Suffice to say, he was excited. Recently, his mother had started delving into more magical types, all because of Duet teaching her that voice amplification spell a while back. She still hadn’t quite mastered it yet, but it had opened a door for her into moving on into a variety of spells beyond just what she knew already. It was no secret Dust Mite held a sort of affection for the Princess of the Night, something that caused Small Smiles to giggle at the thought, so she began to research what arcane attributes were related to her.
Borrowing tomes from their local library, she couldn’t quite get the hang of most of the spells. Unless one had a general skill in magic or were extremely convicted in their pursuit, mastering an ability outside of one’s own range of talent was hard, but Small Smiles had found one she could relatively pursue quite well after a bit of practice. She had offered it as a bonding experience for Dust and Snow. They had known Dust all their lives, but his best friend of only a few months still had more to learn, and he of her. What she had found might alleviate that beyond simply talking and spending time together.
The spell could meld the dreaming consciousness of two or more sleeping beings, allowing for lucid interaction within their resting world. Princess Luna had used it once to allow all of Ponyville into a single dream, but now it was being used for a more simpler action. As soon as their time together was over, Snow having visited for the day, Small Smiles, with some form of concentration, had casted the spell on both her son and Snow, assuring a night for them together.
When Snow had left, and things had quieted down into the night, Dust Mite dreamed. It was, at first, a restless sleep, grunting and groaning to get into a comfy position, but slowly his mind’s eye melted away the darkness, and he sat up.
Normal sized.
Snow moaned in annoyance as she felt something splash on her face, some form of liquid pelting her repeatedly. She had already had a hard time trying to get to sleep that night, the spell that Small Smiles wanted to try out affecting her mind, making it feel all jumbled up and chaotic, but this was worse.
“C’mon, stop it” she groaned, lazily swatting at whatever it was. She heard a wet smack and felt her had stick to something…slimy. Slowly, she opened up her eyes and a sickly green form was in front of her, its surface all wet and slick. Her eyes shot open as she realized what she was touching.
“AHHH! FROG! EEEEKKK, GET AWAY!” she screamed, scrambling backwards to get away from the oversized amphibian. It only came up to her stomach with her sitting down, but that was plenty big enough for her. To her dismay, it turned to look at her, but it had a look of annoyance on its face.
“Wow lady, they all as rude as ya in the real world?” the frog growled, an accent similar to the ones in Manehattan coming through in its voice. The frog scoffed loudly and hopped away, leaving a very confused and grossed out pony on her haunches.
“Wha…?” Somewhere in Snow’s mind, she knew that she was dreaming, but being confronted with one of the things that really freaked her out got her mind reeling. As if to fit her behavior, the area around her began to very slightly swirl, a magical essence flowing through the air.
“Oh right, this is a dream…” she whispered, looking around.
This was a bit … odd. His head was clearing as he sat up in bed, the whole room around him not the endless environment he could normally get lost in, but walkable, and he daresay, a bit cramped. Dust recognized it as the guest room, previously what would have been his own room until his parents realized how small he actually was.
Standing up, he looked around curiously, coming to grips that he was dreaming, but now in full control, and as big as a normal sized pony, walking out into the rest of his home from a perspective he had never seen before. It was truly surreal, but for now he had to focus. As he made his way for the front door, Dust stepped out into a rather confusing world. It was Ponyville, but seemingly shifting, as if affected by chaos magic, the rules deemed by their own subconscious.
“Gotta find …” Scanning the general area, he grinned, running up to her full sprint. “SNOW!”
Ponyville sure looked weird in a dream. It was all swirly and some parts faded in and out of view, but for all intents and purposes, it was the town that she had called home. Everything was where it was supposed to be, Town Hall, Sugarcube Corner, though Snow didn’t think that the treats on the roof spun like that in real life, and all the shops and restaurants that she had started to grow to like. But before she could inspect further, she heard her name being called out.
It sounded like a stallion and they seemed to be very excited, but she couldn’t put a name or face to the voice. She turned to look in the direction of the call, only to get a face full of grey fur and a tight embrace. The next thing she knew, she and this mysterious stallion were flying through the air until she felt and heard a loud *SPLAT.*
Taking a second to compose herself, she evaluated where she was and what just happened. Well, somepony was happy to see her and jumped at her at full sprint, very excitedly, she might add. The second thing she noticed was that she was now dripping head to hoof in cool, vanilla ice-cream. They had soared into Sugarcube corner and landed in one of the…bushes? Only, it was ice cream.
She shook the cold dessert off her as much as she could and looked over at where the stallion was. He was looking at her, giggling, and had a wide smile, but she had a hard time seeing his face as it was completely covered and dripping in the cold, white cream. However, after a second, something dawned on her and she felt a smile growing.
“Dust? Is that you?”
Chuckling loudly to himself, Dust Mite pulled himself off from top of Snow, wiping off the cold treat that had splattered onto them. Maybe he had gotten a bit too excited there, but at least she recognized him when he hasn’t a near invisible fleck. “Yup, it’s me.” He replied cheerfully, standing up and offering a hand to help her.
“In the, pretty average sized flesh and fur. That spell, a little weird kicking in, but at least it worked, it seems!”
It was weird to see. Here, standing before her, was the tiny pony that was barely even the size of a strand of her fur, offering her a hand that was an inch or two bigger than her own. She took his hand and he pulled her up with a very solid grip and when she looked at him, she had to look up at him. He was couple inches taller than her, a very weird feeling that she was the shorter one now.
“W-Well, this is, uh, quite the site!” she chuckled. She tried to wrap her head around actually seeing her friend as if he was a normal sized stallion instead of the tiny mite that she was familiar with. “How are you feeling? Anything feel wrong?” she asked.
“I know, right!?” He could hardly contain his own excitement about the fact that he had to look down at Snow without having to flap his wings, seeing her from a view where she wasn’t overwhelmingly big and parts of her out of sight. “I’m feeling fine, this is a dream after all. Though, things do seem a bit weird around here. Dust shrugged, observing the surrounding environment.
“What about you? Are you feeling okay? I know new magic casted on a pony can feel a bit off at times.”
“Uhh, well, I feel fine enough, I guess. This whole experience has been hard to settle into, really. I didn’t know such magic existed” she said in wonder. She looked Dust up and down, trying to get an idea for what he truly looked like. She had to admit, she liked this view a lot more than she did of him when he was in reality. He was incredibly lean, but still was well built, most likely from all the flying that he constantly had to do. She then looked at the wings that were folded up behind him.
They were long and grey, each one looking to be extremely long and powerful. She moved to his left to get a closer look at them, Dust lifting his wing to bring it closer to her as she inspected it. She very gently touched it and felt the tickly texture of the feather tips, a small shiver running down her body. She laughed a little bit and turned back to him, instinctively looking down but quickly correcting herself as she looked up, giggling at her error.
“I had no idea you looked like this. Wow, you have quite the powerful set of flyers on you” she said
Dust Mite blushed as she examined him, feeling her play with his wings, trying not to tense up from her touch. “Heh, thanks Snow, you flatter. They’re really nothin’ special. Think Dad and Cloudy got better ones anyway.”
Meanwhile, in the world of the woken, Lilycup smiled to herself as she laid awake, horn glowing slightly. She was casting a spell she had learned earlier, having ‘borrowed’ the book from her mother it was in. Having heard about what Dust and Snow were doing, she was excited about it too, wanting to join in on the fun. It was simple enough, cast the spell on Snow before she left, on Dust after he had fallen asleep, and on herself right before she went to sleep herself.
If all went well, she would be joining them in the dreamscape soon as she drifted off.
“Well, I think all of your family have very nice sets of wings, I guess I’m just impressed with seeing yours, considering you are usually in the palm of my hand” she giggled and gave him a little, playful slap. “C’mon, lets go check out this spell a bit more, I’m sure there could be a lot of interesting things we could see” she said, skipping away into town.
The two ponies began taking a tour of the mentally created town, Dust having a little harder time trying to adjust to how everything wasn’t titanic in size, a couple times tripping on some items by his hooves that he wasn’t paying attention to. For as much as things were the same, they were also very different. Snow was pretty sure that there were some buildings that she hadn’t seen before that seemed to be alive and talking with other buildings. And she was also pretty sure that she saw some birds that were…pigs? “Huh” she said aloud. “Well, in dreams, I guess”
He couldn’t help but blush from her compliments, tucking in his wings as he walked with her. Ponyville in the dream world /was/ quite strange, but what one would expect from such a state of the melding of two minds. He wondered just how far their dream would extend, potentially to the limits of their imagination. Equestria, the world, even beyond.
They passed ponies they recognized, even some they didn’t, all going about their day as if it were normal. “Weird, just like Ponyville, but … dreamier.” Dust Mite mumbled, looking up and seeing the sun and moon had somehow combined into one single sky orb.
Lilycup entered the dream, slowly waking into it in her own room. She grinned as she got out of bed and strolled out of her home, might as well see where her brother and Snow were. “Is this what you expected to see?” Snow asked Dust as the two ponies continued to look around. “It is incredible what ponies can create with enough magic, this is so similar to Ponyville it’s almost scary. Then I remember that we’re sharing a conscious and I realize that magic is just weird” Snow began to laugh. “Hey wait, if this is a dream…” she tailed off and a small smile came to her face.
She seemed to remember being told that during an instance when the town was under attack by a nightmare creature, the citizens, with Princess Luna’s help, united in a single dreamscape and used their imaginations to fight back by creating powers. If this was a similar spell, maybe she could do it too. Closing her eyes, she began to concentrate on something that she had wanted to try and do for a long time. She imagined feeling her hands getting colder, but not harmed. She tried to picture herself being able to replicate the natural snow magic that had been her “partner” for years as she made her works.
“Hey Snow? Are you okay? You seem a little cold” Dust asked, with a little smile. Snow opened her eyes slowly and noticed that her hands were surrounded by a light blue aura that was circling around her fingers. It was cold, but it wasn’t uncomfortable. She smiled and pointed her hand into the air and imagined a stream of ice coming from her hand. What she got was more of a sputter, but it was an exciting start.
“Dust! Check this out!” she said in disbelief, “I might have to ask your mom to cast this spell more often!” Snow laughed.
Off in the distance, unbeknownst to the two ponies, Lilycup observed what Snow was doing and curiously tried something herself. Before her eyes, and with little effort, she transformed a potted plant into a cluster of bits. She smiled a wicked grin, she had an idea.
“Heh, wow!” Dust watched as Snow created her own stream of ice. While it was weak, it was still there. “I know right? This’ll definitely have to become a regular thing. It’s a little hard to grasp what we want to do in this dream, but I’m sure in time we can learn how to do so.” A nod. “Like … look at me. I’ve always dreamt about being normal sized, and here I am!”
It is said the realm of dreams and the forces of the arcane weren’t too far off from one another, and the binding of the two could lead to a potential bevy of abilities and powers. Within a magic-fueled dream, who held the power but the one with magic? Lilycup snickered to herself, finding that whatever she thought of around her seemed to happen as soon as the idea was formed. This was going to be fun.
For her, at least.
She walked up to her brother and Snow, Dust Mite’s eyes shining as he watched what he thought was a dream duplicate of his sister approach them. “Lilycup!” He laughed, still all too happy, hugging her. “Look at me! Normal sized, nice and tall.”
Despite her own malicious intentions, she herself couldn’t help but laugh at his joy, hugging in return, actually surprised to be able to see him in his entirety. “I’m glad to see you like this bro, you’re always such a downer most of the time.” When the hug was released, she seemed to be gradually inching upwards in height, something Dust didn’t notice.
Snow smiled from ear to ear as she saw Dust happily embrace the dream manifestation of his little sister, who was actually smaller than him for once. It wasn’t very often that she heard Dust be happy about something, but this was once instance where he really was.
She took a minute to look back at her ice-infused hands and played around with the ice a little bit, making it dance in the air and create little sculptures. She was getting a handle on her new dream powers, even if they were still relatively weak. Just as she was about to try a stream of ice again, she felt her head pulse and she became lightheaded. She stumbled for a second as she tried to retain her balance, her ice powers disappearing as she tried to keep herself steady.
“Woah, that was weird” she said, looking over at Dust and Lily, “did either of you get a sudden dizzy spell or was it just me?” she asked and noticed that Dust also was clutching his head. Lily was not.
“Must be the sleeping spell” Snow thought, unaware that a certain slow growing filly was doing some “tests” with her magic.
Her grin could only grow wider as she pressured her influence on the world around her, even Dust and Snow affected as she pleased. She wouldn’t do anything too dangerous, but things would get interesting. For her, at least.
“Ugh, yeah, must be some magic thing. Maybe the spell’s weakening? Who knows how long we’ve been asleep actually.” Dust Mite replied, holding his head. “Mom did say the spell grows weaker the closer it gets to morning.”
Unfortunately for either of them only Lily knew just how far they were from this dream being over. Her rate of growth accelerated slowly, enough to the point that it was visible now. Snow shook the feeling from her head. It would make sense that the closer they were to morning, the weaker the spell would be since they would be starting to wake up. But something bugged her about that, they hadn’t been asleep for that long, had they? If the dream world passed time similar to the real world, then it had only been about an hour or so.
She was about to voice her concerns to Dust and Lily when she noticed something strange. The tables in the plaza that they were standing in had started to fade from sight, a ghostly outline the only sign that they were ever there, and then to retain their solid form again. Similarly, some of the clouds in the sky began turning a different color, instead of a white, they became black and red with threatening points instead of fluffy edges, before also returning to normal. In fact all around her, there were various anomalies that raised a warning flag in her head. Sure it was a dream, and most of the stuff was weird looking or changing, but these felt…dangerous. Like it was a warning.
“Dust? Do you feel like something…is…off?” Snow turned back to the other two ponies but was confused to see that Lilycup was now much taller than when she last looked. Instead of up to Dust’s chest, she was now about even height with him. What made Snow worry was the smile that was forming on her face, and it was not one that made Snow smile with her.
“Hey, uh, Lily? When did you, uh, get that big?” she asked nervously, the young filly now growing taller than the two of them.
“Something … definitely seems off.”
The dream was taking on a more aggressive visual, only to snap back to normality seconds later, but it still left a sense of unease. Turning from examining their surroundings to Snow, then to Lilycup, Dust jumped back slightly, surprised to see his shorter sibling now a head taller than he, and gradually rising as well. “L-Lily …?”
“What? I’ve always been this big and taller than you guys!” She snickered. “You’ve both been short to me. In fact …”
The dream seemed to momentarily pause. No movement from anything, no ambient background noise, just the three ponies nervously exchanging glances. “I think everyone’s always been smaller than me.”
A brief shift where Lilycup once stood, the young unicorn disappearing in an instant. Dust Mite curiously walked over and examined where she had been, looking over to Snow Petal with a shrug. “Weird. Where do you think she could’ve gone? Well, I guess that’s a dream for you, they don’t really make sense-”
Several seconds later, as if in the form of an answer, a monolithic wall of magenta slammed down upon the horizon, shaking the very world itself. Snow gulped in nervousness as she looked up at Lily as she grew bigger than Dust and herself, the filly laughing as she said that everyone was smaller than her. Everything around them seemed to have frozen in place, nothing moved or breathed, except the three of them. Then in a moment, she was gone, the space she had occupied barren, as if nopony had been there at all.
Snow was shaken up by the encounter. It seemed as though Lily had a bad intention, but she was suddenly nowhere to be seen. She watched as Dust examined the spot and simply shrugged. She was about to shake it off too, until her whole world was suddenly rocked. An incredibly loud boom and massive earthquake made her lose her balance and fall over, her ears ringing as the massive noise had been a lot for her eardrums to take. She looked up and noticed that most of the horizon had turned a shade of light red, almost like a magen…ta…color.
Snow very slowly began to look up. And up. And up some more, the vast sky of color going high up into the air, until she saw something that made her jaw drop. In the sky above them, looking down upon them was a massive face, an eye as large as large as…she couldn’t compare it to anything, she had simply never seen something as large as this before.
Before she could react, she felt the ground below her quake again, the rumbling not as intense, but was still incredibly violent and lasted much longer as she was thrown about again. When Snow recovered and looked up again, she realized that the fields outside of the town were gone, replaced by vast stretches of magenta fur, some strands towering in size. She also was having a hard time standing up, as if gravity had increased multiple times upon her, and her stomach began turning, as though she was moving at incredibly high speeds. Finally, it stopped and she felt herself being flung into the air, landing with a thud on the ground again. She was dazed, but alright, as she started standing up before yet another booming vibration shook her.
