Latios’ desire to assume his true form, so he could use his full strength to just bolt out of that den (leaving behind his body-shaped hole in his wake within the den’s walls) grew stronger with every passing moment.
Once he was able to communicate with those ponies, he was assaulted with questions, ranging from where he came from, to what his favorite meal was. The added presence of three other females from yesterday, especially Pinkie Pie, didn’t help much with his situation.
“When is your birthday?! What is your favorite color?! Did you ever had a cherry changa?!”
She continued to ask him while bouncing up and down in front of him, not giving him time to write an answer. Thankfully, Twilight and Applejack came to his rescue and dragged away the crazy pony.
For a while, until she quickly returned, with even more questions to ask.
Latios sighed to himself, as began to write down that he is tired. It wasn’t just an excuse; he had to write down answers to most, if not all, of the questions, and his maw felt stiff. This wasn’t in any means waste of time, though: Latios learned from them that they had no idea where his old home, Altomare, was. Other than that sad news, the all females told little things about themselves, probably to make him feel more at easy, for what he was grateful.
Once he was done, he signaled for Twilight to take the piece of paper he scribbled on:
I’m tired. Can we end this for today?
“Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry!” the lavender female exclaimed once she read it. “We didn’t mean to bother you so much.”
Latios shook his head to show that he wasn’t mad at them, as they one by one began to apologize to him, making him feel anxious again. He wondered if this steamed off from the fact that he wasn’t used to be a center of attention of so many creatures, or because almost all of them were females.
Aside from his little sister, the only other female he knew was Bianca. When she was younger, he often let her ride on his back while he flew across the secret garden. Bianca also liked to ride on Latias, as well, but she quickly grew to be too big for his sister to fly comfortably like that. But being around six grown females and three cubs was another thing altogether.
“Being alone with just one of them is another thing altogether.” he sighed mentally as he turned his attention briefly to Fluttershy.
Throughout his interrogation, she remained mostly quiet, and did not look directly his way. Latios wondered if that had anything to do with that subtle change in her scent some time before the other three females came in, but he brushed that off. The change was brief, and her scent returned to normal soon afterwards. In fact, Latios wasn’t even sure if he didn’t imagine it.
“After all,” he concluded, “if that was so, wouldn’t she be... doing the opposite from shying away?”
As that thought crossed his mind, Latios almost immediately imagined Fluttershy coming up to him and looked into his eyes with her big blue ones, bringing her muzzle to his...
He was pulled out of those thoughts by a strange sensation coming from the base of his wings. Latios glanced at them, and noticed that, while they were still folded, they were also tense and ready to spring up. Annoyed, he recalled how they stretched automatically yesterday when Fluttershy tended to his wounds. He realized that this was probably some sign of excitement among winged ponies.
“Wow, look how late it is ya’ll.” Applejack said and Latios turned his head to regard her, taking his eyes and thoughts away from his wings strange behaviour. “Ah guess we lost track of time a bit here.”
Glancing through the window Applejack was nodding her head towards to, Latios had to admit she’s right. The sky outside was rapidly becoming darker, and few stars were already visible.
“I didn’t even notice we’ve been ‘talking’ here so long.” he realized with a mild surprise. “Well, at least now I should be able to return to my nest at the river...”
“I think it’s about time we all went home.” Twilight said, as if confirming his thoughts. “Spike and I will have to run some errands in the morning, and we were all supposed to have a picnic by the swimming hole around dinnertime.”
At the mention of Spike’s name, Latios glanced at him. When he asked some time earlier (probably half a day ago, judging by the evening sky) what kind of creature he was, he was informed that he was a dragon. Latios, while he knew that dragons came in almost every shape or form, has never seen any other kind of dragon besides his, so he grew curious about what ponies knew. However, when he vaguely tried to turn this conversation into topic of dragons, he was informed that they knew barely anything about them, as they were all brutes that preferred isolation, with Spike being exception.
“Guess I’m stuck with ponies.” Latios mused as he recalled that, while everyone stood up and prepared to leave. “Although, I don’t really mind... I just want to return to my real form for few moments...”
“So, Eon,” Rainbow unexpectedly came up to him from side and started talking with a strange expression or they muzzle, “you will be staying with Fluttershy, right?” Latios eyes widened, but before he got a chance to reply in any way, she continued: “You know, because of those wounds of yours that haven’t healed yet.”
Latios winced inwardly. He completely forgot about those scratches, or that he wasn’t in his real body. He spared a second to curse those ponies’ slow cicatrisation, and then turned to Fluttershy questioningly. Since this was her den, he wouldn’t argue if she thought it would be best for him to stay, despite how irritating this situation was.
Fluttershy, on the other paw, looked away from him. Latios noticed that her coat’s color on muzzle once again gained red hue.
