We're sorry you had to see that, dear.
Fluttershy sat at the kitchen table, shaking, and blowing on a steaming mug of hot chocolate.
Her father carried a mug of tea to her mom, sitting at the opposite side of the table, and then Dad sat down, too.
"So," Mom said. "I'm sorry you saw that. Why... why are you home from school early, dear?"
Fluttershy took a sip of chocolate, but spilled several spoonfuls on her forehooves. It burned her skin, but she ignored it. "I have a fever. The nurse sent me home."
"Oh! Oh no! Do you feel all right?"
"Not really," Fluttershy said. "I have a sore throat, and my right ear is blocked. When I blew my nose, it was nasty and green."
Mom frowned. "We'll have to take you to your doctor in the morning, they'll be closed for the day before I can get there with you this afternoon. I'm moving so slowly...." Mom patted her extremely pregnant belly.
"I can take her, dear," Dad said. "We'll make it if I carry her and fly. You just stay here and rest."
"No!" Fluttershy said. "I'm not going anywhere until you explain to me what... how... why... that thing I saw!"
Mom and Dad sighed.
"What we were doing," Mom began.
"Is perfectly natural and normal," Dad continued.
"It's how two grownups who love each other," Mom said.
"Make a foal," Dad told her. "How a mare gets pregnant. It's just part of life."
"A wonderful part of life," Mom finished.
Fluttershy held her nose above the mug of chocolate and sniffed. The steam entered her sinuses, and helped relieve some of the pressure and pain from her burgeoning head cold.
But what she had seen just ten minutes before..... nothing was relieving the pressure or pain those sights, smells, and sounds were leaving inside her head. She continued shaking. Her wings drooped.
"I.... I don't understand."
Dad rubbed his chin. "We hadn't planned to have this conversation with you for a few more years, but I suppose today is going to be the day."
"Why?" Fluttershy said. "Why wait until I'm older?"
"He's your father, right?" Mom said. "You understand that I carried you in my belly for almost a year, and then you came out as a baby. What does a father have to do with making the foal?"
"I don't understand."
"You love those library books about animals, down dirtside, right?" Dad said. "The baby animal books? How are baby animals made?"
"Animals do that too? Yuck yuck yuck!" Fluttershy clenched her eyes.
"Dear," Dad said, "Ponies are animals, too, you know. We can build houses and change the weather—but we're not so different from any other mammal, really."
"But Mom!" Fluttershy said. "You're already pregnant. You said my little sister—"
"Or brother."
"—or my brother will be born any day now. Why are you trying to make a foal when you already have a foal inside you?"
"The difference between ponies and animals is," Mom said, "Ponies sometimes do... what we were doing... for reasons other than to make a foal."
"What kind of reasons?" Fluttershy looked up at Mom and Dad, but her mane fell over her eyes, and she just left it there.
"Well, for one," Dad said, "It's fun."
"It didn't look fun," Fluttershy said. "You two were... were... sweating. And grunting. And trying to stay balanced...."
"I'm eleven moons pregnant, Fluttershy," Mom said. "I have trouble balancing under any circumstance."
"But," Dad said, "this is something two ponies, a married couple, do for fun, and because it lets them get closer. Love each other more, and more deeply."
"That doesn't make sense," Flutershy said.
"It's true, though," Mom said.
"But... but Dad... his... his... was in your vagoo, Mom!"
"I know, I know, that's how it works, dear," Mom said. "I'm sorry you had to learn it this way, instead of from us sitting you down and talking to you."
"Or from a book," Dad said. "That was what we were planning, when you were a little older."
"So... it... is fun?" Fluttershy asked. "I don't think I believe you."
"'It' is called 'sex,' dear, or 'making love.' And it's the most fun thing in the world... well, usually. When you're this pregnant it's more of a chore than fun." Mom reached across the table to place a hoof on Fluttershy's.
Fluttershy drew back before Mom could touch her. "I have a cold. You don't want to get it, and hurt the baby."
Mom grimaced, and put the hoof on her belly.
"Mom, Dad.... you didn't look like you were having fun."
"Really, we weren't," Mom said.
Dad's eyebrows arched. "Speak for yourself."
"But," Mom continued, "there are other reasons to do that sort of thing. You know that babies come out... the vagoo, right?"
Fluttershy nodded, looking down at her mug of chocolate again.
