“Now Rainbow Dash,” Doctor Horse muttered. “Stay off of those wings for a couple of days. And do try and not do this again… even though you likely will… Honestly, I might as well keep a bed with your name on it.”

“Sorry doc,” Rainbow smirked. “I just have too much awesome for my body to contain.”

“That body will be six hooves under if you keep this up,” Doctor sighed. “Now keep those bandages on. And I’ll send Nurse Redheart around to change the dressings.”

“Yeah okay,” Rainbow sighed. “Uh, well I won’t be able to use my house. So send her to that big mansion down near the forest.”

“Friend lives there?”

“Eeehh, something like that,” she shrugged as she signed the paperwork and spat out the pen. “Thanks for patching me up again.”

“It’s a full time job at this point,” he sighed as he helped the pegasus off of the bed and she went on her way. Outside, she was met by Twilight carrying a massive, wrapped square object. Rainbow just raised a questionable eyebrow.

“I’m returning Aspect’s portraits,” she answered. “And keeping a watchful eye on you.”

“Urgh, fiiine,” Rainbow groused good naturedly. “Let’s go.” And with that, the pair of friends headed for Aspect’s mansion.

Aspect let out a yawn as he sat at the table. Breakfast had ended some time ago, but his brain was still catching up. What was there to do today? The wheels spun, but nothing caught in his memory. He must need more caffeine. His two… no, three children were off at school. Getting Nightmare to go was… surprisingly easy. That concerned the stallion just a little. Bon Bon was off at work, and he hadn’t seen Lyra around since he woke up.

Then with a loud BANG that totally did not startle him. The kitchen door flew open as a prismatic-maned pegasus pony strut inside, Twilight Sparkle following closely behind.

“Rainbow’s home baby!” the mare shouted.

“I thought that level of dramatic was reserved for aspects,” the stallion muttered.

“Baah, like I’ll lose to any of them!” Rainbow snorted as she started to walk closer. “So… sup?”

“As far as I can tell, not much,” the stallion replied. “The kids are at school, Bonnie’s working, and- oh! Perfect timing!” he spoke as he noticed Twilight bringing in the paintings. “It was starting to get quiet in here. I could actually hear myself think.”

“That sounds dangerous,” Rainbow snorted. “Ten bits says it was something perverted.”

“W-What?” Twilight blushed, nearly dropping the paintings.

“Ooohyeah,” Rainbow chuckled and nudged her. “Careful Twi, or he might come after that starry lil butt of yours next~”

“Har har,” Aspect deadpanned. “Well, I have something to do that’ll keep me occupied until lunch at least.”

“Oh?” Rainbow mused as Twilight unwrapped the paintings. Clover. Starswirl. Written Script, Hurricane and a few others. He did notice that Platinum, Pansy, and Smart Cookie weren’t amongst them though.

“Mmm, well, I think I can take a wild guess as to where the others are,” the stallion mused as he looked the paintings over. “Yeah, carrying these all over the mansion to hang them up where they’re supposed to be will take me a bit. So thanks for the distraction I guess. It’ll help delay me until I get an actual plan in mind.”

“Do you want some help?” Twilight asked. “Spike took a trip to Canterlot today for some comic book convention. So he’ll be there for a few days.”

“Let me think,” Aspect hummed as he tapped his chin a few times. “No, I think this is one of those lazy days where I actually don’t have anything to do. I mean, there are things I could do, but they don’t need to be done right now. So really, a small chore like this is perfect for keeping my mind distracted.”

“Oh… well, alright.” Twilight set the last painting down and headed towards the door. “I’ll see you both later then. Take care Rainbow.”

The pegasus nodded as Twilight left, before setting a flat stare on Aspect.

“What?” Aspect asked. “I was honest and actually just about to thank her for offering to help.”

“Dude… read between the lines,” Rainbow facehooved. “She said Spike went to Canterlot and she just returned all her paintings… in other words. Who else is at the library right now?”

“Well when you put it that way, I feel like a heel,” Aspect muttered. “...I really need to get used to acting normal, don’t I?”

“Eh, you’ll get there,” Rainbow chuckled and knocked his shoulder with a hoof. “Don’t worry. She’ll probably just reshelve her books. We can invite her over for dinner or something.”

“Ah, so those bandages aren’t just decorative,” Aspect noted aloud. “You’re actually staying for dinner.”

“Ehh, well…” Rainbow scratched the back of her head. “I sorta, kinda… can’t fly for a few days. So maybe, I was…” She blushed and looked around, as if somepony was watching. “Maybe I could stay here with you?” she said in a quiet, raspy whisper.

“Well I wouldn’t say no, sweet Rainbow,” Aspect chuckled as he drew close and pecked her lips with a quick kiss. “After all, I would have to be a most ungenerous friend indeed to force you to find shelter elsewhere.”

“Yeah well…” Rainbow blushed again before quickly pecking his cheek. “So it’s cool then?”

“Of course,” Aspect nodded once. “We’ll come to some sort of arrangement later.” He picked up the paintings and put them on his back as he walked off down a hallway.

He heard hoofsteps behind him as Rainbow followed, looking around the empty hall. “Eesh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this place so quiet before. No wonder you look all antsy.”

“That is part of it, yes,” Aspect agreed as he spontaneously grew a horn and began using his magic to put the paintings back as he passed the empty hooks.

“Man that looks weird when you do a transformation like that,” Rainbow shook her head. “Wouldn’t that tall, skinny form be good? You have claws with that one right? The one you used to fight Discord.”

“True...but in case you hadn’t noticed, this house was built to be pony-sized,” Aspect pointed out. “I couldn’t exactly just become anything when inside.”

“Eh, I guess,” Rainbow nodded. Truth be told, she just wanted to see that form again. Given that Bon Bon said that was what he really looked like. “Also… I, want to apologize.”

“Oh?” the stallion asked as they walked past where Platinum was supposed to be. He almost reflexively put a painting up, but remembered that he didn’t have her back just yet. “Whatever for?”

“I…” she paused as h heard her voice crack. “I should have been here. I should have… should have been with you and my friends…” She sat down and stared hard at her hooves. “I-I wasn’t strong enough. He… he made me think a bucking cloud was Cloudsdale! I-I’m so damned stupid!”

“Hey,” Aspect turned and put a hoof under her chin, so she was looking him in the eyes. “Stop doubting yourself. There is nothing Discord cannot do to the unprepared. The only reason I actually managed to put up a fight against him this time? He got me the first time we met. If you had it rough now...imagine what he did to me, when I was the only thing he perceived as a threat, and I didn’t have half the abilities I do today. It wasn’t me that beat him, not even close. Even I can fail, Dashie. The point is, what are you going to do now? Whine about how much stronger he was...or pick up the pieces and make a new strategy from them?”

“Why do you think I’m all busted up?” she gave a weak chuckle. “I uh… might have tried something dumb.”

“Oh dear,” Aspect sighed as he nuzzled her. “What did you do, my little speedster?”

“You… promise not to freak out?” she asked him, sounding very hesitant.

“I will do my best,” the stallion replied. Rainbow Dash took a step back and extended a hoof. She closed her eyes for a moment and then Aspect felt a breeze tickle his ears.

