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Ari

Waking up was interesting to say the least. I was used to waking with morning wood but this time it was near impossible to get rid of, there was something about the smell in the air that made me very aroused. Inhaling I tried to make sense of it: cinnamon a touch spicier and richer with a hint of nutmeg, a strong smell of water lily, and the near intoxicating smell of jasmine. Letting my nose follow the near overwhelming smell of jasmine and waterlily it lead me to Lyric.

Well that made a lot of sense now.

I was nearly one hundred percent sure Lyric was in heat, she was flagging last night, her mare smell was to the intoxicating point that Chrissy’s had gotten when she was in heat, and she was very into rubbing herself on me last night. I was really trying to sleep, well trying to think really, and her scales and fur kept caressing me in a way that I knew she was awake still.
Let’s just say it took me awhile to get to sleep.

Wait, was Lyric’s heat really why Chrissy was suddenly into herds?

It didn’t make any sense when Chrissy’s near exact words when she allowed Lyric to travel with us were ‘he’s my stallion and I’m his marefriend’, that didn’t sound like a mare that wanted to form a herd to me. Sure they had been getting closer with less hissing and growling going on, but going from friends to herd mates seems like a big jump to me. She may have said they talked but...

Not to mention they had to discuss this now, while we are traveling across the continent with the main goal to abduct the princesses and show them the damage they are causing. It was the worst possible time save for when the princesses are actually with us.

Dear lord, I bet the god that brought me here is just rolling around laughing his head, err, does he have a head? Never mind, the point is that he is probably finding this very funny, here I was telling him I wouldn’t be his stud for the last Alicorn mares and now I was having sex with the last Changeling and considering a relationship with a siren. She was possibly the last Siren as well, she hadn't said her family was dead but they weren't with her either.

However much I sympathized with the whole extinction thing I wasn’t really interested in the princesses.

Would anypony be interested in them though?

After seeing Moonbutt’s attitude to me in the dream, not mention hearing about the racism that they are allowing it must only be their magic or money that is stopping a war from happening. According to the map there is many more species and countries than Equestria, many non pony nations, perhaps they would finally point out the racism once the princesses stopped controlling the seasons and they didn’t have to worry about their weather going haywire anymore. The princesses just weren't looking very nice quite frankly, I know I should hold my judgement till i meet them but when your marefriend is considered a 'vile parasitic bug' by their people and therefore them it is kind of hard to not judge.

I think the scariest part of this whole situation is that I don’t feel as angry anymore about what that god did, annoyed? Hell yes, but I actually am enjoying my time with my mares, that’s not to say that I don’t miss my friends or family but…

I have a full life here.

In the short time I have been here I have fallen for Chrissy and… I really like Lyric, not to the same degree but I think that is more due to holding myself back. It is hard to undo a childhood of learning that you will find the ‘one’, never had it been the ‘ones’ or anything quite so polygamous. Not that I was into polygamy, okay it was the word that made me cringe, the connotations of something vile and immoral. I was very much okay with the idea of having the two mares with me forever, of eventually adopting kids down the line as i'm pretty sure we are different species, and having a nice life doing whatever I found enjoyable in this world. World saving wasn’t exactly a career choice, it was more like a ‘do it or perish as well’ sort of task.

It was a task that I wouldn’t wait for me to will away my erection.

Stretching my wings I stood, basking in the warm sun, and a little happy to see some of the last mud flake off of me. I felt much better, okay I still felt conflicted about forming a herd, but it was sort of like when I was a tween and saying sex was the big taboo.

Oh how simple those days were, no erections or having to save the world.

My mares grumbled a little as I left them, Chrissy being the first to wake. She gave me a tired look before rising, rump first as she looked at my erection hanging out.

“Breakfast?” I asked her, giving a cheeky smile at the new meaning to the word. Knowing that she wasn’t one to say no to a full meal and if nothing else we did enjoy sex just for the sake of sex. It was a amazing feeling when I heard her scream, moan, and squeal for me.

Leaving her saddle bags beside Lyric Chrissy stood.

I hadn’t really looked at Lyric’s sleeping form and now I wished I hadn’t. Her tail was hiked up, signalling to the entire world what she wanted, and was surely dreaming about if her content smile was a hint.

