//------------------------------// // 5: Ixis becomes poof // Story: Dawn of The Ice King // by KingdomBrony16 //------------------------------// POOF! IXIS APPEARS! PROBABLY! It was morning, the birds were singing and my face was buried in pink and something feathery, soft, and warm was pressed against me. What in the… it smelled like Fluttershy, oh it was Fluttershy. How? Oh, right she had a nightmare and came into sleep with me last night. And I hate mornings… Ugh, ok she’s still asleep, I can slip out of bed before she wakes up and notices the morning ahem… “Good morning.” She yawned and stretched, hugging my arm that was still wrapped around her. Shit…. “Uh, good morning Flutters, you sleep well?” “Mhm, thanks for letting my sleep with you, it was really comfort….” She stopped talking. “Flutters, are you ok?” Shit shit shit, she noticed. “Is that your…?” I didn’t even need to see her to know that she was turning a deep shade of red. “I… Uh yeah… it is.” I decided to be honest; honesty is the best policy after all. “I-it feels really big…” She squeaked realizing what she just said. “….Thanks.” Honestly I was beyond stunned. Fluttershy, sweet, shy, cute, innocent (supposedly), Fluttershy just said I was big. What. Is. My. Luck? “I-I’m sorry… I didn’t mean to make you feel awkward or anything, it… it just slipped out, please don’t hate me.” She buried her face into one of the pillows. I pulled her back close to me, pulling her head out the pillow gently. I’m gonna seriously regret this much later. “Fluttershy, look at me.” She wouldn’t look, “Flutters please look at me.” She turned her head and tears were welling up in her eyes. “Do you really think I could hate you for something like that? Look, I’m sure I’m much more embarrassed than you are right now you know considering my morning wood is still pressing against you heh. Honestly, I was expecting you to be mad at me instead.” She sniffled and shook her head, “I-I could never be mad at you for something like that, it’s a natural thing right?” I nodded, “Yeah, that and I’m in bed with a very attractive mare.” She blushed and averted her eyes away from me, “I’m n-not that attractive, Rarity looks a lot better than me, everypony else has had a coltfriend or marefriend except me, even Twilight. Not that she isn’t pretty or anything.” I hugged her, “Shh shh, it’s ok I understand. But you ARE attractive. In my opinion you are much more attractive than Rarity. Rarity works hard to look like that, I’ve lived with you for a week granted but I’ve seen you with bed head straight to kitchen coffee mode and you still had this elegance about you that made you shine like a diamond. I’m actually surprised more guys haven’t come up to you.” She didn’t say anything just buried her head back into the pillows, “Flutters… take your head out the pillows you silly mare and look at me.” She did as told. “Thank you.” Now here comes the part that I’m going to regret. I was staring at her intently thinking. “Chris a-are you… MMMPPHHH!” I kissed her, why? I DON’T KNOW! I JUST DID! For a second she was startled and pulled back but I pushed forward and after a few seconds she started to kiss back. A few more seconds later we broke off. “Uh… I don’t know… what came over me, I’m sorry.” Ok now I’m pretty sure she turned into a female Big Mac with how red she turned. “I… does that mean you like me?” I hesitated before letting out a deep sigh, “Yes… I do like you, honestly I liked you since I first came to Ponyville, I’m not sure why, but I’ve only had that happen 2 other times in my life.” She raised an eyebrow, “What do you mean 2 other times?” “I guess I should tell you about my past…..” Urp… oh god… “But, first hold that thought.” I jumped out of bed and burst into the hell and then the bathroom. I bent over the toilet and puked my guts out; when I was done I opened my eyes and saw that the toilet was completely frozen. Fluttershy was out in the hall, “Chris are you ok?” I turned to her feeling really light headed and then the world started spinning, “Go….get…. Twilight…” And then I passed out. I was in a void, not a white void, not a black void, not even a grey void, no it was a void of every color but no color. It was really confusing. “Uh…. Hello? Anyone there?” My voice echoed out. Something I expected what I didn’t expect was a voice to call back. “Yes young one, over here.” Said a familiar voice somewhere to my right. I turned and I saw a woman, that seemed to be in her mid 20’s with snow white hair, icy blue eyes, and she was wearing a dress… made out of snow… Ok then, “Do I know you?” “What? You don’t remember me? I’m hurt.” She said in a mocking tone. “I’m the one who sent you here dummy.” “Uh sent me where