Lust in Translation

Debris bounced off her shield as Twilight Sparkle pushed herself to her hooves. She was standing in the middle of a city street in a shallow crater the exact shape of her force field. She was in some kind of outdoor market lit by street lights and neon. Dozens of kirin had stopped in the middle of what they were doing to stare at her.

Also, she could see all of this. The sun hadn’t blinded her! Yippee!

She let her force field flicker out and rushed over to a vendor who had stopped in the middle of pouring tiny dried mushrooms into a customer’s bag. “Excuse me kind sir or madam, she said in halting phrasebook Neighponese, “What city am I in?”

“Um… You’re in Okami. Are you all right?”

She was about to ask where the Kirinmark hotel was when a psychic projection of the head of Princess Cadence popped up in the middle of her field of vision.

“That was one hell of a teleport, sis!” said Cadence. “Wow, I didn’t think you’d really come. I thought you’d just write me back or something.”

“But you said it was urgent!”

“I did not!”

Twilight knit her brows. “You did! You marked it extremely urgent, and you marked it eyes only, implying it was highly classified, as well.” Twilight realized she’d said that out loud. The kirin around her couldn’t see or hear who Twilight was talking to, and began to back away from her slowly.

Cadence giggled. “Oh, maybe I did.”

Twilight frowned. Cadene’s thoughts sounded slurred. It was hard to tell in the projection, but her eyes looked glassy. “Cadence are you drunk?”

“You’d better get over here,” said Cadence. She looked down out of the field of the projection, and a few seconds later held up a bar napkin with a map scribbled on it. “Does this make sense? Come join us, okay?”

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‘Over here’ turned out to be a divey open-air sushi place about three blocks from where Twilight had landed. Every table was full of customers, and many more were standing. Three sushi cooks – two kirin and a towering hippogriff – were in constant motion behind the main counter. A second counter served as a bar. Twilight saw Shining Armor there, but he was trying to get the bartender’s attention and hadn’t noticed her yet.

Deep in Twilight’s mind, pieces of information began to connect with one another like lines in a connect-the-dots puzzle. She did not like the picture they were forming. She really needed to find Cadence before Shining saw her.

A blob of blue magic tugged on Twilight’s mane. She turned to see Cadence on the other side of the restaurant, waving her over.

“Cadence, what the darn heck is going on,” said Twilight, climbing up on a stool next to her sister in law. There was a tray of mango nigiri between them. Twilight pulled it over to her and started stress eating them. Mmm, sticky rice.

Cadence smirked and twirled a strand of her mane around her hoof. “I just wanted to have a little surprise for Shiny. Something really special for our honeymoon.”

Twilight gasped. “He doesn’t know I’m here?” she said, grains of rice flying out of her mouth.

“I’m so sneaky!” Cadence, clapping her hooves like a happy filly. “Oh, he’s coming back! Quick, under the table!”

Twilight yelped as Cadence’s magic grabbed her and yanked her down between her hind legs. She kept a firm grip on the sushi tray as she went under; these things were good!

“Here you go, honey,” said Shining in his silky smooth voice. “Why did we need three of these?”

“Well,” said Cadence. “Do you remember that fantasy you told me about last night?”

Shining Armor sat down on a stool next to Cadence. His hind knee was practically touching Twilight’s snout. “You mean… I mean… We’ve talked about a lot of fantasies. Which one, specifically?”

Oh no. Twilight was suddenly certain where this was headed. She started to bolt, but the second she did Cadence’s thighs clenched down around her neck. Those slim long legs looked soft, but they had a grip like steel. “The one about your sister,” purred Cadence.

Darn you Shining, what did you tell her? How much does she know? Darn BBBFF! Darn him to heck! Twilight crammed the last three nigiri into her mouth in one bite.

“Did… did you want to roleplay?” said Shining. As he spoke, his cock slid out of its sheath. Twilight watched in fascination as it stiffened, pulse by pulse. A normal sister would be disgusted and horrified. A normal sister. Twilight wanted it inside of her.

“I had something even better in mind,” said Cadence. Her normal sweet, pungent musk was getting stronger. Twilight had always thought Cadence smelled intoxicating, but she’s never smelled her like this before. The smell mixed with her brother’s masculine scent, and soon Twilight’s body started to respond. In seconds, she was sitting in a sticky puddle. “You can come out, sis.”

Twilight groaned. Part of her — a big, naughty part of her — wanted to stay under the table and surprise both of them in a different way. But no. She had to be good. Cadence’s thighs let go of her and she slid up into the stool again. “Um… surprise?”

Shining’s eyes got so wide they looked like they were about to fall out of his head. “Oh no. No no no, Cadence you weren’t supposed to tell!”

