Chapter 8 a wild, fire party

Gallus looked out over the pier. The only light left in the area were the torches set up for the party. As Gallus flew towards the pier, an overzealous pegasus ran right into him. Cautiously, Gallus went onto the dock and started weaving his way through the crowd that had percolated there. Gallus couldn't help but flinch a bit at the low thumping of the rock music emanating from the stage at the end of the dock. Wildfire had to be there but he had his work cut out for him due to the sheer volume of loud cheering ponies present. As Gallus was weaving through the crowd, he accidentally bumped into somepony and spilled their drink. 

“Err sorry dude.” Gallus started but was quickly interrupted by a loud voice coming from the stage.

“Hey hey dudes and dudettes hope you enjoyed our opening number.” The crowed cheered at stallion with the sunglasses and blue back turned hat. Directly behind him were two other ponies, one was holding a guitar and the other was playing drums. “Well looks like we've got ourselves a huge enough crowd are you all ready to party?” The crowd cheered again. “That's the kinda energy I wanna hear. OK everypony we got one more mate to introduce tonight. Now, say hello to Rainy showers.” A pegasus stallion emerged from backstage holding what looked like a big squirt gun.

“When's the fun gonna start?” Somepony shouted from the crowd.

“Now now we can't have too much fun tonight there are ladies in the crowd tonight.” Several random mares cheered. “But don't you worry we'll have some fun right after we give some of the ladies in the crowd some proper treatment.” Gallus's ice went cold at the sound of that. He could swear he saw a flash of teal light somewhere in the crowd but he was more focused the whole proper treatment angle.

“Hey.” The announcing stallion pointed to a mare up front. “What's your name?”

“Perry Pomegranate.” She replied followed by a squeal.

“Well Perry Rainy's got a present for ya.” The pegasus holding the water gun nodded and sprayed Perry with the gun, soaking her head to hoof. She soon started bouncing up and down in glee while happily shrieking.

“Congrats to miss Pomegranate for being the first mare to get sprayed tonight don't worry ladies there's plenty to go around. Ok boys one two three gooooo!” Soon enough the other stallions on stage started playing music again. Gallus returned to looking through the crowd for Wildfire. As Gallus weaved through the crowd he became acutely aware of the sheer number of stallions with either half chub boners or full on erections. It wasn't just the stallions; many of the mares were winking their clitorises or dancing with their asses in the face of somepony else. When Gallus spotted a mare and a stallion making out he figured out what this party was truly about. This was a spring break party and there were countless mares and stallions here looking to get laid. Under any other circumstances he'd love being here with his friends for a night of reckless partying. But not tonight, he was a gryphoness and the last thing he wanted was anything intimate with another man. He ducked down to avoid being seen, all he had to do was find Wildfire and get out no fuss no muss.

“Hey, what do we have here?” Gallus froze at the voice coming from above him. He looked up and saw Rainy Showers directly above looking down at him. “Equestria's girls are getting more exotic every day.” Without any further warning, he blasted Gallus with his water gun before flying off. He was somewhat thankful for being sprayed; he was pretty hot from all of the body heat around him and yet he couldn't stand the feeling of his nipples getting pruney from the stimulation.

As Gallus shuffled through the crowd of ponies, a pegasus stallion approached him. “Hey, gryphon lady.”

Gallus froze, “umm hi.” Gallus clasped his claws to his beak. At long last his voice was changed from it's original register to something a lot higher and smoother.

“You're lookin good tonight. Wanna hang out?” The stallion raised his eyebrows.

“Umm no thanks.” Gallus brushed his right claw on the ground.

“Don't waste your time with him.” Another stallion piped up. “You should hang with me; I mean look at my mane.” He brushed his long mane back and smiled.

“Why would she wanna waste time with you dorks?” Gallus flinched at the sight of a gigantic stallion emerging from the crowd. “I'm stronger than both of your combined.” He flexed his right foreleg to emphasize the point.

“Pfft.” The first Stallion rolled his eyes. “Like she'd waste her time with an earth pony. Come with me babe and we'll do it in the skies.” He flapped his wings.

“Have either of you ever courted a lady. Bet you're both virgins.” The second chimed in to the anger of the third.

