"Shiny." Cadance dragged the word out, looking up at her wife while sprawled on the bed. "The foals are fed and are being looked after." Her eyebrows wobbled suggestively.

Having just vacated the bathroom, Shining Armor had warm towels wrapped around mane and tail. She stopped dead and looked at her wife—hunger awoke. "Oh? Just the two of us then?" She lit her horn, pink magic removing first one towel, then the other. "Want me to get the toys, or are we going to just see what comes up?"

Cadance lifted out a little scroll she kept by the bed. Turning it, she showed Shining. It was her estrus calendar. "What about it? Want to try rocking my world, stud?" She stopped immediately, seeing concern on Shining's face. "Shiny, what's wrong?"

"This is who I am now, I am… comfortable." Shining Armor looked to her wife and quickly trotted forward to wrap—and be wrapped—Cadance in soft wings. "What if I change and don't change back?"

"Then we could repeat everything from the start." Cadance nuzzled her wife. "But if this is truly something that worries you, we could just 'not'."

"No." Shining knew she had more than her own feelings to worry about. "You glowed every day you were pregnant. I remember how happy you-"

Cadance cut in. "Not every day."

"Fair enough," Shining's snout curled into a deeper smile, "not every day. But you loved it, didn't you?" She leaned her head in beside Cadance's, feeling her nod and let out a sigh. "So let's do it. How do I cast the spell?"

"Are you really sure? We could always invite somepony else…" Cadance meant the words. "Maybe Rainbow Dash. I am fairly sure if you let her, she would jump my bones the first chance she got."

"Cadance!" Shining was giggling. "She is a married mare, what makes you think she would even go for that?"

Waving a hoof in the air, Cadance thought a little. "Oh, I don't know, maybe because she is a switch who loves power games? She married an alicorn." She dropped back onto the bed, pulling Shining down with her. Pulling her wings in, she squirmed on her back. "I think it would be hot."

"Really?" Shining leaned over and nibbled at her wife's shoulder. "You want to be topped by Rainbow Dash?" Lighting his horn, Shining reached through the wardrobe for something very particular. "What's the spell, Cady?" A pink snout pressed to Shining's ear, whispering the spell.

Shining Armor rolled off the bed, trotting over to their "costume" wardrobe. "I think the princess of the castle is going to get quite the surprise tonight." Shining lifted out the special maids dress. "Her maid will reveal himself as a stallion and start a coup!"

"Oh!" Cadance squirmed, loving it when her wife got playful. "Will he tie the princess up?" She saw Shining nod. "Will he buck her for hours, until she can't help but call him 'master'?" Another nod. Cadance knew she wouldn't need much foreplay, not if her Shiny was in this mood. "And will he put a pretty collar around her neck?"

Shining almost cursed. He quickly dug around for a collar, finding one she quite liked herself. "He sure will." With the items needed to hoof, she began to weave the spell. Working the magic was simple, it was memorizing it for more than a day that was hard, although she was getting better at that. With the energy gathered, she imprinted the spell upon it and aimed it all at herself. A tight knot of worry eased, the spell wasn't "undoing" anything, it was layering on top. Shining let out a deep groan as his body changed completely to an alicorn stallion. "It all feels strange now."

"If you aren't comfortable, Shiny, then we stop." Cadance set aside her kinky thoughts as worry for her wife overflowed. "Just undo the spell if you need to."

"No, Cady, I got it." Shining took a few deep breaths. It hit him, now he was a stallion again, his wife was really in estrus. "I can… oh wow you smell good." He had to work fast, he wanted this game to start and knew the rules needed to be played to. Pulling on the dress, cinching it tight where it needed to be, the alicorn soon had his wings bound down tightly. "How do I look?" He ran a hoof up the stocking on one side of his back leg, then swapped to do the other.

Cadance's breath caught in her throat. Her wonderful wife, or husband as the case may be, squeezed into the outfit and gave her a smoldering look; it could have melted paint.

Shining didn't need his wife to speak a word, the aching look she gave him was more than enough. He lifted the riding crop up in his magic, floating a gag over to Cadance. "I heard somepony is being very, very dirty." Shining took a step, then another, prancing high with each. "Maybe a little colt maid needs to clean her all up."

"I… I… I won't stand for this!" Cadance tossed the gag into the air in defiance. "You are just a servant, you have no right to-" With her mouth open, Cadance had left herself open to her husband stuffing the ball back into her mouth and quickly fastening the straps to it with his magic.

"Much better. That mouth of yours was so very dirty." Shining pranced around the bed, staring at the mare as she struggled with the gag. "That is a special gag, my dear princess, you can't get it out without the password." Of course it was the normal one, but Cadance wouldn't be getting it out with just her hooves, it needed magic to remove. In a flash Shining moved, lashing rope around one foreleg, looping it around the end of the bed and pulling.

