You know, after somepony wakes up from a very fun-filled afternoon and they’re just laying in their bed with their coltfriend, sometimes they happen to remember or think of some very odd things. And trust me, I might be the spokesmare for the weird-thinking-after-sex thing. Here, let me give you an example.

I’ve heard the term ‘sex marathon’ tossed around when I was younger and still living back at Canterlot. I’m sure you’ve heard it. A stallion walks by another stallion who's had an interesting night, the two of them get to talking, and he says, ‘Boy did I have a sex marathon last night! I could barely keep the mares off me in the club!’, the one stallions congratulates the other on a job well done, and the two go on their merry way, whistling some happy tune.

This is all well and good for the stallions, but to pretty much every mare that hears it, through their coltfriend’s saying it to their faces or they just accidently happened to hear it, it seems like a dirty, horrible thing to say. I mean, how would you like your special somepony to look up at you, smile, and say, ‘Hey, honey, thanks for the sex marathon last night!’

…Yes, this was actually what I was thinking after I woke up in my bed, and no, I do not appreciate the look you’re giving me, so just let me get back to the explanation, alright?

Me, being the young, inquisitive mare that I had been—and still am thank you very much—I decided to do a little research about the phrase and why so many ponies used it in the city, and without a doubt, what I found surprised me.

You see, before the founding of Equestria, when the three tribes were separate, the Pegasi and the Gryphons broke out into war. For years and years and years the two races fought the very long and very bloody war. Hundreds died each year, fields and mountains and the very skies seemed soaked with blood, and it had looked like it wasn’t going to end without the complete and utter annihilation of one of the races.

Since the other two pony races had refused to help, and since the Pegasi were starting to get desperate trying to find a way to end the costly war, they decided to do something extreme. Calling the gryphon chiefs to a parley, they sat together and talked.

For days and days they sat there, yelling and arguing with each other about this and that until somepony finally figured out something that would end the war and make both the Pegasi and the Gryphons happy. So you see, instead of some final battle or actually having somepony say that they were sorry, they figured out that the best way to solve their dispute was to get a whole bunch of ponies and gryphons in a pit and have an orgy with only one rule: the last race standing would win the war and the other race would surrender.

Sometimes history is weirder than anything you could make up, huh?

Well, to make a longish story short, after it was all said and done, one Pegasus was left standing amidst a crowd of sweaty, exhausted creatures: an up and coming young soldier named Hurricane, who would later become a leader and founder of Equestria.

I still have the history book if you want to see if I’m lying or not; it’s actually a pretty book to look through when you have nothing better to do.

After that whole debacle, the term ‘sex marathon’ came into being. Back in the day it was actually used as a term of respect, it meant that you were able to persevere through any hardship, sexual or not … even though it was usually reserved for sexual situations most of the time.

Even now, when stallions are ‘talking’, it’s still a term that they use with pride.

Now, you may be asking yourself, ‘Cadence, why the hay did you just tell me that weird and slightly dumb story out of the blue like that?’ Well, after Ares and I had our fun and our nap, I was the first one to wake up. And let me tell you, it smelt like Ares and I had a sex marathon in this room.

The hot, sweaty, savory…

You know what? You probably know what that after-sex smell smells like; you’re a grown pony that probably has had a few partners, so I’m not going to tell you about it; you’re red in the face enough as it is, but you know what I’m talking about, right? You know that oddly comforting smell that puts a smile on your face, well at least it puts a smile on my face.

It had been a while since I’d smelt that smell, the smell of my arousal mixed with the odd scent of my human, but the bed reeked of it.

Closing my eyes I took in a deep breath before smiling. Yep, we’re going to have to change the sheets, I thought, giving my human a nuzzle. ...the two of us are probably going to have to take a shower or two to get the smell off us.

Smiling even wider, I laid a wing over Ares when I noticed that he was shivering from the cold. I heard my sleeping human sigh, and I felt his arms tiredly grabbing for me. Giggling to myself, I scooched upwards until I was face-to-face with him.

“I hope you always look so cute when you’re sleeping,” I muttered, rubbing my nose against his cheek, inhaling that familiar bubblegum scent. I giggled nervously, a blush coming to my face when I realized what was covering Ares’ face.

