The next morning, Bon Bon had prepared an ample breakfast for everyone, with Aila’s help. Turns out she didn’t share her daughter’s cooking skills and was actually quite competent. And it seemed to be a normal breakfast, until Princess Celestia and Luna teleported into the room.

“Fuckin’ thunderin’ orgasms!” Aila yelped in surprise, being the closest to them before putting a hoof over her chest. “Are ye trying to give an old mare a heart attack!?”

“Ah, my apologies Miss Song,” Celestia bowed her head. “Hello everyone… ohh, pancakes~”

“Hello Celly, Lulu,” Aspect greeted them both as he sat down at his spot. “So I take it you’re both here to observe today?”

“Yes, as you have no parents, we’re here as your seconds,” Celestia nodded as she sat at the table, Bon Bon serving her some breakfast. “I trust you’ve been preparing for this?”

“I have a strategy all planned out,” Aspect promised. “It’ll be a blast.”

“You… have a strategy?” Luna asked as she fluffed her wings. And Aspect noted they weren’t wearing their regalia. “Well, tis a first time for everything.”

“Honestly, I don’t always do things by the seat of my pants,” Aspect huffed as he buttered his pancakes.

“Nay, sometimes you don’t wear pants,” Luna chuckled.

“Real funny,” the stallion deadpanned.

“It was pretty funny,” Rainbow snickered, sharing a hoof bump with Luna.

Midnight had been awfully quiet, methodically eating her meal as she appeared to be lost in thought.

“Midnight?” Aspect spoke up, trying to draw her into the conversation.

Her eyes flicked up, before Celestia put a hoof on Aspect’s shoulder, her horn aglow slightly.

“It’s alright Father,” she whispered into his mind. “She is simply focused. Put yourself in her hooves. She is a mortal going up against someone with thousands of years of combat. Can formshift into full grown dragons and can manipulate the weather with a thought. To her, it might as well be a foal against an Ursa.”

Aspect went ‘ah’. She didn’t know that he would only be drawing on some of his power. He’d wait until they were about to join combat before he informed her of the restrictions he would put on himself.

“Still, Midnight is not without her own skills Father. I have trained her myself. So do not get complacent, or you might find yourself losing.” He spied a small smirk on her muzzle. What… was she planning?

This promised to be interesting...or dangerous. Or both.

An hour and a half later, they were all standing in a large open field about a mile or two out of town. Celestia and Luna had also erected a ‘Notice me Not’ barrier, so no nosy ponies would come by and be hurt by accident. They’d used it before during his fight with a corrupted Aspect.

“Right,” Aspect said as he rolled his neck. “As you’re not one of the great evils I’ve had to fight, I’ll be abiding by a few simple rules. Namely, I won’t formshift during this fight. I’ll keep it to skills I have, magic that’s innate to me-”

He was cut off as Midnight raised a hoof. The mare was decked out in her Solar armour he’d first met her in. The gold gleaming under the sunlight. She also had a set of wingblades, though they were dulled training ones. Could still break bones though...

“Do not insult me Christopher,” she said. “I will not be coddled like some foal. Show me how much you wish for our bond. Show me the determination that I fell in love with.”

“Heh...alright then,” Aspect chuckled. “Fine. But I’ll only formshift if I have to, if you push me to it. And besides, with one move, I can all but seal victory. Granted, it’ll take about five minutes to work, but once it does, this fight will be mine.”

“Are both parties ready?” Luna called out.

Midnight nodded and lowered her stance, crouching low and spreading her wings. Aspect raised his wings, a noticeable blur gathering under them before he nodded as well.

“Then, this first to lose consciousness or concede defeat loses,” Luna called out. “Fatal blows are strictly forbidden… not that matters against father, so feel free to try Midnight.”

“Luna…” Celestia shook her head.

“Regardless. Begin!” her horn shone, creating a loud crack and…

Holy crap Midnight was fast, in the blink of an eye, she’d closed the gap between them by more than half.

Aspect let loose his wind...and it went nowhere near her, instead firing off into the sky as he formed something on the edges of his wings to combat her wingblades.

By the time Midnight closed the gap, there was a shimmer on his wings to match her blades, only all of Midnight’s senses told her that whatever was there was sharp, even if it only looked like a blur of air that distorted what she could see of his wings.

She flipped over him at the last second, avoiding his wings and landing on a single forehoof behind him, pirouetting and kicking a stone at his back…

Aspect ducked, turned, and fired off the distortions at her, the rifts in the air closing fast with her location. Those things could become ranged attacks?

Midnight rolled to the side, one of the ‘airblades’ nicking the armour on her flank… Her eyes widened when she saw the deep gouge in her armour, cutting almost all the way through. Even the metals magical enchantments hadn’t done a thing to protect it.

“Because it was not magic…” she murmured and looked at Aspect. Even now the stallion was charging lightning on his wings. But while Realm could only do a bolt at a time…

Each wing was home to five points of light.

Midnight turned and rocketed towards the forest, zipping into the dense line of trees as cover.

“The longer you wait, the easier it’ll be for me to win!” Aspect called after her. “Either you win in the next four minutes, or I do once it’s over!”

“She is not attacking?” Luna asked Celestia.

“It’s her way,” Tia nodded. “She analyses her opponents, devising counterattacks mid battle.”

She burst from the tops of the trees about a hundred feet away, quickly gaining altitude. Aspect turned to her, his wings still ready with the lightning… She peaked a few hundred feet up, her wings wide as she levelled out and stared down at him, like a bird of prey eyeing a rabbit.

Then she dove at him with frightening speeds.

The closer she drew, the longer he waited...until when she was close enough that he could see the whites of her eyes. Then the stallion fired off as many lightning bolts as he could.

She kicked out and his vision was filled with… gold?

She’d thrown a piece of her armour at him, the highly conductive metal drawing the lighting towards it…

Aspect kicked himself into the air at way too late a stage, knowing that his blows would miss and needing a new technique. But first, he’d need to dodge her…

Thankfully, her technique to avoid the lightning threw her off balance as she landed on the ground and rolled a few times, now missing her breastplate as it lay scorched and blackened from the lightning blasts. Well, better it than her. She looked up, scanning the skies for the pegasus stallion.

He was standing on a cloud, his wings flared and moving around...and then she noticed that for every wing movement, a cloud would shift into place above him. Hmm, what was he up to?

Well, they’d be useless if she could get above them. With a powerful thrust, she started soaring straight up, to get above his little cloud ceiling.

Then Aspect held up a hoof, firing a bolt of lightning straight up...and turning the cloudbank he’d gathered into a storm cloud. Midnight let out a skree as she angled down, narrowly avoiding a flight right into a thundercloud. Damn, he was faster than she thought. Fine. She took a deep breath and dove at Aspect again.

Aspect saw her coming, and only moved a wing.

Up above, lightning gathered, and struck right in front of her. She yelped in surprise, the heat singing her fur as the flash blinded her, Midnight striking the ground with a crack. Yup… that was a cracked rib or two.

“And to think, I haven’t even tapped the power I called on yet,” Aspect muttered from his little cloud.

Midnight got to her hooves, wincing as she touched her chest. Dammit, he was far more powerful than she anticipated… or was she holding back? Why? The mare frowned and shook her head, clearing her vision.

“She’s hesitating,” Aila frowned. “Why.”

“I’m not sure,” Celestia said. “Ah… her letter. When she threatened him with her swords. Perhaps she feels bad about that still?”

“Or she wants him to win,” Luna chuckled.

“Come on, Midnight!” Aspect taunted her. “You were talking all that good shit a minute ago, about how you didn’t want me to hold back. What happened to that? What happened to the mare that can hunt the monsters? What happened to this being a fight?”

Midnight took a deep breath and raised hoof. She made a gesture likely recognised on a universal level.

‘Come at me.’

Aspect smirked and jumped off his cloud, diving down and landing in front of Midnight with his wings raised, a faint distortion visible under each one. Up above, the storm was untethered from his direct control…

Midnight just stood there, staring right into his eyes. She still wasn’t moving though.

“Fight me,” Aspect dared her.

She took a lowered stance again, before her wings kicked up a cloud of dirt in his face. Aspect fired off a blast of contained wind to clear the dirt out of his face, but that wasted one of his blasts.

And that was the side Midnight approached from, flipping in the air as she directed a kick to his side. Aspect rolled out of the way, before letting fly with his other contained gust of wind, trying to knock her off balance as well.