Chrissy had already trotted to me, tail flagging,draping her blue tail over her back, she paused her in her approach as she followed my gaze. “It is a symptom of the heat, the erotic dreams only get worse before the physical symptoms take hold.” Now rubbing her chitin on me it occured to me that Chrissy sounded very accepting about it, the heat.

“I thought you didn’t want to share, you even said so in the desert.”

She turned and reached a hoof under me to stroke my cock, I twitched under her hoof and let loose a moan. “Yes I said that but things have changed…I don’t think she is bad, she can even be enjoyable to be around.”

“Soo you didn’t just bring up becoming a herd because she is going into heat?” I gave her a quick nip on her dock, her ministrations while pleasurable were getting to the point where I needed more.

Stopping her ministrations Chrissy turned back around, presenting her marehood to me. “W-well that certainly added a level of urgency to the situation. She likes you and you like her, it would only make sense to offer her relief during her heat.” She braced her hind legs as she spoke, winking at me as her juices started to pool at her entrance.

Snaking out my tongue I ran it up her slit, tasting her tangy juices and a little of what I was sure was myself from last night. She squirmed and gave a moan as she launched some juices at my muzzle. “What do you mean relief? It will end after five to eight days anyway right?”

“Well it ends early if-f-FUCK YES!” Chrissy’s original sentence was lost as I mounted her in thrust, I couldn’t hold back anymore I’m sure she could understand. With Lyric’s smell teasing me and Chrissy ready and moist already holding back was near impossible.

Chrissy's ‘Breakfast’ increased in rhythm, Chrissy howling her pleasure as she came yet again, but I still felt like going after my first time cumming for once. My length stiffening again as my mind wandered and thought of the most delightful thing: the real mile high club. I had wings now after all and Chrissy used to have two wings. She might actually love it, flying again.

“Chrissy did you want to try sex while flying?” She paused underneath me before looking at me over her wither, I saw her eyes dilate as I felt her marehood clench around my cock. With a nicker she ground her rump against my groin, building a delicious friction.

I will take that as a yes.

Wrapping my forelegs around her barrel I got myself comfortably hilted in her before I tested my stiff wings. Although they were stiff from my arousal they were still maneuverable. Relying mostly on my wings for take off we still rocketed upwards at a amazing speed, a action that I immediately regretted, my wings becoming even stiffer as she clenched around my length. Chrissy’s stiff wing buzzed as much as it could as we continued to rise, the pressure increasing in groin as gravity pulled her as deep as she could go on me.

Not caring who saw or heard us I turned the climb into a forward motion hoping to last longer without gravity plowing her into me, but Chrissy had other plans. Her walls starting massaging me, our previous emissions squelching as she milked me, and I felt a little pre leave me.

The field looked so small beneath us as we panted, both our releases close. With another strong grip on my erection I lost it and sent us into steep descent, the world spinning around us as our releases claimed us sooner than I thought. My mouth found Chrissy’s ear, clamping down on the tender flesh as we rode the pleasure out. A squeal of pleasure sounded from her as I realized a growing problem: the ground.

We would have to do this again, slower of course, and at a higher height so I could do a longer dive.

Slowing our descent I took us down in a wide spiral before landing at the edge of the cornfield once again. As I my cock retreated into my sheath I looked to Chrissy, “Full?”

Resting on the grass she seemed to glow with the sweat and happiness she exuded, sex was definitely more than just feeding for her. “For now, I expect that every morning!” My eyebrow raised at that, surely she would get bored of feeding the same way every morning, there was touching and kissing i could feed her with as well. “I mean it, you get to eat at least a full meal everyday so I need a full meal every day.”

I wasn’t going to argue with that, but she was doing fine before-

“There you two are! I’m not a mule you know, come take your bag back Chrissy!”

Lyric walked out of the cornfield, mane a mess, and a heavy blush on her muzzle. Immediately her scent hit me and I had shake my head before I could focus on what she had said. Chrissy however looked unfazed by the smell, the lucky mare, and grabbed her bag in her magic to place it on her back.