I kissed his nose. “Yeah, we need to get you cleaned off when you wake up,” I murmured, giving his lips a little lick. “Then we can spend the rest of the day getting dirty again~.” My tail swished eagerly at the thought, I once again leaned forward and tried to give my human’s nose a little lick. Unfortunately for me, that was when Ares sprung his trap.

I froze when Ares turned his head and opened his mouth, gently catching my tongue with his teeth. Ares opened an eye and gave me a sweet smile as he let go of my tongue. Leaning up, he pressed his lips against mine. Not one to make my coltfriend feel like he was doing all the work, I leaned down and returned the kiss. Grinning, I pressed myself against him, squealing happily when I felt his hands slowly sneaking their way downward from my barrel to my flank.

Well, good afternoon to you too, I thought, giving him a teasing but heated kiss before breaking it.

Ares smiled at me with half-lidded eyes. “Howdy here, Candy,” he murmured, giving my flank a playful squeeze while he reached up with the other hand to stroke my cheek. “And how was your nap?”

I kissed my cheek and wrapped my hooves around his neck. “I’m sore,” I admitted, giving him a little wink. “It’s been a while since I’ve cum that hard.”

Relief and more than a bit of happiness seemed to seep out of my human when I said this. He tried to hide it and his look was gone in an instant but I saw it. Leaning up a little bit and kissing his cheek, I tightened my grip around his neck. “You were great,” I promised, closing my eyes.

He chuckled in what I assumed was relief. “Thanks; you were pretty amazing yourself.”

I grinned. “How would you like to see how amazing I really am~?” I purred.

Rolling off Ares and toward the edge of the bed I stood up and got into a pouncing position, with my head low to the ground and my rump up in the air. Giving my flank a little shake, I growled playfully, eyeing my human like he was a piece of meat.

“Ready or not,” I gleefully said as Ares, grinning at me, got on his knees in what I assumed was a defensive position, “here I come~!”

#@!@##

It had been a rather boring day for our favorite-ish guardspony Flash. With the promise of a horrible day of training until he passed out from exhaustion, Flash had only one thing on his mind now that he realized that his little vacation was over and he was about to really get back to work.

I wonder if Ares would want to go out and get some ice cream? Flash thought as he made his way down the hallway. I bet he’d go if I ask him… I could really go for a scoop of vanilla.

Now that the private had returned to the Empire, he could honestly say that he was happy to be back home. Sure, it had been nice going on ‘vacation’ in Canterlot, and getting a fillyfriend, but it was better to be at home where you knew everypony and everypony knew you. Well, at least most of the guards here knew him well enough, so that had to count for something.

The thought of the guards made Flash frown slightly. Other than a few veterans that had been brought to the empire from Canterlot, the guards had been limited to them and the new guys that had finished their basic training a few months ago. The guards in the Empire were understaffed and they knew it, but before they could get more ponies to join and train for the guards, they needed someone to come in and crack a few skull and whip a few ponies unto shape to get what little of the guards they had into tip-top fighting shape.

Even a private like Flash knew that to do this, they needed one heck of a leader, and the Pegasus prayed to every god that he could think of in hope that Echo was the mare for the job. Without Shining, she was supposedly the next best thing for the Crystal Empire.

Not that Flash had a problem with being led by a mare—he did have a fillyfriend, and that’s all he needed to say about that—but she seemed a little too… yell-y for his taste… AND too grumpy, grouchy, she got upset too easily, and the crystal pony guards were still poking at her ears and demanding to know whether or not she was going to drink their blood while they slept.

Looking at all of these flaws that the Sergeant seemed to have, Flash couldn’t help but be a little nervous about his new commander, and that wasn’t even thinking about his fellow guardsponies. They were all supposed to be brothers and sisters,or at least that’s what Flash had been told in boot camp, but that didn’t mean that a unit or two wouldn’t hesitate in bucking the bat mare up if they didn’t like her.

I’m sure everything will work out fine, Flash thought with a shake of the head, turning the corner and entering the royal wing of the palace. Princess Luna herself gave Sergeant Echo the job, so I’m sure she’s more than qualified to lead and train everypony.

Flash smiled as some of his worries abated from his little pep-talk. “Yeah, I’m sure all everypony needs is a few more days to get situated, then everything will be running like a well-oiled machine!”

With a little hop and a skip, the private made his way over to the Cadence and Ares’ door. He was about to knock when he noticed something odd about said door, namely that it had a bluish tint to it. “What the hay is that?” Flash pondered aloud, tapping the magicked door with a hoof. “It looks like the princess’ magical aura… maybe it’s a dampening spell?”

