My Life on a Cassette Tape

Železna Raka strode down the street, his confidence never having been greater as Čistota and the other mare followed him submissively. As he walked, he couldn't help but smile as the crowd began to form about him, each one of them looking as confused as the last. He needed them to follow, for today would be his triumph, and they must witness it. Taking his first step on the ramp of the Great Ziggurat, a severe disrespect as he was uninvited, the crowd drew back slightly, fully expecting the archers that stood at the ready to unleash a barrage upon the stallion.

"You will let me pass!" Železna proclaimed, and after a moment, the archers bowed their heads. Striding forward up the ramp, he felt his victory coming all the closer as he drew ever nearer to the King's High Chamber.

Arriving at the first landing, he approached the idol of the goddess of fertility, and placed a hand on it, closing his eyes. "I give obeisance to the goddess. Let my way be filled with flowerings and many children of strong breeding." Releasing the idol, he turned, moving up the second ramp as he continued his ascent, finding his way to the second landing where the idol of the water god stood. Placing his hand on it like the last, he again closed his eyes. "I give obeisance to the god. Let all land I walk be fertile, bearing many olives, grapes, grains, and all things fair and lovely, and good to eat and make merry."

Leaving the idol, he moved up the third ramp, and approaching the High Chamber, couldn't help but smile. The King sat atop his throne, legs folded beneath him, his fair, veiled wife standing behind and to the side of him. The guards reacted immediately, lowering their lances towards the intruder.

"Let me pass." Železna ordered, and after a brief moment, they complied. The spears were lifted, and the guards allowed him access to the King. Striding forth, Železna faced King Silen Pad and his Queen Slava Vrata.

"What means your intrusion here?" The King demanded; his final demand to be made. Železna Raka smirked to the stallion, raising his hand to point at the Queen.

"I have come to claim her." He proclaimed, a maniacal gleam in his eye as his hand shifted to point towards the King. "As I have come to claim my throne." The King and Queen and all their soldiers paused for but the briefest moment. And then, standing to his full height, the king approached Železna, folding his legs beneath him in a bow as he lifted the crown from his head, presenting it to his usurper. Taking the crown, and the king's caparison, He strode up, and seized the Veiled Queen's hand, pulling her forth from the shade of their royal stand.

Approaching the edge of the level, he looked down upon the crowd below him, all his fellows, all his enemies, all who lived in the fertile valley. Raising up the queen's hand, he shouted in a voice for all of them to hear his first proclamation.

"I, Železna Raka, the first of my name, by right do claim this crown and throne, and do, as is the olden tradition, claim the old queen as concubine!" He decreed, and before him, his fellows bowed low before the Great Ziggurat. Turning, he motioned the old king forward, now deposed from his strength. "I present you your old king! What is meet that I should do to him in this state?!"

"Banishment!"

"Death!"

"Make him our servant!"

"Imprison him!"

The many voices called, all disorganized about what should be done. Železna smiled, and with a mighty exertion, pushed the king down the stairs of the third level towards the second.

"Let him be done with as you see fit! He no longer has right to stand on this high level, for it is only for the king, his bride, his concubines, his children, their guards, and the priests, whom ascend all the higher!" Looking to the queen, he thrust her to the ground, tearing the veil from her head. "Queen no longer, but concubine art thou!" He decreed before turning to the crowd again. "Čistota! You are to be my Queen, ascend to me and claim thy veil!"

Čistota hesitated, but ascended all the same, performing her obeisance to each idol as she went, before finally arriving at her King and Master's side. Placing her veil over her, Železna smiled, caressing the beautiful curve of her face gently. So would begin his dynasty, and so would his strength increase.

Starlight woke up after a few hours. We each watched with baited breath as she slowly rose, blinking away the sleep from her eyes. Looking about, she saw her friends, except for Twilight - who hung back in a separate room, ready with a counter spell. When her eyes finally found me, she brightened, lunging forward to place her hands on my lap as she bowed her head.

"Master!" I flinched slightly before setting a tentative hand on her head. She shivered at my touch, and I couldn't help but feel guilty. Looking back up to me she smiled brightly. "Should I suck your glorious cock?" She asked in all sincerity, which didn't help my southern struggle. "Or do you wish to fuck me instead?" The south rose again.

"N-no, Starlight, that is not necessary." I replied, still attempting to keep myself in check, the beautiful mare on my lap not helping anything.

"Starlight? My name is Starbitch, Master gave it to me!" Her tone was cheerful, as if she expected this to be a test. Everypony in the room cringed at that, knowing full well that whatever else the recorder had done, it had certainly transferred all the work they put into her and pointed the results at me.

