-Sonata’s POV-

I was walking with Skeletal towards who knows where, and I felt as if life was drained out of me. I wasn’t sure what to do or if I should scream for help, but I knew I was trapped here and I couldn’t do anything about it. I continued to think about my options when I felt the end of the chain pulling me towards Skeletal’s direction. I nearly tripped over myself when he did that.

“Try to keep up dearie, we’re almost to the Queen’s Royal Chambers,” Skeletal said with a smirk. “Remember what we talked about as well my dear, you do what I say when I say it. Is that clear?”

“Yes...master…” I weakly told him, not wanting to listen to this monster of a stallion. He continued to guide me through the castle, until we came across a large door. An intricate set of metallurgy decorated the door in the image of a sixteen-headed monster being wrenched to pieces by a majestic visage of a female Gargoyle, surrounded in a serrated ring that spun in place to keep the door shut. “Wh-what is this?”

“This is the queen’s royal chambers, and you’re going to meet her for the first time,” Skeletal said as he channeled a spell that summoned a magical key. He used it to open the door and yanked on the chain to pull me forward.

“Don’t slouch my dear, at least be happy,” He told me as he pulled me forward and the door behind us closed. It was a little dark to see, but an array of torches began to light the room. I was stunned to find the room I was in and what it looked like.

The room was a massive chamber, the entire place colored a cool midnight blue with torches that burned white at each corner. Illuminating the majority of the room was a large chandelier in the center of the raised dome, made of a twisted behemoth of purple crystals that produced an aura of white fire, though no smoke trailed from it. The walls were decorated with paintings of a large Gargoyle woman, slaying beasts and planting a flag upon different hellish landscapes. Drawers and cabinets framed with polished bones, their walls made of bedrock stretched around a desk of living, pulsing wood, red as blood and stacked with papers and writing utensils. A couple of doors in the back were likely for her closet and bathroom, while a gigantic bed, round and nearly five meters across, was covered in silver sheets with two dozen pillows, each one embroidered with a name and mark.

“Is this your room or something?”

“No, it’s not mine,” He told me.

“You wanted to see me Skeletal?” A female voice called out making me turn my attention towards it.

The woman in question was tall, eight and a half feet of thick, powerful Gargoyle-ette. She had beige fur and a brown mane, windswept back in a majestic wave that reached her lower back. Strong, orange wings jutt from her back, flared out to impose presence upon her guests. She wore a white dress with silver bracelets, a silver belt, and a silver crest that rested upon her HH-cup sized chest. Yellow eyes peered down upon me, and in that instant, I was nothing more than a meal served to a mighty beast.

“Ah, Queen Haydon, so nice to meet your acquaintance,” he said with a smile. “I just wanted to show you a new lead to my harem, and a rare one at that. A Siren.”

“A siren,” she said with confusion. “I thought they were all extinct. Though she doesn’t look like a siren, she looks more like a pony.”

“I’m afraid her amulet was destroyed a long time ago, but she still has the makeshift properties of a siren. I just need to figure out a way to recreate her jewel. I was hoping that you would have some ancient tomes to recreate the gems they use to feed in negativity.” He said with a smug smile. I was worried about what he was planning. It was like he had an ulterior motive behind his actions. I never even mentioned my amulet the entire time we were here, just what is he planning?

“I see,” Haydon said with a sigh. “I should have a few books within my throne room. What is the name of your new slave by the way?”

“Sonata Dusk,” he said. “Say hello to the queen my dear.” He said all while giving me a glare.

“Yes master,” I said, trying to keep him happy as I was worried for my life. “My name is Sonata Dusk, and I’m Skeletal’s new slave. It’s nice to meet your acquaintance.”

“Charmed,” Haydon said with her stoic stare. “I should have some gem forging tomes within my throne room. I can let you borrow a copy, but I need to tend to some pressing matters with a meeting that I have to attend at the moment.”

“I can wait, may we join you in your humble abode?” he asked her. Now I was even more worried. What was he planning on doing to me?

“You may, I may need my most trusted advisor if we’re going to get these negotiations done faster,” she said as she stepped into her ‘throne room’, leaving the two of us alone. I was sitting there trying to understand what was going on, and I felt his gaze on me.

“You’re probably thinking about what I plan to do, aren't you?” he asked me, my face starting to get fearful of what he was saying. “I’m well aware your gems are broken and I plan to make sure that you stay under my control.”

“Wh-what?”

