Celestia was worried more for her pony than for the creature. "That as may be, but did they force themselves on you?" Her horn flared brightly, the windigo had lost much of its power and would not be able to resist her, but she faltered. The aura of the spirit of anger and strife was tinged with something, as it swirled through the pegasus. It was tinged with hope.

"I… I won't lie." Rainbow looked up at the alicorn standing tall and powerful above her. "I offered to be its friend and it took the offer a little far." She inhaled, smelling more than just the normal scents. She could practically smell the sunshine pouring down from above. She could feel the weather magic the Crystal Heart was exuding. "Am I always going to feel this?"

The answer didn't come. Rainbow Dash reached for the windigo inside her, to feel for its feelings and thoughts, but nothing came. "Where did they go?"

Luna stepped in. She had seen such merging before, first hoof. "When I became Nightmare Moon," she said, beginning her own tale, "the malevolence and desire were secondary to the will of that… that monster. Tell me Rainbow Dash, did the windigo seem intelligent? Did it feel like it could think and talk on its own?"

All this talk stank of 'nerd stuff' to Dash, but when Luna or Celestia asked you a question, you answered it. "Uh, not… not really. It seemed to react to me, it did speak once, but only when it was already inside me." She thought on it, even though it made her feel like an egg-head.

"Then, I think, it is part of you. It might affect how you will react, but barring extreme application of rainbows," Luna looked to Twilight with a half grin, "I think you are stuck together."

Rainbow Dash felt shocked. It was part of her, like, inside her. "Is that why everything feels a little different?" She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply. She could smell the storms to the north, great swirling snowstorms, driving sleet. "Okay, this is a little awesome."

A wing wrapped around the sky-colored pegasus' back and pulled her in close against Twilight. "You were already awesome, Rainbow Dash."

"Your highnesses! Your highnesses!" A stallion was galloping up to the open area where everypony was gathered. Sensing the urgency, the crowd parted to let the royal messenger through. "Your highnesses!" The earth pony stallion reached into the satchel on his back and produced a scroll, his eyes shining at seeing his duty done.

Everypony was gathered close, wanting to hear but trying not to demand to know. If curiosity killed the cat, then it was only because a pony trampled them to find out. "Canterlot suffers the same fate as the Crystal Empire." Celestia read the note, smiling at finding out that Prince Blueblood had finally broken his fetters. She truly had wanted more information from him, but to read of him taking command and making the city safe? It warmed her heart. "To the train!"

"So half the city have calmed down." Blueblood looked to the east side of the city, where the changeling hive sat, the poorer sections of Canterlot, not that they were slums by any stretch of the imagination.

"But the other has… not." Steady gestured with a hoof to where the pile of rubble that formed the 'wall' dividing the city. "They keep accusing us of being mind controlled by the changelings."

"But they are okay? No fighting taking place?" The Prince sounded more worried about that than unity, driving home for Steady Shield that he was most certainly not the stallion who wore the name Blueblood before.

"No, with us to focus on, they appear to have calmed and united toward each other." Steady felt a twitch in his flank, an old wound he had gotten calming down a rather boisterous party when he was just a rank and file guardspony. It only ever twitched when bad weather was coming but, though the sky was gray and cloudy, it hadn't twinged until right now. "The letter should have reached them by now. If the princesses are feeling particularly emboldened, they may just teleport back, although that is a long trip."

Prince Blueblood nodded. "And draining, if something here needs to be fought by them they would be coming back weakened. We can hold out a day, I hope." The royal guard accompanying them straightened as the two turned. "Lets head through the city, ponies need to know things are under control."

Steady really liked this new prince, and he was sure most of the city would too. Whatever game the Princess had been using him to play was dashed now, but maybe it was for the better.

Lyra's magic had summoned her namesake and she sat at the base of the tree while the other ponies got their bearings, strumming slowly. She was no musician, but she could play. She didn't need any sheets of music, she worked the strings to the music in her head. At her side, her Bon Bon was humming wordlessly along, the song of the forest surging with the new additions to it.

"It's time." Vinyl found the pair wrapped in music. She couldn't reach them at first and instead had to reach to their minds through song and tweak the beat, raising it and adjusting the time.

It was Lyra who snapped from the song first, she couldn't play along to what the music in her brain was doing. "Oh, hi Vinyl, time to go already?"

Vinyl smirked. "Yeah, we have gathered a whole mess of fruit, most of the ponies are ready to travel. Sweetie coming?"

Lyra leaned down and kissed her mate on the mouth, the action halting her humming and snapping her awake. Feeling her lover's lips on her own, Sweetie pushed forward into the kiss, getting her legs under her as she did, rising up to meet Lyra on the same level.

"You manage to wake them up yet?" Octavia walked around the tree to find the two lovebirds kissing still and her own mate watching them with the most delighted music coming from her. "Are you… Vinny, stop that!"

