Chapter 1: Hashing Things Out
"Seventeen... Ungh... eighteen... aggah... nineteen... twenty!"
Panting, Shining Armor lay back. A light sheen of sweat covered his chest and abs, as he caught his breath before he stood up and headed to the shower. As the water turned on, and warm water poured over him, Shining smiled gently as he basked in how good it felt. A tap on the glass opened his eyes, and he turned to see a fuzzy pink figure on the other side of the fogged-up glass.
"Yeah, honey?" he asked.
"Shiny, sweetie," came a feminine voice from the other side, "we need to talk."
Raising an eyebrow, and his face falling, he finished scrubbing himself off and rinsing his mane and tail before twisting the shower knobs and opening the sliding glass door. Cadance was already walking out of the bathroom, clothed in her sleeping attire; a simple beige pair of panties and a tee-shirt bearing the logo of famed DJ Vinyl Scratch. Quickly, Shining dried himself off as best he could while he used his magic to levitate over a pair of boxers and gym shorts, as well as a black tee-shirt he grabbed randomly, briskly walking behind her.
"Cadance?" he asked as they arrived in the upstairs living room of their castle home, "What's the matter?"
"You know I love you, Shiny," Cadance said as she sat down on one of the two couches in the room, just before the vacant fireplace, "and I always want the best for you," she continued as she used her magic to levitate an envelope towards her husband. She looked over at him with concerned eyes, and a twinge of sadness. "Just be honest with me, sweetie," she said as her husband took the envelope. "Tell me why you have these."
Heart racing, he looked at the envelope in his hands. His eyes widened as he felt what he could only guess to be photographs inside. Gently he opened the unsealed envelope, and what he saw made his heart pump hard. His brow developed droplets of sweat as he looked over the pictures of himself and an unmistakable dark body, a voluptuous woman with emerald hair, distinct slitted eyes, and fangs. The pictures depicted Shining suckling on her teats, her tongue, and even licking over her foot.
"That was just what I could fit into the envelope." Cadance continued. "There's a whole photo album I found in your bedside table of this and more." Cadance sighed as she looked down to take a deep breath. "Am I not enough for you, Shining?" She asked. "Are you having an affair? With her, of all ponies?"
Heart racing, Shining Armor dropped the pictures and rushed over to her side, kneeling before her and taking her hands, looking up at her earnestly. He dared not try to lie to Cadance, his wife, and he looked down. "No!" he revealed, "These were taken when you went missing. I... I was truly honest when I saw you had been rescued and said that I thought I'd never see you again! She told me you had run off and that you left behind the wedding ring… we were to continue the wedding anyway to save face for everyone. I just didn't have anything else to go by, Cadance," he said as he looked up at her, "Please... please believe me! I really thought you left!" He pleaded, tears starting to well in his eyes.
Cadance's eyes welled with tears a little as well, as she gently pulled up and helped the stallion to the couch and hugged him tightly. "I believe you," Cadance whispered, "Just... you should have told me, sweetie. You know I would have forgiven you!"
"I... I couldn't bear the thought," Shining confessed, "The things we did together... the things she did to me made me feel things... made me feel alive and excited in ways I never thought I could be. Not even a victory in battle could compare to how... how good it felt to be taken down like that," he confessed. "I knew you were more of a gentle lover, and I just... I just couldn't ask you to be rough to me like that. I couldn't ask you to do something you didn't want to do." He leaned into her and gently pressed their horns together, as they felt their magic, their love intertwining with each other.
Cadance's face lifted as she looked into his eyes. A weak “heh” elicited from her. "Honey," she giggled, "I'm the embodiment of love itself on this world. Did you really think the kinkiest thing I know about is doggy-style?"
Shining blushed a little as he leaned back. "You... really?" he asked, "You're really not mad?"
"Well I'm disappointed that you didn't think I would understand such a thing as the wide, wide array of kinks in this world," she said a little cheekily, "but no, I truly understand that... there are things that get you to feel the way you want, sweetie. I thought for a long time that you only wanted the most basic of lovemaking techniques. I was fine with that, honestly I was! But you need to trust me!" She added. "You need to stop thinking you know what I want better than I do! Sweetie... I can feel your love for me. I can sense it permeating through the air, but I can tell that she fills a void for you. You care for her... you worshipped her! That is not something that I can just… accept right away." She expressed as she hugged him gently.
