It was an early Friday in Canterlot. Flowers were blooming, businesses were opening, foals were marching to school and somewhere, Autumn Galerina finished his daily routine of singing to his mushrooms. Though not quite appreciated by ponies unfamiliar with the perils of mycoculture, Autumn knew that his fungi loved his rendition of “Moonlight Serenade” and grew especially yummy fruit bodies for him. It was a good day and he was looking forward to a good weekend.
A familiar “Poof” interrupted his song and Autumn let out a sigh. “You know, it would be very nice if you didn’t greet me every day with a shower of spores…” the stallion noted to the big slab of dirt and mold in front of him as he wiped a huge amount of white powder from his googles and face mask. “You are really lucky that these nice cows from out of town really want to spread those on their cheese. Now, may I have this?”
Carefully, the stallion cut off the fruit body that had just sprayed him and magically levitated it to a table nearby.
“You would be the first fruit-bodied fungus on a cheese… can you imagine?” He mused as he began to add some water to the bed. “You could revolutionize the field of edible shrooms, change pony’s perspective of cheese and maybe go down in history.” He stopped. “Or you could grow me another fruit body… I would appreciate that too. Speaking of… did you know that most ponies think that THIS is you?” He asked suddenly, pointing at the mushroom on the table. “Like, the fruit bodies are you. Hilarious, isn’t it! Your mycelium does all the work and ponies think that the thing they see is all that matters.” Autumn stopped for a moment “We are not so different, you and I… just that I am a stallion and you have up to 24 genders. Anyway, thanks for listening…” He cut the mushroom into small pieces and encased it in plastic. There were enough spores for his buyer.
As he left the moist, fungus-infested cavern that was his basement he eagerly dropped his protective gear and revealed his grey coat to the world. Oh, it was a wonderful morning! The fungi were growing, the lichen were juicy and soon his beloved would come home from work, eager for a big breakfast. And he would provide.
Autumn quickly showered and made himself presentable. The spores wouldn’t go beneath his hazmat suit but he always got sweaty. Finally, after pulling his favorite scarf around his neck, he was ready and hurried to prepare the breakfast. Diamond Shadow had spent the last 8 hours working her beautiful haunch off and Autumn would prepare a feast for her! When he finished, the table was filled with bread, butter, several things to put on it, fresh fruit, waffles, coffee, honey tea, grilled mushrooms and Autumn’s home-made chili-mango dip.
Suddenly the door flew open and the target of Autumn’s affection stood in it. Her face bore an expression best described as “KILL! EVERYTHING!”.
“My heroine! You’re home!” Autumn exclaimed happily.
“Why is the table full of stuff?” Diamond Shadow snarled and charged her coltfriend with death in her eyes. “You said that you would clean up! I go to work, you keep the house clean! That’s the deal! What is this?”
Autumn kept his smile up. “Honey, that would be your breakfast.” He offered sincerely “You had a rough night, I assume?”
Diamond Shadow snarled, shook her head and let her face fall into Autumn’s chest. “I’m sorry, love. I don’t want to let out my frustration on you! But I had such a TERRIBLE night!”
Autumn embraced the groaning mare. “Its fine my love. Have a bite to eat…”
“I don’t want to eat! I want to hurt somepony! Badly!”
“Can’t you cut the Portobello in half and pretend that they are ears you have bitten off?”
“That sounds wonderful…”
Autumn pressed a kiss onto her forehead. “See? Let’s make this a fun beginning of the weekend.”
Diamond sighed and wobbled toward the table. One off her wings was hanging through a little. Greedily, she grabbed the coffee mug and helped herself to a huge helping of the mushrooms.
“So… what happened?” Autumn asked, grabbing a piece of toast for himself.
“I had door duty!” The mare exclaimed between two bites “And while I was doing my bloody job and making sure that our all beloved ruler is safe and sound, some dunce from the nightshift maids runs up and spills a whole helping of wine on me! She was new, so I didn’t drag her to her boss! But I need new clothes, so I walk to Sub-Commander Blasted Sky and he asks me if I WAS DRUNK!”
“Outch!”
“Anyways, the fact that my whole padding was reeking and wet was enough for him but then it turns out that we don’t have a fitting padding for my armor, so I get the smaller one.” Diamond Shadow continued “And they MEAN small! I mean I keep my figure but that one had to be from a time when they used foal soldiers! So I get this piece of crap padding and it keeps bending my darn wing because they made it for feathered wings! So I get to stand in the hallway for three hours, reeking of wine and getting my wing bent! And now it aches like a bitch!”
“It doesn’t look too well…” Autumn admitted.
“I had to hold it weird to get it through the hole…”
An idea hit the stallion. “How about you eat and clean up yourself up and I prepare something for you!”
Diamond Shadow bit down on another mushroom. “Will it include sex?”
