The jungle was dark, Daring could barely see ten paces ahead of him, but the touch of Ahuizotl's tail, pressed under his own, kept him moving in the right direction. She is amazingly focused, I- Daring cut off to give a little groan as a finger slipped into him. "Ahui…"

"Shh, they are just ahead." Ahui was barely aware of her tail, she wriggled the finger that felt "trapped" and heard Daring groan again. Oh, naughty tail. Ahui's eyes widened when she saw the camp. "They haven't noticed their friend is missing."

Daring looked into the camp, the light from burning lanterns giving an easier-to-spot glow. "Or they don't care… Ahui?"

"Yes Daring?" Ahui let herself be distracted then, turning her head to face Daring. Without even meaning to, she worked a second digit into him.

"N-N-Never… never mind." Daring inhaled deeply, trying to regain his focus. Why is it everything she does feels… good? He certainly didn't have an answer, but his body was back to full readiness, that shaft that had gotten Daring into so much trouble hard as an iron beam below him. "You got… got a plan?"

"I do." Ahui leaned closer, rubbing her cheek to Daring's, snaking her little tongue out to lick his nose at the end of it. She twiddled her fingers a little. "You move to the other side of the camp, make some noise. I will sneak in, grab the chalice. Then I will charge across the bridge, you fly out and cut the rope and we are home!" A third finger tried to work in, but Ahui found Daring was clenching too hard for easy access. Go slow, train him, he is nice.

"Does that mean you will stop… stop wriggling your fingers in my rear?" Daring stared at the mare, knowing she could probably see his blush, even in the dark night.

"Maybe. Will you be a good stallion and keep safe?" I could totally scamper away with the chalice while he is busy, I could even delay my attack until after they had caught Daring and were bringing him back to camp. Ahui flexed the fingers in her tail. No, I like him... dammit. Reluctantly, she drew the fingers free, giving his insides one last tickle. "Ready?"

Daring leaned over, pressed his snout to Ahuizotl's and kissed her. "Of course." He slipped into the underbrush, trying to use the tricks he had witnessed Ahui use while walking; while he failed on most of them, he got enough right that a proud and excited pair of eyes watched him go.

It was slow going for the pegasus, Daring kept as low and out of any light as possible, but twigs broke from time to time and, eventually, a lantern was lifted high, pointed in his direction.

"Something's out there!" The words were music to Ahui's ears. Dropping down so her belly rubbed against the ground, she moved silently and slowly toward the center of the clearing. "There it is again, it's Daring Do!" The cry of alarm triggered all four the stallions to rush away from the camp.

"Oh horse-apples! They saw me!" Daring lifted his head up, posing for the camp to see. "I better run... I know, where I hid all those other relics would be the best place to hide!" Turning, Daring was a lot less careful about being quiet and, dropping his hooves heavily on everything he passed, he was making sure his pursuers would not lose him.

Ahui's head lifted, watching "her" stallion make more of a song and dance about fleeing than he really needed to. "Daring you are amazing." Ahuizotl's claws traced down the back of one tent, but she only saw sleeping equipment. Trotting along to the next one, she once more shredded the tent and found what she was after. The chalice sat, wrapped in cloth, in the middle of the cloth room. "Easy-peasy." Picking it up she saw the little insect under the base of it. "Oh-"

The "screeching beetle" lived up to its name and although Ahui lashed out with a fist and smooshed it quickly, the gig was up.

An ear-piercing sound ripped through the air behind Daring and he heard his pursuers yell, "Back to camp!" He turned and looked seeing that, indeed, they were racing back to camp.

"Ahui!" Daring looked around frantically, knowing that Caballeron would get back before him by hoof. Instead, he veered for the cliff that he had been following. "Come on Daring, you can do this." It wasn't as far as he feared before, caught at a gallop, a forehoof found nothing but air. If he had been an earth pony, or a unicorn, it would have been terror that gripped his heart; instead, the stallion spread his wings. "I'm coming, Ahui!"

Pumping his wings, Daring could see Ahui racing for the bridge, her shape revealed by the light of the camp, a white bundle held tight by her tail. "That's my mare." His silly grin fell, however, when he made out what looked like a campfire at the other side of the ravine.

Ahui noticed something amiss with the other side of the bridge too, but not until it was too late. Her claws could already feel the old wood under them, so she kept on running until she reached the middle of the rope bridge. Looking back, she saw a grinning Caballeron saunter onto the bridge. She had a brief thought of cutting through the ropes and trying to survive, but then an odd feeling poured over Ahuizotl, protectiveness. "My foal…" She lifted her head and stared at the "doctor".

"You have my prize… Ahuizotl? My good friend, what has happened to you?" Caballeron's eyes narrowed, trying to make out the dark shape in the middle of the bridge. "Did you get caught in the wake of that thing going off?" His smirk spoke volumes for his knowledge on the artifact. His heart missed a beat, however, when Ahui lifted the chalice up and held it over the side of the bridge. "Wait!"

