Equustale

by neorenamon

Now that Frisk lay passed out was napping on the couch, Rarity had her full attention on measuring Chara. Even though neither could understand what was being said by the other, no verbal communication was needed in order to tell the other what was expected if them. A simple tug with the magic from Rarity's horn was all that was needed to tell the human where to place their arms, shift their legs or adjust their head.

Rarity particularly found Chara's breasts to be puzzling. They stuck out from her chest like an udder, but seemed to be mostly composed of fatty tissue. Somehow, the shape of the breast seemed to be more important than their ability to produce milk for a newborn human foal (as apparently only dragons and the like who get called 'baby'). She would definitely have to modify the top of Chara's dress to allow for said 'bumps'.

She also found that while she had ample mane, the rest of her hide was bare but for a single patch of hair placed just above the placed where their legs met their abdomen. Unlike Twilight, she just wasn't curious enough to ask about it... especially since the two of them couldn't talk to each other anyways.

Her mind raced with the possibilities of what colors she could use to bring out the best... in these 'humans'... and the one they called a 'monster'. She figured this one would be suited for earthy colors like green and gold. The resting one, on the other hand, would be better served by reds and blues. There was also many possibilities with the white furred one. He had a hide that was more like the pony bodies she was used to dealing with.

While finalizing the measurements on Chara, she could hear a commotion out in the front area.

"Oh goodness," she whined, "Now what's happening?"

Poking her head through the doorway into the front, there seemed to be a bit of a panic among the guards of Princess Luna. One of them seemed to be moving Luna away from the front door. The one they called Asriel, the Monster Prince, was sitting quietly on one of the sitting sofas by the back of the showroom.

"We can assure you," said Luna to the guard, "It is quite safe in here as long as you keep the Bugbear away from the front door. They are surely not known for breaking in windows or walls."

"Bugbear?!" asked Rarity as she thought about summoning a fainting couch.

"I can assure you, citizen," said the guard, "The matter is well under hoof."

"The way you handled Nightmare Moon?" she muttered under her breath.

Luna and the guard ignored Rarity if either of them overheard her comment.

...

Chara was getting a strange feeling while Rarity was prattling at the ponies in the showroom. There was something large. Something dangerous nearby. It was calling out to her to deal with it. She somehow felt that she had the power to do so. Her heart beat faster even as her breathing quickened.

'It's time to GET DANGEROUS.'

A pair of black machete-like blades appeared in her hands. Black threads came from the base of the hilts that wrapped about her forearms as if they somehow controlled the blades even when she wasn't holding them.

'Oh yeah! I'm about to go *God Of War** on someone's ass!!*'

Yet she strangely felt... like she was crying. Well something was running down her cheeks from her eyes. With superhuman speed, she jumped over the startled Rarity's back, avoiding her head as she rushed the front door. In the corner of her eye, she could see the expression of shock on Asriel's face. He reached out towards her with an open hand. Everyone else was shocked to the point of immobility. She raced out into the street where the guards were in a confrontation with a huge monster that seemed to be some combination of bear and wasp to the point of having six legs, insect wings and a rather impressive looking stinger.

Some of the guards had been raked with claws, others bitten and at least a couple more met the wrong end of the monster's stinger. They didn't look like they were doing so well.

'Someone needs to be *DE-CLAWED!***'

Almost as if responding to her very thoughts, the blades lashed out at the monsters dozens of times every second. For a few seconds, nothing seemed to be happening. Even the guards were starting to wonder what Chara was playing at. But then the claws, fangs and stinger were all falling off the creature as if cut apart cleanly.

'TOO EASY! I thought you were going to be A CHALLENGE FOR ME!!'

Now the guards were as terrified of Chara as they were of the bugbear. She looked about at their horrified faces.

'So weak! So cowardly! How do you even serve your Princess like this?!'

She looked back at the monster. It was surely gathering itself to attack her in spite of what just happened to it.

'NOW IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO DIE!..' she thought as she was grappled from behind. 'WHO DARES?!' She struggled against the iron hard arm that was wrapped about her.

"Chara!" shouted Asriel as he wrapped his arm about her torso and pinned her arms, "Stop it!" He shoved a 'hand' mirror in front of her face with his other hand. The whites of her eyes had turned black. Her iris were blood red. Something black was leaking from her eyes and the corners of her mouth. She looked like a total fiend. Her reflection horrified her.

"What... what have I become?!" she cried as Asriel let the mirror fall. It was polished silver so it wouldn't break.

