//------------------------------// // Bonnie and Lyrade // Story: Nom! // by Voreafillyia //------------------------------// “This isn’t going to turn out well.” Bon Bon turned her attention from the candy she’d laid out on the counter to her mint colored friend. “What?” Bon Bon huffed. “Why would you say that? What makes you think this will go badly?” “Well…” Lyra tried to look anywhere other than directly at her best friend’s face, then eventually settled on the ground. “You’ve never actually tasted Anon before, have you?” “Neither have most of the other ponies in this town!” Bon Bon retorted before trotting past her friend to the kitchen. She carefully bit onto the handle of a long rod dipped into a swirling mass of caramel, then gently pulled it out. There were several large, round globs of candy along the rod, which she carefully removed and placed on the counter. “It’s not like they’ll go into it expecting anything.” She wrote the price tags on the stands she’d set up in front of the trays. “Good candy’s good candy, after all.” “A lot of ponies have tasted him.” Lyra continued, heedless of Bon Bon’s groaning. “Like, I’m pretty sure almost the whole town has at least gotten the chance to by now-“ “Ridiculous!” Bon Bon threw her hooves up in the air, then spun around to face Lyra. “It’s against the law now, didn’t you hear? Princess Twilight has passed a law forbidding ponies from trying to eat Anon! This candy will be the only taste they’ll get again. Ever.” “Not sure that’ll stop some ponies, but if your heart is set on this...“ Lyra continued. “It is, thank you for understanding.” Bon Bon trotted her way up to the front of the store, where a large crowd was gathered outside. Her decision to create ‘Anon-flavored candy’ had to be one of the best business decisions she’d ever made. She changed the closed sign around, then pushed the door open. “Come on in Fillies and Gentlecolts, we’re open for business with our new— waagh!” She didn’t even get to finish her sentence as ponies rushed past her, practically throwing their bits onto the counter as they all grasped wildly for the candy. “Now, now hold on,” Bon Bon tried to talk above the madness of the crowd as she pushed and shoved her way to the front. “Let’s not get carried away. One at a time, please.” As if to answer her, the door to her candy shop flew open, and a group of three ponies rushed into the crowd. Ponies were tossed up in the air like weightless toys as the three crazy ponies rushed for the counter, and spared none who stood in their way. Several shouts about cutting in line voiced behind them, but were promptly ignored as the three ponies made a leap for the candy. Bon Bon only had time to raise an eyebrow before they were already stuffing themselves with her merchandise. “Hey!” Bon Bon frowned. “There are other ponies looking to get those too, you know!” She was answered with an audible retch, followed by bits of her candy being spit back onto the counter. “This is what you call Anon-flavored candy?!” Daisy shouted, her upper lip curled in disgust. “It doesn’t even taste anything like him!” Roseluck spoke up, tail flicking in anger. “Not even remotely!” “Have you even had the chance to taste him? At all?” The question was followed by almost every eye in the room staring directly at Bon Bon. She froze up, her ears pinned back and she bit into her lip. “Well…I…uh…” Ears perked, her customers leaned forward. “O-of course I have!.” “Really?” Daisy suddenly spoke up, stomping her hoof down. “Then what’s he taste like?” “Er…” Bon Bon’s ears went flat. “Okay, okay, I haven’t tasted him, yet! But why don’t you give some of the other customers a try and—” The flower sisters groaned in unison and made their way for the door, pushing and shoving and arguing about which one of them were going to eat him first when they got him again. All her other customers groaned or shouted angrily before making their way for the door. “Wait! Come back!” Bon Bon leaped on top of the counter. “I can make better candy! Honest! Please don’t leave!” Bon Bon made a futile leap to grab at the hoof of the last customer in the store, before the door slammed shut and Bon Bon’s snout solidly thudded against the glass. Lyra leaned against a wall nearby, smirking. “You