Bound

The Crystal Empire was thriving. Every day, the sun would start to rise to the sounds of the capitol waking up. Shops would start to open early, preparing for the ponies who would come to buy their wares. Workers would blissfully skip off to work, whether it was art or menial factor labor, they still managed to go home with smiles on their faces as they brought home enough income to keep their family well off. The parents would wake up their gently sleeping foals for another day of diligent but lighthearted study, and the children would in generally act well behaved to one another.

The weather was beautiful, and as a whole, the nation had been granted with everything it had lacked under the reign and subsequent banishment at the hooves of ponies like Sombra. All in all, everything was going quite well for everypony. Everything was going quite well for everypony but Cadence, that is. Princess Mi Amore Cadenza was tired and fairly ragged as she dragged herself out of her bed, looking over at the snoring form of her husband. He slept on, oblivious to his duties as he had for every morning since coming to this Celestia forsaken nation.

Cadence trotted over to their restroom, washing away all the grime on her face and fixing her disheveled mane and appearance without a single thought. She was used to be unkept when she awoke, so that day was really like any other to her. The pink alicorn looked in the mirror, put a smile on her face, and trotted out of her room with forced optimism. The general staff ignored her as she strode through the halls, keeping to their tasks without pause or distraction.

"Good morning, your Highness," the guard on the right side of the doors to her throne room politely stated as Cadence passed by. She nodded in his direction in a friendly but aloof manner that she had practiced for years. The pink mare headed towards her throne, moving on near autopilot.

It had all started right after the couple were wed. When Cadence had begun dating Shining, he treated her like some kind of precious jewel, a mare to be loved and adored. It had made her feel like a mare in a way that she never had before, and he was always there to give gentle encouragement with everything she tried or a comforting shoulder to cry on when she was down. The stallion was no slouch when it came to taking his part in all of the odds and ends that needed doing, and he and Cadence had spent many afternoons helping out the staff when they were overloaded.

The day that the vows were set in place was the day that everything started to change. It wasn't a sudden change by any means, but every day after that, Shining became less and less like the stallion she had loved and married.  Sometimes he would be just like she remembered him, kind and charismatic as he had first been. But sometimes he started to slip away...

The worst ways to lose somepony are not by sudden loss or pain, but by slow death of the love that took years to grow. It's a subtle thing, really, but just as potent as a knife placed in the chest, slowly turned piece by piece as it rips your heart out. No matter how much you might want to hide it, the blood splattered on the floor points out the truth regardless.

It wasn't until they had been married for nearly two years that he first physically struck her. She had been so shocked at the time, but in some ways she wasn't shocked enough. He came back to apologize a few hours later, and the hoof mark was gone within a couple days, but that didn't take away the mark it had placed on her soul.

Two months later, he hit Cadence again. For what he had been mad about, she couldn't for the life her remember. Shining apologized again, but this time said it was still largely her own fault. Cadence was so hurt at the time, but what could she possibly say to him? Within a few weeks, it started to become a regular thing.

The passion in their love life had long since passed by, and his hitting her when he got even remotely irritated didn't help that fact. When they had first started dating, Cadence had enjoyed every encounter with him immensely, seeking delight in every opportunity to sleep with him. After he started to drift away, so had the passion in every intimate encounter they had. By the time he started hitting her, the princess was beginning to dread the nights as they came.

Three years after they were married, Cadence tried to turn down Shining Armor when he stated that it was time for her to bend over. Her vagina was especially sore the next day when he let her out of her bonds. It was as if a piece of her had died inside that night. The pink mare had never been raped before, and it left her feeling cold and devoid of life the next day. That's when she began to hate him.

Cadence was by no means stupid. Many mares would simply blame themselves for their husband's actions and try and find out what it was they had done wrong without even telling anyone what had been done. As an alicorn and a monarch,

Cadence was no such mare. She had almost immediately gone to her aunt to report his actions and seek an anullment to the marriage. Celestia's response was rather surprising.