“Oh, you managed wind generation?” the stallion raised an eyebrow. “Well, that’s pretty impressive.”

The he yelped as an errant spark of electricity snapped out and struck him on the nose, like a rather powerful zap of static. He rubbed his nose and looked at Dash.

“Was that…” he breathed, unable to finish his thought.

“Huh? Oh… yeah,” Rainbow rubbed her hoof with the other. “Sorry, I can’t really control it all that well. Or, you know… at all...”

“Still, that is a step in the right direction,” Aspect praised her. “Lightning is a finicky trick to actually control. It’s all about holding a certain state of mind, which most ponies can never find.”

“And I tried to combine it with a Sonic Rainboom…” Rainbow winced, preparing for the verbal lashing she was likely about to receive.

Only to be surprised when all she heard was a ‘huh’. She looked over at the stallion to find him rubbing his chin again.

“Okay, so aside from the fact that you did it without the safety of other Gale King students nearby to catch you, that actually sounds like an interesting idea,” Aspect pointed out. “I have no trouble with you trying to combine lightning into your tricks, it’s probably how you’ll earn your mastery. But just be careful enough to be around someone that can catch you in the future?”

“If they were fast enough,” Rainbow breathed a sigh of relief. “I dunno how AJ’s gonna fill in the crater I left on her farm…”

“Easy, Applebloom or Artemis can do it,” Aspect shrugged. “Now what I will berate you for is trying to put lightning into your tricks when you couldn’t control it. You’re gonna need a lesson or three to actually master lightning.”

“Yeah I know,” Rainbow groaned. “Spitfire already chewed me out for it. As did Bon Bon.” The mare sighed and shook her head. “I just… wanted to be stronger.”

“Even for everything I brought to bear against Discord?” Aspect started, before pecking her on the cheek. “It wasn’t me that beat him. It was you girls and your friendship that sealed the deal. All I did was distract him. You’re strong as it is, Dashie.”

“Yeah… maybe,” she replied and sighed. “Come on, let’s get the rest of these paintings up.”

Aspect continued his chore in silence for a bit before speaking up again. “Does it really bother you that much, that you couldn’t stand up against the literal embodiment of Chaos? Something that I myself can’t properly put down?”

“It bothers me that I was taken out so damned easily,” she muttered. “That he was able to trick me without even getting into a fight in the first place.”

“That’s sort of his thing,” Aspect nodded once. “He gets in your mind and screws with you. The easiest fight is one he doesn’t have to fight. Plus, if even one of you had gone unmolested, that would have given Twilight hope, and then she might have put it all together sooner. Of course...there’s a pattern here. The first time, he came for me, and was beaten by the Elements. The second time, he was went for the Bearers...and underestimated them.” Aspect glanced at her from the corner of his eye. “He won’t make that mistake again. He learns every time he’s beaten. That’s why I’ve saved my best trick until I know he needs power of that quantity to be taken down.”

“Huh?” Rainbow blinked and stared at him. “What trick?”

“I pray you never have to learn,” Aspect shuddered. “Let’s just say if I ever use it? I won’t be worthy to carry my sword.”

Rainbow continued to stare, but decided to drop it. If he didn’t want to talk about it, she couldn’t make him. Time to change the tempo of this conversation.

“So?” she murred and gave him a half-lidded gaze. “How much did you miss me? Or were you too busy raiding the candy jar~?”

Aspect stopped walking for a moment, before leaning over and nipping between Dash’s wings, at a spot he knew was sensitive. Her wings went to flare out, only to be kept bound in her bandages, still didn’t stop the muscles from trying…

Which was now why the mare was letting a string of curse words that would have made Hurricane shed a tear of pride.

“Oh...crap, sorry,” Aspect muttered as he flattened his ears. “I...guess I need that practice a bit more than I thought…”

“Eehhoowowow,” she winced as her muscles settled. “S’cool, I didn’t think that would happen either,” she replied and nuzzled his neck to comfort him. “Come on, do I look like Fluttershy? I’m a bit sturdier than that.”

“Guess that killed the mood, though,” the stallion sighed. “I was trying to be clever about my answer and I screwed it up…”

Then he felt her tail brush up underneath him. “Well, you’re much too clumsy to see to me right now,” she mused. “Maybe there’s a big, strong griffon around that can do a better job hm~?”

“Let’s get this last portrait hung up and we can see about that,” the stallion murred to her. It wouldn’t be that long of a walk. Maybe a minute at most to get Starswirl back in the library.

“If you say soo~” Rainbow hummed as she followed behind him… before she got cheeky and leaned forwards, nipping at his rump. Aspect let out a cry of his own as his wings half-popped out.

“Heheh, I may be off season, but you’re still game,” she mused as she moved lower and nibbled at the dock of his tail. Aspect let out a little growl as he turned his head back to look at her.

“Oh you are going to get it when we get to the bedroom,” he promised her.

“Words are words,” she teased back as she pushed her muzzle a little lower as he walked, taking a whiff of what lay a little under his tail, her nose bumping the sack there. “Mmm, I wonder what's in here~” she mused and poked out her tongue, taking a small lick.

“Something that’s going to be going into a troublemaking pegasus in a bit,” the stallion grumbled back as they finally appeared in the library. With a burst of magic, the painting was back where it was supposed to be, and Aspect was free of his little chore.

“Promises, promises~” Rainbow called in a singsong tone, the mare already booking it down the hall. Aspect flashed into his Griffon form and gave chase, not letting that rainbow tail out of his sight for a second.

She weaved through halls and then ducked into a room, the griffon chasing a second later to find the mare reclining on a bed, not even out of breath.

“What took you so long?” she asked with a cocky smirk.

Then Aspect was on the bed with her, and she was forced to realize something. This griffon was big, even by griffon standards. It was like an alicorn version of a griffon, without the horn. And Rainbow Dash was a rather small mare...

“This form,” he murred to her as he traced a claw down her back, “Was the form I was given after making the griffon race, some thousands of years ago. The griffons call it Bloodfeather. Imaginative, I know...they wanted me to stay as their emperor. I declined, but gave them a good basis for their society. I pointed them in the right direction...and barely used this form again.” He nipped at one of her ears.

“Mm, so I traded a colt for an emperor huh?’ she murred at his touches. “Yup, sounds awesome enough for somepony like me.”

“You really think so?” Aspect chuckled as he touched between her wings, letting his claws prick and tickle her sensitive skin there.

“C-Careful,” she hissed as she fought to keep her wings down. “And yeah… mmn, damn those claws feel nice~”

“It’s just too bad you can’t use your wings for a few days, I would love to tease and torment you like this,” Aspect murred as he trailed his claws further down her back. She wiggled her rump slightly as her tail flicked here and there.

“You would,” she chuckled, staring at the tight bandages that wrapped all the way around her barrel. “Well such is life. But I’m sure a smart griffon like you can, improvise~”

Aspect leaned over and whispered in Rainbow’s ear, even as his claws circled her other pair of lips. “Such a beautiful pony, all tied up for me so she can’t get away,” he muttered to her in a husky tone. “Whatever should I do with her?”