exactly? This is kinda just a really weird everything void.” I said looking around at nothing and everything. “No this is your mind, if you want it to be somewhere all you have to do is will it so.” She said. I rolled my eyes, “Great the whole there is another being in my head cliché. Like I needed another one. But fine, let’s see, how about we go to the Great Barrier Reef.” And just like that we were under water looking at a colorful world, “Fucking sweet.” “Indeed, you have some very beautiful places on your world. And to that whole cliché comment, shush, and I have met you other… he is dark.” She said shuddering a bit. “Yeah he tends to have the effect on people, so who are you exactly?” I asked again. She sighed, “Like I said I sent you here.” “Here where? My mind?” She tapped her chin, “Technically I guess so, but I meant this world.” It took me a minute to get what she was saying and when I did well I was not as mind blown as I should’ve been, “Ixis? I thought you were dead.” “I am, but I’m not. And before you ask about your vomit freezing the toilet that will be explained…” She looked up, “Now actually, I’ll keep in touch. Bye.” And like that everything went black and I woke back up to seeing Fluttershy and Twilight standing over me but not looking directly at me. Twilight was muttering something about this wasn’t supposed to happen for another few weeks and Flutters was just staring at a wall. I was in my bed, good, bad back ya know. “Anyone get the number of the truck that rammed into my head at mach speed?” Flutters looked at me when I said something and immediately crushed in a hug kissing my face all over, “Ok ok, you’re happy I’m ok, down girl. heel.” She backed away and blushed while giggling, “Sorry.” I waved it off and looked at Twi, “Hey, Twi, good to see ya.” She looked relieved for like half a second and then looked concerned again. “Are you ok? How do you feel?” How do I feel? “You mean other than the fact that I threw up and froze the toilet and I have a dead dragon that looks like a human woman in my head? I actually feel really good but kinda hot. Was it always so hot?” She sighed, “Yes, that is to be expected.” I sat up and everything started spinning again, “Whoa, who spun the world? Oh, no I’m good. Hey Flutters? Can you get me some water?” She nodded and left the room. “So Twilight, care to fill me in on what wasn’t supposed to happen yet?” She paled, “You heard that?” I nodded, “Can we wait until Fluttershy gets back for me to tell you?” I nodded again. In a few seconds Fluttershy came back with some water, I took the glass and I tried to drink it but I just had a chunk of ice smacked into my nose. “Ow, what the hell?” “Yes, that was also said to happen.” Twilight said. I looked at her, “Alright, explain.” “Ok see, you know when you went to the Castle to speak to Enis?” I nodded yet again, “Well apparently while you were napping Celestia took the liberty to talk to Elder Enis about what side effects could happen from what Ixis did to send you here. And well… this is the weird part. Apparently, whenever the Ice Dragons used their death wish granting power their soul, knowledge, skills, and the fraction of the previous dragon’s power gets transferred into the being the spell was granted for. And it stacks so say if an ice dragon died and granted a wish to another ice dragon and that ice dragon died and gave a wish to another ice dragon those two dragon’s knowledge, skill and power would go to the third dragon. Keeping whatever fraction the first dragon’s split of so it never lessened no matter how many times. And since Ixis was the daughter of a very powerful family… well let’s just say… You have a lot of magic power flowing through you and manifesting right now and your body is going to take a while to adjust and it's going to spill any excess that you can’t hold, even slightly. Hence the freezing throw up and your water freezing instantly.” She said gesturing to the ice block on the floor. “So what you’re saying is, I’m essentially a dragon in a human body, and I’m always giving off excess cold magic? I can’t control it at all?” I asked. “Well more like an uncountable amount of dragons unless you ask the past dragon who should be in your psyche. But yes basically, and you can control it, but while your body is adjusting you can’t and even when its done its going to take a lot of work.” (Ok I don’t normally do this but A/N: This is so fucking retconned later it's not even funny) “How long until my body is done adjusting?” I asked. She thought about it, closing her eyes, “About a week at most and at least… 4 days. And until then you have to stay here in the house again, I’m sorry.” “It’s fine and I understand why, I