Moondancer

“You have to understand that the fall of Discord was not the end of the chaos–” started Entice.

“Who?” asked Twilight with a wrinkled brow.

“I’ll tell you later,” said Moondancer, “carry on.”

“Discord was an elemental of chaos who was defeated by two sisters: Celestia and Luna. They were elevated to the rank of Princess for the deed, and together they reforged Equestria from the disparate city-states that sprang up during Discord’s reign and the interregnum. While Princess Celestia was practically prescient as a tactician and strategist, Princess Luna was righteous wrath made flesh. They were indomitable, the mistresses of war. Their enemies didn’t stand a chance.

“They were young back then, and their power set them apart. When there was no-one left to fight, they were slow to adapt. They decreed that their newly-reforged domain should have a capital, and they made it a castle. The Castle of the Royal Sisters. No-one argued, and so work started on this place.

“They were young. Still learning about themselves, learning statecraft, learning politics when dealing with other nations, learning diplomacy the hard way when trying to unite the four tribes. It was a hard time. Celestia was as beautiful as her bright-shining sun, and didn’t lack for suitors. She had children, grew into motherhood, and matured in time.

“Luna wasn’t the centre of attention. She didn’t have many suitors, her feats on the battlefield spawning rumours and legends that drove away all but the most foolhardy. She also struggled with her desires. She burned with need, but couldn’t satisfy herself without endangering the country that she had helped forge.”

“Mmmm,” said Twilight, without realising that she had spoken aloud.

“So while the castle was being built, she had an idea. The castle was to be warded against demons: an astral seal would be built into the foundations. Luna summoned a demoness in a tightly warded room before the seal was complete, leaving the succubus trapped inside its boundaries. Me. I was to be her naughty little secret. I cannot cross the seal, and the seal will last as long as the castle stands, and the castle– The castle will not fall.”

“Wow,” said Twilight.

She was leaning against a wall in the sex dungeon, listening to Entice tell her story. The demon was staring into the flames of one of the lamps, barely noticing her audience.

“It was difficult. I tried to help Princess Luna, as I was bound to do, but it wasn’t enough. She needed love, and that was something I couldn’t give her. Her sister grew distant, basking in the light of the worship of their people. Luna stepped back, into shadow. She thought her night was unappreciated. She stopped talking to her sister, to her people, to me. She only talked to the Nightmare, and it didn’t take long for Endless Night to make sense. Princess fought Princess, and Luna lost. She was banished,” Entice sighed, “and everyone left, leaving me alone. I spent most of the last thousand years sleeping, until you woke me.”

“That just opens up a dozen new questions! Why can’t this castle fall? How did Princess Celestia banish her sister? Where did she banish her to? Why is this not in any of the history books? Why is this place so well preserved? Why– You’re trying to tempt me, aren’t you?”

“Ha ha ha! Can you blame me, Twilight?” Entice smirked at Twilight, her doleful mood gone in the blink of an eye, “And you knew that from the start. You wanted to be tempted. So pick a question. You know the price.”

Twilight bit her lip, scanning her gaze around the room, at the toys, the furniture, the demoness…

“If you’re still uncertain, Twilight, we can play another game. Same stakes as before. I’ll even take on a handicap, if you want.”

“Why bother? The outcome would be the same, and you know it.”

“Would that be so bad?” asked Entice archly.

Twilight looked away.

“Twilight. I can answer all your questions, if you’ll let me. I can lay bare all the secrets this castle holds before you. Why deprive yourself of this knowledge? Please let me– Please let us both grow.”

“I– It feels wrong. And, and, what happens when your next answer leads to more questions?”

“We have a fascinating conversation?”

Twilight blinked with surprise when a thought hit her.

“That’s it! We can do this!”

“We can? Wonderful!”

“We can trade answers for answers! It’ll be great!”

Entice’s smile died.

“Twilight, I am an ancient and powerful demon. What knowledge do you have that I don’t?”

“Don’t you see? You’ve been trapped here for a thousand years. I can tell you about all the advances in magic, philosophy, and science since this place was abandoned. Now that’s a fair trade.”

Entice slowly shook her head, “Twilight, I would love to discuss recent Equestrian history with you. It’s true that I don’t know what’s been happening past these castle walls, but Twilight, I am hungry. It would be sheer torture to sit and talk with you, denied the touch of your lips. Why can’t you accept what I’m offering? I will never take more than you are willing to give.”

“Entice, I’m scared. I think that ‘What I’m willing to give’ would soon mean ‘Everything’ as I spend time in your arms.”

“Twilight, you’re a strong woman. You are no fool, drowning in knowledge when you but need a cooling draught. Twilight, I can feel your lust. Tartarus, I can see your need. You’re burning with desire. I can help. Anything you ever wanted, any fantasy… Twilight, why fight it?”

