Chapter Thirty One: The Time Has Come Chrysalis

After waking up, neither I nor Twilight or Ember could tell a difference. At least they didn't say anything about me looking different. And if they sensed something different in me they didn't say anything about it. But there was something different. Just what I didn't know. So, it was a mystery for me to find out in the future.

The rest of the trip back to Equestria was peaceful. I spent some of that time explaining my idea to Celaeno and her crew. For the first bit of time would be them teaching a crew about airship war tactics, or at least pirate tactics. After she thinks that the crew is good enough to have their own ship, then both crews would participate in a series of war games as a test. After that then Celaeno's crew would have to quite literally pirate their pay from the other Equestrian airships. At least that was the general idea. Not only did Celaeno and her crew like it but Twilight and Ember did as well. After that, it was a pleasant and peaceful trip.

Back in Equestria, we flew all the way to Canterlot and landed right in the large front courtyard not too far from the front steps. And Luna, Tia, and our daughter were there to greet me. The captain and her crew had a good laugh and cooed at my daughter when she latched herself onto my face, gleefully nearly screaming out, "Daddy!" Solar was insistent that she stay with me while we talked business at the castle. And this time, we were able to treat her crew to something other than gruel and food rations. After that, Celaeno and her crew were invited to stay at the castle while a pony crew was created for them to train.

And after Celaeno and her crew were situated, I spent some time with my herd over the next few days. It was a way to catch up with them because I was away. By the time I got back all the cabins for the rest of the girls were built. They just needed some furniture. So, Pinkie put together a party just for everypony in the herd as one big family picnic. I didn't want to bring up Chrysalis' pending judgment at the party, so I asked them to meet again the very next day. And it was then that we discussed Chrysalis' pending capital punishment.

Chrysalis' judgment would be carried out two days later and any changeling that wanted to be there could. And it would happen in the evening in the throne room and not open to the public. After telling them about our plans for Chrysalis, they understood why I didn't bring it up the night before. Luna agreed to use her war scythe on Chrysalis to make it quick. But it wasn't going to be clean or pretty, just quick. The only one of the girls that wanted to be there, and arguably needed to be there, was Twilight. Because of her brother's wedding. Neither Cadence nor Shining Armor wanted to be there. We got a letter from Thorax telling us that he wanted to be there. And Ember was going to be with us because she's simply not squeamish. Once it was resolved that morning, I didn't bring it up for the rest of the time with them.

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Then came judgment day for Chrysalis.

The next morning, I told Tia and Luna that I wanted to talk with Chrysalis one last time. In hope for hope that she would change her ways. And I knew just the way to do it. After being teleported down to the dungeons, I noticed Chrysalis laying on her bed facing away from me. Now that I was standing in front of her, the weight of what was about to happen to her had my thoughts stop in my throat before I could say them.

"You going to say something or just stand there?" Chrysalis asked me without turning over to face me.

So, I took a steadying breath before outright telling her, "Today is the day, Chrysalis."

And again, without turning over to look at me she nonchalantly responds, "That's nice." After I sighed in annoyance at her, she finally asked, "For what?"

"Your death." I just said it outright as there wasn't an easy way to say something like that. I waited for her reaction.

She finally shifted and rolled over on her bed to face me. The look on her face, and in her eyes, was one of somber recognition. "You're really going to go through with it aren't you?"

"We are, Chrysalis," I told her with a straight face and a somber look of my own. "It's not going to be a stone prison for you. In just about four hours, you will be escorted up to the throne room where Luna will use her war scythe to chop off your head."

There was a pause where I let her absorb that information. Her face might have been somber before but now her face and eyes really fell as the weight of my words finally hit home for her. "I see," she finally said in a soft voice that was almost a whisper. She looked up at me once again and asked softly, "Is that all you came to say?"

I shook my head. "No, in the human world, where I came from, people on death row would be given a last meal and last spiritual rights. In that same spirit, I've come down here to plead one last time for your life."

She looked at me with amusement and even a little curiosity when I said that. "Why? Why are you trying to so hard?"

"Because you can be so much more than your origins," I told her. I was even starting to get a little annoyed at her. "Why do you continue to resist my efforts to simply give you a better life where you can live peacefully and even start a real family." I slammed a paw down onto the crystal floor in agitation and frustration. "You've seen the future for the changelings for yourself. They are now living peacefully in Equestria. A lot of them have paired up and will raise the newly hatched changelings as their own children. Damn it, Chrysalis, you can have a family. You can live peacefully without ever having to feel hungry again. You can find love and be loved by a mate and young. Why don't you want that?"

