It’s been a few days since my intimate first greeting with Twilight’s mother. Of course, Twilight and the girls that know have agreed not to say anything to either her father or her brother. Thank goodness. When her mother left town it was rather awkward for me, but she smiled nonetheless telling me how glad she was to meet me. There was a mile-wide grin on her face when she said it too. Images of the possibilities ran through my head anyway, in spite of my trying not to.

Now it was a few days later and it was pretty much history now. And last night, because morning was approaching, Pinkie wanted me with her, so here I was waking up in bed with her. My eyes opened as the morning sun was peaking over the horizon. Pinkie was laying on top of me, with me on my back, while laying in her bed. Above me, some balloons had migrated across the ceiling now doing a slow dance overhead. It was as if they wanted to welcome the morning sun as it began shining through the window, hitting the balloons, and covering the room with multi-colored light.

Now awake, my arms slowly reached up and wrapped around the still sleeping Pinkie. She hummed contently as my hands started rubbing against her back. “Just a few more minutes, Fred,” she whispered, wiggling herself to get more comfortable. Suited me fine as I used one hand to reach down and take the base of her tail between a couple of fingers. My fingers played with the base of her tail and her butt cheeks while she slept.

Last night she had told me that this morning was special. Her sister, Maud, was visiting and she wanted everyone to meet her. It would be interesting to see what kind of sister she has. Last night she told me a little bit about where she grew up and her family. Which made me think of the differences between the families. Her human counterpart ran a rock pit while this world’s Pinkie’s family ran something similar. It also seemed to be totally different as well.

As the multi-colored light finally filtered down to us, it made Pinkie squirm a little with a sigh. She was beginning to wake up. While she slowly returned to the land of the living, my hand was busy rubbing a butt cheek and playing with her tail. I really had no idea why I liked doing that to Pinkie. I just did for some reason. But oh, I loved the feeling of her fur against my skin. Her soft body against mine. The feeling of her wonderful breasts between us.

When she finally stirred herself awake, she raised her head with a wide yawn. Putting one arm against my chest she used her other hand to wipe her eyes, blinking to get the sleep out of them. I watched her hair frame her face as she lifted her head. Her eyes lit up, along with the smile on her face when she looked down at me.

She wiggled herself completely on top of me, with her legs on either side, and her lower lips pressed against my semi-hard member. I smiled back up at her before she leaned in for a lazy kiss with a soft hum.

“Good morning, Fred,” she cooed softly with her fingers playing with the short strands of hair on my chest.

“Good morning, Pinkie,” was my whispered response to her while my hand rubbed and massaged her back. The other playing with her butt.

With a growing grin, she put her hands on my chest and raised herself up letting the bedsheet slide off of her. She took my hands, brought them to her breasts, and placed them there. Then she closed her eyes and leaned back for a morning stretch with her arms high above her head. The view was awesome. Which, I rewarded her by massaging her wonderfully full breasts. Squeezing them while taking the hardening nipples in a thumb and finger to play with.

Her head tilted down to look at me with a wide welcoming smile and a moan. “There’s time for another one,” her voice was soft and alluring as she wiggled herself on my now hard member. “Maud’s train won’t arrive for another couple of hours yet.” Lowering her arms, she lifted herself up, guided my tip to her entrance, and with a long loud sigh of pleasure, slowly eased herself down. She didn’t ride me like she did last night, but lowered herself back down fully on top of me. Placing a hand on each cheek, she looked into my eyes before giving me a long slow light lingering kiss.

Then she rolled us over where I was on top of her. And with my eyes locked onto hers, she spread her hair out behind her head onto the pillow then resting her hands there above her head. Then spread her legs wide and relaxed underneath me. The look in her eyes held her soft bedroom quality, but there was also something else. It drew me in like an old siren song, or a trap that I wanted to get caught in. “Fred?” When she spoke again, her voice was quiet yet echoed in my head.

I lowered myself down to her with my hands snaking under her, under her shoulders, and under her head.

Her soft slow kiss was electrifying, awakening the pony heritage within me. “Last night, I rode you. I wanted to feel what Twilight felt, what Rainbow felt, what Philomena felt, what Fluttershy felt.” Now when she looked up at me the look was different, like she wanted something different than the wild animal of my pony side. “The wild side of you, but not this morning. This morning, I want your human part.”

The world came back into focus as the animal part of me quickly got tamed and wrestled down by my human side.

She softly lifted her head and kissed me again. “This morning, love me slowly.” Closing her eyes, she tilted her head to one side with a long pleasurable sigh. “I want to feel loved this morning, Fred. Your loving fingers and hands all over my body. Whispering into my ear with you inside of me.”

Slowly I started making love to her. Putting my cheek against hers, I whispered into her ear, “Your one of my best friends Pinkie, I love you.” I planted slow lazy kisses against her ear, cheek, and neck. “I love you, Pinkie. You bring such happiness into my life.”

After lifting my head to look down at her, she intertwined her hands with mine above her head and looked up at me. “I give myself to you, Fred,” she whispered, closing her eyes once again with a long sigh of pleasure. “And give yourself to me.”

^_^

“Wow, Pinkie! What did you do, or eat this morning and where can I get some?” AJ asked with a girlish chuckle as Pinkie skipped just ahead of me onto the train platform.

Philomena was there as were the rest of the girls. I took my place between Philomena and Twilight, putting my arms over their shoulders to rub their arms over their dresses.

“Oh that’s easy,” Pinkie skipped up to AJ to answer her question. “All I had was Fred and he’s right over there.”

There was embarrassment on AJ’s face, but also something else that I couldn’t quite place. Within her smile was her embarrassment, but the two seconds or so that she looked over at me her eyes held something else in them.

Could it be?

Philomena giggled while bumping my hips with hers as she put an arm and a wing over my back. Twilight giggled a little but tried to hide it, also putting one arm and a wing around me.

Fluttershy was standing a little in front of me and to the side where she turned her head back to wink at me. Then rubbed her protruding baby bump happily.

“Pinkie!” Rarity chided while blushing, putting a hand over her heart. “That is not something a lady goes around telling everypony.”

