A Death March To The Fall Of Equestria

The next morning, Satou woke up, slowly sat up before looking around. Finding Eliza still asleep, causing Satou to smile and reach down to Eliza once again rubbing her head before muttering to himself. “I’ll stay here and let her get a bit more sleep. With the cart; we should be able to get to the Empire a lot quicker now.”

Five minutes later, Eliza shot up to a sitting position, surprising Satou as she headbutted him. She glances at Satou. “Is there something wrong?” She asks when she saw Satou covering his face.

“Just... my face hurts.” Satou responds, rubbing his face. “I came by to check if you were okay last night and to bring you some food over, but you were asleep. I was worried about you so I wrapped that blanket around you, but you fell asleep on my lap and I didn’t want to move in case it woke you.”

She nodded and started putting on her mech armour back on.

“How are you feeling today?” Satou asked as he stood up.

“I’m in great condition, estimate it at 99% at most.” She states; almost like how a robot would calculate.

“I suppose that's good.” Satou responded before adding. “Do you fancy anything to eat before we get everyone together to head off?”

“I can live without food for a week. I’ll be sustainable.”

“Are you sure? Just because you can live without doesn’t mean that you should do it.”

“I’m no fool Satou, I know that I needed to eat. But I can make and hunt my own food without assistance, so I’ll help myself.”

“I’m well aware of that. But I do want to help you whenever I can, I have more than enough food on me. I was just saying I can give you something when you need it to save time and energy.”

“Made by using sentient bodies, no thanks.” She retorted as her last mech boots made a click and stood up.

“Fine.” Satou sighed in defeat before looking at her as saying. “Is there anything you want to do before we get moving?” Eliza shook her head. “Okay, let's get everyone moving then, and we can collect up everything we can salvage from the other cave before we head off.” Eliza just nods in agreement. With that, they walk over to the other cave.

Once they walked into the mouth of the second cave; they found Frostine, Sunny and Sapphire all huddled together on one side of the cave asleep. Both Sunny and Sapphire’s head’s resting against Frostine’s legs. On the other side, they found Drayce asleep with both wolves around him, canines heads resting against his legs.

“Do you want to wake them up while I start seeing what we can salvage to put on the cart?” Satou asked.

“No, I’ll do the scavenging, you wake them up. They are more close to you than me.” Eliza said in a matter of fact.

“Well except for Sapphire, she is your servant after all.” Satou started with a smile.

“She is still a slave until I train her to be more servant. Besides, I notice that you are avoiding them. So sorry; but you're doing it, mister.” She said leaving to get scavenging through the caves.

“Of course I’m doing it.” Satou mutters then sighed to himself, walking up to the sleeping slaves. Tapping Sunny & Sapphire on the shoulders as he said. “Sunny Sapphire, it’s time to wake up.”

The amber woman groaned for a moment as her golden eyes fluttered open, sleepily sitting up while rubbing the tiredness from her eyes. “Mmhm, H-hello master.” Sunny mumbled.

Seconds later; Sapphire woke up but almost instantly leapt up, grabbing a hold of Satou legs as well as her face cheeks pressing against the leg as she said breathy. “Good morning master, do you want me to service you today?” Her head leans closer to his groin as she begins to reach towards his crotch.

Satou shook his head in annoyance, saying. “Good morning to you two as well. One, no, I don’t Sapphire. I already told you; I don’t use you for that. And secondly, we’ll be moving soon. So you need to get ready. I know you’ll both be pulling the cart and taking us to the Crystal Empire today.”

“Th-the Crystal E-empire!” Sunny stuttered in fear as her body shook from the name. “W-w-why there!?”

“It's the only town I know exists nearby and we have almost no supplies and what we do have won’t last forever.” Satou states. “Is there a problem with us going there? Has something happened there to the point that you don’t want to go back?”

Instead of answering, Sunny was shaking while she continued muttering ‘Fausticorn help’.