“Mm, speaking of tied up,” Rainbow mused. “Bon Bon brought me dinner last night and told me aaaall about a pervy dragon that might live here.” She opened one eye to look at the griff. “I wonder if you’re just as bad?”

“If by that you mean ‘I’m going to keep this sweet little pony here and breed her for hours and hours,’ then yes, yes I am,” Aspect chuckled as his first claw began slipping into her lips.

Rainbow gasped and swatted at him with her tail. “And who said you were allowed to do that huh?”

Aspect let out a little growl as his claw went into her up to the first knuckle, the tip tickling her walls. “You seem to think I need permission to hold you down and rut you senseless,” the griff growled to her.

“Yep,” Rainbow smirked, despite the ever-present blush on her face as she fought back a moan. The griff then inserted another claw and set the both to wiggling inside her. She let out a small hiss which soon delved into a sensual moan as he teased her walls with the flexible digits. “Ahh, ffffuck that’s good,” she sighed.

“I bet I can get you to cum without screwing you,” Aspect teased her as he began pulling his fingers out, before pushing them back into her, making sure to only gently drag his claws across those inner walls.

“Nnnrgh, bucking… cheater,” she moaned as she positioned a hind hoof and started rubbing where she assumed his member should be.

Don’t judge! She’d never looked at a griffon that way before.

“Oh, little pony wants to play too?” Aspect churred, before standing up and positioning himself over her, all without drawing his fingers out of her. Now she had a first-hand view of his pointed, thick, barbed cock as it hung down in front of her face.

“It… looks weird, kinda like a cactus,” she commented as she sat up. Gods, he was tall enough that she could almost sit upright under him. “Hmm, now what should I do with this?” she murmured as she reached out, stroking it with the soft underside of her hoof, feeling the ticklish little barbs covering it. Aspect let out a little churr as he felt her touch him, his fingers inside of her touching her inner walls...and soon a third finger was trying to push its way into her.

“G-Gaah, I… I don’t think that’ll f-fit,” Rainbow panted, her head leaning against his chest.

“Mmm, won’t stop me from trying,” the griffon mused. “As though you got a say anyways. That’s cute.” The finger spread her wider...wider…

And with a lewd popping sound, it barely fit in her, spreading and filling her deliciously. Rainbow fell back, biting down on her hoof as she let out a few curses and some moaning, her fluids soaking his digits as she started to pant hard.

“Mmm, such a tight little pony,” Aspect mused out loud. “The more you struggle, the longer it’ll take for you to realize the same thing the candy mare did.” Those digits started to push against her walls, spreading her just a little bit more.

“W-What?” she gasped, her eyes shooting open as she felt herself pushed to her limits.

Aspect reached down with his other hand and pulled Rainbow Dash up, looking her in the eyes as he fingerfucked her. “You’re my toy,” he hissed to her. “And I don’t play gently.”

“Gaah, not cool,” she said and beeped his beak. “I’m hurt ‘member. Gotta play nice with your toys.”

“I might be motivated to,” Aspect mused as he slowly tucked Dash under him again, putting her muzzle-first with his cock once more. “If said toy got me ready for the main event.”

“You owe me,” she smirked as she brought a hoof up and started to stroke his member again. Then, she slowly opened her mouth and gave it a tentative lick.

“Your pointy bits taste weird,” she murmured.

Aspect got a mischievous glint in his eyes as he slowly drew his fingers back, the tips of his claws barely grazing her inner walls as he prepared to take this up a notch.

Rainbow gave a small head tilt. “What are you up—”

Then Aspect flipped Dash onto her back and kneeled down, not even giving her a moment before his beak was shoved into her folds. His tongue eagerly lapped up her juices as he explored her depths with his new mouth.

“A-Aaahh~” she moaned out. “I-Idiot. Wings… hurt… haaaaah~” she writhed under him, her small frame shaking from his ministrations. The griffon merely hummed as he kept up his attentions, not letting a drop of what she produced go to waste as he eagerly lapped along her walls.

“Bucking, cheater,” Rainbow panted as she closed her eyes while another shudder wracked her body, this one was much stronger as she let out a loud moan, a flood of juices coating the griffon’s beak as she came and came hard.

The griffon merely rode it out, drinking it all down and humming happily as he brought pleasure to the smaller mare. When her orgasm did taper down, he pulled out of her and set her back on her belly, before sprawling out on his back. This position had the advantage of letting his generous endowment be on display.

“Ahh...haaah…” She panted and wiped her brow, now slick with sweat. “Geez, well I guess I can give you that one,” she smirked and looked at him. “Well well… what do we have here hmm?”

“Looks to me like a little mare got me all worked up without seeing to me,” Aspect rumbled. “I wonder how she’s planning to rectify that before I make her…”

“Mmm, I suppose I can do that,” she mused as she climbed up onto his chest. “The question is, how does my big, strong, griffon want me to do that?” she ran a hoof along his length, enjoying how it twitched under her touch.

“The more you get me lubed up, the easier it’ll be on you later,” Aspect murred to her. “If you actually get me to cum, I’ll even go so far as to take it easy on you.”

Did he just challenge her?

Oh… Rainbow assumed he did~

She leaned over and with a sensual purr, engulfed his member with her mouth, suckling on the tip with her soft underhooves rubbed up and down the rest of his tool.

“Mmm,” Aspect mused as he snaked one claw under her flank and began just playing with her lips again...to include flicking her clit every time he passed it. She flinched when he did, but kept at her task as she took more of him into her mouth.

Then she started to use her tongue. The wet appendage swirling around his dick and squeezing it as she slid one hoof down to play with his massive balls at the base of his shaft, while the other continued to slide up and down the parts she wasn’t sucking on.

“Mmm, you’re good at this,” the griffon murred as he didn’t stop playing with her for a second, even as his cock twitched a few times in her grasp. “You really want to be rutted into the mattress, don’t you?”

She guided one of his talon to hold her around the neck. He wondered why… until he felt a bulge forming there as she slipped the head of his cock into her throat, her mouth only leaving a hoof’s width unswallowed as she moaned around him.

Then she felt that talon move from her neck to the back of her head, gently but forcefully pushing her down that last hoof length. She gagged a little, but managed to take his entire dick into her waiting mouth and throat, just holding him here as he pushed on her.

That was about when Aspect began fucking her throat, drawing his hips back and pushing them forward, rubbing his dick along her throat and smearing his pre deep inside her. Of course, he didn’t stop toying with her either, still rubbing her other set of lips to make sure they were properly lubricated for what was to come.

She just huffed and moaned around his cock, letting him do as he pleased while her hooves toyed with his balls, stroking and lightly squeezing them as he felt her start to get wet again, her fluids running down his scaled talons.

“Mmm, my little toy,” Aspect murred to her. “Should I pull you off and breed you now? Fill you so full of seed you won’t be able to walk?”

She simply replied by moaning around his cock again, her drool running down his length and wetting his balls as she continued to fellate him.

“Mmm, that wasn’t a no~” Aspect sang as he felt something start to grow inside of Dash’s maw. He pulled back just a touch and let her see…

His knot starting to inflate, and how big it got.

Well that was new? Was he going to pop or something? The hell was that?

So naturally…

She poked it with a hoof.