“What? She asked,” Pinkie simply shrugged her shoulders while skipping around the platform. Her simple pink sundress bouncing along with her, her hair and tail bouncing behind her as if in their own joyous actions. “I’m so excited for Maud to show up and meet all of you.”

“So are we Pinkie,” Twilight said happily. “After all this will be the first time we’ve met one of your sisters.”

“I’ll say,” Rainbow echoed as she stood on the other side of Twilight, “it’s about time too.”

Just then a train whistle cut through the air as it appeared around the bend from the tree line. The friendship express bound down the tracks up to us faster than I thought and came to a stop soo fast that the passengers might have gotten injuries. None appeared to have any, thanks to magic of course.

“She’s here,” Pinkie bounced excitedly while we watched the ponies on the train disembark. All of our eyes were searching for a pony that would start making her way over to us. Naturally, we didn’t know what she looked like, so we pretty much left it to Pinkie. “Over here, Maud,” she shouted out above the crowd with her head popping up as she bounced in place waving her hand frantically.

The mare that walked over to us was an earth pony like Pinkie of course. Gray coat with a faded purple looking hair and tail that were brushed straight down. All wrapped within a basic single piece dress that went almost to her ankles. Complete with collar and long sleeves. What got me about her look was that it fit with the bland and bored look on her face. It was as if she found nothing interesting at all and would never find anything interesting.

“There you are, Maud,” Pinkie giggled hugging her sister when she got close enough. Maud returned the hug and only cracked the faintest of smiles when she did before returning to neutral. “I want you to meet my friends,” she told her before grabbing her arm and walking her up to us. And one by one she introduced us. “This is Rarity, she owns the dress shop in town where she makes the bestest dresses.”

Rarity waved politely with a “go on” gesture.

“This is Fluttershy, she takes care of the animals and can even talk to them.”

Fluttershy smiled shyly with a small wave hiding behind her hair.

“Rainbow Dash is the fastest flyer in all of Equestria.”

“Hiya,” Rainbow responded with a grin and a wave, “and the only one that can pull off a sonic rainboom.”

“Next to her with the hat on, is Applejack,” Pinkie introduced, “she owns the apple farm here in town. They have the bestest apples around.”

“Not to mention the best cider around,” Rainbow added with a smirk.

“A pleasure to meet ya,” AJ greeted with a tilt of her hat.

“This is Twilight. Technically a princess, but just Twilight to us and she’s the best at magic.”

“Hi there,” Twilight waved with a smile.

“And that’s Philomena,” Pinkie pointed out, “she used to be Celestia’s pet but got transformed with a spell from Twilight. And now she and Fred are best besties.”

“And that’s Fred. He’s the human I told you about that came from a human world,” Pinkie introduced me with a voice that sounded like she was telling ghost stories.

I waved my fingers in greeting to her when her eyes locked onto mine before stepping up to me. “You are Fred? The one she’s been telling me about?” her voice completed the whole “I’m bored with everything” package by staying monotone no matter what she was saying. Even her facial expressions didn’t change.

“That’s me, I guess,” my chuckle was short and nervous, “hope she told only good things about me.”

“Yes, she’s told good things,” her voice still sounded like she was bored.

“Oh good.”

“Don’t hurt her,” even though her voice was still monotone sounding, I’d swear there was a chill that went up and down my spine.

“Never could,” tried to keep my voice steady while watching those rather intense eyes of hers.

“Oh don’t worry, Maud,” Pinkie skipped her way up to us, “he’d never hurt me.” Maud seemed to accept that, not that I could really tell with the perpetual bored look on her face. And with Maud seemingly happy, Pinkie announced lunch, “I’ve got our picnic lunch and the perfect spot for it, so let’s go.”

^_^

We picked a spot in the park that was located just outside of the center of town. The blanket Pinkie suddenly got from somewhere was more like a rug. It was large enough for all of us and then some. Then she started bringing out the food from her mane.

“Beautiful day for a picnic,” Twilight mentioned happily as she and the girls started to sit down around the food. I took my place between Twilight and Philomena.

“You’re welcome,” Rainbow chuckled with a smirk as she sat down next to Twilight. “It was scheduled.” The girls giggled at her antics while Twilight rolled her eyes at her friend with a smile.

“I brought some cider with me,” AJ announced, happily pulling out some glass bottles from a pack she brought with her.

“Oh thank you very much, AJ,” Fluttershy thanked softly with a wide smile.

“Yes! Thank you, AJ,” Rainbow’s eyes went wide and her mouth hung open while she licked her lips, then grabbed one of the bottles.

“Easy, Rainbow,” I chuckled while taking a bottle of my own, “Don’t drink it all at once. And yes, thank you, AJ.”

“Y’all are welcome,” AJ smiled.

“Speaking of going easy,” looking over to Fluttershy, I eyed her with a smirk.

She took the hint with a nod.

“Everypony help themselves,” Pinkie told us now that the food was all in front of us. And we did as everypony helped themselves to the various picnic foods. I picked some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and some fruits on a paper plate. Twilight took mainly the fruits while Philomena took what she could that was protein-based. Rarity was eating daintily on some of the fruits that were there. AJ, naturally, took mainly some of the apples and some other fruits. Fluttershy took some fruits and nuts with the PB&J sandwiches.

“So, Maud, tell us about yourself,” looking to her I decided to break the ice, so to speak.

Maud took a sandwich with fruits on her plate, then pulled out a small smooth rounded rock, put it on the blanket, and then broke off a tiny piece of bread putting it in front of the rock. “I’m going for my rocktorate at the Equestrian Institute of Rockology. I’m aiming to be the vale-rock-torian.”

Oh the puns, kill me now.

“We call that geologist in the human world,” I told her with a nod and a smile. “Considering we don’t have magic, geologists are used to analyze rocks for minerals that companies are looking for. Like a mining company, for example, would look for iron, copper, or whatever. They would take a sample to have it analyzed to see if the area is good for mining. How is that field of study used here in Equestria?”

“Some similar to what you said,” she began to explain and held the attention of the group. “I could also use it to help my family’s farm.”

“What do you plan on using for? Any plans for the future, that is?” I asked curiously.