“I know a spell to make sure that you’ll do anything I say and I plan to charm the amulets with that very spell,” he said with a devilish grin. My face turned pale hearing this. If he succeeded, then I would never see Dusk or any of my friends again, let alone the fact that the rest of his harem will be dragged here with me.

“N-no,” I didn’t know what to do. Terror gripped my heart while a million horrible ideas forced a splitting headache in my head. The thought that I’d be some kind of puppet, something that could be thrown away so easily filled me with more dread than even losing my amulet did. He could do things to me, or even kill me. But the thought of what he’d do to my unborn child… it drove a river out my eyes even thinking about it.

“Don’t worry, so long as you do what I say, I won’t harm your children,” He said, making me look up at him. “So long as you do what I say, your babies won’t be hurt. Do we understand each other?”

“... okay,” I said, wishing I had half of Aria’s courage to spit in his eyes.

“Okay...what?” he told me.

“...okay...master…” I said weakly.

“Good girl,” he said with a smile. The door behind him opened to reveal Queen Haydon returning with her signature stoic stare, but she seemed to notice my expression.

“What’s wrong with your slave?”

“Nothing, she was just worried about something and I was trying to cheer her up,” he lied. He was confident that she wouldn’t believe me, and that there was nothing I could do to change that. More hope began to drain from my body that I was going to be stuck here and the rest of Dusk’s herd mates will be stuck here for all of eternity. I felt the chain that was on my wrist cuffs being pulled as I was forced to stand up.

“I can’t exactly leave you by yourself,” Skeletal said with a smile. “Who knows what others might try and do if you’re alone.”

I just simply let him take me as I didn’t care anymore. Tears streamed down my face as he took me with Queen Haydon to who knows where. I just wish I never went outside so I wouldn’t have to deal with him. Queen Haydon then uses her magic to open another door near us and it leads to another room on the other side. I just looked around seeing as this was gonna be my new home thanks to this monster.

The throne room was massive, nearly as big as a hoofball field from the throne to the door. The throne itself was a polished mass of obsidian, molten magma streaming down behind it to form a moat at the base of the staircase that led to the main hall. Above was a massive skylight, faded yellow glass that stretched across to the walls. Each wall was covered in massive portraits of some demons or who I could only guess were famous family heroes, since I could see one that reminded me of Dusk. The door at the end was attended by six guards, three to each door with giant handles to pry it open, as the door was about three stories tall with rusting shackles that held the wooden thing together.

Even though I was in awe and amazement from how beautiful it all looked, I just wish it was under different circumstances. Across from the room were two demons that were joined by two other guards with them. Both guards were regular demons but the other two surprised me the most.

One was a grey mare, though instead of hooves she had clawed feet and Griffon-like talons. Her muzzle was tipped with fangs and she had bat-wings. The Succubus was easily a JJ-cup, and she wore only a small thong, using her pink fleshy wings to hide her nipples while propping up her bust. She ran her arms through her waving black mane, yellow eyes piercing me even at this distance.

The other was entirely purple, a few shades brighter than Dusk was. What drew my attention was the fact that she didn’t have legs, instead her lower half was that of a snake, stretching about 17 feet long, coiled beneath her. She had scales going up her belly, her GG-cup chest also scaled, and clad in a shiny black-coated cover of jewelry, white diamonds filling the studs where the nipples would have been. She also had four arms, two of which were risen against her viper-like hood, playing with her stark white mane. Green eyes shone like emeralds as a curious sense of unease penetrated me, in equal measure to a sense of welcomeness. It was tough to figure out if she was appraising my looks or how I’d taste.

“Thank you for coming on such short notice,” Queen Haydon relied as she took a seat on her throne. “You said that you had matters to discuss with me?”

“Yes we do Queen Haydon,” the succubus said.

“Ah, the Advisor of the succubus and the Lamia Princess, how nice to see you both,” Skeletal said with a smile.

“Nice to see you as well Skeletal,” the Lamia mare said with disdain in her voice.

“Um, who are they?” I asked.

“Allow me,” the Succubus said. “I am Laesyrda, Advisor of the Succubus Council.”

The Lamia nodded, “Shyak N’Kari, Princess of the Lamia,” she said with a fanged smile.

A tug on my chains nearly threw me off balance as Skeletal hissed at me.

“Do not speak aloud unless spoken to! I apologize, this slave’s yet to be properly broken in,” he said, smiling at the two.

“It would appear so,” Laesydra said as she eyed me with lust on her face. “What race is she, she doesn't smell like a pony.”

“She’s actually a siren, but her amulet was destroyed so she no longer has her siren abilities,” Skeletal said. “But I was going to talk to the queen about a spell that would properly recreate her amulet.”

