Night's End

Chapters

Night's (Rear) End
A Night Half Admired
A Night to be Desired
Night's (True) End

Night's (Rear) End

Night’s End
by Peppy Cloppingskull
Night's (Rear) End

The moon’s silver light filtered through the dense foliage of the massive canopy of a dark, terrifying forest; a forest filled with dangers that no sane pony had ever dared to enter. The sound of hooves, the only sound in the eerily quiet expanse, played out between the thick trunks surrounding a group of six ponies, bouncing off the rubbery bark of the malformed flora. Their gasps and pants soon grew audible, joining the cacophonous din of hoof on packed dirt.

These ponies no longer feared the terrors of the forest; they had already faced the worst that it could throw at them.

A near-death plummet from a massive cliff.

A manticore, tamed by kindness.

Magically-enhanced trees from their worst nightmares.

A sea serpent rampaging and roiling the mighty Everfree Fjord.

The enticing offer of a mysterious, evil flight troupe.

Each obstacle had been overcome and now only one more thing stood in their way:

The doors leading into the resting place of the fabled Elements of Harmony.

The group came to a halt outside the massive doorway, staring at the rotting wooden passage as it loomed before them. It wasn't nearly as intimidating as the forest behind them, but there was an uncanny feeling of foreboding emanating from the place. The squad shared nervous glances between each other before nodding and rushing in, eager to have finally reached their destination.

"Come on girls! The Elements are just inside!"

~{N}~{r}~{E}~

"No! Now what do we do!? Why aren't the Elements of Harmony working!? You said they'd stop her, Twilight!" A mare of sky-blue stared at the inept orbs, standing horrified as they sat, useless, at the hooves of her lavender companion. She frowned as the mare ignored her, focusing intently at something other than the tools she had spoken so surely of.

A ringing, malicious laugh consumed the mares' thoughts, drawing all of their attention away from the orbs to a new, familiar figure standing beside the willow-shaped pillar. They cowered under the sinister, toothy grin the black intruder wore, shaking as her starmetal-clad hooves clacked loudly against the stone floor. The mare, standing at twice the height of Applejack, the tallest mare of the bunch, strode ever closer, her smugness shown clearly through her gait.

Five of the girls, each of their pastel-colored visibly shaking visibly, turned back to their impromptu leader, Twilight, the unicorn, dread worn plainly on their features.

"Twilight, what are we g-gonna do? We c-can't fight her! The Elements w-were our only h-hope!" The orange earth pony, despite her strong upbringing, couldn't stop the fear-driven stutter in her voice. Her head swivelled back and forth between the lavender mare and the bright, white fangs in the night mare's grin.

"Oh, there is nothing you can do, foals! I have won, destroying... the only means with which to defeat me! You shall all suffer-"

Almost at once, as if Applejack's and the dark mare's words were a trigger, the ponies around Twilight burst into a frantic cacophony, overpowering the approaching alicorn's words mid-speech. The purple unicorn, however, ignored the terror in their babbling, focusing entirely on the enraged face of their soon-to-be assailant.

She smirked ever so slightly, taking a deep breath as she fought to maintain a stoic countenance, and leapt between her friends and the black mare. With a stamp of a hoof, Twilight levelled her eyes with the alicorn's and stood proudly, confidently. "No! I won't let you hurt them! They didn't have any part in this; they were just following me!"

As the young mare's words registered in each pony's mind, they all stared with incredulous look at her. Even their adversary paused in her raging advance, but the momentary halt did not last long. With a hearty chuckle, the nightmare pony bore? her fangs, rising back to her full height. "And what, little pony, do you think you can do to save them? You know who I am. You know of my power!"

Finally, Twilight's smirk shone through and, with a flick of her head, her lavender horn flared to life. "This." A bright flash filled the room, giving the group of five mares behind their leader just enough time to gasp in surprise before they were whisked away by the unicorn's teleportation spell. Not a trace of her friends were left as the magical output dispersed, leaving herself and the astonished queen alone in the massive chamber.

It took the dark mare a moment to recover, but she burst out into her sinister cackle as soon as she had shaken off enough of the shock. "You foal! Do you honestly think you, alone, could defeat me? No pony in Equestria could ever hope to mat-"

"I don't think, I know."

The confidence in the small mare's words threw the alicorn's pretense of power from her own mind, leaving her speechless and momentarily stunned as she processed those words. That moment was all she needed to act.

A quick, small burst of magic, propelled instantaneously from Twilight's horn, struck the starmetal breastplate adorning the black pony's chest. With a startled cry, she was flung from her hooves only to crash back down a few hoof's-lengths away until she slid to a stop on the cold marble. She tried to stand back up, only for her to seize and convulse as electricity coursed through her body the moment she command anything below her neck to move. When she recovered, her turquoise eyes swivelled to meet the majestic purple of the young unicorn's, narrowing into slits as she glared with all of the malice she could muster.

"What have you done to me!?"

Twilight moved slowly, smiling softly as she closed the small gap between the incapacitated mare and herself. She watched as the alicorn's breathing quickened, her chest heaving with each frantic passage of air. The black mare's horn sparked, pulsing faintly for the briefest moment before fizzling out, in an obvious attempt to free herself, but the unicorn's smile only grew as her own horn lit. "Well, that was a spell Princess Celestia taught me when I was a filly. It's similar to being struck by lightning, but much more controlled and reactive to specific conscious thoughts.

"As for what I've done to you...." She stopped at the larger pony's side and settled up next to her, draping a foreleg over the paralyzed mare's withers. "I haven't done anything yet, Nightmare Moon." Twilight felt the queen tense under her touch, her muscles quivering from the after effects of the subdual, but she did not care. "But.... I have so many things planned for you...."

She nipped softly at the nape of Nightmare's neck, giggling when the alicorn yelped and tried to escape only to be shocked again, this time more gently. "Oh, come on Nightmare. I'm not a hateful pony and, even if I was, you're too weak to escape." Twilight stifled a chuckle at the mare's shocked gasp and teased the base of her jawline with a quick peck. "What? You didn't think anypony would notice the way your legs trembled and how you never used any real magic? I didn't become, and stay, Princess Celestia's because of my looks, you know." She grazed her teeth along Nightmare's soft cheek until their muzzles lined up together, then nudged against her tightly clamped lips with a sultry smile. "Besides.... It should be obvious that what I have planned will be great for the both of us...."

"You will regret ever touching your queen, foal. I am not to be-" Her voice caught in her throat when Twilight pulled back out of her vision and something hot and wet traced the lines of her ear. Her body tensed, the hairs of her coat standing on end at the sensual teasing, but she suppressed the moan that had tried to escape.

The purple mare giggled again, breathing softly into the queen's ear, and took the tip of it between her teeth, gnawing ever so gently. "You know...." She paused, leaning forward again to press against Nightmare's face. "I have always been somewhat attracted to the princess.... I would never have acted on it, of course, she's like a mother to me, but you.... I could treat you right and come to love you if you were to release Princess Celestia." The black queen opened her mouth, her face twisted in anger, but a trailing hoof along her flank shut all future protests down without a struggle. "Plus, if your scent and raised tail are anything to go by, you'll definitely want me to continue...."

The conflicted display across her captive's features brought a smirk to the young librarian's lips. She could see the anger and hatred burning in the turquoise depths of Nightmare Moon's eyes, but there was also a longing of equal magnitude, further emphasized by the pungent odour of aroused mare filling the air. Her hoof traced circles on the alicorn's plump backside, squishing the plush flesh around the crescent moon cutie mark only for it to spring youthfully back to its original shape the moment that hoof was pulled away.

