Moving Life
Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Trial by Truth
Previous Chapter Next Chapter"Ok, we ready?" Rainbow asks getting into the bath with the others.
They all nod as they hold the towels over themselves. "Yep, now where's the guest of honor?" Daring asks looking around.
"I got a short listen. It seems Arkon didn't even know about the bathing car before they started talking." Rainbow says.
Glide smirks. "What do you think we should do?"
"Preen?" Daring offers.
"He doesn't have wings. Just a horn." Spitfire said. "Also, since he worships Prince Artemis, why not make the room a moonlight glow instead of candles and bright?"
"I meant right now." Daring says.
Glide smirks as she looks over to Spitfire who nods. "Well, there is one thing to do." She said moving over to Daring.
"What?" Daring asks.
Glide smirks and rips her towel off. "See who's bigger."
Daring quickly covers her breasts with her arms. "Hey!"
Spitfire whistles at her size.
Rainbow frowns. "Why is everypony else bigger than me?"
"Because you're not done growing." Glide says.
Rainbow growls. "Just shut up." She said trying to cover herself up.
"Well shall we com…" Spitfire goes quiet when all their ears go up and hear hooves coming their way and quickly extinguish the candles letting the moon light be the only light and hiding in the dark.
Arkon sighs as he enters with a towel around his waist. "Huh. She was right. Maybe I do need to relax my muscles. Though I haven't seen the mares around for a while." He mused to himself as he walks to the hot tub and removed the towel while facing away from the hot tub, giving the mares a good look and seeing no cutie mark. "Wonder how hot it is?" He asks himself as he feels the water. "This is not as hot as the springs I remember." He said to himself as he carefully lowered himself into the water and sighs in relief as he leans back. "At least the setting is good. Maybe not great, but passable." He said before perking his ears up.
"What?" He asks himself as he reaches toward the sound and feels something soft. "What is this?" He asks conjuring a fireball and lights up the tub and goes wide eyed at the sight of four mares while one of them was blushing madly as Arkon was holding onto Daring's breasts.
Arkon, seeing this, went wide eyed and his nose started to bleed and face started turning red.
"Um…can you please let me go?" Daring asks carefully before Arkon rolls his eyes up and falls back unconscious.
"Girls, he doesn't have anything on." Glide said looking him over.
"We saw that." Spitfire says with a mild blush while Glide nearly joined Arkon in unconsciousness.
Daring keeps blushing and carefully moves Arkon hands off of her. "So what now?"
"First, don't let him drown or get blood in here." Rainbow says.
Spitfire sighs as she grabs a nearby towel and starts to clean him while making sure he stood up. "He does have a pretty good build."
"Yeah, but no cutie mark." Rainbow says making the others notice that his thighs were blank.
"Can we stop staring there?" Daring asks as she notices he was bigger than she thought.
Spitfire covers him with the towel before turning to them. "So what? He hasn't received his cutie mark yet?" Spitfire asks.
Daring shakes her head. "I don't think so. He was already marked as priest and rest to set out so his cutie mark should have been shown...could it be his time was before cutie marks?" Daring asks.
"That's crazy." Rainbow says.
"Not really, as no one, even Prince Solaris knows the origins of the cutie marks." Daring says.
"That's almost unbelievable. So what can be placed as a cutie mark instead of now?" Glide asks.
"Well nothing I don't think. Arkon himself said that his tattoos were applied at Skyhold. So it is basically a tattoo, not a natural thing." Daring says.
Spitfire sighs as she watches Arkon. "When do you think he will wake up?"
"About now." Rainbow says before splashing him.
Arkon sputters and shakes himself before looking upward. "So…care to explain?" He asks as his nose still bleeds and he holds a towel to it.
"You walked in on us." Rainbow says trying to play innocent.
Arkon frowns. "I'm leaving. Please tell me when you leave." He said wrapping a towel around himself and gets out of the tub.
"Come on and stay." Spitfire says wrapping her arms around his shoulders.
Arkon frowns more. "No, it is not right being here like this. Please enjoy your bathing." He said unwrapping her arms and walking away.
"Please?" Spitfire asks stopping him for some reason.
