“Come on, Mr. Ares, you need to go lower,” I heard Dr.Stitch say as we all watched the human go through some mild physical therapy to regain some of the muscle that he had lost while he was confined to his wheelchair.

“I’m getting there, Doc,” he panted out, his face scrunched up in concentration.

It had been a week since my little spat with Shiny and, honesty, everything was going alright. My Aunty's, Twilight, and I had been going through the Crystal Empires massive library to see if there was any hint of a way to get Ares to his ‘United States of America’.

So far all we had gotten were a few false hopes and dead ends, but we were all optimistic.

Though I was still mad at him, Shiny was really trying to play nice with Ares. The two even started talking to each other, kinda.

It still counts even if they glare at each other and their sentences usually consist of a snide remark or two. No, really, it does!

Ares grunted at the Doctor, his arms spread out wide for balance while he sunk down lower into what the doctor called a lunge, his face drenched in sweat.

He kinda looks like he’s in pain, I thought with some concern as he lunged past me so that I saw his shaking legs. Turning toward the doctor I said, “Doctor, maybe you should ease up on Ares a little bit, he looks like he’s going to throw up.”

“Nay, dear Niece!” Aunty Luna said as she munched on a bag of popcorn that she had gotten…... somewhere. “Our human friend can finish this!” I got a little uncomfortable when she licked her lips. “Besides, we always enjoy watching stallions sweat…”

The doctor looked up from her clipboard. “There’s no need to worry about Mr. Ares, Princess, he’s a big colt, he can deal with some lactic acid and sweating.”

Ares grunted again, showing the doctor one of his fingers, showing her that he could use a longbow, or at least that’s what he told me it meant when I asked him. “Doc, I’mma burn your house down you heartless, heartless bit-”

“Language, Ares, language,” Aunty Celestia said, her nose in one of the older tombs that we had found.

“-Batchfull of ice cream,” the human finished, giving the doctor a glare before he looked over to Aunt Luna. “Um, Princess Luna?”

“Yes my human friend?”

“Why do you have to be creepy?”

I fought back a smile when Aunty Luna slowly blinked. “We do not see the creepiness in our statement. We were simply stating a fact.”

“...I can respect that,I guess, it’s still weird though.”

Luna shrugged. “We cannot say that we care. Now prithee, continue your working out so we may gaze upon your backside!”

The panting human’s face lit up in concentration as he lowered himself down as far as he could, his arms still spread to keep from falling over. “J-Just one m-more,” he grunted, slowly going back down and up before carefully slumping to the ground.

“That’s it, I’m done, Doc,” he said, taking off his shirt and wiping his face with it. “Ah Christ, I’m gonna be sore tomorrow.”

“Ares,” Twilight said, looking up from her scribbling with an unsure look. “Would it be alright if I did a quick sketch of your—”

“Purple, if you get me a glass of water you can slap me and call me your bitch for all I care,” Ares gasped, laying on his back, flinching when Twilight let out a squee, disappearing and appearing a second later with a glass of water and hoofing it to him.

“Ares, are you alright?” I asked as Ares bumped the water onto his head with a happy sigh, Twilight’s magic gently grabbing one of his hands so she could better examine it.

“Eh,” he answered, looking down up at Twilight. “Now, you’re not gonna lose it again, are ya, Purple?”

Twilight blushed at that, looking away from him in guilt. “I really am sorry about th—”

She let out a little squeak when he bopped her on the nose tiredly. “It’s alright, just get on with what you’re doing while I glare at the demonic doctor over there a bit.”

For the first time since I’ve known her, Dr. Stitch snorted, making her way over to the human and poking him in various places. “I suppose that’s enough for today, Mr. Ares.”

“You are evil incarnate hiding in an adorable little body.”

I let out a giggle when the doctor bopped his nose. “And don’t you forget it,” she said, turning around and making her excuses to leave.

“I think she likes you,” Aunty Celestia said, not looking up from her book.

Ares snorted, slowly and carefully getting to his feet and popping what sounded like every joint in his body. “Whatever you say, Princess,” he muttered making his way toward her. “Say, Princess?”

“Hmm?”

“How about another round of chess? Come on, winner takes all.”

Aunty Celestia let out an unladylike snort, looking up at the human as we all suppressed groans. “Mr. Ares, do you really enjoy being defeated?”

Ares face scrunched up at that. “I wouldn’t lose so many times if you hadn’t cheated.”

Aunty Celestia raised an eyebrow. “That’s also what you said when I beat you at that game you introduced us to... what was it called again?”

