"Does he mean to do that?" I asked.

"Are you asking if Fluttershy means to show hers—himself off like that? Pfft, nope. Makes for a good spectator sport, though." Rainbow only looked away from Fluttershy's departing form when she couldn't see him anymore. "You're pretty strong, but you could do with some work, ya know?"

I snorted. "I've never had to fight a genuine hero before, and I don't plan to again."

"You should think about it. You're pretty tough. I think you could take out—well not Tirek or something on that scale but—smaller baddies." She looked over me, tracing my body from the tips of my hooves to the end of my snout. "I'll say one thing, though, I've probably never met a stallion that looks like you and has that much oomph."

I wanted to get a read on what she wanted without dipping into my siren powers. Did Rainbow Dash want a strong partner, a stallion she could overpower, or a dominant partner who could finally put her down? Picking the right tactic would get us both into a lot of fun, picking the wrong one could physically hurt me.

Well, if not using my siren magic was the way to do it, and I couldn't get a fix on her even after years of practice, there was only one thing left to try. "So, uh, what'd you want to do?"

"Sirens don't get mystical powers to know the hearts and minds of ponies, huh?"

"Actually, we do. I just don't think using them is very—uh—nice. Besides, a lot can be learned by asking." I took a moment to really examine Rainbow Dash again. Her body was compact and built for speed. She was an athlete and a powerhouse, but while those were both good labels, it was her flying that was the pinnacle of Rainbow. I didn't care that she was watching me watch her.

Rainbow waited a few more moments before replying. "I guess normally I like to play rough with guys. Pulling manes and tails, that kinda stuff. Never really met anypony that could come anywhere close to overpowering me before." She was blushing up a storm. "Might be fun to…"

"To what?" I asked.

"To be overpowered. Not that you could. You're pretty strong, Sure Beat, but you ain't Rainbow Dash strong."

Heading back to our wagon to get the bridle and restraints would take far too long, they'd be miles too big, and Rainbow still might snap them, but I did need something to give me an edge if I was going to overpower her. There was only one thing I could do to give her that feeling without breaking myself in the process. "Do I have your permission, Rainbow, to do everything within my power to restrain you for a day?"

We both froze and turned our heads to see Fluttershy standing, looking at us with his wings flared in obvious shock.

"Perhaps Fluttershy can spot for you. Make sure I'm not doing anything beyond what you want." I inhaled what I could tell was the scent of a mare reacting with arousal.

Rainbow shivered beside me—a good shiver—and looked at Fluttershy. "Like when lifting weights? But what if I want Fluttershy in on it?"

"Then we tag and swap. Or we could make a word that you could say so I'll stop," I said.

"Like a tag-out? Pfft, I'd never use that."

"Stop it!" Fluttershy stomped forward and into our conversation. "You can't just—Talking about these things is—"

Proving herself faster than me, at least, Rainbow jumped to her hooves and hugged Fluttershy, though somewhat awkwardly given their size difference. "You've already bucked him, Fluttershy. Leave the soft mutterings to Rarity. He's literally the first stallion I've met that could go toe-to-toe with me—maybe—and you want me to dance around the subject of sex?"

I decided it'd probably be for the best if I didn't mention my time with Rarity.

"W-Well…" Fluttershy started to shrink back, but then stopped and stood straighter. This was mildly hilarious because Rainbow had still been trying to hug him at the time. "Okay! I'll watch for the start, but then it's my turn!"

Rainbow Dash stepped back from Fluttershy with a big blush on her cheeks. She looked up at her friend. "You really wanna…"

"Yes!" Fluttershy said.

"…With me?"

Fluttershy froze and looked down at Rainbow. As he did his eyes slid over to me.

"Rainbow Dash," I said. "Fluttershy wants to join in. I know some mares fantasize about having two stallions in a three-some, but it's not all about the mare, remember?"

"Sure? If you're trying to teach Rainbow that the world doesn't revolve around her, you're going to have to try harder." Fluttershy looked almost as shocked by what he'd said as Rainbow looked at hearing it.

"But—" I waited until Rainbow looked back at me before continuing, "—if you want a little mare-worship, I think I could definitely handle that. What about you, Fluttershy?"

