Rise of the Swarm Lord

Chapters

Chapter 1: The Intruder
Chapter 2: The Brood Mother
Chapter 3: The Escape
Chapter 4: To Love Royalty
Chapter 5: The Awakening
Chapter 6: Mini Moon
Chapter 7: Unrestful Night
Chapter 8: Calm before the Storm
Not a chapter, just character info.
Chapter 10: The Cleansing
Chapter 9: Monsters and Nightmares and Costumes, oh my!

Chapter 1: The Intruder

Author's Note

Please forgive the short intro chapter, I'm not great at long drawn out chapters, but what I know I will lack in length at times, I will try to make up for in quantity, proper punctuation and spelling, and of course, content amount, thank you.

Chapter 1: The Intruder

*KRA-KA-KOOOOOooOOOmmmm*

It began with the clap of thunder, rain beginning to pelt at my window. "Oh, I could've sworn before that the weather man said there would be no rain for another week." Shrugging, I slowly made my way upstairs, thinking that with classes it would be a long night of studying ahead of me. As I slowly made my way to the dormitories second floor common room, I heard another clap of thunder as lightning struck outside the window. Jumping back, I failed to realize how strongly I moved as my tall self slammed against the railing smashing it to pieces as I felt the first floor. Gingerly I picked myself up a nasty gash suddenly appearing on my left arm. As I slowly shook my head at my own stupidity I began to hear an overwhelming knocking from the front door. "Somebody is actually knocking at the door? Why not just use the damn doorbell?:, I grumble to myself as I slowly made my way over the knocking growing ever louder and more intense. "Yeah yeah yeah I hear you hold your horses dammit hold your damn horses.", I mumbled and slowly reached for the door unlocking the bolt. "I swear to high heaven Peter if this is another of your pranks I am going to mur-", I said, as I suddenly stopped in mid-sentence, the person....? at the door easily towering taller then the frame itself as they smirked down at me, a black muzzle chuckling as it recited my words back to me,

"Hold your horses eh?......Not a bad term of phrasing my little one.....not that your words mean that much anymore, as I, your mist-HMMPGH!", the creature suddenly yelped, as I slammed the door into its' face, turning around and running for my life.

"Shit shit shit, fuck fuck fuck, what the hell was that thing? It looked like a giant....oh god oh man oh jeez", I said as I stumbled into the kitchen, having forgotten about the profusely bleeding wound from my shoulder from my earlier fall. "Oh god, I have to find something to protect mys-hey....wait a minute....WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYBODY?!", I suddenly realized, shouting it out automatically. Sure the dorm I had been assigned for college was not a large one, but still, it was only 20 to 11 in the evening. At this hour, it was entirely not uncommon to see not just one or two, but several other students milling about, either hanging out, or grabbing some snacks from our small kitchen area for a late night cram session. Shaking the thought from my head, as I focused on finding not just the medicine supplies in the first-aid kit, but also a hammer or knife of some of kind for defense, my thoughts were quickly dashed as to which I had to attend to first, as a sudden cracking of wood splintered off, my eyes watching as the front door to the dorm sailed by, smashed into the far right wall of the kitchen.

"HOW DARE YOU NOT SHOW THE PROPER RESPECT TO YOUR MISTRESS!", the creature howled at me, white lightning like effects sparking off of it as the heavy grey robe that it wore quivered slightly, as if moved by a small breeze.

"......I.....whoa....", I stuttered, aghast as I stared at the remains of the door, for it had not only been broken off, but burnt to a crisp, the entire frame having come with it. Turning my attention back to the creature, I stumbled back at its' approach, it's huge frame having to bend slightly to fit into the kitchen area.

"I WILL TEACH YOU PROPER RESPECT YOUNGLING! YOU WILL LEARN TO LOVE YOUR QUEEN!", it spoke, the effect of its' voice overwhelming, to say the least, as I stumbled backwards, my knees melting to jelly as I slowly fumbled for the steak knife I had held before, waving it in front of me as a meager show of defense. "Hahaha, if you think that pathetic piece of metal is going to....going to....pretty", it said, my eyes suddenly opening slightly as I peaked out over my cringing body, the creature hovering right over me as its' eyes were glued my chest.

"So....beautiful", it mumbled, the sudden demonic like presence from earlier vanishing in but an instant as a hand, small in comparison to the creatures body, but large enough to lift me around the torso easily, extended outwards, grasping at the family charm my mother had given me a long time ago.

*FLASHBACK*

"But moooommmmm! I don't want to wear a stupid necklace, jewelrys for girls and sissies", I pouted, sticking my tongue out at my mother as my eleven year old self stomped his feet in a show of anger and defiance.

"Now Custos, trust me, this will be worth it, this actually belonged to my mother you know, and her father before her. It's been in my family for 10 generations, now that it belongs to you. It was a good luck charm for our family, always ensuring good health on us", she said as she chuckled quietly, clasping it behind my neck as I squirmed, not wanting to make a fuss as my grandmother quietly watched from the corner.

"Don't be so kind on him dear, boys these days need to toughen up, lest Mother Gaia test with them a challenge too difficult to endure, she said, as she slowly rocked in her chair, closing her book as as she looked up, a crooked tooth smile stretching across her old lips as a warm breeze blew in thru the open window next to her, slowly bringing me back to the present

*PRESENT*

Horrified as the creature reached out and clasped the charm, it suddenly shook its' large head, smirking as it returned to its confident demeanor. "H-haha-HAHAHA FOOLISH LITTLE ONE! FOR THY DEFIANCE A PAINFUL DEATH WOULD BE GRANTED........But under the circumstances.....I WILL SIMPLY TAKE THINE TREASURE FOR THYSELF, SUCH A LOVELY PIECE OF JEWELRY SHOULD BE OWNED BY A TRUE BEAUTY SUCH AS MYSELF!", it boasted, suddenly grasping the charm as it began to tug it away from me, choking me a little in the process.

"H-h-hey! LEGGO MY EGGO YA CRAZY BASTARD!", I said, struggling to hold back as the hand lifted me up, my feet just barely able to touch the ground.

"B-BASTARD?! HOW DARE THEE! WE ARE QUEEN ECLIPSA OF THE ANCIENT CHANGELING MOON HIVE! WE WILL NOT ALLOW THINE INSULTS TO BE ALLOWED!", it said as it suddenly began to tug even harder on the charm, the clasp just refusing to snap apart. "UGH! COME OFF THINE PIECE OF JUNK!", the queen? snapped, tugging still.

"PIECE OF JUNK?!" I shouted, suddenly grabbing the hand by the wrist as the charm began giving off a faint ghastly black glow. "PIECE OF JUNK!? THIS WAS MY MOTHERS YOU SMUG BITCH!", I cried, suddenly, somehow, gripping the arm of the creature as I hurled it over my shoulder, my feet, thank god for my large stature, planted firmly back on the ground. Throwing the bitch judo style over my shoulder, I grinned satisfyingly as I heard a loud crunch as she hit the window hard, crashing thru it back into the outside yard of the dorm.

Lightning striking again as the rain began to pour down like rapid fire from a gun, I suddenly realized what happened, my confident grin vanishing as my logical side began questioning how I had done so. This supposed Queen easily dwarved my size, despite being a thankful 6 feet and 2 inches, thanking my grandfather again for he was the only other tall person in the family, I was still little more then level with the bottom of where this bitches chest would be. Popped out of my thinking, I noticed as the floor had begun to hum, white streaks of lightning slowly but increasingly beginning to surge from the broken window area, rubble beginning to float in the air as a sudden bolt of what could only be described as lightning struck out, slamming into my chest as I flew back, my body slamming into the fridge on the far side, heavily denting it as I coughed up blood, my body falling to the ground in a heap of jittering nerves, and pulsating pain. "Thy think thineself funny huh? Throwing a lady, a queen no less, out a window, causing pain to her. THINESELF WILL PAY FOR THIS TRANSGRESSION!", as the crazy queen leapt back thru the broken opening, into the kitchen as it slammed another bolt into me. Collapsing back to a prone position, from the on my knees and elbow position I had managed to climb to, I screamed out in pain and suffering. Tears welling up in my eyes, god why, all I wanted was for the pain to stop. Feeling myself being lifted up, I suddenly found myself hurled thru the opening into the back yard. the raining soaking me in but an instant as I laid on the cold ground, quickly coming to begin shivering along with the pain my body felt.

Stumbling, no, struggling to get up, my brain screamed at me to just move. "MOVE YOU IDIOT! MOVE!" I mumbled to myself, unfortunately the energy causing me to slur the words like a drunk as I slipped and fell back into the quickly becoming mud. "MMMMMOOOOVVVVEEEE!!!!" I mentally screamed, finally regaining a semblance of control as I managed to get to a kneeling position, struggling to control my breathing as I huffed and puffed. Unfortunately, as quickly as my moment of triumph began, it crashed just as fast as a black arm shot out, chokeholding me as it slammed me into the nearest tree.

"Thy repugnant wretch......I will end thee", she stated as she cocked back her other arm, glowing crackled of energy surrounding it as her fingers....if they could even be called that with how sharp the ends were, gathered together as if to form a spear.

However, just as it seemed the end was about to come, a strike of lightning struck the tree we were against, splintering it into hundreds of pieces as the force of the explosion, and the erupting fire from it, flung both me and the creature away. Landed as I did, my eyes stinging from the sensation, I struggled to get back up, my hands fumbling for a firm grip on something, anything really to help steady myself. Feeling around, I managed to get a grip on something, though my hand sunk into it like a water bed, or a soft pillow almost. Confused, I gingerly opened my eyes, to my horror, the bitch had looked at the same time as well. To our mutual shock, I had a firm grasp on her right boob, my hand gripping it hard as the shock of the incident was so heavy, it could be cut with a knife.

Quick to regain her composure, the bitch stood up, her robe all but torn and ripped to ashes as she flung it to the side. "H-how dare thine peasant touch thyself in such a manner!", she stammered, her confidence just as quickly lost again as she backhanded us, though with force nowhere near as hard as what she had been using before. "Now I can no longer be married!", she cried out, my cheek stinging as I rubbed it gently, anger welling up inside me.

"WELL MAYBE IF YOU DIDNT ENTER INTO MY HOME LIKE A DAFT BITCH, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE EVER HAPPENED!", I shouted back at her, standing up firmly now, the jittering from the attacks earlier having all but disappated from my body at this point.

"N-nonsense! I am a QUEEN! I go where I please and you peasasnt all should bow to me!", she stated, as if it was the supreme truth in this world. Slowly looking over at me, I finally got a good look at the creature that called herself a queen, and whoa nelly was she rocking an A plus body. Logically, I was shocked that in such a dire situation, my body was finding ways to get turned on. But emotionally, it wasn't every day a 8 foot something amazoness ran into you, even if she was apparently trying to kill you.....or capture you, or whatever the fuck this bitch was trying to do to me.

Not noticing the expression she made at me as she apparently caught me in my staring, I failed to notice her slowly making her way over to me. "Dost thou.....enjoy what thineself see's?", she asked, almost timidly as her entire demeanor from earlier was gone completely. Nodding, I mumbled a confirmation, while at the same time, slumping over as the adrenaline that had been pumping my body until just recently was finally wearing off. Falling to the side, I gradually lost sight, the last thing I was able to take it, was a panicked shout as the queen bitch lunged at me, a weird white glow surrounding the growth sticking out of her head as darknesses cold hand enveloped me completely.

Chapter 2: The Brood Mother

"MY QU---....WH--................-kay?"

"SIL----...JUS-........TRE--............WOUN--! HE SH---...........HUSB---"

"RI---...AW--.........MAJ----"

Voices rumbled around me, my body feeling light as I was lifted, my conciousness drifting to and from wakefulness as I could only make out the destroyed structure of my dorm, crumbling to pieces. Feeling several hands on me, I slowly made out another structure in the distance, a giant moon white building, holes covering it like a bee-hive, as weird creatures darted in and out through several of them.

Feeling the touch of sleep come to me again, I closed my eyes. As my body, embraced by the cold touch that is unconciousness, I dreamed.

*FLASHBACK/DREAM*

"Oh man, I can't wait to get home and play the new Monster Rancher game", I said excitedly to my friend Peter, as we walked down the sidewalk to our homes.

"What? Monster Rancher sucks man, Digimon is where it's at bro, I mean, everybody knows that", he said, laughing at my comment

"Pfft....boys, we all know Pokemon is the true king of games, it was the best, and it'll be the last one around as well", said Peters twin sister, Wendy, as she flipped her hair, following us from behind as she caught part of the conversation.

"Yeah yeah yeah", I grumbled, not wanting to have this discussion again, as the last time it happened, we more or less got into a 3 way shouting match that was eventually broken up by our teacher. "Well guys, I gotta go, this is my turn", I said as we came up to the corner, myself turning in the opposite direction of the two siblings.

"Okay buddy, see you at school tomorrow", Peter said, waving as he grinned, turning back around as he quickly attempted to catch up with his sister, who had run ahead to catch up with some girlfriends of hers from school.

"Ok bye!", I said as I turned and started to run down the sidewalk, super excited to get home and start playing. Summer vacation had just started, and I had finally finished my fourth year of grade school. While my middle school next year was not in a different location, it gave me plenty more time to relax as I did not have to worry about memorizing a new route to and from home this time around. Rounding the bend, I jumped over the picket fence that surround my homes yard, at the far end of the road.

Whistling as I walked up the sidewalk, I stopped as I noticed the door ajar.....but not just ajar, but open as if it had been slammed into with something very heavy. Being a small child, I obviously was an idiot to unexpected situations, as I entered anyways, calling out, "MOM! GRANDMA! I'M HOME!", I shouted, throwing my backpack into the corner as I kicked off my shoes, walking thru the foyer to the kitchen to grab a snack.

"CUSTOS! RUN!", was all I was able to hear as I rounded the bend, only to get backhanded across the face, falling to the ground in a daze, the hazy frame of my father slowly stepping into view as he rounded the corner, laughing mercilessly at the harm he had caused me.

"NO! LEAVE HIM ALONE! HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!", cried my mother as she struggled in the chair she was restrained in in the corner. "PLEASE! IF IT'S MONEY YOU NEED TAKE IT! JUST DON'T HARM HIM!"

"Stupid bitch", the voice growled as it lifted me by the shirt, throwing me into the general direction of my mother and grandmother. "If it was just money I needed, I wouldn't keep coming back here", he said as he shot off a warning shot to shut her up.

Shaking my head, I tried to clear the cobwebs from my vision as I began tearing up from the pain, holding my cheek as my mother looked down at me while sobbing. Looking over, I saw my grandmother had also been similarily tied up, but in addition, also had been gagged with what looked like several socks stuffed in her mouth. as he eyes blazed angrily, struggling almost nonstop as she attempted to undo the ropes that kept her securely in place.

"Hahaha, dumb bitches, you're going to keep me going for alot longer this time", he said as he swiped at a beer bottle from the counter top, emptying its' contents before slamming it on the floor, the bottle crashing as it flew apart. "If it wasn't for your stupid self and that damn brat there, I wouldn't have had to settle down, I could've focused more on my work, and made big money!", he shouted, wobbily swaying as it was obvious from the surrounding mess that he had already been drinking before he came here.

"ROBERT PLEASE! You're drunk! Let's just calm down, and you can drive me to the bank and I'll get you the money" my mother pleaded, trying anyway she could think of to get the man she once called her husband to settle down, to prevent anything horrible from happening.

"I ALREADY TOLD YOU!", he said, swining the gun around at her, "I DIDN'T COME HERE JUST FOR MONEY THIS TIME!", he screamed as his finger slowly pressed on the trigger.

*END OF FLASHBACK/DREAM*

Groaning, I mumbled in my sleep, "Common mom.......just five more minutes", I begged, tossing over to the side as I slammed a pillow over my head, trying to blind out my senses from the light and noises from above.

"My oh my....I have not been called that in such a long time, aren't you just an adorable little morsel?", chuckled a voice that was clearly NOT my mother, causing my eyes to pop open as I suddenly sprang up from the bed, wincing in agony as I only got as far as the lifting of my upper torso, before I collapsed back onto the bed, hissing from the pain coursing through my body. "Oh man.....did anyone get the number of that truck that hit me?" I moaned out thru my teeth, blinking rapid and unevenly as my eyes attempted to adjust to the lighting in the room.

"Truck?....I...am unsure what you mean by that little one", the voice said, a mirth of humor still detectable as a black hand moved over, smoothing out the blanket that covered me, as well as fluffing the pillows that my head rested on.

Looking over at the being sitting next to me, my eyes bugged out again as a creature not unlike the one that attacked me, was sitting there calmly humming as she gave me a small smile, her yellow eyes glancing over the rims of her glasses. Yelping in fright, my body suddenly surging with another boost of adrenaline, I leapt up, ignoring the pain as I slammed a pillow into the beings face, before bolting from the bed and towards the nearest door.

Bursting through it, all I heard was a merry laugh from behind me as I began bolting down the hallway, seeing another door in the distance. Putting on another burst of speed, I rammed into it, tackling it with my shoulder as I stumbled thru, only to land face first in the softest pair of black pillows I have ever felt.

"Oh dear....an awfully forward type of pony aren't you little morsel?", the same creature from before chuckled, my face firmly lodged between her bosom as I, in all my apparent stupidity, fumbled for an excuse as I attempted to extract myself from the....booby trap I had landed myself in (AN: I mean, ya cant NOT expected me to make that joke). A lightly laugh broke out from the female creature, her gaze lowering at me as her yellow eyes seemed to pierce mine. "Hmmm, a bit on the small side....but I don't think my daughter will mind if I test drive her first mate", she said as she hefted me up, tossing me in the direction of the bed, landing with an oomph.

Struggling backwards until my back was up against the headboard, I trembled at the sight of her. Easily a good foot taller then the creature from before, I was only able to croak out a few words before she was hovering over me, like a predator above its prey. "W-where am I?....What happened?" Taken aback by my questioning, the creatures eyes blinked rapidly in confusion. Its' head tilting as it stared at me for a few moments.

"Wait....she didn't tell you? Really? You must've not been quite fully concious from before.", the female laughed, clapping her hands together in merriment. "Well stud...let me get right down to it. That little stunt you pulled back at your place caused quite a stir. It's not every day a stallion is the one to push the envelope forward, especially to a Changeling, even a royal one. That being said, when my daughter arrived back, she told me ALL about what happened, as for how you two managed to come back, even I am at a loss for that. One moment, I'm managing my daughters hive as she's out with you, the next, an entire new building crashes outside the front entrance, you can't BELIEVE the stir that caused for our people. That being said, she also did not fail to leave out all the harm you somehow managed to cause to her....including the groping, and you know what that made me feel like?", she said, a sudden growl coming forward as she bared her fangs at me. "PROUD!", she said, pouncing my face with a kiss, my own eyes bulging outward. "I spoiled my daughter rotten, never taught her how to properly run a hive or society....let alone how to court a potential husband. So to you, I say thank you little morsel, for now my daughter finally has a stallion that can provide her with love......and me with grandchildren."

