The continuation of That Moment You Realize You're Awake, following the lives of Spring Song and Lightning Flicker.
*The sequel for "That Moment You Realize You're awake."*
Jumping ahead roughly 16 years, after Seethe Master and Celestia wed, their two foals (Spring Song and Lightning Flicker) must find their own ways in life, and it seems things always find away to reach their strict rule-bound mother, and lenient happy-go father. The two foals, now adults, must find their place in life, whether it be in government or somewhere else.
Meanwhile, Seethe and Celestia struggle with emotional problems caused by a feeling of age. One of them will eventually take desperate action to save their love. Eventually their problems reach the public and a major concern is raised over the idea of the Equestrian Government fall apart due to relationship problems. Soon, being the talk over every gossip magazine and newspaper, Celestia and Seethe lock themselves away.
Seethe was having an interesting day to say the very least. It was his birthday, so Celestia insisted on partaking in some sort of celebration. Even after a torrent of "No it's not necessary"s from Seethe. In the hopes of preventing anything massive Seethe scheduled a show for that morning.
"So.....How is everypony today?" Seethe asked from stage looking over the crowd. He received a barrage of "Alright", "Excellent!" and other variants. Then some joker in the crowd decided to say "Horrid!". Seethe chuckled and responded. "What did you go blind?"
He received a "No."
"Then you, sir, are not 'horrid' you are doing fairly well." Seethe stated then going into a story. "My worst day was about five or six days before my wedding. You see I got kidnapped by some zombie-bug thing and a........ya know I never quite understood what that Discord fella even IS. For any religious nuts here did your god or gods create that f***er? I mean really! What is that? It's like some dragon mixed with a chicken, a pony, a bull and a torrent of other creatures. To make a Discord you take all those creatures I listed, throw them into a blender one by one. Mix the liquid, drink it, pee it out, drink that urine, then force your digestive system to commit suicide and what the corner finds in your stomach is Discord." The crowd burst into an ocean of shear joy, laughing their own heads off.
As far as Seethe's comedy shows go, this one was going pretty well.
"Any how, this zombie-bug....ya know what let's just call it a bug; I don't want to confuse anypony, so this bug and a Discord kidnap me five days before my own wedding so they could brainwash my wife. Well you see when they kidnapped me they threw me in some underground cave thing. I drove myself blind trying to dig through the wall. Now I do have my vision back, with the occasional re-lapse when my heart gets racing. Now let's list the situations in which my heart races, shall we? Well we've got: intense arguments, physical contests like racing, and oh yeah....sex."
The crowd burst into a spree of laughter. Once they calmed Seethe continued.
"Yeah. Whenever we sex; we as in me and Celly, not any of you and me." He said gesturing from himself to the crowd generating a few laughs. "Not to insult but I like my booty to be royal. Anyway, when Celly and have have sex she basically turns into my moaning seeing eye-dog." Seethe let the crowd laugh a bit then put on his best Celestia voice. " 'Tilt your head twenty degrees! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....thats my tail! AHHHHHHHHH! Rath maga!" The crowd burst into tears as Seethe made a few orgasmic faces. Then gave them a serious look. "Yeah even Celestia makes up words sometimes. I swear whenever we have sex she turns into a voodoo-demon. She's going like 'Kallly maaaa........KaLLY MAAAA..........KALI- SEETHE! THAT'S MY EAR!'. Meanwhile I'm blind as a bat and trying to navigate that rugged terrain by feel and smell. Now even royal-rears smell funky so smell works pretty well if I'm trapped in the back-lands. Well Celestia always gets mad at me when I sniff about. She says it's like having sex with a dog. Well then she's making love to a blind blood-hound, I'm making love to an angry seeing eye dog. Kinda awkward." Through out that line Seethe was giving long pauses after each sentence to allow the laughter to lighten."
Seethe went on through out the show skipping about on his topics. Going from politics to more sexual jokes he kept the audience laughing and had a fairly good show. After the show he went straight to the bar and was greeted with many mares and some stallions wanting to buy him a drink. To stop them he shouted "First round of drinks is on me!" then went to the bar and ordered himself something to dampen his dry throat. After many years on stage he learned one thing at least, the water on stage goes by FAST. Today's show was two hours long so that glass of water had disappeared by about the forty five minute mark.