Flash scratched his head. “But if it is, why do they need one?”

He thought quickly, trying to remember if there was anything important happening today that would require the princess to do something like this to her door. ...Maybe they’re just doing something important, he decided, not bothering to think about it anymore. Probably something government-y that’s too far above my paygrade for me to understand…

Chuckling to himself, Flash turned around and started to make his way down the hall, ready to just go back to the barracks, that is until his stomach grumbled loudly. Looking down at it, Flash frowned once again. “I still really want that ice cream,” he muttered, looking back at the blue-hued door.

Now the private was left with a decision on what to do about his grumbly tummy; two choices that could affect his, Ares, and the Princess’ night. One: he could just go by himself and get ice cream, like a no-friend loser. Two: he could try knocking on the door, hoping that they could somehow hear him, and get Ares to go with him to the ice cream parlor where they would have a great time being buds together.

It was either pull Ares away from his fillyfriend, and maybe something very important, or get no ice cream. If he actually interrupted something, he ran the risk of getting in trouble … or he and Ares could get ice cream. Heck, he could even be ruining some special moment between the human and alicorn that might be a defining part of their relationship, and as the human’s almost-probably-maybe best friend Flash should just suck it up and go by himself! ...Or get ice cream with one of his friends; triple chocolate with sprinkles if they still had it.

“Um, Princess?” Flash said after knocking on the door. “Princess? Can, if Ares isn’t busy and stuff, you send Ares out for a second? I want to see if he wants to go out and get some ice cream.”

When Flash was met with silence, he did what came naturally; namely, beating on the door like it owed him money.

“Princessprincessprincessprincessprince—“

Flash hopped backwards with a yelp as the door was thrown open, revealing Ares, whose only covering was a towel. The human looked sweaty, was covered in what looked like lipstick kisses, had this odd scent that Flash knew but couldn’t quite place, and he looked like he was trying his hardest to kill him with just an angry stare.

Oddly, Flash couldn’t help but feel that he may have, in fact, interrupted something a little more important than ice cream.

“What. Do. You. Want. For. Fuck’s. Sake. Flash,” Ares said through gritted teeth.

Flash backed up a little from the angry man. “…Um, I wanted to know if you wanted to go out and maybe get some ice cream?” Coughing anxiously, Flash looked up at his friend and flashed him a winning smile.

When he noticed that Ares hadn’t attacked him him yet, or done anything other than stand there with his eye twitching, Flash decided to state the case for his need for ice cream. “I know this great place down the road that sells this scoop that will knock the horseshoes off a—“

Slam!

Flash blinked in confusion as the door was slammed in his face. The private blinked a while longer before finally saying, “So… is that a no?”

@!##!@

I knew I should have cast a stronger dampening spell on the door, I thought, trying to fix my mane a little bit as Ares stormed back into our room with a look that would have given a dragon pause.

“Ice cream, fucking ice cream! I got cock blocked by Flash because he wanted to go out and get ice cream!” My human muttered, walking over to the bed and sitting down next to me. “I swear to God if that wasn’t so silly and adorable I’d have thrown him down the hall!”

Giggling, I crawled forward and sat next to my human, giving his neck a little kiss. Because our foreplay had been getting a little… heated, some things had gotten knocked off tables while the two of us had been kissing, and one of those things was a tube of cherry-red lipstick.

After a few more minutes of playing around with said lipstick, I had discovered that my silly human had a thing for mares that wore lipstick and being kissed by said mares. Having acquired that little bit of helpful information I did the only sensible thing that I could; I teased and tormented my human by leaving lipstick kisses all over his body. Right now I was covered in lipstick, as was a lot of our room, but I had a wild-eyed, red, and panting human because of it, so I considered the mess worth it.

I had gotten him so worked up that when I kissed his neck I heard a little whine escape his throat as he shivered. I was about to kiss him again, just put up a shield spell, ignore Flash, and get back to the foreplay, but I stopped myself. Now, now, Aunty Celestia raised you better than that. You can’t blow off your guard like he was some noble!

“Why don’t you go and play with Flash for a little while, honey?” I said, wrapping my wing around the visibly angry Ares’ shoulder. “You know that Flash didn’t mean to interrupt us; he just wanted to take his friend out to get some ice cream and spend time with him.”

