Much-Needed Rest

       “Oh dear…clumsy little me…”  Fluttershy muttered to herself as she knocked over another drinking glass.  It was the third one and counting.

       She scrambled around the kitchen in her cottage, trying desperately to feed her starving animal friends.  Glasses were rolling around the floor, as well as stray cherry tomatoes and oranges.  Silverware and dishes littered the countertops, causing space to be scarce.  Dinnertime was never her favorite time of day.

       The group of critters sat impatiently in the other room while Fluttershy prepared meals.  Squeals, squawks, growls, purrs, and tweets echoed into the kitchen from the room as the animals interjected.

       “I know, I know, little ones!  Mama’s trying her hardest to get food for everyone!”  The frazzled mare called.

       Angel Bunny, who had already eaten, was in charge of bringing the plates out to the room for the critters to eat.  Rather than making small, individual dishes, Fluttershy made her job easier by preparing larger dishes that could accommodate two animals at once.  After all, they almost all ate the same thing.

       Angel Bunny, unsurprisingly, gave the first plate to the other rabbits.  As the shy little creatures began to chow down, the other animals glared at them enviously.  Then, at an accelerating pace, the other animals began to get their food as well.

       Fluttershy’s expertise with a table knife caused the work to speed up once she got into the groove.  She periodically set completed dishes on the floor behind her while continuing to chop carrots and peel lettuce.  That way Angel could scamper by and pick them up.

       She felt like the head chef at a restaurant.   After a few minutes of pressing out plates, Fluttershy subconsciously found herself singing a little tune out loud.

“All I need’s a little love in my life…

All I need’s a little love in the dark!

A little but I’m hoping it might kick-start…

Me and my broken heart!”

       She stopped herself.  “Hmm.  I guess that last part has some silly grammar.”

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       She jumped a little bit when Angel tapped her back hoof with his paw.  Putting her knife down, she turned around to answer the little bunny.

       “Yes, Angel?  Do you need something?”

       Angel Bunny glared at her bemusedly as he pointed behind him.  Fluttershy followed the direction of his outstretched arm, and saw her critters in the other room all eating their meals.  She gasped.

       “Aww, they all look so cute when they’re eating!”  She observed.

       Angel tapped her again, and pointed at the kitchen floor.  Amongst all of the scattered tools and food scraps, six completed dishes sat in a row behind Fluttershy, waiting to be picked up and sent out.

       “Oh dear, did I make too much?”

       Angel nodded.

       “Goodness!  I can’t just throw all of this away!  But…it’ll perish if I don’t put it somewhere…”

       Angel tapped his foot, waiting for Fluttershy to make a decision.  On top of this, she would have to clean everything up once her animals were done eating.  Fluttershy took a few moments, and then sighed.

       “Well…I guess I could eat it.  I know I already had dinner myself, but a little extra fruits and vegetables wouldn’t hurt me.”

       With this verdict in mind, Fluttershy picked up two of the plates, and brought them into the living room with the animals.  After setting them on the couch, she trotted back into the kitchen to grab two more.

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       Once she retrieved all of the plates, she sat down on the couch in the company of her animals to eat.  The kitchen on the other side of the room was a horrid mess, but Fluttershy decided to leave it alone for the time being.  She was already tired as it was.

       Angel Bunny followed her into the living room, and stared at her with a worried expression.  In front of his owner sat six whole plates of food, which was enough to feed a dozen small animals.  Fluttershy glanced back down at Angel Bunny after shoving a piece of celery into her mouth.

       “Don’t worry, Angel Bunny, it’s going to be fine!  Nothing bad ever comes out of eating your veggies.”  She assured.

       Angel rolled his eyes, sighed, and hopped out of the room.

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       Four-and-a-half plates later, Fluttershy was not feeling like herself.  As she forced another mouthful down her throat, her tummy growled viciously.

       She glanced groggily at the last full plate sitting in front of her.  Suddenly, her own cooking was not looking so appetizing anymore.  She grabbed the half-eaten plate that she had been working on, and pushed it away from her.  Lying down on her side, she looked around the room.

