Author's Note

Hey guys feeling better and hopefully am back in the swing of things this chapter as many has no proof reading and is most likely reads like it was written by a blind six year old with no hands. Great managed to insult myself, blind people and people with no hands. Anyway I hope this pleases you all more than my previous idiotic ideas! Anyone wants to proof read this then you are more than welcome to just give me a PM and I will have a thumb though the corrected chapter. Any and all helps as always is heavily appreciated as you take time out of your life's to help me better this.

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Bats and Nightmares

The familiar weight of the mares brought me some relief as I stretched rubbing my eyes as I tried to get up. I fidgeted as I found myself trapped the three exhausted mares refusing to budge.

"For the love of god shift you fat bastards" I groaned my eyes widening as I felt Moon wrap her teeth around my ear yanking hard as I yelped. The mare purred as she continued to chew on me for a few seconds her hands possessively pulling me into her cleavage as I shivered.

"Quite, you cheeky little shit" she growled lovingly licking my face as I smirked. Chrysalis lay sprawled out behind met her hand covering her face as drool ran down her check. Celestia and Eris were gone most likely going about their duties as Luna still lay above. Molestia lay cuddled in-between my legs, her head resting on my stomach as she gently snored. "You will be released once we have had sufficient snuggling" she commanded settling back down as I shifted my eyes meeting hers as I lightly kissed her snout. Shaking her head she gave a soft smile as she cuddled closer. The inhabitants had been disturbed last night by me screaming my form coated in sweat sobbing. The mares as one though sleepily had huddled closer soothing my shaking form as I had wept like a child. I had slaughtered countless of those beasts with ease yet their horrific forms still plagued me. It had been three weeks and yet I still could not remove those beasts from my mind. "Lachlan what did you see down there?" Moon questioned her eyes glowing gently in the still dark room as I found myself unable to look away.

"Monsters." I whispered shivering as memories of the beasts came to mind.

"There are forgotten evils in this world ancient evils that should never see the light of day again. It is okay to be scared. You try to remain so strong when even the bravest of mares would crumble but you don't have to do this alone. Lachlan despite the fight, despite the falling out I and the rest still love you deeply and I would happily give my life to protect you and the foals and I know you would do the same." pausing the mare pressed her forehead against mine, gently running her tongue over my head. "Even now you are ill and you refuse to say anything. Please you have got to stop keeping secrets from us. Lachlan clingy and possessive we may be but that is because we have lived far longer than you and have seen far more death than you could imagine. My sisters and I are thousands of years old have slaughtered armies destroyed empires and seen much evil. Why do you think we can't handle what you are going though?" she questioned her tone hurt as I gave a small sigh

"Because I nearly turned against you! I was too mentally weak to question if I was being manipulated, I could have easily killed you and the rest despite your power had I not come to my senses. Don't you see at the end of the day I am a monster" I croaked, the mare grabbing my chin as I tried to turn away.

"You are twenty one years old. A colt by pony standard and just a new born compared to us, you are not a monster. When we first met I saw you as nothing more than a silly little foal that had gotten lost I had just planned to scare you off maybe make you cry. But then I got your scent and I was clouded by lust. Alicorns do not mate until they find there soul mate. This is why it is so hard to court an alicorn. But I fucked up and was one of the reasons I was so aggressive towards you over the months. I felt cheated out of finding a proper mate, then I got to know you and I developed feelings for you, we all did. Now my mother was wrong about me courting you I generally had no idea you were my soul mate until later on. You know that Chrysalis and I had planned just to use you as a slave even whilst we were living in the castle. In fact I belief Celestia was planning on courting you before the molestia incident. Little Lulu was to embarrassed and shamed to even approach you. She feared that with me having my way with you it would bind you to me. Tis why both myself and Luna showed such hostility though in her case it took her slightly longer to gain the courage to see if you two would work. Is a scary process because if you buck up then you are stuck with some pony you don't love.. " Moon finished causing me to shiver at the though.

"I feel I was most lucky, he may be an annoyance at times but even I can not deny that there is a charm about him. Though with that awful incident I had feared that I would never get to feel the love that you two had so greedily hogged" the smaller alicorn spoke up placing her chin on her sister as the two chuckled.

