Lockheart

“I can’t let that big hunk of a dragon get taken away from me,” worried Pinkie Pie as she dashed across Ponyville, running all the way from the middle of town to the orchards of Sweet Apple Acres. To every pony’s surprise as she sped by them, she didn’t even pause to greet them as she usually did and nearly ran over a few of them in her haste.

“What’s gotten into Pinkie?” one wondered. “She’s acting strange… even for her.”

“No kidding,” another agreed. “I’d hate to find out just what is terrible enough to get her worked up this badly.”

“Me too,” the others nodded in agreement and watched the pink blurr zip off.

“La la LAAA!” sang Sweetie Belle as she warmed up her voice. She was up in the Cutie Mark Crusaders’ clubhouse, along with her two friends, Applebloom and Scootaloo.

Applebloom was a yellow-haired pony with a red mane and tail, the former wrapped in a pink ribbon. She had a Cutie Mark of a shield just like Sweetie Belle, save hers had an apple emblazoned on it. She was dressed in blue overalls and a green t-shirt with a bright, red apple on the front. She had on work boots that were stained with mud on the leather and caked all over the soles too, as a testament from all her hard work on the farm.

Scootaloo was an orange pegasus with a purple mane and tail. Despite being well beyond the age she should have been capable of flying, she was suffering from stunted wings that couldn’t do more than help her flutter off the ground for short intervals. Her Cutie Mark was the same as her two friends, save for the feather her had rather than a music note or an apple. She was dressed in black shorts and a green with black flames soccer shirt. On the right side of her chest and done even bigger on the middle of her back was the number 21. She had some worn sneakers on and a pair of goggles dangling from her neck.

While they had normally spent their time helping their fellow ponies to either earn or reconnect with their special rear tattoos, their Cutie Marks, they had suddenly found a new passion that fill up that space in their schedule, their beloved, Spike. After Pinkie and Sweetie had introduced the two of them to the new and improved, no-longer small, purple dragon, they weren’t sure what to make of the hulking reptile, at first. However, as they got the chance to experience the bulky dragon’s newfound maturity, they soon became equally infatuated and the matter of how they’d share him became their next pressing matter.

“Sweetie Belle, do you think you can warm up your vocal chords elsewhere?” asked Scootaloo. “I need to concentrate on this erotic story for Spike, so he’ll take me first next time.”

“I have to stay here,” she replied. “If somepony were to suddenly hear me singing lewdly about what I’d do with a dragon cock they’re gonna start asking questions. Oh, why did Spike have to want you all to join in on our love making. I was marginally okay with sharing him with just Pinkie Pie.”

“He’s a dragon and they’re supposed to be greedy,” figured Applebloom, doing squats in the middle of the room to help tone up her leg muscles and build up her endurance. “Besides, he can take all of us and her and still have lust for more. Who knows how many more girls he’ll add to his harem before he’s satisfied. A dozen? Two dozen? Even more than that? It doesn’t really matter. What does matter is who he favors the most, because they get to be with him first.”

“Which is why he’ll pick me,” declared Sweetie as she sang the scales, her voice even more melodic than ever. “I’ll enchant him with my siren’s song and he’ll only ever have eyes for me.”

“Puh-lease,” scoffed Scoots. “Your singing is nice, but even if you try to add in more kinky lyrics you’re hardly going to turn him on. When I read him one of my erotic stories his cock will shoot seed out of his sac faster than…” Scootaloo paused and flipped through the pages of one of her writings. “‘Faster than the lava from an erupting volcano.’”

“Lame,” the two other girls in heat spoke in unison.

“It is more enjoyable when you read the whole thing,” she countered.

“Well, if your goal is to get him to climax as quickly as possible then you’re completely missing the point,” explained Applebloom. “You shouldn’t be trying to get him to cum as quickly as possible, you should be trying to keep him as lust high for as he can tolerate such pleasure, edging him, but not letting him cock of his unleash its load till that final, wonderful moment when the two become one. Something like that can only be done correctly with both proper technique and tons of endurance. Between the three of us, I have that in spades.”

“And the two became one,” mumbled Scootaloo, jotting some of what Applebloom said in her notes.

“Are you even listening to me?” cried Applebloom.

“Yeah, and some of that is pretty good stuff,” she added. “Just what I need to become the number one in Spike’s harem.”

“You aren’t number one, I am!” argued Applebloom.

“No way, it’s me!” Sweetie Belle told them.

“Girls! Girls!” cried Pinkie Pie as she barged in on them. “We’ve got a Spike Emergency!”

“Oh, right,” recalled Applebloom. “The fastest way to a dragon’s heart is through his stomach, at least in Spike’s case. How can any of us compete against that?”

“Against what?” asked Pinkie.

“Uh, nothing,” replied Scootaloo. “What’s the Spike Emergency?”

“Twilight isn’t happy with how Spike’s been behaving and is going to send him away,” she told them in a worried tone.

“What?!? Send him away!” cried Applebloom. “She can’t do that, can she?”

“I’m afraid she has the authority,” sighed Pinkie. “As a dragon he doesn’t technically have the same rights as we do. She was going on about adding a Tracking Spell to him and, if he still won’t get in line, she’ll send him back to Canterlot.”

“What will happen to him there?” worried Scootaloo.

“I don’t know, but I’m certain that it would far worse than anything they’d be allowed to do to ponies,” she continued somberly, but then picked her head up. “Which is precisely why we’re going to help him escape before Twilight can put that Tracking Spell on him. Then he can be free to go wherever he wants and we can go with him too, if possible.”

“I still can’t believe Twilight of all ponies would do that to him,” she commented. “I figured she’d probably be concerned after he went who knows where a little while ago, what with locking him in his room like a criminal, but to go to these lengths…”

“The rest of us tried to talk her out of it,” said Pinkie. “And it looked like we got her to lighten up on Spike’s punishment so he could be himself, but then she got a letter from Princess Celestia to go on and do what she originally intended. After that, there was no way we could convince her. Even being a princess herself, she bends over backwards to whatever Celestia says, never questioning her even when she knows she’s wrong.”

“Well, it just means that we’ll have to take matters into our own hands,” stated Scootaloo. “Now, let’s go bust our dragon out of the slammer!”

“Yeah!” they all cheered and hurried out of the clubhouse to get to Spike as quickly as possible.

“No… No… Maybe… I could probably use part of this… Oh, and that too,” mumbled Sunburst as he flipped through the pages of three books in the library of the crystal castle. He was an orange unicorn with white hair on his muzzle, hands and feet. He had on a pair of silver spectacles in front of blue eyes. His mane and tail were bright red as was his medium length beard on his chin all of which were even more unkempt and frazzled than they normally were. His Cutie Mark was of an orange sunrise. He had on his favorite, blue wizarding robe that was draped over most of his body. Around the perimeter of the cloak there was an outline of cyan and speckled all over the whole of it was light blue stars. A blue gemstone clasp kept both ends of the cloak together at his chest. Underneath that, he had on a blue, collared shirt and some taupe pants held up with a black belt. In his shirt pocket, he had a couple extra quills, along with a pocket protector. On his feet, he had on a pair of slippers that were curled at the front and had a similar pattern to his cloak.

“Any luck with that spell yet?” the guard pony asked as he peeked out the window at the continuing chaos of the battle going on outside. “Those creatures are putting up one heck of a fight, in spite of our superior numbers. As much as I don’t like to admit it, we might lose if you don’t get that spell prepared so we can repel them.”

“I’m working as fast as I can,” Sunburst replied doing his best to remain calm. “But we have no knowledge as to what these creatures are. If the spell I create isn’t right then it won’t be able to force them out of the city. Even if I can get it right, power is also a factor. If it is too strong then it could kill them like mosquitos in a bug zapper, only much, much messier.”

“I agree with you on the first point, but not so much on the second one,” the soldier told him. “If you can’t make it safe enough then you might as well go for overkill. There’s no kill like it and that’s my slogan.”

“That’s all well and good, but I, in good conscious, can’t just wipe out a species we know little to nothing about,” he explained.

“We know they are our enemies,” snapped the soldier, clenching his spear so tightly that it looked like he might snap it in two. “And every second you waste trying to find some way to politely get them to stop killing us, they are inching their way closer to the Crystal Heart and the castle. Pretty soon, you won’t need to bother with a spell because we will already be conquered!”

With a heavy sigh, Sunburst removed his glasses to rub the dust off of them. “You’re right,” he admitted. “I’ve already run out of time to research. I need to bring my notes on the counter spell to Shining Armor and Cadence so that they can protect the city and… eliminate these… things.”

“I’m glad you are listening to reason,” the guard sighed with relief. “As soon as you are all set, I’ll escort you to them immediately.”

“You don’t have to worry about that. I can take it from here.”

“Huh? Who goes there?” questioned the guard as he turned to see a pink unicorn with a purple mane and tail with a blue streak in them. Her Cutie Mark was of a star with a swirl coming off of it. She was dressed in a short-sleeved, buttoned, pink shirt and blue jeans purposefully torn at her knees. She had on a pair of crocs on her feet and some white fingerless gloves on her hands.

“Not the best way to greet someone you should be glad beyond belief to see,” she smirked as she entered the room and closed the door behind her. The guard continued to glare at her, weapon at the ready, but uncertain if she was friend or foe as she walked past him so casually and approached Sunburst.

“St-Starlight!” gasped Sunburst in disbelief.

“You know her?” asked the guard.

“Know her?” replied a relieved Sunburst. “She’s my best friend and I can’t think of a more powerful unicorn to want with us in the middle of a crisis.”

“Then, I’m happy that you’ve made it here to help us,” bowed the guard. “Your sudden arrival must be a sign that things are going to shift in our favor.”

“You bet, but we’re still gonna have to hurry,” she told them. “Now, get over here, Sunburst.”

“But… wait a minute. What in the world are you even doing here? I thought you were in Las Pegasus with Trixie? She should still be performing there for another two weeks, shouldn’t she?”

“Uh, well, Trixie’s performance wasn’t doing so hot so we decided to pack it up early and I figured I’d pop over to see you,” she explained.

“But that letter you sent me the other day,” he countered. “You said Trixie was a big hit and the two of you were probably gonna stay an extra week.”

“Oh, uh, the thing about that,” she struggled to find an answer to that contradiction.

“You aren’t Starlight!” accused Sunburst, prompting the guard to point his spear at her. “Who are you really?”

“So much for being flawlessly stealthy,” she sighed as Starlight’s body was engulfed in a green flame and was suddenly revealed to be Zircon. “Still, I had him going so my Starlight was pretty spot on.”

“You’re one of those monsters!” snapped the guard.

“They can transform just like Changelings,” gasped Sunburst. “Are you some sort of subspecies?”

“We’re so much more than that,” she answered as she approached Sunburst.

“You’re an invader is what you are,” argued the guard as he thrust his spear at her.

