Sundered

A squishy crunch of bone and flesh echoed in the small clearing from the last succubus meeting her end under Spike's size twenty-eight boot.

"Well, first off, ew." Fluttershy looked a tad green at the sight of Royal Topaz's gown being used to wipe off the remains of her head off the dragon's foot. "Second, I can honestly say I'm not going to miss any of those hags." She had to admit, a dozen succubi proved to be almost a curbstomp for a dragon hellbent on ending your life. A couple looked liked they managed to rake a their claws over his scales, but that just seemed to annoy him.

"You know, I've ran into my share of you girls." Spike comment, stepping up to the plinith she was chained to. "And I overheard your little back and forth...you sure you're a succubus?"

"Born and raised." She replied. "And seriously, I warned them the crap they all pulled was gonna get them all killed sooner or later." There was an abrupt cracking of alabaster as the plinith was smashed under a big dragon fist, letting the chains around her fall away. "Sooo..." Her gaze drifted to the huge crescent bladed axe he was welding.

"What? They asked me to kill the twelve succubi, I killed...one, two..." He took a moment to count out the bodies. "Yep, twelve dead succubi."

She looked at him, noting just how big he was compared to her. "You're not going to kill me?"

"Nah. You aren't on my contract, and you aren't causing problems."

"So...you saved me, then?"

"Huh," He shrugged. "Guess so. You good?"

"As long as you take..." She looked at him with something akin to 'bedroom eyes'. "...responsibility."

"Oro?" Sudden confusion allowed him to make the only response he could think of at that moment. "Responsi-wha?"

"The old succubus laws, before they all let their egos get the better of them, at least. Saving one from mortal peril means she belongs to her rescuer."

"Oro??" It took a moment for him to process that. "H-how is that even remotely fair!?

"Well, unless killed a succubus can live pretty much forever as long as we're well fed, so even 'a life for a life' saving doesn't equal a fair trade for a life debt. But being yours for the entirety of your natural life, that time of my life being dictated by you as a result of you saving me? That's as close as the old laws could make it."

"You know dragons can live for a good while too, right?" He leaned down until they were somewhat face-to-face. "You sure you wanna hang out with one who's job is killing people and monsters for money?"

She just grinned cheekily. "Well, threaten me with a good time."

"Wait, so since he didn't get all giddy at the thought of a pet sex beast...no offence." Twilight looked over at Fluttershy, who just shrugged it off.

"Eh, remember we used to have a queen who took that as her title."

"Right, since he didn't react that way, you were more interested in following him?"

"Well, with my race's reputation, someone showing concern of any type, even for a renegade like me..." She blushed. "It's kind of a turn-on."

"So he agreed."

"...she gave me puppy dog eyes..." He muttered, earning a befuddled 'dwah?' from the unicorn.

"Though we didn't finalize it until that night." Fluttershy's wings fluttered a bit.

Spike tried his hardest to not sound pleading. "That can wait at least until we get to the outpost, right?"