Laying there staring at the female....changeling, I guess that's what they're called, I blinked calmly a few times, before opening my mouth, unable to control the level of my voice. "THE FUCK YOU ON ABOUT?! I AIN'T MARRYING NO SHE-BEAST, AND I CERTAINLY AIN'T GOING TO GIVE NOBODY NO CHILDREN!" I hollered, the female taken aback by my shouting as she popped me one on the head, my vision blurring for but a moment.

"Tut tut, that kind of language is uncouth towards royalty....I can see that while my daughter may have chosen an attractive stallion.....she has much to learn still in the ways of finding one who can speak properly." she said as she lifted me up, practically cradling me in her arms as she leaned down, kissing my lips, her tongue brooking no argument as it invaded my mouth with ease, pushing my teeth and own tongue to the side like leaves in the wind as she explored the inside of my mouth to her hearts content. "Mmmm~ You have a fantastic scent morsel......I'm sure you'll make many children for my daughter.....but for now, I think it's time I proved your UP to the task afterall...", she finished with, laying me back on the bed. "My name is Brood Mother Crescent little morsel.....but for now, you can call me Momma~", she whispered, as her clawed hands reached beneath my shirt, ripping it to pieces as she slowly peeled my clothing off of me, not unlike a banana..

Shivering under her touch, as repulsive as it felt to me, not being given a choice was the least of my worries. Watching her mouth slowly peel off my belt as easy as you would peel an orange, I watched as her tongue....my god was it long, snaked into the opening at the top of my pants, feeling around until I felt it flick the tip of my member. Gasping at the coldness of her tongue, I shivered, even as my member slowly began to grow erect.

"Oh my~ Looks like somebodies getting excited", Crescent said, as she peeled off my pants, no more difficultly as she had done to my shirt. My member, now exposed to the cold air, stood proudly at attention as its' red head pulsed and quivered, almost as if requesting, nay, demanding more attention from the visitor it had just felt.

"Asshole", I thought to myself, as I looked at my dick, "You think you'd care more about me being alive, then you would about getting some", I thought as I watched Crescent slowly descend, her mouth engulfing my member as she took it halfway before choking a bit.

Gasping for air, she slowly came up. "H-how can this be? I've taken many lovers and mates....but they.....you.....that was HEAVENLY!", she exclaimed, before ramming her mouth back down onto it, the slurps and moans of the Changeling echoing out through the room, as well as the small gasps and moans of the male beneath her. "Give it to me...I need it....pppplleeassseee", she moaned, extracting her mouth as she licked the underside, jacking it with one hand as she used the other to guide my head to her nipple.

Gulping in nervously, I reached out, attaching my lips to the nipple as I hesitantly did as she seemed to want me to do, attempting to avoid the best I could the wrath I felt would come if I disobeyed her. Her hand speed increasing, I suddenly moaned into her breast as my load spewed out, shooting straight up into her face, coating it with a milky white sheen as it practically drenched her in seed.

"Mmmmm", Crescent moaned, her lips parting as her tongue sneaked out to lap at it as it dripped from her face. "Oh my, such a big load, even a stallion would be hardpressed to match it", she said as she chuckled, swallowing what she had in her mouth, "In fact I dar-......", she suddenly stopped, mid-sentence, suddenly smashing her face with her own hand as she wiped as much of the seed off as she could, before stuffing it into her mouth. "SOOOO GOOD!", she cried out, seeming to practically orgasm from the taste alone. "HOW?! HOW CAN ANY STALLIONS SEED TASTE THIS GOOD?!", she cried out, literal tears streaming down her face as her eyes closed in bliss.

"Well first of all, I'm no stallion.....I'm a human", I found myself saying, having gained a bit of confidence aftering seeing a stronger creature seeming to practically worship the taste of my sperm. "I'm no horse", I said, my voice trailing off quietly as she focused her attention on me.

"Human?.....Is that what you ponies from your world call you? My daughter DID mention how strange it was for the people from that world to act, from the little I've managed to gather from her, it seems you're on the taller side of the spectrum, yet still you're so small...", she giggled at the end, nipping my ear as she began to tear off her not at all modest clothing. "Anyways, for the time being, I need more....my daughter might have to just learn to share her new mate with me", she said, leaning back over me as she slowly began to lower herself, my member, already hard again at the prospect of more fun times ahead, penetrating her as she moaned out, the feeling ALMOST mutual, if it wasn't for the fact that I
was trapped under her much heavier frame.

"Oh yeah!~ Come and give it to Momma stud.....", she cried out. straddling me as she began to gyrate over me, her hips slowly slamming down then back up. My body, wracked with pain from the several hundred pound creature on top of me, I grunted in agony everytime she fell back down. "Ooohh oh, common baby, Momma wants to FEEL it", she said, as she quickened her pace.

Grunting once more, anger began to swell inside of me. Roughly grabbing her by her hips, I began thrusting upward, dedicated to getting this mare off, so she would GET OFF of me. Hearing her gasps turn into shrieks of delight at my assumed assertiveness, I quickened my thrusts, our bodies connecting each time with loud wet slapping noises as our mutual orgasms began to draw nearer. "A-a-almost th-there!", Crescent cried, her body quivering as juices and liquid were flying everywhere.

"I....I'm not going to last much longer!", I cried out at the last second, as my tip unleashed inside of her, white baby batter unloading into the warmness of her womb.

"OH BUCK YES!", she cried out, her second orgasm rocking thru her as she collapsed on top of me, with a grunt, her face once more smashing against mine as she slowly grinded against me until we finally came down. "Oh dear Faust that was amazing little morsel.....just amazing!"

"....I have a name you know, it's Custos", I grumbled, not just unhappy at the fact that I was more or less raped, but also at the fact that my body had betrayed me into going along with it. Laying back down fully, I looked up at her as Crescent rubbed her belly slowly, almost as if savoring the feeling of me inside of her.

*WHOOSH!* Went the door, as it swung inward, Eclipsa, the bitch that attacked me from before, entering while looking down at a sheet of paper. "Mother, can you please explain to me why you went ahead an authorized the expansion of the royal nur-nur-MOTHER!", she cried out sharply, horrified with the image of her naked mothers form, leaning over me as our privates glistened with moisture, the acts we committed obvious to anyone with even half a brain.

"Oh hello sweetie.....Mommy......Mother decided she needed a quick snack dear", Crescent said, burping suddenly as she turned to grin down at me.

"You....you....HEATHEN!", Eclipsa cried out, her face baring fangs at me as she leapt towards the bed, my mouth giving out a yelp as I sprang out from under Crescent to escape the grasp of Eclipsa.

Chapter 3: The Escape

For the second time in as many days....at least I'm assuming that, I found myself running for my life, the snarls and threats being issued at me were off-putting, as they were accompanied by the merry laughter that followed, along with several requests to go easy on me.

"YOU PERVERTED HEATHEN! WITH OUR MOTHER?!", Eclipsa screeched, tearing down the corridor after me, her body gaining on me as she seemed to b-HOLY CRAP WERE THOSE WINGS?! These things have wings now?! "WE WILL TEACH YOU THE MEANING OF PAIN!" she cried out, her speed suddenly much greater as she almost had us in reach, before tripping over her own long legs, stumbling to the floor with a loud "oomph"

Slowing down for a quick second, I laughed at her own clumsiness, letting out a small quip, "Oh wow....as clumsy as you are crazy.....who WOULDN'T want that?", as I suddenly turn and ran off again, growls emanating from her form as she slowly picked herself up, having been embarassed enough for one day, she turned towards the nearest guard, "GUARD! Issue thine orders to all you see. Capture that Stallion, capture him and bring him to the dungeons.....concious is not required", she huffed as she stormed back towards the direction she ran from.

"Humans dear....he's not a stallion", Crescent said, embracing her daughter with a hug, even as Eclipsa grimaced at the sight of her mothers naked body being pressed against her. "And my hive, was he the best lay I've had in the longest of my life", she said, her wings buzzing gently, her arousal still almost palpable.

Blushing in both discomfort and curiosity, Eclipsa looked at her mother, "Mother.....surely thoust jest, no stallion.....or this human, can be that good, surely you must be mistaken", she said, looking down, secretly wondering if maybe she wasn't.

"Nay I am not child, he brought me to not just one, but several orgams, and was actually able to climax more then once....AND HE IS STILL RECOVERING! My child, imagine if he was at peak health! Oh I'm so happy you managed to find such a good mate, your mothers so happy for you.......jealous, but happy."

A horrified expression crept across Eclipsas face, even as her cheeks turned bright red. "M-M-MATE?! MOTHER! HE ATTACKED ME! MOLESTED ME! I......IT WAS MY FIRST TIME BEING TOUCHED LIKE THAT!", she cried out, exasperated at her mothers seemingly care-free attitude, as she pouted, stomping a hoof onto the marble flooring.

"Oh hush now dear....quit being such a child, you're a QUEEN for goodness sakes", she said, clicking her tongue in disapproval at her daughter. "Besides...you KNOW what happens to us Queens when we retire, it's not like I could've stopped myself, even if I had wanted to, which I certainly did not.....Also stop with all this royalty like tone of voice, it's annoying, I never taught you that, and your father certainly never spoke like that. Honestly, I have no idea where you picked up such an annoying habit..."

"You....I.....UGGGHHH!!!", Eclipsa said, storming off, a tantrum brewing in her the likes of which the hive would most likely suffer for days, Crescent thought to herself, as she watched her daughter leave, presumably to either return to the throne room, or to her own room to scream and pout.

"HOW THE HELL DO I GET OUT OF HERE?!", I screamed to myself as I leapt between the legs of one of the guards that had found and begun chasing me, twirling around a second, and weaving past a third. "I JUST WANT TO GO HOME!", I shouted out loud, turning back to see the guards right on my tail Various forms of lewdness being shown through their expressions. My god, one of them had actually stopped and started to masturbate, the others quickly leaving her behind as they continued chasing me. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF CHRIST HAVE I BEEN DRAGGED INTO?!", I said as I spotted a window in the distance.

Putting on a last minute burst of speed, I rammed into the window, story of my freakin life that is, as I fell outside, the rocks doing next to nothing for cushioning my fall as I stumbled through the broken glass, stepping on several pieces of broken shards as I hightailed it into the darkness, quickly leaving the guards behind, as they struggled, strangely enough, to all try and fit through the same window at once, their bodies squishing together in all together not an unpleasant way. However, instead of admiring it like an idiot, I proceeded to run like a bat out of hell, until I was eventually completely surrounded by darkness.

Shuffling further, I was thankful my arm had not started bleeding again as I tried to take inventory, feeling myself for any painful twitches as I ran my hands up and down. "Ok....I have my underwear....somehow still, my charm....and one sock.....great, just what any aspiring runaway needs", I muttered in annoyance, grumbling out a curse as I stubbed my foot against a rock, kicking it again out of anger, only to have the tables turn on me as now BOTH my feet hurt. "Son of a god damn whore....why is it so dark in here?", I said, as I smacked something hard aside.

Turning to walk away, I suddenly turned back as I heard the thing I hit smack against a wall, then suddenly erupt into a soft off yellow glow, as beams of light came out from holes in the rock. Walking hesitantly over, looking back and forth around, I walked over to the rock, picking it up again and smack it against the wall again, letting more light out, as the area around me was bathed in the off color glow of the light, which was emnating from the gems inside. "Ok.....so, floating rocks hiding crystal gems......that's normal", I said, quickling shaking my head at it, as it was FAR from the weirdest thing to happen to me today.

Turning back, I used the crystals to light the way, seeing a small, but steady path leading upwards as I walked quickly, stopping every so often to listen for foot-steps, hoping that those guards wouldn't catch up to me. Continuing my trek forward and up, I began to notice more and more floating rocks, some as smell as pebbles, while others seem the size of melons. "What kind of place is this? This is getting just downright bizarre....", I said as I began to see a faint glimmer in the distance, light filtering in as I began to stumble faster towards it.

"Alright....the sooner I get to the surface, the sooner I can figure out where I am and get h-h-HOW IN THE EVERLOVING FUCKING HELL DID I END UP HERE?!", I screamed into the inky black sky as I emerged onto the surface of the moon, the Earth slowly rotating off in the distance, a bright ball of both blue and green, with splotches of brown and white here and there. "Wait, I'm on the moon.....but all this time we've been on the moon? But I'm not suffocating....can humans actually breathe up here?...God this is freaky", I said as I stumbled around, beginning to shiver from the cold temperature, a huge difference from the empty, but warm feeling the caverns and dweling I had just escaped from had contained.

Walking around, my teeth chattering in my head, I spot a figure in the distance, "Oh thank god....maybe it's an astronaut, maybe they can help me figure out how I got up heeee-shit!", I said, suddenly hiding behind a rock as I finally got a good look at the creature. Dwarving even Eclipsa and her mother Crescent, the midnight black figure was decked out in what could only be described as straight up medeival armor from head to toe. Her hair....or what I could only assume was her hair, billowed about as she cackled maniaclly, her wings jutting out as she took a step towards a bright glowing portal of orange light.

"FINALLY! It took us neigh a thousand years, but we finally have broken the barrier......Equestria prepare thyself....THY QUEEN OF DARKNESS HAS RETURNED!", the creature said as she coughed slightly, before looking around hesitantly, suddenly, as if she was afraid someone would see her. "Ohboyohboyohboy, I can't wait to get back home. First thing I do after defeating Celestia is take a nice long HOT bath, then eat all the foods I've missed....eeeeeeee! I can't wait!", she squealed, like a school girl, before straightening up, walking slowly towards the portal.

As she stepped halfway into the portal, a sudden flurry of noise took hold behind me, as I slowly turned to look, my fears being made into reality as I saw dozens, if not hundreds of guards just SPEW out of the craters around me, Crescent, and behind her, her mother Eclipsa, following suit, as they all hovered around me, seemingly paying no mind to the figure in the distance that was walking into the light

"FINALLY PERVERT! WE HAVE FOUND THEE! AND NOW THAT WE HAVE.....WE ARE GOING TO DRAG THI-OW! MOTHER!", the queen remarked, looking at Eclipsa

"What did I say about the language dear? Speak NORMALLY!", her mother gestured, exasperated at her daughters behavior. "We literally JUST HAD this conversation, how can a queen be so forgettably stupid sometimes? I swear, my daughters going to cause me early wrinkles at this level."

Taking advantage of the momentary lack in concentration on me, as the guards watched the two women argue, I made a mad dash for the figure in the distance, thinking that anywhere but here would be better. Running once more at full speed, or as near it as I could manage, sweat blinding my eyes, I stumbled as I fell into the back of the tall figure, her figure giving out a small yelp, as we became tangled together.

Giving off a small faint glow, the charm around my neck slowly blinked, as the figure, now entangled with me, extricated herself from my body, lifting me up as she glared at me, "HOW DARE THEE THINE PEASANT! THOU SHOULDST BE HANGED FOR TOUCHING ROYALTY!", she shouted, her voice near deafening my ear drums.

"Look lady", I said, satisfactorily annoyed at this point, "Up until this moment, I've been attacked, stabbed, knocked unconcious, raped, chased, and almost caught by an army of perverted black bug women....Either do what you're going to do, or bugger the fuck off", I said as I glared at her.

"B-B-BUGGER?.....WE DO NOT RECOGNIZE THE WORDS THY USE, BUT THINE TONE IS MOST INSOLENT! FEEL THE WRATH OF THE QUEEN OF DARKNESS!", she said as she slapped me full force across the face, my body oddly feeling very little pain as I flew away from her, splashing into the orange light surrounding us in the tunnel of energy.

As my body slowly faded into the energy, my eyes closing as I felt strangely warm and comfortable suddenly, I saw the figure before me shift her wings, before turning away from me, and speeding the rest of the way along, before disappearing into the distance.

My eyes struggling to stay open as I felt sleep seem to wrap around me, I paid no attention to the now rapid blinking my charm was giving off as a I finally gave up, my eyes closing as a cacoon of dark energy surrounded my body, propelling me thru the electrifying currents of the orange energy.
*DREAM*

"Common sonny.....there wasn't anything you could've down", my grandfather said....well, technically my great-grandfather, but he sometimes acted young enough to be my grandfather still.

"B-B-BUT PAPA!", I sobbed, the police handing my grandfather a towel for me and a cup of hot cocoa as he hurried away, giving us some privary the best he could.

"No butts now little one.....", he said, wrapping me in a bear hug, "The man was clearly off his caboose, you're just a kid, what COULD you have done?", he said, tears beginning to stream down his face as well.

In the background, several cop cars, surrounding my house milled about, their lights flashing as an ambulance slowly wheeled out two gurnies, the bodies on them covered with blankets, as they wheeled them into the vehicle.

The man that called himself my father, thrashing about in the backseat of a squad car, spittle and phlegm flinging everywhere as he struggled in the backseat, his eyes raging at me thru the window.

"Um sir.....pardon me for interrupting, but will you be taking the kid home with you to your home?", the chief asked, nervously looking down as he seemed afraid to meet us in the eyes.

"Y-yes.....I will, after what happened to my daughter and her daughter.....I'll.....I'll make sure to keep this little guy close to me", my papa said, hugging me again as I had all but devolved into sobbing fits at this point, curling into the blanket in the briefest of hopes that this was all just a bad dream.

"V-very good sir", the chief said, looking him in the eyes finally as he gave a small nod, as if answering an unsaid question. "Don't worry sir.....the bastard will pay, I don't think any judge in the entire state will let him walk away from this."

As the chief and my papa talked with each other further, my thoughts focused on the man formerly known as my father, thinking of all the hurtful things he had done....to think that he would suffer himself, I merely nodded, a grim smile making its way onto my face, as I quietly whispered, "Good....", before grief overtook me again, as I eventually drifted off to sleep in the back of my grandfathers car as he took off on the long drive back to his home.

*END OF DREAM*

Popping out thru the other side, my body, now free-falling in the air, crashed into a wall, smashing thru it as I landed on the ground with a loud banging thud.

*UNKNOWN LOCATION*

A small child, peering thru a telescope at the nightsky, spied the bright black object as it sailed along, disappearing into the distance as she gasped, before running to tell her parents about the Black Comet that had just been spotted.

*CURRENT LOCATION*

Panning over, I slowly struggled to open my eyes, noticing the hole in the wall I came thru, I looked myself over once more, amazed and astonished as to how my body seemingly suffered no damage at all in the resulting crash.

