HEART OF STONE
Chapter Forty Three: The Stars Will Shine
Written by TheCrimsonDM
Trixie Lay on Twilight’s bathroom floor, with Maud spooning her. Maud’s dress had been tossed into the corner the second they had reached the bathroom. Trixie’s face felt like it was on fire as she slowly began to realize exactly what she had just done…everything else aside, having sex in your friends bathroom…that was a surely breaking a few boundaries.
The bathroom itself was huge, Trixie couldn’t even figure out why one pony would need a restroom this big, it was as big as a bed room. Maud’s nuzzling distracted Trixie long enough for her to ask, “did you guys really see…all of my dream?”
Maud kissed Trixie’s cheek lightly before admitting, “yes.”
“Ugh…I can’t believe I did all that…do you hate me now?” Trixie asked as she lay in Maud’s warm loving embrace.
“No,” Maud replied.
“But I was dreaming of you and your sister…in a sexual way…aren’t you mad at me?” Trixie asked.
“No, I’m not. It’s perfectly normal to have fantasies like that. My sister might be a little round in the middle, but I have to admit that she’s attractive. I’m glad that she isn’t very sexually active, that way I don’t worry so much,” Maud explained.
Trixie rolled over and looked Maud in the eyes and said, “Maud, your sister has a box of sex toys underneath her bed…I think she is more active then you think.”
“Lulu, she mostly uses those on herself…she only has sex with the ponies she trusts with all of her heart. She isn’t like me, she is very shy around ponies she doesn’t consider close enough to be family,” Maud explained.
Trixie groaned at the mention of family, she still remembered fantasizing about Maud and Pinkie. Maud kissed Trixie gently on the lips and asked, “do you really want a threesome with me and my sister?”
There were no words for Trixie to say as her brain shut down. If she was hearing this correctly then Maud might actually be offering to do something tantalizingly taboo. Trixie sat up and instead of replying calmly in a cool collected mater she shrieked, “ARE YOU SERIOUS?”
Maud just lay on her side and smiled at Trixie. After a few seconds of silence Trixie’s heart was pounding ever faster in her chest, her breathing sped up, and she said, “that would be wrong, and disgusting, and weird, oh Celestia it would be so weird.”
“I would only do something like this for you, Lulu. I know I could convince Pinkie Pie to say yes, if you wanted it that is,” Maud said.
Trixie couldn’t respond properly to Maud’s words. She wanted to say no, she wanted to say that this was something they should never do, what she actually said was, “I-I-I um I don’t know.”
Maud sat up and leaned closer to Trixie, Maud’s hot breath fell upon her neck as she said, “I know that you want to say yes. It’s something just wrong enough that you really want it, don’t you?”
Trixie’s brain refused to work, and she didn’t know what to think. There was no way that Trixie could ever actually do something like this…right…Trixie opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. Maud began gently kissing Trixie’s neck, and Trixie’s hooves curled. The mixture of emotions, were causing her brain to not work properly and her body to feeling hot. There had to be some reason why Maud was doing this to her. After a few more seconds Trixie found herself enjoying Maud’s kissing thoroughly and she moaned, “yes.”
Maud pulled away and said, “alright, I’ll get her to join us. I’ll also make sure she brings frosting for you.”
Trixie sat there her brain now completely dead, she didn’t mean yes to the threesome, she meant yes the kissing was good. She turned her head and watched Maud get dressed before walking out the bathroom door. Trixie opened her mouth and again no words could come out, as Maud left and Trixie found herself sitting there in disbelief…this was going to happen now, wasn’t it?
***
Much later in the day Trixie was sitting inside of Twilight’s tree-castle and looking out one of the windows. Apparently the group of friends had started this tradition of eating a big dinner together about once a month. It sounded nice, and the fact that they invited both Maud and her was even better.
The smell of the food coming from the kitchen was delectable to say the least. Trixie couldn’t believe she was going to get to gorge herself on free food tonight. After tonight though, it looked like she was going to need to head back with Maud and start moving all there stuff here to Ponyville.
“You okay, Trixie?” Twilight asked.
“Yeah…I’m just contemplative right now…I can’t believe that after all the crap I’ve been through, things are actually really good for once, I mean really, really good,” Trixie said.
“Yeah…I can’t believe it either. It looks like we finally broke the seasonal curse,” Twilight said.
“What’s that?” Trixie asked.
“I noticed that about once every three months or so, we get attacked by some huge monster or disaster. It was escalating drastically until Lord Tirek…but it’s been so long since everything exploded. I fully expected Scath to bring in an army of shadow monsters and for us to have to use the elements of harmony yet again…,” Twilight explained.
“Hmm…sounds like you have had a rough time being a hero, I guess it isn’t as good as one would think,” Trixie said.