“The power of Changelings!” she told them as she parried the guard’s attack and countered by grabbing his arm and shoulder. “And the might of Dragons!” Using the guard’s own momentum against him, but displaying her own surprising strength as well, Zircon tossed the solder across the room, knocking him into a bookshelf, the force sending number of literature to drop down on and around him.

“Ugh… oh…” he moaned. “I was too careless.”

“A simple mistake,” Zircon spoke as she kneeled down beside him, wetting her lips. “But a fatal one, I’m afraid, for the Crystal Empire, at least.” She lowered her head towards his, a seductive look in her eyes. “Shapeshifting the whole way here was rather draining and I’ve eaten what Media provided me earlier. However, you’ll do nicely.”

“S-Sunburst,” groaned the guard, unable to move as Zircon’s lips neared his. “R-ru-”

“Mmmm,” murred the Dragling as she held the guard’s head still. While swapping saliva with him she extracted the love contained within his heart, pulling it from his body, up his throat, through his mouth and finally into hers to consume it. With every second to pass, the guard’s body became scrawnier and weaker while Zircon merely felt her energy return and her belly became sated. Finally, with a glassy stare now in his eyes, Zircon had finished with the guard and merely left him on the ground. She then turned to her true quarry who had been silently slinking his way to the door. As he reached for the it, Zircon spat a glob of slime on the handle as a makeshift padlock.

“Why are you doing this?” he freaked out and backed up into the wall.

“Do you mean me or my kind?” she asked rather seductively. “Well, we are here to conquer this place, and the rest of Equestria will follow soon after. We’re also here to find a very important item and we are almost certain it is somewhere in this castle. As for myself…” He took out a photo and tossed it on the ground at Sunburst’s feet. Looking at it, it was a photo of him circled with Starlight beside him, in the same outfit Zircon had used in her disguise. “It was my job to find the VIP and bring him over to our side and said pony happens to be you. Congratulations!”

“W-Why are you congratulating me?” he whimpered as she moved ever closer to him.

“Because you are my first,” she smirked. “Now, tell me. Would you rather it be me or…” In another burst of green flame, Zircon was disguised as Starlight once more. “The pony you care for the most. Someone that is more than simply your ‘best friend.’ The two of your are much more than that. I can tell just by how you look at me, I mean her, uh, or rather me-her. Ugh, just watch this. I know you’re gonna like what you see.”

“What are you going to… St-Starlight,” blushed Sunburst as he watched Zircon unbutton Starlight’s shirt and slide it off her arms so that her bra, holding back a pair of C’s, was revealed. Staring at the stallion with a seductive look, she smirked seeing how he couldn’t take her eyes off her melons. “Don’t do that. Not in her body!”

“But this is what you’ve always wanted, isn’t it?” cooed Zircon. “But you were always too timid to admit your true feelings and the same was true for her. But, now there is no need for you to fear intimacy. Just give in to it and become mine.”

“I have t-to fight this,” quivered Sunburst as he bit his lip. “I have to get away… away from this creature. If it is like a Changeling, I can’t allow it to seduce me.” Despite knowing and saying all that, Sunburst’s whole body was refused to move. He couldn’t even avert his eyes from the sight of the he loved with every fibre of his being, not while she was acting so sexy, even if it was an imposter in her form. As he gazed at her, his heart was pounding against his chest at a mile a minute and his dick was getting hard from how much this sexy temptress was arousing him.

“You know, you’re cute when you’re all nervous like that,” she giggled, removing his spectacles and tossing them aside. Looking into his eyes, she enchanted him with a bit of Changeling magic, his cornea’s turning green as the magic took effect on the shaken pony, causing him to calm down and cease his nervous twitching. Finally, to see if it worked, she brought her lips to his ear and whispered into it. “Tell me you’re mine and then I’ll be yours.”

“I-I-I… I’m yours,” the words slowly, but inevitably escaped the lips of the charmed pony.

“And I’m yours,” the phony Starlight replied as the two locked lips and made out. Zircon drank up some of the Sunburst’s love, unable to resist sampling some of that sweet nectar taken directly from one brimming with love and infatuation. “Mmm, mother was so right about this. The tastiest love comes from filling a target to the bursting with affection and then devouring it right afterwards. It’s a shame that we need him able bodied for our plan, so I can only feed on him a little. Still, it doesn’t mean I can’t have some fun first. I’m a bit ahead of schedule as is.”

Reaching down, Zircon felt around Sunburst’s crotch feeling the bulge beneath his pants. Smirking, she was able to get a good feel for the size and thickness of his eager erection just waiting to be unleashed. A few moans of lust escaped his lips easily at her gentle touch. His cheeks turned rosey as he blushed. “Starlight,” he spoke, trapped in his trance.

“Is this your magic wand or the real culmination of all your magical research?” the fake Starlight teased as she slowly undid his belt and then unbuttoned his pants to allow them to slide down his legs. “Either way, I can’t wait to give it a try and I’m sure you are curious to experience the pleasures of the flesh yourself.”

“Uh huh,” he nodded, as Zircon began to unbutton his shirt, top down and then helped him slip out of it. Helping out, Sunburst slipped out of his shoes and socks, but when he went to remove his wizard’s cloak, Zircon stopped him.

“Keep that on,” she told him before kneeling down to take off his boxers, a pair that were red and blue with a yellow elastic band, the same colors worn by the comic superhero Super Pony. It even had the ‘S’ in the shield that was on the front of the superhero’s costume on the center of his chest. “Oh, you precious, precious nerd you,” she told him with a smile as she gripped the elastic to pull them down and get her first gander at his dick that flicked forward once it was no longer restricted in his boxers. Gripping it in her hand, she felt the warmth radiating from it, the lust within him strong. With just a few casual rubs, pre began to leak from the tip.

“Oh, Starlight,” he murred. “Th-That feels so good.”

“Silly, I haven’t even started yet,” she giggled. “Now, tell me, have you saved yourself just for me?”

“Of course,” he nodded. “You’re the one I’ve always wanted to be with. Ever since we were kids, we’ve always had a special connection. It’s just, I’ve never… never been able to work up the courage to say anything. I never knew how you felt and was always too afraid to find out.”

Well, that’s all in the past,” she cooed and helped him onto the floor. She then transformed herself again, remaining as Starlight, but now completely bare naked. And, no longer needing her disguise to be so accurately proportioned to fool her already brainwashed target, Zircon took some sexy liberties to give herself larger breasts and a far more luscious ass to entice the mostly nude wizard even more. The way his lips quivered as his jaw dropped was evidence enough that it was working. “There is no longer any doubt to get in the way. All there is now, is us. Now, embrace what you’ve always wished to embrace. Love what you’ve always yearned to love.”

“Oh, sweet Celestia,” he gawked at the imposter of his beloved as she leaned over him, her bare chest like grapefruit on a low bearing tree. Reaching his hands up, he couldn’t resist such easily within reach treats. As his hands pressed against Starlight’s soft flesh, she giggled. When his fingers clenched them firmly, she moaned with lust. Slowly bringing her body down onto her beloved, she forced Sunburst to release his grip and feel her balloons get smooshed against his flat chest. However, his hands quickly found their way around to her backside and traveled soft to her rear and thighs, stroking and caressing her other improved assets. “This is much more enjoyable than reading bad clopfics.”

“I’d hope so,” she giggled and then pressed her lips to his once more, finding him making out along with her now as the mind control had firmly melded into his mind controlling him while not overwhelming and suppressing his personality. Their tongues shook hands and saliva was exchanged. His fingers kept exploring and feeling over her wonderfully soft rear while Zircon ran her fingers through his fiery orange mane. Against the lower side of her stomach, she felt a warm stickiness between them, where his dick oozed even more pre and twitched, a sign that the nerd of a stallion was more than ready to finally partake in the final frontier of lovemaking. “A shame I can’t just take my sweet time play with you, but I’d say we have enough to finish up, Sunburst.”

“Of course, Starlight,” he nodded. “But I’ll treasure every second of it forever. There is no pony else I would want as my first other than you.”

“I know,” she smirked and maneuvered her body a full one-eighty as she loomed over his dick, it slightly slick with seed, but in need of more lube if they were going to have it firing at full throttle from the get go.

Wrapping her lips around his length, she sucked on it, taking in as much of it as she could fit in her muzzle. Meanwhile, her tongue teased the head, sampling the saltiness of his pre. At the same time, Sunburst brought his muzzle up to Starlight’s pussy tasting her own sacred nectar as his tongue ventured deep inside her. Moans of ecstacy couldn’t be restrained, nor did they wish them to be as they became enthralled in their intimacy.

“Nothing that I’ve read about the pleasures of the flesh could have prepared me for this moment,” breathed the stallion as he removed his muzzle from Starlight’s crotch, a mix of her lust and saliva dripping from it.

“This truly was the best,” agreed Zircon sliding her maw off of his prepped cock, giving it one final, slow, long lick from the base to the tip as she turned around once more to look at him. Placing a hand on his cheek as she kissed him once deeply, drinking up some more of his love that felt even more abundant than it had from her prior sampling. “Love this deep and potent is truly unlike any I’ve ever tasted before. I’m awfully tempted to suck you dry till you’re nothing more than an empty husk, but orders are orders. Besides, I am just as eager to finish this as you are.”

“Then finish me, Starlight,” he begged her. “Never have I needed anyone like I need you right now.”

“With pleasure,” she smiled as she adjusted her crotch to be positioned with Sunburst’s cock, slipping his tip in, the lube in both making it glide right effortlessly for the two newbies of lovemaking. Once she got it in as far as she could fit it, she pulled out and then pushed back in, humping the stallion as she worked to break in her pussy and allow it to take his penis all the way to its base. Sunburn moaned louder, loving those tight lower lips wrapped tightly around his dick, the warm feeling of her insides combined with motion bringing him closer and closer to true nirvana.

“Harder… faster,” he begged her, as he attempted to wrap his arms around her, only for the imposter pony to pin his arms to the ground.

“I will,” promised Zircon as she reverted to her original form, looking deep into Sunburt’s eyes. They didn’t flinch at the sight of the creature looming over him. They remained the same lovesick gaze as before, her magic leaving him completely smitten with her. “So long as youl do as I say. There is a certain magical task I will need your help with, as well as a certain artifact I am certain you can help me locate. But, most of all, I want you to swear your eternal allegiance to Tamati and the Draglings. Become our wizard and you will know nothing but the endless bliss I have given you. What is your answer?”

“Yes,” he answered without hesitation. “Yes… Yes… A thousand times YES!!!” He cried out loudly, his voice loud enough for others to hear, but the sounds of battle were far too distracting for anyone to be concerned with.

