hang around me, your a really nice mare, and Im grateful for all that you've done for me. But I cant ask you to become an outcast for my sake."
A long pause settled between us as I continued to stare down at my hands.

"Ill understand if you want to leave now." Almost as soon as I finished saying the last word I heard Rainbow flap her wings as she lifted off the chair she had been sitting in, I expected for her to flutter her way to the front door but was surprised when a soft warm body touched down next to me on the couch and a hoof gently rested on my hand.
I looked up to see rainbows face a few inches away from my own, her rosy eyes had a glimmer to them like she had been on the verge of tears and a warm smile stretched from ear to ear.

"You know Cain, you can be kinda dumb sometimes." I couldnt say anything, all I could do was stare blankly into the eyes of the beautiful mare that sat next to me.

"Cain, I told you when we met yesterday, I like you. I can tell that your a really nice guy, and I don't care about what humans did a thousand or so years ago, and even if I did your not like them." Rainbow squeezed my hand with her hoof and it felt like the rainbow colors of her mane were the first colors I had ever seen in my life.

"Your my friend, and I would never leave my friends hanging." Rainbow concluded with the same warm smile.
If I had never left filly I may have never met a more amazing and beautiful pony in all my life.
Unable to hold back the flood gates of emotion any longer I garbed the pony next to me and wrapped her in a tight hug.
Rainbow while hesitant at first soon opened her forelegs and returned the gesture patting the back of my head with a gentle hoof.
Tears fell from my eyes into her rainbow mane and we stayed like that for what felt like an eternity.
Until something that sounded like a manticores growl came from now my stomach and disturbed the tender moment between me and my new found........friend? yes friend.
We broke our hug and Rainbow looked at me with a big goofy smile, and I'm sure that I had one of my own.

"Hows about that lunch mr. professional chef?" Rainbow asked poking my stomach with a hoof.

"Coming right up miss. kamikaze rainbow." I replied with a sarcastic tone.
Me and rainbow got off the couch and I started making my first, "lunch with a friend"

Author's Note

Im sure a lot of you have read my little dashi, well........they say a girl look for a guy that reminds them of their father right?

Thanks for reading y'all I had fun writing this chapter and im so glad that my new story is doing better than my last one, I tried getting as much down between my crazy work schedule and regular army crap, cant wait to get started on the next chapter so ill see you then :)

What do you think of me?

What do you think of me?

It was almost three hours later, the fruit had died well, I made sure that their deaths were swift and without pain.

They were now arranged into new shapes of stars, moons, circles and diamonds, all arranged in cantaloupe halves that looked like decorative bouquets of fruit.

I was sitting on the couch sipping on a mug of tea and reading a copy of daring do, when I heard the creak of my bedroom door and a loud yawn of a pony that was no doubt Rainbow.

"Glad to see you among the living again," I said without taking my eyes off of my book.

"Yahhhhhn I slept like a filly," Rainbow said sounding now more refreshed.

I heard the clop of her hooves as she approached were I sat on the couch, I slipped the thunder crystal back into my pocket and turned around to greet Rainbow.

What I saw wasn't the mare that I had laid down in my bed.

Like a butterfly Rainbow had gone through some sort of transformation that had me at a loss for words,
Her mane was hanging down over half of her face in a sensual flow, her eyelashes were now longer and wavy.
As she walked her flanks swayed from side to side in a come hither way and she seemed to walk like a mare of poise and grace.

"Did you miss me?" she asked fluttering her eyelashes at me.

"Um-uh-ah-w-well" was all that I could get out.

"Whats the matter fun stuff, cat got your tong?" Rainbow asked as she flipped her mane with a hoof.

Just as she flipped her mane a powerful aroma hit me like a wave, it was sweet but pungent at the same time.
It smelt so good I had goos bumps in seconds and my mouth got dry making it hard to swallow.

"A-are you uh hungry?" I asked trying to sound as normal as possible in the presence of this goddess of beauty that stood before me.

"Famished," she said in a teasing way before she giggled like a school filly.

I shakily got up and moved over to the kitchen to retrieve our dinner of fruit, I couldn't help but watch as Rainbow walked over to the couch, her rump swaying back and forth as she climbed onto the couch with the grace of a cat.

What was going on and what happened to the pretty tom boy that had slept on my bed only a couple of hours ago?
Why did she smell so good now? and why did she look so sexy now?

I retrieved the two cantaloupe halves filled with the assorted fruits and brought them over to were the rainbow goddess sat idly on my couch.

"I-uh-thought maybe some fruit might help you regain some of your energy," I explained trying to sound as normal as possible.

Rainbow gazed dreamily down at the fruit before she bent down and picked up a strawberry with her tong. It was without a doubt one of the most erotic things I had ever seen, she closed her eyes before letting her tong fall from her open mouth to scoop up the red berry like it was a dollop of whipped cream.

She brought her head back up but kept her eyes closed, she let out a little moan as she chewed the fruit in her mouth before turning her sultry gaze at me.

It was like I was frozen, all I could do was stare back at her with a clueless look on my face, should I say something? or more importantly, what should I say?

"Its really good," she said in a seductive tone.

My heart was racing a mile a minute and it was getting hot in their.

We ate in almost complete silence their after and all the while that scent was hitting me like waves on a rock, every time I took a whiff I got dizzy.

What was it? No way it was perfume, it was too good, was it possible that Rainbow smelt that good naturally?

After we finished eating Rainbow hopped off the couch as I was putting the dishes in the sink, she stretched out in front of me like a cat would after a nap, stretching out she stuck her rump in the air while her front was low to the ground, she let out a low "mmmmmmmmmmmm" as she stretched.

She swished her tail as she stretched and I tried not to look but found that to be quite hard.

After all was said and done Rainbow thanked me for dinner and said that she was still a little tired, so she was headed home.
I opened the door for her and watched as she swayed her flank walking out.

Once she was outside she looked over her shoulder at me with half open eyes, and thats when it happened.
Rainbow flicked her tail to the side, but this was more than just a reflex she left her tail to the side for half of a minute giving me a perfect view of her tight round butt and just underneath was her smooth little slit.

Just as soon as I had rested my eyes on it it was gone as she unfurled her wings and took off into the darkening sky like a bullet.

I closed and locked the door and proceeded to press my back to the wood of the door and slump down to the floor.
My heart was racing and I was breathing heavily, my mind raced through the whole evening like a flashback. The image of Rainbow and her new sexier appearance flashed in front of me.

Was she coming onto me? or was she suffering from some kind of sickness?

And what about that smell, I tried to conjure what that smell could have been and just like that a single word floated through my brain.

"pheromones"

Was Rainbow throwing pheromones at me?

Their was no way that that was the case and if it were then she wasn't doing it on purpose.

It was late and all the confusion of the day had made me tired, so I decided to go to bed early.
I sat on the edge of my bed and felt that it was warm where Rainbow had fallen asleep, I pulled the thunder crystal out from my pocket and looked at it.

The flash that emanated from the spark inside the core was like a tinny beacon in my dark room, almost like a small ray of hope in the darkness.

I placed the crystal on my bedside table and plopped myself down on the soft warm mattress, I took in a deep breath and was filled with the same sweet smell of the rainbow colored mare that had slept their not long ago.

The sweet smell was intoxicating and I breathed deep of it as I slowly drifted off to sleep.

Best birthday ever.

A couple of days latter I was in the market buying some food for the week, I was just done buying some celery and on my way back home when I spotted a familiar blue and rainbow colored mare as she was walking between stands.

Rainbow, from a glance, looked like she had changed back from her goddess like appearance, her main was its normal messy tom boyish style and her walk was that of a regular pony again.

Good thing to, I don't think that I could have approached her if she still had looked like she had on the night of my birthday.

Slowly I approached her from the side.

"Hay Rainbow," I called out causing her to turn her head in my direction.

Her eyes lit up and a big smile spread from ear to ear as she came darting over to meet me half way.

"Cain!" She called out to me before she stopped just in front of me.

"Hay um, sorry about the other day." she said flattening her ears to her head and sounding apologetic.

"For what Rainbow?" I asked with a smile brushing a strand of hair away from my face.

"Well it was your birthday and all I did was cause you to worry, you even gave up your bed and made me dinner."

Rainbow looked dejectedly at the ground and I couldn't help but feel happy that she had thought about me at all.
I pulled on a chain around my neck, at the end of which hung the thunder crystal.
I had fashioned it into a necklace the day after my birthday, I wanted to keep it close to me always, so that I would never forget my friends kindness.

"Rainbow, you came to see me on my birthday, you even brought me a gift. Thats more than any pony has ever done for me in my whole life." Rainbow looked up at me, her main bounced a little with the movement.

Her eyes were soft and a sheepish smile was on her lips. She took note of the crystal that hung from my neck and she looked away a bit as her cheeks turned red.

"Awwwwwww it was nothing really, thats what friends do right?"

"You tell me, you're the one with the friend experience, right?" I asked with a hint of sarcasm.

Rainbow chuckled a little but quickly snapped back as if a big question had just hit her.

"Wait, you said your whole life?" she asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well, ya, my whole life. Why do you ask?"

"Didn't your folks ever throw you a party or get you a present on your birthday?"

It suddenly dawned on me that I hadn't yet told Rainbow about my younger years, but I guess that now was as good a time as any, she was my friend after all, why not tell her more about myself?

"Actually I never knew my parents, I was raised in an orphanage from when I was a baby, till I was eighteen of course."

I was about to continue on when I noticed that Rainbows eyes grew big and began to moisten and her smile dropped into an open mouth look of shock. She brought a hoof to her mouth and she looked like she had just stepped on a land mine.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I asked as I took a knee in front of her, now a little worried that I had weirded her out by telling her too much.

"Cain...I.......Im so sorry, I didn't know," she explained sounding like she was on the verge of tears.

I reached out a hand and placed it on her shoulder, giving her a reassuring smile.

"Hey come on, don't sweat it. Like you said, you didn't know." I said, trying to let her know that it wasn't a big deal.

Rainbow quickly moved forward throwing her forelegs around my neck and pulling me into a tight hug. It threw me off at first but after a moment I rested my bag of groceries on the ground and returned the act of affection.

We stayed like that for a minute more whilst ponies around us looked on with confusion at a pegasus and a human embracing each other in public before we finally separated. Rainbow gave me a shy smile and I could feel the breath from her nose gently caress my face.

"Thank you, Rainbow."

"For what? I just asked something really stupid and insensitive, you should be mad at me."

I looked into the eyes of my friend, and like a fog lifting, the right words came to me.

"For being such a good friend. You were on the verge of tears for me, you fought through exhaustion to wish me a happy birthday, you even looked past what I am and called me your friend. I could never be mad at you, and don't feel sad about me being an orphan, I made peace with that a long time ago. the past belongs where it is, behind us.

Rainbow wiped her nose with her foreleg and sniffed back her tears, she let out a small laugh trying not to start crying again.
I brought a hand up and roughed up her rainbow main a little before grabbing my bag and standing upright again.

"You can be so sappy sometimes Cain," rainbow said jokingly with still a hint of a lump in her throat.

"Ya, I have my moments," I stated nonchalantly.

"Hey, I was about to practice a new trick in the park, wana help critique me?" Rainbow asked, the happy sparkle returning to her eyes.

"And here I left my helmet back at home. Oh well, guess I'll just have to learn to duck, huh?" I gave Rainbow a sly smile and she proceeded to hover up to meet me at eye level.

"Ya ya, keep up the wise cracks, mr. smartalec, maybe Ill just have to find myself a new training coach." Rainbow threatened pointing a hoof at me.

"And give nurse Red Heart another mangled pony to have to care for? I could never do that." I said faming false worry in my voice.

Rainbow slugged me in the arm with a hoof and we both cracked up laughing. The rest of the afternoon consisted of me watching Rainbow go over her new trick, doing barrel roles and dive bombes finishing up with flying fast around a cloud tell it took the shape of a lightning bolt.

It wasn't a bad way to spend the afternoon.

A week latter had seen me and Rainbow even closer, we spent every day together. Rainbows job was of course managing the weather for ponyville, which it being spring only consisted of the occasional light sprinkle meaning that we had lots of time to hang out.

We read Daring Doo books together in the park, I liked this because it meant that we were sitting right next to each other and I could get a better look at Rainbow close up. Sometimes the wind would pick up enough and make her mane gently tickle my neck.

Other times I would play drill instructor and motivate Rainbow as she did wing ups, shouting things like "ARE WE HERE TO REST, OR ARE WE HERE TO PUSH!?" to which Rainbow would always reply "PUSH, SIR!"

It was more fun than anything.

Then one day Rainbow said to me with a sheepish look on her face like she had something important to say.

"Hey Cain, I was wondering if I could talk to you about something." I turned on the park bench to look at her, curious as to what it was.

"Of course, what's up?" I asked.

"Well, not here, how about I come to your place tomorrow around noon, is that ok?" she asked not even looking up at me.

"Yeah ok, noons fine, is everything ok?" I asked feeling a bit worried now.

"Oh yeah, every things fine I just want to talk to you about something is all." Rainbow explained still averting her eyes away from me.

The next day came, it was about an hour until noon and I was on my way back home from a morning walk. It was partly cloudy but Rainbow had told me that their wasn't another rain storm scheduled for another few days. It was nice having a friend who was a pegasus.

I was nearing my street when I heard some sort of commotion coming from down an alley between two shops.

"Leave me alone, Im not giving you my scooter!" Came the frightened voice of what sounded like a filly.

"What kind of pegasus rides around on a scooter instead of flying?" Asked the voice of a teenage colt.

"One that cant fly right?" Came another voice of what also sounded like a teenage colt.

I poked my head around the corner to see two older colts, between them I saw an orang pegasus filly with a purple mane wedged into the corner of the wall of one of the buildings and a tall stack of wooden boxes.

The filly looked scared as she grasped tightly to a blue scooter in front of her.

"Just give us the scooter and we won't have ta hurt ya," The other bully said in a threatening tone. They were both earth ponies, one had a dark brown coat with a messy dark blue mane whilst the other had a grey coat and a short orange mane.
The first bully stepped forward and garbed the scooter with a hoof tugging at it trying to pry it from the scared filly.

"No! I said you cant have it!," the frightened filly yelled trying to not sound as scared as she was.

"P-please, just stop," the little filly begged, tears starting to form in her eyes as her grip on the scooter began to slip.

It was then that I had had just about enough of this. I stepped into the alley way before I spoke.

"HEY, KNOCK IF OFF!" The two colts stopped their assault and looked behind them, both soon looking dazed and confused.

They looked me up and down and both soon cocked an eye brow at the thing that had disturbed their fun, even the filly look to be confused at my sudden appearance.

"Uhhhhhh, dude what is that?" the grey colt asked the brown one.

"I think it's a minotaur," the brown cult replied to his companion.

"Nuh uh dummy, it doesn't have horns, or hooves."

"Well then you tell me what it is smart flank."

"Well maybe it's a monkey."

"Then where's it's fur?"

I didn't know which was annoying me more, the fact of how dumb these two were or the fact that they were outright ignoring me. Regardless of either, I had to get that filly away from those two before they remembered what they were doing.

"Hey, little filly, come over hear and get behind me," I said to the filly still in the corner.

Her eyes lit up and she slowly began to push her scooter around the colt blocking her.

"Not so fast squirt. Hey freak, mind your own business why don't cha." The colt pounded a hoof down on the ground blocking the filly's path, causing her to jump a bit.

I was probably going to have to tussle with these two colts before I could get to the filly behind them, so I began rolling up the sleeves of my shirt and shot them a come get some glare.

"If you want that filly's scooter then your going to have to get through me first." I stated in a sharp tone, if nothing else then the distraction would bye the filly some time to get away, and these two were easy to provoke.

Just as the grey colt was getting ready to charge me a crack of thunder boomed over head and a flash of rainbow vapor shot down from above landing with a thud in front of me.

Dust kicked up in the wake of the object that landed, and as it cleared I beheld a sky blue pegasus pony with a rainbow mane, it's wings were splayed out wide as it stood tall and proud. I imagined that to the colts, the pegasus must look like some pegasus god of war.

Of course I realized instantly that it was non other than Rainbow standing between me and the two bullies.

"He said knock it off," Rainbow stated flatly to the two dumbfounded colts.

"Yeah, and who the hay are you?" The brown colt asked taking a crouching pose as if ready to strike.

"Dude, thats Rainbow Dash," The grey colt explained sounding scared.

"Ill have you know that that filly your picking on, is under my wing, and this "freak" that you called him, is my friend, so unless you want some real trouble I suggest that you both beat hoof out of hear." The two colts looked at each other before looking back at Rainbow with a mix of fear and confusion.

"NOW!" Rainbow hollered, the end of which sent both colts running down the alley way with their tails between their legs.

Rainbow let out a sigh and the filly gasped and dashed over to Rainbow a big grin on her face.