"W-W-What's mare-worship?" Fluttershy asked.

I stood up from the couch and walked around Rainbow. Normally someone would probably hold back and try to give an aloof accounting of their target's features. I leaned down as I circled and ran my snout along Rainbow's short mane, down to her wings, then back up and licked along her ear. "It's when a group of ponies focus everything on one mare. They make her the center of their world and prove to her how much she means to them."

"Buck…" Rainbow's wings shot up in surprise, and I could see her on the verge of taking flight. "Y-Yes please?"

Fluttershy looked at me with an unsure expression.

"I can help, if you want me to."

"Huh?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"O-Okay. W-When we do that, can you help me get into it?" Fluttershy's cheeks looked almost as red as my fur used to.

"If you need it. Maybe we'll be too far into things by then. Back to Rainbow." I looked at the mare in question and raised an eyebrow. "So, what about it? If you let me use some tricks on you, I think I can 'overpower' you."

"Hold up. Could we do it like some kind of attack?" Jumping up on the couch, Rainbow pantomimed swinging punches my way. "I'm trying to defend my cute coltfriend when a ravaging monster attacks!"

I could see the conversation going on and on with no resolution except for two stallions and a mare getting way more horny than they should without relief. Turning, I marched toward the front door, opened it, and stepped back outside.

The moment I was clear of the house I let my pony form melt away from me. It was good to be my siren self again. Well, at least partly siren self. My dock grew out and become almost half as long as my body; my back legs absorbed halfway into me, leaving little stumps; and my gemstone became prominent on my chest, thrumming with power—Rarity had been an excellent feast.

Feeling more alive, I swam through the air on my magic until I was just above the door, and waited. When Rainbow walked outside and looked around, I pounced.

"Whoa! Hey! What're you—" Rainbow Dash wouldn't be caught by a simple attack from above, however. She thrummed her wings and shot off to the side and hovered there. "You really think you can get the drop on me? Come on! It takes more than that to ambush Rainbow, Danger, Dash!"

Okay, games. I flashed my fangs at her. "I've already grown fat feasting on your coltfriend. Now it's your turn. I'm not going to go easy on you, Crash, not once I catch you." I knew her Wonderbolts nickname from years earlier when I'd heard my sister talk about it.

I started to charge at her, using the speed and focus of my attack be a perfect distraction. Gathering up a mass of magic, I hurled it to Rainbow Dash. The magic was simple, it coiled up the pony in their own emotions—amplifying them a dozen-fold.

When Rainbow paused after my magic hit her, widening her eyes, I thought I had her already. She shook her head and dodged my physical attack. "W-What was that? Did you use magic?!"

"The simplest magic. Everything you feel, you'll feel much more." I sniffed the air, and the slight scent of arousal I'd found before was swelling—growing into much more. "Did it work?"

"You're all big and stuff! Why do you get magic too?!" Rainbow glared at me from the distance she'd established.

I could have simply cast the spell again. Normally, in a fight, it would only make an enemy more dangerous, but since Rainbow was already aroused, it had a more pacifying effect. Not that I wanted to win quite this quickly. "Because monsters don't play fair, Rainbow Dash." I circled around and charged again, this time coming from up-wind of her.

If I'd moved faster, the scent of my own arousal wouldn't have reached her before she dodged, as it was, I watched her pause for a moment as her nose twitched. When I reached her, she barely got away.

Rainbow seemed to understand that I was just wearing her down with tricks. Instead of holding her distance, she turned and charged toward me with a hoof out.

I thought of a million things I could do to avoid her strike, but none of them so much as started to be put into action before she hit me. It was silly. I wasn't a fighter, I'd never learned how to punch or buck in anger, and I hadn't spent most of my life defending Equestria from the biggest and baddest nasties you could think of.

Spinning through the air, I tried to roll with the hit as best I could and focus on Rainbow Dash—who was keeping pace with me. I turned around when I thought my magic was up to it, and reached out for Rainbow. Had she been in any state other than horny as buck, she would have easily slipped away.

"Hey! Get off me!"