Nightmare had to fight her instinct to nudge herself back into that touch, both to avoid the humiliation of wanting some common pony's touch and the electric shock that would follow the intent. Twilight was right, more so than the alicorn wished to admit. Her marehood ached, yearning for the contact the girl had teased at delivering, but she would not let her have the satisfaction of hearing her confession nor the power it would come with. Not until she had regained some of the magic she had lost in her struggle to destroy the Elements of Harmony, at least.

Twilight frowned, but bobbed her head in a slight nod at the mare's nearly nonexistent reaction. "Well, suit yourself, Nightmare Moon. I have more than one way to find out where Princess Celestia is. I was just hoping you would choose the method that would work for both of our mutual benefits." With a grunt, the lilac pony lifted herself off the ground, moving awkwardly as she walked up to stand in front of the mare's face. She blushed as Nightmare's eyes went wide, trying to hide her arousal with her forelegs, but kept her thoughts on the task at hand.

"What are-"

"I'm going to use a memory spell to figure out where the princess is and then turn you over to her." The small mare frowned, but lit her horn regardless, preparing her spell regardless of the regret in her voice. "I don't know what she will do, but I will try to convince her to be as fair as possible. I am sorry that you di-"

"Do not patronize me, foal!" Twilight flinched back, still surprised by the sharp outburst despite the alicorn's incapacitation, but only for a moment. Nightmare Moon cringed as the unicorn lowered her horn closer, slowly inching towards the base of her own magic source, until the glowing tip tapped her skull.

Both ponies' eyes opened wide, filled with the white light of their combined magic, as that morning's events flashed through Twilight's mind. The exchange only lasted a few seconds, but to the two mares it seemed like a lifetime. They both mouthed the black mare's thoughts up until their connection in rapid sequence, until, with a bright flash, the spell ended, leaving both ponies shivering from the sensation.

"S-so that's where.... I didn't even know the place existed." Twilight grimaced, scrunching her nose up as the alicorn's heady aroma blanketed the area. "I apologize for any discomfort for the next hour. The spell kind of amplifies the subjects' senses."

Nightmare shuddered, trying to block out the purple unicorn and her words even as she stood proudly just beside her face. Her head throbbed, overwhelmed by the scent of her own aching backside and the musk of the accompanying mare. Her vision blurred again and she watched as Twilight, that insufferable whelp, wavered, her hind legs shaking as something on her stomach bobbed. She glared through the lust-driven haze, waiting for the unicorn to teleport away, just like she had dispersed her party, and return with the sun princess.

Minutes passed, yet the pony still stood, rooted to the spot, in front of her. A wave of confusion played across the black alicorn's face. Why does she continue to stand there and stare!? Finish it, you foal, or you will rue the night you did not act! Then, as if spurred on by the incapacitated queen's thoughts, the young adept began to move.

A grimace worked its way across Twilight's face as she inched closer. The heady odour of mare-come was making it difficult to focus on anything else, but, even without its presence, she did not think she would have been able to make any other decision. She watched Nightmare's expression carefully, noting and filing away another bout of surprise, as if the past few minutes had been enough to clear her most recent short-term memory, the moment her hind legs crept into her prisoner's view.

Twilight had to admit that her shock was just as arousing as the mare's plump teats and well-rounded backside.

"You are no mare. Vile creature."

Her words stung; the bite came just as hurtfully as they had during her foalhood. Luckily, she had had nearly nine years to strengthen her emotional defenses. "No, I'm not all mare.... That's true, but I'm also not all stallion." Twilight smiled, hiding the pain behind a mask of confidence, and lifted a hind leg to display her twitching pride and the juices dripping from her sack. "I guess you could say I'm the best of both worlds, but I'd prefer you call me a hermaphrodite. I... kind of have a thing for proper terms...."

Nightmare stared at the length of flesh, bobbing with each twitch of her muscles, between Twilight's small teats with both awe and fear. The mare's intentions were apparent, her actions before and now making them painfully obvious, but, despite her hatred of males, the night mare felt her wetness twinge in expectation.

Despite her expectations, Nightmare was still caught off guard by the unicorn's next sudden movement and flinched back when the fleshy purple and peach-splotched member pressed against her muzzle.

"I really am sorry, but I can't restrain myself anymore...." Twilight pressed harder, trying to force her shaft between the mare's tightly clenched lips, until she finally grunted in frustration and forced her jaw open with magic. With one fluid thrust, her cock slid into Nightmare's open mouth, pressing her tongue down with its girth, until her head tapped the back of the queen's throat. She grunted in satisfaction, a goofy grin spreading across her lips, and slowly began to slide back out.

The feeling of the black pony's hot breath, saliva, and lips wrapped around her length was like heaven to the young librarian. Never in her life up to this point had she expected to experience anything as wonderful as the alicorn's mouth. She vigorously pumped into and out of the steamy orifice, using the mare's saliva as further lubrication with each thrust, and moaned out as her climax rapidly approached.

Nightmare Moon grunted as well, trying to fight off the more powerful unicorn to alleviate the soreness of her throat as each push slid her shaft deeper and deeper until she finally bottomed out and her stomach tapped her nose at every thrust. It was not to be, however, as the unicorn mounting her face had leverage and magic at her disposal, so the queen reluctantly resigned her mouth to be the near-bestial mare's hole for the time being. This.... You will pay for this...!

"I-I'm coming, Nightmare!"

The barely audible exclamation was the only warning Nightmare had before the first shot of hot seed filled her mouth.

Twilight hilted herself against the the alicorn's muzzle, unleashing her torrent of come down her throat, and pumped her stomach full of her thick cream. Her shaft throbbed with each pulse, slightly bobbing Nightmare's head with its intensity, until her load was spent and her motor functions returned. She sighed blissfully, retracting herself from the confines of the obsidian muzzle, until she slipped out and left her unwilling partner to cough up some of her excess semen.

The display before her sent another spasm through her cock. Nightmare lay on her side, her face settling in a pool of milky seed, trying to regain as much of her composure as she could. Her starry mane was gone, replaced by a field of navy blue, splayed out and sticky with her paste. It was obvious that she had not enjoyed her impromptu meal.

Twilight could not have been any more aroused.

The sense of power was exhilarating. This mare, a once proud and powerful being, had been reduced to nothing but a plaything for her. Her head bounced off her stomach, coating her barrel with its sticky residue. "I...." Her eyes were drawn to the black queen's raised tail, a natural, unavoidable occurrence for the defenseless mare, and the dark puddle pooling as her marehood leaked. "I'm so, so sorry."

Nightmare did not even have enough time to react before Twilight was behind her, buried face-first between her full backside. She involuntarily moaned as a forceful slurp covered her plump sex, splitting her lips apart to draw at the nectar within. She hated this mare and her actions, but her body refused to protest as it was caught between the forced pleasure and paralysis. Again, there was nothing more she could do other than bide her time and fortify her mind. "I will m-make you suff... er...." Her voice cracked as her bud was caught mid-wink in Twilight's lips, drawn in to be suckled upon like the teats between her hind legs.

With an audible pop, the unicorn pulled back, breathing heavily through her soaked lips. "I'll be as gentle... as I can." With her magic, she lifted the alicorn onto her stomach, legs folded underneath her, and mounted the mare, resting over her larger form with ease.

The queen could say nothing as she gasped for air, her breath having been stolen by the clitoral attack. Her sopping hole kissed the head of her captor's shaft, inviting it in againt her will. She could feel the small mare lining up with her entrance, preparing herself for entry. Then her vision went white.