She slowly blinked at me, still talking in her monotone deadpanned look, “I’m curious about the many strata layers of Equestria.”

“What’s that?” AJ questioned with confusion on her face.

“That’s where layers of rock are either deposited or built up over time,” I clarified to her. Then turned back to Maud, “That’s an interesting field to go into actually. In the human world, most geologists believe that the strata are built up over long periods of time. But they ignore some areas where it was deposited through a flood that could bring up false readings or assumptions of the area. Your thinking about how Equestria was made? Regarding the land itself, that is?”

“Yes,” she confirmed with a slow blink. “Have you studied rocks?”

A quick laugh escaped me with a shake of my head, “No, I failed at chemistry. Although I understand the big picture, or the…mechanics...of it, as it were.”

Rainbow looked over at me with a smirk while holding a bottle in her hand, “I’d say he’s great at chemistry.” Then started to lick the top of the bottle before putting it in her mouth. While still looking at me, she moved the bottle in and out of her mouth while giving me a wink.

“Rainbow!” Rarity chided her with shock etched onto her face. “Such behavior in public!”

Rainbow stopped without another word and pulled out the bottle making a soft pop as it pulled out.

My mind couldn’t help the images that flashed through it. And I couldn’t help but be entranced by what Rainbow did with my body immediately reacting to the images that were flashing through my mind. Rainbow didn’t help when she started to lick the top of the bottle again.

“Oh my,” Fluttershy giggled, putting a hand to her mouth while blushing, “I think she broke him.”

Most of the other girls giggled at that before Philomena moved over and into my lap. Which made Rainbow pout in protest, “Aww, I was enjoying his reaction. At least what I could see because of his pants.”

Philomena’s tone of voice was humorous, “Now I enjoy results,” she giggled and wiggled in my lap, rubbing herself against my hardening member. Thankfully, though, she stopped wiggling and brought my hands forward wrapping them around her waist. Then she combined our plates in her lap and began to hand feed me while my head rested on her shoulder.

“So, Maud, what’s up with the rock?” she asked her. Everypony was curious but didn’t really have the courage to really ask her. Until Rainbow finally did.

“This is Boulder,” she told us simply.

It clicked in my mind. “Pet rock,” I clarified for them with a smirk.

“Pet rock?” Rarity asked now looking a little confused.

“Yep, it was a fad for a short time in the human world some years ago,” I chuckled at the thought. “People would actually buy them at the store. Now how crazy is that when all they had to do was dig one up in their own yard?” Then I looked over at Maud, “Found him on the farm?” She slowly nodded to me.

“I don’t get it,” AJ commented before looking over at Maud, “no offense.”

“I didn’t either,” with a shrug I continued, “but there were some people which took advantage of that fad and ripped people off. They seemed to operate under the idea that there’s a sucker born every minute. Even today, people have to be careful at what they buy because it seems like it’s designed to break after a certain amount of time.”

“Reminds me of those two con ponies that came to town,” Fluttershy mentioned softly.

“Flim and Flam,” AJ growled out with her eyes glaring at the memory. “Dang near got us they did.” When she noticed the confusion on my face she explained. “Flim and Flam are con artists. Came to town a couple years back aiming to take the farm from us through a contest over who could make the most cider. During the contest, we were holding our own thanks to y’all (referring to her friends), but that got them nervous. So they sped up the machine. The did make more, but it was soo bad that we won out.”

“You have the advantage of quality over quantity,” I understood and smiled to her happily. “The machine, I bet, didn’t have any quality control like you did.”

“Nope, sucked up everything,” Pinkie giggled.

“There you go,” I chuckled before looking over at Maud again. “Maud? I bet that your family does the same thing, right? Focus on the quality of the materials at the farm and not the quantity just to make a sale?”

Maud nodded slowly, “Correct. That’s why we separate and analyze into groups.”

“There you are,” I nodded to her. “Did you know, Maud, that in the human world you have a counterpart? A human Maud Pie? Pinkie have a counterpart? And that the human Pie family runs what we call a rock pit? Pretty much the same thing you do?” She shook her head.

“Although, Pinkie has mentioned about a human Pinkie,” she replied.

“Yep, although I haven’t met them, I’ve heard lots about them, though.” Philomena fed me another piece of fruit. “The pit is used to break up material into separate sizes to be used in building material for anything from roads to a house’s foundation. And the analysis is used to find out the quality of the rocks in order to find the best site. At least that’s how Pinkie’s counterpart explained it one time.”

“Oh we do the same,” Pinkie piped up, “even cut them into slabs. And speaking of rocks.” Pinkie reached into her mane and pulled out a large bag of rock candy, setting it down in the middle of the group. “I brought rock candy.”

“Never tried them,” I muttered while eyeing them.

“Oh then you’ve got to try them, Fred,” Pinkie cooed at me, reaching into the bag, pulling one out to give to me.

“Thanks,” I said to her, taking it. It did look similar to the human version. Small enough to put into my mouth. It was red and looked like quarts. So, as the others took theirs I popped mine in, took a bite…

And dang near broke my teeth.

“Ow…what the…,” I pulled out the broken candy to take a look. It turned out that there was a candy outer shell, but the inside was an actual rock. While I was eyeing my piece, Pinkie spoke up.

“Fred found the secret ingredient.”

I gave Pinkie an incredulous look, “The secret ingredient is an actual rock!?”

“Yeppers,” she smiled wide at me.

“Pinkie,” I said to her apologetically, “I love you. You’re my dearest friend. But my body can’t digest actual rocks. The ones we have in the human world are just named that way due to the way it looks. There are no actual rocks in them.”

Pinkie let out one long, “Oh,” in understanding then looked at me with a sad smile, “Sorry.”

“It’s ok, Pinkie. The candy part is good, so I’ll just break that off,” I told her and did just that with my next piece.

Once the food was pretty much gone, Pinkie wanted to play a game.

“I know what we can do,” Pinkie announced, happily clapping her hands together. “We can play our favorite game. Camouflage.”

“Camouflage?” Rainbow asked curiously.

“It’s like hide and seek, but way more intense,” Maud explained with the first facial expression change we’ve seen so far. She actually widened her eyes a little at the end.