Satou knelt down in front of her before pulling her close to him as she flinches by the touch. He said. “If something is worrying you then you are free to tell me, I promised I’d look after you, but I can’t help if I don’t know what's wrong.” His comfort embraced help, her shaking was gone and stopped muttering the same words again but didn’t answer back.

“Sunny? Are you sure you're okay?” Satou asked again with a kind tone, rubbing the back of her neck.

Sunny then flinched away from the rub as the familiar voice of Eliza answered instead as she walked up to them. “You know, doing that would give others the wrong impression. They’ll think you're going to hurt them with you touching their neck area. I know you won’t but others don’t. I advise you not to do that.”

“Well I’m sorry if the only way I could think to help was to try that.” Satou responded. “I’m not the best with other people… never really have been.”

“I would like to lecture you but we’re not in a good place to do such a thing.” She gestures to the cave itself before continuing. “Anyways, I searched the place and got some trinkets for us to use.”

“Okay, if that's everything of use; we better get it loaded up into the wagon and get moving.” Satou responded, looking at everyone. “I’ll get Frostine moving while you all get connected to the cart and ready to go.”

“Of course master, I’d be happy to.” Sapphire responded with a smile as she ran out the cave towards the cart with a spring in her step. Sunny soon followed with a nervous step.

“Eliza… look after them for me, please.” Satou requested as he looked at her. She looked to be in thought before heading with them.

As soon as they had left is when Satou looks down at Frostine. He saw her open one of her eyes and a smirk on her face. “You’ve been awake the entire time haven’t you?”

“Maybe I have master. I didn’t want to wake them up, they have a long day ahead of them after all.” Frostine responded as she got up, stretching her arms upward before she said. “Besides; it was kind of nice not having ponies run from me at the first sight of me.”

“I assume that happens often?”

“Considering that we are seen as monsters. Yes, it’s half the reason we stayed hidden so we could avoid getting hunted by their guards… When they did attack; we normally had to capture them before dragging them away, either having them serve us or killing them off like they were livestock.” Frostine stated. “I even had a younger one of them as a pet once a long time ago.”

“That's, kinda unnerving.” Satou stated.

“Maybe, but if I hadn’t; they’d have fattened the poor thing up before serving it as part of a meal.” Frostine responded. “I wonder if she escaped when they attacked us.”

“It sounds like you really cared for this pony.” Satou stated as they walked over towards Drayce.

“I did, you never know, maybe one day I could train and care for any pets you get master.” Frostine responded with a smile.

“We’ll see...” Satou responded with a smile as they reached Drayce. Satou taps him on the shoulder and says. “Drayce, we need to get moving soon.”

“I understand Satou.” Drayce responded, opening his eyes.

“You were awake as well?”

“I’ve woken her up for years… I’m used to being up early.” Drayce responded before the wolves got up off his lap, one of them allowed him to climb onto it’s back. “Well… Are we going?”

“If you're ready then yes.” Satou responded before the group made their way towards the mouth of the cave.

Once they reached the other cave; they walked towards the wagon. Saw both Sunny and Sapphire attached the cart beginning to pull it out from the cave with Eliza walking beside them, guiding them out.

“Are we ready to go!” Satou shouted to the group as they approach.

“Y-yes, m-master.” Sunny said nervously.

“Of course we are, I’m happy to be heading home!” Sapphire shouted back.

“Okay.” Satou responded as he looked at Eliza before saying; “Are you ready to go?” as Frostine jumped into the back of the cart.

“Yes.” Eliza answered.

“Okay then.” Satou responded as he jumped onto the front of the wagon. A message saying; ‘Chore Skills - Two Horse Cart Riding’ which he quickly put up to 5. A flood of memories hit him, instantly teaching him how to control the cart.

[Chore Skills - Two Horse Cart Riding: ‘Ability to control a two horse cart. Can control with ease but unable to carry larger loads of supplies.’]

“Eliza, it’s up to you where you sit.” He said.

“I’ll be walking. As long as I don’t run too much; I’ll be able to walk all the way there.” She answered as she stretched her legs and arms before sighing in satisfaction and ready.

“You sure, wouldn’t it be safer for you to use the cart as well?” Satou asked.

