The Divine Age

Chapters

Prologue
Offers and Demands
Ember's New Flame
Beginning of the End
All that Glitters

Prologue

May 12th, , year 2431 of the Celestial Era, night after conversion

“Nighty, its been a month since you got back. Why did you take so long to come get me?” Twilight asked the black alicorn laying next to her in bed.

“I had some things to prepare, like getting you’re friends on board Twilight,” Night said and nuzzled the purple pony, then quickly rubbed her clit, causing her to let out an adorable squeak of surprise.

“N-no fair. We, ah, agreed no surprise attacks,” Twilight whined as Night’s other hand caressed her breasts.

“You’re mine now Twilight. I can do anything I want to you because you love me,” Night whispered in her ear.

She proceeded to nibble her ear, eliciting a particularly lustful moan from the purple alicorn. Twilight could only give in to Night’s ministrations as lust began to consume her mind. Night began yet another round of sex for the tenth time that night.
In the room right next to them

“How can they- ngh- still go at it like that?” Rainbow Dash said from the floor, Flutterbat sitting on top of her, grinding their pussies together.

“Thinking about another pony while we’re playing Dashie? I’m going to make you beg for mercy all night for that,” Flutterbat said playfully as she squeezed Rainbow’s breasts. Anytime Rainbow attempted to say something, Flutterbat cut her off by sending waves of pleasure into her mind and destroying any thought the pegasus might have had.

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The next night

Night walked out to the balcony of Twilight’s castle to watch her castle approach. Approaching Ponyville from the sky was a Manehatten sized chunk of land, and on that land was an grand castle.

The castle was carved from an entire mountain, making it far larger than Canterlot Castle. The front and back walls were single, ten foot thick slabs of labradorite that measured around a thousand feet across and a hundred feet high. The side walls were multiple slabs at a total length of three thousand feet. Gems, mineral veins and special carvings created fantastic patterns and designs when light shone on the walls. Instead of corners, there were towers of pure moonstone, with golden sunstone roofs that seemed to pierce the sky. There were two smaller walls offset in by about a hundred feet from the edge of the previous ceiling. Both levels were about twenty feet high each and barely noticeable when looked at from the ground.

Every twenty feet or so was a massive cut out in the shape of an arch with lines of runes lining the edges. These openings shimmered with the telltale signs of transparent barrier magic. There was no main gate, just an intricately carved portion of wall to look like a grand gate. Within the designs were portal runes that let those without ill intent simply pass through the wall. There was a note posted on the door that said ‘Under construction’. A grand palace as this castle wasn’t even finished.

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May 14th

Sitting on the edge of their new castle’s roof were the goddess Night and demigoddess Twilight. Twilight was trying to process how much time and power it must have taken to make this behemoth of a castle when Night gave her some news.

“Twilight, do you remember when I made that cock and rutted you with it?” Night asked. Twilight simply nodded, slightly annoyed he was disturbed from her calculations. “Yes, that cock was fully functional and you’re pregnant now,” Night said to her mate. Twilight’s mind broke and just sat there as Night rubbed her stomach. “Our filly is going to be so cute in nine months,” Night whispered to the frozen mare.

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May 20th

Night created a blank body for Day at her request. Day merged with the body and inverted its energies to match its new occupant. The body took on a shape exactly similar to Night’s. The difference was that her fur was the purest white, her mane and tail constantly shifted colors through the entire visible spectrum. Her teeth were perfect and not fangs like Night’s, but what was really noticeable was her pupils were round and her irises shifted colors like her mane and tail. Otherwise, these two were twins.

“Really Day? We’re still going to keep the twin thing up?” Night asked.

“Of course! Besides, you know I have zero imagination,” Day said cheerfully. “Why don’t you change your appearance to match a little more sis?”

Night sighs, but decides it might be a good idea and sent out a message to Twilight. Five minutes later, Twilight teleported in to the room wearing a set of bondage straps over her private parts. She look curiously at Day, who had an eyebrow raised while looking at Twilight’s outfit.

“Umm… Nighty who is this and why did you send me a message that said to wear something for playtime?” Twilight asked nervously.

“Playtime, sister?” Day asked.

“Twilight, this is my twin sister, Day,” Night introduced.

“H-hello, my names is Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight introduced.

“I am Day, goddess of light. Its nice to finally meet the one that will birth my niece,” Day greeted. Twilight blushed and looked at Night for help. Night held back a snicker.

“Twilight I called you here for your input when I change my look. I’m kind of tired of telling ponies I’m not Nightmare Moon,” Night sighed. “Shall we begin?”

Twilight and Day nodded and Night’s horn lit up. Night began by tuning her body to her natural energies, this resulted in her sclera turning black and her mane and tail turning into roiling black voids.

“How do I look?” Night asked. Twilight reached out her hand and started to stroke Night’s mane.

“So smooth, so soft,” Twilight said as if she was entranced. Night hooked a finger in the strap covering Twilight’s breasts and pulled. Twilight fell onto Night and squeaked as Night played with Twilights straps.

“I take it you approve?” Night stated. Twilight looked into her lovers eyes and was slightly put off. “Hmm, seems I have to change the eyes.”

Night’s horn devoured light as her sclera returned to being aqua and a slight darkness developed around her eyes like smoke. Twilight visibly relaxed, and Night took this as a sign to tease her mate a little and rubbed Twilight’s slit with her tail. The lavender mare eeped and blushed hard.

“Now lets get down to why you’re in that outfit dear,” Night said and looked at Day. “We have to help Day get used to her body. No being in existence can claim have to bedded the Genesis sisters at the same time,” Night smiled evilly, and pulled Twilight onto a summoned bed. Day quickly joined them.

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June 3rd

Night was exhausted. When the others found out about her body blanks, many deities came knocking.

On the bright side I finally paid off those favors and a lot of them owe me now, Night thought.

She sat on her throne and slumped down. The Elemental deities came I to the throne room and saw Night exhausted.

“Are you alright Night?” Earth asked.

“I just made thirty body blanks in an hour,” Night sighed, the Elementals all winced. They all knew those body blanks take a lot of power to make just one. “Anyway, what do you all want?”

“We came to petition you for help, but we see you’re not in a state to help us right now. We’ll come back later,” Water replied.

“You have my attention now. No telling when you’ll get it later,” Night said.

“Very well. We wish for a place to stay, preferably attuned to our unique domains,” Fire said.

“Your right. I don’t have the power to grant your request directly, but I can give you the ability to create your own homes using your own power. Unfortunately if I were to do it in this state, you would have to share space for your homes,” Night informed.

“How much space?” Wind asked.

“Around seven hundred or so mile radius from this castle, maybe double if you can get Day to help out too,” Night said. There was nothing but silence for a moment, then Fire spoke up.

“Night. You just described an area the size of Equestria, we asked for homes, like a house or something,” Fire said flatly. The rest of the Elementals were wondering how skewed Night’s definition of home was.

“Why not a country for deities?” Day said as she entered the room.

“With our power we could probably make a great country but it wouldn’t last for very long,” Wind rebutted.

“Well, both Discord and Harmony could help with that,” Earth said. The rest of the Elementals pondered this concept thoughtfully.

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June 15th

Massive sheets of rock formed high above the frost line. The sheets were of every rock and mineral known, and some unknown, crashing and grinding together into a single solid piece, and creating mountain ranges. The resulting land mass was around two hundred miles in diameter and fifty miles thick. At the center of the mass, rock began to heat up and melt into magma. The magma found fault lines and erupted into volcanoes and created magma fields. The winds around the land picked up, carrying special water under the land and formed specially thick and sturdy clouds to support the land. As the winds blew topside, water left the embrace of the wind to create lakes, rivers and a sea. Clouds formed around the mountain peaks, swamps, bogs and wetlands took form. Winds ran rampant and carve various sections of the land into interesting shapes and canyons. At the very center of this land was Night’s castle.

“Looks good,” Night commented. Rarity fainted at the sheer fabulousness of the country she was now princess of. The Elementals were proud of themselves and set off to make their own castles.

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June 16th

Celestia and Luna attempted to investigate the new land mass that appeared in the sky yesterday. Their best flyers couldn’t get this far above the frost line. They searched the land mass and found a castle in the very middle and descended to take a closer look. What they found was a massive palace that shamed their own. They arrived at what they believed to be the door and saw a note saying the castle was still under construction.

“This monstrously large castle is still under construction?” Luna said.

“Well there’s no door so I should say it is, Luna,” Celestia replied.

“Do you not see the runes in this carving, Celestia? We can just walk through the wall here,” Luna said.

“Certainly is an interesting design choice,” Celestia said as they passed through the carving.

“Indeed. Now let us find the owner of this palace,” Luna said, looking around at the beautiful reception hall they had entered. A black portal sprung into existence a few feet away from them. The sisters looked at each other and entered the portal. They ended up in a grand throne room, populated with three thrones, one of which was occupied.

“Greetings Celestia, Luna, ” Night said.

“Nightmare Moon?!” the sisters shouted.

“Oh right, you two were born after we were forgotten. No, my name is Night, goddess of the void,” Night introduced.

The sisters didn’t hear as they attacked the elder goddess. Night didn’t register their attack as a threat and allowed them to hit her. There was no effect at all. After five minutes of continuous attacking with no damage to Night or even the throne she was sitting on, they fell down exhausted.

“Are you two quite done yet?” Night asked, paying more attention to her nails than the two sisters. In a flash of light, Day was sitting on one of the unoccupied thrones.

“Don’t be so mean to the semi-mortals Sister,” Day scolded, it had no effect on Night. Several flashes of teleportation later and the entire court was gathered in the throne room.

“Hi Princess Celestia and Princess Luna!” Twilight greeted while wearing a rather sexualized librarian’s outfit. She turned to her mate, “Nighty, why didn’t you tell us they were visiting? I waited ten minutes for you to come and ravage me!”

Both sisters fainted at this statement.

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July 29th

The newly name country of Aethereus was finished and set adrift in the skies. Deities that found the lands below to be fascinating descended to see what the denizens were like, some trips ended in soul bonds, others ended in a holy smiting. Twilight’s experiments are now legendary among deities, along with the results.

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August 15th

War between countries break out with rulers ordering those with soul bonds to the front lines. Many bonded are killed and much permanent damage is done to the countries at war. Mortals petition the deities to fix their countries, accusing them of doing the damage via bonded and saying they never ordered the bonded to fight. Rulers were smote repeatedly by Day and Night who saw everything. Countries now cower in fear of Aethereus.