"Rainbow Dash!" the filly exclaimed happily nuzzling her head into Rainbows chest.

"Hey scoots, getting into trouble again I see," Rainbow said bringing a wing around to scoop the filly into an embrace.

"Those jerks wanted to take my scooter, but I wouldn't let them," the little filly explained trying to sound cool.

"Well ya did good squirt, but next time try to avoid alley ways." Rainbow patted the filly on the head with a hoof before the filly poked her head around Rainbow to take a confused look at me.

"Uhh Rainbow Dash, who's that?" the filly asked.

Rainbow turned around to face me before she continued.

"Oh sorry about that, Scootaloo this is my friend Cain, he move here a few weeks ago from Fillydelphia, Cain this is my apprentice and impromptu little sister, Scootaloo," Rainbow said gesturing to me with a hoof.

The little filly trotted slowly up to me and looked up with a look of innocence on her face.

Ok, she'll either run away screaming when she realizes what I am, or she'll say something about how weird looking I am, and for some reason I felt nervous before this cute little filly, the last thing I wanted was to scare her.

"He's really tall," the filly stated flatly and I let out a sigh.

"Hi Cain, Im Scootaloo, any friend of Rainbow Dash is a friend of mine."

She smiled up at me with her big eyes and she even fluttered her little wings like a humming bird. she was so cute I just wanted to scoop her up and nuzzle her all day.

I couldn't help myself anymore, I crouched down with a smile to greet the filly.

"Nice to meet you too Scootaloo, I just uh- oh hey, is that something stuck to your coat?" I asked pointing at her side.

"Huh, oh, where?" She asked turning her head to investigate just under her little wing.

I took on an evil grin now.

"Ya I think its riiiiiiiiiiiight....THEIR!" I threw out both my hands finding the tender sides of the filly and began feverishly tickling her.

Scootaloo burst into hysterical laughter as my fingers found all of her tender areas Scootaloo all the while laughing and rolling around on her back.

I then picked the little filly up and stood, throwing her into the air and catching her as she came back down, every time she went up she buzzed her little wings and laughed her sweet little laugh.

She didn't sound scared, she laughed and sounded like my playing with her was the funnest thing in the world.

"Wow Cain, I didn't know you were so good with kids, from where Im standing you two look just like a brother and sister," Rainbow said with a playful tone.

I caught Scootaloo and held her in my arms, her face soon lighting up as an idea hit her.

"Really? Cain could be my big brother?" She sounded like somepony had just offered her a lifetimes worth of candy for free.

"Well, ya, sure, if your ok with me that is," I said to the little filly as I held her out in front of me.

"It would be more than ok, it would be soooooo cool!" She cheered buzzing her wigs out of pure joy.

I set her down again on the ground and roughed up her purple mane which she seemed to enjoy.

"This is great! Now I have an awesome big sister, and a really tall, really strong, really cool big brother!"

"Well aren't you the luck little filly scoots?" Rainbow said walking up beside Scootaloo and giving her a nudge in the side with her hoof.

"I cant wait to tell apple bloom and sweetie bell," the filly exclaimed.

"Where are those two anyway scoots?" Asked Rainbow.

"Oh, their both over at sweet apple acres, today were all meeting up to get our base jumping cutie marks," Scootaloo jumped up and down, her little wings rapidly humming as she hopped.

A cutie mark in base jumping? Now I had heard of little fillies and colts doing crazy stuff to try and earn their cutie marks but that sounded down right nuts!

Scootaloo looked up at me with a smile and with a hoof gestured for me to kneel down.
I took a knee in front of her and was about to ask what was up when she leapt at me wrapping her forelegs around my neck and squeezing.

"Thanks for saving me."

I patted the back of her head and smiled over at Rainbow who gave me a knowing wink.

"I didn't do anything really, Rainbows the one who saved the day," I couldn't take credit wear it wasn't due, especially to a filly who looked up to Rainbow as much as she did.

"I know," she squeezed a little tighter to me.

"But you still looked really cool the way you stood up to them," I hugged the little filly back before we separated and she hopped over to her scooter and secured her helmet.

"I gotta get going, the cutie mark crusaders wait for no pony," Scootaloo exclaimed proudly before she buzzed her little wings getting ready to take off.

"Dont forget our flying practice next week, and remember to stretch out," Rainbow instructed to her young apprentice with a smile.

"Yes ma'am!" Scootaloo exclaimed.

With that the filly on the scooter buzzed her scooter out of the alley and around the corner.

"Bye Rainbow Dash, Bye Cain," Scootaloo was half way down the street in an instant before Rainbow turned the corner to see her go.

"AND TRY TO STAY AWAY FROM BULLIES!" Rainbow called out at her as she became a spec on the horizon.

Me and Rainbow shared a smile before we continued our walk back to my place.

"I saw you know" Rainbow said looking over at me.

"Saw?" I asked.

"From up in the clouds I mean, I was watching the whole time, you could've just walked away but you didn't."

I gave rainbow a wry smile before I looked on ahead into the distance.

"I couldn't just stand bye and watch, I cant stand bullying, especially to a sweet little filly like her."

"I thought it was pretty awesome what you did Cain," Rainbow said with a warm inflection. I began to feel kinda imbaresed, but it was kinda nice, I had never been a hero before, but I had always wanted to be.

"So your helping her learn to fly huh? Thats really nice, I bet that with you teaching her shell become a great flyer someday."

I was trying to steer the conversation away from me fearing that Rainbow would further embarrass me.

"I wouldn't bet on that," Rainbow stated with a hint of sorrow in her voice.

"Why, whats up?" I asked.

"Well...... scoot's mom told me one day when I went over to her house to pick her up for a play date, she has a disorder in the muscles of her wings." Rainbows eyes dropped down as she no doubt recalled the day in her head.

"Oh, I see, poor kid," It felt like a little piece of happiness had faded from the world at the news of the fillies disability.

"With hard work and practice shell be able to fly a little some day, but scoots will never be able to fly enough to even reach the clouds." Rainbow kicked a pebble as she continued to walk next to me still not looking up to even see wear she was going.

I felt the same way.

"Her mom told you all that?"

"Ya, after she told me she asked that I don't get scoots hopes up since one day soon her moms gonna tell her the whole story, but Im not going to give up on her, Ill train with her and push her,......and when she finds out Ill be her shoulder to cry on."

Rainbow raised her head as she said that, and she said it with a strong conviction that spoke to me how kind and loyal she truly was.

"And you won't do it alone either," I said matching her conviction.

"Huh?" Rainbow questioned looking up at me now.

"Well I'm her big brother now right? And as long as I'm breathing, I swear that Ill be their for her too, am I right?"

Rainbow dawn'd a big smile up at me and I gave her one of my own.

"Right!"

We reached my house not long after. I opened the door and let Rainbow in closing the door behind me.

Rainbow hovered over to the chair and sat down lightly on the padded seat.

"Would you like some tea, or coffee?" I asked about to walk over to the kitchen.

"No thanks, actually could we get down to why I asked to talk to you today?"

Rainbow looked nervous from the fact that she didn't look up at me.

"Ya sure, whats on your mind?" I asked trying to make her feel more comfortable, if I knew her I knew that if she was too nervous she would never open up. I sat on the couch and Rainbow began.

"Well..... its just....... ok, well, its just that we've been hanging out together a lot lately and I wanted to ask you something for a while now." Rainbow flicked at the hoof rest of the chair and fidgeted a bit in her seat.

"Ask away Rainbow, and dont worry, I wont get mad or think your weird, well weirder than I already think you are."

A small joke to help lighten the mood why not?
Rainbow didnt respond to it, but she did look up and locked eyes with me, an expression of determination on her face.

"Ok, hear it is, Cain......what do you think of me?"

Now I wont lie that question did throw me off more than a bit.

What did I think of her? What did she mean by that?

I knew what I really thought of her but their was no way that I could tell her that. It would more than likely end our friendship forever, and not only that, how would I explain it or even show my face to Scootaloo ever again?

Quickly I came up with some random stuff in my head that I figured would give her the answer she was hoping for.
I took a deep breath in through my nose before I started.

"Well..... Rainbow, I think that your a-a really great friend, and I like hanging out with you, your a great flyer-."

"No! Thats not what I meant! Cain! What do you think of meee?!" I jumped a bit at Rainbows sudden outburst, she now looked at me with growing irritation and anxiety.

What was I supposed to say? what did she want me to say? At that moment I wished desperately that I could just read her mind.

I fumbled through my thoughts trying to formulate some kind of response that would make her happy.

"Uh-w-well I-uh" Was all that came out.

"Ughhhh! Forget it, I'm sorry I asked, Just forget it ok?!" Rainbow flapped her wings and began to hover toward the front door, an irritated look on her face as she began to pass me.

What are you doing Cain? Your about to loose your only friend in the world and all because your doing what you've done your entire life, sacrifice what you want to make everypony else happy, but this time its not working.

Are you just gonna let her go? loose the best thing that ever happened to you because you're a coward?

NO!

Its time to stallion up, Cain!

I quickly stood up and grabbed Rainbow by her back leg just before she was out of reach.

Rainbow looked back at me like she was about to tell me to let go, but I had something important to say before I lost her forever.

Here goes nothing.

"I think you're beautiful and awesome and cool and sweet and sexy and every minuet Im with you I feel happier than Ive felt in my entire life and when you're not around all I can think about is you, and-and-and......................RAINBOW DASH I LOVE YOU!"

My face was hot and I was out of breath, Rainbow hovered their, a look of pure shock in her eyes and her mouth hung open.
I let go of her hoof and quickly looked away from her.

The images began to flash through my mind of Rainbow laughing at me or telling me how ridiculous what I had just said sounded.

My only friendship was over, but it felt good to get it all off my chest. At least now I didn't have any regrets.

"I love you too"

At least it wasn't laughter, now I could-"

WHAT?!!

Author's Note

thanks to all of you for reading again.

sorry it took so long to get this one out but im currently in the process of getting out of the army, and on that note i have to tell you all.

Im going to have to shut off my internet soon so it may be a while tell you see the next chapter, but dont worry, I will get it to you.

with that being said I hope you enjoyed the chapter.

p.s. I love it when you guys leave comments.

love C.H.

Marking

...Marking...

In all my life I had dreamt and fantasized of what it would feel like to hear a mare tell me that she loved me, and now that I have heard it it feels like all of time has stopped.

Rainbow, the pony that now hovered with her back toward me in my living room, had just said those three little words, and in doing so had brought my entire world to a halt.

"You, love me?" I asked.

"Yes" Rainbow replied, still with her back toward me.

"For how long?" Asking now, hoping that she wasn't just playing one of her pranks on me.

"An hour," she responded, now nervously tapping the tips of her hooves together.

"An hour ago?" If thats the case then she must be joking.

"No, an hour after we first met."

Rainbow now turned herself around but still didn't look up at me, her face was bright red and she began to use a hoof to twiddle with a lock of her rainbow main.

As overwhelmed with joy as I was, I couldn't help but think of the negatives that a relationship between a pony and a human would bring about.

I know, but Cain your usually so positive. But in this case I had to be realistic, what would all the ponies in town say?

They all looked up to Rainbow so much I would hate to see her diminish in their eyes because she chose to love me.

And what about her friends? and her parents?

What would they think about this kind of un-heard of relationship?
The last thing I wanted was to have Rainbow loose her friends or be disowned by her mother and father.

I had to talk to her about all this, she had to know what she was getting into. Rainbow was always one to do things first without thinking about the consequences, I had to be the voice of reason.

Your doing it again Cain.............I know, but its the right thing to do, so shut up.

"Rainbow, hearing you say that makes me happier than you can ever know, but Im a human and your a pony.............I just don't think that it will work ou-OUFF!

Before I could finish Rainbow slammed herself into my chest knocking me backwards onto the couch.
I looked up to see a blue pegasus looking back down at me with half closed bed room eyes and a little smirk on her muzzle.

"I love you," she stated simply completely ignoring my earlier statement.

"But Rainbow I-," before I could reply Rainbow hushed me by bringing a hoof to my lips and pressing against them gently.

She then brought her face closer to mine as she took her hoof away from my lips and proceeded to lay her body flat on top of mine. She was warm and soft, I slowly rested my left hand on the small of her back and gently rubbed the soft plush blue fur of her coat.

Her face was red but she brought it closer to mine, she closed her eyes a little more as she held her lips only an inch or two away from my own waiting for me to meet her half way.

Ahhhhhh to hoof with the consequences! Its time I took what I wanted, and what I wanted was the beautiful mare that was throwing herself at me.

She's mine!

I quickly closed my eyes and closed the gap between Rainbows lips and my own.

It was soft and warm, Rainbow breathed gently through her nose as did I.

She tilted her head slightly to the side and let out a little "mmmmm" as I pressed my lips against hers a little harder, from her being so close I could smell how good she smelt, it was a delicate blend of sweat and sweetness, as if a fresh breeze was blowing through a field of wild flowers.

I had never kissed before (come to think of it I didn't know if Rainbow had ever kissed before) and from what I had read the first kiss was usually awkward and sloppy, but not this one.

This was smooth and romantic, Rainbow swished her tail from left to right and even though my eyes were closed I could feel from the placement of my hand on her back that her wings were slowly unfurling and beginning to stand up on their own.

I had heard of this before, when a pegasus ponies wings become rigid and stand up like that, "wing boner" they called it.

Now pegasus stallions getting it I knew of for sure, but until now I had had no idea that mares got it to.
Regardless though, it was nice to see that Rainbow was enjoying this kiss so much.

Maybe more than I thought.

I became aware that something wet and strong was now pressing against my lips, trying to pry them open to gain access to my mouth, it was Rainbows tongue and it was covering my lower lip with saliva, ordering me to open my mouth and let it in.

It seemed that my first kiss was soon turning into my first "prench" kiss.

I slowly opened my mouth as Rainbow let herself in, I met her tongue with mine and almost instantly heard Rainbow take in a sharp breath through her nose, as if our two organs touching had elicited a spark of excitement in her mind.

The taste of her saliva was indescribable, sweet and just a little sour at the same time.
Our tongues swirled around together and Rainbow began to gently move her head in rhythm with the soft pink that was now exploring my mouth.

With her forelegs draped over my shoulders she gently pulled herself into me as her breathing quickened along with her tongues movements.

She began to pull her mouth off of mine but before she did she grabbed my lower lip in between her teeth and pulled it a little before releasing.

Her face was flush red and she was breathing so hard that I could almost see it billowing as she exhaled, her eyes were at half mast and the portion that was open was glazed over.

"So huff any more huff complaints?" she asked sounding obviously a little out of breath.

" Well my lips a little sore from that bite," I whispered sarcastically.

Rainbow shot me a little smirk before she gave my lower lip a gentle nip.

"Soooo, I guess this means that were, together................now?" Rainbow asked with a shy expression.

"It would appear so," I said in reply running my hand over her rainbow main.

Rainbow closed her eyes and nuzzled her head into my hand with a warm smile.
Just then, her eyes shot open and she gave me a serious look that took me by surprise.

"Theirs just one thing," she said narrowing her eyes into a non threatening glare.

"If you ever cheat on me, Ill make sure that you get rained on, all day every day, got it? She pursed her lips at me with a look that demanded my immediate response.

It goes without saying that I would never even dream of it.

"Its a deal." Rainbows expression instantly melted into one of love, and her eyes returned to their earlier bed room appearance.

She gave me a soft kiss, her lips still moist from our earlier make out session.
She then closed her eyes and nuzzled the side of her head into my chest and I immediately began running my hand over her multi colored mane whilst resting the other on her right wing which had recovered from its earlier erection.

Her feathers were just as soft, if not softer than her coat. It was hard to believe that something that felt so soft was so strong.
I closed my eyes and felt the warmth of the mare that was now gently napping on my chest, this moment was one of the happiest I had had in..................well, ever.

It wasn't long before I joined my marefriend for a nice afternoon nap.

It was dark and comfortable, but something was prodding at me, it was soft, warm, and just a little bit moist, and it was coming from somewhere close.

I slowly cracked my eyes open, my vision was blurry but I could make out a lot of blue, like a midday sky.
As my vision cleared I opened my eyes a little more to behold a rainbow maned pegasus pony.

Her eyes were closed and her face was very close to mine, but something else, she was kissing me.
Ever so gently she would pull away before planting another one in a delicate manner.

She must think im still asleep, little minx.

Wait has she been kissing me ever since I fell asleep?

Either way I decided to let her continue for a minute more.

After a little longer of Rainbow planting kisses on me, I gently shifted my right hand which rested on her wing eliciting a sharp gasp from Rainbow followed by her opening her eyes and pulling her head away from mine.

"Cain! y-your awake, I-I was just trying to get a-a-a speck of uh, DIRT! thats it, you had a speck of dirt on your nose."
Rainbows face turned bright red so much it looked like steam was about to shoot out of her ears.

