1. The Best Medicine

I tried to stand up. I wobbled on my legs. So close to the door, but the timberwolf would reach me long before I'm inside. It growled, salivating, preparing to pounce.

I checked my self-defense chances. About none. My right front leg was completely out of use, and my ribs were way out of alignment, I could barely move.

The wolf jumped.

Bright light exploded next to me, and the wooden creature exploded into pieces. The pieces rose into air and exploded into flames. The flames got snuffed into bright sparks, and the pieces squeezed together into a ball glowing dim red. Darkness covered the red ball and it crackled landing on the forest floor.

"Charcoal is right for your cauldron, my love?" I heard. The black ball tumbled to the wall of the hut.

Blue glow surrounded me, the door opened and I was levitated inside. Luna followed close by. She used her magic to light the candles and close the door. She set me gently by the cauldron, then she approached.

"Guide me through the motions," she said.

I ordered removing old ash, adding new coals, blowing at the the cinders, adding ingredients, stirring. Ten minutes, and the medicine was safe for another several hours. Then the glow surrounded me again and carried me to my bed. Luna followed closely behind. My whole body hurt but it was a relief to lie in my own bed.

"I shall set your bones, but afore that I shall send you to sleep. Is that right, love?"

I just nodded.

* * *

"How may I serve you, Empress?"

I was back in the leisure room of the palace of the Empire, and Lucian was leaning against my hooves.

"Luna, is this necessary?

This day made me rather weary."

"Bodily pleasure reduces physical pain, and as pain will haunt your waking time, I wish to fill your dreams with bliss." Lucian grinned to me, whispering in Luna's voice.

"Better take care of your guards,

and please give them my regards.

One stood ground like hero there,

Other brought you back, my mare."

Lucian's face suddenly gained a rather mischievous smile. And then in a blink he was a she - I faced my Luna.

"Deemst you inviting the two stallions into this dream of ours be a reward adequate?"

"That sounds tempting quite to me,

Although, jealous won't you be?" I asked, with humorous grin.

And then two bat ponies appeared out of nothing.

"Silver Glimmer, Moon Ray, I summon ye for us three to serve Empress Zecora."

The two looked around, confused. They looked at each other, then, as one, they moved in front of Luna, standing to attention, guarding her against me. We both exploded in laughter, only adding to the confusion of the two.

"My faithful guards," Luna explained, not trying to conceal her grin, "Tis a dream of my creation, a little private place where our relation is reversed and our love can flourish. We invited ye in appreciation of your faithful stance and bravery. Shall our wish disturb ye, wake now and cherish my high praise. Or stay, and partake in the gift we wish to impart on ye."

The two exchanged confused glances, but I could see their ears perk up to attention. I lay on the pillows, stretching sensuously. Then Luna walked around them, flickig her tail over one of them, and lay by me, stretching in a similar fashion.

"I can't..." the one Luna addressed as Moon Ray muttered. "I cannot defile the sacred body of my goddess."

A big grin spread on the mouth of the other one. "Then, my friend, Lady Zecora is all yours. I believe our princess deserves all we can give of ourselves."

"I... I didn't mean it like that!"

"Dibs is dibs!"

We watched the two, amused. I winked to Moon Ray. He stepped up to me tentatively. Silver Glimmer trotted up to Luna briskly.

"How would my princess wish me to serve her?" he asked.

"What service wouldst thou give?" Luna gave Silver a sultry look.

I didn't pay attention to the reply as I found myself face to face with the batpony.

"Are you sure? We hardly know each other," he muttered. Seeing my slight frown he continued. "I mean, to me it's clear why Princess choose you. You are day and night, clear truth and secret, danger and comfort... I am no little colt and still I'm feeling overwhelmed. If you feel obligated to pay some debt, don't. It is our honor to serve the Princess, and by extension, to serve you with our lives."

"Thank you, Moon Ray, for your deed,

for your help in dire need,

and for that compliment fresh.

Still, I'm made of bone and flesh.

I have dreams and vice and fears,

I get angry and shed tears.

Luna has my heart, that's true,

but we like to try things new.

You are handsome, noble, strong,

able to tell right from wrong.

Don't feel under any pressure,

but we like bodily pleasures.

If you're liking what you see,

Then feel free to be with me."

He was about to say something but we got interrupted by a loud squeal and a giggle. Luna was on her back, kicking her hooves up, laughing loudly, and Silver was tickling her belly. Moon Ray was staring at the scene, aghast. I tried, and failed to withhold a burst of laughter at his terror.