Trying to hold Rainbow Dash was another lesson in futility. She squirmed and wiggled, struggling to get free with each movement. I was running out of time before she'd get away again and probably wind up "defeating" me, and then I'd just be another stallion she'd put in his place.

Well, there was always one thing I could do. Shoving Rainbow down, I slammed my body against her as hard as I could. I ignored the wheezing gasp Rainbow let out and pinned her against the ground with my body. "You thought you could defeat me?" I asked.

"Ugh! I'd be able to beat you if you didn't—" Rainbow Dash froze for a moment as my hard shaft pressed under her tail. My aim was off, but just the act made her aware of my intentions. "Y-You're going to—to—to buck me as a siren?" There was surprise and excitement in her voice.

"Nothing you can do to stop me." My words emboldened her to try to squirm loose, but I just leaned a little harder and used my mass as my most effective asset. Shifting my tail a little, I lined up better and pushed against her—missed—and slid up between her back legs.

"N-Not gonna lose to—to a fish!"

When Rainbow Dash tried to shove me off, I moved with the action only so far as it drew my hips back and lined me up properly. For a heartbeat I was at the peak of my assent, and the tip of my shaft kissed against her vulva.

I growled a little and pressed down a bit harder. "Mine!" Rocking my hips forward, I tried to avoid putting too much pressure on her as I pushed inside, for fear that she wasn't wet enough. I needn't have worried.

Rainbow moaned and squeezed at me, but she was wet enough that I could push halfway into her before needing to back up. "Y-Ya won't—Ya won't defeat me!"

With another hungry growl, I pushed into Rainbow and didn't stop until my belly was firm against her croup and I could feel her rump under my tail. "I defeated you before you even left Fluttershy's cottage. Your coltfriend made these same sounds for me. Now it's time for you to sing, Crash."

I felt her curl her spine, her legs bracing into the ground and pushing back against me, and she arched her neck so her head looked nearly straight up—I almost expected her to howl. "Fffffff—You call that fuckin'? C'mon! Diamond dogs buck harder than this."

If I weren't so well versed with other ponies and their little mannerisms during sex, Rainbow's dirty talk might have unnerved me. She did surprise me, however, with the comment about diamond dogs. Reaching forward with a win, I grabbed at her shoulder and pulled her back more firmly. "Fucked a diamond dog, have you? Doesn't surprise me."

"What?!" Despite her exclamation, Rainbow kept squeezing down with her muscles and shoving back against me.

"You'd know what diamond dogs call their females when they're in heat." I growled and leaned over her. "Bitch." The word had an immediate response from Rainbow. She seemed to push back more, but now she lowered her head. "Head up, bitch."

"Oh my goodness! You shouldn't call her that!" Fluttershy's deep tone stopped us both in our tracks to watch as he rushed over. "Apologize to her this—"

"Fluttershy!" Rainbow tried her best (or so I thought) to look serious as she glared up at her friend from where I'd pinned her down. "He's just followin' my lead. I kinda talked him into it. Kinda. It's okay."

I leaned back a little, slid almost completely out of Rainbow before I shoved forward. "It's dirty-talk, Fluttershy. Some ponies like to be told specific things. They mean nothing about the pony, it's just something they get off to. Right, my slutty little bitch?" The last words, of course, were directed to Rainbow.

"R-Right." Rainbow, at the angle she was at, had her eyes full of something else. She stared at Fluttershy's underside.

"Fluttershy, could you step a little closer?" It was by pure willpower that I wasn't humping away at Rainbow, but if there was one thing being a siren for so many years had taught me, it was patience. "Little closer."

Rainbow got the idea, and when Fluttershy was close enough, she leaned up and nuzzled under his barrel.

"Now take a step forward and let this little bitch get at her prize." I flashed Fluttershy my biggest smile in the hope he'd get the idea.

Looking more than a little indecisive, Fluttershy looked down and under himself, and watched as he stepped forward and gave Rainbow access to his sheath. "Oh goodness! What are you—? R-Rainbow!"

I slowly eased myself back again before delivering a firm thrust. Rainbow's emotion-aura was boiling with lust and desire, so much so that if I were a siren attuned to either, I could have fed well. "What's she doing?"

