Part XXIII. Together
“Here you go, you two! One monster dark chocolate milkshake for Her Highness...” the spry server of one of Canterlot’s most well-known diners, The Blue Jay exclaimed giddily while setting Princess Luna’s epically-portioned treat. “...and one cookies and cream malt for the lucky stallion,” she also said, placing Fred’s drink in front of him. Both parties were dressed casually, with Luna opting for an indigo v-neck short-sleeved shirt along with black denim pants, while foregoing any regalia. As for Fredrick, an emerald-green t-shirt and black cargo shorts suited his fancy just fine.
“Thank you most kindly. T’as been a while since I have enjoyed a proper milkshake from a proper diner,” Luna replied, immediately dunking her straw into the thick goodness and taking a hearty sip, her features conveying nothing but pure happiness.
“Same for me. Thanks!” Fredrick also replied properly, stirring the whipped cream a bit with his straw.
“Awesome! Again, I’m so sorry if I’m a little nervous… i-it’s not very often that a Princess comes in, especially with her new coltfriend,” the cute waitress, named Sunlight, added with an anxious giggle, running her hand through her hair and making sure all was in order. Luna waved her hand dismissively.
“Not at all, Sunlight. I am a normal pony tonight, for once. Please, treat me as you would any one of your other customers,” Luna encouraged with a calming smile, which seemed to have the intended effect.
“Indeed… and don’t mind me,” Fredrick pointed out. “I’m just her weird human.”
“Heh okay!” Sunlight righted her posture, giggling a bit before producing her little notepad from her pocket. “What can I get you two?”
Fredrick gestured softly towards Luna with the subtlest of smirks, giving her the go ahead to order first.
“I would like the…” Luna hung on her last few words as she traced the menu with her finger, finding exactly what she laid her eyes upon a few minutes before. “...triple hay burger. Everything on it is all well and good… and steak fries, please,” she ordered, closing the menu and placing it aside. Fredrick looked rather impressed at the hefty meal being ordered by the high-esteemed Princess.
“Alright! And for you, sir?”
“I’ll do the exact same thing, but no tomatoes please. Also, I forget, you don’t happen to have sourdough buns, do you?” he inquired, glancing up from the menu with a curious expression.
“We actually do! And not just two slices of bread either!” Sunlight confirmed happily. “It’s my personal favorite!”
“Your word is all I need! I’ll do just that,” Fredrick affirmed with a gentle nod, his words drawing a slight cocking of Luna’s right eyebrow, along with her affixing him with a trademark smugness as Sunlight pranced away.
Fredrick, turning back to her, finally caught notice of her gaze; the alicorn had her head resting in her palm, supported by her arm.
“...What?”
“Pray tell, when did you become so fluent in smooth talk? Had you not been with me, she would currently be fawning all over you,” Luna joked with a half-smirk, which quickly devolved into a chuckle when Fredrick colored noticeably.
“Well, I figured I had to stop being a beta piece of shit once we got together,” Fred remarked casually, taking a sip of his malt.
“...A what?” Luna questioned, having never heard Fredrick use that term, and she silently inferred that it was some sort of slang from his world.
“Ehhh… nevermind about my choice of words. Essentially, being around you and eventually us becoming an item helped my confidence. You helped that along, you’ll remember,” he slightly deflected, subtly referencing a few choice events on their little journey together. Luna nodded pensively, donning a bit of a coy smirk at his allusions.
“True,” she said. “Even so, I still savor the times when the shy Fredrick shines through… he’s adorable,” Luna added, punctuating with a brief fluttering of her eyelashes and earning an exaggerated eye-roll from Fredrick.
“On an unrelated note, I must say, when you said ‘casual’ I did not entirely expect our arrangements for the evening to be exactly this casual,” Luna admitted, gesturing to their surroundings in the diner. On such an odd day of the week, it was not particularly crowded so there were not many ponies gawking at them, which was nice.
“Do-Do you not like it?” Fredrick asked, the tiniest hint of tremulousness showing through… but Luna’s reaction changed immediately when she saw his facial expression.
“AWWW there’s the shy Fredrick!” she pointed out giddily, to which Fredrick reacted by pursing his lips, customary when Luna would lightheartedly tease him. “...but I do like it. In fact, I love it so far! Truthfully, I have always wanted to come here, but I never found the time, nor the will to ford potential mobbing and sneer from the nobility… Of course, I don’t particularly care anymore, and in retrospect, I probably should not have cared anyway,” Luna explained before taking a massive gulp of her shake.
“Why not come here in disguise?” Fredrick, asked, smoothing out his hair on the back of his head. “I’m sure ‘Lumina’ wouldn’t have been the target of any harassment,” Fredrick proposed. Luna only shook her head, scrunching the left side of her face in thoughtful disapproval.
“Ehhh, no. I never felt like assuming my disguise. In fact, I usually detest when I have to, because I would much rather go as my own self and use my magic for more important things than keeping up a mere disguise. In short, I just felt it was not worth it,” she explained.
“As good of a reason as any, in my opinion,” Fredrick readily agreed. It was a simple version of the elegant and succinct answer to any ‘why’ question: ‘because of reasons.’
“And, you’re technically wrong in me not getting harassed as my alter-ego,” Luna corrected upon gulping down another generous helping of her shake, which was now halfway depleted.
“Oh?”
“You have little idea how many times I have gotten propositioned and ultimately hit on… which is especially more dramatic considering how seldom I assume my disguise,” the Princess recalled, which earned a chortle out of her coltfriend.
“That’s not so surprising,” Fredrick said. “After all, Lumina is very attractive,” he jokingly admitted, but he was speaking the truth: Luna’s disguise was ever as gorgeous as her, but in its own right. Luna, however, responded with an inquisitive eyebrow.
“Really now?” she asked, almost rhetorically, but Fredrick nodded deeply anyway as if it was one of the most obvious things in the world; it was. “Well… I may have to bear that in mind for the future,” Luna alluded so expertly, which earned a curious, if slightly fearful, gaze from Fredrick.
“I...I have several questions,” Fred said pointedly while holding up his index finger emphatically. “Namely, you intend to torture me, huh?” he asked, knowing full well that Luna was a master tease, even worse now that they were officially together.
“Maaaaybeeee~,” Luna replied mysteriously and with a coy smile to match.
“Why?”
“Because of reasons.”