“I... I think that would be best...” she muttered quietly, and even he had problems hearing that.
Latios looked at the other females with raised eyebrow, but he saw that they were as confused by their friend’s behaviour as he was.
Except for Rainbow Dash, she looked as she was about to burst with laughter.
“Care to explain what is so funny to you, Rainbow Dash?” Rarity asked their laughing friend as they all made their way back to Ponyville, besides Applejack and Apple Bloom, who headed straight back home at Sweet Apple Acres.
Twilight was also curious as to why Rainbow was giggling practically ever since they left Fluttershy’s cottage. She didn’t notice anything funny to happen while they were there in the last few hours... maybe other than their shy friend’s strange attitude of being uncomfortable with Eon Guard, in contrast to her attitude this morning. The image of Fluttershy pinning the poor stallion to the floor was going to stay burned into her mind for a long time.
“Speaking of Eon Guard...” she mused, trying to distract her thoughts, “This city where he came from, Altomare... It’s surely not within Equestria, and I don’t even recall any similarly named city to be in Saddle Arabia or Aquastria.”
She wondered if it was too late to send a letter to Celestia at this hour.
Fluttershy and Eon Guard both eat their salads in silence. Eon, for obvious reason, and Fluttershy was too nervous thinking about all that Dashie told her.
I meant that it looked as if you were bucking.
“It couldn’t look like that...” she tried to protest in her mind, but at the same time, she wondered why the memory of that moment made her feel so... funny.
When you two start sleeping together, ask him what he thinks about threesomes.
A squeak escaped her lips, causing Eon Guard to look up from his supper.
“Sorry, I... remembered something.” she quickly said.
That seemed to satisfy his curiosity, for he simply returned to eating. Fluttershy, who now wasn’t feeling hungry, took her plate and returned to the kitchen.
She went on to feed her chickens snacks before night, and, having done all that she needed this day, she came back to her living room. To her surprise, she saw Eon lying down on her couch.
“What are you doing here?” Fluttershy asked, forgetting about her issues in shock. “You’re supposed to sleep in my bed, not here.”
The stallion in reply nodded at a piece of that laid on the table. Confused, she picked it up.
It’s your bed. You sleep there.
“That’s out of the question!” Fluttershy replied immediately “You’re my guest, and you are wounded!”
But Eon Guard appeared to have none of it. For her arguments, he simply shook his head and pointed with his hoof at the stairs, then turned the other way on the couch.
“Oh no, mister!” she said somewhat angrily, like whenever Angled tried to be difficult ever since that short ‘episode’ of hers. “You are going to sleep upstairs, and I’m sleeping on the couch, did you get that!? Look at me while I’m talking to you, mister!”
Fluttershy grabbed him by the shoulder, intending to turn him around and force him into submission with her Stare, but then Eon Guard did something she didn’t expect. He spun around, grabbed her, and before she managed to do even “eek” of surprise, he dragged her to her bedroom and dropped her on the bed, and he himself landed on the opposite side of it.
She could only stare in shock at him, while he also looked back at her. Eon throat gave out strange, but terrifying rumble, as if telling her:
“You’re staying here.”
Fluttershy gulped, trying to calm herself and not hyperventilate. What he just did - dragged her to her bed - scared her soul out of her, and for a brief moment she was afraid that he would try to... do something to her. However, as she continued to look into his violet ones, she saw nothing threatening in them. He even appeared to be somewhat sorry for what he did a second ago, probably due to seeing how scared she was.
Resigned, but feeling safe, she tried to make herself comfortable... but then she recalled all that Dash was suggesting, which resulted her becoming all but comfortable.
“Oh my goodness...” she thought, beginning to panic. “I’m in bed with... with a stallion...”
It was good thing that she was laying, because she now felt extremely dizzy.
Fluttershy wasn’t sure how long did they stayed like this: both of them looking into each other eyes, she being too nervous to do anything else, and Eon… simply just breathing, or even sniffing from time to time. Some parts of her mind manage to see resemblance between his behaviour and that of her animals, but as when she began to calm down, the stallion has crept a bit closer.
Panic surged through her, and she wanted to jump away, but at the same time, her body refused to listen to her. She continued to lie there, shaking and feeling hot, as if she was on fire, while Eon, after moving closer and closer, had stopped. He continued to stare into her eyes, and Fluttershy, despite her fear, managed to see in his...
…. a question.
And Fluttershy realised she needed to give him an answer.
She gulped nervously, trying to say or do anything despite her fear, to let him know that she didn’t want… this; but at the same time, she... she wanted to...
The pegasus could feel her wings stretch themselves some time ago, so there was no denying that some part of her wanted this. And she did like him a lot...
He crept even closer, to the point that their lips almost touched.
After what seemed like ages, Fluttershy held her breath, closed her eyes, and leaned forward, kissing him.