Twilight’s stance had shifted, arms that were folded were now hugging herself. She still refused to meet Entice’s eyes.

“Where does it end, Entice? I don’t– No. No, thank you. I can get my answers through hard work, study, and research. I can ask Princess Celestia. I’m going to confess everything to the Princess when I get back to Canterlot. I shouldn’t have asked the first question, I shan’t ask a second.”

“Not even Princess Celestia can teach you everything, Twilight, even if she wanted to do so. Think about it: Princess Luna was her equal, or nearly so. When she was banished, Celestia banished Luna’s magical knowledge too. Luna and I learned so much together. I would love to teach all that to you. Think about it: you could restore whole lost schools of magic back to Equestria! The magic of moonlight, shadows, dreams, and the tides could be yours to share with the world! Think of the potential!”

Entice spread her arms out and the room was full of shadows: silhouettes of women, of books, of cosmological symbols all circling the demoness in an unceasing array. One of the shadow women took on the colours of life and leaned towards Twilight and kissed her on the cheek. Shocked, Twilight brought a hand to her cheek. The shadow flitted away, losing all colour to become grey again.

“I can give you so much, Twilight, and ask for so little. Do you hate yourself so much, to deny yourself all I can give you?”

Twilight, wide-eyed, stared at Entice. Twilight shook her head as if to shake away an unwelcome thought. She took a deep breath, swallowed, and stood straight. The dancing shadows froze in place in anticipation.

“Okay. I have a question, and I know the price. But I get to choose what we do.”

Entice’s eyes grew round with pleasure and her smile seemed to stretch across the entirety of her face.

“Twilight, I wouldn’t have it any other way! You’ll not regret this, I promise! What’s the question? What do you want to do? Would you like to try to run again? I liked it when you did that last time. I could give you a head start.”

“My question is: ‘Why are the preservative magics here so powerful?’”

“Ah! A very good question, but I should warn you: when you hear of the Tree of Harmony, you’ll have a hundred more questions for me to answer. It will be glorious!”

“The Tree of Harmony?”

“Ah ah ah! Payment first, then answers. So what caught your eye? How can I make you happy?”

“I would like to try out that star,” said Twilight nodding to the device.

The star consisted of two solid-looking timber beams forming an ‘X’ with a third, horizontal, beam cutting across the ‘X’ at shoulder height. There were wrist restraints on the top of the two diagonal timbers, wing restraints on the horizontal bar, and ankle-cuffs at the bottom of the diagonals. The whole assembly reclined against an upright support.

“And could you please use my own toy? I’ve had it for years, and I just love how it feels inside me, even if it isn’t very big.”

“It’ll be my pleasure, as well as yours,” grinned Entice.

Twilight reached for her pack, but her magic fizzled and no aura formed. Miffed, she turned back to Entice.

“Could you please release my magic? We’ve already established that I can’t escape, and it really is very annoying to be without it.”

“Twilight, where would the fun be in that? How about this: I’ll be generous, and free up a little, each time we play. You’ll have all of it back in no time at all, I’m sure. I’ll even give you just a little back now, because I like you.”

Twilight could tell from Entice’s tone of voice that she wouldn’t be getting any more than that from her, so accepted with good grace. She was disappointed that the trickle of magic that Entice permitted her was not even close to be enough to even lift her pack, and so she walked over to it and crouched down to fish around inside.

It didn’t take her long to find what she was looking for. She cast a quick glance at Moondancer in her cell, noting her rapt attention, bit her lip, and hid her choice from her friend.

“Here, this end please,” she said Twilight.

Entice was momentarily confused when examining the makeshift dildo, but quickly recovered and smiled sweetly, gently guiding Twilight by the elbow to her choice of apparatus.

“We’ll save the chase for later, shall we? You seem to be eager to get started.”

Twilight paused briefly to rub herself sinuously against Entice, relishing the heat from the demon’s form. Entice hummed in approval, and then began to slowly bind Twilight to the cross.

Twilight didn’t struggle this time, choosing to just silently watch as Entice almost ritually strapped down her wrists one at a time. Both arms above her head. Legs spread wide. Entice ran a talon smoothly up Twilight’s leg and body. Twilight tried to shy away from the ticklish sensation.

“Don’t you just love feeling so exposed, Twilight?” asked Entice, turning her wrist so that the sharp end of her talons raked across Twilight’s stomach, too softly to break the skin. Twilight reflexively tried to curl away, but the restraints held her with ease.

