Angel or demon?

The loud rhythmic sound of slapping flesh echoed through the dining room of the Crystal Palace, accompanied by moans and grunts of pleasure and the occasional whimper of pain.

A couple of servants, a mare and a stallion both in their early fifties, stood with their back against the wall, waiting for orders while doing their best to ignore the scene in front of them.

Princess Cadence was lying naked on her back on the tabletop, surrounded by toppled silverware and dishes, with King Sombra standing between her spread legs. The stallion was holding her hips with his strong hands while he penetrated her pussy at a steady pace with his big stallionhood, painfully stretching her inner walls each time he pushed his dick inside her.

It had been an irritating morning for the king, the delegations of the mercenary guilds were late due to a storm, while an accident had occurred in the forges. While the twenty four slaves that had died when the arm of the crane holding the cauldron of molten metal had broken were easily replaceable, the production of new weapons and armor for his troops would be delayed for at least two days.

He didn’t feel particularly hungry so, halfway through his meal, the king had decided to relieve some of his frustration in his favorite way. When Cadence had gotten close to refill his goblet of wine, Sombra had suddenly grabbed her and shoved her on the table. She barely had the time to realize what was happening before the big unicorn stallion ripped her clothes and started fucking her, uncaring of the horrified gazes of two other servants in the room. He had kept going for almost an hour by now, during which the princess had experienced several orgasms, thanks to her inhibitor collar, which now sported a few red glowing runes on her inhibitor collar. The device’s primary function was to suppress her powers, but it also had a few more perks, included making her body far more sensitive than normal to sexual stimulation.

Speaking of which, the princess released an involuntary moan of pleasure when his member touched a particularly sensitive spot of her innards, triggering another violent orgasm.

‘What a bitch,’ the king thought wickedly as the alicorn squirted once again, coating his penis and balls with a fresh wave of her clear juices.

“P-please, stop,” Cadence whimpered weakly, looking at the king with pleading eyes while he calmly took a sip of wine.

Oh, the shame and humiliation on her face. It was simply delightful! He should use that spell more often.

Putting down the now empty goblet, Sombra adjusted his grip on her wide hips and brought her a bit closer to him.

“I’m not done yet,” he coldly replied and, without giving her time to recover from her last orgasm, Sombra resumed thrusting his cock in and out of her pussy, exploiting the additional lubrication offered by her fluids to penetrate her more easily.

He briefly shifted his gaze from the bouncing breasts of the princess to the two servants standing silently a few meters away from the table. Both of them had their eyes downcast to avoid watching the princess being raped right in front of them, but they could still hear every sound they made. The mare was trembling and it was probably just due to the stallion holding her hand that she had not yet started crying.

Their pain was simply delicious and made the whole experience all the more pleasant.

Sombra leaned down and groped Cadence’s generous perky breasts, then he latched at her hard nipples and started sucking them alternately. While he swirled his tongue around her areolas, he wondered what her milk would taste like.

‘Oh, well. I’ll find it out as soon as I manage to put a little bastard in her womb.’

The door of the dining room opened and a young stallion dressed as a messenger walked in, completely unaware of what was going on.

“I apologize for the disturbance, your highness, but-” the crystal pony started to announced, only to stop abruptly at the sight of the scene in front of him. He knew from the other servants that Cadence was now the sex slave of the king, but now that he saw her naked body with his eyes, he understood why Sombra had kept the alicorn as trophy rather than kill her.

Princess Cadence was gorgeous. The mare was tall and slim, but not in the unhealthy way like some models he had seen on those Equestrian magazines. Her breasts were big and firm, perfectly proportioned with the rest of her body and with aureolas a few shades darker than her soft pink fur. Her slim stomach and thin waist exalted her wide hips and her long lean legs, while her buttcheeks had just the right amount of body fat.

What he wouldn’t do to enjoy her body even just once...

“What do you want?” King Sombra snarled, snapping the messenger from his fantasies. “Can’t you see I’m busy?” To prove his point, the unicorn gave a particularly violent thrust with his hips while roughly squeezing Cadence’s breasts, making her cry in pain.

The messenger gulped nervously, doing his best to look at the king rather than at the beautiful naked alicorn on the table. “I apologize, your highness, but I have to inform you that an eclipse is currently taking place in the sky.”

“What?!” Sombra exclaimed, so surprised that he stopped moving his hips, much to Cadence’s relief. “When did it happen?” he demanded with a deep scowl. Eclipses could happen only by direct result of the princesses actions, and those two whores always had a reason behind their actions.