"I suppose this qualifies as a success..." Twilight muttered, emerging from the other room, her horn's glow dying away.

"It's a start." Rarity nodded. "We can only hope for more progress as we continue forward." We all nodded at that, looking at the thoroughly damaged Starlight.

"I'm taking Starlight to the library, maybe I can find something to help her." Twilight said. "Anypony who wants to come along is allowed."

"I'll tag along I guess." Rainbow said, sitting up from her pile of pillows with a stretch and a yawn. "Can't have just you wandering over to the library all by yourself with a pony in Starlight's state."

"And I think I shall be going to the guard." Rarity chimed in, gaining a few looks from the rest of us. "What? With those two you can feel how unsubtle they are. It's more than likely we can figure out more if we simply ask about them and their possible criminal records."

"I'll join you, but somehow," Applejack began, standing up from her seated position on the floor, "I feel like we ain't gonna get much out of talkin' to the guards, but hey, prove me wrong." She shrugged.

"I need to go check on the animals..." Fluttershy murmured.

"I'll go with you, Fluttershy!" Pinkie sprang up.

"Well it seems you all have your plans of attack. Should we be expecting you back here or will you be staying in your own corners of town?" I asked, looking over the six mares.

"I'm staying in the castle tonight, I need some sleep on a bed that isn't used by perverts." Twilight said flatly, which I found to be entirely fair. "I'd prefer it if Starlight was with me too, but seeing as you can probably summon her on a whim to give you a quick blowjob, I might be asking too much with that one."

"No no," I waved her off, "you're trying to help your friend. I'm not about to take her from that. She goes and stays with you, though I do hope you at least consider having somepony in the same room as her at all times. Who knows what lengths Gunther might go to get her back." Twilight looked like she wanted to retort with some cutting remark, but held herself back since I wasn't, at the moment, asking to bang her friend.

"I'll stick around with Twi and Star for now. Might bolt back and forth to give you some info when it comes up." Rainbow said, floating lazily with nearly effortless motions of her wings.

"I'll be back before sundown, I just need to make sure the animals are alright and are fed." Fluttershy put in. "Though... if it's alright with you, I'll sleep in a different room." I nodded vigorously, as if my rejection was unthinkable - which it was, at least to me.

"I need to check in on the Carousel and make sure Sweetie is alright." Rarity mused. "I think I might stay in my place for the night. Applejack, you are perfectly welcome to stay the evening with me. We could have a slumber party!" Rarity honestly seemed a little too excited, but perhaps that was her just dealing with the situation in her own way.

"Nah, I need to head on over to Sweet Apple Acres. I sent word yesterday to Big Mac that I'd be home with time to do chores, and I don't want to keep him waiting too long."

"Wait... Big Mac is your..." I began, even as a vague memory of Pinkie telling me just that flitted into my mind, disrupted from previous recollection due to a fainting spell I had had.

"Yeah, why?" Applejack looked at me with a questioning gaze.

"Oh, nothing!" I smiled too quickly, thoughts of being blown by the pony and that pony sharing my cum with Fluttershy coming unbidden to the forefront. I was glad they hadn't fallen victim to the cards that night, it would've been... odd, to say the least. "Well, I guess this is the time to break off. Starl-... Starbitch," I hesitated, having noticed her lack of reaction to Starlight throughout our previous conversation, "follow and obey Twilight." I said, motioning to the quite angry alicorn.

"Yes, Master, I'll follow and obey Twilight." She said with a bow of her head before crawling up to Twilight on all fours, looking up to her with puppy dog eyes. "Do you want me to eat you out, Mistress Twilight?"

"N-no!" Twilight stammered, thoroughly off her guard with this sort of question. "Eh, stand up and follow me. Rainbow, if you are coming with us, now's the time to head out." She said moving to the door while Starlight tailed her close behind. Rainbow shrugged while flying, and then followed after. Without another word, the other mares left, splitting up into their little groups.

"Well..." Spry was the first to break the silence a few moments after the door closed, "that went well, all things considered. I mean, you aren't on a spit or being executed, so that's a win." Berry nodded at that assessment.

"They're gonna fuck." She said in simple replied. I blinked after a moment, realizing what Berry had said, looking over to Berry with an eyebrow reaching ever higher places. Catching all of our glances, she shrugged, as if she had told us a painting had a hidden dog in it and we hadn't believed her. "You heard how Starlight went at it with Twilight when Starlight had her on her finger. You all also saw how Twilight reacted to Starlight. If that isn't a case of the 'secret lesbian hots' I think I'll need my gay-dar recalibrated."

