It had been three months.
Three months since the terrible accident Twilight Sparkle had caused, needless to say it would be a while before he returned to that library.
Although he was not up and moving around as of yet, Ozzy was definitely getting a little better, his brown hair was starting to grow back, the bald patches caused by the fire were becoming less noticeable week-by-week. His face, whilst still burnt, was beginning to scar over and the little bits of crispy flesh were heal
As he had gotten better over the months, Princess Celestia had kept a close eye on him, ensuring that the healing process was going well. It had been, and it showed, where he started out on an IV drip, he then moved on to being spoonfed by the Princess, and now he was able, although with a lot of difficulty, to feed himself. As a 23 year old guy, he was happy with the fact that he was regaining his bodily autonomy, but there was one new aspect he did not like about his recent developments. The Baths.
You see, when Ozzy first had the accident, or rather when Ozzy received the consequences of the accident, nothing could be done about his grooming nor his hygiene standards, considering the condition his body was in. He knew that, Princess Celestia knew that, the medical teams knew that, he simply went ungroomed for three weeks, as he lay in that hospital bed in great pain. For three weeks, this went on, his bandages being soaked in a magical solution, changed every morning and every night - ensuring the best chance of survival. Then the move happened.
As he was Equestrias first human, Princess Celestia decided that she wanted to take a more personal role in his recovery, and given the fact that she was over 2000 years old, there was little disagreement with her. She had Ozzy moved into a private apartment adjacent to her own bedroom, accessible only to her. Quite a compact room, featuring a four-poster bed, with the finest silk sheets in all of Equestria, a small desk, on which sat a magical lamp for the days when he felt comfortable enough to move to the desk and read, and a bedside table in which the palace staff stocked up with grooming and hygiene products.
From then on, for three months, Ozzy's day started at 9am, he was woken up by Princess Celestias personal maid, Orange Touch, a cute little unicorn, only six years older than him, with a light blue coat and a vibrantly orange mane. He was helped out of bed, in the first few weeks, that translated into being almost dragged out of bed, before he managed to find his feet. The maid would help him to the sink, where she would assist him in brushing his teeth, washing his mouth out, and then bringing him back to the bed.
From here on out, she would proceed to soak a light yellow sponge in a bowl of warm water, before giving him a thorough sponge bath, using a lightly scented rose and lavender soap. She scrubbed him up and down, ensuring every part of him was caked in lather and clean.
Then it stopped.
For two days, Ozzy woke up late, having to drag himself to the sink, commit to his own personal grooming standards without the help of Orange Touch, before dragging himself back to bed. WIthout the maid to help him though, he was struggling to bathe himself and with the effort he exerted purely getting to the sink and back, as well as remaining in the same bed for two days, worked up a sweat, and more importantly, an odour.
He had just gotten himself back into the bed, when he heard the door open slowly. He looked over with his tired eyes, widening as he saw who was at the door. There she was, her pale pink coat shone in the morning sun, with a gentle smile on her face, looked down on him like a mother looked down on their child. Aside from a small wrinkle of her nose, it was almost as if nothing was wrong.
"Good morning" she exclaimed, with a small giggle held behind her hoof. Her pink eyes scanning Ozzy up and down, as he lay there, gazing up at her with a tired expression. "I see someone has been trying to take care of themselves"
"Where have you been" Ozzy questioned, with a slight tint of venom in his voice, "it's almost as if I've been forgotten about, noone's been here in two days, I'm starving"
The Princess looked at him with a sad expression, looking a little ashamed, she said "I do apologise for this Ozzy, the maid who was meant to be looking after you has actually been arrested by the Guard for matters unrelated to you." Ozzy looked at her incredously, "so? Why should that mean it's taken you two days to come and see me?" The human was rightfully angry, and Princess Celestia could not bear to look him in the eye as she answered "Unfortunately, due to how new you are, none of the other maids or any of the general servants wanted to look after you, they are simply too scared of you." The human looked angry for a moment, before letting out a long drawn sigh, "I understand, whilst I don't like it, where I'm from, this type of thing would be common, so I can't say I'm unused to it."