       Her hungry little mob of munchers had left the room a while ago.  They were all back in their respective cages and pens around Fluttershy’s cottage.  All that remained in the nauseous pegasus’s living room was a ravaged pile of empty plates and food crumbs.  The kitchen, from across the room, was still an atrocious mess.

       Groaning loudly, Fluttershy forced herself up off the couch.  She wobbled in place for a second before trudging over to the pile of plates.

       Angel Bunny walked back into the living room, and observed the mare picking up plates and stumbling.  Out of the goodness of his heart, the small rabbit decided to go help her.

       He hopped up onto the couch where Fluttershy had been sitting, and began to pick up her leftover plates.  One by one, he carried them into the kitchen to be washed.

       Fluttershy smiled weakly when she saw her bunny companion helping her with the dishes.  As she brought the last of the plates into the kitchen for cleaning, Angel Bunny stopped her.

       “A…Angel?  What’s wrong?”

       Angel Bunny held a paw out in front of Fluttershy, telling her not to move.  He then used his other paw to point to the sink, and then to himself.

       “You want a bath?  Oh, I’m afraid I can’t—”

       Angel shook his head.  He repeated the same action again, but instead held up a plate before pointing to the sink.  Fluttershy’s eyes widened.

       “You want to do the dishes yourself?  Goodness, I could never ask you to do so much work…”

       Angel smiled confidently.  Every time Fluttershy stuttered, he cut her off.

       “Well…okay then, I guess.  If you REALLY want to do it, I won’t get in your way.  Perhaps I just need to relax.”

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       It had been a long day for the poor pegasus.  She had gotten up early that morning to attend an aerial show with Rainbow Dash.  Later, she had ridden out to Canterlot with Twilight to speak with Celestia about a property purchase dispute.  That afternoon, she had tea with Discord and helped Applejack with a rodent infestation.  And that evening, she had frantically made dinner for all of her neglected animal friends.

       As Fluttershy heard the water begin to run in the kitchen, she got an immediate idea about how to spend the rest of her evening.  She walked slowly up the stairs to her bedroom, and grabbed a towel out of her closet.  Then, she made her way to the front door.

       “Angel, if you’re sure you have the kitchen taken care of, I’m going to go bathe in the hot spring in the Everfree Forest Meadow.  If something goes wrong, please come and get me!”  She announced.

       Angel nodded eagerly from his spot in front of the sink.  Fluttershy nodded once in return, and slowly closed the door.  As the sun set majestically on the edge of the horizon, Fluttershy began her journey into the forest with her towel slung over her back.

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       Just as Fluttershy had mentioned, there was indeed a hot spring within the Everfree Forest.  It resided in a clearing near the middle of the woods, about half a mile away from Zecora’s hut.  The clearing got a perfect view of the sky, and was void of any trees.  It did however, have a lot of weeds and tall grass.

       Fluttershy had been to this clearing only a few times.  The spring was a recent discovery that she had made when venturing to retrieve a lost animal.  Many markers pointed the way to the meadow, which the mare had quickly picked up on over time.  These markers were things like oddly-colored trees, twisted branches, and bird nests.  There was a single wasp hive on the way to the meadow, which Fluttershy took the liberty of avoiding while making her journey there.

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       In as little as ten minutes, Fluttershy had arrived in the meadow.  The sky above was a deep orange, with a hint of purple appearing to the east away from the sun.  Stars were yet to be seen in the infant night sky.

       “Gee, I’d better not stay here TOO long, or the darkness might cause me to get lost.”  She said to herself with an anxious shiver.

       She used her front hooves to brush the grass out of her way as she trekked through the clearing.  Mosquitoes and other small insects buzzed around her in the late night, but she just decided to ignore them.  The sound of the approaching hot spring was more dominant in Fluttershy’s ears.

       After stepping around a shrub, Fluttershy found herself standing in front of the modest spring.  Heat in the form of steam radiated away from the small body, tickling the surface of Fluttershy’s skin.  She deeply inhaled the humid mist, and breathed it out contently.  This was her time to relax and be alone.