"Wait! I don't wanna leave you, I don't love her more than you!" Shining protested as he looked at her, "I... I'll burn those pictures and we'll never-!"
"Shhh..." Cadance cut him off, "No sweetie, I should have been more cognizant of your needs, your desires," she confessed, "I feel embarrassed that the Princess of Love couldn't even pick up on the sexual desires of her own husband! Honestly I... I still love you," she clarified, "but I... I need the day to process all of this." She confessed. "It's just... so much all at once. Let's take the day off, and we'll just spend it doing whatever we want... even if it's alone." She suggested, "I'm not angry," she assured her husband, as she gave him a kiss on the cheek. "I'm just frustrated and overwhelmed," she said as she stood up, "I promise... I'm not planning on leaving you. I just need time to think," she sighed as she gave a little smile at Shining Armor. "I'll be back here in time for dinner, sweetie, don't worry."
With that, pink wings unfurled behind Cadance's back as she headed towards the balcony, and took off, leaving only a couple feathers behind as Shining put his hands to the side, and slumped onto the couch.
. . .
Cadance touched down near a small cafe near the edge of the Crystalline City wearing a crystalline-patterned hood to conceal her identity. Such a hood was not uncommon in the city during the winter months, hence hardly anyone batted an eye when a hooded figure sat down inside. She ordered a coffee and gazed out the window as she awaited the order, watching the snow outside begin to fall. Sighing, Cadance sat back and lowered her head as she folded her arms across her body, warming herself. Thoughts of the past hour flowed effortlessly from the past to her mind.
"Awfully bold of you," came a deep voice from the booth behind her, "trotting among the masses without your special guards... or your beau."
Surprised, she turned her head around and saw another hooded figure, this one hooded in a muted, earthy shade of green. "Who are you?" she asked, accusingly.
"Oh I think you know well enough," the woman replied as she turned around, revealing the face of none other than the mare in the pictures... the Queen of the Changelings herself.
Cadance had to stop herself from doing anything rash, but she managed to calm herself. Her heart raced as Chrysalis stood up and walked herself over to the other side of her table and placed her coffee down in front of her as the princess' own coffee was delivered by the waiter. Chrysalis briefly changed herself to a generic unicorn before changing back once the waiter was away, leaving them the only two in this cafe for the time being.
"What do you want?" Cadance asked bluntly.
"Want? I only want you and your husband to repair matters!" Chrysalis replied as she leaned back, letting her hood go down. "I know he still has feelings for me. I can feel him fantasize over me. I know very well that he still has those pictures under his bed... is that why you are here? Did you discover them, finally? I admit he has quite the submissive bone in him... Don't blame me, though, I simply awoke what was already there," she said matter-of-factly.
Cadance clenched a fist on the table as she fought back an angry expression, sipping her coffee for an excuse. Despite her forgiveness of her husband, facing the one who imprisoned her for months proved another thing entirely.
"You brainwashed him."
"Had I done so, he would not have stayed with you." she retorted. "If anything, he would have cheated on you with me or some other tart, if he even agreed to marry you at all. But I can attest that he has remained faithful to you from the day you cast me out of Canterlot. Swear on my hive," she assured her.
"If he's not cheating on me then why are you here?" she asked curtly.
"To offer something, to keep you both happy. I'm willing to allow your husband to have the best of both worlds, you see," she explained, "or to train you to become the woman that we both know he wants, deep down. Either way, you get to keep him, and he gets to still be happy as he continues to receive the things that I can provide. I am sure that you of all ponies would understand the concept that one's love needs not necessarily divide, but multiply? Come now, do not tell me you have never had more than one lover in your life? Your love is boundless, I can smell it from here! You could give your love to the entire Crystal Empire and still have plenty left over! Shining has much of your love... I know he can share it with me. I know you of all ponies can share some with me, too."
Cadance recoiled, but Chrysalis' eyes looked up at her in a rare moment of sincerity, of honesty. She looked back into her eyes, and gazed in. Using her magic, drawing from deep within the nearly infinite well of love she possessed, she could tell that there was honesty within her. She knew what Chrysalis asked, but she held reservations.
"How do I know you don't plan to betray me?" she asked the Queen.