Aspect let out a lewd moan as she touched his knot, the bulb practically throbbing as his thrusts jammed it up against her lips, but never forced it past. For that she was glad, the thing was nearly the size of her hoof!

It didn’t stop the smirk from growing, or the pair of little hooves that cupped said knot and started to rub and stroke it, occasionally giving it a gentle squeeze. Soon enough, she felt his entire length throb inside of her before she felt him let go with his load, deep inside her. So deep that it bypassed her tongue and went straight to her stomach. She pulled back, mostly out of total shock from suddenly getting a bellyful of cum just like that…

Only to have Aspect put a claw to her head and force her back down, making sure it wasn’t just half his load going inside her. She groaned as she swallowed as much as she could, but the sizable load was quite impressive as it started to run down the corners of her mouth, the room filled with the sounds of her loudly gulping down his cum.

Eventually the griffon finished, and let her up again, panting a bit himself as he pulled his cock free of her maw. It came out with a loud pop, Rainbow coughing lightly, but turned to face him.

“Heh, I win kitty~”

“So you do,” Aspect murred as he gently took Dash off of him and lay her on her belly...before he loomed over her again. Only this time, she felt a long, wet something on her flank.

“Mmm, gonna fill a different hole now?” she mused, wigging her flank. “Cause damn can you cum. My belly’s so damned full right now.”

“Mmm, I’m going to breed myself a little speedster,” Aspect mused as he adjusted his hips, until he felt his length catch on her lips. “Make a little blueberry out of her.”

“Urgh… that pun was just… just plain bad,” Rainbow rolled her eyes. “And besides, I won’t be a speedster if you make me fat with foal.”

“Then I’ll just keep you here as my little breeding toy,” the griffon murred to her as he used a claw to press her head into the mattress, even as his pointed length began to spear her lips.

“MMmnnn, d-don’t you have… B-Bonnie for that?” she gasped as she felt that massive member start to spread her tight lips.

“Oh, but see, with her, I’m making Kirins,” Aspect murred to her. “With you, it’s Hippogriffs. I’ll keep you here, fed, cared for...full of cock…”

“I dunno, I’m hard to catch,” she murred back, wiggling that taut rump of hers.

“Like you said, you won’t be a speedster when you’re fat with foal,” Aspect cooed to her as he kept pushing his length into her, wondering how much she could take. She moaned and bit her lip as he kept filling her, before his head pressed firmly against a barrier, getting almost all of his cock inside of her.

Then Aspect slowly drew back, his barbs stimulating her walls as he did…

Before jamming the length back in, ramming against that barrier. Rainbow let out a sharp moan as she felt him hit her hard like that, her wings twitching under her wrappings as she panted, biting her lower lip.

That was just the first of many, as he set a hard, fast pace for the poor mare. Each time he pulled back, he only waited a moment before hammering his length into her cervix. Each time he hilted, he didn’t wait nearly as long before starting the cycle up again. If Rainbow didn’t know any better, she could swear he was trying to get in.

“T-That’s not gonna fit you aaaaaahhhh~” she cried out, biting down on her hoof now as she was pushed further into the bed by his bulk. “Gaaah~”

“Bon Bon said the same thing,” Aspect grunted to her as he didn’t stop for a second. Was he imagining it, or did it give for a second there? Rainbow couldn’t respond, she just gave some muffled screams and moans as he rut the little mare under him furiously. The griffon growled and redoubled his efforts, coming down harder and harder in an effort to push past her barrier…

Something had to give and eventually, his pointed tip pushed past with a light ‘pop’, Rainbow squealing loudly as he did from shock and a little pain. The griffon held himself there for a bit, to let her get used to the feeling. He wouldn’t completely fuck her senseless. Not until she could enjoy it.

Eventually, Rainbow’s chest heaved as she panted hard, moans escaping her mouth as she felt more full than she ever had, his length twitching inside her as she blushed to the tips of her ears.

“I…” she panted hard. “I can’t believe you…”

“Mmm, that’s phase one,” Aspect purred down to her. “Phase two: Filling you even more.”

With that, the griff pulled back out to the tip, and slammed the whole thing home again, not giving her cervix time to rest as he filled his mare. She moaned louder now as he filled her with his entire length, her walls stretching out, but still hugging him tightly as he kept filling the moaning, writhing mare over and over.

“Say it,” he murred. “Say what you are.” He punctuated this statement by grinding his hips around when his cock was at its deepest in her.

“A pretty… blue pegasus?” she cheekily moaned out.

“Wrong,” the griffon informed her as he began to slowly draw out of her, letting those barbs stimulate her all the more. She let out a long moan, her hooves gripping uselessly at the sheets as her juices dripped down.

“Y-Your toy?” she gasped.

“Better, but you’re missing a few words,” Aspect replied, halting with half his cock out of her.

“L-Like… w-what?” she moaned, squirming as she tried to move.

“Oh...the words ‘breeding’ and ‘Master,’” he purred to her, running the claw that wasn’t keeping her pinned to the bed down her face. Coincidentally, one that still glistened with a bit of her fluid. Her tongue lolled out, licking some of her own fluids from his claw.

“So… a-a breeding toy… for my Master?” she panted.

“Mmm, better,” Aspect murred to her, now pushing the rest of his length back into her. “You’re going to swell up so nicely with my young…”

Rainbow saw what he was getting at and played along. “So… you do this to all the pretty pegasi you capture?’ she panted. The size difference was almost ridiculous, she was like a filly to him.

“The rest of them I ransomed back,” the gryphon murred. “You’re the first one I’m going to keep. I’ll breed you every day until I see it took, and once your womb is free, I’ll get right back on filling it up again~” He didn’t let up for a second, still pounding into and out of her.

“You… really like breeding little mares huh?” Rainbow moaned out, turning her head to the side to look up at him.

“I like breaking little mares into being my cocksleeves,” the gryphon corrected her. “Once they beg me for my young, I know it worked.”

“Mmm, kinky,” Rainbow smirked at him, her walls gripping him tightly still. “Such a naughty Lord.”

“Such a slutty little mare,” Aspect cooed to her as something large began to swell at the base of his cock.

“Ahh, is… is that...?” Rainbow gasped out. “You lied… you said you’d go easy on me if I made you cum before.”

“Oh? Do you want me to go harder on you?” Aspect murred. “I always could...I could force it in instead of easing it into you.”

“Please no…” Rainbow whimpered. That said… it might also be nice. Gaah, stupid brain thinking stupid sexy stuff.

The griffon began pushing the knot into her with every thrust, trying to spread her wider still as the knot demanded entrance. He kept this up for a second each time, before pulling back and hammering home again. It took a few thrusts, but with a satisfying ‘pop’ and a loud moan from Rainbow, he finally worked the knot inside her, her tight pussy squeezing it hard.

“Say my name,” Aspect growled down to his newest toy as he felt his cock throb.

“Aahh… Christopher~” Rainbow moaned out, feeling another climax wrack her form, the little mare shuddering under him. Aspect used a claw to reach under her and attack her clit, viciously stimulating it and driving her to new heights, somehow not cumming through it as he breathed heavily.