“Liar’s dice… and you did cheat at that!”

“Though I do not agree with what you said I will fight to the death for you to say it.”

“ What?Are….. you messing with me?”

Aunty cracked a smile, closing the book and patting him on the cheek. “Of course not, dear, I would never do such a thing to anypony.”

Ares looked over to me, which almost made me lose it, but with willpower I didn’t know I had, I just shrugged.

“Alright then,” he carefully said. “So how about that chess game?...”

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You know the worst thing about watching a chess game? Other than the fact that you’re watching a chess game, the worst bit is when you know you can do better than one of the players playing. I mean, not to brag or anything, but I’m pretty good at chess; Aunty Celestia loves to play, so you kinda have to pick up on it.

Now, Ares wasn’t that bad at the game, but he took forever to make his move, just like he was now.

“Whenever you’re ready, Ares,” Aunty Celestia calmly said to the human, who was staring down at the chessboard like his life depended on it, his elbows on the table and his head in his hands.

He grunted, not breaking his gaze from the board. “Just give me a minute,” he muttered, making me groan.

“You’ve been staring at that board for the past five minutes,” I said in exasperation. “Just make a move!”

Ares looked up from the board at me. “I’m at a very important part of this game of the minds, Candy.”

“This is the sixth move, for crying out loud!”

His face scrunched up at that. “You don’t have to watch,” he told me, making a dismissive motion with his hand, his gaze going back down to the board. “Go on, I’m sure you have boring, princess-y things to do.”

My eye twitched at that. “Just make your move…bucking—”

“Language Cadence, language,” Aunty Celestia reprimanded as Ares finally moved his bishop. “You don’t need to put yourself down to Ares’s level,” she glanced over at him with a hint of a smirk.

Ares grinned at that. “Hey, I haven’t said anything. Talk about being judgmental…..” I blinked when the human immediately moved a pawn when aunty finished her move, the older alicorn moving just as quickly.

“Trying to shake me up, Mr. Ares?” Aunty asked with a teasing tone.

Ares grunted, moving his rook. “Check,” he muttered, frowning when Aunty took the offending piece off the board. “Damnit… Well, Princess, my pa always told me that you need to always keep an opponent off balance.”

Aunty raised an eyebrow. “Oh, is your father a chess player?”

The human smiled, his eyes getting a far off look. “My old man would always go down to our local park and play whatever with all of the other old people. Chess, checkers, chinese checkers, croquet, stuff like that.”

“Oh?”

He nodded, looking around. “Speaking of family members, where the heck did purple and Luna go? Hey Candy, where did your dear hubby get off to? I’m beginning to miss his glare.”

“Shiny took them around the town to do a little sightseeing,” I said, grinning when I saw Ares tried to cheat when Aunty wasn’t looking by moving his rook, only for his hand to be smacked away with a hoof.

“Ya, my old man’s an odd one,” Ares continued, looking back down at the board. “Not as bad as my mom though.”

“Oh?” I said, making my way over to Ares side, and sitting down.

“Yeah, she’s this tiny Polish woman that still has her accent from the old country. She's not great; always tries to poke her nose into other people’s business and tells them that they're wrong and she's right about everything. She’s a crack a cook though, and for my dad that's what counted when they got married," he hummed thoughtfully, "If you see her ask her for her cookie recipe, those cookies will change your life, trust me.”

“Check,” Aunty said, Ares moving accordingly. “Go on, Mr. Ares.”

The human let out a little chuckle. “She was so bad with her nosing around that I had to move out,” he sighed. “God, I hated that woman. I couldn’t even be in the same room as her for more than five minutes without us fighting.”

Sadness started to grow in his voice as he continued. “My little sister’s in her spitting image, little pain in the ass- and my brothers- if they don’t quit dicking around, one of them’s going to jail...…” He sighed again, his shoulders sagging. “God, I miss them.”

One of Aunty’s wings stretched out and patted Ares on the shoulder soothingly while I wrapped a wing around his back. “We are trying our hardest to find a way to get you home, Ares,” she said in her motherly tone.

“Yes we are,” I added, “But for now you’re going to have to deal with us for a little longer,” He cracked a smile at that, looking at the board.

“Oh woe is me, I have to deal with you and your husband!” Ares bemoaned mock-dramatically, Aunty and I rolling our eyes at his antics.

“You know,” Aunty said, moving a pawn, “You and Shining Armor should do something together. I don’t think that the dislike the two of you hold for each other is particularly healthy, nor does it do anything positive for anypony.”