Her eyes figuratively became ablaze as she growled out her answer with wide wild eyes. "Because power is the only thing that's important. Ponies who believe in that are weak. You are weak and power is strength. Survival is for the powerful and it's the powerful that deserve to rule over those that are weak."

I actually chuckled at her. "And yet we've captured you. So, what does that make you?" I rather liked the scowl on her face as she had no answer for that, so she simply glared at me with a soft growl. "That's what I thought." I took another slow deep calming breath before continuing. "You're about to die in a few hours and you won't even think about ending your foolish crusade for power?"

"No," she said simply with such stubbornness it sent my head for a loop.

Narrowing my eyes at her, I had an idea, and luckily for me, she narrowed her eyes right back at me. That gave me the perfect opportunity to use my mental ability on her. Because her eyes were looking at me, she didn't have time to look away when my eyes glowed to suddenly bring her into my influence. I didn't take control of her but used the link to create an illusion around her. The illusion that I created for us was a basic bedroom with her laying on a plush bed. I was standing in front of the bed still in my fox form.

Needless to say, she was shocked at what happened. Her eyes went wide in shock as she stood up and looked around; startled by the sudden change in scenery. "What did you do? What happened? Where are we?"

"Relax," I waved a paw at her in dismissal. "All I did was link your mind with mine, so I could change the scenery a little. Think of it as roleplaying to give you a taste of what you would be missing. It's an ability of mine to link minds and either outright control them or create simple illusions. In this illusion, you're a mother and I'm a daddy and we have a child together."

Her shocked face fell into a deadpanned look. "I'd rather you kill me."

"Why?" I had to laugh at her. "We already have a hive filled with newly hatched changelings that you used me to get." Then grinned at her, "Remember?"

It was satisfying to see her face change once more back to a nice scowl on her face. Right then I took the moment to have a random young changeling filly with a yellow body and pink mane, tail, and wings walk through the bedroom door. "Hi, daddy," the little filly greeted cheerfully up at me then frowned as she looked over at Chrysalis. "Why does mommy has her mad face on?"

"She just had a bad day and is mad at daddy." With a wide smile on my face, I looked over at the still scowling Chrysalis. And to really mess with her, I had the little filly run up to the bed, jump on it, sit down in front of Chrysalis, and open her front legs out to her.

"There's no reason to be mad at daddy," the little filly said to her. "A hug will make it all better."

Chrysalis pulled away from the filly as if the filly had the plague. "No it won't make it all better," Chrysalis said while using a front hoof to shoo the little filly away, "so go away." Then she changed in an instant and grinned down at the filly, "However if you want to make mommy really happy then go over to daddy and kick him hard in the balls." Then laid back down on the bed again and once again faced away from me. "I don't need a family. I don't want a family. All I want is power, so I can conquer Equestria and control everypony. So, if you are going to kill me then just go ahead and do it."

With a defeated sigh, I shook my head and disconnected the link. After the illusion dissipated, I turned back toward the teleporter and left her. And headed to the throne room where Tia was doing her daily paperwork. As I walked through the hallways, my mind whirled with what is now going to happen in just a short few hours. I tried and failed. And it looks like Chrysalis is going to die in just a short few hours.

Tia had a pen in her magic with a couple of sheets of parchment in front of her as she lay on the queen-sized throne. She paused to look up at me when I walked in. And the smile that started to appear on her face fell away when she spotted the disappointed look on mine. Without either of us saying a word, I walked across the room to the throne. Jumped up onto the throne, morphed into my human form, and laid down behind her. After laying down behind her, I scooted up against her, laid my head on her shoulder, put my right arm around her, and rested my left arm across her front legs.

She waited for a beat before turning her head back and giving me a light lingering loving kiss on my lips. "I gather she didn't listen?" she asked gently before returning to reading the papers in front of her.

"Nope," I said softly in defeat while my hand rubbed and explored her barrel. "All she wants is power and nothing else. She won't even consider anything else. She's completely undeterred." I paused while watching her work. She used the pen to sign the paper and set it aside.

"I know you don't want to do it, dear," she said softly while continuing to work. "And neither do I but sometimes, it's necessary. I've had to carry out capital punishment, as you put it, a few times since I've been a princess. It's never something I look forward to and I'm happy that you tried one last time." She paused once more to give me another lingering kiss. "Your a better man and father because of it."

"Thanks, honey," I said after returning her kiss. "That helps me feel a little better."