"No, Caballeron, you wait." Ahui smiled. "Come an inch closer, and none of us will have this thing." The cloth begun to unravel, revealing the rim of the chalice. "Stop I said, are you stupid?" Caballeron had taken a step closer, and worse, Ahui could feel more movement in the bridge, assuming they were moving up behind her too.

The stallion took another step toward her, and Ahui gave a sigh, loosening her grip on the chalice. "You idiot." The chalice tumbled end over end, the white cloth holding it falling away as it did. Ahui started counting all the bits she had lost doing this, she watched the thing fall half the length to the ground before a yellow-gold streak cut through the night and grabbed the chalice, midair. "Daring!"

"Daring? No!" Caballeron watched as the pegasus wrapped his forelegs around the gaudy cup; the now glowing, gaudy cup.

Eyes breaking from the dark night around him, Daring looked down at the glowing chalice and ruined his night vision. An ache charged through him, boiling his blood in an instant in a way he knew all too well. "Oh buck, no… not again." Pumping his wings hard, he pulled off a mid-air turn, his shaft now rampant in the cold air, and swung past the bridge.

Ahui could take a guess at Daring's plan, she didn't like it much better than cutting the ropes, but at least she would be with him. Leaping up and against her stallion, Ahuizotl grabbed hold, pressing her belly to Daring's. "You got me?"

"I got you, Ahui!" Daring felt the chalice pressed between them, apparently discharged once more and not about to trigger for two it was already affecting. "Ahui?" There was a little strain in the stallion's voice.

Ahui nuzzled her snout in against Daring, feeling all the muscles in his back work along with his wings. "Yes, Daring?" Her voice practically purred, mischievous.

"AHUI!" Daring was panting hard. "Let go of my dick, please?" The tight grip on his shaft made every pump of his wings a pleasurable nightmare. The grip eased, slid down; when the mare's tail gripped down on his balls Daring realized it was as good as he was going to get. "Ahui… you are amazing."

"I know that, Daring Do." Ahuizotl snuggled tight against the stallion's body, part of her scared out of her wits at being so far up; but most of her felt safer than she had ever felt before. She gave Daring a little squeeze, around his sack, just to make sure he knew how much she cared.

~~~~~+++++~~~~~

Caballeron trembled. "No… no…" Her legs folded under her and the mare fell to her chest on the bridge, but only her forelegs were down. "I… I need… Daring Do!" The shout was more of an anguished whine, and it was several octaves higher than the good doctor was used to sounding off.

Dragging herself around, she looked through partially glazed eyes at the three former stallions that she had hired for this little jaunt. "Why couldn't any of them have been outside of the effect?" Her voice was soft, simpering. Two of her henchponies had managed to find each other, and to Caballeron's shock they immediately dropped, belly to belly, facing the "wrong end" of each other.

"I… I need…" Caballeron's focus was shot, she cast her staring eyes around while one of her forehooves trailed back under her tail. The first touch to her vulva drew the deepest, most satisfied sigh ever from her lips, then Caballeron's search faltered as she worked her frog against the soft, puffy, and wet lips.

Rubbing and rubbing, Caballeron didn't see the other mare until she whimpered, then her eyes locked. Standing up, she hobbled forward on three legs, leaving the bridge and diving for her target. A soft pink tail lifted and Caballeron's snout dug down and pressed into the puffy folds of the other mare. Then her eyes caught something, movement.

"Boss? Boss what happened?" I got caught in some kind of trap back there and… and… boss?" Basha Log wasn't a smart stallion, not by a long shot, but he was big and managed to always slip out of a bad situation. A mare that looked just like his boss didn't seem like a bad thing at first. "You okay, boss? That you?"

Caballeron felt like a forest predator, her hooves were silent in the grass as she locked her gaze not on the stallion's eyes, but under his belly. She slunk closer and closer, but her "prey" was backing away. "Bash, come here, Bashy…" Caballeron felt a shiver go down her spine; she wanted him all to herself but she knew he would probably run away. Basha always runs away. Then she saw them. "Bashy," Caballeron softly whined, distracting the stallion while the other two mares were working in behind him, "please wait, I don't want to hurt you."

"I need you." Bull Headed's snout was covered in her bosses musk, but she didn't want to lick it clean. "Basha, we are good friends aren't-" She grinned as two mares jumped the stallion from behind.

"I am first!" Caballeron practically bounced toward the stallion—now pinned on his back. "I said…" It was too late, one of the flanking mares had mounted the stallion, rubbing herself along his belly.

"Boss…" Bull gestured—she had always been loyal to Caballeron—to the stallions gasping and panting mouth. "Boss you can-" She didn't need to finish, the smart doctor took the hint and initiative both, mounted the trapped stallion's head and plonked her plot down on his snout.

Trapped under two mares, Basha gasped for air at first, but his gasps soon became soft grunts as his former friend drove herself down onto him. His hips betrayed the stallion, driving up to spear the mare more fully. The smell of the musk, the heady taste of… of his boss, was quickly driving away inhibition. It isn't like they don't want this. They jumped me! Try as he might to do more than struggle, Basha was firmly taken care of, pinned, and screwed. Better than being tied up and alone.