She smirked.

Midnight flared her wings, catching the gust and using it to ascend quickly, up above the clouds he’d set.

But only for a moment.

Then a bolt of lightning rained down.

Oooh right, Thestrals and storms…

Heh, well...he set himself up for this one. But it wasn’t like any of that would actually hurt him right now. He was tapping into the Air aspect pretty heavily. Yet the bolts missed, striking the ground with blinding flashes and thunderous booms.

He never heard the bat until her hind hoof dropped onto his head.

“Okay, ow,” Aspect replied as he rubbed his head. If he’d been mortal, that would have done more than stung. “Good shot.”

Midnight flapped back, landing a few feet away. What? That kick dropped from fifty feet up! He should have been unconscious… not slightly off put.

“Still, you’re going to have to hit harder than that to phase me,” Aspect shook his head a few times, before flaring a wing and sticking a tongue out. “One minute left, by the way.”

Midnight screeched and shot forwards, spinning and putting all her strength into a double hoofed buck, she could put him off balance, then she could use a barrage of attacks. They may not hurt much, but they could add up…

Aspect actually fell back, impressed by the ferocity of her attacking and needing to put some space between them before she did some actual damage. Midnight followed, she wouldn’t let him put any distance between them. All his attacks so far had been ranged, and it seems he didn’t bring his sword. That might have been his only close quarters method. As long as she didn’t let him use those air blades…

Aspect growled as he formed one of those blades on one of his wings, using its sharp edge to ward Midnight off. And she met it with her own blade, the wing sinking into the metal, but not cutting all the way through as she grabbed his leg and with a yell, lifted and dropped him.

“Okay, impressive,” Aspect replied as he rolled away and sprang back to his hooves. “But you’re not winning this fight.”

Midnight panted as she pulled the now-useless blade off and tossed it aside. “I am not finished yet,” she muttered. She prepared herself, she knew she was out of time and no idea what he was about to pull out of his bag of tricks.

“Mmm, you might be able to feel my backup coming on the wind,” Aspect chuckled as he waited. “Not long now…”

“Backup? You require assistance to defeat a single mare?” Midnight taunted as she stretched her remaining blade.

But Celestia realised what he was doing. Her eyes widened. Wasn’t that a bit much oh Father?

“Midnight Song!” she called out. “You have permission to use that!”

“And here...we...go,” Aspect said…

Before a massive gust of wind arrived, knocking aside his constructed cloud roof with ease before it slammed into him. The stallion faintly glowed as he lifted in the air a short ways.

When he lowered back down, it looked like he was made of stormclouds, pooled lightning forming his eyes.

But… why could he hear music?

Midnight stood facing him, the music growing louder before he remembered her little demonstration the other night.

“I cast off these petty illusions,” Aspect growled as he flapped his wings and took to the air. “Behold, the true vision of the Lord of Air!” The stormcloud from earlier was quick to reform over the fighting field.

Then he heard words, lyrics he didn’t understand… at first.

He was more preoccupied with how Midnight had appeared above him.

And why he was lying in a crater with a splitting headache.

It dawned on him. This mare… she’d weaponized a Heart Song. All the impossible feats a pony could pull off during a song. Feats that defy natural laws… and she could control that!

“Fine then,” Aspect growled as his form blurred. Soon, there wasn’t just one stormpony on the ground.

Now, there were about fifty copies of himself running around, to distract the mare as he got in position. Her song continued as she twirled in the air and dancing lanced down to the ground, multiple bolts striking the earth as she appeared inside one of the bolts, lashing out with her bare hooves, destroying copy after copy…

Aspect watched her path, before darting up behind her after she destroyed one copy and trying to strike her in the back of the head. She ducked as one eye looked deep into his.

“I found you~” she smiled as she kicked him. It wasn’t the love tap he got before, this was more like a bloody sledgehammer as the stallion skidded along the ground. She’d gotten a lot stronger and a hell of a lot faster now.

And for some reason, her tune wasn’t breaking. His own mental beat was being… ignored for a better word. It was like the Music obeyed her and only her. She stomped the ground, the earth cracking under the blow…

Before she coughed, flecks of red spattering the grass.

“No!” Aspect darted forward, catching onto Midnight and holding her. “Midnight, you can’t channel it on your own! You have to let go!”

Midnight frowned, throwing him away. “This battle… is not over!” Her wings flared, preparing another blow.

Aspect landed easily, but he...wasn’t drawing a blow against her? “Midnight, I’m not going to put your health above my pride,” he replied. “You can’t channel all of Music on your own, you’re no Aspect!”

She knew she was taking far too much, more than she normally did… but it was the only way to match him. To give him a proper challenge. To prove she was worthy!

But her own body betrayed her, the song coming to an end as she wobbled, barely being able to stand.

“I…” she frowned and pitched sideways. “Concede…”

Aspect walked up to her and held her close. “Dear, I would have conceded if you kept fighting,” the stallion replied. “I’m not going to make you draw on that to match me. It’s far too much for a mortal frame. You’ll need days to recover from what you just attempted.”

She coughed a few times… but raised a hoof and booped his nose. “S-Says you.” she smiled.

“Let me just…” With a deep breath, Aspect resumed being a normal pony, sending away the power he’d borrowed back to where he’d got it from in another gust of air. “You really wanted to impress me, huh?”

“Perhaps,” Midnight said weakly as the other approached. “I know, what’s it like to have strength. And not use it every now and then. The rush of a good battle, not knowing if you’d win.” She sighed as she relaxed in his hold. “I was right… I stood no chance at all.”

“Not as you are,” Aspect replied. “Music is...divided. You are but one of three, and I know where another lives. Together, perhaps, the three of you could wield the might of Music. As it stands, trying to tap it on your own is likely to result in harm to yourself. You would need a special catalyst to take the strain for you.”

“We called it Lyrica,” Celestia said as she neared. “So, it was as I suspected all along. She’s channeling the power of an Aspect?”

“Music is fragmented, not whole,” Aspect replied. “Lyra wields the power of music to create. Midnight wields the might of music to destroy. And there is a third, unifying mare out there that can also wield music like they do. Or, as Yggdrasil said… ‘life is a waltz.’”

“Hmph, how very vague of him,” Luna snorted.

“Regardless,” Aila said. “Midnight Song. Ye have conceded defeat to this stallion.” She turned and looked at Aspect. “Balanced ‘Christopher’ Aspect. You have proven your heart honorable and your strength true. The Song Clan will forever grow stronger with our families tied.” She held out a hoof. “Welcome tae the fam colt.”

“You’re sure you’re ready to be a grandmother to those fillies?” Aspect asked as he used a wing to indicate Celestia and Luna. “It was Tartarus on earth, raising them.”

Luna and Celestia let out an annoyed snort.

“Aye, horns, wings or no, Ah’ll put their flanks over mah knee if they act up,” Aila nodded, smacking one hoof with the other.

“Oh goddess above, there’s two of them,” Luna gasped.

“She’s crazy enough for my blood,” Aspect cackled madly as he shook Aila’s hoof.

“We’re bucking doomed,” Celestia sighed and shook her head. Well, she looked at the destroyed landscape. “This was fun.”

“Mmm, let’s head back,” Aspect mused as he moved to put Midnight on his back, picking up the discarded items with gusts of air and holding them in front of his face. He wouldn’t leave her without her armor or wingblades.

“So, I guess I am your bride to be now,” she whispered into his ear, kissing it and letting that statement sink in.

“Indeed you are,” Aspect nodded once. “But we’re also going to do it the Equestrian way. I may have earned your hoof by Thestrali law, but I want to do this right by all my mares.”

“Fair enough,” she sighed contently. Speaking of, she hoped they weren’t too mad about how roughed up either of them were.

“Honestly!” Bon Bon scolded them as she bandaged Midnight’s wounds. “You warriors and your bloody need to show off. No thought processes go into it beyond ‘I punch you now’ huh?” She looked the bat over. She had some sprained limbs and a cracked rib or three, but Celestia healed those. Aspect hadn’t noticed the shiner he wore over his left eye til Bon Bon poked it, causing the stallion to hiss.

“Wha...oh. Yeah, Middy tagged me a few good times,” Aspect shrugged. “She did very well for who she was up against.”

“Not good enough,” the thestral sighed. “I need more training.”

“Why can't I have normal special someponies,” Bon Bon sighed and shook her head. “Please tell me I don’t have to fight either of you.”