The next paper that she pulled up was a letter from Queen Novo, so she set down her pen and the rest of the papers. "Thank you so much for looking into it," she said while rubbing her cheek against mine. "I know you didn't expect it to get into such an ordeal or lead us into war with this Storm King. But I am happy to hear from her again." She lifted the letter close enough for me to see before reading the letter. "Dear Celly, even though I'm happy that I was rescued and returned home, I'm a little upset at you that it took so long." She sighed when she read that, "I do feel guilty about that. It's just that I thought about respecting her privacy."

"Nothing to feel guilty about, in my opinion," I told her while turning my head to kiss her neck. "None of us could have known."

"Thanks," she said before taking a breath and continuing with the letter. "Though I'm not angry per se, I think I know why you took so long. My full strength is finally returning after another couple of days of rest. Especially after a few seaweed wraps. I will say that I'm glad that I got rescued by your husband. He's got a great ass." Tia giggled out the last couple words of that sentence before turning her head giving me a wink. "She's right, you know. You do have a wonderful ass."

With a mischievous smirk on my own on my face, I moved my hand from around her barrel and lightly slapped it on her own ass. "I appreciate the compliment, my most beloved wife," I began saying as I squeezed her cutie mark, "I think that she has a wonderful ass herself. One that I love to grab, squeeze, fondle, and kiss."

She giggled as she kissed me before continuing with the letter. "Nice ass, great set of balls, and devilishly handsome. I would say a girl could get used to being rescued by him but that would mean me in trouble again and I'd rather not get into any more trouble. I don't think we could take it. My family and I did offer a party and celebration for rescuing me and restoring my three guards and niece, but Twilight and Ember politely declined. They said that there is much preparation to take care of in order to get ready for the Storm King. While I think is true, I think it's more accurate that they didn't want me fondling him anymore. In all seriousness, some of the guards and other of my subjects have already voiced their wish to join the fight in Equestria. While they say that it's mostly because of the honor that your husband, Twilight, and Ember has shown us, and even though I think that's mostly true, I think that they just want to have another shot at the Storm King. Not that I blame them. He came so suddenly with that broken horned bitch that it caught us off-guard. But your husband knows how to handle her though. And while I don't know everything that your husband has in mind, I think that the Storm King and his bitch has met their match. Signed, your friend, Novo."

Tia set the letter down with a soft sigh that sounded like the weight of the world was on her shoulders. Or more accurately, our shoulders. "After thinking it over, I think that you're right. Hiring Captain Celaeno and her crew to help train ponies to fly airships for war. And about your offer of modified human weapons, I also think will be necessary. While our training is mostly for security, we haven't been to war in hundreds of years. So, no, we are not prepared."

"I didn't think so," I muttered softly as the letter brought to the forefront the Storm King. "While I can offer some strategic advice, most of what I have to offer would be those modified human weapons. While I want to use them, I also want to limit how they are used. I don't want the Storm King's forces to be able to use them or be able to figure out how to make some of their own. Not only that but the civilian population will also be ultimately impacted." I sighed at the thought of bringing human weapons into this world. And groaned at the possibilities. "What I'm about to do will ultimately change not only Equestria but everything else. Learning from human history, you can't put the cat back into the bag." She looked at me strangely after I said that. I chuckled and shook my head. "Sorry, a human saying meaning that when something is invented, it can't be undone. Meaning, that even as modified as I plan on making these human weapons to operate off of magic instead of chemical powder, it's still going to wind up in the hooves of civilians and criminals. So, while I can try to limit it and their impact, once they are invented and made, they can't be undone."

The turned her head to rest it against mine. With just that simple action and touch, she was telling me that she understood. "I know what you're saying. And I realize that if we have a hope of defending this nation against the Storm King, this will be necessary. So, I agree with you. And I'm pretty sure that we can enlist the aid of the changelings thanks to your previous efforts. And I think it's a guarantee that the dragons will want to fight considering Ember is part of your herd."

"Yeah," I nodded against her cheek, "I thought of that. With their help, I think we can safely say that it will be extremely difficult for the Storm King to conquer Equestria. Not that I want to count the chickens before they hatch or anything."

She hummed in agreement, rubbing her cheek against mine before laying her head down on my arm. "Why now?" she questioned rhetorically. "Now that I've got a family, a foal, and in a wonderful herd community does some evil villain want to take it all away?"

"I was more surprised to see a pony on his side," I muttered softly in thought. "A unicorn no less with a broken horn."

"Too bad we can't ask her," was her soft contemplative response.