Fredrick pursed his lips and threw his hands up in defeat, eliciting an adorably maniacal giggle from the Lunar Princess. However, it was Fredrick’s turn to (attempt) to stifle his laughter when he caught sight of Luna’s snout having a bit of whipped cream left on it.
“What?” she asked, confused at the sudden change in his demeanor.
“You got a little something…” Fredrick pointed at her face.
“Oh!” she exclaimed as she noticed, wiping it off with her finger and licking it off quickly, shooting Fred a little smile.
“There ya go.”
“I must say, today’s event went off, surprisingly, without a hitch,” Luna commented, bringing the both of them back to today’s Parliamentary meeting, the one that had been so pivotal for the last couple of months or so.
“You know… I have to agree,” Fredrick said. “It almost seemed too good to be true. From the way you, Celestia, and others made it sound, and coupled with my own experiences, I was led to believe that Parliament and the general nobility was a lot more conservative.”
“It was certainly a shock to me… I expected at least a handful of dissenting voices. The nobility is especially not shy in voicing their often disdainful opinions of matters and ponies deemed beneath them; one of many characteristics from the days of olden Equestria that simply refuses to die out completely.”
“Perhaps we assumed wrong?” Fredrick proposed, to which Luna nodded thoughtfully. “That, or Blueblood really did well to silence the potential opposition.”
“Perhaps so. Despite what you may think you know of him, Blueblood is incredibly efficient to work with,” Luna elaborated.
“Oh yeah?” Fredrick asked, continuing the conversation and adjusting his sitting position.
“Mhmm.” Luna nodded resolutely as she sipped her drink. “You have heard my rants about him in the past, especially when he sneered in your direction. He has a questionable character and morals, but I will not deny the fact that he is brutally efficient and oriented when it comes to political matters. I certainly may not enjoy his presence most of the time in the slightest, but he gets things done,” she explained.
“Yeah, I’ll be the first to admit that he’s a massive dick,” Fredrick said, placing his thoughts out in the open. “But I guess he’s a dick that came through for us, perhaps even right on time when he informed you about having to make an announcement. The cock struck noon, eh?”
Luna chortled and nearly choked at the comment.
“That was a terrible joke and you should feel poorly about that,” Luna playfully rebuked. “But yes, he may be a reprehensible cock at times, but I know for a fact that he helped ensure the best outcome to the best of his ability. He shan’t be unrewarded.”
“Alright I know for a fact that he didn’t do this out of the goodness of his heart, but he didn’t specify what he wanted in return, either.”
“Indeed. I asked him the same thing and he did not wish for anything tangible… or anything at all for that matter,” Luna replied. “But knowing Celestia, she’ll figure something else out. If all he wanted was our good graces, he certainly has them.”
A pleasant silence fell upon the couple, and despite the sounds of the environment, the two quickly became lost in each other, holding eye contact even as they sipped their respective milkshake and malt. These looks were not uncommon between the two of them, naturally, but at the same time, they were inherently different. It was as if, little by little, the reality of the situation was comfortably breaking on them, like tiny waves upon the collective beach of their minds.
Fredrick reached across the table and took Luna’s hand in his own, interlocking his fingers with hers while he smiled warmly at her, a gesture she was more than happy to reciprocate. There, repeating the same with their other hands, they held each other in a small but ever meaningful embrace. The warmth and love they felt for each other diffused into both of them, radiating its indescribable feeling of belonging and security to every extremity of their bodies.
“You look beautiful, Luna…” Fredrick felt compelled to say, having traced his eyes over her entire visible form. Such a complement had been bestowed upon her many, many times, but Luna felt it had much more weight to it. As a consequence, she blushed heavily.
“Th-Thank you, my dear,” she replied sweetly. They massaged each other’s hands with their thumbs, and before Luna could say something she really wanted to say, Sunlight returned with a large platter, startling Fredrick and Luna out of their love-drunken stupors.
“Alriiiight! I’ve got two triple hay burgers for the awesome cou—OH!” Sunlight suddenly stopped herself when she noticed the two’s orientation. “...I’m so sorry was I interrupting something?”
Fredrick and Luna only glanced at each other knowingly, and the latter shook her head.
“Not at all, Sunlight,” she confirmed.
“I’m starving anyway!” Fredrick mirrored a similar sentiment.
[One Hour Later…]
Fredrick and Luna consumed their meals heartily, talking the entire time and just more than happy to be themselves in a more public, and fun setting. The food was every bit as good as Luna hoped, and what had surprised Fredrick was the fact that she ate the ENTIRE thing. Further, not only did she eat her entire, massive meal, she finished about twenty minutes before Fredrick, and the human had to be reminded that Alicorns had larger appetites with the higher amount of power they were capable of. It made sense to him, though, being a man from America back on his world, being ‘out-eaten’ by your incredibly hot girlfriend was both a source of pride and insecurity for him, so it balanced out in the end.
Arms and hands linked tightly together, the two were seemingly skipping (though realistically just walking) along the quiet roads of Canterlot, laughing joyfully at each other’s words as they made their way back to the castle. Their sides were huddled together as they spoke about absolutely nothing important, faces colored by their constant giggling and with sore abs as an extra result.
“Heh… wow, Fredrick,” Luna spoke, inhaling the temperate, evening air and wiping some moisture from the bottom of her eyes. “That was incredible. She really did that without any regard for the consequences?!”
“Yeah… Sierra was a sweet girl, but goddamn she was absolutely insane. The amount of times I had to visit her in the hospital; it might as well have been her home,” Fredrick added, giggling at the memory of the story he told Luna.
“Well, she seems like a wonderful mare with upstanding character nonetheless, despite her penchant to get herself and possibly those around her injured,” Luna added with a tiny chortle at the end. “I had a similar friend like that once.”
“Oh yeah?” Fredrick asked as they began crossing the bridge which led to the castle’s entrance. Luna nodded and the guards saluted her as she walked past, snuggled closely with Fredrick.
“Indeed. A wonderful friend he was but, he too, was quite the spontaneous one. He has been lost to time, however. It has been many a millennia since I have seen him last.”
The conversation continued as they walked to Luna’s room, but that last sentence of Luna’s highlighted a massive concept for Fred: Luna’s lifespan. For all intents and purposes, she was immortal… in reality, she and Celestia would not live forever, but in terms of Alicorn lifespans, Luna was about to exit adolescence, while Celestia was technically a young adult. In either case, both princesses would outlive him by an uncountable number of lifetimes.