"Do you think I desire to overthrow you once again after how easily you defeated me? What more could I possibly do to harm you that you or your friends could not counter? Besides... after what I experienced with your husband, his submissive lust is all I desire. I know he will want what I give him, and if you so desire, you can join in," she said, "but even then, I would still give you your private time to be husband and wife. Please, do this for your husband's happiness. He is no doubt full of anguish and regret, and I am certain you wish to make him happy, too."
Cadance looked down and thought. Her face contorted into expressions of thought, twisted into difficult emotions, before she finally let out a deep breath as she sipped her coffee.
"You will agree on my terms," Cadance said flatly, "And I am not afraid to turn you in should the worst come to pass. I will not trade the safety of my citizens for my own pride. I love my husband but I will not sell out my empire just to sate his desires. So hold out your arms... I will cast a Geas upon us both."
"Is that really necessary?" Chrysalis asked, "That's awfully strong-"
"It is necessary," Cadance retorted, "If I am to allow you to lay with my husband, then I want assurances." She stated firmly, "So... hold my hands," she commanded, "and let us seal this."
Obligingly, Chrysalis did so, gently gripping Cadance's soft hands. She took a deep breath as she watched Cadance close her eyes and mutter a few words of magic. Her horn illuminated with blue magic, and her eyes opened, glowing blue.
"You will agree to never voluntarily take an action that undermines Equestria." Cadance spoke, her voice reverberating with magical energy as her hood fell back. Her mane began blowing gently from an unseen and undetectable gust of wind as she continued to talk. "Nor will you seek to usurp my throne, or the throne of Princess Celestia or Princess Luna. You will never seek to hold a position of political power in this kingdom, or those of Equestria's allies or enemies. Do you agree?"
Looking on in surprise that Cadance was willing to go this far, she took a deep breath. She supposed she could not blame Cadance for wanting there to be no chances after her decidedly negative experience with the Queen when they first met.
"I agree," Chrysalis stated.
Magic flowed from Cadance's arms to Chrysalis'. The baby blue magic flowed up her arms, seemingly through the Queen's veins, before it reached her head. She looked nervous as she watched the display, but once the magic energy reached her head, her mind filled with a blue light, as did her eyes, as she gasped from the overwhelming power within her, as the command from the Geas seeped deep within her mind. She knew the terms: for the rest of time, severe pain and injury would be magically inflicted upon her body should she act counter to Cadance’s terms. Her mouth gaped open as light emanated from within it and her eyes, before it dissipated.
Panting, Chrysalis had to catch herself on the table as she felt winded from the experience, but Cadance smiled as she looked upon the Queen and offered her hand, to help her up. Chrysalis took it and allowed Cadance to pull her to her feet as the Princess of Love paid the bill and left a generous tip before taking the Queen through the town, letting her bring her disguise up as Cadance concealed herself again with her hooded cloak.
. . .
Shining Armor rubbed his eyes as he lay in his bed. The sticky sensation around his eyes bothered him, making him think about going to wash his face, but his body protested. As if to say the position he held was too comfortable, and that outside the covers was too cold, and that he needed to catch up on some sleep, anyway. He rubbed his bloodshot eyes anyway but pulled the blanket over himself.
"Why did I have to keep those?" He asked dejectedly, all while looking at one of them, this one depicting him sucking on Chrysalis' teat. A part of him tossed around the idea of igniting the pictures, but every time he looked upon it, he remembered those beautiful curves, the forbidden pleasure he partook in, the shameful thought that perhaps he would marry someone more exciting than Cadance. He felt a familiar stiffness and desire overtake him as he began to think back to those days...
~~~
Chrysalis marveled at the magazine in her hands. “Make a Mare out of You: How Mistress Lacquer Will Bring ANY Stallion to his KNEES!” Proclaimed the title, accompanied by a portrait of a sky-blue earth pony mare in a shiny latex outfit, complete with evening gloves, high-heeled boots, and even the requisite electrical tape in an X-shape over her nipples. Two masked and ball-gagged stallions were prostrated before her, with one boot perched on the unicorn’s head for added effect. The mare, Mistress Lacquer, held a riding crop in her hand like a stern schoolteacher and bore a smile that screamed “Who else wants some?”
“Oh Shiny,” she said as she opened the magazine, flipping through advertisements for fluted paddles and assortments of sex and bondage furniture as well as pictures of Mistress Lacquer and numerous other dominatrix mares, “…have you been keeping this from Cadance all this time?”
