//------------------------------// // Chapter Seventy Four, Honey Moon’d: Waning. // Story: Airship Mauled // by Darkonshadows //------------------------------// -Las Pegasus, outdoors at Bahamut’s Taco Stand, Fizzy- “So how did this happen?” The thing I was asking about was not us buying and eating tacos from Bahamut, Jade still vouches for the guy even after he attacked us on the mountain all those years ago. “I believe it was Luna trying to hog all the sugar in the general area after somehow managing to tank herself up on espresso… again… and that includes trying to buy out all of Bahamut’s churros. Apparently Bahamut likes sharing and was trying to save enough for everyone.” That was only the beginning of all of this Jade, because it didn’t explain the other gods. “Baast comes in supporting Luna’s supernatural angry hunger. Sekhet probably just wanted an excuse to beat the snot out of her sister so she sided with Bahamut despite the fact that she’s a historically bad glutton. Quetzalcoatl is just an innocent bystander that was drawn into this by accident and is now trying to mediate things to the best of his abilities… it’s not going well. As for Veles, he’s just confused he showed up as an average hearths warming nutcracker the size of a stallion with rakes for legs to be constantly targeted for no other reason than that he’s here. Discord is just here to live action role play as his Ogres and Oubliettes character and is making things worse in general because chaos.” “Yet, here we sit again watching as Las Pegasus is being slowly being ripped apart by the might of seven gods in a fashion most chaotic.” After saying that Maria used the tiger paw on her side to crunch into a taco. “These are really good tacos though.” Yep, we were going to just ignore Luna yelling about she just wanted to fulfill the traditions of honey moon, the ankhs of ancient power blasting from both Baast and Sekhet, the screams of a confused confusion god being punted everywhere while somehow collecting tons of leaves with his flailing rake legs despite not being near any trees, the mega flares being launched by the metal dragon king god Bahamut and Quetzalcoatl trying and absolutely failing to mediate all of this as he launched his own attacks Discord was trying to either win the fight with boxing glove arrows or was just trying make things worse, he was actually the only god that was doing anything remotely successful. He was the one having the most fun here. “These tacos are really good, but this isn’t fish meat. What do you suppose Bahamut put in them?” Taking a bite out of my doubled up taco, I chewed it over as I awaited a response from my wives. “You know that thestrals are just as omnivorous as pegasi, so chances are Bahamut supplied his taco meat from those ravenous flesh eating spiders from the ones they use for food up in the grotto on Seared Seer Mountain.” Jade continued eating her fish taco as I looked down at mine and continued chew my food a little bit slower. I slowly raised my right brow at Jade, who was looking at my food curiously. Eventually I shrugged, swallowed and continued eating my spider meat taco without a second thought. I will admit there was a part of me that probably should find this disgusting, but Bahamut’s tacos were really good. “I shouldn’t be surprised if eating meat is a thing that I will be doing fairly often.” I did marry two omnivores after all. These last few days have been pretty horrible for doing anything fun, but I think the last few nights more than make up for it. “I’m guessing it’ll mostly be fish though.” “With as much fish jerky as mom makes, that’s pretty much a given Fizzy.” Groaned out Jade sadly. “So any bets on who’s going to win.” “Las Pegasus is losing either way.” An amused Mara muttered. “We’re not going to be capable of doing what we wanted to on our honeymoon are we?” That sounded something like defeat Maria. Jade grabbed a churro, bit a chunk out of it and then proceed to ram her tongue into Maria’s mouth cheering her up immediately with a sugary sweet kiss. “While we may not be doing what we wanted, the fact that we could do anything together is good enough for me. That we are still together and haven’t been driven mad by the insanity says much about our relationship.” That our relationship is pretty darn solid, there’s nothing like being sandwiched between my Chimera and Abyssinian at the end of the day. There’s no sleepless nights in my future, I’m happy. “You guys always manage to melt my rough heart into a core of gooey soft cinnamon buns.” “Aw, you’re smiling, you look beautiful when you do that Fizzy.” It was Marie that said it and it wasn’t like I haven’t heard that enough from Jade personally. The whole Storm