“According to the guards it started several minutes ago,” the young stallion started nervously to explain, cowering under Sombra’s hard glare. “But their task is to watch out for threats or problems with the, ah, workers, so-”

“I know what their duty is!” The armor turned them into fighters, he didn’t need them to be smart or gifted with free will. “What I want to know is, why have none of you done anything?!”

“I didn’t think it was important until one of your knights told me to-”

“You stupid incompetent piece of scum!” Sombra roared, grabbing the messenger with his magic. Green purple smoke started coming from the corners of his now glowing crimson eyes. “If I didn’t want you to use your brain, I would have encased you in a suit of armor or thrown you in the mines like the rest of your family!”

So powerful was the anger of the king that he was about to turn the messenger into a crystal statue before shattering him to pieces. The only thing that saved the young stallion was the unexpected magic surge that Sombra felt just a moment before he cast the spell, causing him to release the young stallion and let him fall unceremoniously on the floor. The eyes of the big grey stallion were widened in shock at the sheer magnitude of the power he felt. The last time he had come in contact with something so powerful was when the Crystal Heart had destroyed his body, but this was something completely different.

He felt Cadence’s body tense under him and he realized that even with the inhibitor collar blocking her powers, the alicorn had felt the magic surge too. His red eyes met her purple ones, and what he saw wasn’t of his liking. There was now newfound hope and defiance in her tired gaze, and the corners of her mouth were curled upward, forming the hint of a smile.

“What’s wrong, oh great king? Something troubles you?”

The king scowled. She knew that something was happening in Canterlot and whatever it was it couldn’t be good news for him. ‘I must know what is going on,’ he thought. ‘But first, I still have a pressing matter between my legs to take care of.’

“This is none of your concern, slave,” Sombra hissed with malice. Fueled by his combined anger and lust, he grabbed her calves and brought her legs on his strong shoulders, then he leaned forward and buried his cock all the way inside her with a violent thrust of his hips. Cadence screamed in pain, feeling the head of his cock hit her cervix like a war ram, but Sombra paid her no mind. He spent a few moments savoring the way the new position allowed him to reach deeper inside her while making her love tunnel feel even more tight around his member, then he started pounding her pussy like a jackhammer.

Cadence’s screams quickly turned into a series of high-pitched cries matching the impact of their hips as the big unicorn stallion thrust his stallionhood in and out of her pussy with reckless abandon, causing waves after waves of pleasure to wash through her body without a moment of respite.

After a few minutes of savage mating, Sombra’s member touched a particularly sensitive spot of her vagina, finally sending Cadence over the edge. “Hnnnnnnngggg!” The muscles of her entire body tensed, causing her toes to curl up and her wings to snap open, as the most powerful orgasm she had experienced that day flooded her like a hurricane. Rolling her eyes backward, the princess screamed and came violently, spraying his pelvis once again with her clean fluids. Sombra closed his eyes and clenched his jaw as he felt her warm inner walls quivering and clenching viciously around his now painfully throbbing shaft.

‘I can’t hold it back anymore!’

Cadence was still in the middle of her violent orgasm when Sombra pushed his cock as deep as he could inside her with a loud groan of pleasure and reached his own climax. The princess wanted to scream at him to pull it out, but Sombra silenced her with a brutal kiss, shoving his tongue deep into her mouth while moving his hips in slow and deep thrusts to better enjoy his orgasm. Hot tears were now running down her cheeks as she felt the magic of her collar force her body to betray her, milking the stallion’s shaft with her inner muscles as he kept firing his hot semen inside her, gradually filling her womb with each spurt.

When almost a minute had passed, he finally stopped cumming, both panting hard as they experienced their respective afterglow. The princess was looking with teary unfocused eyes at the ornate ceiling of the room, apparently unaware of the few stray hairs stuck to her face, drenched in sweat or the fact that she was drooling from the corners of her mouth. The only thing she could think about was the intense sense of warmth coming from her now bloated womb; as her muscles started relaxing around his cock, she could feel his semen slowly leaking out of her abused pussy and dribble down his testicles pressed against her soft rump.

Sombra looked at her heartbroken face and smirked malevolently. His lust may have been sated for now, but he still thought that the alicorn needed him to remind her what her place was after her little moment of defiance when they both felt the magic surge.

A little more humiliation would do it.

Sombra pulled out his still hard penis from the cozy warm confines of her pussy with a soft grunt, making Cadence whimper at the sudden feeling of emptiness. He grabbed his thick meat rod with a hand and proceeded to pump it at a quick pace while aiming it at the exhausted princess. A few moments later he grunted as he fired his remaining load on Cadence’s body, covering her belly and breasts in white goo, and even managing to splash her left cheek and muzzle with a couple of spurts.

