Just a kiss

by Larrydog

Chapter 1

Author's Note:

Note: this is my first story I am uploading here and I am not exactly sure what I am doing or where I want this story to go yet as my writing skills have never been the best, but I hope others enjoy it and that my writing skills keep improving to make better and longer content

“Another hard day I would take it Shining armor?” asked the monotone voice that belonged to the ex-King of the Crystal Empire, Sombra, to the very clearly tired unicorn stallion with bags around his eyes as he entered his room.

“Yeah, I can’t even remember the last time I had a decent sleep,” he said just flopping on Sombra without a second thought and let out a cute sound of relief at how good it felt. “Flurry won’t stop teleporting and crying and it wears a stallion out. I’m just glad my son was born a pegasus.”

“Well I do try to help with that when I can with my limited magic,” Sombra responded with a chuckle behind it, and Shining chuckled as we well.

“Trust me, I noticed and I have appreciated each time you do it and… I am just so glad you're here, I can’t even figure out what things would be like without you around.”

“Oh really now? And why would that be? I don’t think I do that much, besides just stay in my room you were nice enough to give me,” he replied, giving the white Stallion a curious expression.

“What? You have done a lot for me I don’t...even think my marriage would still be going without you around to talk to,” Shining said smiling and Sombra smirked in return.

“Well I am quite flattered you feel that way, but I doubt I did that much.”

And then Shining fell silent and his smile faded and he looked away.

“Well, you know things between me and her have been ... complicated the past few years.”

And then Sombra decided to lie down on the bed as well and let him finish.

“I mean, I know all the conflicts we had in the past we got through but...I don’t... I am just feeling… Just feeling…:”

“Invisible?” Sombra finished, and Shining after a few seconds looked back at the ex-tyrant

“...Yeah. I wanted that feeling to stop and for some reason, I thought having foals could somehow change something and keep that strong love that other ponies were inspired to find in their own lives. And for a while it worked, and I felt we were the perfect couple again like others thought we were but...now I don’t know what we are....” he said sighing a little, and Sombra just kept looking at him calm as ever.

“So does that mean you regret having kids, if you felt things just got worse?”

“W-what? N-no! I love my two kids, I really do, there is not a moment in time where I regret that choice… It's just hard to know where to go from with my marriage and I’m not sure what to do anymore.”

And then Shining looked down at himself and Sombra simply put his hoof on his chin and brought his head up again to look at him.

“Well, Shining, I have been around you long enough to know you’ll figure it out. I mean, you’re not captain of the royal guard for nothing. And I am sure when the time comes, you will make the right choice.”

The two stared at each other for a few seconds, and Shining soon felt himself starting and felt a warm feeling inside his chest, something he has felt around Sombra for a while now that he couldn’t really explain.

“Wow, thanks Sombra. I really needed to hear that, that really made my day.” And Sombra just smiled back in return finding himself always feeling glad to see the other Stallion smile.

“Of course I will always be here to help, Shining. I mean, what are friends for after all?~”

Hearing that made Shining chuckle.

“Wow! That was the corniest thing you have ever said! I think my sister reformed you too well.”

“Perhaps. But when you have something like this, it was hard to pass up~” he said with the two laughing, and then there was silence as Shining started gazing into the other Stallion’s eyes. He wasn’t sure what was happening, but in this one moment he felt something felt right in his life and started closing the gap between the two of them and then pulled the ex-tyrant into a kiss.

It wasn’t a short kiss, either. It was very passionate as he held Sombra’s body close, and this was a surprise to the dark unicorn. But he didn’t seem to mind one bit as he returned the prince's affection, moving his hoof on the back of Shining’s head to make the kiss feel as intimate as he could and soon the blue hair unicorn returned that sentiment.

It was truly a sight to behold. The new prince of the Crystal Empire in a fierce kissing session with the ex-king of Dark. The two moaning deeply as they started to explore each others mouths and bodies forgetting about the world around them, the only thing mattering was this moment in time.