"We can if we capture her," I said softly which was more thinking aloud than anything. "Because it was just her and those bi-pedal ape-looking things. And if that's the only unicorn with him and if those ape things are really as dumb as the ones we faced, then taking this unicorn, Tempest I believe her name is, out of the picture would greatly hinder their efforts."

She hummed as if in thought as she stretched, "An option if the opportunity presents itself, I suppose." Then suddenly shifted herself, and me, to where I was now laying on my back with her laying on top of me. With her head now laying on my chest, she sighed contently after a wiggle to get herself more comfortable. "Now this is much better. Our conversation took on a more dire mood and this is much better. Because I want to snuggle with my loving husband."

With a smile on my face and a chuckle escaping my lips, I wrapped my arms around her under her wings. "I like this better as well, my beloved wife." Then started to rub and lightly scratch between her wings. And in response, she tilted her head enough to lightly kiss my chest, then closed her eyes, sighed contently, and rested her head on my chest. With a smile on her face, I heard her moan softly as her wings started to rise.

"This is so nice," her voice was almost whisper quiet as she smiled contently on top of me. "This is way better than paperwork."

"Yes, but you'll get behind in paperwork," I pointed out to her while enjoying the sight of her wings rising along with her arousal.

She frowned with a slight groan, "I know but I'd rather do this than paperwork."

"Even more than writing a letter to Novo?"

Her reaction was what I had hoped from her. The look on her face went from one of happy contentment to that of a mischievous smirk in the span of two seconds. "You know? That's a good idea," her eyes popped open as she said it. Then sat up on her front knees and lifted herself up off my chest enough to lay a blank sheet of paper on my chest. Then started writing her letter. "My friend Novo," she spoke aloud as she wrote. "I'm so happy that you were rescued and brought home again. Having spent a little time in a changeling pod, it is not fun. However, I don't recall spending as much time as you have. So, I'm happy that you are home and recovering." While she was writing her letter and talking aloud, I started moving my hands slowly down her body. I moved my hands slowly while making sure to dig my fingers into her coat. Even more so when I reached her butt and my fingers dug into her coat as they massaged around her cutie mark. "And I do think that the reason they wanted to leave is to keep you away from him. You've always been a little flirty. But I'm one to talk now because thanks to my husband and the other girls, I love being flirty in public with him. Sometimes even more than flirty and outright lewd. Like right now, for example. As I'm writing this letter, he's underneath me, so I'm writing this letter on his chest. He is in his naked human form and we are laying together in the throne room. I love it when his hands touch and fondle me all over. Especially between my wings and on my butt like he's doing now."

She paused in her writing to look up at me with a knowing smirk and shift her body so my cock can harden into a more comfortable position. That position she was glad for because that gave her the opportunity to rest her pussy lips against my hardening shaft. Then roll her hips slightly just to tease me.

"His hands are well regulated by his herd and are arguably his best feature," she began again but had to pause again as the throne room doors opened. We looked over to see Twilight and Ember walk in. And with a wave of my hand over to them, I motioned them over.

"Come and lay with us," I offered with a wave of my hand. "She's writing Queen Novo because we just got her first letter."

"Oh alright," Twilight trotted over and after climbing onto the throne, she laid down next to Tia and I. Without a word, Ember flew over to the throne and laid down on the other side which placed her between Tia and I and the backboard of the throne. Because they were with us now, I opened my arms for them and wrapped an arm around both Twilight and Ember. "So, what did she have to say?" Twilight questioned with curiosity as she snuggled up against us and sighed happily when my fingers lightly scratched between her wings. As Tia kept writing her letter, Ember rested her head on my shoulder while gently scratching my head with a claw.

"Basically, she's happy to be home and thankful that you three rescued her." She was still writing her letter with a smile on her face that was slowly turning mischievous. "Especially by Emmit because of how handsome he is and how great his ass is. I'm writing her that I agree with her that he has a great ass but he's more than just an ass."

"That's right," Twilight giggled as she winked over at me, "although he is an ass sometimes, so he's more than just the occasional ass he is sometimes."

When I looked at Twilight with an unamused deadpan expression, that got them giggling at my reaction.

"And that I couldn't really blame her for wanting to fondle him," Tia continued with her voice still teasing and light as she continued writing. "But also confirmed her suspicion that you two wanted to leave so quickly to keep her claws off of him."

"Which is true," commented Ember, her voice sounding just a tad heated. "Only we have the right to fondle our mate."

"Quite right," Tia agreed, finished writing, put down the pen, and with her magic rolled up the letter, sealed it, and sent it on its way. Then with a happy sigh, she closed her eyes again, laid her head back onto my chest and wiggled against me, a little comically I might add, to get more comfortable. "Only we have the right to fondle him. Like what my pussy lips is doing to his hard shaft right now."