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August 16th

Complete disclosure of the basic terms and types of soul bonds made public. Gates of Tartarus opened for ten minutes to let the Sin deities out of Tartarus, Greed was late and had an accident. Some demons escaped Tartarus during this time.

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August 20th

End of Celestial era.

Author's Note

I may need some help writing this one. Message me (maybe won't answer) if you want to help, and have constructive ideas for this. This is also more plot oriented then the previous one.

Offers and Demands

Canterlot Castle- Throne room

“This is outrageous! Why can’t we be granted the power those peasants of that new country have?!” a remarkably stuck up pony was shouting at Princess Celestia.

If it wasn’t for the fact that a majority of these nobles yelling at her were well known for their thirst for power, Celestia might have already banished pompous unicorn. A wisp of ash flew in to the court room and reconstructed itself as a letter.

Mail from Twilight? That's quite rare these days.Celestia thought. She broke the seal and read the letter, completely ignoring the indignant unicorn that was yelling at her.

“This is unacceptable! Not only do we not get the power we rightfully deserve, but even our own Princess ignores me to read a letter from some snot nosed peasant?!” the unicorn yelled in rage. Even Celestia’s tolerance wasn’t enough to deal with this pony, so she lit her horn and teleported the pony to Zebracia.

Luna came in through the large entrance to the throne room after feeling her sister banishing some noble to a far off place. She took a quick glance at the throne room and saw Celestia reading a letter on her throne, the guards as impassive as ever and a group of nobles quivering in fear on the floor before the thrones. She sighed as she made her way to her throne.

“Is a banishing spell really necessary, sister?” Luna asked as she sat in her throne.

“It wasn’t a banishing spell Luna, I just teleported the fop to Zebracia,” Celestia stated as she rolled her eyes. “And yes, I’ve been dealing with these ponies nonstop for the last two months. Even I don’t have patience for their whining anymore.”

“Are you sure you should be saying that in front of them?” Luna asked, looking at the now indignant nobles.

“We deserve that power!” they shouted. Celestia didn’t respond but motioned for the guards to take them away. The group was force out of the throne room, leaving only blissful silence. Celestia finished reading the letter and passed it to Luna.

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“I don’t believe the gall of the Princesses! Throwing US, the premier nobles of Canterlot, out of the throne room like common rabble!” a unicorn stallion ranted, his voice making the windows shake.
“Calm down Quite Loud. There’s something interesting happening in the throne room now,” a noble mare said and paid off the guards to let them spy. Quite settled down and cast his signature amplification spell. The nobles listened in to the meeting occurring.

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Dear Princess Celestia and Princess Luna,

This letter has been sent to inform you that the rulers of Aethereus will be visiting you shortly. Night, goddess of the void and Day, goddess of light. Night wishes to apologize for being the cause of Nightmare Moon incident and establish relations between Equestria and Aerthereus.

From your former student,

Twilight Sparkle, sub-regent of Aerthereus.

“Since when has Twilight been a sub-regent of a country of deities?” Luna asked.

“Since three months ago when Night reappeared and became her mate. Now we have to deal with Day as well,” Celestia put her head into her hands. “I’m not ready to deal with them again, not after last time.”

“Well yo-“ Luna started to say until a flash of light interrupted her.

When it died down, there stood two divinely gorgeous mares. There were few differences between the mares. Day was both the inversion and twin of Night, white fur, golden eyes with no signs of an iris or pupil, a rainbow mane that included white and non-visible colors, and golden instead of silver armor like her sister.

“Greetings Celestia, Luna,” Day greeted. Night just stood there impassively.

“Greetings Day, and hello to you too Night,” Celestia responded. Luna stared at Night, trying to not attack her for what she did, or rather didn’t do. Celestia continued, “What brings the manifestation of light and dark here today?”

“Right to the point as ever. Very well, my sister wishes to apologize and I wish to make you two my champions,” Day stated. This shocked both of the Princesses; Celestia was the first to regain her composure.

“Why do you wish for Luna and I to be your champions?” Celestia calmly asked.

“Other deities are making their own champions, or in the case of my sister, courts. Currently her court is being shared by Harmony, Discord, and myself. However Night is getting a bit annoyed and will told me and Discord to form our own,” Day said.

“What about Harmony?” Luna asked.

“As you know the girls were originally Harmony’s champions. I didn’t change much about the girls other than making them closer to the mares they wanted to be and loyal to me. So Harmony and I can share them,” Night answered.

“Closer to the mares they wanted to be?” Celestia inquired.

“Unlike Luna, my dream walking includes the ability to see the memories that made the dreams and access the life of the dreamer. I can live your entire life in a matter of moments,” Night explained. Celestia and Luna were shocked silent at the extent of Night’s powers. “I should also mention that Luna came close to this and was driven mad by it, resulting in Nightmare Moon.”

Was that the only reason?” Luna asked, her voice tinged with contained rage.

“No, that was only a small portion. The main reason was, your bond price very unstable due to the fact Night is darkness, and you represent light in the darkness. You were almost entirely incompatible and that resulted in many issues. Those compounded with the life walk my sister explained is what led to Nightmare Moon being born,” Day clarified.

“Sorry about that whole Eternal Night thing too. It was either that or let you get obsessed with genocide so you didn’t have to live those lives ever again,” Night added. Celestia realized just how much Night did for Equestria while Luna fumed at her inability to control her powers.

“Yes, well. Do you two accept my offer?” Day asked cutting into the sisters moping. They thought about it for a moment, trying to weight the pros and cons.

“May we ask what that would entail?” Celestia asked.

“Since you both are already powerful I won’t do a soul bond, instead I will place a blessing of sorts on you both, so there likely won’t be a price. The blessing will increase your affinity with your magic and unlock new powers. An example would be Luna’s dream walking coming close to Night’s life walk, but significantly weaker and therefore controllable. In your case Celestia, it may make your fire magic into plasma magic, much more focused and destructive. There may be other things but I think I made my point clear,” Day lectured.

The amounts of pros were outweighing the cons.

“What about drawbacks or responsibilities?” Luna inquired.

“The only thing I can think of is that you’ll be at Day’s beck and call, much like my court,” Night said.

The sisters considered this very hard for a few moments.
“Can we have more time to think about this?” Celestia finally asked.

“Of course, send the letter to Spike when you’ve decided. But I would like a response no later than a month if you can. Twilight’s experiment nearing completion and I want you two to be there for it,” Day replied.

The sisters nodded a black hole appeared behind the goddesses. They walked into the mass of gravity only for it to transform into a wormhole in the presence of massive power the goddesses were giving off. The royal sisters a big sigh as the portal shut.

“That was exhausting,” Celestia said tiredly.

“She barely apologized,” Luna muttered, crossing her arms and pouting.

“We’ll talk about this later, we have more petitions to listen to,” Celestia waved her hand and the next whining noble was brought in.

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“Those whorses just delayed a chance for ultimate power!” Quite Loud shouted. The guards didn’t like the nobles bad mouthing the Princesses and moved in to teach them a lesson. A green mare in the group quickly teleported the group to a roof top in the city.

“Thank you Lady Green Envy,” a unicorn stallion thanked and glared at Quite Loud. “As for you, what were you thinking shouting that in the castle?!”

Quite Loud shrank back. “But you heard it yourself, Black Justice! They wanted time to think about ultimate power!” the noble whined.

“They are the rulers of Equestria you dolt. Putting themselves under the rulers of another country would mean submitting the entire country to them,” a mare said.

“Quite right, Duchess Crescent,” a snooty stallion agreed.

“We should think about how we should get Day to make a soul bond with us instead of pointing blame, Lord Crust, Lady Crescent,” another stallion noble said.

“Well, it doesn’t have to be Day, there are many gods that I’m sure would aid us, the upper nobles of Canterlot!” a noble mare said.

“I do have the means of getting to Aethereus, but not the ability to get any of them to soul bond with me,” Lady Green said. the nobles instantly jumped on this.

“Please send us to Aethereus!” the rest of the group shouted at her.

“Oh very well, but do not expect it to be easy to get a deity to bond with you,” Green said as she teleported them to Aethereus. Green Envy smiled evilly as green fires consumed her from to reveal a green changeling. She looked to Canterlot Castle, “Soon, you will fall and I will take your place.”

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Aethereus Palace - Throne room

The current petitioner was Aeros, one of the younger gods that served under Wind. Rarity looked quite bored listening to his petition for more power so he could overpower the pegasi weather control over Equestria. Fortunately, before Rarity had to crush his tiny dreams, a wormhole opened up in the middle of the throne room and the two eldest goddesses strode out. Aeros immediately fled the presence of the two most powerful beings in the universe. Rarity got off her throne and bowed to her rulers.

“Relax Rarity, I know how stressful dealing with the petitioners are,” Night said. Rarity flopped back down on the throne.

“So many stupid requests… So many stupid laws and requests that deities of all things want to push forward…” Rarity dramatically sighed.

“Yes, this is the true burden of rulers. If so many knew, there would be none to take the position,” Day said wistfully.

“Anyway, we’re back now so you can goprepare for the meeting with the Dragon Lord, Rarity,” Night granted Rarity permission to leave. Rarity quickly thanked them and teleported to her room to prepare for Ember's visit.

“So sister, what should we do now?” Day asked.

“We sit and listen to dumb petitions, as we always have,” Night answered solemnly. They both sighed and their horns lit, summoning their thrones. They walked to them and sat on their respective thrones. Night waved her hand to bring the next petitioner in, the dragon guards opened the doors to begin the burden of rulers.

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Underworld of Aetherus – Meeting room of the Sins

The nobles poofed into the middle of a grand room seemingly underground. There was a grand door made of a black metal with flowing red designs decorating it. The group had no idea where Lady Green Envy had sent them.

"Where are we?!" Black Justice demanded. The nobles squabbled amongst themselves before a feminine cough caught their attention, what they saw when they turned around shocked them. There sat six deities in a semicircle looking at them.

The one on the furthest left looked almost like a gray minotaur statue, suited in armor. He was sitting in a crystal throne that seems to have grown around its arms and legs. The slowly blinking eyes and excoriatingly slow rise and fall of its muscular chest, confirmed it was a living being.

The next figure was likely a succubus, like all succubi her body was designed to attract the attention of the being looking at her. This led to many arguments over the looks of a succubus when multiple races looked at them. For ponies, she almost looked like Celestia except her figure was more voluptuous. Her mane and tail were light pink, while her eyes were red instead of magenta. Her cutie mark was a heart on fire and had a Venus symbol in the center. She sat in a pink loveseat wearing a rather provoking evening gown.