"Thanks for understanding, again I am very sorry about it" The pony princess exclaimed, "as a result of this, until we can find you a new maid or servant, I will take over the responsibilities of Orange Touch."
"Whilst I think it's a little strange that a Princess would lower herself to the standards of a maid, if there's nothing else that can be done, then I guess that's that" Ozzy said with a heavy heart, before looking up at her with a confused expression, "does that mean you'll be the one to wash me?"
The tired expression on Princess Celestias face was replaced by almost a mischevious little smirk, as she hid her mouth behind her hoof, giggling like a filly, with a twinkle in her eye. "Oh yes, that is part of a maids resposibility is it not? Afterall, it's been two days since you were last washed, and with all this effort you've been using, it must be said that you've built up quite a sweat." Ozzy looked at her, sighed and said "Right, well, I guess it must be done. If you weren't aware, the bowl Orange Touch used to use is in the cupboard, the sponge and the soap are in the draw."
Princess Celestia lit her horn, and the cupboard and draw opened, floating out the half-used bottle of soap, and slightly damp sponge. A look of disdain crossed her face, and she looked at Ozzy with an unreadable gaze. "As you've obviously shown you're capable of moving around on your own, I think its time for us to move past your sponge baths. Come."
With that, she lit her horn, and Ozzie felt a slight tugging at his legs, as she moved the blanket off him and helped him out of the bed, pulling him out of his compact room, guiding him towards a golden immaculate door in her own room.
The first thing he noticed was the size of the bathroom before him, big didn't even cover it, with what seemed like a bathing pool set in the floor in the middle of the room. Shelves lined the walls of the room, all manner of bottles and tubs placed upon them, a vanity table littered with brushes and combs, makeup scattered all over the table.
Princess Celestia caught him staring and lightly laughed "I'm afraid this isn't for you, the bath is meant for me, and would simply be too deep for you. For someone who is struggling to remain on their feet, I fear you would struggle to stay afloat in that bath."
Ozzy then gestured to the table, with narrowed eyes, "what about all that? With Orange Touch, all she did was sponge me down, and that was that"
"Dependent on how you feel after your bath, we might use some of those things, but anyway, come." She led him to a room set in the far wall across the bathroom, inside was a rather large freestanding clawfoot bathtub, a pony adapted stool at the end of the tub. A table sat next to the tub, adorned with four bottles and a tub, with a rather large pink loofah hanging off the side. Compared to the room from before, this one seemed rather basic.
"What is this place? I mean, compared to the room from before, which was obviously your own private bathroom, why do you have this?" Ozzy asked, confusion evident across his face.
"This entire room was refurbished 120 years ago, the original bathroom was way too big even for me, so I had the builders build this. Since it was built, Its been used once for my student when she was younger." The Princess trotted over to the tap, turning it a fair ways. Water came billowing out of the tap like a waterfall, testing it with her hoof, she twisted the taps before testing it again. Satisfied with the temperature, she looked over at him, in his boxers and gestured at them, "I understand whenever Orange Touch washed you, she would allow you to keep them on. In the 2000 years I've been alive, I have seen a lot and I want to say, it won't bother me. Please take off your boxers. If you feel more comfortable, I can turn around but due to the nature of your injuries, I won't leave for fear of you injuring yourself."
Ozzy felt himself going red, a blush creeping up his face. Here he was, standing in a bathroom, with a pale pink pony staring at him, expecting him to take off his only cover. "Is there any point in asking you to turn around? When I get in the bath, you'll be able to see it anyway?" He asked, his eyes failing to meet hers.
"Let me remedy that." With that, she turned around, moving to the side of the bath whilst keeping her eyes away from his body. "Whilst I'm doing this, please take off your boxers, by the time I'm finished and you're ready, the bath should be ready." She levitated the bottle off the table, slowing rotating it towards her, twisting the cap off. A deep rose and lavender scent filled the room, and he stole a glance at the bottle 'Calm Skies Rose and Lavender Bubble Bath'. Ozzy felt himself going even more red, at 23 years old, and as a guy, it had been a while since he'd had a bath, let alone a bubble bath.