Ares sighed. “But we were just about to get to the good part,” he muttered, sounding so disappointed that I couldn’t help but kiss his neck again.

“All we were doing was chasing each other around the room and kissing,” I said gently, rubbing my cheek against his. “It’s not like he caught us ‘in the act’.” Smirking, I started to nibble his neck. “We can have our fun for the rest of the night after you go out and get some ice cream.” Ares started to lightly pant, a blush starting to spread downwards toward his chest with each one of my little bites.

Getting up from my spot, I sat down in Ares’ lap and faced him. “Aw, don’t give me those puppy-dog eyes,” I teased, kissing his nose when I saw his look. “Tomorrow you and I have to go to work, along with Flash, so you should go out and do something with him.” I leaned toward his ear and gave it a gentle bit, “Tonight, after you get back, I’m going to make sure you’re walking funny to that flower shop in the morning, buster~,” I whispered huskily.

Ares chuckled nervously. “You know, the guy’s supposed to say that to the girl…”

He squeaked when I nipped his neck, not enough to hurt him but enough to leave a red mark. “You go and get a quick shower,” I told him, rolling out of his lap and off the bed, “I’ll go and talk to Flash while you’re getting ready to go.”

“Don’t forget, Candy, you’re covered in lipstick!”

Without turning around, I cast a glamor on myself to look like the normal, non-lipstick covered Cadence. “Thanks for reminding me, Ares,” I said, slightly embarrassed. “I might just have opened the door like this.”

“That’s why I love you, Candy … that and that ass of yours.”

Just as I reached the door, I looked over my shoulder at my cheeky human. Giving my flank a wiggle, I said, “I love you too~ Oh, and while you’re out, would you be a dear and get me some pistachio ice cream?”

I kept wiggling my butt back and forth to tease my human. You’re right I have a great butt, I thought, pleased with myself when I saw that Ares couldn’t keep his eyes off it. I had better after all the working out I do to keep the thing from getting bigger.

“Ares,” I said in amusement, “did you hear me?”

All I got was a nod from Ares as one of his hands reached for the bathroom doorknob.

“So are you going to get me my ice cream?”

Another nod.

I smiled again, fixing my mane with a hoof before I opened the door. “Good; now go get a shower, get some clothes on, get that bag of bits on the counter, and go and have some fun. Because,” Reaching up, I grabbed my human’s shirt collar and yanked him down. Leaning forward, I whispered in his ear. “Tonight you are I are going to buck like rabbits!”

@$#!!$@

“Alright, you two have fun,” Cadence said as she slowly started to close the door behind her. “Make sure you get Ares home before nine, Flash. He and I have … things to do.”

Flash saluted while Ares, now cleaned and dressed, rolled his eyes. “You can count on me, Princess,” the private said as she closed the door, leaving Flash and Ares alone in the hallway.

The Pegasus started to trot in place, looking like he was about to burst from excitement. “Oh, you’re just going to love this place, Ares,” he told the human, barely able to contain his glee, “it has over a hundred different flavors and I think it’s all you can eat Tuesday!”

Ares nudged his friend down the hall with a foot before following him. “That’s great, Flash buddy,” he said, still a little grumpy about the whole cock blocking thing.

Flash must have heard the tone in his voice because he stopped and looked back at him. “I’m sorry if I interrupted anything that was going on between you and the princess, Ares,” he said, actually sounding genuinely sorry. “I just wanted to take you out to get ice cream and everything because you’re going to start work tomorrow and we might not get to see each other as often since you’re working and I’ll be busy in the barracks…” Ares couldn’t help but feel a little bad as Flash trailed off, looking sadly at the ground like a puppy that has just done something bad.

Is it wrong to think one of your guy friends is adorable? Ares thought as he walked up and patted Flash on the back.

“Aw, come on, Flash, you didn’t really interrupt anything,” Ares lied, giving his friend his best smile, “and I’m sure that the two of us will get to hang out with each other all the time!”

Flash looked back up at him and sniffled, wiping his nose with a hoof. “Really?” He weakly asked.

Ares slapped him on the back. “Yep! How about the two of us just sit down one day and figure out our schedules to see whats up. I can get up real early and go and work out with you or we could do something later. How does that sound big guy?”

Flash smiled and nodded. “Alright.”

“Alright then, let’s go and get some—“

“And where do you two think you’re going?” Echo demanded, her sudden appearance made Flash and Ares jump into the air.