“I see,” Shyak said with a glare. She then turns back to the Queen. “Anyways, Queen Haydon, We wished to discuss negotiations about our races requiring aid to our kin.”

“I see,” Haydon said with a sigh. They began to talk and I sat quietly to myself.

-The Roof-

‘Why did I let you talk me into doing this?’ Dusk said to himself, cursing Shadow Heart who was currently climbing on the roof of the entire building. He scaled about a third of the building, while ducking down between buttresses that support certain areas to avoid being spotted by other guards flying overhead.

“Hey, you said there was no way to get in that room, so what else was I supposed to do?” he said with an annoyed sigh. “I don’t know why you’re complaining seeing as I’m the one climbing up this damn thing, that I had to do three times,”

‘Till Sonata is safe, you deal with it. Dusk said in annoyance. ‘Do you even know if we’re over the room that Sonata is in yet?’

“No, not yet,” he told him. “I don’t even know where we are at the moment,”

‘Crap, there’s someone coming,’ Dusk said in a panic when he saw someone flying towards them at the corner of his eye. Shadow Heart looked up to see something flying at them and he wasn’t sure who or what it was. ‘Dammit what’re we gonna do?’

Shadow Heart looked around for a bit and saw that there were statues on the building that resembled guards but had barely any clothing covering them. Two being male and three being female. Where Shadow Heart was, one of the males was missing and he saw his chance.

“You know the old saying of hiding in plain sight?” Shadow Heart said with a smile. “Why don’t we test that theory?” He then stands where the missing statue was, holding his hands in the air with palms facing outward, bending his knees and holding his hips out slightly.

’There is literally no way this will ever work,’ Dusk said.

Shadow Heart stayed quiet and still, even managing to even his breathing so that he was completely still. The flapping of wings slowed as hooves touched down on the tile next to him. A bat mare with an alabaster coat and a blonde mane sighed as she landed, hiking her skirt up as she flapped her soaked nethers.

“Gods below, can’t believe they’re making me work through my fucking heat!” she screamed, fanning her crotch. “I could put out a damned inferno like this.”

’Don’t you fucking dare break our cover,’ Dusk said.

“Just wish that damned Incubus would show up and ravage me already, got me checking this spot for three hours now. Seriously, if he doesn’t show up,” she said, turning to Shadow, “I might as well get off on one of these statues for all it’s worth.”

‘Oh give me a break’ he screamed mentally in frustration.

Shadow did his damnedest to not move or make a sound, both his and Dusk’s will to not get caught overpowering even his own need to ravage any hole with a pulse. However, though he himself held fast, the mighty scepter below the waist refused to be quelled.

“Ugh,” she said, leaning on Shadow.

Her eyes widened in surprise as she pat his chest. “Wow, they make these things really life-like, huh? Psh, sure Queenie, waste our taxes on statues like these where no one even sees them,” she said, moving to sit on his leg. “Whoa!”

Only she didn’t sit on his leg, specifically.

“Jeez, they really get these things life-like! How much did it cost to make an accurate bulge of this guy?”

Her eyes lidded as she grinned evilly.

“Well, someone’s gotta appreciate the craftsponyship, and I suppose now’s as good a time as any to be an art buff,” she said, grinding her soaked panties on his concealed cock.

‘Please tell me that she isn’t doing what I think she’s doing,’ Dusk said to Shadow.

“Fraid she is,” Shadow Heart said with a sigh, as he felt her grinding her dripping crotch onto his hardening cock. This was unavoidable as he felt his bulge forcing its way out of the loincloth and she could feel it getting bigger. After awhile she was awestruck at how big he truly was.

“Woof, these enchanted statues are really something!” she said. “And to think there was an Honor Guard this fucking hung, unf, no wonder the Queen made them wear so little, she probably wanted easy access at a moment’s notice.”

‘Dammit Shadow!’ Dusk yelled in frustration.

‘What’d you want me to do, she wouldn’ stop rubbing against me,’ he told him, but he wouldn’t have much time to say anything else as the mare on top of him started to move again. She continued to rub herself against him much to his annoyance and he was annoyed that he couldn’t even do anything about it.

‘Damn, I wish I could just pin her to the wall and rail her right now,’ Shadow thought to Dusk.

‘You realize that we’ll miss Sonata if you do that right?’ Dusk told him. ’Are you really willing to risk losing her and our unborn foal because you wanted to screw some random horny bitch instead of protecting what’s ours?’