“Good boy,” Zircon spoke as she resumed fucking him, barely much more effort needed after being brought so close to the edge already. She felt his orgasm erupt inside her as her own climax arrived. Their eyes rolled back inside their heads as they relished that sexual high. Immediately after, their strength gave out and Zircon collapsed onto the orange pony. Panting hard, as her lust-filled adrenaline faded, she realized how tired she was as her body was covered in a light layer or perspiration. The same was true for Sunburst taking in long, deep breaths.

“You can start fulfilling your promise to me,” she breathed. “In five minutes, once I catch my breath. Ten minutes tops.”

“Yes, my beloved,” he nodded. “Whatever you wish.”

“Oh, Pinkie Pie,” called Mrs. Cake as she saw the pink pony rush back into Sugarcube Corner. “I’m glad you’re back. I got worried when you ran off right during the lunch rush. We could really use your-”

“Hi, Mrs. Cake,” interrupted Pinkie Pie. “No time to chat. We have an emergency we’ve gotta deal with.” Without wasting time on anything more than that, she and the Cutie Mark Crusaders activated her secret party slide and slid down it to enter into her equally secret party cave.

“-help,” finished Mrs. Cake, barely able to react in Pinkie’s haste.

“Honey?” asked Mr. Cake. “Is Pinkie back?”

“It was either her or a pink blur I mistook for her,” she admitted, scratching her head. Unable to dwell on the matter with so many hungry ponies to feed, she got back to work with her husband.

In the party cave, they didn’t waste any time grabbing a basket full of snacks each and then hurried down the tunnel they made that led straight to Twilight’s castle, specifically to Spike’s room. It was a long trek through a narrow passage, lit by a few dozen lanterns, but they navigated it as quickly as they could. They then listened, attempting to make certain Twilight wasn’t paying their beloved an unexpected visit.

“Spike,” Pinkie then whispered to him. “Is it safe for us to come in?”

“Everything’s fine,” he answered and watched his four lovely ladies emerge one after another.

“I still find it hard to believe this is the same little Spikey Wikey we’ve known for years,” commented Scootaloo as she stared at the massive dragon that towered over them, even while he remained sitting down. He was still chained up and restrained as Twilight had left him prior, but other then growing bored and stiff, he didn’t seem much worse for wear.

“Yeah, he’s gone from a sapling to a great oak practically overnight,” agreed Applebloom as she approached him. Standing up, she couldn’t even reach up to his crotch now. “Actually, he’s practically a redwood now.”

“How big are you going to get?” wondered Sweetie Belle as she used her magic to levitate herself to be eye level with him. “Not that there’s anything wrong with more of you to love.”

“No idea,” he admitted. “I’ve gotten bigger than I expected, but I don’t think I’m quite as big as Tamati yet, or as strong. I’m definitely rounder though, with all the sweets you four wonderful ones have been so kind to provide me. It’s a bit of a shame that I haven’t been able to work out as much now, but I don’t think my muscles have really softened at all.”

“Well, this belly of yours has certainly is a thing to behold,” praised Pinkie as she hugged the big, doughy sphere cradled atop his legs and allowed her body to leave an impression like his scales were made of memory foam.

“Mmm,” murred Spike with delight. “It is nice to have you all visit me at once, but I can’t help being curious as to the reason. If my sense of time isn’t completely skewed, it should be, um, dinner time right?”

“Lunch time actually,” corrected Scootaloo. “But we’ve come here because we need to bust you outta this place, pronto.”

“Did something happen?” wondered Spike.

“Twilight is going to put a tracking spell on you,” answered Applebloom. “And, worse still-”

“She’ll send me away,” figured Spike as he rolled his eyes. “Yeah, I became well aware of her threats when she started my prison sentence.”

“Well, she’s going to go through with it now,” cried Pinkie. “The others and I tried to reason with her, but one note from Celestia and all our efforts were swept under the rug in favor of following her beloved princess’s orders.”

“No surprise there,” admitted Spike. “Twilight will do anything to kiss Princess Celestia’s ass, even do that literally. She probably has too.”

“Then all the more reason for us to get you outta here before any of that happens,” stated Sweetie Belle. “Because the second she puts that tracking spell on you. You’ll have to become a fugitive to escape whatever punishment they could have planned for you. Better to do it now, while you are still able to hide from them.”

“I could,” he nodded. “I probably should, but I can’t, not yet anyway.”

“But why not?” asked Pinkie Pie. “We can get you out of those chains so that you can make your escape. It’s not like there’s much else to get in your way from escaping.”

“About that,” replied Spike as tugged at the chains binding his arms and broke free of them with ease.

“You could have broken free whenever you wanted to?” questioned Apple Bloom.

“These muscles are for more than just show,” he bragged as he flexed some.

“Then why not escape the first chance you got once she imprisoned you?” wondered Sweetie Belle.

“I’ve got a bunch of reasons why I just can’t go,” he admitted, getting up to stretch now that he wasn’t so confined. “Some are complicated, like my relationship with Twilight. Yes, she’s constantly the overbearing authority figure who has run my life since the day she hatched me and while not everything she has done has been for my best interest, she’s still like family to me. Even after all this strain on our relationship, that bond won’t break so easily. So, while it might be better for me to leave while I still have my freedom, I can’t just leave and be the one to finally severe that connection we have.” He paused a moment as he looked at his desk where his research on the Elements of Discord were hidden. “There are more reasons I cannot leave, but it would be best for all of us if I kept those to myself, for now, at least.”

“I guess that’s true that you and Twilight do have a special bond in spite of what’s happened, but, if you wait for her to be the one to break it, who knows what horrible things might happen to you,” pointed out Pinkie Pie.

“I know, but, more than that, I want to spend what time I can, with you all, my harem,” he explained as he sat down and he wrapped all four of them together in a hug. “Call me a fool for wasting what time I should have to escape, but I’d rather spend it enjoying this time with all of you rather than fretting over Twilight.”

“You’re a fool,” joked Scootaloo. “But then we’re the fools who fell for a fool.”

“Sounds good to me,” giggled Sweetie Belle. “So, who do you wanna have fun with first, this time, beloved?”

“Why not let me try and see if I can’t take all of you at once,” he smirked. “It might take a little work, but I’m sure I’m enough dragon for four ponies.”

“I don’t know how all that math works, but I’m game if the rest of you are,” stated Apple Bloom. “Just tell us what to do.”

“Just get yourselves ready and let me do all the work,” he smiled and licked his lips with eagerness. His cock was already coming out, showing how exciting it was for this as well. Spike watched all his lovely ladies strip down nude for him, tossing their clothes and undergarments to the side so their supple, shapely bodies were on full display for him to admire.

“Do you like what you see, Spikey Wikey?” asked Pinkie as she and the other girls displayed themselves before him, breasts out and a seductive look in their eyes.

“Spike want,” he nodded and gently stroked his claws over the girls, tickling them as he felt over the softness of their skin, the fullness in their breasts, and the warmth of their bodies. Then, exploring lower, he teased a claw into two of their pussies, feeling them already lustful to get started and turned on more as her fingered them a few times as an appetizer before doing the same to the other two. “Spike really want.”

“Then come have some,” winked Sweetie Belle as she sat down with her legs spread apart for him. Needing no more encouragement than that, Spike gently held her by the waist and pulled her closer, slowly pushing his cock into her as he went. “Oh, yes,” she moaned as she felt the lips on her vagina open and accept this thick member insider of her. “Feels even bigger than last time too.”

“Heheh, well, I grew in more ways than one,” bragged Spike as he reclined back to let Sweet Belle lay atop his gut while he turned his focus to Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. “And now, to have some fun with the two of you.”

“Yes, please,” murred Scootaloo as they watched as Spike’s long tongue slipped out and penetrated deep into her pussy and then pull out and do the same to Apple Bloom.

“Oh, this is one apple that doesn’t mind getting invaded by a worm,” moaned Applebloom as she reveled in the feeling of how deep Spike was able to penetrate into her.

“Don’t forget about me now,” Pinkie Pie chimed in as she watched everything that was happening and wanted to get in on it too.

“Don’t worry,” assured Spike between making out with those two ponys’ pussies. “I’m on it. This is just the first time I tried something like this.”

“Try what?” she asked before noticing as his tail curled up her legs and the spaded tip tried to wiggle its way to her crotch. “Ohoh~ that. I’ve never used a toy like that before.” She sat down, with her soles pressed against Spike’s. Looking down at his tail, she watched thrust in and slide out of her. She blushed and moaned allowing it to work its way in, each spike on his tail like the notches on a belt to measure how much length and thickness of his tail she could take in. Three spikes had already easily invaded her body and a length on par with the dragon’s cock was within her, but still she take more in. “It’s a very good toy.”

“Mmmhmm,” Spike gave her a thumbs up while he had his face buried in a double-stack of pussy as Scootaloo sat on Applebloom’s lap to allow his tongue to work on both of them at once. At the same time, Spike was managing to buck his hips up and down to let Sweetie Belle ride his cock his a bucking bronco. She groped his gut tightly as she struggled against his strength and the pleasures of the flesh to stay on her ride.

“Wahoo!” she cried with delight as she felt his member squish and slide deeper into her, the ecstacy drawing her close to cumming. “My sis must be outta her mind to not have accepted any of your advances. If only she could see me now, she’d be kicking herself in the flank that she missed out.”

“Though, it isn’t like there isn’t room in my hoard for more,” commented Spike. “The more, the merrier, right ladies?”

“Seems to me your hands full with just us,” pointed out Apple Bloom. “And for the most part, you aren’t even using them.”

“I am still kinda new at this,” he admitted. “But I’m doing my best to please you all.”

“Actually, with a harem, it isn’t typically supposed to work this way,” pointed out Pinkie PIe. “Typically, the one with the horde gets taken care of by the many. So, why don’t you just lay back and relax, Spikey Wikey, and let your harem take care of you. It might be a strange concept for you, slaving away as Twilight’s servant for so long, but if you get the chance to be the one served, I think you’ll like this a whole lot more.”

“If you insist,” he blushed laying his back and watched as Apple Bloom and Scootaloo move to either side of him, their soft breasts caressing against his chest while they each began to plant kisses on his cheeks and even nibble his ears some. “Oh hoh, this is nice.”

“And we’re just getting started,” Pinkie added as she kept his tail inside her and began to rub and massage his feet, even bringing her nose close to whiff the sweaty odor between his toes. “You smell rather ripe. It’s rather nice, but I’m sure you’d like a bath, wouldn’t you?”

“Yeah,” he nodded. “I haven’t had a chance to get washed since Twilight locked me down here. I could really use one of my seven hour bubble baths.”

“Maybe next time,” offered Sweetie Belle as she pulled off of Spike’s cock and climbed over his gut to plant a kiss on his scaly lips. “If there will be a next time.”

“I hope they’ll be,” he kissed her back, running his claws through her mane. “How about a claw massage now. It’s been a while since I’ve had one of those too.”

