A Winter's Rose
Chapter 56: Chapter 56. Upheaval (Part 3)
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe day was long and boring, from long meetings with my new advisors about that general state of affairs of Arcadia: To paperwork that I slept through for weeks at a time. It was hard, but good work. It was good to know that everything was running smoothly, and there was little problem with the sudden appearance of the humans. In fact, many of my new zealots believe that they all are Gods or Goddess, which would have been fine for them, but it was a problem for me.
I already have enough flak from my Nobles that, somehow, were now a thing in Arcadia. I told Luna to be reasonable as I would if I were unable to deal with the politics, and what does she do? She fucking gives titles without my approval, and their influence was already showing. 'Luna, I love you for all of your help, but you are fucking stupid sometimes.' Now, I will have to make even more laws that shouldn't be in use in the first place, and when all is said and done. Luna is going to give me a blowjob in front of everyone on my throne, and make me a shapeshifting ring if she can, and maybe. Just maybe. I will suck her horn while she's at it.
As much as I hated staying in one place for too long, I have been chained to the bed in my room. Literally. It was annoying that Dr. Edgy was forced to prevent me from endangering myself or sneaking out in the middle of the night to find and cuddle my waifu. Ever since I woke up from my nap, I could feel her pure joy and need to see me again. That thought alone made staying in bed easier to bear, and I can't wait to show her my horns, but there was one problem during my wait that was bothering me.
I couldn't quite place my hoof on it, but all of a sudden. I was having cravings for meat, and not just the usual. I was begging for thick, juicy, medium rare, steak. These cravings would have been normal if I was pregnant, but I wasn't. I could tell just by smelling myself that I didn't have a baby cooking in the oven, and if I did? Then using that sensitivity cream was going to make it three times more painful than it had to be.
Since I wasn't pregnant, my next thought was my blood as I had to get a transfusion because I lost way too much blood. If it was my blood, and whoever donated it had the ability to eat meat without getting sick. Then I hope to Luna that I gained that ability. I missed my steak, living in Equestria was very unfair in that regard.
Alas, even with my sudden cravings for the red meat now in full effect, there was one dilemma that I was facing. It controlled all my concentration, all my brain power to complete with perfection. I spent many hours of failing and succeeding this task. No matter what the cost or outcome, I will prevail. I had to. My life depended on it. If I didn't complete this arduous task in between life or death, I will never be able to look Princess Luna in her eyes again for failing her.
Slam!
“Nooooooo!” I wept as I dropped the card that I was holding in pure anguish. I turned around to see who was the on responsible for ruining three hours of pure, labor intensive, work.
‘Okay, Pinkie Pies mane is straight and dull, that's a good sign for the plan I am going to put together. I can smell that Fluttershy has two pure-blooded Thestral twins. A big problem if Celestia were to get her hooves on them. Wait...Why can I smell that? Whatever. I’ll figure that out later. Rarity, AppleJack, Rainbow looked normal, and Twilight looked like someone pissed in her cereal. Alright, the stage is set for my master plan of ultimate masturbation!’ I thought as Princess Twilight Sparkle pulled out something from her tan saddlebags while Fluttershy hid behind Rarity.
“Jeez kid. It's just a card house,” Rainbow Dash said with pure mockery to the death of my creation.
“Do you have any Idea how hard it is to make a card house with hooves? I was almost done the third level too!” I balked at the rainbow maned Pegasus while getting ready to put my plan into action.
“Whatever,” she said with a big roll of her eyes.
"Anyway," Twilight began to say. “We are here to save you, Winter Rose!” shouted Twilight Sparkle as she and her friends entered the room, causing me to jump and my house of cards that I have been making for the past three hours. I frowned at them as I put my cards again for the hundredth time and looked them over for a second.
"Say 'wut?" I said dumbly to the mare in purple. She, of course, thought it was an insult with the face she gave me while everyone else shifted uncomfortably to the events that I just caused, and Rainbow Dash face-hoofed respectively.
"We are here to help you—"
"I know what you are here for," I cut her off before I took a sip of coffee.
"Don't interrupt me, Demon!" she bellowed back, causing Fluttershy to flinch behind Rarity—Who was giving me a nervous look. I sighed and placed my mug that said: Child Stalker, on the mug in big bold letters on the table and moved the table to the side.
"I can interrupt whoever I want because you are wrong, and I can prove it to you that I am right," I replied smugly.
"Big words for a Demon," Rarity interjected in an effort to support Twilight's claims.