“No… but sparring could be fun,” Midnight hummed and hissed when Bon Bon poked her ribs.

“No fighting for a week!” she ordered both of them.

“Yes Bon Bon,” Midnight said.

“Wasn’t planning on it, Bonnie,” Aspect replied honestly.

“Good,” Bon Bon nodded once.

“We see who wears thy pants in this relationship,” Luna snickered.

“I can and will go dragon to put you over my knee, Luna, see if I won’t,” Aspect warned her.

The royal alicorn simply poked out her tongue at him and blew a raspberry. “Lady Bon Bon will protect me~”

“Considering the crazy she’s about to marry into, I’d be surprised if she didn’t join me,” Aspect fired back.

“No spanking your kids because they're right,” Bon Bon teased him as she pet Luna’s head. “Don’t worry Lulu, Momma Bonnie will save you from the old grump.”

“I’m surrounded by traitors,” Aspect grumbled and sat back, folding his forelegs.

“We shall form a resistance!” Celestia declared as she sided with her father. “Plus I'll get Twilight~”

“Gaah!” Luna raised a hoof. “Well I… um, crud.”

“Wow… you folded faster than Midnight at a mango buffet,” Bon Bon snorted.

“As I recall, young filly, the only side you’re really on is your own,” Aspect looked at the mare next to him. “What with raising the sun just so it strikes my eye every morning. And pranking your old man by sending him to the ‘most peaceful town in Equestria.’”

“I never said it was always peaceful,” Celestia smirked. “And you made friends and loved ones regardless. Would you have done the same in Canterlot?”

“Oh heavens no,” Aspect snorted. “I’d probably have had a coup going against the noble caste on the inside of a week, just to get the majority of the parasites out to get you both some peace of mind.”

“Or overthrown me,” Celestia teased with a wink. “I wouldn’t have minded either…” Then her eyes widened. “You know… as my father, you do have some rights to take the throne if I abdicate it. Lulu! We could go on a vacation!”

“And leave me behind to deal with the nobles?” Aspect asked with a raised eyebrow. “I’m not doing that until Chryssy comes back to the fold to help me deal with their legalese.”

“Father…” Celestia sighed. “Nopony has heard from Chrysalis in… I don’t know how long. And most Changelings aren't… well.” She didn't know how to put it.

“Yes, I’m aware that Chryssy’s been...a bit of a bad seed,” Aspect sighed. “Guess that witch’s curse really affected her. Somnulba didn’t drink too much of the water herself, and needed to drain others to regain her youth and vigor. Guess Chryssy came out the same way…”

Celestia looked to the others. “May we have some privacy please?”

Luna nodded and ushed the others out, leaving the father and daughter alone. Once they left, Celestia sighed, dropping her royal facade.

“I take it you learned of the threat to Canterlot?” She asked.

“Kind of hard not to when the door guard doesn’t recognize the Element Bearers, or me,” Aspect noted aloud.

Celestia sighed again. “I'm sorry. I had to fast track a lot of cadets to build numbers. But…” She sat down. “I have reason to believe Chrysalis is behind this.”

Aspect sighed, and looked towards the general direction of the Badlands. “I’m not mad,” he stated firmly, more to remind himself than anything else. “I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed in her.”

“I have no idea what she's thinking,” Celestia said. “But promise me something? If it is her, if she does something. Promise you will stay out of it?”

“If she does something that threatens the stability of the world, it becomes my job to stop her,” Aspect replied firmly. “I failed once. I won’t fail again.”

“So what?” Celestia stated. “You'd put her down? You'd raise your blade to another child?”

“If I have to, yes,” Aspect replied. “If she threatens another Aspect of the world, if she threatens the stability of the world, then that is my duty. To defend and straighten out the forces of the world if need be. I am not the Diplomat. I am the sword.”

“If only Megan were here…” Celestia sighed. “Look father. We have the Elements of Harmony once more. Your blade is not the only answer anymore.”

“...Fine, but if that doesn’t work, I am getting involved,” Aspect warned her.

“You're so damned stubborn,” Celestia frowned. “You know. I had to deal with threats alone for a thousand years? I think I did fairly well quelling the Griffon uprising.”

“Another thing I’m going to have to ask about later,” Aspect muttered. “They’re meant to be the children of the wind for the world where you aren’t. Someone to shepherd storms and guide the wind.”

“Well, I guess they took the lessons of the ‘Great Lord Bloodwing’ a little seriously,” Celestia deadpanned. “Those stories turned them into a race of warriors. I had to use one of your own lessons to teach them one.”

“Well, at least I got one race right,” the stallion grumbled. “The Phoenixes haven’t gone about setting entire forests on fire, at least.”

Celestia remained oddly quiet.

“...Celly,” Aspect put a hoof to his face. “Tell me the Phoenixes haven’t gone about abusing their fires.”

A smile tugged at Celestia’s lips. “No, but I couldn’t help myself.”

The stallion let out a sigh. “Don’t do that. I was worried I had screwed up everything I’d done in my role.”

“You haven’t screwed anything up,” Celestia said, putting a wing around him. “You just forgot to account for one thing.” She booped his nose with hers. “Free will is a bitch.”

“So it is,” the stallion grumbled. “Well, at least you and your sister turned out well, even if you are little hellions.”

“And I'm glad you are well, even if you are an old grump,” Celestia giggled. “Now… wanna see if me and Lulu can break your mares by calling then Mommy?”

“You already did that to Bon Bon, and Midnight had to know this was coming,” Aspect pointed out. “Dash probably wouldn’t do anything except let it go to her head.”

“I miss teasing Twilight and Clover, they always bite so well,” Celestia pouted.

“Most do, until they get to know you. Or Realm for that matter,” Aspect pointed out. “Well, I have a jeweler to go see. I’m going to spend a little time with the mares, then I’m going into town.”

“Seems you’re rather busy as of late,” Celestia chuckled and nuzzled him. “Just take care father. Try not to worry about things alright?”

“I’m a dad, it’s my job to worry,” Aspect pointed out. “Some days it’s all I do.”

“Well, I’m a big girl and I can look after my kingdom,” Celestia chuckled as she ushered him out of the door. “Now go on and have fun. I need to get back and make sure Blueblood hasn’t burned my castle down.”

“That is a real possibility with him,” Aspect noted aloud, before shutting the door behind him. He had a jeweler to see.

Sparkler’s jewellery store was as quiet as always. Though this time, the snarky little teenager wasn’t at the front of the store. Though he could hear noises coming from the back of the room. On his way past, he did noticed a few things. One was a display of raw Spectra crystals in her display cases for gems. The other was a few pieces. A necklace with an oval-shaped Spectra gem. A horn ring and a hoofband, all sharing a similar design. And the same ludicrous price-tag...

Well, it was nice to know she liked the raw materials she’d provided.

The stallion sat in front of the counter and waited for the mare to make a showing. He’d just quietly insist on being served so he could at least have an update. He was nothing if not persistent.

He still heard noises, the whine of a high-pitched drill, kind of like a dentists, and saw a small silver bell on the counter. A sign saying ‘Ring for service’ next to it.

So he rang it. A chime sounded as the enchanted bell seemed to sound from everywhere. The drill-sound stopped. The curtain over the door frame parted as Sparkler stepped out, lifting a pair of large goggles from over her eyes.

“Hm? Oh, it’s just you,” she commented. “What’s up?”

“Just checking up on my order, seeing as how I’ve reached the stage where I am now allowed to propose to my mares at any given moment,” Aspect replied. “I don’t need it now, but in lieu of that, I would at least like a date when I can have them.”

“A simple, ‘can I have an update’ would have sufficed,” the mare said with a roll of her eyes. “And I’m done with one. The second just needs the stone set in it and the third is one I’m just starting.”

“Okay then, so I should come back in a few days,” Aspect summed up. “Unless you needed my input for anything, but I was always of the opinion that those that practice a craft are always the ones with the best-formed opinions.”

“I’m making the chains so if you need some links added or removed, it’ll be easier for me,” she commented. “Also… I’m liking how these are turning out. I think they’ll be some of my best work yet.”

“It’s nice to hear that,” Aspect smiled at her. “I’ll be back in a few days to check up on how they’re going.”

“Yup,” she nodded. “Hopefully some dragons duking it out in the middle of town won’t disturb my work again.”

“To be fair, I didn’t know it was Spike,” Aspect replied. “If I had, I might’ve tried luring him away instead of fighting him.”

