Chapter 33: His Special Talent

Dusk walks away from the apple farm thinking about what he said to Applejack before, about his cutie mark. He has never paid any heed to it, but today is different. After talking about it, with the farm mare, he became quite curious as to what it meant. It just something that he felt, that he should know at this stage of his life. He starts to think back to when he was in the fight with those bullies at the first day of Flight School.

‘So the reason that I went in a fight with those idiots, is because they were harassing Cloudie. That was the day which I got my cutie mark. I doubt that my mark signifies my skill with fighting of getting beat up, so it’ll have to be about something else involving the fight...’

He ponders this for a whole second, until he thinks of an answer.

‘Of course. When I defended Cloudie, (But not myself) that was when my shield appeared, and that probably means that my talent has something to do with protecting ponies. That’s rare. I’ve have never seen a special talent which is based around my personality, rather than a specific task. A pity. Maybe I could try to think back, to see if my guesses are correct.’

Dusk begins to reminisce, while still walking down the pathway to Fluttershy’s.

‘Back when Blizzard and Cloud had the one-sided fight, I felt like I should of stepped in and stopped the fight. That doesn’t really back up my guessing though. But when Fluttershy was about to get molested by those four stallions, I had a simply massive rampage, and saved her, at the cost of nearly killing myself. That still doesn’t back up my point though, as I think that anypony would want to save her, murderous rage or not.’

He thinks of what happened with Ditzy Doo, which confirms his thoughts.

‘When I helped Ditzy when she was getting teased, I chose to, when I could of just walked away and pretend that it never happened, and now that I think about it, I would defend any of my friends, with my life. HA! I have a personality talent...’

Dusk begins to unintentionally yell in an annoyed/amused tone “My cutie mark doesn’t even represent a skill, just my personality! YEAH! I’M USELESS! ”

Dusk sees another mare looking at him with a confused look. She has a light blue coat, and a multi coloured mane and tail, which are dark blue and a very light gray. It kind of looks like toothpaste. She also had a hourglass as her mark.

“Um, why were you yelling?” She asks Dusk.

He nervously chuckles, “I think that... I was uhm... accidentally thinking out loud.”

She shakes her head as she walks away, and he is very embarrassed about what just happened. He blushes, and feels the need to walk away a bit faster than usual.

‘I have really got to stop thinking out loud. It’s the third time that has happened to me in Ponyville.’

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Dusk gets to Fluttershy’s and gets himself inside. He sees that Fluttershy is sitting on the lounge, reading her Romance novel. She doesn’t notice Dusk enter, as she is quite distracted by a scene in the book. He notices that her wings are fully erect.

He steps closer to her, without her noticing and asks, “Heya Shy, what are you reading?” Dusk can already tell that she is reading a sexual bit, but he wanted to see her reaction.

It was quite amusing. She quietly yelled when Dusk surprised her, then she slammed her book shut to prevent Dusk from reading it, and then she became a stuttering mess, while she was trying to explain herself. She is quite flustered and she has a massive blush. Dusk found her reactions to be both cute and funny at the same time.

“Um... ah... I was... uhh... I was reading a... part in the book that-”

Dusk interrupts her, “You were reading a quite risque scene in the book. That is probably why you reacted the way you did. Also, you had your wings fully erect, so you were either stretching or aroused.”

Fluttershy looks down towards the ground, ashamed with herself. “I’m sorry Dusk, I just like to read those sort of books.”

“I don’t really care about what books you read Shy. If you like those sort of books, then you can still read them. I’m surprised that you like to read those books though Shy, although-”

Dusk is stopped by somepony knocking on her door.

*tap tap tap*

Fluttershy opens the door, and starts to greet her guest. “Hello Carrot Top, it’s good to see you.”

“Good to see you too Fluttershy. I’m here, because I need to talk to Dusk for a few moments.”

Dusk walks up to the doorway and sees somepony that he remembers seeing yesterday. “Aren’t you that shop owner that sold me the carrot cake?”

“Yes I am, but that’s not what I’m here to discuss. I’m here to thank you for helping Ditzy yesterday.”

Dusk is confused. “That’s no problem... but how do you know what happened yesterday?” Questions Dusk.

“She told me. Ditzy and Dinky live with me in Ponyville, and as soon as she got back to my house, she told me about everything that happened that day.”

“But how did you know where to find me?”

“I don’t know how, but she knows that you are in a relationship with Fluttershy, and so she told me to come here to see you.” Explains Carrot.

Dusk starts to uncomfortably chuckle. “It’s a mystery, to how she knew about Fluttershy and I...” He didn’t want to tell her about the somewhat accidental kiss.

“So I’d like to thank you for stopping those ponies from harassing her, and for helping her keep her job. She would be devastated if she lost her job.”

“It was no problem Carrot, I just did what I had to do.” He modestly states.

“Nonsense. I’ve never seen anypony help her that much. Thanks again Dusk.”

She begins to walk out of the house and Dusk waves his hoof, “See ya later. One more thing, your carrot cake was quite nice.”

“Thanks Dusk, bye.” She walks away from the cottage and goes in the direction of Ponyville.

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