“Really, I have no idea.” Eliza sarcastically said. “I know but I rather walk.”

“If you're sure...” Satou responded. Then looked towards Drayce before he said. “Are you and the wolves jumping in the back or…?”

“No, we’ll lead from the front, if anything does attack; we can try and take them down before they reach you.” Drayce responded as the wolf he was sat on walked to one side of the cart and the other waited on the other.

Satou gazing at the entire group, then he calmly said. “If nobody has anything else they need to do, let's get going.” With that; the whole group began to travel towards the Crystal Empire.

One hour after the group had begun to make their way towards the Crystal Empire suddenly stopped as both Sunny and Frostine seemed to freeze up before Satou looked around to find what looked to be small blue slimes, and some strange orange balloon shaped monsters bouncing towards the cart.

“Seriously… you're scared of slimes and whatever the other things are?”

“Those are monsters, Satou, and by my estimation; these two are not combat types.” Eliza said and was confirmed from Sunny shakily nod.

“Okay then.” Satou responded before reaching to his side, grabbing a hold of the gun at his side before saying; “Keep them safe… I’ll just be a minute.” As he climbed off the cart and scrolled through his menu before a sword appeared on the other side of his body from where the gun holster was.

“Fine.” Eliza simply said as she jumped off and over the cart mares, landing in front of them. “Stay behind me.” She said to the mares.

Drayce then stood beside Eliza as the second wolf moved beside him as he said. “Do you want my assistance back here or should I help him?”

“It's best if you protect the rear just in case any more monsters want to jump in for an ambush.” Eliza said.

“Okay then.” Drayce responded. “Do you think he’ll be okay?” he added pointing to Satou.

“As long as he knows which weapon works against what, he might get out of there unscath.” Eliza estimated.

“And what are the chances he does?”

“Depends if he’s marksmen or swordsmen, the balloon one is a flyer so his range weapon is a good choice though not a good choice against liquid type enemies like slimes, so a sword might help. If he has a blast type move then he can make sure that the slime wouldn’t have a chance of multiplying.” She said.

“And if similar enemies approach us from behind… what are my chances?” Drayce asked.

“For slime, the wolf will have a hard time because they aren’t slash type, they have to actually bite or claw in their target. As for balloons that can go in the air will make it impossible for them. You, I don’t know.”

Drayce then began to turn to head to back of the cart before pausing. “I think he’ll be fine.” He said as he looked at Satou to find him firing his gun towards the slimes ahead of him, the beam of light engulfing each one and continuing on through to any slimes behind it leaving no parts for them to reform from.

Satou then turned quickly, firing at the balloon like monsters that had risen above the slimes, firing a round at each; which only launched them backwards; but otherwise ineffective apart from keeping them at a distance as he focused his efforts on the slimes.

After only a couple of seconds; he had cleared all the slimes. Holstering his gun as he drew his sword and waited for the balloon-like monster to approach before swinging his sword as they got close, popping them with a single swing and what looked to be their remains slowly floated to the floor littering the ground around Satou.

It only took a matter of seconds before all the monsters around him were killed as he sheathed his sword and made his way back towards the cart.

[Loots
Inflate balloon skin x4
Slime Jelly x18]
[Satou Level Up by 1: 31 < 32]

“That should do it. Are we ready to go?” Satou asked as he looked at the group. Sunny and Sapphire sigh in relief. Eliza nodded to him before heading back to her seat as the group continued on towards the empire.

-Seven hours later-

During the remainder of the trip the group was stopped multiple times by large groups of monsters that attacked them as they cleared them each time before moving on as Satou collected more loot from the monsters and increased his level 5 more times reaching level 37.

Upon reaching the outskirts of the Crystal Empire they looked in front of them to find a large pulsating pink bubble in front of them with what looked to be multiple Caribou wearing almost nothing. Each with a crystal pony by their feet, some of them with their heads held tightly against the Caribou’s groin.

