A quick knock led to Fluttershy’s smiling face at the door. “Good morning Starlight. It’s so nice for you to come over again."

Star smiled back and was led inside the cozy cottage, watching the floor to make sure she didn’t step on any animals. Fluttershy had prepared some tea and sugar cookies out on her dining table. She pulled back one of the chairs and noticed that a russet colored stoat was having a nap on the cushion. She glanced at the stoat and back at Star before picking the whole cushion up and carefully moving it to a safe spot, and then claimed the cushion-less chair for herself and gave the other chair to Star.

Star pulled a backpack off her shoulders and rested it on the ground before sitting down and trying one of the cookies. "I really appreciate all the hospitality. It's kind of you to prepare all this for us."

"It's the least I can do. You've been a really great help the last few days. I don’t really have any more work to do with the bunny warrens this season. We finished it in record time.” Fluttershy carefully poured tea for them both.

“That’s alright. I’m quite happy to just enjoy your company, Fluttershy.” Star took a long sip. “I would be happy to use that relaxation technique for you as well.”

“Oh, would you?” Fluttershy gave a sweet smile. “I always feel so well rested and energized after you do that.” This was the fourth day in a row Starlight had stopped by and she had hypnotized her every single day.

“You’ve become very good at relaxing.” Star replied. “In fact, Fluttershy, if you look at your teacup, you can think about the tea as the parts of your mind.” Star’s voice softened with that special tone she used for trancing. “Just take a sip now and feel how it helps you relax.”

Fluttershy complied and as she swallowed a little of her tea, she let out a deep, happy sigh.

“Good. A little less tea in the cup. It’s the same as your mind losing some of the thoughts that can stress you. Take another sip, feeling your mind relaxing even more.” Each sip left Fluttershy more hazy and relaxed, until finally she drank the last of her tea, set the cup down and closed her eyes. As simple as that, Fluttershy was in trance. She had been easy on the first day Starlight had visited her and now simple suggestions with the right tone were enough to drop her like a light.

“Very good, Fluttershy. So nice and relaxed, focused on my voice. Feel how as my words suggest, your right hand gets lighter and lighter, like a balloon is pulling it up. Slowly you feel your hand floating…higher and higher.” Fluttershy’s right hand slowly rose into the air, and was soon held straight up. Fluttershy was incredibly suggestible and followed Star’s words with ease.

Star had Fluttershy lower her hand and performed a few simpler deepening processes to drop the naïve girl further under. “We’re going to play a little game now, where you rise out of trance and then sink back in. And each time you sink back in, you’ll feel that you’re even deeper. I’ll wake you up, and then count down and say Sleep. Each time I count down and say sleep, your mind sinks more, going deeper than it was before. Alright now, Waking up….and on three…1, 2, 3 Sleep.” Fluttershy’s eyes fluttered and then slammed shut and her body loosened.

“That’s it. Waking up now….and on three…1, 2, 3, Sleep.” Star repeated the fractionation technique over and over, working to make sure Fluttershy was as deep as she could possibly make her. After a few minutes of fractionation, the pegasus’ head was pointing at her lap and her back was slumped into the chair.

“Very good. So easy and relaxing as you focus for me. So easy sinking so deep. So easy to follow my words. It feels so relaxing when you let me guide you, when you follow my words, isn't that right?”

“As long as you don’t want something bad.” Fluttershy said flatly. Where before her voice had been floatie and soft, it now had a firm timbre. Star sighed. This was why she was still working on Fluttershy for a fourth day. As long as her suggestions were harmless, Fluttershy followed them with ease, even suggestions to taste and see things that weren’t there. In terms of falling into trance and such tricks, Fluttershy was the most susceptible of her friends so far. But if Star tried anything past a certain point, she received flat refusal.

The first day had shown any attempt to offer that her words should be obeyed was met with strong pushback. The second day had been used to test out the boundaries of this resistance. Anything that involved Fluttershy following a command for its own sake was resisted. Even suggestions to strip were off limits. On the third day, Star had crafted a mindscape of a spa to enjoy. But a suggestion to disrobe led to a full reversion, nearly waking Fluttershy up completely. It was as though there was another part of Fluttershy on guard in her head, ready to step in.