“That’s what I told him!” I said, snorting when Ares ruffled my mane. I batted his hand away as he stroked his chin thoughtfully.

“You know, I noticed that your little garden’s lacking a certain special something, Candy,” he said slowly.

“Oh, and what is missing?” I asked, really not liking Ares’s smile.

“Yeah, Penny and I could do that, along with that coward Flash…”

My eyes narrowed at that. “Ares, what are you talking about?” I demanded, the human ignoring me.

“It would be a pain in the ass to make though...Hum, I could probably just use smoothed crystals instead of stones…. Oh, and princess, mate in ten.”

I spun Ares around, “Ares Aullus Tarerian! You will tell me what you’re going to do with my husband!”

He looked at me in confusion. “That’s not my last or middle name, Candy. I don’t even think those are words.”

I huffed. “What. Are. You. Going. To. Do?”

“Aren’t you still mad at your hus—”

He stopped when I growled. “I may not be happy with Shining, but I don’t want you accidently blowing him up!”

Celestia moved another piece calmly. “Cadence, dear, I think you’re overreacting just a tiny bit. Ares may be speaking about doing something with Shining that pertains to his line of work.”

“Mind reader,” the human accused, moving another chess piece. “But yeah, I was thinking me, Alicia, and Flashy could make a Zen garden.”

He glanced up at my bemused expression and promptly waved it off, “I’ll tell you about it later.” He moved a pawn, looking at Aunty Celestia with a bit of smugness. “And that’s ‘mate.”

Aunty smiled at the human, clapping her hooves together. “Well done, Mr. Ares.”

He narrowed his eyes at that, leaning toward her. “You… let me win, didn’t you?”

The two stared at each other before Aunty shook her head, a smile still on her face

“…”

“…I thought that you deserved to win one, Ares,” Aunty finally said.

Ares opened his mouth wide, but I stopped what was probably going to be a pretty big rant by putting my hoof in his mouth. “Calm down, Ares,” I told the wide-eyed human, taking my hoof out of his mouth. “Aunty was just trying to be nice.”

“I wasn’t going to yell!” Ares complained, wiping his mouth with a sleeve with a disgusted look on his face. “You didn’t need to do that! Christ, Candy, you walk on those! All I can taste is goddamn gravel and dirty now!”

I giggled, giving his back a little pat and summoning him a glass of water. “You wouldn’t have been so mad if Flash Sentry had done that,” I teased, Ares glaring down at me.

“If Flash would have tried that I’d throw him off the top of the castle,” he retorted sourly, swigging the water.

Aunty cocked her head at the human. “Are you still upset with Private Sentry, Ares?” She asked, the human spitting the water on the ground.

Ares looked at her calmly. “I think you’ve known me long enough to know I would never hold a grudge. Even though Flash left me in the crazy hooves of purple and your sister, I will forgive him…”

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Flash opened his newspaper while he did his business, humming a merry tune in his bathroom. Though being the personal guard to a princess was usually unnaturally hard, one of the main perks of it was that Flash had his own room, and a very nice bathroom to go with it.

Still reading his paper, the stallion's hoof reached for where his toilet paper was, only for the precious substance not to be there.

Flash grunted irritably, reaching with a wing to open the bottom of his bathroom’s sink, looking and not finding one roll, to his horror.

“Oh, buck,” he muttered, putting his paper down and looking around his bathroom from his toilet to see a simple note right above the toilet paper compartment.

Where is your god now, Flash?

All throughout the castle, if you listened closely enough, you could hear a rather manly wail of anger and despair.

“ARRRRRREEEEEESSSSS!”

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“What was that?” I asked, looking around. “Did anypony else hear that? The screaming?”

Ares looked suspiciously satisfied as he shook his head. “No, can’t say I did.” He tried to rise, only to fall back down into his seat shakily, Aunty and I regarding him with some alarm.

“Ares, are you alright?” I asked as he sighed, slowly nodding.

“I’m fine,” he muttered, looking down at the table. “It seems like the Doc put me through the ringer a little harsher than I had thought; I didn’t notice how sore I was…”

Celestia got up and walked over to Ares’ other side, giving him a gentle nuzzle on the cheek. “Do you need help, Ares?”

He grunted. “No, just give me a minute, I’ll be fine.”

“Ares,” she said gently. “Please, if you need help ask for it. Do not let pride get in your way.”

The human looked up at my aunt of a second, and I was afraid that he was going to tell her no, when he broke her gaze.