“S-“

“I know Ari, you had to feed her, I saw.” Lyric sounded very annoyed with me or more likely sexually frustrated. I felt a little horrified as I realized I hadn’t even considered her presence when we started having sex nor did I consider her condition, guilt was setting in.

Two mares would be a lot of work.

Chrissy stood on shaky legs with a happy smile, and like clockwork she made her way to my side as Lyric huffed before trotting over to my far side. I swear Lyric took the long way to her side on purpose to flash me, her tail apparently stuck in a permanent flagging position. Not that I was looking there as her voluminous golden tail hit my face on the way by, leaving a new wet spot on my muzzle. I wasn't going to think about that.

I guess there was a deadline on that answer.

****

Lyric

As we moved out I tried to practice my deep, calming breaths, reciting the alphabet backwards then forwards, and finally moving on to the Saddle Arabian alphabet. However all I think I did was make it worse, I could smell my stallion’s spicy scent and the lingering heady smell of sex with every breathe.

I really don’t know how long I can last if they keep rutting every day like this.

We continued to walk onward, the Gryphon mountain range now a small speck on the horizon as we continued to walk at the edges of the various fields. That was until we heard a small trickling sound, Chrissy glanced back at me and I shot her a glare. Real funny Chrissy, I’m laughing, really.

Ari however knew the sound, "Water!"

Moving together we transitioned into a fast trot, the presense of water worth its weight in gold at this point with how bad we smell. You do not want to smell three days worth of swamp mud, sweat, and sex in the summer heat, really it was practically a monster repellant at this stage.

As the hour wore on the faint trickle turned into a powerful roar of a river, only problem was we still couldn’t see any body of water. The fields lay to our right, changing every acre or two into a new crop, and a bush and boulder filled field spanned our left side.

“Where is that water?” Ari questioned, rotating his ears as he tried to pinpoint a direction.

I was mesmerized by his mouth, it was perfectly kissable, and what that tongue could do-

Nononononono! I have much better control than this!

‘But he is yours’

No, not yet he isn’t.

“Ar-“

“There it is!”

Ari rocketed off the ground towards a large boulder ahead of us. I blinked and looked at Chrissy who just looked back just as surprised, seeing that she didn’t seem to know what to do either I looked at the boulder. It was surrounded by slightly smaller boulders however it was still a good fifteen feet tall, the ground nearby seemed very lush, the grass a good two inches taller at the boulder’s base. Perhaps there was water near it after all.

But I finally had Chrissy alone.

“Are you going to tell him about…” I let the question trail off as I looked at her stomach pointedly, it was still flat but that wouldn’t be the case in a couple months. The sooner she told him the better this would be in my opinion, although that was also my thought on his answer to us becoming a herd. I wanted to have more restraint than Chrissy did, she actually had a good excuse as it was her first heat but I had no excuse. I had even foalishly bragged that i had better control, which I had when I was a filly and I didn't have my herd mates rutting everyday.

Speaking of excuses…

“No I will wait till the princesses are gone before I tell him. He has a lot to think about already.” There she is making excuses and avoiding the issue, she is infuriating to me right now, well her sudden lack of confidence anyway. Wasn’t she supposed to have run a hive? She was royalty for Faust’s sake! Not to mention he adores her, heck if anything he would be doting over Chrissy when he learns of the coming foal.

As if the sky sensed my sour mood, clouds began to gather. “Really Chrissy, if you tell him he will be overjoyed! He loves foals and he loves you, just tell him!” I was whisper yelling now at her, my ears pinned back in my frustration.

“Somepony needs a good rutting.”

“I would if-“

A splash sounded from up ahead making us pause.

“Come on guys! The water is perfect!”

Snorting at Chrissy I transitioned into a trot, she caught up to me within seconds. But I kept my eyes averted from her, first she says she will tell him then she doesn’t, it was maddening!

Oh buck she is right, this is all mostly from my heat. After watching them rut twice now I was feeling the call to rut already, a couple days earlier than I recalled last time I was in heat, not to the point where I was going to drop everything and present myself. But I was still dropping obvious hints, even Ari noticed them, I was sure I saw him looking earlier.