And despite their happiness high, that made him a bit sad.
However this was quickly pushed aside in his mind when the two of them arrived at Luna’s chamber doors. Luna turned to her guards and she dismissed them for the evening, a gesture they were more than happy and grateful to accept. Once they left, Luna faced Fredrick and placed a hand on one of his pecs while looking him in the eyes.
“I had a wonderful time tonight, Fredrick… thank you. Such a simple date but it meant more to me than you will ever know,” she said, smiling brightly at him. Fredrick wrapped his arms around her lower back and pulled her close.
“It was my pleasure, and I had a lot of fun as well. We need to do that more often,” he replied with equal eagerness. No more words needed to be said, and Luna placed her hands behind Fred’s head as she pulled him even closer, pressing her lips to his for a chaste kiss. Fredrick gladly leaned into it, letting the warm feeling of butterflies spread from his stomach all the way around his body. Both pairs of eyes fluttered shut as they held the kiss for what seemed like a small eternity, separating only for air and with a prominent ‘smack.’
“Would you like to… come inside, Fredrick?” Luna asked with extra emphasis on the pause, lidding her eyes just a bit to convey the obvious message. The right side of Fred’s lips curled up in a sly smile, nodding to her wordlessly as Luna led them into her room, shutting the door behind the both of them.
Once the door shut, the two of them were on each other in an instant, hands planted on each other’s bodies as their lips smashed together. Luna ran her fingers all over the back of Fred’s head and neck while the human’s hands roamed all over Luna’s lower back and butt. Tongues had no inhibitions and were immediately pushed to the forefront, initiating a battle for dominance for both of their mouths as moans were aplenty. Their combined wetness against each other’s mouths only served to add to the moment, lips refusing to sever their vital connection to each other while Luna began leading them to her bed. However, this was easier said than done, as the outright refusal to open their eyes and remove themselves from each other ensured that bumping into furniture was commonplace.
After a few cries of sudden pain and giggles as a result from smashing their hips and sides into wardrobes and armoir, Luna led them to the side of her bed, but their journey stalled when the kiss became that much hotter. Fredrick moved his hands to the back of Luna’s head, grabbing a fistful of her hair and keeping her right where she was. Luna licked Fred’s lips, retreating her tongue from his mouth and tasting a little bit more of him before renewing her offensive, one which Fred was more than happy to counter with an attack of his own. Luna’s hands fell from Fred’s face, however, when she began hastily removing her pants, sliding them down her form as best as she could while her human held her mouth in place. She also took the liberty of undoing Fred’s shorts and disposing of them.
Their lips became sore from the ravenous makeout session, and the two finally separated when the need to remove their shirts arose. All remaining clothes were magically removed and the two resumed making out for a few moments before Fred pushed Luna back on her bed.
“Oh!” she exclaimed gleefully, laying back and completely nude. Her breasts bounced arousingly as she hit the fabric, arms splayed and her legs draped over the side. She looked up at Fredrick expectantly, but her gaze was instantly drawn to his throbbing manhood, the subtle moonlight sneaking into the room highlighting it for her as if it was her prize. Fredrick locked his gaze onto her form lustfully, and Luna’s view of Fred’s length was obscured when he laid himself on top of her.
Instead, she felt it, especially when his head pressed right up against her quickly moistening labia.
Luna moaned softly at the sensitive touch, and her open mouth was silenced when Fredrick kissed her again, his hands massaging her ears. However, he broke off after a few moments and slid himself down, putting him at eye-level with her chest. Luna knew exactly what to expect, and Fredrick delivered beautifully when he squeezed both of her tits together, pressing his face into her addictive cleavage before taking her left nipple into his mouth.
“Mmmmmm…” Luna hummed blissfully, enjoying the subtle electric feeling that sent the softest tingles through her body each time he ran his tongue over her sensitive nipple. With a blushed face and bit lip, she laid her head back and just enjoyed the treatment Fredrick was lavishing her with. His hands massaged both her soft, firm orbs so perfectly, making sure to treat the neglected breast with extra care while the other one was getting orally assaulted. Fred alternated between both of his favorite toys, sucking as if it was the last time he would ever feel them on his mouth. As well, he dragged his tongue all around her chest, especially her cleavage before going back to smothering himself between her pillows, a feeling that Luna loved (and would always giggle at).
By now, with how often Fredrick had run his tongue over her boobs, Luna was certain that his tongue had memorized her chest entirely.
“Ahh!” Luna squeaked out when Fredrick pinched both of her nipples between his knuckles, and that pleasurable feeling was enough to pull her out of her lethargic, blissful state to push him away before he really got carried away with her breasts. She resolved to let him fuck them later, but his shaft constantly grinding up and down her slit, sliding right on her clit was enough to send her netherlips throbbing with pent up arousal.
Luna needed that thing stuffed into her right then.
Fredrick donned the look of longing, wondering why Luna would do something so terrible as drag him away from her perfect tits but his psuedo-depravity was quickly abated when Luna rolled onto her right side and spread her legs, beckoning him between them.
“Here, like this,” Luna huskily instructed, using a bit of her magic to help guide him into position. She fed her right leg between his legs and opened her legs wider, letting her left leg drape over his shoulder while his cock lined up with her folds just right. All that was left for Fredrick to do was press forward.
“Like this?” he asked, ready to spear his dick into her, but wanted to make sure she was comfortable where she was. Luna bit her lip invitingly, nodding wordlessly.
Receiving all the confirmation he needed, Fredrick eagerly pressed forward, hilting himself in her completely, much to both of their pleasures. Luna moaned out gutturally and Fredrick bared his teeth as he, too, moaned. Gripping her left leg against his chest for extra leverage, he began thrusting into her, using deep strokes at first to hit those special spots deep within her, the ones which would help bring about the euphoria she so desired.
Each thrust elicited a soft hybrid of a moan and grunt from Luna, barely eclipsing the sound of his dick parting her soaked lips and the arousing, schlicking sound they produced as a result. Luna’s unreal flexibility and the positioning allowed Fred unobstructed view of every inch of her body, from her pussy which was engulfing his length each time he bucked his hips, to her breasts which jiggled between her arms due to their movements, up to the blushed, pleading face of his girlfriend, best friend, and lover.
“MMPH! Ah! Keep going, Fredrick… just like that…” Luna groaned out when Fredrick made eye contact with her.