“That was Spike huh?” Sparkler actually looked concerned. “Is he okay now?”

“Yeah, just...he didn’t know that dragons hoard...or can go into a Greed Growth...or how to fight it,” Aspect replied. “Then again, I guess part of the blame falls on me for assuming Twilight would know those things as his caretaker.”

“S’not like ponies and dragons mingle together often,” Sparkler shrugged. “Anyway Captain Exposition. Give this to Spike,” she tossed him a large emerald. “And come back in a week or two, I should be done then.”

“Got it,” Aspect saluted with a wing. “You take care now.”

“Until next Tuesday, when the next disaster hits,” she replied with an eyeroll. “Take care yourself.” And with that, she lowered her goggles… which made her eyes look ENORMOUS as she vanished back behind the curtain.

Aspect left the shop, humming a little tune to himself. Next stop, the treebary.

When he got there, he knocked on the door to have Spike open it, staring up at the stallion. “Oh, hey Aspect. What’s up?” he asked.

“Gift for you from Sparkler,” the stallion replied, drawing out the huge emerald and hoofing it to the dragon. “I took the chance to explain to her why there were a few dragons in town the other day, and she was concerned about you.”

“Huh…” Spike stared at the emerald, though he was unsure if he should take it. What if he started hoarding again…?

“Hey, I know that look,” Aspect chuckled as he rubbed the little guy’s spines. “Look, you value your friendships, right? Twilight, her friend’s, the town’s?”

“Of course I do!” Spike stomped a foot. “I… don’t wanna hurt them again.”

“Hold onto that thought in your mind, then,” Aspect returned, “And you’ll see this gem as nothing more than a tasty snack. Because you have something that’s more important than material wealth. Friendship is the only treasure that grows as its shared. Well...that and knowledge, but the two usually go hoof in hoof. It’s through our friends that we come to understand ourselves, after all.”

“Huh…” Spike mulled over his words. “Oh, ya wanna come in. It’s kinda quiet anyway. Twilight’s upstairs with her ‘research’ as she put it,” he made little airquotes with his claws. “So I’m a bit bored.”

“Yeah, I got nothing else going on,” Aspect replied.

“So, what’s new?” the dragon asked as he set the emerald down on the table and headed for the kitchen.

“Not a whole lot,” Aspect replied. “Had a fight with Middy though. It was fun.”

“Huh?” Spike paused in the middle of making tea. “You… eh, nevermind. Your whole family is nuts.”

“Guilty~” Aspect sang. “But seriously, it’s a part of her culture. If I couldn’t best her in a fight, then I wasn’t worthy of her hoof in marriage. I wanted to get the fight out of the way so I could propose to all of them the Equestrian way and get married.”

“Sounds complicated,” Spike said as he walked back in with a pot and three cups. “Tea or coffee?”

“Eh, coffee’s for the morning,” Aspect replied with a wave of a wing. “I’ll take tea now.”

Spike nodded as he poured a cup and placed it next to him, along with a bowl of sugarcubes. “Twi?” he called out, but got zero response. “Honestly… the heck is she even studying up there?”

“I’ll go check up on her in a bit,” Aspect replied as he sipped his tea. “Mm...one sugarcube, please.”

Spike plonked one in as he sat back in his chair. “Well, I don’t mind. I’m enjoying my time off,” he giggled. “Buut, she does have a bad habit for getting lost in studies and not coming out for days on end…” he rubbed his chin. “I should sic Pinkie on her.”

“Nah, better idea,” Aspect replied. “Get Pinkie to sic Dash on her. She’s way more physically inclined, she’ll probably drag Twilight out into the fresh air to get her blood actually pumping.”

“Aren’t you the goto to get Rainbow Dash now?” Spike mused with a cheeky smirk.

“Only the Pink can find Dash reliably,” Aspect retorted. “What with her having wings and a job and such. The two are pretty close as is, so you use one to find the other. It’s not like I’m keeping Dash at my place, she’s her own mare.”

“Fair enough,” Spike shrugged. “So, what’ll happen when you get married? I mean, they all have their own places.”

“Bon Bon has her store, Dash has her cloud castle, and Midnight lives up in Canterlot more often than not, though she was assigned as my guard for a spell…” the stallion mused. “Eh. I guess my house will be the common ground, where if they have the time they’ll meet with me.”

“Something to think about,” Spike shrugged as he poured some tea for Twilight. “But getting married is dangerous. Think of what’ll happen when Pinkie finds out.”

“Hey, she’s the only one I’d trust to get the word out around Ponyville, and host a good reception,” Aspect retorted. “Without overdoing it, I might add. She’s good at her self-imposed job of Ponyville’s Party Pony.”

“Premiere Party Pony,” the pink mare corrected him… before slowly closing the front door again.

“...How long was she there?” Aspect quietly asked.

“I try not to think about it,” Spike said with a faraway look in his eye. “A-Anyways. I think Ponyville’s forgiven me mostly. Some ponies still cross the street when I walk down there though.”

“Forgiveness is something you will have to earn, yes,” Aspect replied as he sipped his tea. “They’ve seen the side of you not even you knew about. Now it’s up to you to remind them of the kind, gentle drake I know you can be.”

“Yeah I know,” Spike sighed as he stood up. “Scuse me, I just need to get the laundry inside. Weather said it would rain this afternoon.”

“Yeah, fair enough, I’ll go check on Twilight,” Aspect replied as he got up from his chair and began walking upstairs.

He reached her room, and surprise, her door was closed. Though he did hear odd sounds inside. Twilight was grunting over something.

“Nrh… almost…”

So the stallion knocked. He didn’t get a response though…

So this time, he gently tried pushing the door open. It opened ajar and it was enough to give him a view…

Of Twilight laying on her bed, a book in her magical grasp floating in front of her. It was what she was doing that made his eyes widen. The book wasn’t what her magic was solely focused on. One of her hooves ground against her slick sex, while a magic aura coated it, buzzing faintly as she panted, biting down on her remaining foreleg as her back arched.

Aspect shut the door behind him, even as he flashed into his Alicorn form with a small internal chuckle. “Oh hello there, little mare,” he mused as he walked closer to her. “I take it you require...a little...assistance?”

Twilight looked up and her face flushed red as she squeaked loudly and dove under the covers, her book falling to the floor. “W-W-What are you doing in here?” she stammered out.

“Well when you didn’t come down for tea...or answer my knocks, and I heard only grunting, I wondered what you were up to,” Aspect mused as he picked up the book and idly read through some of it. “Imagine my surprise when it turns out you’re only seeking a little stimulation~”

The book’s titles was Sogni Infetti, and… o-oh….

That… was a very different way of looking at the sisterly bonds of Celestia and Luna.

“Mmm...somepony likes alicorns, doesn’t she?” Aspect mused as he snapped the book shut and peeled back the covers with his magic. “Fortunately for you, I’m a cheater. I kept something from the Thestral form you liked so much.”

And then he demonstrated what that was by sticking his tongue out...and out and out and out, waving it at her like another appendage.

Twilight blushed harder and dug deeper into her bed. “I-I don’t know what you’re talking about!” she yelped.

“Oh Twilight,” Aspect said after sucking his tongue back in. “You had to have been pretty close to the edge before I interrupted, right?” He walked a little closer and whispered the next part. “Let me help you.”

“I… we had an agreement,” Twilight said from under her blanket.

“All you have to do is tell me you don’t need a little help, want me for a service I can give you,” Aspect replied. “And I’ll walk out that door.”

And then the blanket flew off, and he got a whiff of her most delectable scent. “S-Service!? I’ll not treat you like some… some street corner pony!” Twilight said sharply. “What kind of mare do you take me for Mister Aspect?”

“One who needs something, and I’m a male friend who can give it to you,” Aspect pointed out. “Even if you aren’t interested in being more, that doesn’t mean I can’t still help you. Call it...a friendship. With benefits to both parties, when they agree to it.”

“B-benefits?” Twilight stammered, her tail covering her modesty.

“I’d say getting yourself serviced by a thestral tongue is certainly a benefit to you,” the stallion pointed out.

Twilight blushed harder, looking away from him. “I… I really shouldn’t…”

“Okay, let’s look at it like this,” Aspect replied, holding up a hoof. “What is wrong with my proposed arrangement?”

“Y-You’re engaged for one,” Twilight pointed out. “I’ll not have you cheat on them with me!”

