While the Crystal Castle was usually a hive of activity, the second that the sun went down it became a whole different place. Not a sound could be heard in the empty, barely illuminated hallways. Not a maid or servant or even guard would be seen walking around. There was no shouting, no talking, no sound of hooves clip clopping against the crystal floors. All was quiet, all was calm and all was peaceful and tranquil.

But in this quiet, comfortable silence there was a disturbance that disrupted the peaceful tranquility in the castle. A human and alicorn-sized disturbance.

Ares was carrying around a hundred and twenty pound slightly drunk pony in his arms. He had drunk just a little too much for his own good and his stomach was full of chocolate and other treats. His whole body felt excited and warm, like he was a kid on Christmas morning again, and it showed on his face as he ran through the hall with his Candy in his arms at full tilt.

Cadence seemed to be in the same boat as her human in the excitement department. Every few seconds she’d suddenly break into a fit of giggles for seemingly no reason and the smile on her face was a mile wide. Her cheeks were red and she found herself touching her human’s neck, face, and shoulders as her wings twitched at her sides. Her breathing was irregular and her face was flushed. She looked eager, and her eagerness made Ares eager and excited and made the tightness in his pants all the tighter.

The whole trip through the castle had been a blur of kisses,nuzzles, and heated looks from his mare. More than once Ares had had to stop and have a make-out session with Cadence, pressing her against a wall or just holding her into the air until his arms grew tired. Each time he tasted the inside of his mare’s mouth, ran his hands up and down her perfect body and listened to her moan, the more eager he became and the faster he wanted to get back to their room.

Both Ares and Cadence were bright red, panting like races horses, and sweaty. The couple were ready; more than ready for what was about to happen.

After running through what felt like the entire castle, Ares eventually found himself standing in front of their bedroom door. “Come on you stupid fucking thing,” he growled, fumbling with the doorknob.

“I’d hurry up if I were you, Sweetie,” Cadence said with a purr and girly giggle as she kissed his neck, not helping the situation in the slightest. “If you don’t hurry up with that door then I might just knock you to the ground and rut you right here~.”

Though his hands were slightly shaky he managed to rip open the door after the third try. Leaning down to kiss a giggling Cadence, who almost knocked him off his feet by wrapping her hooves around his neck and roughly pulling him close, he stepped through the door. Kicking it closed Ares waddled over to his bed, somehow managing to kick off his shoes in the process in between kisses.

His member twitched from within the confines of his jeans as his mare teased him with her tail, her horn glowing to unbutton his pants. Her horn glowed even brighter and he was forced to watch as his shirt seemed to melt off of him. While he would have been a little upset at the sudden loss of one of his favorite shirts, all he could think about was the little pink mare in his arms.

He knew that he probably should be saying something right now. Something romantic and heartfelt and mushy that would make her smile. Maybe say that he loved her or that she was beautiful or that her ass looked really, really great in that dress. Every time that his mouth wasn’t preoccupied with Cadence’s tongue he tried to say something, but each time no words came out.

The wine, the realization that he was finally going to have sex with his marefriend really-really had hit him like a freight train the second that he had opened the door and Cadence had ripped down his pants. He could feel the heat from between his mare’s legs as she rubbed them together. He could see her biting her lip as she used her magic to rub his cock through his underwear. Ares realized what was about to happen, was excited that it was going to happen, but it was all a little too much for him to take in at once. He was about to get everything he wanted but he didn’t know how to act. All he knew was that he really, really wanted what was about to happen happen.

His eagerness and impatience must have shown on his face because Cadence giggled again, her eyes sparkling as she leaned up and kissed him.

Her tongue lapped at his lips just as Ares made it to the bed. Without a second thought his lips parted and his tongue darted out to meet Cadence’s, the taste of wine and candy assaulting his taste buds as their tongues wrestled for dominance.

Cadence let out a quiet moan as he dropped her onto the bed, her mane falling all around her face as her back legs twitched and her wings ruffled. With a growl he leaned down and kissed her again, putting everything he had into it.