Long after the show Seethe was fairly buzzed by noon and had just arrived back at his room in the Castle at Canterlot but found the light switch didn't work. "Oh great." He said sarcastically. "Stupid faulty wiring." he said walking into the dark room and feeling about for the bed. Once he found it he climbed right in, covered up and nearly immediately began napping.
Some time later Seethe was stirred by a gentle touch followed by Celestia's voice.
"Seethe? Wake up." She whispered into his right ear.
Seethe didn't want to wake up he was quite happy in his dream-like state of mid-sleep, mid-consciousness. He said one sentence "Do whatever you want just try not to get my face wet."
"Fine then well I'll just eat this chocolate cake myself..." Celestia said slyly.
That caught Seethe's attention. "Hey, wait!" he exclaimed rising quickly from his slumber. He brought his eyes right open and saw Celestia levitating a small birthday cake with 42 candles and "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOVE!" written in light red frosting. It was a nice chocolate cake with a chocolate icing as well.
"Oh....you want a piece?" Celestia asked levitating two forks.
"Of course!" Seethe said with a smile. He tried to take a fork from her magical grip but she shunned him.
"No cake before you blow out your candles." She said moving the cake just a few inches from his face.
Seethe smiled at his wife. Then closed his eyes, made a wish and blew out his 42 candles. As the candles were blown out and magically flung from the cake into a trash can, the rest of cake came apart into 6 slices and one was immediately shoved into Seethe's face. He was able to swallow most of the cake but the rest was smeared across his face.
"Hmm....." He hummed as he swallowed the cake.
"Like it?" Celestia asked as she took a for full in her mouth.
"Yeah." Seethe said licking his lips. He went to wipe cake away from his eyes but Celestia stopped him.
"Wait let me do that!" She said with a giggle.
"Fine." Seethe said figuring she was just going to use a napkin or her own hoof to wipe it off his eyes. He nearly jumped when he felt a moist tongue touch his face. When Celestia was finished licking cake off his face the two of them shared a laugh and were once again reminded of why they married.
Seethe grumbled as the dusk sun shone through the crack between the purple drapes of the window and into his face. "Not again..." he mumbled as he realized he was awake once again. The only difference between now and earlier was his buzz had turned to hangover. Seethe rolled over and threw his hoof over the nearest warm body. He found Celestia and pulled himself closer and tried to go return to his slumber. He felt her wrap a hoof around him and then pull the satin blanket onto the both of them.
"Seethe?" Celestia whispered giving him a gentle nudge.
"He's asleep." Seethe responded burying his head into Celestia's chest trying to return to his dream world.
"Not if he just responded to me, he isn't." Celestia said playfully biting his cheek. "How about we go down stairs to dinner and then come back for a round two?" she asked giving him a few kisses on the cheek.
"Can't we skip the dinner?" Seethe asked keeping his head buried.
"Sadly no. Ligthning Flicker is returning from Las Pegasus and wants us to meet his mare friend, so get up." Celestia said nudging him away from her.
Seethe gave a loud groan. "Can't we meet his mare friend another time?"
"No, and you know that colt friend Spring Song brought last week?" Celestia asked rising from bed and lighting up her horn to help her navigate. "Also I sent for somepony to fix the lights in here."
"Yeah I remember her colt friend. The trumpet player right? Was that the dinner in which I had to leave because Twilight told a racial joke and I was forced to leave because and angry mob had gathered outside her home?" Seethe asked as he got up as well. "And.....good."
"Yes, dear." Celestia answered as she walked to the restroom to groom herself for the dinner. "Come on, Seethe, lets groom each other in preparation." ____________________________________________
Seethe and Celestia sat down at the head of the table in the large atrium like dining room. The new-looking mahogany table shone as if just washed and shined. A gentle evening song was played by a well-dressed band composed of mares and stallions of posh stature. Many members of the staff and a few high ranking Royal Guards sat at the table. The table itself was nearly 20 meters long and 6 meters wide, so long range communication was a tad difficult.
Seethe and Celestia exchanged glances as drinks and drink glasses were brought out by posh-dressed waitresses. Seethe and Celestia shared a normal glass of red wine using the unorthodox method of drinking called "Straws".
Spring Song, the yellow alicorn mare with a light red mane and tail. She was followed by some equal-sized Pegasus Stallion who appeared quite nervous when Seethe cast a gaze towards him. Spring Song and her colt friend took their seats to Celestia and Seethe's right. The colt friend sitting on Spring Song's right, she saw her father giving the colt friend an cautious expression and leaned in towards the nervous stallion then kissed his cheek. He nearly jumped and shot her a scared expression like she had ordered her father to burn him alive.