I smiled up at her with a smirk that told her that she had been caught in the act.

"If you wanted to kiss, all you had to do was ask Rainbow."

Rainbow opened her mouth as if she was about to shoot back a retort but nothing came out, her face soon looked as guilty as a filly with her hoof in the cookie jar.

"Well its not my fault, you just looked so cute sleeping and all, I couldn't hold back." Rainbow explained sounding very shy.

She can be so cute sometimes.

I held the side of her face in my hand and turned her head so I could see her eyes.

"I know the feeling," I replied, thinking back to when I had lain her in my bed and found myself giving Rainbow a good night kiss once she had fallen asleep.

Rainbow then surprised me when she narrowed her eyes and gave me a devilish smirk.

"I know you do.......perv."

She was awake, little minx.

Now I was the one blushing, I guess she had fooled me that day.

Ok, time to steer this conversation away from me.

"Rainbow theirs something that I need to tell you," my distraction was working, judging from her look of curiosity.

"What is it?" She asked me, shifting her weight on top of me a bit.

"Well, you see, Ive never had a marefriend before." A moment of dead silence fell upon my living room, Rainbow looked at me with a blank expression.

"Really?" She asked simply.

"Well, ya, being a different species dose make it hard finding a mare who's willing to date a human."

Rainbow looked a little bashful as she looked at me.

"Me too." Rainbow said under her breath.

"What was that?" I asked, not because I didn't hear her but because what she said took me a little by surprise.

"Ive never had a very special somepony before, so I guess that means that were each others first."

Rainbow began to blush as she dawned a sheepish smile.
I ran my fingers through her rainbow mane and we just looked at each other, as if we got some sort of great enjoyment from the act.

"Im sorry Cain, but Ive got some weather work to do in a little bit and if I dont get going soon Im going to be late."

Rainbow looked at me as if she was seriously considering blowing it off.

"Then you'd better get going young filly," Rainbow looked deflated as she realized that she did have to go to work, being so loyal must have its down sides sometimes.

"Ughhhh, ok, but don't forget what I said about the whole cheating on me thing, I once destroyed an entire barn with a rainbow explosion, remember that."

I gave Rainbow a smile and ran my hand down her back eliciting a small giggle from her.

"Got it"

I walked Rainbow to the door and before she left she wrapped her hooves around my head and gave me a strong kiss on the mouth before zooming off into the sky.

I looked out to see the mare that lived across the street, she was watering her flowers and now staring at me with a blank look, her mouth formed into an "o".
Apparently she had seen the whole scene of me and Rainbow kissing and was now visibly shocked at what she saw.

I stepped back into the house sighing.

I hope this docent end badly, I thought walking to the kitchen.

I need some coffee before I freak out at how awesome my life was turning out.

I had no idea what was in store for me next.

Three choices, three ways that my life hear in ponyville could end in poverty or prosperity.

Sorry let me explain.

I was sitting on my couch, in front of me were three want ads for three restaurants hear in town.
One was at sugar cube corner, the second was for a chef job at a restaurant as well as the third.

Hears the problem, being that ponyville was such a small town meant that if I go to one interview and they dont like me, its highly probable that they will spread word to the other businesses, and that would mean that my chances with the other two will go down greatly.

"Uhh, what to do what to do," I moaned.

I have a very special somepony now, and that means that I want to take her out and show her a good time.
But I cant do that if I don't have the bits to buy a single flower.

"Maybe Rainbow can help make some introductions," I mused to myself, but the thought of using Rainbow to help get me ahead in life just sounded wrong.

As if on cue a sudden knock came at my door.

I stood up and walked over to the door, opening it I beheld the flower of my affections, with an elated look in her eyes to see me.

She instantly leapt up grabbing me by my neck and rubbing her nose against mine in a show of affection.

"Happy to see me I take it?" I said with a bit of sarcasm.

Rainbow scrunched her nose at me and gave me a little huff.

"Keep that attitude up and maybe Ill just go back home," Rainbow threatened looking away from me.

"You would break my heart like that?" I asked sounding sad and pouty.

Rainbow looked back at me with her sultry eyes that she seemed to save just for me, and pulled me a little closer to her, resting her forehead against mine.

"Never," is all she said before she planted her soft lips to mine in an intimate kiss.

Celestias flank, why dose she have to be so hot?!

After our passionate greeting, Rainbow landed on the ground and I turned to clear the papers from the coffee table, my back towards her as I heard the door close.

"I was just in the middle of looking for a job and needed a break, by the way are you hungry?" I asked finishing my stacking and turning around to face Rainbow.

"I just got some fresh dandelions, I could make a soup from scr.........."

I turned around to see that Rainbow was now crouched down low in a pose that looked like a predator ready to pounce on a sheep, her eyes focused on me with hunger.

Before I could question it she was on me, knocking me backwards onto the couch with a thud.

Im starting to see a pattern hear.

On top of me now she looked down, not at me but at my body with bed room eyes.

"Why miss Dash, are you trying to seduce me?"

Rainbow rolled her eyes at me before licking her lips.

"Gee, what gave it away?"

Little minx

Rainbow closed her eyes and lowered her head to my chest, expertly she began to use her teeth to undo the buttons of my shirt starting from the top and working her way down.

Once she had un-done the forth button, she brought her head back up and smiled warmly down at me.
She then used her hoof to open my shirt reveling her target, but before, she used her mouth to grasp the thunder crystal and remove it from around my neck, gently placing it on the table next to us.

All of a sudden she opened her mouth and brought it down on the part where my shoulder and neck formed came together, sinking her teeth hard but not hard enough to draw blood.

I bit my lip and brought both hands up to hold the mare who was now feeding of my delicate flesh.

Rainbow moaned into my neck and the breath from her nose was cool and ticklish on my skin.
She then began to suck almost as hard as she was bitting and not long after that her tongue started drawing circles on the skin in her sucking mouth.

It felt so good I thought that I was going to pass out, but soon enough Rainbow started bitting down harder.
I dug my fingers into her back trying to fight both the pain and the urge to moan like a girl.
But soon it became to much for me and Rainbow was beginning to scare me a bit.

"R-Rainbow, your hurting me." I whispered up at the pegasus that was enjoying her first taste of human flesh ever.

She opened her eyes and took her mouth off my neck with a wet "pop" before her face turned scarlet red.

"Oh, uh, sorry about that, I couldn't help myself" Rainbow said turning even redder.

"Thats ok, just give me some warning next time."

Rainbow then took on a serious look as she sat up a bit on top of me.

"Uh, theirs something I need to tell you," I sat up a bit to now at the sound of Rainbows serious tone, a little worried about what she was going to tell me.

"Whats up, did something happen?"

Rainbow looked down a bit with a dejected look.

"Well, something happened in town today....."

This doesn't sound good I thought.

"I was on my way over to see you."

"Go on," I said, feeling more dread.

"This stallion came up to me...."

"And?"

"Well...he kind of asked me out."

ILL KILL HIM!!

"I see, what happened next?"

"I told him that I had a special somepony."

I placed my hands on Rainbows shoulders, I knew that Rainbow would never betray me, she wasn't that type of pony.

"Did he keep harassing you?" I asked her in a calm tone.

"No," she replied.

"Did he threaten you?"

"No," she replied again, I was now worried that the other possibility might of happened.

"Did he hurt you?!" I asked in a demanding tone.

"No, he didn't."

Was it possible that this soon to be dead stallion did something even worse?

"What did he do to you Rainbow?"

Rainbow looked at me with a hint of worry in her eyes.

"He apologized for bothering me and left."

..................................Huh?

"Um, Rainbow, sweetie, not to sound like I dont care, but whats the problem?"

Rainbow scrunched her nose as she shot me an irritated glare.

"The "problem" is that he asked me out in the first place, duh."

I gave Rainbow a little smile and rubbed her foreleg to try and calm her frustrations but to no avail.

"Well, that doesn't surprise me, you are a very attractive mare after all."

I expected Rainbow to blush or even give me a little jab with her hoof, but she just kept glaring at me with frustration.

"This is serious Cain, that stallion shouldn't have even asked me out in the first place, but he did, and do you know why?"

All I could do at this point was shrug my shoulders and wait for Rainbow to explain.

"Its because you haven't marked me yet."

Marked?

I cocked an eyebrow at Rainbows statement.

"Rainbow, what in the name of Celestia do you mean by "Marked"?

The mare on my chest now looked at me like I had just asked the most obvious question ever, but at the same time she began to blush at the prospect of explaining the answer to me.

"Seriously, you've never heard of marking?"

I was now more than a little intrigued to find out about this custom that apparently everypony knew about from the sound of it.

"Sorry, I must have missed that class in school."

Rainbows eyes shifted from side to side as she mustered the courage to go on with her explanation.

"Well it doesn't surprise me that you've never heard of it, what with you being a human and all."

Rainbow then took a deep breath, finding the resolve to proceed.

"Marking, its an old pony customs. You see, after a mare and a stallion enter a relationship the stallion will mark the mare with his scent, afterwards other stallions will smell the scent of the other stallion on the mare and will then know that she's spoken for."

Huh, that sounds simple enough

"Its also a tradition, both the mare and the stallion show their love for the other by doing it. The mare shows her love for the stallion by receiving his scent, and the stallion shows his by giving it to the mare."

Ok, im starting to get the picture now.

"So, in other words you want me to mark you so that other stallions will know that were together?" I asked feeling good about the idea of this whole "marking" thing.

Rainbow blushed and she started drawing circles on my chest with a hoof.

"Well.....if your cool with the idea that is, if not Ill totally understand, its kinda a silly custom anyways."

I grasped Rainbows shoulders causing her to look me in the eye, obviously this was a big deal to her, and I wasn't about to let down the mare that I loved.

"Rainbow, I love you, and I would be honored to give you my mark."

Rainbows face lit up like a light and she wrapped her forelegs around my neck giving me the hardest kiss yet.

I guess that means she's happy.

"Are you sure? We really don't have to if you don't want," she asked with a hint of worry.

"Sure im sure, so how dose this work, do I give you a bottle of my cologne, or do you use one of my shirts and whipe yourself with it?"

Rainbow averted her eyes upward and began to scratch the back of her head nervously with a hoof.

"Heh heh, well, not exactly, you kinda have to uh, mumble, on me."

"Didn't quite catch that sweet heart."

Rainbow took a deep breath, and then she said it.

"You have to cum on me........a lot."

I love marking.

"W-well, then, uh....Im uh, kinda new at this, so, uh, maybe you could, you know walk me through it?"

Rainbow gave me a sheepish smile and I could almost feel her body get warmer.

"Y-ya of course, Ill walk you through step by step, ok?"

I leaned up and gave the mare I loved a kiss on the mouth, followed by a warm gaze and a reassuring rub on her back.

"Ok"

Rainbow hopped off of me and I followed her toward my bedroom, before she went in she looked over her shoulder and flicked her tail to the side giving me the sexiest look I had seen yet.

"Come to your chambers, my stallion," she whispered to me with a wink.

Praise Celestia.

I stood shirtless gazing down at a vision, Rainbow was laid out on the end of my bed, her head resting just on the corner of the mattress.

This way I had access to both her side and her front.
She gazed at me dreamily, her eyes sultry and wanting.

"Why don't you take those off and well get started, my stallion."

My hands moved toward my jeans and I began to undo the belt.
I couldn't help but feel nervous at this point, Rainbow didn't know everything about humans, which probably meant that she was unaware that humans were lacking in comparison to stallions in the size department.

Now I'm no stallion for sure but I'm a good nine inches long with three inches width.
What if she didn't like it?

Too late to turn back now I thought as my jeans hit the floor, my length now on display to the pony on my bed.

Rainbow began to bite her lower lip and her face turned a shade of bright pink.
In addition her wings unfurled and stood erect in less than a minute.

"Come closer and let me tend to your, eh-hem, needs, my stallion."

Guess that means she likes it.

yay

I stepped up to Rainbow as instructed, she gently reached out a hoof and touched it to my shaft causing me to shudder from the contact.

Rainbow looked up at me with passion and love in her eyes.
She then leaned out and gave the head of my cock a little kiss.

"Ready?" she asked.

"Yes," was all I could manage.

Rainbow then let out her tongue and began to lap at the tip of my dick like a puppy, a small "mmmmmm" escaping her as she tasted me.

Placing the tip on her tongue now she began to sink her head onto my throbbing cock, causing me to clench my teeth to try and fight back the urge to cum into her mouth before I could stain her coat with my "scent".

Deeper and deeper my erection sank into her warm wet maw.
It was indescribable, to say the least, she gaged slightly as my dick touched the back of her throat, but she swallowed hard and overcame it.

She bobbed her head a bit with my shaft all the way inside making slurping sounds and moaning gently whilst applying suction.
Pulling back now she opened her eyes and looked up at me with an innocent expression that made me want to explode down her throat.

She kept the tip of my dick in her mouth and swirled her tongue around my head gently bitting, the result of which almost made me cry out but I steeled myself for fear of her thinking that I was to week to handle her fellatio.

She took my wet cock out of her mouth with an audible pop and began stroking the side of it with a soft hoof.
Looking up at me with a smile now she asked.

"Whats wrong my stallion, doesn't it feel good?" She asked in a sweet tone of voice.

I was breathing hard and sweat was beginning to form on my forehead.

"Yes huff it huff dose," I said gasping for air and realizing that at some point I was holding my breath.

"Then why are you so quiet?" Rainbow then let her tongue fall from her mouth and circle around the head of my dick.

"I want to hear you moan and cry out and say how much you like a ponies mouth on your dick." She said a bit muffled with her tongue working circles around the purple head of my cock.

She sank back down and began to suck in ernest now.
Rainbow applied suction both when she pulled back and when she went down, my cock head touching the back of her throat every time she went foreword.

I did just as she wanted, moaning and grunting with pleasure as she went to town on my shaft.

She then moaned on my dick causing vibrations to corse through my shaft causing me to approach the brink.

"R-Rainbow, im about to-."

Before I could finish Rainbow let me out of her mouth, her cheeks were red and she was breathing heavily as her mouth hung slack open, she turned her head to the side and gestured with a hoof.

"O...k....first, you need to cum on my cutie mark, to show me that you claim me as your own."

I moved to Rainbows side, I didn't even need to touch myself.
I pointed my dick at her flank and let loose with a torrent of cum, it landed in thick white ropes on and across her lightning bolt cutie mark forming exes and lines.

I grunted hard at the release, when I was done her cutie mark was nothing more than a pile of white seed.

But I still had a lot of area to cover, and I was eager to continue.

I moved back to Rainbows open mouth, with a hand on the back of her head I forced my shaft into her throat causing her to sputter around the base.

I pulled back and drove home again Rainbow with her eyes sealed shut moaned and sputtered as she gaged trying her hardest to bring me off again.

She looked so cute, she didn't fight me or try to resist my feeding technique, she was working hard chocking and gaging, drool falling from around her clamped lips.

I pushed the head of my dick into the side of her cheek causing it to bulge out as she looked up at me as if to ask "dose this feel good?"

It wasn't long until I was ready to pop again, I moved to her wings next and unloaded with just as much gusto as before shooting wad after wad of cum across her feathered appendages.

The cum hung from her wings like a thick spider web.

Rainbows jaw was loose now, allowing me to fuck her mouth as fast or slow as I pleased.

And I fucked it, fast and hard.

Her eyes began to water and she was sweating profusely but still she soldered on, moaning now like a bitch in heat.

My next shot was to be for her forelegs. I coated them in a thick coat of spunk that seemed to let off steam from the heat that emanated the room.

I quickly shoved my cock back into Rainbows slacked mouth finding that after only a couple of strokes I was ready for round three.

I blew all over her back, growling like a beast. My penis was starting to hurt from the constant barrage of pleasure it was receiving from the growingly cum drenched mare before me.

Rainbows mouth now let out drool freely like a fountain aiding my thrusts into her welcoming maw.

Once I was ready for what might be the last blast Rainbow propped her back legs up, raising her rump into the air and moving her tail to the side.

I didn't need any direction.

I moved behind her and aimed at my target, her plot hole.
As soon as I set my eyes on the tight doughnut anus I exploded an almost continues stream of cum.

It splashed off of the tight pink orifice, dripping down and over her now dripping slit mixing with her own secretions and falling together onto the bed below.

Rainbow let out a girlish moan as cum splashed and dripped onto her most private area.

If I didn't know better id say that she had just had a mini orgasm from the sensation of my semen splashing her plot hole.

Rainbow dropped her lower half down onto the bed, she was panting hard, her face was beet red and her mouth hung open as she sucked in breath after breath.

I was in a similar state as I looked at the art that I had wrought.

Rainbow looked like five stallions had emptied their loads onto her body, all I wanted to do at this point was fall to my bed and die for a while, but Rainbow had a little more instruction for me.

Wearily she looked up at me still gasping for air, her eyes glazed over with exhaustion and lust.