“Wrong name,” he eventually said when she stopped squirming. “Starts with an M.”

Rainbow couldn’t really respond at this point, her mind clouded with lust as she just twitched and moaned. The griffon sat back on his haunches and pulled Rainbow up against his chest, running his talons through her chest fur as he held her close.

“I know you can moan it out, you little slut,” he cooed in her ear. “Say my name, pet. Say what you want me to do to you.”

Rainbow panted hard, it took a few moments but…

“M-Master…” she moaned. “P-Please fill me up. Please give me your cum~”

“Little pet wants her master to breed her?” Aspect cooed as he ran a claw over where his cock bulged out her belly.

“Yes…” she moaned. “Please hurry master. I want your foal~”

Aspect let out a little caw as he ducked his head and nipped at a spot on Rainbow’s neck, even as his cock began to twitch. “Then master’s foal you shall have,” he whispered to her as his rod began filling the mare up again. She moaned as she felt him unload into her womb, her belly bulging slightly from the sheer amount he pumped into her. The mare falling limp from exhaustion as he held her there.

After a solid minute of him inflating the mare, Aspect huffed as he felt the flow ebb off. He slowly pulled back and made sure the cervix caught again before pulling the rest of his dick back. Now his load was sealed up in her belly. The mare groaned softly, rubbing her swollen form with a hoof.

“You… better not have put one there,” she murmured. “Or’ll kick y’ass…”

“Oh Rainbow,” Aspect mused as he stroked her face. “No, I didn’t. This time. But should you ever start a session with those fateful words? I make no promises.”

“You’re such an ass,” she chuckled, beeping his beak again.

“Mm, guilty,” Aspect chuckled as he draped a wing over her form. “Now why don’t I give the swollen mother a little more privacy, hmm?”

“You’d like that huh…” she mused as she nestled into his side. “What is it with you and breeding anyway? You want another kid that badly?”

“I think part of it is that my mental age is perpetually stuck at the time when I drank from the fountain of eternity,” Aspect mused. “It’s preserved me, but...well, you woke up the horny teenager in me. So...yeah, I’m perpetually stuck in the mindset of screwing a female full in more than one sense. I can act mature, but when you get me like this…”

“Hmm, maybe I just won’t screw you anymore then,” Rainbow teased him, tickling his ribs with a hoof.

“If you honestly think you could hold out,” Aspect teased back. “Besides, if I got too pent up, I’m sure Bonnie would help.”

“Or that little ‘Midnight’ snack of yours?” she asked, raising an eyebrow.

“I honestly don’t remember what happened,” Aspect held a claw to his chest. “But if she does turn up asking for help, I won’t turn her down. That’d be pretty unlikely though.”

“Too bad,” Rainbow sighed. “She’s pretty hot. I’d so bang her.”

“Mmm, well, I’m not going to pressure her into anything she’s not comfortable with,” the griffon mused as he nuzzled Rainbow. “You are beautiful like that, you know. Tempted to make it stick~”

“S-Shut up,” Rainbow blushed and spluttered. “S-Stop saying weird stuff.”

“Mmm, and for dessert tonight, stuffed mare,” Aspect hummed as he began trailing his beak lower…

“H-Hey!” Dash blushed harder and tried to push his head away. “What do you think you’re doing?”

“Oh, you know,” Aspect hummed as he rotated Dash a little so that he could reach his prize. “Tending to my pet’s needs. Seems she’s still in command of her senses. Why don’t I make her cum until she can’t remember her name, hm?”

“N-No way, I’m injured you butt!” she bopped him lightly on the head.

“Are you sure?” Aspect breathed, letting his hot breath wash over her flank. Rainbow shuddered and glanced at a clock…

“W-Well, unless you want Nurse Redheart to walk in on us…”

“Mmm, a day’s worth of bliss versus the wrath of the nurse,” Aspect mused as he nibbled lightly on her flank. “Decisions, decisions…”

“Gaaah, you’re such an ass,” she groaned. Her winking slit leaking some of his fluids out.

“Well, what will it be, pet?” the griffon asked.

“Don’t blame me if Redheart yells at you for breaking her patient,” Rainbow snorted, but didn’t stop him, her belly lessening a little as the fluids started pooling under her flank.

“Mmm, let’s see about that, shall we?” Aspect chuckled as he began eating out his toy again.

Thankfully, it wasn’t Redheart that busted them. But Bon Bon did separate the pair to make them look presentable for when their guest did arrive. However, Redheart wasn’t the first to show up.

As Aspect reclined in his living room, a golden flash of light heralded that Celestia had just teleported in. She was bare of her usual golden regalia, so this wasn’t a formal visit by any means.

“Oh, hello there,” Aspect smiled at her, walking up and giving his daughter a hug. “How are you doing?”

“I… could be better,” she said with a dejected sigh. “Honestly, I’m surprised you’re being so affectionate with me after our last talk.”

“Family fights at times,” Aspect waved it off. “As long as you understand that I am doing the best I can, then we have no problems.”

“I still want to apologise,” she said as she sat down. “I would never try to take Realm from you. And… it has come to my attention that Captain Midnight had permission from your mares to… do the things that occurred.”

“Permission that was retrieved after the fact,” Aspect pointed out. “I still don’t remember what happened exactly.”

“Yes well… I still do not appreciate you threatened my city and ponies to prove a point,” Celestia said and poked his chest with a hoof. “But I still am sorry for speaking to you like that.”

“And I’m sorry I threatened to unleash the might of the air,” Aspect replied. “I should have been a bit more personal. Like looking for your cake vault.”

“I do not have a cake vault!” Celestia blushed and stomped her hoof indignantly. “Your mares are right. You are an ass sometimes father.”

“That’s just how I show affection beyond hugs; playful teasing,” Aspect chuckled as he hugged the larger mare around the neck. “Your mother picked up on it rather quickly.”

“How she put up with you is anypony’s guess,” Celestia rolled her eyes. “I’m surprised you haven’t picked on Luna for sharing your little… drunken escapades. At least you only had one partner…”

“Considering she hasn’t even seen anypony in the last thousand years?” Aspect asked. “I think I can cut loose on teasing her. But you missy,” Aspect poked Celestia with a hoof. “When am I gonna start seeing some grandchildren out of you?”

“G-Grandfoals?” she gasped and blushed. She needed to change his aim. “W-What about Luna? Ask her and the half dozen guards she bucked. I’m sure they’ll comply.”

“You’re the older twin,” Aspect replied, poking her chest. “Plus you had a thousand years without me or her looking over your shoulder. Surely you found somepony.”

Celestia was awkwardly quiet about that.

“...Celly, even I’ve bucked somepony by now,” Aspect said. “You’re not telling me you…”

“I haven't okay,” she mumbled and looked away, scuffing her hoof against the floor.

Aspect sighed as he shook his head. “Celly, Celly, Celly...Okay. I want you to do something for me. I want you...to listen to Cadance. And ask her about how to make your pick up lines...less awkward, okay? Trust me, it’ll help.”

“My pickup lines are not awkward… are they?” she mare asked, her ears folding back as she looked at him with a confused expression.