“Oh…kay, how do we play it?” I wondered.

Apparently it was the exact same as hide and seek. Just with her pet rock instead of us. “I hide boulder then you go and find him,” she explained simply.

“Uh-huh,” Rarity nodded, “sounds simple enough.”

“Great, then we’ll stay here and Maud can go hide boulder,” Pinkie stated excitedly. “This is going to be so much fun.” Without another bland word, Maud stood up and walked off to go hide boulder. “No peeking,” Pinkie told us, so we all faced away from where Maud was walking.

“Question?” Rainbow spoke up once Maud was out of earshot. “How is this different than hide and seek?”

“It ain’t,” AJ thought aloud with a shrug.

“It’s just with a rock instead of one of us,” I commented.

“No offense, Pinkie darling, but how is that more intense than regular hide and seek?” Rarity asked.

“At the farm, it’s easier to hide a rock than one of us,” Pinkie clarified for us.

“Yes, but we aren’t on the farm,” Fluttershy pointed out softly.

“Perhaps, we can introduce her to one of our favorites after this?” Twilight suggested with a hopeful smile.

“Great idea,” Rainbow spoke up with a grin, “we can show her our version of hide and seek.”

“I didn’t know we had a version.”

“Sure we do, Twilight,” Rainbow was looking at me with a predatory grin. “We hide Fred and whoever finds him gets to have sex with him.”

I nearly choked on the water when that hit my ears. That got me soo good that some water came out of my nose. “Uh…I don’t think that Maud would go for that,” I mentioned with an err of caution while using a napkin on my face.

Rainbow shrugged still smirking, “No harm in asking.”

“I’ll let you do that, thank you,” I chuckled at her with a slight shake of my head. Personally, I think she’s half crazy, but that’s just me.

“She won’t have to wait long because here she comes,” Pinkie pointed out while the girls nibbled on the candy leaving the actual rocks behind. And sure enough, when we turned to look Maud was walking back toward us from the tree line. So, she hid the rock anywhere from within the forest and beyond? Considering how fast her gait was she hadn’t gone that far. And in all honesty, I still don’t get how this is way more intense either. Maud is into everything rocks, so maybe it’s because she’s hiding her rock? Among rocks?

“Boulder is hidden,” she told us in the same bored monotone voice.

“Woohoo,” Pinkie jumped up, “now let’s go find him.” And then she took off running toward the tree line. With a shrug of my shoulders we all got up to follow with Maud trailing behind us at her slow walk. Twilight decided to walk and talk with Rainbow and AJ. While Fluttershy and Rarity walked with Philomena and I. Fluttershy stayed with us mainly due to her being pregnant and I wanted to ask her something.

“So, Fluttershy,” I got her attention, “now that your pregnancy is actually showing now, how’s that going to affect your spot in the games?”

She hummed in thought while holding her baby bump in both hands, “I don’t really know. But I guess it could mean that I won’t be able to compete.”

“Well that is a possibility,” Rarity mused aloud from on the other side of Philomena. “However, since you don’t fly as fast as Rainbow, you could get away with some sort of support while you are flying. Rainbow, on the other hand, would have to either stay grounded or keep to slow flying. I can’t imagine what those high speeds would do to an unborn foal.”

“I agree with you there, Rarity,” I said to her before looking back down at Fluttershy. “If you do fly, then just be careful, alright?”

Fluttershy brought up a hand to bring me down for a gentle kiss, “Don’t worry, Fred. I’ll be careful.”

I smiled down at her, happiness reaching my eyes, “Good.”

We were the last to enter into the forest and start searching for Boulder. But it became abundantly clear that this wasn’t as intense as Pinkie or Maud had hoped it would be. Or I should say it wasn’t as intense…for us. Pinkie was having a ball as she picked up rock after rock near Maud asking “Is this him?” over and over again. Meanwhile, the girls and I were pretty much on our own a short distance away pretty much bored out of our minds.

“With all due respect to Maud,” AJ spoke up softly so that Maud wouldn’t hear, “I don’t see how this is more intense than regular hide and seek.”

“I think it’s because she’s hung up on everything rock,” Rainbow shrugged while pretending to look around, as were the rest of us.

“Bet you the royal treasury that Maud has Boulder in her pocket?”

“Really, Fred?” Rarity was standing some feet away from us, so she wouldn’t get dirty, and looking at me with a disappointed expression. “What lady would do such a thing? That’s almost cheating.”

“Well there’s only one way to find out,” Rainbow commented, dusted off her hands, and started walking over to where Maud stood waiting.

“This should be interesting,” I whispered to Philomena.

All our eyes followed Rainbow as she walked up and without even asking started frisking Maud. Pinkie stopped picking up rocks to stand up, now confused, “What are you doing, Rainbow?” To our surprise, Maud didn’t do anything. She just simply stood there.

“Wanting to see if…,” Rainbow paused in her search when she reached Maud’s side pocket, reached in, and pulled out a small rock. Then she looked at Maud with a tongue in cheek look, “If she wasn’t hiding it in her pocket the whole time.”

Pinkie gasped, skipping up to them, “I never would have thought to look there. Congrats, Rainbow, you found Boulder.”

Maud gently took Boulder back and put him right back into her pocket, “Rainbow wins.” Was all she said.

We needed a change of pace. And I had just the thought. With a mischievous smile on my face I stepped over to Maud and Rainbow. “And I know just the thing she won for winning too.”

“You do?” Rainbow blinked in confusion.

“Yep, we should spend time with Maud on a one on one basis,” my smile was growing into a grin, “starting with Rainbow for winning the game.”

“Oh, great idea, Fred,” Pinkie stepped over to me giving me a big hug, which I returned happily.

Meanwhile, Rainbow was looking at me with the stare of death. Meanwhile, the rest of the girls were making excuses to leave.

Starting with Fluttershy, “Oh I do think that’s a wonderful idea, which I will be glad to do later. Right now I need to check up on my animals and get off my feet.”

“I do have some work I need to check up on,” Rarity mused but looked to Maud. “Maud, darling, why don’t you come to my boutique later? I wouldn’t mind fixing something up for you.”

“Thank you,” Maud told her.