The two lovers held the passionate and loving kiss for as long as they could before Cadence broke it with a gasp, her chest burning from lack of air. Before she could even take another breath Ares’s mouth crashed back against her’s. Cadence, with another moan, wrapped her hooves around him, pulling him into the bed with her. The two rolled around, touching and groping and kissing as they fought for position, before Cadence once again had to push Ares off of her to take a breath, pinning him to the bed as she straddled him.

The two just sat there, breathing heavily, before Ares looked up at her and grinned. “I love you, Candy.” He reached up and brushed a lock of hair out of her face. Though he could see the need and lust in Cadence’s eyes the mare smiled and leaned into his touch. A warmth filled Ares’s chest as his Cadence nuzzled his hand. “I love you so much.”

Cadence’s smile widened and kissed the palm of his hand. “I love you too, Honey.” Leaning down she nuzzled his face. “I love you with all of my heart.”

Ares was about to lean up for another kiss when he suddenly stopped, doubt creeping into his features. “...Are you sure you want to do this, Cadence?”

The pink princess blinked. “What do you mean, Honey?”

Though every instinct told him to just rip his underwear off and let nature take its course, Ares forced himself to take a deep breath and reign his urges in. He wanted to hear his Cadence say that this was okay. He wanted to know that this wasn’t the result of some plant or because she had drank a little too much. Ares wanted to hear her say that she wanted this because she wanted it.

“Do you want to do… this?” He awkwardly waved his hands around. “I just want you to think about it for a second. I don’t want you to think that I’m pressuring—“

Ares was interrupted by a giggle as Cadence leaned down and kissed him on the nose. “Oh Ares,” she said, her tone thick with amusement. “If you think you’re leaving this bed without rutting my brains out then you got another thing coming you silly filly~.”

Spreading her wings out wide she tickled his nose with a wing tip. Despite himself, Ares’s eyes crossed, making Cadence giggle even harder.

“I didn’t get all dressed up like this so that the two of us could just kiss and go to bed!” Ares twitched in surprise when she scooched back until she was sitting right on his crotch. Biting her lip she placed her front legs on his chest and started grinding herself against his bulge. Not hard enough to make him lose it but hard enough that he most certainly could feel it. “You’re going to lay me down on this bed and rut me until the two of us can’t move anymore.”

Cadence kissed his nose again, and for a fraction of a second, Ares could have sworn he saw something change in her eyes. The lust and love and eagerness turned into something… else, something that might have been unsettling if all the blood wasn’t rushing southward. And it might have been the lack of light, but he could have sworn that her eyes changed color…

He only had a second to think on it before she rolled the two of them over so that she was under him, her wings splayed across the bed.

“Now why don’t you be a dear and help take this dress off of me?” the princess asked with a little wiggle. “You might find a surprise underneath it~…”

In an instant the strangeness that had just happened was forgotten as Cadence spread her back legs and let out an eager moan. It was no longer important; nothing else was important except the mare under him.

Darting back in for another kiss, Ares cupped his mare’s face, rubbing his thumbs against her cheeks. He then ran his fingers through her mane, making her giggle as he played with her ears for a few seconds before his hands started to move downward.

Cadence twitched as his fingers trailed down her sensitive neck, the digits lightly digging into her coat, and to her back. Her hips began to buck lightly when she felt the muscles in her back being poked and traced. That bucking became a little more forceful and needy when Ares’s fingers started playing with her wing joints and the sensitive flesh near them.

She bit her lip and closed her eyes with a groan. With each loving touch she could feel the heat in between her legs increase. Cadence squirmed, grinding herself against him hoping that it would move him along. Unfortunately this only made Ares grin. He continued to pepper her face with kisses as his fingers worked their magic.

Though she tried to let her human have his fun for as long as she could bare it, Cadence finally snapped after Ares poked a particularly sensitive spot on her back. Growling, she used her hooves to grab his hands and forced them onto her flanks.