Stumbling my way to my feet, I looked around the room I was in, "Ok.....bookshelves....dusty old books, statues everywhere....I guess it's safe to say I'm not in Kansas anymore", I muttered as stared up at the hole I had come thru. "How the hell did I manage that and not hurt myself?", I said as I noticed pillows thrown on the ground and some old tapestries hanging from the ceiling and walls. "Brrrrr, ok, it's still pretty cold here, I'm sure one won't hurt, better then freezing to death, that's for sure", I chattered thru my shivering as I quickly tore down one of the larger tapestries, tying it around myself like a poncho as I grabbed a burning torch from the corner.

"Now then......where the hell am I?", I said as I waved the torch over towards the nearest sections of books. Staring at a few of them, most having lost all legibility to the passage of time, I spied one that seemed rather readable. Peering it at, I slowly made out the words on the spine. "Tales.....of Equestrian Legend........The Ancient Lords?", I mumbled, barely able to make out much else beyond that as the torch dimmly flickered from a passing gust of air. "What the hell kind of library is this?.....Where am I? Am I even still on Earth?.....Oh shit, were those things aliens?! WAS I ABDUCTED?!", beginning to worry myself, I slowly took a deep breath, trying my best to prevent myself from hyperventilating. "Either way, I managed to escape them, more or less.......

"Well....only one way to find out Toto", I said to no one in particularly, as I left the books behind, walking into the long hallway, as I began my search for answers....and a way out of this seemingly abandoned castle.

Chapter 4: To Love Royalty

Slowly shuffling down the main corridor, Custos looked around, the castles ever widening array of hallways, branching off from each other was, to say the least, a very easy way to get lost in. Shivering, despite the poncho made from the torn tapestry, he held the torch a bit closer, hoping to warm himself up a bit as he continued onward, eventually coming into a large room, seemingly the center of the floor he was on

"Okaayy....this is just getting weirder and weirder", Custos said as he glanced around the entire area, the only means of lighting being the torches in various places that were lit. "This places looks like it was long abandoned....but then how are all these torches burning?", he thought to himself, looking up at what seemed to be another tapestry, though far larger and more grandiose then the others. "Huh.....was this some sort of old throne room? It seems ancient....and that picture....what ARE they?", he said as he held the torch out again, trying to shine a bit of light on the tapestry billowing above and before him. "They look like.........pegasus? But they have unicorn horns....what sort of kingdom worships creatures like this?....What would they even be called? Pegacorns?", he chuckled to himself, the dumb joke not helping to throw off the feeling of dread that blanketed him, like an unwanted lover.

"Okay, I've spent enough time here.....time to move on", he said as as he spotted another entrance leaving the room, falling through it as he continued onwards, ignorant to the slow but rapidly expanding pairs of green eyes that lighted up, their attention following him as he left them behind. Moving slowly, the eyes began to follow Custos, remaining vigilant to stay in the shadows.

*Cut back to Moon*

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T GO THRU?!", Eclipsa raged at her guards, as one by one they flung themselves at the portal Custos and the other creature had apparently fled through. "It's a portal! It's not difficult! See? WATCH!", she said, trying to walk thru, before comically slamming into it as if it was as solid as a brick wall.

"You see my queen? The portal....it's as if it's protected by some sort of shielding that keeps us from going thru it. We'll be able to break the shielding eventually, but it'll need time my queen", the guard said, her form falling to one knee in loyalty to her ruler.

"Hmmpph!....See that you do it quickly, I WON'T let that stallion get away with this....attacking me, then groping....and bedding my mother of all people", she said, shuddering a shiver as she looked over at her mother, who was humming rather contentedly as she rubbed her stomach. "Mother......", she started to say, stopping as suddenly as starting.

"Yes dear?", Crescent said, looking up at her daughter with a smile, "What can this old mare do for you?", she said as she slowly got up.

"As much as I shudder to think of it....Mother, when you....BEDDED....that creature, were you....are you....are you currently in your heat cycle?", Eclipsa said, her eyes etched with worry as she took in the form of her mother before her, her mothers cheeks seeming to glow in pale light of the moon

"Why honey.........as if you even had to ask?", Crescent said, with a laugh, as she cupped her daughters cheek, lifting her head up to her, "I've been in the cycle for a week now.", was all she managed to say, before Eclipsa fainted on the spot, the image of her mother....SOMEHOW becoming impregnated with but one session of breeding, too much for the young lass, Queen yes, but young all the same, to take, as she collapsed into her mothers arms.

"Oh dear....looks like all the excitement has tuckered my little queen out....Guards! Escort her majesty back to her royal chambers, she needs to rest", Crescent stated, handing off her daughter to several guards, as the rest continued trying to assault the barrier. "Soon my handsome human....soon I'll be able to taste you again", she thought, licking her chops as she grinned.

*Cut back to Custos*

"Where the devil am I?", Custos said, looking over his shoulder, "I've literally past this same staircase for the fifth time now....This is getting ridiculous", he muttered, as he shrugged and tried another path. "Ok...sooooo, this path leads there, and that path leads....also there. Great, just fuckin' great. I swear, this castle is a literal maze, how can anyone find their way here?", he said, shaking his head as his annoyance grew.

Turning a corner, Custos walked forward, seeing a shaft of light he had not seen before, hope beaming in his thoughts, he hurried forward, thinking maybe his luck had finally turned around, only to stumble into a circular room at the end, a crystal chandelier the size of a truck hanging from the ceiling as light twinkled off of it, casting various shapes and colors on the surround walls. "Great....another dead-end", Custos said, turning back as he readied to return the way he came, only to be stopped in his tracks by the sudden sound of movement behind him.

Swinging around slowly, he saw several forms emerge from the shadows, snarling, growling creatures, all eyeing him with hunger...the look of a predator finally catching its prey in their eyes.

"What the heck.....wood?....wolves?.....wolves made out of wood? But.....I give up", he said, shaking his head at the futility of it all, having finally realized that he should stop trying to rationalize everything. "Ok so.....I'm....just going to leave you puppies alone, nice and easy", he said as he slowly began to back up away from them, stopping just as quickly as he started, as he heard several more creatures emerge behind him, the telltale of their growling and barking alerting him.

Being sufficiently surrounded, Custos stood there, as the wooden wolves looked at each other, snapping as they turned their attention back to Custos, circling him slowly as they stared at him.

"Oh boy....This is not looking too good", Custos muttered, swinging the torch back and forth as he attempted to stave off the encroaching line of creatures. "BACK! Back I say!", he said, swatting at one that had been greedy and tried to lunge forward to snap at him. Smacking the creature across the muzzle with the torch, it flew away, smacking into a pillar as the parts that made up its' body flew apart, reverting to regular pieces of wood and leaves. The other wolves, backing off, carefully sniffed at the quiet body, before howling, turning their attention once more on Custos as they began to rapidly enclose him even faster now.

"Oh man....think dude, what can you do right now?", Custos thought, trying to find a way to get out of this situation. Looking up, Custos spotted a rope that seemed to lead up to the chandelier, holding it in place. "Well.....that might as well be my best bet", he said as he chucked the torch at it, mentally cheering as it struck the cord, lighting the old dry rope as it quickly burned through it, freeing the chandelier to come crashing down on the group of wolves nearest the door.

Hopping over several of their forms, as some struggled to still move out from under the giant ruined fixture, Custos ran for the corridor, several green wisps of smoke exhaling out from the limp and rotten pieces of wood, as they flew off, to parts unknown. Stumbling down the hallway, turning into a full-blown gant, Custos ran as fast as he could, the creatures behimd him barking fiercely, as they gave chase, the multiple forms all around him as they followed suit.

"Common man, just run, eventually something should help you get away from them, just don't stop running", his inner voice said to him, chanting the word run over and over to help motivate him. Already breathing heavy from the fear that he experienced, not just from this situation, but from everything that had happened until now, Custos was unable to notice the hole in the floor, as he fell into it, having gone unnoticed due to taking a look back at the wolves still chasing him.

"SSSSSHHHHHIIIITTTT!", he screamed, falling thru the air to the level before, his eyes closing as he landed, a loud sqwauk being heard as he fell something soft and supple beneath him. "H-huh?...Am I....alive?....", he said, opening his eyes as he stared into the face of the creature from before, her reptilian like eyes widened in both shock and anger.

"YOU AGAIN?! IS THOU STALKING THY?!", she shouted, quickly throwing me off as she stood over me, her huge frame daunting as Custos laid on the ground, looking up at her. "Hmmpph, for the second time, with thine own body, thou has seeked to insult thineself. We must punish thee", she said, picking up Custos with one arm as she carried him like a sack of rice over to a throne in the end. Lowering herself down until she sat on it, she slung me over her knees, holding my body prone as I squirmed beneath her, unsure as to what was going to happen next. "Normally a transgression such as this would be punishable by death.....but thy scent is not alltogether displeasing to our senses.....so we will administer the secondary royal punishment, while we wait for our meddlesome foes to present themselves before us, NIGHTMARE MOON!", she said, suddenly bringing her arm down as her hand slapped against my buttocks, hard, leaving a solid red imprint of her palm.

Howling back in pain, tears forming in the corners of his eyes, Custos screamed bloody murder, "A spanking was definitely NOT what I was expecting....nor what I would've wanted", he said as he gritted his teeth, gasping again as the wind left his body as he felt her smack him a second time. Grinding against her legs, Custos struggled to get away, his body having no leverage, and his underwear offering no protection to the harsh strikes.

As the strikes continued to come, Custos, having grown somewhat accustomed to the pain at this point, noticed a strange feeling......The females skin....or fur, if it could be called that, was very soft, feeling as it as he gripped again for the next strike, he suddenly felt a swelling in his under area. "Oh great, am I getting a hard-on from being spanked?.....Oh dear lord am I becoming a masochist?!", he thought to himself, the thoughts scaring him as he knew this was definitely NOT the time to be sprouting a boner.

*Outside the Decrepit Castle*

"This way girls! I saw the strange puff of smoke retreat this way to the Princesses old castle!", the purple toned female said, leading the charge as 5 other, equally vibrant females followed suit, charging up to the castle, quite a bit of a ways into the distance.

*Return to Interior of Princessess Old Castle*

Custos, now actively grinding against against the legs of his captor everytime she struck him, had pretty much thrown in the towel. "I'm probably going to die after this anyways, considering this womans temper....might as well go out with a bang", he thought as his member leaked pre, it splattering onto the floor as a few drops also fell into Nightmare Moons lower leg fur.

"Hhrrmm? What is this mortal? Art thou crying?.....But...wait, your head is over here...What IS this liquid you are spewing peasant?", Nightmare Moon said, as she reached down, rubbing it off of her fur as her fingers became sticky with the subtance. Carefully bringing it up to her nose, she sniffed at it, her eyes widening in response as a soft blush crept along her face. "Is....is this....pre?! By the Elder Ones, it smells heavenly! I've never witnessed a more divine smell before", Nightmare Moon thought to herself as she looked down at the creature before her. "Hmmph, thou must truly know thy place if thineself is this aroused at our punishments alone", she stated, flipping over Custos as he laid across her legs, now on his back, his hardon exposed, peaking thru a rip in his underwear.

"Hahaha, all this, just from our tender touch?", Nightmare Moon laughed as she beheld Custos' member for all to see. "Hmmm...well....thy DID endure our punishment....So be it! As a reward for enduring...and for knowing thy place, we will allow thee the privilege of mating with us!", she said, standing up suddenly, as Custos fell to the floor with a hard, "oomph"

As Nightmare Moon stood over Custos, she slowly began to unlatch and discard the many individual pieces of her armor, letting them fall to the floor, as several pieces managed to crack the old marble tiles. Looking up at her while doing so, Custos stared wide-eyed, it wasn't that the female was unattractive...by no means, she was definitely an A plus....but the way she commanded herself, and her attitude to everything just shocked Custos into silence as he tried to scrambled away, scurrying backwards as fast as he can.

Unfortunately, the attempt was futile, as a hoof suddenly smashed into the floor near his head, Nightmare Moon, now having full relieved herself of all clothing, towered above his face, grinning as she stared at him, she simply said, "Where dost thou think thineself is going? We said we are to mate!", with that, she plopped herself down, her privates mere inches from Custos' face as fluids dripped onto his forehead from them, "Before we begin peasant.....tell us thy name...so we know whom to thank for pleasing their new queen later.

"C-Custos", he said, his face blushing from the closeness to such an intimate area, "My name...is Custos", he said again, gulping loudly

"Mmm...an unusual name....but no matter, but for now.....eat thy marehood!", she shouted, plunging it into his face.

Custos, struggling for several moments, sighed, "Well...this is a ripe pickle of a situation", he thought before looking up, the scent from the close-up female was intoxicating, to say the least, as he tentatively reached out, giving it a small lick, which successfully gave way to a gasp and moan from high above.

"Huh....We still possess our feminity?....But why doest thou not eat us?....Is that not how this goes?", she said, her voice quivering as she hesitantly spoke.

"....Does this bitch really think I was going to EAT her vagina?", Custos thought, as he grinned beneath her, "Wow....that is....how gullible is this girl?", he said as he gave her another lick, "Well....no going back now, might as well do what the dumb bitch asked me to", he said as he suddenly grabbed her by her thighs, procurring a small shriek from Nightmare Moon, as he dove into her crotch, his tongue invading her insides as she quickly began to moan louder and louder, grinding against his face.

"Ah-ah-ah! Yes...that's it! Please us! Don't stop....For the love of Faust do not stop!", she said, falling forward as she fell atop of Custos' body, his member hitting her in the forehead. Looking up thru a lustful gaze, Nightmare Moon quickly gave his member a lick, before esconching it into her mouth, licking and sucking the tip as gently as a baby at its' mothers teat.

Feeling her tongue swirl around his underhead, Custos groaned, his face flooded with pussy juices as he continued his assault, finding her clit, he gently nibbled on it, when from down below, he suddenly heard a scream as a giant wave of fluids gushed right into his face. "OH SWEET FAUST YEEEESSSS!!!", Nightmare Moon screeching, thrasing about in the throes of ectasy as her eyes crossed, "TAKE ME MY STALLION! TAKE ME NOW!", she said, suddenly flipping herself onto her backside, as she yanked Custos atop of her, quickly locking her legs around his hips. "MAKE ME A TRUE MARE!", she babbled, near incoherently as she pushed him forward, his member grinding against her moist entrance.

"This bitch is crazy for it......oh man, if I wasn't afraid of those wolves coming back, I'd definitely rather take my chances alone in this castle again....", he thought as he looked down into the females face, her own eyes looking at his with confusion and an almost begging appearance to them, "Aww fuck it....literally, couldn't have been the dumbest choice I've ever made....considering these last few hours", he said as he plunged into her folds, eliciting another squeal as she gushed more fluids, and blood this time, a second orgasm washing across her. "Wait....blood?", thought Custos as a look of horror crept across his face, "This girl was a virgin?! Oh dear lord, if it wasn't bad enough, first I get raped....now I pretty much raped this alien horse lady thing", he thought as he winced slightly at the mental beating he knew his concious was going to give him later for this.

Thrusting forward, he slapped deeper into her folds, penetrating her as far as he could on the first thrust, before retracting, and slamming back into her. "Y-Yes! Fuck us! Mate us! BREED US!", Nightmare Moon cried, her wings and arms now wrapping around Custos as well, as he continued his thrusts into her, her orgasm steadily building for a third time as Custos continued building up speed with his continous thrusting.

As a third orgasm began to erupt from Nightmare Moon, Custos took the liberty of spearing her lips with his own, silencing her cries of pleasure as her tongue, quickly overpowering his own, stretched from her mouth into his, wrestling as it explored every inch of his mouths' insides, savoring the flavor. "P-please....unleash it inside, we beg thee", she cried out, all pretentious gone from her attitude as she groped his body all over, her nails leaving claw marks as she gripped at his back.

Grunting as Custos' climax came closer and closer, he gripped Nightmare Moon suddenly as he thrust one last time into her, blasting his baby sauce into the deepest parts of her insides as he collapsed atop of her, his face landed full blast between her breasts as she hummed contentedly, stroking his hair as she smiled. Sadly, her good mood was quickly smashed as she suddenly heard the sounds of doors being banged open, and several footsteps being heard. Sighing to herself at this, she quickly made note to retrieve this lover after the battle was over

*Nightmare Moon perspective*

Flying away from her new lover, Nightmare Moon quickly reached the front of the castle entrance, hovering before the other females as she laughed maniacally at them, "I thank thee ponies for coming to us.....It will make thine victory all the easier!", she said as she stood before them, tempting them to make the first move

As the purple female and her friends surrounded their enemy, Nightmare Moon merely laughed at them, unleashing a barrage of energy as she caused the tapestries around them to erupt into pale green fire, quickly burning up as the huge area they were in began to fill with smoke.

"THY PONIES MSUT TRULY BE FOOLISH CREATURES IF THY THINK THEE CAN DEFEAT US!", she said, her wings erupting, but suddenly crumpling as a cramp from her frantic love-making from but a few moments ago spread across them. Falling from the air, she fell onto the floor with an unforgiving crunch as she winced from pain. Struggling to deal with the pain from the cramp, she tried unsuccessfully to get back to her feet, before being blasted by a burst of energy from the purple girls horn.

"NOW GIRLS!", the purple girl shouted, as blasts of rainbow energy erupted from the 6 of them, surrounding Nightmare Moon, as it propelled her upwards into the air, the different energy colors swirling together, as they penetrated her form, causing her body to begin to crack into pieces.

"NO! NO! I AM NIGHTMARE MOON! I AM THE QUEEN OF DARKNESS! I CAN NOT BE DEFEATED HERE! NO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!...........SOMEPONY HELP ME!....ANYPONY! CCCUUUSSSTTOOOSSSS!", Nightmare Moon shouted, her shouts of pain quickly become more and more panicked, until she finally cracked completely, her form disappearing as her last cry went out to the male that made love to her....the first person to truly make a part of her feel good.

*Custos Perspective*

Custos, his eyes suddenly shooting wide open, looked around him "Did....did I fall asleep again? Damn it, why does that keep happening?....Ow...what the hell happened?", he said, looking down at his cum-stained underwear and discarded tapestry poncho over in the corner. "Oh.....right....that happened", he said as he picked himself up, using a carpet to wipe himself off the best he could, before acquiring his make-shift clothing again, "Ok so.....that happened. Now what the hell do I do?", he said, looking around as he heard voices echo from the far off distance, "Wait....are those people?....Maybe they can help me", he said, quickly hurrying down, the eyes of several of the wolves emerging from the darkness behind him again, as well as a much larger pair of eyes, ones that smoked with green vapor like mist.