‘Well this is disgusting.’Satou thought to himself as he looked to Eliza before saying. “You better jump on now; just in case.” Eliza walked to the back and got on, sitting with her hugging her legs to her chest.

“Just stay calm okay, nothing's going to happen to any of you.” Satou said calmly as he approached the Caribou guards, hearing them speak to each other.

As soon as they got close to the gates; three guards approached him, placing spears in front of the cart as both Sapphire and Sunny recoiled in shock as both wolves began to growl at the guards.

“Woah, calm down you lot!” Satou responded, as Drayce whistled as the wolves stopped growling and calmly waited.

Pausing for a second to let everyone calm down. He looked at the Caribou as he said. “Is something wrong?”

“Just standard checks… Wait; I know this cart, and you're not the owner.” The Caribou respond accusedly.

“I’m well aware sir.” Satou responded. “You see we found the cart around a battlefield with hundreds of dead Lizard-men corpses around the place. This cart with the two mares you see pulling it was to the side in a cave with four dead Caribou outside. I didn’t know how close the other Lizard-men were so we hid in the cave with the mares till the following morning. When we loaded everything up and fled here.” Satou stated, as the word ‘Persuasion - used’ was seen in front of him.

“I see.” the Caribou responded, “If that is the case, it makes the mares pulling the cart not yours; unless you are willing to pay for them that is.”

“How much would they be?” Satou asked curiously.

“I’d say maybe 20 bits for the black collared bitch, I heard she wouldn’t ever listen to her master’s orders, couldn’t suck a dick very well either… and the red; oh she was always a brilliant little bitch, always willing to do anything for a master, even defile herself infront of everyone, I’d say we’d let her go for about 64 bits for her. And the cart, considering it would just keep dust, have it for 45 bits.”

“So, all in all, you want 129 bits for them all?”

“So far, and then there are the two sluts inside. Never seen these before; where’d you get them?”

“The Lizard was someone I captured and collared myself, a very loyal bitch wouldn’t betray me for anything, and the other one is my little sister.”

“A little sister, eh. I can’t charge you for two slaves you captured yourself, but I still need to inspect them… One seems to need to be categorised and the other is unmarked.” The Caribou responded.

Satou turned his sight towards Frostine and Eliza before he said. “Both of you climb out and let him take a look.”

Sighing quietly, Eliza got out and stood beside Sapphire while Frostine stood next to Sunny.

One Caribou first inspects Eliza, he said. “So... a very good looking little sister, are you sure you wouldn’t be willing to sell her to me for a very attractive price?”

“I’m sorry, but she’s not for sale.” Satou responded as he climbed off the wagon.

“You sure, I’d take very good care of her,” the Caribou responded as he began to reach towards her breasts only for Satou to stand in front of her.

“I already told you my stance on her, she’s not being sold to anyone.” Satou responded glaring at the Caribou.

“Fine I understand, she will still need a collar and from the fact she didn’t react to me, I’d say she’d be a fine red collar.” The Caribou said; once again reaching for Eliza’s breasts. His hand was stopped this time by Eliza who moved the hand away and gripped it harder, making him cry out from just the tight grip.

“Okay, maybe not suitable for that, tell your slut to let me go!” The Caribou shouted.

“Eliza, could you release his hand.” Satou request.

“You sure? I can break his arms to give him an example of how you should treat a slave if you want?” Eliza asked Satou.

“No, release him, we don’t want to cause any trouble that can be avoided.” Satou stated.

“Smart choice brother.” She said before letting go of the caribou hand.

“Okay, black collared bitch it is then!” The Caribou grunted, shaking his hand before writing it on a sheet of paper before looking at Frostine. “Nice size body. Not a bad build, very suitable for any master, she’d be picked up in a flash that's for sure.” Reached towards her breasts, groping her as he said. “No reaction whatsoever and they felt perfect for any master.”

“So?” Satou asked.

“Without a doubt the perfect Red collar, I wouldn’t even doubt it, as long as she follows your orders that is.”

“Frostine, come here please.” Satou responded as Frostine instantly dropped to her knees in front of him.