“Not even close. It kinda sucks being the hero, but I don’t have a choice,” Twilight said. She was quiet for a few moments before asking, “you said something about blood magic earlier…is there a reason you asked.”
“Don’t pretend you don’t already know. My magic is all screwed up, and I’m apparently using blood magic now…what I wanted to know was if there was anything you could do to help me?” Trixie asked.
“Yeah there are a few things I could try, I’ve suspected that you had blood magic…but it was too scary to test for. After being inside your head though, I believe you are right, and that you are using blood magic. I have no idea how this happened, or if there was any one thing that did this to your magic, or if was multiple cumulative effects. Either way, I have a few ideas. The best one I can offer right now, is to teach you how to use blood magic without nearly killing yourself,” Twilight said.
Trixie smiled and said, “thank you…it would mean so much to me if I could use magic again.”
“You know that stage that Scath was using. Well it turns out it’s a transforming stage/wagon. Like the one you used to own, nopony really knew what to do with it…but I have an idea if you’re interested,” Twilight said.
Trixie looked her, curiosity and excitement was rising in her chest. Trixie nodded and Twilight asked, “do you want to keep it?”
Trixie jumped into the air and shouted, “YES!”
When she landed Twilight began giggling and said, “then it’s yours. Just try and be careful not to hurt yourself using any magic, not until after I teach you how to use it properly that is.”
Trixie couldn’t help but to wrap both of her forelegs around Twilight’s neck and pull her into an embrace saying, “thank you so much. I never thought that I would get another wagon…this is…it’s…I don’t have any words to describe just how awesome this is. Twilight you are the best princess.”
Twilight pulled away and said shyly, “well…I don’t know about ‘best’.”
***
The eight ponies plus one dragon sat around a dinner table in Twilight’s dining hall, and despite how large the room was the dining table was rather small. Mashed potatoes, gravy, steamed vegetables, bread rolls, and all sorts of other things served to entice Trixie. Every single bit of food smelled so lovely that she wanted to eat it all, and she was determined to try her best to do just that.
The ponies talked, the ponies ate, and most importantly they all had fun. Trixie loved seeing everypony so happy together, so close to one another. It was like they had all become family, and it was only strengthened by the fact that Trixie was legitimate family to at least one pony at the table.
“Hey, Trixie, you look like you have something to say,” Rainbow Dash said.
Trixie had a mouth full of food, but she swallowed it and said, “I’m enjoying this. Dinner with all of you girls, it’s lovely. I didn’t think I’d ever get to have a…family, not before I became friends with all of you anyways. I still remember how awkward everything was…and you know what? I’m grateful for all of you. Thank you girls; for being my friends, and for being my family.”
Everypony smiled at Trixie’s kind words. Rarity stood up on her hind legs, and lifted her wine glass up saying. “A toast, to our most wonderful friend, a little sister to all of us here; Trixie Lulamoon, thank you for joining us tonight, and for forgiving our past aggressions.”
Everypony agreed with Rarity’s words, and then Rarity took another drink of her wine and nearly lost her balance. She sat back down before saying, “maybe I’ve been enjoying myself a little too much tonight.”
Rainbow Dash laughed and said, “nah, you’re not drunk yet.”
Applejack added, “Ah think you might want to slow down on the wine sugarcube, you get a might bit silly when you drink too much.”
Rarity replied, “I am not getting drunk, just a little tipsy. And I don’t ever drink too much, a real mare does not disgrace herself in such a way.”
Applejack rolled her eyes and said, “yeah, that’s what you always say, next thing yer gonna say is that green is actually okay for a mane color.”
Rarity put a hoof to her chin and stuck out her lower lip in thought before saying, “you know, it’s not actually that bad of a color, so long as your fur matches. I mean Daisy is still cute and she’s pink and green.”
Applejack hoof faced and said, “Ah knew it.”
Pinkie Pie looked at Fluttershy and said, “so…tell me what you’re thinking?”
Fluttershy looked up from her plate. Fluttershy’s muzzle was covered in food, and she was still chewing on her last bite. It occurred to Trixie that Fluttershy had been eating a lot during the feast tonight. After Fluttershy swallowed she said, “this food is delicious. Who made it?”
Applejack raised a hoof and admitted, “it was me and Pinkie who made most of the food.”
Fluttershy smiled and said, “it’s really good, thank you, Applejack, Pinkie Pie.”
Twilight stifled a giggle as she levitated a napkin over to Fluttershy and said, “Fluttershy, you might want this.”
Fluttershy grabbed the napkin and studied it for a few seconds before her face when red and she quickly began cleaning the food off of her muzzle. Rainbow Dash laughed again and said, “that’s our Fluttershy, put some good food in front of her, and she forgets all about manors. I swear sometimes you forget that silverware exists.”
