Night and Day

by Tom Ink

The Day After

Still bathing in their post-sex afterglow, Golden and Midnight tenderly cuddled on the bed, the stallion resting on top of the batpony. Their embrace was sweet and their caresses slow and welcoming after their session together. They knew they would wake up full of aches the next morning, as if they had just survived the most exhausting training ever.

“That was… awesome…” Midnight breathed between two kisses. “I love you so much, Golden. I love you, I love you, I love you…” she repeated.

The stallion just smiled. “Wow, I thought you didn’t like being sappy… You sure Midnight’s still there?” he asked before kissing her and rolling with her on the bed. “Yeah, you’re still the same, but just to be sure, I need to test it again…” He kissed her on the neck, and she giggled and squirmed in his embrace before landing on his chest. She stroked his mane with her hoof and lay down, letting her lover do the same to her mane.
“Sex makes me say weird stuff….”

“It makes everything better,” he continued.

“Yeah, I believe you,” she concluded, kissing him on the chest. “While we’re still in the rainbow kingdom, let’s keep going.” She paused. “Will you stay with me forever?” she asked, with a simpering voice.

“Yes, my princess. I will protect you, like I promised. I’ll be your knight,” he answered.

They stayed there for a few more minutes, enjoying each other’s warmth, still cuddling. They had never felt so good before, and even what they’d reached during their orgasm couldn’t compete with the simple happiness of being in each other’s hooves, the grey fur rubbing against the white, nuzzling and kissing from time to time.

After some time, Golden turned off the light and allowed darkness to fall over the room. The batpony’s golden eyes shone in the moonlight, and the shining orb cast its gentle light all over her body, giving her a majestic aura, accentuating every one of her curves. All their worries were far, far away, and he had the feeling that nothing could happen to them as long as she stayed by his side, with him, secured in his embrace.

“You’re so beautiful…” he sighedt, almost unconsciously. Midnight looked up. “So cute….”

“Hey, batponies aren’t cute. We are feared. Our name means terror, not that mushy stuff,” she laughed.

Golden smiled and teased her. “Yeah, the cutest mare in the word. And she loves me,” he rejoiced loudly. “I’ve got the cutest batpony in my bed.” He started to tickle her. Midnight couldn’t help but laugh. “And she’s ticklish.”

“Haha-STOP!” Midnight laughed, squirming under the tickling hooves of the stallion. “Golden, stop! Okay… Okay! HAHAHA! You win… You can call me cute,” she panted between two fits of laughter. Golden stopped and brought her closer to kiss her again, tenderly, as if to be make amends for his tickling attack.

“I love you, Midnight,” he said simply, putting his lips on her forehead.

“I love you, Golden. I hope it’ll stay like this for a long, long time.”

Saying and hearing those words warmed their hearts, despite the cold that gripped their bodies. They cuddled a bit closer, hoping to melt in one pony that would protect them from the outside world forever.

Silence fell for a few moments, and Golden saw Midnight closing her golden eyes. Feeling sleepy, too, he pulled the sheets onto them wish his hind legs, protecting his princess from the cold.

“Good night, Golden. Sweet dreams,” Midnight said.

Her words raised a question in the pegasus’s mind. “If I dream of you, could Luna see me?” he asked, with a small hint of worry. “I mean, I don’t want to risk anything… Not after tonight.”

Midnight kept her eyes closed and answered, her voice a bit muffled by his fluffy chest. “Don’t worry. She only goes into the nightmares. And if you dream of me, it has to be a good dream, right?” She smiled.

“Yeah, you’ll be the light in the darkness, Princess.”

“You never stop, huh?” she asked, smiling in his fur.

“Not when I’ve got the cutest mare in the world on my side, cuddling with me, giving me hugs and loving me.” He smiled too. “And you? What if you dream of me?”

Midnight got ready for a long explanation, even if the need of sleep started to weigh on her, heavier than everything else. She sighed and started. “To make a long story short, Luna can’t go into the batponies’ dreams. That’s just how it is. She created us and didn’t have that power. I’ll explain another time,” she concluded, yawning. She rested her head on the white chest, and Golden didn’t add anything, finally at ease.

He watched her fell asleep, staring at the rising and falling chest that moved with each breath, fascinated by the beauty of his own private show. When he was sure she was asleep, he cast a last look towards the moon. He had never found it as beautiful as that night, and he thanked it silently for the welcoming light it offered them.

He watched Midnight one last time and fell asleep with the picture of the batpony in his mind, this time for real, before closing his eyes.

The next morning, Midnight woke up first, dazzled by the sun’s rays as they passed through the window. She rubbed her eyes and unfolded her wings to protect herself from this old enemy. She looked towards the clock on the nightstand.