Twilight shivered, and drew a deep breath. The heat in her loins was building; she twisted her hips…

“Mmm, you do like it. You know, I think there are a lot of things you’ll like. Next time, I’ll give you a little more magic, a light, and a head start. You can run for the entrance, and I’ll chase you. When I catch you, we’ll try the paddle. You’ll love it.”

Twilight didn’t respond, so Entice pinched her, eliciting a yelp.

“You’re right, we’re never going to get anything done by just talking.”

Entice leant forward and kissed Twilight on one of her nipples, the faintest of nips sending sparks down Twilight’s spine. Another kiss, lower, on Twilight’s belly. Twilight could feel Entice’s sharp teeth, but they only pressed lightly. Lower still, closer still, and Twilight was trembling with anticipation.

Entice’s long tongue teased Twilight’s slit, eliciting a moan, before pulling back.

“Oh, you wanted me to use your little toy, didn’t you?” she asked rhetorically.

Entice turned her back on Twilight and walked back to the table, her tail trailing along Twilight’s thigh as though loath to leave her. Twilight whimpered with need.

“Don’t worry, I won’t leave you without any company while I prepare.”

The shadows in the corners of Twilight’s vision twisted and stretched. They quickly took on an extra dimension, and three shadow women stepped forward. Colour flushed across their nude bodies, one red, one blue and one green, blazing their hair, and sparkling their iridescent wings. Each of the women glowed with an internal light.

“Ooh,” said Moondancer, clearly intrigued. The red shadow-women gracefully peeled off and flew towards Moondancer’s cell. The other two began kissing and caressing Twilight. Twilight moaned with approval. Entice didn’t seem to be in any hurry, but the shadows were eager and hungry, with searching hands and tongues.

“Just applying a little lubrication, Twilight. Hold on a moment more. Such an interesting toy, you have here. So many interesting grooves. Do they serve some purpose, amplifying your pleasure, you naughty thing? I do look forward to finding out.”

Twilight’s excitement was ramping fast under the shadow-women’s ministrations, and in anticipation on what was to come. Waves of pleasure surged up her spine, welcome fire from the sensations she was helpless to resist.

Twilight had a plan. She needed to hold out until everything was in alignment. The shadow-women appeared to be mindless, but they complicated things. Her arousal was rising higher and higher, Entice was stalking closer and closer to Twilight, dextrous shadow-hands were exploring and teasing her body, and mouths that did not need air were kissing and sucking and licking and it wasn’t time yet–

Entice’s a grin sharpened with anticipation at Twilight’s moans and twitching. Twilight was clearly at the edge of orgasm. Holding Moondancer’s now heavily-lubricated wand in her hand, the tip pointing towards her, Entice moved into position. A shadow-hand moved away from massaging Twilight’s slit, making space for the wand.

Twilight’s head swam and she was biting her lip hard, resisting the pleasures and building orgasm that threatened to overwhelm her and ruin her plan. She stared, fixated, at the wand, trembling in her bindings, at the brink of of a great force that her will could only hold back so long.

Entice was moving too slowly. Twilight couldn’t hold on against the ministrations of the shadow women. Entice must have detected her subterfuge. This wasn’t going to work. Twilight would fall under the succubus’ spell, trading pleasure for knowledge until she was unable to resist, the demon’s puppet. Twilight focused her mind, protection from the fears and feelings assaulting her, buying the time she needed. Just a little longer.

Twilight cried out when the wand touched her pussy, the barrier in her mind weakening at a terrifying rate. She arched her back, writhed in place, but did not come. One of the shadow women was pinching her nipples, tugging her hair. The other was exploring Twilight’s neck with her tongue and Twilight didn’t know which was pushing her closer to orgasm faster. Then Entice slowly pushed the wand inside her.

It was too much. Twilight couldn’t take any more, couldn’t wait until the wand could catch Entice by surprise, couldn’t even be sure it would even hurt her. The barrier in her mind dissolved in the blizzard of sensations that assailed her. With a great cry, Twilight convulsed in joy.

Twilight’s orgasmic energy was more than enough to trigger the wand, but the wand wasn’t pointed at Entice. It was instead pointed at the ground at Entice’s feet. Powered by a surge far greater than it’s designer thought possible, the energy blast coming from the wand smashed the ground, and sent an energy blast punching deep and far through the tiled floor. Unable to resist the power of the blow, a great hole opened up underneath the demon. The crack was deafening.

Normally Entice would have had no trouble avoiding the hole that had suddenly opened under her, but she had been overwhelmed by the feedback of Twilight’s orgasm, just as before, and fell back insensate, tumbling into the darkness below. Without her focus, the shadow women dissipated.