"I would hardly say we hogged him. And even if we did you make it sound like he was our slave unable to leave our sides" Moon retorted giving the mare a flick on the nose as she snorted.

"Is he not our slave already?" the tired voice of Chrysalis quipped the mare stretching as she cuddled closer. "What she said is true, you a homeless, small foal managed to capture the heart of four alicorns my aunt and I as well as the chimera. How you did so I still marvel at with the others, but for me it was your loyalty and kindness. You never once saw me as a monster and despite our less than pleasant first meeting you never grudged or despised me for it" She grinned lightly grooming me as I shivered.

"When I had Isaac our beautiful baby boy it was that coupled with your undying loyalty that finally I allowed myself to give myself to you fully. Before I did love you but I was still nervous unsure if you would stay with me though thick and thin and that scared me. But you proved yourself by being a wonderful father always putting yourself in harms way to protect us and our foals. Then the others came and you continued to be a good father, mate, and lover. Lachlan you are without a doubt the most important pon— human in my life." she finished blushing as I snaked my arm around her back pulling her closer as I pulled her in for a kiss.

"Morning" Tia mumbled stretching her back as she crawled up the bed her face centimeters from mine as she gently nibbled on my ear. Yawning the half asleep mare cuddled closer her head resting beside mine nuzzling me as Chrysalis gave a small yelp, her aunt fondling her. Still asleep the older mare giggled as Chrysalis uncomfortably tried to shift away from the grabby mare.

The mares had been hesitant to let me go, Molestia refusing to budge and I had resorted to teleporting, the poor mare coming with me landed on the cold floor. A flurry of cussing and yelping later, the mare lay shivering under the covers the rest glaring at my wickedness as they had called it.

"Good morning Lachlan." Celestia smiled gently bouncing Isaac on her lap whilst Thomas sleepily suckled on the mare's tit. The twins and Aurora were pestering Eris, the draconequus groaning as they bit, clawed and scrambled over her lithe form. Grabbing the boys, Eris gave me a soft smile as I sat myself down Loki and Zen chewing on my hand and forearm respectively. I grimaced as their sharp teeth bit into my skin hard.

"Loki enough!" I growled, the child having sunk his teeth into my hand, drawing blood as Eris gave the Pup a sharp look.

"Oh he just wants to play let him be." Discord chuckled, plucking him out of my lap. The young draconequus squealed in delight as he was placed on top of his grandfathers head. "Who's my little chaos maker." he cooed, the pup giggling as he chewed on larger draconequus antler. Faust whom I had not seen enter gave Celestia a warm smile sitting herself down next to her gently ushering Isaac into her arms as the foal settled down in her lap. All in all it was good that their were so many in this weird little family as it allowed us to evenly spread the duties out for raising the foals. I not having a country or a kingdom to rule looked after the foals the most along with Faust giving the mothers and aunts time to work and relax in some cases. Generally they were well behaved but the twins could be stubborn at times.

Faust having agreed to care for the foals meant that I was free to visit Twilight and the rest today. Something that I had been meaning to do do for a while. Gently kissing Zen on the head I passed the exited pup to Celestia. Settling down Zen curled up in the pregnant alicorns lap dozing off as Celestia giggled.

"Wait, how the fuck do bats that eat fruit give anyone a fright? I have never heard someone scream run for your lives its going to eat your apples. More to the point, why am I even here?" I asked Apple Jack glowering at me Rarity huffing at my crude language. " I do however not agree with hurting them its not their fault that you moved into their territory and claimed it as your own." I finished Fluttershy nodding as the apple farmer gritted her teeth.

"I agree violence should not be an option here we need to move them without hurting them. But I don't think even I have the power to do a mass teleportation spell and you lack the experience to do it without taking half of Apple Jacks trees with the bats. No I think that maybe a simple mind altering spell to make the bats avoid apples would be best. Fluttershy if you use your stare on them you can momentarily paralyze them and I can use the spell and nopony gets hurt." the mare finished pleased with herself as I gave a small chuckle.

