“So, Brutalight said that we’re celebrating Christmas at the Fort!” Pinkis squealed happily while she told Joseph the good news.
“Did you really mean it when you said you were gonna do more killing? I don’t think it’s healthy” Joseph asked with worry. He always worried how Brutalight had so much control over her friends’ lives. She would tell them to stay in the Fort and not come out on some type of period, and if they were, caught it would mean disaster to both the Freak and Lover. Pinkis got out once; she was punished while Brutalight attacked Joseph and made him handicapped for a few weeks. Brutalight would always say she was protecting them, even if it meant hurting them.
“Oh, Joseph, it’s fine. Besides, it’s not like I’ll get sick anyway” the pink mare kept her cheery demeanor. Every time that she was in the poofy mane, she would change from Serious and Mature to Carefree and Hyper, much to Fluttershout’s annoyance.
“Still, you would really do that for me?”
“I’d do anything to be with you, Joseph; die permanently if I should!”
“Pinkis, don’t do that”
“But I love you!” she looked at him with puppy eyes.
He sighed; she was too cute. “I love you too”
She beamed and gave him a kiss. “Besides, I can’t wait for you to meet Bunochius!”
“Fluttershout’s daughter?”
Pinkis nodded. Joseph learned about Bunochius through Kyle’s encounter. He almost fainted when he found out that she is the Soulfriend of Pinkis. Still, he couldn’t help but feel sad when he learned about the reason behind Fluttershout’s hate for love.
“You don’t think she’ll do what she did with your mother, right?”
Pinkis shook her head. “Nah, just be sure to dress in something nice, Brutalight’s orders! I’ll pick you up with the others at eight!”
She then disappeared. Joseph only sighed with a smile.
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“So, basically, we get to celebrate Christmas with our Lovers, but we have to go to the Fort” Rainbine explained to Kyle.
Kyle nodded. “Do I have to wear a Santa coat?”
Rainbine nodded. “Pretty much”
“What did she do though with the Silver Dagger?”
“About that, I have no idea; none of us do, really”
“You don’t think that Brutalight, Fluttershout, and Bunochius are still mad at us, right?”
Rainbine gave Kyle a kiss on the cheek. “I hope not”
Kyle blushed profusely from his marefriend’s kiss. As much as he tried not to, his body would deny his wishes. The first few times she kissed him, even on the cheek, he would blush until he was so red, that he looked like a tomato. The same thing kept happening when she complemented him. Despite being a soldier in the military, it seemed that the cyborg was the dominant partner.
“You know you look sexy when you blush like that” she smirked.
Kyle looked down, trying to hide his blush. “You make me blush so much”
“See you at eight” Rainbine kissed him again before leaving.
Kyle sighed and held the cheek where he was kissed like a love-struck colt with his first marefriend. If only I could marry you.
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“So, I came to the agreement that I would allow my friends to spend Christmas with the Lovers, just as long as they spend it at the Fort” Brutalight told Flash about her discussion a while back. They were sitting on his bed, which was what they’d normally do when they would come together and talk about their lives.
Flash knew about Brutalight since the day he found that Twilight and the others ‘disappeared’. He had no idea that Brutalight was Twilight as a Freak. Brutalight remembered him, but she was cold and distant to him. Last Christmas, while everypony else attended, she stayed at the Fort because she hated its joy. With Rarifruit’s help, he was able to get to her. Eventually, Brutalight warmed up to him and they became Lovers, much to Fluttershout’s chagrin and Bunochius’ disgust. They had some issues with how he worried about her killing habits, but it was able to cool.
“Do you want me to come?” Flash asked.
Brutalight faced him. “Of course”
Flash decided to change the topic. “How’s Fluttershout?”
Brutalight immediately made a clipboard with Fluttershout’s progress from the last session appear and read it. “She seems to be doing well. Her toughness to hold back tears and avoid crying has been improving lately. I guess now she’s been able to speak about it without crying so much. Still, she has teary eyes and her hooves seem to fidget around objects she holds. Hopefully, I can one day cure her of her depression”
Flash looked down. “I feel so sorry for her”
Brutalight nodded while making the clipboard disappear. “Who could blame her for hating Love so much? Her heart was literally broken, and I think it still shattered”
“Is that scar really permanent?”
The Alicorn nodded. “I guess it is”
“How has her daughter been doing?”
“Bunochius seems to show signs of enormous power. But when it comes to her mother, I noticed that she nuzzles her a lot. When I talked to her about it, she would tell me that whenever she looked into her mother’s eyes, all she would see is sadness, regret, and pain. She even nuzzled the area where the scar is, as though trying to make it better with her love for her mother”
Flash nodded. “I see a future new Queen of Ear Rape”
Brutalight chuckled. “She’s already a Princess” she then faced Flash. “Shall I meet you at eight?”
Flash smiled. “I’ll be in my Santa hat”
The Alicorn gave him a kiss before leaving. “I have to attend to my patient now” she then disappeared with her teleportation spell.
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“Pelt Skin, are you listening? You seem to be off your game lately” the Captain snapped Pelt out of his thoughts. He had a red coat with a black mane. There was a scar on one of his eyes so he wore an eye patch. From the looks of it, definitely a Unicorn. The marks on his uniform showed his status as Captain.
“I’m sorry, I just, I keep thinking about something that happened a while back when I was at my post” Pelt had been thinking on and on about Fluttershout and her daughter all day. He had been pondering on about how even one of the most dangerous Freaks could have a soft spot for their children.
“Well, care to share what’s troubling you to us all?”
Pelt sighed as he went up, front and center of the whole troop-in-training. It may as well be good to let them know. “I was at my post, keeping an eye out for suspicious behavior, when I spotted something rather peculiar. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it”
“What was it?”
“Pony Freak #2, the Queen of Ear Rape, Fluttershout”
All gasped and murmurs were heard.
“Are you sure it was #2?” the Captain asked with fear.
Pelt Skin nodded. “Who else wore that type of hat with that kind of birthmark?”
The Captain shushed the others with them before speaking, “Where did she go to? Did she enter a store or shop?”
Pelt nodded. “She went into an ice cream parlor”
The Captain looked confused. A Freak in broad daylight, going into an ice cream parlor? She didn’t even go into a store with jewelry or rob a bank?
“But there was something else that made my blood run cold”
All leaned forward to hear what it was.
“She had a daughter with her”
All gasped with eyes wide opened.
“But they didn’t do anything much. They just bought a jumbo pop and left”
“A jumbo pop? Really?”
Pelt nodded.
“Not even a whole pack of jumbo pops?”
Pelt shook his head.
All dropped their jaw.
“#2 only went to get the jumbo pop for her daughter. They did nothing else, not even glare at the other customers”
“You’re serious”
Pelt nodded. “I saw it with my own eyes”
The Captain was motionless at first. When he finally regained himself, he had to know one thing. “What did the daughter do?”
“Nothing. She just nuzzled her mother and enjoyed the jumbo pop. The mother did mention that she likes a lot of things about Normals, and she can barely fly at the moment”
Now the Captain was confused. A dangerous Freak in broad daylight, going into an ice cream parlor and doing nothing but buy a jumbo pop for her daughter? This was so strange. Fluttershout, as he was told, was very short-tempered and would act indifferent around Normals at times, especially when provoked. But to see that she changed her ways to be with her child was definitely unnatural for her. And the child could barely even fly?
“I think the new generation of Freaks has taken a liking about Normals” Pelt added.