"You seem odd." Seethe stated with a smile now forming on his face. "Something wrong, boy?"
"Oh umm....no...sir!" The young stallion said with panicking eyes directed towards Seethe.
"Well then take chill out. You seem like you expect me to vaporize you." Seethe said sipping from the large glass of shared wine.
"Maybe you should." Celestia said jokingly, scaring the little stallion out of his wits.
"Ah!" He whispered hastily ducking slightly behind Spring Song.
"Fa-ah-ah-ther. Mo-o-o-om!"" Spring Song sang angrily. "Don't torture my da-ay-ay-ate!". Spring Song has a mental disorder where she must put some words to rhythm like she practicing her singing voice. After much medical testing Seethe and Celestia were told it was incurable, but decided it did no harm. This disorder has given Spring Song a wonderful singing voice over the years.
"Sorry. I couldn't resist." Seethe apologized with a chuckle. "Celly here is just mean. Sorry, uhhh....I'm sorry I can't remember your name."
Celestia gently poked Seethe in between his ribs beneath the table and caused him to wince slightly. The nervous stallion didn't seem to notice and answered Seethe in a quite calm voice. "I'm Silver Eagle. I go to school with your daughter, sir."
"Well I figured she didn't pick you up for a hundred bits at a nearby coffee shop..." Seethe said with a roll of his eyes. Celestia jabbed him in the ribs again. He moved slightly and found him sitting in an odd position, partially on his grapes, and poked Celestia's hind quarters with his right rear hoof. He was able to look as if he was still sitting normally.
Silver Eagle laughed nervously. "Right..."
"Please forgive my husband. He's basically Loki." Celestia said politely with a nod towards Silver Eagle.
"So, Silver Eagle, are you and Spring in the same musical group?" Seethe asked.
"Yes, sir. She's one of the first chair chorus mares and I'm a second chair trumpet player." Silver Eagle said with a smile to Seethe. "Just a few weeks ago we had a concert and our group received 'superior' ratings."
"I was in the audience. I remember that concert. I loved it." Seethe said with a nod and a remembering smile.
Just at his moment Lightning Flicker entered the dining room with his date. Lightning Flicker was a rather buff dark red alicorn stallion with a white mane, which had grown and odd light blue tint through its center and through the center of his white tail as well. Seethe caught eye of his date. It was none other the cyan mare, rainbow maned mare: Rainbow Dash.
Seethe and Celestia's eyes widened as their minds calculated the age difference in unison.
"Hey, Dad." Lighting Flicker said in a deep voice taking his seat at Seethe's left with Rainbow Dash to his left. He leaned over and kissed her on the lips. Seethe and Celestia both caught the slight movement of tongue between the two. Seethe felt his mind ready for an imminent implosion.
Seethe quickly leaned towards his son and whispered in his ear. "You do realize she's twice your age? Right?".
Lightning Flicker chuckled and the whispered back at his father. "Mom is thousands of years old. You're only forty something."
"Good point." Seethe said only to feel Celestia jab him in the ribs once again. He turned to his wife and she mouthed "Do something."
Seethe didn't really know what to do. His son was of legal age and so was Rainbow Dash, its not like he could forbid the older Rainbow Dash from dating his younger son. At least with out receiving resentment from his son. Seethe mouthed back to Celestia: "I can't."
Celestia decided to take matters into her own hooves. "Lightning Flicker, may I have a word with you in the kitchen."
"Of course, mom." Lightning Flicker said rising from his seat.
He and his mother walked into the busy kitchen and went into the back where the trash was usually tossed away. They took stands across from each other and Celestia started the scolding quickly. Her expression was serious and her tone was sharp and blunt against her son.
"You're going to break up that mare out there." She ordered bluntly.
Lightning Flicker tilted his head back and laughed. "What?! Why would I do that?!" He laughed at his mother, still unaware she was incredibly irked at the moment.
"Because she's twice your age. She's a cougar!" Celestia scolded. Now, besides Seethe she was the second tallest pony in Equestria. When she made him into an Alicorn, (To give him resilience to physical damage during sex), he took the stature and bulk of a male alicorn. There are also some mental buffs to prevent mind control (Sadly with the right know-how they are bypass-able.) and to increase thinking speeds by creating long-range connections between every part of the brain. Every part of Seethe's, Celestia's, Lightning Flicker's, and Spring Song's brains was connected with every other part. Is his cerebral cortex needs to know another language and do math at the same time, it can. Simple and genius, no?