“What you say pretty boy?” Gallus didn't catch much more of their banter, their tipsy demeanor and hardons drew his full attention.

“So, who will it be? You've got a great ass by the way?” The first stallion broke in. Gallus's brain locked up. All he could properly experience was the biggest cry he'd ever felt in his life well up in his throat.

“Back off.” a deep and gruff voice broke in. Gallus turned and gawked at the biggest stallion he'd ever seen in his life towering over him. Gallus couldn't make out most of what the unknown stallion said aside from “None of you have any chance against me in that department.” Eventualy, the three other stallions melted back into the crowd. The fourth stallion reached a hoof down to Gallus. “Are you ok?”

“Please no! I don't wanna! I I'm just trying to find a friend.” Gallus shivered.

His eyes went wide as the titanic stallion let out an unexpectedly girly giggle. “It's a good thing I found you then.” With a flash of teal fire, the stallion revealed himself to be Ocellus in disguise. Gallus took in a huge breath, but he couldn't restrain the feeling in his throat any longer and broke out crying.

“What's wrong?” Ocellus asked.

Gallus couldn't help but continue to cry as Ocellus roped Gallus into a hug. “It's just...” Gallus sniffled. “What if I never change back?”

Ocellus gripped Gallus's head and forced him to stare her in the eyes. “Snap out of it Gallus; you'll be fine I promise.”

“It's more than that Ocellus. If I'm stuck in this body than I'll never find a special somepony. I'm still into women Ocellus I... I don't know what I'll do” Gallus started crying again. His tears abruptly stopped though as he saw Ocellus kiss him on the cheek.

“Gallus...” Ocellus started “I have something to confess to you. I...” Ocellus shuffled her hoof. “I love you Gallus.”

“Ocellus.” stared slack beaked.

She nodded, “It's true Gallus. Ever since we all first became friends the love I shared with my friends was good but one day the character of my love towards you changed. I asked the feelings forum leader about this, and she said the love I was feeling was genuine romantic love. Right then I knew the truth but.” Ocellus smacked her hoof against her head. “Like a fool I never told you how I felt I should have said something sooner I'm sorry Gallus. Man, woman, or giant blob creature I love you Gallus no matter what.”

Love. Gallus barely thought about it consciously but now hearing Ocellus talk about it the dam broke. He knew he felt something deeper for Ocellus he was just too afraid to admit it to himself.

“I think I love you too Ocellus. I don't know though I'm not the best at taking stock of my own feelings.”

Ocellus giggled, “I know Gallus, it's part of who you are. Remember I can sense love and the love I feel from you has the same sweetness as the love I feel towards you.”

Gallus couldn't argue with that. After all, professor Twilight said changelings were the most empathic creatures in all of Equestria. He kissed Ocellus on the cheek. “Thanks Ocellus.” an awkward silence soon descended over them. “Wow, so are we dating like Yona and Sandbar now?” Gallus scratched the back of his head.

Ocellus giggled, “of course not silly. We're gonna have a lot more fun together than just 'smashing'. She's such a blunt instrument in the bedroom.”

Gallus cocked an eyebrow. “Hold up, you did it with Yona?”

Ocellus broke out into full laughter, “no silly, Yona likes to brag about the sex she has with Sandbar.”

“Ohhh. Now you'll get a chance to brag to her about all the fun you're having with me.” Gallus raised his eyebrows.

Ocellus and Gallus laughed, only to be interrupted as Ocellus took a blast of water from Rainy's watergun. “Are you ok?!” Gallus asked.

Ocellus shook the water off as best she could. “I'm fine although maybe we should back up a bit. This party's getting a bit too crazy” Gallus could only nod in agreement as the two made their way off the pier.

As soon as they forced their way out of the crowd of horny teenagers, Ocellus spoke. “Thank Celestia we got out of there before something crazier happened.”

“You are Gallus I presume.” a refined feminine voice spoke. Gallus and Ocellus turned to see an adult kirin woman with burnt red fur, a brown mane and dark blue eyes standing just outside the crowd. She was also wearing a chained pendant with an upside-down triangle lined in blue on the edges.

“Who are you?” Gallus asked.

“Gallus, that's her,” Ocellus remarked.

She nodded. “Indeed little changeling I am Wildfire.”