Twilight slammed into her with ease, the excessive lubrication guiding her member into the crushing tunnel, and bottomed out, pushing against the mare's cervix. The spell’s amplification was too much for the inexperienced mare. Her mind recessed, sending her back into that primal state from moments ago. She thrust erratically, her balls slapping against Nightmare's bouncing breasts and swollen clitoris. Each buck pounded her cock against the alicorn's womb. She could tell from the mare's groans, interspersed as they were between her involuntary moans, that the motions were discomforting and even somewhat painful, but she could not care. She didn't want to care about anything other than the sensation of those clenching walls around her marehood.

Whimpers of mixed feelings escaped Nightmare each time she was spread around the nearly two inch thick shaft. The unicorn may have been tiny in comparison to her, but what her body lacked, her pride made up for. Her body continued to betray the war in her mind, giving in to the bliss of her primal needs despite her mental fortitude. How long until even that is gone? This damned spell.... It is.... Her thoughts were interrupted by a particularly violent thrust, one that seemed as if it was trying to pass her womb's protection. She knew it was impossible, a stallion's member wasn't shaped for such actions, but it hurt and that was all that was needed to plant the seed of fear in her mind. If she does not finish... soon....

"M-more.... Faster...."

Her words surprised not just the lavender unicorn abusing her flower, but herself as well. She instantly regretted the subconscious utterance, but the damage had already been done.

Twilight hilted herself, pressing against her subject's cervix, and lovingly nuzzled her neck. "O-okay. I can d-do more...." Her horn illuminated the darkness around them, revealing more of the dust laden chamber.

Nightmare watched in horror as the glowing intensified, instinctively fearing whatever spell the young protege was conjuring up. The light surrounded both of them, focusing its magenta hue on the purple pony, then snuffed out anticlimactically. The alicorn blinked, her shock showing plainly on her slack-jawed face, but Twilight's smile only grew.

It was then that the night monarch noticed the extra pressure below her tail and against her stomach.

Twilight continued humping, squishing her new appendages between Nightmare’s plump bottom and bulging breasts as her original plumbed the mare's core, but that was not enough. She longed for the same tightness around her true member to be shared with the other two and she had the night queen's plea to satisfy as well.

Just as sudden as the appearance of Twilight's new cocks, another new sensation made itself present in Nightmare's backside, this time in the depths of her tailhole. Her bottom began to tingle almost like the touch of a levitation field focused on her rose, then quickly spread through her lower bowels, burning her insides with an all-too-intense pleasure. She gasped, caught off guard once more by her enhanced sensitivity, and almost came right there, but still she endured. I will not give in now, no matter what this peasant has-

What little vestiges of defiant thought remained in the alicorn were torn away the moment she felt those three lengths pull all the way back and press against both of her entrances, two at her marehood and the other prodding her rose. Her head swung around to stare unbelievably at her tormentor, her eyes wide and terrified at the thought of what her actions portented. "Wh-what are you.... Stop! You will never fit-”

“Shhhh....” The purple scholar’s lips and teeth closed around her target’s ear, the pressure and sudden, achingly sweet titillation shocking her words from her mouth. “Don’t worry.... I know I’m below average and the average mare is built for penises much larger. I promise I won’t hurt you. I just can’t stop anymore. I’m so close.”

No longer could Nightmare resist the feeling of helplessness that had welled up in her body from the moment that bolt of electricity had struck her chest. All she could think of was how large the young mare had felt when she first plunged into her soaked hole and how much it was going to hurt to be torn apart by two of those massive members. She couldn’t even care about how her slightly numbed pucker was going to cope with the oncoming intruder; the intimidating lengths beginning to pry her lips open were her only worry, sending the midnight mare into a fit of desperation. “Please, do not-! I cannot.... Stop.... Just... use my breasts! Please!”

Twilight had either not heard the hoarse plea, or had chosen to ignore it, enraptured as she was by the orgasmic pressure of the alicorn’s holes as they tried to keep her from entering. Even with the copious lubrication provided by her subject’s foal hole, she still had difficulty pushing past the resistance. All three of her prides ached for the comfort of a warm sheath, but something was denying them that pleasure. “Oh, Nightmare.... I’m so sorry....” With a look of concern, the sexually intoxicated unicorn dismounted her captive and comfortingly rubbed her plush backside, relishing the feeling of the thick flesh under her hoof.

“Thank you.... Thank you....” So far gone was Nightmare’s pride, swept away by the tide of terror that her near-destruction had brought, that she had finally broken down into heavy weeping, adding her fresh tears to the come-stained hewn stone. “Thank-”

A hot appendage, one she had felt before, pressed against her pitch-black doughnut, stretching it around the powerful muscle. She groaned, her navy tail twitching at the sensation of Twilight’s inexperienced tongue massaging, relaxing, and wetting her entrance. She wanted to resist, to give one final bout of defiance, but she couldn’t. The orgasm she had tried to deny herself for so long finally fought back and won. Her mouth opened and tongue extended, dipping into Twilight’s leftover semen, as she let loose a deep, hoarse scream. The walls shook and dust fell from what little remained of the ceiling as the alicorn accidentally amplified her voice, sending it reverberating off the walls of the massive chamber. Her whole body shook, tensed, then went slack, only held up by the position her legs had been set in.

Twilight smiled and admired her handiwork, giving Nightmare’s sweet doughnut hole a loving kiss before resuming her place upon her exhausted mare’s back. She kissed the base of Nightmare’s neck and pressed herself back up against her with an obscene squelch. “It would have hurt if I hadn’t loosened you up....”

Without waiting for the alicorn to respond, Twilight thrust her hips, wedging the first bit of herself in Nightmare’s tunnels, and shuddered, forcing herself not to climax right there and end both of their fun. “Oh, Celestia.... You’re amazing, Nightmare.... I told you... it would feel amazing.” She bit down on as much of the blue mane in front of her face as she could and tugged, making the near-comatose pony loose a silent scream and raise her butt enough for the unicorn to get better leverage as the same electricity that had burned her just before sent jolts of pleasure through them both.

The agony of having her flower forced open so wide so suddenly was quickly being mixed with the ecstasy of being filled by the same intruding destroyers, confusing not only her senses, but her mind. She could no longer tell what she wanted, or what she hated, only what was happening then and how it, somehow, felt so amazing and so terrible at the same time. Her tears continued to flow as more and more of her depths were spread apart, burning and aching with each millimeter, until she could no longer think.

Her mind was wiped of everything that was not Twilight’s cocks filling her.

With an exhausted gasp, the unicorn finally stopped her descent and collapsed across Nightmare’s back, now fully hilted in the most wonderful holes she had ever encountered. “I told you.... It’s so hot. I think... I might come... if I move.” I’m putting too much... “Ngh...” pressure on myself.... Maybe If I roll us over. Carefully, Twilight tightly gripped the moaning mare’s sides and, with a quick tilt of her body, rolled both Moon and herself to their right flanks. A sudden thought popped into Twilight’s head, a fantasy she’d had since she had first learned of the wonderful world of sexual pleasure as a filly.

Slowly, as if scared of the possible outcome, Twilight reached her forelegs around the alicorn’s stomach and gingerly felt around, silently hoping, until she felt it just above the generous mounds of Nightmare’s breasts. She pressed and stroked, moaning as the action sent intense flares through her overly-sensitive maremeat. “Mnh.... Nightmare, I’m gonna come.... Will you have my foals? I want you to foal my children!”

Her hips jerked, pulling out just slightly and slamming back into Nightmare’s cervix. Both ponies’ mouths opened, the alicorn’s in a scratchy cry of bliss and Twilight in a fillyish squeal, as Twilight’s members throbbed and unloaded their cream into the dark queen’s smoldering depths. The fiery warmth of the seed spread through the hybrid pony’s depths as she was filled to the brim and more until, with each spasmodic thrust of lavender hips, her seed began to pool on the floor.

