Chapter 6

Firefly

I walked slowly through the tunnels, following Ricco, who held the torch with his tail, lighting the way. Cloud Skipper was next to the griffon, talking to him as we walked. The pyramid’s maze made it extremely difficult to try to know where you had been and where you hadn’t, it had felt like we had been going in circles since we had started.

I couldn’t help but notice how humid it was getting in there, I was sweating harder than I had been outside, I was almost panting.

“Is it getting hotter in here?” I asked the two.

Cloud Skipper looked back, “No, it’s actually pretty nice in here.” He said.

“Seriously?” I asked.

“Why would I lie?” He said.

I looked at the ground while we walked, trying to shake off the sudden humidity.

“I think we made it.” Ricco said.

I looked up, seeing a large wooden door.

“Anybody got a key?” Ricco asked.

“Are you kidding me?” Cloud Skipper said, putting his shoulder down and ramming into the door, breaking it off of the hinges.

“That works too.” I said, walking past the two and purposefully bumping into Cloud Skipper, stealing a look at his muscular, sweaty body.

As I entered, a room opened up before us.

“Yeah!” A voice shouted, “Run you bastards!”

Gunshots followed the sudden voice, to our right, a sandy colored stallion was taking shots at massive, alien-looking scorpions.

The mammoth insects skittered off through a large drainpipe to our left, evading the stallion.

When he holstered his weapon, he looked over to the three of us.

“Those huge bastards have been trying to take my loot all day!” He said, walking over to us with a cocky smile. “And it looks like I’m not the only one with a treasure.” He said, sliding next to me and wrapping a foreleg around my neck, “What is your name, sweetheart?”

“She’s blind.” Ricco said, “And taken.”

“By who?” The stallion and I asked simultaneously, holding me close, he smelled a bit like smoke and flowers.

“The royal guard.” Cloud said.

I smiled at him, leaving the new pony’s arm and standing by Cloud Skipper.

“Ah, I see.” He said, “Then great friends we shall become!” He announce, taking my hoof and kissing it.

I didn’t say it out loud, but he was pretty charming.

Ricco chuckled. “I don’t suppose you’d tell us your name?”

“Ah, where are my manners? My name is Buckshot, I’ve come here to look for a buried treasure, and I suppose that’s what you’re here for as well?”

“Nope.” Ricco said, “We’re here for other reasons.”

“Well, if you’d let me, I’d love to take a walk with you three, it gets kinda lonely down here,” He said, “Plus it’ll give me time to talk with the lady.”

“Company would be great.” I said, it would be nice to talk to somepony different other than these two.

I looked down the drain, seeing the end of it clearly, there didn’t seem to be anything inside of it, at least not right now.

As we all walked, Buckshot and I talked back and forth, he was talking about his last adventure, where he took an ancient relic while fighting off hundreds of giant spiders, he was like a non-fictional Daring Do. I would often chuckle at his jokes, and would burst out laughing as I looked at Cloud Skipper’s face, trying to hide his jealousy.

“So these scorpions, they’re like the spiders from your story, right?” Cloud Skipper asked, interrupting our conversation.

“Well, kind of,” Buckshot said, “There won’t be as many scorpions, but they’ll be twice as deadly,” He continued, “While the spiders can only bite you, the scorpions will be able to sting you and bite you.”

“Oh, great.” Cloud said.

“That means you’ll have to be extra careful with your eyes, love.” He said to me, making me blush hard.

“She’s blind still.” Ricco said.

“That’s what I said.” Buckshot said, looking over at the griffon.

“How can she be careful with something she doesn’t have?” Ricco asked.

“Well, she does have her eyes, but she needs to be careful if she can’t see them coming for her, if she wants to keep such a gorgeous body intact.” He said, making me giggle like a schoolfilly.

“Wow, you’d better keep an eye on this one, Cloud.” Ricco said.

“Already am.” Cloud gritted through his teeth.

“Don’t worry about me, Cloud, I can take care of myself.” I said, bumping into him affectionately.

He managed a smile at me, but I could tell it was forced.

I leaned over and kissed Cloud Skipper, pulling his head so I didn’t have to kiss his cheek. I noticed how much hotter it got as he proceeded to kiss me, getting it more intense by the second, he finally pulled away with a grin on his face.

I wanted to kiss him again so badly, I almost couldn’t keep myself still I wanted to so much.

I was really starting to get annoyed that nopony else felt the random temperature changes, or was even affected by them, I was the only one sweating.

I shook my head, realizing that had been the first time I had kissed Cloud Skipper like that. All I could think about was kissing him again, pinning him to the ground- or better yet, him pinning me to the ground and just full on making out with him, holding him close to me as mody body heated up and pushing him on his back, straddling him and-

My eyes widened, I now knew why I was having such sensual thoughts, it had somehow eluded me until now.

I was in heat.

And I was surrounded by stallions, surrounded by larger, stronger stallions that could do whatever they pleased to me at a moments notice.

“Uh…” Ricco raised an eyebrow, “Are you okay, Bubblegum?

“What?” I asked, swallowing the saliva in my mouth. “Yeah, totally. Is it hot in here?”

“Nope.”

“Oh, well, maybe I’m just being claustrophobic.” I lied, my eyes darting to the larger figures around me. “Maybe we should just fuu... find the elements of harmony!” I caught myself.

“That’s a great idea. Cloud Skipper, Bigshot, you get the front.” Ricco said, “Bub...Firefly and I will get the back.”

Dirty thoughts rolled around in my mind as his said front and back, making me almost giddy all of the sudden.

Cloud Skipper was happy to get me away from Buckshot, and took up the front with him, Ricco came back to where I was walking.

This was bad, really bad. Even the word ‘came’ was bouncing around in my head.

“I know what’s going on, Firefly.” Ricco said.

