Chapter 56: They Know Too Much

‘That was amazing!’

Dusk and Fluttershy both exit the bedroom some minutes after their little... endeavours, and walk down the staircase to where she had left her animals. Dusk was counting himself lucky that none of them ended up going upstairs, while they were doing the deed. He didn’t really need Angel to start hating him, especially since that rabbit no longer objects to his presence here.

“H-How are you so good with your hooves Dusk? They were magical...” She dreamily finishes her last sentence.

“Heh, I love the fact that you don’t mention anything else that was ‘magical’, that hurt.” The excessive amount of sarcasm in his voice is astounding.

“Um... well... everything else was really, really good as well... but I won’t be able forget the way you used your hooves for a long time.”

‘Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Am I a bad lover and she’s just trying not to make me seem bad, or am I just a living deity with my hooves?’ He looks at his fore-hooves, ‘Then again, I did some pretty amazing things with these.’

They both then realize that they were talking, right in front of the animals. Normally, this wouldn’t have been a problem in Dusk’s opinion, but he could see that they were ALL staring at them, mainly him. Not only that, but they all seem to be looking at him with some kind of expression. A lot of the smaller animals were looking at him with disgust, slight aggression. Some even seemed disturbed with... something.

On the other hoof, most of the rabbits were giving Fluttershy looks of approval, and the white rabbit known as Angel, gave Dusk a grin of satisfaction.

“Um... Shy, how much do these animals of yours know? They are giving us, mainly me, weird looks.”

“I... don’t... know... how could they know?”

‘Who’d have thought that her animals were so perverted. *shudder* How could they know about this?.. [*Ding* REVELATION!... of sorts] Wait a second, since they were all downstairs before, they may have heard what happened upstairs, and somehow recognised it as... uh... yeah.... I don’t know if I show feel disturbed, humoured or somewhat proud of these animals of hers. Speaking of which...’

“I don’t rightly know.” ‘What a lie.’ “Shy, are these all your pets?” He wonders why he had never asked her this question, in the two weeks he has stayed there for.

“Only Angel Bunny over here.” She picks up the mischievous rabbit with her hooves. “All of my other animal friends live in the forest normally, but as you can see...” She signals him to the window, which he then looks out of. To quickly summarize what he sees, when it rains, it pours. “It’s too wet for them to be outside in this kind of weather, and so I brought most of my smaller animal friends in here for shelter. It wouldn’t be good for them to be outside right now.”

‘You have no idea how true that is.’

He looks at Angel, who was back on the ground, and he changes his perspective of the white rabbit. He seems to respect Dusk for... wait? He respects him more for having sex with his owner?!

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Perspective: Angel Bunny

He is proud of Fluttershy, for taking that next step in the relationship. He could tell from her coltfriend’s personality and actions, that she would be the pony to take it to the next level. He could say that he felt comforted by the fact that a stallion like him has been her. Sure, he was a bit of an imbecile half of the time, but he heard things about him, from some of the other animals that reside in the area.

He knows about when he nearly died to save Fluttershy from those thugs, and there were stories about the attack in the town just yesterday. A lot of them were exaggerated in some way, but they are all consistent. After all that he has done for Fluttershy, he has come to like the idiot. He had to restrict himself from hitting all of the animals who are bitter about what he has done to his owner. It’s not such a big deal really...

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Perspective: Dusk

‘I swear, that pet of hers is more intelligent than he looks...’

He stops looking at the staring animals after his final thought, and looks outside again. “It’s hard to believe that I was stupid enough to want to walk through this. Maybe I could write something I learnt about this experience in one of Twilight’s friendship letters. Could you imagine?”

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have only recently learnt that walking during a heavy storm is NOT a good idea. I was close to freezing to death.

Anyway, what I have learnt about friendship, is that you should always believe that your most trusted friends would never leave your side, even after you were one of the reasons that they are temporarily crippled.

Blizzard was an exception!

Your faithful subject,

Dusk Shard

“I don’t think that the princess would be happy with a report like that.” Finishes Dusk.

She facehoofs, “You have a very strange sense of humour Dusk.”

“That I do Shy.”

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The remainder of the day had flown by. After getting Fluttershy and himself some lunch, she properly introduced him to the animals, who treated him coldly, until Angel and the other rabbits somehow changed most of their opinions of him. He admitted that he felt a bit fidgety being around so many animals, even if they were smaller than him.

At about 4pm, the rain had finally cleared, and the animals had left her home for the forest. He saw Rainbow up in the sky, and called her down using ‘Dusk’s Royal Speech.’ The three conversed, with Fluttershy and himself talking about what happened with Rarity. She laughed at the end of the story, since Dusk had explained it in such a way that it wouldn’t cause conflict with the group. He had purposely ‘forgotten’ to mention the hypothermia to her, as well as what happened afterwards. She ended up leaving the cottage 15 minutes later.

Not much else had happened that night. She had made a very simple dinner, before they both washed up... together. [SURPRISINGLY NOTHING SEXUAL] That was quite a good bonding time for both of them.

They finally decided to call it a night, and they both entered the bedroom to get some well earned sleep...

“G’night Shy.” He gives her a hug

“Night, Dusk.” She lightly kisses his forehead, sending pleasant shivers to the rest of his body.

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