The third being was a boar, or at least the ponies thought it was a boar, it was far too thin to be a normal boar. The boar looked cadaverous, his skeleton and skull clearly outlined by his skin and black fur. His tusks were covered in green ooze that smelled of stomach acids. It was genderless as it sat naked on a throne that looked to be made of chewed on and dissolved bones.

A red dragon sat in the center of the semicircle. The dragon was muscular, dangerous looking and most of all; both he and his armor were on fire, black fire. His glowing red eyes unnerved the ponies, but when he smiled and showed his sharp white teeth, one of the nobles soiled themselves. The dragon seemed to be sitting on solid black fire.

Next to the terrifying dragon was a griffon. The griffon looked like a gold and silver statue. Silver feathers and gold fur combined to awe the nobles, but what really caught their eyes was his beak and talons seemed to be made of lightning gems. Even his irises where like opals, ever changing color with the lighting. He looked down on the ponies haughtily from his solid gold throne.

An oddly well-dressed diamond dog was the last deity they saw. It wore a sharp suit, a monocle and had a small handlebar mustache. He sort of looked like the diamond dog version of Fancy Pants. The white diamond dog had a flawless cloud crystal floating in his paw. He sat not on a throne, but a pile of riches piled to look like a throne.

There was an empty throne made of shadows that seemed to change every time the nobles blinked.

"Why you are in our home, mortals?" the dragon said in a voice that sounded like rage barely restrained, asked. The group attempted to suppress their fear response.

“Why have you come here? Do you want to be eaten? I’m hungry,” this time the thin creature said.

“Perhaps they are here to submit themselves to us,” the Griffon said in a dismissive tone.

“I can feel it! They want, they desire, they need power!” the diamond dog said happily.

“Yes, they wish for power. Not just any power… the power to conquer,” the minotaur commented slowly. “Is that what you want little mortals? Power to fulfill your desires?”

The unofficial group speaker, Black Justice spoke, “Yes, we wish to make a soul bond for power.”

“Then what can you offer us, the Sins, in exchange?” the gorgeous mare asked, playing with her mane. “What can you offer that we do not already have?”

The group huddled and discussed what they were about to offer.

“We offer you all money, any amount of gold and jewels you desire,” Black Justice stated. The Sins were shocked at the gall of these mortals.

“You offer to buy the powers of deities?! We are not mercenaries, you pathetic mortals!” The griffon screeched. Gale force winds seemed to come from his wings and blasted the nobles off their feet. Wrath raised his right claw and the winds immediately ceased.

“I do like shiny things though Pride,” the dog told the griffon.

“I am aware. It may work on you but they offered it to all of us. That was an insult I could not let pass,” Pride sat back down and calmed himself.

“So you wish to help them, Greed?” the dragon asked as the nobles got back to their feet.

“Why not? I get shiny and something to do,” Greed shrugged.

“Then you will have to bond with them all. I do not think the rest of us will be willing to bond with these excuses for mortals,” the minotaur enunciated slowly.

“We are not excuses! We are the highest nobles of Canterlot! The crème de la crème of ponies!” one of the ponies in the group shouted.

“Are you willing to make six bonds, Greed?” the dragon asked, ignoring the yelling ponies.

“Anything to add to my chair. You already know this Wrath!” Greed said, wondering why Wrath was asking these questions.

“He just wants to make sure you understand the strain of making so many in such a short time dear,” the mare said.

“He is a Sin! A measly six soul bonds won’t affect him in the least, Lust,” the griffon said, crossing his arms and returned to staring at the ponies.

“Yes, but Greed was the last of us to get out and he was severely weakened when the closing door caught him and cut him in half. At his full power I doubt it would affect him but in the state he’s in right now, he might go to sleep for a month or so, Pride,” Wrath informed the griffon. Pride just huffed and looked down on the ponies.

“How rude! To disregard us as if we weren’t right here!” the same pony ranted.

“Quite Loud, cease your ranting before they decide to smite us!” Black Justice attempted to quite the pony. Quite stopped shouting and looked indignant.

“If you wish to do this Greed, we shall take our leave and attend to some personal matters,” Sloth said, the noble’s conversation was ignored by the Sins. Greed nodded and the rest of the Sins vanished into thin air.

"Let’s get started mortals!" Greed said gleefully. "You can pay me when you've finished with your lives!"

The crystal in Greed's paw begins to glow gold and the nobles are consumed by it.

Ember's New Flame

Ember walked down the halls of Aetherus Castle, she was supposed to meet the princess of the place for a peace treaty but she had no idea where the throne room was. She had heard the entire castle was carved from a mountain by Rarity and Spike. Ember had never seen such a fancy castle made from so many different rocks. The floors were a single solid piece of black marble, carved with various designs for aesthetics. The walls looked to be carved from a single piece of labradorite and inlayed with various mineral veins like gold, quartz and so on. Huge openings kept it from looking like a cave and more like a hall. There were no windows in the castle, just magic coverings, which baffled Ember. Massive carved stone pillars supported the castle between openings, and gave a sense of elegance to even dragons that care for none of such things.

Geez, this place is huge. How did Spike and a unicorn carve it out in a month.

Ember walked down the empty corridors admiring the amount of work that must have gone into making such a home when she heard a faint moaning. Curious, Ember decided to find the source of the sound. She walked through many corridors and down many stairs she didn’t even know existed until she realized she was no longer in the carved castle. These walls were made of a blue crystal.

I’m in a different castle, Ember realized.

Ember walked in the halls of the crystal castle. She had learned her lesson to not try and eat the walls. They tasted so bad Ember almost swore of eating gems. As she walked along a particularly dark hallway, she heard a faint moaning. Curiosity piqued, she set off to find the source of the sounds. She arrived at a nondescript door. The door was slightly open, so Ember pushed it a little to see what was going on inside. The smell hit her first. It was like a salty musk and made her slightly aroused. When she peered into the room she saw something that both aroused and shocked her.

Spike was in his smaller form, hung up by all four of his manacles to the ceiling, back to the ground. He was gagged and blindfolded. Rarity and Flutterbat wielding riding crops, whipping the bound dragon and whimpers of pleasure could be heard from the drake. What shocked Ember was how the ponies were dressed. Both wore full leather dominatrix outfits that made Ember more than a little jealous of their near perfect forms. Her eyes fell on Spike’s erect dongs, she realized his pre-cum was what that wonderful smell was. The knowledge made her quite aroused and curious to try them and she leaned forward just a little. The door creaked slightly, alerting the mares too Ember’s presence.

“Ah, Dragon Lord Ember, I see you’ve found us. I was beginning to wonder if that spell worked or not,” Rarity said, her horn lit up and the door fully opened.

“Uh, what spell?” Ember asked.

“I apologize, the spell was meant to bring you here immediately for our meeting, but it seems you are a bit more magic resistant then Spike here,” Rarity answered, bringing her crop down on Spike’s chest. He squirmed in pleasure. “So I had to cast a spell to attract you here instead of a teleport.”

“Um ok, I guess?” Ember said, slightly distracted by the dragon musk. “Why did you want to meet me?”

“We wanted to be your friends of course! And nothing helps bonding like playing with each other’s toys,” Rarity said suggestively.

“So, this one of those friendship things you told me about?” Ember nervously asked. The logical part of her brain was distracted by the pheromones in the air and lust was starting to cloud her thoughts.

“Oh yes. Spike is quite the fun toy to play with Ember, Rarity hardly ever lets anyone else play with him,” Flutterbat said as she strode over to Ember. She wrapped an arm around Ember’s armored shoulders and nudged her towards the hanging drake. Ember looked at Flutterbat for a second and was slightly disturbed that her eyes were glowing. Her eyes were so soothing though, almost as if she was getting a confidence boost from looking into Flutterbat’s eyes she picked up the pace to the drake.

“In a certain way, you could call this a friendship exercise,” Rarity said. Ember was dressed in her armor from when she competed in the Gauntlet of Fire, helmet not included. Flutterbat took Ember’s hand and placed her crop in it.

“We would like it if you join us,” Flutterbat whispered to the dragoness, magic laced her words.
Ember looked slightly less nervous and said, “I don’t think this is a good idea...”

“Oh darling, don’t be shy. We trained Spike very well and I can see you’re very stressed,” Rarity stated. “I can assure you that this exercise will be very cathartic. Spike here has been a very bad drake and needs to be punished. We want you to help us, and maybe have a little fun while we punish him.”

Ember visibly relaxed but still hesitant. Flutterbat gently stroked her spines and Ember let out a small squeak. Flutterbat was unrelenting as she suddenly pleasured the dragoness.

“Show this bad dragon who’s boss, show him you’re the Dragon Lord,” Flutterbat said to Ember when she looked at the mare. The glowing eyes made the words seem really attractive for some reason.

Ember raised the crop and brought it down on Spike’s thigh. The drake growled and Ember flinched back.

“Don’t be startled. He’s been a very bad boy Ember, show him what you think. Show him who the dominant one is here,” Flutterbat said when Ember looked to her for guidance. This time, Ember’s eyes were glowing slightly as well.

Ember looked back at the drake and raised her crop. Spike growled at her and Ember brought the crop down on his muzzle. The drake whimpered and Ember smiled evilly.

“That’s right Spike. You’ve been a bad boy and you need to be punished,” Ember said and began to beat the drake in earnest. Flutterbat removed select pieces of the dragoness’s armor and began to lightly pleasure the dragoness as she punished Spike to make her suggestions more permanent. Finally after ten minutes, Ember started to pant as she tired of beating the drake.

“Well I suppose we should put this lesson on pause here and get you cleaned up darling,” Rarity said. She turned to Flutterbat and asked, “Shall we go to the spa, Flutterbat?”

“Of course, just let me get a few things prepared for then we get back and I’ll catch up to you girls later,” she replied.

Rarity nodded and put her hand on Ember’s shoulder, a subtle sign for Ember to follow her. When they left the room to go change, Flutterbat went over to Spike and removed his blindfold. Spike stared hungrily at Flutterbat, madness had long since claimed him and he was trying to bite Flutterbat when she came in range. Fluttershy smacked each of Spike’s cocks and told him to be a good boy. Spike thrashed even harder as the pleasure and pain drove him deeper into madness. The chains grew stronger and stronger the more he struggled. Flutterbat giggled as she left the room to go get changed.

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At the Ponyville spa:

The girls had been rinsed off and were now in the private steam room.

“You did quite well considering it was you first time Ember,” Rarity said.

“Really? I kinda thought I went too far, beating him so much,” Ember said sheepishly.

