Rainbow awoke the next day. Her fur, feathers, and sheets sticky from the night’s activities. With the confrontation with the others behind them, both Twilight and Rainbow had reason to celebrate. A celebration that lead from the kitchen, to the hallway, and finally to the bedroom. Rainbow moved her back legs in a stretch only to feel a slight pinch near her anus. Reaching back Rainbow grabbed a secondary tail and pulled slightly, gasping in pain as she felt her anus reist the pull of the plug while she pulled it free. Tensing slightly, she reached a hoof back and rubbed her sore sphincter, noting with some dismay that it took longer than she expected it would to close.

Her touch did her no favors. Ow, that’s tender.

Rainbow looked over and grabbed a bottle of lube that was left by the nightstand. With her other hoof she squirted a glop of it out and rubbed her tender butthole, tensing, and then relaxing as the gel went to work. She didn’t know why, but Twilight had been insistent on giving that hole a workout last night.

“I’m never leaving that in all night again,” Rainbow said to herself and then looked over at the other pony lying in bed. She smiled to see Twilight just as wrecked as she was. Although in Twilight’s case there was no butt-plug sticking out of her rear, instead Rainbow knew Twilight had several vibrating balls in her, ones that, as she listened carefully, Rainbow heard were still going.

The two had put their lessons with Cadance to very good use last night. Something Rainbow continued as she nuzzled into Twilight’s barrel and found her nipple.

After a few moments she heard Twilight say, “Mhh, now that’s a great way to wake up.”

“Glad I could be of service,” Rainbow replied with a grin. “Shower?”

“Bath you mean,” Twilight corrected.

“Yeah, that,” Rainbow replied as the two made their way off the bed and to the bathroom.

“Are we going for a walk again this morning?”

“Again Rainbow?” Twilight asked. “You know if you keep pushing yourself you’re going to get seriously injured.”

“Not my fault, you’re the one that put the goal in front of me,” Rainbow replied as she dug into her pancake. “You said eight seconds, I want to do it in eight seconds.”

“Even if you injure yourself, again?”

“Hey, at least I’ll have you to nurse me back to health,” Rainbow replied with a sultry look.

Twilight thought about it. “Well, I’m sure I’d look great in a nurse’s outfit.”

“Heck yeah.”

“But to answer your question, no we’re not, not today, and don’t give me that look, we have a schedule to keep.”

“Schedule?” Rainbow asked.

“We’re going over to Sweet Apple Acres today to help Applejack fix her orchard. That should be enough of a workout for even you.”

“Can’t you just magic them back into place or something?” Rainbow asked in a huff.

“I could, but AJ wouldn’t consider that to be much of a punishment would she?”

The groaning and mumbling from Rainbow told Twilight just what she thought of that idea.

“Chin up, we’ll go see a movie afterwards and if you’re a good girl, we’ll go to the Daring Do exhibit in Canterlot next weekend.”

“Heck yeah!” Rainbow said with a cheer.

“Oh, and we’re going to Rarity’s tonight.”

“Dammit,” Rainbow replied, her enthusiasm killed right out the gate.

“Rainbow,” Twilight said with a stern look.

“Yeah, yeah, good girl, I know,” Rainbow mumbled as she went back to her breakfast. “What did you tell Spike?”

“Oh, that we’ve made up with all our friends. But that things will be a bit different. We won’t see them quite as much as we used to.”

“And he accepted that?”

“In truth… I don’t know. I fear I’ve scared him with all this,” Twilight admitted, slightly worried.

“You just need to be open with him,” Rainbow replied.

“Rainbow, he’s just a baby dragon.”

“Exactly Twi. A baby dragon, one that already has feelings of greed and love. If he’s an average dragon it’s obvious they mature a lot faster than you’re giving them credit for.”

Twilight went to reply and then paused as she thought about it. Maybe I do need to adjust the way I deal with him.

“What about tomorrow?” Rainbow asked.

“Huh? Oh, tomorrow. I figure we’d pay Fluttershy a visit, see if Angel Bunny has calmed down. Then I was thinking we’d go see Pinkie, find out if we can help with the party.” And start making amends.

“You think she’ll be alright?”

“In time, I hope,” Twilight said, downcast. “Feelings don’t heal that quickly.” Rainbow stopped eating and went to Twilight's side. The princess wrapped a hoof around her. “I bucked up there.”

“We,” Rainbow corrected. “We bucked up there.”