Gripping Luna’s leg tighter, Fredrick picked up speed and began sacrificing a tiny bit of depth for speed and intensity, continuing to impale Luna’s needy slit with his cock and alter its direction inside her as much as he could. It was having the effect he desired, especially when her moans increased proportionally to his technique and her love tunnel seemed to, somehow, become tighter around him. He nearly lost it when he felt Luna constrict a little bit around him, but, regaining self control, he renewed his vigorous fucking.
“Like that?” He asked, facilitating more talk between them. “That’s how you...mmph!... like me fucking you?”
“Yes! Please Fre—AH!—drick! Don’t stop!”
Not one to deny a desperate request from his girlfriend, Fredrick beat into her as fast as he could, judging from Luna’s moans exactly where he was making her tick the most when he buried his throbbing spire inside her depths. The messy, sloppy sounds of sex were more than overtaken by their combined chorus of moans, Luna’s eyes would often widen each time Fred attacked an extra sensitive spot inside of her, and she had no shame with letting her tongue loll out of her mouth.
“AHH! AHH!... UHN!! Fred!!” Luna cried out at rhythmic and cyclic intervals. Seeing and hearing her in such a state gave Fredrick all the extra confidence he needed, and as such, he planted one of his hands on her ass and fucked into her with abandon, doing his best to cast his nearing climax aside in favor of Luna’s.
“I’m gonna… FUCK!... make you cum… mmph!... so fucking hard, Luna…” Fredrick proclaimed, vocalizing his goal so he would not get distracted at his own, overbearing desire to shoot his load.
“JUST...AHHGH! LIke that! Fuck me, Fredrick!! MMMHH!! UNNH!! FUCK ME!” Luna nearly demanded, making shameless use of profanity in conveying her deepest, lustfully clouded desires of her coltfriend. Luna contorted her upper body as much as she could so she could massage both of her heaving, neglected breasts.
The dirty talk was traded incessantly back and forth between them, and Luna made sure Fredrick knew just how much she was enjoying the deep, hard dicking he was giving her. Fredrick, too, informed Luna how hot she looked and how tight her slit was around him, but his goal still rang strong in his mind: get her to cum, hard. A moment of clarity dawned on Fred through the lustful haze of passionate intercourse: Luna’s clit was on full display due to her position. Fredrick decided to act upon that, sliding his left hand down her leg and palming her pubic region. Before Luna could react to anything, Fred pressed his thumb straight into her little nub and massaged it in counterclockwise motions.
“FREDRICK!” Luna cried out immediately, and Fred continuing to plow her pussy like it was his job (it was) only added to the sensation, her moans becoming much more staggered and higher pitched, not to mention louder. Getting into a stable, final rhythm, Fred’s hips slammed straight into her pussy each time he thrust forward, effectively hilting into Luna each time, which drove her absolutely insane. She clutched her tits to the point where she was leaving visible marks, and soon enough, her pussy contracted hard around Fred’s dick. One final, powerful groan of unadulterated ecstasy was the telltale harbinger of Luna’s explosive climax.
The human, however, was unfazed. With the confirmation that Luna had come, his primal urges shifted to his own climax, and with that, he kept thrusting himself into her as best as he could given the sudden tightness. Luna’s eyes widened and being extra sensitive while she rode out her orgasm ensured that she nearly screamed out involuntarily in pleasure, saying Fred’s name over and over again in a mix of pleading to continue and begging to stop. Her tight little pussy was being used and abused to every sexy definition of the word, and it was not much longer before Fredrick’s moves became much more jerky, signaling the beginning of the end for him.
“Gah!! Luna, I’m gonna cum too!” he quickly warned, and at that instant, Luna pushed him away, got off the bed, and sank to her knees all within the span of a couple seconds. Grasping his shaft, Luna began vehemently stroking him while aiming his dick straight into her open mouth, her eyes completely misted and clouded over with ‘sex,’ and making sure he was watching everything she was doing… and what was about to transpire.
Not even letting her know of the final moment, Fredrick moaned as his dick erupted, spewing the first volley of his creamy essence right onto the center of Luna’s tongue, much to her absolute delight. She dared not swallow until every single drop of his cum landed squarely in her mouth, and even when that did happen, she refused to swallow it all until Fredrick saw the results of his handiwork. Finally coming off of his high, he gazed down to bestow his love upon Luna, only to find her on her knees, breasts squeezed together and framed by her arms, mouth open, and filled with his milky white contents. Her eyes never left his as she manipulated his seed with her tongue before swallowing it entirely, smacking her lips together and punctuating the gesture with an exaggerated ‘ahhh!’
A few seconds of that image burned onto his retina was all that was necessary for him to keep that for most likely the rest of his life.
“H-Holy fuck, Luna…” Fredrick commented, the sudden loss of orgasmic adrenaline making his knees weak and his arms feel somewhat heavy from exertion. Though there was no mom’s spaghetti to be found, he opted to sit on the edge of the bed to catch his breath from their session. Luna joined him and snuggled up to him, kissing his neck and cheek lovingly as she, too, caught her breath from being fucked silly.
“Fredrick…” she softly moaned into his neck in a tone that conveyed all her emotions through fatigue. All their remaining, pent up stress from the entire situation surrounding their relationship was expended on each other in a glorious fuck, and they quickly lost any semblance of coherence as their minds seemed to demand sleep at that very moment.
Wordlessly, the two led each other to the pillows and under the covers, Luna covering them both as she and Fredrick snuggled up in their usual cuddle positions. Their eyes fluttered closed and they allowed slumber to extend its soothing grasp over them both. Luna and Fredrick were quickly pulled into the realm of dreams with noticeable, blissful smiles on their faces. However, a split moment before all was lost to the throes of sleep, Fredrick was able to muster one last, barely discernable sentence.
“I love you…”
Prince Blueblood opened the door to his office and sighed heavily, haphazardly tossing a few papers he was carrying over his desk while he set his coat down momentarily. It had been a gruelling day in speaking with a bunch of members of Parliament after Luna’s big announcement, especially in private when he had to strongarm a few select individuals so they would not cause any potential problems. It was an easy concept, but just time consuming… though what took most of his effort was pretending to be interested in what others had to say about the subject matter.
To him, there were better things to use mental resources on than empathy.
Regardless, Blueblood felt that after a day like today, some rest was well-deserved. All he had to do was pick up some mail that was delivered to his office before he retired to his chambers for the night, but as he was doing that, something else caught his eye: a neatly, deliberately placed envelope right on the center of his desk.