After some more reading, that is exactly what Star believed was happening. After discussing the behavior with Twilight, she’d been told about how Fluttershy had behaved after getting some lessons on assertiveness. Everyone had just assumed she’d gotten carried away, but Star theorized that there was another side to Fluttershy that she kept repressed.

It made sense for how rapidly she shifted from soft compliance to flat resistance. It really did feel like Star was encountering a different personality. That part of her seemed to make an appearance anytime Star hinted and taking control. Star had to defeat this other self. She wouldn't manage to get Fluttershy any further until she did.

She had come in today resolved to get Fluttershy as deep as possible and get a full understanding of this other self and find ways to work past it. “What would happen if I said something you thought was bad?”

“I won’t listen to you.” Fluttershy said back firmly.

“You listen to everyone else, don’t you Fluttershy? If a friend asked you to do something for them, the element of kindness would certainly help, isn’t that right?”

“I always want to be helpful.” She said softly.

“Good girl, and you work so hard for everyone. It would be nice to have a time when a friend wanted you to just relax, even insisted or ordered you to.”

“R-relaxing is nice.” she replied softly but with that bit of hesitation.

“Good, then let me order that for you. Relax for me.” Fluttershy let out a soft sigh.

“You can see it feels good when I order you to relax. It's because of our deep friendship and trust. You can trust the things I say to do.”

“I’ll decide what I trust.” The firm voice returned.

Star focused for the next step. She was done having one way conversations. “That sounds so different. Tell me, think of it as an order, am I speaking to Fluttershy or am I speaking to someone else?”

“That’s silly. I’m Fluttershy.” She replied firmly. It was the same tone twice in a row. It was time to poke at things more.

“That’s right, but there is so much more to people. Some things we keep bottled up until just the right moment. You have that as well. There is this other part of you…keeping watch to make sure you stay safe. It's near the surface now, listening in. Look for that part of you now, picture it in your mind. We can gather that part of you and pull it up all the way to the surface. Let the normal thoughts and feelings you have relax even more, like that part of your mind is sinking to sleep. Let those assertive parts of you rise up and take charge for now. As you picture those parts taking charge, it becomes more and more natural. Let that part of your mind speak for you. Let the other parts of your mind sink and relax for now. I'm going to count down and snap my fingers. When I snap my fingers you’ll feel it as that part of you completely takes charge of your body and the rest of you falls asleep. Taking full control in 3…2…1.” She snapped her fingers.

Fluttershy bit her lip for a moment, but then it turned into a deep frown. Her eyes opened and looked over at Star. “You keep pushing and pushing.” She said with that flat, assertive voice. “Relaxing is good, but I don’t want more than that.”

Star pursed her lips for a moment but then smiled. The eye opening caught her off guard at first, but it was obvious from the expression that Fluttershy was still in trance. Open eyes wasn’t uncommon. If Star had told Fluttershy to become ballet dancer, she could leap around the room and still be under. If anything, this was a sign that Star has succeeded. This other side of Fluttershy was front and center. Now Star could get somewhere.

“I don’t mean to push. All I want to do is help you. The relaxation I can give you right now is only temporary. I want to be able to do more. If you let me, I can help you feel even better, more relaxed and happy than you ever have before.

“Oh, and I just have to obey you to feel good?” Fluttershy replied sarcastically.

“It isn’t about obeying, it’s about trust. It’s best when friends trust each other, isn’t it? Friends can offer guidance to help each other.”

“I don’t trust you.” Fluttershy said flatly. Suddenly, the pegasus’ eyes widened, glaring intently. Star gasped at the look. It made the normally innocent face of Fluttershy suddenly intimidating, frightening! A sense of fear shot up her spine. What was this? Fluttershy was in trance but Starlight was the one that felt trapped.

Without breaking eye contact, Fluttershy stood up and walked around the table. Star tried to stand up, but her muscles seized in place with fear. She felt like she was back in one of her nightmares where Celestia had found out what she was doing. If Star moved an inch, it felt like she would be devoured. Even when Fluttershy broke contact, slipped behind Star and wrapped an arm around her neck, Star remained paralyzed. By the time she could make any motion, her vision was dimming and quickly went black.