Chrysalis closed the magazine and held it in her left hand as she looked up. Dressing decidedly casually compared to the mare she replaced, in a rock band’s tee shirt and torn jeans, showing off a good deal of her smooth black skin as she grinned at the reclining stallion in his bed, looking up at her with a discernible blush on his face. A grin formed on her face, showing off her sharp teeth as she stepped up next to the bed.
“Sweetie,” Chrysalis said teasingly, “why do you hide your fetishes from the one you intend to marry?” She asked. “I think such a naughty little colt deserves punishment, and your Queen deserves an apology.” She stated as she produced a paddle in her hand using her magic, hitting it against her free hand. “Get on your knees, whore, and show me you’re sorry!” she commanded as she stomped her foot on the ground.
Shining pulled his headphones off and sat up, dressed in a casual tee-shirt and boxers, in which he showed his growing arousal. “Chryssi…? Are we… are we doing this?” he asked, hope rising in his voice.
“Did I stutter?” Chrysalis retorted as she stomped her foot, emphasizing the motion by pointing downward with her left hand at her left foot, completely bare. “Treat me like a Queen and apologize!”
Heart throbbing, he scrambled out of bed and climbed onto the floor, prostrating himself before her. He looked up, his eyes glistening in the sunlight coming in from the window to his left as he gazed at his lover’s face and followed her finger’s direction down to the dark foot in front of him. Seemingly perfectly sculpted out of the finest ebony, her foot appeared and smelled freshly washed. Indeed, judging by the state of Chrysalis’ mane, she just exited the shower before walking in here. The burly stallion reached his head over and placed his lips upon the top of her foot, right in the middle. “I’m sorry, my Queen,” he whispered, kissing it again, “…I did not think you would approve.”
“Truly?” she asked. “Well then let me make myself perfectly clear; you worship me from now on. You will submit before my beauty and treat me like a goddess! Now keep licking, bitch!” she commanded as she used her magic to forcibly pull his boxers down, revealing his toned ass. She promptly swatted it with the paddle in her hand, making the stallion grunt and pant. His long time with the Royal Guards made him more durable to pain than most, but even this made him wince.
Yet he craved for her to do it again. As she lifted her other foot and put it on his back, the Captain of the Guard lowered his head once again, kissing all over her foot, from toe to ankle.
“I love you, my Queen,” he finally panted in between kisses.
~~~
Shining found himself dozing off to sleep in the middle of his memory. His mind wandered off into related encounters with Chrysalis during their time together, as he lost consciousness of the world around him. Splayed out on the bed, snoring lightly, was how Cadance found her husband as she teleported back in the room with a less sleepy Chrysalis. “Well, I suppose we’ll have to keep this for tomorrow,” the Princess mused to herself, “Sleep well sweetie… tomorrow we’ll have a little talk.”
Chrysalis chuckled as she let down her disguised form and nudged her towards the couch in the living room, where a magical fire crackled and emanated a smoky scent. Chrysalis adjusted her center of mass and collapsed onto the comfortable couch, plush with the finest leather and stuffing as she stretched and cast aside her outerwear to reveal a skimpy outfit underneath. Her onyx body bore a tee shirt and some matched gym shorts, with a pair of utilitarian boots caked in mud. Cadance scoffed and removed them with her magic, casting a cleansing spell on both the boots and her feet, giving them the effective benefit of a deep cleaning before she placed Chrysalis’ boots with the rest of the footwear by the door to the main hall of the castle.
When she turned around, though, she found Chrysalis’ foot press against her nose. She widened her eyes in surprise but was glad that she cleaned them mere moments ago.
Chrysalis stuck out her tongue playfully at Cadance, blushing green ever so slightly as she noticed that the mare did not immediately move away from that perfectly manicured and cleaned foot of hers, making her pull it back.
“Does the pretty Princess of Love have a foot fetish?” she asked teasingly.
Cadance made a pouty face and turned to the other couch, across the room from the one where Chrysalis sat and plopped herself down, leaning back as she stared at the fire, trying to not wrinkle her nose too much.
“Some Princess of love you are,” Chrysalis scoffed as she craned her neck a bit to look at her companion for the night. “Can’t even appreciate a common fetish like that. You really think you can hope to do well with me as your mentor with that attitude? You must be willing to understand what it is that he wants if you’re going to have any success,” she commented as she turned her head to face the ceiling and close her eyes. “So if that’s the case, then I’ll just rest tonight and take my leave at first light.”