“Definitely loyal to you. I’ll get a red sorted for this one.” The caribou said.

He then paused before looking at Drayce and the wolves before he said. “And what's the deal with you?”

“I was travelling with the group that attacked him, but we were severely injured by some kind of spell, runes filled the sky above us and balls of fire rained upon us, slaughtering all but me and the other slave of my kind you see here. I saw Satou here capture and collar her with my own eyes and drag her away before I fell unconscious. When I next woke up I found these strange things tied around my leg and her asleep with her head against his groin.” Drayce stated.

“And what about the collar?” The guard asked.

“Well, when I came to my senses I realised that I couldn’t survive on my own anymore and saw the value in serving him and asked him to collar me like he did her, and; as you can see; he did as I requested and now I’m happily following his orders.” Drayce admitted.

“I see...” The guard responded before rubbing his chin and saying. “Well, if you chose this fate I have no right to judge you for it.” The guard walks over to Satou before passing him a sheet of paper. “Take this inside with you and go to the castle and someone will get you the collars you need. Also in terms of everything to purchase your other slaves and the cart along with the city's entrance tax it comes to 155 bits.” He reminds Satou.

Satou didn’t respond, pulling out a bag of bits. “This should be enough for you; correct?” He dropped the bag into Caribou's hand before he opened the bag of bits, walking up to a table and emptying it out before counting out the bits.

“That's more than enough for what we asked.” He responded, passing the spare bits back to Satou. “You're free to go into the city. Just go directly to the Crystal Place in the centre of town and hand them the note, they’ll sort the papers for all your slaves and collars linked to you specifically.”

“Thank you very much.” Satou said with a smile before returning to his cart before saying. “Girls, you can get back on now.” Frostine climbed back into the cart before Satou added. “Eliza, sit next to me for this bit.” As he pats the seat next to him. Nodding, Eliza pushed herself up to the seat beside him, Satou pulling her closer next to him.

“Now let's get inside you two.” Satou responded before both Sunny and Sapphire began to pull the cart into the empire.

However before he could move; the guard added. “But I would suggest you get some collars for your wolves, wouldn’t want them getting lost would we.”

“I’ll look into it.” Satou responded. “Thank you for the advice.”

“It’s my pleasure.” The guard said before allowing Satou to head into the city.

Once they were out of sight of the Caribou guards; Satou looked to Eliza before he said. “I’m sorry about commanding you as I did, I had to-”

“Don’t.” Eliza looked back at him, not glance, not peek, she’s directly looking at him. “I asked you a question and knew there that you’ll have to act. Remember what I told you yesterday, standing out in the snow?”

“Yes, but it doesn’t mean I feel good about doing it.” Satou stated. “But thank you for playing along with me just then, and sorry for getting you stuck with a collar.”

“At least it’s a colour matching my outfit, a black collar would blend with my suit. But that’s not what you wanted to talk about is it?” She asked as she observed the city's town area.

“No, it was to apologize for breaking my promise, I said; “I wouldn’t speak to you in a commanding tone” and I went and did it anyway. Even though it was for an act, I am sorry for doing it.” Satou responded before leaning in kissing her on the forehead. “Thanks for everything Eliza.”

Eliza shifted a bit away, placing at hand where he kissed. “I’ll let it slide, but refrain from actually treating me as your ‘little sister’.”

“Kinda hard not too, it comes more naturally to treat you like one, rather than any other way.” Satou stated as he looked around the streets.

While he did; he found many females all bound to posts, their legs bound open and legs stretched wide. Many of them had pools of white liquid around their bodies, others being held against walls being raped as they screamed in pain with others trying to run from them while other males either captured and abused them or pinned them down and raped them where they lay.

“This is horrific, I can see why Sunny didn’t want to come here.” Satou whispers to Eliza.

“As much as I want to step in and free them; I ‘know’ it’ll have casualties.” She whispers back.

“Right now we don’t want to throw away the fact we’re both not under any influence causing us to do anything like this to the others.” Satou responded. “If push came to shove; we could once we gain influence try to build something to allow us to protect them from this if they don’t desire it” He added; seeing many of those being tied to posts had black collars around their neck.

