//------------------------------// // Onyx Birthday // Story: A Beautiful Night // by bakersong //------------------------------// He couldn't help but feel as happy as he did right now, for his life was starting to piece together. His new job at the newly open Povyville Observatory allowed him to be close to the one he loved now. And the one who he loved was immune to his other side which only made her all the more perfect, but the reason why he was this happy was because she had said that on his birthday he'll get a very special present. If he got the hints right, they would start out with a dinner which he suggested. But later she would show him some special candles which she had gotten at a high starred spa in Canterlot. That would lead to her actual present, which from what he heard about the candles would most likely lead to a massage. "So are you reading my princess of stars?" He asked bumping into her playfully. "Oh, um yeah I am." She said breaking out of her thoughts. He had learned to deal with her paranoia and nervousness, and learnt the signs of when she entered into these states. But luckily she only seemed to be in an early stage of it, though if she didn't calm down soon then he would have to intervene. They were headed to a restaurant that she had chosen, she always wanted to be the one in control. Though he couldn't blame her this time, since this was supposed to be a surprise. He had ruined this part of the surprise when he accidentally over heard her and her friend Rarity talking about the different restaurants in town. They made a plan for them to go to a nice little Prench one that just opened not to long ago. "So Rarity said that this place is known for its deserts." She said still having her nervous tone in her voice. "Oh, and how did she find that out?" He asked. "She ate at one in Canterlot while staying there to work on some designs for Hoity Toity." She answered. "Yeah, I've seen some of her designs in Photo Finish magazine once or twice, though that's because I've only picked one of those up once or twice." He said. "You know she would probably be both happy and upset to hear that you know," She said playfully. "Yeah I know, but then again whose gonna tell her?" He asked giving her a playful look. "I may have to be convinced to keep my mouth shut." She answered. "Hmm, well what do you want?" He asked. "Oh, trust me if everything goes according to my plan you have nothing to worry about just yet. Though later you might have to be a little worried." She said with a wink. "And what's that supposed to mean?" He asked swallowing as heat rushed to his cheeks. "You'll see, now come on or else we'll be late." She said and began trotting a little faster, which momentarily gave him a view of his favorite star to gaze at. "You know I do always enjoy watching a certain star, especially when it's trying to be punctual." He said giving her a look over again after catching up to her and making sure no one else was around. "Hey you know my eyes are up here?" She said with a bit of anger, but when he looked he could see a light blush across her cheeks now. "And besides why do you think I call you my stargazer?" "Oh, is that why?" He asked slyly. "Oh look we're here." She said suddenly, and he looked to see a nice little but very decorative building in front of him. "Well let's go see what all the fuss is then? Ladies first." He said using his magic to open the door and stood off to the side. "Such a gentlecolt." She said her blush deepening just a little. "How can I help you this evening?" A stallion asked at a desk area. "Yes, I have a reservation for two under Sparkle." She answered after regaining her composure and got her blush to go away. "Well let's see here..." The stallion trailed off as he looked through a little book. "Ah, yes here we are. If you just give me a moment to see if your table is ready." "That would be fine." She replied. "So, have you ever been to a place like this before?" He asked. "No, even though I lived in Canterlot and Celestia was my teacher I never really got out much. But I bet you been to plenty of places like this." She said looking at him. "Believe or not, because of my work and of my condition I haven't been actually go anywhere." He replied. "Oh, so um, this may be a personal question and all. And I know that we're in public, but I was wondering how many marefriends you had? And if you had any, uh, physical relations with them?" She asked blushing and avoiding eye contact. He was token aback by the question, it's not the first time anypony has asked him that. But first it took him a moment to realize exactly what she was asking. When he did he let out a small nervous laugh. "To be honest, I probably only been in about four relationships including this one. And so far, none of them have um, gotten that far." He answered. "So I know about Luna, but what about the other two?" She