Finally satisfied, Sombra grabbed the ruined clothes of the princess and used them to clean the fluids coating his crotch. “Don’t ever dare to forget what your place is again,” he said with contempt, pulling up his pants.

Cadence was still recovering from the pain and the pleasure of the multiple orgasms she was forced to experience, too tired to even try to formulate a reply. Her generous bosom rose and fell with each breath she took, her legs dangled limply over the edge of the table and a mixture of their combined sexual fluids was leaking copiously from her ravaged pussy, forming a puddle on the floor.

“You, mare!” King Sombra pointed at the mare with the maid uniform. The red crystal pony made a startled wince at the imperious tone of the king and nervously met his gaze. “Get her clean.”

“Y-yes, my lord,” she responded nervously.

Without sparing Cadence a second glance, Sombra donned his heavy red cloak and left the room.

The moment King Sombra left the room, the head maid took action. “Go get a clean towel and some warm water,” Crimson Berry instructed her husband, a green pony with a thin moustache. The stallion gave her a firm nod and ran through the small door leading to the kitchen to carry out his task.

Crimson Berry looked back at the princess and felt a stab to her heart. The alicorn was weakly trying to sit up, but her body didn’t seem to cooperate, causing her to fall back on the tabletop.

“Wait, let me help you, dear,” the mare said, hurrying to help her, then she gently helped Cadence to assume a sitting position. Cadence mumbled a weak ‘thank you’ and leaned against the body of the older and shorter mare for support, before starting sobbing.
‘Monster,’ Crimson Berry thought venomously, looking at the way the king had gone. ‘Nopony deserves this, especially not her,’ she thought bitterly while something that could only be described as maternal instinct awoke inside her.

It was only now that the head maid noticed that the messenger was still standing at the threshold of the main door of the dining room, openly staring at the naked body of the princess. Anger exploded inside Crimson Berry, who now was glaring with open disgust at the young stallion for his shameless behaviour. “Hey! There’s nothing to see here! Go back to your duties!” she yelled, blocking the sight of Cadence’s body with her own.

The young stallion made a jump as her harsh voice snapped him back to reality. His gaze briefly met the burning glare of the head maid and the next moment he was gone.

‘Filthy pervert,’ the mare thought harshly while she delicately started cleaning Cadence’s face with a napkin.

Sombra walked at a quick pace down the corridors of the castle, his dark mood back thanks to the recent unexpected events. Guards snapped to attention as he passed, while servants would hastily move out his path and bow deep like they were rightfully expected to do, but the king ignored them completely, completely absorbed by far more important things than their miserable existences.

He eventually reached a door with a dark gem on top. Just like its twin in the secret chamber beneath the throne room, the door could be opened only using a specific kind of magic, otherwise it would only trap the intruder in a horrible hallucination based on their worst fears. Without even slowing down, he hit the gem with his magic, causing it to glow brightly, and opened it, revealing a long spiral flight of stairs.

It took him several minutes to reach the top of the stairs, but his strong body didn’t even notice the fatigue. He grabbed the handle of the door at the end of the staircase and opened it. Immediately, a gust of chilly air started blowing against his face, waving his shoulder-long hair.

Being the highest spot of the Empire, the top floor of the main tower of the Crystal Palace offered an excellent view of the surrounding territories, but it also offered little to no protection to the wind constantly blowing at such height. However, the tyrant was hardly bothered by the cold. Adjusting the heavy cloak on his shoulders, Sombra walked through one of the arcs holding the protective dome and stepped on the balcony running all around the top of the castle. He grabbed the railing to lean against it and looked at the sky. True to the words of the messenger, the sun was shielded by the moon. King Sombra observed the strange phenomenon, wondering what the reason could be behind it. Could it just be Discord messing with the astral bodies in a childish attempt to irritate the princesses?

‘No, that wouldn’t explain the magic surge.’ It must have been the work of the princesses themselves, but why? What could be the reason? ‘I need to see what’s going on.’

He turned his back to the eclipse and walked toward the center of the room. Where he had once kept hidden the Crystal Heart, now stood a pedestal holding a massive crystal ball. Sombra placed the palm of his right hand on its smooth surface and let the magic flow from his body to the arcane device.

“Show me the area around Canterlot.”

The crystal sphere glowed briefly of the same red aura of his magic, before a purple-green fog appeared inside of it. The fog started swirling, slowly taking a compact shape and changing color, until it finally showed the image of a tall mountain with a majestic city built on its side, right beside a waterfall.