“Don’t be, he’s taken far harder beatings after all. You’re our friend and we’re always willing to share our things,” Flutterbat said.

“Quite right darling. And when he get back to his normal self, he’ll look back at the memory and love the punishment you put him through,” Rarity reassured. Unknown to Ember, both mares were channeling magic to make Ember more open to their suggestions and assurances.

“You really think so? I kinda went wild on him…” Ember muttered.

“Hmm... You have real self-confidence issues don’t you?” Flutterbat asked.

“What?! I don’t have issues! Besides weren’t we just beating him for fun?” Ember pointed a claw at Flutterbat.

“Oh darling. That attitude is exactly why you cannot full enjoy the lesson,” Rarity soothed the indignant dragoness. “Although we do know how to change that, with your permission of course.”

Ember’s indignation faded and time seemed to slow down as it considered what was just offered.

A way to change how I am? Am I unhappy with the way things are? Ember looked down at herself, and reflected on her life until now. Fighting jerky dragons every day, trying to hold on to the position her father effortlessly held for so long. Having every order questioned by the jerks she beat down previously. The offer was sounding more and more appealing every thought she had. Flutterbat’s voice cut through her thoughts.

“We can promise you’ll feel a lot better afterwards. Rarity and I both went through it and we feel a lot better than we did before,” the thestral assured the dragoness.

“Yes, Flutterbat here was such a shy thing before her treatment, she used to be terrified of her own shadow,” Rarity giggled. Flutterbat blushed and tried to hide behind her mane in embarrassment.

Both mare's suggestive magic and her naturally crappy life came together and made her decision to change fairly easy.

“Alright let’s do it,” Ember said with resolve in her voice.

“Excellent! We’ll go and do it after we’re done with our spa trip. For now let’s relax,” Rarity clapped her hands together and poured more water on the coals. Ember’s ego slightly deflated but she nodded and took the time to relax with the two mares.

♥♥♥

Later at the castle:

Ember was sitting on a gold throne Rarity called the treatment chair.

“So how does this work exactly?” Ember asked, slightly nervous.

“Science and magic,” at Ember’s confused look, “You’ll see soon enough darling,” Rarity teased. She pushed a button and metal cuffs trapped Ember in the chair.

“Hey! What’s going on?!” Ember shouted.

“The treatment gets a bit rough; the bindings are for everyone’s safety,” Flutterbat answered, a look into her glowing eyes settled Ember down.

Ember was about to say something when Rarity activated a teleportation circle and they teleported to a special windowless white room. The room was positively massive, towering at least thirty feet tall and across, Ember realized the room was a cube with no entrance or exit. Each wall, the floor and the ceiling above had gigantic and complex looking magic circles made of what appeared to be embersteel. Lines of mithril runes decorated the portions that outside the massive circles. Ember was placed in the center of the circle on the floor.

“This room is where your life will change forever, Ember. Are you sure you want to do this?” Rarity asked. Ember only nodded. Both mares teleported out and the runes began to glow red a moment later.

The runes seemed to fade away as the glow blurred the walls. The only thing on the walls and ceiling was the magic circles. The embersteel started to move, making the blank center of the circle seem to turn silver. The wall began to change colors and became a rainbow lightshow. Ember stared at the wall in front of her, captivated by the lights. She became relaxed and her mind opened up as the chair slowly lifted to the center of the room. The chair started to spin like a slow gyroscopic ride, not that Ember had any presence of mind to notice. All she could think about was the circles and the lights.

The circles shifted and showed a figure, Ember recognized as her but different. The Ember in the circles was bigger, sexier than she was. The Ember in the circles had a confident grin that spoke of how she was better than others, how dominant she was. The vision of her in the circles was who Ember wanted to be.

The chair came to a stop and melted away into the light, leaving Ember suspended in the middle of the room. The light show had changed subtly and seemed to close in on Ember. The circles followed until Ember was enveloped on all sides by the mirror.

Ember felt her breasts get strangely warm. She looked down to see her breasts were growing, the lights had made her mind incapable of questioning it and someone seemed to whisper into ember’s ears that it was alright. The voice said she was becoming what she was meant to be, and Ember could only accept it.

Her breasts grew to a nice DD cup size, and her spines started tingling. Ember moaned in pleasure as her spines grew slightly longer and became sharper. Her tail grew longer and leaner as the spade on her tail grew smaller and solidified into a solid piece like her spines. Her body started to grow larger as muscle added itself to her frame. Her bones lengthened a bit and she grew an entire foot in height. The muscle began to condense and fat started to enter her body. What was a lean muscular body became a plush and super feminine figure. Ember now had a body that most females would kill and sell their souls for. Her face started to itch, but Ember found she couldn’t move her body as her face reshaped slightly. Her shout shrank slightly and became a bit softer. Her orange irises began to constantly brighten and darken like her namesake. The horns she prided herself on began to grow out slightly and change from bone to white keratin, allowing her to wield magic like a unicorn. Her wings grew larger, stronger and more responsive to Ember than before. Her beautiful new face now matched her sexy new body. Her scales seemed to harden as they became smaller and multiplied, giving her scales a smooth silky feel, yet was more protective then armor made from diamonds. Her claws lengthened slightly and hardened to be able to cut diamonds like butter.

The lights retreated and formed back into the walls of the cube. The circles had lost their silver and the embersteel lines had returned. Ember still could not move her body as her mind became ever more susceptible to suggestion because of the lights. The lines faded away to show a black circle this time. On the circles was Ember in her new form, wearing a dominatrix outfit and beating dragons into submission. Once again the lights closed in on Ember and she was enveloped in darkness.

Ember could see nothing but herself and black void all around her. She strained to see something, anything. Then a blue flame appeared in front of her. The flame flickered and took shape until it was vaguely dragoness shaped. The flame solidified and Ember was staring at herself. Her clone wore a different outfit from the previous video but the theme was still the same, it was a dominatrix outfit.
The clone said nothing but strode up to Ember. Ember still couldn’t move her body and was helpless as the clone reached her. Its first action was to give Ember a cuddle and kiss her passionately. Its tongue invading her mouth, dominating her tongue and sending waves of pleasure into Ember’s mind. Ember closed her eyes as the clone made Ember feel the greatest pleasure she could imagine. But instead of darkness, she saw images of her dominating others and loving it. A voice sounded in her head,

These slaves are mine now… They will do whatever I want them too… Making them fuck me feels so good…

The clone massaged Embers breasts and Ember’s eyes shot open, only to see the same images playing. Pleasure, the voice and images slowly conditioned Ember. For what seemed like years she was subjected to this, with several flashes of her learning magic to enhance her abilities. Then the room returned to the lights and circle, Ember had full control of her body and she realized she was the one pleasuring herself the entire time.
Finally the circle glowed gold and the room faded back to runes and circles. Ember found herself sitting in the gold chair as if she never left it. The only thing that convinced Ember that it wasn’t a dream was her body had changed and her horns were glowing with a sapphire aura.
The room ceased glowing and Rarity and Flutterbat teleported back in.

“Well I must say, Twilight made an exceptional little toy this time,” Rarity said.

“How are you feeling Ember?” Flutterbat kindly asked the dragoness.

“Mmm… You girls were right. I feel like a whole new me,” Ember practically purred, her voice sounded so seductive, so alluring, and very, very dangerous.

“Excellent, let’s get back to Spikey’s little session shall we?” Rarity suggested.

“Oh yes. I’m looking forward to seeing Spike again,” Ember gave a predatory grin. Her eyes glowing a bit brighter at the prospect of dominating someone.

“We must get you properly dressed if we are to bond over Spikey’s punishment,” Rarity declared. The girls were all teleported to the throne room of Twilight’s castle.

♥♥♥

Ember and Flutterbat were slightly disoriented at the sudden teleportation. Rarity looked calm as she started at the mare sitting in one of the thrones. Both Ember and Flutterbat got over their nausea and looked at who Rarity was watching. They saw Twilight, her mane was on fire, her eyes were red and her coat was white. The mares knew Twilight was mad, but all Ember knew was that this pony was not to be messed with.

“You girls want to explain to me why the castle was blacked out for the last two hours?” Twilight asked calmly.

“Well darling. As it turns out, Ember here is highly resistant to magic and we used the Cube to help her out. We thought the mix of magic and science would keep the power drain to a minimum,” Rarity explained, trying to use her magic to soothe the angry alicorn.

Sound logic and magic calmed Twilight down enough for her transformation to fade but she was still mad.

“Next time you go and do tsomething like that again, TELL ME,” Twilight said. “The castle almost blew up because the containment on several of my experiments shut down with the power drain.”

Rarity looked shocked and Flutterbat looked guilty. Ember just looked confused as Twilight calmed down. Twilight’s horn lit and the group was teleported into a massive room in the castle dungeons.

“Where are we?” Ember asked. The loud sound of chains being pulled taut answered her. Ember realized there was a large and probably dangerous animal in the room with them.

“We’re in the biggest room in my friendship dungeon,” Twilight answered. “That sound is Spike trying to get to us.”

“Yes, while you were getting changed, Flutterbat and I teased Spikey a bit more. Right now he has lost all higher functions and is basically a feral beast,” Rarity explained.

“Why does he sound so big then?” Ember asked.

“Spike is special, he can control is greed and change size as a result. With his higher functions gone he’s in his biggest size right now,” Flutterbat answered.

“So he’s bigger now? How much bigger?” Ember asked.

“About as big as your dad,” Twilight said.

“What!? Where is he then?” Ember shouted.

“That wall over there is fake, the room is around three times the size of Ponyville,” Twilight answered uninterestedly. “And before you ask how that’s possible, lots and lots of magic.”

“Now Ember, let’s get back to your fitting,” Flutterbat suggested. Ember nodded and slowly stood confidently in front of the mares. Rarity had to admire the form before her. Ember was every little whelp’s wet dream now, an ideal feminine body, a gorgeous face, a strong personality and was far more deadly than her new size would tell. Measuring tapes appeared and Rarity began taking Ember’s measurements.

“What material would you like your outfit to be darling?” Rarity asked.

“What can it be made of?” Ember asked, seeing the mounds of rare materials in the corner of the room. Rarity nodded and levitated hundreds of samples of the materials in front of Ember for testing.

“Can I have an outfit and a set of armor too? I don’t think my old armor fits me anymore,” Ember asked.

“Well, armor isn’t really my specialty but I can ask Rainbow Dash and Applejack to make you a set,” Rarity said, the dragoness nodded and returned her attention to the samples.

“What are these two?” Ember asked, holding a black sheet and a chunk of metal.