Chapter 5: The Awakening

As the corridor softly gave way to a grand staircase, Custos looked down, hearing the voices much more clearly now. One was sobbing and apologizing for something, while several others were talking excitedly, their voices still far off, but echoing quite nicely off the old castle walls. "Hmm...they sound female....hopefully they won't be like....those others", he said, shuddering at what happened with the first two females, then with that one from earlier.

Although....she hadn't actually been that bad, sure it was still rape, but she had seemed.....dainty, almost, when compared to Eclipsa and her mother Crescent. Shrugging, Custos started forward again, his mind suddenly brought to a panic as a lone, solitary howl erupted from behind him, along with the crashing of several pillars in front of him, effectively blocking the way. "Gggrreeeattt", Custos said, gritting his teeth in anger and nervousness as he turned to look behind him, his jaw dropping as he stuttered out a few words. Slowly approaching him, was essentially, a giant version of the wooden wolves from earlier, only this one seemed much deadlier. Sporting six glowing vapor like eyes, and 2 mouths, the creature reared up on its' hind legs, before erupting with a roar that blew Custos backwards, his back slamming into the rubble.

"Uggghhh", he said, shaking his head as he hit the wall behind him, his body falling to the floor in a lump, "This is getting to be the new norm for me", he muttered, slowly picking himself back up, a wet feeling dripping onto his cheek as he touched his head, feeling a dampness, as he saw he was bleeding. "Oh man, this is not good", he thought, beginning to look around frantically, "Think man....there has to be something here I can use", he said, as he saw several rocks behind him. Hefting one of the larger ones up, he hurled it at the giant wolf, hoping it would at least hurt it enough to back off.

Sadly, the giant simply opened its jaws, crunching the stone to bits as easy as tearing a piece of paper. Gnashing its tree-like teeth, it chewed the stone until it was fine dust, eyeing Custos as it began to advance, slowly picking up speed. "Oh geez.....This is going to hurt", he said, trying to hurl several more smaller stones, before crouching behind a pile of boulder sized ones, the giant wolve smashing into it all, propelling the blocked off rubble, and Custos, outward, as he sailed thru the air, the steps below him falling away as he landed at the bottom, blood spewing from his mouth as he quickly fell limp, the last thing he heard, being the surprised shout of several voices, as they all reacted.

*Purple Pony Perspective*

What is the name of Equestria is that?!", she said, looking down at the hairless creature before her, her eyes furrowing in confusion, as she looked up, "WHAT IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA IS THAT?!", she said, seeing the giant wolve like creature propel thru the air, landing at the other end of the giant room, eyeing them up as it howled again, several smaller wooden wolves appearing from it's back and inside its' body.

"Ah'm not sure ah reckon ah know what that there creature is Twilight", said the orange hued gal, as she gestured down at Custos' form on the floor, even as a yellow hued girl with pink hair rushed to his side, listening for a pulse. "But that there thang over there is a Timberland Wolf, it's like a bigger badder version of regular Timber Wolves, they tend to be the alphas of their pack", she said, clenching her teeth as she cracked her knuckles. "Ah don't think we're gonna be gettin' outta this without another fight girls", she said, readying her fists.

Twilight, the purple skinned girl, shook her head, "But....it's gigantic! I've never even seen a creature like that in my books before", she said, looking back nervously to her teacher, who was watching from the background, a protective arm slung around a smaller, dark blue girl, her form lithe, and her steady breathing an indication of her own unconciousness. "Twilight....I need to tend to my sisters wounds....Nightmare Moon may have possessed her, but the body was still Lunas' more or less.....she needs treatment", the pure white skinned female said, her form towering over even the other girls, whom each was at least a good foot or so taller then Custos.

"Yes Princess Celestia, I understand", Twilight said, her head nodding as she bowed to her teacher, "We should be able to handle this from here.....maybe the Elements of Harmony can work on this creature like with Nightmare Moon.....", she said, still nervous as the Timber Wolves were being made short work of, by the orange and blue skinned girls.

"Don't worry my faithful student, I'm sure you and the rest of the girls will be able to handle this....although I do not believe the Elements will work as sufficiently with this creature as they did with my sisters dark side.....Be careful Twilight, and stay safe", she said, as she and Luna slowly popped out of existence, having teleported away.

Turning back to where the rest of her friends stood, she gave a silent nod to the other two friends standing with her, one pink, the other a more vibrant white then Celestia. "Fluttershy? Can you stay here with that pony? Make sure he doesn't get more hurt?", Twilight said, looking down at the yellow girl that was caressing Custos' head in her lap, as she applied bandages to his head.

"Oh...u-um...I think so, don't worry Twilight, I'll keep him safe", Fluttershy said, nodding firmly as she picked up Custos gently, moving farther away as Twilight and the rest of the girls charged at the Timber Wolves, the Timberland Wolve in the background merely watching them as it continued to spawn more and more.

"Ok girls!....LETTEM HAVE IT!", Twilight shouted, unleashing a blast of purplish energy as they dove right into the heart of the enemies. The orange skinned girl from before, attacking with massive leg strikes, her muscular torso twirling as finely as a ballerina as she kicked the wolves apart, each one only taking 1 hit before collapsing. "Hey Rainbow Dash! Up atcha!", she said, kicking up one wolve to the Cyan colored girl in the sky, setting her up for a spike.

Pummeling the wolve with multiple fast strikes, before slamming it back down with a two handed strike to the head, Rainbow Dash laughed, looking down at the girl below. "Haha, thanks Applejack, that was awesome", she said, before diving into the rest of the wolves, spinning fastly as she created a small vortex of wind, causing several Timber Wolves to be sucked in, and blown away.

"WHEEEE! This is so much fun!", shouted the pink girl as she twirled continously in a circle, a giant hammer seemingly coming out of nowhere as she proceeded to bash the enemy apart, not even bothering to stop, as her laughter and snorts filled her area of the room.

"Really Pinkie....Such a lack of grace", said the white skinned girl, as she calmly walked away from several wolves, having had them tied up, somehow, in what appeared to be several pieces of thick garment.

"Don't be such a downer Rarity, it'll take more then this to stop our awesome selves", said Rainbow Dash as she looked down at Rarity, chucking another Wolves falling apart body to the side, as she dived below to join in with Applejack.

"Ugh, really Rainbow Dash, I can't help it. Being a refined lady such as myself, I simply try to be delicate in these types of matters.", Rarity said, walking forward calmly, several more pieces of fabric flowing from her body and clothing, as if they were being puppetered by her somehow, to constrict the enemy.

"Uhhh, not that ah mind the chitchattin' girls....but we need ta finish off dat big'un, or else these little fellas are gonna keep comin'", Applejack said, suddenly stomping the ground, causing a gash to appear as it scared off the wolves a bit, giving the girls a bit of breathing space.

"Right girls....all together now!", Twilight said, as she sent a spark to her crown, triggering the other 4 elements with her, as they each sent off a wave of energy, same as with Nightmare Moon before. However, upon striking the Timberland Wolf, the energy disappated, leaving the giant none the less for wear.

"Wh-why didn't it work?", Twilight shouted, shocked at the ineffectiveness of the elements?

"Prolly cause this here thing may be a nasty critter, but it's not evil, just followin' in its instincts and like", Applejack said, "Course, Fluttershy ain't with us neither, so maybe we need all 6 to work?", she said, narrowly dodging a swipe from the giant creature.

*Custos Perspective with Fluttershy*

As his body was caressed by the soft minstrations of Fluttershy, Custos visibly relaxed, his body seeming to fall into a more natural sleep while he laid in her lap, his mind beginning to dream.

*Dream/Flashback*

"Hey G-Pa?", Custos said, walking out of the shower, toweling off as he slipped his t-shirt back on, "Mind if I ask ya a question?", he said

"Sure sonny....but come over to this side, my left eye ain't so good no more", his grandfather said, leaning forward in his lazy boy, his hands holding onto a gnarled wooden cane for support.

A few years having past since the incidents from before, Custos smiled at his relative. Despite being his great grandfather, the old man had been as spry as a man half his age, and to Custos, whose own grandfather had died, this man had taken that spot relatively easy for him. "See grandpa....couple of the guys from school were talking about pooling money for a spring getaway this year. One of them asked how much my necklace was worth, cuz of this gem in it. But I've never seen or read one like this before, do you have any idea about it?", he said, looking up with confusion in his eyes.

A stoney cold silence took hold over the old man, as he suddenly shot up, his arms throwing the cane aside as he grabbed his great grandson by the collar. "Listen here boy!", he said, his tone harsh and voice serious. "You better get rid of those thoughts right now, that charms been in our family for a long time, and it's important to us. Don't you EVER think of getting rid of it, or else badness will follow you to the end of your days!", he shouted, his knuckles holding onto Custos' shirt so hard his entire hand was shaking, turning white from the exertion.

"Geez, ok grandpa, just relax, calm down, I won't do it then", he said, gently helping the older man back into the chair as he relaxed.

"Good sonny....good, that necklace has mystical properties to it, our family has always believed.....Course, if that was truly a thing, ya think the thing could do more then just look pretty.......My daughter, your grandmother, God rest her soul, was the only one that ever truly seemed to care enough to investigate. Course, being a Wiccan and all, she might've actually had a chance of figuring something out about it before she.....she....", he said, his eyes tearing up at the rememberance of the past events.

"Hey now....common g-pa.....you said it yourself when I was a kid, there wasn't anything anyone could've done to stop him....They're in a better place now", Custos said, hugging the older man tightly, his frame filling out, thankfully, due to the excellent sports department at his high school.

Feeling the dream as almost a memory into the distant past, the image seemed to darken, overtaking it before swallowing it whole.

"Huh?...W-where am I?", Custos said, his body floating in the inky blackness as he twisted around, feeling nothing and seeing nothing in any directions. Calmly floating along in the inky black void as he frantically tried to figure out where he was.

Slowly, as he floated for several more minutes, a quiet laugh could be heard emanating from what seemed to be all directions at once. "He was wrong you know.....", the voice said, the image of Custos as a high schooler hugging his elderly great grandfather appearing once again.

"Who's there? Show yourself!", Custos said, struggling to find the location of the voice.

"You let them die Custos.....their blood is on your hands", the voice said, in a taunting manner, as it flashed back to the earlier memories, the bloody image of his body, a bullet wound between her eyes as her blood pooled onto the floor. An image of his father howling with laughter as he turned and did the same to Custos' grandmother......and finally, the third image of the neighbor barging into the house, tackling his father and keeping him restrained until the police arrived.

"You could've done something, their deaths are on your concious", the voice whispered, drawing out each word syllable by syllable. Laughing as it echoed into the darkness.

"NO! I WAS A CHILD! There was nothing I could do", Custos said, shivering a bit as he began to feel cold.

"Nothing you could've done....nothing you could've done, nothing, nothing, nothingnothingnothing", the voice said, repeating itself.

"No......I couldn't have done anything........I couldn't have saved them....I.....I failed, I was just a punk kid, I let my family die", Custos said, his voice shrinking as the darkness began to coil around him.

"You will be mine!", the voice said, as it enveloped him in shadows, Custos form disappearing as his body was enveloped.

*End of Dream/Flashback*

Fluttershy, looking on fearfully as her friends kept back the tide of enemies, but were unsuccessful at defeating the main baddy, gasped as she suddenly saw a small black flame erupt from Custos chest.

Quickly scurrying to her feet, she backed up slowly, stammering out, "U-u-uh girls?", she said, reached out and grabbing Twilight by her tail, yanking on it slightly to get her attention.

As Twilight turned around, she let loose one final burst of energy, before giving Fluttershy her attention, "What's wrong Fluttershy?", she said, concern for her new friend keeping her from focusing.

"Th-that!", Fluttershy stammered, pointing back at Custos body as the black flame from earlier was beginning. Moving to hide behind Twilight as she shivered in fear.

"GIRLS! THAT PONY IS BURNING!", she said, the other girls turning to see, before retreating to a more advantageous position, as Twilight rushed over, using her magic to try and put out the flames, but ending up useless as the black flames simply ate her magic, it disappearing as quickly as it appeared. "WHAT?!", gasped Twilight as she stared in disbelief, "Inconceivable!", she said, the flame now burning brightly as Custos body was engulfed.

As the first burst spread quickly, the fire evaporated just as fast, leaving behind Custos' body, engulfed in black-purplish spiked armor. Slowly, the figure stood up, its' movements akward as it flexed its limbs, slowly moving its fingers, and turning around, before laughing, quietly at first, but building into a crescendo.

Twilight, slowly backing up, gestured to the other girls to do the same, unsure if this new entity was either friend or foe, as it slowly regarded them with a cold icey stare, it's eyes glowing with a purple glow as it turned towards the timberwolves, gesturing once, as several burst into different shades of purplish-black fire, their bodies disappearing completely.

Walking towards the large creature, the figure calmly regarded the giant creature with cold empathy, "You.....are nothing, disappear", it said, as the giant Timberland Wolf erupted into flames, burning just as easily as its smaller spawn did. Writhing around on the ground, the creature continued to burn, shrinking smaller and smaller until the giant was gone entirely, not even ashes left behind.

Standing atop the spot it was once in, the figure began laughing, the sounds echoing off of the walls as it reveled in the power it had demonstrated, enjoying the domination over its' enemies. Unfortunately, the moment of self enjoyment was its' downfall, as the creature fell to its knees, collapsing onto the floor as a beam of pure white electric energy slammed into its backside, causing it to lay unmoving.

Standing before the girls, as they turned to look at her, stood Celestia, gone was the soft demeanor from before, as she stood in stern beauty and severity, her body adorned in armor that seemed out of place, as her horn glowed with more untapped power, her hand holding a long sword out as she regarded the creature. "Looks like I made it just in time", she said, lowering the sword slowly as she calmly walked over to the girls, "Twilight....where did that creature come from?", she said, regarding her student with cold calculating eyes.

"I-I'm sorry Princess, I'm not sure. Fluttershy got my attention, and the next thing any of us knew, that creature came out of a burst of fire, surrounding that pony from earlier.", Twilight said, her eyes filled with fear as to what her teacher would do.

The flames, erupting again, devoured the armor, leaving only behind the form of Custos. Blinking, he slowly got to his feet, stumbling about as he was half blinded with blurriness. "Ugh...where am I?.....What happened?", he said, falling and stumbling around, unable to keep his balance.

"Twilight......take the girls back to Ponyville.....I'll deal with this here", Celestia said quietly, sheathing her sword as she nodded at her student. Walking forward, she began to walk towards Custos.

"Oh...um, ok Princess, see you later I guess", she said, waving to her back as she gathered her friends, explaining what the Princess had said, before walking out the front door.

"Now....little pony", Celestia said, coming up next to Custos, as he rubbed his eyes, staring at her through squinted eyelids. "You're going to tell me exactly where you came from....and how you know that magic", she said, kneeling down to give him a good look.

Chapter 6: Mini Moon

"You are going to tell me where you got that magic from", the white pony woman had said, as she had held the sword to Custos' head.

"Yeah....that worked out great", thought Custos, now sitting in a room at the white womans castle, under lock and key. Guarded by guards both inside and outside the room, Custos was unable to even rise up from the bed he had been provided, without the guards focusing their attention on him, the two females staring at him with alert attention....and more then just a passing fancy of curiosity.

"Halt pris-dear guest.....where are you planning on going?", said one, her spear held at the ready if trouble was presentedl

"Chill...I'm just going to drain the lizard, so to speak", Custos said, gesturing to the bathroom in the far corner behind a wooden door.

"Drain.....the lizard? Is there a dragon in the bathroom?....Is that even possible?", she asked, turning to her companion as they merely shrugged, unsure.

"For the love of, I'm going to use the restroom!", he said, shouting at them as he stomped over, "Apparently euphanisms dont exist here", he said, as he slammed the door shut, the guards outside wincing a bit from the noise and harsh token taken with them.

"Some ponies are so weird", said the second guard, looking over at the first,

"But remember, the pris-guest, said he wasn't a pony...that he was a human, whatever that is", she said back, the 2 of them looking at each other with confusion.

"It's awfully hard to go to the restroom, when I can hear you two out there!", Custos said, sticking his head out and snarling at them, before slamming it shut again, eliciting an eep from the two of them.

After several minutes, ending with a hot shower, and wrapping the robe provided to him, Custos stepped out of the restroom, actually for the first time in a long while....well, truth be told it had only been about 2 days now, as he sat on the bed, sighing before laying back, thinking to what had happened earlier with the one called Celestia.

*Flashback*

"Look, just calm down, I don't even have any idea what you're talking about!", Custos said, holding his head as far away from the tip of the sword as possible without seeming to make any sudden moves, "Please tell me what you mean!", he said, looking up at the white female before him.

"You best speak quickly, that magic was long abandoned to this world...it has no place here anymore", Celestia said, holding the sword tightly, "Are you really telling me you have no idea how you used it?....How did you even get here anyways? I've never seen a pony like you here before", she said, her head tilting to the side a bit as her face was etched with confusion.

"That's the million dollar question lady.....Just yesterday I was at my dorm getting ready for a late night study session with my face and some 'za. Next thing I know, I'm being chased by a giant bug lady, transported to the moon, then crash landed here in this castle, only to be forced to fuck some giant black unicorn with wings looking bitch, then here....oh and being chased by those wooden creatures, that's always a plus", he said, huffing as the irritation from everything happening was just infuriating.

Her expression waning as she lowered the sword even further, a somber smile flittering across her face, "You've truly been thru alot.....I apologize for my rude behavior, but you must understand. That magic was banished from Equestria before I and my sister were even born, it is legend and should not have ever returned.", Celestia said, her demeanor softening.

"I'm sorry.....Equestria whoosit-whatchit?", Custos said, gazing up at her....or to be more specifically, her breasts, as they filled most of his vision, her head poking out from above them. "I don't know where that is lady, last place......besides the moon, that I remember being, was back at college in Pennsylvania, then well....all this happened", he said, forming a circle with his hands to show everything that had happened.

"Penn....sylvania? That....do you mean Trotsylvania?", Celestia said, sheathing her sword as she looked with even more confusion at the being before her.

"Trotsylvania?....Well.....it's pretty obvious I'm not in a place I'm familiar with anymore, but dear god that's an awful pun", Custos said, chuckling as he began to laugh, possibly as a means to expunge all the stress he had been building.

"Hmmm...yes, I suppose the name is quite silly.....the council for names really should think up better names for these sort of things", Celestia said, allowing a small chuckle to escape, hiding it behind her hand.

"So....uh, what's going to happen to me now?", Custos said, finally prodding the elephant in the room as he stared up at Celestia, unsure as to what the next step in this crazy waltz of a dance would be.

"Hmm....well, it's becoming clear to me that you seem to be as lost as the rest of us.", Celestia spoke, assisting Custos to his feet, "In the meantime, research will have to be conducted, as to how this magic could resurface after nay 10,000 years", she continued on, "In the meantime.....you will be allowed to stay at the castle with me in Canterlot", as she began walking towards the front entrance, motioning for Custos to follow her.

