Beneath a Silver Sky

by David Silver


6 - Mercy of the Sun

Celestia gestured for Aila to rise. "Go on. Return to your sister, and get your sleep."

Aila rolled up to her hooves, looking at Celestia with some confusion. "Aren't you angry at me? I... was most discourteous, to put it mildly."

Celestia shook her head. "Like my stallion, I am not given to carry grudges forward, especially when no actual harm was done. If you promise to not repeat this, we'll move on."

Ailia's eyes darted between Silver and Celestia, licking her lips. "Shei... said Equestrians were a higher pony. I thought she was mad, but perhaps..." She turned away from the alicorns. "I will make amends for my shameful act. You will be safe and well-treated while you are in our halls." She left then, closing the door quietly behind herself.

Celestia turned her eyes on Silver. "It seems I owe you a debt of thanks."

Silver smiled. "This was why I was originally invited to come to Anugypt, back when Luna asked."

Celestia tilted her head. "She was wise in her selection." She settled back onto the bed, squirming a little. "I'm afraid it's coming faster than I thought it would. I think it's your fault." At Silver's expression, she smiled. "It's nothing you're doing intentionally, just that you are a stallion, and my body knows, deep inside, that you may fulfill an itch I've put off for over a thousand years. Will my savior help put out the fire he helped stoke into existence?"

Silver thought back to his conversation with Luna, even as his body reacted to Celestia's blunt seduction. As his heavy shaft slipped free of his sheath and hung low, starting to rise with every beat of his heart. "I know the risk, that our... time... could be my last."

Celestia looked suddenly guilty, ears pinning back. "I'll hold back..."

Silver clenched his teeth a moment. "I'm sure you would try, but is that a risk I should be willing to take?" He advanced on Celestia, nuzzling at one of her flanks on the cutie mark. He could smell her. She was excited, and it pressed hard against the primal part of his new stallion mind that wanted to give her everything she wanted. He was hard as iron, painfully throbbing. A sudden thought struck him. Was Celestia riding the high of near-death, turned to passion now that the danger had passed?

Celestia's horn glowed and she pulled Silver up on top of herself, belly-to-belly. Her soft snuggles ground his eager erection against the soft belly fur of both of them. "If we don't try, we'll never know. Let me be the bold risk-taker for once. I've let my sister be the starter all too often with you."

Silver tilted his head. "You're the one that made me a mare. That was no small thing."

Celestia snorted softly, her magic wrapping around Silver's pole and pulling at it slowly, stroking it as she stared into his eyes. "That was trying to stop something, not start it. There's a difference. I'm sorry I didn't ask you first."

The pleasure of being stroked almost made him miss that critical statement. Had Celestia just admitted fault in not asking him before acting? His hips bucked against the invisible grip, dripping hot fluids onto her. "What did you do wrong?" He flashed his teeth. "Be specific."

Celestia's attention lowered, massaging and teasing at his balls as they churned with what could become a foal. "I was wrong to deny you agency. I claim to run a kingdom where ponies are free, but you were slave to my whims time and time again. I won't force you into this, Silver, beyond holding you."

Holding him was proving to be enough. He could feel the energy gathering in his weighty orbs, his body screaming its desires to him to rut the willing sun god beneath him and give it his all, even if it did kill him. He wanted her, and she wanted him, and very little outside the two seemed to matter for much, but he refused to give in to wild instinct. If he was going to do this... It would be by conscious decision. "What do you see when you look at me?"

Celestia tilted her head. "I see a handsome, but foolish, stallion. I see a stallion that isn't sure if he should listen to his second mind, or stay in the confines of his thoughts. I see... a stallion that wants what I'm offering."

Silver grunted. He did want what she was offering. He was foolish... He spread his leathery wings wide as he drew back, pressing the tip of his flat member against her winking vulva. "I will please you another way." Celestia began to ask what he meant, but he dropped down and buried his face between her thighs, his tongue slipping past those thick lips to lap up the thick juices he could find inside of her. His thoughts melted away to euphoria as he became lost in the heady swamp of pheromones that only an alicorn as powerful as Celestia could bury him in.

There was nothing else in the universe than those heated lips, his tongue, and figuring out how he could please her. He explored with his thick tongue, lapping and nuzzling into the writhing Celestia. Every noise she produced was a thrill that ran through his sensitive form, added indirectly to the growing puddle of fluid under himself as his still erect member dripped pre to the ground in mounting frustration. Celestia peaked, and even through his snout he could feel her powerful suction of magic, though there was precious little male magic to be found in tongue or lips, and the sensation quickly passed with nothing to latch onto.