Ari was floating on his back when we made our way around the boulder, well really he was on his back in a pool of murky water. It was being fed into a small opening in the boulder’s base, running downhill from the mountain range which had inched closer somehow, no longer a speck on the horizon.

The clouds continued to darken the sky but I paid it no heed, my instincts called out to me, not my heat ones though but my sea pony instincts. It had been months since I last had a good soak, oasis’s weren’t very common in Saddle Arabia, and streams were unheard of now with drought.

With a joyous whinny I let loose and jumped into the pool.

Chrissy held my bags in her magic before placing them beside hers as she stared at me, entering the pool at a normal pace, but I paid her no mind, my blood was singing its praise as the water rushed over my scales. The pool was not very wide or long but it was deep. Taking advantage of that I dived down, opening my eyes as I paddled below the surface and enjoyed the sights under the water. Algae clung to the bottom as little fish fry darted away from my approach, sticking to the dark corners. I blinked as two shadows flitted overhead, looking up I watched my soon to be herd mates paddle in the cool mountain water, circling each other.

My lungs started to protest after five minutes in the depths and I frowned at my reduced lung power, when I was a filly I could last for a good half an hour. As I was going up though Ari was diving down to me, his eyes frantic before they latched onto mine, and I felt a tingle surround my body-

I blinked at the sudden change of scenery, I was now floating in a golden field of magic above the pool, dripping water as Ari slowly lowered me.

“I told you she was alive, she is part sea pony after all.”

“She doesn’t have gills! I think it’s perfectly reasonable to worry when she doesn’t come up for air.”

Chrissy gave a amused snort as I entered the water again, the golden magic dissipating. My heart raced as I realized he had been worried about me, my scales started to heat up as I felt a blush start, and I gave a happy nicker as my control slipped. I rushed forward and kissed Ari, moaning as his muzzle returned the kiss, his muzzle opened and his tongue asked for entrance. My answer was obvious.

As our tongues become locked in a battle for dominance Chrissy came over and squeezed herself between us, purring she started flicking her tail between my legs. I opened my eyes and gave her a curious look, was she serious?

“Ari I take it that you accept her as your second mare? We are a herd right?” Chrissy had a sly look as Ari started to choke on my tongue, eventually gaining control he broke the kiss he looked between Chrissy and I.

Come on! Say-

*RUMBLE CRASSSHH RUMBLLLLE*

We all jumped in place and looked up, the ‘innocent’ clouds of before had darkened and were shifting at a alarming shape, forming a looming mass that promised rain if not more.

Ari was the first to come to, nudging us to the shore, there he quickly placed our bags back on our back. Placing his wings over us he looked at the clouds with his ears splayed, “We should get going, I think mother nature is going to show us exactly how crazy she can be.”

*CRAAASSSSHHH*

We jumped at the noise began a quick trot, no need to tell us twice. Storms were the main reason I stayed in Saddle Arabia, just sand storms and drought there, both problems are much easier to handle than the storms in the other countries.

The rain started after several more thunderous roars echoed across the sky and with the rain came the wind, not that we really noticed the rain as we were already soaked.

It must have been hours now, we had been forced to slow down to a walk against the wind and we hadn’t found any form of shelter. There was no trees or large bushes to cower under, or any-

Hold that thought.

I maybe shaking from the cold but that still looks like a light ahead of us, “Is that a light?” I have to yell above the howl of the wind. My herd mates look up, squinting and looking where my hoof is pointing, and it does seem to shine like a light. I feel the slight pressure on my shoulder and move with them as we change direction, going slightly to the left now.

Another ten minutes and we are upon the light source, a rundown plank and thatch hut with a small, ramshackle wood shed attached to it. It was beautiful to me though, with the lantern glowing in the window, and the smoke drifting from the chimney. Ari did stop and sniff the air before sneezing out the torrents of rain that came at his face, I hadn’t bothered telling him that no one could smell anything in this weather, I had assumed it was a given.

Ari started walking forward again but held us back with his wings as he crept up to the lone window, looking in before giving us a nod. Well it looked like a nod, the rain made it hard to tell, but my lead mare moved forward so I took her cue and followed. Holding the door open for us, Ari stood tense and ready for anything as he gazed into the dark storm.