After what seemed like an eternity, a horrifying, wonderful eternity, to the black mare, Twilight finally stopped pumping her seed into her core. Her stomach felt bloated, her womb and tailhole filled to the brim with the thick paste and slowly receding shafts, but the pain was now gone. Her mind was numb, finally fully submitted to her fate as the marecome sloshed inside her every time she gave an orgasmic shudder. She would have cried out and moaned to be stuffed full again the moment Twilight went limp and popped out of her, but her voice was far from usable. Her throat ached, her slit and bottom gaped, and the black fur of her haunches were stained white with semen, but she no longer cared. The only thing left in her mind was the mixed pain and ecstasy that only one mare, out of all the lovers she’d had, could supply.

She thought she heard a faint whisper, a tingling stroke of her dishevelled mane and nip on her ear, but she didn’t have any way to be certain. Her body was too worn out, abused, to differentiate those sensations from the hot stone she lay against and her mind too far gone, exhausted, to even remember why she had come to this place. Nightmare’s eyes closed, her body spasmed sporadically as her marehood continued to clench and spill its milky contents, and she drifted off into a fitful, dreamless slumber.

~{N}~{r}~{E}~

A Night Half Admired

Night's End
by Peppy Cloppingskull
A Night Half Admired

One week later...

“-and that, Princess, was how I was able to subdue Luna while she was Nightmare Moon. It was... trying, but worth it in the end. It made me exuberant to see you smile when I returned your sister to you.” Twilight blushed at the warm smile her princess and mentor directed her way.

“And I thank you for this, Twilight Sparkle, but I worry sometimes. The Elements were not able to purge her as I had hoped and I fear that she may revert back to her darker ways.” Her smile faltered, but only for a moment. “I’ll be sure to keep a close watch on her. Oh, while we are talking on this matter....”

Twilight, still sitting at attention before the solar diarch, tilted her head and cast a questioning glance the princess’ way as she scanned the audience chamber. “What’s that, Princess? Are you looking for somepony?”

The regal mare returned her gaze to her student and friend, her worry never showing through her matronly smile. “No, Twilight, not in particular. I would just prefer for my sister to remain low profile for the time being. She has not adjusted too well to her return, you see. It’s almost as if she’s terrified, but she does keep mentioning you.” Twilight nearly lost her composure, beginning to fidget on her hooves, but Celestia’s calm expression eased her nerves. “I wanted to ask a favor of you, My Faithful Student.... I fear she still has not quite forgiven me for our... rocky past, so I ask.... No, I beg of you to consider helping her. She’s the only true family I have remaining. I would be eternally in your debt.”

Not even her practiced facade of comfort and grace could prevent the tears that slid down the alabaster mare’s face. Twilight watched as Celestia broke her warm, aloof countenance for only the second time in the young mare’s short lifetime. Her heart wrenched at the sight and she knew that, even if her nearly unbearable attraction to the moon mare had never existed, she would have agreed regardless. The fact that the lust for the supple black diarch existed only served to reinforce her decision. “I’d be honored to, Princess. I was actually wondering if I could visit more often to see how she was doing before I received your letter.” With a nervous smile, the lavender pony nuzzled up against her ruler, hiding her excited grin in the soft, white fur of her neck.

“Thank you, Twilight. You do not know how much this means to me. If there is ever anything you wish for, I will be more than glad to grant it as long as it is within my power.”

Perhaps in time, Princess.... I know exactly what I’d like.

Pulling away, the pair smiled at each other, relishing their time together before a knock sounded from the audience hall’s massive golden doors. “Your Majesty, the day’s court will begin shortly. The ponies seeking your audience will be waiting for your summons.”

Celestia sighed, her wings drooping slightly as she nodded and turned away from the gruff voice, back to her pupil. “I’m sorry, Twilight, but a pony’s job is never done, it seems.” Her grin shone through with a hint of mischievousness as she gave the unicorn another quick nuzzle. “If you would, could you visit Luna in her chambers and try to convince her to come to dinner? I would love for the both of you to join me tonight.”

“Of course I will! I'd do anything for you, Princess."

Her wide, cheerful grin helped to eliminate any doubt in the pristine princess' mind, renewing the compassion lost when her daily duties had resurfaced. "Then I shall see you both there. Try not to be too demanding. She has been unusually exhausted these past few nights."

Twilight bowed politely, as required by protocol, then nuzzled up against her second mother. "We'll see you at dinner."

~{A}~{N}~{H}~{D}~

"Did you hear everything like I said you would?" Twilight's voice pierced the near-silence hanging over the moon princess' chambers, the only other noise coming in the form of heavy pants from beneath midnight blue satin covers in the room's center. Her horn lit up, filling the area around her and framing her beaming smile with its magenta hue. “She wants me to help you.” She slowly made her way across the dark room, drawing the soft sheets away from the black form beneath them, and climbed up behind the newly revealed alicorn. “She still doesn’t know that you’ve been sneaking out to see me these past few nights....” Her hoof trailed across the sweat-matted obsidian fur before resting on the white crescent surrounded by a mass of purple. The mare tensed under the touch, but did not resist; her tail twitched to the side to reveal swollen black lips of her come-soaked marehood. “It’s not easy, lying to Princess Celestia like that.” Her hoof slid lower, teasing the outer edges of Luna’s petals, then tugged one side open, allowing more of the thick, white cream to seep down her bottom and drip onto the bedspread. “Of course, I’d do anything for you, too. You’re such a good pony, after all. Isn’t that right, Luna?”

The night diarch moaned at her partner’s touch, rubbing her legs together needily, but still managed a nod. “Yes, Twilight.... Thank you....”

The unicorn smiled and tugged harder before letting go of the sensitive flesh with a noisy squish. “Would you like me to reward you for being such a good girl?” She could already feel herself slipping out of her sheath, stiffening against her subject’s sweaty coat. Her shaft twitched, smearing a dribble of precome into the already sticky fur. “I’ll be more than willing to.”

Luna whimpered, rolling over to face the prodding length’s owner and teasing the blood-engorged head with her movements. Her almost blank gaze caught Twilight’s attention, drawing the mare’s head down to her level. Her eyes seemed devoid of all emotion, filled with nothing but lust for the purple pony, but the librarian knew better; she could see through the lifeless haze and deep into her mind from the near-constant thought melding she had been maintaining. “I know how frustrated Princess Celestia makes you with how she dotes on you all day.” Her lips met the alicorn’s, forcing her into a deep, sensual embrace as her tongue danced around her mate’s mouth. Pulling back, their mouths still hanging open, Twilight stroked her hoof through the starry mane before her until she reached the back of Luna’s head. “If you can get me ready, I’ll give you just the release you need....”

A slight nod was all the response the lunar mare gave before leaning her head down wrapping her lips around Twilight’s pride. The unicorn groaned and fell to her side, but kept her grip on the back of the alicorn’s head and pushed her lower, forcing the night diarch further down her member. Luna coughed, but followed as prompted until all but a few centimeters remained between her muzzle and the loosely lying sack protecting her alpha’s jewels. She held herself there, massaging the thick length with her tongue and vibrating her throat with a long humm, before she had to pull back in order to breath.

She sputtered, coughing up saliva on the cock in her grasp, but didn’t tarry any longer the moment she had another lungful of air. The thick glans teased her esophagus, throbbing eagerly in her mouth and throat as she reached her tongue out to lick the outside of Twilight’s sheath. The unicorn cooed softly in response and bucked her hips, prodding further, then quickly pulled back. Luna continued to suckle up until Twilight’s maremeat popped out of her mouth, leaving her panting and silently pleading for more; her eyes focused on the bobbing length as her mouth hung open, drooling on the bedspread.