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       Fluttershy grabbed the towel from her back with her teeth, and set it in the grass on the rim of the spring.  Once she had it laid out nicely, she prepared herself to enter the bubbling water.

       Fluttershy quivered hypnotically as she dipped her hoof into the water.  The heat travelled through her nerves, and made her sigh lightly.  Her excitement growing, she began to step into the spring slowly until all four of her hooves were submerged.  The steam from the hot water continued to rise up, dampening the fur on her belly.

       These unique sensations were beckoning her to step in further.  Little by little, she stepped down into the luring spring until she was fully under the water.  She swam softly to the other side of the spring, where a small ledge existed to accommodate her head.  Once she found a comfortable position, she took a deep breath, and sighed loudly.

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       What was left of her cares slowly drifted away from her as the steaming hot water lapped at her fur.  The experience was unlike any other.  She gently let her wings unfold, allowing the water to subjugate their movements.  The heat removed any tensions, causing her joints to loosen and her muscles to relax.

       She sighed again, and stared blankly at the darkening sky.  Soft bird tweets and cricket chirps rang through her ears behind the sound of the bubbling water.  The trees surrounding the meadow swayed ever-so-lightly, distinguishing them from the atmosphere above.

       Fluttershy relished peacefully in this welcoming environment; admiring all that nature had to offer her.  For once, the stresses of life were not hers to think about.

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       As she began to close her eyes, Fluttershy ran her hooves up and down the front of her body to calm any kinks or tensions that might’ve been present below her skin.  She leaned forward to assess the tip of her legs, and ran her hooves slowly up the front of her thighs and her belly until she reached her neck again.  The tickly-smooth feelings on the surface of her coat remained there after her hooves had left the area.

       As she continued to caress her own body, she found that the heat in her lower side began to intensify as slightly as what could’ve been detected.  Fluttershy raised an eyebrow, assuming that the water temperature was rising from the bottom up.

       She leaned forward a little, and stuck her arms down deeper into the spring past her legs.  Oddly, the water temperature had not changed.  She leaned back against the ledge, and continued to stroke herself.

       Strangely, this normally-soothing action was not relaxing her body as much as she thought it would.  Overtime, it was causing her lower end to heat up even more, and become unnervingly tingly.

       “Oh my…what’s happening to me?”  She whispered to herself.

       As she progressively became less and less comfortable, Fluttershy shifted herself around in the hot spring.  Her back end, including everything from her spine to her flank, was rushed with hot water as it lifted up from the spring floor.

       She gasped as the feeling ran up her spine.  For a second or two, her entire body was encased with powerful warmth.  Upon sitting back down in a new position, the heat below her belly had increased.

       In a subconscious attempt to subdue the heat, Fluttershy trailed her right hoof to the area between her legs, and began to rub softly.  Almost instantly, the tension found release, and was replaced by a steady stream of pleasurable ecstasy.  Fluttershy closed her eyes, and moaned quietly.

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       Suddenly, her eyes shot open when she realized what she was doing.  She pulled her hoof away from her nether regions, and put the other one to her mouth.

       “No!  How could I let myself be so naughty in such an open place?  Control yourself, Fluttershy!”  She scolded herself.

       Within a second or two, the comfort she had achieved was completely gone.  In its place was another rising heat that was more intense than she could’ve ever imagined.  She had aroused herself.

       Fluttershy bit her bottom lip as she began to sweat.  She crossed her legs together in a desperate attempt to ignore the nagging discomfort.  After five minutes of this awkwardness, nothing had changed.

       In fact, it might’ve even gotten worse from her mind being so focused on it.  Fluttershy closed her eyes as tightly as possible, and tried tiringly to think of something else.  Unfortunately, nothing was coming to mind.

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       The pull was too powerful.  Before the poor pegasus even knew what she was doing, her hoof was back to massaging her longing love spot.  Her legs splayed apart, letting the hot spring water rush back into the area.  Fluttershy leaned her head back, and sighed pleasurably.