“Heehee, didn’t think that a whole town could be lifted so easily” the words tore through the air, making Snow cover her ears, but it didn’t hurt her. Then far off in the distance, a blurry, but memorable visage looked down at them. It was Lily. She had somehow grown to a massive size in an instant. “And it all fits on my fingertip, how cute” her booming voice rumbled again.
This had gone from a dream to a nightmare for Snow and Dust.
Everything rumbled and rattled to an unbelievable degree, even though Dust was so accustomed to it by now it was a bit of a shock to feel such an extreme form of reality in his sleep. He hoped Snow could make it through the turmoil as he clung, feeling the wind rush by powerfully, seeing in the distance a speeding blur of cloud layers whizzing past them, then the emptiness of a clear atmosphere. Soon, he saw Lilycup just as he always saw her, except now even in his dreams her monolithic visage pestered him.
“Ugh.” Was all he had to say, with a bit of a gulping fear.
The now colossal unicorn laugh, voice echoing and rumbling powerfully and deeply enough to be akin to thunder itself. She had always felt big when around Dust, but this took it to a whole other level, more along fulfilling a fantasy she had always somewhat desired. Even though it was a dream, she could still feel the residents of Ponyville and beyond gazing up at her in awe, quite the rush she did say so herself.
“Heyyyy Dusty, Snow!” Lilycup snickered as she peered down at the tiny town on her appendage, all of Ponyville and its surroundings atop her fingertip. “Told ya I was bigger than everyone~. Oh don’t you look cute down there.”
“Snow, just … relax. It’s a dream. She can’t hurt us.” Dust Mite said, walking over to his friend to reassure her.
“Hurt you? Why would I want to do that?” Lily giggled, wiggling and flexing her finger slightly, sending them both tumbling back onto the ground from the force of the quakes. “Naw. I just wanna have some fun is all. And I have all of Equestria and the world to have it with.”
Snow was left speechless. She just simply couldn’t comprehend where she was right now, atop the fingertip of a monstrous unicorn and completely surrounded by her fur. With no effort at all, she had uprooted Ponyville as well as a couple smaller settlements on the outskirts with such precision that it was unbelievable. She carefully picked herself up with Dust’s help, reassured that they couldn’t be harmed since it was a dream. It was further reassured when Lily’s simple giggle and answer rocked the whole town and knocked everypony down again.
“W-What do you mean by ‘fun?’” Snow asked, she wasn’t too thrilled with this idea from Lily.
“Wellll, it’s exactly what it sounds like, Snowy” the colossal titan replied with a smile. “And I think I want to start with a little yo-yo practice, I always liked that” she smirked, horn glowing a very slight gold.
Before any pony could do anything, a giant golden sphere of magic began to enclose around the land that Lily had on her finger tip. The magic began to solidify into a yellow plastic like substance and a giant white, magical thread attached to the top and began to wrap around the giant finger.
“Ready? Here we go!” Lily laughed.
In an instant, the magenta ground was pulled away and the whole town was sent into a freefall. Ponies everywhere began tumbling head over hoof, screaming, as the ball they were inside of began to descend at rapid speed. Then, it began to slow and when it finally stopped, the ponies were forcefully slammed into the soft, magical walls, only to be pressed into them as the string around Lily’s finger stretched and brought the ball back up, all the ponies inside being brought along for the undesired ride. After the rapid accent, it grew dark as the titanic palm of Lilycup awaited her magical toy’s return. When it did, it slammed into her palm as she caught it and sent all the ponies tumbling all over the town. Nopony was hurt, but they were surely dazed. But they had no time to recover as Lily’s thunderous chuckles rumbled the air again.
“Ooonnnnneeee…” she said slowly, smiling, as she released her grip on the ball again.
The ride repeated itself, dizzying and tumbling in their descent, then ascent, back and forth, up and down with Lilycup chuckling and counting to herself in her game, the magical yoyo comprised of Ponyville at her mercy. “Eleveeeeeeeeeen, … twelveeeeeeee …”
This carried on until she stopped around the mid twenties, having grown bored of playing with it. Once she was done, Lilycup tugged the toy back up to her palm so that the collected landmass rested in the center of her outstretched hand, her horn glowing, the magical barrier surrounding it disappearing as well as the string from her finger, letting it sit there amidst the new landscape of her fur. “Hehe! How was that, everypony? I was pretty entertained. You’re lucky I didn’t try any fancy tricks, or it could’ve gotten really crazy.”
Dust Mite, as well as a collective mass of the little burg’s residents, groaned. Ponies, trees, entire buildings, were in places where they shouldn’t be, turned upside down and every which way in their crazy, spinning motion. Snow couldn’t move. She didn’t have anything pinning her down, but when her eyes seemed as though they were spinning in her sockets, needless to say she was a little dizzy. She lay on…to tell the truth, she didn’t actually know where she was at the moment. In being a participant of Lilycup’s “game” she had been mercilessly flung all over the place, but if she had to guess, she was located on the destroyed remain of the Town Hall main spire, it having broken off in the relentless bouncing. She carefully, picked herself up, making sure not to lose her lunch in the process, and looked around.
There was debris everywhere. There were homes that were reduced to rubble, shop carts that were nothing but splinters, and ponies located in just about every location she could see.
“DUST? DUST, WHERE ARE YOU?” Snow called out, unable to see the grey pony anywhere amongst the mess.
She started making her way towards where the center of the town once was, hoping to see if she could find him. It wasn’t much better in town, as the chaos was even more widespread. She looked around, but couldn’t find him.
“Need a hand finding my little brother, Snowy?” she heard Lily ask above her, making Snow jump. “Ooo! How about you two play hide and seek! Except instead of him choosing where to hide, I chose the spot for him and you have to find him!” She happily suggested, Snow not as amused. “Oh don’t give me that face, Snow. I’ll keep it…relatively fair for you. How about I just keep him in town instead of having you try to find him on my body like I was planning, just because I like you two so much” she smiled.
“Or…you could just tell me where he his, Lily” Snow said, annoyed.
“Naw.” Lilycup replied by sticking out her tongue and blowing a raspberry, breaking the sound barrier and sending spittle flying, some of the smaller droplets flying onto Ponyville with slamming force, flooding a few streets. “Ready or not Dust, here comes Snow! Good luck, little Snow.” She winked down, officially beginning their impromptu game of hide and seek, observing from high above.
Dust Mite had heard the whole thing, but was kept trapped where he had landed by an invisible force. No matter how much he struggled, he was stationary, unable to move, forced to be a part of this whether he wanted to or not. “SNOW! OVER HE-” Before his shout could even leave his mouth, his lips were zipped tight, literally, a zipper and its lining pulling itself across until he couldn’t speak anymore, muffled grunting coming from him now. Snow had to duck for cover as beads of spit, the size of lakes flew towards her and the town, splashing on the outskirts and creating large bodies of water. Snow sighed and began looking around. She was already growing tired of this and couldn’t imagine that this was what Dust had to deal with almost on a daily basis. The difference in sizes was just so ridiculous that she had practically just ignored it and just decided to try and weather this storm out.
“Colder” Lily chuckled from above. Snow looked around and started heading in a slightly different direction of where she was going, following Lily’s hints. She kept looking around town, trying to find Dust.
“Colder, Snow. So cold” she giggled again. Snow shivered, noticing that it actually was getting colder. She started rubbing her arms to try and stay warm as her hunt continued, looking into houses and under debris. It was gradually getting chillier and chillier as she looked.
“So, SO cold, Snowy. It’s almost like ice!” Lily said, a smile forming on her face. Now it was starting to snow around her. After being a pleasant temperature, Snow deducted that Lily must have been changing the temperature in the town, but no other pony she saw seemed to be affected by the plummeting temperatures.
“Better hurry up and find him Snow, or you might start having to play ‘Freeze’ tag” Lily laughed, the temperature dropping again. Snow was constantly shivering now, her own personal winter becoming worse and worse. She started to sneeze and sniffle, but she only had one last area to check.
“W-w-w-where a-a-are y-y-you, D-d-d-Dust?” Snow said to herself through chattering teeth.
As Snow changed direction, feeling as if the northern lands themselves were following her around, Lilycup snickered above, echoing mockingly. “Warmer … you’re getting there!”
Her game continued for some odd minutes, the shifting temperatures no doubt causing Snow Petal a deal of agitation. “Warmer … warmer … warmer, you’re almost there!” She boomed, almost excited at the prospect of the white mare winning her game.
Dust Mite could hear Snow searching for him, her shuffling hoofsteps and calls for him replied with grunting and thuds as he attempted to wriggle free from what held him down. He was just behind some debris of what used to be some poor pony’s house, until finally, his friend came into view, noting that she seemed almost sweltering from a burst of arid desert heat that only afflicted her. He found that he was free to move now, the zipper over his mouth undoing itself and disappearing, the grey pegasus jumping up and hugging Snow, waving his wings in front of her to get a breeze going to cool her off.
“Congratulations Snow! You did it!” Lilycup cackled. “A round of applause for our winner, everyone.”
As soon as Lily spoke, clapping could be heard coming from every other pony in the vicinity. “Let me give you a hand myself, you deserve it.” A new rumble filled the air as the palm they were on rotated until it was in a neutral sideways position, the entire town not tumbling off or anything, as if adhered to the gravity Lilycup emitted. Off in the distance, her opposite palm was the same, but closing in fast.
“Brace for impact!!” Dust Mite shouted right before the two slammed together, nopony harmed or anything, but deeply rattled as Lilycup repeated the action. In a matter of seconds, Snow went from subzero temperatures to hot, dry air when Lily told her she was getting close. She had a feeling she should have expected this, but her body wasn’t prepared for the dramatic, almost instantaneous change. It felt relaxing at first, thawing her out, but the heat persisted as it was constantly blowing on her. As she got closer and closer, she actually dreaded hearing Lily’s “encouragement” as it meant that it was only going to get worse.
Soon she was simply sweltering and constantly sweating as she felt like she was trekking through a desert with her winter gear on, even though she was wearing comfortable clothing. She was now suddenly feeling incredibly sluggish and tired, her body slowly overheating from the constant hot air. Each step was a major chore and it required more will power. When she heard she was almost there, she felt as though Celestia’s sun itself was on her back, panting profusely to try and cool off, but it wouldn’t relent. At last, after she thought that she was going to pass out, she found Dust, laying on the ground among some rubble and wiggling as though he was trying to escape something, a comically large zipper had materialized and shut him up. At once he was free and embraced her, Snow collapsing slightly as Dust fanned her off with his wings, the cool air helping her body to return to normal.
She heard Lily’s laughter and congratulations, rewarding her with the recognition of the ponies in the town, who seemed confused that they were doing what they were. Snow was now officially annoyed with this series of events and wanted to give the filly a piece of her mind. Unfortunately, Lily also wanted to congratulate Snow and turned her hand, Snow feeling as though she was going to fall, but she didn’t move an inch, but the view above was not something she was look forward to as Lily’s other massive hand began descending upon them until it collided with the town, no pony was harmed, but they were squished into the flesh of Lily’s hand, dazed.
Unfortunately, Lily wanted to really let Snow her appreciation of her task and continued her earthshaking applause, further squishing the two ponies into her flesh. She continued for about a minute and by the time she was done, Snow and Dust had been forced several feet into her fur and flesh, as flat as pancakes, but not harmed.
“For your reward, you get the pleasure of speaking to the ‘Great and All-Powerful’ Lilycup to have any wish you desire!” Lily proclaimed, lowering herself and sitting down, creating a gigantic crater that resulted in a massive shockwave, before raising her hand back up to her face. “Who’s first?” she excitedly asked, “Ah yes, the flat grey pony and his white friend stuck in my palm, you seem like worthy choices.”
Having been transferred from the palm holding Ponyville to the opposite one via clapping, slowly and almost cartoonishly Dust Mite and Snow Petal re-inflated to normal proportions from their flattened forms, feeling more than a bit off from the odd transformation. Standing up and gazing around them, nothing but the vast landscape of Lilycup’s palm surrounded them, her face high above and far off in the sky, peering down at them. Her fur strands towered above as looming pillars one would never have hope to climb, while her fingers behind them enacted as distant colossi that occasionally shifted.
“The ‘Great and All-Powerful Lilycup’?” Dust Mite grumbled to himself, stretching himself out to work out the tightness in his muscles from being literally flattened. “Somepony’s stroking her own ego.”
“Whaaaaaat? Might as well be god to both of you.” Lilycup snickered, having heard his complaints despite how low he was speaking. As her voice rumbled, her horn lit up, encasing Ponyville in telekinetic magic and floating it up from her hand, letting it hover in front of her mouth before letting it fall onto her tongue, slowly drawing it in, making a “Mmmmm” noise before swallowing, her two ponies of interest no longer on it, so she felt it would rest better in her stomach. “Now c’mon! A wish for either of you, since I’m feeling so gracious.”
Dust could tell immediately that Snow was pissed, pretty sure a flurry of curses were going to be shouted up at his younger sister. But when she opened her mouth, something else came out.
If Snow was only annoyed before Lily began her applause, she was now pissed off with her now. As she and Dust regained their non-flattened shapes, she noticed that Lilycup had them in one hand an the remains of the town in the other. As she listened to Lilycup proclaim herself a deity, Snow scoffed and rolled her eyes.
She then watched as what was left of Ponyville was lifted to Lily’s face, before she dropped it on her tongue, swallowing it with a loud gulp followed by a louder moan of satisfaction. Alright, this was ridiculous, she wasn’t a “God” she was just an apparition in their dream, she had no right to pretend. Snow felt her anger rise, already pushed to the point by Lily’s “games” but eating her home was not something Snow was going to take lightly. She inhaled and began to scold her, giving her a piece of her mind, but what she said, well…
“I WISH THAT THE GREAT AN ALL-POWERFUL LILYCUP WAS THE LONE PRINCESS OF EQUESTRIA” Snow yelled before hastily closing her mouth.
She didn’t say any of that! It was her voice but the words were not hers. She began to object, but again…
“No! Wait! Snow said, these words coming from her, “I didn’t mean that, I meant oF THE WORLD!” her sentence abruptly changing in the middle. Snow shook her head and glared at Lily, who was sporting a very wicked grin. “Lily! Stop putting words in my mouth and TAKE THE WORLD AS YOUR PLAYGROUND, MY MAGENTA RULER!” Snow fumed as her words betrayed her again, no doubt Lily making her say those things.
“My, such a loyal citizen” Lily said, feigning surprise, making Snow turn a legitimate red in anger, steam blowing from her ears. “But such a wish will be graciously granted” the towering filly said.
Snow looked at Dust, a little bit of fear in her eyes. “We’re in so much trouble…” She whispered
“What was that!?” Dust exasperatedly fumbled at Snow, not believing what he had just heard. “I thought you were gonna tell her off! … Not like it would’ve done much good. This dream Lily seems just about like the real Lily.” A sigh as the monolithic self-proclaimed goddess laughed above.
“And what about you, little Dusty? Hmm? What of your wish?” Lilycup boomed, turning her eye towards him. “I assume you want the exact same thing!”
“N- … n-n-n-n …” Dust Mite stuttered, trying to force out “NO!” from his lips, but his own mouth wasn’t having any of that, as if an outside force was influencing him to say what he didn’t want to. “Nnnnnnnnnn-YES, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WANT, OH MASSIVE AND ALMIGHTY LILY!” He slapped a palm directly over his mouth as soon as the words bursted out, confused and betrayed by his own tongue.
“What loyal little followers you two are! Well, I’m not one to disappoint, so I’ll do just as you requested!” She giggled gleefully, slowly standing back up, chunks of remains from the landscape where she had sat falling off her backside.
Briefly examining the area of Equestria below like a map, a sly smile befell upon her face. In only two steps or so, each one rattling the planet with the force of their impacts, Lily making sure to let her hooves fall where something might get crushed, she slammed them down on either side of Canterlot Mountain, peering down at the pitifully puny chunk of rock where the kingdom’s capital laid like it was a grain of dirt before her, looming above powerfully and confidently over it with one hand on her hip. Snow felt her heart drop as Dust’s words betrayed him too, no doubt Lily having her fun and making sure that she was in control. The two looked at each other in fright as Lily stood up, the two ponies in the palm of her hand knocked over. When she finally stopped standing up, they could hear her head turning and the smile form on her lips. Then she began to walk, as much as moving two steps was considered “walking.” But each thunderous step shook every creature on the planet, except for the titanic creature that caused such quakes.