“You promised!” Cadance retorted tersely.
“I only promised to never usurp your throne or try to install myself as a leader in Equestria or anywhere else,” Chrysalis clarified, “I agreed on my own volition to come here to help your husband, but your Geas only binds me to never trying to take over. It never bound me to helping you, so it should be a sign that I still came here voluntarily after that wholly unpleasant experience of that Geas spell.”
Cadance let out an exasperated breath as she put a pillow over her face. “Uuuughhh!” she shouted into it before tossing it to the side.
“Oh don’t blame me for you forgetting to be more specific in your wording,” Chrysalis chuckled as she looked back to Cadance. “Now come here, Princess,” she said, “your first lesson is that a submissive’s primary desire is to please the dominant. Giving her pleasure is what gives him pleasure,” she explained. “So once we establish boundaries, I am free to do anything within them,” she said with a sensual tone, “So let us set our boundaries right now, Cadance.”
Chrysalis sat up and stretched a little. Cadance, on the other hand, didn’t move at all; she lay flat on her back on top of the couch staring at the ceiling. “Cadance,” Chrysalis sighed, “any relationship is built upon trust. This doesn’t work unless you trust me. Maybe not as much as your husband, since I’m not going to ask you to let me into the Crystal Treasury or anything, but trust me nonetheless.”
Cadance sat up, looking frustrated at Chrysalis. “I really don’t know what he sees in you,” she retorted.
“Well I can answer that right now,” Chrysalis responded as she stood up and slipped herself out of her shorts, to reveal a hefty black equine sheath and balls the size of apples! “I’ve got the balls to defy those petty ‘royal norms’ that you ponies like to pretend are so important. You ponies call castles like this one and the one in Canterlot ‘sacred spaces’ and yet I care not for the taboo of me sitting my naked ass in your throne and fucking your husband silly on it in every position I could think of! I had the balls to put that uppity bitch where he belonged!”
Cadance looked at her in shock, as images of what she described… Chrysalis naked in the throne she sat on merely yesterday, fucking her husband with her cock in a myriad of positions. The last bit gave her the most pause as her eyes looked down in contemplation.
“Ah, you remember, don’t you,” Chrysalis commented with a grin, “he started getting too big for his britches, didn’t he? I remember stalking you two for a while as one of your guards… he thought his big muscles and his sexy royal wife meant he was now the top dog! It worried you, didn’t it?” she inquired, standing up and stepping closer.
Cadance scanned her thoughts, trying to go over her memories of Shining after she said yes to his proposal: the grandstanding, the lewd gestures he made with his fellow royal guards when he thought she wasn’t looking, the occasional fight about what she should wear in public. Not to mention his defensiveness and clear discomfort about how some still carried out the tradition of kissing her hand in fealty. Cadance looked up at Chrysalis, who stood a head taller than her, and felt her heart pump hard, her neck vein pulsating. The emotions flowed through her: the frustration, the anger, the doubts that permeated her mind to the very moment before she lost consciousness and woke up in a cave underneath Canterlot. She had contemplated calling it off, in fact.
“He stopped that real quick once he got you back, didn’t he?” Chrysalis continued.
If anything, Cadance recalled, she felt more certain that whatever it was before the kidnapping was a fluke. Reluctantly, she nodded.
“To truly appreciate what you have,” Chrysalis explained as she stood forward, putting a coal-black finger to Cadance’s chin, tilting her head up, their eyes meeting, “…one has to learn that it can all be taken away. I learned that when you scattered my hive and left me with nothing, Shiny learned that when I showed him just how little I cared for his meaningless titles, and I bet you gained an appreciation for it when you spent that time in the crystal caves, didn’t you?”
Cadance failed to find the words as she looked down, before Chrysalis interrupted it with a kiss, making Cadance blush as she hesitantly returned it, feeling the emotion flowing from the Queen towards her. A symphony of lips pressing together gently sounded from the two, combined with the intermittent crackling of the fire nearby as they remained otherwise silent. Chrysalis took hold of Cadance’s hands before she pulled away, Cadance blushing brightly and looking up at the dark changeling Queen. “I can’t,” she protested weakly, “Shiny-“
“He what?” Chrysalis scoffed, a sly grin still on her face as a trail of spittle connected her lips to Cadance’s. “He said that he loves you? He married you? Sweetie, if I took only those things to be symbols of true love, I would have starved a long time ago. I learned what he truly loves through those months I spent with him, and it is a mare with power over him. He wants her to take things from him, don’t you see? When I took that picture of him sucking my toes, I took away any notion he had left that he was ‘above’ anyone. When I fucked him, I took away his notion that he was a stud. When I made him bow to me, I brought his mind into a realm he never knew he wanted.”