“Don’t you bucking tease me like this!” She tried growling again but it turned into a moan as Ares pressed his body against her’s, his bulge rubbing against her lower belly. “ I-I swear I’ll do… something!”

Ares couldn’t help but chuckle as he gave his mare’s rump a playful squeeze. “But teasing is the best part!” Cadence opened her mouth to say something but a rough grope turned it into a breathless gasp. “You might want to hurry this up but I want to get you nice and ready, Candy. We have all night; there’s no need to rush this.”

Cadence twitched as his fingertips traced her cutiemarks. “I get to touch the most beautiful girl in the world tonight. Why not just lay back and enjoy this? I know I’m gonna.”

Though she was grinding against her human’s still-covered erection, Cadence couldn’t help but blush at the praise. “Aw… that’s really—eep!”

The Princess let out a surprised squeak as Ares leaned forward and nipped her neck hard. Using his teeth to lightly tug at her fur he reached around with a hand until he found the end of her dress. Blindly fumbling until he managed to hook his fingers under it. Holding Cadence as still as he could he then began to slowly pull the dress up his mare, slowly revealing the amazingly, perfect furry body underneath.

Cadence squirmed in Ares’s lap. Quiet, eager little whimpers escaped her throat as her human pulled the dress off of her bottom and up to her belly. Without needing to be asked she lifted up her hooves so that he could pull the little black dress over her head where it was then tossed away onto the floor.

“There we go,” Ares murmured, his eyes drinking in his mare’s figure as his hands caressed her sides. “I unwrapped my present. But where’s this surprise th—“

Whatever else Ares wanted to say ceased to be as he looked down at his marefriend’s rump. He had expected her to be wearing nothing under this dress but, to his delight, he saw that she did in fact have a surprise for him. An awesome surprise.

A pair of deep red panties hugged his mare’s butt. They were a very nice pair of panties too. They weren’t too frilly, they left just enough to the imagination and they were slightly too small which meant that they really hugged Cadence’s bottom. Really, really hugged.

But that didn’t matter to Ares at the moment (though in the back of his mind he was wondering why she would wear red panties with a black dress). What did matter was the fact that he could very clearly see that his Cadence’s undergarments were soaking wet. In fact she was so wet that her juices had seeped through the cloth and were dripping down her legs.

The second that he saw inconclusive evidence of his mare’s arousal, several things happened at once. He suddenly noticed the heat that was radiating from Cadence’s nethers, his lover’s musk hit him like a freight train, and he found himself breathing heavily. Very heavily.

Cadence couldn’t help but giggle when she saw her human’s jaw drop and his pupils dilate. “So, do you like your surprise?” she asked innocently with another wiggle of her hips as she opened her legs just a little more and leaned back.

Dumbly Ares nodded. His fingers twitched as he slowly lowered his hands back toward Cadence’s rump. He licked his lips, already feeling the cotton cloth on his fingertips. Just as he was about to grab for those panties though Cadence giggled and, to his horror, she rolled out from underneath him.

Making a sound that was a mixture between a caveman’s grunt and a puppy’s whimper Ares tried to grab the glorious booty that was trying to get away from him. He reached up as far as he could, his hands opening and closing, but his mare was just too quick. His hands just grabbed empty air as Cadence skillfully rolled away from him and crawled onto the middle of their bed.

Rolling onto his knees Ares watched as Cadence, with a twinkle in her eye, slowly lowered the front half of her body onto her bed and lifted her ass as high as she could, her panties straining to keep the mass of flesh that was her flank contained.

“You wanted to take the long rode, my little human?” Not breaking eye contact, Cadence flicked her tail out of the way and gave her rump the tiniest of shakes. “Well,come on then. You got a lot more to explore~.”

Ares’s whole body twitched as his mare ruffled her feathers and bit her lip. Slowly, she began to move her ass back and forth, her bubble butt jiggling with each minut movement. Though their bedroom was mostly dark Ares swore he could see a slick wetness trailing down Cadence’s back legs and she gasped and moaned and whimpered, her eyes begging him to come over and have a little fun.