could I don’t know, have like a really bad sneeze and freeze half the town.” I said half joking. “Yes you could.” She said extremely seriously… fuck I really could, I don’t know if I should be scared or excited. “Fluttershy, I can come and check up on him in 4 days time to see if his body is adapted to having magic in it. Until then you have to take care of him, can you do that?” She didn’t say anything and just nodded. “Ok, good, I need to tell the Princess about this, I’ll see you in 4 days Chris, also after the time of adapting is done your body might change a bit, actually it might even change during your adapting time, it is controllable but not at first.” And with that she teleported out. Fluttershy was still quiet and that was bothering me. I put my hand on her leg and she jumped, “F-Flutters, are you ok?” “I…I-I’m scared…” She said softly. “Scared? Of what? Me?” She just nodded. “Why?” “I, Twilight… you said you were a dragon in a human’s body. I’m terrified of dragons.” She was starting to cry. I pulled her onto my lap and held her, “Flutters, I’m still the same old me, I’ll always be the same old me. I’ll just have ice powers and be super friggin strong and a skilled fighter apparently. But other than that I will not become some raging beast that destroys and eats everything.” She nuzzled my chest…. Sooo much cuteness I’m gonna die, “You promise you won’t change?” “I swear on everything I hold dear to my heart that I won’t change.” I said while rubbing her back, making sure to be careful of her wings, which I haven’t mentioned before were decently big. She made a purring noise and I chuckled a bit, “Ponies can purr?” “Yes it’s a sign that we’re content, happy, and comfortable. Though we normally make sure to hold it back or make it very slow so it isn’t heard. But if we want someone to hear it it means we trust and love them a great deal.” She was still purring. “Weirdly cute… I’m tired, you wanna go back to sleep?” I asked. She giggled and nodded, “You just want to press yourself against me again.” She looked up at me with a sly smile. “Who are you and what have you done with shy timid Fluttershy?” I was being playful, sue me, you freeze a toilet with your vomit then you can judge me. “Hehe, I’m still here, but this has been stressful so I might be a little bit loopy, sorry.” She pulled me into laying down. “It’s fine I like this side of you almost as much as I like the shy side.” I pulled her close but this time we were lying chest to chest and in no time was out like a light. And back in my little void, but this time it was in a room very similar to that of my house back on earth. All the couches were in the same spot, the TV and game consoles were there, doubt they worked though, and even the picture of my family when I was younger. I loved that picture. But one thing that wasn’t supposed to be there was, “Ixis.” She looked up at me, “Chris.” “So, I have your powers and whatever other dragons’ powers.” “Well it’s more like you have powers as long as I let you use them.” “And that means what exactly?” I asked, sitting down on a recliner. “That means, that I can either give you all of the powers, skill, and knowledge that I have and my ancestors have right out, that wouldn’t be advisable though.” “And why is that?” “You mean other than the fact that it would tear your mind and body apart causing you to explode and probably freeze half the planet?” My eyes widened. “Yeah, I thought so, so unless you want to die in a horribly painful way, I suggest you let me feed you things slowly.” “Good… good idea. So, I have a question, were you always here in my head or soul or whatever?” She nodded, “When I first sent you here our essences immediately fused into one being. I tried to get into contact with you on your first night here but that lead to that headache you felt. After that, I decided to let your body absorb more magic from this world and get used to the draconic magic forming inside you, Which is why the ponies kept mentioning your eyes, they turned to an icy blue color and your pupil became slitted like a dragon’s, Actually they’re still like that and I predict that without some outside magic influence or you willing your eyes to go back to normal, they will stay like that. Then, when I finally was able to contact you, you threw up and passed out, you know the rest from there.” “So, what I’m getting from that is that you and I are forever one in the same? And that my eyes, unless I can will them to go back to normal are draconic?” she nodded, “Ok, so another question, what can I expect from my body adapting to the magic and what happens after I’m done adapting?” “Well while your body is adapting you are going to be constantly giving