She brought the bottle to the edge of the water stream. Tilting it slightly, he watched as the pink liquid oozed out of the bottle. Pale pink bubbles to match her coat started appearing in the bath, swirling her hoof around in the stream, she agitated the bubble bath, before tenderly squeezing the bottle, the liquid came out once again in a thick ooze and the bubbles took on a pinker tint.
The unfortunate thing was, with the size of the tub, the bubble bath was having difficulty filling it out. A thin layer of suds completely covered the top of the bath, but that was hardly enough. The Princess scowled for a moment, before quickly looking at Ozzy and back at the bathtub, and turned the bottle completely upside down. The fluid spilled out with ease, and as she started to run her hoof back and forth in the tub, Ozzy saw the bubbles start mounting up - all he could smell was rose and lavender.
As the bubbles threatened to spill over the side, Princess Celestia abruptly stopped. The bottle in her magic grip was tilted up, and Ozzy could see perhaps a sliver of the liquid left. Turning around, she locked her eyes with his, refusing to look below his face. She noted how the colour of his face had changed, but refused to comment on it, not wishing to humiliate or embarrass him any further. "Come, please get in whilst the waters warm."
He slowly made his way over, looking I'm at the frothy bubbles, a drawn out sigh escaped him, before, with the assistance of Celestia, he climbed into the bath. The warm water was pleasant on his skin, and the bubbles caused his skin to tingle. As he lay against the head of the bath, he thought back to the bathing pool in the main bathroom, silently thankful that he wasn't deposited in there. His head barely cleared the foam in this bathtub and the other tub was distinctly deeper than this. The subtle scent of rose filled his nostrils as a bag floated by his side, rose petals being dispersed over the top of the bubble bath. He still could hardly believe his situation, sitting in a large bathtub, full of warm water, with a thick pink bubble bath burying the upper half of his body as rose petals were dumped all around him. She hadn't even started washing him yet.
Speaking of which, he heard the telltale sound of a cap being opened on one of the other bottles, the squeezing sound from before, and the room briefly filled with the scent of white lotus. He watched as Princess Celestia trotted round to the side of the bath, pink loofah with a slimy white liquid covering it in her magical aura, "whilst the bubble bath will do a good job of making sure you smell adequate, it will not fully clean you. Much like Orange Touch, I will wash you, the only difference here is instead of washing you whilst you remain in bed, I will be washing you whilst you are in the bath."
With that, she plunged the loofah into the bath, and Ozzy felt the soft object start at his legs, rubbing up and down slowly, he could feel the lather forming around his legs, as moved slowly up and down, outer thigh, inner thigh. She brought the loofah back up, before squeezing more of the white liquid over the sponge, dropping it back into the bath, she worked on the other leg. Again, up and down, up and down, before discarding the loofah and scrubbing the soap off of him with her hooves.
To Ozzy, that felt odd, her hooves were very different to Orange Touch, very different to Twilight Sparkles. Her hooves were extremely soft, like a pair of clouds lazily floating around him. Princess Celestia saw he was lost in thought, and used the opportunity to quickly pour some soap onto the sponge, and quickly scrub his private area, he was shocked out of his idle thinking when he felt the cold lather tickling his genitalia, and he glanced up at her in shock. "Hey! What in the world do you think you're doing?" He exclaimed, his hands automatically reaching to cover his area, before he stopped. She had stopped and was busy pouring more soap on the loofah, "I am sorry about that, I thought the quicker I did it, the less awkward it would be for both of us" she herself had a small blush creeping up her face, and Ozzy saw and took the opportunity, "next time, I wouldn't mind you going slower" he said, a sly smirk on his face and a twinkle in his own eye. Afterall, he was a 23 year old guy, and Princess Celestia wasn't exactly bad looking.
With an overly obvious eye roll, she lit her horn, and waves started appearing in the bath, Ozzy barely had time to react before a large wave of water and bubbles hid his head. Sputtering, he emerged from the foam, bubbles and rose petals clinging to his head, a quick apology to Princess Celestia and she resumed washing him.
Punishment over, she spread the soapy lather over his chest and back, slathering him with the lotus scented liquid. It felt weird, but strangely nice to Ozzy as she wet the loofah again and went for his arms. It almost tickled as she slowly rubbed him up and down.