"Yeah!" Rainbow cheered as she hovered on the spot. I just rolled my eyes and got rid of my smirk and put on my straight face.
"Big words huh? Then tell me this Rarity: Where is Quick Note?" I asked with a raised brow. Everyone looked at each other like I just asked the weirdest question in the world, knowing that he was on "vacation," with some of his buddies, but what they don't know was that he was never coming back.
"Why do you want to know?" Twilight asked with concern clearly oblivious that I just deflected her "Demon" allegation. Everyone else stayed quiet while Fluttershy looked at me with even more fear.
"Well, I want to know why the father of Fluttershy's foals isn't here with her?" I said blankly. They all blinked for a second in an effort to reboot their brains from what I just said. Pinkie Pie came back to her senses with a bit more life in her eyes, Rarity gasped and turned to the mare behind her that was in pure shock. Rainbow just glared at me, while Apple Jack and Twilight just stared at me with curiosity before they turned to Fluttershy with concern.
"Fluttershy, you are having foals?!" they all gasped in unison.
They all began to talk to the terrified butter-yellow mare that had her secret revealed. I was kinda sorry for putting her on the spot as Pinkie Pie began throwing ideas for the millions of parties she plans of throwing for. All I could do was smile as all the mares finished their squeaks and peeps of joy, and gave me their full attention again, this time with Fluttershy a lot more confident in her current situation.
'Man, it's going to suck to tell her of what Celestia plans for her once she learns that she is giving birth to pure-blooded Thestrals. Just thinking about it makes me depressed.'
"How did'ya know she was havin' foals?" Apple Jack asked defensively.
"The same reason I know that Quick Note is dead," I replied with a sip of coffee. The all gasped in unison to my answer before Fluttershy started to freak out that the father of her foals was never coming back.
"W-What d-do y-you mean? W-Why isn't he coming b-back?" Fluttershy stuttered on the verge of tears.
Everyone instantly began assuring her that I was lying to cause a reaction out of her. It was true, for the most part. I needed her to believe in me so that I could relocate her out of Ponyville and into a small town in Arcadia. I knew that if I could convince her on, going, then the others would surely follow. Once they had another moment with each other again, they all turned to me with dirty looks, waiting for my reply.
"Well, to repeat myself: I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but Quick Note is dead," I sighed with a tinge of regret.
"What?!" they said angrily.
"That's a lie! I know for a fact that Quick Note is safe and being guarded by the best in Equestria. Celestia made sure that he was safe on his vacation, and I have proof that he is alive!" Twilight shouted in defiance, but with a glance towards Apple Jack, I could tell that she knew that I wasn't lying.
"Frankly Twilight, I wish that I wasn't lying, but I'm not, and the truth hurts. I can confidently tell you that you will find his ashes at the bottom of the Crystal Catacombs underneath Canterlot Mountain, at Celestia's orders," I said solemnly.
Twilight just gave me a look of disbelief while Apple Jack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie tried their best to hold back whatever they were planning on doing. I, however, just took a sip of coffee.
"You can't fool me, Demon!" Twilight shouted. I just sighed again and turned to AJ, who looked like she didn't want to be put on the spot again.
"Well, that's because you have you head so far up your ass that you have another head, besides. Apple Jack knows that I am telling the truth. She is the Element of Honesty after all."
"Apple Jack? She is lying, right?" Twilight asked with slight fear in her voice.
I took a sip of coffee and watched Apple Jack motioned for Twilight and Rainbow Dash to leave the room for a moment, probably to talk about what I was saying because I clearly wasn't helping with Twilights sanity right now.
Once the trio was gone, leaving me with a weeping Fluttershy and an even more depressed Pinkie Pie. I jumped off of my bed and sat in front of Rarity, who was holding the butter-yellow pegasus in her arms. Rarity gave me a heartbroken look, and I responded with a comforting smile.
"Rarity, can I ask you a simple question?" She gave me a quick nod while Pinkie ate a cupcake that looked like it could kill a giant with Die-eh-bee-tus. "I want you to look after Fluttershy and her foals. Once Celestia learns that she is going to have two, pure-blooded Thestrals, which are extremely dangerous if not raised properly, she will take them away from her, and they will never see their mother again. And before you ask how I know she was having Thestrals: I know because the entire Thestral race was created from a human earth pony and an Equestrian Pegasus."
She gave me a weak smirk before she looked over to the door like she didn't want Twilight to hear what she was about to say.