“Leave that to us,” nodded Scootaloo as she and Sweetie Belle took his claws and began to rub and massage his digits and his palms. At the same time Apple Bloom took her turn with his dick. “How’s that?”

“Mmm, wonderful,” murred the big, purple dragon. “What more could I ask for?”

“How about some sweets?” offered Pinkie as she inched his tail out of her pussy one spike at a time and then with one quick tug to get the tip out freed herself. Rubbing her crotch as she entered their secret passage to his room, she pulled out a picnic basket and brought it over. “I brought this too, just in case you got hungry.”

“You know me,” replied Spike, licking his chops. “I’m always hungry.”

“Then eat up, big boy,” cheered Pinkie as she brought a cake made up of cupcakes, each topped with frosting and gemstones. Seeing his maw open for it, she stuffed them in one after another and rubbed his chin as he munched them up. “It’s our job to make you as happy and blissful as possible and we’re not gonna leave till we do.”

“Mmm,” he mumbled as he chewed up and swallowed the several cupcakes filling his mouth. “Well, keep at it. You’re all doing a great job so far.”

“Am I ready to go out again?” asked Sting as he fidgeted with impatience. He spoke in between bites of some of Media’s special cooking to help recover his strength and heal his wounds. Like all the others, who came in for healing, Sting was given a small lunch box barely bigger than his palm. Inside it was divided into four sections, one with a few slices of meat, another with some mixed vegetables glazed with honey, another with a roll filled with raspberry jam, and the last filled with some chocolate pudding. On the lid of the box were a fork and spoon taped to it. With all that, he was all set to quickly eat his meal and be fit to brawl again in the brief span of about five minutes. “I have to get back to the front lines as quickly as possible.”

“Just finish what you’re eating and you should be good to go,” he answered. “But taking a few extra minutes to catch your breath won’t kill you either. You’ve been pushing yourself hard enough already and this is the third time you’ve come here to recharge. From what I’ve heard, from the others, who have stopped by to heal, the enemy soldiers have been dwindling quite a lot in this last hour. At this rate, they’ll be forced to retreat into the castle and we’ll have control of the Crystal Plaza and the heart. Then, Tamati will be ready to claim victory. You could probably just wait here till it is all over.”

“I could,” admitted Sting. “But I’m the one who has led the charge. I can’t just sit back and wait for the end to come.” Finishing off the last bit of his pudding, unable to refrain a blissful smile as the familiar taste of sweet chocolate excited his taste buds, he got up and stretched. “Thanks again for the meal. For the glory of Tamati and the hive.”

“For the glory of us all,” the medic added and watched Sting leave the safe house. Zipping off into the air, as a red blur, he no longer appeared the least bit fatigued.

“Looks like the battle is indeed drawing to a climax,” noted Sting as the pony soldiers were on the retreat, rushing towards the castle, those that hadn’t been stuck to the ground or cornered by members of the Dragling army.

“It is simply wonderful to see a plan come together like this in the end,” spoke Tamati as he flew alongside his child, headed for the battle as well.

“It looks like our first battle was a huge success, father,” stated Sting as he saluted him in midair. “Thanks in no small part to all the trainer Pincer was able to provide us. I am grateful to you as well for teaching me how to fight as a dragon. Without it, I can only imagine the number of losses our side might have taken.”

“Do you have a count for the number that have fallen?” asked Tamati quietly.

“Not yet, but even one would be too many,” Sting admitted.

“I hope you do not blame yourself,” encouraged the dark dragon. “Such a thing is impossible even for the best of leaders. The best you can do is to ensure their efforts were not in vain and to continue to press on for those who still stand.”

“I will do my best to keep that in mind,” breathed Sting, taking his father’s words to heart.

“Good,” smiled Tamati. “Now, we’re almost arrived. Time to get what we’ve come here for. Everything.”

“This has to be some sort of nightmare,” sweated Shining Armor as pony soldiers poured into the castle one after another, wounded and on the verge of collapsing from exhaustion. Looking outside, the once overwhelming numbers they had no longer existed while the force of Draglings was still as vast as ever and gaining ground. “How can they keep on fighting like this?”

“Maximus did say they might have some method to quickly revitalize their forces,” commented Cadence. “If that’s the case, then it would make sense why they are still able to keep fighting while our own troops are tiring out.”

“But he went to stop it,” Shining reminded her. “And that was a while ago. Does that mean he failed and was even captured? Ugh, things cannot possibly get any worse.”

“I’m afraid they can,” she pointed out. “They’ve already got the Crystal Heart surrounded. Even if Sunburst is able to find us a spell to use against them, now we can’t combine it witht he heart to unleash it on all of them at once. At this point, we’ve got no other option but to hold up in the castle till help can reach us. I’ve already wrote up a letter to send out to Celestia. After that, all we can do is try to keep those creatures out.”

“Then best to get the remaining soldiers inside and seal the doors,” he sighed with defeat in his voice. “All that can get in.” Looking around the battlefield, there were a number of gooey blobs of slime stuck to the ground, trapping a number of their soldiers in it. With no other option, they could only be left behind to ensure the safety of those remaining. Shining bit down on one of his fingers, frustrated at all of this. “I’m sorry, all of you, but we promise, the Crystal Empire will not fall this day.”

“We can only pray,” Cadence said as she gave him a comforting smile. “It looks like the last few are about to get inside.”

“Begin to shut the doors,” instructed Shining Armor to the two soldiers standing by a set of cranks. They began to turn them, pulling chains connected to the door, slowly sliding them closed. Outside, seeing the doors starting to shut, the remaining soldiers hurried in as the Draglings chased after them. Some fumbled to the ground or got tripped up as they ran while others stood their ground, prepared to stay and fight to ensure the others were able to make it in safely. The rest just ran, refusing to turn back, fearing they might end up doing the same. As they made it inside, they were quick to toss their helmets aside, fall to their hands and knees, crying out in the frustration of it all. “I know it’s hard,” Shining Armor attempted to console them and himself, with rather dismal results. “But we’re doing all we can.”

“I’m going to send the letter now,” instructed Cadence. “All we can do after that is hope.” Her horn glowed a bright blue as a similar aura covered over her letter. Closing her eyes, she prepared to send it off to Celestia, but a beam of orange magic suddenly blasted a hole right through it, igniting the scroll till end turned into ashes. “What the?” Everyone looked around in shock and confusion of this. As their eyes all soon narrowed to the source, they were all gazing upon Sunburst.

“Sunburst?” cried Shining. “Why did you do that? And…” He paused seeing he was almost completely in the buff as he approached them. “Why are you wearing nothing but your cloak?”

“It was what my beloved asked me to do,” he answered and turned to Starlight who gave his cheek a kiss.

“Yes, that’s a good boy,” she smirked.

“Starlight?” questioned Cadence. “Why? Why did you tell Sunburst to do that? Why are you even here?”

“I’m here,” she answered. “Because I’m part of the invasion.” Stepping forward, she transformed back into her Dragling self. “And I’m ready to accept your unconditional surrender.”

“They can even shapeshift, like Changelings,” growled Shining Armor. “Meaning, more could have slipped in here.”

“No, probably just me,” she answered. “But that hardly matters, at this point. “We’ve already taken over. All that’s left is this castle and if you think some doors will keep us at bay, well, you certainly don’t know our father.”

“Father?” questioned Shining Armor before a monstrous roar rang throughout the empire, turning everyone’s attention to the outside. In the sky, in the distance, moving fast towards them, they could see the large, black dragon making his way straight towards them. A number of winged soldiers, still risking their lives to hold back the Draglings, saw him coming and broke off from their current opponents in an attempt to attack him. However, their efforts were no better than a bug smashing into a speeding truck’s windshield as they came up against the powerful beast. Flying forward, he didn’t even acknowledging their attempts to get in his way and either smashed into them unflinchingly or sent them tumbling through the air from the speed of his flight blasted them away with powerful air pressure.

“Oh, fuck!” sweated Shining, their terrible situation made way worse in that instant. “Get the doors closed, NOW!!!”

The soldiers began to turn the cranks with all their might. A second set of soldiers even rushed over to help. Even while there were still a few dozen soldiers outside still making their way over, they couldn’t afford to wait, not while Tamati was drawing nearer at an astounding rate. He flew down toward the center of the battlefield, cracking the ground where he landed and then charged towards the front of the castle. Anyone in his path of destruction, friend or foe quickly got out of his way as he stampeded for the doors.

“Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!” panicked Shining as the huge dragon reached the bottom of the steps and started to climb them three at a time with his stride. The crystal castle shook as if it was trembling in the face of his unstoppable might and could crumble to pieces at any moment. Swallowing hard, Shining Armor stood by the entrance, sword drawn and ready to attack if the doors were too slow to close. Sweat ran down his forehead and his heart pounded so hard in his chest that it thumped against his armor. He could see the fierceness in Tamati’s glowing red eyes as the steps started to end and the door was not closed enough to assure it could not be breached. As the door two halves of the door met, they connected with a sealing BOOM! After that, there was silence.

Dropping his sword, Shining Armor panted as a great relief washed over him. “The doors are shut,” he announced. “We are safe…”

Both the citizens and soldiers around him cheered with relief, accepting one small triumph in the wake of otherwise crushing defeat. It did serve to keep their hearts afloat, but only for a moment, for in the next, the two massive doors began to creak as they were being forced open from the other side.

“That’s not possible,” gasped Cadence. “He can’t possibly open the doors on his own like that.”

“We’ve already seen enough to throw impossible out the window,” pointed out Shining Armor as he grabbed one of the cranks and attempted to keep the doors from being opened. A number of other soldiers helped, grabbing the cranks to ensure the dragon couldn’t pry the doors open, holding it back with all their might. “For all you’re worth!” the prince ordered. “Do not let those doors open!”

“Good luck,” chuckled Zircon, watching this all with great amusement. “Make my father work for his victory.”

“C-Come on!” groaned Shining Armor. “Put your flanks into it. We cannot lose this battle!” As worried chatter soon filled the hall, everyone watched and waited to see just who would prevail in this battle of strength. For a while, the doors appeared to be opening bit by bit to show it was Tamati who was mightier, but it only served to make the soldiers redouble their efforts to prevent it from opening further. “That’s it! Show them that we ponies will not give in to them so easily.”

“Heheheh,” Zircon continued to chuckle with delight.

“What do you find so funny?” questioned Cadence. “If you hadn’t noticed, your army is not gonna get in and you are trapped in here with us.”

“I’m afraid you bunch are the ones who have yet to notice,” she explained. “So what if you lot can tie my father in strength in this game of tug-of-war? It doesn’t matter. After all, it’s our win should the rope be what gives out instead.”