Strange…
Curiosity naturally taking over, he stepped over to his workspace and examined the envelope, noting the stationery being sealed with a small, royal seal of Celestia’s Sun. Of course, he recognized it immediately but its contents were still a mystery to him. Employing the use of a letter opener, Blueblood neatly took care of the envelope and removed a single document. His eyes widened as he read on, recognizing it as a request for permission to build some operation’s plants in Equestria’s crystal fields to help with mineral extraction.
It was a formal request that he had submitted quite some time ago, and in fact, with everything going on, he had completely forgotten about it. At the very bottom of the document, however, there was a royal stamp of approval, along with Princess Celestia’s signature (actually signed, and not stamped). Moreover, there was another note attached to the paper, which detailed an extra grant of one hundred and fifty thousand bits. Blueblood’s mouth opened ever so slightly, surprised that he received overwhelming support for such a venture, even more so because he never requested such a grant. Further fiddling with the extra note, there was a tiny, handwritten message underneath it”
“You did well, my nephew.”
The five words brought a warm smile to Blueblood’s face and, after pondering everything for a few moments, he neatly folded up the paper, put his coat on, and placed said paper in his coat pocket before he strolled out of his office, ready to jump into his bed and call in sick the next day.
[Ten Days Later…]
With all the social and political obstacles Fredrick and Luna had to deal with over the past weeks, things had finally started to settle down for the couple, and the two quickly got back into the normal scheme of things… but that did not last long, as the stress quickly picked back up once the Grand Galloping Gala was upon them. Indeed, it was time, and Fredrick was going to attend his first Gala that evening as Princess Luna’s hot date. It was not that he was nervous, but he certainly wanted to make a good impression with everypony, especially the Elements of Harmony.
Fredrick, of course, had already met a few of them, including Twilight (whom he was quite familiar with), Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie, but meeting all of them at once and actually introducing himself as Luna’s coltfriend was a slightly different animal. He still worried about leaving a good impression with everypony else, nonetheless.
All these thoughts raced through his mind incessantly as he made sure his tuxedo fit him just right. A jet-black coat, slacks, and shoes along with a white, fitted button-up shirt were tailored perfectly to his measurements, and Fredrick was trying it on for the umpteenth time to ensure he still looked good in it. Tying the bowtie, Fred added the last touch as he gazed into the full-length mirror in his room, studying every curve of his outfit and making sure there were no wrinkles or imperfections.
He wanted to look his absolute best tonight.
While he scrutinized his appearance, Luna quietly entered his room… well, Fredrick knew it was Luna because the only one who entered into his abode without knocking was the Lunar Princess herself. Hearing the door close once more was his cue to turn around, finding his beautiful marefriend in a long, massively poofy, navy-blue robe which covered everything but her head. Her mane also held its iconic ethereal component which gave her that extra sense of allure, even when she was not dressed for any occasion.
“Hey you!” he finally said happily, quickly meeting her in the center of his room and kissing her sweetly.
“Good afternoon, my dear,” Luna responded once their lips separated. “It appears you are stressing out even more than I am.”
“Ehh, well,” Fred began to say, running his hand over the back of his neck and averting his gaze slightly. “I wanna make a good impression on everypony, especially since this is our first Gala together and my first Gala, period,” he admitted.
“You simply must relax, Fredrick,” Luna declared with a giggle, pressing herself against him and nuzzling his neck. “I shall be by your side for most of the Gala, and I know for a fact that it will be a magnificent time with you there. I’m sure everypony else will agree wholeheartedly,” she elaborated, doing her absolute best to allay any of his fears. Fredrick could only nod, but Luna was right; there was nothing to be afraid of. In fact, all of the worst stuff had already passed, and if all he had to do was get over a bit of social awkwardness, then so be it.
Keeping that confidence would be the key, though, when the event ultimately came a few hours later. Luna would be arriving later, a bit after the formal event started, and Fredrick would thus have to fend for himself for a while, though in the end it wasn’t so bad. First entering into the massive ballroom, Fred was awed at the changes that were made from the previous days. The decour distinctly reminded him of Luna, with the gargantuan curtains over the windows being navy-blue in color. Incredible patterns of streamers and other things that he could not name interwove in each direction, and there seemed to be a passive, magical aura that gave the entire venue a sense of friendly ominousness to it… everything in Luna’s favorite colors of dark blues, black, indigo, and dark grey. Before he could accurately process the makeup of the venue, his attention was dragged away by two things much more pleasing to look at.
Fred was taken into the company of Princess Celestia and Twilight, who both looked stunning in their getups. Princess Celestia decided to do something that she thought was a bit different, by making her dress a vibrant pink, much like her natural hair color. Said dress was metallic, glittering in every angle of light. Sleeveless and falling to about her calfs, her dress was completely solid from her neck down, not a hint of cleavage or anything else to be seen. It was simple yet captivating at the same time, and to top it all off, Celestia wore some extra eyeliner and she applied the lightest pink color as eyeshadow. Fredrick had to admit that Celestia was not just ‘stunning’ as he had thought earlier, she was hot.
Twilight had a similar outfit in terms of practicality, though hers was a bit bland and on the yellow side. It was form-fitting, tailored to Twilight’s petite physique, but it fit the lavender unicorn’s body nicely and in all honesty, Fredrick had to agree that she was beautiful, especially with the extra eyeliner and violet eyeshadow. His subconscious weighed in with a few more choice words, though.
Oh, lord knows I’d smash.
“It’s time to start greeting the guests, Twilight,” Celestia notified, and Twilight brightened visibly, especially since all of her friends would be here soon.
“Right! Fredrick, you need to meet the rest of my friends!” she exclaimed, and she dragged the human along as she and her mentor glided towards the entrance.
“Quite so. Those you haven’t met have been eager to meet the one captured Lulu’s heart so well,” Celestia added with a giddy chuckle.
“Nevermind, it looks like they already made it inside,” Twilight pointed out, gesturing towards the front door at the other five Elements of Harmony and one strapping-looking drake, whom Fredrick assumed was Spike.
“There they are!” Pinkie screamed out and the six of them all crowded close to Twilight and Fredrick while Celestia excused herself to go begin the more formal greeting process. Twilight would join up with her later after introductions.