“…I don’t think I can get out of this chair right now,” he muttered, shifting in his seat uncomfortably.

Aunty patted his shoulder encouragingly. “And that is nothing to be ashamed of. Now, how about I help you up, hmm?”

I couldn’t help but smile when Ares meekly nodded, the princess using her magic to gently pick him up and place him carefully on her back. He loosely wrapped his arms around her neck, kicking her sides.

“Giddy up, Princess,” he muttered into her neck, Aunty and I giggling as we made our way of the gardens.

“You are lighter than you appeared, Ares,” Aunty remarked as we turned a corner.

I gave Ares a little teasing look. “That must be because you’re so much stronger than most ponies, Aunty; when I was carrying him he nearly broke my back.”

The human grumbled at that, kicking Aunties sides again. “Come on, Princess, let’s go to the kitchen. I wanna get a banana or something to help with this soreness.”

Aunty nodded, a small smile on her face. “I could go for a little nibble of something myself.”

My stomach rumbled loudly, Ares and Aunty Celestia looking over at me while my face got a bit red. “Um… I may be a little hungry too,” I admitted sheepishly, the two chuckling.

“Candy, you shouldn’t starve yourself like that; shit like that isn’t healthy,” Ares said. “You really should have said something earlier.”

“He’s right, Cadence,” Aunty said as I gawked at the accusation. I mean, I may watch what I eat but I don’t starve myself! “All you need is a little more exercise and your figure will be fine.”

IS SHE CALLING ME FAT?!, I thought mildly outraged as Ares nodded.

“Ya, Candy, all you need is a lap around the castle once or twice a day and you’ll lose that little belly.”

I was about to snap when they both grinned, me huffing at the rather mean joke. “That isn’t funny…” I muttered as the two chuckled.

“We are merely trying to involve you in our conversation, dear,” Aunty said. “You have been awfully quiet.”

Ares shrugged. “Not me, I just wanted to tease Candy. But now that you mention it, Candy does seem down in the dumps.”

I sighed at that as we made our way into the kitchen, Aunty helping Ares into a chair and the three of us ordering something to eat.

“It’s nothing…” I said, looking down at my glass, trying to sound like I meant it.

“Bull,” the human said, leaning on the table. “Come on, Candy, spill the beans and tell your uncle Ares what’s wrong.”

I snorted at that looking away. “Everything’s fine.”

I flinched when I felt Aunty’s wing on my shoulder. “I will not force it out of you, Cadence,” she said, “But I think that you will feel better if you tell us, or just me if you do not wish for Ares to hear.”

My mouth twitched when I saw Ares’ expression but I still sighed, putting my head on the table. “It’s just me and Shining,” I all but muttered, not looking at the two of them. “Whenever I try to talk to him, he just responds with this… cold voice.”

I gave the mares that brought us our food a tired smile. “Thank you.”

Ares took a big bite of his banana. “Well, you did send him to the doghouse. Give him a day or two and I’ll bet he stops being a baby.”

“Ares, dear, please do not talk with your mouth full,” Aunty said, talking a dainty bite of her daisy sandwich.

“Yes mom.”

Aunty ignored the human's comment, looking over at me with a warm smile. “I don’t think you have anything to worry about dear, it is-”

“It’s not just that!” I interrupted. “It’s that bucking blood test! I mean, how long can that take? What if there’s something wrong with me so we can’t-”

My head hit the table, me groaning, half out of frustration and half out of me being dumb enough to hit me head against a stone table. “I don’t know why this is stressing me out but it is!”

Ares let out a little chuckle. “You know, you and my sister would get along great, the two of you always freak out about things that you can’t help,” he sighed, looking over at Aunty as I glared at him.

“Hey Princess, when you get me back home do you think you might be able to make some kind of portal to my world?”

Aunty hummed, tapping her hoof against her chin. “I do not see why not; why do you ask, Ares?”

The human looked at her bewilderedly. “Are you kidding? I accidentally discovered a new world or universe or something like that. I might get a Nobel Prize or something!” He shrugged.

“I don’t know, but I kinda think you guys might do a little good on my Earth,” he gave me a little smile. “And then you can meet my kin, Candy,” he leaned back in his chair. “I can see it now, you and the other princesses all sitting in my Ma’s kitchen while she makes you perogies while my sister begs to do your manes.”