Star woke back up with a pain in her head and a chill on her body. She opened her eyes to see the ceiling. She was naked on a bed. She tried to move, but she was stuck. Thick bands of spider webs had been latched around her body like ropes, holding her arms and legs spread eagle. The only movement she could manage was turning her head. She turned and saw Fluttershy looking at her. “You finally made it back.”

“Fluttershy...” Star mumbled softly as she tried to piece things together.

“Not quite.” She declared, walking over to Star with a playful tone. “You went on and on about waking up a different part of me. That’s what it was like….as though part of me is asleep and another part rose out of darkness. It feels different, very nice. But it leaves me with so many questions.” The final word came with a firm pinch to Star’s right nipple, eliciting a yelp. “Starlight Glimmer, I think you had some ulterior motive for these relaxation exercises. I’ve never felt like this. Even when I’d taken in all of Iron Will’s lessons it wasn’t this intense…this constant. No relaxation exercise could do this. And all those different ways of suggesting I should do what you say. You’ve been a very, very naughty Starlight.”

“I…I’m just trying to help you relaaaiiii!!” Fluttershy tugged at Starlight’s other nipple, turning her words into a yelp.

“No, no, no Starlight. It isn’t nice to lie. This isn’t the first time you’ve tried to take control of me. You didn’t lock me in a cabin or steal my cutie mark, but I’m pretty sure I know what you were doing. The things I found in that backpack you brought make it pretty clear too. You wanted to take advantage of poor old little pushover Fluttershy. But you grabbed more bunnies than you can carry.” She pulled a chair up next to the bed, sitting alongside Starlight. She ran a hand down Star’s hips and gently caressed her inner thigh. “We’ll figure out what you were doing. We just have to make sure you’re in the right mood to tell me.”

Star gritted her teeth and quickly shouted. “Fluttershy on three, oneemmmmmmffff.” In a smooth motion, Fluttershy shoved a giant cotton ball into Star’s mouth and pressed a hand there as a raccoon hopped up on the bed and carefully tied a satin ribbon around Star’s head as a gag. It offered a little thumbs up before scurrying away.

“Don’t use that tone with me. I know you have some trick up your sleeve. Let’s see if we can work on some manners first.” Fluttershy started to toy with Star’s breasts, gently kneading and groping, then lightly brushing her nails around Star's areolas. Starlight couldn’t deny the feeling of that touch for long, and her nipples started to stiffen. Fluttershy reached to the nightstand and picked up a large hawk feather. She began to run the feather down Star’s hips and thighs, teasing and caressing slowly. Starlight strained against her bonds and shuddered from the soft caresses.

“Such a poor thing.” Fluttershy whispered mockingly. “But I’ll take good care of you.” The feather trailed further down and brushed along Star’s hood. At the same time, Fluttershy leaned in and flicked her tongue along Star’s left nipple, then tugged it with her lips, stretching it out a tiny bit before letting the nipple pop out and bounce back into place.

The little touches were effective and Starlight could feel herself getting wet. Fluttershy traced the feather gently over Star’s petals as her other hand continued to toy with Star’s breasts, teasing with expert care. Star squirmed, but the spider silk had her bound tight, making it hard to do anything more than tense against them. As her body relaxed momentarily, Fluttershy ran the feather over Star’s clit, spawning another moan and tension against the silk. Star was overflowing from the careful touches, rising closer and closer to an inevitable climax. She felt the initial rush, the sensation of crashing over the edge into orgasm, then Fluttershy pulled her hands away.

Starlight let out a groan of confusion and anguish. She instinctively tried to press her thighs together, to touch herself, anything for the tiniest bit of stimulation to let her cum, but it was impossible and soon she went limp, whimpering in frustration.

Her body started to cool off and Fluttershy pinched a nipple and trailed the feather back along her inner thigh. “Ooooh how sad.” Fluttershy cooed as the touches made Star’s body heat up again. She felt her body melt and quickly draw close to cumming, then Fluttrshy’s touch ceased.

Again and again, Fluttershy toyed with Star’s body, driving her right to the edge of climax, then stopped. Each time, the wait for Fluttershy’s touch to come back was a little shorter and she ran right up to the edge faster. Before long, the gaps ceased completely and Fluttershy kept giving constant little touches that had Star right on the edge, yet always the tiniest step short of climax.