Queen thing was something I was never going to live down, but I wasn’t exactly fighting it too hard these days. Going to make being Twilight’s guard a little awkward, but at least we had tons of backup resources and an army that could help Equestria when needed. “You know, between the horrible circumstances of Luna being annoying, that massive puk attack that damaged the shopping mall and the current disaster in motion over a taco cart, I think our marriage is currently exactly what I expected it to be.” A three ring circus that is going to be my life for the foreseeable future, but I wouldn’t actually have it any other way. Instead I tried for a few different words that were more tactful and wouldn’t upset my loving herd members. “It’s all fairly exciting really, I thought I had opened up my eyes to a cruel world and yet here we are. Not where I thought I’d be, but I’m far happier for it. The world can be cruel, yes, but there’s always a chance for it to be better too.” I looked at Jade who was still making out with Maria. Looking to Marie, she shook her head no. I angled my sights on Mara as I bit off a chunk of the same churro that Jade had started playfully kissing Maria with. Mara nodded and I moved to caress her face with my hooves, our lips met and we shared the sweet taste of honey glazed cinnamon doughnut sticks. -An hour later, Las Pegasus Games Area- “Quick question, am I the designated cook? Would that technically make me the housewife of our group?” Jade lined up her throw to start of our game of horseshoes, we decided to ignore the gods and just try to stay out of their way and not do anything overly interesting. Horseshoes was something we could all do. “If we have kids then you might be the stay at home mom or the fun mom, unless Maries want to split up the chores on that.” In a literal sense, their magical ability to split up and combine back together was quite useful, though it came at the cost of a lot of mental and physical trauma. Jade tossed the horseshoe and it tagged the peg and was still touching it, but it didn’t catch. Still it was a good throw that earned Jade two points. Maries moved up and prepared to throw their U-shaped hunk of metal next or at least Mara would, Maria and Marie were bowing out of the game and letting their sister do all the legwork. If they all worked together on this, then that would have been unfair to us as they could throw more accurately with three minds working together. “Marie wouldn’t like being alone, but we could work something out and we would love to split the chores on any children we have.” Mara commented as she took the horseshoe up in their front left paw and swung the metal back and forth to test its weight. She launched it and it tagged the peg, but didn’t land around it either. “I could stick with Marie while Maria does some law firm stuff if Jade is otherwise busy. Knowing her like we do, she’s always going to be up to something.” “Gee, you certainly have a lot of faith in me to run around and be a nuisance to everyone.” The blandness in Jade’s tone did not the match the mirth filled smile on her face, we were all smiling at her as well. That’s exactly what we expected of her, she wasn’t ever going to be too lazy on our watch. “You’ll definitely be the fun mom Jade, though kittens are currently not likely unless Maries gets pregnant from all these ‘physical activities’ we’ve been doing for these last few nights.” I moved forward and took up a horseshoe in my right hoof. I wasn’t allowed to use my horn, because again that would be cheating and it would be too easy. Jade wasn’t allowed to use Magical Alchemy, because frankly horseshoes do odd things when that particular brand of magic was applied to them. One self-sustaining trait was one moment of extremely good luck, then the horseshoe would destroy itself to keep the karmic balance or something like that. It was the best idea we had for what was happening to the horseshoes Jade tested out. Jade was wary of luck altering items, because you learn about stuff like that being an Abyssinian. That and our sister Jacky would want one on her at all times and wouldn’t stop coming to Jade for them, I’m pretty sure Jacky would deplete fifty of them less than an hour or possibly even all at once. I let the horseshoe fly and watched as it sailed, hook the peg and spun around it and then clanged onto the other thrown horseshoes. Hooked and stayed, three points. “Three points.” I stated blithely with a small smirk on my face, my wives gave me a determined looks and their competitive spirits have been quite stoked. “Says the one who’s going to be the strict, but protective mom.” Jade retorted. “With you around Jade, you’re darn right I’m going to be the