“I was there when you tried them on that colt a thousand years ago,” Aspect deadpanned. “Unless you’re telling me you improved them in that time…”

“That colt was just too immature,” she huffed. She was Princess Celestia, every colts dream mare. She just… wasn’t interested is all.

“Daughter, listen to me,” Aspect pulled her muzzle down and looked her in the eyes. “Take Cadance, take a disguise, go out on the town to a bar, and listen to mares and stallions trying to pick each other up for a night. It’ll help familiarize you with what is and isn’t a good pick up line, especially with Cadance’s commentary.”

“But… she’s so embarrassing when it comes to that sort of stuff,” Celestia whined. “That mare has no filter when it comes to lewd things. I feel sorry for Shining Armor.”

“And how do you think it’ll go if you do get a colt?” Aspect asked, poking her in the chest. “He’ll expect more than a nice conversation over tea eventually. You have to desensitize yourself to the nature of what you’re doing somehow, otherwise you’ll blush perpetually.” Not that that wasn’t the most adorable thing.

“Hey,” Rainbow leaned against the doorframe, causing Celestia to flinch from surprise. How long had she been there? “I could help out you know? Sounds like the Princess could use a good wingmare.”

“Mmm...probably a good idea,” Aspect nodded a few times as he thought the idea over. “Alright Dash, I’ll trust you. You find a colt that wouldn’t just look at her for her title, and help them get together.”

“Heh, roger that boss!” Rainbow saluted, then paused. “Oh, what if she likes mares instead?”

“Then I guess it’ll be Luna’s job to give me grandfoals,” Aspect replied. “And apparently she has quite the selection to choose from.”

“Nice! Go Luna,” Rainbow chuckled.

“I am perfectly fine with stallions thankyouverymuch!” Celestia pouted. “I came here to apologise, not get picked on for being a virgin!”

“You’ve never gotten laid!?” Rainbow gasped as Celestia groaned and facehooved. Hard.

“Hers is now the second-longest virginity on the planet,” Aspect agreed.

“I hate you both,” she muttered. “I bet Discord hasn’t gotten any either.” Then she blanched and dry heaved. “Ergh, I did not need that mental image.”

Aspect crossed his eyes and shuddered. “Do not need to think about that, do not need to think about that…”

“Yeah… so not going there,” Rainbow agreed. “So, when do you wanna start Princess? I’ll need to heal up first. Can’t pick up guys looking like this.”

“You’ll also need to team up with Cadence so that she can give a nice educational lesson to Celly during the whole thing,” Aspect pointed out. “That way she can do it on her own next time. Assuming it goes well.”

“Girls night out?” Rainbow gasped. “I could steal Bonnie for myself and bring my friends. Twi seriously needs to get some…”

“Miss Rainbow!” Celestia groaned. “I do not need to think about the filly I practically raised like that!”

“Aww, I best Aspect doesn’t mind,” the pegasus chuckled. “I bet he’d not say no to tapping that pretty purple plot~”

“It would be entirely her decision,” Aspect deferred. “Though I will point out, I do not make it a habit to go out and get drunk, so you’d have your work cut out for you.”

“Father, you will not seduce Twilight,” Celestia said. “It’s bad enough you doing such things with Hurricane’s lookalike…”

And now that image was in his head.

“...Yeah, but she isn’t, though,” Aspect pointed out. “I mean, the ego’s the same, but Hurricane woulda punched me a dozen times if I tried seducing her.”

“Try two dozen,” a painting on the wall spoke up. “And a buck to the nuts for good measure.”

“Ouch,” Rainbow winced. “And if he came at you as a giant griffon promising to make you a broodmare?”

“He what!?” Celestia looked like she was about to faint.

“Eh, giant griffon, maybe,” the painted mare hummed. “Though I’d have to show him who was really in charge if the tried the rest of that.”

“Tried that… didn’t work, though I am injured,” Rainbow mused.

“Maybe I can show you a few moves later,” Hurricane replied. “Dunno how effective they’d be on a giant griff. Never knew they were a thing, really.”

“Well, he’s like… Celestia-sized,” Rainbow said as she recalled his transformation. “Filled me like a water balloon.”

“Ahhh, I don’t need to hear this!” Celestia cried out with embarrassment and with a flash, teleported away.

“Mmm,” the painted mare hummed. “Well, we’ll think of something.”

“You and I, we’re gonna be great friends,” Rainbow chuckled as she and Hurricane shared a nod. Then she looked at Aspect. “Oh, speaking of nights out? Are you all geared up for Nightmare Night?”

“Eh, I was mostly thinking I would be the one staying at home and giving out the candy,” Aspect shrugged. “I could put up some illusions the day of to scare the foals, but they’d be a little draining, hence the me staying in bit. I was gonna ask Pinkie for a few bags of candy to give out as well. Or maybe I could just buy some nice big bars of it from Mr. Rich’s store. I’d like to be known as the good neighbor.”

“Fair enough,” Rainbow chuckled as she heard a knock at the door. “Seems Redheart is here.”

“Well, guess you have a checkup to take part of,” Aspect chuckled as he opened the door. “Ah, my favorite nurse!” he greeted the mare. “How are you?”

“Better if your accident-prone mare would stop landing on her face,” Redheart grumbled as she looked her over. She prodded her stomach and frowned. “What’s this? Gorge yourself the second you got free?”

“Eeeh…” Rainbow smirked mischievously. Aspect had one change to either stop her… or book it for Yakyakistan.

“Something like that,” Aspect interrupted. “So, what’s going on here? All I was told was that you were visiting.”

“Just making sure she’s healing up and to change her dressings,” Red said as she looked over the pegasus. “Hmm, your bandages have come loose. You tried flying I bet.”

“Eeehh…” Rainbow hummed. She just kept getting openings.

“She may have had some exercise when she came back and forgot she shouldn’t use her wings,” Aspect helpfully supplied. “It won’t happen again until they come off, I assure you.”

“Good to hear,” Redheart nodded as she undid the bandages and Aspect could see the singed or outright missing feathers. Rainbow looked like she’d lost a fight with a blender. The nurse applied some cream and reapplied the gauze and bandages. “Now do try and be careful this time,” she chided the pegasus.

“I’m sure she will be,” Aspect replied, concealing his own internal wince at the sight of her wings. “How long do you think it’ll take for her to regrow those?”

“With the cream and the magical healing she got, maybe a few days,” Redheart said. She turned and fixed a professional glare on him. “Also, while I won’t outright ban you from intimacy. Do try and be careful. While it is extremely unlikely, the chance of her not healing right and never flying again isn’t completely zero.”

“So basically, you’re on a no-sex diet until you’re in the air again, Dash,” Aspect summed up. “Guess you’ll just have to deal.”

“Says you,” Dash poked her tongue out.

“Also avoid excessive alcohol consumption and avoid any drugs more potent than a standard painkiller,” Red said. “And also any high concentrations of magic. It could disrupt the medical magic still in your system.”

“Yeah, gotcha,” Rainbow sighed and rolled her eyes.

“Eesh, are you sure she’s even safe to be around me?” Aspect asked jokingly.

“Just reign in the magic tricks Mister Gale,” Red warned him. “Also, I hear you have yet another small one living with you? She’ll need a physical and immunisations if she hasn’t had them.”