Far below on the ground, vast miles and miles of land were suddenly covered in shadows. The bright day instantly turning to black night in just a couple seconds. Far above the helpless settlements, a hoof, far, far larger than anything they could comprehend or image was possible, simply hovering above. Until it began to fall. There was no way any creature could save themselves from the descending catastrophe as it fell at insane speed. For one second, they could see what was in front of them. The next, a crushing darkness.
Lily didn’t care about the little dream ponies that were far below her. They were beneath her care, so she wanted to show them just how powerless they were against her. She could feel where the best place would be to step and she made sure to do just that. From her perspective, when her hoof hit the ground, she saw a ring of a shockwave explode from her hoof.
On the ground, it was pure devastation. The very earth itself crumbling and large shelves of land compressed into thin, compact sheets or being reduced to practically nothing. Nothing for many miles was left intact and nothing survived. For as long as her hoof was on the ground, nothing existed around it. When she moved it, everything seemed to restore itself, Lily, while not caring about the creatures, didn’t want to destroy her toys too quickly, she needed to have ponies if she was to be their ruler.
Dust and Snow felt the vibrations through Lily’s immense form. They then noticed that she had positioned herself above Canterlot. Or, what they assumed was Canterlot, the majestic mountain and castle city that was the shining beacon was little more than a speck of dirt to them from this height.
“Well, well. According to the wishes of my most loyal disciples, there will only be one princess now” Lily proclaimed with authority, “as of this moment, any pony calling herself a ‘princess’ is a challenge to my royalty and must submit to me. Unless they wish to challenge me” she smiled, slowly lifting her hoof to show her power.
“We are in so, SO much trouble…” Snow muttered again.
“We just …” Dust Mite sighed, trying to fight back a headache that was forming even in his sleep. “Have to last the night. Morning can’t be too far off, right? Like I said, we’ll start feeling the effects of the spell wear off as we get closer to waking up, so just … hold in there Snow.”
As Lilycup held her hoof over the mountain dominantly, peering down, she snickered. Hundreds of gleaming golden specks flittering around the monolithic mass that was the magenta wall of her hoof, and she could see it all. The Equestrian army, comprised of the Solar Guard, was doing battle with her, or at least as best as they could. Dozens of pegasi from the air, earth and unicorn ponies flinging spells, arrows, even catapulted boulders against her, yet she felt nothing at all in their attempts.
“Really? Little Sun and Moonbutt too afraid to come out themselves? Ah well, I suppose you’ll all have to do until I force my hand.”
Removing her hoof from hovering over Canterlot threateningly, she slammed it back down in the spot it had previously been, rattling the entire landscape. Squatting and lowering herself for a better vantage point, the goddess-complexed unicorn rolled her eyes, amused by their futile efforts. “You are taking this incredible well, I’m not sure if it’s because you’re used to this or your mind is going insane” Snow said to Dust, a little wary that he was acting so calm when it was such a dire situation. “Your sister is about to not only usurp the royal crown, but she could also take over this entire world. I don’t care if it is a dream or not, I’d prefer not to go the whole night being helpless against her.” Snow snapped in annoyance.
She had had nightmares before, some that made her wake suddenly in the middle of the night out of fear, but this was simply on another level. The things that Lily was doing seemed to farfetched, even if it was a dream. Snow had dreams where she was a ruler too, but she didn’t grow to such heights and take the empire by force. Lily seemed like she could care less about what she did, even insulting the princesses and calling them names like they were nothing. And while she didn’t want to admit it to herself, they pretty much were powerless against the unicorn.
Suddenly, the two ponies felt themselves rattle as Lily had slammed her hoof down, no doubt causing even more damage, and then begin to descend as Lily lowered herself over the capital city. They held on as they could practically feel her roll her eyes as the Equestrian Army tried to hold her back. They were better off just using toothpicks to try and harm her as all their weapons had no effect on her.
She remained motionless for a couple moments, letting the army do what it could do before she grew tired of waiting.
“Booorrring…you guys ARE trying to stop me, right?” she sighed, having finally decided that it was enough waiting to see if the princesses would try to face her. She had given them enough time, but it was over now. “If the little babies aren’t going to try and stop me, I’ll just take what’s mine. First things first though, you all need to just stop this.” Her horn glowed and all of the commotion below her ceased in an instant. She had magically taken hold of every single member, weapon, armor, and tool the army had at its disposal and was moving them up to her face. Hundreds, thousands of military ponies were lifted into the air and came to a stop near her face.
“Hmmm…now what to do with all of you” Lilycup hummed, seemingly deep in thought as to how to handle her new toys.
“You could just let them go, Lily!” Snow called up to her, “they don’t need to be involved in this, just let them be.” She tried to reason with the colossal figure, but instead found herself gulping in nervousness as she was the focus of the two giant eyes now staring her down.
“It’s more along the lines of I’m slowly realizing what kind of horrible dream we’re in. Don’t worry, give it, like, ten minutes or so. I’ll be having my panic attack then.” Dust Mite replied, forcing a smile. To be fair he was used to this sort of thing from Lily, but never before had she been this forceful, or have such an nigh-omnipotent display of power. He was scared, but suppressing it at the moment.
Soon as Snow challenged Lily however, the gaze of the proclaimed goddess turning towards her, Dust felt a tingle of fear, as well as protectiveness, standing beside Snow and wrapping a wing around her.
“Snow Petal!” Lilycup said in mock tone. “I’m surprised! One of my most dedicated subjects, questioning me? I thought that this was what you wanted. Tut tut, for shame, little Snowy.” Snow realized that she might have just made a grave error in challenging Lilycup. Not only was she infinitely tinier than her, but was also at the mercy of whatever kind of magical power she possessed, which was to say, any and all magic was at her disposal. Snow felt Dust get close to her and place his wing around her, trying to protect her as best as he could, the two ponies receiving the full attention of the towering unicorn.
“Now, I care deeply for you, Snow, as well as my brother, but if you are going to question me, the all-powerful Lilycup, about what I should or should not do, then please tell me, your merciful master, just what I should do with these pitiful warriors?” Lilycup scolded Snow, doing her best regal impression. She jiggled the army that was in her grasp, the collective sound of the armor clanging together made it sound more like jingle bells than a vast army, making the god-unicorn filly giggle.
“U-uh, well, you should j-just let them go? Put them somewhere else while you, uh, c-claim your….throne?” Snow nervously stuttered, unable to fully suppress her growing fear as the giant orbs continued to drill into her very soul. Dust embraced her more tightly, letting her know that he was still with her, making her feel a little better. Though she still felt awful that she had to consider letting her usurp the throne just so that she wouldn’t feel Lily’s punishment.
“Hmmm…” Lily hummed, the air vibrating again. “I COULD do that, but that’s no fun. After all, they attacked me first, I was just standing here. I’m just reacting in self-defense. So, no, your idea is denied.”
She then turned very serious, glaring right at Snow, her voice very stern, “though your disobedience is duly noted. You would be best not to step out of line again, Snow Petal” she emphasized her last name, the air cracked by the sharp punctuation, “I wouldn’t want you to make this worse for yourself.”
Snow couldn’t stop shaking now, fear really starting to make its way through her body. “Y-y-y-y-yes, L-l-lily” she whimpered.
Dust Mite glared up at his larger sister for the threatening words towards Snow. Even though he knew he was less than powerless in this situation, he still felt like he had to do something. “There, there, Snow. Like I said, remember, it’s just a dream. We’ll get through this. Though, sorry bout you having to go through what I normally do.” A chuckle in an attempt to lighten the mood. “I’ll have mom cast the spell again later, then we can have a proper dream together, one potentially void of an oversized Lily.”
With her stern declaration aimed at Snow done, Lilycup immediately went back to her joyful and mischievous mood, turning her attention back to the entire army of Equestria in her magical grasp. “Hmm, I think I figured out what I wanna do with you guys! Hold still now …”
Thousands of soldiers in their clinking armor flew through the air, along with every weapon imaginable that they once held against her. Concentrating, all of them gathered on point in a specific spot, the sound of metal chinking and clanging. Once she was done, Lilycup giggled, holding up her pinky finger on her free hand. “There, a shiny new ring, just for me!” Comprised entirely of the Solar Guard and whatever metal tools they had, all of them together was juuuust enough to enwrap the circumference of her gargantuan littlest finger.
“Heh. Looks pretty good on me. Now then,” Her gaze fell back upon the tiny mountain entirely cast in her shadow and titanic visage that blotted the sky. “C’mon out you two! I’m done playing games, greet your new goddess.” Extending the pinky finger of her claimed prize, she lowered it until it was just barely touching the mountain’s top, poking it slightly and most likely causing chaos for the capital below. There was something equal parts mesmerizing and terrifying about watching Lilycup take the whole Solar Guard, the militaristic pride and force in all of Equestria, and fashion herself a pinky ring from their forms. The display of power was scary, but the citizens on the ground couldn’t take their eyes off of what was unfolding. They had never seen such a towering monster and for what they could tell, she was just simply toying with any and everything, including the most sacred of places, the castle of the Royal Sisters.
To the monstrous behemoth of a unicorn, she was simply prodding the mountain watching with limited enthusiasm as parts of the mountain crumbled away. To the citizens in the city of Canterlot, it was armageddon. The finger which had entrapped the Solar Guard around it like jewelry was breaking off pieces of the mountain like it was a pile of dirt, boulders the size of two houses or bigger, rolling down towards the civilization. Dream ponies ran for their lives trying to escape the untold havoc that the bored god-unicorn was causing. They could only wish that the two alicorn sisters had a plan to stop the all encompassing creature, but many doubted even the godly powers of an Alicorn could stop this.
Within the central throne room of the castle, the thunderous threat booming above them, Celestia and Luna were desperately trying to think of someway to not only stop this threat to Canterlot, but to the whole world.
“Not even the elements will do us any good, sister! I don’t sense any pure malice in that creature, it’s simply just doing this for entertainment. The elements are to stop evil. Not to mention, that beast defeated your whole army and now holds them captive around her pinky finger!” the night blue alicorn said, becoming more and more exasperated as they were running out of options.
“Then I only have one more plan, to retreat and save the city” the white taller alcorn replied, the usually stoic monarch also starting to lose her nerve. “If she wants us, we can distract her and save the city by teleporting it away, somewhere where she won’t be able to get to it” she explained.
“She traveled over several hundred miles in TWO STEPS, Celestia! She’ll find it no matter what we do!” Luna yelled. “We have no other options!”
“Then we can at least delay her finding it until then. Come, we must protect the citizens at all costs.” Celestia began charging her horn, calling upon her inner powers to get more magic, her sister joining in. Slowly their magic grew and the city was enveloped in a white orb. Within it, ponies and structures began to vanish until the whole city, what was left of it, was gone, only the castle remained. Satisfied that they had done all they could, they teleported themselves on top of the tallest tower of the castle and gazed up at the sky, the face of their enemy above them.
“WE ARE HERE, MONSTER! WHILE WE MAY NOT BE AS STRONG AS YOU, WE WILL NOT LET YOU HARM ANY MORE INNOCENT PONIES!” Celestia bellowed in her Canterlot voice.
“Fiiiiinallly…took you two punies long enough,” a relieved sigh from Lilycup was a hurricane for the two sisters who had to hold on for dear life or else be blown away, “Nice trick teleporting the city, but do you think that that was enough?” she smirked and her horn glowed. With a small *pop* the whole city reappeared, exactly as it was when the sisters sent it away, leaving them dumfounded. “I sensed your magic. Did you really think you could take my kingdom from me? How dare you two, naughty little ponies” she giggled. “Now, to the matter at hand, or my pinkie anyway, are you going to give up nicely or are you going to try and defy me again?” she asked, getting annoyed again.
The two ponies upon Lilycup’s palm could only stand and watch, gulping in fret at how much the colossal filly vastly outmatched their alicorn rulers, both in scale and power. What a terrible nightmare to have, at least for them. For Lily, it was a wonderful fantasy.
“I’ll give you both to the count of five to bow before me and surrender over Equestria and all of its territories. That should be enough time to make a decision, I think. You should be grateful I’m even giving you a choice, what a wonderful goddess I am, hehe. After that count is up, I can’t guarantee I’ll be playing little miss nice Almighty and All-Powerful Lilycup anymore~”
“One …”
“Two …”
“Three …”
“Fooooouuurrrrrr …”
“Four and a half … four and three quarters …”
“… Five.” She grinned widely from ear to ear, suddenly slamming her pinky’s fingertip once more into the mountain, this time aimed directly at the castle. Pulling the appendage away and holding it up to her eye, she found the rubble and remains of the ancient, long-standing fortress atop the digit, Celestia and Luna dazed as two little white and blue specks.
The impact was earth splittingly powerful and faster than they could react. The two princesses had stood their ground, unwilling to submit to the colossal filly, hoping to call her bluff. Unfortunately, Lilycup was not playing around. She counted down like she was simply playing a game, not even concerned with what the consequences of her actions might have. When her finger descended, the last thing they saw was a grin that stretched on for miles. Her finger blasted away the city, the shear impact reducing the whole city to rubble and all she did was just poke the ground.
It was like being hit in the gut with a planet. Her massive digit smashed them through the roof of the castle, then through all the floors, into the foundation, through the cellars, and into the ground below. She didn’t relent and they were driven further and further into the earth until she finally did stop and began pulling them up. Their bodies were squished into her vast flesh, unable to move. They were raised far, far into the air until they were brought up to her gigantic eye. She was even more threatening up close.
For Lily, it was rather cute how tiny they were.
“Hehehe wow, I was thinking that you would actually put up some kind of fight. For being alicorns, you aren’t that strong at all, are you?” her giggling was deafening. “I’d say sorry for destroying your castle, but it was so tiny, I barely even saw it, oops” she pretended to be cute and innocent and it made Luna’s blood boil.
“CEASE THIS FOOLERY AT ONCE! DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING?” she yelled up at the giant eyeball, her canterlot voice barely more than a squeak to Lily.
“Aww, how cute. Bugs looking out for the other bugs, you must care for them a lot, don’t ya?” she cooed, unfazed by Luna’s scolding. “They aren’t important right now, I’ll have my fun with them later. For now though,” her mischievous smile returned, “it’s time you stopped pretending to be stronger than me and just give me all of Equestria.”
Celestia and Luna continued to struggle to escape their fleshy prison. This creature of madness had to be stopped.
“Hmmph. You two really don’t give up that easy, do you? Everything belongs to me basically already, but I just want some confirmation about it.” Lilycup huffed, using her magic to rip the two free from their deep embedment into her fingertip, holding them still in the air no matter how much they struggled.
As she observed them, her eyes lit up, as if a new idea had just crossed her mind, another smile stretching across her face, more than visible and audible to all around her. “Hmm … I suppose, since I am a fair deity after all, I’ll give you two a fighting chance. Just to make things more fun.”
Holding out her palm, she let them drop onto it, free-falling a good amount of distance before bouncing and coming to a stop across the vast magenta plains. High above in the atmosphere, her horn glowed again, an apparition appearing in the middle of her hand above the two alicorns. The magic steadily solidified until it took on a physical form, an exact duplicate of Lilycup, smaller, yet still miles massive to everything else, appeared, smirking down at them.
“Geeeeeet ready for the smackdown of the century, fillies and gentlecolts!” Lilycup’s voice echoed thunderous, taking on a more of an announcer’s tone. “For the control of Equestria and the fate of the planet, in this corner we have the terrible tiny twosome, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna! In the other corner, you know her, you love her, you adore and worship her, Lilllllycuuuuup!” It was beginning to dawn on the two sisters that they might have been a bit overmatched in this battle for rulership. The immeasurable form of their opponent only toying with them as she created a miniature version of herself that was still towering over them. Neither sister thought that such power was even possible, but here they were watching it happen.
When they were “introduced” by Lilycup, a resounding chorus of “boos” was heard, seemingly coming from nowhere until they noticed that Lily had created the sounds with her magic. When she introduced herself, the same magic erupted in glorious applause, stroking the filly’s ego even more.