“Stupid batman bat horse,” Ares muttered, holding his hand to his rapidly beating chest. “Popping up and scaring the shit out of people for no reason...”

His reflexes taking over, Flash saluted. “We’re going to go out and get some ice cream, ma’am,” he said not looking her in the eyes. “I’ve finished the duties that you’ve assigned for me for the day and—“

“Shush, private,” Echo interrupted, rolling her eyes, “we’re not in the barracks, and I happen to be off duty myself, so why don’t you get that stick out of your flank.” Flash sighed in relief as Echo glared at Ares, who was glaring back.

“And what the heck’s got your panties in a bunch?” Ares asked. “And why can’t you just not pop up like that? You almost gave me a heartattack.”

Echo growled. “You’re lucky I don’t start beating your monkey flank up and down this hallway,” she told him, poking his thigh. “It took me twenty bucking minutes to get away from those kids!”

Now smiling, Ares reached over and ruffled her mane, almost losing a finger when she snapped at him. “Aw, come on, Echo, those kids were adorable!” He looked her up and down. “And I think you’ve still got some snot in your mane from that little interaction,” he told her, pointing out the slightly discolored glop of something in the bat pony’s mane.

Echo growled again, her look becoming murderous as she took an angry step forward. Flash, not really wanting to have to break up a hoof fight, stepped in-between the two.

“Um, Sergeant, ma’am,” he said, trying not to flinch when Echo gave him a withering look, “I’m sure Ares is really sorry about what he did—“

“Not really, no,” Ares said with a shrug. “It’s what she gets for almost letting me get stabbed by the d—“

“Like I said,” Flash interrupted, glaring at Ares before looking at his superior with a weak smile, “I’m sure he’s sorry; in fact, why don’t you come down to the ice cream parlor with the two of us? Ares can get you a cone or something to apologize!”

Ares was about to protest when Flash kicked him in the shin. “Alright,” the human grumbled, rubbing his leg. “Yeah, Flashy here is right; I’m sorry.”

Echo narrowed her eyes. “Even though I know that that’s a load of horseapples, monkey, I accept your apology.” She threw a nasty grin his way. “And you know what? I’d love to get some ice cream with the two of you.”

Wrapping a hoof around Flash’s neck, the bat pony chuckled and gave Ares’ shin a little kick of her own, making the human hop up into the air.

“Mother fucker!” he cursed as Echo grinned. “Will you both stop kicking me there?!”

Echo stopped and looked back at him, a hammy smile still on her face. “Stop being a big baby and come on; we have some ice cream to eat!” Doing a little hop in the air and clicking her hooves together, the mare rolled her eyes before she all but dragged Flash down the hallway.

Ares looked her over while he continued to rub his aching leg. “Stupid crafty bat horse,” he muttered, limping after the two, “If I get kicked once more I’m just eating one of the funny bastards … that fucking hurt.”

“Stop talking to yourself and get that monkey flank moving!”

Ten minutes ago I was JUST about to get laid. Now I’m going to go get FUCKING ICE CREAM instead of spending time with my beautiful girlfriend… Ares couldn’t help but pinch the bridge of his nose and close his eyes in irritation.

“You know,” he muttered to himself, “I don’t think I’ve ever been so mad about going out with some friends and getting ice cream before.” Looking back over his shoulder at his bedroom door, he couldn’t help but remember what Cadence had said.

Well, at least I have something to look forward to, he thought. And hopefully she uses some more of that lipstick again, He shivered. That was pretty hot...

@!##!@

As Ares closed the doors behind him, I dispelled the glamor that I had put on myself and took a minute to look around my room, which could have been compared to a warzone. Here were chairs knocked over, I had make-up and jewelry all over the floor, the bed just looked like an angry bear had been at it; all in all I could tell that it was going to take a little bit of elbow grease to clean this mess up.

“Maybe I should go and take a shower before I tackle all of this,” I muttered to myself as I took the sheets and comforter off the bed and put them in the dirty laundry bin. “I don’t want this lipstick staining my coat… and I really don’t want Ares to think I stink when he gets back.”

Checking to see that nopony was about—call it silly paranoia but I just wanted to make sure—I did a quick sniff test, wincing at my … mature odor. Boy I can’t do any kind of workout without sweating like a noble at a charity, I thought, putting on some new bedding and going over and fixing the chairs.