With his body finished with, she moved back to the head of the bath and sat on the stool. From Ozzys perspective, looking up, he could see her furry chest, hair tufting out, and her head looking down at him, a smile upon it. She ran her hoof through his hair, judging how wet it was before levitating a pitcher of water from the floor. Pouring it over him, he shivered at the cold temperature of it - it had sat there for a while as she had washed his body down. With the pitcher empty, she grabbed one of the other bottles: compared to the bottle of Bubble bath and the bottle of body wash - this bottle was intensely pink, with pink lotuses decorating the entire bottle.
Instead of pouring this one out onto a loofah, or her hoof, she decided to squeeze this one out directly onto his head. In that moment, Ozzy wondered what he looked like: sopping wet in a thick pink bubble bath, rose petals clinging to his skin with a bright pink liquid cascading down his long brown hair. Then those hooves started again, delicately massaging the shampoo into his hair, he felt the foam lather up. The hooves were making circular motions on his head, lathering it up more and more each second. Before long, his hair was hidden beneath a thick pink sheet, the scent of pink lotus thick in his nose, he heard the Princess trotting around to the front of the bath, giggling lightly as she saw his face poking out from between the foam of the shampoo and the bubble bath.
"I must say, you look rather adorable caked in all those bubbles, but we're not finished yet" as she walked to a small cupboard Ozzy had not seen. Pulling it open, a small glass bottle was brought out, along with two identical pink soap bars. Closing it, she walked back to Ozzy in the bath, running her soft hoof along the bubbles before taking a long deep whiff and sighing in pleasure. The glass bottle was simple in design, a small label set across the front of the bottle, 'Rose Shimmer Perfume'. She spritzed the bottle all over Ozzys head, and spritzed it across the bath, and in that moment - Ozzy felt a hot sensation across his face. Here he was sitting in a such a heavy scented perfumed bubble bath, and there was absolutely nothing he could do about it.
She let him just marinate there, his skin and hair absorbing the scent as she sat smiling, of course he couldn't see that though. For a few minutes, they sat there in silence before she started unscrewing the tub. Much like before, she ran her hooves carefully over his face, judging how wet it was, before telling him to close his eyes and mildly splashing him with soapy water. She grabbed the two pink soap bars, using her horn to heat them up slightly so they started sliding around her hooves, a thin trail of soapy residue forming around them. She reached around him, so her hooves were infront of his face, "please close your mouth and eyes."
And with that, she got to work, bringing the soap forward, she worked the soap into his face, the strong scent of rose filling his nostrils as she absolutely went. Starting with his chin, using one bar, she rubbed it all over his chin, pink soap particles sticking to his unkempt beard, before moving on to his cheeks. There, she used both bars, and plastered the large part of his face with foam. The soap bars had special qualities to them, they weren't normal, No. These were mixed with a moisturiser in their manufacturing process which had the effect of making the lather a lot creamier across his skin. Despite his situation, Ozzy could not help but feel in bliss as she worked her way up his face. With a thick lather soaking his hair, and the bubble bath showing no signs of dying down, Ozzy felt well and truly covered as his face was blocked off with soap. A loud tap caught his attention, followed by a happy smile spreading across his face as he felt her put the soap bars down and resume washing his face with her hooves. Again with the circling motions, the soap was agitated to the point when it was hoof thick across his face.
Some of the shampoo bubbles had started to slide down his head and drop down into the bath, Ozzy was not aware of this, but when shampoo lather met bubble bath, both types of bubbles dissipated. Princess Celestia looked down at the bubbles slowly disappearing around his body, "Oh that won't do will it" she said with that motherly tone that seems to permeate out of her. She moved to the plug, pulling it and watching as some of the soapy water disappeared down the drain. Ozzy thought this was rather counter-intuitive, before she put the plug back in place and moved to grab the bottle of bubble bath again. Looking in at it, she scowled again, there was nowhere near enough bubble bath!