“Come by the farm and I’ll give you a tour,” AJ said with a smile. “Fresh apples for you.”

“I’d love to show you around the library,” Twilight smiled at her. “I’m sure there are some books you’d be interested in.”

“Thank you all,” Pinkie beamed at her friends then gave Rainbow a big hug. “Thank you, Rainbow.” Then gave Maud a huge hug, “Let’s go have some fun.”

“Come grab me anytime you want, Maud,” I told her with a genuine smile. “Nice to meet you and I think Philomena and I will be at Fluttershy’s.”

Rainbow was still giving me a death glare as everypony went their separate ways. And for that I fully expected for Rainbow to drop Maud off at Fluttershy’s first. Right now, though, I was happy enough just for a break.

^_^

“I bet it won’t take long for Rainbow to drop Maud off here,” amusement was in my voice as Fluttershy, Philomena and I walked up to her cottage. As usual, the critters were running around. Chickens were in their coup, birds were fluttering around doing their thing, little Angel trying to kick me in the shin and only looking cute for it, but there was one thing I was looking for.

“Hey handsome,” Harmony greeted as she walked out of the front door. No, she wasn’t the one I was looking for, although that’s not saying I wasn’t happy to see her don’t get me wrong.

“Hey Harmony,” I greeted with a kindly hug. “What happened to you? You weren’t at the picnic.”

“Sorry,” she apologized to us with a sheepish smile as we all walked in. Fluttershy immediately sat down on the couch by the front door with me sitting next to her and Philomena on the other side of me. “Had some things to take care of.” Angel bunny hopped up to sit in Fluttershy’s lap. Harmony sat down in the plush chair across from the couch, “So tell me about Maud. What’s the sister of Pinkie like?”

“Total opposite,” was my response to her question. “Monotone voice with a look of perpetual boredom and fascinated with everything rock related.”

Harmony sat there blinking at me as if her mind was comprehending it. “Wow,” she said softly at last, “didn’t see that coming.”

“She seems like a nice pony though,” Fluttershy said in Maud’s defense.

“I’m sure she is, Fluttershy,” I told her with a smile and an arm around her shoulders, “but surely she can change facial expressions every now and then.”

“We’re just not used to her like Pinkie is,” Fluttershy retorted softly.

“That’s true, we’re not,” I agreed.

A screech hit my ears and in through the open window flew in my bald eagle friend. “Lucy!” a wave of my hand greeted her as she came in for a landing right on my lap of all things. After she landed I gently rubbed her head which she tilted into, “How are you?”

She chirped up at me with Philomena translating, “She said she fine. Happy to see you.”

I smiled down at her, “Happy to see you too, Lucy.”

“So, what’s Maud doing now then?” Harmony asked.

I gave her a smirk, “Probably driving Rainbow up the wall right about now. Then I thought that spending time with Maud individually might be better, instead of as a group.”

As if on cue there came a knock at the door. “I’ll get it,” Harmony volunteered then got up to answer the door.

“Hey Harmony,” I heard Rainbow’s voice, so after turning my head my eyes spotted Maud and Rainbow at the door.

I waved to Maud as she looked over to us, “That was quick.” There was a slight smirk on my face when I said it too.

From behind Maud, Rainbow gave me this look that said I’d get it later. “She wasn’t interested in the weather.”

“Well, come in Maud and have a seat,” Fluttershy told her and would have gotten up if I hadn’t held her down. Maud came in and sat in the chair that Harmony had just vacated. Harmony now didn’t have a place to sit, but she did improvise. We watched as she took a footrest and brought it over putting my feet on it. Ok. Lucy had to move to Fluttershy’s lap so she wouldn’t get sat on. Then what amused me was when she turned around, sat down on my legs, then leaned back against me like she was using me as a recliner or one of those fold-up beach lounge chairs. Maud didn’t appear to like or dislike it as Harmony’s head was on my chest. The only problem was some of her hair was tickling my nose. Fluttershy giggled at Harmony’s antics. “Welcome to my little cottage, Maud. This is where I take care of all the animals, big and small.”

“Pinkie said that you also talk to the animals.”

“That’s right, Maud, I do.”

“You won’t believe how useful she would be in the human world,” I chuckled, giving Maud a smirk. “Her counterpart can’t speak to animals, but works at an animal shelter pretty much doing the same thing. And let me tell you, she wished she could. Would make things so much easier for her.”

Maud looked over at Lucy, “You have a pet as well.”

Shaking my head, I smiled down at Lucy, “More of a friend. I don’t consider her a pet in the strictest sense. You see, in the human world, her species is our national bird which coincidentally stands for freedom and independence just like she is in nature. So, with that in mind it didn’t seem right to treat her as a pet, but more of a friend.” Lucy sat up straight and proud as I talked about her.

Because Maud was looking down at Lucy, she also noticed Fluttershy’s belly, if she didn’t before. “You’re pregnant. Who’s the father?”

“Fred is,” Fluttershy blushed with a smile when she said it. “It’s a little embarrassing.”

“Because he’s human?” Maud asked.

Fluttershy shook her head with a wave of her hand, “Oh no, nothing like that. He’d be a great father. It’s just that the way it happened wasn’t his fault.” I gently rubbed her neck, looking over to her with a smile letting her know it’s alright. She smiled back before taking a small sigh, “It happened when the fruit bats started coming to AJ’s orchard. She wanted them gone and Twilight had this idea of using magic to take away their taste for apples. I had to use my stare on them to get them to all look in the same direction. It backfired. The very essence of the fruit bats got transferred into me. And so I started eating the apples that night. Fred found me first. It was like watching everything I was doing and not being able to control myself. It was all Flutterbat. Flutterbat wanted to drain him like an apple, but I was able to influence her to...well...” She stopped and rubbed her belly to complete the idea. Maud looked down and seemed to follow. I say that because there was no way for me to know. Her facial expressions never changed.

“Flutterbat,” I continued for her, “paralyzed me by biting me then forced herself on me. And in all honesty, it would have been sexy as hell if Flutterbat allowed me to enjoy it. And I don’t blame Fluttershy at all. If it wasn’t her influence then it would have turned out a lot worse.”