“Yep, I’ll get a shower, clean the rest of this up, and wait for my ice cream and my human,” I said, doing a little skip in excitement. Sure, it had been a teeny bit awkward when I found him reading that book, but did I have to dance around the issue? Did I have to hint and tease and pray that he’d get the message? Nope, Princess Mi Amore Cadenza had a stallion that made it a thousand times easier for her to get into his pants!

Wow, that sounded not great know that I think about it…. Well, moving on.

After taking that shower, and getting everything put back where it belonged, I went over and sat down on my bed. “Well, it looks like I have a good bit of time until they get back,” I said to myself, looking around my room for something to stave off the wait.

I always could get a little dressed up for Ares, and I could go and set up some candles to give the room a little something, I thought, trotting around and inspecting the room. I smirked when my gaze rested on my bookshelf full of erotic literature. Grinning hugely, I got up and trotted toward the bookshelf and pulled down the third edition of the pony sutra.

“All you need to know about pleasing your biped,” I read from the title, carrying the book toward the bed. “You know, it also wouldn’t hurt to read up on some things while I’m waiting…” I murmured, levitating a batch of candles from a cabinet and setting them on the table. “But first, I’m going to make sure this room blows Ares’ socks off when he sees it.” I giggled. “Hopefully that makes him lose his other clothes too.”

@#!@#

“We’ll be stopping at the Crystal Empire train station in twenty minutes, fillies and gentlecolts,” The ticketmaster yelled, breaking Shining out of his stupor.

Why the hay is he even yelling? Shining thought, glaring at the aging stallion before he went back to looking out the window. I’m pretty sure that I’m the only one on this train other than him

It had been pretty painless to tell his parents goodbye. It was a little harder when he had sent that letter to his sister explaining what he had been doing and where he was going. She wanted him to stay in Canterlot, or at least come down to Ponyville so the two of them could talk about it.

Even now Shining couldn’t help but snort at the thought. Heh, she wanted to be rational about all of this, he mused. Like I’m a sane pony at the moment anyway. At least there was something to be said for his stubbornness at least. Not very many stallions would go this length to get some closure.

He chuckled at the thought of one of his old guard buddies standing outside of one of their ex’s houses and demanding that they be allowed in so they could have a ‘talk’. They always said that I was the sentimental one, Shining thought to himself as he stared out the window, a small smile on his face.

Even though he had no idea how anypony was going to take him coming back like this unannounced, Shining couldn’t help but look forward seeing the Empire again. During his short time there he had grown to love the culture, the food (Gods did they make some BUCKING good food), and the people there and was happy to come back and witness it again.

Sure, he wasn’t coming back as a prince, and sure, there was a good chance that Cadence was just going to take one good look at him and throw his flank out into the tundra but--

None of that, Shining Armor, he thought fiercely to himself, trying to clear his thoughts by shaking his head, you know Cadence wouldn’t do that to you! Shining sat up in his seat with his chest puffed out. You wanted to get your bucking closure? Well buddy, you’re going to get it, even if you have to crawl all the way to the castle! So what if Cadence might not give you a job? That’s not the reasons you’re here!

Deciding that now out be a good time to get his bags, Shining reached up and started fiddling with cabinet above his seat. You’ll talk to Ares and Cadence, have a heart-to-heart with them and then you’ll ask Cadence for a job. If she says no you can go back to Canterlot and get an assignment there, and if she says yes…

Shining slumped back into his seat with a sigh. ...Well if she says yes, then I’m going to have to think about what to do when I get to that… If I get to that.

Shining was on the only train that went to the Empire; a train that only went to said place a few times a month, so if he was going to get flat out rejected then he was stuck there for a while. But that didn’t matter, he was a stallions who was going to the Empire to take names and chew bubblegum. ..And he was all out of bubblegum.

Later, Back at the Empire…

“Alright, see you in the morning, Ares!” Flash said, waving at his friend before walking into the barracks with Echo.

“See you Flash, bat horse!” Ares said with a wave, exceptionaly happy that he was done eating ice cream. Why the heck did Flash even take us there? he thought as he made his way to the kitchen to get Cadence a bowl and a spoon for her ice cream, a gesture he was sure that she was going to appreciate. I swear to god that was a kiddie parlor! I’m an adult dammit, I should be going to adult ice cream places, where they’re playing pool and there’s that AC/DC song playing in the background that everyone knows!