Unfortunately for them, the world came rushing back as their kiss finally stopped and Shining Armor tried to process this moment.
“W-what did we just… Oh gosh!!!” he yelled out as he moved away from Sombra and stood up on the bed, looking away from panicking to himself.

“N-no ...that ...that did not happen I did not just…..” he couldn’t finish as his mind started racing of how this was all wrong, and on top of that was that he enjoyed that a lot. But those worries started to fade away as Sombra stood up and pulled him back close to him

“Shhhh…. It’s okay.” he gently said in his ear with a voice that was deep and soothing that Shining couldn’t help but feel comfortable in his embrace. “It was just a kiss nothing, she needs to know about. We were just caught up in the moment that’s all,” he said, although his feelings said something else but he wanted this moment to be as delicate as he could make it. It seemed to be working as Shining Armor started to relax on his chest which could also stem for the very emotionally tiring day he just had along with Sombra using the little magic he was allowed to have to have to cast a small spell to relax his mind.

“Y-yeah… You're right I...I just need s-some sleep to calm my nerves”

“Yeah I am sure once you wake up later everything will be much more clear to you~” he said, bringing the unicorn down back down on the bed. While Shining couldn’t think of much right now he did yawn, smile and said the only thing on his mind.

“T-thanks. I really don’t know what I would do without you.”

“The feeling is Mutal….. Shiny.~”

And with that Shining fell asleep cuddling close to Sombra who just looked at him and found him adorable when he slept. That kiss was a selfish thing he knew that well,but with his current situation and how he has never bonded so close to anyone like this he hoped Shining armor will be selfish much more often.

Comments

[Ice Star]

It's not that I dislike your story, but I would advise you to watch your pacing in the future. More eccentric/rarer pairs tend to need time to develop and come across as believable and pull the reader on board. It'd also be nice if there was Sombra/Shining with polyamory instead of cheating or marriage troubles/divorce routes. I mean, I'll take pretty much anything over the cheating route, but happy poly pones are nice.

[Larrydog]

9861411
thanks for the feedback and I would like to do what you said I am still a beginner writer so I don't fully know to do that yet so I felt uploading something would be better than nothing at all with the standards I put on myself

and as for the poly thing,I am fine with that but I am not that comfortable having hetero themes in my stories so the only way I would do that is to have a genderbent Candance in the story

[Mix-up]

Hum, I would say that you rush into the romance a little too quickly between those to, and lack some setup to explain the context in explaining Shining's situation along with how they allowed Sombra to stay in the Crystal Empire reformed or otherwise, wouldn't the crystal ponies try to assassinate him for all the atrocities he did before? I would be more of a mind that Sombra is doing some mind fuckery to get Shining to commit adultery and is just playing with him, always love irredeemable evil, but I could be interested to see how this could grow more organically, in spite of the consequences for Shining for what he is about to do. I wonder what will aggravate their marriage before Shining commits to adultery with Sombra, maybe it could be part of Sombra's plan to get Shining Mpreg, which is hilarious to me: I wonder how they will pull that off and with what kind of spell. Looking forward to see more of this story, and if you are looking to commission a cover you can PM me.

and the link to my DA is in the link bellow:
https://www.deviantart.com/amalgamzaku

[Larrydog]

9861490
well, I do know I rushed it a little but I did that on purpose as the ideas I have after this will slow it down. and also just wanted to say I am still a beginning writer so drawing long and naturally flowing things is still something I am learning how to do

and all the questions you raised will be answered if I can keep this story going but I will say I don't mpreg spells I find that a cheap cop out I have other ways of making that happen

and I would like a commission but I have no money but thanks for the offer and feedback

[Ice Star]

9861462
Here's a writing guide that can help you if you're a beginner. It was helpful to me when I was, and it's more in-depth than I'll probably be. There's lots of examples too, and it was made for ponyfic. Also, gotta say that "not comfortable with hetero themes" is something I haven't heard before.