Oh that should impress the Nightmare. A day of sticking needles in her.

“True, I have no idea the state of her physical body,” Aspect mused. “I’ll get Realm and Artemis to bring her in soon enough, they’re the only ones that would be able to do it without suspicion.”

“As long as you do,” Redheart sighed. This family was the reason she had a glass of wine after dinner. “Now I have other work to do. Take care Aspect. Rainbow.”

“You too Nurse, thanks for your time,” the stallion waved.

“Just call me Red,’ she replied and with a flick of her tail, she took her leave. Rainbow waited til she heard the door close and looked at him.

“Aww, you had to interrupt me huh?” she smirked. “Don’t want her knowing all your perverted secrets~?”

“Did you hear what she said?” Aspect asked with a raised brow. “How do you think it would have gone if we told her we’d done that already?”

“She’d have really let us have it,” Rainbow winced. “Her lectures are like Rarity, AJ and Twilight combined.”

“So no, we won’t be telling her anything we did,” Aspect summed up. “We’ll just settle for not getting lectured, thank you, and also not doing anything more that would result in being lectured.”

“I told you,” she waggled her ears at him. “But noo, you had to go all Alpha male on me huh?”

“You weren’t complaining,” the stallion reminded her. “As a matter of fact, you were begging to be filled.”

“Like you gave me a choice in the end,” she said back. “Well, I’m gonna get prepped for that girls night out tomorrow. You wanna tell the Princess to clear her schedule?”

“I’ll send her a message through Spike,” Aspect waved a wing. “Oh wait...hmm. I’ll send her a message anyways. In the meantime, I have decorations to set up and chocolate to obtain.”

“Good luck, hopefully they aren’t sold out,” Rainbow said as she wandered off to nap.

Aspect had gone for the chocolate first, bringing a hefty sum of bits and his saddlebags with him as he wandered into Filthy Rich’s store. He found the stallion of the pair far easier to deal with. He had a mission to obtain as many full-sized chocolate bars of as many types for giving away come Nightmare Night. Then he had to work on his illusions for the same night. He had a few in mind already…

Thankfully, Filthy still had quite the stock of candy to pick from. So Aspect happily took a shopping cart full and reached the register. He paid for the bars and stepped outside, thankful his bags could hold more than they appeared to. Something… off came to mind though, like he was forgetting something important.

It wasn’t until he’d walked a few block, idly nibbling one of the bars that it occurred.

His marefriend owned a candy shop…

...Hmm. Well, variety was the spice of life. He could always add more chocolate to the stuff he’d be giving away and give the young ones a taste of both. Making sure to stuff the chocolate back in his bag, he whistled a tune as he headed for her shop.

Her store was… busy.

The mare ran back and forth, tending to the customers inside while some ponies still lined up outside, waiting to get in and praying there’d still be some left. Aspect rolled his eyes and joined the line, thankful his preservation charms on his saddlebags wouldn’t let the chocolate heat up too much. He wouldn’t abuse his privilege to get to the front.

After about a half hour of waiting, he was finally able to set hoof through the door as the last few customers trickled out. Her store had… well ransacked might be an apt term to describe it as Bon Bon slumped over the benchtop, groaning softly.

“You look like Pinkie Pie might if she was just told there wasn’t any more sugar,” Aspect noted aloud.

“So… tired…” Bonnie sighed. “Nightmare Night. Hearths Warming and Hearts and Hooves day. The holidays can suck it.”

“I can see why you’d say that,” Aspect chuckled. “Guess it’s a good thing I got some chocolate bars to give away from Filthy Rich before coming here, then. I wouldn’t want to make you work any more tonight.”

Bon Bon pulled herself off of the counter and fixed her mane. “Did you seriously think I wouldn’t have some set aside?” she mused as she pointed at a bag in a cooler. “In there should be enough to get through the night. Provided Pinkie doesn’t eat it all.”

“You are a lifesaver,” Aspect replied, kissing her on the cheek. “Tonight will be awesome for the foals. I should cement my reputation as the ‘cool neighbor’ once and for all.”

“Oh dear,” Bon Bon chuckled. “I know that look on your face by now. What are you planning mister?”

“Oh, just a few illusions to scare the foals,” Aspect chuckled as he put the bag inside his saddlebags. “It’ll be great. And some that will only trigger on their way out too.”

“Nothing that will require years of therapy, got that?” she said and poked his chest. “I can however, give you a mission of the utmost importance.”

“So long as I can give you one in return,” Aspect replied. “You share yours first.”

“You have to scare Rainbow Dash,” she said. “Every year, she pranks everyone and she’s too damned good to get caught herself. It’s infuriating!”

“If I wanted to prank her, I could just...nah, that’d be in bad taste, I wouldn’t do that,” the stallion mused as he thought it over. “Hmm...oh! That could work...wait, no. Not allowed to do any big tricks. Gah...coming up with a prank for her is hard.”

“See!” Bon Bon said. “And no matter what, she’ll always find a way to one up you. Only Pinkie has ever gotten one over on her.”

“I think I can pull off a good prank on her,” Aspect mused. “Maybe. But then again, she’s injured. I don’t think I should.”

“Well, It’s not for a few days,” Bon Bon said. “But all the stores close tomorrow to set up for it. Even I’ll be opening a stall with all kinds of themed treats to sell.”

“My industrious little marefriend,” Aspect cooed as he nuzzled her. “Well, we’ll see. I have some illusions to set up for the night. Also, Rainbow is planning a mare’s night. I’m gonna get her to move it up to the day after Nightmare Night so you can actually partake of it if you want to.”

“A mare’s night?” Bon Bon blinked. “Well, it could be fun I suppose.” She nuzzled him back and smiled. “I’ll be back tonight, once I’m done tidying here.”

“Fair enough,” the stallion replied. “Also, Rainbow’s on no sex until she heals. Or drugs, or drinking...or even attempting to use her wings.”

“She’s going to be impossible to deal with,” Bon Bon groaned. “And you know how fucked we both are once she recovers right?”

“Don’t you mean, how screwed she’s going to be?” Aspect chuckled.

“Ohno, we’re totally dead,” Bon Bon shuddered. “In any case. Go head on home. I’ll catch up later okay?” She closed the gap and placed a loving kiss on his lips.

“Mmhmm, see you soon,” Aspect replied to her once the kiss broke. He turned and began walking for home, a happy hum in his heart as he began going over his plan for the illusions.

Math was pure evil and nopony could tell Realm otherwise. It also irked him that both Artemis and Nightmare were so damned good at it.

These fractions. They mocked him!

And during this frustrating period, somepony knocked on his door. The colt muttered as he slammed his book shut, before walking over to the door and jerking it open.

Okay, so maybe he was in a bad mood.

“Oh, was I disturbing you?” Twilight asked, blinking at his angry expression. “I'm sorry. I could come back later…”

“No, no, it’s fine,” the colt muttered as his expression slowly brightened. “I need something to distract me from fractions anyways.”

“Math homework huh?” Twilight giggled. “I'd be happy to help out afterwards.”

“Oh?” Now the colt was curious, if his raised brow was any indication. “What brings you here then?”