"Well....any place is better then here I guess, he said, unaware of the small black puff of smoke that twirled around on the floor, attaching itself to the bottom of his sock as they left the abandoned castle.

*End of Flashback*

"Ok.....so I'm now in this castle, Celestia said something about research though......research into that magical whatchamacallit, that happened at the castle", Custos said, pacing back and forth as he thought to himself, unable to fully concentrate however, as the two guards by the door kept staring at him. "Can I HELP you?!", he asked them, staring over at them.

"EEEP!...I....I'm sorry, it's just....we....we haven't seen a stallion in such a long time that we....ummm", stammered the more junior of the two guards, as the other tried to shush her.

"What my partner MEANS is, we were under the impression that our men were slowly disappearing, sterility and all that", she said, helping the other guard to her feet and out the door, saying something to the other guards outside, before closing it again, "But then, here you come, a stallion that nobody, not even the Princess, has seen before", she said, nodding her head.

"Well.....that's odd, but I'm not a stallion, I'm a human", Custos said, walking a bit closer for easier conversation.

"S-STAY BACK!", the guard said, brandishing her spear. "Princess Celestia said you were a guest here...b-but don't think you can try any funny business with me mister. I-I'm an elite guard here, I won't be swayed like a common harlot!"

"......Ok then crazy lady, you can stay right over there, was just trying to be polite", Custos said, shaking his head in annoyance as he walked over to a table, noticing a few pieces of fruit, before taking one and popping it into his mouth, "Hmmm....looks like an apple, but tastes.....citrusy, weird", he said, shrugging as he grabbed for another.

After gorging on several pieces of fruit, Custos sat back down on the bed, the guard from earlier having disappeared....for guard rotation, the next few guards arriving probably within the hour or so. Sighing, Custos laid on the bed, his head resting on the pillows as he sighed again, closing his eyes thinking maybe he could get a quick nap in.

"Hmmm....it's been a while since we've been in the royal palace", said the voice, causing Custos to shoot his eyes wide open, gazing around as his eyes settled on what could only be called a very short version of Nightmare Moon on the corner of the bed, gazing back at him, "Ah, welcome back peasant....did you miss us?", she said, grinning.

"What.....in the actual fuck", he said, his mind not believing him as he rubbed his eyes, thinking maybe he was dreaming. "H-how in the hell are you here?....Why do you look so short?!", he said, his voice rising in surprise.

"SSSHHHH!!!", Nightmare Moon said, slamming her tiny body against Custos, quieting his voice as she held a finger to her lips. Despite being no taller then possibly 4 feet, her body still holding the developed matureness of when she was her true height, Custos fell back onto the bed from the sitting up position he had crawled into, as the weight of her body slammed down on him. "Dost thou WANT us to be found out?!", she said, hissing thru sharp teeth as she sat on his chest, her bosom hitting him right in the chin.

"MPPGGHHERLGL?!", Custos said, trying to speak thru her fingers, her grip quite strong for someone that was now less then half their original size. Struggling a bit, he still could not break free from beneath her, her weight seemingly unchanged, despite the height difference.

"If I let go....will you promise to not shout?", Nightmare Moon said, hesitantly, her eyes welling up almost as if she was pleading, rather then asking.

Thinking it over rather quickly, Custos nodded, feeling the fingers lift off of him as the small form of Nightmare Moon scurried over to the side of the bed, sitting there as she kicked her hoofs back and forth, almost like a child.....almost.

"What the heck happened to you?", Custos said, not the first thing on his mind, but the first to be blurted out, "You look like a midget now??", he continued, eyeing her up and down. "Celestia said that those Elements of Harmony, or whatever the hell they're called were supposed to have destroyed you.

"I'm....not sure", said Nightmare Moon, her fingers stroking her chin as she thought it over, "All I remember is being engulfed by the lights....thinking of you, then a black flame appeared, entered my stomach, and next thing I know, I was a little ball of smoke", she said, shrugging as she turned to look at him, her face etched with confusion. "Mayhaps the Elements weren't enough to destroy me, so instead they just diminished me?", she said, referring to her smaller form now.

"Wait....you thought of me?....Why? I mean, I hardly know you....aren't you....Celestia said you're evil incarnate", said Custos, actually getting worried now as he began to slide off the opposite end of the bed, before feeling his wrist be grabbed by the vice-like grip of Nightmare Moon.

"You were my first.....my only one. You might not have thought much of it, but you stole my marehood, a mare only has their first time once, even for royalty.", said Nightmare Moon, her eyes welling up.

"STOLE? YOU RAP-!", Custos said, his voice being cut off as he saw the tears welling up in Nightmare Moons eyes...."I.....oh geeze", he said, feeling a bit like a douche now as he watched the mare begin to sob, her emotions clearly winning out over the logical parts of her. "Listen I.....you.....It wasn't bad", he said, seeing Nightmare Moons eyes peak over her hands as she wiped away her tears.

"R-really? Truly it wasn't?", she said, sobbing and hiccing still as a bit of snot ran down her muzzle.

"Well...I...putting aside the whole, forced into it, thing....well, I mean, it was definitely in my top 3", he said, shrugging as he looked away, a bit of a blush creeping across his face. "What the hell is going on? This girl raped me, and now I'm the one comforting her?.....Fuck me sideways if this isn't just downright weird", he thought, shaking his head.

"Mmmm....only top 3?....We must correct that then", Nightmare Moon said, reaching over to pull Custos closer, her eyes fluttering as a devilish smile crept across her face.

"Whoa now, no way, not by the hairs of my chinny chin chin", he said, trying to pull away, "Especially not when you look like that, you look like a little person", he said, remembering what Celestia had told him on the travel back to the castle, "Ah....little filly I mean.....god these stupid phrasing", he said, mumbling it, as he suddenly felt himself yanked down further onto the bed, well, practically thrown onto it really.

"You're going to want to stop talking now peas-Custos", Nightmare Moon said, licking his cheek gently, "Or else this is going to soon become a one-sided conversation", she said as her small hands reached down at his waist. "Hmmm~", she hummed, grabbing ahold of his manhood, "It's felt like forever.....why? It's only been a few hours", she said, as she rubbed her hands all over it.

Custos, to his credit, tried to resist, but was quickling finding out that Nightmares hands were as soft and supply as her insides were almost, as his member, standing quickly at attention, betrayed his true feelings. The head, bobbing freely, began leaking pre, which Nightmare was quickly upon, lapping it up like a cat.

"Mmm~", she said, licking another few drops of pre, "I can't explain it....but your fluids taste absolutely divine.....almost like heaven itself", she said as she lowered her mouth upon him, quickly wrapping her tongue around the rod, as she sucked violently.

Not sure what to do, Custos fumbled with his hands, as the half-pint sized form of Nightmare Moon devoured his member like her life depended on it, her hands quickly finding their way around her, as one began fondling Custos sack, while the other found its way to her own left breast, pushing and kneading it as if it were dough.

"Don't look down, don't look down....don't look down and see the shortstacked pony girl fellating you like a slut", Custos said, his eyes looking up at the ceiling as he tried his best to ignore the increasingly sloppy sounds emanating from the form below him. As the fellatio continued, Custos gradually couldn't resist laying his hands on Nightmare Moons head, eliciting a murmer of confusion, before he started to pull and push her head down, his orgasm drawing nearer and nearer, "Aww yeah, that's fuckin' it, swallow it, swallow it all!", he said, as his orgasm ripped thru him, spewing into Nightmare Moons mouth as she struggled to swallow it all.

Feeling her trying to pull away, a small part of Custos mind became angry, pulling her forward as he slammed her back into place, "Who said you could leave? You did this to me, so it's your job to finish it!", he said, his orgasm continuing unabated until the entire load had been deposited into Nightmare Moons oral cavity.

Groaning, Moaning, and all things inbetween, Nightmare Moons diminutive form collapsed onto the bed, bubbles of cum being blown and popping as the cum settled in her open mouth, her eyes rolled back from the force and pleasure it had elicited inside herself.

Eventually, closing her mouth, she made several swallowing motions, before finally gulping down the entire load, gasping for air as a heavy blush crept across her face. "That....was quite the naughty thing Custos", she said as she grinned at him, leaning over and cupping his cheek with her hand, "I should maybe punish you for that", she chuckled, grinning up at him.

"Hey....if anything, it was just payback for what you did to me before", he said, allowing a small smile to appear on his face as he looked into her eyes, before leaning down and kissing her cheek, a humble smiling spreading across her face.

"Ohhh....you're the first pony to every make me feel this way.....thank you Custos, on behalf of the night, we thank you", she said, her form gradually becoming transluscent as her body eventually disappeared completely, a small puff of smoke now laying where Nightmare Moon was before.

Looking at the puff of smoke, Custos noticed it pulsing, before his eyes, it seemed to grow several inches largely, before disappearing completely again. "Huh....was that her?....Is she smoke now? She got bigger....wonder if that's a good sign or not?", he said, turning his head to the side as he heard the door being knocked and the handle being twisted. Suddenly realizing the state of dress he was currently in, he quickly grabbed a corner of the blanket, wiping his crotch area the best he could, before rewrapping the robe around himself again, just as the door swung open completely, Celestia standing before him, in a much less intimidating, but no less revealing outfit, then before with the armor.

Sniffing the air, a wrinkle of confusion appearing on her face as she couldn't place the smell, Celestia gesture over to the table from before that Custos had eaten the fruit from, walking over and taking a seat, "Ok....you've had your time to rest Custos, now please....sit, we have much to discuss", she said, watching as Custos sat on the other end, looking at her, hefting the rather large book she had with her onto the table, as she looked at him.

Craning his head so he could read the title, Custos was slowly able to make out the words, "The...Ancient Lords....and their fall.....from grace?", he said, looking up at Celestia as a look of unsure confusion was sketched upon his face.

Chapter 7: Unrestful Night

Looking at the giant book before him, Custos saw Celestia beckon him over to her side as he carried his chair over, promptly sitting beside her as she opened the door. "What is this book for exactly?", he said, unsure

"This book.....might give us some clues as to how you've acquired those powers of yours", Celestia said, flipping thru several pages, before stopping. "Let's see.....The Earth Lord, the Lord of Dragons.....the Flame Lord....aha! Here it is, the Swarm Lord!", Celestia said, clapping her hands together happily, before realizing what she had done, coughing and reverting back to her more quiet attitude. "This is what we are looking for", she said, pointing at the chapter for the Swarm Lord, with a picture depicting a menacing figure, drawn to be depicted cutting a swath of death thru what looked like a multitude of species alike, their faces horrified with pain as their bodies burned with purplish flames.

"Hmmm....", said Custos, looking at the page like he was thinking, "What......am I supposed to be looking at possible?", he said, turning upwards, to see Celestias own eyes, gazing back at him, their inquisitive nature naturally shining thru as she gazed, unblinking down at him.

"I'm not sure......yourself perhaps? An ancient enemy, the Swarm Lord was....a force of evil.....it was thru him, that the first Changelings were birthed, his army of darkness, a swarm that blotted out the heavens of early Equestrian history", Celestia said, sighing as she seemed to be remembering a darker time in history, "Yet it was not always so....before his fall from grace, The Swarm Lord went by another name.....he was originally called the Lord of Harmony", she said, smiling, "He was a gracious lord, devote to his people, and truly acting upon the goodwill of all", she said, turning the pages of the book slowly, the images depicting a angelic like being, the armor similar, but not the same as that which the Swarm Lord wore, 6 wings sprouting from his back as he seemed to be depicted saving ponies from countless demonic-looking creatures.

"Yet....the longer he ruled, the more ponies prospered, until the day came when we wanted to strike out on our own, show the lord that we wanted to be able to spread his vision of love to all corners of Equestria", Celestia said, his voice taking on a more somber note, "It was at that moment....something seemed to change in our lord, slowly, so slow that nopony even realized it until it was too late....our Lord stopped caring for us, his love and doting, turning to bile and hate, as he slowly, but surely, became more and more wicked."

"Eventually, he abandoned us in the old world, striking out for a, as of then, unexplored part of Equestria, kidnapping ponies, and turning them into those creatures that held you captive earlier.....Changelings", she said, a shudder coming over her, as her wings visibly shook.

"Changelings?.....But why Changelings?", Custos asked, having a vague understanding of what Changelings were, "I mean....they're just ponies that can change their appearance....aren't they?", he said, unsure of even himself at this point.

"Were that truly how simple it was, then they were indeed be harmless.....but it's more then that. They're true horrors, feeding on the love of innocence, harvesting any pony that they can get their hoofs on, turning them into more drones for their hives.", Celestia said, anger touching the edges of her voice as she slammed her arm down onto the table, eliciting a jump of surprise from Custos.

"W-well...I mean....aside from the whole r-raping me thing, they didn't harm me....I mean....sure they chased me, and wanted to capture me.....why am I defending them again?", he said aloud, Celestia, her nodding tipping towards him

"I am wondering the same thing Custos", she said, staring down at him, "Perhaps.....you just don't know the difference yet", she said, her voice suddenly softening as she laid a hand on his shoulder.

"The difference of....what?", he said, seeing her hand resting on him, as he cocked an eyebrow at it, then up at her, confusion written across his face with a capital C.

"Between those buggy sluts....and a real mare", she said, leaning down, kissing him on the lips.

Custos, his eyes bugging wide at the kiss, jumped back, knocking over his chair in the process. "WHAT THE FUCK?!", he said, more out of shock, then anger really.

"Custos, trust me....this is for the greater good", she said, grabbing his arm and pulling back towards her.

"The greater good of what? You wanting to get your slutty rocks off?!", he shouted, his anger now winning over the confusion.

Her patient, wearing a bit thin, as she gritted her teeth at him, speaking in a hiss, "You supposedly hold the power of the Swarm Lord within you....the Swarm Lord and the Lord of Harmony were once one and the same. If whatever awakened the Swarm Lord inside of you, did that, then perhaps the Lord of Harmony was awakened also. So I am TRYING to elicit a great emotional response", she said, blushing as she turned away, "It's purely professional", she continued, her voice more softly now.

"Oh...um....okay", he said, rubbing his rump as he slowly walked back over, "Uh...my apologize.....uh, Princess", Custos said gingerly, feeling bad about apparently overreacting, despite the circumstances.

"Please....call me Celestia, I truly do not mind", she said, smiling warmly as she motioned her back over, a hand resting on her bosom. "We must attempt to see if the Lord of Harmonys' powers have returned, like the Swarm Lords has", she said, gently grabbing Custos by the shoulder, sighing as she hugged him tightly.

"This.....this is actually quite nice", Custos thought to himself, feeling himself sink into the fleshy confines of Celestias breast flesh, a prison of soft supple delight. "I could get used to this", he said, a lecherous smirk appearing, before he mentally slapped himself, chiding his mind for allowing such dirty thoughts to roam to the surface.

"Hmmm? What was that dear? Are you alright in there?", Celestia said, hugging Custos gently, hoping the sudden burst of sexuality would be enough to produce something....anything really, even a spark.

Receiving only a thumbs up as a reply from Custos, Celestia sighed, thankful that she wasn't overdoing it. Though from the looks of it, neither was this test producing any successfulness, as Custos simply weaved and flowed with the jiggling flesh that was Celestias boobs.

"Ok....Custos....I think that's enough", she said, pulling him out by the back of his shirt as he swung in her arm, coughing as he grinned, trying to hide his enjoyment. "Hmm...hehe...haha....You little pervert", Celestia said, smiling with a cheeky grin, "You actually enjoyed that....didn't you?", she said, leaning over to look him in the eyes.

"If I say no......can I go back in to have you convince me?", Custos said, a smile forming on his own face, "Cause I mean...we could always do extra research!", he said, grinning at her.

"Hmmm~...Maybe another time my dear Custos, but sadly, I was not joking when I said that it was for research purposes. The Lord of Harmony was a being I could count as a very close friend. His powers were beyond anything even I, in my 10,000 years of life, could hope to achieve. Yet, my body, after being by his side for so long....it was possible I had absorbed some of his powers. I thought maybe I could try to give them back, but apparently that was not the case", she said, sighing sadly as she looked back at the book, closing it and picking it up.

"I think.....this was more then enough time to venture into this for now", she said, straightening her clothing and walking towards the door, "I will have to do more research on my own before we can know about heading in a general direction", she said, turning back to regard him.

"H-hey...wait, so what about me? What do I do?", Custos asked, seeing the two guards opening the door, as they took their position on the interior again, "Can I at least have permission to leave this room? I mean....I'm going to go stir crazy in here!", he said, gesturing to the whole lot of nothing that the room possessed.

"Hmmm....I would agree, if it was not a delicate time for us at the moment", Celestia said, grimacing as she was forced to even mention the subject at hand, "It would be best that you, Custos, as a male....stayed away from the publics eye", she said, nodding to the guards to make sure that they heard and understood her as well.

"Why?....What's wrong?", he asked, suddenly not just confused, but also concerned.

"Custos......just leave it be for now, please? As a favor to me? As a favor in return, I will allow you privacy in these quarters, the guards here will be restationed for additional security outside.", Celestia asked, not waiting for a response as she left the room, locking the door behind her, the guards following her.

"Great....now I'm stuck in a giant empty room, no guards, no Celestia, just me and...", Custos said, trailing off as he suddenly felt a heavy weight latch onto his back, somewhat small hands wrapping around his neck and shoulder, "A sex crazed shortstack of a pony.....", he said, seeing Nightmare Moons face pop up over his shoulder as she grinned at him.

"Hello there my dear Custos....did you miss us?", she said, nipping him on the cheek with her lips as she grinned.

"Nightmare....while you're good company, I missed you about as much as I miss my homework. Important sure.....but not something I really could give a damn about at the moment", he said, grumbling in a pout

"Awww....is our dear mate angry? Did Celestia not allow you to leave?", she said, letting go as she hopped down, walking around to his front side, her size somewhat taller then before. "Maybe I should.....make it up to you~", she said, pressing her breasts against his chest as she hugged him tightly.

"Mmmm....I'd rather not", he said, grumbling more as he turned away, "I mean don't get me wrong....it's nice and all, but it's not exactly like I expressed consent either time", he said, his voice getting quiet at the end.

"Oh really now?", Nightmare Moon said, spinning him back around, "And yet, I never heard you once denying it earlier, before Celestia came", she said, tapping her foot in annoyance, "You know what? Maybe I should just go to Celestia now, reveal myself and tell her you're actually the Swarm Lord and I'm your evil underling. Sure, I might get destroyed, but what do you think Celestia would do, if she thought, for even a moment, that you were the reason her sister had to be banished for 1000 years?", Nightmare Moon said, an evil smile on her face as she regarded Custos' horrified look with glee.