07:00

She still had an hour before going back to her camp, certain that nopony would notice her absence before the 8 AM breakfast. She yawned, showing her fangs to her still-asleep lover. Still a bit dazed from her slumber, she lay down on his chest, which she hadn’t left during the night. She smiled and watched the pegasus, still in Luna’s world and with a strand a saliva coming out of his open mouth.

She didn’t know exactly why, but she found the image quite fascinating. Instead of waking him up, she watched him, and she saw the sun slowly crawling onto his beautiful face and his golden mane before the light of the morning star came to rest at his eyelids. She moved her wing slightly to shield him, and she surprised himself by sighing contently while watching him smile. This guard was really unique, and that’s why she loved him. She softly kissed his hooves before stroking her face with them, appreciating their softness. Even with all the hours standing up in their horseshoes during guard duty, they were as soft as Saddle Arabian silk. She smiled wickedly when she thought of all the places they could go during their next meeting.

Finally, her wing started to get tired, and Midnight had to lower it, letting her enemy touch the eyelids of the pegasus. He started to wake up by groaning a bit. He cracked an eye open, then another, before closing and opened them quickly. At first blurred, his vision focused on the face in front of him. He smiled. “Midnight…”

“Golden…” she continued.

They both smiled and kissed affectionately, the first kiss of the day, always the most beautiful for both of them. Still being a bit dazed made it sweeter, as reality and dream mixed at the moment their lips connected. Golden wrapped his hooves around Midnight and watched her after breaking the kiss. He raised his hoof and stroked her mane. “I thought you were already back in your camp,” he whispered, enjoying the quiet moment.

“Still got some time, and…” She paused and booped him with her hoof. “I didn’t want to wake up alone. I like to feel your body against mine when I wake up. It’s...nice,” she said, blushing a bit.

Golden smiled. “That’s it, you’re contaminated,” he said, putting his hooves on her back and bringing her close to him. “You’ll become super corny in no time. My plan is working…” Midnight stroked his mane with her hoof and answered.

“With the night we had, I’d like to. But with you, and only with you. I’ve got a reputation to keep up.”

“Oh? What reputation? Cutest batpony in the world?” Golden teased.

“Nah, the others know better than to tease me,” she said, frowning. “If not, they’ll get a taste of my fangs.” She showed them and hissed to look terrifying.

She didn’t scare Golden at all. He watched her for a few seconds before speaking. “If somepony had told me I would fall head over hooves for a batpony, I would have sent him to jail.”

Midnight rested her head on his chest and laughed. “And so do I. And in the end…” She turned her head towards him. “I don’t regret it. And the others can go to Tartarus.” She raised her hoof for a hoof-bump and Golden raised his.

“Buck them.” He bumped his hoof into hers and left it there, eventually dragging it softly across her fetlocks. When his hoof landed on her back, he touched her wings. An idea popped into his mind. “Midnight, can I touch your wings? After all, you’ve already touched mine,” he asked. Without turning her head, she unfolded them, blocking the sun behind her. Golden reached out a hoof and started to stroke them. They were cold and delicate. They had no feathers, but they were still so fragile. He dragged his hoof all the way up and down without getting any sort of shudder or anything from Midnight. He’d expected them to be more sensitive.

He spent some more time stroking them until Midnight broke the silence. “You know, you’re the first stallion to ever touch my wings. I hope you know how lucky you are.”

“Oh, yeah, I know I’m lucky, ‘cause they belong to the most beautiful batpony in Equestria.”

“You’re too kind, Golden,” she added, kissing his chest.

“What? Nopony ever said how beautiful you are?” he asked, raising an eyebrow.

She blushed a bit more. “Yes, but when my coltfriends said that, I didn’t felt like it was… like they really meant it, you know. But when it’s you, it’s so sweet and nice and all. That’s what I love about you,” she explained before kissing his cheek. “You’re honest.”

Golden stopped stroking her wings and unfolded his so that they both touched. “You know, what you did in the cave and yesterday… Preening my wings. That’s the most intimate thing a pegasus can do with somepony else,” he started. “Usually, it’s only a family thing, or something you do with very close friends and… lovers. You need to trust the other pony, because it only takes one small mistake to keep a pegasus stuck to the ground for a long time.” He continued to stroke his wings against hers. The touch sent small electric shocks into their spines.

Golden folded his wings and took a look around the room, to see if anything strange had happened during the night. After all, White was a master of sneaking. His eyes scanned the room from left to right, and he didn’t notice anything weird. At the edge of the bed, he saw his helmet and armor. He turned on his side and reached out a hoof to grab the golden helmet, putting it on Midnight’s head.

