Equestria Dark: Tales of a New Appleloosan Stallion Water Salespony

Written by VelvetHeart

Cloudbreak sighed, resting her chin and forehooves on the counter, eyes trailing the racks and shelves occupying the space between the aisles. Faux phalluses stood in rows like soldiers on parade, ordered neatly from meaty titans to tiny todgers, with magical vibrations or accurate sizes or special grooves.  Even a tiny one specifically designed for fillies who bloomed a little early.

But watching the products of her shop grew boring quickly enough at this quiet hour, especially with the mathbooks still awaiting her perusal. Boredom and homework - she would've said it wasn't her day, if it wasn't the usual. She normally wouldn't have needed to open her store this early, but she desperately needed the customers.

Cloudbreak's hoof rose, and tentatively touched one of her ears, its length and weight pulling it down to rest against her cheek despite any effort on her side to make it rise. For a moment, the frustration grew and she pulled the annoying thing until tears sprung into her eyes and pain shot into her skull.

If only she could make money faster, she'd be able to have her ears fixed, make them normal so she'd have a chance like other mares. So she could-

There was laughter from the back, in the pornography section. The sound of voices wasn't that uncommon - when customers came - but this one carried the timbre of a stallion. Cloudbreak perked to attention, as best she could:

"Windwhistler, will you look at this one? Is this seriously what mares read?" Laughter followed as Rumble paged through one of the Neighponese porn comics. "Ok, let's see: An average, kind schoolgoing mare who gets teased a lot discovers the world is secretly being attacked by evil monsters, and a mysterious power within her awakens. Whenever she is filled with stallionseed, she becomes a glorious, superpowerful alicorn, the only one who can defeat the monsters. The princesses discover this, and recruit her to a secret project to protect Equestria. She..." Rumble snickered. "...she gets set up in a secret base with no fewer than six stallions, volunteers whose sole purpose is to fill this little mare up with loads and loads of stallionmilk so she can power up into her alicorn form. She even has several pegasi stallions on-call for 'midair refueling'."

The laughter was warm, that rolling stallion timbre that just seemed far too rare in the world. "Oh, put that one in the pile. And this one too - It's silly! Ok, let me describe this one: An alien crashes into Equestria, but by accident ends up inside this young mare's loyal, but overamorous dog. This accident displaces the dog's mind into the body of the hottest stallion in school, who in turn gets catapulted into the young mare's goldfish' body.

So now she has to explain to her why the hottest stallion in school keeps barking and trying to play fetch and... oh my. It's a good thing they put a big black bar over that!

Ok, sis. These three."

Cloudbreak could finally see the two ponies as they turned the corner and approached the register - she'd seen them both at school: Windwhistler and her little, freshly-stallioned brother Rumble. It took her a moment to realize she was supposed to be selling stuff, and quickly jerked into action to tally up the total.

It was Windwhistler who laid her bits on the counter, before giving the nondescript bag (now containing three pornographic Neighponese comics)  to her little brother.

As they turned, Cloudbreak just managed to catch one last comment Rumble quietly said to his sister...

"That salesmare has the most adorable floppy ears."

Cloudbreak blinked, before lifting a hoof to lightly brush one of the floppy ears in question. Maybe...

...maybe she didn't need the extra money after all. Maybe she didn't need cosmetic surgery.

There were stallions who might actually like her ears!