Twilight lifted herself up, looking over at Tia with feigned shock and a fake gasp, "Princess Celestia! That's so lewd and bold!"

I saw a wide grin spread across Ember's face while my hand traveled down her back. And my fingers trailed down her spine and onto her tail then back up again.

Tia giggled before lifting her head up giving Twilight a wink before looking over at Ember with a smile. "I think Ember has been rubbing off on me."

"Yeah, me too," Echoed Twilight with a smile of her own toward Ember. As Twilight spoke, Tia slowly rolled her hips making her pussy lips agonizingly slowly ride my hard shaft and coat it with her juices. So slow that it was agonizing for me. And because my arms were around Twilight and Ember, I couldn't grab Tia's butt to encourage her to go faster. "I think it was when our minds linked once when my magic went wild. She showed me some things about him that I've never really seen or thought of before. Encouraged me to be more open in public about my affections and sexuality toward him."

There was one thing that I could do though. I started shifting my own hips slowly against her, so now her pussy lips rubbed from head to the base of my cock. It wasn't much movement, so I didn't think that Tia paid much mind to it. Especially while she concentrated on what Ember said next.

"For dragons, strength is considered sexy," Ember began to say as her eyes looked at me. And as she spoke she brought her claw to rest it against the side of my chest. "He looks weak because of his soft skin but once you look past his skin you can feel his strength underneath. His strength even in this unassuming form."

"Very true," Tia whispered as her eyes softened to bedroom eyes. This time when she rolled her hips up and I moved mine down, my head brushed against her clit. When they touched, her eyes fluttered as she let out a soft pleasurable moan. Then rolled her hips just barely enough so her clit would continue to rub against my head. "He can pick me up with ease even in this form. He's stronger than he looks." She shifted her hips forward enough to line up my head with her pussy lips. "And I love that strength in both of his forms. So, sometimes, I just want to lay with him." Then moved herself down slowly where I began parting her lips and slowly enter her. "Nothing wild. Just to lay with him, feel his arms around me, his strength as a comfort to me, and his wonderful cock deep and throbbing inside me." At an agonizingly slow pace, my cock started to be enveloped by her warm wet depths.

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(Throne Room Guard's POV)

"Think they're going at it in there?" my fellow guard on the other side of the door quietly asked me. "My earth pony hearing isn't nearly as good as you pegasi."

And while that was true, my ears were pointed away from the door. After turning my ears toward the large double doors, my ears picked up mostly just talking, laughing, and giggling. "Doesn't sound like it," I whispered back, pointing my ears away from the door again.

"Well buck," he whispered with a smirk and a shake of his head. "I think he's one of the luckiest guys in all the world. Brought here by the Tree of Harmony itself with literally nothing and now married to both princesses and Lady Rarity, has a big herd even with a dragon no less, and our leader."

"I'm happy with just my wife and two foals," I took a glance over at him then smirked, "but yes, that's one lucky guy."

A few minutes later, a young mare started walking down the short hallway toward the throne room doors. "Now there's a cutie," my fellow guard whispered out of the side of his mouth. And indeed she was. She looked to be in her late teens with a lithe pegasus form, slim waist, cute face, and long mane and tail was definitely easy on the eyes. Not bad colors either with a light blue coat with pearl white mane and tail.

"Good day to you, gentlestallions. Is the princess available?" While she looked over at me and addressed me, I noticed the "Oh Sweet Celestia" look my fellow guard was giving me.

"We can find out for you, miss..." my fellow guard interjected with a smile that was so obvious to me that he was trying too hard. I knew that he was single, so he would go after a cute young mare such as this one. But even I'll admit that she had a cute voice to go with her looks.

"Lila, good sir," she responded while looking over at him with smile and a giggle as if she was a schoolgirl.

"You talk to her, I'll ask," I told him, deciding to take the initiative, so he could talk to the young giggling smiling schoolfilly. Then turned toward the door, opened it a crack, and peeked my head inside. And what I saw definitely would count as going at it, though not quickly. My princess was straddling his lap as she laid on top of him with her hips moving against him at such a slow pace it was probably agonizing for him. However, he appeared to be enjoying it, if by the lust-filled look on his face. Twilight and the dragon Ember also appeared to be enjoying it. Twilight had stood up and was sucking on Celestia's horn while Ember was sitting up and using her claws between Celestia's wings. Even though I was married, and happily so, there was no way I could say that I wasn't affected by the sight. I also didn't want to interrupt them. Mainly for his sake. Being a male myself, I could easily see why he might be upset at this being interrupted. However, duty called. "I'm truly sorry to interrupt, your graces but there is a miss Lila here wishing to see you."

