Let Sleeper Dogs Lie

Let Sleeper Dogs Lie

by neorenamon

Fido glanced out the window as he looked out over the new dog village.  Various ponies were finishing construction even as he was looking, and every already finished building was nearly busting at the seams with dog refugees that were allowed to leave their former mine-fortress.  And yet a small group of dog warriors were already plotting to exploit them on behalf of their dog masters that no one ever bothered to swear their allegiance away from.

"Soon, this place will be a second home to those like the Shaman," he muttered to no one in particular.

There had been chaos in their ranks since the demise of the old chief, his replacement by Rover, and then Rover's detention in a Canterlot cell.  In the order of candidates, Fido figured he was in the top three at worst.  He was smart enough to know with his vast magical powers, securing the backing of the Shaman would make him the alpha male to all of the Diamond Dogs.

He growled as half a dozen bitches walked by just under the window.  They were all wearing one-piece summer dresses of various lengths, shapes, colors and hues, and he believed that was wrong.  Not one escorting male was anywhere around.  He thought that a properly submissive bitch remained naked at all times, seen but not heard.  They used to be kept so deep in the mines that outsiders had to speculate about whether or not they really existed.  That was the way of the Diamond Dogs.  Now they paraded about under the light of the sun as if they were equal to the males of the tribe.

He felt that Princess Twilight and Princess Celestia were filling the bitches heads with all kinds of wrong thinking, and he figured once he was installed as Chief, all of that was going away as fast as possible.  Glancing over his shoulder, he watched the two apprentices of the Shaman installing a frame like that of a door inside a closet.  Judging by their glassy-eyed stares, both the male and bitch were under the Shaman's direct influence to make sure they couldn't remember what they were doing for him.  They both thought that they were free.

Once the portal was activated, they could instantly move troops and resources to the mine and back at any time.  He had assurances that another portal was being secretly placed in Canterlot itself with the assistance of a fifth columnist among the nobles.  While he was short on details, he knew that there was a loyal dog spy among them who was coerced to act as their agent most likely by somepony directly influenced by the Shaman back at the mines proper.

The puzzle pieces were falling into place quickly, and nopony seemed to be onto them as of yet.  But then his thoughts were interrupted by a knock at the door.  Stomping over to the door and opening it, he was confronted by a young bitch holding a square cardboard box.  Judging by her size and form, she had to be barely old enough to have recently stopped nursing.  But there was something that wasn't right besides the fact she was wearing a long tailed shirt.  Her fur was somehow dyed blue?

"WHAT?!" he growled in her face.

She gulped and said, "Yer pizza is ready, nice man."

"I ordered no such thing!" he retorted as his nose was filled with the smell of mushrooms, cheese and hot crust.

"But it's paid for," she replied awkwardly, "I can't take it back.  He'll punish me if I do. Please just take it."

"FINE!" he snarled as he took it from her shaking hands.  He then slammed the door in her face.

The smell drew dogs towards him from all around the room.  He growled at them asserting his authority as he took the box over to the small table in the corner of the room.  Being the Alpha Male present, he got the first choice.

The door burst open behind him, surprising them all.  The small bitch stood there as her open palm glowed with a strange blue energy.  "What's a matter, cheapskate?!" she hissed in a strange voice, "Where's my tip?!"

The box opened as blue sparkling smoke poured out of it.  "Not tipping?!" it hissed, "Where are your manners?!"

The bitch grew as her hide became darker, and both wings and a long horn grew from her body as her simple garment was destroyed.  Her chest swelled as a huge pair of breasts emerged, and her paws turned into hooves.  But her teeth seemed almost a cross between a dog and a shark, and her eyes were rather... feline.  Her mane and tail grew out into a field of night and stars, and a silver skull cap covered her head including surrounding her black horn, but not covering her ears.

"INTRUDER!!" he yelled.

She gestured with her hand as one dog warrior floated up to the ceiling before being slammed down into the floor.

"A fine one to speak," commented the smoke from the pizza box as it formed into a similar mare.  It formed into a mare like the first, but with some differences.  One, she had to skullcap, and for another, one could see a full blood moon as it drifted inside her mane.  Her hands glowed as two dogs suddenly were flung together in the middle of the room.

"Who are you?!  What do you want?!" demanded Fido.

"Demanding, isn't he?" asked the mare from the pizza box.

"Annoyingly so," said the formerly delivery bitch.

"Well we are Nightmare Luna," she said, "and this is somepony even you should know:  Nightmare Moon."

"I don't remember the legends saying anything about her being so hot... or naked," commented one of the dog warriors as he stared at their giant jugs in awe.

Nightmare Moon paused and she looked at herself, and face palmed herself when she realized she was making them more horny than horrified.

"We... intended this!" asserted Nightmare Luna.

Nightmare Moon's horn glowed as she dragged Fido across the room to her, and demanded in his face, "Take us to the one called the Shaman and you get to live another day!"  She groaned and added, "Your doom may come sooner IF YOU DON'T STOP STARING AT MY TITS!!"

"Oh, don't be so uptight," purred Nightmare Luna, "if the poor thing wants to stare at our glorious assets, dear sister."  She walked across the room as her horn glowed, and ran a finger across his chin.  Suddenly, his eyes glowed the same color as her horn.

"The portal in the closet will take you right to him as soon as the apprentices activate it," said Fido.

"I think we can make them activate the portal," she sighed as she looked at her Nightmare sister, "but the Shaman's control is too strong to bend them to our will for more than a moment."

"Then that is all we need them for," replied Nightmare Moon.

The apprentices' eyes glowed as they stood, approached to portal, and began chanting in some ancient dog tongue towards the apparently empty door frame.  At first, the frame glowed, and then a hissing sound was heard as a swirling black and purple vortex appeared inside the frame.

"Then have performed well.  Let us... *reward them.***"

"Indeed, sister," she hissed as their heads nearly twisted all the way around to a sickening popping sounds.

The dog warriors stared in horror as the two corpses fell to the floor.  But they didn't have long to contemplate the scene before their own heads were twisted the same way.  None of them remained aware enough to see the two Nightmares passing through.

...

The two Nightmares stepped forth from a frame in a much darker place.  They could barely make out the portal as its dark energies swirled behind them.

"SHAMAN!" called Nightmare Luna, "Come forth and face us!"

A deep voice laughed at them from the darkness, saying, "YOU SHOULD HAVE THE NERVE TO KILL MY APPRENTICES, SLAY MY WARRIORS, BARGE IN HERE WITHOUT AN INVITE, AND THINK I SHOULD BE BOWING TO THE LIKES OF YOU?!"

"Yes," hissed Nightmare Moon, "We do!"

"AND I'M THINKING OVER HERE THAT YOU ARROGANT BITCHES ARE OFF YOUR ROCKERS!"

"Come forth and face your doom!" hissed Nightmare Luna, "Release your control over Nightmare Moon and you shall live to see tomorrow morning!"

"OH HO!" he laughed, "IT BECOMES CLEAR TO ME NOW... PRINCESS LUNA!!"

A light appeared as a glowing staff emerged from the dark.  An old and wrinkly dog was holding it in the long nailed hand.

"You bravado is misplaced, old one!" snarled Nightmare Luna, "It shall not save you from... *HURK!*"  Something magical was choking her, and a glance told her Nightmare Moon was choking as well.

"IT SEEMS I'VE BAGGED MYSELF TWO BITCHES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!!"

The two Nightmares dropped to their knees as they tried in vain to breathe.

"Kill... you..." gurgled Nightmare Moon.

"NOT LIKELY, LITTLE BITCH!" he snarled back as the two passed out.