It was too much for the poor man. Teasing might have been one thing, but teasing coupled with lingerie and the ‘fuck me’ eyes was too much. He wasn’t equipped nor was he trained to handle anything like that. So it was of little surprise that the display was too much for him.

Without a second thought Ares frog-hopped from the edge of the bed with a mighty roar toward his destiny. Cadence, with a lusty smile, stuck her rump a little higher into the air and braced herself as her human crashed into her with all of the subtly of a freight train.

“W-Well somepony’s e-excited!”

Growling to himself, Ares grabbed his mare’s ass and scooted her back toward him. His fingers then began to caress the wonderful, perk butt just a few inches from his face, spreading her cheeks and moving them every which way.

He traced Cadence’s cutiemarks that were slightly hidden behind the panties until he heard her muttering his name. He played with the space where her tail connected to her rump, he lightly slapped and squeezed and grabbed at the Princess’s bubble butt until her wings were twitching and her eyes were unfocused.

Panting, he leaned in and rubbed his cheek against her cloth-covered rump. Closing his eyes he deeply breathed in her scent as his cock throbbed needly.

“…Mine.”

It didn’t feel like he could control himself, like someone was moving his hands for him, but Ares couldn’t care less. A fire was raging in his belly as he was toying with his Cadence, listening to her moans and watching as her hips started to gently buck as if he had already mounted her. Every moan sent a shiver through him and every groan made his underwear feel just that much tighter.

He needed to get those panties off Cadence right now. Even though it was awesome that she was wearing them, they were blocking something that he’d really rather not be blocked at the moment. So they needed to come off. Now.

“Ares… ahh~! Honey… P-please…”

With baited breath Ares hooked with his thumbs through the fabric and started to pull it down, kissing and gently biting his mare’s bum all the way.

Cadence twitched as she felt her panties slide down her sensitive marehood, a gasp escaping her lips. She could feel her Ares’s kisses getting lower and more aggressive. His fingers were digging into her flank, effectively pinning her to the bed. Already she could imagine him positioning himself over her, holding her close as his cockhead spread her lips. He would start off slow, kissing and muttering her name, but eventually he’d start to get rougher, the need to breed his mare overpowering his desire to be gentle.

Cadence her lip hard as she imagined Ares slamming into her, biting and nipping her neck and back hard with those sharp teeth of his. She could already feel his fingers digging into her sides, she could feel his hot breath on her neck and she could feel his cock twitching in her. It wouldn’t be long now; in a few minutes her stallion would fill her, breed her and make her his in every sense of the word. And he’d do it again and again and again and again until he was done with her.

Whimpering, she spread her legs just that little bit more in eagerness, lifting her tail as high as she could. “Arrrrrreeeeeesssss~!”

After what seemed like an eternity yet far too soon, Ares slid off the garment and let it fall down to Cadence’s hooves as he looked upon his mare in all of her glory.

Her chest heaving, Cadence bumped her rump against her coltfriend’s face with another eager whine. “H-Honey p-please…”

Licking his lips Ares forwent going slow or being gentle and dived right between his mare’s legs with his tongue at the ready. The second that his tongue roughly lapped at her swollen and aching marehood Cadence’s eyes bugged out of her head and her hips bucked.

“A-Ahhh~!”

Digging his fingers into Cadence’s hips to keep her still Ares buried his face into her marehood, driving his tongue into her as deep as it would go. The bubble gum, sugary sweetness that was his mare’s arousal greeted him as he licked and sucked at her perfect pony pussy. It was an addictive taste, and he needed to have more.

Growling once again he pulled away from Cadence and roughly flipped her over onto her back. Cadence only had the chance to let out a surprised squeak before Ares leaned down and lovingly kissed her teats, using his body weight to pin her against the bed.

The alicorn’s body tensed as he then began to suck and bite and pull at her sensitive nubs of flesh as two of his fingers started teasing her lower lips. Biting her lip so hard that she could taste blood Cadence’s back legs wrapped around her human, keeping him in place. Running a hoof through his hair she couldn’t help but close her eyes and sigh as a finger pushed its way inside her and started to slowly push in and out.