"Oh! Um...show her...in," she was startled by me and without even looking over at me she attempted to concentrate on her words but couldn't do so without moaning between every two.

"While you are..."

"Yes, it's...alright," she confirmed through another moan with her eyes tightly shut, her wings spread out stiff with arousal, and her hips slowly rocking to and fro.

So, what else could I do but answer, "Yes, your highness," and opened the door for the young mare to enter. And not to my surprise, my fellow guard started walking in behind her. He gave me a wink as he passed, so with a shrug and a slight shake of my head, I turned back around to once again face away from the door. However, I left it open as was proper procedure. Yeah, I knew what he was doing. He was hoping that he could escort her somewhere in hopes to score a quicky. Not that I blamed him as young mares do tend to favor stallions in a uniform.

"Oh my," I heard the young mare gasp when she saw the sight. "I'm so sorry to interrupt."

"Oh, don't...w-worry a-about it...my little...pony," Celestia told her through passioned moaning and stuttering. "What c-can...I do...for you?"

I could tell that the young mare was affected by the way her voice changed. It went from soft and cute to a thicker and aroused lower tone. "Well, I was wondering if I could schedule a tour for the school foals."

I'd be lying if I said that all her moaning and stuttering wasn't getting to me because it was. And I'll admit to having dreams where I was rutting my princess silly but I'll keep that secret to my grave. But at least now I know how that Lunar pegasus guard must have felt until she finally won her chance at him.

"Certainly...oh right there...guard if...you would goOOHH...with her...toOOO...schedule her."

"Right away, your highness," I heard his thick and aroused reply.

"Thank you, your highness."

"If you would accompany me, miss?" he asked her before my ears picked up their hoofsteps coming to the door again. After they both walked through the door, I did my duty and closed it behind them. Both of them had definitely been affected by seeing our princesses rutting our king right out in the open.

"Oh my," the mare blushed heavily, sat down, and put her two front hooves against her cheeks, "I can't believe that she was doing him right in the open."

Considering she wasn't looking directly at him, my companion gave me a quick wink before looking at her. "She's been more open about it ever since her marriage and becoming a mother. Not that a lot of us in the guard mind. It certainly makes things more arousing around here."

The mare was now blushing deeply when she turned her head toward him but in that alluring way that's like a siren to all stallions. "Oh you are such a naughty stallion, aren't you?" she asked with a wink while turning her head to the side just enough to pretend to hide behind her mane.

My companion grinned at her, getting his face close to hers, and lowering his voice to a near whisper, "Why, yes, yes I am."

"Well then surely you know of a private place that we can do a little scheduling?"

"Of course, I do, right this way ma'am." And with her following behind him, he strutted off down the hallway with that "I'm going to get some" look on his face.

And I thought that I finally had a chance to relax after they were gone. Then my ears picked up the sound of moaning sex coming from inside. And the mantra, Think of your wife. Think of your wife. Think of your wife, churned around in my head in self-defense. And for the most part, it worked. I was able to keep my mind on my work, especially with my fellow guard away. I swear he was like a horny teenager. So, with all that working in my favor, I was able to concentrate on my work.

At least until minutes later when I heard Celestia cry out in ecstasy and a bright pure white light shining through the cracks between the doors and the doorframe and floor. It not only got my attention but was a little startling. After seeing it and hearing her cry out, I was sure what it was given the context of what was happening inside. However, duty says for me to peek in and make sure everything was fine. So, that's what I did. Opening the door, I took a peek inside. And it was as I thought. Celestia had lifted her head up and shouted out in pure pleasure with her eyes wide open and glowing white while her body twitched in her orgasm. What was surprising was seeing the dragon Ember looking down at him also with her eyes glowing white.

"Fill us, our husband," Ember said down to him as she gently stroked his cheek with a claw.

Celestia, meanwhile, was nearly shouting out, "Our mate," over and over again.

I just slowly backed out and shut the door again.

A short time later, my guard companion came trotting back over to his post without the mare in sight. And he did have a small smile on his face. I expected it to be bigger considering what supposedly happened just minutes before. He also didn't say anything after he got to his spot and turned around to face away from the door. Now that really was odd. I expected him to be going off the rails but I just dismissed it with a slight shrug and went back to my duties.