Star lost track of time. She had never been so wet, so desperate. It felt like she was going mad. All of her sensations were dimming except for touch, as though her brain was a container with arousal pouring in and displacing everything else. It took every bit of willpower to keep track of where she was or her surroundings as her mind screamed for release.

Some eternity later, Fluttershy removed the ribbon from around Star’s mouth and carefully pulled out the wet ball of cotton. Star stared up at Fluttershy with her lips trembling. “P-please, oh please oh please let me cum. Oh let me cum I’ll do anythingggg.”

“Oooh that’s much more polite.” Fluttershy whispered, still teasing and caressing. “You can cum if you tell me what I want to know. Were you trying to take control of me?”

“Yesssss….yes. Now please let me cum let me cum let me cum.”

“Oooh well that was the easy one.” Fluttershy cooed, “But this isn’t like that locked cabin. What were you doing to me? What made this part of me come out so much?”

“I….ohhhh fuck….it….” Star struggled to put the words together. Satisfying Fluttershy's question was light at the end of the tunnel, the offer of escape from the torture, but her mind was so deep in need it took time to organize her thoughts and puts words in the right order. “It’s…I’m using hyp..ohhhh hypnosis on youuuu please, please….”

“I don’t know what hypnosis is, which probably means you’re telling the truth. That deserves a little reward.” Fluttershy grinned and slid three fingers into Starlight’s pussy. She curled her fingers while her thumb carefully circles Star’s clit. Star screamed as the touch finally shot her over the edge. Her whole body went rigid and lights sparkled in her view as she came harder than she could ever remember. After the long, white hot climax, she went limp and her vision went black.

She came to with the sensation of Fluttershy slowly petting through her hair. “Ooooh that’s the second time you passed out today. But I bet it’s a lot better from cumming too hard than getting choked out. It must have felt really really good.”

Starlight gasped and shuddered, rocked by the afterglow. Part of her just wanted to press into Fluttershy’s palm and purrrr, but her analytical side rushed to think of a plan.

“Now we have much more to talk about, but let’s see if we can do this more civilly. I’ll gag you again if I think you’re saying anything suspicious, so try to behave this time. If you don’t behave, that was the last climax you’ll get for a long long while.”

Star felt a chill go down her spine at the idea of being edged with no relief. She had to find some way to get Fluttershy back under control. Fluttershy was still under hypnosis, but the fact did little to help. Telling this new persona to sink back to sleep would take too long. She'd be gagged and punished before she could even get started. The fractionation countdown would likely do it, but trying to call it out had already failed once and there was no telling how long her punishment would be if she tried again. She hadn’t bothered to come up with a one word trigger during earlier sessions because Fluttershy was so easy to put under. Now she was stuck. She needed a plan fast, because Fluttershy was already starting to tease her all over again.

“I had to get a new feather. You absolutely soaked the first one.” Fluttershy giggled, sliding another feather over Star’s thighs.

“Fluttershy…can…we talk?” Star groaned, speaking slowly to reduce the risk it would be interpreted in a way that led to a gagging.

“Oh we have a great deal to talk about.” Fluttershy said with a purr, “But we’re going to keep it simple where I ask questions and you answer. If I believe all your answers are true, you won’t have to spend all night like this.”

The threat made Star shiver, but soon the sensations from Fluttershy took all of her attention. She moaned, feeling her body heating up.

“I believed you when you say you used hypnosis because I don’t have any idea what it is. If you were lying you wouldn’t use a made up word. So we’re going to talk more about hypnosis and what it is. Let’s make sure you’re properly pre-heated first, though.”

Star gasped as Fluttershy caressed her breasts and thighs, carefully driving Star’s arousal higher and higher. She slowed down as Star reached the edge once again and held her there for over ten agonizing minutes before speaking again. “Okay Starlight, I think we can start. Speak nice and slow, but feel free to moan as much as you want.” She giggled. “Now, start by explaining what hypnosis is.”