Twilight delved into her idea more trying to convince Fluttershy to use her stare to help her use a spell. The more I heard of the plan, the more I saw the flaw in this so called flawless idea. They had no idea what the bats new diet would be and I would be fucked if the bats turned into the Kryll from Gears of war, those fucks were creepy. I shivered at the thought of ponies being torn apart, reduced to scraps by carnivorous vampire fruit bats.

"And you are sure that it will just make them target only other fruits hopefully ones in the Everfree?" I asked not happy with this plan as the mare gave a confident nod. "Well I am going to a bar, come find me when that goes tits up." with that I turned around and got my ass out of there not willing to stand around and wait for the girls to fuck up.

"You are kind of a dick." Vinyl stated Octavia cuffing the slightly tipsy mare upside the head as I gave an indignant huff. "I mean come on, they are your friends you don't just leave because what they are doing is stupid. That is a dick move." the mare finished knocking back the rest of her drink as I considered her argument.

"Maybe it was a dick move but I have been stabbed, shot, trapped in stone, very briefly, and have had more death experiences than I ever did back on earth. Is it really so bad that for once when the opportunity presents itself, I get the hell out of dodge before something happens? Also they were in no danger I trust Twilight I just don't want to be on the receiving end if the spell was to fuck up, which I always seem to be. But the town isn't in ruin and those girls have done their fair share of rescuing I am sure they don't need me. So they still save the day and I don't get hurt where is the fucking problem." I drunkenly finished swinging my arm back to emphasis my point resulting in me falling out the chair as the small group laughed.

"I agree with Vinyl you still should have helped." Lyra replied gently stroking Bon Bon's hair as the mare gave me a small glare.

"And what, what should I have done. I am far more powerful than Twilight but I don't have any control it is to dangerous for me to practice near civilization so Twilight and the herd can only train me when they are no busy which trust me is not often. Hell do you girls know the first time I fought the herd they had Discord, Cadence and glimmer shield and all six of the elements of harmony. Granted they had not unsealed their power but I could have very easily killed them. Even later on when we had our second encounter I was able to beat Celestia and Luna's alternate dimension clones to a pulp whilst they were fully unsealed. I then fought the group with four of the alicorns unsealed and was able to hold my own for a while. Do you girls not get it I am more powerful than two fully unsealed alicorns. I also don't have their years of training and self control. If one of my spells went wild I could raise half of ponyville by accident or worse!" I finished taking a breath as the girls looked on hesitantly. "Lyra you were their you saw what I did to those freaks." I added the mare grimacing at the memory.

"Yeah that was not pretty but when you were stabbed and your memories returned I was scared. More so when Nightmare Moon came. Luckily I am friends with Twilight so once she told me you were alive. I tried to come and see you but no visitors were allowed in." Lyra paused giving me a gentle smile as she gave me a small kiss on the check. "You know that mare the large unicorn you saved?" the mare asked giving me a small grin as I paused vaguely remembering her as I nodded hesitantly. "She has been watching you, keeping us all up to date. Congrats you have a stalker." she grinned as I shivered feeling a presence behind me as I turned.

"I would not myself a stalker, this creature saved my life and as he has saved me I have a debt in which to protect him." the mare finished looking down at me as I paused. Taking in her form properly the first thing I noticed was how similar to an alicorn she looked roughly the same size as she gave me a cold look.

"Okay how long have you been following me and should I be worried." I asked the mare neutral facade cracking ever so slightly as a small smirk adorned her lips.

"Long enough." she replied cryptically sitting down next to me, ordering a cocktail.

"You look a lot like—" a sharp snarl from the mare stopped me as I looked at her, my hand clenching ready to attack if she showed any hostility. The mare paused her body going limp as she gave me a glare.

"I am more than aware of who I look like." the mare spat her eyes narrowing as she gritted her teeth. Holding my hands out in surrender I gently nudged away from her as she downed her drink slamming a couple of bits down on the table as she ordered another. "You should know, that sometimes nightmares do not just disappear because of the elements. I was so close, I had an army I had not hurt anypony all I wanted was control." she snarled as Lyra gently patted her on the back. I could not help but wonder why they were sympathizing with a failed tyrant. The fact that the mare had remained hidden was surprisingly as myself or the others should have detected her.