Despite my stress, I couldn’t help but smile at the image, though I didn’t know what a ‘pierogi’ was, Ares continuing. “Boy, I can just see my brother Jorge’s face when I bring you guys in the house,” he chuckled, looking down at his sandwich. “He’d shit his pants…”

When he looked back up at me as he took a bite out of his banana, I saw the sadness in his eyes, and I silently berated myself. Here I am freaking out over something so unimportant when Ares has no idea if he'll ever get back home to see his family and people again.

The human's sad look was gone in an instant. “Well, if it doesn’t work out for ol’ puss-in-boots, I could set you up with my older brother; he’s going to school as a dentist, so you know he’d be into it.”

Aunty chuckled and I couldn’t help but grin at that. “You could set him up with Aunty Luna,” I remarked, Aunty almost dropping her sandwich laughing, Ares joining.

“Then I’d kinda be royality, right?” Ares asked seriously. An image of the human wearing princely raiment appearing in my mind, and I’m sure Aunty’s too, so the three of us were crackling like hens, me pounding my hoof at the hilarity of it.

After we calmed down I put my head on the table with a small smile on my face. “Thanks, Ares,” I muttered, “I needed that.”

I felt the human’s hand mess up my mane. “What’re friends for?” I heard the shuffling of chairs. “Alright ladies, I feel well enough to mosey on back to my bed or maybe to take a nice hot bath. And be sure to remember, Princess, our little wager that you just so happened to let me win.”

I looked up to see Aunty nodding at him, a big smile on her face. “Are you sure you will be alright, Ares?”

“Yep, no more horsey rides for me.”

“Then I will see you then,” Aunty took another bite out of her sandwich, turning to me when Ares made his way out of the kitchen.

I gave her a little smile, putting my head back down. “…Aunty, do you really read Ares mind?” I asked, Aunty letting out a lady-like chuckle at that.

“No, dear, when you get to be as old as I you are able to pick up on things other ponies usually don’t,” she looked at the kitchens exit, a big grin on her face. “It’s not mind-reading, but it’s usually more interesting than doing such dark magic.”

“Really?” I asked questioningly.

Aunty nodded. “Yes, for example, I can tell Mr. Ares and Private Flash Sentry are going to have a little heart-to-heart with one another quite soon.”

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Ares made his way down a hallway carefully, wincing as every muscle screamed in protest.

“Maybe I should have let the Princess help—” he was interrupted when a Pegasus-shaped blur tackled him.

“I had to use my newspaper, you jerk!” Flash Sentry snarled on top of the humans chest, his eyes filled with anger.

Ares looked up at him, a defiant smirk on his face. “Where was your god, Flash?”

The guardspony gritted his teeth in anger, his eyes blazing. “IMMA BEAT YOU INTO A PULP!”

“COME AT ME, YOU CHICKEN-PONY!”

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I looked up from the table at Aunty Celestia questionably. “Did you hear that? I asked. “It sounded like yelling…”

Aunty took a sip of her tea, a knowing smile on her face. “I cannot say that I did, Cadence,” she claimed, putting her cup down.

“Now, as I was saying, though neither Luna or I have tried to raise a foal for different reasons I really do not have any idea if you are able to do so or not. Honestly, I cannot imagine why it would not work, so I do not believe that you should have any problems if you keep trying.”

I nodded slowly, “Alright, thanks, Aunty,” I muttered, my heart still not really in the conversation. “Now I just need to make up with Shiny, and we can get to making a foal you can dote on.”

She smiled at that. “I’ll spoil them rotten,” she promised, getting up from her chair with me following.

“Thanks for talking with me, Aunty,” I said gratefully.

Aunty nodded. “Just go and speak to Shining Armor, Cadence. I am sure everything will be fine if you do.”

I was about to answer her when we turned the corner to see Ares and Flash Sentry rolling on the ground, the two in the middle of a tussle.

“Give up monkey, or you’re gonna need a better hospital after I’m done with ya!” Flash snarled while he lunged in and bit Ares’s arm, the human yelping before he punched my guard in the nose.

“Your mother was a chicken and your father smoked smarties you coward, I’m—OW, QUIT BITING!”

My eyes twitched as I watched the two roll around for a little longer before I separated them with magic, lifting the two to face me.

“I can’t leave you alone for five minutes…” I muttered, facehoofing. With a sigh I asked, “Ares, what did you do?”

“That bucker stole all of the toilet paper from my room!” Flash yelled, pointing at the human, who swatted his hand away.

“—I did not!”

“Yes you did you liar! I had to use my newspaper,” The two tried to swipe at each other. “The ink burned, Ares!”