off a lot of cold magic, meaning that most liquids and foods you touch with either cool greatly or freeze solid. Your bodily excrements will also be ice cold and might freeze anything they touch, yes even that. And before you ask how I knew what you were going to ask, we share the same mind as well. Now, your body might also take on some properties of a dragon, other than your eyes, right now it already has, it won’t be noticeable unless you open your mouth so pretty noticeable.” “Open my mouth, what do you mean by th-OW!!” I bit my tongue but it was a sharp bite, not like flat molar crushing. “My teeth?” I poked each one to find that yep, they were all razor sharp and pointed. “Yes your body will do that, mainly while you sleep. Though, there shouldn’t be that many changes during the adaptation period.” I nodded, having let everything sink in, “Ok so basically while my body is adapting I’m essentially a walking blizzard and I’m going to take on a few aspects of dragons?” “Put simply, yes.” “Ok, what about after that?” “After, when you’re body is done adapting to the magic? Well, you will be able to start to control your magic, I will help you learn control but it would also be good to get Twilight to help. Now, there is a name for this period its called the second adapting, which really only applies to those that, like you, have the power of dragons without being a dragon. Your body will try and constantly change into a full dragon, this lasts for about 2 weeks, so you might need to go out into the woods, just incase you accidentally transform into a full dragon. Your mind won’t be ready and you will rampage. I can prevent some of it so only certain body parts transform at a time. Unlike the first time of adapting during this time you can control it but it takes a lot of willpower. Like I said I can help and I can teach you to control it, but it’s much easier to do after the 2 weeks are up.” I rubbed the bridge of my nose, “Ugh, so basically I’m going to be in a house for a month?” “Unless you want to freeze everything or start transforming in public then yes” “Great, anything good come out of this?” “Well once you gain full control you will have the strength of a dragon, the durability of a dragon, the magical resistance of a dragon. You’ll be highly resistant to cold but heat will weaken you greatly. You’ll be able to use draconic ice magic, breathe icy flames, and much more. Also, I’ll be in your mind if you need advice or just someone to talk to or if I need someone to talk to I can bother you.” “Hmmm well, ok, so that’s pretty cool, will I have wings?” she nodded, “Cool then I guess the rest I’ll wait until it happens to figure out.” “You like surprises don’t you?” I smiled, which probably looked scary as hell considering all my teeth were now like shark’s teeth, “Only when it doesn’t cause heart failure.” “Speaking of, some of your ailments will be cured when everything is done.” “Oh cool. Well I think it’s time for me to wake up, I haven’t eaten today and I should.” “That was a dirty thought.” She said with a smirk. “What? Oh right same mind thing… oh well, get used to it. See ya when I see ya.” I closed my eyes and willed myself to wake up. When I opened my eyes, it was still light outside so I’m guessing I wasn’t asleep for that long. I looked down at Flutters, she was still asleep, cute. I started rubbing her wings absentmindedly. ‘Hey, Ixis, you there?’ I thought. +I am, miss me so soon?+ somehow even in my mind she could still sound snarky. +I do not sound snarky.+ ‘So I can’t even have personal thoughts, great. Ok, so did my stomach’s tolerance change when my teeth did?’ +Yes, I believe it did, that means you can only eat meat and gemstones.+ ‘Wait, I can eat gemstones too? Like Spike?’ +Yes, you can, personally I enjoy sapphires.+ ‘I bet you do.’ I heard a soft moan come from Fluttershy but didn’t think anything of it and kept running my hand across her wings. I sat in silence for a bit still rubbing her wings when they exploded outwards. ‘What?’ +Wings on Pegasi are extremely sensitive and a sort of erogenous zone.+ She said giggling. ‘So I’ve been essentially…’ +Rubbing her off without knowing it.+ Despite that bit of information I was still rubbing her wings and playing with the feathers I could now reach since her wings were extended. +You aren’t going to stop are you?+ ‘Uh probably not, no’ She just sighed, +Don’t say I didn’t warn you, Fluttershy seems like the kind of pony who would be a bit traumatized by this but I can’t exactly stop you.+ ‘Eh, she’ll be fine, hopefully.’ I looked down at her again and her face was distinct shade of pink and she was breathing a bit harder and faster than she normally does, but like with everything else she does it was still some how really quiet and soft. I decided to stop, and a shook her gently, “Flutters, wake up.” She mumbled and opened her eyes slowly, “Oh, how long were we asleep?” I looked at the clock in my room, “About an hour. We have to go feed the animals, also you might wanna fix your wings.” “My… oh! Oh my…” from pink to red she went. I sat up and stretched, still feeling a bit sick. “Yeah sorry bout that, I woke up about 10 minutes ago just wanted to sit and enjoy myself for a minute. So I sat and thought while rubbing your wings didn’t know that would happen.” “Oh… well, if you didn’t know, it’s ok. They should go back to normal soon.” She looked down at herself and realized she was still in her bra and underwear. “I… should probably go and change.” “I should to, but if you don’t feel like going back to your room, you can use one of my t-shirts and a pair of my shorts.” “You don’t mind?” I shook my head and got up and pulled out a simple white t-shirt and black shorts and put them on. “I’ll step out while you change.” She said ok and I went and waited in the hall. When she came out she was wearing a large black shirt and some blue shorts. “I had to cut some holes in the shirt for my wings, I hope that’s ok.” “It’s fine, come on the animals are probably hungry.” “Hey Chris?” She asked, walking a bit behind me. “Yeah?” “Are we together now or?” “I…. we can discuss that later, alright?” I didn’t realize until after I said that that my tone was a bit harsh. “Oh, ok… sorry.” She sounded dejected. I took a deep breath, “Flutters, I’m sorry I didn’t mean for it to come out like that, it’s just. I’ve had a rough past with things like relationships, I’ll tell you more about it later.” “A-alright, can I ask why your teeth are all sharp instead of just your canines?” “You noticed that huh? You know how Twilight said that my body might change while it’s adapting? Yes, well, that’s what the teeth are and apparently it gets worse after the week is up. Basically, for the next month my body is going to try and transform into a full dragon and get used to the new magic generating inside me.” I pulled the big bag of food out from the closet, yes we walked down stairs while talking. “Y-you’re going to t-turn into a d-dragon?” she was scared. “I know you’re scared of dragons, Flutters, but don’t worry Ixis is going to help me to stop that from happening. At least while I can’t fully control it.” I lifted up the bag, not having as much of a problem as I did when I first tried. +Draconic strength.+ ‘Thanks, couldn’t figure that out myself.’ “Hey Shy? I never really thought about this till now but you have almost every kind of flying insect that’s native to this area right?” She stopped to think for a quick second before responding, “Yes, I think I do, I’m actually not sure. Uhm, if you don’t mind me asking, but why are you asking?” And now I was nervous really really nervous, “N-no reason hehe... Uh one other question where are they at here?” “You know where the chicken coop is at?” “Yeah…” “That big tree a few meters away is where they’re at.” She said without looking at my, she was filling up numerous bowls with pellets, fresh vegetables, and fresh fruits. I let out a shaky laugh, “Oh, ok thanks for letting me know.” Now I can completely avoid that area at all times. I noticed that I was now shaking physically, not hard enough to notice straight out but if you looked closely you would be able to tell that I was either really freaked out or really cold. Since I don’t get cold anymore apparently, you figure out the rest. Speaking off, the whole constantly emitting cold thing was annoying. I wanted to help Fluttershy prepare the food for the animals because I enjoyed feeding them, but every time I touched any of the veggies or fruits or even the meats they froze pretty much instantly. We decided that it was a good idea for me to not touch anything that couldn’t withstand the cold until the week was up. Actually… “Hey Flutters, one more thing, I’m constantly emitting cold, how were you not affected?” “I’m a Pegasus, we’re naturally resistant to cold since we live and fly so high up. You’re still colder than the heights I used to live at but I can handle it.” She flexed a little before giggling. “Well that was cu-ACHOO!” *Poof!* I just sneezed snow, it covered anything 4 feet in front of me which was effectively the floor but still, snow from my mouth and nose. “You know what, I’m going to let you do your thing and I’m going to go sit down somewhere that you won’t mind having frozen.” I walked out of the kitchen and into the living room and decided to just sit on the floor and against a wall. I was sitting there for about an hour or so waiting for dinner and staring at the small amount of steam I was constantly giving off due to everything else around me being warmer than I was, ‘Hey Ixis?’ When she came in, like a slow fade in, she was humming something familiar but I couldn’t exactly place it, +Yes?+ ‘First of, is this steaming thing always going to happen in warmer areas?’ I felt her nod, somehow, I tend not to question these things, it helps me keep whatever sanity I have left. “Well, ok… good way to give me away if I’m trying to be sneaky. Anyway, second thing and you should know what I’m going to ask since you’re in my head.” Snickering…. Oy women. +Well of course I do but I want to hear you ask.+ I sighed, which is something I seem to be doing quite a bit of lately, “Again, women… Ok fine, since I’m not going to be doing anything while I can still freeze everything involuntarily, I want to get a head start on how to control these powers, so a little help, please?” +Hmmmm, alright, I guess I can. So what do you want to know first?+ I scratched my head, “Well I guess, how to actually activate them willingly would be nice.” +Good choice. Ok so, I’ll start off this lecture with fire and how most fire dragons use their magic and how it’s generally wrong.+ Because that’s not rude at all. +It may be rude but it’s the truth.+ Yeah, yeah. +Do you want to learn or not, because I can just leave you to having random spurts and freezing everything…+ I grumbled, “Oy fine, I’m sorry, I’ll stop thinking and let you talk.” +Good boy, now Draconic magic is activated using emotions, each type of Draconic magic is fueled by different emotions, most of them share similar emotions, while some have very exclusive emotions to fuel them, mainly the four main draconic magic types, now only 2, sadly.+ “So each draconic type of magic is fueled by separate emotions, some that share the same emotions other have their own set to fuel them?” +Very good, you’re learning, and you said you hated learning.+ Was that smugness I heard? “Rummaging through my mind? You didn’t even ask and for the record I hate school not learning.” I ended that on a mock pout. +Uh hu, so like I was saying Fire Dragon magic is fueled by anger, rage, and hate, those kinds of emotions. That’s what a lot of the dragons think because that is what fueled a lot of them after the war was over. But the older dragon’s that were alive before and during the war know differently. The true emotion to a Fire Dragon’s magic, is love, passion, and compassion. It is a magic that is at its greatest strength when it is lashing out at its enemies to protect those they care about. Hate is good for fire but it is uncontrollable. Love and passion are the best because it is stronger and more concentrated but a lot of the dragons don’t know this since they mostly horde. Sure they may protect their hordes but it’s more out of greed and hatred for plunderers and thieves.+ “For fire, love compassion good, hatred rage bad, got it.” So glad I’m not fire then because that would be bad when I had one of my moments. +Maybe so, but you also have a lot of love and compassion in here too, I think you’d make a fine fire dragon.+ I scoffed but she said nothing to that. “So what about ice?” +Ice… is a bit more complicated, but at the same time it isn’t. Ice is well ice, cold and raw emotions work well for us, it may sound bad but it isn’t and it will make more sense as I explain. For good/bad emotions to use versus good emotions to use, some bad emotions would be depression, sorrow, sadness, loneliness, jealousy, etc. those emotions.+ I growled, “Greeeeaaaaat, the emotions I feel most often, so what are the good ones?” She sighed, “Funnily enough they’re happiness, peace (Like inner peace, peace of mind), and calmness. But I’d say the strongest thing for ice is to feel protective. Defensively protective.+ What? +You see, ice is a special kind of Draconic magic, it can technically reach into every emotion to fuel it, it can use love, rage, passion, and compassion to attack in it’s base form, which is what you’ll be using for a while, I predict. It looks like either a thick cloud of snow or blue fire, depending on what you want it look like, but the effect will be the same, just less powerful than what a Fire Dragon could do with those emotions. And the same thing will happen if you use the bad emotions for us it’ll come out as extreme cold and snow, which can be useful for some situations. Now if you use the right emotions for us with the willingness to protect and defend what you cherish, that is when the most powerful form of an Ice Dragon’s magic, solid ice. It will be colder than anything that this world could naturally create, you will be able to even freeze fire and lava. That’s the thing about ice, it covers and protects everything it can touch, but even still that can be dangerous, if you don’t control it, you could easily kill everything you cover and thus you end up being corrupted. This is why you and Spike got along so well, he wishes to protect his loved ones and friends through the pure physical strength of fire and he could sense that you would be the defense and you could sense that if you got to be too much, he’d pull you back before anything bad could happen, you two will become good friends in the future.