“Easy, I’ll tell them every time we get up to anything, thus cancelling out the notion that I’m cheating on them with you,” Aspect fired back. “If they know and approve, is it really cheating? Think of me as a practice stallion before you find somepony you truly have an interest in. Then, when the subject of intimacy is brought up, you won’t be caught flat-hooved. You’ll have had practice with me.”

“But…” she still wasn’t sold. “That’s not fair to you…” She looked down. “You’ll want sex. You’re a stallion after all…”

“And you’re not comfortable with it, and also, that notion that all stallions want sex? A little sexist. I’m more than comfortable with helping you out with what you’re comfortable with. If all you want is a long, thick tongue to service your needy folds…” Aspect stuck his tongue out again before sucking it back in. “Then that’s what you’ll get. I think it was Dash that said… ‘I never leave my friends hanging.’ And you clearly are.”

Damn it all, why did he have to be so nice about it? Twilight wanted to just shove his muzzle between her legs and end this insufferable burning there. But… that was just improper and…

The stallion walked right up next to her and licked the side of her neck, trailing that tongue up to her ear before whispering in it. “All you have to do is say a word,” he breathed. “Yes...or no. Do I stay?”

Twilight shuddered at the lick and… nodded slowly.

“Then show me what you need, little mare,” he growled softly to her. “Show me...and be rewarded.”

With a heavy blush, she parted her legs slightly and slowly moved her tail… showing off her pert little teats and her winking sex, strands of her arousal sticking to her tail as she pulled it back.

“Poor little mare, you’re all wet already,” the stallion cooed as he softly rubbed her folds with a hoof. His horn sparked, before a golden barrier filled the room and vanished. “That was a muffling spell,” he informed Twilight, still rubbing her lips with his hoof. “So feel free to say whatever you want, however loud you want. Spike won’t hear you.”

“I-I…nrng!” Twilight let out a stifled moan as he touched her. Goddess above, a stallion was touching her… and she was letting him.

“So what am I supposed to do with this, hmm?” Aspect asked. “Maybe the cute little mare has some ideas?” He leaned in close and whispered to her again. “Go on. Moan out what you need. Beg me for it...and you may find your prayers answered.”

She squeaked and blushed harder, pushing his head away with a hoof. “T-That’s embarrassing,” she said with a flustered tone.

“If you don’t vocalize what you need, how am I supposed to serve that need?” Aspect asked, his hoof not stopping in his rubbing of her. “I could get something wrong. All you have to do to get relief from that burning need...is tell me what it is.”

“J-Just… help me finish,” she murmured, just loud enough for him to hear.

“Mmm, by your command,” Aspect chuckled, taking that hoof away…

Before his head trailed south, kissing her chest all the way. He stopped briefly at her teats, teasing each nipple a little, before his lips met her netherlips. The mare gasped, her hoof moving to his head, brushing against his horn as he tasted her liquids, a rather rich, slightly bitter taste. Like black coffee in the morning. Utterly intoxicating.

Then Twilight felt that long tongue licking her lips, before it prodded its way inside her slowly. The mare gasped again, biting down on a hoof as the other started to absently rub his horn as he fed his tongue into her.

The stallion was careful about that little barrier inside her still, making sure not to breach it just yet as he went into her depths. Once he reached the end of her tunnel, he pulled back and pushed forward again, tongue-fucking the mare.

“Aaah!” Twilight let out a loud moan that time, it was both sexy and adorable to hear as her juices coated his tongue, her twitching sex telling him she was already close. All Aspect had to do was increase the tempo, and soon…

“A-AAAhhhhhhh~!” Twilight moaned out louder still, her back arching as her pussy clamped down over his tongue, milking it for seed it couldn’t give as a flood of her essence filled his waiting maw. The stallion just kept drinking it down, riding out her orgasm, before slowly pulling his tongue out.

“Delicious as always,” he purred to her, before slowly heading for the door.

“W-Wait,” she panted. “What… what about you?” she asked him, trying hard not to look at his throbbing cock, slapping the underside of his belly, demanding satisfaction.

“It’s fine, it’ll go down eventually,” Aspect replied. “Remember, I’m not going to push you into anything.”

“But…” Twilight held up a hoof. “F-Friends don’t leave friends hanging? R-Right?”

“Yes, but I’m not going to do anything to you you’re not comfortable with, and if that extends only to me servicing you, then I’ll just have to live with that.”

And the completely straight face he said that with…

“I… could use my magic,” She said with a blush. “Please, I’m not going to treat you like… like some talking sex toy. One I can call on only when it’s convenient for me.”

“And if I’m fine with that?” Aspect asked with a quirked brow.

“Well… it’s still not fair,” Twilight said with a small nod.

“It’s not about fair, it’s about what you’re comfortable with,” Aspect countered. “I’m not going to push you out of your comfort zones to see to my needs, that the exact opposite of this exercise.”

“W-Well… what do you want?” she asked, throwing his words back at him, the slightly husky, breathless tone making his cock surge and twitch.

“Oh, I don’t think you want to know what I want,” Aspect replied.

“W-Which is?” Twilight asked him, the stallion getting a warm, tingly feeling as her magic started to stroke him.

“I want to come back every day and teach you more and more about sensuality, about sex,” Aspect replied. “Until the day comes when I walk in here, and you’re already ready for me to mount you.”

Twilight squeaked, as her magic gripped his cock a bit harder, pulsing up and down his length.

“I want to teach and train you well,” Aspect continued as he walked closer. “So that any stallion you set your eyes on will be lucky to survive the night. Assuming you ever move on from me, of course.”

Twilight shuddered, her mouth open in a slight pant as she closed her eyes, trying to focus on the task at hand, her magical strokes getting faster.

“I want to turn you into my own personal little succubus,” Aspect hissed in her ear. “One that serves her teacher to the best of her abilities.”

“S-Serves how?’ she gasped out in a heated breath.

“However I wish,” Aspect replied, running a hoof across her belly fur. “If I were to tell you to suck, you’d start making sure I blew my load in your throat. If I said get on the bed, you’d get on your back and splay your legs for me to take you. And if I said moan my name…”

“A-Aspect…” Twilight breathed out, the stallion practically standing over her, his cock still caught in her magical vices, her hoof rubbing her sex as she moaned again.

“Mmm...cute little mare wants to take her first dick?” Aspect asked her.

“W-What?” Twilight panted out, trying to focus her gaze.

“I asked if you want this,” Aspect flexed his groin muscles, causing his length to bob, “To be the first length to enter you. Right here, right now. I promise to be gentle with you if you do. But if you truly want the pleasures of sex unlocked for you...I can provide, you sexy little librarian.”

Twilight paused, her face aflame with a blush as he rmagic continued to tease him. “I… I don’t know…”

“Heck, a small numbing spell before entry, and you won’t even feel the twinge of pain that comes with losing your hymen,” Aspect continued, rubbing a hoof over her belly. “Think about it. Casual sex. All the fun benefits, and none of the drawbacks. I have perfect control of my body, which means you won’t get pregnant from this.”

“I… it’s not the pain,” she said slowly, her magic dying down a little. “I-I’m just… not ready…”

“And you plan to get more ready with a lack of experience?” the stallion questioned with a raised eyebrow.

“Well excuse me if this is something new to me,” the mare deadpanned, her magic dying out now.

“True. But in this case, practical experience trumps book learning. Because there’s no ‘one path’ for sexual gratification,” Aspect illuminated. “It’s something about yourself you have to learn over time, with your partner helping you. After all, there’s only so much you can learn about yourself without a mirror to reflect it back at you. There are plenty of things that are written down we could try, but in every case, sex is more of an art than a science. There’s no one truth that everypony agrees on. You have to find what you like, and proceed from there. Fortunately for you...I’m a shapeshifter. You can have any partner you desire to test things out with.”

“I…” Twilight didn’t know what to think. She’d always assumed this activity came with love and marriage. Well, at first. Certain books showed her that wasn’t the case. And Aspect wasn’t helping her already confused state. She didn’t even know who to go to for an answer. Princess Celestia apparently had little to no experience. And Luna well… Twilight would feel awkward talking about this to anypony really.

“You’re conflicted,” Aspect saw it in her eyes, taking a step back and sitting on his rear...which didn’t really help, it just moved the source of her distraction. “Talk to me. Maybe having another point of view can help.”

“This is just so… weird,” she said, not really knowing how to put it. “I don’t know what to do… then you say all that stuff about teaching and… and succubus? Like… gah!” She retreated back under her blanket again.