Their marriage was as much a political matter as a romantic one, and therefor could not be touched. They could not afford for a prince and national hero of Shining's stature to be vilified. To do so would be considered both sedition and a form of treason. Besides, as her husband, he was now granted as much power as she.

Hate is a complicated thing, something that isn't built up by passage of time nor of sudden occurrence. It is a subtle, venomous thing, waiting to pounce on the weak and helpless. It is acidic, corrosive in nature as it wears on your very soul. True hatred doesn't come easy, but once it is achieved, it never really leaves us.

The months passed by in a blur as Shining went farther and farther, relinquishing intimacy for the pure pleasure of a simple fuck, disregarding emotion or care. No longer did her make love with Cadence, but instead fucked her in the most animalistic sense. There was no love in it, simply a desire to ravage the mare he once claimed to love for the sake of physical hunger.

Shining didn't tie her up anymore. There was no need when she willingly complied. Perhaps it was still rape when there was no choice, perhaps it wasn't, but regardless it still fed fuel to the building anger inside of the princess. She was nothing but a tool to him, something to be used and tossed aside, ignored until need of her arose again.

By the time that he started bringing other mares into the mix, Cadence was not at all surprised with what that stallion did. He would tell her to do things, often degrading and disgusting, and she would comply, knowing full well that there were no alternatives. It didn't matter, she was dead inside anyways.

Every time his penis would enter her marehood, she'd sit there and take like a rag-doll, no passion or lust left in her body. He would push his cock farther in, hilting her immediately without regard to the pain it would cause. After so long, it stopped really hurting. Her vagina was no longer as tight as it had once been, looking and feeling more like a used rag than anything else.

He would cum all over her when he was done, not caring how she kept herself or not, and would simply drift off without any love or a kiss goodnight. Cadence didn't expect him to anyways, so it didn't matter. Nothing really did by that point. And that's when Cadence began to plan.

"...And fifty thousand units shall be sold directly to the farmers, subsidized at a forty percent rate by the crown on the agreement that ten percent of subsequent profit be directed to said crown. That is all."

Cadence stood up as she finished dealing with the last of her petitioners during court. Once all of the current matters were settled, the pink alicorn stood up to leave the chamber. She walked out with a loving sigh to her subjects as she headed towards her chambers. Today was the day.

If Shining Armor had really become anything, it was predictable. Cadence found him rutting yet another maid in their royal chambers, the young pegasus crying out his name as he fucked her silly. Cadence couldn't help but smirk at the sight of the stupid mare letting her husband go at her. Royal decrees are what they are, regardless of how useful they really are. Shining suddenly came, not bothering to pull his dick out of the dripping pussy as he ejaculated. Cadence gently closed the door behind her as her husband rode out his orgasm.

"Having fun, Dear?" she asked, her blatant malice barely masked with fake affection. The stallion looked up at her as she entered. He just snorted, rolling over to reveal his now-limp penis and cum covered nether region. Like the slob he was, he hadn't even bothered cleaning up from the night before. Cadence wouldn't have been the least bit surprised if he, and subsequently she, had contracted a few venereal diseases over the last year or two.

"What the fuck are you doing here, Cadence?"

"Oh nothing, Dearest. I just had to wrap up a few things in court. Did I miss anything?"

"Just me having a great time with a mare that's twenty times better than you could ever be. Her pussy is really tight."

"Is that so?"

"Yes."

Idiot...

Shining jerked back as the maid's skin and fur peeled back, blood spraying all over him and his sheets as her flesh started being torn literally from her bones. Any attempt at a scream was cut off suddenly as her organs were torn to pieces. The whole body was virtually shredded, then tossed aside like so much garbage. Shining stared in shock for a moment before looking back at his wife, blood and viscera dripping down his muzzle as his eyes turned from surprise to rage.

"What the fuck Cad-"

"DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM, SHINING ARMOR? DO YOU KNOW?!"

"Look here you little piece of-"

His head suddenly snapped back, a deep howl of pain escaping his lips as he screamed in pain. A little blood poured out of his gashes as he looked back to stare at Cadence. The door behind clicked as the locks were set in place. It only took a few moments for recognition to dawn on his face.