“Hey, this is blasphemy,” she laughed while the helmet fell on her head, letting her mane slip through the opening in the back. “Royal guard armor on a batpony… I know a few guys who would throw up.”

Golden finished to putting helmet on her head and took some time to look at the result. The gilded metal created a nice contrast with her dark fur, and it accentuated her golden eyes. The sun that shone above it made it even more beautiful, like a portrait drawn by the best painter in Equestria.
Golden stared at her for a few moments.

“So?” Midnight asked.

“You could make a very sexy royal guard,” he answered simply.

She approached his face and kissed him. After she broke the kiss, she smiled teasingly.

“How does it feel to kiss a batpony in your armor?”

“It’s very exciting. Especially when she’s so sexy. You want to try the rest of it?” he asked, lowering his gaze to the other pieces of his armor. Midnight nodded, and they both got off the bed, starting their work.

One by one, Golden put every piece of the armor on her, from the protections for the back to the horseshoes for his hooves. It gave him an opportunity to stare at his princess’ body. And her flanks. And her cutie mark, where he deposited a sweet kiss. They needed to stop a few times when Golden couldn’t help but tickle Midnight as she got dressed.

Once they were finished, Golden took a step back, and Midnight stepped closer to a mirror to check herself. She gleamed, literally, and she was the most beautiful thing in Equestria to the pegasus. It was like he was falling in love again with her. She looked closely at her reflection, almost not believing that she was seeing herself like that. Every piece of the armor seemed to be made for her, despite the slight difference in height, and she could have made any royal guard jealous.

“You… you…” Golden was at a loss for words and had to control himself to keep from jumping on her and cuddling her.

Midnight turned to Golden, who was smiling like a fool with his wings spread. “What? You can’t talk anymore?” she asked, moving closer to him. “Maybe this will help you…” She got up on her hind legs and kissed him lovingly. The kiss deepened when Golden came to his senses and joined her, and the armor rang when Midnight sat on her rump, flinching under the cuddling of her stallion.

When they finished, Golden let out a sigh of satisfaction and helped her to stand up. “Not when you’re so beautiful,” he managed to say. “I could eat you right now,” he said, licking his lips.

“Try that, and I’ll know where to put my fangs,” Midnight replied, passing in front of him and stroking her tail under his chin and all over his body, making him melt on the floor. “Even if the idea is pretty exciting.”

The batpony watched the clock and noticed that it was almost time to go. She took off the helmet, and Golden helped her with the rest of the armor.
“I promise, next time, I’ll come with my own armor, and I’ll give you the sexiest strip-tease you can imagine. And maybe a lap dance. But you owe me one, too.” The simple idea was enough to ignite Golden’s imagination, and his wings answered for him. She postponed her departure as much as she could and she never stopped to kiss, cuddle and embrace him, to memorize as much of the moment as they could s before their next meeting. But she couldn’t stop time, and she finally approached the window.

“Next Saturday?” she asked.

“Yeah, I’ll tell White to leave us alone for the night,” Golden explained. Silence fell between them for a few seconds, and the pegasus felt his throat tighten. “I know I’ll see you at work, but… It won’t be the same. I’ll miss you. I…” He choked a bit. “Sorry, it’s just that… I love you so much, Midnight. After last night and this morning, I can’t imagine being alone tomorrow morning.” He felt his eyes watered slightly.

Midnight noticed and put a hoof on his shoulder. “Hey, don’t cry, or I’ll call you a chicken every time we see each other,” she laughed a bit forcibly. She was in the same state as him, but she did everything she could to look strong. “Just a week. It’ll go fast. Think of me, and you’ll be okay.” She kissed him sweetly, and when the kiss stopped, the pegasus got an idea.

“Wait,” he said, stepping back. He looked into one of his drawers and took out a small gilded thing, some kind of brooch that he put in her hoof. “Take this. I got it the day I became a guard. You can look at it every day before we meet again, okay?”

She took the object and studied it closely: a sun, almost like his cutie mark. She put it on her mane and hid it under some strands of hair. “I promise. Goodbye, Golden. I love you,” she finished before kissing him one last time. Reluctantly, she broke away and took off, looking at him one last time before disappearing in the clouds.

The stallion stared for a long time at the sky behind the window. The sadness receded slowly, and the idea of seeing her again filled his mind with joy. He stepped back and let himself fall onto the bed, taking the sheets on his hooves to smell the sweet scent of lavender that emanated from it. He took deep breaths and lost himself in it, wishing that she was already back by his side, that he could feel her hooves on him again, her lips against his, her body against his….