“Something regarding your work actually,” Twilight gestured to his art supplies on a nearby desk. “I had a thought regarding your living portraits and was hoping we could work together on something new.”

“I am always up for new ideas in the art department,” the painted alicorn agreed. “Come in, come in, let’s talk about this.”

She nodded and stepped inside, looking around his room. “Nice room you have here.”

“Yeah, well, it took me a while to get it decorated,” the colt replied as he pushed the stack of sketches off to the side to clear some space next to his canvas and easel. Off to one side was his bed and bookcase, which had mostly school-related books on it. He hadn’t found a good book to read for fun yet. And dotted around the walls were various works that he’d accomplished since he was set free of his self-imposed prison. Most of them were of Ponyville, Twilight noticed. “So, what’s this about then?”

“Well,” she said and took out a notebook. “I was thinking about the Painted ponies and giving them a little more freedom.” She showed him her notes… almost none of which made sense, given they were advanced Thaumaturgic equations. “What if you painted a few portraits. And I linked a portal spell through them. Allowing them to travel to other houses around town, without ever leaving the painting, or having their own removed and carted around.”

“Hmm,” the colt mused as he considered the idea. “That would be useful. Though you do realize, they would still be limited to Pictomancy paintings. I would have to paint a few more paintings for...well, whatever house they ended up in if you wanted them to have more freedom than just the portrait they arrived in.”

“I understand it'll be hard,” Twilight replied. “But I think the reward will be well worth the effort.” It sounded like it would take a while… which meant he could spend a lot of time with her.

“Oh, agreed!” the colt replied. “I’m all for them having as much freedom as they can. Otherwise, well, they’re limited to being...echoes trapped in a building. Little more than ghosts. That’s not what I wanted when I painted them. I wanted them to be as free as any other pony, to carry on the legacy of those they were painted after.”

“Well, this idea could be a good stepping stone,” Twilight nodded and smiled. “Thanks. I was kinda worried you might shoot the idea down.”

“No no, I’m all for it,” the colt nodded. “It’ll probably take a while to actually do, though. And I can’t imagine that they’d be too eager to test it out…”

“Well we can enter paintings too right?” Twilight pointed out. “I'd be happy to test it before we risk them.”

“...Fair point,” the pictomancer mused. “It’ll probably be safer for us to try.”

“Well, now that those plans are settled,” the mare smiled. “Show me this dastardly math that has you so frustrated.”

“Right this way,” the colt replied, leading her to his desk where the book and worksheet were. He sat down at the desk while Twilight looked it over.

Oh goddess, her cheek was almost touching his own as she hummed. “Ahh, I know these ones,” she sighed nostalgically. “Okay, you see these numbers here?”

Barely. He was just a bit distracted. “Uh-huh,” he replied nonetheless.

“Well,” her horn lit up as she took his pencil from his magical grip and… ohmy, he'd never mixed his magic with somepony else before. It felt so… Her magic was so warm and gentle, but he could feel the power it held. “If you take this number and carry it here. You'll get your answer.”

“So...like…” Realm didn’t want to break the moment, but he had to if he was going to follow her instructions. “Like that?”

“Mhm,” Twilight smiled as she guided his pencil. “And if you should subtract here on this one. You'll find most of these problems are that easy.”

“I...didn’t know it was this simple,” the colt muttered as he did his best to both absorb the information and the sensations. It wasn’t easy.

He did one on his own and Twilight’s smile showed he was correct. And if that didn't make him sure, the way she nuzzled his ear was.

Oh goddess, the way she…

Okay, that sealed it. Now he had to impress this mare. His pencil practically raced along the problems as he tried to solve them all. Twilight blinked in surprise as he solved one after the the other.

One or two he didn’t get quite right. But he seemed to be an amazingly fast study.

“Wow, you did pretty well,” she smiled as she checked his work. “Great job Realm,” she praised him as she nuzzled him again. Ooh, she smelled like vanilla~

The colt couldn’t mount a reply to that...he was just a bit too lovestruck to be coherent.

“Is everything okay?” Twilight looked at him, before placing her forehead to his to check his temperature. “You look tired.”

Aaaaand that was the colt blushing as he practically swooned.

“Maybe you should take it easy tonight,” Twilight suggested as she stepped away. “Should I go and fetch Aspect?”

“Nah...nah it’s fine,” the colt muttered as he waved off her concern. “I’ll...manage.”

“Well, if you say so,” Twilight replied. “So… what's it like? Being an alicorn I mean.”

“Meh...mostly my horn keeps snagging on things,” the colt muttered. “It is taking a while to get used to the idea of having a spear sticking out of my forehead suddenly. And there was the ascending process itself, which wasn’t easy either. Dad’s the only one that managed it seamlessly with his shapeshifting, and I’m betting he cheated.”

“He does seem like the kind,” she giggled. “And I doubt it's a true alicorn. Not like yours or any of the Princesses.”

“Yeah, fair enough,” Realm sighed as he went over the problems again and tried solving the ones he’d gotten wrong another time. He had until tomorrow to finish the worksheet, after all.

“So how's your magic coming along?” Twilight spoke up. “No itchy horn? Or heavy fatigue after casting?”

“No, but then again I’m still getting used to it too,” the colt replied as he puzzled out one of the problems. “It’s not like I was born with it.”

“I can't imagine,” the mare giggled. “Imagine if I suddenly sprouted wings? I'd have no clue what to do with them.”

Of course he had to go picturing Twilight as an alluring pegasus mare...he barely controlled his wings in time.

“Oh, not that I'm pretentious enough to think I could be an alicorn,” Twilight waved a hoof and blushed cutely. “A-Anyway. I should get out of your mane for now.”

“Well, I mean...if you think so,” the colt replied, realizing he didn’t have a good enough reason to force her to stay and regretting it.

“Was… there something else you needed?” Twilight asked. “Honestly. Spike’s away right now. So… I'm kinda bored at home.”

“I wouldn’t say no if you wanted to stick around,” Realm replied. “I just...don’t know what I could do to entertain you.”

Twilight looked around at his meager book collection. He could really use a few more.

“Oh, I remember,” Twilight hummed. “You wanted to paint me right? Well, I have nothing but time right now.”

“I mean, do you...want me to?” the colt asked, blushing a little. “You were...pretty vocal a while ago.”

“Well I mean,” Twilight’s cheeks flushed. “As long as you don't make it a provocative one.” To be honest, she was trying to remember why she was so against it in the first place. So much had happened in the last few weeks. “Let's um... call it an apology for getting you caught up in my little ‘episode’ a while back.”

“I’m pretty sure you’ve already been forgiven for that a few times over,” the colt chuckled as he walked over to his easel and made sure the canvas was fresh. “Well, if you’re sure. Just take whatever pose feels natural to you.”

“Natural?” Twilight pondered on that. She tried a few… thinking of famous paintings she’d seen. Like the Marey Lisa and such others. She lay on her side, her tail covering her modesty.

“Draw me like one of your Prench mares,” she said in a rather good and surprisingly seductive Prench accent. She might as well have fun with this right?

And that was a slight nosebleed from the pinto colt. He wiped it away and got his paints ready.

Best. Day. Ever.

Author's Note

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