Arkon slowly turns to them. "Are you all sure?"
"Yes, please." Spitfire says.
Arkon sighs and walks back to the hot tub.
They all smile as he sits down in the tub, but keeps his towel on. "Why are you here instead of waiting?"
"Well we just having some mare time together." Glides says scooting to beside him.
Arkon tries to scoot away a bit. "I see. Why can't I go?"
"Because you really spiced things up." Rainbow says scooting from the other side.
Arkon frowns a bit as he tries to make the biggest distance he can. "Is there another tub?"
"Nope, car isn't big enough." Spitfire says swimming close to him.
Arkon frowns heavily now. "Please, stay away."
"Come on, let the mares scout their potential." Daring says a little further away.
Arkon sighs. "I am not a potential. You would be better off finding another stallion. I don't have much intentions of being with a wife."
"Oh, Artemis law number 74." Daring says smirking.
"Love and marriage are encouraged amongst the priesthood." Arkon says without thinking as if he studied something intensely.
All the mares grin at that. "So?" Glide asks leaning in.
Arkon blinked a few times as if trying to recall what he just said.
They all lean in even more as they sit up and almost crawl to him. "Come on. Ask us. What do you want from a mare?" Glide asks.
"I…I…I have never really thought about it." Arkon says.
"Maybe we should fix that." Spitfire said as they finally lean on him.
"I concur." Rainbow says before kissing his cheek.
Arkon blushes heavily and bleeds from his nose and tries to hold a towel to it. "Um…can you not do that?"
"Daring, you want in on this?" Glide asks.
Daring sighs. "Step aside girls." She said putting her towel away and somewhat crawls to him. "I got this." He said gaining a smile.
Rainbow, Spitfire, and Glide looked on with interested as they gave her room.
Arkon gulps as she approached and she sits up and squeezes her breasts together with her arms as she keeps crawling to him before sitting on his lap. "So…what do you like about this view?" She asks almost whispering.
Arkon face went completely red from that and Spitfire could swear she saw the red continuing to travel down his neck at a slow pace.
Daring smiles and takes the towel and carefully wiped the blood off his face. "Come on, one aspect of me. What do you like?"
Suddenly a burst of steam comes from Arkon's head and his head falls backwards.
Daring catches his head before it hits the ground. "Now, now, too soon for that." Daring says before kissing him softly.
Arkon moans weakly as he tries to lift a hand.
Daring grabs his hand and guides it to her waist.
Arkon groans as he tries to pull his hand back, but Daring giggles and guides it even further down to her flank. Daring then breaks the kiss. "Now shh." She says pressing her breasts against his chest.
Arkon gulps as he tries to look away, but ends up stuck on the sights of her leaning close to his neck. "Wha…why?" He whispered.
"Because you are such a caring stallion. Most just think with the thing in between their legs." Daring says before signaling Spitfire to come over and kiss him.
Spitfire smiles as she drops her towel and moves over to him and kisses his cheek. "How about us mares? What do you like to see on us?"
Daring then motioned for the other two to join before Arkon could answer.
Arkon then felt more kisses on him as they kissed his cheek and neck and tries to remain stoic faced through it all, though he couldn't stop the rising feeling as Daring smirks and giggles as she grinds on his lap. "So are you really liking us or just happy to be in this situation after a long time?"
Arkon was looking for some way out of this when he noticed a tattoo on Spitfire's thigh and then looks to Daring's where he saw a different one intriguing and distracting him.
They all follow his eyesight and sees him looking at their thighs. "Wondering?" Daring asks putting his hand on her cutie mark.
"What are those tattoos on your thighs?" Arkon asks freezing all but Daring.
Daring sighs as she leans back. "So I see you don't know what a cutie mark is."
"What's a cutie mark? Is that some sort of mark for mares?" Arkon asks.
They all giggle before Glide smiles. "No, all ponies of today have it when they realize their special talent."
Arkon blinks a few time before saying. "So they predetermine your life, eliminating all other possibilities and all concepts of free will?"
Daring shakes her head. "No, some have been reported to go against what they have. It just tells what you are best at. Some are very vague too."
"I see." Arkon says.