“Yeah… Just like that h-ONEY!”

Adding another finger into Cadence’s marehood Ares started to piston in and out of her faster, Cadence’s inner walls squeezing his fingers. Sucking on one of her teats a little harder than he meant, Ares looked up to his mare’s face.

Her eyes were clouded and half lidded and her mouth was slightly opened with her tongue lolling out of her mouth. Each time his fingers moved inside her her ears twitched and her legs tightened around him just that little bit more. Her hooves were twitching, her chest was heaving and her mouth was slightly parted. She looked like she was in nirvana, heaven; that sweet, good place that you went to when everything just went right.

“Ohh~!”

Come on, Cadence, he thought, letting go of Cadence’s teat and scooting down so that he could lap at her button. Cum. Cum for me.

“A-Ah~!”

He ran his fingers along her walls as he started to once again lick at her marehood while his fingers did their magic. Cadence’s eyes shut tightly and her face scrunched up as her legs started twitching hard. Ares knew she was close; so close that he could—

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

Suddenly Cadence clamped down hard on his fingers and the muscles in her stomach tensed. The mare’s back arched, her wings shot out from her sides and she screamed as she came.

Ares smiled to himself, kissing his mare’s mound as a rush of fluids soaked his chin and hand. “There we go, Candy,” he whispered, still fingering his mare as her body twitched and bucked as she rode out her orgasm. “Just let it out. Let me have all of it…”

Cadence twitched and bucked for a minute or two before she just went limp and sunk into the bed with a satisfied groan. “Oh holy horse apples… I can see stars…”

Slowly pulling his fingers out of his mare Ares brought up his soaking wet hand to his face and began to lick it like a lollipop. Sighing at the taste he sat up and looked down at his panting marefriend with a smirk.

She must have been pretty pent up if she came that hard that quick, he thought, cleaning his hand with a few more licks. Either that or I’m just so fucking—

Faster than his eye could follow Cadence scrambled to her hooves and moved forward so that hers and Ares’s noses were touching. There was a slightly crazy look in the mare’s eye as she wrapped her hooves around his neck and all but forced him into another kiss.

Cadence let out a moan as she forced her tongue into his mouth and tasted her own juices. Leaning into him a little more she did her best to lap up all of the sweetness, her back legs shaking.

“Inside!” she gasped. “I need you inside of me!”

Pulling Ares back into another kiss Cadence’s horn sparkled to life, lighting up the room.
“Inside! Inside!”

Straddling her coltfriend Cadence eyed his throbbing, leaking member with hungry eyes. Her horn glowed a little brighter and Ares felt his underwear disintegrating off his his body. She licked her lips as it popped up and wetly smacked her inner thigh.

Cadence could see his cock twitching angrily in the open air, and a shudder ran through her body when she saw pre leaking from his tip. A part of her wanted to get in between his leg so that she could have a taste of him but that thought was ignored. She needed him inside of her. It wasn’t a desire, it wasn’t a want; if she didn’t feel Ares’s cock twitching inside of her right now she would, without a doubt, lose her mind.

Horn glowing once again, Cadence grinned as her magic encased Ares’s cock, making him groan. “I need you inside of me right now!”

Ares tried to sit back up but Cadence roughly pushed him back down, pinning him to the bed with her hooves. Breathing heavily she started to slowly stroke his cock with her magic as she leaned forward and nuzzled him, peppering his face with kisses. He then tried to reach up and grab his mare but she slapped his hands away with her magic, which she then used to pin them to the bed.

He had had his fun. He had toyed with her and made her cum so hard that she could still feel a comforting ache in her lions. But now it was her turn. It was her turn to watch as her human’s, her lover’s, face contorted with pleasure as she touched and caressed and loved him.

“Mineminemineminemineminemine…”

Whispering his name, Cadence began to nibble his ear as she rubbed his cock against her inner thigh. A moan escaped her lips as she tasted Ares’s sweat and felt him twitch against her. She could feel the fire in her belly burning hotter and hotter with each kiss and each lick as she listened to her human try and fail to contain his moans. With a breathless giggle, she kissed him on the lips before pulling away.