know, I hate to say I told you so…” Bon Bon shot to her hooves. “Shut up!” She flipped the sign back to closed and grumbled, storming her way back into the kitchen. Lyra peered out the window before following her friend, just in time to see her dump all the ‘Anon-flavored candy’ into the trash. “What are you doing?” Lyra asked and stepped up to her friend’s side, ears pinned back in worry. “Starting over.” Bon Bon replied as she set the empty trays on the counter. “I’ll just have to keep trying until I get it right.” A mint-colored hoof laid on her shoulder and spun her around, face to face with her best friend. “I think you’re missing the point here. Ponies didn’t like your candy because it didn’t taste like Anon. You can’t make candy that tastes like Anon, because you don’t know what Anon tastes like. Do you see the solution here?” Bon Bon pushed Lyra’s hoof away. “It’s against the law for ponies to eat Anon now, remember?” She turned her attention back to the kitchen. Besides, he’s always near Twilight and her friends. We can’t get near him, let alone eat him.” Lyra chuckled darkly. “Who says they have to know?” Bon Bon gasped and spun around, her face twisted into a scowl. “Oh no, I know that tone of voice!” Lyra’s ears pinned back. “What?” Her eyes sparkled innocently. “What tone of voice?” “The devious one! I know you, Lyra, that’s the same tone of voice you had when we stole Derpy’s muffin! Ponyville was almost destroyed after that! Do you really want to go through that again?” “Okay okay okay, this is totally different than last time. We sneak in, get a taste, and get out. What’s the harm, right?” “No!” “Come oooon Bon Bon!” “Absolutely not! Besides, didn’t your psychiatrist tell you to stop obsessing over hands?” Lyra blew a raspberry. “But this is a human. Totally different.” “Humans have hands, Lyra!” “That’s besides the point! Look, you want your candy shop to be successful, don’t you?” “Not at the risk of jail time!” “Bon Bon, some rules are meant to be broken, okay? Do you really want Sugarcube Corner to win out again this year? Wouldn’t this be like the fifth year in a row that they’ve won the ‘best sweet shop’ prize?” Bon Bon sat her rump on the floor and crossed her forehooves, grumbling. “That cheeky little pink menace…” “That’s what I thought. Now, we’re going. Tonight. We can sneak in to Rarity’s boutique where Anon’s staying, get a taste, and get out.” “How do you know where he’s staying?” “That’s not important! Are you in, or are you out?” Lyra offered her hoof. Bon Bon glanced between Lyra’s hoof and her face. Decisions and their consequences rattled around in her head. After a moment, she sighed and put her hoof on top of Lyra’s. “I’m in.” ~Later that night~ “Ow, watch where you’re standing!” Bon Bon hissed as she pulled her tail out from under Lyra’s hoof. “Shhh! You’ll blow our cover.” Lyra shushed her friend before peeking out of the bushes, looking towards carousel boutique. They’d been hidden for about two hours now, waiting for the lights in the boutique to go out. Once they did, they decided to wait just a little bit longer for Anon to fall asleep. “Okay, coast is clear!” Lyra motioned for her friend to advance. When nothing happened, Lyra groaned before lowering herself back in the bushes. “I said, coast is clear!” The bushes rustled. “No.” Bon Bon said, grumbling. “I’m not going out there. Not like this.” “You have to!” “I don’t have to do anything.” “C’mon, Bon Bon! We didn’t sneak all the way out here and wait for two hours just to give up now!” With a heave, Lyra pushed her friend out into the open. Bon Bon rolled onto the grass, then quickly climbed to her hooves. She wore a tight, form-fitting, black leather outfit that covered up most of her face and body, obscuring her identity from any who might see. She  scrambled into the shadows in a panic, then looked back towards Lyra, who nodded in approval. Bon Bon resisted the urge to scream, before she snorted and decided they might as well follow through on this.