Twilight giggled and softly caressed the alicorn’s jawline, before she climbed off the bed, ignoring the ache in her loins as her need to release continued to build. “Are you ready to receive the first helping of tonight’s dinner, Luna? I know it won’t be enough to satisfy you, but we don’t have much time before the tables will be ready.”

“Please....” Sluggishly, Luna crawled over the edge of the bed where her lover stood, waiting, and nosed the mare’s neck before rolling over to lay stomach up. Her limbs and wings splayed out, spreading across the bed in a lewd display visible through the mirror across from them. She gulped as Twilight’s shaft bobbed at the sight of her large breasts and dark purple nipples, her sopping marehood, and the slightly gaping doughnut just above her tail. Her head hung over the edge of the bed, her sharp, finely honed horn tapping against the marble floor every time she lost her concentration in the face of her mate’s cock.

With a snort, Twilight mounted the bedside, pressing her tip to the night mare’s muzzle who gladly parted her lips and accepted it into her mouth. Immediately, Luna began to suckle, nursing the short length that settled on her palate, teasing the urethra with her practiced tongue and earning a groan of approval from her alpha. Soon, though, that small bit was not enough for the unicorn. She bucked her hips forward, forcing more of herself down Nightmare’s throat until she felt her marecome-stained package meet with her nose. The pressure around her shaft was as overwhelming as it had been every other time the alicorn had fellated her, sending her own marehood into clenching convulsions around a non-existent member. She had to pause, stuffed to the sheath in her submissive partner’s mouth, because she knew she’d come before they could even truly begin. “Try not to swallow.... I’m too close....

“Mnh.... Your mouth is so wonderful..., almost too much so....” She leaned forward, keeping herself fully hilted, and cupped one of Nightmare’s grapefruit sized teats with her hoof and clamped her teeth down on the other’s nipple. The obsidian diarch moaned around her shaft, nearly sending Twilight over the edge. She groaned, restraining herself to the best of her abilities despite her marehood’s frantic winking, and continued sucking the swollen teat.

Their soft moans melded into a harmonious symphony of pleasure, muffled as they were by the targets of their attention, until Twilight finally unlatched her desperate grip on her lover’s breast. She felt Nightmare groan, but she had taken enough time to calm herself, at least for the moment. “Ready, my Night Mare? I don’t know how long I’ll last, but I promise to make you squeal when we get back to Ponyville.”

“Mmmnf....”

Twilight beamed, standing as far back as she could on her hind legs to rub a hoof along the length of her mare’s esophagus. She couldn’t feel herself through her neck, but the image in her mind was more than enough. Her loving gaze traced the contours of Luna’s body, drinking in the dark princess’ beauty, until her eyes once more fell upon her beta’s heaving barrel. She braced herself with her forehooves on the bed’s plush mattress, burying her face in the sweat-drenched fur of Nightmare’s chest and drinking in her heady, sexual scent, and pulled her hips back.

With one, swift thrust, she plunged back into the alicorn’s throat, her testes slapping noisily against her black snout, earning an approving groan. It did not take long for the unicorn to find a rhythm, pumping in and out of the eager, moaning muzzle. Nightmare’s tongue was at constant work, slathering Twilight in saliva as her drool dripped from her nose to the floor. Her eyes burned with tears as she worked with her limited supply of oxygen, breathing only through her nose using the limited space allowed by the mottled cock. She coughed, sputtering occasionally whenever Twilight bucked at an odd angle, momentarily blocking her airway, but never complained, only groaning eagerly as her breasts bounced from the motion and her astral tail teased her own lips with its unfocused attention.

It hurt for both mares, the constant scraping of shaft down her esophagus and the occasional scrape of blunt teeth on sensitive flesh, but neither cared. One bucked away, grunting and moaning as her oncoming climax grew nearer and nearer, threatening to overwhelm them both. The other continued to suck as well as she could, obediently anticipating the surge of her alpha’s seed, already needing the promised rewards both now and to come.

“L-Luna! Here it-!” Twilight plunged forward as far as she could, burying herself sheath-deep in the saliva-drenched orifice, and nearly screamed. Her member pulsed, sending ropes of thick come shooting up the princess’ throat and slowly filling her stomach. It was not long before her legs, already exhausted from supporting her all day and aiding in her previous mating sessions, gave way, sending the lavender pony to her haunches on the ground. Her cock slipped from the alicorn’s mouth, still spurting, and covered her face and neck in its milky cream.

Twilight watched as Luna lapped up the come from her muzzle, the only bits her overworked tongue could reach, before slumping further and closing her eyes. The unicorn beamed, satisfied, and nuzzled her semen-soaked cheek before catching her mouth in a deep, loving kiss. She could taste herself in Nightmare’s mouth, relishing the flavor of her seed mixed with the alicorn’s unique taste, and moaned further when she felt something gripping her receding length in response. Playfully, Twilight nipped the mare’s tongue, sucking on it and drawing her focus away from her weakened magic.

“Nuh-uh, Luna.... We have dinner to go to first.... Remember?” She grinned, allowing the princess a moment of weakness to longingly nuzzle her nethers, before lifting her head in her hooves to bathe her markings off the mare with her tongue, savoring the strange concoction of sweat and semen. She pressed her muzzle to Luna’s once more, thrusting her tongue into her mouth and sharing herself with her lover. Their tongues fought with each other over the excess cream, wrestling around the thick, slimy fluid, until they had both swallowed more than their fair share and Twilight pulled away.

“I never thought I’d want to taste myself..., but you’re intoxicating....” Nightmare moaned, relaxing into the tender care of her dom as the faintest smile graced her lips. “Now... that you’re not covered in my... come.... We should take a bath and get prepared. You will behave for me, right? We can’t let Princess Celestia know about us yet. Even I wonder if it was too sudden sometimes....”

~{A}~{N}~{H}~{D}~

Several ponies shuffled nervously in the grand dining hall of Canterlot castle, trying unsuccessfully to appear comfortable with the tense atmosphere in the room. The three other occupants not on the castle staff, two alicorns and one petite unicorn, sat at the high end of the luxurious, grand oak table, silently eating the plates of dressed greens and oats before them. No sound filled the room outside of the occasional plink of silver on porcelain even as the lavender mare glanced rapidly back and forth between her princesses.

Finally, one of them gave in and set her silverware down, releasing her golden grasp on them with a sigh. “Luna, sister, how have you been? I have not seen much of you this past week since your return and... you’ve been distant.... Exhausted.” Celestia smiled softly in an attempt to coax her younger sibling from her shell.

“I have been fine, Celestia. You would need rest, too, if you were imprisoned in the moon for a millenium and used what remaining power you had to render the Elements of Harmony inert.”

The solar diarch frowned, but nodded, knowing her sister was right despite the ache her words caused. “Well, I assume Twilight has already told you, but I asked her to help you adjust to the new times. I know you’ve met her before, but I don’t think you’ve really had the time to acquaint yourselves with each other. I just want you to know that she’ll do everything she can to help you adjust and ask that you at least try. For me?”

The black alicorn scoffed and dropped her fork into her food. “You have no right to ask me of anything, not until you’ve atoned for your actions. I will do as Twilight asks, as she is the one who showed me the error of my ways, but only because she has... earned my respect.” The alicorn glanced nervously at the unicorn beside her as she glared cautiously at the larger pony. Luna sighed and nodded, almost imperceptibly, before returning to her meal.

“Well, I’ll be glad to help, Luna.”