"What happened?"

Nightmare Rarity's POV

"NOOOOOOOOOOO. I WAS SO CLOSE DAMN YOU." I roared my form broken as I weakly rested against a tree blood trickling down my form as my dress lay in taters. I had been so close to dominating this weak country and yet had been stopped by the power of friendship. I grimaced at the disgusting though my head splitting as rain battered my sides. I was weak but not defeated I would grow in power regain my army and conquer that pitiful land and this time I would not be so merciful. I would not murder as I was not a coward but I would not seclude torture this time. Stumbling to my feet I groaned as I felt hunger a feeling I was not familiar with. Biting my lip I limped though the thick undergrowth my fur torn and still scorched from the attack that had reduced me to my currant state. I was weak and if I did not find something to eat and drink soon I would die. That is if the wounds did not do that first!

The creatures of this disgusting forest kept their distance not daring to push their luck as I had already disintegrated three timber wolfs whom's territory I had invaded. I would not die and I sure as Tararus would not be beaten by arrogant little ponies when I healed I would crush those that challenged me and imprison the alicorns princesses.

"I will return and when I do all of Equestria will bow to me." I snarled crushing the tiara that had once sat proudly atop my head.

A sharp crack quickly cut off my dramatic speech as I cried in pain knocking me down as I fell to my knees my vision blurring as guttural snarls came from behind.

"Pony too strong to be converted will need to break first." One hissed the fur on the back of my neck standing on end as I shivered.

"Could take months pony weak but strong mentally. Will be fun torturing." the other hissed my eyes widening as I took in the monstrosities before me. Not even conscious for an hour and already I had been beaten, again. The bloody hooves were a species than even the alicorns feared the beasts strongly resistant to all but the strongest of magic. I gave to my disgust a small whimper as my hands were bound a filthy sack covering my head.

A blinding pain was all I felt at the back of my head as my body went limp. Blacking out I cursed my luck.

Lachlan Pov

"From their I would spend four months in that place. They almost broke me, and were it not for me they would have broken Lyra and the other two in mere hours, had I not made it my goal to antagonize the jailer. It is strange, I have no idea why I took the punishment for others. Maybe it was the months I had to think about my actions or the fact that these creatures were what I could have become had I succeeded in recovering. Or maybe it was my attempt at redemption I did after all believe that we were all going to die in that place. All I know is that I make it my mission to protect this one here and later you." she finished gingerly sipping on her twelfth drink. "Now I have no purpose. Lyra despite my insistence that she lives near a dangerous forest, it is no longer as dangerous as you have slaughter the bloody hooves. I cant even offer my services as the blasted elements would turn me to stone the moment I showed my face. It is funny I could go back to being evil but what is the point? I have no purpose." the mare finished miserable her head resting on the counter.

With a few illusion charms and privacy bubbles the mare was able to hide her conversation and identity with no one being any wiser. it was why no one had freaked out when she had shown herself. As long as she kept the spells up no one would know who she really was to the ponies she was just tear drop a timid unicorn who was very quite and lived by doing odd jobs to feed herself. It was sad to know that she was homeless and refused to take charity despite Lyra and even Bon Bon offering her housing. Though she showered at theirs regularly and even got free clothing she refused to be a financial burden.

"You have been though so much and I am sorry that you had to suffer all of that. But you are strong and you survived whilst sparing Lyra and others a horrific fate. You may not think so but you are a hero." I will speak with Twilight and the others but for the moment keep doing what you are doing and I will get this all sorted out." I smiled the mare giving a nod as I shakily got to my feet. Nightmare Rarity grabbed a passed out Lyra and Vinyl escorting the two home as I took my leave stumbling down the road as I sighed.

"Damn I am going to be hung over in the morning" I chuckled glad that Twilight was kindly letting me stay with her tonight. The mare was a lot like me liked to sleep in, perfect for hangovers.