I pinched the bridge of my nose with a hoof, using a smile spell to glue the two’s mouths shut. “Alright, Ares, Flash, I’m going to let you two talk this out in a second; Flash, you’re going first. Okay?”

Aunty smiled at my maturity handling the situation, though I was ready to give the two such a smacking. “Now Flash, please tell me why you attacked an injured person?”

The stallion glared at the human. “Ares over there thought it would be funny to steal all of the toilet paper out of my room.”

“And you had to use…”

The stallion blushed at that, almost making me laugh. “Alright, Ares, it's your turn to explain. Remember, you’re going to be a big boy about this, no swearing at all or I’ll believe Flash and paddle you.”

Aunty snorted at that as Ares eyes flashed in outrage. Now, don’t you look at me like that.

You know the old saying, you stick a dogs nose in its mess and you paddle a bad human…

You haven’t hear that one?

Hmm…

Anyway, with a spell Ares mouth was opened back up. “I didn’t do anything.”

“He’s lying,” Aunty said with the slightest of smirks.

“…Okay, so I’m lying,” he admitted, shrugging in the air. “But worse things happen to you for desertion in the militaries of my world.”

“But we’re not on your world!” Flash snarled, doing a bit more wiggling in the air as the human continued.

“Yeah, I think they might shoot you or something… I think. For some reason I distinctly remember something about beating a run-away to death.”

Aunty raised an eyebrow at that. “Is the human military system really so unforgiving?”

“I think so,” he frowned, humming thoughtfully, “To be honest with you Princess, I have no idea what they do. They might use soap in socks or something to beat people with. My military is kinda weird.”

I cleared my throat. “Anyway, what you did is not right, that goes for you too, Flash,” I said, using my full knowledge as a babysitter to guilt the two.

The human and Pegasus looked down guiltily.

“…I’m sorry for attacking you, Ares,” Flash muttered.

“Yeah, I’m sorry for making you wipe your ass with a newspaper,” Ares muttering back, the two shaking hands and hooves as I smiled, letting them go.

“Fantastic now-” I started.

“FUCK YOOOU, FLASH!” The human roared, tackling the pony, who roared with him.

“I’MMA BUCK YOU INTO NEXT WEEEEEEEK!”

Aunty Celestia gave me a little smile when the two started to roll around away punching and biting each other. “Boys will be boys,” she said simply, sitting on her haunches. “Now, I suggest you get comfortable and simply let these two tire themselves out…”

Later that night…

“And so my cuddle pile gains strength!” Ares crackled as he held the nurse, with Celestia and Luna on either side of him. “...But we may need a bigger bed if I get anymore of you.”

“Huzzah!” Luna said, wrapping her hooves around the human. “The snuggling has been doubled! …Though we must ask dear sister, how has our human friend obtained you for the snuggling?”

The sun monarch shook her head, a smile on her face. “Mr. Ares here won a game of chess and-”

The human scratched the nurse’s ear. “Now don’t lie, princess—you just want to cuddle, don’tcha?”

The princess chuckled , “It has been ages since I have slept with somepony like this,” she looked up at the nurse. “Is she already asleep?”

Ares nodded, slowly scooting away from Luna, who just simply scooted over with him. “Yeah, nursey is a quick sleeper,” he muttered, gently nuzzling into Celestia’s chest, the alicorn almost gasping at how cold he was.

Gently laying a wing over him the alicorn sighed, closing her eyes. “Good night, Ares, goodnight sister.”

“Goodnight, human friend, sister.”

“—Quit touching my ass, Luna,”

“…Nay, we can tell you are cold, and this will surely warm you up.”

“You are oddly cold, Ares,” Celestia observed.

“I think that staying out in that cold for so long messed me up, Prince- and now you’re touching my ass too.”

“Well, my sister is right—you do have a nice backside…”

The human grimaced when he felt two hooves somehow squeeze his ass. “You’re lucky the two of you are so warm…”
They both answered him with a nuzzle, the three falling into a comfortable slumber as a certain doctor triple checked a certain pairs bloodwork, frowning at what she saw…

Author's Notes:

Just a little chapter with more Ares and Cadence characterization.

Now, I know I've been a little tease, giving you a little wink and going nice and slow getting those bra and panties you got on. I also know you must be chomping at the bit for the "story" to really progress. You how about instead of teasing you a little more I take my pants off and we get to the story part....... or sex, I guess....

Also, I probably, maybe might put up a sad tag because the next Ch. might be sad and that might make you all sad :(