“Well? Come on!” Bon Bon motioned for her friend to join her. Lyra leaped out of the bushes and crouched low to the ground. She looked left and right before slowly and steadily sneaking across the grass. Bon Bon just rolled her eyes and waited until her friend thudded against the wall next to her. “Okay,” Lyra began. “Open the window. Slowly.” “Do we even know if this is Anon’s room?” Lyra shrugged. “Don’t you think we should have looked into that before coming out to do this law-breaking mission on the same night that we thought it up?!” Bon Bon said in a hushed whisper. “What’s life without a little risk?” Lyra smirked. Bon Bon resisted the urge to slap her. “Now seriously, the window. Let’s do this thing.” Bon Bon worked her hooves under the window, and slowly lifted up. She felt both relieved and guilty that everypony trusted each other enough to not lock their houses up. Ponyville was a small town after all, and everypony knew one another. She froze as the window let out a small creak. “Slowly! I said slowly!” Lyra whispered harshly. Bon Bon growled under her breath and carefully crawled through the window. Just as her hoof touched the floor, the floorboard groaned. Bon Bon froze in place, eyes trained on the bed in the middle of the room. The small figure in the bed stirred, but didn’t wake. She sighed in relief and carefully climbed the rest of the way through. She rolled forward until she stopped just beside Anon’s bed. A heavy thud behind her caused her entire body to go rigid, and she glanced back to see Lyra’s back hoof caught on the windowsill, the rest of her body unceremoniously flopped onto the floor. “Seriously?!” Bon Bon hissed, but Lyra simply popped up and joined her friend next to the bed. There, they set their eyes on Anon, and Bon Bon’s heart began to race. “Oookay…” she said. She leaned down, then hesitated. “What are you waiting for? You gonna taste him or not?” Lyra urged. Bon Bon bit her lip, ears pinned down. “This isn’t exactly something I do every day, okay?! What if he wakes up? What if he calls for help?” “Then we run for it!” Lyra answered. “We didn’t come all this way just to give up now! C’mon!” Bon Bon swallowed hard, then rubbed her hooves together. “Right, okay… just a little lick, nothing more…” She steadied herself before slowly leaning down. The covers slowly rose and fell in time with Anon’s breathing. Her own breath slowed down and she leaned closer and stuck her tongue out. Just…a…taste… she told herself mentally. Behind her, Lyra’s eyes grew wider and wider. The sound of hoofsteps coming down the stairs reached Bon Bon’s ears. She immediately yanked herself away, and bolted for the window. “What are you doing?!” Lyra called after her. “I told you, the success of my business isn’t worth jail time!” “You’re covered! They don’t know who you are with this disguise!” “I don’t care! I’m done! Plan’s off!” Bon Bon disappeared out of sight, leaving behind a frustrated Lyra. Her ears perked as the hoofsteps drew closer, and she made to exit out the window as well. However, as she looked back, she caught sight of Anon’s hands wrapped around the bedsheets, pulling them closer to himself. Those delicate… …wonderful… ...delicious…. …hands. Lyra bit her lip and glanced back and forth between the window and Anon. ~ “Oh, first Opalescence wouldn’t leave me alone, and now Anon is making noises…” Rarity grumbled to herself as she carefully stepped towards Anon’s room. A single candle floated in her magical grip. Its soft orange glow cast shadows that danced across the walls. “I swear, if he complains about a ‘horse smell’ one more time, I’m kicking him out.” She pulled open the door to Anon’s room and quickly surveyed it. Everything seemed to be in order, even the small lump that was Anon laying in the bed. Rarity sighed with relief and went to leave, but stopped. She carefully stepped into the room and closed the door behind herself. The blinds swung shut with a flash of magic, and the room fell into darkness. Rarity closely leaned towards Anon, and pulled at the covers. She hesitated but for a moment longer before she stuck her tongue out and gave Anon a long, wet lick. She immediately pulled away and spat onto the floor. Yuck. I really don’t understand why so many ponies are after him. He tastes simply awful. As Rarity left the room, she failed to notice that the ‘Anon’ she’d licked was actually a pinecone with a small green ball for a head. ~Oh no is this another scene transition it is aaaaaahhhhh-~ Lyra clambered over the windowsill