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(Emmit's POV)

I didn't expect both Tia's eyes and Ember's eyes to glow white. But I think the same thing happened between them as what happened between Twilight and Ember. When Tia said, "Our mate," and Ember said, "Our husband," lent credence to that idea. After Tia collapsed down on top of me again after her orgasm and the magic dissipated, Ember's eyes returned to normal and she shook her head as if to clear it. Then locked her eyes onto me once more while lightly caressing my cheek with her claw.

"We linked the way I linked with Twilight," she began to explain softly as Tia rested on top of me. However, I noticed that the look on her face was more similar to Ember than ever before. And the look on Ember's face was more like Tia's now. "Not only did I feel her love for you and why she loves you, but she also shared with me her love for your daughter. Her love for her daughter and the joy she brings to your life."

"And Ember showed me how she sees you," Tia said seductively as she lightly kissed my chest while keeping her eyes on me. "I've felt her wild passion for you, our mate. The joy that she has you."

"The joy that you are our husband," Ember continued as if finishing Tia's thought. "I never thought that having a foal and raising it could fill me with such joy and happiness." Ember smiled wide with a look in her eyes that matched Tia's motherly look right before she leaned in giving me a long passionate kiss. "The wonderful feeling of holding a youngling that we've created," she said with a giddy look on her face after breaking our kiss. Then after a quick happy laugh, she finished with, "After feeling that, I want a youngling with you. I want to experience motherhood, I want to feel the joys and pains, and I want to hold our youngling in my arms."

Twilight immediately squealed happily, clapping her front hooves together. "That's so wonderful Ember."

"Indeed!" Tia echoed happily. "I'm so happy to be a mother."

"And in my opinion, Princess Celestia, motherhood suits you," came Thorax's voice from the open throne room doors.

"Hey Thorax, come on in," I waved to him then returned my hand to Twilight's back, continuing to rub gently. "Ember here has decided that she wants to be a mother as well."

"Has she now?" he asked rhetorically as he trotted across the room. "I will say that there is nothing more fierce than a dragon mother."

Out of the corner of my eye, I watched a smirk appear on Ember's face. "Then it would be best to be on your best behavior," Ember told him with amusement in her voice as we watched Thorax walk up the steps to sit down in front of it.

After he sat down, he bowed his head politely, "I will be on my best behavior Lady Ember." Then the humorous look on his face fell as he asked, "And as good as that news is, I'd like to discuss why I'm here."

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(Chrysalis' POV, hours later)

I lost track of time. So, I don't know how long I've been looking at this crystal wall. For a while, after I was first captured and put in here, my mind was frantically trying to figure out where I failed. Then I started trying to figure out how I could possibly get out of here. Now, after being here for so long, I've given up thinking about either of those things. I've failed, I'm about to die, and that's all there is to it. Hours and hours went slowly by where I laid there without any care or worry in the world. For my time had finally come. I didn't even know that anypony was there until I heard Celestia's voice.

"Chrysalis? It's time."

"Time for what?" It was a question that I really didn't care if they answered or not as I just wanted them to go away. However, that question was answered anyway after hearing the sound of grinding crystal on crystal. Then a second later when my body was rolled completely over on the bed and shackles clamped around all four hooves. And they weren't ordinary chains but magically enchanted chains and by the look and feel of them, it would keep me from running. Which left me to only a walking pace and probably a slow one at that. When I finally looked up at them, not only was Celestia there but also that damned fox and two other guards as well.

My eyes widened and my heart started pounding in my chest when it finally dawned on me what she truly meant. And after one magical pull against my chains that pulled me off the bed to stand on the floor, did it really sink in. "I didn't really think that you would go through with it," my voice trembled and shook as the very true thought of death was now a surrety. "You've always turned villains to stone or s-sent them to T-Tartarus."

"Not for you, Chrysalis," Emmit said to me with a look that was both serious and grave.

Celestia's magic pulled me out of the cell to stand right in front of Emmit. And while looking into those eyes, for the first time ever I was terrified. Thoughts of my death were running so rampant through my mind that I didn't realize that the two guards put two thick chains around my neck. Which they started pulling on after he said, "Let's go, Chrysalis."

And pull me they did. Even though I didn't know where they were taking me after teleporting me out of the crystal caverns and down a hallway. However, I knew the end result if I did get to where they were taking me. With each step I took, fear rose inside of me. But it wasn't until they practically pulled me into the throne room and my eyes spotted Luna did I start hyperventilating. Luna was standing at the base of their throne with Twilight, a dragon, and Thorax off to one side. The two guards pulled me up to a spot in front of Luna and magically fused my chains to the floor. Luna was in her full battle armor with her battle scythe hovering in her magic beside her. Polished to a sheen the blade shined when the light hit it just right. There was a grim look about her that had my eyes locked onto hers. It was true. Everything that they were saying to me was absolutely true.