Celestia smiled brightly, her soured mood slightly uplifted by her protege’s words, and turned to the anxious servants, thanking them with a curt nod. “Our meal was amazing. Would you please give the chef our regards?” The three ponies needed no other prompting to leave and, with as much professional dignity they could muster, swiftly departed to deliver their ruler’s message. “Thank you again, Twilight. You do not know how much this means to me. I cannot thank you enough.”

“I will excuse myself for the night. If I am to travel to Ponyville and stay there among the peasants, then there will be supplies I shall require.” Luna stood, knocking her cushions away in her haste, and bowed her head to both of her dinner companions before departing. Her step faltered once as her hind legs stiffened suddenly and tail twitched, but she continued on despite the minor mishap leaving Twilight and Celestia alone once more.

Twilight frowned, turning to look back at Celestia who merely watched her sister walk away, tears brimming in the corners of her eyes. “Don’t worry, Princess. I’ll be there with her and so will my friends. You can count on us.”

The snow-white princess nodded, but tilted her head towards the door her sister had just left through. “You know I believe you, or else I’d never have asked you for this. Could you... make sure she’s alright? I don’t mind if she wants to leave right away. I just want her to recover.”

The librarian jerked her head and left, following in the moon mare’s wake. She cast a quick glance back at her mentor, flashing her a comforting, reassuring smile, before disappearing through the large double doors. Celestia sat in silence, longingly watching the empty space across from her spot at the table for several minutes before rising and departing from the lonely hall.

~{A}~{N}~{H}~{D}~

A Night to be Desired

Night's End
by Peppy Cloppingskull
A Night to be Desired

Ten months later...

“Luna! Are you in here!? You know you can’t hide from me for long!” I can smell you.... Heavy hooffall sounded from the library’s upper floor, drawing the lavender unicorn’s attention to the door at the top of her staircase. She grinned and quietly slinked up the wooden steps, muffling her movement with her twinkling magic. “You can't escape from-" Twilight's mouth dropped open as she silently opened her bedroom door, her whispered promise dead in her throat.

"I have been waiting all day, Twilight. Did it truly take that long to deliver a message to the shy one?" Luna glanced over her shoulder as she propped herself over the side of their shared bed, her tail held aside to reveal her sopping lips. Her sultry smile vanished the moment she noticed her companion's dumbstruck, gawking face. "What? Is this not what you wanted? While I would prefer a good rutting, I am willing to go straight to sleep. With the foal and my minimal control of the moon, I have been abnormally fatigued as of late."

"Whu- No! No, we can still copulate! I was.... You've never...." The librarian swallowed the lump in her throat and shook her head to clear the initial shock from her mind. "I've never seen you do something so... sexy... before."

“Your foal has been kicking my bladder non-stop, my need to mate has been increasing exponentially for the past three weeks, and you have been pleasuring yourself every night before bed. I am in need of a release, or I fear you will be subjected to our first night in reverse." Her tone was even and she regarded Twilight coolly despite how madly her marehood winked. "Now, I want you to mount me as you did last summer. Make me submit to your rule, Twilight, or you will submit to mine." As if to punctuate her words, the black mare winked, long and slow, exposing the soaked, pink flesh hidden behind dark lips.

Twilight snorted, her member swollen and throbbing against her barrel, and pounced upon her prey, bucking her hips wildly in an attempt to find her mark. She grunted, feeling herself finally slip against Luna’s come-slickened petals, only to have herself gripped by the mare’s pulsing magic. She moaned, both in frustration and pleasure, and tried to fight it and plunged into the honeypot she desired, but the aura held firm. “L-Luna.... Don’t tease me....”

“I am not teasing, Twilight. I merely do not wish to endanger your child.” The alicorn slowly guided her mate’s maremeat higher and rubbed the head against her rose, smearing Twilight’s precome into the already lubricated pucker. “You may not be girthsome, but I am not deep enough to protect her from your... length. I have already prepared myself for you, so you need not worry about my safety.” Luna pushed back, groaning as her doughnut stretched to begin accommodating Twilight’s size, and cast a smoldering glance back over her shoulder, sending shivers down her lover’s spine. “Take me as the beta that I am.”

Twilight nodded curtly, not even waiting for the grip on her pole to disperse to resume her thrusts. The moment it was free, she bucked hard, shoving herself fully into her mare’s backside. The princess nearly screamed, but bit into their bed’s comforter to stifle the urge, and, instead, thrust back, spurring the unicorn further. Twilight obliged, pulling away in one quick, fluid motion, and returned to the night mare’s depths. The tunnel tightened around her, squeezing her cock in a vice grip, but she didn’t falter, and slid out again, her passage eased by the copious supply of gel coating Luna’s rectum.

“Luna....” The librarian paused and bit down, hard, on the nape of her lover’s neck, eliciting a sharp cry from the mare. “Why the sudden change... in demeanor? You’re usually so... passive....” Twilight plunged back in and pumped vigorously, plumbing the royal pony’s passage when she felt her squeeze convulsively on her shaft.

Luna was forced to wait, riding out her sudden orgasm and her lover’s enthusiastic coupling, before she could even regain her ability to think. Her tongue lolled from her mouth, drooling on the constellation-patterned blanketing, as her hips and legs shook. Finally, Twilight began to slow, settling into a calm, firm rhythm, allowing her partner the chance to breathe and recuperate. Nightmare swallowed, taking a long, deep breath to ease her panting, and closed her eyes. “I am quite surprised... that you had not noticed.” Her turquoise orbs opened to slits when Twilight hesitated mid-thrust, and smiled warmly. “For being the observant mare that you are, I always assumed you knew of the power you had over me. Until recent months, you have held my soul and life in your hooves through fear.”

All at once, the librarian’s movement stopped and her grip on Luna’s nape disappeared. Her mouth hung open, her eyes wide open, as the confession shook her being to the core. She almost slipped from the mare’s squeezing tunnel, trying to back away, but the lavender glow around the alicorn’s horn and her tail held her in place.

“Do not misunderstand, Twilight. I was terrified of you, something that not even Celestia could have accomplished, but that faded.” The alicorn pushed on Twilight’s rump, shoving her length back inside her tailhole until the mare’s hefty sack slapped against her flooded mound. “You do not hold the same power over me you once did, Twilight. It is much different now.”

Twilight spluttered out meaningless noise as her face twisted into a grimace and eyes brimmed with tears. She wrapped her hooves around as much of Luna’s pregnant belly as she could and held her tight as she wept. The moon mare whispered soothingly to her lover, trying to console her, but she was beyond the reach of simple words. “I’m sorry! I’m so sorry! I never meant- Please, I’m sorry!”

Luna groaned and clasped Twilight’s muzzle with a simple spell, silencing her blubbering apologies, and stood from her lowered position. “Be silent.” Holding the unicorn steady on her back, she spun around with as much grace as her foal-laden body could muster and sat the mare roughly on her backside upon their shared mattress, still fully hilted in her rose. “I told you that it is of no importance. I have spent the last year with you, living under your roof and in your care.” She smiled softly, raising slowly up off of Twilight’s member while continuing to maintain her silencing spell. “You are not a malicious pony and, as I have learned....” She slammed her backside down, moaning huskily as Twilight’s spear spread her walls wide. “You truly care for me. I am not a simple hole for your convenience as I had thought.” Another ascent was followed by a squelching slap as the alicorn steadily built into a languid, even bounce, her tight pucker sliding up and down the throbbing maremeat.

“I was resigned to being your plaything.” A deep moan escaped her muzzle, but she took it and Twilight in stride, keeping her motions unfaltering. “Now, I want this. You complete me and, despite your fleeting life span, I will remain with you. This filly shall be a symbol of our time together and I expect many more to come. Do you understand, Twilight?”