Then the “Mini-Lily” gazed down upon them, a huge smile on her face. She slowly lifted her hoof above the two stunned sisters, wiggling it.
“Leeet’s get ready to ruuuumblllleeeee!” She called and quickly lowered her hoof.
The sisters quickly leapt to their hooves and darted out of the way a blazing speeds, Lily’s hoof missing it’s intended targets.
Luna was beyond her limits of patience and was finally glad to get back at Lily. She shot a beam of blue magic up at the form of Lily, a powerful stream of magic most normal ponies would train all their lives to be able to achieve. The beam made a direct hit with Lily’s lower thigh, resulting in a massive explosion, but when the smoke cleared, there was not a scratch to be seen, not even a burnt hair. Luna was undeterred, she had fought seemingly impossible odds before and this was no different. She flew high into the air at supersonic speeds, far faster than any normal pony could ever normally achieve. She reached the stomach of her opponent and unleashed another massive beam of magic. This one again made direct contact, but again, no damage what so ever. Luna grunted in annoyance.
“What’s wrong, Lil Moony?” Lily chuckled, “having trouble with something?” she smiled.
The two alicorns whizzed and zoomed around the smaller, yet still massive, Lily-clone, a chuckle coming from both herself and her larger version, echoing across the land mockingly. “Oh come on you two, is that really the best you can do? The most I’ve felt is a tickle from either of you!”
“How is this for a tickle you little brat!?” Luna shouted, horn glowing as a bright beacon. High above, far past their world, the moon shook, descending. It fell at a rapid pace, intending to be slammed directly into the larger Lilycup, but she looked up with a nonplussed expression on her face. With her own horn glowing, Lilycup’s magic wrapped around the moon, instantly teleporting it back into place.
At first Princess Luna looked stunned, trying to activate her magic again to control the orbital rock, but found no matter how hard she strained herself it wouldn’t budge. “Welp, looks like I own the moon now.” Lilycup boomed, breaking her concentration, the smaller clone reaching out and trapping the lunar alicorn in her grasp.
“Sister!” Celestia exclaimed, horn glowing brightly as well, signifying she would also be playing a trump card. High above, the glow of the sun brightened, enough to the point that it was blinding, feeling as if the surrounding temperature had doubled. Dust Mite groaned, having to shut his eyes, feeling his body begin to sweat rapidly, no doubt the same for Snow and any other one across the globe facing the star, but all Lilycup did was yawn, a pair of shades having magically appeared over her eyes.
The sun returned to normal as soon as the smaller Lily grabbed Celestia out of the air, both alicorns in either fist of the god-filly, held tightly and brought up to her snickering face. Snow had heard about the power that the royal sisters possessed, but Lily was making them seem pitiful and she was barely even moving. She took blast after blast of powerful alicorn magic and didn’t even have a burnt hair to show. It wasn’t even a fight, Lily was just drawing out the pleasure of seeing them powerless against her. Her own counterattacks were purposefully slower than what she was capable of just to make it seem like the alicorns had a fighting chance.
Then they brought out their ultimate attacks. Snow had heard rumors that if the princesses were pushed far enough, they’d use everything in their power to win. Whether that was true in the real world, Snow had no clue, but here, they were going all out. Far above her and Dust, she saw Luna’s magic envelop the moon itself and watched as it began to fall into the planet. There was no way that this would end well.
She was right, but the result was far worse than she had expected. Lily barely even seemed to care and simply put it back with her magic. Somehow in that transfer, she absorbed the ability to control it from Luna. Before the dark blue alicorn could do anything else, she was snatched out of the air in the giant clutches of the mini-lily. Then Snow witnessed Celestia’s power. And it got hot. REALLY hot. She was blinded by the light and felt as though she was about to combust at any second. But just as fast as it started, it was over as the alabaster princess was also grasped in the air. Without even trying, Lilycup had, again, beaten the two sisters, both of whom were struggling to try and break free of their enemy’s grasp, but all it did was make Lily laugh again.
“Well I guess that’s one way for me to take over. Thanks for making it easy for me to take your moon and sun, I’ll make sure to have fun with them too. Just for you two!” she playfully teased the furious sisters. “Now then, seeing as how you did your ultimate attacks, time for me to try one of mine” she began chuckling. “Just need to warm up a little bit first.”
Her horn lit up again and encompassed the two sisters in orbs similar to the one she trapped Snow, Dust and Ponyville in when the nightmare began, complete with a magical tether around her fingers.
“Hey Dusty! Snowy!” she called out, the two ponies not wanting to have the attention “wanna see a cool trick? I think you’ll love it!”
In each hand, she began bouncing the balls up and down, tossing the princesses around like Dust and Snow had been earlier, but she was going much faster this time.
“I call this one the ‘Dizzy Lilly Slam’” she announced. She began to very rapidly spin the balls by her sides, the golden orbs making rings of color as they spun at rapid pace. She then began to do a little dance, bringing one spinning ball to the opposite side, then both to the other as her massive hooves began tapping in place. She then brought both of them above her head, spinning horizontally now, Lily giggling as she spun in a circle with them.
“Aaaaannnnnd SLAM!”
She jumped in the air and threw the two orbs into the magenta palm at breakneck speeds, the orbs erupting in shattering displays of light as they impacted. In the shattered remains of the now vaporizing magic were the two sisters, not hurt, but not getting up quickly. She then landed with a ground shaking thud before laughing again.
“Oh, by the way, did I say that was my ultimate attack? I meant to say that was just for fun. If I actually did try to fight you, it’d get boring too fast” she smiled.
“Ouch.” Was all Dust Mite could say after watching the display and utter defeat of their previous rulers, watching them be bested so easily.
“Aah, that was fun! I’d say we should do it again sometime, but that won’t be happening. It might be too boring with how weak you two are.” Lilycup said, floating the two sister’s limp forms into the air before her miniature clone’s self. The smaller Lily opened her mouth, letting the two fall in and swallowing with an audible gulp. The larger true Lily then brought her smaller self up to her own mouth and plopped her in, sighing and smacking her lips in satisfaction.
“Now with them safely in my tummy …” Standing back up to her full height, she surveyed the land with a domineering smile. “Equestria is mine! All bow before the Great and All-Powerful Lilycup!” She boomed with a cackle, lifting up her hoof and lowering it without a second thought, grinding the remains of Canterlot beneath it. Snow and Dust had to cover their ears to prevent such a loud proclamation from blowing out their eardrums. They had just witnessed their two ruling monarchs be tossed around like toys and they devoured by this power crazed filly. Of all the things that Snow and Dust wanted to do, bowing before her was high on the list.
Lilycup continued to rub it in just how powerful she really was, grinding the remains of Canterlot away like it was just dirt. To her though, that was exactly what it was, nothing more. She smiled and felt the power of the royal sisters flow within her, making her feel all warm on the inside. She knew that in the real world that what has just occurred would never be possible, but for now, she was perfectly content with how it had been so easy. Though she secretly was a little worried that the real Luna might have some words for her in another dream later.
For now, she hummed as she punctuated her victory with a final stomp of where Canterlot used to be. Now it was replaced with a never ending tower that was her hoof and lower leg, the only things ponies below could recognize of her towering stature.
She sighed happily and looked back down at her brother and his friend. They had been so patient in waiting as she lay the smackdown on Celestia and Luna and they hadn’t even tried to get away. Silly ponies, even if they had found a way to make it down from her vast stature safely, she’d just bring them back up to her hand. Though, she wanted to reward her followers for being so loyal and she knew just how to do it. Well, it wasn’t a “reward” per se, but they had no power to object.
She smiled, “And for my most loyal of followers, who remained by my side through that tough battle” she snickered, “a reward awaits you.” Lily began to lower herself, stretching her body out, her form stretching on for uncountable miles. She positioned herself right above the grinned out remains of Canterlot and as her final show of power, plopped down, grinding into the earth to get comfy. She picked up the two ponies, their struggles noted, but it just made her grin, and brought them up to her face. She licked her lips in anticipation
“And you two are going to love it”
“I doubt we will …” Dust muttered to himself, held tightly between the monoliths of Lilycup’s pinched fingers, Snow and he completely immobile in their trapped position. He did continue to attempt to struggle and squirm to free himself, but doubted they would be let loose unless Lily willed it. Even then, her words left a scared shudder inside of him, feeling the deafening echo thunder a rattling tingle that lasted through his very bones.
“After that looooooong, hard-fought battle,” She drew out the words in the most sarcastic tone ever, snickering at them, the whole display entirely the opposite of what she was saying. “I think I deserve a little bit of rest and relaxation.” She emphasized this by yawning, a long, explosive roar that blasted them and parted the skies, and wiggling in place, her bum digging dipper into where her spoils of war had been, generating more quakes.
“Would you two, my favoritest itty-bitty worshippers, be kind enough to supply me with that?” She batted her eyelashes, generating more winds that would have blown them away if not for her tight pinching grip on them. “I believe that’s more than enough of a reward for either of you in this situation~” For being as gigantic as she was, Lilycup had impeccable precision when she picked up Snow and Dust. Fingers the size of small countries effortlessly grabbed them and began lifting them to her face. Snow tried to struggle, but it was impossible to move anywhere. When she spoke, Snow thought that she was going to be torn apart from just the sound waves of her voice.
Snow was really getting blasted, Lilycup’s sarcastic talk of “a long battle” was making Snow really annoyed that she was being played with like this, but at the same time, she knew that there was hardly a thing that she could do. She was pretty much at the mercy of Lilycup, and she didn’t like where this was going.
“I’m not your worshipper and I won’t…” Snow grumbled under her breath, so inaudible that even she could barely hear herself. Unfortunately, Lilycup could and did.
“Tsk, tsk, my teeny-weenie, itty-bitty, Snow Petal, you should be rejoicing that I even consider you two worth my attention. Would you rather I didn’t?” She asked, already knowing what Snow was going to reply with.
“N-no…” Snow sighed.
“Goodie!”Lily shouted, blasting apart the atmosphere again with her voice. “Now then, it’s been very tiring being a goddess. My wittle hoovsies are all tired” she said in a baby voice, before smiling “you two can start helping me relax by giving them a nice rubbing.”
Snow tried to object, but Lilycup took control of her words again.
“YES, OH MY GREAT AND ALL-POWERFUL GODDESS, LET US SERVE YOU IN WHATEVER WAY YOU DESIRE!” she shouted, before grimacing. She should’ve seen that coming.
“Ohhhhhh you know how much I love praise! Of course you can do that for me.” Lilycup laughed at the words she forced into Snow’s mouth, Dust Mite groaning and wishing he could facepalm right now.
“Snow I’m really sorry. She normally isn’t this bad, I swear. In real life, maybe like … tone her down like halfway. I guess dream Lily is just her full uninhibited self. Who would’ve thought giving a unicorn who toys with me sometimes fullblown omnipotence would be a bad idea?”
“… Buck this dream man. This blows.” He added with full annoyance in his voice.
Reaching over, Lilycup held the two in front of her outstretched leg and the flat of the bottom of her hoof, wiggling it just to give them a sense of where they’d be going. With a whoosh she pressed them both deeply into its marshmallowy softness, making sure they were good and stuck. “Get to work my favorite little toys! Else I’ll leave you there when I stand back up~”
It didn’t help one bit this was hoof she crushed Canterlot with. Snow tried to struggle her way free, but the two continental sized fingers didn’t budge. She heard Dust’s aggravation in his apology and she felt bad that this egotistical monolith lived with him.
“I couldn’t agree more. This wasn’t what we had in mind when we had your mom cast this spell” Snow replied. “Next time we do this, she doesn’t get to know.” She said pointing her head towards the relaxed filly-God.
At once, Dust and Snow were whisked away. They were taken miles away, traveling faster than any vehicle or pegasi could fly and Lily was only going relatively slow for her size. Snow had a feeling where she and Dust were being taken and when they passed Lily’s knees, she groaned as she realized she was right.
Presented before them, towering high into the sky and dropping far to the ground below, was Lilycup’s hoof. The titan wiggled it, teasing her two “disciples” and causing earthquakes on the ground below. Before they could say a word, and with incredible speed, the two were brought before and pressed into the soft, magenta surface. Snow grunted as she was pushed harder, deeper and deeper into the hoof she was pressed until the mountainous finger retreated, leaving the two of them stuck, immobile on the vast vertical plains of Lily. At the very least, the two were lucky that for as big as she was, her hooves were perfectly clean, minus the stray rubble of Canterlot they saw as they were being presented.
It was humiliating. Regarded as nothing more than a toy and being pressed into the bottom of Lily’s hoof was making Snow incredulous that she was being forced to do this. If nothing else, when this was all over, Snow was going to have a very stern talking to Small Smiles about her daughter’s behavior to Dust. This might have been a dream, but experiencing this in reality was probably no less awful for Dust, who likely experienced this on a regular basis.
Snow tried to wiggle free and finally managed to do so, but had to be careful that she didn’t stray too far, a sheer drop awaiting behind her. Still not wanting to know what would await her if she rejected her order, she sighed, closed her eyes, and began to gentle rub the squishy wall of Lily’s hoof.
Did she mention how humiliating this was? Because it was pretty humiliating.
Sighing to himself, Dust got to work, beginning to knead and rub inwards using his hands and elbows, pressing deeply into the soft mass of the younger unicorn’s indomitable wall of underhoof. He was familiar with this, the hoof as well as the actions he performed, having done it many a times whether to be noticed, was forced to, asked, or done out of his own volition. He chuckled, remembering when he first met Snow Petal and their meeting ended with her asking for a hoof massage of her own, something he was glad to provide for his guest and future best friend. Still, he wondered just what she was thinking about this now.
“Just press, squeeze, and rub around until Lily says ‘Good job, little toys!’ Or something along those lines. She can’t keep us here forever. Either we did fairly well or she’ll get bored.”
Lilycup sighed in admiration as she felt the tiny sensations down on her hoof, noting the expertise of Dust and the … whatever it was Snow was doing. At least it was something. Leaning back, she cooed, letting them stay there for a few minutes in their work, her eyes closed while she simply enjoyed the feeling of having two tiny ponies upon her.
“Good job, my little toys!” She boomed after she felt that had done enough. Dust Mite turned to his fellow ‘disciple’ and smirked in a knowing way. He would have done more, he had a whole routine to go about, but he figured Lily didn’t deserve that.
“Even though I would like you to massage the whole hoof, and even get to my other one, there are other glorious places upon your goddess on which you must admire.” Snow laughed at Dust’s expression. It was a silly little interaction and how he knew what she was going to say was very amusing to her. Anything for her to not think about what she was forced to do.
She scoffed and rolled her eyes again at Lily’s divine proclamation. The benefit that Snow had over Lily was that in the waking world, Lily would never dare to try this kind of nonsense around her, the benefits of her being the adult. Maybe this was just the Lily in their collective minds getting back at her for the one or two pranks that Snow and Dust pulled on her. Some kind of vengeful spirit of Lily or something.
Snow felt herself being picked up by Lily’s magic as she and Dust were lifted from the vast underhoof and brought to Lily’s stomach, fully exposed as she lay on her back, covering countless miles. They were deposited onto the area between her pants and her naval, if her palm was a vast plain, her stomach was infinite to them.
“I’ve always loved a good belly rub and you two are going to do it for me. Don’t disappoint me, my loyal toys” Lily rumbled above.
Snow sighed and looked at Dust, “how much longer till we wake up? Because I can’t wait to have a talk with the real Lily when I get up. She and I are going to have quite the conversation about her “inner desires” she grumbled.
Dust Mite chuckled to himself, beginning to rub around him, knowing how well almost any pony enjoyed such a nice relaxing action. Gazing around him, the vast stretching plain slowly rose and fell with their titanic host’s breathing, almost a serene sort of sense for them as well, but if they were to stop and take it in who knows what Lily may do. Resuming his rubbing, he huffed to himself. “I wanna say … maybe three or four more hours?” He turned to Snow and shrugged.
“It can’t be too much longer than that. And Snow, you can’t blame the real Lilycup for this. This dream Lily is probably just … a manifestation of my fears about her or something. So, I apologize for making this appear with my own brain. She can get carried away but you know how sweet she can be sometimes.”