“Worse yes,” Philomena agreed, “You be dead.”

“How far along are you?” Maud asked curiously.

“It happened about four, maybe four and a half, months ago,” Fluttershy mused. Then she smiled up at me again, “Ever since we’ve discovered that I was pregnant he’s been watching out for me. I think he’s going to be a great father.”

“How do you view humans, Maud?” Harmony asked. “What do you think of Fred? I’m Harmony by the way, nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you,” Maud greeted her in her usual monotone voice, “I’m Pinkie Pie’s older sister.” She blinked slowly at Harmony, “We do have humans at our farm, but we don’t treat them as slaves. We try to treat them as we would treat each other.”

“That explains why Pinkie was one of the first to befriend you, Fred,” Fluttershy commented, looking up to me.

“I think Fred is a good human,” Maud told us while looking over at me, which I smiled to her over Harmony’s head.

“Yeah, he is,” Harmony agreed with a little wiggle in my lap, “which is why I’m here in Ponyville waiting for Philomena’s and Twilight’s permission to pursue this guy.”

“Why?” Maud asked her.

“Hey, I know a catch when I see one,” Harmony shrugged with a giggle. “Besides he’s the only human that can do magic. He told me that if I wanted a shot at him then I’d have to quit the brothel I worked at and stay true to him. So, that’s what I did.”

Maud blinked once, slowly, then finally said, “Wow.”

I winked at Maud and chuckled, “That’s all my thoughts into one word right there. Anyway, I’m glad of the way you view humans, Maud. Because Mother and I are working toward ending human slavery here in Equestria.”

“Really?”

I nodded to her, “Really, Maud. For those who own slaves and don’t set them free then they’ll be punished according to the new Equestrian law. If they want to keep them on as workers then they’ll have to pay them a wage just like any Equestrian citizen.”

“Pinkie said that you are from a human world?”

“That’s right,” I said to Maud. “I was born here in Equestria and spent two years here before Blueblood killed my father and forced my mother into the human world to be raised by her counterpart. I didn’t even know about this place until Sunset Shimmer stole Twilight’s crown and took it into the human world.” I shrugged with a chuckle, “Well, more like she threw it into the portal and landed in my lap. And that’s when everything changed. I found out about my birth-mother here in Equestria and came over to get to know her and help her end human slavery.”

“We would have to pay ours?” Maud asked.

“Correct,” I told her. From there it looked like things would wind down to a halt, so I offered, “Maud? Why don’t I take you to Rarity’s to sample some of her work?”

“Ok,” Maud said and stood up from her chair.

“I’ll go with you,” Harmony said, stood up, and immediately grabbed my hand.

“Ok, I guess you’re coming then,” I was practically pulled off the couch, which got Philomena and Fluttershy giggling at me.

“I stay here and talk with Fluttershy,” Philomena smiled, saying to us.

“Ok, have fun,” I started saying while being pulled out the door, “don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”

^_^

The bell over the front door announced our presence as we all walked into Rarity’s boutique. “Just a minute,” came Rarity’s voice from the back room. I made sure that Maud was standing in front of Harmony and I when Rarity walked out of the back room. “Welcome to…Oh, Maud,” Rarity’s face brightened when she saw us, “Fred, Harmony, welcome to my boutique.”

“Thank you,” Maud greeted.

I simply smiled to her and waved as did Harmony.

“Maud? Harmony? Why don’t I take you two back for some measurements and draw up some dresses?” Rarity’s eyes figuratively twinkled over the possibilities.

“Sure, that would be great,” Harmony agreed eagerly.

“I really express myself through my wardrobe.” It was what Maud said coupled with the whole bland persona that made it all seemed funny. At least it was to me, which made it hard to hide my grin.

“Great,” Rarity motioned them toward the back room while I waved at them as they walked away. “I’ve got the most wonderful ideas for both of you.”

With them gone, I sighed in relief and walked over to a couch by the front door to sit down and relax until it was time to leave. After sitting down I leaned my head back closing my eyes. I’m sure that Maud is a good mare, but dangit I don’t know if I can get past her perpetual state of boredom. I mean good grief I’ve only seen her change facial expressions once during her visit so far. Not to mention her constant love with everything rock related. There’s more to life than rocks even for human geologists. Then again, what do I know? I’m over here without a job at all, technically. That is if you don’t count helping mother to end slavery a job.

I must have been so lost in thought that I lost track of time or got in a quick nap and not realize it. Because what felt like only a few minutes later I heard Rarity’s voice sing-songing my name.

“Fred.”

And when I opened my eyes, my brain simply shut down. My eyes went wide to take in everything they were seeing as my brain sputtered and died due to the overwhelming image that my eyes were sending. Before me stood all three of them, Rarity, Harmony, and Maud all standing there with the same type of dress on, but different colors. Each one was a solid color. Rarity’s was bright red, Harmony’s was pure black, and Maud’s was gray. The dress themselves was a figure-hugging backless dress that didn’t have just one split in the dress, but two starting at the waist and going all the way down on both sides. The top came up over their breasts to meet behind their necks. Only what was covering their breasts was only about two inches wide or so. Thus I was presented with cleavage galore, wonderful side boob eye candy with long glorified legs for the icing on the proverbial cake.

It wasn’t just the dress either. All three of them looked like they redone their hair. Rarity’s was just a little straighter than usual while the other two looked almost the same just a little straighter.

“What do you think, darling?” Rarity asked but I couldn’t answer considering my mind was simply too busy processing what my eyes were sending it.

I know Maud said she liked to express herself through her clothes, but…DAMN! Even Maud looked good. But honestly I thought that Rarity looked the best. With Harmony coming in at a very close second.

“I think you broke him, Rarity,” Harmony cooed while smiling down at me. What drew my eyes to her was when she ran her hands down the front of her body from breasts to crotch.

And that’s when I noticed that neither of them wasn't wearing any bras which was evident by their nipples trying to poke out of the dress.

“A part of him still works,” I heard Maud say and didn’t have a clue what she meant until Rarity spoke up again.