Cadance was pulled off balance, flopping backwards as Shining dragged one of her limbs up and to the side. By the time the princess had any semblance of focus on what he was doing her other foreleg was lashed to the end of the rope. "Mmffmfm!"

Shining rubbed a hoof along his wife's jaw. "Oh I bet that was something a little filly shouldn't hear." He traced the hoof down. "Such a dirty mare, I bet there is one thing that can clean you right up." He moved just enough to give his wife a look at his undercarriage; when her eyes widened, he grinned. "I am going to flip a coin to work out where I am going to stick this, Mi Amore Cadenza. Then I am going to ignore the flip and screw you until you can't think straight."

All the struggle went out of Cadance, she looked up at her Shiny and for her, the game was over. She didn't care about the little dress, or the silly dominance, she wanted her lover. He climbed over her, mounting the bed and dropping his belly low. Her eyes were wild, showing whites, but she closed them as he started to push into her. "FMFFMMM!"

It was all familiar, in an odd way. Shining pushed into his wife, feeling her tight depths swallow him, her passage sopping wet from the kinky foreplay alone. Without giving her a warning he bucked, forcing their flesh to press tight together. Fully inside his wife, Shining leaned down and kissed her nose. "I love you, Cady." Shining pulled back and bucked forward again, repeating the action, building a rhythm.

Cadance rocked in place, her body on fire with the pleasure of lovemaking. Each buck of Shining's hips made her cry into the gag until she was sure her throat was hoarse. She felt him growing bigger inside her, knew what that meant after years of "practice". When the hot rush flooded into Cadance, she struggled and fought her bindings, wanting more than anything to hug her stallion.

Pink wings reached up, catching Shining by surprise, cuddling in around him. He had given his wife the first performance of the night. "Princess Mi Amore, this is only the beginning."

Applejack walked, feeling a little strange still in her "new" body. The train ride back from Canterlot had been, blessedly, quiet. A loud thump sounded as she began walking down the path toward her house. Then it sounded again. Curiosity had a firm grip as she walked into the orchard.

"An' then you gotta try to force it up, into the branches." Apple Bloom reached a hoof higher, tapping the apple tree surrounded by baskets. "Want me to show ya'?"

Tender Taps nodded. "I just can't get the hang of this. I don't think I am built the same way." He blushed the moment he said it. "That isn't to mean you aren't built perfectly!" The blush increased but the young stallion wisely clamped his snout closed.

Waiting to see if her coltfriend would bury himself any deeper with such "compliments", Apple Bloom tapped a hoof. She waited. "You done?" He nodded his head and giggled. "Okay, gimme a kiss for luck."

Applejack watched as the two shared a little kiss that made her heart ache a little. "My li'l sister is growin'…" A heavy thud broke her from her daydream and she watched in amazement as all the apples in the tree rained down into the basket. "Land sakes… when'd she get so good at buckin'?"

"Wow…" Tender watched as the last apple fell, giving up its hold on the tree lest another buck be required. "You're amazing!"

"Ah'll say!" Applejack couldn't stop herself, she stepped closer, revealing herself. "Carryin' on the Apple tradition!" She reached a delicate hoof up and ruffled her sister's mane.

Apple Bloom looked up and up and up at her sister. "Still wearing that?" She pointed a hoof at the little amulet. "Why don't you show me the next one?"

Applejack approached the next tree, her magic reaching out to grab a set of baskets to put under it. "Watch this…" She turned and lashed out with her hooves. "Yeeouch!" AJ fell to her side, stunned at how much it had hurt her hooves. "What'n tarnation happened?"

"Uh, you're a unicorn?" Tender trotted up and carefully inspected the frogs of his fillyfriend's sister's hooves. "Doesn't look like you did any damage, but unicorns aren't really built for bucking trees. I have a friend who is a dancer, he has so much trouble with his frogs."

"Are you okay?" Apple Bloom leaned down to her sister. "If'n you are going to stay as a unicorn, Ah guess Ah gotta do the farm work?" The young mare had never seen so much shock on her sister's face before.

"No." Applejack looked back at her body, the graceful, lean body of a high-class unicorn. "This ain't me. Ah thought it would be good, to have magic, that unicorns were… I dunno, better." Both the younger ponies gasped. "Ah'm a fool." She waited for the words she expected, but all she got was two ponies giggling. "What?"

"You forgot what it was like being an earth pony." Apple Bloom hugged her sister tightly. "Want me to take this back to Muffins?" Her hoof gripped the amulet.