He turned his head to me, seeking support, visibly his image of the goddess shattered. I put my hoof on his back and pulled him close.

"She's wonderful, is she not?

She has such a lovely plot

Heart of goddess, through and through,

Her bright mood, though often blue,

Old as mountains, but so young,

Hero of old songs unsung,

She's so loving, like a saint,

still, she's touched by darkness' taint.

She's so frail, and yet so strong,

Very wise, still often wrong.

I guess she's quite nice as boss,

But fear, if you make her cross.

Shy and fearful, yet so bold

Warm companion for night cold

Starved for love, in friendless life

She needs help in her hard strife."

"But... but... she is not the almighty goddess. She is just... just a pony and not.." he paused, his train of thought disrupted by Luna hitting Silver with a pillow.

"'Just a pony' my behind!

Finer pony you won't find.

She's almighty goddess too.

She is both - just think what's true:

That she needs two pony guards

when she can turn world to shards?

Or that in her painful mend

She needs you to be her friend?"

"What you say... that for our goddess to be mighty, for her godhood to reach its full potential, we must make the pony side happy?" Ray asked, observing Luna and Silver hitting each other with pillows, oblivious to our exchange.

"No great future will be carved

by creator who is starved.

Princess' rule is one big error

if her heart is full of terror.

And whole world will have it bad

if time comes when god is sad."

"So... what should I do?" he turned to me, with his eyes filled in sudden fear at the magnitude of his new task.

I gave him a pillow, then picked one for myself. He looked at me, confused, when I suddenly turned and bucked my pillow at Luna. He glared at me.

"Don't stand like a cow!

Protect her now!"

This snapped Ray out of the stupor and a second later his pillow hit Silver's face.

Silver turned to the sudden assault and promptly got blown off his hooves by a pillow sent by Luna at his unguarded flank. I prepared another pillow, took aim at a cheering Luna - and got slammed up my head, the distraction making my pillow fly over Luna's head. I turned to my assailant - Moon Ray - and he took a scared step back from my glare, dropping the pillow he held in his mouth.

And then I got flipped hooves up by a pillow slamming in my side. "Huzzah! Equestria triumphs again!" sounded across the chamber.

I flipped onto my belly slowly, looking around, seeing as Silver sneaks behind Luna, with a pillow in his teeth and a naughty glint in his eye.

"Princess!" Ray shouted and leaped in the air, tackling Silver. They tumbled through blankets and mattresses littering the floor, then stopped - I was no longer sure which one was on top, holding the other down, face to face, belly to belly, gasping hard.

Luna coughed quietly. "Needst you some private time together, say but a word."

The two looked at her, then at each other, and big blush covered their cheeks as they let go, and stood to attention. Luna giggled at their embarrassment, I couldn't hold back a snort either.

"Come hither, my faithful guards and mine esquire wise." Luna sat on her flank and spread her front hooves and wings to their full span, inviting us for a hug. We accepted her offer, connecting in a warm embrace.

Luna's horn blinked with magic for a second, and then I felt a lot more body and much less metal against my body, as her regalia, my jewelry and silks, and the guards' armors vanished. I fought a second of panic, my neck rings missing would normally endanger my neck gone fragile from their constant protection for too long, then I recalled it's a dream, nothing bad would happen. Similarly, I felt two male bodies relax, and there was just one pony tense. So we snuggled up to her, we all hugged her tenderly and I felt the tension melting like ice turning to water. I felt a gentle kiss on my forehead, but the two guards received one each too.

"Princess, I love you more than life." I heard a mutter under my right arm.

"I strive to be worthy of thy love, Moon Ray."

"You are, that and thousandfold more!"

Then Luna shifted and giggled. "Silver Glimmer, mindst thou taking thy tongue out of my ear?"

"Aww..."

"Nibble the lobe to thy heart's desire, but I beg thee into my ear screw your tongue not!" she chuckled.

Luna suddenly yielded under our combined weight, flipping on her back and pulling us on top of her.

I began analyzing my position within the tangle of her embrace. Yes, that's Silver's hind hoof on my loins. That is Ray's groin on my outer right thigh. That is Luna's left thigh on my stomach. Therefore... - I moved my left thigh up and began massaging whatever it met on its way. Oh yes, it was in the right spot - Luna relaxed completely, opening her arms and wings, an expression of bliss entering her face.