Celestia flopped backwards, looking satisfied. Her thighs came together, holding Silver's head gently. "That's better, but not the same and you know it, Silver Stars. Am I so displeasing that you would mount my very sister and not me?"

Silver slipped from between those thighs. "It's not like that. It's not a competition." He licked his lips, cleaning them of Celestia's fluids. "We really should see to our business in Anugypt before you potentially kill me or cripple me. Think of why we came here."

Celestia nodded slowly. "You are right, of course... Come here." She held out her hooves and Silver was soon hugging close to her, and they managed to fall back to sleep in one another's embrace.

Silver never escaped his own dreams where he rutted wildly with an alicorn he couldn't make out the details of. It could have been Twilight, Luna, or Celestia, and it looked like all three at different times. A flash of lavender, or white, or dark blue during the act. He awoke to being alone on the bed, though still painfully erect. He hoped he went down at some time during the night even as he got up out of bed and looked around for Celestia, but he appeared to be alone in the room.

He stood up and moved to the tub, but saw no easy way to fill it with water, or any water source for that matter.

There was a soft knock from the door before Shei poked her head in. "Breakfast is read--" She cut off as she spotted his long and erect pole. "Oh... Do you need privacy, sir?"

Silver flushed as he pointed at the tub. "How do you get water?"

Shei stepped in and nudged the door shut. "I'll have that filled for you shortly, sir." She fetched a pail and went to a pump in the wall and began working it diligently. Watching her work was not helping his aroused state at all, especially with her facing away from him, giving him a full view of her flank and tail, though he noticed she had no cutie mark.

"Do Saddle Arabians not have cutie marks?"

She spilled the pail into the tub and moved to get the next. "It's very rare, sir. Most of us do not. Do all Equestrians have one?"

"Just about." Silver licked over his lips, watching her labor and trying to not think about it too hard. "Have you seen Celestia?"

"She said to tell you she'd be back later, and she went into the city." She spilled a second bucket. This was going to take a while. "Are you lonely, sir? You look it."

He laughed, unable to hold it in. "Does having a stiffy imply that?"

She perked an ear at him. "Perhaps, sir. My sister said what you... did for her. That was very kind of you. By the law of the land, you could have killed her yourself in the city square in the manner of your choosing." She spilled the next bucket in. "But here you are, still staying with me and my foolish sister. If you don't mind my asking, why do you look... so curious? Those ears, those wings? I thought Equestrians with wings had bird wings."

Silver spread his wings for her to see. "I am a lunar pony. The tufted ears, the slit eyes, and the wings are all parts of that. Your sister was desperate, but not evil. I wouldn't want to kill her, or see her hurt. Is she alright?"

She tossed in the next bucket, about half-filling the tub. "She's deeply ashamed, but fine. Maybe she'll learn it's never worth it to stoop that low."

Silver suddenly perked his ears. "Wait, stop. Let me do it." Using his magic, he began quickly pumping, then spilling, and doing the work faster. "Are there unicorn or pegasus Saddle Arabians?"

She sat, watching the pail move on its own, and the alicorn that controlled it. "No, sir, but some of us have our own form of magic. I'll get the heat going." She pulled up a panel with her teeth, then got a flame going under the tub to warm the water. "If you'll get in, sir, I'll wash you."

"My name's Silver. You can call me that. Sir feels weird for anyone that's seen me naked and... uh, you know."

She raised a brow at his stiffness. "Is it normal that it remain so for so long?"

Silver shrugged softly. "I honestly don't know..."

She moved up to him and softly nudged him towards the tub. "The water will soothe you, go."

The warm and still warming water did relax him, and he felt tension melting away as he sank into it with a happy sigh. There was a soft splash as Shei slipped in beside him and began to towel him down with a wet rag and some soap, getting to work diligently bathing him. He wanted to tell her to leave him be, but her washing felt nice, and she seemed to want to do it, so he allowed it, and fell further and further into relaxation. Even his stubborn stiffness had withdrawn, and by the time the bath was complete, he felt renewed and ready to tackle the day, though he had no idea what to do. "Thank you. You're... really quite good at that."

Shei smiled gently. "A pleasure, Silver." She shook herself mostly dry and moved to depart, but before she closed the door, she smiled back at him. "If you want my company for something other than a bath, let me know." Then the door closed.