The lilac pony answered in the only way she was currently capable of, nodding just slightly, but refused to break the eye contact the alicorn had held with her. Her eyes burned because of her tears, the clear liquid irritating her almost beyond tolerance, but wiping them away would mean looking away. She nodded again, this time more fervently, as she once more began contributing to their copulation and bucked her hips up to meet Luna’s. Tears continued to stream down her face, drawing her to instinctively clear them away, but she persevered. Only a little... more....

The alicorn’s thick flanks rippled at each contact, slapping loudly against Twilight’s thighs. Her honeypot oozed profusely, drowning the unicorn’s jewels in her come and splashing the floor with every descent. The act was tiring, even for a being blessed with an earth pony’s natural stamina, but she continued, eager to bring her partner to climax. Her heated cries filled the room, growing louder and louder until they could be heard even through the tree home’s thick walls, but none of that mattered to her. “Come for me, Twilight. Claim me again. Show the world who I belong to!”

With a final, silent grunt, Twilight reaffirmed her grip on Nightmare’s flanks, wrapping her hooves around her lover, and held the princess down as her hips jerked upwards. Her length throbbed, its head flaring and stretching her mate even further, her balls tightened, and she finally closed her eyes as he seed spurted forth, filling Luna’s rectum. She could feel the cream as it further warmed her peak, overflowing past her cock to seep from her lips to coat both of their haunches.

Luna slid up with excruciating languidness, squeezing as tightly as she could on Twilight’s softening member, and moaned as the flared apex tugged at her tailhole. As soon as she was free of her welcomed intruder, her lover’s excessive come began to spill from her stretched hole, flowing into her winking slit. “Do you see, Twilight? I understand you now and would like for you to come to understand me, even if it must be done through moments such as these.” She smiled softly as Twilight nodded and reached up to stroke her backside with the care only a lover could give. Her eyes trailed down the unicorn’s body, over her purple coat and past her rigid teats and partially concealed cock, to focus on the swollen petals hiding underneath her hefty balls. "Now lay still while I finish tending to you, my loving Mistress."

Luna pressed her hindquarters backwards, descending upon her lover’s haunches, until their mounds met, fitting perfectly over each other. She grinned lasciviously, casting a smoldering gaze back towards her quivering partner, and bucked upwards. Her clitoris grinded up Twilight’s slit and the unicorn’s stroked down her own until, at the apex of her buck, they met. She moaned into the heady air, gyrating her hips to grind their winking nubs together and messily splashing their juices.

Luna halted her motion, taking a moment to catch her breath and admire the mix of Twilight milky come seeping into her own marehood, then tantalizingly crept downwards until their buds kissed each other’s roses. She squirmed as she felt her marefriend wink against her come-filled hole as if it were trying to lap up the thick seed, but refused to stay idle for long. The alicorn humped back, roughly dragging herself back up to bump clits, but, this time, did not tarry and jerked down. She watched as the unicorn writhed beneath her, squeezing her legs together to try and jut her core out for as much contact as possible, and she loved it. The power she had over her partner was intoxicating and she revelled in the sloppy sounds their flooded flesh made with each movement, but even those held no comparison to the look of sheer ecstasy on Twilight’s face.

Twilight, meanwhile, was lost to the sensitivity of her throbbing bud. It took all of her concentration not to faint from the sensory overload, especially as her cock began to rub against her coat and smear her barrel with precome and the remnants of her last orgasm. She could already feel herself edging on the brink of another climax, but, unlike the many times before, she knew Luna would not slow her fevered thrusts. Each wink of her marehood, every time her pleasure center was fully exposed to the lubricated roughness of the alicorn’s folds, sent her body into shudders and her pole into near-orgasm convulsions. She was so terribly close and she knew that Nightmare was aware of it.

Nightmare ground herself against Twilight as roughly as she could in an effort to finish her off, knowing that she would not reach her own peak. Her desire ached, yearning for release, but this was no longer about her own satisfaction; once was enough and she knew that there would be more to come soon, so, with one final push, she crushed their pearls together and flicked herself off of Twilight’s. She felt the unicorn’s legs, through their contact with her sensitive backside, close together as she seized. Twilight’s marecome splashed across her swollen, lactating breasts, and she looked back one final time to see her love cover her own face, chest, and their bed in semen.

Slowly, the alicorn wobbled up to her full height, trailing lines of Twilight’s foal fluids between their hind ends, and joined her life partner on the bed, taking extra care not to put too much weight on her distended stomach. She snuggled close to the unicorn, tracing lines in her cream-stained coat with a hoof, before laying her face on the mare’s heaving chest, idly lapping up the closest traces of her love. A smile graced her lips as she looked up into the exhausted, purple eyes of her alpha and trailed her tongue upwards, slurping up the abundant come along the way, until she was hovering over Twilight’s muzzle, her own filled with her mate’s sticky essence. She broke her spell over the unicorn’s mouth and, in turn, the mare parted her lips and distended her tongue, knowing exactly what was wanted of her. Luna opened her mouth, sliding her pink tongue out, and allowed the viscous paste to dribble into Twilight’s through the tunnel formed by her folded muscle.

Twilight swallowed it all the moment it began to seep down towards her throat, moaning at the eroticism of their mutual act, then closed the gap between Nightmare and herself. Their tongues danced around each other, their teeth clacking together until they turned their heads and deepened their kiss. Neither fought for dominance over the other, both of them content to explore the other’s mouth until they had to part for air.

“I... understand now, Luna. I’ll do what I can for you. For us.” She sighed and nuzzled her partner. “I just wish I had known sooner....”

“Shush. The past is no longer important. What truly matter is what is to come. We have a child on the way and... I’m afraid my sister will soon have to learn the truth of our initial meeting.” Luna closed her eyes and rested her head back on Twilight’s chest, listening to the soothing sound of her steadying heartbeat and breathing. “I am nearing the end of my gestation and, when I finally foal, she will realize that something is amiss with your story. I will be the one to tell her, but do not expect to be required to do nothing. This will not be easy.”

~{A}~{N}~{t}~{B}~{D}~

Three weeks later...

Twilight sat nervously just outside the golden, grand oak doors, sweat beading on her brow as she awaited the return of her lifemate or, as her terrified mind repeatedly reminded her, the furious sun goddess. It had already been nearly twenty agonizing minutes, the time having ticked by excruciatingly slow, since the massive doors had shut and their soundproofing enchantment activated. Nothing could be heard from the other side despite how hard she pressed herself against the hard wood, but it didn’t stop her from trying every ten seconds.

Sighing for the millionth time, the unicorn took to pacing, glancing back at the portal between herself and her own fate every few seconds, until, finally, a noise that wasn’t her own caught her attention. A golden aura now surrounded the doorway, the magical feedback nullifying the soundproofing spell, and the sound of shattering porcelain and screaming pierced the near-silence.

Twilight took a step closer to the throne room, fearing for the safety of her foal and lover, but hesitated. The magical sheen covering the passage pulsed erratically, a sign that its owner’s control was being upset by something and, judging by the cacophony coming from the opposite side, she knew exactly what was causing it. The librarian knew she should start running, even though it would not save her for long, but fear rooted to her spot on the marble floor and sent quakes through her body.

The voices, obviously amplified by the alicorns’ magic, still were not entirely comprehensible due to their obvious distance, but she could catch snippets of words, none of which brought her any comfort. They quickly grew louder as they neared her position until the doors were blown open, forcefully thrown from their hinges and down the hallways to Twilight’s left and right, and a tall, white mare stood in their place.