“Lookin’ good, Fredrick! Nice to see you again!” Rainbow Dash greeted the human first, presenting her fist for Fredrick to bump, which he did with a smile.
“You too, Dash!”
“Guys,” Twilight quickly interceded. “Rainbow and Pinkie have met him, but to the rest of you, this is Fredrick, Princess Luna’s coltfriend,” Twilight introduced him, proudly gesticulating to him as if she was presenting him scientifically.
“Gotta say, it’s not every day one gets to meet all six Elements plus Spike at the same time,” Fred admitted cautiously. “But yes, I’m Fredrick. It’s truly an honor to meet you all.”
“Psh, we should be sayin’ the same ‘bout you!” the orange-coated mare with a bright green dress that fit her strong, equally sexy build perfectly. “Ah’m Applejack, and I’ve been dyin’ to shake the hand of the one who swooned Princess Luna. Put’er there, pal!” Applejack greeted, grasping Fredrick’s outstretched hand and nearly crushing it before he could, awkwardly, add more firmness to his handshake. He chuckled nervously as he attempted to suppress the early onset of arthritis from the crushing handshake. It was more than made up for the fact that Fredrick had a soft side for a ‘southern gal’s drawl.’
“Heh, and it’s a pleasure to meet you, Applejack, that’s for sure.”
“You’ve already met me, but HI AGAIN FREDRICK!” Pinkie made herself known, throwing her arms around the human and squeezing tightly, though the kinetic force in which she literally threw herself at him nearly made them both tumble to the ground. Still, the embrace was much more manageable, as he was subjected to much worse with Luna.
“Awesome to see you again, Pinkie!” Fred finally voiced with genuine happiness at her contagious personality, placing the girl back on her feet. The party mare’s dress was ever as high-octane as her personality, but she still looked gorgeous in it nonetheless.
“I’m Rarity,” the gorgeous, alabaster unicorn stepped forward, offering her hand which Fredrick shook confidently, though he could not help but stare at the beautiful mare. In a lavender dress that made her near-perfect, busty physique pop out elegantly, Fredrick needed to make sure he averted his eyes appropriately. “You certainly must be an interesting stallion to take the heart of Princess Luna!”
“One can hope, right?” Fred joked, earning a couple giggles from the girls. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Rarity.”
“Oh believe me, darling… the pleasure is all mine,” Rarity added with a characteristic fluttering of her eyelashes.
W-Was she just flirting with me?
“Jeez Rarity, can’t help but flirt with him either?” Rainbow Dash playfully rebuked, seeming to catch onto Fredrick’s inner suspicions and earning more giggles from the crowd. Rarity went red in the face and gave a harsh upturn of her face in response.
“I certainly was not, I was merely being friendly to the royal coltfriend!”
A beautiful, cream-colored mare was urged forward in her conservative green dress, and she adorably hid behind the majority of her hair.
“I’m Fluttershy…” she softly spoke, and Fredrick almost didn’t hear her over the natural ambiance of the party atmosphere. “N-Nice to meet you… if you’re okay with that…” She offered her hand weakly, and Fred made sure he squeezed reassuringly, recognizing the full effects of nigh-crippling shyness.
“And it’s nice to meet you as well!” Fred responded with a softer tone of voice, and in his experience, he decided upon tacking on a small compliment. “And you look really nice in your dress, by the way.”
Fluttershy visibly colored at that and and shied away behind her hair again, the rest of her friends smiling but rolling their eyes endearingly at her.
“My turn!” a male voice made itself known, belonging to that of Spike the dragon. For Fredrick, this was the first time seeing an anthropomorphic dragon, though he seemed to have a bit of a baby-face about him, and Fred inferred his age as a result. “I’m Spike, Twilight’s best friend and assistant. Sorry I couldn’t meet you the last two times you came to Ponyville,” he introduced himself, shaking Fredrick’s hand vigorously, rivaling Applejack’s grip.
“Nice to finally meet you, too!” Fredrick replied graciously. He had heard wonderful things about Spike, and in a world of seemingly only being surrounded by mares, he was excited to meet another like-minded (or so he heard) male.
“Gotta say, I’ve been eager to see the weird creature that Princess Moonbutt’s obsessed with,” Spike added as a joke, earning a hearty chuckle out of Fredrick.
“Spiiike!” Twilight scolded, but Fred played it off dismissively.
“Oh don’t worry about it. I get more than my fair share of banter from the Princess herself.”
“Where is she, anyway?” Twilight asked, unsuccessfully being able to locate the Lunar Princess while gazing around exaggeratedly.
“Yeah, Luna said she would be arriving a bit later but I didn’t think she’d be this late,” Fred commented. Everypony he was talking to, however, leaned over to look past him, and were nearly floored by what they saw, and pointed out as such.
“Well, you may wanna turn around, partner,” Applejack commented, and upon heeding her words, Fredrick lost control of his jaw, which he was certain disconnected from his skull and shattered on the ground into a million pieces. Indeed, Princess Luna had made her entrance from the rear of the ballroom, much to everypony’s surprise. Fredrick tuned out everything upon laying eyes upon his girlfriend, and his eyes drank in the alluring sight as much as they could while Luna walked forward to meet him.
The first thing he noticed, naturally, was Luna’s face. Holding a confident, sexy complexion, Fredrick saw that she too did not forego the use of eyeliner and shadow, the latter being teal-blue and truly making her coat and eyes pop. She seemed to also have a random piece of glitter here and there, uniformly distributed over her face and giving her that extra twinkle at odd angles of light. Her dress, like her personality, was practical but a bit more revealing than her sister’s, which was an oddity in and of itself. Said dress, a shade slightly darker and higher intensity than the color of her coat, had a gradient pattern as it flowed down to her knees, and there was a slight dip in the chest area, revealing an appropriate amount of cleavage which was accentuated just enough with a push-up bra. Her rhythm of walking and how her dress swayed with her was hypnotizing, and Fred was quickly lost in the striking looks of the Lunar Princess.
His Princess.
Quite a few different ponies tried to personally greet Luna but she brushed past them, only focused on Fredrick and his opinion of her, though if he was as captivated as he looked, she need not worry in the slightest. The girls and Spike giggled as Luna had to physically force Fredrick’s mouth closed once she was in front of him, and that snapped him out of his trance.
“H-Hi Luna…” he said, finally able to force some manner of coherent wordage out of his mouth, and he was worried that he may have been frothing at Luna’s sheer beauty. Luna giggled and stroked the side of his face lovingly, neither of them seeming to care that all eyes were upon them.