"The spell didn't work" Twilight gasped genuinely shocked as I gave a small groan holding an ice pack against my head. My head felt like it was trying to cave in on itself and being up at the crack of dawn for the apple bucking pain in the ass, was doing nothing for my increasingly foal temper.

"Dun dun dun." I rasped weakly not being able to resists rubbing in that the plan had in fact gone tits up. The six descended into squabbling some in favor of more extreme methods for removing the bats whilst Fluttershy desperately tried to defend them. After a bit of running and clarification that in fact the spell had worked resulting in light teasing from a smug alicorn the mares had decided that the best solution was a stake out. One that I was apparently taking part in wither I wanted to or not.

The day was spent for me recovering as the mares discussed their plans which was pitiful as after nearly six hours what they had was get flash lights with their symbols on them and flash them if they see what is eating the apples. the best part they planned to split up to cover more ground. I assumed that horror movies did not exist in this world as it was physically impossible for anyone to be that stupid. Though I found that a couple rounds of "shut up my plan is awesome" sex with Twilight brought me around in the end if only because the mare had a mean tongue.

"Still kind of a stupid plan." I grumbled, Twilight nuzzling my check affectionately.

"Lachlan hun, shut up my plan's are flawless." she stated readjusting her blouse as I snorted.

Fucking knew it." I growled the alicorn grumbling as we chased down the creature responsible for eating the apples the bastard was big easily bigger than myself as it darted in-between the trees causing me to lose sight as I crashed into Twilight. " I told you staking out does not work, have you never seen a horror flick before?" I asked doubled over gasping for air.

"Shut up." she grumbled pointing the flash light around wildly as Pinkie appeared above her flash light pointing at a strange creature its wings covering its body as I tensed a small flame dancing in my hand ready to fry the thing if needed. With a sharp hiss the wings spread open revealing a to my disbelief Fluttershy. The mare's fur was thick and matted, feral in appearance, a pair of fangs jutting from her mouth snarling at us and Pinkie she took flight coming straight for me.

"Fuck this, I'm out" I cried hauling ass as the mare gave chase. "Why is she chasing me?" I cried narrowly avoiding the sharp talons of the mare as Twilight watched half amused half concerned.

"I assume that she has eaten her fill and is now looking to settle down with a mate if you would." Twilight helpfully shouted the bat mare giggling as she playfully chased me from tree to tree my wings beating as hard as they could as I tried to out maneuver the crazed but sexy beast.

Grabbing me by the scruff of my neck the mare pulled me close to her chest. Chirruping she landed on top of a tree, the thick branches giving us space to move. Fluttershy straddled me gently washing my face affectionately as I uncomfortably sat rigid not wanting to aggravate the bestial mare. Sniffing me her wings excitedly sprang open, her hands tearing my trousers to ribbons. Looking down at my now bare form the mare hungrily licked her lips

"God I hope she doesn't do to me what she does to apples." I grimaced as I felt her mouth gently suckle the tip sending jolts of pleasure through me as I heard a cry from bellow.

"Unhand him you filthy beast." Nightmare Rarity barked, climbing the tree as Fluttershy hissed baring her fangs as the mare paused gawking at my naked form. Grinning Fluttershy sneak's up behind the mare wrapping her arms around the larger mares waist as she forces her to her knees her face mere centimeters from my aroused member. Pushing forward the mare gasped as she froze her mouth fully wrapped around me as she looked up at me in panic her eyes slowly glazing over as she gave a small moan. Fluttershy had grabbed the mares flank and was now putting her snake like tongue to better use her mouth hungrily covering the mares sex as Nightmare Rarity squealed in pleasure.

Gently bobbing her head Nightmare Rarity swivel her tongue, sending wave after wave of pleasure.

"Oh god this is so fucked up." I groaned as the two mares moaned in response.

Suffice to say after we had sex the situation was sorted out fairly quickly Fluttershy was returned to normal. Though suspicious and openly hostile the mares had stopped after I had explained the mares intention and that she had atleast tried to save me. The mares were at least willing to give her the benefit of the doubt if only for my sake. Fluttershy had to my relief vouched for the mare and her actions as I had promised the mare that if she could prove herself to the alicorns then I could hopefully help her out.