"Your probably a million times Dad's age, though? I find that to be very hypocritical, honestly." Lightning Flicker said returning Celestia's serious tone, with his added chuckle.
"Your father and I are immortal. When you reach the age thirty you will be too. Forever stuck physically at thirty. Even if you were thirty Rainbow Dash would be a decade older than you."
"Well I'm of age, Mom, technically you have no say in my life besides suggestions." Lightning Flicker stated bluntly.
Celestia gave him and annoyed expression and stalked off.
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Dinner was silent that night. This silence added to Silver Eagle's anxiety, Spring Song spent most of dinner trying to help his nerves. Celestia simply ignored her son only giving him sharp glances every so often. Seethe tried to preoccupy his wife, via kissing, hugging, and talk. Rainbow Dash had felt out of place all through out dinner. When it ended she and Lightning Flicker retreated to his bedroom, Silver Eagle went home, Spring Song went to her bedroom, and finally Seethe and Celestia went back to their bedroom.
"There's really nothing we can do about it. If they wish to be together, so be it." Seethe said coolly as he held Celestia and gently stroked her mane. "Our family isn't exactly the most traditional. Let Lightning Flicker do as he wishes, it won't harm him, us, or anyone. Not unless we let it, eh?"
Celestia smiled and looked up at him. "Hey, Seethe?"
"Yes, love?" Seethe asked with a smile.
"Why do you have such a easy-going philosophy on life?" Celestia asked as Seethe continued to stroke her mane. She reached out a hoof and ran it through his generally messy mane.
Seethe was caught off by her deep question, he stopped stroking her mane and thought a second. He contemplated his entire life style in that mere second. "You know.....all my life I've never many enemies, and the ones I've had I've resolved out problems with talk. Never really any conflicts, except a few hoof fights when I was younger, so I try to maintain a 'live and let live', 'very forgiving', and 'loving and tolerating' kinda life style." Seethe explained, resuming his stroking of Celestia's mane.
"That's a very interesting life. Just like what I taught Twilight." Celestia said. smiling faintly at Seethe. She moved her head closer to his and began kissing him. Slipping her tongue into his mouth. Seethe gave a light hum, alerting her to his pleasure. Seethe broke away from her and said with a superior level of glee.
"Well at least I know what I'm doing tonight, now." Seethe said with a sly sort of, wicked grin. He stroked her mane again and went right back to her lips. Driving her down fully onto the satin sheets and burying the Princess and himself beneath them. __________________________________________________________
The morning after was something Seethe could never really master. Seethe, after a night of any sort of sex or high intensity activity like it, would generally be quite groggy. The high intensity combined with the length of the activity also has an affect upon his morning feelings. If he's up until one in the morning doing the equivalent of a mile sprint, yes he's going to irritable, tired, half-there five hours later. After two decades with the Princess of the Sun, he awoke at dawn.
That night had been a long lasting one. After an hour of foreplay Seethe had gone blind and needed his Seeing-eye Princess to guide him around the back lands of the sun goddess:
Seethe saw the final shapes and colors disperse from his vision. He now only saw darkness. He stopped his kissing and said quickly. "Blind."
Celestia sounded as if she was surprised. "Already?". Seethe felt her go for his neck with her lips. Warm wet sensations followed by the sound of puckered lips kissing flesh.
"Sadly, yes." Seethe responded, finding it continually difficult to maintain his composure.
"Well...usually we're able to get into a more intense bit before this happens. Fine, I guess I'll have to guide you a bit." Celestia said sighing and then giving him a pat on the head.
"A bit is an understatement." Seethe said with a chuckle trying to feel out the part of her body he was at. It was very fluffy but sort of firm. He guessed it was a wing. And one light nibble later his guess was confirmed when Celestia let out a light pleased gasp.
"Do that again...." She whispered in a barley audible voice.
Seethe's eye sight slowly recovered as he laid next to Celestia. She had her back to Seethe, breathing very lightly and letting out an occasional snore. He smiled lightly as he regained his vision fully, Seethe got out of bed. He felt the urge to pee. It was quite intense, it made Seethe's legs began to shake as his bladder wanted to release. However there was a knock on the door. Seethe cursed to himself and went to the door. He opened it and tried to halt his pee dance as much as possible.