Rainbow smirks. "You want to see ours?"
"Sure, why not? I showed you my tattoo after all." Arkon says.
They all smile and turn their flank toward him and he sees four different marks almost having matching picture personality. "Explorer." He said tapping Daring's mark of a compass.
"Right on the money." Daring says.
Arkon then looks to Spitfire's mark of a fireball. "A fiery personality." He said tapping hers.
"You tell me." Spitfire says smacking his flank.
Arkon groans as he moves slightly away from her. "And something with storms." He said stroking Rainbow's flank.
"Close enough." Rainbow says shivering.
Arkon then looks to Glide's mark and sees a thunderbolt splitting a cloud. "Something on using precise strikes." He said also stroking hers.
Glide moans from his touch and leans onto him.
Arkon pulls his hand away. "Sorry, did I hurt you?"
"No, that felt good." Glide said before kissing his cheek.
Arkon blushes and looks away slightly. "I see. So…I may be behind the times as it is with my 'cutie mark'."
"You don't have one. In fact, all ponies nowadays are born with theirs, but it only appears when you discover your talent either through trial and error or by luck." Daring says.
Arkon hums as they all lower their flanks before Daring and Spitfire sit on both sides of his lap and leans against him. "So…what do you like about us Arkon?" Spitfire asks.
Arkon was then at a loss for words as Rainbow was amused how much they were teasing him.
Glide giggles as she moves up the middle and sits down on her knees in front of him. "Come on, what do you like?" She asks rubbing her hands over his legs and moving upward.
"I think he can't decide." Spitfire says.
Rainbow chuckles as she gets out of the tub and moves behind him before sitting behind his head. "Well…he seems to like a four-way hug or cuddle." She said wrapping her arms around him.
"Well that is all he will get tonight." Daring says.
They all chuckle and giggle as Arkon try to stay still silent. 'Why did I garner the attention of four mares?'
Dusk sighs as he goes over the maps Daring gave him as Sentire and the others were away in their bunks for the night. "Strange. Seems there is a trading path." He said to himself as he traces a path and marks it down on the map.
"How old?" The dog asks.
Dusk hums. "Well, old enough to be covered and still wide enough to make it look like a road."
"I see." The dog says.
"You know, what are we going to do once we get there? Defend the castle, an old castle from a possible army from a griffon and dogs?" Agilis asks just laying on the ground as the dog lays on him.
"We don't know that yet." Dusk says.
Agilis groans as he just taps his claws against the ground in a pondering position. "So…have you made a decision on Sentire?" He asks looking away.
"Stay out of my love life and I will out of yours." Dusk warns.
Agilis rolls his eyes. "I don't have one. Besides, who's good enough?" The dog smirks and curls his body around so his head was next to Agilis with a smirk. "Back off." Agilis said pushing his head away.
"Oh Barb." Dusk calls.
Barb grumbles as she walks into the room from a side door. "What?" She asks almost angrily.
"Agilis told me something interesting." Dusk says smirking.
Barb raises an eyebrow. "Oh? What is it?"
"Well seems he has some feelings for a female dragon." Dusk says.
Barb's glare turns to Agilis. "Oh? I think he just likes me about my figure and thinks with his…you know." She said remembering what Dusk told her about bad words.
"No, he thinks you're kind, smart, and witty." Dusk says.
Agilis looks at him surprised as the dog gets off of him and Barb suddenly carries him over his shoulder. "We'll see about that." She said going back to her room.
Dusk smirks before looking to the dog reading a book. "What are you reading?"
The dog hums as he turns a page. "This strange book you have. I have seen this style of slavery before. Sexual slavery can drive a species to extinction if not controlled and even then it's doomed to extinction. Why do you have a porn book anyway?"
"That's Barb's actually." Dusk says.
The dog looks up at him. "She likes being controlled?"
"No, other way." Dusk says.
The dog raises an eyebrow. "You sure about that? Dragoness have been known to leave their mating practices to the males."
"You have never met Barb." Dusk says.
The dog chuckles. "Strange she reads this then. You would think she would read an opposite book on this."
"Barb isn't the norm." Dusk says smirking.