"All...that we need to do now.....is rub it in." she said through gasps of breath.

Slowly I moved to place my hands on her warm sticky body, using my palms to spread my cum over and around her coat until it was worked into her fur.

I paid extra attention to her rump, squeezing and needing the tight but soft flesh of her ass until it was as well coated as the rest of her, Rainbow moaning and let out little squeaks as I squeezed harder then softer on her plot.

Once I was done with my task Rainbow brought a foreleg to her muzzle, sniffing a few times.

She then moved her head to just under her wing and took another cursory sniff to make sure that my scent was indeed upon her body.

"I think were good, now we just let it set for a while." She sighed and laid her head on the edge of the bed

I too let out a deep sigh, placing my hands on my knees to try and regain my composure.

Rainbow scooted her way up onto the bed and laid sideways with her head on one of the pillows.
She looked at me with a warm smile before patting the spot next to her.

"Come to bed my stallion, you must be tired."

I was in no position to refuse, I weekly crawled onto my bed and laid next to my special somepony.
She curled herself next to me gently resting her head on my chest nuzzling into my pectoral with a purr.

"I love you," she whispered to me in a soft tone.

"I love you too," I said in reply.

Both me and Rainbow then settled in for the best sleep either of us had had ever.

Author's Note

side note: France, equestrian version, prance. french = prench

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I went full monk on it.

I woke up at 7am, went on a 4 mile run followed by half jacks and iron mikes until I puked.

I then took an ice cold shower followed by shaving my head with a bic razor.

After that I wrote a letter to Celestia asking her to help me wright a good chapter, but Ill leave it to you all to decide if I did

Well, its almost 4 am now, Im very tired but im going to read through it before I submit.
I hope that my first actual clop chapter goes over well.

Celestia bless you all

love C.H.

The long road home, part 1

The long road home part 1.

"Miss. Cherry Blossom?" The young human boy said to the pink pastel colored unicorn mare.

"Oh, hello their Cain, happy hearts and hooves day." The school mare flipped her light blue mane away from her face as she smiled down at the young boy in front of her.

It was early morning at sunny fields elementary school, fillies and colts were making their way to their class rooms saddle bags full to the brim with cards, candies, and chocolates, all for the holiday known throughout Equestria as Hearts and Hooves day.

Every year the young ponies would get together and exchange cards and sweets among each other to solidify the spirit of friendship and love.
But every year their was one among the little ponies that never got to experience the joys of friendship or love.

But this Hearts and Hooves day was going to be different, today he was going to ask the pony that he loved to be his special somepony.

"Uh, yeah, same to you Miss. Blossom, I wanted to ask you something." The young boy said.

He looked away from the beautiful mare as he gripped the red heart shaped card behind his back.

"What is it Cain, are you okay? you look a little sweaty."

The boy sucked up his courage and presented the card to his teacher.

"Will you be my special somepony?" He had done it, he had finally gotten up the courage, after months of stressing and psyching himself up he had told her.

What he had forgotten was that he was talking to his teacher in front of half of the class as they found their seats.

Before the school mare could respond she was cut off by a burst of laughter from the fillies and colts that currently occupied the class room.
The boy was humiliated to say the least, everypony in his class already treated him like a freak and now he had added fuel to the fire.

"Thats enough, everypony find your seats!" the school mare scolded trying to regain order over her classroom.

The boy stuffed his card back into his pocket and slowly walked to his seat, suffering the snickers of his class mates as he passed them.
How could he have had been so stupid? She was the only pony in his life so far who had shown him kindness, while everypony else had either ignored him or made him feel unwanted, she had treated him like he was just another one of her students, the best part of his day was getting to school and seeing her smiling face, now he couldn't even show her his.

Finally the day was over, it had gone just like the year before and the year before that with the only difference being the little ponies of his class whispering and laughing about his earlier love confession.

The boy waited till almost all his class mates were gone before he hastily made his way for the door, not even looking up at his teacher.

"Cain, would you mind staying back a while please?"

The boy froze in place and turned around keeping his head low out of shame and embarrassment. He slowly walked up to his teacher at her desk and awaited the lecture that was sure to come.

"Well Cain?"

"Im really sorry Miss. Blossom, I didn't mean to-"

"Cain"

The boy looked up to see the pink mare smiling at him.

"Can I have my card now?"

The boy looked at his teacher with confusion.

"Huh," was all he could get out.

"You made me a card right? May I have it?"

The boy pulled the heart shaped card out from his bag and steadily held it up to the school mare to which she took hold of it with her aura of pink colored magic. Miss. Blossom looked at the card with a look of nostalgia as she held it before her.

"Cain, its beautiful, I love it. But Im sorry, I can't be your special somepony, you understand why right?"

The boy looked down at his feet as the sudden urge to cry threatened to break through.

"Yes ma,am, I understand."

The pink mare reached out a hoof and tilted the boys chin up so she could see his face.

"Hay, listen, one day your going to meet a mare who truly loves you, and I can tell your going to make her very happy."

The boy looked at his teacher with a mix of confusion and anxiousness.

"How, how can that ever happen?" the boy asked.

"Ill tell you a secret to make it happen, but you have to keep it a secret, can you do that?"

The boy was now filled with excitement to learn this secret, whatever it was.

"Uh huh," the boy said nodding his head profusely.

"All you have to do is stay positive, keep your chin up, and always remember, their are only rainbows after rain."

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

The sound of running water and the light of the sun pouring through the window slowly roused me from my deep sleep. I became aware that most of my body was exposed to the cool air of my bedroom while my lower half was loosely covered by a thin sheet.

I sat up a bit and opened my eyes while I ran my fingers through my long hair to get it out of my face. My head reeled as I remembered what had transpired before I had succumb to sleep. Rainbow, I had "marked" her, a lot. And by doing so had claimed her as my own.

At her request I had hosed Rainbow in my cum to mark her with my scent so that everypony would know that she was taken. I should be happy I know, but I couldn't help but feel nervous.

I mean where do we go from hear? This felt like a big step for us, now were really together, the next thing I guess would be sex………….

Oh…..sweet…….Celestia

I hadn't even thought about sex, well yes I had but I never thought about it actually happening! Did Rainbow have experience in sex, and if she did what would she think about my performance?

What if I was bad at it? what if she didn't want to be with me afterward?

My inner thoughts were cut off by a blue and rainbow colored pegasus pony entering the room. Her coat and mane were still damp from her shower.
She whipped her mane to the side and looked so hoofing sexy doing it, she quickly took notice that I was awake.

"Nice to see your alive." Rainbow said in a cheery voice.

I searched for something to say.

"Y-yeah, uh, I'm, yeah, awake." I managed to get out but found it hard to look the beautiful pegasus before me in the eye.

Rainbow cocked an eyebrow before she trotted over to the side of the bed I was laying on.

"Are you ok fun stuff?" Rainbow took on a concerned look as she placed a hoof on my hip.
for some reason this action caused me to pull the sheet to cover myself, why I did this, I don't know.

Rainbow looked as though she was a bit offended by this.

"Your not………..you know, regretting, what we did, are you?"

I looked up at Rainbow and placed my hand on her hoof.

"Of course not, it made me really happy that you chose me to do it, Ive just been thinking about some stuff."

"Like sex?"

Since when did she become a mind reader?

"Uh, well, I uh."

"Listen Cain, I know you must have a lot of experience with mares, but I, I……Im a virgin!"

Que the sound of my jaw hitting the floor.

"So when we, you know, "do it" I just wanted to warn you that Ill probably be bad, and, you know………be gentle"

I can't describe to you how cute she looked just then saying something so sweet and innocent. But Ill enjoy that sight later, right now I have to tell my mare friend something important.

"Rainbow, sweetheart, theirs something you should know-"

"NO! please don't tell me how many mares you've rut with, I don't want to know ok."

"Rainbow"

"I mean they were probably more pretty than me but don't think that-"

"Rainbow!"

Rainbow looked up at me with a bit of surprise.

"Sorry, you go ahead."

I smiled at Rainbow and reached out my hand. I ran my fingers through her silky soft mane and she swooned into my palm.

"Ive never been with a mare, Im a virgin too."

Rainbows eyes widened as the realization of what I just told her sank in.

"Really?"

"Really", I said with a nod.

Rainbow looked like she was about to burst out into a fit of joy and all around happiness but quickly turned bright red and averted her eyes away from me.

"You……….probably think Im really stupid for saying all that huh?"

I tilted Rainbows head up to look at me. She gave me a weak smile.

"No, I don't think your stupid, actually I was thinking the same thing before you came in."

Rainbows cheeks turned pink before she gently nuzzled her head into my chest and wrapped her forelegs around my exposed torso.

"Why are you so great?" Rainbow asked, giving me a little squeeze.

"Just born that way I guess."

Rainbow looked up at me with a little smirk at my reply.

"Allways the joker eh?"

I wrapped an arm around her and gave her head a little rub.

"Just like seeing you smile is all."

Rainbow let out a little giggle.

"Pinky Pie's gonna love you."

"Why, she likes to smile?" I asked

Rainbow rolled her eyes at my inquiry.

"You have no idea."

I sat up more and stretched my arms out with a big yawn.

"Well my legs could use a stretch, by the way what time is it?"

Rainbow moved to the center of the room and stretched out her wings.

"A little past three," she said in reply.

"Well, didn't sleep as long as I thought."

Rainbow gave me a little smirk before she trotted back over to me.

"The next day, sleepy."

Wow, marking really takes it out of ya.

Rainbow placed her fore hooves on the edge of the bed and gave me a little nudge.

"Actually, I could go for a little snack."

"No problem, just let me clean up a bit and put something on and Ill-"

Rainbow placed a hoof on my chest and gave me a little push.

"Whoa their, are you going somewhere?"

I cocked an eyebrow.

"I thought you wanted a snack."

Rainbow gave me a mischievous smile and flashed her bedroom eyes which caused my pulse to quicken.

"And Im about to get it."

Before I could rebuttal, Rainbow flung the sheet off of my lower half revealing my half hard dick to her.
With a smirk Rainbow licked her lips and hoped onto the bed.

"Lay back, my stallion, you worked so hard for me yesterday, its time to return the favor."

I said nothing as I lay back against the headboard and got ready for the show that was about to unfurl before me.

Rainbow nestled herself between my legs, from this position she looked so cute and small.
With her eyes closed she gave the head a little sniff, and almost instantly I could feel her start breathing heavily.

She held my dick with her hoof and began stroking it slowly while she looked up at me with a seductive gaze.

"I may not be very good at this, but please try to enjoy."

Without a second delay Rainbow placed her soft lips at the head of my member and began to sink her head onto my shaft.
For a moment I thought that she wouldn't be able to take it all, more than once she gaged and sputtered as she swallowed my length.

Once she had me all the way in she began to open her eyes and gaze up at me. The look in her quivering eyes was as if she were asking "Does it feel good?".
Then Rainbow hit me with another sneak attack, clumsily, she began to snake her tongue around inside her mouth, the action was making her throat muscles tighten around the head.

To add fuel to the fire, Rainbow was now making little moans and "mm hmmm"s of approval, I began to feel something soft and warm on my testicles and became aware that she was cradling them on the delicate pad of her hoof!

"Rainbow…I can't…"

Rainbow perked her ears up a moment before she began to bob her head faster.

Thank you Celestia!

Rainbows wings sprang to life and as if by reflex she propped her back legs up and stuck her little rump into the air as she braced herself for my release, and her "snack".

I couldn't hold out any longer and erupted into Rainbows throat, she let out a loud grunt as the first load shot off but she soon settled and began to pull her mouth up my shaft so that some come could wash into her mouth.

Rainbows cheeks were a soft red and her tail swished back and forth as she coxed out the last bit with a gentle suckle.
After a minuet Rainbow was satisfied that I had given her the last drop, keeping her lips sealed she pulled her mouth off my spent member with a wet "slurp".

Once she was free of my dick she looked up at me, with her mouth still closed she looked like a squirrel with too many acorns in her mouth. her cheeks were round and full of thick, white, creamy, human seed. Rainbow did her best to swish it up in her mouth and I could hear the liquid making squelching sounds in her cheeks, for a moment I thought she was going to spit it all out.

"Rainbow, you don't have to swallow it if you don't want to." I said placing a hand on one of her hooves.

To this Rainbow shot me a "What, and waist all of it?" kind of look before she threw her head back and gulped it all down in an instant.

She looks so cute when she's being naughty.

I watched as the thick cum made its way down her throat and into her belly.

Rainbow looked at me with a bit of a surprised look as if she didn't know what to say now.

"Cup cake batter", she said to herself in an asking tone causing me to cock an eyebrow.

"Come again?" I asked.

Rainbow snapped out of her puzzlement and her cheeks turned an even brighter red.

"Sorry, just remembering something my friend Pinky said a while back."

"About what?" I asked.

"Nothing, nothing at all…….so, uh, how was I?"

I reached out to her and with my thumb I whipped away a small dab of cum from the corner of Rainbow's mouth. I looked into her rose colored eyes and smiled at her with all the love I felt for her at that moment.

She had the answer to her question.

Hear she was, risking so much just to be with me, her friends, her image in the eyes of the citizens of Ponyville, even her potential future with the wonder bolts.
She was risking it all just to be with me.
She called me her "Stallion", basically telling me she had accepted me for who I am and not what I am.

I pulled her head into my chest and began to nuzzle her mane, taking in the fresh scent of rain drops. Rainbow returned the gesture by wrapping one foreleg over my shoulder and the other under my arm, pulling me into a tight embrace whilst she rested her head on my shoulder with a comfortable "mmmmmm".

We didn't speak, we didn't move, it was like all time in the room had paused for us, so that we could just lay together……………………….together.

After a while we decided that some fresh air was needed, one tends to get claustrophobic being cooped up in a bedroom for almost twenty four hours, even if that time was spent hosing down a pegasus pony with cum in a romantic ritual called "marking" followed by a passionate round of oral sex and cuddling in that order.

We were both in the mood for ice cream so after I gave Rainbow a tooth brush (always be prepared), and we both washed up a little we were on our way.

Main street was slow today (not that it isn't most days), ponies went from hear to their doing their usual thing, shopping, chatting, and the like.
Rainbow trotted next to me as a posed to her usual hovering at shoulder height.

"So I forgot to ask, hows the job hunt going?" Rainbow asked.

I hung my head in shame that I hadn't made much progress at all.

"Well, it could be better, lets just leave it at that.

Rainbow looked at me as if she were mulling something over.

"Uh, huh, ok then." The rainbow pony stated cheerily, it sounded as if she were scheming something and was now proud of herself for something.

As we approached the center of town we chatted a bit more, I was trying not to think of my failures in finding employment, but of course the pony I love had to try and make me feel better about it in the best way she knew how.

Teasing me.

"How do you plan to show a beautiful, awesome, mare like me a good time if you can't pay for it? Im a very high class "lady" and I won't settle for a common human who can't appreciate beauty like mine."

Rainbow flipped her mane back and stuck her nose in the air imitating a high society mare.
I rolled my eyes at her antics, then a wicked thought came to me, oh she's gonna get it.

I looked around for an opportunity, and spotted it in the way of a large gap between two tall buildings, perfect.

Three more steps.

Two more steps.

One more.

Now!

I nabbed Rainbow up by the waist as if she weighed the same amount as scootaloo and dashed between the cover of the buildings.

"Gotch ya" I whispered into her ear as I pressed her against a wall.

Before she could protest I sealed her mouth with my own as I roughly kissed her and started sucking her tongue.

She wrapped her back legs around my waist as I held her in place. Rainbow moaned as I assaulted her. Maybe I was testing her, to see if she showed any hesitation to this level of public affection.

There was none.

I broke the connection, after spending four minutes of kissing her senseless.

She looked at me panting with her mouth open, a strand of saliva connected her tongue to mine.

"Im sorry, thats not how a "gentleman" is suppose to treat a "lady" is it?"

Rainbow gave me a little smile.

"Whats a lady?" she asked.

Just as I was about to go in for round two I heard a familiar little voice.

"Cain! Rainbow Dash!"

Quickly I set Rainbow on the ground next to me and we both franticly fixed our appearances as scootaloo galloped up looking excited to see us both.
I hope she didn't see much , I couldn't imagine how she would react if she saw me doing that to her idol in public.

"Hay you two, what're you up to?" the filly asked with bright eyes.

"Oh, uh, hey scoots, we were just, uh………."

"Talking, we were just talking." I stated trying to sound as convincing as I could.

"I meant what are you guys doing right now."

Were screwed

"Oh we were just on our way to get some ice cream scoots, wanna join us?"

Nice save Rainbow.

The filly practically flew at Rainbows offer to join her for an all you could eat ice cream feast, courtesy of her newly adopted "big brother".

Of course.

The three of us walked along while Scootaloo regaled us with the tale of how her and her fellow crusaders base jumping attempt fared.

To sum it all up in two words,

Tree-sap.