"So after your sister or brother comes, my vagoo will be.... very sore... for several months. We'll all be tired from taking care of the baby. You father and I, just in general, will not want to make love for a while."
"So.... so.... so you wanted to get in a last.... time?"
"Not wanted," Dad said. "Needed."
"I don't understand," Fluttershy whispered.
Mom waved around the house. "Look at this. Table, chairs, counters, oven, rug, pantry. In the living room, couches, bookshelves, recliner, fireplace, coffee table. What keeps these objects from falling through the clouds and smashing some unicorn or earth pony on the head?"
Fluttershy looked up, and cocked her head to get the hair out of her eyes. "Pegasus magic."
"What kind of pegasus magic?" Dad asked.
"I– I– I– I don't know."
"If two pegasi make love on a piece of furniture, it will charge up its cloud-balancing magic for six months, or a year. But that's the only known way to make the magic work."
"That's why you two were.... making love.... sitting on the edge of the baby's crib? ....wait, who discovered that magic in the first place?"
"We'd already recharged the changing table and the baby's dresser today," Mom said, and tapped a hoof on the kitchen table. "And this table. We keep a ledger of every piece of furniture in the house. All pegasi who own a cloud house or apartment have to keep careful notes, or their furniture will start falling through the clouds onto ponies below."
"If you hit a pony on the head with a dresser," Dad said, "you could go to jail. Keeping furniture's magic charged is an important part of being a pegasus adult."
"But.... but.... but you said 'making love' is for two ponies who love each other very much. What about ponies like Aunt Stormy, who aren't married?"
Dad rubbed his face with his hooves. "That's a fair question, but I was hoping you wouldn't think to ask it for a few years. Two single pegasi will make an arrangement, even if they don't love each other, to keep their houses from falling apart."
"What about our desks at school?"
"The teachers.... um...." Mom trailed off.
Fluttershy had a thought, and passed out, falling right out of her chair.
Fluttershy woke up fifteen minutes later, tucked into her own bed.
"Honey! Dear!" Mom said.
"What happened? You fainted on us!" Dad said.
Fluttershy bounded out of bed and scrambled across the room, backing her tail into the corner opposite the bed. She pointed at the bed with her hoof.
"Mom! Dad! Why doesn't my bed fall through the clouds? What did you do while I wasn't at home?!?"
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Fluttershy, you don't wanna know. Derpibooru id: 1175485.
Holy crap I actually wasn’t expecting that sudden twist! I’d be laughing my ass off right now if not for the fact that I’m at work and struggling not to lest some unfortunate questions be asked.
Good job!
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Thanks!!!!
actually if there is a carpet under the bed, they don't have to do anything on the bed at all. In fact it would be easier and smarter to have carpets or large mats to cover floors that way.
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Wow. That's why I love this fandom: silly idea, serious responses!
Thanks!
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No problem. I love to think on how such magic would work, and everything about pegasus magic seems to work on doing things by action. Now I wondering how they keep lighting trapped in bottles.
Well thanks. now I'm going to be thinking about this of all things.
Clever idea though.
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Ah, but imagine, 12 years later, when Flutterbutt tells this story to Zephyr.
What will HE be thinking about?
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I make it a particular point to never contemplate what Zephyr is thinking about.
That's the kind of parental bullshittery that ends up with veeeeeery unfortunate urban legends and childhood trauma.
Mostly trauma.
~Skeeter The Lurker
Good lord. No wonder Flutters lives on the ground.
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Not a happy Flutterbutt that day, nope!
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Flutteerbutt?
I have no idea what I just read... but I loved it!
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Thanks!
That did not go where I expected it to but that made it that much funnier.
While the premise is absurd, the humor was real.
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Thank you!
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Achievement unlocked!
That is exactly the response I hoped for!
Awesome, but I would have thought horny teenagers would've also gotten involved - via various methods.
Also, the 's' and 'h' need to be switched around.
Interesting thought...they slip her a sleeping potion before she goes to bed, then they have some 'family fun' with her. It's her bed, so why shouldn't her magic infuse it?
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Thank you!!
Welp, this was as silly as you promised on Discord.
You know what I really have to wonder about? Wonderbolt HQ has that huge runway. I guess maintaining it is a team effort.
Only quibbles are the swap at the start from calling them "Fluttershy's mom/dad" to just "Mom/Dad" and the overuse of dots in a few ellipses. Some great work otherwise!
Oh no no no no no no no.