“Figures you would choose those two, the black one is dragon scale leather, as in made from dragon scales. The platinum metal with gold flecks is an alloy of several precious metals such as gold, silver, mithril, and divinium, it’s a dragon’s best friend,” Flutterbat informed.

“Dragon scale? Is this made of dead dragons then?” Ember demanded an answer.

“No darling, it is made shed dragon scale that has been treated to become soft and flexible. The metal is called Maginite because it is the best conductor for magic we could make,” Rarity explained. “Flutterbat’s outfit is made of this leather, and my tiara is made of maginite I managed to color black.”

Ember seemed to calm at their explanations and thought about the materials again.

“If this is a dragon scale, doesn’t that mean this is magic resistant?” Ember asked curious at such a flexible scale.

“The treatment lessens the resistance, but it is easier to levitate a boulder your size then it is to hold a full bolt of such leather. I highly doubt a normal unicorn could lift this material with their magic,” Rarity informed the dragoness. Ember nodded and returned her attention to some of the other materials.

The next half hour or so was spent sampling the multitude of materials until Ember decided. A bolt of black dragon scale leather, a chunk of maginite, and some black opals. Rarity had spent the time envisioning an outfit for Ember while Flutterbat and Twilight chatted. Now their attention was back on Ember.

Rarity lit her horn and the bolt of leather unwound and massive sheet split off of the bolt. The bolt was set aside and the sheet split into six parts and the leather split into several small strips. The maginite melted and formed into silver buckles, and attached to the smaller leather strips. Two of the sheets wrapped around each of Ember’s arms. They shaped themselves around the curves and fingers of Ember’s arms, becoming full length opera gloves. Two of the strips attached themselves just under the edge of her gloves and became decorative fasteners. Opals cut themselves into little flame shapes and attached to the strips. Another set of leather wrapped themselves around Ember’s legs. They started at her mid-thigh and ended halfway down her feet. Four leather straps attached themselves to the ends of the new stockings. Fire shaped opals attached themselves to the upper set of leather strips. The bottom of her stockings became coated in a thin layer of maginite to protect the material.

A piece maginite split and formed a pair of small chains that floated over to Ember’s hips. A small piece of leather wrapped around Ember’s crotch and joined with the maginite chains and formed into a G-string. A smaller piece of leather wrapped around just below her belly button and transformed into a garter belt. Opals decorated the garter belt as leather straps attached to the front and back of stockings and merged with the garter belt, the buckles moving to the middle of the straps.
Several panels of leather bound themselves to several maginite strips to form a low back corset. The corset wrapped itself to Ember’s midsection, leaving a three inch wide opening in the front. Leather was framed around two maginite triangles and attached to the top of the corset, covering about half of Ember’s breasts. Opals gained holes and became eyelets along the opening of the corset. Maginite and leather split apart into hundreds of threads to braid themselves into a strong and beautiful lace. The lace crisscrossed the eyelets and tightened the corset, making Ember slightly moan as her breasts were squeezed. A leather strap wrapped around Ember’s neck like a choker while a maginite plate reading ‘Mistress’ fastened to the front of the choker. Thin maginite chains formed and attached the tip of each triangle to the choker. Several opals turned into incredibly fine sparkling dust and covered Ember’s new clothes, giving it a color shifting quality with a black base color.

Ember tested the outfit’s range of movement, it felt perfect for her. She then tested its durability with her claws and was shocked to see that there wasn’t even an indent in the leather. She walked over to the waiting mares, her outfit arousing her with every step, and let them admire her body. Flutterbat handed her a riding crop and Ember took it, giving it a few test swings.

“We’ll let you start Ember,” Flutterbat said and raised the false wall. Ember stood dumbfounded by the size of the restrained dragon. He was almost bigger than the castle above them and was held by a mere five black chains. The look in his eyes was of bestial lust and savagery.
Ember strutted into Spike’s range and as he lunged at her, she smacked his muzzle with the crop. Her new strength was more than enough to stop the mad drakes charge and send him tumbling on to his side. The dragon growled in defiance at the Dragon Lord and attempted to get up. Ember had made it to Spike’s head and placed her foot firmly on the drake’s muzzle and held him down. Spike scrabbled to get up but couldn’t raise his muzzle a single centimeter. To anything that didn’t live on Aetherus, or had regular contact with it, this would seem beyond impossible.

“You’ve been a very bad boy Spike,” Ember sneered. “And I’m here to teach you a lesson.”

Ember’s crop came down on Spike’s nose, causing the giant dragon to whimper.

“Get smaller bitch. I want to play around a bit,” Ember ordered. Spike whimpered pathetically and shrank down to a more manageable size. He was still feral and Ember was fine with that, she took her foot off of the dragon and walk in a circle, inspecting him. Spike’s gaze followed her.

“Like what you see, slut?” Ember asked mockingly. “Don’t worry. I’m here to make you beg.”

Her crop came down right between Spike’s wings and he let out a roar of pleasure. Ember’s horns lit up in a sapphire aura and the crop lengthened into a whip. Ember began whipping the mad drake until it submitted to her. Spike whimpered and whined as Ember asserted her dominance over the drake.

“That’s right Spike, you’re my bitch now, and you’re going to beg me to beat you some more,” Ember snarled at the dragon. The dragon responded with a low growl. Ember smiled evilly and smacked the dragon’s face. She sauntered to the mares for a question. All three mares had amused looks on their faces.

“I apologize for that Ember. It seems Spike is quite loyal to me and won’t submit quite as easily as I thought,” Rarity said to the dragoness. Flutterbat quietly giggled.

“No problem. Its good practice for some of the more… resistant drakes back home,” Ember replied. “Anyways, I can do anything to him as long as it’s not permanent right?”

“Of course darling. Flutterbat can you go get the special toys for Ember?” Rarity said.

Flutterbat nodded and flew over to a far corner of the room. When she returned she was carrying a black box with a skull shaped lock. Twilight put her hand on the skull and the box opened. Thorned whips, massive dildos and strap-ons, and many more enchanted toys lay in the chest. Ember rooted through the box and pulled out a dragon strap-on and an embersteel paddle. She flew back to the drake.
Ember started with the paddle and smacked Spike’s muzzle with it. The dragon growled angrily and Ember responded by walking behind the drake.

“Time to learn your place bitch,” Ember said. She began to paddle the dragon’s ass until it glowed red. Tears streamed down the dragon’s face. Ember only smiled wickedly and put the strap-on on. “Time to learn who your owners are, whore,” she stated and shoved the dildo into the dragon’s asshole.

Spike roared as he was violated, whether it was in rage or pleasure was difficult to determine. Soon he was brought to the edge of cumming, and Ember pulled out of Spike. He whined pathetically.

“What is it slut? Do you wanna cum?” Ember teased. “Well? I asked you a question you worthless cunt licker!”

“Y-yes,” Spike whimpered through his madness.

“Yes what, you worthless fuck toy?” Ember sneered.

“P-please… l-let me cum… Mistress,” Spike begged. Ember just smirked, she was the picture of smugness, and shoved the dildo back in and paddled his cocks.

The dragon let out a mighty roar and cummed. Streams of steaming dragon jizz flew through the air and splattered against the walls of the massive room. Twilight had erected a barrier that kept the semen from touching any of the girls. Ember grinned as the large dragon shrank down into his smallest form, exhausted. She rolled the dragon on to his back and sat on his face.

“Eat me out slave,” Ember commanded, her tone demanded immediate obedience from the dragon.

Spike began to eat his new mistress out. His long tongue penetrating into Ember’s pussy and rubbing her vaginal walls. In a few seconds he had found embers G-spot and his tongue danced around, sending waves of pleasure up Ember’s spine. Embers tail wrapped around Spike’s neck and shoved him deeper into Ember’s slavering cunt.

“Fuuuck yesss,” Ember moaned. “Lick me out you little cum dumpster.”

Ember started to whip the dragon as she neared orgasm. The dragon shuddered at each blow, causing his mouth and tongue to vibrate. This just made Ember whip more enthusiastically as she tried to get off on the drake’s face. Soon Ember cummed into Spike’s waiting maw. With Ember’s juices in him, he recognized Ember as one of his mistresses and his loyalty was cemented.

“Oh gods that felt good,” Ember sighed in content as she got off of Spike. Her tail was still wrapped around his neck as she walked over to the girls. The chains snapped off the wall and Ember threw the purple drake on the floor before his other mistresses. He moaned in pleasure as he passed out.

“Wow. I don’t think I’ve seen Spike like this since the whole code of honor thing a few years back,” Twilight commented.

“Yes, but that was from being chased by timberwolves, and he wasn’t a demigod at the time,” Flutterbat said.

“Well I think he deserves a rest after helping get Ember used to her new body,” Rarity said as she teleported Spike to his bed. She clapped her hands together and looked at Ember,” So? How was your first domination, darling?”

“It felt great! I feel so much better now,” Ember said happily.

“Now that that’s done, should we get talking about the treaty?” Flutterbat asked.

“Oh yes I forgot about that, thank you for reminding me Flutterbat,” Rarity said.

“Treaty?... Oh that’s right I went to Aethereus to negotiate a treaty with some princess or something,” Ember face clawed and started to panic. “I must be so late by now.”

“Darling, you aren’t late. You’ve been with the princess of Aethereus almost the entire time,” Rarity stifled a giggle. The others were having much better luck hiding it.

“Huh? What do you mean?” Ember asked, obviously confused.

“Darling, I’m the princess of Aethereus, and Twilight is Queen Night’s consort. The meeting was with us,” Rarity clarified. “Shall we discuss terms?”

Ember was dumbfounded and speechless.

“I’m thinking a standard peace treaty and a gate to and from Aethereus. You know, for fun times,” Twilight said, putting down the notes she was talking. Ember could only nod as her brain attempted to process the fact she had just spent a day or two sexually torturing a dragon with two of the most powerful beings on Equus.

“Don’t worry about a thing, darling. I believe you have some subjects to, ah… subjugate,” Rarity put her arm around Ember’s shoulders, snapping Ember out of her bafflement. Her mind decided to shelve the last part of the meeting deep in the recesses of her mind and focused on dominating her new slav- subjects.

“Y-yeah. Well I think I should get going, thanks for the session girls,” Ember said and as she turned to leave, a massive pulse of power passed through the castle.

"What was that?!" Rarity shouted. Twilight was already tracing the pulse back to its origin.

"Trouble in Canterlot girls, looks like a soul bonded going berserk," Twilight stated as she finished tracing.

"Should we go get the others Twilight?" Flutterbat asked, obviously worried.