“Just … not now. In this dream.” “Sure, she’s lovely. And normally, she is quite the cute kid, but if this is an inner manifestation of what you fear of her, that’s not exactly healthy, Dust.” Snow replied, trying her best to massage the giant filly’s stomach.
They continued to converse for a couple moments longer before focusing on the task at hand. While they worked, a thought came to Snow’s head. “If this is a representation of Dust’s fears or just his sister, I couldn’t imagine what the other things he fears could look like” she thought to herself.
It reminded her of the time they took the overnight train to Vanhoover and Snow had her own nightmare of what scared her, but that representation was, and she couldn’t believe she was about to say this, scarier than Lily right now. She shuddered at remembering that dream. If this was to be compared to that, at least she knew that she wasn’t going to be hurt in this one, the other one felt like she was going to be harmed.
Snow shook her head and cleared her thoughts. As she continued to run the very small spot in Lily, she felt the ground beneath her rumble.
“Now what…?” She asked aloud.
“I know, I know.” Dust sighed. “Trust me, this is like, a deeper fear, it doesn’t come out often. There’s actually a lot to be afraid of when you’re as small as I am in real life, Snow,” Another sigh. “Don’t worry though. I still face it, and well, handle it in stride. It’s all we can do, really.” He smiled and nodded at his friend to reassure her.
“As bad as things have been so far, I’m happy to actually see you and everything else not towering over me for once. And, I hugged you and Lily at normal sized! It was a good dream starting off.”
The rumbling beneath them began to build, pausing their ‘worship’ as Dust looked towards Snow and shrugged. “Beats me. Can’t be any good though-”
The expansive stomachscape slowly inclined as Lilycup sucked it in, then immediately expanded as she shot it up, sending Dust and Snow flying into the hour. He attempted to flap his wings and catch her, but their descent was too fast, hitting the soft surface, sinking in slightly, before bouncing upwards again. Above them, Lily giggled, slowly breathing in and out heavier each time to contract and push her lean stomach, watching her tiny two bounce around on top of it.
“Sorry to bother both of you! Just wanted to spice things up is all, make sure you two are having just as much fun as I am. Hehe.” This continued until she saw them disappear into the depths of her naval, causing an uproarious laugh to blast from her at that, feeling them tumble inwards for at least several minutes.
Snow smiled as Dust assured her that he was what she expected out of him. It was true that he was scared of the real world, but he had developed a mentality to tackle it, something that still made her proud of him. It took a lot of guts to take on stuff like that. Just being able to see him smile about having even a bit of normalcy in the dream made her smile.
The rumbling grew more intense as the two looked around before the land below shifted and then launched the two into the air. Snow landed with a soft thud, groaning a bit before she was launched again. They were continuously thrown about by Lily’s breathing motions flying farther from where she put them until Snow noticed something approaching quickly in the distance.
“Oh no…no no no” Snow tried to yell but before she could the two were tumbling down the mountainous incline of Lily’s navel, her uproarious laughter piercing the air, loud enough the whole planet could probably hear it.
Down and down they tumbled until Dust was finally able to push off from the squishy side and take flight and Snow leveled out, still descending, her hooves sliding on the smooth surface like a surfer. He flew along side Snow calling for her to grab his hand. She tried to reach out, but almost lost her balance and had to right herself. After several attempts, she finally grabbed hold and was lifted. He very carefully lowered the two of them the rest of the distance until they were at the very bottom of Lily’s belly button, vast forests of hairy lint and other various unidentifiable things towering over them.
“Ech,” Snow gagged, “does Lily not know about cleaning in here?” She asked. She turned to look at Dust who was trying to hide a face of laughter, Snow unaware of her own hypocrisy “What?”
“Nothing, nothing!” Dust Mite snickered. “Just your reaction is all. I forget most ponies aren’t used to seeing things from my perspective. You know … everything magnified so much. Even the smallest things to the naked eye are huge.”
“… Also maaaaaaybe you should clean out your own naval sometimes too.” He leaned over and whispered to her before quickly pulling away, risking any wrath she might have for him after that statement.
To his shock and own laughter, various bits of whatever Snow could grab nearby was thrown at him, dirt, lint, even a bit off of Lily’s fur. He snickered, using his wings to dodge whatever came his way, but at least they had a moment of respite, until the gap above and the light that filtered in was blotted out by Lilycup’s finger, descending slowly towards them.
“Hehe, you guys tickle in there! Having fun, I see.” Her voice dully thoomed far away, yet still felt quite powerfully. “Well!” Snow gasped, taking a swing at Dust but missed as the lithe pegasus had jumped out of her way, expecting retaliation.
She started chucking whatever she could get her hands on at Dust. She was parts offended and amused, mostly amused as she got a chance to pelt Dust. This was a nice way for the two of them to play, at the same size, just enjoying each other’s company, even if they were in the naval of the beast.
And speak of the devil and it shall appear. The opening far above them darkening as Lily’s finger began to come closer.
“Just showing Dust how much of a pain in the butt he is!” Snow called out, throwing the last piece of lint at Dust, chuckling as it hit him square in the face. “Your ‘worshippers’ need some fun too, y'know?” Snow barked up at Lily.
They couldn’t see it, but they could tell something was developing in Lily’s head as the finger stopped its decent.
“Hmmm” Lily’s ponderous noise vibrating Snow and Dust to the bone. “Fun, huh? Are you not liking what you’ve been doing?” Lily asked
Snow gulped, “I mean, taking a rest is pretty nice. We’ve been through a lot already. Kinda need to, uh, take a breather. Get, uh, back into, er, working order.” Snow explained, trying to not have to do something she really would not rather do for as long as possible.
Dust sputtered, trying to get the lint out of his mouth and wiping the rest off of his face, glad to have had a small moment with Snow, but the descending finger above still threatened them both with its enormity.
“Hmmph.” Lilycup pouted. “Haven’t all we’ve done so far been fun? I think so!” She thundered, resuming her finger’s approach, making sure that it pressed down deeply and dug around to ensure both were properly mushed. “Don’t worry then, little Snowy, I still have plenty more in store for all of us. Sure to be tons of fun, I hope you’ll agree~”
She chuckled, pulling them both out stuck to the fingertip once more, letting them observe the depths from which they came from and how far they might fall if she wiggled her appendage slightly. “Waitwaitwait LIL-Mmphhhh!” Snow tried to get Lily to listen to her but she was not interested and squished the two with her finger, rubbing it around and pressing deep into her naval. Snow got a mouth full of her flesh and felt herself get dragged around as Lily lazily played with them again.
After several moments, she began to lift them out, Snow coughing and trying to get the air back in her lungs. As they were lifted out, Snow saw just how the only thing from them falling haplessly into a never ending void was the fact they were stuck in her fleshy prison again. Snow felt her heart beat quicken, she had been at higher heights already, but she usually had some kind of ground beneath her, not starting it down. She tightened her grip as she started to breath quicker.
“What’s wrong, Snowy? Not a fan of heights?” Lilycup mocked Snow, feeling her grip tighten. “It’s nothing to worry about. As your goddess and protector, I’ll make sure you don’t fall. Well, not back into there, anyway~” she giggled.
“Lilycup! I know you get your amusement from toying with us, but this isn’t funny right now! Put me somewhere on sturdy ground, anywhere, please!” Snow yelled.
She felt the whole world flip as Lily quickly turned her finger right side up, looking down at the frightened white speck on her fingertip.
“Anywhere?” Lily smiled, drawing out the word.
“Wait, hold o-” Snow tried to object but was drowned out by Lilycup again.
“Anything for my favorite worshiper! Besides, I still feel like you two need to help me relax some more” she grinned. She had an idea and Snow didn’t like this. Before there could be anymore objections, the two ponies felt the whole world shake.
Lilycup made sure to be careful of the two mites on her fingertip as she turned over. She simply rolled over onto her stomach, her form wiping away countless miles of land as she obliterated anything in her path without a second guess. Where she had been, everything was flatter than a pancake, the crushing weight of Lily making it unrecognizable.
As she finished rolling over she brought the fingertip to her face, smiling. The two ponies entire view was simply Lily.
“Now,” she thundered, practically blasting them away, “I’ve been sitting down for a while and my tushie has fallen asleep. Do you two think you could be helpful tiny ponies and help wake it up? Perfect, I knew you would” she beamed, not giving them a chance to reply.
“You surely can’t be serious…” Snow said quietly
“Why Snow, you should know by now that my name isn’t “Shirley,” it’s the ‘Great and All-Powerful Lilycup’ and you will address me as so” she said, wiggling her finger
As Lilycup continued to tease Snow now, Dust Mite huffed, struggling, but both were still quite stuck to her fingertip unless she wanted otherwise. “Now Lily, even I have to say something about that!” He shouted, only to be silenced by her wiggling finger, enough motion and g-force to make one sick if they weren’t accustomed to it.
“Before we continue, I’d like to hear that from your lips. Hmmm? Just a few simple words is all, riiiiight?” She snickered, tilting her head so that her ear faced them. If neither of them said it, then of course she could always make them, but having them willingly do it was just as much fun. Oh, she was such a stinker, she mused to herself.
“… Blugh.” Dust grumbled. “Yes, sis … Oh Great and All-Powerful Lilycup …”
“…” Snow was taking her time with her own reply. “Might just start calling you Shirley out of spite-I MEAN, YES, OH GREAT AND ALL POWERFUL LILYCUP! I LIVE TO SERVE!”
“That wasn’t so hard! So much better!”
“There, there, Snow. It’ll be alright.” The grey pegasus sighed, and if he could reach out and pat Snow to console her he would, feeling the rumble of Lilycup moving her finger backwards, giving them a view of her slender back for miles and miles, then pausing their trip just above her tight shorts-clad rear, using her free hand to open them up slightly. With a quick, almost expert motion, she stuck her finger holding the two into the open space, mushing them in and scraping them off at the top of one of her cheeks, retracting her hands and letting the elastic band of her bottoms snap shut.
“Heh. Comfy back there?” Lily asked in a singsong voice, slowly moving her hips back and forth from side to side. “Now get to work, this booty isn’t gonna worship itself!”
Every. Time. Every time Snow just wanted to vent her frustration, Lilycup made it worse by taking over her words and making it her say something that was the complete opposite. She was starting to just deal with the “worship” and “games” but having her voice taken over was incredibly intrusive and it made her mad. It also hurt, having magic take over her voice box and air supply left her coughing after every time she did it.
She appreciated Dust’s continuing comfort. He had to go through all this before so he must have known how awful it was, maybe not to this degree, but it was similar.
Again, they were given a flying tour of their tormentor as she brought her finger along her back until she hovered it above her rear. In one fast motion, she had zipped her finger inside her shorts, smushed the two of them into the soft and bouncy, but also firm backside, with a couple twists for good measure, before casually dragging them along until they were left tumbling and spinning on her butt before coming to a stop. Then far in the distance, Snow heard a loud slap and it was covered in darkness, only the holes above them offering any light.
Snow groaned as she sat up, having to hold tight as Lily began to slowly grind her hips along the ground, Snow able hear the quakes that she was causing to the world below, resulting in unknown amounts of damage to the planet.
Snow face planted into the soft skin and let out a heaving sigh of frustration. She turned to Dust who was already starting to do what was demanded of him, a slight blush on his face.
“I get the feeling that this is not the first time that you have found yourself in your sister’s bottoms? Either of them?” She said in a tone of rising defeat. She was referring to Dust’s older sister, Cloud Tower, when she asked the question. To Snow’s slight amusement (and some disgust), Dust looked away, as though he didn’t want to answer. “You have, haven’t you?” she asked, finally starting to, ugh, “worship the booty” as Lily eloquently put it.
Her line of questioning was with good reason, if Dust Mite’s blush was apparent enough. “Y-yeah …” He sighed as he continued to rub, pressing into the soft flesh beneath him.
“It happens every once in a while, whether on accident on on purpose. Just a few weeks ago, you know when you visited with your family and how I told you it was Lily’s fault that we weren’t found earlier? Well, she made sure of that by sticking Duet and I underneath Cloudy.”
“Ya guys feel great back there, keep it up!” Lilycup’s voice echoed from a vast distance away, yet still powerfully loud enough to cause quakes and be felt. “Oh, and by the way. Hey, Snowy! Got a question for ya. Out of my whole family, who has the best butt? I wanna know, since you’re an outside opinion.” She snickered, wiggling her own rump as she spoke. “WHAT!?” Snow exclaimed. She had remembered that day was rather chill and relaxing when she was just hanging out with Cloud and Lily. But she did remember that Lily started to act very weird. Dust had told her that Lily was the cause for his and her brother, Duet, not being found, but never elaborated on any of the details. She had been told that she had stepped on the two of them and they had been stuck to the bottom of her hoof, fro which she profusely apologized for, even getting Dust and Duet a treat in repentance (Dust thought she was overreacting, but took the offer anyway).
“Oh my goodness, ho-, whe-, WHAT?” she repeated. “You’re sister SAT on you two? Oh my Celestia, you two must have under her when she got…oh my gosh, Dust, why didn’t you say anything about this to me earlier?” Snow had gone full “mother” mode, scolding Dust for not telling her what had hurt him. She remembered that Cloud had to get herself comfortable and started twisting her rear around. Snow had no idea that the two had been under her. It must have been agonizing.
She felt the vibrations of Lily’s voice and movements snap her back to reality. Oh boy, a question. And one that probably didn’t have a good ending for her regardless of answer.
“Uh, um, can I, uh, say that you all…do?” she called out, trying to take the easy way out. Lily didn’t seem to like that.
“Nonono, you silly filly!” She said, wiggling her butt again, faster this time, making the two ponies hold on. “Tell me who you think has the best butt! It’s not that hard of a question, Snowy” Lily playfully scolded Snow. “C’mon, go ahead and tell me. I promise I won’t make you say it against your will this time,” she giggled, “I want a genuine answer. Now, who has the best BUTT!” she wiggled again.
Snow looked at Dust, who simply shrugged. Snow felt as though she didn’t really have a clear answer here. Was Lily trying to humiliate her more by answering her name and doing something to “reward” her answer? Or was she actually just being curious, she said that she wanted a genuine answer and wouldn’t make her say it, so it seemed she was legitimately curious.
To be completely honest, Snow didn’t actually have a clear answer. Their parents were well built, but they were much older, so that probably wouldn’t sit well with either Lily OR Dust. And out of the three kids, Cloud really did have a nice set of assets, she worked for her appearance and took pride in it. She had to admit that she had caught herself staring a couple times. Lilycup, for as young as she was, was developing pretty well. She was slightly taller than most of the other ponies in her class and she figured that in a couple years that she would turn into a fine young mare. And Dust, well, it’s hard to judge his rear since she couldn’t see him ever, but she had noticed it before Lily began her reign of terror, and it was rather attractive. She couldn’t believe she was debating so hard about this, but found herself blushing at the prospect of who had the best derrière.
“Times up, Snowy! And the winner is…?” Lilycup announced, the air filled with tension as if the whole world was awaiting her answer.
“UHHMMMMMHMMMM…” Snow grunted, “I-I think that the b-best butt belongs tooo…” She closed her eyes and called out her answer.
“CLOUDY!” she blurted out and immediately buried herself into Lily’s rear, hands covering her face, the heat of her embarrassment could probably warm a house for a family of 8.
Dust laughed upon seeing Snow’s reaction, and touched by her concern for them, re-emulating when they had told her she stepped on them. He could only imagine his own sister’s shock if he would ever tell her, Cloud would go into full-blown panic and worry mode even though they survived the ordeal just fine. “It’s fine, we’re fine, I’m here right now aren’t I? Yeah it was a bit grueling, kind of got … crunched up a bit more than usual, but uh … soft enough we could survive, firm enough … we got stuck though.” He blushed ever more feverently, glad to be interrupted by Lilycup’s questioning of Snow.
The beyond colossal unicorn snickered to herself, feeling Snow embed herself out of embarrassment into the plushness of her rump. “Cloudy huh? Yeah, I figured that. At least you were honest.”
Sidling over to her, Dust Mite patted Snow’s back in an attempt to comfort her, trying to stifle a laugh at his friend’s reaction. “I’m sorry you were forced to make such a tough decision. Lily’s begun the true torture now.”