"Sh-She's licking and nibbling and I—I'm getting—Oh goodness!" I watched, imagining Rainbow's efforts had coaxed Fluttershy's shaft out, and now it was out Rainbow would be servicing it. Fluttershy's wings spread out a little and he gave a low groan, sounding nothing so much as a bunch of old, tight machinery shifting for the first time. He closed his eyes and his wings made little flaps that was just about the cutest thing I'd ever seen.

Okay, time to build up a rhythm again. Adjusting my stance a little, I began a slow rocking motion to drive myself in and pull almost completely out of Rainbow. I set a hoof on the small of her back and let my siren magic just barely leak through me and into her—the tiniest flow that would feel electric.

"What's she—? Ohhh… That feels gooooood." Fluttershy sounded like a stallion getting his first blowjob. I couldn't keep a smile from my face, there was no adoration from either of them yet, but that could change in a heartbeat with the right opportunity.

My thrusting was still not a fast pace, but that was alright with me—the mare under me on the other hoof, not so much. For every thrust I gave, Rainbow's body moved twice, and I knew she'd want me to speed up. "Little bitch wants it faster," I said. "Not sure if little diamond dog bitches get a say in what they get."

The whine that left Rainbow's throat, followed by the slurping noise of her removing her mouth from Fluttershy, was music to my ears. "P-Please? I'll do anything if you speed up. I can't get off like this!"

"Did that sound like proper begging to you?" I asked Fluttershy.

"Oh. Um." Fluttershy had a blush that turned his cheeks a rosy red. "I—um—guess not?"

"Nope. You know how a needy bitch begs properly?" The question didn't need an answer from Rainbow, but I waited for her to whine before replying all the same. "She sucks a stallion dry."

Rainbow now started to thrum with a little adoration, but it was so weak I'd never feed off it. She ducked her head back under Fluttershy, and his eyes almost bulged out of their sockets.

Hunching forward, Fluttershy half closed his eyes and started to rock his hips. He wasn't going to last long, but that's exactly what I wanted.

I kept my pace slow, ensuring that Rainbow Dash had all the incentive she needed to work over Fluttershy. It wasn't long, but it was definitely more than ten seconds. The first I knew of what had happened was Fluttershy's tail flicked upward and Rainbow started gagging.

Reaching forward with a hoof, I planted it between Rainbow's shoulders and pressed down. Her barrel was pressed to the ground and I leaned further on her. "Good bitch. That's how you please your dogs."

I didn't just speed up, I doubled my pace. Each dragged withdrawal was followed quickly by a shove back all the way into Rainbow. I was relentless and, given her sudden moaning, fast enough at last.

Each rapid thrust drew more sounds from Rainbow's throat, and it all culminated in a single moment when I felt her tighten, her body clenching down as tight as it could—I kept my pace.

Rainbow lifted her head as high as she could and howled in pleasure. She squealed and shook, spread her wings and flapped weakly as I drove her through the climax of her lifetime. Only when her back legs gave way and she fell to the ground did I back up and leave her laying in a pile of very happy pegasus. But still there wasn't what I needed to feed.

"How do you know what ponies want like that?" Fluttershy asked, watching his best friend quiver and shake. "She—she didn't even know what she wanted."

"Practice, experience. Also, she told me with more than just her body language. Oh, she's coming around. Give me a moment." Striding around Rainbow in a circle, I finally stopped with my belly just before her face. "Bitch, clean me off, and get me off too."

The rush of adoration came with the touch of her lips to my shaft. She started kissing and licking at me, and I knew that Stereo Mix would have been all over this situation.

"There we go. Good bitch. Good girl." I said, and the adoration flared. I didn't hesitate and drank deeply as my pony form sloughed away. Bigger now, I curled my tail around Rainbow and growled softly to her as she suckled. Again and again I bit into her aura, but even as my reserves filled up, I could never tell where I'd bitten.

Finally, full to the brim with one of the greatest meals I'd ever had, I focused on my pleasure and let loose. Rainbow's mouth bulged and her throat worked, but there was no chance she'd get all of my seed down. I pumped her mouth so full that she started to leak from the corners of her lips, and then she gave up and spluttered.

Rope after rope landed on her face and chest, and I leaned down and started licking her clean.