“Are you r-ready for the rutting of a l-lifetime, mister?” she asked.

Both the alicorn and the human looked into each other’s eyes as Cadence steadied Ares’s member with a hoof and positioned herself over him. Her wings twitched in anticipation and she spread her legs with a whimper. Finding that he could now use his arms Ares grabbed her hips and gave her a gentle squeeze as his heart pounded in his chest.

“I love you, Cadence.”

Both the lovers let out moans as Cadence began to rub Ares’s cock against her marehood, hard enough that Ares could feel her heat and her softness but not hard enough to penetrate her.

With her mane cascading around her face Cadence kissed her human’s nose. “I love you too, Baby,” she said, pressing the tip of his cock against her quivering, needy lips.

Kissing him again she slowly began to sit down. As wet as she was there was no resistance as Ares’s cock head parted her lips and entered her. Both of them groaned as Cadence sank down a few inches before she had to stop, the red-faced alicorn breaking the kiss and leaning forward so that hers and Ares’s foreheads were touching.

“I… Love you… So… Bucking… Much…”

With a little flap of her wings the Princess raised herself right back up and sat right back down, trying to take a little more of Ares’s length.

Ares’s fingers dug into Cadence’s hips as she slowly, carefully started to ride him. Each little movement on Cadence’s part made him twitch and his member throb. The way that her marehood squeezed his manhood was making his head spin. His marefriend was wonderfully tight, surprisingly so, and she had a softness to her that he had never experienced before in his life.

He wanted to start thrusting, he wanted to hear Cadence squeal as their hips roughly slapped together. He wanted to feel her shaking with ever-mounting pleasure as they moved faster and faster and faster, but he stayed right where he was. At this moment the two of them were connected; not in just a physical sense but an emotional and maybe even a spiritual one as well.

This, for all intents and purposes was their first time together like this. And one’s first time shouldn’t be one where you thrust wildly and seek pleasure for pleasure's sake. So even though every time Cadence managed to spear herself with a little more of him-- her eyes shut tight as she bit her lip-- and even though it made him want to roll her over and fuck her brains out he ignored the urge. Ares instead stayed as still as he could, letting his hands knead his mare’s backside.

“Ahhh~!”

Just as eager as he was, Cadence started to increase her speed, bouncing up and down on him with more rigor. With each inch conquered the two became more vocal. Moans and names and gasps escaping both of their lips with more volume and frequency until, with a pleasure-filled squeak, Cadence’s rump connected against Are’s pelvis with a wet slap. This time Ares couldn’t help but buck his hips a bit and grit his teeth as the two moaned together.

“T-There we go! F-finally!” With a blush on her face Cadence opened her eyes and started at Ares with a naughty smile. “H-How does it feel, H-Honey?”

Ares answered her with a groan as she started to grind against him, the muscles in her marehood squeezing around his length.

The Princess giggled, lifting herself a few inches off of him before slamming back down. “I c-can’t feel you twitching in me, Honey,” she teased with a little wiggle. “Are you going to c-cum already, Hon? Are y-you going to cum f-for me?”

Ares could only hold onto Cadence’s hips as she continued to tease him in between the wet slapping sounds of their lovemaking. He couldn’t open his mouth and form coherent words even if he wanted to.He let out a loud groan, bucking his hips to meet Cadence’s as she roughly sat down. Cadence let out a gasp, her back arching as her movements became faster and more aggressive.

“C-Come on, Honey, G-Give it to me, g-give it all t-to me!”

Though he tried to ignore it, that similar ticklish sensation began to creep down Ares’s stomach. His head spinning, he tried to slow Cadence down by grabbing and holding her by her hips but the alicorn would not be denied, powering through his flimsy defense simply by sitting down.