Cadence rolled her eyes. “Why? What’s so awful about wanting to do the nasty with your sister? Ponies do worse things every day without a second thought.”

Twilight cleared her throat. “Cadence, this might be a sensitive topic, but… you don’t really have any relatives, do you?”

“There’s auntie Tia,” said Cadence cheerfully. There were no sensitive topics with Princess Cadence. “Speaking of incest. Rowr.”

”But no blood relatives,” continued Twilight. She sniffed at the drink her brother had brought. It filled half a hollowed-out pineapple, had a little flag sticking out of it, and smelled like sweetened hoof polish remover. She had a little sip, and the tip of her nose immediately went numb.

Shining Armor was blushing and sweating. “Cadence, it’s not normal for a brother to have sexual feelings for his sister.”

Twilight nodded. “The fact that we don’t is called the Withermark effect, after a pony who spent a lot of time researching sex between siblings.”

Cadence smiled a slow predatory smile. “Oh, what a coincidence, I’ve researched that too. There’s another effect. The Cadenza effect. Have you heard of it?”

Twilight took another sip of the pineapple paint thinner. “No. I haven’t. What’s that?”

“It’s when you’re so sexy you can talk ponies into overcoming the Withermark effect.”

Twilight glared at Cadence, then at her drink. Whatever it was, it was making Twilight slow on the uptake. She should have seen that coming. “So you’ve done this before?”

Cadence fluttered her eyelashes. “Oh no. I was a pure sweet virgin before I met Shiny.”

Twilight was about to retort — she wasn’t much on the Canterlot palace social scene, sure, but you didn’t have to be an astronomer to know the sun was yellow. But she stopped because BBBFF was about to say something stupid. She could tell because his mouth was opening.

“Cadence, I need to be honest with you…” he said.

”Shining, no!” said Twilight.

“When I told you about that fantasy…”

Twilight made slashing motions at her throat.

“…It wasn’t exactly a fantasy.”

Twilight hissed, and cast a force field over Shining Armor’s mouth.

“Mgh!” said Shining Armor.

Cadence ripped the field away from Shining’s face with her alicorn magic like she was pulling off a bandage. ”No, sis. I want to hear this.”

Shining Armor closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “The fantasy was real. Twilight and I really had sex. I’m sorry. I know I’m disgusting. We can annul the marriage if you want.”

Cadence laid a hoof on his shoulder. “I could never do that, honey.”

Shining Armor opened one eye.

“You can only get an annulment if you haven’t consummated the marriage. We’ve consummated it seventy-three times. Not counting the times I made you cuckold me. We’d have to get a divorce.”

Shining Armor smashed his head on the table and groaned. “Well if you can just about this, then I guess you aren’t offended.”

Twilight slammed both forehooves down in the table and rose up until her head was level with both of them. “Well, I’m offended! Shining, how could you tell her that!”

”She’s my wife, Twily. I have to tell her everything.”

That thought almost derailed Twilight’s rage. Almost. “I’m impressed with your honesty and your commitment to your marriage! But!” She slammed her hoof on the table. “This is different! We agreed that it was wrong! We agree we’d never mention it again! It was struck from the record.”

“You made me agree to those things, Twiliy,” said Shining Armor. “You’re the one who said we couldn’t talk about it. You’re the one who didn’t come back from Ponyville.”

Out of the corner of her eye, Twilight saw Cadence’s crumble like a tower made out of building bricks. Twilight ignored her. This was none of her business, and there were no sensitive topics with Princess Cadence. “What we did was shameful! It doesn’t matter how we feel about each other!” Twilight thrust out a hoof towards Cadence. “And then you and Princess Kissyface go and make a game out of it!”

“I’m tired of being ashamed,” said Shining Armor. “Princess Cadence has taught me that anything is okay, as long as you love one another.”

“Well she’s wrong!” shouted Twilight. “This is it! It’s over. No more talking about what we did, because it never happened!”

“Maybe you should go,” said Shining Armor.

“No. I should go,” said Cadence. Tears squirted down her cheeks.

“What?” said Twilight and Shining as one.

Cadence scrubbed at her cheeks with the back of her hooves. “This is all because I kept pestering Shining to tell me his kinks. We were just doing stuff that I liked, and I wanted him to have fun, too.”

“Honey. I do have fun. I always have fun with you,” said Shining, reaching for her.

She pushed him away. “This is why it happened. All of it. I shouldn’t have done anything. I wanted you two to be happy, and now you’re mad at each other instead! I’m going to go, now.”

Twilight reached out to Cadence as well, but she was too late. Blue light flashed and Cadence was gone.