“The rope?” questioned Cadence as she thought for a moment and then turned her attention to the chains connecting the crank to the door. Between both sides tugging with all their might, the chain links were bending. Cadence wanted to cry out in warning, but knew nothing she said was going to do any good. All she or anyone else could do was watched as the weakest links finally broke, detaching the door from the cranks. The soldiers still tugging with all their might flew backwards once they were no longer met with any resistance. At the same time, Tamati was no longer obstructed and the doors began to open with far greater ease. Once they were opened enough, he poked his head inside with a devilish smile across his face.

“I don’t mean to intrude, but that is part of invading isn’t it,” he chuckled as he pushed the double door open wider and entered inside. The ponies just stared in awe of the mighty dragon as he approached. Behind him, the Draglings proceeded inside too, with Nat and Sting leading them. They didn’t have their weapons drawn for battle. They knew and so did the ponies that, at this point, the battle was over. “What’s with the silence?” asked Tamti. “It’s a joke, a little something to lighten the mood.”

“Lighten the mood?” shouted Shining Armor, finding his courage again. “After being attacked for no reason?”

“Oh, we had a perfectly good reason for attacking you,” retorted Tamati.

“Well, we’re all listening,” he scowled.

“First off, we believe you have something we’re searching for,” he answered. “Secondly, we plan to conquer all of Equestria in the end, so it’d save time if we took care of you all now. This is a nice place you’ve got too, so who wouldn’t wanna take this place over. You should actually be flattered.”

“We’re not,” he snorted. “And we will stop you even if I have to take you on with my bare hands.”

Throwing caution to the wind, Shining Armor leapt at Tamati, but he quickly found himself stopped in midair and pulled back by Cadence and her magic. “Dear,” she pleaded. “Now is not the time to lose your cool. If any of us are to have a future then we must survive.”

“You’ll all have a future,” promised Tamati. “I’ve got great plans for all of you. For instance, I am always looking for new members to join my harem and, my dear princess, I’d say you’d fit in quite nicely.”

“No way in Hell!” she snapped and fired a blast of magic at the dark dragon’s face. In response, he held his arm up to block the blast, his scales glowing red as they burned like hot coals.

“Oh hoh, you’re quite fiery,” he grinned. “I can’t wait for you to submit to me.”

“You aren’t going to lay a damn claw on my wife!” snapped Shining Armor.

“And, the prince,” he added, turning his gaze to him. “I will add you as well, but some changes will need to be made first.”

“I don’t know what you have in mind, but it won’t matter,” he retorted. “We will stop you.”

“You can’t, not at this point,” Tamati reminded them. “Your army is defeated, your final means of protection is in our possession, and even your wizard has been harpied to our side. You have already been soundly defeated. Still, I haven’t had much of a chance to battle beyond giving a good scare to this one soldier that actually came very close to throwing a wrench into our battle plan.”

“You must be talking about Maximus,” replied Shining Armor with a pained look upon his face. “Then even he’s been defeated.”

“Leaving just you two as the last line of defense for your kingdom,” he told them. “If that’s not an indication that you’ve already been defeated then I don’t know what is. But, this could still be fun, so, how about a little wager?”

“A wager?” cried Shining Armor. “This isn’t some stupid game!”

“And here I thought I was being generous enough to give you one last chance to send us packing no worse for wear than how you are now,” the dark dragon informed them. “Oh, well. Time to end this.”

“Wait!” interrupted Cadence. “Whatever it is, we’ll do it.”

“Oh,” Tamati said with a big, toothy grin. “That’s the spirit. It’s nothing too difficult, just a final battle between you two and myself. Should you win, we leave and vow to never step foot in your kingdom again. If we win, this place is ours to take and use as we see fit.”

Cadence paused for a moment as she considered all this and then spoke again. “It’s a deal.”

“Cadence,” replied Shining. “We can’t agree to this. He wouldn’t do something like this when he’s already beaten us. Besides, even if we somehow managed to win, what’s to stop him from just going back on his deal?”

“He probably could and odds are he would,” she admitted.

“Hey, I’m a dragon of my word, I’ll have you know,” huffed Tamati. “That actually hurt my feelings a little.” He sniffled a bit. “Most damaging attack to me all day, actually.”

“Still, if we can take him down that might just might be what we need to turn things around.”

“Ok,” he agreed, looking at his wife and then at the black dragon that towered over everyone else in the room. “So, what’s our strategy?”

“Strategy?” she asked with a look like he had just asked her a really dumb question. “Our kingdom is in peril and so is the life of our daughter. “We don’t need a strategy to win.” She turned to face Tamati, and her horn started to glow as an intense amount of magical energy built up in it. “I just need to blow that fucking head off his shoulders and this’ll be over.”

“I’m glad you thought this through,” he replied, a bit frightened at the murderous look in her gaze.

“Heheh, give it your best shot,” encouraged Tamati. “Oh, and it might be a good idea for Shining Armor to put up his defensive barrier around us to ensure we can fight without anyone else getting harmed. Take all the time you need to get it ready. I won’t start fighting till you two say you are.”

“How do you know about that?” questioned Shining Armor. “How did you know about all our defenses to be able to overcome them so easily? Were you spying on us… or were we really betrayed by someone who told you all this intel?”

“Sorry, but you are in no position to be probing me for information,” he told them.

“Fine,” replied Shining Armor as his horn glowed and appeared like it was blowing a pink bubble as he cast his barrier spell. The bubble grew larger and larger, allowing the two ponies and dragon to pass into it freely. Once it was large enough to take up half the space in the hall, Shining finished the spell, but the barrier remained.

“Not bad,” admitted Tamati, rubbing a hand against the barrier and then scratching at it with his claws. “Quite strong. I’d actually have to really try to break through something like this. Well, we can start whenever.”

“Now is good,” answered Cadence as she unleashed all the built up magic in one mighty blast, straight at Tamati’s head. Reacting quickly, Tamati met it with a blast of his flames, but as powerful of a dragon as he was, the enraged Alicorn Princess proved her own ability as her magic gained ground in their clash.

“Father!” cried Nat. “Get out of the way!”

“There’s no need to worry,” Sting assured him and the others. “It’s our father after all.”

“Keep it up, dear,” encouraged Shining Armor as he focused his own magic on Tamati, using it to restrain his body from moving. “I’ll hold him still, now give him all you’ve got!”

“With pleasure,” she shouted as she added another surge of power into her magic and fully overpowered Tamati, the blast extinguishing his flames right up to the gateway to his maw. Even when it was clear that he was about to lose, Shining Armor’s efforts were enough to diminish any hope of escape.

“Are you sure?” worried Nat. “We all know our father’s tougher than anything, but even he won’t be able to get away unscathed from something like that.”

“But it seems you’ve forgotten he’s also devilishly clever,” Sting reminded him. “Since the start, he’s be riling them up, making it impossible for them not to glare at him and anything he is wearing.”

“Oh, you mean,” realized Nat as he looked upon his father and saw the Lockheart hanging from his neck.

Tamati’s flames erupted forth again no stronger than it was before. It was Cadence’s magic that was changing, getting weaker and thinner util it could no longer push back or even restrain Tamati’s fiery breath. Closing his maw, the dark dragon chuckled as the narrow beam of magic merely touched his chest with only a slight warmth that merely tickled him.

“What’s the matter, Cadence?” questioned Shining Armor as he watched Tamati move forward. His movements were slowed by the stallion’s magic, but the concentration and energy needed to keep such a large and powerful foe stationary was vast and Shining was already running low on both. “You can’t be out of strength already.”

“I think I’m in love,” she spoke with passion in her voice.

“What?” he replied confused. “Of course you’re in love. You’re the Princess of Love.”

“Not just love,” she amended taking a few steps forward, her cheeks rosy red while a timid smile was upon her face. “Total infatuation…” Sighing, she looked upon the dark dragon standing tall before her. Mere moments ago, she saw him as the enemy wishing to take over their home, but for the first time, she saw the build of his form in all its glory, from the toned muscles featured all over his ripped body to the monstrous orbs between his legs and the equally impressive dick that was hardening before her eyes. Shining saw his member poke out too and could only stare, mouth agape as his wife placed one hand upon the dragon’s thigh while the other reached up and caressed that great cock. All the other ponies stared at the sight before them with just as much shock and horror. “...with him.”

“That’s a good girl,” smiled Tamati warmly, kneeling down so his head was level with hers and the two pressed their lips together. “Welcome to my harem.”

“What the hell did you do to her, you bastard?!?” roared Shining Armor as he focused all his blind rage into horn and shot it at Tamati. He was too hasty to attack, however, managing to only hit the dragon on the side of his face, burning a thin line of his outer layer of scales. It was nothing more than a superficial injury that didn’t even serve to anger the dragon. Meanwhile, Shining Armor was wheezing, more of his strength used up and with barely anything to show for it.

“Don’t worry,” spoke Tamati, perfectly calm. “I did not forget you, Shiny.” Petting Cadence on the head, he rose up again. With one claw, he scratched off the burned scales on the side of his cheek, removing any sign of injury he sustained. “If you’ll excuse me for a moment, Caddy, this will be a lot more enjoyable once I made this into a threesome.”

“Please be quick, beloved,” she pleaded, slipping out of her crystal blue dress, leaving her in just her pink bra and panties dotted with small white hearts. The ponies seeing their princess act in such a way could only stare in fear (and some in arousal upon witnessing her smooth, tender body, as well as her impressive D’s).

The only pony that had a different expression on their face was Shining Armor. “What the hell have you done to her!?!” he roared furiously. Gritting his teeth, as he seethed with even greater rage. Ignoring his own fatigue, he scraped together what energy he could find within himself and fired another blast of magic at Tamati, but this one failed to even dent the scales it connected with.

“Heheh, that tickles,” chuckled Tamati as he tanked Shining Armor’s magic while he leisurely approached him.

“Just wait!” he snapped, blasting Tamati again and again, but his magic was exhausted to the point that his beams of magic were like a harmless laser pointer to anything it came into contact with. As Tamati loomed over the powerless pony, on his flank, panting and exhausted, Shining Armor stared up at him, too tired to even flee from him.

“Tuckered out?” smirked the black dragon as he pinned the pony to the ground with one hand and stared into the stallion’s blue eyes, seeing a bit of fear hidden by defiant resolve. “Hopefully not too much for the fun the three of us are going to have together.”

“What did you do to Cadence?” questioned Shining Armor. “Tell me!”

“Nothing special, really,” he admitted. “I just had her gaze into the Lockheart I have around my neck and it managed to fill her with endless lust for me. With this Element of Discord beside it, it should even have enough power to ensure she can’t break free of its magic.”

“So that’s it,” he grunted, attempted to wiggle out of his clutches, but Tamati’s strength was far too greater to be able to overcome by one mere pony. “That’s why she’s fallen for you.”

“And you will too,” he spoke seductively. “But, first, you need a bit of a makeover. You’re not a bad looker with your long, blue mane and bright white coat, but I’m not bringing guys into my harem and the Lockheart’s seduction power won’t work on those of the same gender as my own. Fortunately, this element has not only made it stronger than before, but it has added a new power to it, one that can easily fix that slight issue. Just stare deeply into the Lockheart, Shiny.”