asked. "Excuse me, but your table is ready. This fine waitress will show you to it." They both turned their heads to see that the stallion from the front desk had returned, being followed by light gray unicorn mare. "If you please follow me." The mare said taking a little bow before turning and started to walk away. They walked after her not really talking but taking in the scenery. An ensemble was playing some original classical music which he loved to listen to. He recognized them though, they were a very popular group in Canterlot. The one that got them together he believed was the gray earth pony mare named Octavia. Though he couldn't help but hope that she didn't recognized him since that would cause a bit of a scene. After all the reason why he didn't make it to a more physical relationship in his second on was because of what she was in to. He preferred not to deal with those kinds of activities in bed. "Here we are sir and madam. Now before I go, what would you like to drink to start your dinner off?" Their waitress asked. "Well how about a bottle of Chateau Meyney?" He asked. "Of course sir." The waitress replied and went to go place the order. "I thought you said you never been to a restaurant like this?" She asked. "I haven't, though that doesn't mean I don't know what kind of wine they serve. Besides I do collect some wine myself." He replied. "Wait, you're a wine collector?" She asked a bit surprised. "Yes, and no. Most of my collection was due to me being in Canterlot for celebrations such as discovering a new star or comet, or even my birthday." He replied. "Oh, so do you still have some of your collection then?" She asked. "Yes, but it's all in Canterlot. I actually rent out a wine cellar." He answered. "Here's your drink. Now are you ready to order or do you need more time?" The waitress asked. "We'll be ready in a few minutes." Both of them replied, and they looked at each other and gave a slight blush. "Okay just let me know when your ready." The waitress asked, and gave him a small wink. "What was that about?" She asked giving the turned waitress a glare. "She's only trying to get a bigger tip, don't worry about it." He said picking up the wine bottle out of the bucket of ice and uncorking it pouring two glasses. "Fine, but if she tries anything we're leaving." She said turning her attention to her drink. "So, what do you think we'll have?" "I don't know, let's actually look at our menus before she comes back. I do want to eat before we storm out of here." He said giving her a small playful smile. "Okay, you know I can't wait till I give you your real present later though." She said fluttering her eyelids making him almost spitting out his drink. "Um, yeah i-i'm sure whatever it is it'll be very, uh, nice." He stuttered a little. They quickly ordered, which made Twilight give another glare of death at their waitress as she flirted with him a little more. When the main course was done they decided to try out one of the legendary deserts that they had. Which they agreed on one simply called Chocolate Mountain, which they were very satisfied with. Unfortunately the waitress started to notice the glares and was starting to kick her flirting into overdrive. The only thing that saved the poor mare was Onyx calming Twilight down, other wise their waitress would have been vaporized. He didn't blame the waitress for not knowing who Twilight was though, she looked even newer to town than he was. "Okay, I think we're done here." She said. "And no tip for her okay?" Giving him a glare. "Okay, okay. Not like i'm paying for the meal, the only thing your even letting me pay is the wine. You know i'm a strong believer in the whole let the stallion at least pay for the first date." He said. "But this isn't our first date, how come I have to keep reminding you of that?" She asked. "Well our first date ended up with a giant chicken chasing us." He said, though he was grateful that her friend Fluttershy had a certain way with animals other wise the entire town would have been destroyed. "Hey, that wasn't my fault. That chicken just got in the way of a spell, and you know how magic can be. A spell like the one I was doing could carve our names in a boulder but apparently it turns chickens gigantic, though that was an interesting discovery and made an interesting report as well." She said. "Yes, i'm sure it did. Now how about we pay and leave before there's one less waitress here." He said. "Yeah I absolutely agree with you." She said looking around with daggers making sure the waitress didn't come back, she grabbed a bag full of bits and placed it on the table. They quickly counted the necessary Bits in order to pay and got up to leave. But as they left he told her that he had to go to the bathroom for a moment. He hurried back to the table and place a couple of extra Bits, granted he knew that if Twilight found out this would be his last