“Yes,” Rarity’s voice seemed happy with something, “which speaks volumes, girls.” Then I realized the boner I must be sporting in front of them even with my pants on. Oh well, heck with me minding any. I was going to enjoy the show in front of me come hell or high water for as long as I could. “It tells us how well we look in these dresses.” I just nodded slowly at them while my eyes looked between the girls.

“So what do you have to say, handsome?” Harmony asked me.

I finally put a few working brain cells together to mumble out, “Whoa.”

“Oh yes, I do believe I’ll be keeping this one, Rarity,” Harmony turned toward Rarity in saying. “How much for it?”

“Well, we can discuss that in back,” Rarity replied before looking at Maud. “Maud, dear? You want to keep that one?”

Maud looked down at it as her hands ran down the dress to fidget with it some more as if thinking about it. “I like it,” she said at last before looking back up. “It speaks to me.”

“Oh, I’m so happy to hear that,” Rarity motioned the two of them back to the rear room again. “Don’t worry about payment, either of you. We’ll discuss that in the back.”

All three of them turned to retreat back into Rarity’s rear workroom again. Harmony was the last one to turn around. And when she did, she winked at me then used her tail to lift up the rear portion of her dress to give me more eye candy to watch as the left.

Ok, they weren’t going to stay back there forever, so I closed my eyes thinking about anything that would calm myself down again. That did get me on a train of thought about all the things that I was missing in the human world. Like monster truck rallies, baseball, hockey, and the like. Equestria didn’t have anything like that over here. Especially monster truck competitions. One came to mind where one monster truck did a front flip off of a wheelie and actually landed it. I mean holy shit.

“Handsome,” Harmony’s voice singsonged me out of my reverie. And my eyes spotted them in their normal clothes, the ones they came in with. Thank goodness. I tried to hide the sigh of relief at seeing them in their normal clothes again. Walking with a raging boner isn’t something I wanted to do.

“Ready to go?” I asked looking between them and stood up from the couch.

“Yep,” Harmony told me as she started walking toward the door. “I’ll just drop my new dress off at my temporary apartment then I’ll meet up with you two at...”

“Twilight’s?” Maud nodded, so I looked over at Harmony. “Twilight’s.”

“Alright, see you there,” she said to us and left.

I motioned Maud toward the front door then opened it for her. “Maybe Twilight will have some books you might be interested in.”

^_^

“I’m assuming that you have textbooks, right?” I asked Maud as we walked up to the front door of the library. The rest of the walk up was pretty much quiet between us. I didn’t even think about the question until we were practically at the front door.

“Yes,” she answered just as I opened the door to the library for her then motioned her in.

“Good, then perhaps there is some book on the subject you might like,” I said to her as we walked in. I was going to announce our presence, but with Twilight standing at the bookshelves rearranging books that weren’t necessary. And with her back turned to us my inner ass decided to come out and play a little. After motioning Maud to be quiet, which wasn’t hard considering. I started tip-toeing my way over to her, going around the statue in the center of the room, and getting my fingers ready to grab her.

“Alright,” she spoke softly as she held a book in her hand fixing to put it into place, “this goes...”

Then in one fluid motion, my hands gripped her hips to hold her while putting my nose against the base of her neck and sniffing slowly up it.

She squeaked out a loud and long, “Heeeere,” with the shock of my sudden movement made the book shake as she tried placing it on the shelf. She recovered enough to push me off with her wings and a firm, “Stop that,” as she used them to shoo me away like a pesky fly. “Oh hi, Maud,” she said, now noticing Maud standing there. She put the book back, turned around, and passed by me with a finger on my chest and a stern look in her eyes. “Having a good time so far, Maud?”

“Yes,” is all she said.

“Wonderful, perhaps there are some books here you might like,” Twilight said to her before motioning over to an area. Meanwhile, I retreated to the reading sofa by the front door to wait until it was time to leave. They didn’t need me in the way and maybe I could get a nap in.

I must have gotten in a short nap at least because a hand on my shoulder woke me up. My eyes opened to spot Twilight smiling down to me with Maud standing off to the side just behind her with a couple of books tucked away. “Hey beautiful,” I yawned in greeting to her before looking at Maud. “Find a couple of books, huh?”

“Yes,” she replied, “It will be useful for my studies.”

Another yawn escaped me after I sat up for a stretch. “Great, so you ready for Applejack’s place?”

“Yes,” her monotone voice responded.

With a nod to her, I gave Twilight a hug right before a deep passionate kiss, “See you later, adorkable.” She gave me a look that was a mix of amusement, because she was blushing, and being upset at what I called her. She still kissed back though before Maud and I left Twilight.

Harmony met up with us right before we got to Applejack’s farm. “Hi, handsome,” she said, taking my hand and putting it around her waist so she could walk up against me.

I smiled at her in greeting before looking back at Maud again, “This is Sweet Apple Acres.” My free hand waved toward the archway and path that led up to the farmhouse. “They grow more than just apples, but it’s the apples that make them famous.” As we walked up to the house I spotted the other human men picking apples in the nearby field. I gave them a wave as we walked by. “I will say confidentially that Applejack has come a long way toward liking me and my fellow humans,” I said to Maud as we approached the farmhouse. Once at the door, I opened it for Maud and Harmony before stepping inside myself. The first thing I saw was little Sandy, the little human girl I saw some time ago. She looked at us when we walked in, but gave me an innocent smile.

“Prince Fred, right?” she questioned excitedly.

“That’s right,” I nodded down to her with a wide smile, “and you’re Sandy. How are you doing?”

“I’m fine, thank you,” she replied then looked up to Harmony and Maud. “Would any of you like a drink?”

“I would yes, thank you,” I said to her before looking at Maud. “You?”

“Yes.”

“I think I would like one as well,” Harmony also said to her.

“Ok, I’ll get some for you,” she said to us and rushed into the kitchen.

“Oh she’s simply adorable,” Harmony giggled, holding me a little bit tighter.

“Hey, y’all,” AJ’s voice addressed us with her walking down the stairs.

“Hey, AJ,” I gave her a quick wink as she approached us.

“Hiya, Maud, welcome to Sweet Apple Acres,” AJ greeted with a smile as Sandy came back with three glasses of water. One was in each hand while pressing the third against her chest.