"Nightmare do not worry okay. Whilst I know little about you I am willing to give you a chance." I whispered the mare nodding as I motioned for her to follow me. "Look come with me to canterlot I will fight your case, please don't make me regret my decisions." I finished grabbing the mares hand as I teleported.

"REALLY?" Luna barked glowering at me as I tried to calm the angered mare. "You can't help yourself, every threat we seem to encounter is either redeemed or you have sex with it!" she snarled pacing back and forth as Moon and Molestia walked in one half asleep as she looked at the three of us.

"Really?" Mollestia deadpanned rubbing sleep from her eyes as Nightmare Rarity nervously looked at the ground.

"Hey you can't just assume that I slept with her." I defended the mares including Rarity giving me a bemused look as I growled.

"We can smell her on you." Moon added snorting as I cursed.

"How? I had a shower before coming to the throne room." I demanded as the mares chuckled.

"You are so nieve at times, do you really think that a mares scent can be removed by a simple shower. Lachlan the scent of a mare is a way of warding off potential rivals? When we have physical intimacy be it sex or simple hugging or making simple contact rubs of a scent on both of us that alert others that we are friendly or depending on the strength how intimate we are. Sex and simple hugging have vastly different scents which mares are able to detect and let them know if a mare or stallion is in a herd or not. It is also so other mares know that you are ours and that they are not to approach. Not that, that has ever stopped mares in the past." Luna groaned collapsing on her throne as I gave a meek smile.

"I very rarely initiate sex with random mares and mostly I do so as to avoid hurting them as I am still not used to my strength I don't want to hurt someone because they got horny and careless. Say the word though that you don't like it and I will use any force needed to stop the advancing mare even if I hurt them!" I stated the lunar alicorn grinning as she ushered me forward. Grabbing me she rested her chin on my head humming as I returned the embrace.

"No lachlan, by mating with other mares, you help us. The mares you bed tend to be in power which help us, politically. Don't get us wrong if you ever voiced that you had been raped or were forced when you were unwilling we would not stop until the mare that had done so was hanging from a gallow. We will only permit it as long as you are not hurt." Luna finished giving me a playful lick on the lips as I recoiled.

"But do you not feel uncomfortable you know I am your and your sisters mate. Do you not feel sad that whilst you work I am whoring myself out to other mares? Please if you at any time do not like me doing it I will as I said earlier stop any attempts made by mares to bed me." I finished Luna's eyes widening as she gave a nod.

"You are a strange one Lachlan, most likely because you are not a stallion but human. You generally care for our well being and are not just trying to sow your oats with as many mares as possible which despite the change in culture some things in males never change." Molestia giggled as she sat herself down next to her smaller sister.

"It is a sad fact that the small population of stallions we have are usually not able form true bonds with their herd mates as they are passed around like whores to other mares for profit power and privileges. But you have went out your way to spend time with the foals treat all of us as equals and spend as much time with us as you can. You are literally the dream stallion for most mares in a herd and you are all ours." Moon continued standing beside a still cautious Nightmare Rarity.

"So will you give her a chance?" I asked the mares smirking as they looked at each other small smirks on their face as I felt unease course through me.

"We will on two condition!" Luna grinned as both myself and Rarity tensed up.

"You will forgo the name Rarity and instead will take the name Nyx. Second you will allow both Lachlan and Queen Platinum who is currently reforming her daughter, to help and rehabilitate you to a standard that we see fit. But know this, if you try to harm Lachlans in any way. I will kill you." Luna hissed, dismissing the mare as she gave me a loving smile

"Off to bed with you young one, the three of us will join you shortly." the small alicorns smiled sharing a brief look with the other two as I left. The mares grumbled as I accidentally woke them up having tripped and fallen on Chrysalis, the mare biting me as I gave a small yelp. Razor Wing and Celestia had happily pulled me down the two sandwiching me as I sighed the warmth of the mares lulling me to sleep.

"Well tomorrow will be interesting." I chuckled sleepily settling down for the night.