[Larrydog]

9861525
thanks for the link I think is gonna help me alot in future fics going further I will be sure to study this.

and yeah I am bitter towards hetero fanbases and ships the short reason is homophobes and the idea of pleasing one of them with my stories doesn't sit right with me and besides I feel there is enough hetero fanfics out there, I don't feel I need to add to it

[Ice Star]

9861539
Tbf there's always bi/pan/etc. characters that can be in straight relationships. I've never really thought liking/writing a m/f pairing made a homophobe happy. Dull/bad/overused shipping tropes bug me more than the genders in the pairing.

[Larrydog]

9861674
well for me sexualities headcanon don't matter much if there still in a straight relationship. for me, I feel there are many homophobes it m/f fanbases and while I know not all of them are like that I still can't ignore the fact that there is a lot and someone like that who would find a hypothetical straight thing I write and fav it and I just don't want that around so I don't bother with it on top of the fact that a lot of those fans have left a bad taste in my mouth with M/F pairings and that its already everywhere as it is

[Ice Star]

9861684
Yeah, personal picks in ships are one thing, but sexuality still matters when non-heterosexual (again, talking like bi/pan here) characters are in m/f relationships. It's part of the identity. (I've also never heard a fandom dubbed "m/f" before, especially MLP. Most ships are f/f, after all. Romance isn't even a big part of the show, so things really are left to shippers.)

[Larrydog]

9861691
I mean that is true sure but I go by a different set of rules when it comes to things like this, that might be a little too much to explain here. and yeah I think M/F shipper is its own fanbases since the shippers treat it like one and yeah F/F ships are also popular and while I will write for it soon but I only feel that compelled to do M/M ships because its underrated here and in every other fanbase

[Ice Star]

9861712
They're certainly underrated, but surely there's some fandom that has a primarily male cast where it'd be plentiful? There's a fandom trend for basically anything if you find the right show/book/etc.

[Larrydog]

9861951
The closest that I see a lot of Male/Male Shipping is in anime fandoms and while I like a few of them that isn't my main thing in terms of inspiration and content but I firmly believe Male x Female ships are always gonna be the most dominant and most used ideas in any fandom followed by female x Female ships and then Male x Male ships last, things in the past and the fans I have found of straight ships make it hard for me not to believe this. So I just don't see much point of associating with it,I mean I will admit there are some rare straight ships with chemistry I wouldn't mind experimenting with, but with how I view the world I can't in good conscience do that.

[Ice Star]

9861963
Mhm, though that could be more of a demographic thing too; most audiences to the average tv show are more likely (just by demographics) to be straight people, so m/f will be the most common. And yeah... anime fandoms are really hit or miss.

[Larrydog]

9861969
true which then leads me to my conclusion of "why should I have to bother with it?" Straight content has been the dominant media choice since media existed and it still is, and there are thousands of Straight shippers making content for it daily and even then most straight ships I know that are canon or popular fanon makes no sense to me. So I just don't see any merit for myself to associate my content with it, they don't need me. I am very bitter

[Ice Star]

9861980
Aww, but writing rare pairs are fun. I mean, most of the ones I like still tend to be of any gender/orientation instead of just one, but it's what makes writing worth it.

[Larrydog]

9861991
I wish I could think the same way you do but I can't, too many past experiences with hetero fanbrats have soured my feelings for Straight ships. granted I love Rare pairs so that is many ships in my gloomyverse AU but at the end with ships gender will decide what I ship because of It mattering to homophobes.if they didn't exist I could see myself having a more diverse set of ship and shoot for more "Sexuality realism" but with how uneven the world is now, it just feels wrong to possibly make something that someone I greatly disagree with could enjoy I don't know how to accept such a situation,

[Ice Star]

9862006
"Fanbrats" is a nice new addition to my vocab now. Danke.

[Larrydog]

9862012
you're welcome I know a lot of interesting terms and such lol

[Herald of Opera]

~It was only a kiss, how did it end up like this, it was only a kiss, it was only a kiss

[Larrydog]

9862406
that's pretty appropriate for the story I wanna tell