Not that he was particularly sore about going out with Flash and Echo; it had been a fun time, but now he had another ‘fun time’ that he wanted to get to. He and Cadence had work in a few hours; he’d be seeing what his new job is like, so he’d have get up even earlier than usual to make a good impression. That only gave him a few hours until he had to leave. So he was going to spend that time the right way, going on a little date with his favorite pink princess; the kind of date where you skip past all of the boring stuff and you tear each other’s clothes off.

After getting the bowl and spoon from the kitchen, Ares made his way back to his bedroom. I wonder if I got the ice cream Candy wanted, he thought, looking down at the container of ice cream as he pawed for the bedroom door I don’t feel like getting yelled at because I got her pecan.

“Hey, Candy,” he said, not noticing that the room had been lit by candles because he had to make sure that he wasn’t going to drop anything and look like a putz. “I got you your—“ Ares froze in place when he finally managed to look up and see Cadence, who was lounging lazily on the bed, her mane tied up in a ponytail, sucking on a lollipop.

Cadence gave him a sultry look, taking her lollipop out of her mouth with a pop. “Oh, hello, honey,” she said in a mixture of happiness and erotic glee that almost made him forget his name, “did you get my ice cream?”

Still not able to form words, Ares silently lifted the carton of ice cream to show her.

“Thank you, baby,” the pink alicorn said, looking him up and down while he just stood there. Giggling when she saw his slack-jawed expression, she carefully levitated the carton , bowl, and spoon out of his hands and floated them over toward her. “Did you get me pistachio like I wanted?”

“Um … they were out so I got you pecan?” Ares lied, trying, and failing, to compose himself. Sweet Odin, just fucking look at her!

Cadence giggled again, opening the carton and peering inside. “Well, lucky for you you got my second favorite kind of ice cream,” she said, making sure he saw her sensually licking at her frozen treat.

Not able to stand it anymore, Ares whimpered, trying to keep himself quiet by biting his lip. Cadence’s ears perked up and she raised an eyebrow. “Aw,” she said sympathetically, spreading her legs and giving him an eyeful, “does someone need a treat too?”

Putting the container of ice cream down on the counter, she gave Ares a come-hither wave. “Well, I’m all you can eat, honey~?” She purred, batting her eyelashes at him.

At that moment, something snapped inside of Ares the human, changing him from the carefree and loving guy that he always thought himself to be and into nothing less than an animal. Being an animal, he did the only sensible thing that one could do when presented with a pretty girl that wanted to bang his brains out; he ran over and got to the boning.

With an animalistic roar, Ares charged. In five giant steps, He managed to rip off his pants, his shirt, his shoes and socks, before leaping into the bed and crawling toward Cadence, who was laughing in childish delight. He was about to kiss his favorite pink alicorn when she stopped him with a hoof.

“Hang on for a second,” she said, her horn glowing. “I just want to make sure no pony will interrupt us this time.”

Even though he really didn’t want to, Ares held back. Being a sex-crazed animal was fine and all, but at least he could make sure Cadence was comfortable with everything before he just threw her down onto the bed and banged her brains out until neither of would be able to move in the morning. Sure, it was hard being a gentleman, but someone had to do it.

Trying to steady his breath, he asked, “How are you gonna go that, Candy?” Not able to completely stop himself, he slowly started running his hands down her body.

Cadence giggled, giving him a light shove as her horn glowed. “Ares. Stoooop! I’m trying to cast a spell!” She whined, though not really trying to stop him in any way.

Kissing her neck, Ares asked, “What spell is that?”

“Oh, I’ll just turn our door into stone; that should do plenty.”

Ares couldn’t help but laugh before kissing his marefriend’s neck again and reaching for his boxers. “Here’s hoping that you know how to change it back. I really don’t want to have to jump through the window to get to the kitchens,” he joked, reaching around and giving the alicorn’s rump a little squeeze.

Cadence growled, grabbing Ares by the neck and pulling him into a kiss. “You don’t need to worry about that now,” she told him heatedly. “You need to worry about me bucking your brains out until the sun comes up!”

Ares almost yelped when he was shoved onto his back, Cadence climbing on top of him with a pleased hum. Looking at his boxers for a moment, she looked him right in the eye. “Now be a good boy and get those boxers off,” she commanded, her wings flaring a little bit in impatience, “you and I have a long night ahead of us!”