It was then that we reached the center of town when we paused.

Rainbow looked down at Scootaloo with a smile.

"How about a race? first to sugar cube corner is the winner."

Scootaloo looked a bit crest fallen at the offer.

"But theirs no way that I can keep up." The filly said bowing her head in shame.

Big brother time.

"Your going to keep up." I said

Bending over I scooped up the little filly and planted her square on my shoulders piggy back style.

"Because your with me"

The filly said nothing, she just smiled and held onto my back as we got into position. Rainbow had a focused look as she got ready to run.
She may have two more legs on me but I've got the pride and honor of a little filly resting on my shoulders.

literally.

"Ready you two?"

I looked over at Rainbow with a smirk.

"I was born ready."

Cheesy I know.

"On your mark"

"Get set"

Scootaloo gripped tighter.

"G-"

"Monster!"

The three of us looked to our right simultaneously, to see a light brown earth pony mare. Her mane was grey as a sign of her age which was done up in a tight bun. Her harsh looking expression was accented by a pair of black framed glasses.

The old mare glared at me with malice in her eyes, as if she were face to face with her life long enemy.

"Good ponies of ponyville, my name is Winnifred, secretary of historic research at the university of Canterlot, and I must warn you all!"

Every pony in the square was now looking to the gray mare who now held news of some danger to them.

And things were going so well.

"That….THING! upon two legs is a wolf in sheep's clothing, a beast, a serpent, a monster!"

Suddenly everypony's attention was now on me, and I felt the old urge to find a hole somewhere.

"Its the truth, that thing is a human, the very same beings that enslaved all pony kind years ago!"

Ponies were now sharing wispers amongst themselves and I knew this wasn't going to end well…………….it never did.

"Do not be fooled by his words or his smile, they are lies! Lies that he will use to come into your home and take your foals while you sleep!"

I have to get these two out of here for two reasons, one, before this crowd gets violent and they get mixed up in it or get hurt (over my dead rotting corps they would).
And two, because I can't stand to have two of the only ponies I've ever loved in this world seeing this kind of thing. I warned Rainbow about this, I didn't want her to be seen as the pony who makes friends with a "Monster". Just then a small hoof tapped me on the shoulder.

"Cain, whats she talking about, she isn't talking about you, is she?"

I gave the little filly a light tap on her head to set her at ease.

"Don't worry scoot scoot, that mare has had one too many hard ciders. I mean listen to her she's calling me a snake a monster and a wolf. Do I look like any of those things?"

Scootaloo let out an amused giggle before giving me a little squeeze.

"Of course not, she's crazy, and please Cain, don't call me "scoot scoot" its embarrassing."

I gave her cheek a playful pinch as I hiked her up on my back.

"I will call you "scoot scoot" because it is a cute little name for my cute little sister, oh and remember, no drinking until your twenty one got it?"

"Got it!" she stated with gusto.

Its nice that I could turn a bad situation into an opportunity to teach a young filly an important life lesson. Now to get Rainbow and get away from that troll of a mare.
I turned to where Rainbow stood but as soon as I did I was hit with a wave of the most intense anger, and rage.

It almost emanated off of her and I feared to see what black fire was swirling in her eyes as she bore a hole through the old mare with her glare.
As I lent down to tap her shoulder a low and angry growl came from the gentle mare that I loved,

Before I could intervene Rainbow lept at the old mare like a thunder bolt, pinning her to the ground and drawing gasps from several onlookers. She huffed with rage as the stunned mare tried to process what had just happened.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"

All went silent, except Rainbow.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL HIM?!"

"I, uh…." was her reply.

"MONSTER?!"

"No, I…"

"SERPENT?!"

"I meant.."

"LIAR?!"

"Please, I.."

"YOU DONT KNOW HIM!"

"Somepony, help!" she called out.

"YOU…..DONT……KNOW…….HIM!"

Rainbow brought a hoof up so that she could hit the now terrified mare beneath her, as she brought it down toward her target she was stopped by a hand that was wrapped around her hoof. I threw my other arm around her waist to drag her off the mare.

I had to set Scootaloo on the ground quickly before I barley stopped Rainbow from bashing the old mare in the snout.

Rainbow flailed and kicked in my arms as I dragged her off if only a inch.

"Let go of me Cain!" Rainbow bellowed at me as I held on to her with all my might.

"Rainbow calm down." I whispered to her trying to not let Scootaloo see or hear any more than she had already

"I said let me go!"

I felt her weaken a bit in my grasp.

"Rainbow, your scaring Scootaloo."

Like a switch had been flipped Rainbow stopped fighting and went limp in my arms. The old mare took the opportunity to slip out from under the pegasus pony that had put her their and gallop off.

Bullies are most often cowards I learned.

Me and Rainbow both looked back to see a little filly sitting only a few feet away, her mouth was open slightly and her eyes threatened to overflow with tears at any moment but what stabbed both our hearts deep………..was that she was trembling with fear.

Rainbow made the first move as she slowly approached the filly as not to stratal her. It must have been a shock to see the pony she looked up to the most so overcome with anger like that, I should have gotten them out of hear sooner…….it was my fault.

Rainbow took Scootaloo into a gentle hug as they both started to sob.

"Rainbow Dash, please don't change like that gain." She pleaded into Rainbows coat.

Rainbow fought to keep herself from balling any harder

"I won't, I promos, and I'm so sorry you had to see me like that, Im just, so sorry." They both continued for a couple minutes after that, everypony needs a good cry every now and then regardless to how tough they seem.

Twas then that I cut in.

"Pardon me ladies but I recall something about ice-cream and a race, shall we continue?" After a few tear whippings and a nose blowing, the three of us were back in position for our long over due race, Scootaloo back in her pilots chair (A.K.A my back).

"On your mark"

"Get set"

"Thank you, big brother." Scootaloo whispered into my ear.

"GO!"

*Next chapter, The long road home part 2*

Author's Note

Im so sorry to all of you that this took so long, next chapter will be the end.

Thank you all so much for your support.

-H

The long road home, part 2

I ran.

I ran harder and faster than I had ever run before. I ran until my lungs were on fire and my veins pumped battery acid……..and I still lost.

The race had been neck and neck, if only for the first fifteen seconds. Even with Scootaloo buzzing her little wings to try and give me an extra boost.
In the end though Rainbow stood at the steps of sugar cube corner, not a drop of sweat on her (of course).

Scootaloo didn't seem that disappointed that we lost, to the contrary she was giggling and saying how awesome that was.

"Oh my gosh, that was so cool, we were all like vrooooom! and when Rainbow Dash was all like woosh! Cain, wasn't that awesome?"

"Oh, gasp, it, gasp, was, gasp, so, gasp, awesome." I said before having to take a knee to try and catch my breath.

"Come on you two, you don't want the ice cream to get cold do you?" I thought to throw Rainbow a snappy come back, but right then all I could think about was that cold, sweet, creamy, ice cream, so to hoof with it, lets eat.

The three of us ate ice cream tell we thought we were going to burst. I almost had a heart attack when Scootaloo got her chocolate milk shake, The way she held it in her little fore legs and sipped on it with such a happy smile……………ngggggh! my chest!

Mrs. Cake had to come over and revive me with a smelling salt at some point, but I digress.

The sun was beginning to set as me and Rainbow walked along the orange lit streets. Surprisingly, despite the harsh and raciest things that Miss. Winniefred had said, no pony seemed to be avoiding me or looking at me like I was a threat. I guess seeing me save the mare who had labeled me as a monster from getting her muzzle caved in by Rainbow had changed ponies opinions of me, thanks Rainbow.

Scootaloo was now dead asleep on my back, her belly, which now bulged outward full of ice cream no doubt, made my burden of caring the sleepy filly just a little bit harder. But it was a burden I would gladly carry for eternity if needed be.

"heh, heh." Rainbow giggled as we turned onto the street where Scootaloos house was.

"Whats so funny, Rainbow?" I asked while I hiked the pudgy filly onto my back.

"Oh I was just thinking of what the three of us must look like right now is all."

Curiosity struck me.

"And what do we look like, my dear?" I asked awaiting something about how funny we must look.

"A family of course." Rainbow stated before giving me a little tap to my leg.

What?

A family?

I had been having so much fun that I hadn't really thought about it, but when I really thought about it.

That beautiful pegasus pony, and this sweet little filly, we really were……………..like a family.

My mind returned to the day I left Filly, I remembered the family I had seen at the train station, the stallion, his mare, and their foal. I recalled how much I wanted the same thing.

The earth turns, we don't feel it, but its their, miracles work in the same way I suppose. The one thing that I had dreamt of since I was small, and hear it was just dropped into my lap. I hadn't even realized it.

I looked at Rainbow, if it wasn't for her……I don't know where I would be right now.

Even if she almost killed me when we first met.

"I love you…..Rainbow Dash." I said aloud to the pony I loved without fear.

Rainbow stopped dead in her tracks and almost instantly her whole coat turned a deep red.

"I-I love you too." She confessed without turning her head to look at me, most likely she didn't want me to see how embarrassed she was at hearing me use her full name.

We continued our stroll to Scootaloo's house, both of us (unknown to the other) wore a happy smile.

Rainbow knocked on the door, which was promptly answered by an orange pegasus mare, Scootaloo's mom I concluded.

Her mane was the same as Scootaloo's except that she wore hers long and wavy and I imagined that this is what Scootaloo will look like when she grows up.

What a knock out shell be!

She took notice of her daughter gently snoozing on my back before turning to Rainbow.

"Rainbow Dash, I see you brought my little scootal bug home." The mare said cheerfully.

I noticed that she had some dark bags under her eyes, the sign of a hard working mom for sure. Scootaloo's dad was in the royal guard and was stationed at Canterlot castle, as Rainbow had told me.

It must be hard for all of them, Scootaloo and her mom had to get by without a dad or a husband, and scoot's dad, the poor guy, having to say goodbye to such a sweet little girl and a hot wife like that.

But I couldn't help but admire his bravery, he's a lucky stallion.

Also, "scootal bug"? Oh I can't wait to get her on this one.

"Eeee yep, we just brought her back from an all you can eat buffet of extreme ice cream madness!"

The mare let out an amused giggle.

"I see, well Im glad she had fun By the way, who's your tall friend here?"

Rainbow gestured to me with a hoof.

"This, Mrs. Loo, is my special somepony, Cain."

I extended my right hand to the beautiful mare.

"Its nice to meet you ma'am, you have a great daughter hear."

She extended her hoof to which I took it and gave it a light shake.

"Why thank you, I'm Lilly Loo, and any friend of my daughters is a friend of mine."

After we had exchanged pleasantries, I transferred the pudgy bellied filly to her mom's back, to which she began to stir a little.

"Scootal bug, what do you say to Cain and Rainbow Dash?" Lilly Loo whispered gently to her daughter.

"Mmmm, thank you big brother, thanks big sis." The little filly said as she drifted between asleep and awake.

Me and Rainbow gave the filly an awkward smile.

We said our farewells to Mrs. Loo before we left for home, maybe Ill offer to come over sometime and make dinner for Scootaloo and her mom, you know give her mom a break from the cooking.

Believe me, I know how tiring it can get cooking every day.

It was starting to get dark when we were almost to my house.

"Uh, Cain, can I ask you something?"

I looked at Rainbow in the moonlight, her eyes sparkled like stars.

"You just did." I stated sarcastically.

Rainbow didn't look amused.

"S-sorry, go ahead."

Rainbow took on a worried and anxious look.

"Well uh, I want to ask you if its all right if I spent the night…………with you."

Uh oh! whatdoIdowhatdoIdowhatdoIdo? What do I say?!

"Of course, Rainbow. My home is your home." Perfect! Play it cool.

You sly dog.

"Great! just let me go home and get some stuff, ok? I'll be right back." With that Rainbow shot into the sky and off to her cloudominium.

In the mean time I went inside, I had to prepare myself, mentally!

I found myself standing in my shower with my hands pressed against the wall as I looked down at my team.

"Ok old boy, tonight is the night, now I know we've never done anything like this before, but I also know that you are a champion!"

…………………………………………………. What in the name of Celestia am I doing?

After my shower I brushed my hair and teeth before shaving and putting something simple on. All that was left was to wait.

"Knock, knock!"

That didn't take long, ok deep breaths, you love her, just be yourself……just…….be….."gulp"……yourself.

I opened the door to find Rainbow, of course, on her back she carried a saddlebag of mysterious wonders I assumed.

"Told you I would be right back." Rainbow stated proudly.

"Never doubted you." I replied.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, but do you think I could use your bathroom?" Well Im not one to refuse a mares request.

"Sure thing, go right ahead."

Rainbow gave me a sly smile.

"Thanks, go wait for me in your room ok, I won't be too long." Rainbow said as she turned toward the bathroom, as she walked I was drawn to her soft curvy flank and the treasures that it held.

Rainbow turned her head toward me just before she entered the wash room and noticed me eyeing her mare parts like a hungry timberwolf.

"Ah ah, no peaking my stallion." She said before giving me a wink and closing the bathroom door.

Now I sat on my bed, contemplating the evening of love and passion that was ahead of me, and as I sat their, a familiar smell came to my nostrils, a smell that I associated with the best birthday I had ever had.

Pheromones.

The sweet and musky smell of pheromones was becoming thicker in the air, and it was coming from the room that Rainbow now occupied.

I was feeling a bit dizzy from the aroma, and I was about to get up and knock to see if Rainbow was all right in their. But before I could check on the status of my marefriend the door slowly opened.

What emerged was Rainbow 2.0.

Her eyelashes were longer and thicker, and she had done her mane so that it laid against half of her face. Her lips had a light coat of pink lipgloss which made them look so moist and sweet.

But the biggest change she had made was that on all four legs she now wore thigh high rainbow striped socks!

Now I wore socks of course, but for ponies, socks were considered a very intimate clothing, for some reason mares felt more exposed wearing them (or so I had read).

"Wow" was the understatement of the year in that room.

"W, well what do you think? My friend Rarity showed me how to do all this, I usually don't go for this kind of girly stuff but I………..thought you might like it."

I sat on my bed, the smell of pheromones swirling around me like a thick fog, filling my lungs, pouring its warm pink drug into my blood stream.
My head was a wash, my skin was hot, and my mouth was watering.

And she wanted to know what I thought of it?

"Please Rainbow………just come here."

Rainbow blushed as she slowly approached where I sat on the bed. She only got about three steps before she pounced, pinning me under her on the bed.

She planted her mouth on mine, the taste of her lipgloss filling my senses. Sweet like strawberries dipped in powder sugar, and her tongue.

It was as if she were trying to taste all of me, it swirled with my tongue as she hungrily lapped at the roof of my mouth and the bottom.
I pulled away enough to trap her wet tongue in my mouth and began to suck at it with abandon.

We broke away and planted a few small pecks on each other.

Rainbow then moved to put her open mouth on my collar bone and sank her teeth in, hard.

"Mmmmm, mm, hmmm." She moaned as she sucked and bit into the flesh covered bone like a teething puppy.

It hurt, but I didn't stop her this time, I was sure that she was going to draw blood, and in my arousal fogged mind, I wanted her to.

Rainbow rubbed my chest with her sock covered hoof while at the same time she was rubbing her plot on my stomach, my shirt was getting wet.

I broke Rainbow from her bone so that I could remove my shirt, but Rainbow already had the collar of my shirt in her teeth and she was forcefully tearing it off my body.

Once off she gazed downward at my exposed chest. With her pink tongue she licked one peck and then the other drawing lines of moisture across my skin as she went and planting little kisses hear and their.

Once I had removed the thunder crystal from around my neck she reared her head up and looked at me with extreme urgency.

"Im in heat!" She practically shouted.

"Huh?" was all I could say.

"The truth is I've been going crazy for awhile, and I can't take it any more!"

A switch was hit in my head and it all began to make sense to me. The training thingey, her collapsing, the smell of pheromones.

Celestias crown! Its spring!

Of course, if it were a cockatrice it would have turned me to stone.
She must have gone on the training whatever to help clear her head.

Although if I had to choose between doing wing ups on top of a frozen mountain and taking a cold shower, Id take the shower.

"Usually I keep it in check by training harder this time of year…..Thats what I was doing the day we met."

Thanks spring.

"But something changed this year."

I cocked an eyebrow to that.

"I met…..you!"

Rainbow's sock covered hoofs were very soft against my chest as she pressed harder into me so she could rub her soft wet marehood against my abs (small they may be but abs non the less).

I had to see it, I had to see what the affects were to make Rainbows plot so wet. So I picked Rainbow up, flipped her around and laid her on her back.
Her wings were fully extended and I had the strong feeling that I was going to have a hard time keeping Rainbow grounded.

Rainbow opened her back legs, her face was red and her eyes were closed. She was really embarrassed but she obviously wanted this bad.

Her marehood was nothing but a little slit with soft pudgy lips on either side, and it was all covered in her wet arousal.