Chrysalis took a breath as she gently reached up to grab Cadance’s horn, something she barely protested.
“Do you know the biggest thing he wants?” Chrysalis asked, “the one he was afraid to tell you even as you confronted him with these pictures? Come, let me show you,” she said as her horn lit up. A crystal levitated from Chrysalis’ pockets, one Cadance recognized as a memory crystal. As it touched Cadance’s horn, her vision filled with the view of the memory.
Recorded from Chrysalis’ first-person perspective, the memory depicted her looking down at Shining Armor, as she reclined on the bed he long shared with Cadance, in the nude and deepthroating Chrysalis’ glowing green, slightly translucent member. His lips and nose pressed against her crotch each time he bobbed down on her shaft, seemingly expert in a craft even Cadance struggled to perfect.
“Tell me that again,” came the voice of Chrysalis, “Tell me again what your darkest, filthiest desire is.”
He pulled off of her impressive sixteen-inch shaft, coughing lightly and panting for a moment before he looked into Chrysalis’ eyes as he held her cock in his hands.
“I wish you could fuck Cadance,” he panted, “I wish you could take her for yourself, and force me to watch as you make her happy like I never could!”
Chrysalis chuckled as she reached out to grip his horn dominantly. “Such a dirty little cuck boy,” she replied, “you’d never fuck her again.”
“I’d live to serve you both,” he confessed once more as he kissed Chrysalis’ cock.
“I’d make sure of it,” Chrysalis agreed, as Shining Armor visibly reached down to stroke his throbbing erection, a normally impressive 10 inches, but it paled in comparison to Chrysalis’ monster. “I would steal her from you and make her mine. And you’d still love her, wouldn’t you?”
“More than life itself!” he exclaimed, as he squinted his eyes, stroking his cock faster, “I’d love you both! Nngahh!” he cried out as his cock erupted, spewing his seed all over Chrysalis’ body and cock, as Chrysalis let out her distinctive laugh, and the memory recording ceased.
Cadance stood there in shock as she slowly processed what she saw, lost in thought, her jaw agape as she looked down.
Chrysalis, without skipping a beat, reached over and gently tilted Cadance’s head up, to face her. “You see,” she explained, “when a stallion is brought to his lowest point, when he is not even allowed to eat without earning my permission, as he was during that memory, is when he reveals who he truly is. That,” she whispered, “is true love for you.”
Cadance paused, and gazed into Chrysalis’ green eyes, with a hint of understanding.
“You remember what he said? He wants me to make you happy! His deepest desire is your happiness, even if he can’t provide it himself. If that is not true love, then I can't think of anything that is.”
Moments passed in silence before Cadance abruptly threw her arms around Chrysalis, her one-time enemy, sniffling a little as a tear rolled down her cheek. Her face buried into Chrysalis’ bare shoulder as she let her emotions flow like wine from her heart. Chrysalis, not entirely expecting this particular outcome, gingerly put her arms around Cadance’s back and gave her a gentle pat as she let it play out.
“How could I have been so blind?” Cadance finally expressed. “We should’ve talked about this, about what was missing from our… our intimacy. I was too proud to even bring up seeing a therapist…”
“I know, I know,” Chrysalis whispered comfortingly, “You didn’t want anyone to think that the Princess of Love of all ponies had marriage problems before she was even married. I know I wouldn’t have back then in your shoes,” she said, “but the three years since we last met gave me a lot of time to think, and to research what your scholars have said about love and relationships, and that’s why I sought you out. I figured your relationship would come on the rocks eventually, and I want the stallion I love to be happy.” Chrysalis paused as Cadance’s sniffling came to an end, as she looked up at her husband’s lover once more with reddened eyes and tears slowly drying on her cheeks. “I want you to be happy. Will you come on this journey with me, Cadance?” she asked, “Will you let me give you two the happiness you’ve always wanted? That your husband has always wanted?”