He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn’t hear White come back a few minutes later. Golden reappeared under the covers and saw his friend, whose eyes were bloodshot.

“Oh… Hi, White. How did you sleep?” he asked, taking a more upright posture, as if everything was normal.

His friend yawned and sighed deeply. “If sleeping with Sunny Shield, the biggest snorer of all Equestria, can be considered a good night, then yeah, I spent a marvelous night staring at the ceiling,” White replied, nostrils twitching. He breathed again, quickly putting a hoof on his muzzle. “Jeez, it stinks. It’s bad enough to bring somepony back from the dead!” he exclaimed. He furrowed his eyes and did his best imitation of Shercolt Holmes. “I smell…” He breathed again, looked around him, and delivered the sentence. “The sex.”

Golden blushed and fell on the bed. “You don’t know the half of it.”

“Well, looking at the sheets, I think I have some idea,” White laughed. “Spare me the details, but I guess it’s only the beginning between you two ?” Golden nodded. “I’m happy for you, dude. Really. And what’s next?”

“Next?” Golden asked, a bit surprised.

“Yeah. Like, will you fly away to live your life freely, or will you stay here, living in constant fear of being busted?” White asked, breaking his friend’s happy mood.

Golden frowned a bit but answered anyway. “For now, things will stay the same. I’ll think about it. I can’t quit the guard that easily. It’s my life,” Golden explained.

“And she won’t become all that matters in your life? You’re crazy in love with her. It’s just a matter of time before you become sick of your life as a guard,” his friend explained seriously. He moved closer to him and lowered himself to be at his eye level. “When you want to go, don’t worry about me. I’ll help, ‘cause that’s what friends do. I’m your best friend, and that won’t change, never. Get it?”

Golden nodded and they gave each other a hoof-bump. “Thanks, White. You’re a really great pal.” They even hugged, and Golden imagined Midnight in his hooves for a short time.

“Dude, go take a shower. You stink.” White broke the dream and Golden reopened his eyes.

He got off the bed and went to the bathroom. A question popped into his mind. “White, what did you say to Sunny so he’d agreed to let you sleep in his room for the night?” he asked.

White smiled and put a hoof under his chin. “Oh, I just said you got some bad diarrhea and that was best to keep away from you. Get ready for some questions from the guards.”

Golden stopped, turned back, and jumped on his friend, who squirmed on the floor.

“Golden, stop! That was a joke! I… NO!!! GET THOSE SHEETS OUT OF MY NOSE!!! AHHHHH!!!!!”

A the batponies’ camp, batpony in armor knocked at the door of Midnight’s room. Frowned eyes and ready to explode, he knocked again, insistant.
“Midnight, we have a training at nine. Just because you had a day off yesterday doesn’t mean that you can sleep in! If you don’t open this door, I will break it down! So, I’m asking you for the last time, open to your lieutenant!” he commanded.

No answer.

That was too much for him. He hit the door strongly with his hoof, forced it open, and noticed a bed where he could see a suit of armor, seemingly with somepony inside. Starry raised an eyebrow and approached quietly, watching his surroundings just in case. Slowly, he reached out a hoof and pulled out the sheet, revealing some pillows put all the way in to fool everypony that looked through the window.

His anger got the best of him. His eyes frowned even more than usual. He gritted his teeth and hit the helmet with a strong blow of his hoof, breaking it in two. With his low voice, he declared, “Midnight, this is the last time you’ll fool me!”

Author's Note:

Not dead! Well, almost sometimes... but not dead!

New chapter! I promise you won't have to wait six months to get a new one. Thanks for sticking to that story.

Comments

[Starlight Nova]

If Midnight Storm and Golden Sun were voiced, what would they sound like?

[DoctorDerpy]

Cheesy, fluffy love story? That's just what I feel like right now

[metroid_freak]

Well with the wait.

[Dan]

[Dan]

7995224
Benedict Cumberbatch and Kikuko Inoue

[AyanamiRei]

Damn. I am on the edge of the seat and you're going to make me wait like that?? T_T

[pahnazd]

Almost sickeningly sweet. And I loved it

So, no eloping just yet?
I really wonder what will happen if they'll get busted. Well... not if, but when. Even better if they bring it to Luna and she'd be something along the lines of "meh, I don't have a problem with it as I never made a rule against it in the first place"

Anyway, great to see an update to this

[Advent Link]

That part about a friend having diarrhea to bunk with someone else, I'm so using next time.

[TheClassyLeviathan]

Whhhaaattt? Where's the bow chicka wow wow? The other one has it....but it's in french, and my macs translator makes everything sound goofy and weird.