Twilight gasped for breath. She would have slumped to the ground if she were not held upright by the bindings around her wrists. Shaking her head, she unsteadily focussed her will on her restraints, praying that the magic that Entice her left her with would be enough to free her. Almost sobbing with breath, keenly aware that the demon would quickly recover her senses, she tugged at the straps with her aura.

It wasn’t enough. Every time she tried to focus enough strength to tease a strap open, it fizzled. The weaker force that she was left with was not enough to manipulate the thick leather.

“Argh!” Twilight cried out with frustration when her magic fizzled again.

“Twilight!”

“Moondancer! I can’t get free! We need to get out of here!”

“Twilight, I can’t open this door!”

Twilight flung her head back against the padded wood with new frustration. If she still had her magic, she could rip the door trapping Moondancer from its stays. Moondancer was not strong enough to do it. She continued to try her own bonds, trying to generate enough heat to burn through them. It didn’t look like it would be any more successful.

“Twilight, the key! Where’s the key to my cell?”

“On the wall!”

Moondancer tried to look, but it was out of sight. If she couldn’t see it, she couldn’t grab it with her aura. Her groping arm couldn’t find it, it was too far out of reach. Twilight tried to use a shape-changing spell on the straps, but it fizzled. Twilight could feel a pressure building up at the back of her head.

There was a clink and rumble at the bottom of the hole, the sound of masonry shifting and falling.

“Hurry!” shouted Twilight, pulling hard at a wrist. It did no good.

“I can’t see it! I can’t reach it!”

“Ahh!” Twilight couldn’t escape her bonds. Moonlight was trapped. Entice was getting up. Twilight stopped wasting her time on her own freedom. With a focus that she didn’t know she had, Twilight reached out with her aura and found its trembling strength was just enough to lift the key to Moondancer’s cell. With terrifying slowness, Twilight jerkily tried to lift the key from its hook. Her magic spasmed and the key flopped back down.

“TWILIGHT!” shouted an enraged voice from the bottom of the hole. Judging from the echoes, Entice had fallen into another vault.

Twilight tried again. Her magic spasmed, and the key went flying, landing on the floor. With a cry of triumph, Moondancer saw the key and yanked it to her in her aura. It was awkward, but it didn’t take long for her to unlock her cell.

“Go!” shouted Twilight, watching with alarm as shadowy shapes started streaming out of the hole, tendrils and grasping hands and chains feeling around.

Moondancer didn’t say anything, but ran to Twilight, and started feverishly undoing the straps.

“Go! There’s no time!”

Huge black clawed hands appeared either side of the hole, scouring gouges in the tiles. A dark head rose out of the hole, eyes now completely red, sparking with rage. Moondancer glanced behind her at the terror rising at her feet. She roughly grabbed the wand from Twilight’s grip, eliciting a pained gasp, and stood squarely between Entice and Twilight, levelling the wand at Entice. Time seemed to freeze.

Everything seemed to happen in slow motion, and Twilight was unable to do anything other than watch. Entice pulling herself out of the hole. Moondancer pointing the wand at the demon. Entice was nearly out, and the wand was doing nothing…

It took an eternity for the wand to flare.

The blast knocked the demoness back down the hole, crying out with frustration. Moondancer dropped the wand and went back to work on Twilight’s restraints.

“It didn’t kill her! Go! We don’t have time!” shouted Twilight, but Moondancer ignored her. One wrist was free. Twilight fought the need to try to work on the strap on her other wrist - she would only get in Moondancer’s way. A roar of anger came from the hole. The other strap came free. Twilight worked on the strap across her belly. Moondancer cast a desperate look at the hole and kneeled down to release her ankles.

A roar of anger came from the hole. Twilight would only get in Moondancer’s way if she tried to lean down low enough to release the straps. She could still help. She dragged up the wand with her aura and snatched the slippery stick from the air with her hands. She levelled it at the hole, over Moondancer’s head, waiting for Entice to appear.

Twilight felt one foot come free. Strange shadow flames erupted from the hole. Moondancer set to work on the other foot, the work made harder with hands slick with sweat and trembling with adrenaline.

Entice’s eyes appeared in the darkness again. They had time to just widen in realisation before the blast from the wand slammed into the space between them. They disappeared back into the dark. A series of thuds marked Entice’s descent back down the hole.

Twilight’s final strap came free and she staggered forward trying to get off the cross. Twilight would have fallen into the hole herself if Moondancer hadn’t caught her.

Seizing Twilight’s arm, Moondancer practically dragged her away from the hole and towards the door at the far end of the room. Twilight didn’t need much encouragement, and soon found her feet. She pulled abreast of her friend, and reached the door at the same time as her.

They burst through the door to find themselves in a long corridor. Twilight slammed the door shut behind them, and Moondancer created a light.

The girls ran.