No.
No!
But yes.
Oooooohhh mmmmyyyy...
That was an adventure. It makes sense, really, a release of energy into the environment can make an imprint and leave behind some magic. And since unicorns can't really do pegasus magic, its up to the pegasi to charge the enchantments with their magic. Though that doesn't really explain cloudwalking spells.
Maybe it makes a feedback loop that can kind of simulate pegasus magic in the bodies of other ponies.
Great read and silly concept, I love it!
That......that took a turn. A comedic turn but a turn nonetheless.
I think I may have an inkling
!!!
Wait... why doesn't rainbow dash's furniture fall though her house then?
...
Oh, she has enough self love to power her house for YEARS.
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OOOOOOOHHHHH SHIT!!!!!!
Shots fired!! Shits going down like 1776!!!
HAHAHAHAHA!
This was hilarious.
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Or maybe Thunderlane?
Or perhaps even Fluttershy, Flitter, Cloudchaser, or Blossomforth -- I don't know if the magic swings both sides of the fence or not........
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Thank you!
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The unknown mechanics of how pegasus ponies work is very fun to read about, and make very good stories. I remember one where the big reveal was that pegasi pooped clouds, and that was why Rainbow Dash was able to afford her own cloud mansion.
But that should mean that any earth or unicorn pony that a pegasus sleeps with would also be able to stand on clouds. Might there possibly be a sequel where we see Fluttershy help cast the cloud-walking spell on her friends so they could go cheer Rainbow on at the Best Young Flyer's Competition?
This story certainly scores points for humor and originality. I've never heard THAT explanation for Pegasus magic before. This was enjoyable to read. But now I'm going to be thinking about magic working in similar ways for other species/races in MLP. Not sure how I feel about that. lol
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Then I've done my job!
Thanks!
And years later, she learned about the unicorn cloudwalking spell.
They're still rebuilding Stratocumulus Street...
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Thanks!
The twist was creative! The bit with the ledgers was nice attention to detail.
My own fanon is that pegasus blood smeared on the bottom of an object will do the trick. There might also be unicorn magic, but the major implication is that when a young pegasus applies a razor blade to themselves it is ALMOST NEVER because they have an emotional problem, but rather because they are doing that experiment... like making a baking soda+vinegar volcano, except riskier. Gotta have a clean and sharp blade, leaving blood around is hardly hygienic, cutting too deep especially when trying to do too many/too big of an object at once especially if embarrassment delays seeking appropriate treatment, anemia (rare).
Unfortunately, I feel that as a setting designed to teach virtue, even fanfic should do so. To support this, I have a standing rule to downvote any story involving sex outside of a monogamy. This results in a surprising number of otherwise excellent stories getting downvoted, and I know my tiny efforts do little to influence what other people read, but I stand on my principles. I also try to explain this more often than most people do their downvotes, because that is something that I know a lot of authors appreciate and it might theoretically influence their future writings.
Nice,lol!
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Even if you disagree with sex before marriage could you please not try to impose these beliefs on others.
I believe that you ment sex before marrage as Polygamy is the practice of having multiple romantic or sexual partners at the same time. If you did mean polygamy then the story doesn't talk about polygamy it only talks about having sexual arrangements with others. You saying that this story has polygamy in it is like saying dating is polygamy as it never says that there is polygamy in it. Overall you should at least retract your dislike for this story.
You know, I don’t know what I was expecting, but I certainly wasn’t expecting something like this! That was a good twist!
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Thank you!
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What is married sex, like, 3% of FIMfic?
Heck, straight is probably less than 40%.
My clopfics (between this account and AtomicClop) all have massively positive vote ratios, and none of them are married.
Imma keep doing what I'm doing, mmmm'kay?
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Romans 12:14-21; Romans 2:1-11. I rather like the King James and New King James writing of most of these verses, but any bible you prefer will do. (Of course, it's preferable to read whole chapters or books if you have the time.)
Bible aside, you're not sending the message that you wish. Petty human "punishments" only teach others to distrust and reject you. At best, you will be ignored. More commonly you will live in endless, needless strife within your fears and imaginings, if not with other people as well.
But I have doubts it was a church (or whatever your denomination may have) where you first saw to act in this way towards others.
Family members are asking me why I was losing it laughing... I can't tell them the truth..
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Glad to help!
At first, everything seemed sweet, simple and standart.
And then it was
Well done!