Just for fun I began flexing my right thigh, rubbing Moon Ray's groin, and he gave out a small,surprised gasp. I felt his teeth on my neck, giving me little nips, traveling up until his mouth reached my ear. "Thank you for teaching me how to serve her," he whispered and I felt him nip my ear lobe softly.

Meanwhile, Glitter's leg left my loin and traveled by my hip. We both made it a game of trying to squeeze Luna's labia between our thighs, each rubbing one side and soon we had her squirming, gasping and pushing down. I didn't even notice when Ray's mouth left my ear, but now I felt his chest on my shoulder, shuddering. I looked towards his head - and found his mouth connected with Luna's, his eyes closed tightly.

Why do zebras have to be so naughty? It was such a spiritual experience for him, one that shouldn't be spoiled... and yet - I couldn't resist. I turned my head, bent my neck diving between my shoulder and his chest, then found the tip of his cock barely sticking out of his sheath and I held it with my mouth.

To his credit, he barely flinched. And a moment later he bucked his hips a bit, his member growing hard in my mouth.

Luna squirmed, and I felt moisture on my thigh. I felt Silver shifting, turning around, and his mouth soon found way to Luna's pussy, while I had to shift to accommodate Ray's growing length. At last he pulled back, exchanging a whisper with Luna, he withdrew his length from my mouth, and I moved out of his way.

"Awww, dibs, Ray" Silver complained when Moon Ray pushed him away gently away, sliding down along Luna's body, getting his hips in position between her thighs. And then Silver's eyes went wide open. "Forget it, didn't say a word!"

I stood up, and grinned, seeing the reason for his change of mind: Luna's head bobbing in his crotch. I crouched behind her back and helped Ray finding the spot, guiding his maleness with my nose, spreading Luna's labia with my hooves. I observed the tip sink in and push the firm lips from a drop shape into a strained "O". I watched it sink slowly, one could say - reverently, strained and thick, the veins bulged, the glistening skin throbbing. My own pussy tingled and flexed in unfulfilled need. I pushed my mouth forward, licking the small drops that appeared on the edge, squeezed out from the moist slit by the pressure.

"Shouldn't we give Zecora some love, my princess?" Ray murred quietly.

I didn't hear any reply, probably because Luna's mouth was full, but then I felt magic, the dream reality shifting, breaking into segments and reassembling itself again, with me on the opposite side of Luna, my back towards her head. I looked at her, and she pointed to her horn with a free hoof, her mouth still busy on Silver's shaft, Ray slowly going inside her.

This time he helped me guide my back onto Luna's horn. It's blue surface wasn't smooth, but velvety, as if coated with finest moss - that was what I felt when it slid inside, the pointed end sliding slowly down my passage, the ribbed surface eliciting a loud gasp. It moved a short distance back and forth, following Luna's mouth working on Silver's shaft. I drove it carefully, well aware the sharp tip could hurt me if I pressed too hard, too fast. Still, my excitement lubricated me so thoroughly the horn was slipping inside without any resistance.

I felt the horn reach near my bottom, and Luna's forehead push against my back. The touch was quite pleasant, although I hesitated, still afraid of it catching somewhere and stabbing me bad. But then I felt a buzz, a small exciting wave, slight throbbing. Luna's horn came to life and its surface flowed, caressed me, pulled, tingled, rubbed and pinched. The magic kept changing for a while through dozens of effects, till it settled on pulses feeling like egg-sized orbs flowing up the horn, pushing their way into me, only to dissolve with a minimal 'pop' upon reaching my bottom. Each felt as if a stallion was entering me, but never pulling out, just dissolving, to enter me again. And on top of that, the hard horn kept moving in a gentle circular motion as Luna worked her mouth on Silver's shaft.

From half-closed eyelids I observed the three, while reveling in the sensation myself. Ray rested his chin on Luna's chest, his eyes closed, his hips moving in a gentle rhythm, only his nostrils flaring showing the hidden height of sensation. Silver's rump stared at me, his taint flexing in sudden, sparse throbs, and I saw Luna's nose moving right by his groin, his sizable maleness all the way up her mouth - apparently my princess knew the secrets of deep throat... or at least mastered the body of her dream self.