"You....you wouldn't!", he said, looking at her.

"I would", she replied back, manner of factly, as she looked up at him. "Unless.....", she said, her words trailing off.

"Unless.....what, exactly?", Custos said, an eyebrow raised in suspicion at her.

"Unless you carry me to that bed, like a true princess.....and buck me until I'm raw", she said, a lecherous grin spreading across her face.

"......Come again?", Custos said, not believing what he was hearing.

"Oh don't worry, you will, but I won't repeat myself after this Custos. I.want.you.to.buck.me.raw!", she said, tapping her finger into his stomach with every word being punctuated by a poke.

"Why?......Why me, of all peop-ponies? I mean, if your males are anything like your females, they must have dicks that make mine look like an infants.", Custos said, confused as to why a mare like Nightmare Moon would want someone like him to fuck her.

Nightmare Moon, an exasperated look on her face, "Look....I might be evil, I might be from over a thousand years ago....But I'll still a mare. I have needs, and the fact that you can go more then once in the span of an hour is unheard of in our male population. Beyond that however....I'm not sure where it's like where YOU'RE from, Custos....but in my day, a mare gave special care to her first. He was her first time....and you never forget your first time", she said, her words mirroring a phrase that Custos had heard his friends say to him back in college.

Grumbling, but not arguing, Custos made his way over to the bed, before sitting on it, now eye level with Nightmare Moon. "Mmmmm~ You have pretty eyes", she said, grinning at him as she kissed his nose. "But it's best you close them now~", she said, "This isn't something you're going to want to see", she continued on, waiting for him to close them.

Upon closing of his eyes, Custos felt a gradual, but steadily growing suction around his crotch area. Gasping as he felt the suction grow stronger and stronger, he wheezed and moaned, laying back on the bed as his body felt like it was going to pass out from the pleasure. Peeking with one eye, Custos saw Nightmare Moon, her mane wrapped around his member, as she moved it up and down.

Confused, but too aroused at this point to care much for logic, Custos felt his orgasm quickly build, then erupt, coating Nightmare Moons mane with his seed. "Oh yes....that was fast my dear", she said, shimmying onto the bed as she laid beside him, smiling at his ragged breathing. "Did you enjoy that? We bet you did", she said, a knowing smirk on her face.

"You.....that.....what WAS that?", he asked, confused as to what just happened.

"That was my mane my dear.....or did you not notice my mane resembles the night sky? These aren't just sparkles for show, as Mistress of the Night, I control some semblance of Space, like my counter-part, Luna. That being said....black holes suit me....do they not?", she asked, giving him a flirtatious wink in the process.

"Wait....you...that would mean...", Custos said, slowly putting two and two together until his face lit up like a lightbulb, "YOU USED A BLACKHOLE TO SUCK ME OFF?!", he said, his voice being stifled once again by Nightmare Moons palms.

After giving him several seconds to cool down, Nightmare Moon nodded, "Not a bad first guess", she said, smiling as she leaned down, kissing him again. "You're truly a gifted mate", she said, uncharacteristically, as she stared at him for a moment.

"Well....I was raised in a pretty open household...Mom was....she was great, strict for study, but always open-minded. And grandma, she was a Wiccan, so she was pretty unorthodox. I guess having those two types of personalities just gave me a good foundation?", Custos said, his mind a twirl. "Though I'll be honest. If anyone had told me that I would be fucking a woman that had raped me but not a day earlier, I would've laughed at their face", he said, shaking his head at the insanity of it all. "I mean....don't get me wrong Moon", he said, noticing her eyebrow raise at the usage of the nickname. "But while your body may be the total package....and one I'm wholly for having....I reiterate what I said before, your personality can be.....improved", he said, gingerly as he cringed when her eye twitched.

"Well.....our peasant seems to have put on airs", she said, suddenly disappearing into a puff of smoke, before reappearing moments later in a dominatrix-esque style getup. "We believe it may be time to implement punishment for such a transgression", she said, snapping a whip in her hands tightly, as she walked towards Custos.

"Oh god.....I'm going to be sore tonight", he said, gulping as she cracked the whip

*The Next Morning*

Custos, waking up upside down, in a chair.....with his underwear on his head, looking around, seeing the sleeping form of Nightmare Moon on the bed, the whip uncoiled, in the middle of a group of pillows. "The...fuck did we do last night?", Custos said, grumbling as he stumbled to get up, his body sore from whatever had happened.

Walking over to the sleeping mares form, he softly jiggled her, getting a murmur of discord back, as she pulled the blanket over her head. "Come on Moon.....you can't stay like that all day", he said, waiting for her to reply.

"Yes I can....the night will last forever in this blanket", she said, peaking one eye out as she yawned again. "I'm not a morning pony", she said bluntly, staring at him. "Do whatever it is you do in the morning, I'm going to sle-!!!", she said, startled into suddenly jumping out of the bed and under it as the door swung open, Celestia striding into the room.

Surveying the disarray of the room, Celestia looked around, seeing the whip, among other things. "Where did you get.....nevermind, I don't want to know what anypony....even worse, if it was one of my guards, decided to do to you while I was gone", she said, shaking her head, "Custos.....I have news", she said, looking at him, as her serious face seemed to incline an actual discussion...instead of the sudden cheek kissing she had done to him the night before.

"Okay....", Custos said, nodding his head as he wrapped a robe around himself, "What do you need to talk about Princess", he said, righting the chair and starting to sit in it.

"Oh no...not here, we'll discuss it at breakfast...I've decided to allow you access outside of your room...but that's just part of what we need to discuss", she said, motioning for him to follow her out the door.

As the two left the room, Nightmare Moon, grumbling under the bed, huffed as she vanished into a puff of smoke again, the vapor trail following after Custos, as it seemed to disappear into his necklace.

At the same time, two guards....two female guards, with busts quite large for their size, eyed Custos as he followed the princess.

"Are you sure that's him?", said the white mare, her red eyes humming with curiosity as her blue mane dazzled from under the helmet.

"Definitely, Queen Eclipsa and Brood Mother Crescent were quite explicit with his description.....But to be here, of all places", said the second guard, her grey coloring, be contrasted by her yellow floofy, as he yellow eyes watched them. "You go back...inform her majesty that we've found her mate", she said, nodding to the white mare.

"Yes Sergeant!", the white mare said, saluting as she disappearing with a puff of white magic, her form gone, but the armor remaining.

"Even the Princesses won't be able to save you Custos....Once our Queen wants a male....she gets him", the grey mare said, her eyes continuing to follow him around the corner, as she chuckled darkly.

Chapter 8: Calm before the Storm

As Custos trailed behind Celestia, he noticed how every maid mare, and guard that past them, weren't not only giving him long hard stares....but that the vast majority were female. "Uh.....There any reason why most of the ponies I'm seeing are girls?", he asked, looking up at Celestia as she turned to regard him.

"It's not a simple answer, truth be told. Our male population has never been that high really....truth be told, it's actually quite worriesome", Celestia said, her voice keeping to a hushed tone as they past by more maids, their chatter quickly dying as they all gave Custos a wide-eyed open mouthed stare. "Fewer and fewer stallions are born with every generation. But that is a story for another time", she said, gesturing to a pair of double-wide doors, as she used her magic to open them.

"Gotta get used to that soon", Custos said, seeing the doors glow, then magically open on their own. "Can't believe magics a real thing here.....but then, I honestly am more surprised at myself being able to BE surprised then anything else really....", he thought, his inner mind giving form to thoughts.

"Ah! Princess, so good to see y-y-you have a guest?", the head maid said, her frizzy green mane offset to the side to accent her purple eyes and dark green coat. "I was not aware of any visiting dignitaries on the list", she said, nervously, flipping thru a sheet as she mumbled nervously. "We aren't sure if the meal will be to their liking", she said, a cold sweat forming on the back of her neck.

"Worry not, my dear Forest Glade, our friend here is not a dignitary, he is, for the time being, simply a guest of the castle, and should be treated with kindness and respect", she said, nodding back at Custos to follow her lead.

"Uh....yeah, right!", he said, nodding perhaps a bit too heavily as he smiled lightly, "I'm not a picky eater. eggs, toast, maybe some bacon on the side, that'll be good for me", Custos stated, slow to notice the look of confusion and horror that etched all the ponies around that heard him. "Uh....did I say something weird?", he said, unsure of himself now.

"Um....Oh! Oh I'm so sorry!", Forest Glade stated, "We uh....we don't have bacon....We're herbivores", she said plainly, a look of horror, and mild disgust running across her face as she turned back to the princess. "My apologize your highness, we'll.....we'll work something out for your guest. Please....please excuse us", she said, backing away slightly as several maids and a few guards followed her.

As they left, Custos could just barely make out several snippets of conversation from the group.

"Is he actually a male?"

"Did the Princess take a mate?!"

"He's a carnivore though, what kind of pony eats meat??"

"Is he even a pony?"

Sighing, Custos rubbed the back of his head, "This is going to be a long morning", he grumbled, giving a small smile, as he felt Celestia put an arm on his shoulder, having obviously heard all the commotion as well.

"Do not worry Custos dear.....many ponies will be like that at first. It's not every day that I walk about with a guest before breakfast....much less a male", she said, smiling at him as they finally approached the table.

"Yeah......yeah", Custos said, nodding his head in agreement as he looked down, then back up. Taking a seat at the table, next to Celestia, Custos waiting patiently for the food to be brought. "Well....I mean I guess I can't complain really", he started, Celestia turning to look at him. "In my home....I was average, sure we had different races of people, and all sorts of shades of colors to them....but we weren't obvious like that", he said, gesturing to two maids in the corner, caught staring as they pretended to be dusting.

Stifling a chuckle, Celestia nodded as she spoke, "That may be so....but we've never seen your kind before....not even when I was a filly", she said, making note of the fact that she was millenia old.

"I suppose....well.....at least the foods here", Custos said, noting the platters that several ponies carried, before setting them down. Taking note of the plate set in front of him, Custos grimaced as the top was pulled off, revealing that while he had indeed received eggs....the toast had been covered with hay. "Uh....thanks", he said, gingerly taking a butter knife, and scrapping the hay to the side, as he bit into the toast. "Huh....this is surprisingly fluffy for toast", he thought, munching on it as he enjoyed the slightly sweet taste to it. "Almost like a mixture of toast, and a beignet", he said to himself, finishing it, and the eggs off rather quickly. "Whew....not a big meal, but always good to not eat your fill", he said, looking over at Celestia. "Sooo...uh, aren't you going to eat?", he asked her, looking at her empty place.

"Hmmm? Oh no, I ate earlier with Luna before she headed off to bed", Celestia mentioned, smiling at Custos as she watched him drink some water, before looking at the maids.

"Luna?....Oh, that's your sister right? Nig-the guards told me about her, I hope she's doing well", Custos said, catching himself before he spilled the beans on his small roomate.

"I thank you for your concern, but she is doing fine. Anyways, to business now", Celestia said, her tone taking a more serious note as she regarded Custos sternly now. "I, Princess Celestia, hereby grant the human Custos, the freedom of movement, so that he may best assist us in the path to unlocking the return for the Lord of Harmony.", Celestia said, her voice quite loud.

"Wow....you have a mute volume for that bass?", Custos said, after she was done, rubbing a pinky finger in his ear as he winched at the ringing. "I mean seriously, tone it down some, who are you trying to impress?"

Blushing a bit as the silliness of it all, Celestia nodded, her voice lowering until it reached her normal volume again. "As the first order of business......I recommend you spending time with the newly discovered Elements of Harmony. My dear student Twilight and her friends in Ponyville have been badgering me nonstop about the pony that they rescued from Nightmare Moons monster", she said, regarding the previous night.

"Nightmare Moons monster?....Oh, you mean that giant wood woof. What did you say it was again? A TImberland Wolf?", he said, seeing Celestia nod.

"Correct, it should be an enlightening experience for both parties. Twilight is in need of making more friends, and you, my dear Custos, are an alien to our world. What better way to acclimate and unlock these powers, then to co-exist with the very elements that our former lord made available to us.

Chewing thought on the last few crumbs from his meal, Custos mulled over what Celestia was telling him. "Soo....you're basically kicking me out then?", he said, looking up at her as a hurt and panicked expression overtook her face.

"What?! N-No! I would never, I....I'm just trying. I'm sorry, I-", Celestia said, tears forming in the corners of her eyes as Custos shielded his hands up in surrender.

"Whoa, whoa, cool your jets there", he said, patting her lightly on the shoulder, "I was only joking, it was a joke. I didn't mean anything by it", he said, seeing her eyes sharpen in irritation.

"It is not wise to anger a princess my dear", she said, her wings flapping outwards, before reeling back in, hugging Custos lightly. "But I'll excuse it this time....on account of the circumstances", she finished, giving him a maternal-like smile.

Getting up slowly, Celestia stretched her arms, "That being said....I must get to work now", she said, graciously dipping her head in his direction. "A kingdom simply doesn't run itself", she mentioned, before lipping off.

Custos, sighing as he allowed a smile to grace his lips. "Huh.....I wonder what this Ponyville place is like?....Hopefully that awful pun of a name doesn't mean much", he said as he got up, handing his plate to a passing maid.

Walking back to the hallway, Custos looked around, unsure which direction was the one he was to follow to get to his room. "I feel like I need to pack....but I don't have much on me at the moment", he said, looking down at the robe he had borrowed from the bedroom. "Maybe Celestia can have some clothes made for me or something", he said as he saw a guard, "Ah! Excuse me, can you tell me which way it is back to the guest quarters?", he said, the grey mare giving him a knowing smile as she simply pointed down the left hallway. "Thank you very much!", he said, walking onwards.

Unfortunately, Custos had not gotten more then a few steps, before feeling a blunt force on the back of his head.
Falling forward, Custos conciousness fading, his last thoughts to himself were, "Hello darkness, my old friend...", before he collapsed in the seemingly abandoned hallway, the grey guard chuckling evilly as she caught him, disappearing in a bwoop of white magic.

*Hidden Base, somewhere in Equestria*

Eclipsa, pacing back and forth, waved her arms wildly as she exclaimed. "THAT IS ABSURD! The Council will NEVER approve of such a blatant display of aggression, Chrysalis! Invading the capital?! Count me out!", she said, crossing her arms in front of her in an X.

"Pft! Fine then Eclipsa, be that way. You may be the leader of the Moon Hive, but your powers been waning these last centuries, you don't hold the power you think you still do", she said with a smirk.

"WHY YOU LITTL-!", Eclipsa said, her face barring with rage, before she turned, seeing the door open. "WHAT?! WHO DARES!", she said, seeing the guard standing there, shaking in her gauntlets and boots.

"M-M-My Queens!", the guard said, stammering as she saluted, "We....we have completed the task you set forth earlier, Queen Eclipsa, the package is on its' way to the processing chamber.

Pausing, her face in a visage of anger, quickly composed herself, coughing slightly. "V-very well.....thank you Hidden Heart.....prepare the package for me, I will be arriving shortly."

"A package eh?......Care to let us in on the secret?", Chrysalis said, sidling up to Eclipsa with a smile.

"No, I-....Actually yes.", Eclipsa said, turning to regard Chrysalis, her height providing her a few extra inches of height over Chrysalis. "It will be able to provide the restoration of our hive....", she said, "I'll leave it at that however", she said, leaving the chamber, Chrysalis alone.

"Restoration of her hive?.....Wait! DID SHE FIND A MATE?!", Chrysalis thought, her irritation rising, "HOW DARE SHE! She KNOWS the problems we Planetside Changelings are having with our breeding problems....That little whelp", she growled, "Well.....As a PROPER Changeling....I should report this to mother and the high council...Or, I could find this package....and take it for myself. It must be a true stallion, to impress the ever difficult Eclipsa.", Chrysalis, taking a moment more to compose herself, levitated herself with her wings, leaving thru an opening in the far corner of the room, zipping off with a buzzing sound.

*Bedroom, area unknown*

"Ugh.....well....at least I don't have a hangover", Custos said, his eyes gingerly opening as he saw the bed he was sleeping on. "Now....WHERE THE HELL AM I?!", he said, his voice echoing slightly.

"Well.....we truly must stop meeting like this my dear", said a familiar voice, as a black colored hand stroked his hair from behind. "I hope you missed us."

Looking back, his head tilting upwards, Custos saw the maternally smiling face of Crescent as she looked down at him.

"Oh great.....the bitches mother", he said, grumbling as he feebly attempted to swipe her hand away.

"Oh dear, please......an expecting mother shouldn't be exposed to that sort of language", she said, pinching his cheek as she continuing to stroke his hair with her other hand.

"Expecting mother......wait....wait no, you don't mean....NO FUCKING WAY!", he said, turning, expecting to see a fat stomach. "Wait....you're lying, you're as skinny as when I first saw you!", he said, spattering around on the bed

"Oh my dear Custos....we're Changelings dear, we don't give live birth. We lay eggs~", she said, smiling as she pinched his cheek.

"Wait....no, oh god no, don't you tell me....", he said, his forehead sheening with sweat, "Am I.....am I....."

"Congrats my dear....you're a papa!", Crescent said, smiling at him.

"FFFFUUUCCCKKK THAT! I'M NOT READY FOR FATHERHOOD!", he said, turning to jump off the bed, towards the door, only to faceplant into Eclipsa.

"AHH! YOU FILTHY MONGREL! FIRST YOU IMPREGNATE MY MOTHER, THEN ASSAULT ME?!", she shouted, back-handing him onto the floor.

Custos going quiet, merely looked up at her, a incredulous look on his face as he suddenly snapped back, "WELL IT'S NOT LIKE I HAD MUCH OF A CHOICE YER MAJESTY!", he said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"ENOUGH!....Since you deemed yourself fit to give my mother children, then as Queen.....I demand the same sort of servitude", she said, her expression not matching her tone of voice whatsoever.

".....Oh no, no no no, I'm not going to fuck another one of you....", he said, looking back at Crescent, as she just smiled and waved.

"No excuses will be given. I AM Queen, and I get what I want!", she snapped again, stamping her foot.

"You'll have to forgive my dearest daughter, Custos love.....she may be a queen, but she's only nigh of her 900th birthday, barely out of adolescence by most creatures age.

"Nine.....nine......NINE HUNDRED?! What the hell are you all?!....", Custos said, seeing Eclipsa blush at her age being blurted out like that.

"M-MOTHER! PLEASE! I captured this creature for his magical power....the fact that....we'll be.....doing that....That's the duty a Queen must endure!", she said, nervously sweating now as a blush began creeping across her face, barely being hidden by her hands as she attempted not to look at Custos.

"The fact that we won't be doing jack SHIT, your HIGHNESS!", Custos said, as he tried to sidestep away.