"Wait here. If you move, I'll rewash you all over again" she warned, as she left the room. Ozzy felt himself go as still as a statue, he'd been in this bath for over half an hour, and had no care to be washed again. Soon enough, she trotted back into the room, not that he could see, but another vibrantly red bottle in her magical grip. "Unfortunately, there was not much of the rose and lavender bubble bath left, so instead I'm using one of my favourite bottles of bubble bath. It may smell a little weird, everything I've used on you so far has been floral: rose and lavender. Well this is perfumed strawberry shortcake bubble bath, because the perfume is a little on the stronger side, I'm hoping it might mask the scent of the strawberry shortcake a bit." Using her magic, she twisted the tap and the warm water came flowing out again, slowly filling up the bath. Taking the cap off, Ozzy was once again filled with the scent of strong perfume, with a little bit of strawberry leaking through, it was a much more feminine scent compared to the others.
She poured it in, and the pink foam from the old bubble bath started mixing with the vivid red bubbles from the new one. Filling it up to where it used to be, she turned the tap off and turned her head to look at Ozzy. Smiling as she saw him sandwiched between bubble bath and shampoo lather, with the foam from the soap still clinging to his skin. She moved back to the head of the bath, grabbing the bottle of shampoo along the way. Pouring some out into her hooves, she started at the sides of his head, bringing the foam that was currently dropping down back into the centre at the top of his head, she grabbed the errant strands of hair falling down past his shoulders and brought that back up as well, before rubbing the shampoo into him, increasing the mound of soapsuds upon his head.
At this moment in time, Ozzy could not speak, the rose from the soap bars covered his lips and he knew if he opened his mouth, his mouth would burn. Even as he lay there, he could feel the thick soap on his head building up and still smiled.
It could be said that Princess Celestia was enjoying this somewhat. It had been a long time since she had washed anything other than herself, and seeing such an exotic creature laying there smothered in foam was making her rather happy. With a heavy heart, she lifted the large pitcher of rose water she had brought with her earlier, and poured it over his head and face. Washing the foam away, smoothing his face with her hooves, brushing the foam away, "don't move, I'm still not finished with you" she said as she brought the tub of lilac clay forward. Dipping her hoof in and picking up a rather large glob, she smeared it across his face, going back for a second hooffull, she pushed is hard into his face, sliding her hooves all over his face. Before long, his face was covered once again, but in sweet, lilac smelling clay.
She then brought forth the final bottle, much like the other, pink lotuses adorned the bottle. She squeezed out the liquid, and out it came like a thick pink mousse. She rubbed the conditioner between her hooves and splattered it all over his hair, starting from the scalp and rubbing it down to the ends of his hair. Squeezing out another hoofful, she covered each strand of his hair with the product, and stood back to admire her work.
Letting him sit there stewing in strawberry shortcake, rose and lavender bubble bath, with rose conditioner coating his hair and lilac clay smothered across his face. She let him sit there for another 5 minutes, idly running her hoof across his hair or his face, or his upper body - making sure it was all smooth.
Finally, she decided it was enough, brought forth the pitcher once again and doused him in water. Rubbing the clay off his face, she pulled the plug from the bath and poured water over the rest of him, washing away the foam still clutched on him. She levitated him out of the bath, to a stool covered in a pink fluffy towel. Setting him down, she brought forth three more large towels and draped them around him.
Ozzy looked up at her, "that was enjoyable after the initial awkwardness", she did that irritating little giggle behind her hoof again and said "I'm glad you enjoyed it, I know I did. But I must say we should probably get you back to bed, I can tell you're a little exhausted"
She was right, Ozzy could barely raise his head to look at her without increasing the speed of his breathing, she started patting him down with the towels, rubbing his hair gently with the towels. Picking him up once again, they started drifting towards his room again.
"Thank you for that, I'm sure you're a very busy mare but you've still spent two hours washing me" Ozzy quietly said as they moved into his room. He saw that the maids had been in whilst he was gone, and had changed the sheets on the bed.
"Its really no worries, just to let you know though. You'll be doing this again tomorrow to make sure you stay clean, as you will be doing this over the next three months everyday. Tomorrow I would do it again but I will be occupied. As a result, Luna, my sister, will be attending to you instead. I can assure you, she's very nice and will make sure you're clean"
"Yeah I have no issues with that, I look forward to it" Ozzy said as she moved him into the bed, feeling his eyes drooping and tiredness taking over.
"Have a good nap" Princess Celestia turned off the lights and walked out the room to start her day.