Gently I ran a finger up the slit to witch Rainbow let out a sharp cry followed by a little shudder in her tail. It felt hot and moist inside, and I almost came from the thought that I was going to be inside of her soon.

I put my pointer finger just at the entrance to her plot, I didn't push it in, just a slow tickling at her entrance.

Just enough to make her a little more crazy.

"Nnnnnnnghhhhhhh! Cain! please…. don't tease me."

I pressed my finger in slowly, Rainbow stiffened up and began to twitch.

When I was as deep as my finger could go, then she hit me with it.

Rainbow cried out my name as a wave of hot clear liquid shot from her marehood like the pony had sprung a leak. At first I was shocked, I didn't know what it was, then I remembered.

So she's a squirter huh?

Not all that surprising, I had read in an issue of "Play Pony" that over eighty-three percent of all equine mares experience "female ejaculation" during intercourse.

Although Rainbow looked more embraced than a filly who forgot her books on the first day of school.

I twisted my finger inside her and she let loose an even bigger torrent of liquid. After the wave I slowly bent down and placed my tongue at the bottom of her slit almost touching her tight rose bud, (I was going to have to give her asshole a big wet kiss, later though) and I dragged it up taking in the taste of her plot, it didn't taste bad, well not too bad at least. It was strong but the more I licked the more I liked it.

My pants were soaked, so time for them to go. Rainbow lay before me convulsing like a gold fish out of water. I sat with my legs crossed as I pulled Rainbow up and held her to me while she came down from her orgasms. She bit my shoulder while she regained control of her head again.

After a moment or two she place her rainbow colored socks on my shoulders and looked at me with great need.

"Please Cain, it burns, it feels like theirs a fire inside me, no, an inferno! I need you to………….enter me, as deep as you can and douse it with your………………..cum."

I lowered her until the tip of my dick and the entrance to her slit were just barely touching each other in a moist kiss.

"Your such a nasty little pony Rainbow." I uttered before lowering her down some more.

The tip slipped in and instantly the head was enveloped in a soft warm embrace. But as I slid in more it got tighter to the point that it felt like her plot was trying to chock my penis.

Their was no hymen, I would find out latter that Rainbow had experimented with toys when she was a teenage mare, and had one day used one to hard on herself during her first estrus cycle. Thus the tradition of working out extra hard in the spring time came about.

A mental image came to me after the story, of a teenage Rainbow in her cloud room surrounded by wonder bolt posters, bringing herself to her first climax, all sweaty and out of breath, making little sounds like a kitten.

Hey, don't judge me, its called a fantasy, try it sometime.

With her hooves gripping my shoulders Rainbow threw her head back as I finished dropping her onto my shaft. I was balls deep inside her and it felt like nothing I had ever felt before (obviously).

"Rainbow, I….NGHH!" That was when I came.

I released inside her with what felt like a thick load, Rainbows plot gripped me inside her as my cum shot out of me and into her womb.

"I, Im sorry, I-" Rainbow looked at me as she trembled and panted.

"For what? It feels great. Its so hot and thick." Rainbow placed a sock covered hoof on where her womb was to try and feel the semen that was now home inside her, as she rubbed the spot she let out a tiny giggle.

"You naughty little stallion, were you trying to make me a mommy?" Yes yes yes yes yes yes and yeeeeeeees!

"But, but I came so fast." Rainbow put her hoof back on my shoulder and smiled at me.

"Silly, coming as soon as you get in the door is what loosing your virginity is all about. I mean I came like crazy from you just putting your dick in."

Rainbow gave me a kiss on the nose.

"And I don't want to be selfish, I want you to feel good too you know. I really loved how gentle and sweet you were when you were putting it in."

She blushed as her smile became more timid and she averted her eyes away from me.

"You know, I may be a tomboy, but I'm still a girl, and the way you made me feel when you were taking me was like, well I…………………I felt like…a princess."

I leaned into her and began kissing her neck.

"Thats because you are a princess, my naughty little princess, who wants me to make her feel good, right?"

My dick became harder inside her, which was not lost on the desperate mare.

"Yes" she squeaked as the muscles in her plot hugged me tightly.

"And does my princess want for me to fill her with seed until she's pregnant with three foals?" I know that can't happen but hay, were roll playing.

"Yes!"

I laid Rainbow on her back again as I mounted her from above and slid myself inside again and all the way to the hilt.

Rainbow cried out louder as her insides drooled and moistened my member, all while squeezing me so hard it was hard to pull out and slam back into her.
I wanted to turn her soft pink insides red and raw. I wanted to pound inside of her until she couldn't walk right. I wanted to paint the inside of her wet plot hole with enough cum that she wouldn't fell the fire of estrous until next year!

I picked up my pacing, every time our pelvises met their was a wet clap that filled the room and soon became a rhythmic pattern.

Was it the pheromones that were doing this to me?

With my hands on each of her cutie marks I raised her hips up to help align me better with her squelching hole.

Rainbows forelegs were over her head gripping at the pillow agents the headboard.

I couldn't hold out much longer, the head of my dick felt like it was burning, wanting to pop again.

I slammed home hard and ground myself against her. Rainbow shut her eyes tight and bit her lower lip as another wave of warm girl cum sprayed from where we were connected at the waist.
The stream hit me like Rainbow was overflowing. My chest was soaked with Rainbows release, it smelt like pure liquid sex, and it felt heavier than water for some reason.

"Rainbow, now its my turn." I said.

"I, inside….make sure you cum inside me." she pleaded to me with her face covered in sweat.

Yes ma'am.

With a few more thrusts I pushed myself all the way up into her and released again.

"Ah! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Rainbow moaned with her mouth open and her tongue hanging out the side.

She was past the point of no return, at that moment she was putty in my hands (not that she knew what hands were of course).
But I wasn't done with her yet, their was one more thing I had wanted to do to her for a while now.

I waited for her to come down a little bit from cloud nine or whatever number Rainbow gave to the cloud she liked to be on when she came.
I then gently lifted her up and turned her over onto her belly. With her head and upper body flat on the mattress, I lifted her rump up to put her in the traditional position for when a stallion rutted a mare.

She moved her tail and stuck her little butt out at me giving it a little wiggle to entice me into taking her. I dropped to my knees and took her rump into my hands.
It wasn't "big" but it wasn't small either, and it was soft but firm at the same time with just the right amount if juggle when played with.

I opened her cheeks causing Rainbow to let out a little squeak as she lay helpless with her most delicate and personal place being stared at and played with at the same time.

She was really embarrassed, but sweet Celestia she loved it!

Her anus was almost puckering at me like it wanted a kiss really bad.

So with my mouth and tongue I gave it what it wanted. I lapped and kissed her tail hole as if I were kissing her on the mouth.
I could tell that Rainbow kept her asshole clean since the flavor was actually kinda nice. Her squirting fits had soaked her rectum with its juices.

It tasted like the first rainfall of spring, sweet but a little bitter at the same time.

I could've stayed like that and kept making mouth love to her ass forever, but Rainbow was beginning to squirm and make sounds of frustration which told me it was time to get back to business.

With one last kiss to her pink rose bud, I rose and took my dick in hand. Taking careful aim at her dripping marehood, I pushed inside with all the speed of a snail.

If this was going to be the finish then I wanted it to be memorable to her, and to do that I was going to make her suffer.

Just a little bit.

To Rainbow it felt like hours before I was all the way inside, she bit into a pillow to keep her from screaming her head off and waking the neighbors.

I pulled out just until I was at her opening before I grabbed onto the base of her tail and pulled hard until she came slamming back down on me.
Her wings began to flap so I held on tighter to her tail as I used it as leverage to slam her rump back onto my now throbbing shaft, every time I did this she scrammed into the pillow, muffling her cries and her pleads to pound her harder.

Her wings beat harder as I slammed home and after a while she began to lift off the bed.

"Your…..not getting……..away…….that….easily……princess!"

I reached out and grabbed both her wings at the base, the muscles at the base of her wings were harder than wood and they were pulsing with blood so hard it felt like they would burst.

With a wing in both hands I pulled her even harder into my thrusts, all the while her wings still tried to flap harder and harder as I went.

And let me tell you, it wasn't easy keeping her grounded.

Rainbow reached a hoof between her legs until she found my scrotum as it slapped against her wet mound. She gently grasped them and pulled them slightly toward her, as if she were controlling how I rut her.

She must have felt my balls twitch inside because she now pulled them toward her harder, as if she were ordering me blow my load inside her or else.

"Rainbow, Im cumming!"

Rainbow quickly looked back at me with a smile and her tear streaked eyes were glazed over with lust. When it comes to a mare in heat its not a want, its a need.

"I…I can feel your cum, hear! inside your sack, their saying they want to go home, that they want their new home to be my, my…….MY WOMB!"

Ok boys say hello to your brothers and sisters for me.

I slammed in just as the first spurt shot out of my dick so hard and so fast that it almost hurt, Rainbows pussy muscles gripped me at the base and worked their way up to the tip.

I was literally being milked by her plot.

The next two shots felt like thick rope being let out my tip and the last one was a sputter of the last three.

My heart was going a thousand miles a second and sweat dripped from my face and body freely onto Rainbows back. I let go of her wings which had stopped flapping as soon as she felt my cum release inside her, and they were now starting to return to their normal state. Rainbow fell face first into a soft pillow and her inner muscles finally relaxed enough for me to finally ease out of her bit by bit.

Once I was free of her grip she took a deep tired breath and rolled over onto her back. She smiled up at me through the mess of rainbow hair that stuck to her sweat covered face.

With her back legs open she grunted a little bit as a wad of cum began to ooze from her now red and battered pussy. I looked up to see that her two little teats were now pink and slightly swollen, like two mosquito bites.

Most likely from when they were rubbing against my stomach so fast and rough.

I put my hand on her belly and began rubbling it in a circular motion, stopping every now and again to poke and fiddle with her nipples and belly button.

"That feels sooooo good, and I really want you to keep going, but, yawn, Im so tired." Rainbow said sleepily.

I laid down next to her and she scooted herself into my arms, with her sock covered hooves gently resting on my chest, she nuzzled her head into the side of my neck.

I reached over and turned off the lamp before returning to our cuddling session. It was silent, only the gentle breathing of the pony in my arms was to be heard as the soft pale moonlight shined through the curtains.

"Cain……….did I…….feel good, to you?" Rainbow asked cuddling herself deeper into me.

I gave her a squeeze.

"Yes Rainbow, it felt very good rutting with the "princess" that I love." Rainbow giggled a little before giving my neck a soft kiss.

I guess a mare just likes hearing that once in a while.

I can't remember when exactly I fell asleep but soon enough we both drifted off into the night.

The next day at breakfast me and Rainbow were in the kitchen. Rainbow sat at the table as I prepared cheese and mushroom with tomato omelets for two, their was a bit of an awkward silence but not so much that we didn't smile at each other when our eyes met, or exchanged a kiss every few minuets.

perhaps thats the sign of when you've found somepony really special, when the two of you can be alone together and just enjoy each others silence.

After we had finished breakfast, Rainbow looked like she had been completely restored.

"Oh my gosh! Cain, I forgot to tell you." She looked fairly excited.

"Stay calm now." I advised as I sat across the table from her.

"Now, whats up?" I asked, now a little curious.

"Yesterday after you blacked out at sugar cube corner, I told Mrs. Cake about your job hunt and you know what she said?"

I shrugged my shoulders.

"Good luck?"

Rainbow rolled her eyes at me.

"No! she said to come back any time in the next two days and shell give you an interview, isn't that awesome?!"

I could have started crying right then and their, but for the sake of being a guy I chocked it back.

I got up and hugged Rainbow, what felt like the hardest I had ever hugged her in all the time I had known her.

From their hugging turned to more hugging, more hugging turned to kissing, kissing soon turned to making out which lead to more making out followed by a few more minutes of making out which finally lead to us talking.

We decided to go out for a walk over to sugar cube corner to see about that job interview, and because we needed to let the room air out the smell of sweat and body oder.

It was a warm sunny day in town, not much seemed to be going on, and most of all, ponies seemed to acknowledge me but didn't seem to be afraid.

I guess the sun is shining in more ways than one today.

We approached where town hall sits when I noticed that Rainbow was ever so slightly trying to lean against my outer thigh, maybe it was her way of trying to hold hooves or in my case hands.

I was about to say something when all of a sudden Rainbow stopped completely. I looked over at her to find that her gaze was averted up to the sky and she wore an almost shocked look.

I too looked up to the mysterious thing that had caught her eye, but immediately wished that I hadn't, the sky might as well have been falling.

In the direction of Canterlot flying fast toward Ponyville was non other that the raiser of the sun, the goddess of light, the co-ruler of all of ponydom.

Princess Celestia.

"Cain! you have to hide!" Rainbow ordered hastily.

"Wha, I, uh." I stuttered.

"Cain, do you know who that is, its princess Celestia! Do you have any idea what she might do to you if she sees a human with a pony?!"

I was a bit confused, and in shock.

"W, what?" I asked, not yet fully aware of how doomed I was.

"Thats just it, I don't know! But do you want to find out?!"

Now I was awake.

"Your right, what do I do?!" I asked in a panic.

Rainbows head darted back and forth as she looked for a fix, until her eyes rested on a stack of crates about twenty hooves away from where we stood.

"There, hide behind those!" She cheered pointing to the crates.

I swiftly began to dart over to the sanctuary.

"Be careful ok?" I said to Rainbow before I was out of earshot.

Not long after I had ducked behind my sanctuary, I witnessed the descent of the princess of all ponies. She was without a doubt the second most radiant pony I had ever seen.

Her coat was as white as snow and her mane and tail radiated with a pastel rainbow which flowed and wafted on a non existent breeze. it was like stardust in space, their but not at the same time. Her wings were three times the size of Rainbows and the perfectly preened feathers seemed to shine in the light like spear tips.

She landed in front of Rainbow and the two began talking. I wished that I could hear what they were saying but I knew it couldn't be good, princesses don't just talk to their subjects and they don't do that right after they just fall from the sky no chariot no nothing.

My mind began to go go go with thoughts of punishment. The princess must have gotten word that a human moved to Ponyville and was trying to seduce one of her subjects. That must be it, she must be asking Rainbow if she's been molested or harassed by any humans lately. Rainbow must be trying to throw her off the scent by lying to her, good job Rainbow.

Wait! not good job!

What if the princess docent believe her? What if she can tell that Rainbow is lying? What if she dragged Rainbow back to Canterlot and throws her into a torture chamber until she talks?

Not while I'm breathing!

With out a second delay I came out of my hiding place and made a mad dash to where Rainbow and the princess stood. Once I was almost to them I leapt forward and slid on my stomach like a ball player sliding into second at the princesse's gold slippered hooves.

"Waaaaait!" I hollered.

The sun goddess looked down at me with a confused look.

"Please! you don't have to punish her! She didn't do anything! It, it was me, I forced her to to be with me!"

Princess Celestea looked over at Rainbow.

"Rainbow Dash, is this the human that Ive heard about?" The princess asked in the most elegant voice I had ever heard.

Rainbow stood up tall before her princess.

"Yes your majesty, and Im sorry but I love him, so if you're going to punish him, then you'll have to punish me too." I was a fool to think that Rainbow would let me take all the heat, I should have put my hand over her mouth.

Now she was going to get in trouble because of me.

"Punishment, why what ever do the two of you mean?" The princess asked.

Now it was my turn to be confused.

"Pardon me your highness, but aren't you mad about a pony and a human being together?" To this the princess let out a hearty laugh before she raised a hoof to wipe away a tear.

"Heavens no child, I may be the co-ruller of equestrian but that doesn't mean that I have the power, or the desire, to stop my subjects from falling in love."

Her subject? A princess of equestrian considers me, a human, one of her subjects?

Maybe I miss judged her.

She smiled warmly at us.

"I was young once to you know."

Something didn't make sense though.

"So, your majesty, if I may ask, why are you here?" I asked.

The princess looked down at me as I got off my stomach and sat next to Rainbow.

Her expression changed to one that was a bit more serious.

"Well the first reason was that princess Twilight Sparkle was worried that with all of her friends away that Rainbow Dash might be lonely, and asked if I might check in and see how she was doing."

Wait, "Princess" Twilight Sparkle? The same "Twilight" that Rainbow had told me about? The one that went through some changes and was busy with work in Canterlot? That Twilight?

Wow, just wow, Rainbow must be well connected, I hadn't even thought to connect those two points.

"The other reason was that I received word that an professor from the University of Canterlot was here in ponyville and was saying some very cruel and raciest things in the town square yesterday, it wasn't you was it, ummm-"

"Cain, your majesty, and yes, it seemed that the brunt of her anger was pointed at me." I explained to the princess.

To this she lowered her head a bit in shame.

"I am truly sorry for that Cain, please believe me when I say that I do not condone such behavior and that I have asked that she be put on administrative leave, until a time when she can see a pony, or in your case human, for the characters of their heart and not the actions of their ancestors."