birthday. "Alright let's get going." He said as he walked out the doors. "I think when we get to your place I'm gonna give you the next part of you gift." She said stepping closer to him, and they walked side by side with her nuzzling him. "And what is the next part?" He asked. "Well i'm sure you figured out that it deals with me giving you a massage, because I know that you know about the candles." She said. "Yeah, sorry I honestly didn't mean to ruin any surprises." He said. "Oh you didn't ruin all the surprises." She said suppressing a giggle but gave him a wink that made him gulp again. They quickly made their way to his house after making some more small talk, and more suggestive stuff coming from his marefriend. Though he retaliated by making suggestive comments of his own, his still favorite one to use was his favorite star to gaze at. That one always got to her, she seems not to get that kind of attention before. "Man this key won't go in." He fumbled with his keys in his magic, and he turned his head when he heard a slight giggle. "That's what she said." She said. "Um, uh.." He trailed off looking away realizing that he was trying to unlock his front door with the observatory key. As he got the right key he couldn't help but look back at his marefriend, he thought about making a joke about how the key didn't fit again but decided against it. He managed to sober up a little, lucky for him he didn't have that much to drink. But as he was about to turn the knob he suddenly found himself on the ground his ears ringing, and through the ringing he could hear what sounded like singing. "Pinkie Pie!" He heard Twilight yell, and he felt somepony by him and through his blurry vision he could tell that hey were checking to make sure he was okay. "Y-you know you look like an angel right?" He asked as his vision cleared enough to know that it was Twilight by his side. "Oh, good your okay." She said giving a sigh of relief. "I don't know, I think you need to come closer to see." He said, and she had a curious and concerned look on her. "What, does something hurt?" She asked leaning in. "Lean closer and i'll tell you." He said, which she did and before she could react he planted a kiss on her lips. "Hey you two save that for seven minutes in heaven!" He heard a familiar voice call out, and when he broke the kiss he saw Pinkie standing in his door and he could hear snickering behind her. "I thought I was just hearing things when you yelled at Pinkie Pie." He said looking at the stunned but cute Twilight, he always loved the look of being stunned on her though. "Nope she wasn't kidding silly. Now come on in, I invited a lot of your friends and our friends as well!" Pinkie said bouncing back inside. "What hit me anyway?" He asked trying to stand. "The party cannon, your lucky it didn't seem fully loaded." She said helping him. "Are you sure your alright?" "Yeah, don't worry I think i'm more ready for a good massage now more than ever though." He said with a teasing smile. "Well i'm afraid that' going to have to wait, Pinkie decided to through you a birthday part." She said. As they walked in he was surprised to see as many ponies as he did in his house. Though two were very noticeable, one was his best friend, the other was Luna. Both him and Twilight were completely surprised to see her here, not that they ended things to badly but she seemed to be busy now a day's. "Oh I know, I was even surprised she showed up. I sent one to Song as well, but he didn't respond to the invitation." Pinkie suddenly appeared right beside him. "Pinkie I thought I told you not to through a party until tomorrow!" Twilight yelled. "Oh but it's no fun when it's not on their actual birthday day." Pinkie said in a pout. "Besides I was bored, and the guy whose righting this wanted to make you two a little embarrassed." "What are you talking about?" Twilight asked. "Stuff you won't be able to understand, and I thought you learnt to not question my logic by now Twily." Pinkie said bouncing off. "Yo what's up man, I haven't seen ya in a long time!" A voice called, as a familiar earth pony was walking towards them. This earth pony has a messy black mane with tiny red stripes in it, and his coat was red. He could feel his nerves starting to pile up as his best friend neared. Though they were mostly because no matter what would end up arguing about a particular topic. "So you gonna introduce me to your marefriend here?" His friend asked. "Right, Twilight this is.." He was cut off by a streak of rainbow. "Oh my gosh, your Hot Shot. The leader of the Equestrian Archers!" Rainbow Dash squealed. "I thought you were into the Wonderbolts?" He asked. "Well yeah, but everypony has to have a back up plan." She said. "You can do archery?" Twilight asked. "Um, not really but I bet I could be great at it. I'm just awesome that way you know." Rainbow said. "So can I have you