“Okay, maybe a different question,” Aspect muttered to himself, peeling back enough blanket to where he could look Twilight in the eyes. “What’s your preconceived notion about sex?”

“T-That it should be a an activity shared by a couple in love,” she said, not meeting his gaze.

“Ah, well, that’s where your definition falls short,” Aspect chuckled. “See, ponies who aren’t in love, but dating, can end the night in sex, as a way to determine if they’re even compatible. Or perhaps two ponies are just friends, but both have needs and desires, and can’t find anypony else to indulge them with, so they have sex every now and then when they’re both available. Or...perhaps one pony is lonely, and goes to a bar, and meets a pretty mare...and when they go back to her place, it ends in sex. It doesn’t have to be something that’s reserved for those in love. Because at the end of the day, sex is a pleasurable activity that your body wants, needs, craves once it knows what it feels like.”

“But… you already have three mares,” Twilight pointed out. “Aren’t they enough for you?”

“Yes, but this isn’t about me,” Aspect replied. “Or, it wasn’t until you made it about me. It could still be about you. About teaching you the ins and outs of sex. About helping you discover what you want and need from a stallion. Or perhaps you’d rather a mare? We could help you find that out too. Really, I’m here to help you, but if you put me in control again, well...it won’t end well for your innocence.”

“Oh really now?” she snorted, raising an eyebrow.

“All it takes is you pulling that blanket down and saying ‘do whatever you want with me,’...and I’ll introduce you to how good sex can feel,” Aspect promised her. “Maybe it won’t be tomorrow. Maybe it’ll be a week, or a month. Or even longer. But sooner or later, you’d ask me to come around again to satisfy you, and maybe help you learn a bit more about what turns you on. And as a good stallion friend of yours...I wouldn’t leave you hanging.”

“I don’t know…” she murmured again. Then Aspect was there, putting a hoof on one of hers.

“Twilight, I promise you, if you find a stallion you actually like? I’ll back off. I won’t bother you about it. Heck, you’d be in control as to when I show up here, if at all. But wouldn’t you like a little practical experience, so that when the moment comes, you know what you’re doing?”

“I… guess,” the mare said, blushing again. “Maybe… start small?”

“You’ve already taken my tongue,” Aspect pointed out. “What would be the next step to that?”

“W-Well…” she stammered and looked at his still-bobbing member. “What… can I do for that?”

“Well, you have options,” Aspect illuminated. “As a unicorn, you can use your magic, but you were already doing that and seemed pretty comfortable with it. So that leaves you with either using your mouth on it...or spreading your legs and letting me ease into you.”

“M-My mouth… Like, what Miss Midnight did?” Twilight asked him, her hooves twitching. Oh, so she remembered that night eh?

“She is very talented with her mouth,” Aspect mused. “Alternatively, you could let me do all the work and make you feel very good again.”

“How so?” she inquired, a hoof moving up as she tentatively poked his member. It was… very warm and heavy-looking.

“All you would have to do,” Aspect murred to her, “Is pull this blanket aside, lie back, spread your legs...and let me have free reign. At first I would go slow, pushing up until I met your hymen. Then a small numbing spell as I tore it asunder, so you wouldn’t feel any pain as I filled you. Then I would slowly, gently, begin the act of lovemaking with you, so that you could gauge for yourself just how good sex really feels.”

“I, don’t think I’m ready for that just yet,” Twilight said in a quiet voice. “B-But I’ll help you finish…”

“I can all but feel the tension you’ve got right here,” Aspect said, putting a hoof on the blanket just above her belly. “You’re curious, aren’t you? You want to know if it’s everything I’ve said it is...but you can’t bring yourself to enjoy it. You still want to research it yourself. My advice?”

He leaned in and breathed the next two words to her. “Let go.”

The mare shuddered, his cock being hugged to her soft, furred chest as she let out a small moan.

“Take that analytical side of you, the one that has to know everything before committing...and turn it off for a second. Turn it to documenting things as they happen...and just enjoy the moment. A moment that you might not get again if you let that side rule you forever,” Aspect urged her. “Because if you spend your time researching instead of trying...you’ll be unfulfilled. You’ll have so fewer experiences. Sometimes, you just have to try something to determine if it’s right for you. Seize life as it comes to you. Carpe Diem.”

She looked down at the cock in her hold… and placed a gentle kiss on the tip. “I guess…” she murmured. “I… think I should at least talk with your mares first.”

“I’ll talk to them for you, after the fact,” Aspect urged her. “I’ll defuse the situation for you. The question now is...yes? Or no? Will you try, or should I walk?”

Twilight pondered on this. Was this really the way she wanted to give something as precious and… singular as her virginity? He made some good points but…

“I just don’t know,” she sighed and shook her head. “I’m sorry…”

“Fine, but keep in mind...the next time around?” Aspect softly kissed her nose. “You will have to convince me that you want me for my services again, and lay out what they are. Because I’m not going to get all worked up for nothing time after time.”

Before she could question that, the stallion vanished, and a rush of air slammed her door open, then the front door of the library, before both slowly closed again.

Twilight looked at the swinging door, her eyes cast down as she looked at her hooves. She’d made him mad that time by the looks of it. Great job Twilight, another stallion you royally fucked up with. She closed the door softly with her magic as she lay down, burying herself under her blankets again…

Aspect sighed as he appeared back on his bed. Really, leaving his window open was a great convenience for wind-based transit. Plus, the more he used his windy powers, the more Arabus lost ground, the more he shut up in his soul. That fight had been good, using all the wind-based power he’d made in the past thousand years to win. Even Arabus had actually been impressed.

Of course, none of that helped him with his raging boner, but eh. He wasn’t going to push Twilight so hard she’d break. He’d prefer it if she bent slowly into the shape he wanted. He was still going to talk to his mares about what he’d nearly done, and might do in the future, though. Of course, it all depended on Twilight responding to his advances if those plans actually progressed.

But for the moment, he’d have to go to the bathroom and relieve himself.

And that didn’t help when he saw Rainbow Dash. She just gotten back from weather work and was wearing a skin-tight uniform that hugged her sleek body nicely. A pair of goggles around her neck as she stretched up to reach a cupboard in the kitchen, the flightsuit hugging between her legs, showing off her cameltoe~

Aspect smirked as he walked up behind the mare...reaching up a hoof and spanking that flank soundly. Rainbow let out a loud yelp and turned around, ready to feed the pony their own teeth when…

“Oh geeze, it’s just you,” Rainbow sighed. “Where have you been? It’s gonna rain like, any second.”

“Oh, just teasing a certain adorkable mare,” Aspect replied, demonstrating that tongue for her. “She’s still not keen on the idea of sex, but she did let me service her again. She has this notion that only ponies who are in love should have sex. It’s adorable.”

“Oh geeze,” Rainbow repeated and sighed. “What did you do to her you old perv? Please tell me you weren’t… you?”

“I ate her out, I talked dirty to her, I educated her on how sex in the real world actually worked, and offered her a casual fling,” Aspect replied. “She didn’t bite, so I told her to call on me again when she had a better idea of what she actually wanted from me.”

“A casual fling huh?” Rainbow snorted. “Yeah, Twi’s as pure as the fresh snowfalls. No way would she agree to that off the bat ya dingdong.”

“There’s an idea,” Aspect mused, looking skywards. “Hmm. Maybe I should turn Midnight loose on her until she’s little more than a puddle of mare, so that she understands how good sex can feel?”

“That’s just asking for trouble,” Rainbow rolled her eyes. “Speaking of, having fun there? I can feel your eyes boring holes in my ass.”

“Your aim is off, I’m looking at something a little further south,” Aspect replied. “It’s remarkable just how well this flightsuit of yours hugs your features, Dashie. Almost wish it had a little hole in the back so that I could screw you through it.”

“Is that so?” she mused as she turned around, he noticed a small zipper that went down between her legs, starting from her belly. “Yeah, real pity huh~?”

“Mmm...bedroom, little filly,” Aspect told her. “I need to work off a little stress.”

“Aww,” she cooed as she trotted ahead, shaking her flank. “Little bookworm wouldn’t get you off huh? That’s not very fair~”

“She probably would have, but I’m not going to push her into doing something she’s not ready for,” Aspect replied. “Buuut...Midnight!” Aspect called out.

The thestral literally dropped out of nowhere, landing on the stallion’s back.