"Yes, you two go get them," twilight nodded to the mares and turned to Ember, "Wanna join us? Might be fun for you Ember."

"Eh sure, I got nothing better to do," Ember shrugged and everyone went to go get their preparations done.

Beginning of the End

During Ember’s visit: Aetherus – Home of the Sins

Golden light enveloped the six unicorn nobles, and each one began to be filled with the power of Greed. As power flowed through their veins like blood, their minds were warped and twisted by their power. Desire for more flowed into their minds and with it, what little morals and sense of right and wrong were washed away in favor of their growing need to obtain more power at any cost. When the light died down the six unicorns looked at themselves and each other with slight trepidation. They tested out their powers, with immensely satisfactory results.

“Now little mortals. I shall explain the standard powers that come with a soul bond with me,” Greed said. “The standard powers are in line with what the deity’s domain is, and as such, you all have the power to steal. Whether it may be physical, magical or mental, you can steal it if your power and control is great enough to take it.”

“Does this mean we can steal your power?” Noble Crust asked, vaguely aware of the answer to that already. Black Justice just stared at his compatriots.

“No. You are far below me in terms of power and as such cannot steal my power. I’m sure you all feel invincible now but keep in mind; deities are far more than their bodies. I may not look like it but during the gathering, when the gates of Tartarus were opened to let us out, I was late and cut in half by the gates. I am literally half of what Greed is and I have just given you a fraction of half my power. I estimate you lot combined are at around a trillionth of my current power. You could not take any of my power, let alone my full power,” Greed explained.

“How does a god get cut in half?” Quite Loud asked.

“The gates of Tartarus are special. During the early days of the universe every deity was sorting out their own kingdoms and domains. We took on the negative aspects of emotions and cause much misery for the mortals. The other young deities didn’t like that we were killing their followers and waged war on us. When those deities realized the seven of us were more powerful then all of them combined, they ran to the elder deities. Night decided we needed our own place to call home, with less crowding issues and created an entire dimension just for us. Unfortunately, many of the young deities saw the new dimension as a better place to move to and so we petitioned Time and Space to stop them.

Time decided that a door would be best to seal the entrance to our new home and crafted unassailable metal gates. Space fastened them to the opening and added extra enchantments to keep our realms separate, so no one could just sneak in when they wanted. Over eons the gate’s enchantments warped and inverted under the pressure of legions of deities pounding on it. Instead of keeping things out, it kept them in. To us it was an affront and we drove them out, shredding many of them. Those pieces of dead deities became demons and each one spread negative emotions that were our domains. Tartarus was even better than it was before, until you lot started throwing your criminals in here. They wrecked the place and our servants were too few to clean all of it up.

Anyways, the gates keep things in so if your caught between the closing gates, it keeps whatever was cut inside the gates rendering access to it nearly impossible until someone opens the gate wide enough for the power to come out,” Greed’s monologue came to an end.

During the explanation, Black Justice had figured out how to fully use his new powers and his freshly warped mind gave him a task. As soon as Greed finished, Black Justice created an energy blade and stabbed Quite Loud in the head with it. The unicorn instantly exploded into gold dust and was breathed in by Black Justice, stealing everything that made Quite Loud who he was and making it his own, coincidently his mind warped even further. The others were too shocked to react as he shoved his sword into Noble Crust’s side and pierced through his heart. Black Justice sliced his sword through all three remaining unicorns’ necks. They all violently erupted into dust and Black Justice absorbed all of their power, his body slightly growing and becoming stronger.

“That has got to be a record for shortest time anyone has ever been soul bonded,” Greed commented as Black Justice finished off his fellow nobles. Greed could see the desire for more power in the unicorn’s eyes and smirked. “Time to go do what you want mortal,” Greed said and teleported Black Justice back to his home in Canterlot.

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Canterlot - Justice Manor

Black Justice wanted more, he needed more power. As he walked into the kitchen he saw his wife and son eating lunch, an empty seat with food waiting for him.

“There you are dear. Where have you been? Your lunch started half an hour ago, dear,” his wife asked.
There was no hesitation, not even a slight hint of remorse flashed in his eyes as he impaled his wife on several spears of his new magic. His son just stared wide eyed as his mother dissolved into dust and was eaten by his father. When Black Justice turned to face his son, the colt screamed and scrambled back as his father walked over to him with his spear of magic.

“Shut up, boy. You’re going to help make me very powerful,” Justice smiled menacingly at the colt. He grabbed the colt’s head with both hands and sent multiple needles of magic into his head. The colt’s dying screams as he turned into pure power were music to his former father’s ears, and Black Justice could taste the raw potential his son had. Black Justice grew a few spikes on his head, easily hidden by his mane and let out a satisfied sigh, “Ahhh… the little one tasted the best.”

However, he wanted more and Justice headed out to the streets of Canterlot for a short stroll around the city. As he walked along the streets he saw many ponies and guards about. His horn slightly glowed as he planted small seeds of his magic on everypony as he passed by. The seeds were undetectable by magic and well hidden in the fur of ponies. He saw a group of foals run into a dark alley chasing a cat and smiled wickedly as he followed them. The foals had cornered the cat and were so busy playing with it, they never noticed the black stallion at the entrance of the alley make several dark green knives. One filly looked at Justice and before she could scream, he threw knives into all of their tiny throats, cat included. The foals burst into a dense cloud of golden dust and as Justice breathed in the golden dust his body began to change drastically.

His black fur gained a golden sheen when light touched it. His muscles became more visible and bulkier. His pupils warped into diamond shapes while his irises turned gold. His once well combed white mane and tail turned golden with a black stripe off the side. His hands and feet developed claws as he grew a few inches.

“Hehehe, the little ones truly are the best,” Black Justice’s new voice was deeper and rougher than before. His mind filled with cruel and unspeakable thoughts as he emerged from the alley. He was soon approached by a mare looking for the children.

“Excuse me. Have you seen three fillies and two colts run by here by any chance?” the mare was obviously worried.

“Of course, they are in the alley playing with a cat,” Justice stepped aside to let the mare see.

“There isn’t any-,“ the mare was cut off by a sword sticking through her mouth. Unfortunately for Justice, there were witnesses who screamed. Black Justice sighed and snapped his fingers as the royal guard came charging at him. The seeds burst into pointed crosses and almost everypony on the street was instantly converted into dust, those unlucky enough not to immediately die were subject to feeling the pain of being atomized into pure power. Those that didn’t have a seed impale them were shortly pierced through vital spots by magical arrows and converted. Justice inhaled the power and his body and mind twisted even more.

His muscles grew and bulked up until he was as muscular and huge as a minotaur. His horn had split in two and curved to point behind him. His eyes shifted from diamonds to four pointed stars while his teeth became sharp like a dragons. His claws grew out about half an inch and his legs cracked as they rearranged for an extra joint like a dragons. His tail lost all of its hair as it grew long and thinner, the tip of the new tail became a three clawed hand with all the functions of a hand. Greed had turned him into a monster.

Justice let loose a wave of magic and to his amazement, the surrounding area turned into a small amount of gold dust. He inhaled and gained a bit of power. A feral smile found itself onto his face as he had found yet another good power source.

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Canterlot - Throne room

The royal sisters were still listening to petitioners putting forth stupid ideas. Fifteen nobles wanted to abolish or become exclusively tax exempt, twenty-something wished to push forward with using dynamite or explosive spells to help their miners get more rare metals from the Dragon Lands, and several wanted to reestablish slavery, quoting their accountants on how much they had to pay for servants and how unfair it was that peasants got so much money yet paid so little taxes.

Luna had already fallen asleep after tuning out the nobles as an alternative to getting angry. Most nobles didn’t care what the lunar princess thought or did, so she could get away with it. Celestia on the other hand had withstood a millennium of such drivel without being able to shift the attention to another and therefore her coping mechanism was worn out and reduced to mere imaginary atoms. It had been several hours since she had lost her temper and sent a petitioner to Zebracia and the nobles seemed to be more emboldened then frightened as their petitions turned to demands and challenges to banish them if she refused them. The room guards were far more active today than any other day in history, even during war times they did not do so much as they shuffled the nobles out of the room. The current petitioner was asking to displace Griffonstone so he could mine the lands for its precious metals and gems. Celestia had almost reached her limit, but tried to reason with the noble.

“Duke Short Sight, you surely cannot be asking us to annex the lands of Griffonstone, displace its entire population of griffons, possibly causing a war, just so your company can mine what is surely a land stripped of all its valuable metals and gems for centuries?” Celestia asked, irritation was clear in her voice.

The duke didn’t seem to notice it and answered as if he was speaking to a child, “And how do you know their lands are stripped of valuables? Have you banished anyone there recently, like Sir Loud Mouth, or perhaps Lady Green Envy?”

That was the final straw. Celestia’s mane and tail burst into flames and she teleported right behind the disgraceful nitwit of a noble and kicked him between the legs and through the castle walls in the direction of Griffonstone. The sound was like a low sonic whistle and a sonic rainboom going off at the same time and the duke became the first unicorn to fly without magic or an airship. Surprisingly, the noble’s head was so dense and velocity was so great he passed through several stone walls with nothing more than a concussion and possibly some broken testes. The clinking of bits in bags being passed around drew her attention to her guards. All of them looked as stoic as they had been the entire day, except for one who was being crushed under the weight of hundreds of bags filled with bits, trying to maintain his pose. Celestia snorted and returned to her throne, the sound of the kick had woken Luna up just in time to cast a strengthening spell on the noble just before he hit the wall so he would not splatter and stain the throne room. Luna turned her attention to her fire maned sister.
“What did I miss?” Luna asked, blinking the sleep out of her eyes.

“About sixty nobles asking for something incredibly stupid and short sighted. They even made references and challenges to High Roller’s short trip to Zebracia. I can’t take it anymore,” Celestia had forgone her usual tone and appearance. Right now she looked like a child that had been punished for something she didn’t do. Celestia commanded the guards, “Guards. That will be all the audiences for today, tell those fops to beat it, you are dismissed for the day after you have done so.”

The guards bowed and quickly left the throne room in favor of dealing with whiney nobles rather than an angry Celestia. When the door closed, Celestia lumped down in her throne and let out a suffering sigh. Her mane extinguished and all the feelings she had held back for millennia. Luna could only hug her big sister and comfort her as she cried.

“Where did we go wrong Luna? Why do we have to do this?” Celestia sobbed. Luna could only pat her sister on the back as she drenched her dress in tears.