       In a matter of seconds, a stringy, viscous fluid began to seep out of Fluttershy and into the spring water.  The snotty-looking lubrication was visible in small strands through the clearness of the water as it slowly began to discharge from the aroused mare.

       Fluttershy opened her eyes when a musty smell began to greet her nostrils.  She looked down at herself through the water, and saw the signs of her horniness mixing in with the bubbling liquid of the hot spring.  At this point, however, she was not concerned.  The pleasure and comfort it was creating was worth the risk of somepony seeing her.

       That was an unlikely occurrence, anyways.  She was in a meadow in the middle of the Everfree Forest, miles away from Ponyville.  Even her own cottage was a ten-minute walk away.

       She leaned forward slightly, and looked back and forth to ensure that nopony else was in the area.  Once she saw that the coast was clear, she openly continued her gentle masturbation.

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       It didn’t stay gentle for long, however.  Soon, the burning heat in her loins was bothering her even as she continued to stroke them.  To dominate the undying feeling, Fluttershy sped her hoof up.  Ripples in the water began to form as the pegasus drove her hoof back and forth over her vulva.

       Fluttershy held her breath for as long as possible, but was unable to keep herself from panting desirably.  Her tongue carelessly fell out of her mouth, and hung loosely down the side of her cheek.  Her wings quickly unfolded from the sides of her body, and became visible from the surface of the water.

       The sexual strain on her body caused her full tummy to gurgle.  As the sudden rumbling racked Fluttershy’s body even more, she put her free hoof over it to try and keep it abstained.  She used her subconscious mind to make the upset stomach push her even more.  The swirling mist of sensations that she was feeling caused her to start audibly moaning.

       The hot spring water was starting to become slightly cloudy from Fluttershy’s vaginal emissions.  She made no effort to slow down, however.  As her hoof glided left and right, up and down, and around in circles, her screaming genitals continued to let loose more lubrication.  The bodily fluids in the heated environment were causing a highly-noticeable odor to float around the meadow.

       Fluttershy’s moans were becoming louder.  She panted very quickly and very heavily like a racer would after the Running of the Leaves.  A smile crept across her face as her ecstasy continued to grow ever stronger.

       As she proceeded to gradually speed her hoof up, her hips began to move to-and-fro.  Without her even realizing it, Fluttershy’s body began to thrust forward and backward in response to the unknown rutting that she was receiving.  The movements caused the foggy, tainted water to ripple and splash all about.

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       “Oh…oh…ooohhh, yes…!  This feels so…good…!  Come on…come on…!”  She muttered between moans.

       The hip movements, the hot water, the hoof grinding, and the naughtiness all became too much for Fluttershy.  Any potential bystander would’ve wanted to back away from the horny time-bomb that was about to go off.

       With one last rub, Fluttershy suddenly screamed as she orgasmed hard in the hot spring.  An outward-moving water current became visible as a jet of her fluids squirted out of her pulsing pussy.  Fluttershy stopped grinding herself, and waited in ecstasy as she discharged into the spring.

       Once her mighty orgasm was complete, her twitching genitals were no longer visible through the water’s surface.  The spring had become so dense with the mare’s arousal that it wasn’t clear enough to see through anymore.  After Fluttershy’s eyes had opened, she observed this in shock.

       “Goodness, did I do this?  Oh dear, that…that’s so embarrassing!  I…I hope nopony ever sees this!”  She exclaimed in panic.

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       After giving herself a chance to calm down, Fluttershy stepped out of the tainted hot spring.  She shook her body like a dog to splash off any clinging water droplets, and walked over to her towel to do the rest.  She walked a little funny, however, due to the humiliating stickiness that resided in the fur by her groin.

       She made sure to dry that part thoroughly to avoid having stiff fur.  After all, when that stuff dries, it’s a pain to get rid of.

       Fluttershy sighed contently with her little evening ‘activity’.  With her towel wrapped comfortably around her, the pegasus trotted happily out of the meadow.  As she made her way into the forest, fresh air wafted into her snout.  The smelly hot spring behind her was bound to clear up soon, right?