“You called?” she said, nibbling his ear.

“You remember Twilight?” Aspect asked. “She lives in a library in a tree in the middle of town. We may have parted on less than amicable terms. I would like you to go there and make her feel so good, she forgets her own name, as an apology from me.”

Midnight blinked, then saluted and flew off.

“That… that was just cruel,” Rainbow said with a roll of her eyes. “Don’t you already have Lyra as some casual fuckbuddy now? Geeze, you wanna do every mare in Ponyville or sumthin?”

“No, but I’m not just going to let Twilight think I don’t like her,” Aspect replied. “Plus, I’ll always back away from Twilight if she finds a stallion she actually likes. I just think she could do with a little...practical experience before the day comes, so she isn’t a big blushy, stammering mess her first night in bed with a stallion that’s not me.”

“Oh, so you want to reserve the ‘blushy, stammering mess’ for yourself huh?” Rainbow giggled as she opened the door to their room.

“I want to teach, train Twilight in the art of seduction,” Aspect replied before he flashed into his Gryphon form. “And she’d be lucky to have me as a teacher, as I can literally be anything she wants~”

“Careful with that ego,” Rainbow smirked. “Equus isn’t big enough for the three of us.”

“Like you’re one to talk, Rainbow,” Aspect pointed out as he reached one hand under her and began unzipping her flight suit. “You’re probably the only supersonic pegasus around, Ponyville’s lead weather mare, and future Wonderbolt member.”

Then he leaned forward and whispered in her ear. “But we both know that underneath it all, you just turn into a little slut for this big gryphon’s dick~”

“G-Geeze, don’t say it like that!” Rainbow blushed, swatting him with her tail. Aspect chuckled as he unzipped more and more of her flightsuit...pausing as he neared his target.

“Does the little mare want her big, studly griffon to breed her?” he asked her. “Hold her down and rut her through her pretty little suit until she can’t walk?”

“Mmm, such a beast,” she murred, shaking her flank. “Don’t you get tired of rutting little pegasi?”

“I won’t get tired until this cute little mare starts growing round with our hippogriff foals,” Aspect promised her, swatting her rear end. “That’s a promise. I’ll just rut you until that day comes.”

She yelped at the spanking, her face turning pink. “Yeah? Better get on that then you stud.” She gave her rump a shake.

“Oh really?” the griffon murred to her as he began slowly exposing her folds. “And if I said I was going to start working on that right now?”

Rainbow moaned as she leaned into his touch. “Mmm, gonna stuff me full are you?” she said in a husky whisper. “Fill me with that big, hard cock of yours?”

“Hold you down, breed you proper, make you mine before we’re wed,” Aspect promised her. “Make you nice and fat with my hybrids...time and time again.”

“Such a beast,” she murred, wiggling in his grasp. “Not even letting me out of uniform first eh? You like this on me maybe?”

“I’m curious, it’s clearly skintight,” the griffon rubbed a few fingers down her folds. “How much can I make it bulge? Because it’s not coming off of you until you bear my children...or it breaks.”

“Nnnn, kinky,” she moaned at his touches. “It’s flexible a little I guess…”

“Last chance, little speedster~” Aspect sang as he began pushing those fingers into her. “Are you ready to be a broodmare, or will you put that fate on hold for now?”

“You already know my terms,” Rainbow said with a cocky wink. “But I like to live dangerously~”

“Mmm...so I should turn my infertility charms off, is what I’m hearing,” Aspect warned her as he began pushing those fingers into and out of her.

“Well, up to you now isn’t it?” she mused. “There’s no guarantee it’ll actually stick.”

“And you know I’ll love you no matter what happens,” Aspect continued. “So I guess really the only question is, if you’re still on your potion or not, miss daring.”

“Been busy, haven’t taken it for a few days,” Rainbow said with a cheeky wink. “Still wanna risk it big guy?”

“Hmm...let’s up the ante~” Aspect chuckled as he held up his other hand. There was a muted flash before he resumed holding her still. “That...just inverted the infertility charm. Instead of infertile...I’m now hyper fertile. Still risking it, little mare?”

Her eyes widened. “Hey um… l-let’s not get carried away huh?”

“Oh, but little Dashie suddenly isn’t so sure?” Aspect cooed to her as he used his free hand to rub at her wings. “What’s wrong, the prospect of growing fat with her lover’s foal too much? With as active a lifestyle as you lead, you’ll burn that baby fat off in no time, I promise. That is...if I let you.”

“I-If you let me?” she gasped at his touch, her wings flaring outwards.

“I could just keep you here, too fat to fly because I keep breeding you, year after year,” Aspect cooed to her. “I could just make you my little broodmare to pump out hippogriffs that would serve as your replacement. With your speed and my power...the children will be terrors.”

“I’d have to move to train them.” She pointed out, her wings twitching. “And would you really keep somepony like me grounded?”

“Oh, little Dashie...I still wield Air. I could train them in techniques you’ve never heard of,” the griffon cooed. “And yes...I’d keep my Rainbow safe from prying eyes, on her bed, begging for her master’s thick, hard cock to fill her day after day.”

Then she smirked at him. “Sounds boring~”

Aspect then plunged two of his fingers as deep into her as they could go, stretching the little mare as they rubbed her inner walls.

“Mmm, not bad,” she sighed, wiggling her hips. “You can do better though~”

“Hmm...how about a compromise?” Aspect hummed. “One year you bear me a foal, and the next, you’re free from said duty. Enabling you to fly around and try to burn off all the baby fat, even try out for the Wonderbolts if you’d like.”

“We’ll see,” she giggled and bat her eyes. “Now, show me what you were gonna do to the purple nerd if she let you.”

“Oh, it’s quite simple little mare,” Aspect cooed as he pulled his fingers out of her, using the dripping juices to lube his cock up. “I’d lie her down on her bed, line up my length…”

“And?” she moaned out, shaking her dripping rump at him.

Then she felt that familiar barbed length sink into her, the barbs rubbing her clit as he bottomed out inside her.

“Then I’d breed her, like I’m breeding you. Only...she gets the infertility charm,” Aspect hissed to her. Rainbow let out a long, lewd moan as he sunk into her depths, her soft walls hugging him tightly.

Then the griffon began to properly screw her, pulling back and forth. Every time he did, those barbs rubbed her clit and stimulated it. Every time he thudded home, that tip tried to pry her cervix open.

Rainbow moaned louder and louder, her flightsuit rubbing against her skin, her wings giving idle, uncontrolled flaps as her tongue lolled out. “Mmm, fuck that’s gooood~” she moaned. “Come on big boy, I won’t break. Fuck me harder~”

“Oh I will,” Aspect warned her. “I’ll fuck you until you’re begging me to be knocked up. I wasn’t kidding about the fertility runes, so it’ll happen, little Dash.”

“H-hey now… I’m all for sexy talk,” she stammered, her wings beating again.

“I’m going to fuck you so hard, all you’ll be able to say is ‘Yes,’ ‘Harder,’ and ‘More,’” the griff said as he upped the tempo, now slamming that rod home every time he fucked her, using his hands to splay her rear legs apart. “And I’m going to stuff you so full, you’ll look like you’re carrying twins.”

“Mm, Ah! Aaaahh!” Rainbow panted and moaned. “Oh, fffuck yeess~” she groaned out. “Such a big bad gryphon you are!” Her walls hugged his cock tightly, making every attempt to pull out of that tight marehood a chore.

“And something tells me,” Aspect growled as he hunched over the mare. “That a little rainbow slut wants her big, griffon master to breed her, to show her she’s worthy of his seed, of the honor of bearing his children.”

“Y-You’re an ass,” she said back at him, flashing him her trademark smirk as she winked. “Never gonna break me big boy. I’m just aah too cool.”

“Oh really?” Aspect mused, before doing the worst possible thing.

He stopped.

“...What are you doing?” she asked him with a flat tone.

“Breaking you,” Aspect replied, still not moving.

“Seriously?” the mare sighed. “Dude, you’re more pent up than me…” then she smirked.

She ruffled her mane, somehow making it look like Twilight’s manestyle. “Ah~ Please Mister Aspect, keep teaching me more pervy things~”

“Mmm...nope,” Aspect chuckled. “I’m not moving until I hear you begging for it.”

“You know you want to~” Rainbow said, shaking that tight little rump. “I knoooww how much you love fucking me~ Maybe if you’re good, I’ll let you fuck my ass like you used to.”