“Perhaps we should take Day’s offer then? Leave the kingdom in the hands of the more capable nobles and just leave for a vacation,” Luna suggested. Celestia slowly stopped crying as she thought it over.

“Who should we leave the kingdom to then? Fancy Pants is powerful and competent, but not enough to control the throne, and Blueblood is Blueblood. While he is capable I don’t think he understands just how hard it is to run a kingdom as large as Equestria,” Celestia moaned.

“Well-,” any further reply was cut off by a guard bursting through the door, his armor half on.

“Your majesties! There is a monster wreaking havoc in Canterlot! Its headed right for the castle!” the guard reported.

“Perhaps this will be a good chance for you to vent sister!” Luna clapped her hands together and smiled at her sister. Celestia just sighed and got up from her throne. She walked to the window to see the monster carving up the city, turning it and her more annoying subjects, into gold dust and inhaling it.
She charged her horn and fired a beam of plasma at the monster. As the bolt neared, it hit a dark green barrier and was converted into gold dust. The monster looked right at Celestia and smiled. It jumped towards her, and Celestia swiftly shot backwards as the wall exploded on contact with the monster. Rubble and broken glass littered the floor, the guard recovered first and charged at the monster, spear in hand.

“No! Don’t!” Celestia called out but she was too late. The monster created several spears of green magic and impaled the guard, converting him and his armor to dust. The creature inhaled the dust and seemed to get bigger. The monster was as big as a full grown dragon. It sported a plethora of horns and enough sharp teeth that would look more at home in a leech. It was covered in black scales and fur, the occasional gold patch appeared and vanished at random. Sharp spikes stuck out its back like a deranged hedgehog and the tail hand was disturbing. The most distinguishing feature of the monster however was its cutie mark, a black gavel hitting a pointing finger, Black Justice’s cutie mark.
One of the fops from this morning’s group. Was all Celestia could think as the monster finished growing.

“I wonder what alicorn power tastes like,” the monster rumbled and flashed a smile that would scare normal ponies enough to soil themselves, at Celestia.

“Why don’t you have a taste?!” Luna shouted from above the monster and kicked it in the face. Black Justice was sent flying out of the throne room. Luna turned to her sister and shouted, “Come sister we must get to the armory!”

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Celestia’s brain would do nothing as she was being dragged by her sister to the armory. They arrived at the armory and Celestia was now fully functioning. The sisters got suited in their ancient battle gear. Plain looking golden full plate for Celestia and silver full plate for Luna. They opened a secret panel in the floor and descended into the darkness of Mount Canter. They reached a room full of glowing magically charged crystals to find their weapons right where they left them.

Celestia’s sword, one that was heard everyday but unknown to the world for what it was, Sol Invictus. A golden broad sword, the guard inlayed with enchanted diamonds, the hilt was bare but the pommel was a massive diamond containing Celestia’s excess magic from the time she last wielded it several millennia ago to right now. Aside from the gold coloration and gems, it was a plain sword with enchantments.

Luna wielded a pair of silver crescent khopesh. The cutting edges were silver but the middle was entirely black, enchanted black opals encrusting it. As with Celestia’s weapon, her hilts were bare but the pommels of each were obsidian blades instead of a cut gem. The blades held Luna’s power and were deadly weapons on their own. They were gifts from the first pony smiths that experimented with sword designs, they later became the Saddle Arabians, second only to griffon forges.

Weapons in hand the sisters teleported outside the mountain half an hour later. What they saw horrified them, Lines upon lines of ponies, skewered on magic spikes in non-lethal places. Instead of blood they were converting into gold dust slowly, their screams of agony resonated throughout the once great city. Rage flooded through the sisters and they took to the skies to locate Black Justice. They located him by the flow of gold dust to a single place, Justice Manor. They dive-bombed to the house, following the trail of dust and held their weapons out.
Inside Justice Manor

Black sat in a chair made of his own magic, drinking dust from a wine glass while watching his remainder of his pathetic family beg him for mercy. He occasionally threw a dart of his magic at the head of one of their foals to make them cry more. They were all his now anyways, it did not matter who went first. He threw a dart at his insufferable sister, Righteous Justice. Just before it hit her, the roof exploded as two alicorns impaled Black Justice, a rock blocked the dart and converted into dust. The alicorn’s momentum did not stop with impaling the monster as they went deep into the planet, using Black Justice as a shield and digging tool.

Even with three blades impaled in him, the monster just smiled. He grabbed the swords as he was being used to dig a new tunnel and threw the alicorns back. Without the driving force, Justice stopped almost immediately as physics took over. He jumped at the alicorns and punched them both up and out of the very long tunnel. He created several spike ball seeds in his tail hand and jumped out of the tunnel himself.

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In the Mesosphere of Equus

Celestia and Luna fought to right themselves before they ended up in outer space. When they finally got control of their ascent, they began to open their wings and slowed down.

“What do we do now sister? He survived beyond terminal velocity dive through solid rock like it was nothing!” Luna shouted t her sister.

“We get serious Lulu,” was Celestia’s reply. Luna grinned madly as the obsidian daggers and diamond began to glow. Power of ages past flowed into the alicorns as the monster ascended to the Mesosphere for his prize.

He was met with a wave of plasma hot enough to ignite the air around him. Luckily his barrier protected him from any harm and gave him even greater power. A needle thin beam of moonfire was the next thing to hit him. To his surprise, it went through his barrier and burned through both chest and his tail hand. Several seeds exploded and converted his tail hand and a few of his spikes into golden dust. He quickly inhaled the dust and regrew his tail and chest. Both sisters witnessed this and a plan was hatched.

Millions of pinpricks started to dot the sky surrounding Black Justice. He looked curiously before they exploded into millions of needles of plasma and moonfire. His barrier could only take so many hits before it broke, he was littered with holes. And he was mad that he would have to burn his new power to heal himself. When he was fully healed he let loose a wave of green magic and absorbed the dots. He was surprised for a second time that hour as he gained a miniscule amount of power from the dots. The sisters were relentless as they made it rain plasma and moonfire.

Rage built as he burned his new power to heal until he decided it was enough. He released his own rain of green magic and countered the sisters’ attack. He followed up with waves of magic and laid seeds throughout the skies for a mile radius.

He opened a path from him to the sisters and charged. Celestia decided Luna required more time to complete her spell and charged down the path. Sword met claws in midair, sparks setting off several of the seeds as blows were exchanged. A feint on the left with her sword to follow up with a punch to the left of Justice’s face. The monster slashed at Celestia with his magic imbued claws, converting the armor it touched into dust. Celestia blended her magic into her fighting, a fire enchantment on the blade, some flash spells to distract or blind the beast and beams of plasma whenever she could get away with it. Her sword flashed as it severed half the horns on Black’s head. He raged and unleashed a wave of magic at Celestia. The mine field had considerably thinned but there was just enough to slow Celestia. She threw up a barrier of fire magic, allowing the seeds to pierce the back in places that wouldn't touch her. the wave hit and her barrier strained to hold against the wave of conversion magic. Justice, inhaled what dust was created from the wave and sent out a rain of magical arrows at the barrier. Celestia knew it was her end, but if she was going down, she would take this abomination with her. As the arrows pierced her, Celestia began casting a massive self destruct spell unique to her and flew at Justice.

“Not good enough, whorse,” the monster said as the magic claws that sprouted from his chest pierced through Celestia's chest as she neared.

“CELLY!” Luna shouted, her spell finally complete. A rapidly disintegrating Celestia charging a powerful spell appeared in Luna's sight and she knew she would have to support her sister's last act.

Justice began to inhale as Luna and Celestia released their spells. Luna’s spell was essentially a massive boosting spell. When combined with Celestia’s self-destruct spell, it caused a mini supernova. The wave of heat heat was felt all around Equus, in the land, sea and every living thing on the planet knew something big had happened. The Elementals took notice of the fight and moved to contain the damage as much as possible from their home. The blossoming nova froze and imploded into a miniature black hole as it died out. when the core of the hole reached sufficient mass after half a second, it exploded once again. This explosion had no heat or mass, but it did sent out a pulse of magic so large that anyone with a tracking spell of any level could easily trace it back to the fight.

Justice was horribly burned and missing everything below his neck, except for a piece of his right upper arm. Even his jaw was torn off and an eye was missing. Luna had escaped unscathed due to a desperate teleport as her sister was consumed to fuel her explosion and her spell activated. Tears ran down Luna’s muzzle as she remembered her sister's last words and looked down at the miserable wretch that took her sister from her. To her surprise the disembodied head and arm were regenerating and by the time Luna resolved to destroy this monster the neck and arm had reattached with a small portion of shoulder. Luna charged at the horror with her khopesh.

Her blade was stopped by the remains of Justice’s arm and a green spike shot out from his torn off mouth. The spike narrowly missed Luna, turning her helmet to dust but otherwise no damage. The monster threw Luna with its stub as it began to regenerate its torso. The new parts looked more akin to a patchwork of skin and limbs. Arms grew in random places as the skin, fur and scales grew in random places and became discolored. As his lower half began to regenerate as Luna attempted to kill the former pony with a rain of moonfire. The monster just laughed and let loose another wave of magic, absorbing all the power. At such close range, Luna was forced to break off and dodge the wave. As she retreated Justice was regenerating his legs, which now looked akin to a warped centipede using pony legs. eyes and mouths began to appear in random places all over the newly grown portion as well, making him seem like a nightmarish creature rather then anything that could exist in reality.

He is a horror even Tartarus could not imagine, Luna thought as she beheld the mishmash of limbs and flesh the former pony called a body. Black's mouth had reformed into a lamprey mouth and threw up enough seeds to appear as a massive wave towards Luna. Luna could see bits of Black's scorched teeth and flesh mixed in with the seeds and her life flashed before her eyes.

All that Glitters

As the wave of magic rushed at Luna, a second before the wave would have impacted, she was saved by a lavender barrier. To both Luna and Justice's surprise, the seeds burst and the entire cross shattered on contact with the barrier instead of converting it to dust.

“Looks like we’re late girls,” a familiar voice said from behind Luna. She turned and beheld the bearers of the Elements of Harmony all dressed in battle armor, plus a dragoness in a rather provoking outfit and a huge feral drake that she recognized as Spike from her visit a few days earlier.

Twilight was wearing a dark blue robe that held lines of star shaped diamonds along each end of the robe. A mithril belt kept the robes from flowing to freely and was inscribed with many runes. Twilight was wearing the plainest outfit of all the girls.

Rainbow Dash was in her usual armor; her gauntlets’ claws were arcing electricity between them. Her form looked almost like a dragon berserker from ancient times, who tore through enemies with their claws and teeth rather than use their fire.