"Uh, thank you princess." I said.

Rainbow stepped forward a bit.

"Princess, how is Twili- I mean, princess Twilight, doing?" She asked sounding a little worried.

Princess Celestia seemed to perk up at the topic.

"Oh she's doing fine, her studies are coming along smoothly, what more can I expect from my most faithful student?"

Rainbow seemed to ease up a bit to hear that her dear friend was not only ok but thriving since her ascension to alicorn status.

Princess Celestia cracked a wicked smile then, and I felt a tug of fear at what she was planing.

"By the way Rainbow Dash, you will remember to extend me an invitation, won't you?"

Rainbow cocked an eye brow.

"Invitation, to what?"

The princess covered her mouth with a hoof which made her look like a gossipy little school mare.

"Why the wedding of course." She stated sweetly.

Rainbows coat went as white as a sheet, and her eyes rolled into the back of her head. Just before she fell over from a rush of blood to her head she dizzily said the word "Wedding?".

I caught her as she slumped over onto me.

"Oh my, I was just having a little fun with the dear, guess I went a little to far, Lunas always telling me not to do that." She said mostly to herself.

"Well Mr. Cain, before I go, I was wondering if you would be willing to listen to an old mares story for a while?"

I can't really say no to a ruler of Equestria now can I?

"Of course your majesty."

The princess smiled before she sat down before me and the now unconscious Rainbow.

"Many years ago, before me and my sister were crowned as rulers of this land we were agents of the United Ponies of Equestria, not even one hundred years had passed since Equestria was founded by the three tribes. Me and my sister were tasked with finding towns and villages and liberating all slaves within, weather they be pony, cow, pig, goat, or any creature that was held in chains."

Princess Celestia and princess Luna were the ones who freed the ponies of ancient Equestria?

"Back then, my sister and I felt for humans the same way that Miss. Whinniefred did. Of course when we first approached a village we would tell the humans that if they didn't free all they held prisoner, that we would liberate them by force. But even when they did try and attack us we only subdued the ones that showed hostility. I just wanted you to know that none of your ancestors blood has ever stained my hooves."

I looked down at Rainbows sleeping face and wondered how anyone could be as cruel as the ancient humans were.

"But one faithful day we received word of a large town on the outskirts of Saddle Arabea, where manny ponies and other innocent creatures had suffered whip and chain for many many moons. So me and my sister set out to this town only to find that it was much larger than we had planned, not only that but it was surrounded by great walls that would have made for getting the prisoners out safely quite hard. As night fell we prepared to attack, but just before I fired the first shot I saw something approaching us."

She had my attention before but now she had it fully.

"It was a human, maybe a little older than you, he had kind eyes, Ha! listen to me, all these years latter and its his eyes that I remember best. Anyway, me and Luna prepared ourselves to take him down if we had to, but instead he said that he knew who we were and that he wanted to help us. We were weary of him at first and I was ready to strike him down if needed be. He showed us to a secret underground tunnel, that branched out to almost every home in the city. We worked throughout the night taking families, orphans, foals, and elderly, but before the sun rose we had freed all that were held within the city walls."

Well I can say this about the princesses of Equestria, they are anything but "namby pamby".

"Im sorry, it seems that I'm rambling. The point Im getting at is that without the selfless service of one who we once regarded as our enemy, many countless generations of ponies and other creatures would have never known the taste of freedom, and because one was willing to go against not only his own people, but what he had been taught from birth what was "normal", no one, pony or human was hurt."

I felt something for my own people then, something that I had never felt before……….pride.

"What happened to him after that?"

Princess Celestia gazed up as if she were recalling the day as we spoke.

"My sister took the herd to meet up with our friend Discord, I stayed behind to make sure they were not followed. I thanked him from the bottom of my heart and asked if he would return with us to Equestria, I told him he would be herald as a hero and a liberator. But he declined, I asked if he was going to return to his home in the town. But he said that he didn't have a home to return to anymore."

"So, what happened to him?" I asked.

"Without a word he stood and walked off into the desert alone. I watched as he faded off into the horizon, until the sand completely enveloped him and he was gone. I never even asked his name, so since then Ive always remembered him as "Sand". After me and my sister sat upon the throne, I decreed that all humans would be granted citizenship to Equestria, in hopes that old wounds would have a chance to heal. Im sorry that you had to bear witness to such an ugly thing from one of my little ponies Cain."

Princess Celestia stood up and brushed some dust from one of her forelegs.

"Im sorry, Id love to stay and chat more, but the duties of a princess are never done."

With Rainbow in my arms I stood with the princess.

"Thank you……for telling me that your highness."

The princess flashed me a bright smile.

"Your very welcome, I hope to have another conversation in the near future." She said in a sing song tone.

"Id like that very much." I replied

As the princess spread her wings and got ready to take off she flashed me one of her wicked smiles.

"You will make sure to take good care of my element bearer, Ive never banished a human to the moon, and Id hate for you to be the first."

I almost wet myself.

"Y, yes ma'am." Princess Celestia flapped her huge wings and took off into the sun like a hawk.

I found myself at the park sitting by the same pond that I had first met Rainbow. The sky blue mare slept in my arms as I looked out onto the sparkling water and recalled the story the princess had told me.

For so long I thought of my own people the same way that ponies had seen me, as monsters, as evil things. Like a child that grew up with abusive parents, only thinking of them as that ugly thing you kept locked in your closet.

And in a way, maybe I even hatted myself, maybe thats why I tried to shun Rainbow away from me so much at first. What I couldn't see in myself, I couldn't imagine aneypony else seeing in me.

But like Sand had done with princess's Celestia and Luna, Rainbow had done with me.

Like a circle.

"Mmmm, Cain? What happened, where are we?" Rainbow asked as she began to stir.

"Good to see your ok, you passed out so I bought you to the park." I said to the sleepy mare on my lap.

"Mmmmm, ok……..whats that blurry thing in the background?" Rainbow asked groggily gesturing with a hoof toward Ponyville.

"Home Rainbow…….thats home." I said unable to hold back the tears any longer.

Author's Note

Cue end them-

Thanks for reading y'all, I know that a lot of you didn't want it to end so soon, but don't worry theirs still one more adventure for our boy. Adventure in the form of a butter yellow pony.

So I'm here in san diego visiting my dad and heard about comic con and thought Id check it out, so I wanted to share my experience and thoughts on that day. Tickets were sold out but I thought to try to get in anyway, I told the people at the registration that I was just out of the army and that I wasn't able to get a ticket on time. They said it was heart breaking but no. So then I asked a few people if they wouldn't mind holding my valuables and let me borrow their pass for a few minuets. Again no, so thair I was sitting on a hill watching all the thousands of people going into the con, and I couldn't stop thinking how un fair it was. Here I was, an army veteran, one of many who helped support and defend the freedoms that allowed this con to even exist and Im turned away? Then I had a moment of clarity, I felt proud that me and my brothers and sisters had helped to make suck an amazing thing posable.
Like Rainbow Dash said, "It feels good to help others get something you always wanted but never had. Almost as good as getting it yourself, almost." So even if I couldn't get in I fell proud that in a small way, I helped make it happen.

making friends with Fluttershy 101

Making friends with Fluttershy 101.

Subject. Fluterus Shyacus

Gender. Female

Tribe. Pegasus

Age. 21

Step 1. Evaluate yourself, if you are a pony of short patients, avoid at all cost.

Step 2. Never raise your voice above a talking volume, The subject is known to recoil at loud outbursts.

Step 3. Remember, patients, patients, patients.

Another week passed before Rainbows friends returned to Ponyville. It goes without saying that I was a bit nervous about meeting Rainbows friends for the first time. But Rainbow sat me down and set my mind at ease.

"You've got nothing to worry about Cain, their gonna love you. Don't forget, you made friends with Princess Celestia for ponies sake!"

That was true, the Princess and me had hit it off fairly well, so I guess that making friends with five ponies shouldn't be too hard.

Well, four ponies and a newly crowned princess.

Me and Rainbow walked up to the large tree that was the Golden Oaks Library, where we were to meet with all of Rainbows friends.
Rainbow opened the door and we were greeted by the warm light from within. The five ponies sat around a table drinking tea and chatting about their adventures.

They all took notice of our entrance, but before aneypony could say anything there was a flash of pink and before I knew what happened Rainbow was insnared in a tight hug from what looked like a pony shaped wad of pink bubble gum with a cotton candy mane.

Seriously, thats what she looked like.

"Dashi! I missed you soooooooooooo much!" The pink earth pony proclaimed as she squeezed Rainbow even tighter.

"Thanks, Pinky Pie, I, missed you too." Rainbow said, trying with some difficulty to breath.

The pink pony then looked to me with a wide eyed look.

"Who's your friend Dashi?" The pink pony asked. The whole room went silent for a moment as all eyes fell on me, but that one moment felt like hours.

Rainbow cleared her throat before pointing to me with a hoof.

"Pinky, girls, this is my very special some pony Cain. Cain these are my pff's." I raised my hand and gave my friendliest smile.

"Hi everypony, its nice to finally meet you all. Rainbows told me a lot about all of you." I didn't have time to feel awkward, in a flash I was wrapped up in a tight hug from the pink pony who had seconds ago insnared Rainbow in a similar embrace.

"Oh my gosh, thats so awesome! So you two are going out?! Im just so happy for you two!" Obviously she was excited, but more importantly her excitement seemed to spread to everypony in the room.

Rarity, at first, seemed to be a bit stuck up, and a bit snobbish, but I learned that she was really nice and possibly one the most generous ponies I had ever met, she even offered to make me some custom clothes saying "It would be a fun challenge."

Apple Jack shook my hand so hard I thought that she would break my arm, and was by far the most down to earth one of the group, and gave off a big sister kind of vibe, like you could talk to her about anything.

Pinky Pie seemed like she was overwhelmed with joy to just make friends with me. She was so pure hearted, she didn't question me or show any hesitation at being as friendly as possible, as if making friends with me just filled her with the greatest of joys. I almost started crying as I returned her second hug, and yes her mane did smell like cotton candy.

Then came Princess Twilight.

I bowed down low to the princess of magic, to which she humbly told me that it wasn't necessary. I quickly found that she wasn't only really nice and pretty, but that she also shared my love of books and I soon found myself in a deep conversation about the modern significance of Starswirl the bearded's views on 12th century magic in the arts.

"Great just what we need, another egg head to dork up the party." Rainbow said sacrasticly.

I could tell that me and the princess would become good friends.

Almost last, but certainly not least came Spike. Like myself, he was of a different species living among ponies. We just kind of got each other without saying a whole lot. He was a bro, in every sense of the word.

Yep, everypony seemed to get along with me and I with them pretty well.

Everypony, except one.

In a shy and quivery voice she told me her name was Fluttershy.

"Its nice to finally meet you Fluttershy, Rainbows told me a lot about you." I extended my hand to give her a formal greeting, but to this she flinched a little and backed up a few steps.

She seemed to hide behind her bangs, not even looking at me. My heart dropped into my stomach.

She was afraid of me.

As the evening rolled on and we all continued to chat and enjoy each others company, the yellow pegasus stayed, for the most part, off to the side.

I tried a few more times to strike up a conversation with Fluttershy, but every time I did she would only reply with a quiet "yes" or "no".

Did I do something wrong? Was she really that scared of me?

She was one of Rainbows closest friends, of course I wanted her and me to at least be on friendly terms.

The evening wrapped up as everypony went home.

Rainbow gave me a hug and a kiss before she flew off back to her cloud home.

I saw Fluttershy walking off into the dark of the night and couldn't help but feel the need to see her safely back to her house, so I approached her.

"Excuse me, Miss Fluttershy?" The yellow pony stopped dead in her tracks and froze up like a statue before she turned to look at me with a timid expression.

"I know we just met, but it is kinda dark out tonight, and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind me walking you home?" Even in the dark of the night I could see her cheeks turn two shades of red.

"Oh, t-thats ok, I know the way." She stated in a small voice. I couldn't let such a young frail pony walk off down the dark streets by herself, so I pressed on.

"Its really no problem, Im sure that Rainbow would be-"

"I said no!" Fluttershy yelled before galloping off into the night.

I stood there with my mouth open and my heart in peaces inside my chest.

She, hates me. I thought to myself as I slumped my way back home.

The next day was one of my days off from my new job at Sugarcube Corner. Rainbow came over to hang out at around eleven.

I opened the door to see the happy smiling face of the pony I loved, but what she saw was a sad grey version of the human she called her boyfriend.

"Whats wrong Cain? You look like somepony ran over your pet tortis." We both sat down on the couch, but I really didn't want to tell her that one of her friends probably hated my guts more than that old troll of a mare did.

"Its nothing, Im fine, really."

It goes without saying that she didn't buy it.

"Don't lie to me Cain, I can see it all over your face. Tell me whats wrong." She placed a hoof on my knee and I looked into her eyes. Suddenly I couldn't not tell her everything.

"I offered to walk Fluttershy home last night, she yelled "no" and ran off like I had the pony pox." Rainbows worried look soon changed to one of understanding.

"Ooooooh, is that all?"

Dose there need to be more?

"Rainbow, she hates me, how can you be so casual about this?" Rainbow chocked back a laugh before resting her head on my shoulder, and with doing so, washed away some of my worries.

"Cain calm down. Fluttershy does't hate you, she just has a hard time meeting new ponies, or people in your case. Just be patient with her and you'll see."

I guess she had a point.

"Really?" I asked.

"Really." Rainbow said as she swooned into me more.

We spent the rest of the afternoon lazing on the couch. Rainbow went on to tell me a few stories about Fluttershy in the hopes that it might help me to better understand the pony who I wanted to make friends with.

After we had dinner Rainbow broke the news to me that next week she and her friends would be going to the Crystal Empire with Princess Twilight for a few days. Something about a princess summit or something.

I instantly felt like my whole world was going to fall apart at the news of Rainbow leaving me for even a signal day, let alone three. She would never admit it but I could tell that she was feeling the same way to.

The next morning I got up early and quietly left Rainbow sleeping in bed. Before I departed, I covered her with a blanket and gave her a kiss on the forehead.

The early morning sunlight shone through the streets of Ponyville as ponies woke up and went about there days. I could hear the sound of a steam whistle coming from the train station, and it looked like it was going to be another great day.

As I approached the market a thought came to me that maybe latter I would go over to Fluttershys place and give the whole making friends thing a second try.

As if on cue, a butter yellow pegasus pony came into view, but what cought my eye more was the enormous, grey, three hundred pounds of muscle called Iron Will.

Rainbow had told me about him last night and the instance of when Fluttershy had attended one of his seminars and refused to pay the big gahlute. But why was he here? And why was he talking to Fluttershy?

Unless.

That big jerk, he must be trying to force Fluttershy to pay him what he thinks she owes him.

Well not on my watch he isn't. I thought to myself as I approached the two.

Just then who in the world should come zipping up to me on her scooter but (of course) Scootaloo. She must have gotten up early to get a jump start on her crusading.

"Hay Cain, whatcha up to?" The filly asked as she followed next to me.

"Hay Scoots, about to pick a fight with a minotaur. While I have you, could you go find Daisy Joe and ask her for a glass of milk?"

To this the filly looked at me with confusion.

"Whats it for?" she asked.

"It will keep my teeth alive while I'm being taken to the hospital." I stated mater of factly.

"Uwww, ok then. Do you want one or two percent milk?" She asked.

"Mmmmmm, today feels like a two, so, two percent please." The filly gave me a salute and zipped off to complete her task.

Also, how in the world can Daisy Joe produce two different types of milk?

I got closer to the hulking minotaur before I made my move.

Oh Celestia, I hope I don't die.

"Hay chumbo!" I called out.

Iron will turned and looked at me with confusion.

"Uhhh, dose Iron Will know you?" The dumbfounded minotaur asked.

"No, but I know you, goat boy." Iron Will looked like I had just insulted his mother.

He bent over and got right in my face.

"Iron Will thinks that you have him confused for somepony else friend." He stated in a threatening tone.

Without thinking I reached up and grabbed hold of the Iron ring in his nose and pulled his face close to mine. He yelped in pain as I jerked the metal ring.

"No, your the one who's confused, Im not your friend, pal. You see, Mr. Will, that pony you're talking to is my friend." I felt an adrenaline rush as I held the minotaur in my control.

"You think you can just bully somepony because you think they can't do anything about it? HUH?!" I yelled as I gave the metal ring another tug, causing him to snort and wimper in pain.

Fluttershy peaked her head from around the large grey obstruction.

"Umm, Cain?" She asked.

"Don't worry Fluttershy, I got this. He's not going to bother you anymore." I felt powerful in this situation.

"Your not going to bother her anymore, are you, Willey?" I asked as I gave the ring another jerk.

"Cain!" Fluttershy said at over a talking volume.