His cock twitched again, eager to begin its bombardment. Cadence, sensing that he was nearly there, began to move at an almost blinding pace, bouncing up and down on him so hard that Ares was half afraid that she was going to break his pelvis.

“I’m… almost… there, Baby,” she moaned, leaning down so that her nose was touching his. “Come on, I wanna… feel you cum in… me. Cum in me honey. Please!”

The look of desperation on Cadence’s face as she rode him, her ass clapping lewdly, the smell of the wine on her breath as she panted, this all was too much for Ares. Far too much. Using every bit of his willpower he forced himself to keep his eyes opened as he began desperately thrusting with all of his might. He could feel Cadence tighten around him, her inner walls trying to coax out his seed, and that was what finally set him off. Managing a few more clumsy bucks, his mouth opened in a silent scream, Ares came.

Cadence’s body went rigid as she felt the first spurt fire into her, the alicorn letting on a shriek that rattled the windows as she fully impaled herself onto Ares and stayed there.

Ares squirmed from underneath his mare, his eyes crossing as her marehood rippled again his oversensitive cock, milking every ounce of seed that he had. Too overloaded to even breath, all that Ares could do was buck half-heartedly a few more times as he came and came and came again.

Idly, in the back of his mind, he felt a rush of fluids on his groin, signaling Cadence’s orgasm. His mare’s wings flared to full extension as she bit her lip and shut her eyes tightly, her horn sizzling with magic as her legs twitched. The two groaned as Ares held Cadence through their orgasms.

Though it felt like an eternity, the pleasure soon stopped. Coming back to their senses the two lovers found themselves panting like racehorses and covered in sweat, though there was a very pleased smile on Cadence’s face.

“B-Bucccccck!” With a groan she let her body go limp on top of her human, making sure to keep his softening length inside of her as she nuzzled his cheek.

With a weak chuckle Ares wrapped his arms around her. “I think… you mean… fuck, hon,” he said, kissing her cheek.

For a long while afterward the two just laid there, breathing hard while they held each other. No further words needed to be said. The relief and love and joy that the two felt could almost be tasted in the air. They had finally done it, they had made honest to goodness love to each other. And it was pretty great.

Taking a few deep breaths, Ares looked down at his wonderful, amazing, loving marefriend. He smiled, pushing a bit of her messy mane out of her face and tucking it behind her ear. “So was… I great or… Was I… Great?”

Cadence, whose eyes had been closed as she nuzzled and lovingly kissed her coltfriend’s face, cracked open an eye. Though you could see the happiness and fulfillment that most knew after an intense love session, you could also see bemusement in her eyes as she looked at her human.

Snorting softly, she booped his nose with a hoof while she kissed his cheek. “I swear to Faust that there’s something wrong with you…” She then smiled, laying her head on his chest and closing her eyes. “You big goofball.”

Wrapping his arms around Cadence’s neck, Ares leaned forward and kissed her forehead. “You’re the one that picked this goofball, missy,” he whispered. “You knew what you were getting into.”

If Cadence would have looked up into Ares’s eyes at that moment she would have seen something… odd. Though it might have just been a trick of the light, his bright green eyes grew darker, as if a shadow had passed over them. As quickly as it appeared it was gone, leaving everyone none the wiser. Cadence, who was giggling to herself, leaned up and kissed him on the cheek.

“I did not know what I was getting into with you, buster brown,” she grumbled, making sure that he was still firmly lodged inside of her with a tiny wiggle. “But… I’m glad that I did what I did. Even with all of the horse apples that happened and all of the horse apples that I’m sure will happen, I’m glad that I picked you, my little human. You make it all worth it.”

Ares felt a warmth fill his chest. “Well you make it worth it times a million, my little candy cane,” he said, nuzzling her.

He held his mare with a smile as she pulled the blanket over the two of them with a spell. Cadence hummed, tucking her wings into his sides. Now as warm and as happy as he had ever been in his entire life, Ares closed his eyes.

“Love you, Candy.”

Though he couldn’t see it Cadence smiled, tears of happiness forming at the corners of her eyes. “I love you too Ares. I love you too…”