"Night Reign? Jade Sight?" Moon Dancer stepped into the old prison area. The smell hit her immediately and she almost gagged. Stallion and mare, rutting and estrus, it all merged into a heady stew that she really didn't want anything to do with. "Are you in here?"

"H-H-Hello?" Mac lifted her head, about the only action she was capable of. "What time is it?" She felt groggy and tired.

"Night Reign." Moon Dancer stepped closer to the caged door. "It is early afternoon, nearly a full day after you came down here. I worked as fast as I could on a bridle." She held up the little case. "But… I have to warn you, both of you."

"Warn us what?" Jade got his forehooves under himself and lifted up into a sitting position. He blinked at Mac as the mare got up and walked over to sit in front of him. "Uh…"

"Covering for you." Mac had seen he was in a state most stallions had in the morning, only a little more so because of the state they were both in. "What do you need to warn us about?"

"This." Moon Dancer opened the case to show the two the bridle she had made. The thing was midnight black and the hardened, compressed-fabric it was made from looked of a similar quality to the Lunar Guard armor. "Once fitted, it will bind the wearer's libido."

"Bind it? I don't want to bind it, I want to control it." Jade got "things" under control and stepped up to the bars. "And if you think I will put that on and give you or anypony else control of 'me,' you have something else coming."

"You know of this enchantment then?" Moon lifted an eyebrow. "Then you know how important it is who puts it on you." She looked at the stallion and shrugged. "I don't care either way. I had permission to make this masterpiece, it is one of my best works." She closed the case and slid it through the bars, then turned and left.

"What's it do?" Mac finally got her tongue in order. "Binds? We don't have much of this kind of stuff in Ponyville, except for Rarity and Moon making it, of course."

"The pony who wears it loses control of their arousal, the thing binds it to the control of another, typically whoever put it on them." Jade stared at the case. "They aren't legal… I only know about them from work." He paused a moment. "And it all makes sense now, they want you to put it on me."

"What?" Mac blinked. Would you? She shook her head. "Jade, I can help now, it… well, it was fun." She blushed up a storm, her brain shoving memories of their time together. Leaning closer, she pressed against the stallion.

Jade's wing moved without his directing it, reaching out and around the mare. "Mac, that isn't fair on you." His heart beat faster at the thought of it, however. "Wait, you aren't affecting me!"

Of course you aren't. You were in estrus, you spent a day screwing. What does he think happened? "Jade?" Mac closed her eyes, trying to work out how best to explain it. "I like you," she lifted a hoof when she opened her eyes and saw him about to interrupt, pressing it to his snout, "you know how this armor works, so you know I was a stallion. I care less and less about that by the day."

Jade lifted his own hoof up and gently nudged Mac's aside. "But it isn't going to just be when you are in estrus." He leaned forward, pressing his lips to Mac's. Both ponies closed their eyes, the closeness of their day spent together expressed in the gentle closeness the simple show of affection was. Jade drew back. "It will be every mare. I won't be able to work in mom's bar, guard work will be done for." He looked at the bridle case.

Mac watched the stallion walk over to the bars, standing over the black case. "I'll do it. Princess Luna will understand. If I am with you all the time you can just take me to a back room and deal with your need."

They both knew it wouldn't work.

"I would love nothing more than to spend each day like that, Mac." Jade tasted the name, found he liked it. "But it isn't fair to you, you are a pony with hopes and dreams." His snout pulled into a half-smile. "And an alicorn princess who really likes you sleeping in her bed."

"So what do we do then?" Mac tried to put the feelings regarding Luna aside, it wasn't easy. She watched the stallion reach down and open the case with his hooves. "Jade?"

Lifting out the enchanted bridle, Jade looked at Mac. "Put this on me. Princess Luna judged this well, she knew I wouldn't accept anypony controlling me." He stepped closer to Big Mac and held the bridle between them. "Except you."

"This… this is too quick, we barely know each other." Mac took the bridle from Jade and looked at it. "I can take it off you again, right? It isn't one of those crazy ones that never comes off?"

"You can take it off me." Jade leaned forward, closing his eyes. "I couldn't." His heart beat three times waiting for the first touch of the bridle. It was shaped perfectly for him, slipping up and around his face.

Mac wasn't completely sure on how to fit the thing, but her hooves seemed guided, pulling a strap over his ears and then feeding another through a buckle. Once it was tight, she felt a tingling rush. "It's on, Jade." Mac leaned against him, using Jade for support.

"You need to test it now, silly." Jade nuzzled and kissed Mac again, paining her cheek with nuzzles and smooches. "Make me horny, just think it at me."

Laughing, Mac managed to catch his lips in her own kiss. "You already are horny. But I think I know how to test this." She turned and took a few steps away from Jade. You are a naughty mare, I can't believe you are doing all this.

"You get an odd look sometimes." Jade had noticed Mac's slightly far-away look from listening to Night. "Are you alright?"

"Night Reign is my armor." Mac had lost the moment, the initiative. "She… she is with me a lot more than the others tell me theirs is. She talks to me." The stallion's head lifted a little more, gazing at Mac. "She does, Princess Luna told me I am not going crazy. When she talks, apparently I get an odd look." You probably do, this is the second pony who has noticed. "Like that."