~~~~~+++++~~~~~

Daring was stronger than before his first run in with the chalice, stronger than he had ever been; the ache in his body, now a familiar and recurring sensation, gave him more impetus to get their tails away from… Daring glanced behind him, catching sight of the little orgies going on among the mares on each side of the bridge.

"Look at them go… I don't feel sorry for them." Ahui felt Daring's breathing, felt his heartbeat, both excited her. "How are you… don't turn around." She applied a squeeze to the stallion's balls, getting a gasp from him. "Keep going along the ravine."

The tension between his back legs, treading the line between pleasure and pain, was just what Daring needed to break free of the need calling him back to those other mares. Besides, Ahui had pressed Daring's shaft tightly between them in a very pleasant way. "Got it… not so tight!" I love it tight.

"You love it tight." Ahui nuzzled in against Daring's neck some more. "There, see? The lights ahead are the little village, and the last train station on the line." She felt their angle drop, speed increasing as Daring's big wings traded height for momentum.

At the last Second Daring flared his wings back and up, cupping the air and stalling him to a dead stop, two inches above the ground. "Now let go!" Daring stomped a back hoof, the tight feeling starting to making him lose more focus than it brought. The grip relaxed and he sighed. "Thanks…" He took a few steps, feeling a little odd back there, but more for the release he had been given.

"You are always welcome, Daring Do. You only have to ask me, on your belly of course, and I will take you firmly in my grasp." Ahui's fangs were bared as she smiled. Her mind spun with all the things she wanted to do to Daring, to her stallion. That damn chalice… I love the thing.

Daring coughed, trying to relax himself. "Well, uh, thank you, I guess. We need to catch a train to the museum." He looked down at where the chalice, once more discharged, lay.

"Hey now, I got it out of the camp!" Ahuizotl stepped forward, but paid careful attention to not touch the thing. I… I know I am pregnant, I don't want to change because it might hurt them. It totally isn't because this is… fun.

"You threw it away, I found it, floating through the air, and need I remind you that I carried it, and you, all the way back to civilization!" Daring wrapped the chalice back up, stowed it in his pack.

"Carried me? You couldn't wait to get me out so you could force yourself onto me again!" Ahui watched as the pretty cup was put away. "At least sell it to the museum, surely they have money to pay for these things?"

"I don't charge them. I make enough money." Daring suddenly colored. "Although this time I might have to write the book under a pseudonym… and pretend it is a plagiarized story… and only market it for adults…"

Ahui blinked. "You write those foal stories? So you are A.K. Yearling?" She followed along beside Daring, padding her way up to the tiny town. "So that means you have-"

Daring cut in. "Not a lot of spare time, when you take writing, adventuring… and now looking after a mare…" He blushed a little, trying to look away from Ahuizotl. All efforts to not show his affection for her were stymied when one of her forelegs lifted, grabbing Daring's chin and pulling it around for a kiss.

No, don't try to say anything, just keep kissing him. For once, Ahui listened to her thoughts, only because she and they seemed to agree. Both froze a moment before they collided into the ticket booth at the train station.

"Uh, ticket for two!" Daring looked at Ahui. "You have sleeper cars?" He got a nod from the drowsy -looking old stallion behind the counter. "One leaving soon?" Another nod. Bits were exchanged.

~~~~~+++++~~~~~

"You found it!"

Daring smiled at the curator. "Sure did, there was some trouble with this one… whoa!" He grabbed the cloth-wrapped chalice back from Stunning Display. "You really don't want to touch this…"

Stunning blinked at Daring Do, and with dawning realization, put the facts together. "You mean it works? The chalice really works?" Her smile was a mile wide. "This is amazing, you are worth every bit we pay you, Daring Do!"

"You didn't pay him anything." Ahuizotl wandered up beside Daring, her tail swished and curled around Daring's, tangling in the gray hair. "So this is it?" she said to Daring. "We can relax, you can write a book… a steamy book, and we go looking for the next one after-" Ahui's snout was pressed against soft lips, it was hard not to melt. I like melting.

"Wait, no, you can't! We just got word," Stunning carefully set the wrapped chalice on a shelf, "the Alicorn's Eye amulet, it is in an old temple in the badlands!" Two pairs of hungry eyes tracked and focused on Stunning, making her shrink back a little. "Uh… you will go and get it, right Daring Do?"

"Of course he will." Ahuizotl laughed. "He is Daring, buckin' Do!" She got another kiss for her confidence.

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