"Oh, sweet Luna..." Silver muttered. His hips bucked, meeting Luna's mouth, hilting against her lips, his breath speeding up, short ragged gasps catching in his throat, his loins flexing, his groin hitting against Luna's nose, then I saw his taint suddenly dip, and then throb rapidly, quick pulses pumping semen down Luna's throat, her gagging a little bit on the suddenly flared shaft, as he held her head with his thighs, unmoving, against his groin. The spurts subsided and Luna pulled back, exposing his big, glistening rod, then pushed right to his groin again. He whined through his nose and I saw the taint doing its dance of another orgasm, mere seconds after the first one, trying to eject whatever the first one failed, the throbs short and hard.

His breath returned, in loud gasps, and I saw his cock sliding out of Luna's mouth, spent, limp, without as much energy as to retract back into sheath as he lay unmoving.

Luna turned her gaze to me, still unable to move her head much. The whites of her eyes gleamed. She licked her lips, sucking a droplet of cum in, smiling a strained smile. She bit her lip and shifted her hips. Ray's loins seemed to press against some strong friction, working hard to slide him inside. The magic of Luna's horn sped up too, firm spheres the size of an orange now pulsing their way every second or so into my body, in rhythm with Ray's thrusts.

Silver rolled onto his stomach and raised his head. His face was filled with a wide, silly grin. He took one more delighted gasp, then he crawled up to my backside. His mouth bowed to the place where Luna's horn entered my pussy, and giving me one more mischievous look, he began licking.

Breath caught in my throat as that touch of tongue on my clit was exactly the last bit I needed to start climbing the regular slope towards inevitable, hard orgasm. And as his tongue met Luna's horn I heard her gasping loudly too.

The pulses of her horn got more erratic, sometimes two stiff spheres of magic sent into my body at once, sometimes one following the other in a rapid sequence. They also grew, stretching my vagina to its limits. I heard Ray's ragged breath and quiet moans, Silver's tongue found its way inside me, along Luna's horn, and all I could think of was the sudden rush, the hard tingling filling my body.

Luna yelped quietly, her body flexing, strained. A continuous stream of pulsing orbs flowed through her horn into my body massaging my inner walls rapidly. Silver's teeth closed on my clit, the little spark of pain turning into the focal point of mind-blowing orgasm, and through my daze I heard Moon Ray's cry, a clear note of ecstasy, physical climax coupled with absolute happiness.

The orgasm shook my body, clenching my insides against the torrent of magic battering my inside, like walls of a canyon pushed together by an earthquake stop a river. I felt echoes of Ray's own semen spurting into Luna, deep underground rivers through caves gleaming with silver leaves glazed with colorful crystals, reflected through the magic streaming from Luna's horn, a dark spike the size of a mountain tearing through the landscape from below. Silver's relentless assault on my clit and Luna's horn made our own orgasms to return in steep waves, like blasts of magic leveling the forests around the spike, making us both writhe and thrash, gasp and yelp, land rolling like ocean waves. And Ray kept cumming, filling Luna with all he had, quiet groans escaping his throat with each spurt, unstopping, like roar of squall, wall of clouds battering the horizon with thunderbolts relentlessly.

The storm ended, the clouds dissipated over blue sky, the torrent began slowing down, subsiding to a gentle trickle, delightful small throbs still shaking my body, flowing gently. I heard Ray murmur happily, and as Silver's head moved away, I saw the two golden eyes with vertical slits filled with so much happiness as I'd never seen in my life.

I slid myself off Luna's horn and crawled to her, Silver taking a place on the other side. We embraced, all four, and I felt tears in my eyes seeing the happy smile on Luna's face. She wrapped her wings around us and held us tightly, whispering some unintelligible, but tender words, smiling, giving us all small kisses, nuzzling our heads.

"Mine. Mine own beloved. Never shall I lose ye. Never shall I leave ye." She whispered, cried and cradled us. "No power of light nor darkness shall take ye away."

"Every night, every day,

by your side shall I stay" I whispered.

"I exist only for you," Moon Ray stated.

Silver Glimmer leaned to Luna's ear. I wondered what he was about to say, torn between eavesdropping and giving them privacy, but then Luna exploded in laughter, shaking her head rapidly. "What said I about thy tongue in ear of mine, rascal?!" she exclaimed.

"You will never get rid of me!" he exclaimed, sitting up and starting to tickle Luna's belly. She tried to escape him by turning on her side, but then she met my hooves busy tickling her belly. And then even Moon Ray joined us, tickling Luna's chest. She squirmed, and laughed, and writhed so hard the whole dream broke up, and soon we all floated away, each to their own shard of natural dreams.