‘Alright, alright, I get it!’ he said in annoyance and he had to bear it and hoped that she would finish what she was doing and leave. She kept rubbing at him for ten minutes until he heard her let out a light moan and his crotch was drenched with her femenine fluids and she let out a sigh of relief.

“Damn that felt good,” she moaned as she got up and put her panties back on. “I gotta thank the queen for such a life-like statue. It felt so real...” She then flew off and Shadow Heart let out a groan in frustration.

“Dammit, I hate I couldn’t do a damn thing for her,”

‘Well deal with it, we’ve wasted enough time as it is with that,’

“You know you’ll be feeling this later when we get back right?”

‘It’ll be worth it to save Sonata, now shut up and go!’

“Yeah, yeah, whatever,” he said in annoyance. “But it’s gonna be hard for me to climb now since I’m stuck with a boner now.

‘Well what do you expect me to do?’ Dusk said in annoyance.

“Ugh… hang on.”

Shadow pulled his loincloth out at the waistline before he pulled his dick upright, pressing it against his stomach. He tied the loincloth tightly around his waist, pinning his boner to his chest.

“It’s not comfortable, but it’ll work for now,” Shadow said.

‘Guess that counts for something,’ Dusk said with a sigh as Shadow continued his ascent and tried to stay hidden among the guards patrolling the area.

-Castle Chambers-

Queen Haydon was still speaking with the two delegates that she met with, while Skeletal was smiling as he looked at the female’s curvy figures and had his devilish smirk.

‘Everything is going according to plan,’ he thought to himself. ‘Soon, I’ll not only rule over this entire city, but all of Equestria! Not even the Queen herself will be able to stop me. I just need a little more time.’

Meanwhile Sonata only had a hollow look on her face. After everything that happened up to this point, she wasn’t sure what to work with or how to get out of this. Her heart was heavy, as if lead pumped through her veins while thoughts of what terrible fate awaited her as a slave dominated her mind.

“And I think we can work out this deal fairly quickly, just be mindful of your race's venom, Princess Shyak,” Queen Haydon said with a sigh. “And Laesydra, as much as your proposal has promise, I wish to speak with the Queen of Succubi before making a decision.”

“I understand Queen Haydon,” the succubus herald said with a smile. With that taken care of, she turned to Skeletal who was waiting eagerly.

“Now Skeletal, you said that you planned to fix the medallion that was destroyed, may I ask why you’re doing this?” she asked looking at Sonata, who wasn’t even aware of what was around her.

“I just wish to give this slave of mine her singing voice back,” Skeletal said with a smile. “I know that the sirens use their charms to sway males to a watery grave, and I wish to hear her voice myself.”

“Just try to charm yourself to where that doesn’t happen,” Haydon sighed as she reached out and pulled out a book from behind her throne. She then turned to Skeletal and was about to give it to him.

A crack echoed through the room, everyone looking up as the skylight broke. Glass hailed down upon the delegates and the royal, jagged pieces cutting into their flesh while they tried to cover themselves. Laesydra screamed as she summoned a magical shield to cover her mostly naked body, blood trailing down her face as she plucked a piece of glass out of her eyebrow. Shyak hissed and curled into herself, sheltering her torso and face under her coils while the others simply ducked, their arms raised over their heads. Haydon herself stood still as her wings beat the glass aside, the pieces bouncing off of her unbreakable exterior while she glared at a falling shape. One of the larger supports fell onto Skeletal as he tried to dodge a plane of glass, smashing into his face and knocking him out. Sonata shrieked as she avoided getting impaled by another plane, but her attention was caught by the familiar voice falling from above.

“Son of a bi-” the scream was cut short as a tall, dark purple shape crashed into the floor.

“Argh, son of a bitch, that hurts,” Shadow said as he stood up and stretched his limbs. “Least my balls didn’t get hit.”

‘That’s what you’re fucking worried about?’ Dusk yelled at him. ‘You crashed into the freaking Skylight,’

“Well how else was I gonna get it?” Shadow Heart said in annoyance. “Plus I had to dodge a fireball outside when we got spotted.”

“D-dusk?” A female voice got his attention. Shadow turned around to see that it was Sonata Dusk dressed in a slave outfit, and she had tears streaming down her face. She wasn’t crying out of anguish, but out of joy seeing him again.

“Miss me Sonata?”

“DUSK!” she screamed, throwing herself onto him as she squeezed his chest as tight as she could. “Oh my Gods, I thought I was going to die without seeing you again! I-I-I’m so gla-ha-had to be wrong!”