It took a lot of bravery for Applejack to nod, she was giving away a dream. "Ah don't think being a princess is my destiny." She leaned forward, bowing her head to her sister.

"What do ya mean?" Apple Bloom drew the amulet up and off her sister, beaming in delight when her body flowed back to the sturdy earth pony she grew up admiring. "You are Princess of Sweet Apple Acres!"

A giggle grew in Applejack's throat, she started to snort and laugh. Better yet, her hooves felt much better and, rolling to her hooves, the mare gave a double-barreled buck at the tree. "Yeehaw!" Apples rained down, each landing in a basket except one, caught in Tender's hoof. AJ raised an eyebrow at the cheeky young stallion.

Tossing the first apple into the air, Tender kicked another from the basket as his hooves up, then a third. Juggling the apples a moment he tossed one, then another, sending them toward the two sisters. Catching the last, he bit down into the juicy fruit. "I think you look nicer as an earth pony." His words cost him, both mares blushed, he joined them. "I mean, it suits you. I don't… I like… I am just going to stop now."

"Good!" Apple Bloom bopped her coltfriend on the shoulder. "And if'n you weren't so awkward with your words I would find myself jealous." She wrapped the foreleg over his withers and hugged him. When she looked up, Applejack was gone. Tilting her head, she returned to what they had been doing before her sister had interrupted them. Her lips found Tender's.

Applejack ran. She bolted in the fastest gait she could. Barely one hoof touched the ground at a time as she galloped back into town and then toward the castle. When ponies waved or called to her, she whooped and hollered back, feeling the world as it should be again.

"Where's Gel an' Twi?" Applejack was panting as she stared at the mare waiting by the front door. "Uh…"

"Miss Applejack, the Prince and Princess of the castle are in the map room." Sunny Gave a bow to Applejack, knowing full well who the mare was.

"Thanks!" It was odd for AJ, she hadn't realized how big the castle had gotten, or that it needed servants now. Politeness stabbed into her. "Sorry, uh, I didn't catch your name?"

"Sunny Days!" Sunny gave another bow. "I didn't think we had met formally. Starry hired me to help with the cleaning."

"Well shucks, thank you, Sunny." Applejack smiled at the mare, watching her smile widen at the brighter mood. "But right now, Ah gotta be hurryin'!"

Gel and Twilight were studying the cutie map when Applejack burst in. The three ponies only had eyes for each other. Applejack lengthened her stride to bolt right up to the pair and caught them both in a tight hug. "Ah'm sorry. Ah got things sorted now."

Gel squeezed both his wives, felt each hug back.

"It's alright AJ," Twilight squeezed and then relaxed a little, "but you might want to take a seat, look." Twilight's wife leaned back, her view widening to see all her friends in their seats around the map, each one grinning widely. Her cheeks blushed barely a moment before she spotted the cluster of cutie marks appear around the castle. They didn't move.

Apple Bloom looked down at the little amulet. "Tender, what do you think I would look like as a unicorn?"

Author's Note

I... I intended there to be more. More to the end. More to the story. But this felt right. It felt how it should end. This has been an indescribable ride, a mammoth chunk of my life. If I could, the story would go forever; you would learn to love Winged Pattern, Apple Seed, Golden Dawn, and Night Amore as much as I do, as they grow up and have their own adventures.

Cadance and Shining. I can't say anything more about you two, you are wonderful ponies, showing me how powerful true love is, how it can push past any bonds.

Celestia, Luna... Twisty. Three mares who simply don't care what others think, who have found their own little part of heaven. I hope you rule Equestria for many years to come.

Sleek and Cherry. Things got a little odd for you two, life is never meant to be easy, but you didn't just overcome a doomed marriage, you reclaimed it. Don't just keep hold of the tiger's tail, climb up and make a saddle for the beast!

Lyra and Sweetie. Damn you two make me grin and giggle every time I write you. You are almost as amazing as Pinkie Pie at the task.

Tavi and Vinny. You were never meant to end up in half the bad places I put you. I hope you don't hold grudges for the things I did.

Apple Bloom and Tender. Two young adults who are teaching me what restraint and being "adult" is all about, even in an "adult story".

Twilight. Damn it, you almost make me regret my firm belief that Cadance is "best princess'. What about if I simply say you are "most adorkable"?

Applejack. Always be true to yourself, not that I could ever imagine you being anything but. You are an amazing mare, and while I think Rarity is "best pony", you certainly have grown on me in this story.

Gel Pattern. You grew up from so little, to so much. You tried so hard, at every chance, to be a good pony. You gave and gave and gave some more. Damn Blueblood... Gel, you are definitely "best prince".

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