"Oh." He said as he recognized the pony on the other side of the doorway. "Hey, Luna."
Princess Luna stood there before him with a grim look about her. Like she had received bad news somewhere on her way to the door. Maybe on her way to the door, lets call the door "Point A" from where ever she had come from, otherwise known as "Point B". Lets say somewhere along the path from Point B to Point A, Luna tripped in some bathroom hit her head on a toilet and forgot where she was going. Now without memory of where she was going, she went back to Point B. Found she was going to Point A before the fall, got frustrated with herself, went back on the path. Once she had returned to the point between Point A and Point B where she had fallen she received news about her fall. Some pony had seen her fall and noticed that Luna had accidentally slammed her head against the toilet then fallen into a little puddle of pee. Once she was told this she became very upset, returned to Point B, had tea, took a nap, then awoke and went back on the journey to point A. Now with the grim knowledge that she had face planted a puddle of pee.
"Something wrong?" Seethe asked as he took notice of her expression, even though he didn't really care and simply wanted to release the iron grip he had on his bladder. It was a polite expression of concern but not a genuine one.
"I was given vaguely unpleasant news." Luna said dully. She sighed. "Princess Cadence just gave birth and named her foal 'Woona.' "
"Well.....whats wrong with that?" Seethe asked as his rear legs began to shake violently.
"'Woona' is an old filly-hood name of mine. I used to say my name like that and it stuck with my sister and mother for a short time. I don't remember ever telling Cadence of this, but I think 'Tia might have. I wished to express my displeasure." Luna explained her facial expression remaining grim and heavily displeased.
"Well Celestia is asleep. Probably gonna be asleep for some time." Seethe said leaning to one side to give Luna a view of the sleeping Sun goddess. "May I relay a message?"
"Tell her. I...am not amuse." Luna said with a minor twinge of annoyance and then stalked off.
"Fine then. 'I...am very amused' " Seethe teased poking his head out side the bedroom.
"I give her the message later!" Luna called back annoyed. Seethe heard her laugh faintly as she neared the end of the hall.
"Well glad I could be of service." He said to himself as he shut the door. Then resumed his pee dance. "I really need to pee!" He said galloping into the bathroom.
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A few hours after a taco stand halfway across the universe closed, Celestia awoke. She was quite satisfied with the coitus that had occurred between herself and Seethe earlier. This satisfaction generated a good mood in her mind. It was as if she had just had a very good meal, received good news from her doctor telling her that the pain on her rear was not a hemorrhoid, and then taken a nice nap.
Seethe was halfway across the room beneath a nearby window, reading what appeared to be a mystery novel. The title was "The Prince in the bathroom with the hammer", Seethe seemed quite enveloped by the words on whatever page he was reading.
"How long have you been up, darling?" Celestia asked groggily.
Seethe looked up from the novel and smiled. "A few hours. I've been waiting for you to wake. Cadence finally gave birth today."
"Took them long enough. It's been at least two decades since they wed and we've had two foals that have grown and might be preparing to have foals of there own soon enough." Celestia said with a few light laughs. She cleared her throat. "Would you like to join me on the bed? Continue on that book, but next to me."
"Sure." Seethe said as he got off his rump and trotted around the bed and climbed right up. He buried most of his body beneath the covers and cuddled up against Celestia and went back to reading his book. Celestia smiled and kissed his cheek and levitated a book from the shelf Seethe had found his. She took and old science fiction novel began reading.
"So Seethe, how are you liking that novel?" Celestia asked as she leaned her head against his.
"It's good. Remind me to never hire a butler that may try to frame me for the murder of you." Seethe joked as he turned a page and wound up on chapter ten.
Celestia set down her novel. "Seethe, would you like to go out on a date like we used to?"
Seethe was perplexed by the question. "Why would we? We're married, we both have access to each other's privates nearly twenty four, seven, and to top it off isn't having dinner together like we always do a common 'date' activity?" Seethe asked as he wondered what brought this random question to Celestia's mind.
"Most of that is true but we don't usually dress up formally and go out dancing for fun or eat dinner for fun much anymore. We do it out of the requests of others. Just last month we went to a gala in Saddle Arabia and you weren't feeling well but went out dancing with me and the leader of the region out of diplomatic courtesy, not of your own accord." Celestia stated. She leaned in close to Seethe and bated her eye lashes. "Now I ask again: would you like to go out on a date?"
Seethe smiled. "Fine, fine. We'll go out on a date. What would you like to do?"