"Oh no, not again....you won't escape me this time. You defied my wants, impregnated my mother, and escaped me from before....you won't be doing that again, I can assure you", Eclipsa stated, grabbing Custos by the neck and hefting him over her shoulder.

"Now, we are going to my chambers, I am going to seduce you....AND YOU ARE GOING TO PLEASE ME BETTER THEN
MY SLUT OF A MOTHER!", Eclipsa shouted, the guards wincing as the door slammed shut, causing cracks to appear in the plaster surrounding the frame.

"....I....don't suppose I can say I have a headache and just wanna cuddle....can I?", Custos asked, Eclipsa holding onto him with a vice-like grip on his booty as he rode, slung over her shoulder like a sack of rice.

"You could yes..............", she said, her answer honestly surprising him.

"I.....really?", he said, lifting himself to look back at her.

"Of course....I don't need you alive, I can just give you the eternal sleep and collect what I need for my brood from your corpse afterall", she said, matter of factly, her heeled feet click-clacking on the marble flooring as they reached the end of the hallway.

"On second thought.........my head feels fine", Custos said, gulping loudly as he got the gist of what she was meaning.

"I thought you would", Eclipsa said, a smug smile forming on her face. "Now then....I am going to have my servants attend to me....when I return, I expect you to be presented and ready to please me however I see fit!", she said, tossing him onto the bed as she strode to a far door, the image of what seemed like a grand bathroom, as large as the bedroom itself, beyond, as steam and heat wafted slowly into the room.

"You may do whatever it is you males do to get yourselves ready.....I do not want to know", she said as she disappeared thru the door, closing it behind her.

"Well.....shit", Custos said, sitting up on the bed as he looked around him, then walking to a window, staring out at the barren landscape beyond the windows front. "I'm in a right pile of manure right now, that I am....."

"Oh boy, you have NOOOO idea how under-rated that comment is lover boy~", said a voice behind him.

Whirling around, Custos glared down at the somewhat taller, but still really short form of Nightmare Moon, her head barely reaching above his belly button as he gasped in shock. "How the hell did you get her-.....Actually, why am I still surprised at this shit? You probably used some weird Pegacorn magic didn't you?"

"The CORRECT term is Alicorn....you uncultured swine. As for your question, not exactly, it seems, for whatever reason, I can travel with you by inhabiting that necklace of yours", she said, gesturing to the gem around his neck.

"My necklace?.....You better not have done anything to it!", he said, clenching his fists as he pulled at it to get a better look.

"Oh please....like I even would want to. I HEARD everything Celestia said you know, I know what that rock is supposed to represent.....but let's just say I'm not fully onboard as to the reasoning for WHY Celestia wants it, I mean....did she actually give any legitimate reason to it?"

Opening his mouth to answer, Custos closed it slowly after a while, realizing that while he might not enjoy the company of his companion....she DID have a valid point, Celestia never TRULY gave an actual reason....just why it would be beneficial.

"Ok.....so where do we go from here then?", he asked, staring down at Nightmare Moon, trying to maintain eye contact, as her outfit did not leave anything to the imagination.

"Heh...keep staring lover boy.....I might just let ya enjoy it after a while", she said as she grabbed his hand. "Stay with me now.....I'll see if my magics recovered enough to at least teleport us away from this hive castle", she said as they both began to glow.

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?", Custos said, before suddenly popping out of existence, with Nightmare Moon, the only reminder of their forms being a whisp of smoke as they disappeared to whereever they were being teleported to, right as Eclipsa entered the room.

Having had her maids and servants glam her up, her beautifully make-upped face contorted with rage as she formed a mad grip on the fruits she carried with her, smashing them on the floor as her fist punched the wall, leaving a small crater from the impact. "NOT AGAIN!", she screamed, partially out of frustration, and partially out of anger. "I do not know where or how you escaped this time Custos......but I'll find you and drag you back as many times as it takes.....You've toyed with a mares heart one time too many already."

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Chapter 10: The Cleansing

(AN: Sorry for the long wait between the last post and this one folks, between work, life, an auto accident I was in last year in October, and other things, I simply haven't had the energy to put any work into this story, but tonight I finally felt some inspiration, and sat down to finish off this chapter. No matter how long chapters might take however, I want you all to know that unless I specifically say otherwise, this story will NOT be canceled, so please don't think it is, and also please forgive me for the wait, thank you."

As Custos turned down from the moon and looked at Twilight again, he grimaced and proceeded to shake his head, "Look......Twilight...Sprinkle? Was it? You wouldn't believe me, even if I told you", he said with a chuckle as he shook his head a few times, before looking around.

Twilight, a weird look on her face as she eyed him warily, "Weeeelllllll....if you say so, but don't think I'm not keeping an eye on you mister", she said, suddenly lifting him up with magic and walking along, him floating behind her.

"H-HEY! WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA YOU PURPLE......PURPLE THING?!", Custos said, immediately hostile and angry, especially considering the day he's had so far.

"Me and my friends are the ones that defeat Nightmare Moon, remember? We ALL heard her scream your name, whatever your relationship to her, you're too dangerous to be left alone in the open like this. I'm not even sure how you got out, but I'm bringing you right back to the guards, so they can haul you back to Canterlot and the Princessess", Twilight said as she passed a group of ponies all laughing, as one with a rainbow colored tail snuck up on them from above.

"RAINBOW DASH DON'T YOU DARE!", suddenly shouted an orange colored pony, as she high-jump kicked the rainbow tailed pony out from the cloud they were flying out, knocking them to the ground as Twilight walked up.

The azure mare, getting up as the group she was previously sneaking up on turned to look at her before walking way, slowly rubbed her head as she pouted and looked up at the orange colored pony, "OH COMMON AJ! That was prime scaring material that was!", she said, standing up to the orange mare, despite being more then 2 heads shorter then her.

"AH AIN'T HAVING NONE OF THAT, YA HEAR?!", AJ shouted right back, intimidating Rainbow Dash into backing down as Twilight suddenly cleared her throat and got both of their attention.

"Oh, Hey Twilaight!", the orange colored mare said, in what could only be described as an Amazonian outfit. "Whatcha gawt thar?" she said, gesturing to Custos behind her

"Oh, this is the fellow we found in the castle after defeating Nightmare.....I'm turning him into the guards because he's a dangerous fellow", Twilight said, matter of factly, as she shot a glare back at Custos.

"Well shucks....what did he do?", Applejack said, scratching her head as her other head held a firm grip on Rainbow Dash, not letting her run off and cause more mischief.

"W-well.....um, nothing......YET. But I bet he's up to something wicked right this second!", Twilight said, suddenly lost for words.

"THE HELL I AM YOU PURPLE PONY BIMBO!", Custos said, raging against the magical constraints holding him in place. "I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING AND YOU JUST DECIDED TO KIDNAP ME!"

"Twilaight.....is that true now?", Applejack said, fixing her stern gaze on Twilight.

"I....er......not exactly....I mean, he COULD'VE been about to do something bad....I mean LOOK at him, he's so dastardly looking.....just like....eeeuuuggghh, quesadillas", Twilight said, shuddering in both horror and disgust.

"Twilaight....now I may be just an apple pony, darn-tootin' I'm proud of that, I'm also your friend; And it seems to me that you must be having apple sauce in them ears of yours, I say let him down and leave him be, he ain't done nothin' wrong."

"B-b-but......FINE!", Twilight said, releasing Custos, who immediately fell into an apple-dunking bucket, while she stormed off in a huff in her costume

"TWILAIGHT!.........*sigh* What's with her t'day?", Applejack said as she turned around to pick up Custos, setting him back on his feet and handing him a towel from a nearby stall stand. "You alraight there pardner?"

"..........Would you be alright if some purple pony BITCH decided you were a bad guy just from how you looked and then in a fit of temper tantrum, decided to give you an impromptu bath?!" Custos said, his cheeks red with rage and embarassment

"Now hold it raight there mister, I may be not knowin' you better then this side of zap apple jam, but Twilaights mah friend, and you don't get to talk about her like that", AJ said, leaning over Custos, her height being used to try and intimidate him, her bust actually pushing against his cheek.

"OH I'M SORRY!", Custos said, grabbing at her boobs so he could push them down to look her properly in the face, "I didn't ASK to be here ya know, I'd rather be home....not here with you freaking ponies that are builts like goddesses!", he said angrily, releasing her boob, which promptly jiggled before coming to a rest again.

"Ya think I'm a goddess?.......I MEAN THAT'S NOT THA POINT!", AJ said, picking up Custos and setting him down in a chair,

"Now you sit here mistah while I go grab the girls. Twilaight may have over-reacted, but I think we still need ta figure out how ya got here.....and why you were at the Princesses old castle home as well", she finished, before walking off.

"Well.....that could've gone worse" Nightmare said, as her small body crawled out from under a nearby food stand, as she stood up, snickering at Custos.

"Oh come off it", he said, grabbed a towel that AJ had left from him, as he begins to wipe himself down. "First it's your giant form...then it's freakin succubus bug ponies.....now it's this shit!", he said, wringing water out of the towel before using it some more.

"Well....my point still stands, they could've very easily overpowered you and brought you back to the Princesses."

"Yeah...if it wasn't for the fact that Celestia already had said I had freedom to move around", Custos shot back, still somewhat angry at the whole ordeal

"True, but she probably didn't mean to have you leave the castle and/or Canterlot you know."

"I-......hmmm.....you're probably right, it's not like I look like any of you, so I bet having something like me around would be discomforting to see huh?" Custos said, looking at Nightmare

"Well....you're certainly not gonna get any complaints from me!", Nightmare said as she jumped into his lap.

"WHOA WHOA WHOA! We JUST escaped from the sex hungry bug ponies.....I do NOT need a child trying to jump my bones....so to speak", Custos said, lifting her up straight away and holding her up in his arms.

"Oh PLEASE Custos....you really need to start learning more about how our world works. I only look like this because I was able to shoot off this branch of my magical essence before the Elements of Harmony "cleansed" me", Nightmare said, as she shirked out of his arms, dropping to her feet. "If I try hard enough, I CAN change my size", she said, glowing for a moment, before suddenly changing into a much more statuesque form of Luna, complete with the Nightmare Moon armor and revealing skin.

"....I....whoa", Custos said, his eyes actually bugging a bit, right before he noticed himself starting to drool.

"Ehehehehehehe, looks like SOMEBODY likes what they see?", Nightmare said, as she leaned forward, revealing more cleavage.

"Look....just.....change back, I've had enough sexual antics for ONE night thank you very much....still got to get over the fact that I'm possibly a dad now...and I do NOT need a giant black pony trying to make a pass at me."

"I'm more of a Pinkie Pie color silly, but it's ok, I forgive you!", said Pinkie Pie, who suddenly glomped Custos from behind, resulting in his head being shoved between her MASSIVE breasts

"WHOA SHIT!", Custos said, before being engulfed in a seemingly endless world of pinkie plushiness, and caramel scented body lotion.

Nightmare Moon, having seemingly disappeared, chuckled quietly, having hidden herself again in Custos amulet, as she took in the unfolding situation.

"OH FOR FUCKS SAKE! GET OFF OF ME YOU WALKING PINK FETISH!" Custos roared, shoving his head out finally as he gulped in massive amounts of sweet, sweet air.

Pinkie Pie giggled as she rubbed the top of his head, "Okie Dokie Lokie Artichokie....but the fucking will have to wait sweetie, I'm off to the chicken races, BA-KAWK!", Pinkie Pie said, running off in her almost bimbo-like chicken outfit, disappearing as quickly as she appeared.

"What.....in the god damn gods name was that?", Custos said, collapsing AGAIN back into the chair.

"That....was Pinkie Pie, crazy gal, but prolly the best darn baker in all of town, including the Cakes", AJ said, walking up as she waved at Custos. "So anyways, Ah had a talk with Twilaight, and she's calmed down now. She said she's sorreh for the trouble, and just wanted ta make sure ya weren't gonna cause trouble."

"I!.....YOU!......Ugh, fine, whatever, tell her it's okay, just.....don't levitate me again, I get bad motion sickness when I'm in the air", Custos said, shuddering at the queasiness he felt from before.

"Heh...yeah, anyways, would ya like to join the celebration? We're celebrating Nightmare Night", AJ said as she helped

Custos stand up out of the chair, "By tha way, My names Apple Jack, but ponies round these parts sometimes call me AJ, she said, shaking Custos hand, causing his entire arm to wiggle like jelly.

Custos, rubbing his arm as he retrieved his hand from the orange amazonian ponies grip, shook his head and replied back, "Charmed......my names Custos, but you prolly already knew that, didn't ya?"

"Sure as sunshine did, Princess Celestia sent Twilaight a letter a while ago, explaining how ya were free to roam these here parts, to try and acclimate to pony society", she said, walking with him down the main lane of the festival.

As various ponies stood here and there, hawking their wares, a thunderous clap of sound, accompanied by lightning and gasping of several ponies stopped Custos before he could reply to Apple Jack.

As he and AJ looked to the sky, another roar of thunder, followed by a gust of wind, passed thru the area, as two almost demonic looking ponies flew down from the sky, pulling a carriage, as they both super-hero landed, the carriage however, falling much more gracefully, as a hooded figure stepped out, her height dwarfing even Apple Jack as she closed the carriage door behind her.

"Oh no......oh no nonononono", Nightmare Moon muttered in her amulet, "What in the name of the almight Faust is SHE doing here?", she said, worriedly as she dove deeper into Custos' amulet, to make sure that the figure couldn't detect her.

"GREETINGS CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE, IT IS WE, YOUR PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT, HERE TO JOIN YOU IN YOUR COMMON PONIES CELEBRATION OF NIGHTMARE NIGHT!", the figure shouted, her voice causing the ponies closest to her to shrink back in shock and slight fear.

"Is that....Nightmare Moon?!", Custos shouted, shrinking back in fear as he worriedly thought that if THAT was Nightmare Moon, then who the figure in his braclet that constantly sexually harassed him could be.

"Nah, that's....well, you're not wrong technically, but that there is Princess Luna. She used ta BE Nightmare Moon, but after me and the gals harmonized her, she became Luna again.....though I'm plum out of ideas as ta why she's here now."

As the figure continued to shout, Twilight could be seen walking up to the figure, her arms waving frantically as she hurriedly escorted Luna away to the other side of the carnival, in an attempt to regain SOME level of control over the festival.

"Well....THAT ended quickly", Custos muttered, as he turned to look at AJ, "Should you....ah, go follow her?", he said, unsure of the expression on AJ's face, which looked to be equal parts worry, and fear.

"Normally, I'd trust Twilaight to handle this kinda stuff....but ya right, maybe I SHOULD follow her. You can enjoy the carnival Custos, Happy Nightmare Night pardner", she said, before galloping off on her huge legs, to catch up to them.

"Yeah....yeah.....", Custos said, turning to walk away, before suddenly realizing, "Wait.....WHAT THE HECK EVEN IS NIGHTMARE NIGHT ANYWAYS?!"

"SURPRISE!", was the last word Custos heard, before being smothered in pink flesh again, his head so engulfed in breast flesh that he bounced backwards, stumbling out and falling to the ground, his head smashing against a wooden board as he fell unconcious.

"Uh.....oh, that's not good, oh no, I gotta get help, quickly", Pinkie Pie said, picking up Custos and carrying him off with her to Twilight's library.

*Somewhere.....in the void*

"Ugh...my head, how is someone whose THAT tall and has THAT much fat on them able to move so quietly?", Custos muttered, picking himself up off of the floor.

"Anyways....wait, where am I?", Custos said aloud, the entire field around him nothing but pitch black darkness, and a swirling purplish fog. "What the hell happened to the town?!"

"Cus-?....A....y.u.....a....ht?", Custos turned around in a circle, barely able to hear Nightmare Moons voice, trying to pinpoint where it came from.

"Moon?.....Is that you? I can barely hear you", he said, beginning to stumble in the direction he believed the sound was coming from.

"I......ca......h...r.......wh....r....y..?", the sound kept cutting off, as Custos began to stumble in the fog, his head dizzy, and legs feeling like he was walking against a strong water current.

As the pressure moving against him began to be too much, Custos stumbled, his body falling forward onto the ground, sinking in somewhat, like quick sand.

Struggling to get up, Custos gargled as the fluid rushed over his head, splashing him in the face and going down his throat and into his nose.

However, just as quickly as Custos began to panic, his pendant shot up off of his neck, glowing and spinning slowly, but speeding up, before it erupted into light, clearing away the darkness, as a patch of green grass formed under Custos body.

Coughing and trembling, Custos hacked up the remaining water that was in his throat, before falling back onto his butt, barely able to keep himself up, the pendant still signing in the sky as it slowly began to move closer to him.

Custos was, for one of the few times in his life, lost for words, speechlessly watching the light move closer as it slowly closed in on him.

The heat from the light however, began to oppress onto him, feeling way too hot, Custos began to try to scramble away, but found he could not leave the grassy circle that the light had formed, as the light closed even further.

Finding his voice, Custos blurted out, "Hey....d-don't come any closer, STAY BACK!", he said, trying to put his hands out to stop the light, as it effortlessly passed thru his arms, and entered his body thru his chest.

Pain had never been a big deal for Custos, he had gotten into a fair amount of fights in his young life, and had learned of his high tolerance for pain......but this....this pain was as if he had been lit on fire from the inside, and was being melted slowly.

A scream that no earthly creature should EVER make erupted from his mouth, his body bursting into flames and blood spewing from his everything, only to be reformed, and repeated again and again.

The pain, slowly building to a crescendo, seared a word into Custos mind, the voice booming it, repeating it over and over, "HARMONY! HARMONY! HARMONY!", as it burst his ear drums, blood shooting out from the burnt holes that were his ears once.

As the pain became too much for Custos, his mind blanked, his vision going blurry as he fell to the ground, the flames continuing to burn his body as his final thoughts went to his family, his life flashed before his eyes.

His life with his grandparents and mother, the fateful night he first met Nightmare Moon, the subsequent events after, the events with the changelings, heck, even the most recent stuff at Ponyville.

"Mmmmmoooooonnnn", Custos muttered, his burnt lips cracking as they fell off of his body, before going limp, his body burnt to ashes as all that was left was a pile of dust and cinders.

*Ponyvilly, Twilights Library*

"Twilight....is he gonna be okay?", Pinkie Pie asked, worriedly washing Custos face with a wet clothe as she looked up at her friend.

"I don't know Pinkie, he hit his head pretty hard when you hugged him, and since we've never seen "humans" before in Equestria, I'm not sure how similar their anatomy is to ours, hopefully the medicine and magic helped, but the bandages might've been a tad much", she said, looking at how her friends had practically mummified Custos body, the entire body being wrapped in bandages, minus the face.