"I suppose that it could be something..." Spry admitted finally.

"I honestly don't see it." I returned, giving Berry my most deadpan look. "Starlight was and is in quite the state of sexmania, and Twilight is uncomfortable with her friend making sudden advances. They aren't closet lesbians, they are two ponies with extenuating circumstances."

"You told Starlight to obey Twilight." Berry pointed out. "They will fuck." I just sighed, shaking my head in frustration at the pony.

"Moving on... we need to talk about... well we need to talk about you two and how you said you wanted to go back to being my slaves. That's an important topic because WHY WOULD YOU WANT THAT?!" I shouted, looking the two over. "I made you my slave on accident and have never really been too comfortable with it. I tried, seeing as I seemed to never be able to set you free, but as soon as you two are free you want to be my BRAINWASHED SEX SLAVES ALL OVER AGAIN?!" I said, my wild eyes fixed on Periwinkle as I finished my tirade.

"Oh yeah, keep talking dirty to me, Daddy!" Berry moaned, and looking back to her, she was fingering herself, her hand in her jeans. After a moment she stopped with a hearty bout of laughing. "Look, Crescendo, I'm going to be straight with you." She said, all humor seeming to drain from her voice. "I've been through some shit. I've loved and lost, I've been burned, I've been scarred. What's worse, every time I find something that makes me happy, it runs away and leaves me with nothing but my booze. I know it's bad for me, you know it's bad for me, and you know what else? Up to the point we first stepped out of Peri's little wagon, I hadn't had a drop, and I haven't had a drop since! That's right, even at the party where everypony was all sexy and didn't know it, I didn't drink a drop because I was genuinely having a good time without it for once in my fucking life!"

Berry stood up, taking a few steps closer to me, not at all in a threatening way, but more so that she wanted to be closer as she talked, her emotions running high as she continued on. "Crescendo, I tease you 'cuz it's fun. I act all sexy and flippant 'cuz it's fun! Either my life is going to be fun, or I'm going to be drunk so it stops being a complete pain! Either life is going to be my bitch or I'm going to be so blackout drunk that I won't care that I'm life's bitch!"

Berry then fell to her knees in front of me, not striking a sexy pose, something that at the moment felt more disconcerting than comforting. "Crescendo... if you don't make me your slave, I'm gonna have to get my bottle. And I don't want to be Raven, 'cuz Raven has got a choice. That may be wacky-woohoo-sexy-fun times for her, but I get my thrills from you telling me and me not being able to say no.

"Now before you go telling me 'Oh, but, Berry, that's just you being a massive big dumb pervert and I can't possibly find it in my little white knight heart to deprive a maiden of her choice' I gotta say FUCK YOU AND YOUR CHIVALRY! I'm right here, Crescendo, and I want you to mindfuck me as much as I want to fuck you! If you don't give me this..." She fell quiet for a moment, heaving with every breath as tears formed in the corners of her eyes. "If you don't make me your worthless slave-cunt bitch... if I can't have this... I don't know what I'll do with myself." She then... broke down into sobs?

Berry Punch, who had always seemed so self assured, was now crying on her knees before me, begging me to turn her into a slave like she had been. I was... well, I was flabbergasted to say the least. I had thoroughly expected that upon breaching the surface of their captivity to breathe a whiff of fresh, free air, that they'd both be running for the hills, excited to return to their freedom - if not sicking the guards on me as they ran. Yet, here was Berry Punch, crying. I had half expected that she would be the more lenient of the two, but I really hadn't expected this. Whatever this was.

"I..." What could I say?

"Damn it, Crescendo, I love you! I love what you make me do!" She blurted out, a mixture of anger and sadness etched across her tear soaked features. "Take me, make me yours! Stop playing these games with me and make me yours! I'll grab that recorder and shout it as loud as you want! Make me your slave, damn you! Make me not have to think about B-" her voiced hitched as she paused, a new wave of tears flowing out of her ever widening eyes. Berry hissed, rubbing an arm across her face and then cursed herself as she spun about and ran away from me, barreling upstairs. I looked at her, thoroughly confused for my part.

The room fell into silence as I just stared after her, the empty stairs leading to - what? I couldn't say. I sat there, in the mire of my own thoughts, when Spring Periwinkle sat down softly beside me. I looked to her, and was surprised by how sad her expression was.

"It's time you knew." She said in a low voice that showed her sadness plainly. This was obviously taking a good bit out of her just to say, and I couldn't help wanting to know more of what was eating at my mares.

"Time I knew what?" I asked dumbly, searching her expression for the answer.

"That day, the day Berry lost her old house in Ponyville... the house wasn't the only thing she lost."