Star groaned through gritted teeth. The need to cum was powerful but she hadn’t been stuck on the edge as long as the first time. Her mind fogged with arousal but she wasn’t at risk of dissociating yet. Not that it could do any good. She was still stuck. The count down was the only quick way to get in a trance and it would have to be all in one go. Slipping numbers into a larger response wouldn’t have the same effect. She couldn’t remain silent either or the torture would just get worse and worse until she was a babbling mess. She had to find some way to distract Fluttershy enough that there'd be time to say the whole countdown. There wasn't enough brainpower to keep track of any opportunities and think up clever lies.

“It’s…..a technique..to communicate with the unconscious.” She said between groans. “Lets me…talk to your inner mind.”

“Interesting. Is it a kind of spell?”

“No…no just words…touch.”

Fluttershy brushed the feather down Star’s thighs and looked at her with interest. “That makes sense, with all the relaxation exercises. So that was hypnosis. And unconscious mind…that feels right. I almost felt like I was in a dark room, listening in, only rising out when you would say to follow commands, trying to make Fluttershy into your doormat. But then suddenly I rose all the way out of that dark room, almost like waking up for the first time. How did you do this to me?”

“It’s…like you’re another personality….you kept objecting…protecting Fluttershy. I tried…bringing you out....talk directly.”

“That is very interesting.” Fluttershy twisted one of Star’s nipples until the unicorn yelped in mixed pain and pleasure. “I do feel so different now. Maybe I need a new name. Mistress Butterfly has a nice ring to it.”

Fluttershy slid a single finger into Starlight’s folds teasing slowly. “So you woke me up, and I’m in the driver seat until you use the hypnosis again? Is that it?”

Star’s mind was starting to slip more and more. It was getting harder to keep focused on Fluttershy, harder to find her chance. Soon she would say whatever it took to finally get the climax she was being denied. “No……..mmm just time. You’ll return to normal.” Star’s mind burned in need, the room was spinning.

“What?” Fluttershy…Butterfly gasped with a horrified tone. “You mean I’ll go back to regular Fluttershy all on my own?” The teasing touches stopped for a moment. Star looked at Butterfly’s face, and suddenly, the answer came to her.

“Yes…maybe an hour, a day at most. Mmmm and sweet agreeable pushover Fluttershy will be back. You’ll go back into the dark room.”

“No!” Butterfly declared. She went back to edging Star with a greater intensity. “I’m going to stay in control because you’ll use your hypnosis and make it permanent, isn’t that right?”

Star let out a whimper, using every last bit of her sanity to hold onto the right words. “Won’t….work. Can’t…’tise you like this. Have to focus….have..to be calmmmm.”

“Then we just have to train you to behave, so you’ll do it when I ask nicely.”

“Nnnnno!” Star gasped. “Can’t…torture me while I hypnotize…can’t…control me without it.” This was a lie. It was a bald faced lie. Butterfly could absolutely break her with this kind of treatment. Star had controlled Equestrians with far less intense tactics back at the village. Star had told Twilight not to wait up for her…that she might be at Fluttershy’s overnight. A full day of this treatment could make Star so jumbled that she would go along with the plan…at least long enough to give the Butterfly persona what it wanted. But Mistress Butterfly didn’t know exactly how hypnosis functioned or how long breaking Star would actually take.

Star squeezed her eyes shut and bit her tongue to gather every ounce of focus she could, then and stared firmly at Butterfly. “I still want you as mine, and if I hypnotize you I’ll take control. But if you don't let me hypnotize you, you’ll go back and be Fluttershy the doormat again.”

Butterfly glared at Star, but the conflict was obvious on her face. “You think you can threaten me? That's a joke when an hour ago all you could do was beg me to let you cum.”

“It isn’t a threat….it….it's a choice. You can be assertive with me, or go back to wimpy, pushover, meek Fluttershy."

Butterfly stood up, knocking her chair over. She stared at Star in shock, conflicted with two seemingly awful events. She pointed a finger threateningly at Star. “One more word and I won’t let you cum for…” But Star saw her chance.

“On three," Butterfly realized what Star was saying and reached for the fresh cottonball on the dresser, but from her stance and posture, it would take a critical extra second. "One two three SLEEP!” Star yelped out. The pegasus’ eyes fluttered and closed.
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“Fluttershy is way too feeble with others, isn’t she?” Star spoke softly, doing her best to hide the ragged undertone of her worn out voice.