and landed on the floor of their apartment with a heavy thud. Bon Bon pushed open the front door and walked in with a sigh, before she cast a glance at Lyra, who laid sprawled out on the floor. “What is it with you and windows? You know you have the key to our own apartment, right?” Lyra shot up onto her hooves, a wide grin plastered on her face. “Oh! Right, heh, I knew that!” She stood up on her hind hooves, her forelegs crossed as she nervously glanced back and forth. Bon Bon arched an eyebrow and looked her up and down. “What are you doing?” “What? You’ve never crossed your forelegs before? Humans do it all the time.” She laughed nervously. “Rrrriiight.” Bon Bon just rolled her eyes and continued down the stairs towards their laundry room. “Anyways, I’m going to wash this suit, then head to bed. Maybe we can try to figure something else out tomo—” she heard the bang of a door closing. She turned around, only to see that Lyra was gone. The bang must’ve been of her bedroom door. Bon Bon shook her head. “That pony sometimes, I swear…” After Bon Bon did her evening chores, she walked up the stairs towards her own bedroom. Though on the way there, she heard Lyra giggling in her room. That pony’s been acting weird all night… Bon Bon thought to herself. I might as well see what’s gotten her so wound up. she crept closer to Lyra’s door and listened. “Ah, I can’t believe he’s still asleep….Rarity didn’t expect…. Oooh, those hands…” Bon Bon’s eyes widened suddenly, and she pushed open the door. Lyra, clearly surprised, scrambled from her bed to stand on her hind legs again. “Lyra! Who were you talking to?!” “What?!” Lyra but her lip. “No human! I mean, nopony! I mean-” She shuffled as she held her forelegs behind her back. “What’s that behind your back?!” Bon Bon demanded, eyes wild. “Nothing! I swear!” Lyra pleaded. Bon Bon narrowed her eyes and leaped forward. “Give him to me, Lyra!” “Noooo!” Lyra moved out of the way and Bon Bon hit her snout against the wall. She rubbed at it before turning over her shoulder to glare at the retreating ponytail. “I can’t believe you!” Bon Bon shouted after her. “After I told you I didn’t want to ruin my career over this, you took him anyway?!” “No idea what you’re talking about!” Lyra exclaimed as she galloped down the stairs, Bon Bon hot on her hooves. Lyra tried the door, but realized she wouldn’t have time, and quickly dipped down as Bon Bon made a grab for her. Bon Bon growled and leaped again as Lyra fled, this time tackling her to the floor. “Give him to me, now!” Bon Bon insisted. Lyra looked like she might panic, but rather than giving anything up, she lit her magic and something quickly flew into her open mouth. “Oh you did not just-!” Lyra’s eyes began to glaze over. “Oh my gosh...he tastes even better than I imagined…” “Lyra!” Bon Bon shrieked. Lyra gave Bon Bon a sinister smirk before she took a large gulp, then released a heavy sigh afterwards as an obvious bulge began to descend her throat. “Oh no you don’t!” Bon Bon pressed a hoof to her friend’s throat, halting the bulge’s progress. “Ack!” Lyra’s eyes crossed. “Bon Bon! Can’t breathe!” “Let!” Bon Bon jumped on Lyra, throwing as much of her body weight as she could into her friend’s stomach. ”Him!” she bounced again. “Out!” with a final push, Lyra let out an enormous cough, and whatever she swallowed went flying from her mouth and high into the air. Bon Bon jumped off of Lyra and dove to catch it, and when she brought her hooves close to her face, she found a snoozing Anon. “...He’s still sleeping? Seriously?” Bon Bon shook her head. “I knew it! I knew you’d taken hi—” Bon Bon turned to look at her friend, but her words died in her throat. Lyra loomed over Bon Bon like a menacing manticore. Her eyes were wild, her brow furrowed and her expression was the hungriest expression she’d ever seen. “Give him to me, Bon Bon…” Her voice was low and menacing, more serious than Bon Bon had ever seen her before. Lyra stepped towards her slowly, but her eyes never left Anon. Her tongue swiped across her lips. “I need him.” “No!” Bon Bon held Anon to her chest. “We are returning him right now! I knew you weren’t over your hand obsession, Lyra!” “It goes beyond hands, Bon Bon.” Lyra continued, her eyes widening as she stepped