The two held their embrace for a long time, only breaking when Twilight lightly kissed Rainbow on the side of the cheek. Rainbow smiled back and went to put their plates in the sink.

“Hey Rain—”

“Twilight Sparkle.”

Both ponies turned up to see the kitchen doors open up. Their jaws hit the floor the sight before them. Princess Celestia was standing in the doorway in all her regal glory. A small purple baby dragon stood behind her, half hiding behind her leg.

“P-princess Celestia?” Twilight asked.

Celestia kept her gaze on Twilight’s appearance, taking in every aspect of the newest princess. Then she turned her head and repeated the process with Rainbow.

“I… umm… I can explain,” Rainbow stuttered as she saw a look of fear on Twilight’s face. She’d never admit it, but she felt the same way.

“That’ll be enough, Spike. Please leave us, I need to talk to my student and Rainbow, alone.”

“O-okay,” Spike said as he scooted off as quickly as his legs could take him.

Twilight watched him leave, slightly cursing herself for not anticipating that her actions left the poor dragon feeling like this was his only choice. They had left him out of so much of the conversations, for obvious reasons, that he no doubt filled in the blanks with the worst possible assumptions.

I really should have talked to him sooner.

When the door shut, Celestia simply stared at both ponies, her gaze seeming to pierce their very souls.

Somehow Rainbow broke her gaze long enough to glance over at Twilight. The pony was shaking under the gaze of Celestia. Rainbow knew that thoughts of a locked dungeon in a distant land were no doubt playing through Twilight’s mind.

Rainbow jumped in front of her. Her hooves acting on her own. “It’s not her fault, it’s mine. It was a stupid bet. I bet Twilight that she couldn’t act bad. If you’re going to punish someone punish me!”

Celestia said nothing, she simply stared at her, her expression unreadable.

“We’re just doing this because of the bet. Nothing more. Just a— “ Rainbow paused, As the words came out they felt hollow, untrue. Her resolve changed. “No, it started that way, but no, not any more. I’m doing this because I want to,” Rainbow admitted. Her response snapped Twilight out of her fear. “I’m doing this because I want to. Because… because I love her.”

“Rainbow,” Twilight said, touched beyond belief.

When Celestia finally spoke again, her question shocked them both, “So, how many of your friends will you add to your harem?”

“My-Her what‽” Twilight and Rainbow exclaimed at the same time.

“Only one so far?” Celestia looked generally shocked about that. “Well, you’re still discovering this side of yourself, I’m sure there'll be more in time.” At that Celestia walked into the kitchen and went to the fridge to get some chocolate milk.

Twilight and Rainbow just looked at her, dumbstruck.

When Celestia pulled her head out of the fridge she turned back. “What? Were you concerned what I would say? I never thought you were immune to temptation, Twilight. It’s only natural to give in from time to time. Especially when you have authority. Just so long as you do so in healthy consensual ways and not at the cost of anypony else.”

Twilight managed to say, “You don’t—” before Celestia spoke again.

“Do you honestly think Luna or I don’t have our own harems made up of ponies we love and trust just as much as you do your friends?” Celestia asked with a chuckle.

“I… uh… ummm…” was all Twilight could say.

Author's Note

Let me thank Kodeake and Zontan again for the work they put in editing for me.

The decision to end this story here was hard. This story truly is one that could go on in perpetuity, alas it’d quickly grow stale and directionless if I did that. So while there are events I’d love to cover in more detail, ending it here felt far more natural, it felt like the logical end of Rainbow’s change.

On a note about the ending, the astute of you might have noticed that I dropped the ‘dark’ tag from this story, this is due to the ending not being the one I’d initially planned. The original ending was far more dark and manipulative on Twilight’s part; however, in the course of writing the story events and characterizations unfolded in such a way that the original ending no longer fit, as such the ending changed to match their actions.

I love it when that happens. The best stories surprise not only the reader, but the writer as well.

As far as what I’m doing next, I think it’s about time to check in with TiM, don’t you? For those of you who don’t follow my main story, I understand. It’s a long series to read and, if we’re being honest, not the best written, at least not the early stories (Hey, they were the first stories I’d ever wrote so bite me :P).

Once that story is over I have a halloween-horror Twidash story I’d started a few years ago that I might be able to finish for an October release (It’s dark as shit, just fyi).

Then I was thinking about an Anthro-Twidash story I’m tossing around ideas for.

But that’s long term.

Until next time,

Twidashforever!