+ “That’s… a lot to take in.” Hell, overwhelmed isn’t even the right word to describe how I feel right now. +I figured it would be, take the rest of the week to think about it and figure out how you can harness your powers, each dragon does it differently. Now if you’ll excuse me I was watching this really good…. Anime, as you would call it, those dragon slayers are really interesting.+ And like that she was gone again. “Wait… Dragon Slayers… no she isn’t…. oh god damn it…” I heard a cough come from the far side of the room, I looked up to see a very concerned looking Fluttershy. “Hey Flutters, what’s up?” “Are you ok? You were talking to yourself and making these weird faces the entire time…” Ok yeah she was worried. I stood up and brushed off my shorts even though they weren’t dirty, it’s a reflex, “Wait, I was talking out loud?” she nodded, “Oh I thought I was thinking, guess not, sorry to worry you, I was talking to Ixis.” “Oh, she is in your head talking to you right now?” “Not right now no, we were talking about how I’m going to control my powers after this week.” I proceeded to tell her more over dinner, which wasn’t much, just so more fish for me and a veggie burger for her, which ok, that was pretty interesting because I thought it was a normal burger at first. “Basically, I need to find out what makes me happy and calm and what I want to protect and defend. I have no idea what I those would be though.” I sighed. “Oh…” I looked up at her, she was sitting there a bit slouched over with her eyes closed, “You ok?” I asked. She gave me a smile, which I could tell was fake but I decided not to say anything. “Y-yeah I’m fine.” “Alright, I’ll…. Well I would take care of the dishes if I didn’t freeze the water.” This was going to be a looooong week, ‘I blame you.’ She just blew a raspberry at me, I swear she acts more childish than I do. Another raspberry. “It’s ok, just put them in the sink please. I’ll take care of them in the morning.” I nodded and did what I was told, “Chris?” I just hm’d back, “C-could I sleep with you again tonight? I-I mean if you don’t want me to that’s fine… it’s just…” “Just?” “I… it’s just that… y-you remind me of home.” She said more quietly than usual. “I remind you of home?” She nods, “I may not like flying too much but I do miss my home, I did like the cold dry air that was that high up, you give off the same dry cold.” I just looked at her silently, it was heartwarming that I reminded her of home, I know what it’s like to be home sick, it sucks a lot, you miss all your old friends and your family and all the things you had. It’s always nice to have a reminder. +I’m sorry.+ I heard somewhere in the back of my head but I decided to ignore it, focusing on the butter yellow mare in front of me instead She must of that I was judging her because she looked distraught and started saying, “Oh, I knew it was silly of me, I’m sorry, I’ll just sleep in my room tonight. I won’t bother-“ I cut in with a fine, “-You while you sleep, I promi… wait you said it’s fine?” I laughed at how it took her a few seconds to register anything. For some reason I’ve always enjoyed watching people take a few seconds to realizing things and when they do the look on their faces are priceless, this was no exception. “Yes I said it’s fine.” She jumped up from her chair and flew across the table, literally flew she is a pegasus duh, and hugged me while wrapping her wings around me for a sort of double hug. Not going to lie, it was really nice. I just smiled and hugged her back. This… this is nice, but… We made our way upstairs to my room. “I’ll stay outside while you shower and change and stuff.” I said sheepishly. +DIRTY THOUGHTS!+ ‘Would you hush?’ She looked around quickly, “itsokidontmindyouinthere.” I blinked, “What?” She gulped, I could hear it, adorable in its own right, “I-I said that, it’s ok I don’t mind if you’re in there… I mean… a-after this morning I-uh-I feel a lot more comfortable around you.” She gave a nervous smile and a weird *squee* sound came out. ‘What was that?’ +No idea…+ “Are you sure?” she just nodded quickly. “Alright.” I sat at my desk and stared at the blank sheets of paper before looking at Fluttershy only to see that her back was too me and she was taking off her bra. I felt my body heat up, quite an accomplishment all things considered. I turned around and decided to write a letter to Celestia not before on more humiliating thing happened. “Chris are… are you steaming?” She let out a soft giggle. Fuck, “Nope, you’re seeing things, go take a shower, I’ll be right here writing a letter to Celestia.” She just giggled some more and I heard the bathroom door across the hall close, I let out a sigh and began to write. Halfway through the letter I realized something, ‘Why the hell isn’t the pen or paper freezing?’ +I’m not entirely sure… wait, is that the paper and pen Twilight gave you?+ I nodded and then it clicked, ‘Clever girl.’ +Mhm, she put an enchantment on them knowing you would start manifesting your powers eventually.+ I just shook my head and continued writing. When I was close to being done I heard the bathroom door open and Fluttershy came walking into the room wrapped in a towel and only a towel from the looks of it. Her hair was wet and sticking to her face, neck, shoulder, upper back, and parts of her chest. ‘Beep beep, this is the captain of the blood train speaking *kchhhht* And…uh *kchhhht* our next stop is south of the belt, I hope you enjoy your ride, Captain out. *kchhhht*’ Ok I laughed at myself. Ixis scoffed, +And you called ME childish.+ “I’m done.” She said in a sing-song voice, “The shower is all yours Chris.” “Thanks…” I stand up and walked to the bathroom. “Hey, Ixis, how is this gonna work?” +Hot water, really really hot water.+ She answered nonchalantly. “Fair enough.” I turned on the water to maximum heat and got it, needless to say it didn’t feel like maximum heat, in fact it felt like a normal semi warm-hot shower that I normally take. I got out of the shower and decided that it would be best if I dried off very quickly. That’s when the towel froze and shattered when I dropped it ‘Fuck I froze it solid, damn you water.’ “Hey Shy, do we have anymore towels?” I called out. “No, they’re all in the washer.” She called back. “Double fuck.” +Well you have two options, stay in the bathroom all night, or go in there stark naked with probably one of the most attractive mares this side of Equestria sitting on your bed.+ she just laughed maniacally knowing exactly what she did. I growled a growl that would scare a bear, ‘You are evil and I hate you.’ +You love me.+ ‘Hate, hate you so much.’ I just sighed, “Fine, the sooner I go in there the sooner I get this over with.” +That’s the spirit Pinocchio.+ The facepalm I just had probably destroyed a planet somewhere. I stopped outside my door and knocked, “Hey Flutters, just a heads up, you might be shocked or something I don’t know, just don’t pass out ok?” I twisted the knob. She looked confused, “Why would I pass out? EEP! I… uh… *dom*” “Great she passed out…” Let’s just say things happened but not those things she did have any clean clothes. It was discovered I have a thing for thighs and breasts, sue me. We decided to sleep together again tonight the whole nakedness thing. Also she looks great. “So I don’t look bad?” “Look bad? No…. not at all, the furthest from it possible. And so I don’t sound like a horny pig. It isn’t just your body I like. How to put this without rambling… You were kind enough to take me in even though I’m an alien and also one of the things you’re most afraid off. You’ve put up with my weirdness and shenanigans with Hedgy and your animals as well as with the girls coming to visit. You’re funny in your own way, you love your animals and you’re gentle with them. A lot of people I knew weren’t like that with anything. You’re also like that with ponies, who you don’t do so well with. Also laughing at my terrible jokes help and I could say more but at some point I’d just repeat myself.” Words, how do you work and why can’t I ever explain things this well all the time… well I hope that was explained well. She was purring again, still weird but again cute. “You really are kind too you know.” “Yeah yeah, I’m the patron saint of kindness, now let’s go to sleep before I do something I regret.” “Can-can we sleep like we slept when I had a nightmare? But this time can I hold you?” “Yes, we can, and yes you can.” I climbed into bed and laid on my side and then I felt Fluttershy lay down behind me. She nuzzled my neck, I felt her chest press against my back and then finally I felt her wing wrap around me. I could feel the warmth and it was nice. It was nice to be held again, it was nice to feel safe again; it was nice to feel loved again. And nothing else happened I swear. Seriously nothing else happened.