Lyra broke the kiss and turned. She had heard the music, the longing. "It's okay, Octavia. There aren't a lot of ponies I would take that kind of thing as a compliment from, but Vinyl is one."

Sweetie giggled and hummed the music, lamenting suddenly her lack of any musical training. "I can't find a fault in it either. Hard to be down on a mare for having naughty thoughts about you when you have been so, very, deep inside her." The earth pony stepped forward and practically whispered the last words in Vinyl's ear.

The DJ's tail swished. "Maybe we could try that again, oh… it won't work like this. The deer didn't like forest-touched ponies." Vinyl's face fell.

"Silly, we don't need to be stallions to have fun." Lyra's horn lit and suddenly Vinyl stood up very straight indeed as magic grew inside her tail-hole, forming a very physical shape.

Octavia and Sweetie bopped their unicorn lovers.

"No, wait until we are home and things are calm again." Sweetie kissed Lyra's cheek. "But remember whatever you just did, I want my eyes to bulge like that too."

"What she said." Octavia kissed her lover too and the four started to walk back to where the rest of the ponies were recovering from their infestation. Vinyl, unlike the others, was walking with a slightly wider gait.

"No, you two have been through a lot today, let me take care of Flurry and you relax." Sunburst cradled the sleeping foal in his magic, rocking her slowly.

"But-" Cadance had started to argue but a white hoof with feathered fetlock shoved into her mouth. She turned her head to her husband who glared at her. He slowly removed the hoof. "I guess we can do that…"

"Excellent. The Empire is back in order, the heart is once again protecting the land and the world is turning." Sunburst felt as if he had matured a lot in just a few hours. He had found his foalhood friend again, found other friends besides and more excitingly, had discovered that Princess Celestia hadn't thought of him as a failure! He was practically a new stallion.

"Come on dear, I haven't slept in… time, can't think…" Shining was nearly completely out of his mind with exhaustion, even the restoring burst of energy from the Crystal Heart hadn't fully returned his faculties.

Letting herself be led to their bedroom, Cadance got inside the door and closed it behind her. "Okay, so some bed time, but now I haven't got a foal inside me, I am going to tap that plot so hard." Cadance's energy had been revitalized by her very element, the Heart having focused so much love that she was practically overflowing with power. She reached out to her lover, the spell playing again for her.

Shining wasn't ready for the changes, his body shrinking a little, hips widening and muscles slimming. It no longer felt strange, just special. She turned and looked over one shoulder to her wife. "You make my hips a little bigger every time you do this, are you trying to tell me something?" Cadance's magic had stirred her awake fully, lending awareness in much the same way as caffeine would.

"Tell you something? No, my adorable filly, I am going to give," Cadance emphasized the word, "you something." Shining watched as the spell played again but she wasn't the target. She watched as her pretty pink alicorn mate grew a little bigger still, her muscles surging and growing, her fine features adjusting into a truly stunning, chiseled stallion. Shining's jaw dropped at the amazing image before her. "You like what you see?"

It was strange, Shining had never thought about another stallion, but Cadance was not just another stallion. He was what poets would write about, what songs of perfection were trying to deliver. "I do."

"Those words got us in so much trouble last time you said them." Cadance strode forward, feeling physical power to match his magical one. "Turn around, filly." He watched as Shining, eyes wide, turned slowly. He watched as the mare's hips moved in a way that hinted at how good she would bear a stallion on her back, a foal in her belly. Something tightened under Cadance, something she knew was going to be big.

Shining had closed her eyes, she didn't want to see what was about to happen to her. Or maybe she did. Sneaking one eyelid open, she spotted a mirror and saw as Cadance's big snout brushed against the white mare's plot, watched too as the receptive mare raised her tail. "Please be gentle-" Anything the former stallion might have said further was lost as she moaned out.

Cadance had experimented in his youth. When a mare was at school, she tended to be in proximity with a lot of other mares, all of a similar mental attitude. Games were played and his tongue was quick to return to those old ways. Slathering up from the bottom of his lover's engorging lips to the top, Cadance worked against Shining's clitoris, feeling muscles spasm each time he worked it.

Moaning, so much moaning, and she was doing all of it. Shining didn't care, this was Cadance, her Cady. But the stallion behind her was very good at playing with a mare, it seemed, and Shining felt another touch as alicorn magic gripped at her udder gently, massaging them and tweaking her teats. "Cady… please…"

"Please what?" Cadance drew back his snout, but didn't stop the gentle massage of the white mare's lower belly. "You want more licking, more rubbing, or something else?"

Shining trembled and looked over her shoulder. Her teasing mate was looking very serious about being asked for what to do next. "On the bed, more licking." Moving was hard, the stimulation between her legs, rubbing the tender and soft flesh of Shining's foal-feeders was driving her to distraction, but it was a nice distraction.