The dog chuckles. "I pray for my friend then."
"I thought he was more of a pillow." Dusk says.
The dog grins. "A warm one at that, but like all good things, it must go."
"So what were you talking to Arkon about?" Dusk asks.
The dog sighs. "The times he lived in. I am an immortal being my pony. And as the ponies around your town says it, 'I have seen some shit.' I wanted to confirm with Arkon on his time."
"Ah and you and Sentire?" Dusk says.
The dog smiles. "She conquered me. By my laws, I have to be her servant and comrade."
Dusk raises an eyebrow. "Really now? So how was she before all this?"
The dog looks upward. "Withdrawn. Didn't interact much besides me or her father. As such, she would just spend time watching the waves roll on by as we travel along. It was almost as if watching her own soul break from not being with…hey, where did you go?" He asks after noticing Dusk was gone and only an open door was the evidence he left.
Sentire snores as she tries sleeping on the train beds again, but then rolls off and hits ground. "Ow." She said getting up and rubbing her head. "Why is this so small?" She asks standing up and looking at it.
Her door slowly opens with a squeak and she looks over to see Dusk walking in before stopping at the sight of the naked Sentire. "Oh. Did you need something?"
Dusk blinks and mumbles a few words as he looks her over. "Well…um…can you please put something on?"
Sentire looks down to herself. "My body is not appealing to you?"
Dusk bleeds heavily from his nose. "Well…no…just…I need to talk to you."
Sentire tilts her head before wrapping the blanket around her and sits down on the messy bed. "What is it?"
Dusk sighs in relief and looks away as he sat down nearby. "Well…that dog told me about your time being alone."
Sentire hums. "They never told me where I came from. Just that I walked onto the island and stayed there for a long time and the island took off. I don't even know my past as much as they do. But…I did wish at times that they were more of me on it. Just so I can have some company."
"Speaking of more, how has your session with other mares going?" Dusk asks.
Sentire sighs. "Not as fun as I thought. It's just work now. I met others and it doesn't have the same flair as before. Just now it's…dull."
Dusk raises an eyebrow. "Dull? Spending time with your own kind playing games and having fun?"
Sentire nods. "Not as much of a flair that has been thought about. Not as much as…well…"
"Let me guess, you want a stallion?" Dusk asks not sounding happy.
Sentire tries to smile. "Are you mad?"
"You got to stop focusing on trying to get intercourse and make friends and have fun. Look at me, I am friends with Rainbow, but I'm not thinking of rutting her." Dusk says.
Sentire looks away. "So…you're not interested anymore?"
"I'm saying it cannot be your priority. This is why Applejack flat out refuses. He refuses to be in a sex toy relationship." Dusk says.
Sentire sighs and looks away completely. "I see. Okay…I'll stop."
"Good. Now come on, we have a game going." Dusk says.
Sentire looks to him. "Game?"
"Yeah, come on." Dusk says pulling her along.
Sentire looks down to herself. "In this?" She asks while trailing the blankets behind her.
"Change." Dusk says stopping
Sentire sighs and goes to change as Dusk waits outside before the door opens to Sentire old outfit she wore. "Let's go." She said passing by him without a glance.
"It's kind of nerdy." Dusk says as they came to a cart that somehow looked like a medieval dungeon.
"Welcome adventures. To your doom in D&D." Berry says in an overlord costume as the other stallions sit around a table, most in costumes.
Sentire raises an eyebrow at all this. "What is this?"
"A game. Berry, new player, take it easy on her." Dusk says before telling her the rules as they sit down.
Sentire just keeps staring at the board. "Why play this? This is a game on luck and you might as well just roll the dice and say the lines."
"It is for fun and a game of imagination." Dusk says as Applejack tries to move in the knight armor.
Sentire tilts her head as she moves her piece in the dark cloak. "And what do you get in the end?"
"The enjoyment of having fun." Dusk says.
Sentire becomes confused. "So…no prize of any kind?"
"Only in game." Berry says before practicing his evil laugh.
Sentire sighs and gets up. "Then there is no point in playing unless handheld or enlightenment comes from this." She said walking away.