"Oh, I...I'm sorry, I wasn't sure how hurt he'd be, they're soaked in a plant I learned helps numb pain", said a yellow pegasi, who fluttered over with a small bucket of warm water, handing it to Pinkie Pie.

"It's ok Fluttershy, we all know you meant well", said Twilight as she stared down at Custos, something in the back of her head not telling her to leave him alone still. "I still say we should call the guards though, we don't know if he's dangerous or not."

"Now hold on Twilaight", said AJ, as she spoke up from her chair across the room, "You said you'd leave that alone, Custos hasn't done a thang wrong, and you sure as heck can't punish him for nothin'."

"I know Apple Jack.....I know, but something just worries me", Twilight replied back, before using her magic to retrieve a book, skimming over the pages.

"Uurrrgghggghhhhhhh.....did anybody get the license plate number of that truck that hit me?", Custos muttered, his body slowly moving as he woke up.

"CUSTOS!", said all the girls, except Fluttershy, who squeaked and half hid behind a curtain, the fabric doing nothing to hide her immensely tall figure.

"I'M SO GL-AH-AH-D YOU'RE ALRIGHT!", Pinkie Pie cried, hugging him as she cried, engulfing him once again.
"PINKIE!" Twilight and AJ both shouted at once, "LET HIM GO!", AJ said, pulling Pinkie away as Twilight helped Custos lean him.

"Ughhhh....what happened?", Custos said, struggling to move as the bandages pulled taught against him.

"Pinkie happened", Twilight said, getting a pair of scissors to help free Custos from the over zealous usage of bandages.

"Oh right......the walking fetish", Custos muttered, his vision blurry and mind still woozy from the head injury.

Twlight, opening her mouth to retort, closed it again, choosing to let it go for once before laying him back down onto the couch he was on. "Let me go get you some water", she said, leaving the room quickly.

"Ugh.....my head", Custos said, reaching up to touch it, before noticing how ice cold and metallic his fingers were like.

Struggling to focus his vision, he saw what looked like a gauntlet of rainbow-ish metals covering his arm all the way up to the elbow. "Well.....that's not right", he said, weakly trying to take the gauntlet off, but unsuccessfully, as the gauntlet refused to budge even an inch, almost as if it was fused to him.

Sighing in frustration, he laid back down all the way, closing his eyes as he listened to the sounds of AJ hugging Pinkie, who was still crying, Fluttershy trying to comfort Pinkie, and Twilight, in the kitchen off in the distance, freaking out from somehow setting a glass of water on fire.

All this happening, Custos laughed, a genuine laugh as he slowly drifted off to sleep.

"Hey Custos....ya awake?", Nightmare Moons voice sounded, in his head.

"Moon?", Custos whispered, his voice still weak from the previous ordeal.

"In here silly, look at your arm", she said, as Custos turned his head slightly, seeing a symbol of a purplish-black crescent moon inside the orb on the back of his head.

"Seems I can inhabit this moon stone here and talk with you telepathically now as well", she said, the symbol disappearing, only to be replace with the same rainbow colors as the rest of the gauntlet.

"Ok, sounds cool bro, now let me sleep", Custos muttered, weakly turning onto his side as his mind once again drifted off slowly to sleep.

Before Custos could finally sleep in the land of unconciousness, a knock could be heard at the door briefly, before it was SLAMMED open, a voice erupting from outside, "GREETING TWILIGHT AND FRIENDS, WE HAVE COME TO ASSIST IN.....", Luna spoke, her voice being caught in her throat as Twilight, mid-pose of extinguishing a burning glass of water, AJ and Pinkie Pie mid-hug, and Fluttershy, all gave her simultaneous death glares, as they pointed to Custos in the corner. "Oh....We.....I mean I....apologize, I did not mean to disturb the humans rest."

As this happened however, Custos, his eyes closed, broke out into a cold sweat, as he could hear Nightmare Moon in his head, repeating the same words he himself was muttering to himself in his mind. They both continually repeating, "Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit."

Chapter 9: Monsters and Nightmares and Costumes, oh my!

Hey everyone, so long time without writing a chapter, so might be a little bit rusty again, had alot of stuff happen between work, life, and gaming, might not be as long as normal, but hopefully you'll enjoy it.

Custos, being the dumbass that he was, was presently running for his life. "SHHHHIIITTT!!! NIGHTMARE! WHY DID YOU TELEPORT US INTO THEIR GARRISON?!" He yelled, the diminutive form of his partner in crime floating as she giggled at his predicament.
"Well what do you expect? It's not like I wasn't drained of my power by those annoying little ponies-oh wait!", she said, as she pushed his head down, right as a bolt of white energy zapped past his head, a curse emitting from one of the female changeling guards as her attack missed.
"Whoo, it's a good thing they can't see me...otherwise keeping you alive like this would be immensely more difficult", she thought, as Custos threw open a pair of double doors, before bolting past them, her magic being used to lock the gates behind them, to the irritation of the guards, as they began to batter on it, splintering it only slightly.

"HOW IS THIS PLACE SO BIG?!", he said as he looked down the giant corridor. "Ugh, at this rate I'll die before I find my way out." Running down a corridor, he began to open doors as he looked for a way out.

"Uh...Custos dear?....That might not be the best thing to do, ya know, considering we're being chased", Nightmare Moon stated as she floated after him, his speed surprisingly high for one that was running.

"WELL MAYBE IF YOU HELPED!", he said as he threw open a pair of somewhat older looking wooden doors, before running thru it, "COMMON! I THINK I FOUND AN EXIT! I can see light!", he said, darting into them.

"H-HEY! Wait up you meanie!", Nightmare Moon stated as she flapped her wings, struggling to catch up, only to peer into what was......a broom closet? "Whhhhaaa-?? Custos?......This isn't funny", she said, thinking at first it was a practical joke, before realizing there was no-where for him to hide IN said closet. "Where the hell......CUSTOS!?", she said, actually getting a bit worried now as she used some of her reserve magic to teleport away, in the event that one of the changelings begins to sense her energy.

*Unknown Realm*

Running like his life depended on it, Custos gasped for air as he rounded a corner, his body unwilling to go further as he slumped to the ground, "I.....think....ah....we.....ah.....lost....them", he said, looking up, "What.....what......do you.....think Moon?", he said, waiting to hear her sarcastic, but not alltogether unhelpful reply.

As the seconds turned into minutes, Custos looked up, opening his eyes as the sweat dripped into them, "AHH! SASSAFRACKIN MOTHERFUCKING BITCH!" he said as the sweat stung his eyes, reaching down to wipe it on the edge of his shirt. "Dear god that stings", he said as his eyes, blurry from the sweat, tried to adjust to his surroundings.

"Dude tell me about it, especially when the sweat hits at the outer corner of the eye and just teases the pupil? It feels like needles....."

"Yeah....that's the most annoyingggggggggggggg WHO SAID THAT?!", Custos said, his mind not altogether with him as he swiveled around, his eyes getting more used to their surroundings.

"Up here dude", the voice said as it came closer, out of the shadows of the ceiling, shaping into what only be described as some sort of spider-centaur looking creature......if it was given the charecteristics of a pony.

"What in the name of St. Peter.........what the hell ARE you?", he said as he stared at her, unable to hide his blush as he saw her practically beach-ball sized breasts swing back and forth, the scrap of clothe covering them looking like a banana peel trying to hide a car....only very lewdly.

"Beats me dude, daddy says it doesn't matter though....that I'm me, and that's all I have to be......but then the old geezer isn't really always around, so it doesn't matter.....What DOES matter though....is me sucking your dick", she said with a grin.

"Well I mean that sounds nice and you're a very nice looking lady and I'd be remiss to- WWWWHHHHHHAAAAAATTTTT?!", Custos said, his jaw, if it could, practically falling off of his face as he stared at her in shock.

"Oh come off it, you're an adult, I'm an adult....ish person, I wanna suck your dick....you probably wouldn't complain, what's the harm?" she said as she crept closer to him, her body walking down the wall as easily as a human walks on the ground.

"Well for starters, A I'm not sure where I am, B it's my body and I'm pretty sure I don't want those spider...pony....whatever, fangs of yours near my emilio, and C, I have a changeling army and a very pissed off horny queen after me and the thickness!", Custos said, his voice rising, but also cracking as he was unsure how better to portray his predicament.

"...........Am I supposed to care about this?" the pony spider.....the spony, said, her face a wall of non-emotion

"Well......maybe a little? Look lady, I've had a long day, and I'm exhausted, so can we maybe just cud-"No we can not just cuddle", the spony said as she drew closer, her arms lifting her shirt off as her beach-ball sized breats dropped into place, seemingly defying gravity as they held upright with unnatural firmness.

".....Awww geez", Custos said, wincing as he saw her readying to pounce on him, his body all but given up from running at this point, "Please, if anything....be gentle", he said, with an almost whisper

".....No", the spony said, her sharp teeth grinning with anticipation as she jumped towards him.....only to be suddenly grabbed by the hair, and pulled backwards into the air.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING YOUNG LADY?!", yelled a very loud....angry voice.

Slowly opening one eye, Custos looked up, and felt his jaw drop again, as he spied an even larger spony like creature, holding the other in her arms as she shook her madly.

"MATING WITH AN OUTSIDER?! SUCKING THEIR DICK?! NO DAUGHTER OF MINES GOING TO DO THAT!" the matron like creature stated, throwing her daughter behind her, "Now go to your room.....I'll be back later to give you your punishment", she said as she focused on Custos.

"Rrrrr....yes...MOM", the younger spony said, her voice dripping with sarcasm as she stomped off, like a child, away into the darkness.

"Please, accept my apologies for my daughter, she's young and impulsive, barely out of her hundreds, and already acting like the world revolves around her.

At a loss for words, Custos just stood there, his mind coming up with just merely, "Well.....uh....kids, am I right?"

"Quite so....my name is Tarantia, may I have the pleasure of knowing yours?", she said, crawling down to the floor to Custos, wrapping her legs around her body as she looked down at him from her higher angle.

"Oh...um....well it's very nice to meet you, my name is Cus", he started to say, only to be interrupted from behind

"MOTHER! Who CARES what his name is? He's just a fuck slave after all for those damned buggy succubi upstairs"

".....Silk Spin.....who said you could leave your room?", her mother said, smiling while Custos felt a cold sweat start upon his brow.

"I.....um....nevermind mother, I'll go back to my room now" Silk Spin stated, as she slowly retreated back into the shadows.

"That's a good girl", Tarantia stated, smiling down at Custos, "Apologies dear......my little Silky gets that combative side from her father, he was a pony you know......though I have to say, he didn't look anything like you, are you supposed to be some new breed that was recently discovered?"

"I.....uh, no, I'm a Human, not a Pony", Custos said, "Also my name is Custos....it's very nice to meet you ma'am", he said, as he felt increasingly uncomfortable with her size next to him.

(AN: For a size comparsion of Custos to Tarantia, imagine putting a motorcycle, next to one of those double decker buses you see in England, or in Hollywood on those tours they do.)

"Listen, I hate to be a bother, but I really have to go, those Changelings upstairs were chasing me, and I lost my friend that was with me, and I'm afraid that without her, I can't get back ho-....home?.....home", Custos said, stuttering a bit at the end. Had Equestria already felt like a home to him? Nonsense, he'd barely been there so far.....but, it wasn't altogether bad either.

"Oh my of course dear....you came with that little filly didn't you? What do the ponies call her? Nightmare Moon?" the mother said, waving her hand as some sort of magical image appeared in front of it, suddenly popping Nightmare into place, causing her to yelp as she suddenly fell into Custos, who caught her with his open arms.

"What the.....how the......Custos??.......UNHAND ME THIS INSTANT!", she said, slapping him open palmed across the cheek as she dropped to her feet. "Really now......touching a lady without her consent, what sort of degenerate are you??" she steamed, before slowly turning around and seeing Tarantia there. "Oh my......a Spony.....Custos, what the hell did you do?"

"Ara ara, please my dear, do not blame your friend here, I merely thought to give him a helping hand as he helped us just now", Tarantia stated, picking up Custos and gently rubbing the place where Nightmare slapped him.

"Wait....I helped you all?....How the hell did I do that??", he said, looking up at her, her breasts literally swaying like low hanging death balls above his head as he spotted some of her eyes from between the mountains of rolling flesh.

"Why.....you opened the doorway my dear, that entrance has blocked me and my people from escaping for nigh several millenia now......soon, we may even be able to return to Equestria to serve our Swarm Lord once more", she said, leaning down and pecking the top of his head as gently as she possibly could.

"Oh.......great", Custos said, thinking to himself, "That name sounds familiar......have I heard it before?", he said as he looked over at Nightmare Moon, "Well....at least we're together again, now what?"

"How am I supposed to know?!", Nightmare said, stomping over to him, "Other then that, who gave you permission to leave my side?.....Don't you know a knight is supposed to protect his lady?"

"H-HEY! I FOUND HIM FIRST YOU WHORE!" Silk Spin said, her voice echoing from around a corner, several hallways down.

"Silk.....what did I just say?.....come out from there", Tarantia said, several of her eyes closing in frustration.

Silk, slovenly stretching her first leg out from beyond the shadows, slowly shambled into the light, her hands twiddling as she nervously looked at her mother, then at Nightmare, "I-I found him first.......he's MINE!", she said, projecting some energy into her voice again.

Chuckling sofftly, Nightmare Moon simply shook her head and looked at Silk Spin, "Pretty big talk from someone that hasn't even slept with the person yet", she said, a grin on her face

"Wh-what?!.....You've actually.....HMMPH! It's not like I wasn't planning on it, my mother just stuck her big fat butt in the way..."

"My my my....look at you two young girls.....talking about me as if I was not still here", said Silks mother, her face belying the intensity of malice hidden behind it, before turning back to Custos, "My dear, forgive me.....it seems as if I will have to send you and your consort back home now.....as it appears that my daughter requires disciplining....", she said, patting the top of his head with her index finger.

"CONSORT?! ME?! IF ANYTHING HE'S MMMMYYY CONSORT!", Nightmare Moon shouted, offended at being considered second fiddle to Custos.

"Well.....I AM taller then you....that must count for something no?", Custos said, surprisingly taking all of this in stride, most likely due to the fact of being possibly in shock.

"That's only because of those blasted ponies and that dumb purple bimbo of a leader of theirs, that dumb Twilight Sprinkle....or Spookle....or whatever her name was", Nightmare said, waving her fingers as if to shoo it away out of annoyance.

"Hmm....alright alright, break it up you two", Custos said, standing between them as he tried to provide a barrier,

"Anyways....you said you can send us....home, right?" Custos said, turning again to look up at Tarantia.

"Indeed, just say the word, my little morsel, and I can send you and your mate back to the planet down below, provided you can create a mental image of where you want to go, I can send you directly there", Tarantia said, weaving a spell with one of her many hands. ".....What? Just because I'm not a unicorn does not mean I can't use magic", she said, speaking thusly as she saw Nightmare Moon looking up at her in shock.

"B-but....that's ELDER magic, not even me and my no good sister can do that........Not even DISCORD could do that magic.....", she said, her voice hussed out of sudden shock, and possibly fear.

"My little pony", she said, cupping Nightmares head between her thumb and index finger, "I'm the matron of all sponies......the trivial amount of time you all have lived down there, safe on your planet, is like a cup of water in a river to my age", she said simply, giving Nightmare a smile. "Anyways, get ready my dears....the spell is not a long casting one, so I should be able to send you right now."

"Hmmmm....well, it was......enjoyable, I guess, talking with you all, I hope we can maybe meet again", Custos said, his mind still in shock somewhat from the situation, but pleased that he managed to meet some creatures that weren't either out to kill him.....or fuck him, for that matter, current daughters notwithstanding of course.

"Indeed.....it was pleasant meeting you my dear Custos......make sure you keep that lady of yours safe......and that jewel as well, it can be quite.....valuable, down below", she said as she gave them a wave before encasing them in light.

"Wait, what does that me-", Custos question ended, cut off as the pillar of magic enveloped them, shooting them away like a bullet.

"C-CALL ME!", Silk Spin cried out, grinning nervously under her mothers judgemental eye as she slowly backed away from her mothers approaching form.

"We will have words......my child", Tarantia said, standing over her daughter, "One does not simply mate with the cocoon so easily..."

"Wait....HE'S THE COCOON?!.....But mother.....he didn't look anything like our master!", Silk shouted, as her and her mother walked away into the shadows.

"-an?", Custos said, him and Nightmare Moon suddenly reappearing, in a somewhat open aired market, Halloween-ish themed decorations surrounding them, "Huh?.....Where are we?", he said as he looked up at a banner that read, "Happy Nightmare Night?.....What the heck is that?", Custos said as he turned to look at Moon.

"Huh......I overheard several maids in the castle earlier discussing this....apparently it's a holiday for me, where ponies dress up in costumes and do weird things like scare each other, and bob for apples.....though I do not know where they find this bob", Nightmare Moon said, her arms covering herself as she shivered, though I wonder why we arrived here for all things.....perhaps the call of magic that that Spony matron used sensed my presence here, and thus transported us?....", she said, as several ponies walked by, whispering as one stared and pointed at Custos.

"Hey you two.....I don't know what your costume is buddy....but tell your girlfriend to cover up, her Nightmare Moon costume is great and all, but it's way too revealing out here, there's fillies and colts around you know", said the mare, her boston like accent heavily influencing her manners of speaking, as the green colored mare with her pulled her along, to hurry up with the rest of the group they were in.

"HOW DARE SH-", Nightmare began to shout, before Custos covered her mouth, speaking to the fleeing back, "THANK YOU! I told her the same thing, by the way, where are we again exactly? We just arrived from a carriage and don't know the name of this town."

"It's called Ponyville!", said the two toned mare, as she ran ahead, leaving them alone as they turned to look at each other.

"Huh....Ponyville, that's a very weak pun", Custos said, as he uncovered Moons face, her face scrunched up in a pout as her cheeks turned bright purple from the blushing.

"How should I know why they named this place such a stupi-", Nightmare Moon said, stopping midway as she suddenly dived behind a tarp, hiding herself.

"Moon?....Why did you do that?", Custos said, turning to look at her.

"Custos?......Custos is that you?", said another purple unicorn mare with a very detailed, but still bad costume, and fake beard, hanging from her chin.

"Y-yeah?.....Who the hell is asking?" Custos said, turning to look at the girl, a young reptilian like person of short stature standing behind her with a equally worse dragon costume covering his already obvious dragon like qualities.

"My names Twilight Sparkle.........what are you doing here?", she said, turning to him, her eyes bright with the burning need that only one that had questions, could have.

"I......errr......um.....", Custos said, unsure as how to answer as he stared at her, his mind racing with way to answer. "Oh boy, this is akward", he said as he looked up at the full harvest moon.