"Wh—" Rainbow coughed and shook her head. "Holy shit, dude. That was awesome. Uh, why're you licking—? You're cleaning me?"

"Tell me you don't deserve it," I said between licks.

Rainbow Dash snorted and licked at my shaft, which earned her a shudder from me. "Yeah I do. You too, big guy." She licked a few more times, then jerked her head up. "Wait, Fluttershy!"

"He went inside. Your whole submissive thing startled him, I think." I had to really work my tongue through her hair to get all trace of me out of it. She smelled so strongly of me that I found myself purring in the back of my throat as I worked.

"Sirens are pretty weird, but not in a bad way. You—you're cool." Rainbow stood up and shivered. Droplets of thick, musky seed sprayed off what I hadn't managed to clean yet. "I'm gonna head in and see how Fluttershy is. She—he, I guess—usually needs a hug after he's been upset."

Watching her walk away—her back-end swaying and her gait slightly wider than normal—made me smile the most contented smile I'd had for quite some time. I didn't notice my new visitor until he was right beside me.

"Sure Beat, when master told me to keep an eye on you but not interfere between you and the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, I thought he was having a joke. How much do they know about you?"

I turned to look at Smooth Vibes and brought my lips up to his in a light, brotherly (at least for our brotherhood) kiss. "Fluttershy, the stallion, knows everything—even about Feather. Rainbow Dash thinks I'm just another stallion caught between pony and siren."

"She looked tasty." Smooth let out a slow sigh. "What's a poor stallion to do when he can't touch the—"

I groaned and pulled my pony shape on. It came easily, what with all the magic I'd just drunk. I stood up but kept my tail down. "Follow me. I might as well introduce you before Rainbow notices you and attacks."

"But Feather said—"

"Shh. Come on, brother, follow me into temptation." Lifting my tail, I walked with a swaying gait that mimicked what Rainbow had used just moments ago. Walking into Fluttershy's cottage, I found him with a downstairs bathtub on the floor and a blue pegasus in it. "I tried to clean her, but she insisted you needed to do it. Please relax, my friend is here." I gestured to the side as I heard Smooth's hoofsteps. "This is Smooth Vibes, he's like me."

"Another fish?" Rainbow turned her head around to look at Smooth, and I could almost see hearts in her eyes. "You guys are freakin' amazing in the sack."

"To be fair, you've only had one of us." Smooth was just like his namesake, and I could practically see Rainbow's heart beat faster. "Have you ever orgasmed without sex at all?"

"That—" Rainbow shook her head, making Fluttershy's efforts at cleaning her harder. "Look, I'm still getting over the best orgasm of my life. You'll have to ask again in about…"

"Mmm, now?" Smooth asked. "What about now? Or now?" He walked through the living room and toward the kitchen. "How about a cup of… Oh! Tea!"

Fluttershy gave me a significant look, then looked Smooth's way. "How long have you two known each other?"

"For as long as I've been this way. He helped me learn—Sorry if I didn't mention him earlier. A lot of ponies are a little bit suspicious of sirens, and it doesn't help that we're kinda…" I tilted my head to the side.

"Hornballs?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Yeah. Hornballs fits. You guys feed on emotions and all, right? Like changelings?"

"Eww. Not like changelings. Those guys were all take with no give, if you take my meaning." I moved up on the side of Rainbow opposite Fluttershy and bent to the task of cleaning her up.

"S-So you help ponies feel good in trade for—for food?" Fluttershy asked.

"Sounds like prostitution." Rainbow leaned into my touch, and to be fair, I was good at giving sensual bath massages.

I shrugged as I worked the suds into Rainbow's coat. "I don't have a problem with it. To be honest, I quite enjoy making ponies very happy."

Fluttershy got up and walked toward the stairs, taking them up toward the bedrooms and bathroom.

"But you—"

"But we." I could help smiling at that. There was more than enough stallion in me that enjoyed having been with several of the most powerful ponies in Equestria in such a short amount of time. My mind wandered a little, and I couldn't help but imagine how I'd insinuate myself into Pinkie Pie's bed.

"Well, it was you who wanted something out of it." She lifted her tail as my hoof worked down to her rump.