“If you want my honest opinion though, I still think it’s mine.” Lily boomed, giving another wiggle and slapping the opposite cheek, sending a vibrating shockwave through her own backside. “Can’t I just wake up now…” Snow groaned into the soft plush, “or the world just swallow me.” She was pretty quick to embarrassment when it came to topics like that, her fur would usually flush to a bright, bright red out of embarrassment. She’d be the first to admit it, she was a pretty innocent pony growing up. Even when she dated, it was…challenging for her to talk about such things. Now she had to answer such a question in front of one of her closest friends and his ‘little’ sister.
The “world” that was Lily’s rear vibrated and rumbled as the gargantuan unicorn gave it a healthy slap, rocking the two ponies in every direction as the shockwave traveled across her back end. Thankfully, they were low and the rumblings didn’t send them very far, but it did snap them to attention.
“Now that I know who’s butt you like, it’s back to work for you two on mine, the best, but I don’t think I’m getting the satisfaction from having you both on one cheek,” she smiled and lit up her horn. Inside her pants, Dust felt himself becoming enveloped in magic and began to be whisked away, calling out to Snow, who reached out and grabbed his hand, trying to pull him back, but was being dragged as well. Suddenly, Snow herself was enveloped in magic and her grasp on Dust was forcefully released, watching as Dust sailed of into the vast distance.
“Ah, ah, ah! Now, now, little cloudy, you still have your cheek to work on. I’m sure my brother can handle what I have in store for him. He’s done t before after all” she laughed, the planet rumbling.
Against her will, Snow was returned to where she had been deposited earlier and was pressed into the soft surface, only this time, there was a little more force. Snow grunted and tried to stand, but her body was still not in her control, she felt herself being pulled back and forth rapidly, as well as side to side as Lilycup smeared her little prisoner all around her cheek.
“MMMmmmm, ah, that really feels good, Snowy. Where did you learn that?” Lily moaned, feeling the tiny form of Snow tickling her rump. “Ahh~~ that is sooo much better than before, you’ve gotten MUCH better at serving your goddess” she giggled before tossing Snow haplessly into the air, sending her tumbling.
Snow was fine, but she wasn’t feeling too good. The quick and rapid movements had made her stomach race and she lay on Lily’s skin trying to get her equilibrium back.
“Just take a minute to enjoy the sacred ground you lie upon, Snowy. Most other ponies on this planet would love to be where you are now” she chuckled slowly.
“Pretty sure we only got two or three hours left. Just hold out a little while longer Snow … !”
As he felt Lilycup’s magic wrap around his body, pulling him upwards in its presence, he desperately fought against the glittering aura, attempting to grasp onto anything to stay in place, Snow trying to do the same, but their grip on one another broke, whisking him away. Dust watching as his friend disappeared over the horizon, miles and miles of rounded flesh and fur passing, until he was dropped onto a landscape familiar to where he had been. He saw now what Lily was doing, separating both of them to massage in entirely different spots, and here he was on the cheek opposite to the one he had been on with Snow seconds before.
He could hear and even feel how his younger sibling was treating Snow, sighing at the sheer egotistical self-loving that was going on, Lilycup acting as if she were best thing since the alicorn sisters had found the elements of harmony. He went back to massaging, what she had said of him being familiar in this sort of thing true, the squish and suppleness of what he worked with his hands making him blush and try not to think about it too much, but he gulped, knowing the same would be awaiting him as he rubbed, feeling Lily’s magic around him once again only seconds later. Lily repeated the same action she had done to Snow with Dust, mushing him in deeply and moving him around like a toy. “Ahahaha! You both are doing a fairly good job, no wonder you’re my most dedicated followers and favorite itty-bitties.”
With both of them trapped in her magical clutches, she raised them into the air, only to bring them back down in a repeating motion, mushing them both deeply inwards, especially their faces. “Mwah, mwah, mwah! Ohhhh you two! Kisses now!? Why, what a lucky goddess I am!”
Snow finally stopped swing the world spinning. Lily had made sure to cover a good portion of her rear with her tiny, white worshiper as she smeared her into the soft flesh. Lily was starting to see them as no more than playthings at this point, not as “obedient disciples” or whatever religious follower she referred to them as. As she was still magically pinned down, she couldn’t see where Lily had taken Dust, but she could hear that he sound like he was going through the same thing she did.
When Lily was done playing with her brother, Snow felt herself rise into the air and be brought back down repeatedly, he face being musher into Lily’s butt. Lily’s laughing wasn’t making this any better.
“My~ You two sure are learning quick on how to please me, but imitation isn’t better than the real thing~~” Lily’s cooing rumbling far above them. She again pressed her mites into her rear face-down so they were completely enveloped in the rear. “How’s about it, my little followers, kiss the best butt in the entire world” She giggled.
Snow did everything she could to try and remove her face from the all encompassing soft landscape, but Lily’s magic didn’t relent. Snow knew that there was only one way it would. Closing her eyes, and not wanting to believe she was about to do this, she kissed the rear of her gigantic tormentor.
Against the forces that conspired against him, and despite his resistance, Dust Mite had to relent eventually as well, letting his lips touch in the briefest kiss possible, Lilycup’s mocking laughter that rumbled and roared over the atmosphere a signifier that she had felt it. With her magic still covering them, they were once again whisked away to parts unknown, flying across miles and miles of her expansive body, leaving behind her behind, back in open air and the light, only to be held hovering in front of her skyful of a judging eye, peering down at them with interest.
“Awwww, thanks you two~. You’ve proven you absolutely adore and love me, but who wouldn’t with such a wonderful goddess such as myself?” She chortled, shaking the very air itself with the powerful soundwaves that blasted from her mouth. “Now …”
“I wonder where else that devotion can be put to … ?” Snow was still not appreciating the rapid movements of being magically transported from one part of Lily’s massive body to another and she now had the bad taste of “worship” in her mouth. Quite literally.
“Lilycup…wait…” Snow said, trying to catch her breath, to the annoyance of the being holding her up.
“Snow Petal” Lily rumbled, “we’ve talked about this already several times. I don’t appreciate you talking back to me” Lily lectured Snow, no signs of amusement in her booming voice.
“I know, but just hear me out, hear me out!” Snow contested, “Don’t you think…” a magical spotlight suddenly shown brightly on her as the rest of the world seemed to go dark, Only the bright blow of Lily’s horn and Snow in the spotlight were easily visible.
“I think a lot, yes. What about it?” Lilycup said, pretending to be the “tough cop” she saw in some of the TV shows she had watched. Her eye was fixed right upon her, gazing into Snow’s soul.
“Uh…” Snow’s voice was also amplified by Lily’s magic, literally making the whole world her stage. “Uh, w-well, I was just thinking that you, uh, haven’t been…really…uh” Lily’s intense gaze was making Snow nervous. If she didn’t say her idea in a way that Lily agreed with, it was likely off to some other part of her body where she would be forced to do…something she didn’t want to. “I mean, y’know, you’ve, uh, taken over Equestria, and you haven’t really, y’know…d-” Snow suddenly felt herself being violently shook side to side, Lily getting impatient.
“If you keep wasting my time, Snow Petal, you won’t like the consequences. What are you proposing about my rulership?” Lily said, annoyed that Snow was stalling.
“I was just thinking” Snow said after she collected herself “that maybe you gather the help of your…citizens, too? I’m, uh, sure they would like to…help praise you, too” Snow finally said. She felt as though she could hear the whole dream world yell “WHAT!?” in unison, but that was just her imagination.
The spotlight disappeared but Lily’s gaze didn’t change. Snow continued to gaze up at her, not breaking eye contact, confidence was key in this idea and Snow needed to hang tough. After what felt like an eternity, Lily hummed, seemingly thinking about Snow’s idea.
“You know, Snow, you do make a good point. I might be a goddess, but I’ve only shared my powers with you two, my most loyal~~” she winked, blasting the two with a torrent of air. “I should have my subjects serve me, this world is mine after all” Lily mused. “Very well, Snow Petal, your idea has pleased your goddess” Snow sighed a breath of relief, “but you two have been doing such a good job, I don’t want you to stop, your worship feels better than anything these other little mites could do~~”
Snow suddenly didn’t feel very relieved anymore.
“At least you tried.” Dust whispered over to Snow, attempting to reason with the god-filly still proving quite a fruitless endeavor. Even though now the whole dream world was now brought back to her attention, they were still quite under the goddess’s teasing gaze.
“While you two get back to your worshipping, I’ll be tending to my planet. I’ve ignored everypony else for far too long, they deserve some attention from me as well!” Her booming laughter roared, more sounding like a call to doomsday than anything else. “But where oh where to send you onto my magnificent body next? Choices, choices …”
As Lilycup pondered this question, she slowly sat back up into a sitting position from having been laying down, chunks of the landscape falling off of her body, an imprint of herself flattened into the ground. A surprise Equestria was still held together at all, but she had mainly kept her colossal self to the center of the once great kingdom. She flew them over parts of her body as she spoke, continuing to tease them.
“My nails? I could have you clean out the dirt from under them, or have you paint them, but that’d take forever! You two are wayyyyyyyy too tiny.” Her fingers drummed against the earth, creating shockwaves that rattled the globe. Next the visage of her maw, open slightly and blasting with the warm hurricane of her breath. “Maybe after I gobble up a few snacks I could have you clean my teeth and tongue. Hehe. Oooh, or have you visit the princesses and Ponyville down in my tum, I’m sure they’re missing you.”
“Nose? Just suck you riiiiight up!” Held before the darkened black hole, Lily took in a big whiff, and if they weren’t tight by her magic they would have undoubtedly have flown right in. “Ear? I’m sure I got some wax you could take care of. Plus I would be able to hear any juicy gossip my two favorite tinies could whip up.”
“Ohhhhh so many choices! Though, maybe …” Back in front of her face, licking her lips once more in anticipation. “Perhaps someplace more broader … let you feel how small you are to me.”
Leaning back down to laying on her back, using one free hand, Lilycup tugged open the collar of her tank top, slowly using her magic to hover Dust and Mite in front of the opening and sliding them in. “It’s not easy trying to negotiate with a young unicorn with a god-complex” Snow sighed, practically accepting that there was no chance to negotiate with Lily for her to release them. “Well, at least it’s a dream world and not the real thing, there wouldn’t be anywhere to hide from her” she shuttered at the thought of Lily doing this in the real worlds.
They watched as huge chunks of the world began raining down from Lily’s rising figure, uncountable acres of land turned to nothing as her simple movements had ground the land into dust. In the center of the once grand kingdom that was ruled by Celestia and Luna now resided the infinite figure of Lilycup, all eyes of the kingdom gazing up upon her. Many ponies began trying to make a run for it, no idea where they were going to go, but they wanted away from her. As much as they tried to run, they found that they couldn’t get away, something kept returning them to the city or town they were in, as if they were running down an infinite hallway that lead them nowhere. They were trapped and at the mercy of the god-filly.
For Dust and Snow, the tour of Lily’s body was anything but fun. They were whipped quickly from location to location, Lily mocking them about how insignificant they were to every part of her body. Her nails could have been continents themselves. Snow felt her heart jump to her chest in fear as the warm, humid air of Lily’s mouth washed over her, making it worse by her implying that she was going to eat more than just Ponyville and the princesses. Out of all the places Snow didn’t want to visit, anywhere in her mouth or inside her body, were at the top of the list. Snow felt as though the sucking of air from her nose was going to tear the flesh from her until she was just a skeleton. She had heard about how gross a pony’s ear was from Dust, so the ear made her stomach turn. Plus, it wasn’t like she needed to hear what they were saying, she could everything she had said, anyway.
However, when they were returned to her face, Lily’s tongue wetting her lips in excitement and anticipation, Snow wasn’t sure what she meant by “broader” until she felt Lily recline again and watched as she brought them to her chest. She lifted the giant opening of her tanktop and it all made sense to Snow. She tried to get free, knowing it was useless, but she didn’t want to give Lily any of that kind of satisfaction. She had no choice though as the two were tossed onto the large mounds of flesh that were Lilycup’s breasts.
“There we go! Ah~ HeeHee, all of your tiny movements feel so good” Lily sighed, “How do they look, little Snowy? Mmm, jealous that yours are sooo much smaller? I understand though, nopony can handle these lovely growing ladies, make yours look as small as you are” Lilycup laughed, feeling Snow’s embarrassment from atop her chest.
The two were deposited with a light drop, Dust huffing as he landed on the squishy-soft ground beneath them, attempting to stand up and regain balance on the slightly rising and falling landscape of curving magenta fur.
“Don’t let her get to ya Snow, as bad as it is. She’s literally a living continent at this point, comparing yourself to her is pointless.” He assured his friend, the years of dealing with Lily leaving him unfazed by the unicorn’s taunting, which is why she seemed to partially be focusing on Snow Petal now.
Lilycup lifted up her top further to peek inwards, her eye once again upon the horizon to stare down at them. “I dunno, once I’m a fully matured mare, I’m sure I’ll outclass even mom and Cloudy~, maybe even the princesses as well!” Full-on narcissism at work. “Now you two, get to work! Unless you’d like a comfier spot to stay. While where you lay is sacred and perfectly worshippable, I’m sure we can find a better view. Hrmm …”
“I don’t like the sound of that …”
“Neither do I.”
Dust brought up a good point about Lily’s current taunting. It was kind of easy to have the biggest chest when you were the size of a continent, so she focused on that fact as Lily stroked her ego, thinking that she’d be bigger than Cloud. When she said she’d be bigger than the princesses, she couldn’t roll her eyes hard enough. Still, being told your chest was smaller by somepony younger than you stung a little for Snow.
Not wanting to figure out what Lily had in mind, Snow groaned and got to work doing the same motions she had already done for her hooves, stomach, and butt. If anything came of this, it was that Snow was learning how to properly give a massage, taking a couple pointers from Dust, who was trying his hardest to make sure that Snow didn’t break down from Lily’s persistent taunting and pressure.
“Morning can’t be long now, just hang tough, Snow” she thought to herself. “You’ve probably already gone through the worst of it.
It was only about to get worse as they felt Lily stretch her arms, groaning so loud she could’ve deafened a quarter of the planet.
“Now then” she boomed, “ what city should worship me first?” She asked rhetorically. Shockingly, no settlement seemed to volunteer as tribute.
“No volunteers?” She asked, “now why would my citizens not want to obey me, I’m a wonderful goddess” she fake pouted before giggling, “I guess I’ll just have to chose one myself” she smiled, reaching for a rather “large” city not too far from herself.
“You’ll want to alternate in slow sessions between pushing, squeezing, rubbing and kneading so that you don’t get too tired, but keep up a consistent pressure so you can be felt.” Dust Mite explained to Snow, elucidating on the differences between working with your hands, whole arms, and your elbows. He was experienced in this sort of thing, and even as the rumbles of Lilycup’s movements miles away shook them, they were still partially held in place, whether by luck or the god-filly’s own doing.
Lilycup pinched at the city, snickering at its feeble puniness, barely held together in her grasp, some bits of it falling off as she lifted it up for observation. It was a nameless city to be sure, not one worth noting on the Equestrian map, but it would have to do. Whistling a tune to herself, Lily turned the cityscape upside down, nothing falling out of it though due to her will … yet. Like sprinkling a saltshaker, she shook the settlement across her body in various places, depositing the dream inhabitants onto her. Once she figured she had enough of them upon her, into her mouth it went as a snack, swallowed without a second thought.
“There! Now, I hope you all know what to do. Take pointers from the two I’ve been toying with, or I’ll be a very, very unhappy goddess, and none of you would want that, riiiiight?”
Going about with a mild hum, she began observing the tiny towns, villages, and various other burgs around her, poking some flat with her fingers, others turned into morsels, more wrapped in that mystical plastic-magic bubble and transformed into jewelry for her to accessorize with. The citizens of the city were sent into an unbridled frenzy of panic. Two gargantuan walls of magenta slowly made their way towards their development before it was mercilessly uprooted and brought high up into the air. Some parts of the city began to break off, hanging by threads until they were ripped from the resulting gravity, colliding with the ground below, causing large quakes. But those were nothing compared to what they were about to experience. Their sky was occupied by the titanic unicorn that had so effortlessly defeated their original rulers as if she had been toying with them. As she observed them, they could feel the bone rattling snickering and every pony started to rattle in place. She smiled and the ponies knew true fear.