“Hello again, my love,” she greeted before pulling him into a kiss, one he gladly deepened despite their audience. Said audience did not appear to mind either, considering the girls, Spike, and then everypony else who bore witness to the intimate embrace of the human and alicorn began cheering for them. Applause and whistles of approval echoed throughout the ballroom, and it was only when the lovers separated that they realized what they truly did, simultaneously blushing something fierce as a result.
“Guys,” Twilight interjected suddenly. “Let’s leave these two alone, I think they wanna celebrate with each other,” she added while herding all of her friends away, each of them with bright smiles on their faces as they melded into the crowd of ponies that was quickly growing. Fredrick and Luna watched them go for a few moments before turning back to each other, then grasping each other’s hands.
“You’re…” Fredrick began to say, but suddenly his mouth felt dry upon laying eyes on Luna again. “Y-You’re...fuck. You’re gorgeous…”
“Really? You like it?” Luna asked, gesturing to her whole getup. Apparently she had dressed up like this just for him. At this point, Fred knew for a fact that Celestia, Twilight, and the others had absolutely nothing on Luna in front of him. She took the cake in terms of looks, personal bias aside.
“I absolutely love it, Luna,” he affirmed with a beaming smile, much to her delight. Luna pulled him closer and they shared yet another, chaste kiss, but it was interrupted when music suddenly began to play, signalling the true start of the Gala. The couple looked around and instantly found couples (and groups) making for the de facto dance floor, quickly falling into their own rhythms of dance.
“I guess we’re getting right into it. W-Would you like to dance, Fredrick?” Luna asked, having an edge to her words as if she was afraid Fred would decline her, which was hilarious.
“I’d love to! Just be warned though, I fucking suck at dancing,” he confessed, taking a firmer, more loving hold of her hands. Luna dismissed his claims.
“Fear not; I shall lead!” she proclaimed, but before she could drag Fredrick to the middle of the dance floor, another couple made themselves known to them.
“You two just make sure to enjoy yerselves,” an iconic Scottish sounding accent declared, and turning to the newcomer revealed Stella. Clad in a plain, sleeveless, strapless black dress which squeezed her breasts together just enough to appropriately entice, Stella also sported some golden eyeshadow but forewent any other makeup or blush. At that cue, Windfire, the second honor guard that accompanied Stella, took his place next to her in his own tuxedo. “Windfire and I are here to ensure nothing happens to annoy either of you. Don’t you worry, we’ll always be watching.”
“Heh, thanks Stella. Again, you’re the damn best,” Fredrick said, sharing a friendly fistbump with the gorgeous batpony. Luna also produced a deep nod of gratitude to her newest, most becoming honor guard.
“Hell yeah I am!” Stella replied. “An honor guard’s job is never done, anyway. Since you two are gonna dance, I think we’ll join you, out of sight, out of mind,” she mused out loud, linking her arm with Windfire’s. Of course, the two weren’t together, but they had to put up the facade, as they were essentially Princess Luna’s (and Celestia’s, if necessary) secret service for the evening.
Windfire sighed dejectedly.
“Do we have to? I’ll just stand on the side and you go have fun.”
Stella crushed his hand in her grasp, making him groan most hilariously before cupping his face and making him face her scowl.
“Listen here ya schlong-aholic, when a hot lassie asks you tae dance, you fuckin’ dance ya fiery-maned twat!” she scolded, dragging her partner forcefully onto the dance floor and leaving both Fredrick and Luna in near hysterics. On that note though, Luna led her human to the floor as well, and the two, awkwardly, got into position as the next song started up. It happened to be Equestrian swing much like the last one (though slower in rhythm for a bit more intimate dancing experience), and Fredrick was somewhat thankful that Equestrian music was every bit as good as it was back on earth, especially the jazz and swing music.
Being completely honest with themselves, it was horrendously awkward and borderline cringey trying to fall into a steady rhythm with each other. Neither of them had danced with the other beforehand, nor had they attempted to try, so this was their first time. Luna did her best to lead, but Fredrick’s clumsiness with his feet was the culprit of most of their inelegant movements.
“Shit, sorry!” Fredrick huffed out as he stepped on Luna’s hoof for the hundredth time, doing his best to keep his arms in their proper positions on her body… and that was the problem.
“It’s fine, Fredrick… but you do not have to hold me in one place like we’re ballroom dancing,” Luna reminded. “It’s swing! I should be the last pony telling you to ‘let loose’ and swing with me!” she jovially demanded as the song changed into something much more fast-paced and fun.
“Didn’t I ‘swing’ you enough in the shower two nights ago?” Fred tried to joke, doing his best to drop his inhibitions and mirror Luna’s movements, resulting in a bit more fluid number between them. Luna giggled as she took Fred’s hand again, using it as a focal point for their flashy movements before pulling him back into her.
“Nay. I had to lead yet again, much like I am now,” she quipped with a lidded gaze, Fredrick donning a fake look of pain at the stinging remark. “Now, in your words, my love, ‘shut your cockhole’ and dance with me!”
Fredrick laughed uproariously as the two became lost in each other and the beat. Both of them, true to Luna’s words, shut up and focused on only each other. Luna lead beautifully once Fredrick wasn’t worried about crushing her hooves into mush. At one point, Luna spun him several times in a row and ejected him from their personal circle. He was able to get a glimpse of Stella and Windfire, the former shooting Fredrick a knowing wink before Luna beckoned Fred back in, the two falling into their cadence once more come the change in pace of the song.
Once the song changed its rhythm yet again, Fredrick decided to try and be a little adventurous, wordlessly conveying to Luna that he wanted to try and lead at certain parts. She graciously allowed, and to her surprise, Fredrick had gotten better in that short amount of time… nowhere near her ability by any means (by this time, Fred knew with absolute certainty that Luna could truly ‘dance’ by every definition of the word) but definitely passable.
Song after song passed, and Fredrick nor Luna needed to speak to each other to know that they were having an immense amount of fun with each other. Their smiles, blushes, and laughter was all that was needed to fuel their dancing, song after song. Both completely lost track of time and by the time the live band got a chance to take a break, the two had determined that a good hour and a half had passed with them being completely lost to the world. Breathing heavily and blushed from all the physical exertion, the two never let go of each other, even when the dancing stopped, if temporarily.