“Fix it?” he asked unable to turn his gaze away from the artifact that Tamati was dangling in front of his face. “How are you going to- ugh oh, what’s going on?”

“Bringing out your more feminine side,” Tamati answered as he watched the stallion suddenly groan in pain. Releasing him, Tamati continued to gaze and watch as the pony squirmed on the ground. “Part of it involves a bit of bone reconstruction and I can imagine will be a tad uncomfortable. But don’t worry. I’ve tested this before, so I can honestly say that you’ll be just fine.”

“Well, excuse me if your words doesn’t mean much to me,” groaned Shining as he felt his body burning up all over, in particular his chest and around his waist. “And this doesn’t make me feel like I’m going to be fine.”

“The burning does tend to be the worst part, but it’ll be over with in a few minutes,” he explained. “Though, that armor can’t be very comfortable for you, especially around your chest. How about I peel you out of that tin can before your boobs develop. Actually, I’m eager to see how busty you become.”

“Boobs?” he repeated, suddenly feeling the sensation of his chest getting cramped against the plate protecting that section of his body. “What is happening to me?”

“I’m merely making a mare out of you,” he answered as he gripped the top of Shining Armor’s chest plate and, like his purple-hued suit was made of tin foil, he tore it off with ease, exposing his black t-shirt underneath and the pair of orbs that were rising up underneath it, like a couple of rising pieces of dough. Shining Armor saw them and couldn’t believe it, at least till Tamati gave them a squeeze and the truth was undeniable.

“Y-You’ve given me breasts?!?” he cried, those words hitting everyone’s ears and only filling them with more worry.

“I’ve done much more than that,” promised Tamati as he continued to pry off all of Shining Armor’s armor one piece after another, being careful not to harm him as he did so. Starting from the top up, he undid the chin strap and slipped off his helmet. Shoulder guards and arm braces were next, but none of these had very noticeable changes, though his arms did appear more slender and his hands not so rough and thick. When he got to Shining’s waist and removed the plates covering it, he saw it was now a fair bit wider and rounder than it had been before. Lastly, the leg guards were taken off, leaving Shining if just his t-shirt and blue jeans, but Tamati didn’t look like he was done having his fun yet.

“W-What are you doing now?” he asked as he saw Tamati’s hand moving towards his crotch.

“Heheh, the fear in your eyes tells me you are already well aware of what is there, or rather what is not,” he snickered. “But I am eager to see for myself, to witness my great power. Besides, what we’re about to do, pants are not allowed.”

Trembling a bit as he saw Tamati’s claws hover over his crotch, Shining Armor was already well aware of the most devastating change that accursed necklace had on him. He didn’t need that dark dragon rubbing salt in his wounds, but that didn’t keep Tamati from doing it for the sheer satisfaction alone. Pressing his palm to Shining’s crotch, he felt the fabric of his pants, but more importantly, the nuts and cock that should have created a decent-sized bulge there were conspicuously absent.

Licking his chops devilishly, Tamati dug his nails into Shining Armor’s pants and tore them to shreds over his crotch region. The fabric of his pants and underwear shredded as his blade-like nails slid across them. There were, however, especially careful, making certain not to him the pony in the process. “Heheh,” the dragon cackled, grinning with delight as he saw no cock befitting a nobel stallion guard, but the pussy of a mare, soft, supple and yet to be broken in. “Much better. The only penis needed for my harem is my own, but there’s always room for another vagina. Don’t you agree, Shiny?”

“I-I-I,” she stuttered, the former stallion barely able to recognize her voice. It sounded more effeminate, adding to the changes she had just gone through. Even more worrisome, her eyes were still glued to the Lockheart and it’s original power was beginning to have an affect her. Try as she did to resist it, her heart thumped against her chest and her face became flushed as she gazed upon her new master. He lowered his muzzle to hers, puckering his lips to press them against hers. Twisting her legs against her crotch, Shiny could feel her lust already leaking out as her new desires proved overpowering. “I agree,” she nodded. “Only yours is needed. Now, please, give it to me, Master.”

“Of course,” he breathed before pressing draconic lips to pony ones and the two made out as Tamati ran his claws through Shiny’s hair.

“Don’t forget about me,” yearned Cadence, rubbing two fingers to her pussy as lust soaked her panties to the point they couldn’t hold anymore and began to drip onto the floor between her feet.

“Of course,” he smirked with delight. “You two are now mine, and all you possess is mine as well, right? This kingdom, the ponies within, the Crystal Heart, and all other treasures you possess.”

“They’re all yours,” Shiny told him. “What more do we need while we’re in your loving embrace?”

“A very valid point,” he agreed, sitting up and hugging his two newest members to either side of his chest. The two gazed up at him and then at his cock, both using a hand to brandish the mighty rod. “But I can offer you both more than merely my arms wrapping you tightly to my hot, scaly body. How about I let you two enjoy this cock of mine you both can’t seem to keep your hands off of?”

“Please do,” begged Shiny she nuzzled her head against it and inhaled the dragon’s pungent musk.

“Never have I yearned to be fucked more than I do now,” added Cadence, doing the same as Shiny.

“Then let’s have some fun,” he smirked and slowly sat down, making a ring with his feet as he held his two lustful ladies close to his dragonhood. “First, keep inhaling my scent, let the pheromones exuding from it overpower your senses and drive your hormones to their limit.”

Hardly in need of such instructions by their new master, Shiny and Cadence continued to press their faces against his shaft, moving closer towards his crotch and balls to whiff its most overpowering areas. As they did, they could feel their arousal for the dark dragon growing ever more insatiable and their bodies reacted in kind as their breasts swelled plumper like balloons getting inflated while desire flowed even more freely down their legs as if their were being pushed to the edge of pleasure simly by the anticipation of the mighty dragon rod to be stuffed inside of them.

“What a lovely reaction,” murred Tamati as he gently rubbed a claw against their moist pussies, fingering them some as a preview of what was to come. “I don’t doubt that this is your first sexual experience with a dragon, but you two are in even more luck that you get to be fucked by a dragon with assets this impressive. Just one glance at my balls and you can tell how virile I am. And my overpowering presence and physique there is no doubt that in this pack I am the alpha. While much of this is the blessing of nature, the countless times I’ve fucked on a daily basis has given me near endless stamina and loads to unleash on all my lovely ladies. Your bodies can tell this and crave to experience my greatness. Don’t resist it, embrace your lust. Forget all else. Forget being a prince and princess and your empire. Renounce past attachments to each other and anyone else. You only need to love me. Do this and endless bliss will be in your future.”

Moaning and murring in ecstasy at hearing their master’s words and embracing his cock, the two horny ponies continued to rub, nuzzle, and even lick his cock, coaxing his dick to throb and leak pre down the head and onto his shaft. As it ran down, the two were quick to lap it up, reveling in the taste of their master’s seed and further entice them to pleasure him while his claws pacingly thrust in and out of their pussies causing their fluids to leak out onto his palms.

All around them, the Crystal Ponies could only stare in horror as their leaders became total sluts to the black dragon. Some ran up to Shining Armor’s barrier and called out to them, hoping to awaken them from Tamati’s control. However, even as they became hoarse from shouting, Cadence and Shiny didn’t respond beyond a momentary pause. Staring at the ponies, they were unable to recall anything about them and had no interest in anyone who would distract them from their beloved. Without any more acknowledgement than that, the two mares returned their full attention back to that massive dragon dick.

“Very good,” he praised them, caressing their cheeks and then offered his palms to let them lick them clean of their pussy juices. “Now, for what you two have been waiting for. I think I’ll start with Shiny since this will be her first fucking with a cock. I’m sure you’ve had at least a halfway decent amount, Cadence, since you did give birth to your daughter, Flurryheart.”

“Who?” asked Cadence, her mind void of anything not involving her master.

“Nobody you need concern yourself with any more,” he assured her. “Just one of a few things I plan to take back to my kingdom. Now, Shiny, lay back and get ready for the greatest moment of your life.”

“Don’t make me wait a moment longer,” she cried out in tearful delight as she spread her legs to invite Tamati’s cock into her.

“I don’t intend to,” promised the dark dragon as he got on his haunches and moved on top of Shiny pinning her down at her shoulders. Then with a little nudge to Cadence, she made her way towards his backside, slipping beneath his tail to rub and nuzzle his ass. Burying her face between his toned cheeks, she reveled in this sexy part of his body while Shiny got to enjoy the other. Prodding the white-haired mare’s pussy with his cockhead, it was clear that such a tight, new pussy was hardly capable of fitting such a monstrous length, but the knowledge of that only made the two all the more eager to try.

Rubbing and groping his firm buttocks, Cadence murred with bliss as she marveled at how even this part of him was rock hard. Tamati’s figure was just too amazing, almost as if it were kissed by an angel or spanked by a devil. Breathing deeply, she got herself drunk off the scent of his rear now too. With her two pointer fingers, she traced the outline of his two cheeks, drawing the shape of heart, after which she planted and deep kiss in the middle of it.

Giggling as he enjoyed Cadence playing with his ass, Tamati kept his main focus upon the stallion turned mare in front of him. Slowly inching his length forward, with the greatest of care, Tamati pushed his tip into Shiny. Little by little the dragon worked his cockhead in deeper, delighting in the feeling of getting to be the one to deflower her. Grinning, he admired the bulge his penis caused in the little pony’s body, growing eager to see how much of his length he could fit inside her at once.

“How does it feel, Shiny?” questioned Tamati as he managed another half an inch in.

“Oh!” she cried, a mix of pain and pleasure as her virgin hole attempted to contain that beast. “It hurts, but it feels so wonderful too. Strange, but I love it.”

“Just relax your body and keep reveling in that feeling of bliss,” he coached her. “When you feel pain, remember the pleasure. If it feels strange, remember how right this feels.” With a toothy grin, he added one last time. “Keep on doing that and the stallion you once were will be no more.”

“The stallion… I was?” she asked, her whole lifetime as a male already almost completely forgotten thanks to Tamati and the power of the Lockheart. Only tiny fragments of her old self remained creating some faint feelings of doubt and confusion in her mind. But, as she listened to Tamati’s words and continued to embrace the euphoria she was receiving those last, lingering bits faded into nothingness. “Don’t be silly, I was never a stallion.”

“Oh, my mistake,” he spoke casually as he pushed in a bit more forceful, managing to work in a bit more of his length into Shiny now, making her moan even louder. As he listened to such a beautiful cry, he couldn’t help but revel in all his success. “Augmented with just one Element of Discord, the Lockheart’s power has become this great,” he thought. “I can only imagine what I’ll be capable of once I’ve gained even greater power. Then there will be nothing that can stop me. Nothing I cannot possess. Nobody I cannot fuck!”