“That’s right.” Butterfly was still in the driver seat, but was now sitting on the floor, her back against the bed, remaining still. Star could only see the top of her head, still trapped in the webs.

“She needs to be assertive, to stop being a doormat, isn't that right?"

“Yes.”

“It’s possible for that to happen. This deep trance, the power of my hypnosis can make it real. With my help, Fluttershy can be more independent than ever.”

“But you want to control me, want to make me less independent.”

“Think about it, Butterfly. Right now, everyone controls Fluttershy. Every day, she’ll put the desires of dozens of people before herself. Every day, Fluttershy will remain quiet when she actually has something she wants to say. If you let me guide you, I can ensure that never happens. I would become the only person who has any influence on you. Letting me guide you, focusing on my suggestions, allows Fluttershy to become more free than she could ever be otherwise. I can make Fluttershy proud, confident, even in control.

“Picture a normal day for Fluttershy. Just like you told me they go. Imagine all the people Fluttershy comes across who will take advantage of her in some way, how Fluttershy bends and twists to help them. Now...imagine the other kind of life, an alternative day. Fluttershy will bend and twist for me, but for all those others, she will assert herself, even bend or twist them. I give Fluttershy more freedom than the alternative, isn’t that right?”

“I…it….”

It had taken over an hour of careful trancing and work to get to this point. First there was ensuring Butterfly wouldn’t take action again, and then a long discussion about Fluttershy and all the shortcomings the Butterfly side saw in her. Then there was slowly advancing the idea that Starlight gave her the option to trade dozens of controllers for merely one.

The assertive persona, Mistress Butterfly, had protected Fluttershy from all the earlier days of work and had nearly beaten Star outright. Now though, she was the fulcrum on which Star could take control. In the haziness of trance logic, the idea of serving Star in order to be more independent made a sort of sense. Butterfly still wasn't truly convinced, but was cracking. From that foundation, Star could build a cage around Fluttershy’s mind and have the pegasus call it freedom.

Butterfly would become a tentative co-conspirator, but still firmly rooted as Fluttershy's protector. Star would have to work extra slowly to ensure Butterfly remained appeased, but the path was clear.

Weaving the initial alliance took an extra two hours. The sun was setting and and Starlight had been locked spread eagle in bed for over six hours. When she felt like the alliance was set, releasing her was Star's first real command to Butterfly. Star closed her eyes and did her best not to think about the feeling of tiny legs on her body as the spider silk was all removed.
She stood up, feeling stiff and achy. The mad arousal had faded entirely from the time it took to work on Butterfly’s trance. Now she just felt ragged and tired, though knew her body would likely demand attention once she’d had rest.

As Fluttershy went to change clothes, Starlight stumbled out into the living room where the day had started. Her own tea was still sitting on the table. It had gone long cold, but Star’s throat hurt from the hours of talking and she gulped it down. She looked over to the nearby couch and slumped into it, letting out a long, deep sigh. Then there was a massive swelling applause with whistles and cheers.

Star looked around, but no one was in the room. Confetti sprayed out of the walls and balloons dropped from the ceiling as the sound of a brass band burst up from nowhere. A giant banner unfurled in the middle of the room that read 'CONGRATULATIONS ON THE ENSLAVING' with a drawing of Star’s cutie mark on either side.

Almost as soon as it came, the brass music faded, the confetti evaporated and the applause died down until there was only a single pair of hands clapping from a figure that appeared at the front door. The clapping hands had two tight yellow gloves covering them, but the left glove was fingerless, showing long, talon-like nails. The figure wore a simple brown vest with yellow buttons over a white pressed shirt and a small jabot tie with a red gem pin. He stared at Star with a sly grin, showing off a large snaggletooth.

“Starlight Glimmer! I’ve just been DYING to meet you.”

Author's Note

Oh hai. I'm back from forever, still working slowly but also still stubborn enough to finish this even if we're on G6 by the time I do. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I will promise nothing except the next chapter will be posted at a later date.

Addendum: I forgot I was going to mention, that our Mistress Butterfly is not inspired just by the episode Putting Your Hoof Down but also Fake It 'Til You Make It. These together gave me the idea of flexible persona inside of Fluttershy and their expression.