"I...No—We knew that he was one of your kind, a human. We all knew, and we didn't mind it at all. When he said that he was going to travel all of Equestria for a short while, everypony was worried, Fluttershy especially. Then we heard from Celestia that he was actually being sent to a safe place because of the sudden appearance of all the horns and facial markings that you humans now have."
"Of course, everypony was relieved to hear that he was being protected by the royal guard, but then the rumors that all humans were being hunted down and killed was spreading like wildfire! Then to hear from Princess Luna that the rumors were true, we...I, none of us wanted to believe that Quick Note was in danger from Celestia herself," she choked out while I sat quietly and listened. "But now that we know where he really went. I will keep Fluttershy and her foals safe, and that's a promise."
‘That's good to here that she believes in Luna like I thought she would. Though, I have to wonder why she didn't react to the Thestral part? Then again, Luna probably told them everything about humans while they waited for me to wake up. That's a good possibility, but now comes the hard part,” I thought.
“That's good to know, but I want to make sure that she is one hundred percent safe. So, Fluttershy, I want you to move to the small town known as: Fairytale, in Arcadia. It's a beautiful forest village that is by a magnificent, crystal lake. It's quiet, has nice neighbors, and there are thousands of animals living nearby,” I said as Fluttershy perked from her name being mentioned.
“Isn't that a bit—" Rarity tried to say, but Fluttershy cut her off with a meek sniffle.
“Okay,” Fluttershy said clearly, cutting off what Rarity was going to say. I gave her a warm smile. “Thank you, Fluttershy. I will pay for everything, even transportation for all of your animal friends back in Ponyville. Even for you to Rarity. You did promise you would take care of her, right?”
“Yes but,” she began to say in exasperation. “But what about Sweety Bell? I know that I made a promise, but how was I supposed to tell my darling little sister that we are moving?! She will be absolutely devastated to say goodbye to her friends!”
"I know, Rarity, which is why I need your help with Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash, but for now. Just keep Fluttershy happy, same with you Pinkie Pie. Even though Celestia broke thousands of Pinkie-Promises like a big meanie-pants, can you: Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye?" I said doing the motions for the promise. She gave me a big smile and bone-crushing hug and made the same promise with Rarity.
It took a few more minutes before the other three walked back in from their little meeting outside of the room. They all came back in with a look of determination on their faces, and I could instantly tell that they had a plan up their sleeves, but so did I.
If they were going to lie to me in an attempt to pull the rug right from underneath me, I could outright tell them that they couldn't use the Elements of Harmony because it would kill Fluttershy's foal's in the process. Of course, that was a fact not to trifle with. Since Fluttershy had two balls of chaos growing in her belly. If they were to be touched by the Elements during activation—They would either be removed from her body, or they will die, and she will have a miss carriage. I could only hope that it doesn't come to that.
I sat back on my bed, drinking my cup of coffee while I pretended not to hear the conversation that they were having. I found it quite amusing that they planned on exposing me for the use of dark magic, but what they don't know—And what Spitfire might kill me for, was that Rainbow will run to find her mother. Who should have died in an accident during her time in the Wonderbolts when Rainbow Dash was just a filly. Once she learns of Aunt Firefly's existence in the small valley town of, Norashire.
Twilight broke free from their little huddle with a look of victory on her face, and tried to talk again, but I stopped her with a raised hoof and looked over to Rainbow Dash, who had her chest shoved out in pride.
"Rainbow can speak, Twilight. I have had enough of your voice," I said smugly to the glaring mares.
"Why her of all ponies, Demon?" Twilight asked while Rainbow looked at me confused.
"Well, because I want to talk to her about Firefly of course!" I cheered with a clap of my hooves. This Twilight and Apple Jack to scrunch up their faces in irritation, but Rainbow just stared at me like I shot her in the chest.
"What about her?" Rainbow asked. "She's dead."
"I just thought you would like to know that she is actually alive, and if you don't believe me: There is this small town to the northwest called Norashire. She lives in a small cloud house, and she is the Captain of the Guard over there," I replied with a sip of coffee.
Her reaction was instant, just like the others. Her wings twitched, wanting to fly to the town to confirm my statement, and I wanted her too. When Spitfire told me that the former Wonderbolt faked her death for some unknown reason. All I wanted to do was send a letter to great cousin Rainbow, telling her that she could reunite with her side of the family, but I wasn't allowed. Spitfire made it very clear that Rainbow Dash was never to learn that her mother was alive. She didn't say why, but I could tell it was because of something to do with the dark side of being a Wonderbolt.