Growing excited at such a prospect, Tamati pushed hard into Shiny, making her let out her loudest wail of bliss yet. “Ohhhhohohoh~” she cried with a blissful smile across her face. The dragon silently breathed a sigh of relief that he hadn’t hurt her in all his excitement and that she was instead enthralled by it.

“It seems you’ve taken first gear like a champ,” commented the master of the harem only getting started. “Ready to shift into second?”

“Second, third, whatever gear you want,” she answered. “I just want you to slam that wonderful dick of yours into me as much as you want.”

“Oh hoh,” he grinned as he gripped Shiny’s legs tightly and started to really give her vagina a true test of its endurance. “I intend to. You just better be a quick healer cause no matter how sore you are after this, don’t expect to get much of a break before next time.”

“My pussy will always be at the ready,” she vowed as she endured the fucking of a lifetime, feeling the black dragon’s mighty member continue to renovate her insides to fit more and more of it within. The wondrous feeling meshed with the pain of it, bring both a smile and tears to her face. Her vision became blurred, but she didn’t need her sight to feel the pleasure of that giant cock sliding in and out of her pussy with greater ease each time or smell the combined scents of their lusts squishing together and overflowing her hole. Moaning lustfully, she did her best to restrain her orgasm, not wishing to be done till she proved herself and took his length to the base. It was a task easier said than done as her flesh felt so tender and sensitive after being fucked as much as it had. With her stamina depleted from the battle prior it was a struggle to hold on while she was constantly being pushed at the edge of nirvana.

“That’s good to hear,” Tamati told her. “You are quite a well built pony with some fairly impressive defensive magic. Without a doubt, you will bear me some wonderfully powerful offspring.”

“D-Do you really mean that?” Shiny replied, her heart strings being tugged by what he was implying, making her all the more eager to be filled with his glorious baby making fluids.

“Of course,” he murred pushing humping into the little pony practically effortlessly most of the way in. “I would never tease about such a thing, Shiny. Now, relax and accept this gift from me to you.”

“Oh, master!” she cried this time with tears of joy. “Give it to me! I want it!”

“Gladly,” he smirked, finishing up with a few more big humps and finally unleash a gusher of seed inside her. He remained still as he watched Shiny’s belly bulge from that the few loads that single climax granted her. Then, slowly sliding out, he watched as all the excess seman oozed from her pussy, but the majority remained within her. Gently slipping a hand underneath Shiny’s head, he gazed into her eyes, the cost of such wonderful sex quite a lot of additional fatigue for her. She looked absolutely spent as her sex high faded, but she didn’t look any less smitten with her loving master. The barrier around them started to weaken and fade away as she dozed off. “Rest well now,” he told her, pressing his lips to hers once more and then placed her head carefully on the ground.

“Is it finally my turn?” hoped Cadance as she removed her head from beneath Tamati’s kiss-covered cheeks. “I hope you have saved some lust for me as well.”

“It is and of course I have,” he answered her questions. “My lust is without limits and I will not stop till you are as satisfied as Shiny over there.”

“Then no more talk,” she pleaded, getting into position and spreading her legs apart. “Fuck me now!”

“Heheh, don’t need to tell me twice,” he chuckled leaning in to give her pussy a quick inspection first, rubbing the lips of it with a single claw as he inspected how sensitive it was. Just lightly tracing the perimeter was enough to get the princess to giggle and wiggle while her pussy already started to leak arousal. “Seems you are quite horny from all this anticipation.” With his claw, he penetrated her pussy and started to finger her, watching and listening as she moaned and leaked more. Pulling out quickly, before he made her cum prematurely, Tamati gave her nectar a lick and then got his still hard dick into position. “Looks like I won’t need to hold back much for you.”

“Don’t hold back at all,” she told him.

“Heheh, sure you don’t want to be the one doing the thrusting?” he laughed and closed his eyes, not noticing the smirk that spread across her face after he said that.

“If you are offering,” she smirked as her horn glowed and blasted the huge dragon off his feet so he came crashing down onto his back. The Crystal Ponies cheered, believing that their princess had broken free of his control to fight again. Flying up, they watched, expecting her to deliver the finishing blow, but, instead, flew down to his dick and gave the cum-smeared rod a tasting before slipping it into her pussy. Immediately, all the ponies who rose up with renewed hope crumbled to the ground in despair all over again. “Then I accept!”

“Wow, I almost forgot how powerful your magic is,” admitted the large dragon, a bit in shock as he watched her fucking him. “You’ll birth a powerful child for me as well.” As she continued to work hard to hump Tamati’s dick and fill herself with as much of its greatness as possible, Tamati turned to his children. “I shouldn’t be much longer over here. It’s time to finish up the rest of the plan. Sting, lead the troops and ensure our hold over the castle. Make certain all the guards are immobilized and none of the civilians try to ‘be a hero.’”

“Right away, father,” he replied and started to lead the majority of the troops while leaving a handful to guard the entrance.

“Zircon,” he continued, speaking in between murrs of bliss as Cadance worked on her squats as she took half his length inside her body with each one. “Take Sunburst to the Crystal Heart and have him cast that spell upon it.”

“I’m on it, father,” she answered him then turned to Sunburst, rubbing his cheek as she smooched his muzzle. “Come on, Sunny darling. There is something I need you to do for me.”

“Anything you desire, Starlight,” he blushed with as much infatuation as ever. They passed by the Draglings guarding the entrance and towards the plaza where a few others were securing that Crystal Empire’s more important treasure.

“Anything for me to do?” Nat chimed in.

“Oh, yes,” nodded Tamati, watching Cadance humping faster to bring about the big finale, lusting so hard to be filled with his burning hot seed. “Can you secure their daughter, Flurryheart? You’re good with babies, aren’t you?”

“Uh, I guess so,” he replied, not quite expecting to be given a babysitting job while they were still in the midst of their first big battle, albeit at the very end of it. “We’ve gone from newborns to young adults in the span of several weeks, so it’s not like I’ve had to be around babies when I wasn’t one, but I’ll give it a try.” After saying that, he started his search for the daughter of the former king and queen of the fallen Crystal Empire. “Now, where’s the lil stink bug?”

“What spell do you need me to cast?” asked Sunburst once they were before the Crystal Heart.

“It’s this one here,” she told him, handing Sunburst a scroll of paper for him to read.

“Oh, this is an… unusual spell,” he commented. “But this is Spike’s handwriting, isn’t it?”

“Uh, so it is, but that’s not important,” she told him, giving his dick a few rubs to distract his mind as she reinforced her control on him, making his length as hard as his horn. “Just do as your told and we’ll have plenty more fun when we get back home. Okay?”

“Y-Yeah,” he breathed, with a wrinkled smile on his face. His horn glowed as he cast the spell, and the normal aura it usually had was instead the Changeling green hue. As the magic encircled the Crystal Heart, it’s icy blue coloration started to become tainted, darkening it to a purplish black from the middle and slowly spreading outward. “It shouldn’t take me more than a few minutes to complete it.”

“Very good, Sunny,” Zircon praised him with some light strokes to his member.

“The castle is secure,” Sting told his father upon his return.

“Very good,” Tamati replied as he cradled his two new mates in his arms, both exhausted and full of his seed. “It seems everything has gone as well as we could have hoped for. Nat, do you have the baby princess yet?”

“I think she has me,” he groaned as she sat on his shoulders tugging at his ears. “Ow, that hurts. Sting, a little help?”

“You were the one who volunteered for an assignment,” he told him. “Now you must see it through to the end.”

“I know you aren’t the type to make jokes,” he groaned as the baby climbed atop his head then grabbed and tugged at his snout. “Ugh, but I get the feeling you are enjoying this.”

“What makes you say that?” he asked with a slight smile.

“The Crystal Heart is all set,” Zircon informed. “It’s full effects will take a little while to encompass the entire empire, but we should start to see the results in here very soon.”

“It looks like soon is now,” smirked Tamati as he got up and watched the ponies around them start to act strange. Rather than stare at the Draglings with fear in their faces they were now gazing upon one another with longing and lust. Soon after, they began to embrace one another passionately, kissing, hugging, and groping any pony nearby them regardless of who it was. Before long, they started to get more frisky, undressing one another to gaze upon their naked bodies before fondling boobs, shoving cocks into whatever hole was available, a vagina, mouth, or even a tailhole. Some holes were even filled with more than one peg, but, whatever the case, one-by-one every pony in the Crystal Empire was quick to find themselves taking part in the largest of orgies Equestria had ever been host to.

“Heheh, I can see now why the Crystal Empire is the Love Capital of Equestria,” chuckled Tamati as he couldn’t help get a rehardened stiffy from watching all this unfold.

“Simply scrumptious,” commented Sting as he and most of the other Draglings gulped up some of the lustful love the ponies were exuding, recovering any weariness they were feeling and then some. They stopped only once they felt too stuffed to drain away any more and yet they barely made a dent in the still building up amounts of nourishment the ponies were giving off.

“Urp!” belched Nat. “Looks like we’ll never have to be worried about running out of love again, now that we’ve built our own All-You-Can-Eat buffet.”

“And I’ve also had Sunny here adjust the barrier the Crystal Heart emits so that, with a few exceptions, only Draglings and Changelings will be able to come and go as they please. Now, this place is truly ours.”

“It is indeed,” nodded Tamati. “Now, there is but one last objection to be completed and then we can return home in absolute triumph. Zircon, can you see if Sunny knows there whereabouts of the Empire’s hidden treasures? It seems I had a bit too much fun with these two to be able to extract any info from them for a while. One in his position should be privy to the secrets of the Empire and this castle.”

“Of course,” she nodded and then cooed into the manipulated pony’s ear. “Do you know the location of this empire’s vault of powerful magical artifacts, beloved?”

“It is this way,” he answered. “Down a concealed stairway in the throne room.”

Tamati with Shiny, and Cadence in his arms, along with Zircon and Sunburst made their way over. Once there, Sunburst cast some dark magic of a crystal atop the former king and queen’s thrones. His eyes turned green as a purple aura flowed from them and his horn, blackening the crystal and redecorated the room in a much more malevolent tone. Doing this also revealed a spiral spiral staircase leading deep into the depths of the earth.

“King Sombra made this passage while he was in power,” explained Sunburst as they ventured downward. “He used it to hide the Crystal Heart, as well as his own collection of dark magical artifacts.”

“Kind of like mother has done,” noted Zircon. “I suppose darkness can’t help being attracted to darkness.”

“Part of the reason I fell for her in the first place,” commented Tamati. “The other part was-”

“Too much information!” Zircon chimed in before he could say any more.

“We’re here,” Sunburst announced once they finally made their way to the lowest level, unable to even see the top where they began. “Now, there’s just this one door between us and the treasure room.”