forward. “Nothing I will taste ever again will be as good as that human. Please…” Bon Bon’s resolve wavered for just a minute, she was actually a little shocked at the sincerity in Lyra’s voice. Still, she quickly moved Anon into her mane and tried to sidestep around Lyra while galloping for the door. “I’m returning him!” Bon Bon shouted before she felt the familiar tingling of magic running up her spine. Her eyes widened, and she turned to make a last ditch grab at Anon, but he was jerked just out of her reach. Lyra’s horn glowed, and she grinned when Anon floated towards her. Bon Bon grit her teeth, braced herself and launched herself into the air. She managed to grab him in her hooves, and sailed through the window Lyra used earlier that she thankfully forgot to close. “Oof, ow!” Bon Bon grunted as she rolled along the ground. She kept Anon clutched close to her the whole time, until she eventually rolled to a stop. As she rolled over, she held Anon out so she could prepare to explain herself. Surely he was awake after all of that. “Zzzzz…” Anon’s sleeping form hadn’t moved an inch. Bon Bon’s ears pinned back, and she scrunched her muzzle. “Seriously?” The sudden sound of a door bang caused her ears to perk again, and she caught the vague silhouette of Lyra in their doorway before she galloped out. “Bon Bon, where’d you go?!” she called out. “I’m serious, give him back to me!” Rather than answer her, Bon Bon quickly moved herself back into the bushes and tried to remain as quiet as possible as the bright, hand loving unicorn stalked past. She sighed in relief, then quietly poked her head out before daring to set hoof outside. “I need to get back to Rarity’s…” Bon Bon mumbled to herself before turning and trotting down Ponyville’s main road. She kept an ear out for any sounds all the while. ~*~ Thankfully Bon Bon knew Ponyville like the back of her hoof, and finding the shortest and most discreet route possible back to the boutique was almost like taking a leisurely stroll through the park. Despite, you know, crazy friend and all. Honestly, she’s acted weird before but never this weird. Bon Bon puzzled. And that expression on her face… Celestia, she looked like she was going to attack me! Bon Bon stole a glance down at Anon again, who was still fast asleep in her hooves. How in the world? Had he taken some kind of knockout pills or something before bed? As the familiar shape of Rarity’s boutique creeped closer, Bon Bon couldn’t stop thinking about the human she had in her hooves. Her friend’s sudden shift in demeanor after tasting him, the rampaging townsponies, the absolute insanity of the flower sisters, what was it about him that suddenly drove all the ponies in town crazy? Crazier than usual, she meant. The more she thought about it, the more curiosity started to get the better of her. She was right outside of the window to Anon’s bedroom now, where she’d initially picked him up. She glanced back between Anon and the window, Lyra’s words running through her head. She really might never get this chance again. She swallowed hard, then opened the window. She’d just get a taste, then quickly put him inside and leave. Surely she could handle it, right? She’d been all over the world, tasting the most exotic candies and delicacies she could think of. There was nothing in all of Equestria she couldn’t handle the taste of! She licked her lips, wetting them a bit before slowly bringing Anon up to her snout. She sniffed him a few times, he certainly didn’t smell particularly appetizing, definitely not like a flower, more like a...salty smell, one that caused her snout to wrinkle a bit. Still, she had to know for herself. She extended her tongue, and slowly ran it across Anon’s prone form. The initial taste wasn’t impressive, she’d compare it to maybe a daffodil or a daisy, but after that, something else started seeping in. It was like an aftertaste that took a while to really kick, but once it did, a varying array of flavors washed over her tongue, like nothing she’d ever tasted before. Bon Bon inhaled sharply, the taste gripping her tongue and washing her mind free of any inhibitions she’d had about eating him before. He was one of the most delicious things she’d ever tasted. She had to eat him. Her entire