As much as he hated to admit it, Celestia and Luna weren’t idiots. The princesses were aware of the risks of espionage through magic arts and thus they had cast powerful anti-scrying spells to protect their reign. However, even if effective, the spells weren’t perfect. The amount of magic that would be required to cast them on all of Equestria was simply too much even for the combined powers of the two alicorns, and as result the princesses had been forced to leave vast amounts of territory unprotected. Unfortunately for them, Sombra had almost casually discovered after countless attempts that scrying the surrounding area of a certain location protected by their spell allowed him to see his target, even if indirectly. He wasn’t able to observe what was happening inside the single buildings or even in the streets, but he could still have an overall view of Canterlot from afar, like if he was watching the city from a hot air balloon flying a mile away.

What he saw this time, however, was completely unexpected.

Canterlot, the heart of the reign of Equestria and the very symbol of the power of the alicorn sisters, was a war zone, with thick columns of smoke rising from the countless fires rampaging through the once majestic city. The castle itself seemed to have suffered severe damage and many of its tower were now in ruin, while an entire section of the defensive walls, the same walls that had protected the city from numerous sieges during the centuries, had crumbled. And finally, he saw colorful golden and blue rays of energy crossing the sky above the city, meaning that the two princesses were fighting.

But against who?

At first he thought that the princesses were fighting against some unseen enemy that kept moving in the sky, but the more he watched the scene, the more he noticed that oddly enough their respective attacks seemed to follow closely the movements of the other alicorn, almost as if they were trying to hit each other.

A dark figure, too big to be a pegasus and with long blue hair, suddenly burst through the thick smoke of the fires and started firing a series of powerful beams of blue magic at the roof of the main building of the castle.

‘No, not the roof,’ he quickly realized when he noticed a figure moving at high speed just a few feet above the top of the castle, dodging the attacks in an impressive display of speed and reflexes. It was difficult to tell due to the distance, but the object had the shape of a white winged pony with multicolored hair. “Celestia,” Sombra hissed with venom dripping out his voice, before a thought occurred to him.

‘Why is Luna fighting against her sister?’

And then, just when one of the blue beams was about to hit the princess in the back, things became even more confusing when a shield of blue energy appeared between her and the combat spell, causing it to crash against one of the still standing towers. The top of the structure crumbled in a rain of debris, but before they could crash onto the streets below, a purple aura enveloped them and levitated the blocks of stone out of the city walls.

Sombra however barely noticed Twilight Sparkle trying to prevent collateral damages, for he was too busy watching the two dark figures exchange a furious sequence of combat spells, culminating when they both fired a concentrated beam of magic at each other. The two blue rays met halfway and their respective spellcasters started struggling for dominance, but their powers were equally matched. Their spell soon formed a globe of energy that exploded violently a few moments later with a blinding flash, shattering all nearby windows.

‘What in Grogar’s name is going on?’ He thought, irritated. He needed to know, but he couldn’t get a closer look due to the magic barrier. This left him only one option.

Closing his eyes to concentrate, he expanded his mind over his physical body through the crystal sphere to explore the interferences in the ethereal plane around Canterlot. Ignoring the aura of all the lesser ponies, he focused on the most powerful magical emissions and quickly identified four presences. All of them were alicorns.

He felt the powerful and ancient magic of the two sisters, so different from each other like the night was from the day, yet also so similar, almost complementary. He felt the magic of Celestia’s little prodigy, that little whore that with the help of that pathetic excuse of a dragon had retrieved the Crystal Heart. Despite her young age, she was also incredibly powerful.

The fourth and last entity was however the most troublesome. There was no doubt, the magic he had felt previously in the dining room belonged to her, but only now he realized that she wasn’t just extremely powerful. Her aura was dark, dangerous, and for lack of better terms, evil.

Just like him.

For a moment he wondered if the princesses had accidentally released some kind of demon from Tartarus. And yet, her magic felt oddly familiar.

‘It feels almost like that of princess Lu-’

An ear-splintering banshee scream suddenly filled the air while the image of Canterlot was replaced by a multitude of cyan draconian eyes standing on a black background. Hissing in pain at the horribly loud noise, Sombra watched in shock as the surface of the sphere started cracking. The king had barely the time to rise a hand and summon a red shield before the sphere exploded with violence, filling the air with a deadly volley of sharp crystal shards.

Sombra stood stunned in front of the smoking remains of the crystal sphere, before slowly moving his gaze southward in the direction of Canterlot.

‘Who are you?’