Before they knew it, their world was turned, quite literally, upside down as she effortlessly flipped the city over. Ponies were screaming that they were going to fall, but didn’t realize that they were locked in place by the thoughts of their titanic usurper. Then they began to speed along at mach pace as the titan brought their city all over her body. Then they began falling. They fell in the dozens, hundreds at a time for great distances until they landed with a bounce on the magenta skin. Lily took her time, sprinkling the populace in places randomly, but making sure to get a lot on some of her more sensitive places. The citizens on her body felt the their ears almost split as she ordered them to serve her or risk…some kind of gruesome fate, they figured. With few objectors, to which Lily simply took care of without second thought, the populace began rubbing the surface of their new god ruler.
Lily began gently (as gentle as a creature her size could be) moving around the country, gazing at the infinitesimal settlements on the planet below, turning over on her left side. Some were so small and beneath her notice that she didn’t even notice as a wall of her being obliterated any home, building, and pony that was in its way. She laughed as she began her simple playtime with the ones closest to her, casually squashing them beneath her finger tips. Those poor victims could only fall to the ground in defeat as the sky turned dark before a planet-like tip of her finger squished them into oblivion, leaving a miles deep crater in its wake. She felt like some needed a better look and made sure to grind her finger into the ground of some, keeping the ponies unharmed, felling their tiny forms squirm under her, making her giggle. She spared them harm, but destroyed everything else around them and leaving them in a miles deep hole, forcing them to try and get out. They were nothing to her, so they got no help from her.
Some of the bigger cities, no larger than dots, were magically lifted into the air where Lily placed them onto her tongue, sometimes placing the cities on top of each other, causing destruction that sent ponies scurrying, only for Lily to slosh them around in her mouth, washing the cities away in her saliva, feeling the mite ponies all along her sensitive mountains that were her tastebuds before casually swallowing thousands of ponies into the deep abyss that was her throat, making them join their fellow country ponies from Ponyville and their lost rulers.
The “lucky” cities were also lifted into the air, but Lily had greater uses for them. Instead of destroying them immediately, she used her plastic-like magic to engulf whole cities in magic beads. After collecting up to hundreds of cities and towns, she threaded a string through them, creating bracelets that made her grin. As she placed the cities around her wrist, the populace of each bead were thrown about mercilessly from the act of her putting them on. To Lily, she heard none of the commotion, not only through her humming that rattled the planet, but also because of the silencing spells she had cast on the beads, making the noise unknown to anypony outside the beads. She crafted about 3 bracelets, crafted from over 30 cities around the country, as well as a couple that she placed around her hooves, making sure they were snug and tight. For a couple “lucky” settlements, Lily had combined them into two giant earrings that she placed through her ears, giving the ones inside a nauseating view of being so high up.
“You know, you all look so much better like this. Your cities were taking up land where I couldn’t put myself. Not that it matters, I could’ve made you move, but I’m a nice goddess and did it myself. I expect better worship from you for all that I’ve done for you” she laughed, shaking the probable millions of ponies that were now a part of their new goddess.
“Noowwww…what next~~?” She cooed.
Dust and Snow were unaware of what was going on beyond the sky of fabric that was Lily’s shirt, but could easily feel and hear every one of her actions as a world-rattling rumble or sound as if a sonic rainboom was about to go off. “I feel so bad for this dream.” He sighed over to Snow. “I can’t tell whether it’s mine or yours, but next time either of us dream we’ll make it up to them somehow. Though, I’m not quite sure if dreams stay consistent from mind to mind.”
By now he was rambling, looking for something to talk about to pass the time. “As much as I like the Princess I’m entirely unfamiliar with her realm. I’ll probably have to read more into it. Next time mom goes to the library I’ll ask her to check some books out for me, or when Cloudy has a post at the royal library I’ll ask her. Heh, maybe Cloudy’ll see Princess Luna sometime! Though, she’s Solar Guard, and rarely gets any night posts. That’s more for the Lunar Guard, y’know, those batponies …”
Whether he was interrupted for better or worse, Lilycup’s magic wrapped around them, briefly pulling them away from their task and hovering them in the air, breezing them along past the miles and miles of her chest. “Ugh. What now!?” Dust could hear Snow shout in annoyance. The ground was roughly flat for the first few minutes, but then began to curve upwards like a hill, then eventually a mountain rising.
It was odd that Lily wasn’t directly addressing them, signified by her laughing above and actions outside, meaning she was multitasking at the moment. Soon their destination was present looming upon the horizon, Like a massive fleshy country itself, rising larger and higher than any peak on the planet could compare to. Dust sighed in response upon viewing it. “Whoo boy.”
“Hmm …” Lilycup mused to herself, turning her head as to examine the surrounding landscape around her, most of it flattened and destroyed, but she could see one nearby that piqued her interest, a cruel smile curling upon her lips. “Oohoo! Maaaaaaaaanehaaaaaaataaaaaaannnnnnn!” She sang, approaching the largest city in Equestria apart from Canterlot, but to her it was only a new tiny plaything. “The ‘Big Apple’, eh? Not so big, but what is to me? Haha!”
The only things that really caught her interest at first was the Empire Kingdom Building, the tallest pony-made structure on even ground, barely the width of a fingernail to her, and the Mare of Liberty, hardly comparable to be even a toy. Lilycup laughed, the deep thunder of her voice no doubt shattering glass of the skyscrapers below and rattling the very foundation of the city itself, cast in the shadow of the god-filly that encompassed the sky and horizon above.
“Do ponies in our dreams really have to be apologized to? I mean, don’t get me wrong, but these ponies probably don’t even really know what emotions are. They probably are only reacting because that’s how we would expect them to react” Snow replied. She had been given ample time to consider her situation as Lilycup romped through her kingdom, the two of them still kneading away at the squishy breast. As much as she was a kind pony, parts of Lily’s uncaring-ness was starting to rub off on her, as she was also starting to not care about what happened to the apparitions of the citizens of Equestria.
She listened to Dust ramble on about how he’d try to figure out how to learn more about what Princess Luna’s powers over dreams were like and other things about her. It was cute how much of a crush he had on her. She had caught him going on and on about her once and started giggling at how excited he was getting and laughed harder when he got defensive about it.
Then Snow felt the very familiar magical grasp envelop her and Dust and whisked them away again.
“Ugh, what now!?” she yelled in annoyance. She was wondering what possible way of playing with them she was concocting now. Her answer came in the form of a giant, pink, fleshy mountain that overshadowed them. Lily’s sensitive tip was their destination. “Oh come on…” Snow groaned as the two were deposited, again, onto the sensitive surface. Lilycup hadn’t even acknowledged that they were there, seemingly just willing them there. “Of all places…” Snow mumbled. “Well, never thought I’d see the day when I was a shrunken mite on top of a mountainous tit of my best friend’s sister’s colossal boob. How could this NOT be a nightmare” Snow yelled, kicked the flesh she was stood upon before groaning and getting to what Lily was trying to tell them. The red on Snow’s face was embarrassment or fury, but neither herself nor Dust could tell.
For the colossal ruler of the world, she was just about to start her new wave of fun on what was supposed to be “The Big City.” Lily was about to make sure that nothing was “bigger” than her.
“I dunno. I mean, they’re still ponies. Apparitions made from our psyche, but I imagine mine with emotions like they’re real.” Dust shrugged, still feeling quite bad. Being ‘awake’ in one’s dream for your entire sleepspan was long, and it felt like this dream was dragging on and on. Morning couldn’t come sooner.
“… You okay?” He asked his friend once their transferal of Lilyscape was over. Dust was utterly embarrassed, not recalling even in real life Lily ever going this far, but he forced himself to move on and just try not to think about it. The surrounding horizon that stretched from end to end as far as they could see, fleshy pink, dotted with etchings and lines in the skin that emulated deep canyons. When he pressed his hands in, it was soft, but semi-firm, with enough push that there wasn’t any give. A sigh as he continued to massage.
Lilycup paused, feeling the tingle upon her teat from her two little worshipper, allowing a smirk to pass. She’d have to address them later, but for now, ‘bigger’ things had her attention. “Hmm, not so big, now that I’m looking at it. I always wanted to visit Manehattan, but now that I have it right in front of me, I’m disappointed!” She slowly trailed her extended forefinger around the edge of it, watching the buildings collapse from her simple touch.
Her horn lit up, picking up the tallest building in the city, barely even visible to her as it was held in front of her eye. “I always thought I would be able to see the whole city from the top of this thing! Apparently I can’t even see the city at all unless I focused. How pathetic! You guys really need to work on making bigger places to live.” Carelessly tossing it aside, watching it sail into the sky until it disappeared from view.
“But … maybe there /is/ a use for all of you.”
Her horn lit up, ripping the cityscape right out of the earth, as well as a surrounding chunk of ground and mountain ranges. It was all molded and formed into the fashion of a crown, with Manehattan in the centerpiece. Lilycup placed it upon her head, grinning from ear to ear, slowly standing back up to her full towering height that loomed beyond the sight of mortals. Her body glowed partially, the clothing upon her disappearing and fading out, until they were replaced by what she considered what a goddess should be wearing. A stark white sash top and skirt with gold hemming, replicative of the long flowing version normally worn by Celestia.
“Ohhhh little Duuuuust, Snowwwwwww,” She pulled open her top, peering down at them once more, winking. “Don’t think I’ve forgotten about you. Doing a great job, I’m quite receptive to your worship, you two. Quite happy you love my nipple more than anything else~” A snicker as she held up a finger, slowly aiming it towards them.
“BRACE YOURSELF-” Dust shouted once more, right before the approaching meteor made impact against them, mushing them right in. “I’m just nearing my wits’ end, Dust. I’ve had it up to about HERE” she threw her hand to her forehead “with her. The hooves, I could get. The butt… I put up with. But this is just absolutely out of line. Her nipple!? Is she serious right now?” Snow yelled in exacerbation. “Enough is enough, Dust. I don’t care what it takes, I’m going to stop this the next time she s-” she was cut of as their surroundings began to glow and pulse in bright lights. Before their eyes, the dark clothing they were trapped under was replaced with a long, white flowing gown.
They looked up as Lily’s booming voice ruptured the air. High above her visage, by her horn, was a crown that she had crafted with large chunks of the planet, with Manehattan as the crowning centerpiece. She had magically infused it so that it glowed a rainbow of colors, her head taking on the appearance of a semi-halo.
“She is really something else…” Snow frowned, incredulous that she had truly gone this far, imitating Celestia’s wardrobe and creating a crown for herself.
That took backstage to her thoughts as she saw Lily’s finger falling towards them. She prepared herself for impact, as Dust instructed, just as she squished them right into her sensitive tip.
“OOOohhhhh~~ MMMMmmm~~ My, you two are truly the best at serving me” Lily moaned as she pressed her finger deep into her sensitive nipple before bringing it back up, giving Snow and Dust a breath before she pressed them back in, feeling them wriggle against her, making her moan again. She lowered herself again, spreading out across the ravaged country as she repeated this several times, each time feeling just as good as the first time. She brought her free hand to her other breast and began massaging it too, when she realized how to make it better. She twisted her finger, grinding them into her squishy skin again before bringing it up to her face, the heat from her building excitement washing over the two dazed ponies.
“Now why should you both be pleasing me on one when I have two that need worship?” she asked with a mischievous smile, lighting up her horn again.
“I know, I know. I … think I feel the dream spell weakening, actually. You that semi-feeling of awake and asleep you get right before your internal clock goes off? Yeah. I’m starting to feel at least the small bits of that.” Dust Mite replied to Snow. “Listen, like I said, next dream together! It’ll be great. We can do all of the things we normally do when we hang out, but I’ll be normal sized! And even if ya want, we can conjure up a dream lily and make you as big as she is now, just for some petty revenge.”
Interrupted once more by Lily, he was astounded by the lengths she was going to degrade them and further herself, even to the point of even dressing as she assumed what a goddess should be. After enduring the brutal mushing and twisting she put them through, Dust feeling his body be ground up against soft mass and momentarily blacking out each time, he soon felt her magic encircle his body in its aura. “Uh … oh …” He groaned aloud, both he and Snow being separated quickly once again.
Now atop a similar pinky fleshy landscape as before, except this time he could see the same one so far in the distance it was a blur. “Just … a little bit longer, Snow.” Back to work he went, feeling the world beneath him rumble as it slightly hardened and seem expand and grow in size, about the same time Lily’s finger came back down and mushed him into it, doing the same thing with Snow on her opposite nipple.
“Aaaaaah, sooooo nice!” Lilycup could almost purr at the sensation. While her chest got its attention, she peered down to the rest of Equestria, noting the view patches of surviving green. Smirking, she lifted a leg, angling it so that the land fell just beneath her thigh, and slamming it down with resounding force. The repeated abuse that Snow had gone through for the past several hours was starting to finally take it’s toll on her. As she was ground into Lily’s mountain of flesh, she, too, felt herself blackout a couple times, the euphoric pressure that Lily was exerting on her was starting to overcome her limits and she could only grunt in defiance, but the twisting and rubbing that Lily did to her was too much.
For Lily, she was in such bliss that she hadn’t realized that she had started to press her tiny slaves harder into her slowly growing tips. Their pathetic bodies trying to fight back and then submitting made it better as she moaned in delight. There was something about separating the two of them and using them separately that Lily found powerfully intoxicating, the sheer authority that she had over her mite of a brother and speck of a friend was incredible.
She sighed and noticed the land beneath her before slamming her thigh into the surviving land with seismic forces never felt before. Her smirk growing, she began rubbing her legs back and forth across the land, obliterating everything in their wake. Entire mountain ranges were blasted to bits effortlessly and untold amounts of land were launched into the air. Then Lily noticed that far in the distance resided another country, one that she didn’t seem to recall ever existing in the real world, but that didn’t stop her. Using her magic, having to focus slightly, which was a little tricky with her breasts still being caressed and her mites still being played with, she found the biggest cities in the neighboring country and teleported them before her, the citizens of those cities confused as to what had happened. But the didn’t have time to question as the ground below them began to violently change.
Lily laughed as she rose and flattened the land rapidly below the newly teleported cities, watching as they were haplessly thrown about by her changing the very shape of the land. Up and down, side to side, round and around they went, even being thrown into each other and upside down, the cities were torn apart by the violent seismic activities and magical control until after several minutes they were raised and thrown onto the body of the continental magenta God-unicorn.
“I am the goddess of this planet. And all upon it are mine to control and do with as I please!” Lilycup declared. She stopped caressing herself, letting the two worshippers take a breath, smirking as she looked down at their defeated bodies. She had had her share of them and now it was time to focus elsewhere before this dream fully ran its course. She lifted their tired bodies and carefully dropped them into a surviving grove of trees where Ponyville used to reside.
“My disciples have far proven their worth to me, but their tiny forms will not fully satisfy me anymore.” She magically teleported the citizens all across her body, “you all will serve me, as you are mine to command and control” she had gone over the top narcissistic and egotistical mode, now reaching a fever point.
She then began to watch as the specks began to do their work, while Lily decided that several would make for tasty morsels and popped them into her awaiting maw, sloshing them around before sending them to her gut. This was her planet, her dream, all of it was her’s now.
Finally relieved of their plight, Dust Mite leaned against a tree, gazing upwards to the absolutely colossal form of his younger sister. He had never believed he could feel so worn out and sore in a dream before. “Snow, I’m sorry, this is probably my fault … memories of Lilycup being like this must have manifested some way …”
Turning to look at his friend, he paused. Instead of being stark white like she normally was, her entire being had gone a burning red, looking as if she were about to actually combust. A screwed expression of fury laid on her face, and for one of the first times ever Dust was afraid of his friend. “Err … Snow … why don’t we just go to our happy place. Literally. There it is, over there. A nice place to relax and and and-”
“LILYCUP YOU BUCKING FLYING HORSEFEATHERED EGOTISTICAL OVER THE TOP NARCISSISTIC UP YOUR OWN ARSE SELF STROKING LITTLE BITCH-”
Wow. Quite the mouth on her. As her screams rang through the air, Lilycup paused upon hearing it, ceasing all activity of her godhood and divine worship, as if all of those on her just disappeared, turning an eye back down towards Dust and Snow. “ … What was that?” She boomed, looming closer and closer until just a fraction of herself filled their whole vision.
“Because it sounded like you’re blaspheming your goddess.”