I was going to die.

Her voice, though soft and grim, felt like the booming voice of death as she looked down at me. "Chrysalis. Very few times in Equestrian history have times like this come to pass. This is one of those times. We've tried to convince you to change your ways but you refuse to listen to reason. You refuse to live in peace. Therefore..." She paused to swing her scythe down in an arch to place it under my chin and to force my head up. "Your sentence is death."

"AAAHHHHH"

From out of nowhere the earth pony guard to my left started screaming as if he was being torn apart. It startled everypony present, including me. I had no idea what was happening and still didn't after his whole body started glowing green. His green aura grew so brightly that we all had to look away. It only lasted for a split second before I felt magic enveloping me.

And found myself teleported somewhere else surrounded by forest.

"Live my queen," I heard from behind me. I turned around fast enough to see one of my changelings charge up his magic. His horn grew so brightly that I had to turn away. Just before his magic enveloped me once more and teleported me again.

This time in the middle of a dilapidated living room. "For you, my queen. I give my life," she said, ignited her horn brightly again, and hit me again with her magic.

It wasn't until I was standing on the deck of an airship did it finally hit me what happened. The last of my loyal changelings used every bit of their magic, including their own life force, to teleport me away from the castle. I was free. I was so elated that I didn't see the pony walk up beside me, use her front hoof to slam my head against the deck, and then felt a blast of magic.

And felt my chains fall off of me and the magic inhibitor rings split and fall off of my horn as well.

That surprised me and after rolling away, I took a look to see a pony with a broken horn standing before me. Narrowing my eyes at this mare in a dark uniform, I asked her my one burning question, "Why?"

"Because we need a powerful ally against Equestria and that powerful fox that Tempest here has told me about."

After turning around, I saw the last creature I ever thought I'd see. Just his presence brought a scowl to my face. "And why should I ally myself with you, Storm King?" I growled at him.

"Because, thanks to your loyal changelings, they convinced me that you would be useful," he said with a knowing grin as he walked up to stand in front of me. "And if they told me right, with my help we rescued you from being killed. So, it would be a good idea to join us."

I quickly looked around to gauge the situation. The Storm King was in front of me with the mare with the broken horn to my right and I was also surrounded by those ape looking dumb minions of his. And besides all of that, I had virtually no magic left. And with what I knew about this Storm King, he would soon kill me if I said no. Therefore, I straightened up and outright told him, "Fine! I'll join you. If only to give me a chance to get back at Celestia, Luna, and that bitch of a fox."

His wicked smile even brought a chill to me as he simply said, "Good." Then gave a nod to this Tempest mare before walking back toward the back of the airship.

"Helm!" Tempest shouted at such a level that startled me, making me jump. "Get us underway."

The ape creature behind the helm just gave out a loud grunt or growl or something before manipulating the controls. And felt the whole airship lurch. "Now let's talk, Chrysalis," Tempest said to me with a hard angry look about her that I liked.

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(Empress' POV)

There was surprisingly little commotion after Chrysalis disappeared and saw the dead changeling laying on the floor. Now that it was nighttime, he was standing next to Luna in the garden in his human form, his naked human form, with his arm resting on her back between her wings. Neither were really talking, just enjoying each other's presence as they both quietly watched the beautiful night sky.

Neither could see nor hear me as I walked up beside Emmit and looked at his concerned face. "I know you don't want to do it. Bring in human weapons. And yes, it will change this world. But it is unavoidable now, my Emmit. And I, along with your family and herd, will be there to lift your spirits whenever needed. Times will be hard but you will prevail. I'm a very patient mare, my Emmit. And when you still live after the world moves on and forgets your name, I will still be here. And then you will be all mine, my Emmit. But for now, you must prepare...

for war."

Author's Note

As of April 21, 2022 Ninetales: Fatherhood is officially finished. However, like the previous one, there will be a couple of extra chapters before Ninetales: Storm King is started. After writing the next couple of extra chapters, there will be a couple of months or so before the first chapter of Storm King is published. After finishing this one, I want to take some time off not only for myself but to get down the timeline for the next one. I'm sure that everypony will have questions. However, be patient as of some of them will be answered in the next two. I hope that my readers have enjoyed this story and I hope that you will enjoy Emmit's war against the Storm King that is to come.