"Oh, you bitch!"

Shining fired a shot of fire at her, disregarding any pretense or hesitation without a single thought as he tried to kill her. The spell pittered and failed against the shield the Cadence pulled up without even bothering to really pay attention. She just looked at his surprised face with a visible smirk.

"Come now, Shining, you know that unicorns are no match for even the weakest of my kind, and I am by no means weak."

"What do you want with me?"

"Just what you did to me for the last five years. That's all, really."

Cadence immediately gagged him, not wanting to bother listening to his mewling cries as he realized what was coming. His body suddenly found itself pinned down as Cadence bound him with her magic, its ethereal glow holding him as tightly as she could manage short of breaking bones.

Shining gasped as felt something changing in the lower regions of his body. Blood dripped onto the floor as his dick slid back into his body with an audible slurp. Instead, a tight slight revealed itself, revealing itself as his (or now her) body continued to change. Shining's body grew thinner as the spells coming from Cadence's horn did their magic.

Every single one of Shining's featured changed, becoming more and more feminine until she was truly a mare. A small tear left the corner of her eye as she realized just what exactly was coming. She felt her rump lift up into the air as Cadence drew nearer.

"You shall receive only what you have given, Shining," Cadence said in an obviously masculine voice. He drew nearer, his new form rubbing up against his partner's as he talked. "You've earned this, you know."

Shining felt something nudging up against her pussy, and she new immediately what it was. She wanted to scream, to cry out for help, but the gag was still firmly set in her mouth. Instead she started to cry. As Cadence's penis entered her marehood, tears started to brim her eyes.

Cadence hilted her immediately, his dick driving through hymen without regard for the intense pain it would cause. A very muffled scream broke through even Cadence's barrier as a small trickle of blood started to drip from her lips. Cadence drew back, pulling his shaft out of Shining's pussy, just to thrust forward again. He repeated the process, struggling to figure out how stallions do their work.

The thrusting grew more regular as Cadence got more used to his new abilities, and Shining stopped struggling against the bonds as she realized that she was completely helpless. Tears started to stain the sheets as she lay back, wishing for it to just end.

Shining's body started to enjoy it once the initial pain of the rutting subsided, and every stroke started to bring a little more pleasure. She hated every moment of it, but there was no denying the pure sensuality of it. Her pussy started to grow wet as her body went into it's natural reactions, and her walls started to clench around the invading object.

"Oh ho!" Cadence panted into her ears as she continued to pump away. "I take it you're starting to like this, you naughty naughty filly!"

Shining laid back, closing her eyes to ignore the pleasure that she was getting with each thrust. It didn't matter, since her pussy was tight as a clam from never having been used. The tightness only aided in bringing Cadence to his climax, and he suddenly started crying out as he jizzed all over the inside of Shining's vagina. Without even bothering to finish his mate off, Cadence pulled out, leaving a panting and disheveled Shining Armor to lie back in bed, exhausted and incomplete.

"Well, that was a nice way to go, I suppose. You know, I've thought long and hard about killing you. The only thing is, that's just too damn quick. No, I won't give you that luxury. I realized a few nights ago a better solution. I'm the only mare in the world capable of performing a genderswap at the moment, which means only I can reverse this. I'm done, thanks to you, and I hope you enjoy this new opportunity. Let's see how many chicks you can fuck without a dick. Oh, and before I go, I need to help you out. Your looks...need some work."

With that, Cadence ripped Shining's face open, leaving deep and ragged trenches in her flesh as blood sprayed out. Cadence took the metaphysical gag out of her mouth, listening to the sweet, sweet music of her screams as she cried out pain.

"Good luck getting mares with a face like that, Dear."

Cadence looked at her with an amused expression, before his head blew apart, spraying gore and worse all over the place as the liquid in his cranium rapidly expanded to tear it apart. Suicide spells had always been fairly simple to perform, which is why they were banned. However, no information is banned from a monarch of Cadence's station, and it payed off. Shining laid there staring as the headless body of her former spouse dropped to the floor, blood pooling messily around it as the fluids drained from the corpse.