“What do you mean?” I asked, trying to act like I wasn’t shaking like a leaf.

“Don’t be coy, your unprofessionalism could ruin the mission.” Ricco said, “Get it together.”

“How would I ruin the mission?” I asked with a crazy laugh, “I’m completely fine, nothing is wrong, and I’m being completely professional about the mission.” I rambled.

“Fuck.” Ricco said blatantly.

I couldn’t help but blush intensely from such a blunt, but naughty word. “Stop it.” I said.

“If you were to get out of control in here, you might endanger all of our lives.” Ricco said, grabbing one of my hooves, “You could trigger a trap, or worse.”

“I have no idea what you mean, I am in perfect control of my sexual nature.” I said, letting ‘sex’ trigger a few images in my mind.

“Cum, fuck, enima, bondage, sixty-nine-” Ricco listed.

I slapped him, trying to get the words out of my head. “Ricco, you’re just making it worse.” I growled.

“Realize how bad it would be if you lost it.” Ricco said, “I could take you outside and they could fight Discord.”

“Me and you? Outside? Alone?” I said, “Perfect!” I shouted, getting a bit of attention from the two stallions in front.

“You know that’s not what I was implying.” Ricco said, turning back towards the stallions, “Let’s keep moving.”

Now I was just getting frustrated, I had been in heat twice before, and I had Thunder Cloud with me both times, and he kept me under control, now I had these three, one I was too embarrassed to even admit I was in heat to, the other probably wouldn’t end well with Cloud Skipper and him.

I stopped, sitting down and looking at the floor of the pipe we were in.

Cloud Skipper noticed, as did Ricco, making both of them stop. Buckshot followed after a few seconds as well.

“Are you okay, Firefly?” Cloud asked, sitting next to me.

I shook my head from side to side.

“Are you tired?” Buckshot asked.

I repeated.

“Ricco, has she said anything when she was next to you?” Cloud asked.

I looked up at Ricco, who scowled down.

“Well, she did yell perfect.” Ricco said, “But that was it.”

I was going crazy with the three of them around me, I couldn’t stand this for much longer, I needed a stallion. Right now.

“I...” I said, feeling even more turned on by the second.

“I think she needs some air.” Ricco said, “You guys go on ahead, I’ll take her out of here.”

Cloud Skipper placed a hoof on my shoulder, keeping it there as he spoke. “We won’t go far, and we’ll wait for you two.”

I nodded, knowing I would say something wrong if I spoke.

“Good, this’ll give you two some time to connect.” Ricco said to the two stallions, simultaneously getting me to my feet, “You both know Equestrian, that’s a good place to start.”

As we exited the drainpipe, I stopped again, pressing my back into a wall.

“Oh come on!” Ricco said, getting irritated.

“Ricco, you don’t understand.” I said, trying to clear my cloudy head. “I need, like need this, mare’s don’t go without it when they are in heat.”

“They can, and you will.” Ricco said, sitting down in the sand.

“Ricco, please.” I said, “I need Cloud Skipper right now, I can’t be like this for the next few days.”

“You can wait until we’re out of the pyramid for good.” Ricco said, “Now get your head out of the gutter and back on your shoulders, you are a mare who’s gone through some bad things, you can handle it.”

I got up and started walking back down the drainpipe, seeing Cloud Skipper at the end of it with Buckshot. Ricco and I ran to the end of it.

Nothing. Nothing was here, no Elements, no bearers, no Discord. We did have a few clues, but nothing other than that, we now knew he was jumping around from place to place with the elements and their bearers, trying to make his trail impossible to follow. Celestia would have to detect his magic directly as it was in use, and not follow the residue left behind from it, or we would have to try to intercept him.

That was what we would have to do, we took Discord’s map, and the pictures of the elements and their bearers, Buckshot was as disappointed as we were, apparently the place Discord had taken shelter in was the main chamber, and was supposed to house a completely diamond goblet, surrounded by bits and assorted gems. Ricco laughed his head off when we found out there wasn’t any treasure.

“Oh, the irony is just sickening.” He gasped.

Luckily, we didn’t have to go all the way back through the pyramid, Discord had made some stairs leading to the main tunnel we entered, a stone wall would drop down as we pulled a lever, also to our luck, the sandstorm had passed and we could see a large village in the distance.

Buckshot came with us after her accepted that the treasure was lost, he said he had been to this pyramid a few times before and had never noticed the village before, but we ignored him.

At least I did.

As we arrived in the village, we immediately found our way to a hotel, seeing that the sun was quickly falling, darkening the desert.

As we checked in, I couldn’t help but notice the constant smile on the cashier’s face, even when she spoke her smile was still there.

I shook my head, heading up the stairs with Ricco, Cloud Skipper and Buckshot.

We had rented out the biggest room, it had three beds in two bedrooms, two smaller ones in one while the master was in its own room. There were also two bathrooms, a full kitchen and a large living room to separate everything.

Buckshot tried to argue that Cloud Skipper and I didn’t get the master bedroom because ‘Treasure hunting was a hard job’ but we didn’t break and kept the room.

All four of us were in the living room, I was talking to Cloud Skipper in his lap, Buckshot was reading and Ricco was napping in a chair.

“Buckshot, Ricco, I think we’re gonna turn in.” Cloud Skipper said as he brushed his hoof through my mane.

Ricco was out like a light, not responding at all, and Buckshot barely raised his head.

“I suppose I should as well.” Buckshot said, standing up and stretching, he looked over at Ricco and took out his revolver, smacking the griffon in the stomach rather hard, then walking into the bedroom.

Before Ricco went on a rampage, we escaped into our bedroom, where we quickly got under the covers, snuggled against each other and fell fast asleep. Next Chapter: Chapter 7 Estimated time remaining: 39 Minutes