Asriel pointed his open hand towards the bugbear. "CHAOS BREAKER!!" he yelled as several vertical lightning strikes came down to blast the bugbear.

The monster was only slightly burnt by the attack, but the shocks finally convinced the beast it was in a battle it couldn't possibly win. With nothing to further lose but it's own life, it turned and beat a hasty retreat back towards the Everfree Forest.

He looked down to see where the mirror fell when he saw his own face. The whites of his eyes were now as black as Chara's. He also felt just a bit weaker from using that attack on the monster. Looking around, he could see that every pony in sight was just as scared of them as they were of the monster that attacked the village.

"I'm so sorry..." sobbed Chara, "I'm so sorry..." Her hands were now covering her face.

By then, Chara's blades turned into a black thick liquid that dropped to the ground. Thinking fast, he used his other arm to sweep her legs up and carry her back into the shop. Knowing the guards were right behind, he carried through the showroom straight into the area Rarity took Frisk and Chara to take their measurements.

Looking about, he asked, "Where's Frisk?!"

"She... she..." she sniffed back, "I teased her until she fainted... She's on a fainting couch... in the back room."

Grabbing Frisk's discarded shirt, he moved her hands aside as he used it to wipe off her face. Once her face was clean, he could see her eyes were now the proper shade of white once more.

"We have to be careful about how we use these... strange powers," he said in a firm voice, "We can't tell... just how they're affecting us." He sat down on a bench while still holding Chara in his arms.

Chara nodded.

"So we should only use these powers of ours... when there's no other choice."

She nodded some more.

"Frisk... she didn't seem to be affected by using her powers... like we are. Maybe that's just her determination... her will... making the magic do only what she wants it to."

Chara was now leaking perfectly normal tears from her eyes. She buried her face in his furry chest.

He patted her back as he softly spoke into her ear, "Everything's okay now. I'll keep you safe. This I promise you as a Prince among Monsters. I give you my word."

"Even when we were little snot-nosed brats," she sniffed back, "You were always... the knight... even when I was pretending to be the... daring Indiana Jones explorer type..."

"Those were the days," he replied.

"The best days I've ever known," she continued.

"You... never had good days... on the surface?" he asked.

"Most of the scars I had after the fall... Those weren't from the fall... They happened to me long before I went to Mount Ebott and hoped to never come back..."

"I'm so sorry," he replied, "I... didn't know..."

"But the Dreemurrs... they taught me that... monsters... people can be good..."

"So much that we came up with that crazy plan to save all monsters... I was a horrible friend!! You suffered!.."

"That was my own choice and no other!" she retorted, "I knew I was going to suffer before I died. We both saw Asgore suffer from the poisoning even though we... knew he would survive... We both thought it was the only way... at the time..."

Asriel rested his chin on her shoulder. She could feel him crying as well.

"Just... promise me we'll never doing anything as crazy as that again!!" he wailed.

"That's an easy promise to make," she sniffed back, "If we're lucky, it will be just as easy to keep." She wrapped her arms about his chest as she hugged him as firmly as she could.

"I want to be your prince," he whispered into her ear, "Your knight."

"You already are," she softly replied as she kissed his cheek. Then she surprised him with a second kiss right onto his lips. Soon their mouths were fully engaged as their tongues sought to play in the mouth of the other. They both felt the heat rising in their cheeks. He never felt more love for Chara than he had ever felt for her before.

She broke off the kiss as she whispered into his ear, "Asriel darling... your boner is rubbing against my pussy."

'GAH!' he thought as he realized what she said was totally true.

She teased him by closing her thighs about his shaft.

"Are you... trying to tell me something?" she asked as her flirtatious self returned.

He was so shocked by her question that he stood, dumping her onto the floor right onto her ass. She made a startled squeal as her cheeks slapped the carpet beneath. At once, the showroom door opened and Rarity poked her head in even as the door to the storage room opened and three filly heads poked in one right above the next.

Asriel quickly clamped both hands over his erection as he cussed, "SHIT!"

"Sweetie Belle?!" asked Rarity in alarm as she looked at Asriel and Chara, "What in the name of Celestia's horn are you doing?!"

Her horn glowed as the three fillies were pushed back, and the door slammed behind them.

"Wait," said Chara, "Frisk is back there with those little ponies!"

Rarity charged across the room as Chara and Asriel moved to follow. One door slammed as another opened before them. When they came through, Frisk was sitting up, rubbing her eyes with the backs of her hands before she started looking around at the three fillies gathered around the fainting couch.