“GODDESS-SCHMODDESS. YOU’RE NO GOD, YOU’RE JUST A FILLY WITH BRITCHES TOO BIG FOR HER OWN GOOD.”
“Okay now, Snow, we really don’t want to make Lilycup mad …” Dust went over and patted his friend in an attempt to calm her.
That was it. That was the last of her patience gone. Her unbridled fury had taken over and was now consuming her. As Snow lay on the ground, deposited like she was trash, she felt her intense hatred for the egotistical unicorn above. She growled and clenched her fists, digging up dirt as her body turned a shade of red, the hatred she felt overtaking her body. She stood, the grass around her turning to black and brown as her heat literally causes it to flash burn. With steam emitting from her body, she directed herself to her target, the magenta unicorn above and unleashed hell.
The magic from the dream and her emotions amplified her roar, making it far louder than Lilycup had been, the sound waves traveling around at least half the globe. Snow did not back down as she saw Lily turn towards her, all of the dream ponies having vanished in sparks of light. Her anger didn’t subside as Lily loomed over them, scolding Snow for her blasphemous behavior. That only made her more angry. She shouted back up so loud that on the ground she almost caused a shockwave from the energy she was emitting. Dust tried to calm her down, but she gently pushed him away. She had NO desire to stop now. She was going to let this little filly have a piece of her mind and it was going to get messy.
It seemed as though Lily was not pleased with how Snow was behaving and glared down at her.
“And you are just a speck of dirt compared to me. Do you intend to defy me again, Snow Petal? Because I have be-” before she could continue, Snow cut her off again.
“OH GIVE ME A BUCKING BREAK! YOU THINK YOU’RE SOME KIND OF HOT SHIT, HUH!? BRING IT, THEN! FIGHT ME RIGHT NOW, COME ON DOWN HERE AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT KIND OF ‘GOD’ YOU REALLY ARE, YOU LITTLE PUNK! OR IS THE LITTLE FILLY STILL UPSET SHE CAN’T BEAT ME AT ANYTHING, THAT SHE HAS TO CHEAT TO BE ABLE TO BEST ME!? IS THAT IT, SILLYCUP!?”
That seemed to strike a deep nerve in Lilycup as she was visibly upset by Snow’s taunt.
When Snow had come over to play with Dust and Lily, she had shown a knack for being practically unbeatable when they played games. For as smart as Lily was, she got easily frustrated for, in an anomaly, she was always a step BEHIND Snow and could never win. It truly annoyed her, because Snow was, well, sometimes not the most gracious winner.
For the first time the whole night, LILY was the one who got angry.
“You will pay for that Snow!” Lily growled in slowly growing frustration that her fun had not only been interrupted but she had to be reminded of one of her greatest failures.
Snow stood her ground. She wasn’t going to be beat. She may have been toyed around with, humiliated, but no more. She stood her ground and awaited whatever Lily had in store, her fury enveloping her in a field of red, the energy causing a small windstorm.
Dust was not looking forward to what was about to transpire.
“I think …” Dust gulped. Whoo. That’s … a lot of tension. He was genuinely worried now with how things had turned. “We should all just take deep, slow breaths, and calm down …”
“STAY OUT OF THIS, DUSTY!” Lilycup roared, using her magic to flatten him into submissive silence, Snow Petal all the more outraged.
“DON’T YOU TALK TO HIM LIKE THAT!”
“DON’T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, YOU INSIGNIFICANT MITE!”
“THAT’S IT!”
“THAT’S IT!”
Dust groaned, trying to push up from after being forced down so roughly. Yeah. Things weren’t exactly looking the best right now.
High above, a shadow loomed, darkening the surrounding world. Lilycup’s fingertip was inbound once again, but this time appeared all the more threatening in its attempt. Closer and closer it neared with its enormity, until finally the impact was imminent.
Except they weren’t squished this time. Burning hot red with anger, Snow Petal seemed to be holding up the appendage by sure will alone, the dream finally bending in their favor for once. “Hey!” Lilycup shouted in an aggravated tone, obviously upset things weren’t going her way for once. She did not just do that. Lily did NOT just do that. OH NO SHE DID NOT!!
Seeing Lily incapacitate Dust with such aggression made Snow even more angry. Then she had the gall to call her that AGAIN!?
That was it! This filly needed to be taken down 8 million pegs and Snow was going to ensure that it was her that did it.
The spark had been lit and now the fire was turning into a roaring inferno. Lily’s fingertip blasted through the atmosphere right at them, all the intention of showing Snow who was in charge.The sky above them darkened quickly, only the red, furious energy surrounding Snow was visible. She breathed in and timed it perfectly, impacting with the finger and causing it to stop. The ground behind and around Snow didn’t handle the impact as well as she had. It erupted and exploded all around her, the energy of such momentum being expelled all around her.
She grunted as she held the fingertip back, feeling her hooves grind into the ground as she gave a little ground. “No way! This little filly is getting the beating of a lifetime!” Snow yelled. She felt her power increase and brought her right hand back. She slowly balled it into a fist, feeling her energy swell to that point, a concentrated ball of pure rage that she unloaded into the fingertip.
The resulting impact was monumental. The amount of power Snow unloaded into Lily’s fingertip was enough to send the filly’s hand reeling back, the unleashed energy from the attack causing powerful shockwaves and crumbling the land.
“What!?” Lily was stunned that Snow could have even possibly achieved such an attack, let alone stop her. She didn’t have much time to ponder how it happened as Snow had, somehow, rocketed herself from the ground where she stood towards the nearest closest part of Lily on the ground, her other hand that was holding her up. With such speed, Lily tried to move and rebalance herself, but Snow was on a warpath and unloaded another incredibly powerful punch into Lily’s titanic wrist. The resulting blow launched Lily’s lone support out from under her and she had no time to catch herself.
With an impact that could have equalled the moon falling into the planet, Lily’s head hit the ground with an earth rendering “OOOF” from the falling magenta being.
Snow was nothing but pure fury now, her usually clean, white coat covered in dirt and a blazing red. “C’MON SILLYCUP!” she yelled at the downed titaness from a remaining mountaintop, as an eyeball the size of countries found her and glared, “I’D THINK A ‘GOD’ WOULD HAVE MORE THAN JUST THAT! I KNEW YOU WERE ALL TALK, NO BITE! CAN’T WAIT TO BEAT YOUR ASS AGAIN, HAHA!” She laughed.
Lily was no longer amused and growled in frustration.
This was blowing up to absolutely ridiculous proportions. Dust was on a chunk of shattered earth, feeling as if he was a climactic and dramatic final showdown in some anime or something, not an angry brawl between his monolithic sister and rage-fueled superpowered friend. Flapping his wings, Dust Mite took to the skies, zooming as fast as he could over to them miles away in an attempt to diffuse the situation.
Standing up to her full and towering height, just a single fur strand alone intimidating in size and fully so with Lilycup looming high, high into the atmosphere, she lifted a hoof, remains of entire cities and debris from the planet falling off of her, hovering it over Lilycup. “Kneel, or I squash you like the bug that you are!”
“JUST TRY ME!”
With cataclysmic force, Lilycup stomped downwards with all of her might, but found that the bottom of her sole did not make contact with the ground. Instead, she felt repeated, almost painful, rapid jabs being flung in a flurry into the softness of her hoof. “HOW’S THIS FOR A MASSAGE, YOU BRAT?!”
The buildup of blows was finally enough to knock Lily off balance, sending her flying back once more with a rumbling fall that threatened to tear the globe apart. Snow landed on the ground after the apocalyptic quakes of Lily’s fall had finished, having laughed herself way into the air. She flexed and bellowed triumphantly.
“OORAH!”
Within a couple seconds, a winded Dust finally landed near her, gasping and panting as he tried to catch his breath.
“Snow…*gasp*…Petal…Calm *wheeze*…down” he panted as he clutched his chest, feeling his heart and lungs racing.
She was annoyed and was about to tell him why when she felt the earth shake again. Lily had sat up and was now death glaring at the mountaintop where the two were located. Half her face was covered in miles of dirt and her pristine apparel was dirty, but her eyes showed a furious fire.
“RRRRRAAGGHHH!” She roared as her horn shined like the sun. She was not to be defiled by this tiny mite and would show her the power of the Great and All-Powerful Lilycup. She kneeled and slammed her fist into the continent below, tearing it to pieces as giant pillars of magma-infused earth began shooting out of the ground towards Snow.
Snow quickly grabbed Dust by his waist and sped off from the mountain, just evading the pillars as they pierced the mountain, reducing it to pebbles. She dropped Dust off in a clearing and rocketed off towards Lilycup, Snow’s anger renewed as Lily tried to hurt her brother again. As she sped towards her titanic foe, she had to dodge cities and giant chunks of land that Lily was magically flinging at her like torpedoes.
She was about to reach her when she felt Lily’s horn erupt in a blinding light. Snow covered her eyes and when she opened them, Lily was missing.
“Impossible…” Snow gasped. “She should be…”
“RIGHT HERE!” A loud roar came from her side. Snow turned just in time to block Lily’s punch. Lily had realized that her overwhelming size was not good to hit Snow and used the distraction to shrink to a smaller, yet still large size, similar to her copy when she bested the princesses.
Snow was taken off guard by the power and was launched back. Flying and crashing through the land until she came to a stop just about where she had taken off. She stood but couldn’t lift her arm without a painful shot. She looked up and saw Lily walking towards her.
Ugh. By this point, Dust Mite was dizzy to the point he had actually lost track of what was going on. But, by the looks of it, Lilycup had actually sacrificed her all-imposing stature for now just a few miles, and tramping up to Snow with deadly intent. Taking in a huff of hair, wings flapping powerfully, he shot through the air like a bullet towards her, the grey blur stopping directly in front of his younger sister’s rather furious face.
“Lily! Now Lily, we can all settle this. Snow, you apologize for what you said, and Lily, you apologize for everything-” He choked, her first coming up and catching him in its grasp.
“QUIET!” She bellowed, about to throw him down to the earth alongside Snow and finish them both off once and for all in this dream, until everything … went quiet. No more rattling planet. No more far off sound of something crumbling. It was eerily serene, to the point of being calm almost.
Then, everything darkened. A shadow spread across the world, larger than anything Lily could ever cast, all three ponies gazing and gawking upwards to a sky of celestial blue, stars fluttering as if they were alive. The vast cerulean shifted above, until a face appeared, that of the lunar goddess herself, peering down at the tiny globe with perplexed intent. “My …” She spoke, voice both all-resounding and yet as low as a whisper in their ears all at the same time. “What happened here? This dream is absolutely in ruins.”
“Hmm …” Examining them all, her horn glowed, pulling Dust gently from Lily’s grasp, setting him back down on the ground, as well as picking Snow Petal up and dusting her off. The same aura wrapped around Lily, slowly shrinking and dwindling her back down to a proper filly’s stature. “It appears this is a world created by the joining of two minds, yet an invader appeared.”
“You two,” She spoke gently, Dust feeling himself just shake at her words. “I apologize for not arriving sooner. There are many dreams, and many creatures who inhabit Equestria.”
If the size and capabilities of what a filly like Lily could do in the dream world were that immense, Snow straight up could not fathom what kind of power the ruler of the night and dreams held, but when her part of her face alone covered more than half the planet, she was willing to assume that she had a LOT of power. She felt her all empowering voice rattling her bones, but was at the same time soothing and gentle. As the three of them were treated, Snow knelt down and bowed her head, a sign of respect to the ruler of the night.
“Well, your majesty,” Snow began, “W-We were trying to use the spell that you used in Ponyville a couple months ago to link my mind to Dust’s mind. Y-you see..” Snow went on to explain what their plan was. Dust spoke up a couple times to explain the details of their circumstances, such as his unfortunate size in the real world being a problem. As they described their plan, Luna nodded in understanding, her face stern and stoic, but was comforting and calm. When the two finished explaining their plan, she turned her planetary gaze onto Lilycup, who flinched a little bit.
“This will be a conversation between us and you another time, dear Lilycup. I would suggest that you understand that my sister and I are not to be taken that lightly” she said to the young unicorn before Luna’s horn lit up, a deep dark blue, enveloping Lily and she disappeared.
Snow and Dust were dumbfounded. They had no idea what had just transpired or what Luna meant by that. The princess having to calm them down.
“Princess Luna? When you said ‘invader’ earlier, what did you mean?” Snow asked the planetary monarch. “I thought that that Lily was only an apparition of Dust’s fears of his sister?”
“She is.” Princess Luna nodded in reply, creating a swift windstorm just from that simple action. “All that he feared of her came true, and his fears for you as well. The dreamscape is a window into one’s inner subconscious and true feelings. Both of yours were shown today, and we apologize for what may have occurred here. Art thou alright?”
“W-w-we’re fine, Princess.” Dust Mite replied, bowing out of respect. “Just a little rattled is all. I kept telling Snow and myself that it was a dream, but my body says otherwise.”
“Understandable. Sometimes the mind is quite capable of tricking one’s self into believing just about anything, even what has occurred that never occurred at all.” The colossal deity of sleep and stars spoke, her horn glowing brighter and wrapping her magic around the entire world’s presence, repairing all the damage Lilycup had done.
“We assure thee that next ye rest, your dreams will be pleasant, a promise.” She smiled, softer and gentler than anything Dust had witnessed before. “Now, it is time to awaken. The sun rises, and a new day dawns. Perhaps we will meet again, we look forward to it.” A wink, and everything seemed to dissipate around them.
Dust Mite awoke slowly, entirely in a cold sweat, his whole body aching, as if he had just been put through the wringer. “Yeesh … what a dream that was.” One second, Snow was looking up at the Princess as everything started to turn to white, the next, her eyes fluttered open and she was looking at the ceiling of her room. The sunlight was filtering in through her windows and brightened up her room, the warm rays of light making her room nice and toasty. She looked around and saw that she was back at her home, in her bed. She started to sit up and immediately felt sorer than she had ever felt.
“Oooh, man. Wow, that’s not what I was expecting to wake up too, oof. Thought sleep was supposed to make you feel better, not worse” she groaned, her body aching. “Geez, I need to cut back on the snacks before bed, that was something of a dream I have never had before.”
She slowly got out of bed and tried to stretch herself out, to not much avail. She cleaned herself up and dressed herself and made her way downstairs to her shop. Luckily for her, she had scheduled today to be a day off in case something went haywire with the spell Small Smiles cast on her. Snow nodded as she remembered that she was asked to come back to their home when she woke up to report how she felt and how it went. She decided to head over as soon as she had some breakfast. She opened her fridge, only to realize that she was out of milk and juice.
“Right, today was also for chores…” she groaned, frowning. She sighed, “Well, I guess I could head over to Dust’s place early, Smiles is usually an early bird I’m sure she wouldn’t mind if I got some food while I was there. It helps when she’s my mom away from my mom” she chuckled, walking out the door, locking it, and heading to Dust’s place. After an uneventful walk over, she knocked on the door to Dust’s home. Within seconds, Smiles answered the door.
“Good Morning, Snow!” she greeted excitedly, “How’d you sleep? Did it work?” she asked with great curiosity.
“Well, it was, weird. I woke up really sore. Something went really…wonky.” Snow said, walking inside, “For the most part, it worked though” she replied, “Hey, uh, do you happen to have any extra food, by any chance? I ran out and have go to the market today, heheh” she chuckled, scratching the back of her head.
Small smiled and brought her to the kitchen where the rest of the family was already at the table. Snow greeted everypony, but when she saw Lily, she felt really, really annoyed, for some reason. Angry, almost.
“Feel free to sit for breakfast and stay as long as you need to. In fact, Dust and I could accompany you to the market if you’d like!” Small said, sitting down, offering up a chair for Snow. Dust Mite soon greeted her as well, flying in front of her eyes until he was seen and then heading for her ear.
From there, they recollected to Small what they could about their dream. It was patchy, and even with both there, neither of them had the whole story. “Though … I do remember Princess Luna showing up.” Dust said dreamily, eliciting a chuckle from his family once it was relayed to them.
Afterwards, once everyone had helped clean up, Lilycup passed by Snow, and for some reason, the smaller filly stuck out her tongue to the older mare. It wasn’t explained why, it just happened.
The following night, with the spell casted on them once again just as Dust had promised, their second venture into the combined dreamworld was much more pleasant, an adventure even, but that would be a tale for another time.