“Hey, hey, it’s alright now, sweet cheeks,” Shadow said, a bit of Dusk forcing his way into his words, “I’m here now, and I’m never gonna let go, alright?” he said, running his hands along her back before he gripped her cuffs. “Hold still.”

He gripped the chains, his hands glowing with arcane might before they melted. He yanked the melted parts off before prying the wrist pieces open and tossing them aside.

“Thank you,” she said with a smile. “Please just take me away from here.”

“Don’t worry, I plan to,” he said with a smile as he hugged the frantic siren.

Sonata’s face went stoic when she felt a heat on her stomach.

“Dusk?”

“Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is,” he said. “I’d rather focus on getting you out of here first and I’ll take care of you.”

“I’d like that,” she said as Shadow Heart picked her up bridal style. Sadly they weren’t going to get the chance as the sounds of moving rubble started to get their attention. He turned around to see the succubus Laesydra, Shyak, Haydon and Skeletal recovering from the rubble attack.

“Well hello ladies.” Shadow Heart said with a smile

“Forget about getting your dick wet, we got bigger problems to deal with!”

“Ugh, who… you!” Laesydra said, pointing a finger at Shadow. “You dared to break into a royal meeting to kill us!?”

“Oh, shut up! I don’t give a shit about you, I’m here for my mare!” Shadow said, smacking Sonata on the ass.

“Oh, you think to fool us by stealing some slave?” Shyak said, slithering through the rubble.

“Why would you try to steal my advisor’s slave?” Haydon said as she moved the rubble from her after stepping out.

“Because, one, your Advisor’s a puss-filled dickhole, and second; Sonata’s not his slave, she’s my… uh… she’s mine, damnit! And she’s carrying my child! There’s no way I’m going to let him take them from me!”

“He’s lying,” Skeletal said, finally getting out of the rubble. “He came all this way to take her from me.”

“Shut UP!” Sonata screeched. “Shut your FUCKING LYING MOUTH!” she said, standing up.

“You… you dare!?”

“Yeah she does!” Shadow said.

“I don’t think you have control of your supposed slave yet,” Haydon said with a sigh.

‘BANG!’ The sounds of a door being flung open also got their attention and the same two hellhounds he boned earlier came crashing through.

“There he is, seize him!” Firespwan shouted.

“Shit.”

‘Don’t just stand there, run!’

Shadow Heart picked up Sonata and tried to run, only to feel his movements restricted. A dark orange glow surrounded him and Sonata. Queen Haydon’s hands glowed with the same arcane color, and with a swift flick of her wrists, she wrenched Sonata out of Shadow’s hands and slowly lifted her over to Skeletal.

“I believe this is yours?” she said, dropping her in Skeletal’s grasp.

“No! Let me GO!” Sonata screamed, trying to pull her arms out of Skeletal’s hands. “I’m not getting taken by you, you bastard!” she said, kicking him in the crotch.

Skeletal made no movement, nor did his face change from his scowl, but Sonata managed to get out of his grip and almost tripped as she got away from him. Sonata spit a generous glob into his face, managing to catch him right in the eye as he fell to his knees.

Haydon blinked as she watched the Siren run back to the suspended Shadow, trying to pull him down.

“Okay, what the devil is going on, you say that she’s yours when she clearly runs back to him,” she asked Skeletal, and then glanced back at Shadow who was still suspended by her magic. She undoes her bind allowing him to fall to the floor. “I’ve known you longer and even this doesn’t make any sense. Do you have a charm spell on her?”

“No I don’t,” he told her. “I was minding my own business and she was out getting groceries when he took her without me knowing. By the time I found out, I wasn’t too pleased.”

“This is turning into more of a he said situation and it's starting to become a headance,” Haydon said, rubbing her forehead. “But to think you’d go this far just to get her is what puzzles me.”

“Then there’s only one way to settle this.” Skeletal announced.

“And what do you propose?” Queen Haydon replied.

Skeletal smirked at Shadow Heart bearing his razor sharp teeth which unnerved Dusk when they both looked at the demons leering gaze. ‘I have a bad feeling about this.’

Skeletal then raised his hand and pointed right at the incubus. “Shadow Heart! I challenge you to a duel!” He declared loudly, the words echoed throughout the chamber as they soon registered to both the demon and alicorn.

“What?”

‘WHAT?!’

Author's Note

Okay, sorry that it's short, but this is the end of Dusk roaming through the castle, and I'm now close to ending this ark. Credit to helljumper206, and Yoshikage Kira for helping me out with this chapter once again.