I looked around Iron Will to see Fluttershy who wore a very serious look.

"Whats up Fluttershy? Im kinda busy at the moment."

"Iron Will wasn't bulling, or bothering me." I cocked an eyebrow.

"He wasn't?" Fluttershy shook her head.

"No he wasn't, he was asking if I would groom his cat next week."

You know that feeling when you realize that you made a big (and I do mean BIG) mistake?

I released the iron ring from my grasp

"Oh, uhhh, sorry about that, Mr. Will, were cool…right?"

WHAM!

Do you also know that feeling when that BIG mistake hals off and punches you in the face with the force of a train?

It hurts.

I woke up several hours latter. I took from the celling that I was back home. I wondered for a moment if it was all a dream but was soon corrected when I felt the pain that would probably stay with me for at least a week.

Fortunately I was resting on the best pillow ever.

Rainbows lap.

"Your awake huh? You big dummy." Rainbow looked down at me as she began to giggle.

"Ya, ha ha, I already feel like a complete idiot." I said turning my head in her lap to hide my shame.

"Well you are an idiot, but your my idiot. And it was pretty cool the way you tried to stand up for Fluttershy."

I looked back up at Rainbow and gave her a smile.

"What happened to Fluttershy?"

"Oh, well, I stopped Scootaloo while she was on her way to get milk, for some reason. She said that you were picking a fight with a minotaur and I put two and two together."

My face suddenly felt red.

"Did you see?" I asked.

Rainbow gave an amused smile.

"When I found you, you were laying flat unconscious. Fluttershy was shaking you and crying out your name and apologizing for how she had acted. I haven't seen her that upset in years."

Wow, I guess that she does't hate me.

"Well I had something planned for tonight but you don't look so good. Why don't you go back to sleep and Ill give it to you in the morning?"

I closed my eyes and turned sideways in Rainbows lap. She smelled so good.

"Good night Rainbow."

"Good night, my idiot."

Well, in all, I made friends with a shy pony, stood up to a buff minotaur, got knocked out in one punch, and I got to use Rainbows lap as a pillow.

All was right in the world.

The next morning I slowly opened my eyes and saw something blue and hovering above me.

My vision cleared, and what I saw was Rainbow. She was hovering a few feet above me, she had her mane pulled back into a pony tail and she wore a pink apron with white frills.

"Good morning, d-dear. Do ya like the apron? Rarity made it, she said that you'd like it."

I had no words.

The rest of the morning was spent in a hot, sweaty, lovefest.

Yep, all was right in the world.

And so the human went about his day, confident that he was the master of his own path, and that only sunshine and rainbows lay before him.
But little did he know that from the darkness and shadows, cold, hungry eyes, looked him over with sinister plans.
And a dark agenda, that would lead to the fall of all Equestria.

Author's Note

Im not going to say a lot. what I will say is that the last tale in this story, is yet to come.

mini chapter: Don't stop

Dont stop

I quickly got to work on mine and Rainbows afternoon lunch after I orientated myself to my new kitchen. The water worked as well as the gas to the stove and with some help from Rainbow I was in the zone.

"So whatcha gona make?" Rainbow asked as she hovered behind me looking over my shoulder.

"You should never ask, it ruins the surprise." I explained wanting to leave her in suspense.

"Well your no fun" Rainbow stated dejectedly while she hovered over to the counter and began placing the various items on the counter.

I decided on a vegetable stir fry and twice baked potatoes with melted cheese. My hands quickly went to work every movement from memory my blade sang as I chopped faster than you could blink. Whole vegetables were soon transformed into wedged slices and were thrown into the pan on the oven, they sizzled as they cooked soon filling the house with the smell of soy sauce and spices.

Less than an hour latter the potatoes were coming out of the oven, the cheese on top melted just right. I placed the veggies and potatoes on two separate plates with forks and two glasses of lemonade I prepared from scratch and brought it over to Rainbow who was sitting on the couch watching with anticipation as I brought lunch over.

She had a big grin on her face and her eyes told me just how hungry she actually was.

"So what are we having?" Rainbow asked clapping her hooves together in excitement.

I smiled at her enthusiasm at eating one of my most common dishes. brushing a few loose strands of my hair away from my face and behind my ear, I set Rainbows plate and cup down on the coffee table in front of her.

"Stir fry and twice baked potatoes with lemonade." I explained like it was no big deal.

"Dig in" I said feeling a bit nervous about what she would think of it. She was my first real friend, could you blame me for wanting to impress her with the only thing that I was really good at?

Rainbow quickly picked up her fork and skewered some of the sautéed veggies on her plate before they disappeared into her mouth and she began to chew slowly.

Her eyes widened as she finished chewing and swallowed her mouthful. She placed her fork down on the plate and slowley looked over at me her eyes still wide with a blank stare. She proceeded to smush her cheeks together with her hooves and smiled wide.

"This........is.........so...........GOOD!" she cheered before picking up her fork again and proceeding to scarf down her plate like a timber wolf.

"Glad you like it" I said before returning back to my own plate.

We passed the time with idle conversation as we ate. Rainbow told me about how she wanted to one day become a member of the wonder bolts which didn't shock me at all, I thought that if any pegasus could do it, it was her

"Hay Rainbow, if you dont mind me asking, do you have any other friends that live in town?" I figured that since Rainbow was such a nice pony then she must have friends that are just as nice.

Rainbow paused from her ravenous eating and looked over at me like I had just asked her the million bit question.

"What are you kidding? I have five of the best friends any pony could have, Id introduce you to them but their all out of town right now." Rainbow gazed up as if to recite to herself the whereabouts of her five absent friends.

"Lets see, Rarity is at a fashion convention in trotingham, Apple jack is attending a rodeo out west, Pinky pie is at a cake show, Fluttershy is watching some boring butterfly migration, and Twilight, she's ..............uh" Rainbow trailed off her eyes now looking down and her blue coat seemed to darken slightly at the mention of this "Twilight" pony.

"Is everything ok?" I asked concerned at Rainbows sudden drop in mood.

"Eyy yeah, shes in canterlot on I guess you could call it "work stuff" Rainbow started rubbing her foreleg with a hoof and it wasnt hard at all to see that somthing about this pony was bothering her.

"Rainbow, talk to me, did you two have a fight?" I asked trying to get her to open up.

"Oh no! its well...........lets just say she went through some, "changes" I guess, and now Im not so sure that she's still the same pony that I was friends with, or.... I dont know." Rainbow moved to face the table in front of us, she picked up her fork and began to push the remaining vegetables around all while looking like a pony who was down in the dumps, her mane seemed to deflate as she looked down at the plate in front of her with a big frown.

Ok Cain! friend time! I need to do all I can to help Rainbow feel better about her friend and make her smile again.
OPERATION: MAKE RAINBOW SMILE

EXECUTE!

"Well, did she turn into a minotaur?" I asked

"Nooooo" Rainbow replied.

"A cockatrice?" I asked.

"Uh, no" Rainbow replied like that should be obvious.

"Do you still love her as a friend?"

"Well ya of course I do." Rainbow replied looking back up at me now.

"Then theirs no problem. Ponies change Rainbow, its just part of life. If your friends going through some changes than I bet shes glad to have a good friend like you to help her through it." Rainbow looked like I had just told her the answer to an age old riddle as her cheeks flashed just a bit of red and she turned her head back to her plate in embarrassment.

"Im glad to" Rainbow whispered while picking up her glass and rolling it between her hooves.

"Pardon?" I asked.

"Im glad to have a good friend like you to help me" Rainbow said at a regular talking volume refusing to take her eyes off of her half full glass of lemonade.

"Dont mention it" I said returning to my own plate. Rainbow glanced over at me out of the corner of her eye, every time with a soft smile from cheek to cheek.

OPERATION:MAKE RAINBOW SMILE.
SUCCESS

We finished our lunch after Rainbow had killed off another two plates of stir fry and the last of the potatoes. After which she flopped backwards onto the couch rubbing her stomach with a hoof and sighing deeply in satisfaction.

"I couldent eat another bite." Rainbow stated, a look of satisfaction on her face.

"Good because their isn't a single bite left" I explained with more than a hint of playful sarcasm as I got up and took our dishes to the sink.

"Hey! are you calling me fat? Rainbow demanded in a defensive tone.

"Wouldn't dream of it, captain Rainbow dash, future leader of the wonder bolts." Rainbow scrunched her nose up in what I think was the cutest look of anger I had ever seen.

"You just watch your step buster or next time your foot won't be the only thing that gets busted." Rainbow now said with a playful anger that made me smile.

"Ma'am yes ma'am!" I sounded off throwing up a salute and coming to attention.

Me and Rainbow started laughing and for some reason I could have sworn that this was perhaps one of the best days of my life.

The sun was starting to set outside when Rainbow said she had to get going, I stood outside the door to see Rainbow off.

"Thanks again for the meal Cain" Rainbow said whilst she hovered before me.

"Dont mention it Rainbow, next time ill make enough to feed ten ponies."

"Ha ha very funny mr. wise guy, just count yourself lucky that you have an awesome pony like me to keep you on your A game." Rainbow stated puffing her chest out with pride.

"And I thank you for that Rainbow."

"Heh heh well, Ill come visit you again, maybe ill even let you help me train sometime." Rainbow offered giving me a light jab in the arm with her hoof.

"Sounds like fun" I said with a smile.

Rainbow finished her farewell before zooming off into the distance leaving a trail of rainbow vapor behind her as she left.
I slept that night better than any other night that I could remember for a long time.

The days that followed were more fun than I could describe. I helped Rainbow train as she had promised, I watched her as she flew around, going over her routines like a well rehearsed performer but more cool. I helped motivate her as she went about her exercise routine doing wing ups and sit ups. The rest of the time consisted of me and her going for walks or sitting around talking about this or that. Turns out that Rainbow loved Daring do books almost as much as I did, like me she had read all the ones in the series and we went on for hours talking about how cool it was when Daring flew over that exploding zeppelin and landed just in time to catch the ruby horn and save the damsel in distress just before she plummeted to her doom.

It was all so happy, I was doing something that I had wanted to do since I was a little boy, spend time with a friend.

One day Rainbow said that she was going on a "training adventure" witch apparently consisted of her flying to the top of a mountain and doing as manny exercises as possible as fast as possible all at a very high altitude.

I respectfully declined going along.

"Ill come by latter that day and hang out ok?" Rainbow offered

"Thats ok, you should rest after your done with your suicide mission" I said rolling my eyes toward the end.

"Training adventure!" Rainbow shot back in frustration stomping her hoof on the ground like a little filly.

She's so cute when she's mad.

The truth was that that day was a day that I didn't care for very much and was used to spending alone.

My birthday.

The day started out quiet as usual, every so often I would look up at the clock and wonder how Rainbow was doing on top of her mountain. I could just see her now and it was really cool, Rainbow at the tip of a mountain dark clouds all round while fierce winds and snow whipped around her as she did wing ups with a fierce look in her eyes and bearing her teeth as if to challenge the windigos themselves.

coooool

I had just made myself a cup of tea and saw that it was a little past noon when I sat down contemplating taking an afternoon nap, not like I was doing anything better right?

Out of nowhere a tap came at the door, I got up thinking that it must be that wall eyed pegasus mail pony to apologize for breaking my mail box with her spastic flying again, I think that Rainbow had said that her name was dopey or dippy or derpy I think.

I opened the door and almost dropped my mug of tea as I took in the form of a cyan blue pegasus pony with a rainbow mane on my doorstep.

"Rainbow?!"

"Thats my name don't where it out" she stated with a sashay of her tail.

"But I thought you were going on a training thing" I asked stepping back as she hovered up into the air and moved inside the house shutting the door behind her.

"paaalease Cain, Im Rainbow dash I finished that up almost an hour ago, why? aren't you happy to see me?" she asked looking a bit dejected.

"Well, ya of course, but I thought I told you that you didn't have to come over today so you could rest after your thing." I retorted still a little taken aback.

"Training adventure!" She deadpanned giving me a look.

"Besides there's no way that I wasn't going to hang out with you on your birthday, duuuh" The last sentence left me speechless.

"B-b-b-but how did you even know it was my birthday today?" I asked as I stumbled over my words. Rainbow gave a little smile while rolling her eyes at me.

"You told it to nurse Red heart at the hospital remember lunkhead." Oh ya now I remember guess that at the time I didn't think that Rainbow would be a part of my life today, or that she would remember such a small thing.

"But-but-but" was all I could get out before Rainbow continued.

"Enough buts, its gift time, now, close your eyes and hold out your hand."

"But I" once again.

"Do it" Rainbow shot back. So realizing that I wasn't going to win I reluctantly closed my eyes and held out my hand as instructed.

Rainbow placed one of her hooves on the under side of my hand while placing something that felt smooth and cool into my palm.

"Ok open them" she instructed.

I opened my eyes and looked down into my palm and what I saw left me speechless.

It looked like a long Crystal but in its core it looked like a small spark was trapped inside whilst a small flash went off like an erratic heart beat.

"Do you like it? I got it when I was in the crystal empire last, they call it a thunder crystal, I guess its made when thunder strikes a magically enchanted crystal or something, sooooo what do you think?"

I was at a loss for words, it was so beautiful the way the spark inside emanated through the clear crystal and the low flash flared in irregular intervals, it truly looked like thunder and lightning were trapped inside.

"Oh Rainbow, I....I........I just don't know what to say" I could feel the lump in my throat begin to move up to my eyes threatening to turn into tears of joy.

"Say thank you duhhh uh" Rainbow didnt finish her statement, for as she was about to her eyes became wonkey and her wings gave way as she began to fall to the floor.

I darted,throwing my arms out to catch her just before she made contact with the floor.
I caught her in my arms sliding on my knees in the process.

"Rainbow! are you ok?!"

"Uhhhhh, ya, I must have just pushed myself a little to hard today I guess" she sounded like she had just woke up to a bad hang over from some hard cider.

"Silly filly I told you to rest didnt I?!" I scolded her while feeling that she was very warm.

"Im fine mom, I just got a little dizzy is all" she said.

"Maybe you should rest a little" I offered whilst still on my knees.

"But I was going to take you for cake at sugar cube corner" she whined wiggling a bit in my arms.

"That can wait, right now you need rest" I insisted giving her a stern look.

"ye-yeah ok, Ill just lay on the couch for a while."

I stood up with her still in my arms like a little filly but she soon began to squirm around weekly as I stood.

"Im not a foal I can walk ten steps to the couch Cain" she whined trying futile to wiggle her way out of my grasp.

"You can hardly walk, and im not taking you to the couch im laying you down in my bed" I insisted making my way to the bed room.

"You can be such a jerk sometimes Cain, you pervert" her whining sounded adorable in her tired tone but despite her complaints she was soon nuzzling her head into my chest and making sounds of comfort.

I placed her gently on the the soft quilt with a pillow under her head. She rolled over onto her side facing wear I sat.
She looked so peaceful laying their with her rainbow mane laying loosely over her face and neck.

I found my white throw blanket and gently covered her up to her chest. sitting on the edge of the bed next to her, I looked at her more, she was so beautiful to see.

I reached down moving the loose strands of her mane out of her face but I couldn't stop their, I reached up and ran my fingers through her soft silky mane and couldn't help but smile at how good it felt. I continued on for a minuet more but stoped and withdrew my hand.

Rainbow was asleep and if I remembered correctly she didn't like ponies touching her mane.

I sat up and was about to leave the room to let her sleep when two sets of hooves reached out and garbed my hand.

"Noooooo, dont stop that feels good" Rainbow whined, sounding like a cute little filly that wanted a treat.

"But I thought that you didn't like ponies touching your mane" I whispered down to her as I sat on the edge next to her again.

"But your not a pony, so just shut up and do it Cain" she whined sleepily.

I resumed my stroking of her soft mane as Rainbow made little sounds of contentment and what sounded almost like little purrs from a kitten.

I wanted to sit their and pet her forever.

Once I saw that she was breathing steadily I drew back my hand and stood up to leave. I took one last look down at her happy sleeping form and just couldn't help myself anymore, I slowly bent down and planted a gentle kiss on her forehead. Her coat was soft and felt like silk fur, she didn't move at all.

I left the room and went into the kitchen, If I knew Rainbow, I knew that she would be hungry as a hound dog when she finaly woke up, so dinner it was.

With a kitchen knife in both hands I crossed my arms over my chest gazing with an evil smirk at the assortment of fruits that lay on the counter in front of me, I felt the thunder shard in my pant pocket and felt comfort having it so close to me. My evil smirk turned into an evil grin and I eyed my fruity prey.

"Any last words?" I whispered to the fruits.

Author's Note

just wanted to say thank you to my readers ur support keeps me righting.
and thank you to my hatters because without them id be doing something wrong.

hoped you enjoyed the mini chapter

Cain and Rainbows relationship continues to grow but wear will it go next?

next chapter: What do you think of me?
see you then :)