Celestia’s lilac eyes trained upon the unicorn, her stare burning into the mare as she trembled in place, far past her ability to even fathom escaping. Her horn exploded with light, illuminating the area in her ethereal glow as she stomped closer, cracking the ground with each step. “How. Dare. You!? How dare you harm my sister so after all that I’ve done for you!? How dare you call yourself my pupil!? How dare you continue breathing!?” In answer to her own question, her magical aura enclosed Twilight’s neck, quickly cutting off her supply of air, and lifted her from her rump to flail uselessly in the air. “I trusted you, allowed my sister to stay under your....” She almost spat as if the thought of her intended words put a foul taste in her mouth.

Her magic continued to tighten, now creating a noticeable ring around the young mare’s throat and silencing her garbled cries. “You had my permission, my blessing, to marry my sister! I would have given the world to you! And this is how you repay me!? Well, no more! Your filth will taint neither my country nor my sister any longer!”

Celestia’s eyes narrowed and her spell focused, beginning to bend Twilight’s neck backwards. The young pony’s vision began to blacken, already clouded past the point of being able to see by her tears, and the pain in her neck grew as it was slowly pushed towards its limit. She had resigned herself to her fate, having already expected the worst, but it didn’t help to ease her terror or deep-seated regret. I’m never... going to see... my daughter.... The last thing to register in her mind was a sharp crack before the world went black around her.

~{A}~{N}~{t}~{B}~{D}~

Night's (True) End

Night's End
by Peppy Cloppingskull
Night's (True) End

Celestia groaned as she lifted her head from the floor, holding a hoof to the tender area that had taken the first contact. She could feel blood trickle down her hoof, staining her pristine white coat red, but she cared not for the concussive injury. Her unfocused eyes settled on the panting black mare leaning over the motionless lavender form, shaking her with a hoof and screaming incoherently. The solar diarch shakily stood, her glare set and steps firm as she began to close the gap between her and her sister. “Luna! Move at once, or I will move you myself! That filth’s judgement has been decided upon!”

The moon princess’ head shot up and spun around, setting her tear-blurred scowl upon her sibling. “Do not dare to take a step closer, Celestia, or you will regret it! I may be foal-burdened, but I still have the power to break you!”

Celestia faltered, momentarily shaken by the rage in the black mare’s voice, but continued on heedless of Luna’s warning. “That cretin does not deserve your protection! Step away, now!” She stopped just a few hooves away, her intimidating gaze boring into her sister’s eyes, but, not even for a second, did the other alicorn break their stare. “Fine! It pains me to see this happen, but you leave me no choice! I will have to seal you in your tower until you can once more see reason!”

Her horn flared to back to life, its gold hue brightening the night-darkened halls with the brilliance of the sun, but, before she could even fully prepare her spell, Celestia was knocked from her hooves by a bolt of lavender. She gasped and sputtered, winded by the sudden impact, quickly glaring at the spell’s only possible source. She expected the small unicorn to raise her head defiantly, to smirk sinisterly as she prepared another spell to floor Celestia again, but she remained prone, unmoving. “Wh- What hit me!? How did she cast that magic bullet!?”

“She didn’t.” Luna lowered her head, resuming her defensive stance as her horn glowed bright purple, the same color as the fallen pony’s coat. “Do you see, Celestia!? I will defend her with my life!”

The snow white alicorn stared at her sister, her pupils pinpricks as they trained upon the long, black horn. Her mouth hung agape, mouthing incomprehensibly, until she rose to her hooves once more. She took a slow, trembling step, her gold shod hoof clattering noisily on the cracked floor, but was forced to freeze in place as Luna’s glow intensified. “H-how...?”

“There are only two ways to change a pony’s magic, Celestia. You know how.” The night mare stood up straight, closing her legs to more easily support her expansive stomach. “Ascension and-”

“Love....” Celestia’s eyes flashed to the form on the floor, her hate for the mare cowed by the revelation. “But.... You cannot change a true alicorn’s magic. How? How did this happen?”

“I do not know, but I do know that I will strike you down if you do not stay back. Make your choice, Sister. You have already damaged our relationship. Do you wish to completely destroy it as well?” She stood firm, her back rigid despite her extra weight, and kept her even stare focused on her trembling sister.

“I.... I was just protecting you.... It- She hurt you....” The terrible authority Celestia’s voice once held was gone, replaced by unease and fear.

“You have hurt me as well, or have you forgotten what transpired one-thousand years ago?” The alabaster princess shook her head. “I have forgiven you for that time, but what has happened tonight cannot be easily righted....” Her magic once more lit the area as it wrapped its lavender tendrils around the unicorn’s body, lifting her into the air alongside her alicorn lover. “You may not come to ever forgive Twilight, but you will not harm her further. Pray she recovers, or you will be seeing me again much sooner than you would like.”

Celestia watched as her sister turned away and began to walk away, slowly at first before breaking out into as much of a gallop as her body would allow. The fires of her hatred for the one pony she thought she could trust still burned furiously, but she could no longer maintain it as intense grief blanketed her mind for the third time in her long, long life.

~{N}~{t}~{E}~

The first thing Twilight noticed as the blackness in her mind began receding was the even beep, beep, beeping coming from her right. She tried to groan and kick out a hoof in an effort to destroy the infernal racket, but found that she could not move or make any sound. The next sense to return was her sense of smell as she was hit by a whiff of sweat mixed with the familiar scent of lilies, the same as the shampoo she kept in her bathroom. Luna...?

She began to panic, fearing that she was still under assault by the solar diarch, sending the steady beep into a frenzy as her pulse skyrocketed. She struggled against whatever it was that held her motionless, trying and failing to cry out for help and accidentally crimping the breathing tubes stuck in her nostrils . Her chest burned as she unknowingly deprived herself of oxygen, further panicking her already frantic mind until she felt something gently stroke down her cheek.

“Hush, Twilight. Be still....” The soft, familiar voice pierced the fog clouding her mind, almost instantly calming the turmoil in her head. Her breathing slowed, returning to a normal pace as her air supply was returned, but she still could not shake the fear gripping her heart with its icy tendrils. “Everything will be alright, love. Calm yourself. I am right here with you....” The unicorn heaved a shuddering breath as the rest of her sense of touch returned making her aware of the thick tube stuck down her throat. “You are in the Canterlot hospital in my private wing. You will not be able to move for some time, Celestia made certain of that, but you will get better. The doctor says you will make a complete recovery before our filly is due.” Twilight smiled weakly around the feeding tube as the alicorn continued her loving caresses. “We have much to discuss, Twilight, but you need as much rest as you can get. Sleep, for now. I’ll be right here with you.”

The unicorn opened her eyes and stared into her Luna’s cerulean orbs. Her smile faltered for a moment, but her mate’s reassuring presence helped to soothe her thoughts. She tried to jerk her head in a nod, but the same paralysis that held her body still seemed to originate just below her jaw, rendering the motion impossible. Tears welled in her eyes, but Luna’s hoof quickly wiped them away as the alicorn quietly shh’d into her ear. Twilight sighed and tried to relax however much her stressed mind would let her, slowly closing her eyes and listening to her mate’s comforting coos. I love you, Luna.

“I love you, Twilight. Sleep well.”

~{N}~{t}~{E}~

Author's Note

Author’s Notes: Well, here’s the alt universe to my alt universe, written out for your viewing pleasure! I spent the last week or so writing this out for you, chugging away at it almost every day. Wasn’t ever supposed to be this long, but... fuck if I care! Can’t call it a masterpiece, but I can definitely say it gets the point across! I hope you enjoyed the little one day wait as well, because I certainly did! Well, hope you liked it, because it’s for all of you guys getting me up to where I am now. Couldn’t have done it without ya! Peppy out~!

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