“Yes. If my creator knows about this… He may be able to stop this head on. But he isn’t here.”

“Which is why it falls to us to work to correct this ourselves.” Satou responded. “And I’m glad you are here to help me.”

Nodded her head, Eliza looked more; her sight spotted familiar shape crystals. “Say, do those crystals look to be shaped like males genitals?” Gesturing towards the object.

“They do, but it does seem to be a strange design choice,” Satou stated as they got closer to one of the objects as they saw what looked to be no more than children being forced down on top of smaller crystals of the same shape, many of the Caribou looking to laugh at them as they did.

“Those definitely aren’t normal crystals, it’s giving off a strange aura but I can’t identify what it is.” Eliza’s eyes looked at the two mares pulling the cart, Sapphire looked out of focus and Sunny looked like she'd gotten drunk. She tapped Satou shoulder and pointed at the mares. “And I think it’s showing its effects.”

“I guess, but why isn’t it affecting you?” He asked before looking behind him to find Frostine shaking, as her hands began wandering towards her groin.

“One of my guesses is that I’m genderless despite my appearance. Or that I’m immune to manipulations or controls. That’s as far as I can guess. But I would ask the same for you?”

“I have a high resistance to something called the Crystal Cock, it was something that appeared two days ago in front of me, almost like it was part of an information log on a computer game.” Satou stated.

“Well that confirms my suspicions. And it appears if there's too many of them exposed, well...” She gestured towards everyone except Satou and herself.

“Do you think those crystals could be what's causing everything?” Satou asked, receiving a nod from her. “Then we’ll need to be careful around everyone.”

They stayed quiet through the rest of the trip as they went towards a large castle that looks to be made out entirely of crystals at the centre of town.

As they reached the doors to the castle, Satou looked at everyone as he asked. “Are you all feeling okay?”

“Oh I’m fine master, isn’t this place just breathtaking? Everything's made to be suitable for any master and even the most useless slave to be trained to become perfect!” Sapphire response with glee. Sunny; to the surprise of Satou and Eliza; agrees with that same expression as Sapphire.

Satou looks behind him to see Frostine twitching in the back of the wagon, the ground covered in a large wet patch on the wood below her. “And I take that as a yes.”

He stops the wagon near the entrance to the palace, climbing out of the driver seat and walking to the other side, holding his hand out to Eliza. Taking his hand, she uses it to help her get down even though she can get down on her own. “Thank you.”

“No problem, I’m happy to help you.” Satou responded with a smile before turning back to find that Sunny had her face just centimetres away from his crotch. “Sunny, what are you doing?”

“I don’t know; master.” She responded; sounding slightly scared before Satou pushed her away.

“Stop that and behave yourself.” Satou ordered.

“Yes master.” Sunny responded instantly before turning away from him and dropping onto all fours standing in front of Satou as Sapphire did the same, but where Sunny was trying to keep her tail down, Sapphire had it raised high not hiding anything.

Meanwhile, Eliza was helping Frostine down when she saw what they were doing and she walked up to Sapphire before pulling Sapphire away by the ear. “Down girl.”

“B-but.” Sapphire responded as she grind her legs together, a small puddle appearing on the ground below her.

“No ‘But’s’.” Eliza said sternly; but then leaned to the mare's ears as she commanded in a whispered tone. “You're mine so I order you to resist the desire and pleasure, understand?”

“But I…” Sapphire began to say before pausing as she said. “I-I’ll try mistress.” However her tail still remained up.

“Good enough.”

Satou looked to the group before saying. “Let's get inside before anything else happens.” He began to walk towards the door to the palace.

“Actually I will stay with the cart.” Drayce responded before adding, “I’ll be here if you need me.”

“I understand Drayce, we’ll see you later on.” Satou responded before the remainder of the group continued on towards the palace, while every Caribou looked over the Sapphire, Sunny, Frostine and Eliza as they followed with everyone else following close behind Satou as he went.