Stroking her croup a few times, I watched her tail lift a little more each time. "Seems to me like we all wanted something out of it, Rainbow Dash. I was just a little more up front about what I was getting."

By the time my hoof reached her tail and actually began working on working suds into her dock, the little length was curled up sharply. "It was kinda obvious what I was getting. I've wanted to be closer to Fluttershy for—" Rainbow closed her mouth as my hoof worked some soap under her dock. "Do you have to clean there?"

"Yes," I said. "Yes I do." My tone wasn't truly dominant, but it was knocking on dominant's door insistantly. "Lift your tail back up."

Rainbow didn't complain any further, just lifted her tail and let out a little sigh as I went back to cleaning her. "This is different, of course. She's a lot more forward like this. Is that your doing?" She sounded a little worried. I wondered if her worry was what she'd be forced to do if I said yes.

"No. That's confidence. He's bigger, stronger, and has all the will of a stallion—is what I'd say to someone who doesn't care about Fluttershy. Like this, Fluttershy is living a fantasy he didn't realize he even wanted. When a pony is so deep in their fantasy, they can do things they never would normally." My hoof strayed down over her tailhole, and I leaned forward to speak into Rainbow's ear. "Do ponies she would never normally do."

"You're saying she won't want me no—ooooow." She lost her train of thought mid sentence after I'd gotten some clean water on a soft sponge and started washing her vulva. She stood perfectly still, tail raised, letting me wash her privates. "How often do you do this?"

"Sex?" I asked, mostly to hear her try to explain herself.

"I kinda assumed you do that frequently. I meant this. I could swear you're better at this than Aloe or Lotus." She relaxed a little more now I was done cleaning her privates. The pants of her rump were next, and I soaped up and rinsed them down.

My thoughts strayed back to Bath Salts. "You'd be surprised how often it comes up. A very nice mare trained me. She knows more about this than I'm likely to ever learn." Possibly a lie, possibly not. I'd washed many mares, and was likely to wash a lot more before I was done with life.

"Well, take the compliment and like it. It's not just every stallion I'd let wash me like this."

"I bet you'd let Fluttershy wash you like this," I said and nibbled gently on her ear. The wave of arousal that flowed out of her was akin to diving into the ocean—only this ocean I could swim without fear of attack.

"Y-Yeah…"

I let my magic wash out this time. The power thrummed in the air, ready to do my will. "He'd hold you, stroke you, dribble warm water over you. Let me make you cry out, Rainbow Dash, let me make your cries call to him."

While my hoof rose back up the back of Rainbow's legs, she leaned her whole body back just a little.

"Tell me anytime and I'll stop." I don't know if it was part of me that was still pony, or just part of me, but making sure she wanted this too was still important to me. All she managed was the slightest nod, but it was enough. I brought my wing around and clamped a primary feather above and below her mouth, pinning her jaws closed while my hoof began to rub her. "Struggle, and I stop, whimper and whine, and I will only go faster."

"Mmmmm…" Rainbow arched her spine and her tail followed suit.

Holding her snout shut, I began to stroke and rub her. I hadn't had so much fun playing with a mare for quite a while as I'd had here with her, and it reminded me how much I'd enjoyed others—all the way back to my first.

"Fluttershy!"

I'd been so distracted that I hadn't realized that Rainbow was that close or that she'd managed to pull her snout free. Her cry, however, was music to my ears. She sounded hungry, happy, and desirous, something confirmed by the not-water coating my hoof.

"Is something wro—" Fluttershy's deep voice, warped in concern, stopped dead as he looked down at us while coming down the stairs. His eyes widened a little in surprise. "I'll just—"

"Fluttershy, can you come over?" Rainbow Dash asked.

It was a magic moment, but one I'd orchestrated. I could have said something, but I think the pair finally got what they wanted with each other, and I saw Fluttershy's concerned look break into a smile. I stood up and stepped away from Rainbow. "I really should be going."

Neither Fluttershy nor Rainbow even acknowledged me—each was gazing at the other.

Was this what it meant to be a siren? To really be a siren? I walked out of the house, fluffing my wings and smiling. "I wonder what Pinkie Pie's up to?"

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