Cadance watched the mare waddle to the bed, not easing up for a second. There was the most delightful smell on the air, one Cadance had no knowledge of, but it enticed him onwards. Following his Shiny, he watched as the mare flopped onto the bed, rolling around and onto her back.

This was definitely a better position than 'standing up', Shining thought, they could look at each other, watch each other. Her eyes spoke volumes to the stallion, and she saw her wife's smile widen. When the pink alicorn stallion stepped closer, Shining was almost trembling. From this position she could see the hefty shaft hanging below Cadance.

Lust. Cadance watched his lover succumb to it and could easily trace the direction the mare was glancing in. He smiled widely, wondering if he had ever fallen into such a trap as his husband was now in. He knew he probably had, and hopefully would again.

Shining had begged for that talented tongue to return but Cadance seemed to have other things on his mind. Lifting his belly up and over her own, the alicorn spread his wings just as the huge tip of his shaft kissed the lips of the mare under him. Shining's heart was pounding fast, this wasn't the first time she had been with Cadance as a mare, but this was certainly new, to both of them.

"You ready?" Cadance watched Shining, his Shiny, nod. He waited four heartbeats, no time at all considering how fast his heart was racing. Tightness, so much tightness. His shaft pushed in only a little, parting the damp lips of his mare and he couldn't stop himself. He bucked.

Shining had wanted to watch her wife's face as she was claimed, but it was too much. She screwed her eyes closed and moaned out loud, her voice echoing around the huge chamber they were in. The feeling of the huge shape invading her body was both amazing and shocking. The pleasure was so intense merely from how worked up she was that Shining was pushed into a climax, her body clenching mostly on empty space, but she also grabbed the little of her mate that was inside.

Finding his lover already lost to the pleasure, Cadance held back not a moment more. He bucked again, and again, shoving deeper with each mighty thrust, claiming Shining as his own in a very new way. Their groins touched at last and Shining was around every inch of Cadance's member, gripping and massaging it.

Shining's eyes were open now, gazing up at the stallion above her. She was so full, so very, very full. She squirmed a little, feeling Cadance's hooves on each side of her restrain her movement a little. When her lover drew backwards, it sucked the fullness from Shining, drawing it out and leaving her whimpering in the aftershocks of pleasure. But then he was back inside her, inside and feeling great.

Cadance started to build a rhythm, pulling back and driving forward, bucking in again and again, feeling his legs kick hard and force their bodies to meet again in the dance of love. When Shining's pot started to bubble over in another orgasm, Cadance couldn't hold back.

The world had narrowed down to the bed and her lover. Shining's body was trembling again as her release rode her as surely as Cadance was. She gripped down again and again at the huge shape inside her and was rewarded.

"Oh Shiny…" Cadance barely managed to say, feeling his body start to tense, an odd tingling focusing in his groin. Then the stallion's body exploded, his hips drove him forward and in again, as deep as he could get as contraction after contraction rocked him, pumping his love into the unicorn.

Shining Armor felt a hot swelling inside as her lover fell down upon her. She caught Cadance and rolled sideways with the stallion, feeling her body flush again and again as the wonder of sex drove all other thoughts from her mind. Sleep came quickly to both, Shining was still mostly out of it from lack of sleep. Cadance, however, was still ready for more and even as Shining felt sleep tugging at her mind, she could feel her lover start bucking again, only for the swelling feeling inside to grow.

Cadance only managed a third climax before he too gave in and snuggled with his lover. Sleep finally found both ponies.

It was the middle of the night when the pair woke, slowly. Cadance wrapped her wonderful husband in a wing, pulling the other pony close. "Love you, you naughty mare."

Shining kissed Cadance, every nerve in their body relaxed and at peace with how things had gone the previous night. "Love you too, Cadance."

Both froze, Shining's voice wasn't how he should sound. "The spell should have worn off by now." Cadance drew back a little from the mare in her bed. "Is something wrong, let me check…" Pink light flared and wove around the white unicorn mare who was trying desperately to relax. "Okay, the spell is still active, maybe it just had extra oomph to it from the Crystalling?"

"Cady?" Shining looked up. There was a smell in the air the white mare knew, she had smelled it before.

"What's wrong?" Cadance picked up on the worry in Shining's voice.

"I… I was in estrus… I am…" Shining couldn't say it, she just couldn't. She felt too good.

Cadance's face lit up, her eyes wide with delight and excitement. Wrapping her legs, all four, around her lover she squeezed tight.

Shining couldn't feel bad about it, they had one foal already. "I'm pregnant..."

Author's Note

You asked for it! Now you get it. I hope you are all very happy with yourselves. Poor Shiny...

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