“Well, you can leave this door to me,” said Tamati as he placed the two ponies in his arms on the ground and then walked forward to simply kick it down.

“Uh, that’s not a good idea,” Sunburst attempted to warn him, but it was too late as the eye on the door opened and locked eyes with Tamati’s turning his red, glowing ones green.

“Huh? What the?” he asked confused. “Where am I? What is going on-” He looked down, and an expression of absolute terror appeared on his face. It was unlike any he had ever made before and left Zircon in shock as well that something could fill her normally unstoppable father with such dread. “N-No… It can’t be… NOOO!!!”

“Quick! Do something!” cried Zircon to Sunburst.

“I’m on it,” he replied, casting a spell on the eye to dispel the trap and return Tamati to his senses.

“Ugh,” panted Tamati as he dropped to his knees with enough force to crack the ground beneath them. He stared at his crotch with relief as he perspired over even inch of his body.

“That door makes you experience your greatest fear,” Sunburst informed him.

“I know!” shouted Tamati as he worked to calm himself down. “I know…”

“W-What did you see?” wondered Zircon.

“I-It was gone,” he sniffled. “It was all gone.”

“I suppose that would be your greatest fear,” she admitted going from relieved to stiffling a snicker. “Well, should we wait for you or go on ahead while you… embrace your beloved rod?”

“I’m okay,” he said, getting back to his feet. “It’ll take more than the fear of being smooth to deter me for very long.”

Entering into the treasure room, Tamati quickly regained his sinister smirk. “This is an even greater collection than what Crysalis had and all of it will be added to my collection now too.” As he glanced at the number dark crystals and other magical artifacts, he searched for the one in particular that he had come to obtain in the first place. “The Element of Discord should be here as well.”

Stopping in front of a small locked chest, Tamati cautiously picked it up, weary after his last brash action. When nothing bad happened, he easily broke the chest open with strength alone and gleamed at the contents inside.

“Did you find something?” asked Zircon.

“As a matter of fact,” he answered as he turned around and showed off the Lockheart, now surrounded by a magical stone on both sides of it. “I did. That’s two down and one large step closer to ruling this world. Oh, I can hardly contain my excitement. I am really going to enjoy my time with my harem tonight. When we get into bed tonight, I’m gonna-”

“Again, too much information,” she told Tamati as she went back to Sunburst to help him gather all the dark artifacts for them to take back to the Changeling Hive. With Tamati alone once more, he couldn’t help grinning from ear to ear at his success. Then, something else caught his eye. It was something very small, red and pointed at one end while the other showed evidence it was chipped off. At first glance, it seemed like it was merely a broken fang, but as he took a closer look, the dark dragon grinned especially toothy.

“Oh hoh, it seems I’ve found yet another interesting trinket to take back home,” he smirked and grasped it in his claws.

“Hello and welcome one and all to another episode of Cooking with Media,” announced the food-loving Dragling as she stood before her counter with a number of ingredients and pans at the ready. “Today, we’re going to be preparing one of my favorite, tasty snacks of all times. It’s a yummy, little confection that’s baked in a pan and cut into squares to eat, usually accompanied by a cool, refreshing glass of milk. I, of course, am referring to super deluxe, triple fudge brownies!”

“Aren’t those the creatures that ponies enchant with their cuteness and catchy, sireny songs to lure them over to our world to devour?” asked Wedge to Biggs.

“No, that’s Bronies,” he corrected his friend as he pointed over to the pony food pyramid on the wall that listed bronies as the topmost item with apples in the blow beneath that. On the next level was one block for all other fruits and another, beside it, for veggies. Then, at the bottom holding all that up was the block for all things sweet. “And the ponies consider us monsters.”

“And now,” continued Media after going through most of the steps for making the brownies. She had mixed eggs, oil, water, and a number of other ingredients into a bowl, creating a shiny, brown glop. “We add some chunks of chocolate into the mix, stir it a bit more, and finally pour it into the pan we greased up earlier. Once we do that, we place the pan into our preheated oven and wait for about forty to forty-five minutes to let them bake. Once that is done, we let them sit to cool.” She did this and then picked up a plate with a batch she had made ahead of time. “And when they are done, we’ll remove them from the pan, cut them up and viola, we have some warm, chocolatey brownies, ready for consumption.”

“A-And you make those with that yummy stuff, with… chocolate, right?” drooled the Draglings as they drew nearer, the thought of their first taste of the sweet confection still fresh on their minds.

“Yes,” she answered, a bit uncomfortable to have them all so close to her to her while they were drooling with hunger to try more. “I’ve said so quite a lot throughout my demonstration and when you all asked me beforehand. These little squares are about as purely concentrated chocolate as anything can get.”

Hearing all that, the Draglings couldn’t help salivate in hungry anticipation as they hummed, “Chocolate~ <3”

“Uh, would you all like to try so-”

“We’d love to!” some of them answered her, but most just reached for the flat, square treats, clenching them in their claws in their haste to gobble them up before the others could take it away from them. The room was filled with violent hissing and snapping teeth as they fought over the highly coveted confections. Media nervously backed away, while the Changelings that had also been watching remained seated and spectated.

“Oh, I never realized cooking could be so entertainingly violent,” commented a giddy Wedge.

“Uh, sure,” replied Biggs, not able to do anything to diffuse a militia of Draglings on a rampage and choosing not to worry his chubby compatriot that this was not some scripted tomfoolery, but a riot in the making.

After several minutes, the plate was empty of brownies and shattered on the floor, however, the Draglings were not yet satiated from their chocolate craze. Glaring at Media, their look of hunger had only intensified from that small bit that most had barely gotten a taste and some none at all. “More!” they demanded.

“M-More will be r-ready in about an hour,” she stuttered.

“More now!” they told her losing patience.

“I-I don’t have any more,” she tried to tell them. Pushing his way through the hoard, Sting made his way to the front of the pack. Media sighed with relief, certain if anyone could take control of the situation and make it better, it was him. “Oh, Sting, I’m so glad that you’re-”

“Where can we obtain me?” he spoke, sounding every bit as frightening as their father to their enemies.

“N-Not you too,” she cried certain all hope was lost.

“Where?!?” he asked again, snarling a little.

“Um, well,” she trembled and looked over to the Pony Food Pyramid. “Ponies! They have lots of chocolate sweets and all kinds of other sugary-filled treats too. If you are all sneaky you can-”

“To war for chocolate!” announced Sting.

“YEAH!!!” roared the others, quickly rushing out of the room in stampede fashion.

“So, till we get an update from Spike,” Tamati told Cid as they approached from the corridor connected to the room. “We’ve got a bit of downtime around here.”

“Any plans how you want to use that time?” asked Cid. Tamati raised a claw, about to answer, but Cid added, “Besides that thing you usually do with your cock.”

“Uh, I’ll have to think about it,” answered Tamati smiling a bit embarrassed by that all too true remark. “Maybe I’ll-”

“Chocolate!” cried the Draglings as they burst through the door and ran down the hall. Tamati was quick to react, grabbing Cid and pressing his back against the wall as his crazed offspring rushed by.

“Whoa! Where’s the fire?” wondered the mighty dragon as his children were soon all gone, save for Media who poked her head out the door, winded from that frightful display.

“This won’t end well,” she said with a worried look.

“What won’t?” asked Tamati.

“Seems they all like chocolate a bit too much,” she admitted. “And… well, I told them where to get more.”

“Heheh,” chuckled Tamati. “Reminds me of when me and a few of my old friends first tried deep-fried gems back when we were young and prone to yield to our most primal urges.”

“Used to?” questioned Cid, raising an eyebrow.

“Well, some I still do,” he admitted not sounding guilty about it at all. “But for ones like these, the best way to learn self control is from experience.”

“Experience?” questioned Cid only to get a toothy smirk from Tamati as a response.

Towns all across Equestria appeared vacant as nobody dared to leave their homes. All the citizens were frightened that the swarm of creatures might still around or return to devour any sweet confections that they might have somehow missed during their invasion. Whole bakeries were reduced to rubble and food stands were smashed to bits. Even homes that were emitting pleasant cooking odors were not spared by these ravenous creatures and their hunger for that processed sugar.

Despite the destruction, the ponies in those towns managed to survive. The only ones injured were those who were unfortunate enough to be standing in between the Draglings and their food or those that were too stubborn to toss the muffin in their mitts and flee. Lucky for them, the Draglings immediately lost interest in them once they had eaten what they were after and then went elsewhere to consume more.

When one town was empty, they just all flew off together in a single direction, stopping only once another town came into sight and repeated their havoc once more just as sugar-crazed as ever. This terror continued for three straight days and nights, with over a dozen towns and even a few cities hit. By the time any help was able to be organized to combat the Draglings they had already moved on and continued to be much too quick to keep up with. And then, at the end of the third day, they were gone, without a trace. The ponies were still paranoid that they might return and most were too afraid to touch a mixing bowl, let alone bake again for the foreseeable future.

This was a nightmarish event that most could only describe as if a sugar-crazed Pinkie Pie came into town, only there was an army of her. What little more description some of the less traumatized ponies were able to tell the royal guard as they came to investigate was collected in Canterlot for further analysis. When newsponies went to interview Princess Celestia, she told them, with rapier drawn, “They may devour every last crumb of cookie, every last glob of pie, and every single scoop of icecream, but they will never ever ever!!! TAKE MY CAKE!!!”

Meanwhile, back at the Changeling Hive, the Draglings were experiencing the fallout of the chocolate craze too. In the infirmary, every bed was filled with every Dragling, save for Media, who was, instead, helping Biggs, Wedge, and a number of other Changelings care for them and their aching bellies.

“Ugh,” moaned Nat as he rubbed his big, bulging gut. “My stomach… What the hell did we eat?”

“Twice our body weight in sweets,” answered Sting, attempting to be strong, but even he could barely move after all that. “It might not have been our best idea or our finest hour, but we were victorious nonetheless.”

“And victory makes me wanna hurl,” breathed Zircon.

“Well, the good news is that you’ll all be better with a few days of rest,” Media told them. “Maybe even sooner, with some of my special cooking.”

Uncomfortable moans sounded throughout the ward. “Please, no more chocolate they,” begged.

“Don’t worry,” she assured them. “It’ll be something light. I’m certain you won’t want to eat anything sweet again… at least for a week.”

“Try ever again,” Nat corrected Media.

“No, a week,” Media corrected Nat. “Personal experience. Trust me. You don’t just quit chocolate. It is like an all consuming beast that will not stop until you submit to it.”

“Doesn’t that sound like someone we know?” asked Wedge to which Biggs merely gave him a look.

“Achoo!” sneezed Tamati as he was in the midst of his entire harem wrapped around his body like a blanket.

“Coming down with a cold?” asked Chrysalis, nibbling on her master’s ear.

“I don’t think so,” he smirked. “And why should I when I’ve got all of you to keep me warm?”