"Aww, that's sweet~" She said, kissing him back on the cheek. "Yeah, hang on," She rested a hoof on his shoulder and tried to click her talons, but then remembered she didn't have any. "Oh. Right." She stomped her hoof instead, and they disappeared in a flash, teleporting to the portal. At least she could still use her magic like this, but she'd have to make sure nopony saw her. Stepping through the portal, she called Lone and Courage over to her. "All quiet here, Ma'am, no visitors," Said, Lone, sitting in front of her. "Glad to hear it," She replied. "Thunder and I are going out for a bit; can you scout around for us? Make sure we're not being watched?" "Out?" Lone said, surprised. "Um, I mean... Sure thing Ma'am!" He nodded to Courage, and they both ran off, inspecting their surroundings.
Thunder smiled and blushed a bit as Eris kissed his cheek, then allowed her to teleport both of them. At the portal, ge looked at Lone and Courage as they came to greetvher after ahe called them. He smiled to them and saw as they left to scout. Once they left, he turned to Eris and pulled her to a kiss, wanting to taste her pony lips. They weren't that bad, but she prefered the ones of the real her. He pulled away and waited for the other two to come back.
Eris giggled, and was still blushing a little from the kiss when Lone and Courage returned. Thunder definitely seemed to be getting more assertive... "Coast's clear Ma'am," Lone reported, glancing at Thunder; judging from the blossoms on his Mistress' cheeks, they'd been up to something. She seemed happy though, and as long as she stayed that way, it wasn't his place to interfere. "Thank you Lone, and you too Courage; I don't know what I'd do without you~" Eris said, petting them both.
Thunder smiled after he saw the light blush on Eris face. She looked cute. He then turmed to the wolves as they returned, Thunder decided that perhaps it was also a good time to get along with Lone and Courage. He then walked to Lone and oetted him a bit after Eris did. He wanted to know how he would react to him. Hopefully not that bad.
Lone looked at Thunder questioningly, raising an eyebrow. "Look, Thunder... is it? You seem like a nice enough pony, but I'm not really into stallions." He looked at him for a moment longer before bursting out laughing. "I'm just kidding! Now you go have fun, But hey;" He looked at Thunder seriously, after Eris had trotted out of earshot. "Anything happens to her, I'll turn you inside out." He grinned jovially again. "Well go on then! You'd better not keep her waiting!"
Thundet was not entirly sure how to react to all that. First he was telling a joke and as soon as Eris left he threathen him. Still, like if he was going to let something happen to Eris. "I will make sure nothing happens to her." He said calmly. "Good bye." He then said with a small grin before caching up with Eris. He smiled to her and nuzzled her cheek before leading her to yhe Crystal empire.
It had been a while since Eris had had to walk this far; by the time they made it to the crystalline city, her hooves were pretty sore. The view took her mind off it somewhat though. "Wow," She said, sitting back on her haunches, "That is quite impressive..." They were at the edge of the city, and the sun was shining brightly, glistening off all the ponies milling about, and off a lot of the buildings too.
Thunder noticed that Eris' hooves wete starting to hurt since the way they were moving. He smiled and carried her on his back once they arrived to the city. "Quite impressive, right?" He said smiling as he nuzzled her, then carried her into the city itself. The sun above the city made it and it's inhabitans shine. It was plainly beatiful.
Eris blushed, feeling a little foolish being carried around like some foal. She appreciated the thought, but still... "You can put me down now Love, I'll be okay~" She said, giving him a kiss on the cheek. "Yeah, it's just as beautiful as you said," She said, once she was back on her own hooves. "Shall we find somewhere to have a cup of tea?" She'd spotted a cafe overlooking a courtyard, and fancied taking a rest and watching the ponies go by.
Thunder smiled at the kiss and thrn nodded, letting her down. "Alright dear." He said smiling, Thunder saw the cafe and hearx what she said, then smiled. "Sure, we can go." He said smiling, then started walking towards it, leading her. The ponies around didn't oayed that much attention to them. Some perhaps, but because a unicor. dating a crystal pony. Nothing more than that. It was a quite good idea the one they had.
Eris sat down happily as they reached the cafe, and ordered a pot of tea from the crystal pony that came to serve them. These ponies were actually pretty nice... as long as you looked like them; every time Eris had tried to talk to any pony before, they had either run away or been very distrustful. This made a nice change. The pony came back with the tea pot and two cups, as well as a selection of cakes. Eris thought carefully then picked a cream-filled one.
Thunder sat down besidd Eris and gently grabbed het hoof with his, then smiled to the waitress as she brought the tea and the cakes. He looked at then and grabbed one for him. It was a chocolate cake. He smiled and started eating it. It was really good! He smiled and leaned to Eris' shoulder, resting her head in there, smiling.
Eris smiled and held his hoof happily, kissing his forehead when he rested his head on her shoulder. She frowned and stuck her tongue out in concentration, attempting to pick up her tea cup with her free hoof, but only managing to push it around the table. How did ponies do this?!
Thunder couldn't help it but giggle as she tried to grab the cup of tea with her hoof and fail. He smiled and grabbed it with his hoof, showing her how to. "It is a bit hard. I know, but with enough practice you get used to and it becomes easier." he said smiling as he nuzzled her.
Eris nodded and tried again, this time managing to pick it up. Her face lit up with delight, but then, as she brought the cup to her mouth, she dropped it, only avoiding spilling tea all over herself by catching it with her magic at the last minute. She blushed, hoping anypony watching would just assume it was Thunder who had caught it.
Thunder noticed that her cup fell down and she lifter it with her magic. He didn't hesitated and his horn glowed, gently levitating a bit of her tail but making it look that he cached the cup of tea. He then grabbed it with his hoof and his horn stopped glowing. "Here. You almst dropped it." he said smiling, making everypony else belive what he wanted. It looked that it worked.
Eris blushed a bit more, feeling his magic on her tail, and smiled at him. "Thank you, sweetie~" She didn't want to attract too much attention with public displays of affection, so she just put her hoof on his and squeezed. Trying with the cup again, Eris realised she could just lift it with her magic, and make it look like she was using her hoof, so she simply did that, feeling a little silly for not thinking of it in the first place. She sipped her tea and ate her cake without further incident, (except for getting some of the cream from her cake on her nose) and sat happily with Thunder, watching the ponies go about their business.
Thunder smiled. "No problem dear." he said as he looked at her with her new cup-grabbing-strategy. He noticed he was using her magic and pretending to grab it with her hoof. Not a bad idea. He smiled and he drank his after a moment and ate his cake. He then noticed that Eris had some cream on her nose, so he smile and licked it off with a playful lick. He giggled at that and looked to the ponies also.
"Thunder~!" Eris giggled, pushing him playfully, "There are ponies watching!" She knew she wasn't in her true form, but she still didn't like the idea of other ponies seeing her soft side.
Thunder giggled and sat back correctly after she pushed her like that, smiling. "Alright, alright." He said smiling as he got himself another cup of tea.