Flutterbat was wearing what appeared to be a leather cat suit. Plates of embersteel covered her knees, elbows and shoulders. She wore ember steel gauntlets and greaves, both sets clawed with lighting gems. She also wore a belt made of the same steel and on it were vials of red liquid, blood no doubt. Luna didn’t see the thestral wear a helmet but a small shimmer of magic around Flutterbat’s eyes told her that she probably didn’t need one.

Applejack was sporting thick full plate armor. Every inch of her body was covered in oricalcum plates an inch thick. Runes were inscribed on all available surfaces, which is likely why she is able to even be up here and not plummeting to the ground like a meteorite. What identified her as Applejack was her cutie mark emblazoned on the chest plate, besides that it was a plain suit of armor made from rare inch thick metal and covered in runes. She wielded a massive two-hand flail; the top was shaped like an apple made from regular embersteel. The handle appeared to be rune inscribed adamantite and the chain was undoubtedly enchanted mithril from the way it shined.

Pinkie Pie wore a patchwork dress made of various kinds of metals. More disturbingly, the pieces of metal were shaped like the cutie marks of her friends and numerous others stitched together. Aside from the dress, it appeared that Pinkie was juggling more and more steel knives that seemed to appear from nowhere. What unnerved Luna was the face her hair was razor straight and the manic fanged smile the mare was wearing as the knives glinted in the sunlight.

Rarity was on top of the Spike’s head. Her armor was similar to Luna’s own. It was a thing mithril full plate and full helmet, all intricately ornate and inscribed with runes. She held a black chain connected to a collar around the dragon’s neck.

Spike is her weapon, Luna realized.

The dragon in question was dark purple, huge and mean looking. Emerald green spines emerged from his head to the tip of his tail in a straight line. The wicked talons and claws of the great drake looked supremely deadly as they spontaneously ignited in black fire and extinguished at random. The drake was exhaling black smoke that seemed to suck all the light out from around it.

The last arrival was someone Luna didn’t recognize at all, an azure dragoness with sapphire spines. She was dressed in a leather outfit that looked more for bedroom games then battle. In her hand was a whip that was clearly enchanted. Luna smiled gratefully at the girls and turned to face the monster once again. She put aside her current feelings in favor of upholding her sister’s wishes.

"Celly’s dead?! Aw that's no fun!" Pinkie said as she bounced on air, somehow.

“Give up Black Justice! You are outmatched now!” Luna declared, emboldened by the arrival of the Elements.

“Hahahahaha, that just means more food for me!” Justice shouted back. He spared no time in charging at the weakened alicorn.
He found himself instantly changing direction to Equus as a lava colored, metal apple crashed down on his head. As he neared the ground, a portal opened up right before him and he was transported to above the girls. He regained enough of his senses to let loose waves of magic at the group. Both Rainbow Dash and Flutterbat used their claws and parted the wave down the middle so it harmlessly passed around the group.

“What?! How?!” he yelled in frustration.

“Lighting gems cut magic, jerk,” Rainbow said as she flapped her wings and rocketed towards the former pony.

Her claws met his amalgam of flesh, tearing entire limbs off and rending his body asunder. Several of the legs attempted to kick the pegasus and several mouths on those legs attempted to bite her, only to break bones and teeth on her armor with no visible effect to her. Justice let loose a torrent of magic from his mouth at Dash. She quickly broke off as the shredded legs were turned into dust and absorbed by the mad monster. Once absorbed the legs began to regrow. Spike saw this and did not let it go unpunished as he let loose a jet of black flames at the enemy. Justice screamed in pain as the flames of darkness consumed his flesh. He couldn’t put it out without destroying himself so instead he flew straight at the group.

Twilight lit her horn and a complex magic circle formed before her. Twilight shot a beam of pure magic into the circle. Nothing happened as the beam was absorbed by the circle. Rarity jumped down from Spike’s head and added her own beam to the circle, again with no visible effect. The circle moved to each of the mares who poured considerable amounts of power into the circle and ended at the dragoness's control. Black had a bad feeling about the circle and increased his speed.

As he neared, he was met by a rain of knives, shredding his flesh even more as the flames burned the wounds closed. The insane pink mare appeared on his back and began to carve pictures into his flesh with a seemingly infinite supply of knives. Justice was forced to stop and attempt to throw the mare off. The mare seemed to be unaffected by the fires and has he thrashed around, he found she was already gone. When he turned to face the mares once again he saw her bouncing next to the flail wielding mare. Confusion flashed on his face.

“Don’t try to figure out Pinkie Pie,” Twilight said and motioned to Ember, “Good bye.”

Ember breathed her fire into the circle and it started to glow red. Ember aimed the circle at Black and what came out was a literal stream of miniature stars begin shoot out at Justice. Justice attempted to absorb the stream but the heat had ignited the air and blocked him from even touching the stars. He was immediately destroyed as each mini star burned a hole in his body.

The glare from the creation and subsequent shooting of miniature stars was visible to everyone on this side of Equus, and entirely felt by both the Elementals who were keeping the world stable and by the denizens of the planet. Twilight and Day were the only ones unaffected by the glare. Day due to her affinity and being near omnipotent in the daytime. Twilight was unaffected due to her safety enchantments she used for her lab exparaments. Twilight saw that the stars would hit and destroy Equus if allowed to continue so she created a portal into a powerful containment chamber in her research lab directly behind Black Justice. The stars scorched Justice entirely into ash and passed through the portal to create a new power source for Aethereus's premier scientist. Golden dust was released everywhere as Black Justice was turned to ash. Luna could only hide her eyes until the stars passed from their location. The atmosphere was extinguished as Twilight's horn ceased to glow, Luna was astonished at the ridiculous amount of power the girls now wielded. She was about to say something when she was interrupted.

“Y-you bitches! I will have what is rightfully mine! I am the highest noble of the unicorn race! I deserve ultimate power!” a head made of ash formed where Black Justice used to be, shouted at the mares and dragons. The head was morbidly fascinating to see form, it had one unicorn horn but its mouth was like that of a lamprey. It had no ears or hair, and its eyes were simply holes in the skull. The head turned towards Luna, a green spike coming out of its mouth and eye sockets as it shot towards the alicorn. Luna snapped out of her fascination just in time to dodge the spike narrowly. The head passed harmlessly and the spikes dissipated. It turned to face Luna once again but the apple once again smashed into it. The head exploded into even more golden dust and started to reform far away from the girls. When it was fully formed and ready to make another charge, it was grabbed from behind by a rather familiar looking paw.

“That’s quite enough Black Justice, nobody likes a sore loser,” Greed said, and crushed the head permanently into golden dust. Everyone got to the spot where they say Black Justice get reduced to dust and found a diamond dog dressed in an immaculate suit.

“Who are you?” Luna asked, feeling slightly cheated that she did not get to kill the former pony.

“He’s Greed. One of the seven Sin deities,” Day answered as she appeared in a flash off to the side. She nodded at the Elements and turned her attention to Greed. “I assume he was bonded to you?”

“Correct. I must say I am impressed he managed to do so much with so little power the bond gave him. Then again he did kill and devour five other ponies that bonded with me,” Greed commented as the golden dust began to gravitate to his right paw.

"So you are the reason my sister is dead?!” Luna shouted as she charged at Greed. Greed just stood there looking slightly amused as Luna attempted to harm him, shattering both her khopesh, breaking her left hand and shattering her right knee in the process. Tears streamed down Luna’s face as she hit the god to no avail. Her blows became weaker and weaker as she futility attempted to get revenge for her sister on a god. Twilight had to pry Luna off the deity before she broke anything else. Luna sobbed, “Why? Why did you give such a cruel being power?”

"Power you say? I didn't even give that mortal a notable fraction of my current power, and I'm already at half power!" Greed laughed.

"You truly find the vilest of beings to bond with you, don't you Greed?" Day asked.

"It could have been a lot worse you know, the six of them came and begged all of us to bond with them. Right now, I am the weakest of the Sins. Imagine if Wrath or Gluttony or even Sloth bonded with them!" Greed laughed. Luna paled at the thought of another pony with double the power Black Justice wielded. “Granted, I will admit that the bond price likely made him the monster that you fought.”

“So you acknowledge he was a monster,” Day said.

“Of course I do, even I have standards,” Greed replied. The dust in his paw had begun to condense into a solid.

“Why are you even here?” Luna choked out between her sobs.

“To collect my payment for services rendered, as per my contract with the ponies I was bonded to,” he stated as six black coins with the cutie marks of the six ponies that bonded with him formed from the golden dust. He levitated the coins so the demigoddess could see them and said “Take a nice long look at these coins Moon Princess, for these are the souls of the ponies willing to do anything for power, even kill their own family. And I am sure there are far more than just these in your little kingdom.”

He held out his other paw and a wave of gold dust came rushing to him from everywhere. Tens of thousands of gold coins solidified and lined up into a wall of coins. Each one had a cutie mark, but more than a few were damaged or incomplete. Those coins were removed from the wall and made into a separate wall.

“Those are Black Justice’s victims, aren’t they?” Twilight asked as she held a catatonic Luna.

“Yes, as per the contract these are now mine,” Greed stated as he waved to the wall of complete coins. He waved his other paw to the wall of broken and incomplete coins, “These, however are incomplete or were used by Black Justice to heal and power him. By the terms of my contract I cannot take any of these, to my immense disappointment.”

Luna snapped out of it and struggled to get out of Twilight’s grasp and shouts at Greed, “Return the souls of our subjects vile cretin!”

“I cannot do that. I earned these souls fair and square, as per the contract,” Greed said, unfazed by the ranting mare.

“Day! Please, make him return the souls of mine and Celestia’s subjects, please! They are all I have left of her,” Luna cried out, the goddess of light was her last hope. Day could only shake her head.

“The payment terms of a soul contract cannot be violated, not even I or Night possesses the ability to violate the terms,” Day said with a finality that crushed the last vestiges of Luna’s will and she broke down and fell into despair. The Elements tried to comfort the moon goddess.

Day looked to the incomplete pile and then to Greed. He nodded and Day levitated the wall of incomplete coins to her. Greed flashed the group a smile that would charm any female if they hadn’t already known his true nature and vanished in a flash of gold. Day turned to her remaining choice for champion and her sister’s court.

“As I’m sure you are aware, the terms of a contract may only be violated by the mortal being bonded. I’m sorry Luna,” Day gave her condolences and teleported everyone to Aetherus.
August 20th 2431. 3:45 pm : Clelestial Age ends