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// from the fire to the frying pan and back again 
// Story: a nightmare of a fiasco 
// by CasperSantiq 
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	After dealing with a cliff, a Manticor who tried to coerce me to create a new creature with it, a prissy serpent who was miles away from the ocean, a bunch of annoying enchanted bushes, and a cloud that just had it coming. We had finaly made our way (the mares had decided that they were 'needed') up the stairs after Blitz had tied off the bridge. The three mares had bickered between themselves who would take me on my first date in Ponyvile ever since they had come along. I only offered a free eviceration to the first three to date me. They laughed it off. We're getting off topic, we were standing in front of the castle with absolutely no real reason as to just stand here and wait.
"Are we just going to stand here or are we going to go in and fix this problem?" I stomped a hoof. "We only have till we suffer from the lack of sun and eventualy starve and/or freeze to death after all."
The stone was crumbly and plant roots were making it look like an ancient pile of bu-
"Dusk! stop that train of thought Immediatly! no swearing in front of the younger audience!" Pinkie dominated my eyesight and had a frown plastered on her muzzel. "No! I mean it! Don't do that again!"
"You are one strange mare..." A rustleing sound drew our attention. Some how Rarity, while we were talking, had found an old tapestry that had been blown outside and was fussing over it like a hen. We all staired at her.
"Ugh, 'pick', oh my, what a beautiful piece of artistry, 'pat pat,' the stich is still holding together after all this time!" She looked up at us as we watched her. "What?"
"Your wasting time, we need to get inside and deal with this."  I trotted up the last few steps and opened the massive door with a flick of my magic, the door groaning due to years, if not centuries of disuse. I looked behind me finding the rest had decided to follow me after all. "Alright, we need to look for the Elements of Harmony if were to deal with Nightmare Moon. It would be easyer if we split up to look for it. Butterscotch, your with me." The mares looked like they had eaten a slice of lemon, Rarity had even led out an 'oh poo' to show her disagreement with the lack of an availability to come with me.
The great hall that led up to the Throne room had three doors leading out of it that didn't include one we came out of, I took the one closest to the throne on the left. We all split to our respective pairs for the adventure and began our search.
Butterscotch began shaking like a leaf as soon as we were out of sight from the rest of the group. "D-d-dusk, could you m-make your h-horn any bu-bu-brighter? I-i-i'm not that c-comfortable I-in the dark..."
I sighed, "Butterscotch, you can put a full grown stallion through a solid 'Apple' tree, what exactly are you afraid of?" I looked back at him, raising an eyebrow. "Or more importantly, why are you even afraid anyway? you are a pegasus, right? Arn't you all just a bunch of brash, headstrong individuals?"
Butterscotch trotted along side me. "W-well, I c-come from from a family of light hearted pegasi dating all the way back to Private Pansy herself. We're all just a bunch of push overs, my parents especialy. my big brother Zepher breeze takes more after our great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-greeat-great-great-great-great-great-gre-"
I grabbed his mouth in a telekinetic glow, stopping him from continuing any further. "That is great and all, but we need to find the Elements of Harmony and fing the rest of the ponies that followed me here. I don't feel the need to file any more mysterious dissaperance paperwork. Twelve times was enough to wear even me out of that branch of legalese. Eugh, I  that particular branch... anyway, we should co-"
A blur of midnight and raw feminin need slammed into me as I entered a random door to my right. As I lay there, I couldn't help but smell the obvious and easily recognisable sweet tang of Nightmare Moon. She was huffing anf puffing as we lay there, neither of us willig to move a muscle. I barely looked out from under her barrel, her eyes locked onto mine. Slowly like an elegant swan, she rested her snoot on mine. As her breathing returned to normal, she adjusted slightly to alow me to breath more freely. Now firmly seated on my... lower pelvic region, she smiled and began to rub my barrel. I did the only thing I thought would get her off me, talk.
"You smell like raspberries." Her blush was barely notably through her dark fur, apparently she hadn't thought to mask the smell. "I like raspberries." The blush became more evident than percievably possible concidering the fur. Her eyebrows knitted into a cute pout and I could feel her lower lip tremble against my own, her eyes took on a shine and her pupils dialated to encompas the whites, leaving just her perfect midnight blues around the edge.
I lay there, stairing down the dreaded 'Doubble Barrel' that most married stalions kept telling me about durring a study about how mares convince their spouse to buy or bring them something/somewhere. The studies on how mares still manage to convince their spouses to do new thing had pointed in the obvious direction of this tecnique, so to speak. The study barely held a candle to the sheer power of it.
With one word, one utterance, she destroyed me. That one sound rended my whole world asunder, and anihlated my will. Her breath razed my mind and tore at the last remnants of what I use to call a heart. A single beat resounded in my chest after twenty of my twenty one years had rendered it silent.
"Please..."