sensible one in this herd!” I answered right back without a thought. “Do you think I’d actually be a good mother though?” “Fizzy, we think you’d go above and beyond for any child exactly like Matriarch Kuril does.” Mara nuzzled my neck gently, trying to avoid stabbing me with her sabre fangs, while Marie swung around to kiss me on the cheek from my other side. “You’d be a good mother Fizzy.” Maria proclaimed loudly. “Wait… why do we need children when we already have Jade?” I grumbled out loud and my herd started laughing in good humor. -A few hours later, Casino Area- We were having fun in the games area of Las Pegasus, nothing had gone wrong… for once. Though you wouldn’t know it watching the gods still going at it. Discord had switched from boxing glove arrows to a variety of other weird arrows including ones that splatter paint everywhere to arrows that caused you to be chased by a cotton candy cloud that rains chocolate for a minute if struck. The fact that Discord was still staying in character told us how dedicated he was to the game he was playing. “Royal Flush.” Jade stated as she spread the cards on the table, the dealer looked flummoxed. Whether it was Jade winning a hand, me winning a hoof or Maries counting cards to win a paw, because that’s the only thing Maries could be doing to win so many times, we were outmatching the dealer in wins. “Well this has gotten boring, cash out and go play some Trot Spot Revolution?” “Sure.” I answered. -Five minutes later, Las Pegasus Games Area- I soon found myself tapping on the floor arrows in tune to the beat to match what was being shown at the top of the screen. “We are what we’re supposed to be, no illusions of our fantasies, all trots of life just singing to say... what we do is what you know we can do~!” Jade was singing with the music, the game would be easier with four legs, but that didn’t mean Jade was losing. Quite the opposite, she was kicking my flank and she was doing it in style. “We’re not only our cutie marks you see, we can do more unbelievable things to be a, change by change, nothings out of range~!” “Our love can be quite unreasonable, especially when it’s so unpredictable, all hearts in line to seek and say what we want to do is what you’ll wish to do~!” Why was I singing too? “There’s quite a chaos to that this brings, we’ll always end up doing unbelievable things, change by change, we’ll take it to the extreme~.” “One plus one, we’re making love fun~!” Jade and I sang together. We even had a crowd of ponies that didn’t seem to mind Maries’ presence as they watched us have fun, we were actually having fun with no interruptions or having to make different plans. -That evening- After Maries beat Jade at hoops, more than once no less as Jade was being a sore loser about it, we walked out of the game area of Las Pegasus and stopped to see the mess of the central areas. I blinked in disbelief at what I saw. “Now you see, this is how you kick ass!” Sekhet yelled wearing a blood soaked green sweater, wielding a knife and standing on a pile of broken gods bodies buried under a dune of sand, which included her sister. “I’m 'THE' war goddess and being able to spit massive amounts of sand is a useful ability!” Everyone else groaned underneath her. Even Discord looked like he had the chaos mangled and mashed out of him. “Say Sekhet, do you know where we can get a meal this evening?” Having gained the goddesses attention, I blinked as Sekhet quickly tore the odd sweater off, used a magical ankh to wipe the blood away from her fur and she met us at alicorn size as if she hadn’t ripped all those poor gods a new one. “Sure, I know a good place close by that isn’t part of the international food court and hasn’t been destroyed yet.” Sekhet nodded to us and tilted her head for us to follow her. “Don’t mind the mess, they’ll clean themselves up.” -The next morning, Hotel Room, Maries- Our mates are wonderful, our lives feel wonderful… we are as happy as we are content with life in this moment. “So what are we going to do today?” A muffled Jade asked with her face digging into our belly and lapping at our fur with her tongue gently. That was just begging us to continue last night’s activities. “Stop Luna before she causes us any more problems?” Fizzy stated from our back where she kissed Marie on the nose, she proceeded to nuzzle her face between our heads. “There’s one big thing we really have to do and I don’t want Luna or anyone else to ruin it.” “Huzzah, we are having a lot of fun and…” All of us, Jade and Fizzy including, glared at her. “Could you please actually look up the definition of honeymoon and avoid ruining the rest of ours?” Growled out Mara, we’d stay in bed for a few more minutes uncontested.