autograph?" "Sure thing cutie." Hot Shot said with a wink, and a picture of him came out of no where as did a marker. "There ya go." "T-thank you!" Rainbow said. "And how about me and you hook up later?" Hot Shot whispered into her ear. "You sure you can handle this?" Rainbow asked. "I bet I can." Hot Shot replied with a huge smirk. "What are they talking about?" Twilight whispered to Onyx. "Hot Shot is a big time flirt, he's the best sport archer in Equestria so he go this big ego." He replied. "That's not all I have that's big." Hot Shot said getting a groan from Onyx, and some chuckles from the other party goers. "Now let's get this party going!" "Alright, but there's one condition." Onyx yelled getting the attention of everypony. "This party is over in one hour." There was a collective 'awww' from the group, which just made Onyx give them a big smile. For the most part they had a great time, but as the hour drew near ponies started to leave. Which he knew made it that much closer to getting that gift from Twilight. "So how are you two doing?" Luna asked. "We're doing fine, how about you?" Twilight asked. "I'm doing fine." Luna simply replied. "How about Song?" He asked. "He's not doing to well, though with the magic conceal meant ring we placed on him did help slow down everything. So in a way he's doing better, I decided to take a break to come here." Luna said. "Oh, well that's great to hear. But are you sure you should have left him alone? I mean I appreciate you coming here for the party and all, but still he needs you more than we do." Onyx said. "Yes, well he's still alive and well. I'm sure one night of not studying will not do any harm." Luna said. "And besides when I last saw him he was perfectly fine, just like he was before the creature got the power it needed to start it's corruption." "Well that's good to hear." Twilight said. "Oh, and this is for you Onyx." Luna said taking a small box out from under her wing. "You didn't have to bring me anything." He said taking the box. "Of course she did silly, it is a birthday party! What's a birthday without presents?" Pinkie said appearing out of no where again. "Yes, well that and it's something I know you'll be interested in Onyx." Luna said. "Well thank you." He said opening the box and his eyes widened a little. "A Night Gem?" "Yes, I know that you are still studying them and thought that you could get some research on them with a real one." Luna said. "But i'm afraid I have to get back to Caterlot, i'll talk to you two later." "Alright, well bye then." He said shaking her hoof and with that she walked out the door and took off. "Hey where did RD and Hot Shot go?" Twilight asked. "Hmmm..." He looked around and couldn't spot either of them which would have been easy since there was no pony left except them and Pinkie. "Oh, I know I saw them slip out the back when no pony was looking together." Pinkie said. "I think they'll make such a cute couple if they get together! Which they so are." "What makes you think that?" He asked. "It's apart of that thing silly." Pinkie said bouncing off. "Well see you tow tomorrow, and have fun with that massage!" "Wait what about..." He looked around and noticed that all the decorations had mysteriously disappeared. "Never mind, so who else did you tell about the massage?" "I didn't tell anypony about the massage." Twilight said. "Then how... never mind." He mumbled. "But speaking of that massage, how about we get started?" "Mmm, sounds like a good plan." She said giving him a look he had never seen before. After putting his gifts away, which were some books, a telescope, an easy bake oven (from Pinkie of course),and last the Night Gem he had received. While he was doing that Twilight was setting up the candles, and soon she called him up. According to the directions they had to stay inside a sealed room with the candles for an hour and then they could start the massage. They waited the full hour, which ended up passing them by as they couldn't break their kiss they were in. Shortly after their kissing section though, they went to his bedroom as they used the empty guess bedroom for the candles. And though it was a little rough at first, which Twilight knew because of the affect of the candles, she eventually got a good rhythm and pressure going. The massage felt great, but when he tried to insist on giving her a massage she refused and continued her massage. It started to get to good though as he let out a moan, which he knew that Twilight must have been suppressing a moan of pleasure herself. Though he didn't realize that she was slowly going lower. He couldn't take it anymore as he got up, but she tried to push him back down. But before she could form a verbal protest he planted another kiss on her giving them that same sensation that they had in the other room. Soon they were rolling on the bed as he started to kiss her neck and going lower.