Rise of the Swarm Lord
Chapter 9: Monsters and Nightmares and Costumes, oh my!
Previous ChapterNext ChapterHey 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.
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