"More like can't do anything that doesn't involve leading to intercourse." Applejack says challengingly.
Sentire looks back to him. "Why do I need that now?" She asks before continuing to walk away.
"Like you could even understand it to play." Applejack says.
Sentire stops and looks at him. "The intercourse or the game?"
"Either." Applejack says.
Sentire huffs. "I can play the game and beat you. I have no more interest in intercourse with any of you."
"Prove it." Applejack says.
Sentire shakes her head and sits down and moves her piece. "Your turn."
Dusk smiles.
"So are we finally clean?" Arkon asks trying to not have a nosebleed.
The mares smirk as they towel themselves off as Arkon stayed facing away from them in the tub. "Yep, now you can head off." Rainbow said.
"Thank you." Arkon says in relief.
They all giggle as they walk off with towels around them as Arkon groans and slumps. "I had to be desirable."
"Hey, for fun, why don't we play a game to decide who sleeps in the sleep cabin with him?" Spitfire asks.
Glide raises an eyebrow. "You sure he would take it even if one of us wins?"
"Well if not, Daring gets him." Spitfire reminds.
Daring chuckles. "He is sleeping my room. Just on a different bunk. If somepony doesn't win, I get him. If somepony does, then I will step out for game night, unless you want me to watch?"
"I did not say any of you can have intercourse." Spitfire says looking at the other members, letting them know she is pulling rank.
Rainbow huffs. "You know, it's still Arkon's choice on what to do. He has to decide if he doesn't want us for the night."
"Wait, who said he got a choice?" Daring jokes.
"He is the stallion here and we're putting ourselves on him. Let him decide for once." Glide offers.
"That was a joke." Daring says.
Glide rolls her eyes. "Seriously, how are we going to do this?"
"I got an idea." Daring say before leaving and coming back with a deck of cards. "We each shuffle once and then draw one card. The highest wins. In case of a tie, the two draw again."
Rainbow grumbles as the deck was passed around and finally comes to her and she shuffles before taking one. "Alright, let's see who's the winner." She said before they all show their card.
Rainbow revealed a seven, Spitfire had a four, and Glide had a nine. All three look to Daring who had her card face down. "Well?" Glide asks thinking she won.
Daring raises an eyebrow and flips her card to show a ten. "Huh, guess I win."
"Ah." All three exclaim as Daring goes to Arkon.
Arkon sighs as he wraps the towel around himself before looking behind him to see Daring coming to him. "Yes?"
Daring hugs him and strokes his head.
Arkon blushes and tries to make her let go. "Um…why?"
"You're a potential and we were sharing the room anyways so how do you want it?" Daring asks before whispering into his ear.
Arkon tries to pull his head away from hers. "I'll…take the one in the right."
"Ok." Daring says smiling slightly down at Arkon.
Arkon looks between them. "Can you release me?"
Daring kisses his head before doing that.
Arkon bleeds from his nose and steps around her and heads to their room. "Why did you ask me that since we are already sleeping in different beds?"
"To mess with those three." Daring says.
Arkon hums as he enters the room and opens his bags. "Can you…?"
"I will give you space to change." Daring says.
Arkon nods as she turns around and he starts to dress. "So why did you choose me and those other mares too?"
"I gave you reasons already." Daring says changing herself.
Arkon raises an eyebrow. "So what attracted you to me?"
"Slow down lover boy, you ain't there yet." Daring says with a smirk.
Arkon shakes his head. "I see. Then I guess you don't have much of an interest as I thought you have on me."
"Oh, I am interested. You just have to work for it." Daring says.
Arkon nods. "If that is what you want, I will." He said getting his sleepwear on.
"Nice pants. So no shirt?" Daring asks.
Arkon looks at her at the side of eyes. "Do I need one?"
"Not really and it gives me something to look at." Daring says.
Arkon raises an eyebrow and looks at himself. "So no stallions in this time wear any shirts for the night?"
"Oh they do, but unless it is cold, they do it by choice." Daring says.
Arkon looks to her and he sees her wearing some shorts and a long shirt. "I see. Well then, have a nice sleep." He said getting into bed.
"Sleep well." Daring says before slipping into her own bed.
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