Applejack said, “now that taint fair, Rainbow, this here is good cookin, and Fluttershy only forgot to use a spoon when eating once.”
Fluttershy looked embarrassed and almost like she wanted to run and hide for a few moments. Fluttershy looked back down at the food on her plate, and seemed to forget her embarrassment as she began digging in again. If it wasn’t for the fact that Trixie had tasted the food already, not to mention her ability to read emotions, she would’ve assumed that Fluttershy was eating to hide from her embarrassment.
Truth was though, that the Fluttershy really did enjoy good food. Although Trixie had the feeling that Fluttershy only let herself enjoy food like this in the company of her closest friends, Trixie couldn’t imagine Fluttershy acting like this in front of Celestia. Celestia on the other hoof would be muzzle deep in the cake, if there was any.
***
After the dinner Trixie sat on the balcony staring out over Ponyville. The sun was almost gone from the sky, and the stars stood out as shinning, beacons of light. Maud was sitting at Trixie’s side. The cool wind breezed by and Trixie began feeling cold. Maud got behind Trixie and wrapped her legs around Trixie’s waist. Maud held Trixie tightly as the two of them looked out over the town.
“You know I’ve wanted to share the night sky with you for a long time now,” Trixie said as she stared up.
Maud was quiet for a few seconds as she snuggled herself into Trixie’s back. Maud then said, “I’m glad to share this moment with you, Lulu.”
A few quiet moments passed by before Pinkie Pie walked out and stood next to them. Trixie looked over at Pinkie and saw a green plaid quilt in her mouth. Pinkie Pie was balancing two cups of hot chocolate on her rump. Maud let go of Trixie and the cold air hitting her back made Trixie shiver. Maud grabbed the blanket from Pinkie Pie and then sat down next to Trixie before wrapping the quilt around the two of them. The quilt was nice and warm, and Maud had wrapped a hoof around Trixie’s waist pulling her closer.
Pinkie Pie set the cups of hot chocolate down before them. Pinkie Pie then turned and trotted away saying, “good luck, Maud.”
Trixie didn’t know what Pinkie Pie was talking about but she was used to the pink one’s crazy by now. She just lay in Maud’s warm embrace for the longest time, watching the sun disappear from the sky. The stars were shining ever so brightly tonight.
“Trixie…I have a question to ask you…a big one,” Maud said nervously.
Trixie was resting her head on Maud’s strong shoulder, and was feeling all warm and cuddly. Trixie giggled a little bit as she said, “okay, ask.”
Maud was quiet for the longest time, Trixie didn’t feel scared though. She wasn’t sure why, but Maud, although nervous was giving off the warmest vibes she had ever felt from her special somepony. Maud finally asked in a very quiet voice, “will you marry me?”
Trixie’s brain did a hop, skip, and then a jump, as she analyzed the question. Trixie pulled back and looked up at Maud wondering if she had just heard correctly. Trixie quietly asked, “…are you serious?”
Maud looked very nervous and began to ramble, “it’s just that we’ve known each other for a year now, and we’ve been dating for a few weeks, and we’ve already promised to never leave each other’s side, and I really am in love with you, and I really mean it when I say that I want to marry you with all my heart, and-“
Trixie cut off Maud’s rambling with a kiss. When Trixie pulled away she smiled gently at Maud. She very carefully got out of the quilt, and moved the hot chocolate a few feet away from the two of them. Trixie then returned to Maud’s side and said, “I only ever have one answer for you ,Maud.”
Maud’s eyes looked deeply into Trixie’s and Trixie suddenly couldn’t keep herself calm anymore. Trixie began bouncing repeatedly into the air while screaming, “YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES!”
When Trixie finally stopped she looked at Maud and said, “you are the most wonderful pony in all of Equestria, and that makes me the most luckiest pony for having you by my side.”
There were tears running down Maud’s face as she smiled. Trixie smiled back and quickly kissed Maud again. Trixie’s brain suddenly turned on again and she asked, “are we having an earth pony traditional marriage or a unicorn high class one?”
Maud looked a little confused and asked, “what one do you want?”
Trixie grinned and said, “earth pony traditional. After all it would be a little awkward if we had a unicorn one, considering you’re an earth pony. Oh and earth pony traditional is more family oriented, and…oh sweet Celestia, I love you so much, Maud.”
Trixie felt more excited then she had ever been in her whole life, and it was hard for her to continue sitting down next to Maud when all she wanted to do was dance, and sing, and proclaim her love for Maud to the stars. Trixie fought her excitement down just enough so that she could enjoy sitting down next to Maud, wrapped up in that warm quilt. They sat together quietly, peacefully drinking their hot chocolate, and watching the stars. Today had truly been the best day in Trixie’s entire life. She was getting married!
End of Act Two.