'Well, I'll take my spanking with a happy reunion any day,' I thought as I watched tears flowed down the rainbow-maned pegasus.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" I asked as Twilight glared pure death at me.
"I—" rainbow choked out.
"Don't fall for it Rainbow! She is just trying to separate us!" Twilight yelled at the fidgeting pegasus.
"I would never lie to, family!" I shot at the seething Twilight. "Cousin Rainbow has the right to know that great Aunt Firefly is alive, even though Spitfire told me not to tell her."
"I'll—" Rainbow said, looking at the door.
"Cousin?! Since when!" Twilight screamed. "Don't listen to—" she tried to say, but ti was too late.
I smiled victoriously as I heard a Sonic Rainboom exploded outside of the hospital, and there was a missing Pegasus in the room. Twilight left the room to chase after her, leaving me alone with Apple Jack and the others again. That's when Rarity asked Apple Jack to come with them to Arcadia.
My smiled softened the second Apple Jack agreed to move with them, despite wanting to support Twilight in her endeavors. That's when I told her of what would happen to Fluttershy if the Elements were to be activated.
She and the others made it their mission to not help Twilight after I told them that, and once everyone was done talking about their new plans in the small town called Fairytale, Rainbow Dash came back in, covered in sweat and tears; panting like an exhausted dog. Then without warning, she pulled me into a death hug, saying a million; "thank you's," to me. When she was finally done killing me with her arms, she joined in on the big move that the others were planning.
That's when Twilight finally came back, also tired like she ran a marathon. I gave her a smile and nodded towards her friends who were all looking at her with worry.
"Okay...Huff...Let's...Huff...Get back to helping the filly," Twilight barely managed to say.
"Twilight honey, but I don't think that she needs help," Rarity said warily. Twilight just tilted her head like Rarity just said sacrilege to Sun Fuck the Celestia.
"What do you mean?" Twilight asked before she finally pieced everything together. "You...You think that I need help?"
They all nodded in unison in response.
"Apple Jack, can't you see that she needs help from the demon inside her?"
"Well, sugar cube, she isn't a demon. She is a human. Last I checked, there was a big spell thingy that revealed all humans with a unique mark on their bodies, and a lot of em' have horns. She hasn't lied once, and ya'll know that I can tell if somepony is lyin' or not."
"That's—!"
"I lie?" Rainbow cut her off. Twilight flinched from the sudden venom in the rainbow-maned Pegasi's voice. "I got to see my mom again, and I saw her die when I was a filly. Hell, even Luna was there talking to her about life in retirement when I got there! Face it Twilight, she is telling the truth and we were all wrong."
"But that's—!"
"Impossible?" Rarity cut her off, this time, causing Twilights eye to twitch. "Darling, we know you mean well, but with all the warnings from Princess Luna and little Rose here. We have to take their warnings to heart."
"Guy's, can't you let me—?!"
"Talk?" Fluttershy cut her off, much to everyone's surprise. "I haven't been able to talk at all! I just learned that my foals were going to be stolen by Celestia if I didn't leave Equestria! And what's worse was that they weren't going to have a father because he was killed at Celestia's orders!"
"She didn't—!"
"SHE DID!" Pinkie Pie yelled angrily, causing the tearing up unicorn to back away. "She broke thousands of Pinky-Promises. THOUSANDS! It was icky to feel all the pretty candles to go out like that. Celestia is a big meanie-weenie-pants, and she will never have a Pinkie Pie party, ever again!"
Twilight slumped her head in defeat and walked out the door, feeling betrayed that her friends taking the side that wasn't hers. She left not know that all of her friends were moving within the next three days to Fairytale, and when she learns that their houses were already being packed at my orders to Luna via Telepathy. She will have no choice but to leave with them, and if she doesn't.
She better hope that she does.
Next Chapter: Chapter 57. Conference. Estimated time remaining: 7 Hours, 45 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Araaaaaaaaaghhhhh. Soooooooooooooooooooooooooo Boooooooooooooooooooooooring Fillllllllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Sorry, but this should be the last filler CH.
And sorry it took so long to bring out. It was long and boring and hell's kitchen has, somehow, taken over my life.
'Don't judge me! I'm not a horse wife!'
Anyway, since there is one spot left for the OC thingy, and all the others are about to show up in the story.
Whoever can tell me Winter Roses favorite Fetish. Also, not going to give it out until I have a few in the comments. Just to be fair.
They can take that final spot.