Jade blinked and thought about the information. "I guess that explains why you would rather your own name. Mac?" The mare nodded to him. "Well, tell her I-"

"She can hear you." Tell him he is sexy and do what you were going to. Mac blushed. "Jade, she thinks you are really sexy," Cheat, "and she… and I, want you to see this." And with that, Mac adjusted her stance so she was facing away from the stallion and blushing, feeling butterflies take flight in her belly, Mac lifted her tail.

Jade's heart beat faster, the part of him that had woken up happy was happy again, but there was something lacking, he just… "Are you stopping me?" Mac nodded to him. "It's work-" The rush of heat was fast, the slight scowl Jade had been wearing faded as his lust roused. He stepped forward, just as Mac stepped back.

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

Luna sat on the throne and adjusted her position. She watched as Mac—assisted by the other Lunar guard—carried Jade from the throne room. The room was empty of bat ponies. "What do you think?" She didn't turn, she was having to spend a little focus keeping Jade in the dream.

"About using the super special password? We needed it." Rainbow Dash shook out one of her wings, leaning over to preen a feather straight again. "If you mean about the poison, this was one of the two affected by Princess Cadance's flunky four nights back?"

"He was." Luna turned her head to look at the blue pegasus. "She assured me it was a temporary thing. I know well what they used, it is always short term, less than a day; never more than two."

"Then there are three possibles." Rainbow Dash stretched both her wings. "And I think, as the best Shadowbolt ever, I can tell you what they are." She strutted around to the other side of the throne. "So the first possibility, it is all just a mistake, he had a bad reaction. That would be nice, neat, completely a misunderstanding."

"Go on." Luna smiled.

"Second one is Cadance wanted you off balance. She did something to the drug, slipped something else in it. Now she may or may not have told bug-butt, but that doesn't matter, the intent does. If this is the case, we have to question all her offers." Rainbow Dash stepped in beside the throne, on the platform just beside it. "The last, is that ol' cheese-legs took some initiative, she did something more, or modified the poison. If she did this without the Princess' say-so, we are in almost as good a position as the first one."

"So what do we assume?" Luna leaned to the side, avoiding the sticky patch her sister had left. "What do we do?"

"That had better be the 'royal we,' I haven't gone this long and built my reputation this far just to be revealed as your Shadowbolt." Rainbow looked up and grinned wide to her Princess. "Blame Cadance, hold her responsible. Make sure that whatever small inconvenience you apply is just annoying enough that she has to punish pod-breath. If she sends her home, we let her know we are playing ball, but won't accept fouls. More importantly," Rainbow Dash flicked her rainbow mane, "we get rid of bleached-bod in case it was a malicious act by her."

"Announcing Their Royal Highness, Empress and Princess, Cadance." The yell came from the guard outside. Luna acted fast, she energized her magic and pushed the room into a midnight motif. The power flowed down from the ceiling of stars, fell around the floor and, importantly, hid Rainbow Dash.

Blue magic surrounded the doors and eased them open. Cadance stood in the middle of the doorway. To each side of the alicorn stood pristine and white mares wearing equally white bridles. "Aunty!" Cadance pranced in, her hooves rising and falling in great arcs. "I love what you have done with the place." There was magic everywhere, bathing every surface of the room.

Luna smiled serenely. "Niece, you know you are always welcome in my court. What is it you are here to discuss today?" Luna closed the doors behind the three ponies.

"This and that. Maybe war. Oh," Cadance lifted one hoof to half cover her snout, "not with you, of course. It is just I have a swarm of changelings who really want to do something new. But first, before any business, where are the ponies who will entertain me and mine?"

"They aren't coming." Luna noticed the twitch in the pink mare's eye. "You see, two of the four you had requested, that were all prepared to accept their duty—and your honors—had a little problem." The tale was everything, and Luna knew it. "You see, they were special someponies, and when a foreign envoy paid us a visit, nearly a week ago now, she used some kind of poison to subdue my guards."

"That isn't nice, I hope they are okay?" Cadance's eyes flicked to her right, the side that Chrysalis was standing on.

"Honestly? No. The stallion had a bad reaction to it, he is being cared for by his fillyfriend right this moment. I do hope he is able to wake in the morning." Luna layered it on thick, she made extra sure not to look at the former changeling queen. "And with them in such a… state, I find myself unwilling to extend the usual graces," Luna's dark eyes turned and fell on Chrysalis, "particularly with his poisoner present."

"I sent you to deliver a message, my bug." Cadance's words were soft, full of love. Anypony who knew the mare knew that either a blessing was coming, or her wrath. Some counted them as one and the same. "All you had to do was come here, announce yourself, then see Auntie in court." Cadance turned to look at her second wife. "Go home now. Think about what it is to serve."

"Bu-" Chrysalis froze in place, realizing her Mistress was deadly serious. "Of course." She pulled up her magic, boiling flame around herself before falling from sight.

"We are about to enter into a very cozy agreement, Auntie, I trust with my over-reaching filly gone we can relax and discuss things?" Cadance liked playing with new ponies, the loss of that had her on edge, but she understood Luna's side of things.

Author's Note

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