Author's Note
Well, here's a new story. I actually wrote this on a whim... and I hope I did all right.
Shining awoke to the sight of an empty bed. A sigh escaped his mouth as he closed his eyes again, feeling the urge to go right back to sleep. Yet, his return to slumber lasted mere minutes before the bed jostled. His eyes opened again and looked up to see the beautiful form of his wife sitting fully clothed on the other side. A smile crept across his face as their eyes met. Cadance leaned down and pressed her lips to his, and Shiny sat up slowly to meet the kiss full-on, holding her tightly. Minutes passed before they finally parted and smiled at each other.
“Sweetie,” Cadance said, “I hope you didn’t miss me too much. I know this is a difficult situation for the both of us but… I have an idea that I think we can both make work, that will make the both of us happy.”
With a nod, Shining lifted his body into a seated position, and let out a sigh as she hugged his wife firmly. “I’m all ears,” he whispered into her ear. “I just… want the both of us to be happy is all. I still feel bad about yesterday and-“
“Shhh…” Cadance said as she put a finger to his lips, “It’s water under the bridge, sweetie.”
Shining smiled and kissed her hand, blushing, positively glowing at her forgiveness.
“I met someone yesterday that I think can help us through all this. I don’t think I need to introduce her, so why don’t you get your lazy bones up and meet her?”
Shining nodded, though had some reservations about bringing a stranger into this, however familiar she may be. He stood up and walked to the entrance of the bedroom, into the living room, where he beheld a sight he thought he would never see again: The Queen, his one-time lover and mistress, and the one he fantasized for years now in the privacy of his own mind, where he imagined she would stay. Now here she stood in her seven-foot-tall glory, towering over the five-foot-eleven stallion and his five-foot-eight wife. His heart pumped as he looked from Chrysalis to Cadance, seeing the smile of agreement shared between the two ladies as he gave a somewhat formal bow from the waist, as he would on the visit of a foreign ruler.
“Oh come now,” Chrysalis stated as she reached down and using a hand on his shoulder coaxed him to straighten up, “we know each other far better than to treat me like some dignitary you’ve never met before. Cadance forgives me, I have apologized profusely for what happened, and I would like to apologize to you, Shining Armor,” she explained as she put her other hand on his shoulders, looking down at him. Her eyes gave off the sense of warmth and respect of an old friend. “I want to apologize for lying to you when I told you that Cadance ran off. I want to apologize for being the reason that Cadance went missing to begin with. I truly wish I could take back what I did, because I only wanted the happiness and bliss that you two seemed to have,” she confessed to him, “I hope you can forgive me.”
Shining Armor looked up at her, blushing, but gave a gentle nod. “I think it has been long enough,” he said, “for us to hold a grudge. It would not help anyone, least of all ourselves.”
Chrysalis smiled and gave him a kiss on the forehead, adjacent to his horn. “You’re so kind,” she said, before motioning to the couch where he and Cadance proceeded to sit down, while Cadance pulled up a chair to sit close to them.
“Cadance and I had a long discussion last night,” she explained, “And we agreed that this home needs things to change, to be more open about what we all want. So Shiny…” she began, looking at the prince, “You should tell her. You know what I’m talking about.”
“The- the pictures?”
“No, not the pictures,” Chrysalis sighed, slightly annoyed, “She already saw all of them. I mean your darkest fantasy that you told me,” she clarified, “You know the one I’m talking about, Shiny. It’s going to be very important to be as honest as you can with all of us,” she explained.
Shining Armor blushed brightly as he looked up to the two mares, and finally admitted. “I… I want to be used by both of you,” he confessed, “I want you to be happy, Cadance,” he said, “even if it involves having sex with her and… loving her. It would just make me so happy to see you happy with Chrysalis. And I’ll still love you, Chrysalis, just as much as I did when I put that ring on your finger.”
Cadance hugged her husband tightly to her side. “I will still love you too,” Cadance assured him as she kissed his cheek. “I want you to be happy, too. You’re… you’re everything to me. From the day you asked me out back in high school, to the day you asked me to marry you, I just couldn’t help but feel that you were the one for me. Now… sweetie,” she said, “I can see that you love Chrysalis, too. And I know your love is so vast, so boundless that you have room in your heart for the both of us. If she makes you just as happy as I do, then I know I can have room in my heart for her, too,” she said as she leaned forward and gently kissed him on the lips. He returned the gesture as he put his hands to her face, a single tear streaking from his eye. He couldn’t help but gently sob in happiness.