Autumn’s eyebrows rose as he left the kitchen. “Erm… I wasn’t planning on it.”
The mare stayed, looking at the closing door. “Awww!”
After she had finished her breakfast and decided to clean up the table. Sure, Autumn was proud of his role as the housekeeper but he already had to deal with her, he didn’t need to deal with her garbage as well. As she made her way to the bedroom, a soft scent of lavender assaulted her nose and her eyes went wide. The room had been darkened completely, making it much better for her unnatural eyes to see, Autumn had set up the ironing board next to the bed and was ironing several towels with what appeared to be scented water while he had also gotten the record player ready.
“Am I supposed to get scared?” Diamond asked carefully as she approached the bed.
“Well, I wanted to do some ironing anyways, so why not use that book that Coldheart gave to me.”
“That weird one about relaxation? I though she wanted YOU to relax…”
“Yes! But I had a great morning! Now lie down on your belly and spread your wings!”
The pegasus sighed and stepped onto the bed. She let herself flop down onto it and spread out her wings. The digits cracked and the muscles ached from the night. “This won’t end up with me becoming an honour-earth-pony?”
Autumn sighed and let a cloud of steam into one of the towels. “I can always make you a mutagen to give you new wings… maybe a nice pair of locust ones? Or we just strap a hot-air balloon on your back!”
“And I just fill it with the stuff our nobles let off in court all day? Yeah sounds about right…”
The stallion giggled at the response and grabbed the towel he had been making hot and wet. Gently he lifted his marefriend’s wing and wrapped the towel around it.
Diamond let out a loud groan of relief, feeling the heat and oils work into her wing. Knots in muscles, she never realized she had, began to loosen. Her instincts had allowed her to use them ever since the pain of the change had ebbed, but she had never minded how complex their anatomy must be. Right now, every single muscle was slowly getting longer and softer.
Autumn kicked the record player and the softest tunes of the royal Canterlot orchestra began filling the room.
Diamond Shadow smiled gently and cuddled into her pillow. The heat and the strong lavender scent made it incredibly easy to relax.
The stallion meanwhile began drawing soft circled on the base of her wings with his hooves, following the elbow and forearm. Even through the warm towel, he could feel the strong muscles tremble and twitch beneath the leathery skin. Even the parts that one might consider to be just skin were full of strong, firm fibers that slowly lost their knots under his massaging. He reached the digit closest to her body and followed it with his kneading until it slowly loosened up. By accident, he pressed onto an artery and felt his beloved’s heart beat against his hoof for a moment.
“Your wings are so amazing…” he muttered before continuing his treatment.
“I… oh… love them too…” the pegasus whispered back. “I go them… ah… thanks to you…”
Autumn smiled and continued back up over the membrane between the digits. It was less twitching and more pumping as he massaged over big pulsing arteries. Finally he reached the thumb and gently ran the underside of his hoof over it. “Did you nibble your claw?” he asked with a laugh.
“I was nervous when I approached Blasted Sky. I know I shouldn’t…”
“I’ll file it for you later.”
“I can file my own claw-AH! That was good!”
The stallion let out a giggle and continued over the longest two digits. He felt the towel cooling and pulled it off getting a new, hot one to finish his work on this wing.
Diamond Shadow moaned loudly as he rubbed over the space in between the claw and the longest digit. The area was especially sensitive. It helped the pegasus to feel the currents of the wind. Right now, she felt only warmth and two loving hooves setting her tortured muscles straight. She slowly lost herself in a haze of gentleness and soft music. So much that even the bed sheets began to melt away.
Autumn meanwhile finished his work and put a dry towel onto the wing, so the warmth would stay in longer. He quickly heated up another one and began the same slow procedure on the other side. “It’s great that you have these now… imagine how badly your feathers would have poofed up.”
“They are easier to maintain. Just the way I like it.”
The stallion wrapped the towel around the wing and was greeted with another sigh of relief from his lover. He repeated the rubbing and massaging to a cacophony of joy, accompanied by the delightful sound of Octavia Melody’s string and the relaxing scent of lavender.
As he finished his work on the tip of the wing, he looked over to his completely calm and relaxed marefriend resting on her belly. A big smile crept onto his lips and he leaned in to give her a quick peck on the cheek.
“Rest well, my lo-“
He was interrupted as a strong hoof grabbed his scarf and pulled him closer.
“Are you gonna buck me now or what?” Diamond Shadow asked, a grin on her face that revealed her sharp canines and made her look almost ravenous.
“Erm… I didn’t think you were in the mood after this.” Autumn admitted “I mean… I wanted to help you relax.”
“How can you be so good with mares without having any idea how we work?” The pegasus groaned and pulled the stallion into a deep kiss.
Autumn surrendered happily. He didn’t expect the weekend to start this good!