Hearing the thud of the door closing I took stock of the shack. A small brick fireplace stood before us with a impressive pyramid of quartered firewood beside it, to the left of the room a simple straw mattress lay and to the right a collection of shelves and cupboards acting as a larder of sorts.

I was still wet and the fire was inviting me over so I gave my body a light shake, but just as I was about to step towards it I found myself soaked again.

“ARI! Learn to shake off like a normal pony, you don’t need to shake it quite soo, soo-“

“Doglike?” Chrissy added for me, a understanding grin on her muzzle.

“Yes, there is no need to be such a dog about it. Watch me.” I gave my body a slight shake, mane and tail coming back to their original place in half a second, “There! See how I didn’t have to shake my body so hard?”

“Mhmmm” Looking at the look in his eyes I felt my blush return and my warm up, was he really interested in me like that? He did kiss me…

He did a near perfect shake as Chrissy shook the water off her chitin as well and he moved out of the puddle we had formed at the doorway. We were at his side in a second as the fire place became our destination. A mix of sighs and grunts echoed in the shack as we lay down before the dwindling fire, Ari added another log to the fire and it crackled to life as something occurred to me.

“Where’s the owner of this shack?”

Chrissy answered for Ari as she began preening him, “Probably hiding out somewhere till the storm blows over, we will be gone by the time they return, and as long as somepony doesn’t eat any of their food they will never even know we were here.”

It made sense, only the crazy would be out in a storm like this, not that we were but this was the first shelter we found out there.

I started on his other outstretched wing, mouth pausing on a feather as another thought hit me, a even more important thought if my growing heat was correct. “So am I your mare?”

Our eyes locked onto Ari as he closed his eyes and sighed, a look of thought his face before he opened his eyes, “ You are a amazing mare Lyric, going through the world without your family and still finding the will to go on. If I hadn’t met Chrissy I might not have stuck around soo long, you have a lot of determination,” He smiled at me then giving a slight chuckle. “I didn’t want to lose Chrissy so when I started to think you were attractive or nice I buried it deep down or I would check her reaction and I just want to say I’m sorry.” My face fell at that word. “I’m sorry for taking soo long to realize what an amazing mare you are and that I wouldn’t mind getting to know you better as a marefriend or second mare, whatever the proper term is-“

I didn’t let him finish his glorious sentence, my heart was racing, my tail flagged and I gave him a kiss. Pouring my passion for him into the kiss I nickered into his mouth as he started to give me just as much passion back. I broke the kiss panting for air, damn that’s good.

But a trickle going down my thigh reminded me of a growing problem.

“So since we are a herd now…Will you rut me?”

Ari blinked at me, “Now?”

“The sooner the better, I-I am only on my second day but my control is harder to keep up this time…Especially when you two are rutting every day,” Seeing their raised eyebrows I snorted at them. “Well you aren’t exactly hiding it, hell I woke up this morning to him mounting you right in front of me!”

Chrissy and Ari shared a glance, “Tomorrow?” Ari said with a question, looking appropriately guilty. He better be, I mean I love him and all but I wasn’t sure how many more days I could take of this before I forced the issue.

“First thing, before you feed Chrissy?”

“Agreed, are you okay with that Chrissy?”

“No.” We turned to look at her more closely, a grin breaking out on her muzzle now, “I want to be fed as you rut her, don’t forget I still get food from touching and kisses.”

“O-okay.” A blush shone through Ari’s dark fur and we shared giggle at his reaction before nodding our confirmation about tomorrow, both of us not shy about rutting at this point in our lives. He really was wonderful about it though, despite being from a monogamous culture and younger than us, he didn’t dilly dally with his choice like I thought he would. Maybe that was due to Chrissy pressing the topic but I wasn’t about to question it, I was blessed with a new family.

I had a stallion now!

My happiness nearly bubbled over as I went back to preening his wing, nickering softly as I twisted my tongue around his feathers, finding my rhythm again as the fire crackled before me. I could get used to this, my stallion, Chrissy, and the foal in her belly. Before I knew it his wing was finished, no residual swamp mud left, and Ari wrapped it around me before giving me a soft kiss. Chrissy was already asleep as I drifted off to join her.