* * *

I woke up to sound of sizzling oil.

Even before I opened my eyes, scent of frying onion hit my nostrils. I turned my head, and my chest protested in a dull ache.

Luna, in that apron again, by the stove, stirring fried veggies. A warm shudder ran down my whole body. So sexy. She noticed me awake and brightened in a smile.

"I hope the onion of yon container was of mundane kind?" she eyed a box on some shelf. "I dread imaging you poisoned, or a priceless ingredient wasted, and the scent is dissimilar from common onions."

"That would be some good shallot.

They don't really cost a lot.

Sharper scent, garlicky taste,

that dish surely will not waste."

"Oh, that is for sure, it smells delicious!" sounded a masculine voice from the far corner. I turned my head there. That was Silver Glimmer, sitting up on a bedroll, with Moon Ray on another, half-covered with a blanket, gazing at Luna dreamily. Silver had his wing and a leg in a sling, and a blue eye. Moon Ray had his head bandaged, a big bruise on his chin, and I could see plaster on his hind leg sticking from under the blanket.

"I hope you mind them not? The faithful guards of mine were so depressed whilst parted with me, I brought them to your abode."

"Better shared with friends good laugh,

than the best medical staff."

"As for medical staff, worry not. Celestia pledged to visit past noon, and Equestria hath no healer like my sister. And for now..." Luna's horn glowed and I felt the pain of my chest numbed. Then the spell reached the two batponies, who thanked Luna politely.

I tried to stand up and limp to the cauldron but Luna lifted me in the air with her magic and shook her head in disapproval. "Needst you any errant done, task me and move nary a hoof for you art on the mend. I studied the mixture past morn, and its gist I learn't, so worry yourself not."

Luna floated me to the cauldron and began explaining her discoveries. "A line of white around the rim would sign the potion's spoilage, but nonesuch is seen. The coals I can now kindle, and ash remove. Next comes stir uneven, so no strings build, and no ingredient remains undisturbed. One turn left, two right. Weed of sparrowling the magic empowers and last comes liquid pride, stray glances of basilisk eyes impeding. Water must be resupplied at times, but of its addition strategy have I not yet conceived."

"Impressive, quite correct.

To one point I object.

If you just add some cold coal

You will fail the final goal.

You need kindling of dry wood

Or the heat too low get could."

"Oh, this step I deemed unnecessary, for the coals I can kindle magically."

I gasped, aghast! "Risk a stray of spell your wisp

break the magic lace so crisp?"

"Mayhaps I... uh... could cast carefully?"

"Twice a day, for half a year,

You will fail this once, I fear."

"Oh, tis true. Wooden kindling is it, and hooves and teeth, no magic at stirring."

Then suddenly Moon Ray interrupted us. "Why do you question her?" he called out to me with a complaint. "Why do you allow her to doubt you?" he called out to Luna.

"For truth she spoke?" Luna cocked her head and raised an eyebrow. "A time, or a dozen magical kindling would work, for but a disturbance, a stray thought, a half-forgotten fear to destroy months of work uncounted. Great many of such burdens art held within me."

Ray's gaze was piercing into my eyes. "Can we heal our princess? Can we make her power as unwavering as the power the Sun holds?"

Luna laughed at that. "Fine jest there my faithful. Celestia was known to spill tea and let cups shatter at sight of a croissant. Great power she wields, but marred by scars uncounted. And yet never have I witnessed it waver once whilst Twilight Sparkle was her guest."

"But you, Princess Luna, can we ever heal you?"

"Scars never heal, but love is a salve most soothing." Luna sent him a smile.

"So it is, Princess." Silver chimed in, stretching his bruised body. "So it is. Pained and sore as I am, never had I a finer morning. Not even the day you accepted me into your service."

"And so," Luna sent him a smile, "let us break fast on this fine morning."

The vegetables in the pan danced in her magic once again, then got scooped into four bowls, three of which levitated to us, while Luna took a bite from her own.

And sure enough, the stir-fried vegetables were glorious.

Author's Note

This marks the end of the core story. There will be no sequel. But there will be Bonus Chapters, and quite a few of them - they will keep coming as they pass proofreading. Not all will be cloppy, but expect return of Nightmare Moon, and FutaLuna.

Also, Please comment! I love long comments and discussion!