body began shaking, as if trying to resist what her mind was telling her, but she couldn’t help it. She stared down at Anon with the most intense bout of hunger she’d ever felt in her life… just as he began to wake up. Anon stirred from his death-like slumber, just long enough to find himself in the grip of an unknown pony who was currently staring him down with the most predatory gaze he’d ever seen in his life. “Oh fuck, Rarity HEL-” He didn’t get out anymore, as Bon Bon quickly shoved the human into her drooling maw and snapped it shut behind him. His yelling was reduced to muffled noises as Bon Bon’s forehooves set back onto the ground, and she triumphantly sat on her haunches as she swished him about. One side of her cheek puffed out, flooded with some of the most heavenly flavors she could have ever imagined, then she swished him over to the other side, just suckling to get as much off of him as she could. Just as she was about to swallow and claim him as hers, a sudden force hit her from behind. “Found you, Bon Bon!” Lyra’s voice called out, and Bon Bon could do naught but watch on in despair as the force of the impact caused her to spit out Anon, and he sailed right through the open window. Well, that was thankfully a short endeavor. Anon was happy he didn’t have to deal with any of that bullshit, even though he was covered in pony saliva. At least he didn’t get swallowed. He leaned back as he sailed towards his bed. Yep, everything was going to be fine. Of course, had Anon looked up, he might have realized he wasn’t sailing towards the bed, he was sailing towards the guest bedroom door, which opened just then with a flash of blue magic. “Is there a draft in here?” Rarity scowled, bags under her eyes. “Anon, how many times do I have to tell you not to open your wind—” Rarity’s words were cut off as something suddenly sailed directly into her mouth. Her legs began to shake. “W-ind-do-do-do-dooohhhh my goodnesss….” Man, this bed was wet. And squishy. Anon fidgeted a few times to get comfortable, when he heard the unusually loud sound of breathing. He opened his eyes to see his bed in front of him, but only through an open mouth ringed by a row of pearly whites. The gravity of the situation crashed down on him, and he rushed towards the exit of the unicorn’s mouth, only for it to close on him and plunge him into darkness he likely wouldn’t be leaving anytime soon. “GODDAMNIT!” he shouted as he was swished to and fro for the second time that night. Rarity blushed heavily as she rolled Anon around on her tongue, her eyes drooped as all the irritation she felt coming over here washed away, replaced by a sense of utter satisfaction. She glanced at the open window before she closed it, and the blinds with her magic, then turned away from the bedroom to return to her own bed, taking her delicious meal with her. She never even paid any attention to the sounds of squabbling happening right outside her guest bedroom’s window. “Where is he?!” Lyra shouted as she pinned Bon Bon to the ground “You made me spit him inside!” Bon Bon squirmed. “WHAT?!” Lyra climbed off of her friend, glowering angrily. “You lost him?!” Her angry expression fell, and turned into one of despair. “I’ll never get to taste those hands again!” “No Lyra, I need him for my candy research!” Bon Bon sat up. “Candy research my flank, you tasted him!” Lyra turned and pointed at her, her hoof bumped into her snout. “After all the flak you gave me for wanting to do it!” “Well...I…” “Admit it!” Bon Bon’s ears pinned back. “I...it’s important that I got to taste him for my candy, you were the one who wanted me to do it originally! Besides, we wouldn’t be in this situation if you hadn’t kidnapped him to begin with!” “Oh so now it’s my fault, is it?” Lyra asked as she placed a hoof on her own chest. “Okay, okay look.” Bon Bon sighed. “Let’s not argue about this, we both want Anon, right?” “Right…” Lyra agreed, uncertainty wavering in her voice. “Okay, let’s not fight about this then. Why don’t we work together, and whenever one of us gets him, we share?” Bon Bon offered. Lyra seemed to think about this for a moment, but then a slow, evil smile creeped across her face. “Bon Bon,” Lyra grabbed her hoof and shook it firmly. “I like the way you think.”