“That is something... else we must do... more often,” Luna spoke up between breaths, her energy scaling back gradually as they caught their breaths.
“You kidding? That was incredible! You need to teach me to dance properly on my own… I don’t think I’ll always have you by my side when I wanna just groove it once in a while,” Fredrick remarked happily.
“Who says you cannot just summon me whenever that need arises?” she asked rhetorically, waggling her eyebrows. Her attention was magically drawn towards another section of the ballroom, where Celestia mouthed to her and beckoned her over. Luna realized then that, even though she wanted to spend every moment with Fredrick, she still owed it to everypony else who attended to socialize, at least a little bit.
“Fredrick, I’m afraid I must take a small break and socialize with others, as my sister and I are technically the hosts. Will you be alright being with me?” Luna asked cautiously.
“Sure thing! Mind if I get a drink and just take a small breather? I’ll join up with you over by Celestia,” Fred replied confidently. With the amount of fun he just had, and will probably continue to have through the evening, he felt he earned a drink.
“Of course!” Luna answered happily, pecking him on the lips.
“Did you want anything?”
“Sure! I’ll have whatever you decide upon when you join me. See you soon,” Luna replied, running her fingers over Fredrick’s arm and shoulder as she separated from him for the first time that evening. He watched her go towards her sister, his eyes glued firmly to her hips and butt swaying almost metronomically. Luna knew he was staring, and she winked at him over her shoulder, a signal of possibly more ‘festivities’ to come later that evening once the Gala officially ended.
Still regaining a bit of a normal breathing rate, Fredrick strolled out onto one of the balconies for fresh air, surprised to find that nopony else was out there with him. Chances are they were all trying to talk to Luna, and that was fine. He’d reconvene with her in a little while, or whenever she was done with her quota of ‘being social.’
Fred leaned against the railing, gazing up at the beautiful sky above him, cloudless and full of stars. That’s also why Luna was most likely a bit late, having to ensure that the night sky was more captivating than it normally was… though that was saying something, because an average night sky in Equestria was miles better than one back on Earth. Fredrick attempted to find any familiar constellations, tracing his eyes in random lines over the twinkling stars above when he heard the balcony door swing open again. Glancing over his shoulder, Fredrick found an unlikely pony that took their place right next to him.
“Good evening, Fredrick,” Blueblood greeted as he, too, began staring up at the sky, leaning on his folded arms for support against the balcony.
“Oh, hey Blueblood,” Fredrick replied in a friendly manner. After everything that’s happened, Fred had little reason to have any hostility towards him, and that was perfectly alright. The two slipped into silence for a few moments before the Prince fished something out of his coat pocket: a cigar holder. Opening it, he offered it to Fredrick.
“You smoke?” he asked. Fredrick shook his head and held his hand up.
“Nah. Bit of an asthmatic, thanks though.”
“Mind if I do?” Blueblood asked.
“Kinda,” Fredrick admitted. Blueblood only shrugged and pulled out a cigar, lighting it anyway and taking a few puffs. Fred rolled his eyes and shook his head humorously, not really sure what he expected from the Prince.
Blueblood puffed a few more times, exhaling audibly as he let the smoke exit his mouth. “Been an interesting past few weeks, huh?”
“Heh, you can say that again,” Fredrick readily agreed, nodding emphatically as he spoke. “Was it hard for you?”
“Hmm?”
“Was it difficult for you to orchestrate all the obedience, and assurances that nopony would cause trouble?” Fredrick asked, admitting to himself that he was somewhat curious of Blueblood’s methods.
“Honestly,” the Prince began to speak. “Not really. Just time consuming and meticulous. Other than that, much of the nobility is weaker-willed than most other ponies I’ve had business dealings with. Neither are they subtle with any transgressions, either, which makes it all the more easier. They think they’re infallible and that nopony will challenge them for anything… heh,” Blueblood elaborated, chuckling a bit to himself. “It’s made my job that much easier over the years.”
“Well, with how well you did in ensuring Luna and I had no problems, I know not to get you pissed off,” Fredrick added in jest. “Though, it may be a bit late for that.”
“Don’t flatter yourself, Fredrick,” Blueblood remarked before continuing to smoke the cigar. “You have never had the honor nor pleasure of being placed on my shit list. I was under the impression you were smart enough to know this.”
“Heh, could’ve fooled me, Blueblood.”
“You’re an odd creature, Fredrick… and I mean that in both literal and figurative senses,” Blueblood said. “We may get along better than when we first met, but know that I have absolutely no desire to be your friend. Even so, you’ve never irritated me to the point where I’ve wanted to do something about it… for many reasons.”
He took another puff and exhaled the oddly good-smelling smoke of the Equestrian cigar.
“I don’t like you; I tolerate you. But…” Blueblood paused, as if for dramatic effect. “...you’re alright.”
“I guess I can say the exact same thing about you, Blueblood,” Fredrick replied, glancing to his right and meeting the simultaneous gaze of the Prince. He smirked.
“Then, keep treating Aunt Luna as you are, and we shall get along just fine,” he concluded resolutely, taking one last puff of the cigar, dousing it magically, and flicking it off the side of the balcony. With a final nod, he moved to reenter the Gala proper and rejoin the festivities.
“Blueblood,” Fredrick called out, stopping the Prince in his tracks before he could turn the handle of the balcony door.
“Yes?” he asked calmly.
“Regardless of what we just said… thanks. Thank you for making it all that much easier,” Fredrick said, feeling compelled to thank the well-dressed unicorn for his services, whatever his motives. The human felt he earned that much, and he threw in another friendly grin as a small show of camaraderie.
As for Blueblood, his normal reaction would be to roll his eyes and rebuke Fredrick for even potentially thinking in the slightest that his actions were out of the goodness of his heart. However, something stopped him, and despite his internal protests, two unexpected words fell from his lips:
“You’re welcome.”
The two shared one final nod of understanding before Blueblood took his proper leave, leaving Fredrick alone once more with his thoughts and Luna’s night sky. Fred easily found Luna’s moon, large and reigning supreme amongst the stars that dotted the black and blue gradient void above… and all he could do was smile. Everything had changed so fast in the past month or so, and despite it being jarring to no end, Fredrick realized that this… all of this was perfect. This was his life now, in Equestria on this planet in possibly even a different universe altogether, and he would honestly have it no other way.
Like Luna’s moon and the smile that formed unbidden on Fredrick’s face, the future was most certainly bright.