Yeah, I’ll admit it was cute seeing her holding those glasses, but out of fear that she would drop one of them I leaned down to help her. “Careful there,” with a chuckle my hands gently took the one pressed up against her chest. “Thank you.” Harmony and Maud leaned down to take theirs as well.

“Why thank you,” Harmony thanked her.

“That’s mighty nice of you, sugarcube.” When AJ spoke to the girl it would appear that she has indeed made great progress regarding humans. “Why don’t you get with your mother and take some water to some of the men, alright?”

“Ok,” she cheered and ran back into the kitchen. AJ then turned to Maud, “I know you aren’t interested in this type of farming, but if you like I could give you some of our recipes.”

“That would be nice,” Maud said while I enjoyed the cool water.

“Alright, let me get a couple.” While AJ went into the kitchen, Sandy and her mother came out with a couple of jugs of water. Sandy waved her little hand at me while they walked out of the house.

“Why in tarnation are you doing in this house?” Granny’s sharp voice cut through the pleasant atmosphere. She was just suddenly there, standing at the end of the hallway which led back to the master bedroom.

“He can come in here anytime, Granny,” AJ answered her question coming back into the living room holding a couple of recipes. Then handed them to Maud, “Hope you enjoy them, Maud. If you have any problems making them just ask your sister,” AJ winked to her.

“What do you mean he’s invited?” Granny wobbly stepped up to AJ with clear irritation in her eyes.

I thought that this would be an interesting discussion. After first arriving, AJ wouldn’t even think of inviting me within the house. Now she’s practically staring down Granny as they stand nearly nose to nose. Or figuratively because Granny is shorter.

“Just that, Granny,” AJ’s voice was firm with her arms crossed under her breasts making my eyes latch onto them. She had some good cleavage showing with the plaid shirt tied in front. “As well as any of the other hard-working men that want to eat inside.”

“Tartarus, they will,” Granny stomped her can against the floor glaring up at AJ.

“They will, Granny and that’s that. How we treat humans is wrong and so is slavery.” A couple of the women who work in the house came to look. One was standing in the hallway while the other poked her head out from the kitchen.

Granny raised her cane and pointed the hoof end at her, “You are too much like your mother for your own good. And so help me, if you keep believing that malarkey I’ll move out and live with Goldie Delicious I will. Because I will not live with ponies who view humans as equal.”

It tore my heart to hear Granny say those words. It was like living during the civil war when families were torn apart over equality. From where we were standing, I could see the hurt in her eyes as she squared off with her. We all could hear her long sigh before saying, “You can do what you want, Granny, but my mind is made up. I’m going to support my friend, and my Prince, in making human slavery illegal.”

“Fine!” she huffed, banging her cane against the floor once more. “I’ll send a letter to her immediately letting her know to come help me move.” Then she turned around with a frustrated growl and headed back to the hallway almost pushing aside the lady. Less than a minute later she slammed her door.

AJ stood there looking defeated, so I extricated myself from Harmony and gently held her arms. She started sniffling with her head lowered and her body shaking a little. Gently turning her around, I pulled her into a hug and whispered, “It’s alright, go ahead.” She resisted at first before wrapping her arms around me and laying her head on my chest. While gripping my shirt in her hands, she cried. She held onto me hard while my shirt began to get a little damp. I didn’t pay it no mind as Harmony and even Maud came up to hug us as well.

After a couple of minutes, Maud and I ushered AJ out the front door sitting her down on the bench on the porch. AJ had her head on my shoulder, still crying softly with my arm around her as Maud spoke to her.

“Our family was almost torn apart as well,” Maud started explaining while AJ quietly cried on my shoulder. “Years ago when I was just a filly there was a discussion on getting our own human slaves. Father was completely ok for it. Mother wasn’t. He thought that slavery was justified. Mother did not. It nearly caused them to divorce. I’m the only one that remembers the heated argument between them. Mother told him that the only way she would agree is if we would treat them fairly. For my sake, and my sister’s sake, he agreed not to abuse them and saw that they would have everything they needed.”

AJ sniffed, lifted her head off my shoulder, then looked to Maud, “You think there’s hope, Maud?”

“Yes.”

“There’s always hope, AJ,” I told her gently, kissing her cheek softly.

She nodded, resting her head on my shoulder again. “I just don’t know what I’d do if she really left.”

“Take it one day at a time,” Maud told her. Though I wish she would change facial expressions.

^_^

“What do you think of my friends, Maud?” Pinkie asked as she bounced in place in front of her sister on the train platform.

“I like them,” she said which made me smile. “And I’m happy that you have such good friends.”

I was standing behind them next to Philomena and Harmony with an arm around each of them.

“We were so happy to meet you, Maud,” Twilight told her.

“Yeah, thanks for dropping by,” AJ said as well, though her voice still held sorrow in it.

“And you are welcome anytime, darling,” Rarity cooed, “and don’t worry about paying for the dress, it’s on me.”

“Thank you.”

“ALL ABOARD!”

Pinkie practically launched herself at her sister giving her a big hug, “Come back again, Maud. I love you.”

“I love you too, Pinkie,” Maud hugged her. Then with a wave to us, she picked up her things in both hands and boarded the train. A couple of minutes later we were waving her off as the train left the station.

“You know, Pinkie? I think your sister is cool and all, but I could never tell what she ever felt. And what’s with the constant dull tone of voice?”

“Rainbow,” Twilight admonished her.

Pinkie stepped up to Rainbow giving her a hug, “That’s alright, Rainbow. You just don’t know her as well as I do. It’s just the way she is.”

“I’m so pleased that she liked the dress I made for her.”

“Don’t you mean for us, Rarity?” Harmony questioned before bumping my hip with hers. “After all she wasn’t the only one that liked them.”

And with all of their eyes on me, some that were obviously curious, I shrugged, “What can I say? I liked what I saw.”

“Yes, that was plainly seen,” Harmony giggled at me.

Then Rarity said something that rather surprised me, “Perhaps we can wear them again for him.” But it did give me hope for her. I never was for polygamy. But then again, this is my true home and world. And I’ve already got five women already committed with one being interested. So, perhaps? Never thought in my wildest dreams that this could happen.

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