“Eh, I can deal,” Aspect replied, idly examining a hand. “These are much more useful for stimulating myself. If you’re not going to be a good, obedient little mare, I can always just go into the bathroom and pleasure myself there.”

“Mhm, cause a scaly old claw feels better than me,” she smirked.

Aspect shrugged, and then began drawing back out of her. “Let’s find out,” he said.

“Suit yourself,” she replied, calling his bluff. “I’ll be here, alone… defenseless, my aching marehood waiting for a big, meaty cock to fill it while you do~” she cooed in a seductive tone.

“Hey, I can get off,” Aspect replied as his tip pulled free of her. “You’re officially not my problem.” And with that, he began walking towards the bathroom.

“Oh my gods you’re an asshole,” she yelled at him, flying right as him and tackling him to the floor. “Now, you’re mine my little breeding stud~”

“What, you didn’t think I would?” Aspect asked from his position under her. “I’m serious about everything, I never back down from a promise or a threat.”

“Oh, I am pranking you all the way to the apocalypse after this,” Rainbow promised. “And believe me, I don’t back down either. Now hurry up and rut your marefriend you silly birdbrain.”

“I believe the phrase you’re looking for is ‘Hold still and let me rut you,’” Aspect corrected her. “You’re on top after all.”

“Oh right,” she mused. “So I am… how about that.” She sunk herself onto his shaft, rocking her hips back and forth as she worked her way down the rigid member. “Hmm, such a good pet,” she giggled, petting his head. “Does this feel good?” Her muscles gave his cock a tight squeeze.

“Don’t get cocky, I might just flip you back over,” the griffon warned her.

“Oh, but all the cock is back there,” she smirked widely, lifting and letting her hips fall.

“Mmm, and still dangerously potent, little Dash,” the griffon reminded her. “And perhaps I won’t tell you when I’m close…”

“I’m fast,” she winked as she kept up her steady pace of thrusting over his cock. “What’s life without a little risk hm?”

“And as you pointed out, I’m pent up,” Aspect mused. “Who knows? I could be close to cumming in you already. Still feeling up to that challenge?”

“Hmh, bring it on,” she smirked, as she leaned down and kissed his beak. “Love you Aspect~”

“Love you too Dash, I hope you’re ready to be as round as Bon Bon will be~” he sang back to her.

“If you think you caaan~” she sung as she bounced in his lap, her mouth open in a pant as she let out some adorable moans for him.

“Really, all I have to do is get my knot inside you, and then it’s a sure thing,” the griff pointed out as one claw snaked up to hold onto Dash’s hips.

“So you do,” she smirked, pinning his claws down with her hooves as she kept that knot of his enticingly out of reach, touching her lips before she pulled back up. Of course, the griffon was not just going to let this stand.

So he began meeting every lowering of her lips with the bucking of his hips, grinding that knot against them.

“Mmm, I bet you want it soo bad~” she moaned out for him. “To just ram that in me and breed me? You silly, foal-obsessed perv~”

“You’re the one that turned it into a game,” the griff panted under her. “I just gave you some very real stakes.”

“Mmh, that I did,” she murred as she wiggled herself against his knot before pulling up. “I wonder who’s gonna win?”

“All I have to do is tie you,” Aspect whispered, bucking into her again, griiiiinding that knot against her once more.

“Mhm, but you have to last long enough to do that~” she murred, her wings moving to tease his knot as she pulled up, her hooves keeping his talons pinned to his chest.

“You think I can’t?” Aspect replied, raising an eyebrow. “Might I remind you of the three mares that have taken it upon themselves to train me in such practices?”

“Yees, but I also know how much my sexy bod drives you nuts,” she teased running a wing down her sleek, suit-clad form. Her brow had some sweat from exertion due to the exercise after work. Her flanks rising up and down over his barbed cock as her other wing brushed his knot again.

Aspect growled and thrust up harder, trying his best to sink his knot into the little mare.

“Ooh, so close,” she murred as she teased him some more, sinking more of him into her depths as she leaned forwards and kissed his beak. “I might let you… if you beg~”

“I’m not going to beg,” the griff promised her as he bucked upwards as hard as he could. “But you...will.”

That knot was so close now, parting her lips ever so slightly before she pulled up rocking back and forth to stimulate his member. “Oh, don’t like the horseshoe being on the other hoof?” she teased. “Where’s the fairness oh mighty Bloodwing?”

Aspect growled, bucking his hips sharply, kicking off the ground a little, just once. Just to send Dash sprawling across his chest...and distract her as he curled in, pushing his knot as hard as he could possibly go.

“H-Hey! That’s cheating!” she said, trying to pull the knot out as it was halfway in. Aspect curled a little harder...just a little more…

Damn it all that Dash was so small. As long as she tucked herself in too, he couldn’t fully knot her. The pegagryph ball now lay on the carpet, with Rainbow snickering.

“Aspect, the hell are we doing?” she snorted.

“Apparently we failed at playing a sexy game somewhere along the line,” Aspect mused as he didn’t uncurl, still trying to figure out a way to get her more fully onto his knot.

“You’re a dork,” she said as she relaxed, letting his knot slip all the way inside her. “There, better?”

“...You do realize I wasn’t kidding about any of that, right Dash?” Aspect asked as he slowly uncurled.

“Mhm, I’m aware,” she smiled and poked his beak. “But you would have kept pouting. Besides, no guarantee it’ll stick, right. So go ahead…” she leaned in close. “Fill me up stud~”

The griff worked his claws free, before pulling the mare down into a kiss, even as his cock sawed back and forth inside of her. “Mmm…” he hummed once the kiss broke. “You know, I’m feeling generous. Right now...before I cum, you can choose my form I use to breed you, little Dash.”

“What form do you want?” she said and smiled. “Cause I’d like a pegasus kid I guess…”

“One Pegasus, coming up,” Aspect replied, before flashing back into his usual pegasus guise. He pulled out of Dash, before crawling out from under her and mounting her from behind like a pony should, thrusting erratically a few times. He was close, so close…

“Mmm, go ahead,” Rainbow murred. “Twi left you all pent up right? Go ahead, let it aaalll out.”

The stallion let out a little growl as he hammered home a few more times, before Dash felt that length twitch inside her. The tip pressed right up against her innermost barrier before it began flooding her depths with his seed. Rainbow let out a deep moan as he filled her, her tail swishing as her wings extended.

“Mmm, there’s a good stallion~” she moaned out.

“There’s a good mare,” Aspect panted back to her, still twitching slightly.

“Mmm, I wonder if Middy’s having as much fun?” the mare purred.

“Or Twilight,” Aspect mused.

Meanwhile, in Twilight’s library…

“Honestly? He leaves it wording it as such?” Midnight facehooved. Her stallion was such an idiot sometimes. “I shall scold him until his ears fall of!”

“No… it was maybe a little my fault for not giving him an answer…” Twilight started but Midnight raised a hoof.

“No, it is his fault for pushing too hard,” she sighed. “He likes you, that much is true. But I think you need somepony less… eh, complicated.”

“His family is quite strange indeed,” Midnight giggled as she sipped her tea. “Trust me Lady Twilight. He is not mad at you. But, he requires a direct hoof. You should think about what you want. And tell him as such.”

“I just… don't think I'm ready,” Twilight said softly.

“Honestly, he knew as such and should not have entered your room to begin with.” Midnight set her teacup down. “Regardless, a lesson was learned. Should you write it to your Sun Princess?”

“That'd make for a fun time for all,” Twilight said with a deadpan tone. “Thanks Miss Midnight. I… never expected this side of you.”

“A mare that enjoys tea and biscuits?” the thestral chuckled. “It is fine. But, he did send me here with another mission.”

“Oh dear,” Twilight said. “What?”

“To please you like none other,” the thestral smirked and licked her fangs. “You are a very pretty mare Lady Twilight. That is undeniable.”

“You too?” Twilight sighed. “Honestly…”

“Worry not, I tease,” the thestral giggled and kissed her nose. “I shall head back home now. Will you be okay?”

“Mhm, I feel loads better,” Twilight nodded. “Just… gonna need some time for things to calm down I guess… I'll come by in a few days. Promise.”

“Try not to delay,” Midnight nodded as she headed for the door. “Leaving a problem invites it to worsen.” With a wave, she left the unicorn be. Matters of the heart were a pain in the flank.

“Right, I have cleaned that mess… time to scold an idiot.”

Author's Note

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