“Th-thank you, sweetie,” he managed to say through the tears of joy, “I… really thought you wouldn’t accept me like that! Ahh… I love you so much!”
Cadance hugged him and let him cry it out. “It’s ok sweetie, it’s ok. Just let it out, Shiny…” she cooed as Chrysalis looked a little uncomfortable but sympathetic. “Chrysalis and I had a long talk, and she helped me realize that just because you have feelings for her, doesn’t mean that you love me less… and it doesn’t mean that I can’t love you less, either. And I learned that even I have a thing or two to learn about love,” she explained as she looked to Chrysalis, as the two ladies smiled at each other.
They waited a bit for Shining’s spell of happy tears to subside, and when it did, he finally sat up and wiped his eyes. “I’m sorry I was just, so overwhelmed.”
“It’s all right,” Chrysalis assured him as she leaned forward and held his hand with both of hers. Cadance did the same to his other hand as they both leaned in to kiss him on each cheek. “Your wife and I had a long talk about how this relationship would work to benefit all involved, so that none would feel left out. Shall I explain, Cadance, or would you rather?”
“I think you should,” she replied as she leaned in to give Queen Chrysalis a kiss on the cheek, something that made Shining Armor blush at the sight of.
“Very well. Ahem. What we shall do is consider the three of us to be equal parts of a three-way relationship. As per your desires, Shiny, only I shall be the one to make love to each of you, and Cadance and I will pursue dates and romance, while you watch as our little pet; our plaything, really. However, Cadance has stressed that she has the power to temporarily put this on hold at any time, if she so desires to make love to you, Shiny. And every day on your anniversary and on your birthday, you and Cadance will have your alone time, consequence-free. And you may still kiss and hug, but you will not penetrate Cadance with your cock except on those days, or when she makes the decision. And as for me, I will penetrate both of you as I see fit. Additionally, the safeword for anything we may be doing to each other shall be ‘orange.’”
“Yes, I like those terms,” Cadance agreed, as she kissed her husband’s cheek. “But you can change them, sweetie… now and whenever. You just need to tell me, and we’ll re-write the rules if you ever feel like this is too much,” she said as she gave him another kiss. “Because we all want to have a good time, and we both want you to be happy. We just don’t want you to ever… ever feel that we’re leaving you out or that I’m drifting away from you-“
This got interrupted by a big kiss from Shining Armor to his wife. “Sweetie,” he said, “I know you better than that. But I understand where you’re coming from, so how about we at least make sure that we can just cuddle and sleep together every other night, where we can just express how we feel about each other,” he suggested as he smiled at her.
Cadance nodded in agreement, and the two shared a loving hug before Cadance cheekily got up and then sat down in Chrysalis’ lap. The changeling queen wore a cute skirt that extended to just above her knees, leaving rather little to the imagination, as she wore a casual tee-shirt on top. Cadance still wore a tee-shirt of her favorite band that was way too big for her and covered the panties she wore underneath. Cadance put her arms around Chrysalis’ neck. “I think we’re in agreement,” Cadance commented, “Shall we… begin?”
Shining Armor took a deep breath and nodded. “Yeah,” he replied, “I’m ready. Just don’t hold back, ladies,” he said, “Whatever you want to dish out to me, I can take it.”
With a wide grin, Chrysalis looked to Cadance and pressed their lips together, as they began to breathe heavily, tilting their heads as they embraced each other. They locked their mouths together with the diagonal angles of their heads, while Shining Armor watched, a blush across his face. Chrysalis let out her signature, slightly distorted laugh as she reached down to grab Cadance’s pink rear, making her let out a gasp and pull away from the kiss, blushing, but slowly turning into a smile. The two others in the room could see the gears turning in her head as her head turned to Shining, and then back to Chrysalis.
“Ooh… why don’t you buy me dinner, first?” she asked, in a sultry manner.
Chrysalis looked confused for a moment, before the proverbial light bulb went off in her head. Her eyes widened, before they turned into a sultry smirk. “How traditional,” she commented, “but of course, can’t be getting all lewd so soon now, can we? No, we need to see if we’re compatible, first,” she mused, as she looked at the lone stallion in the room, licking her lips slowly as if to tell Shining that the conclusion was inevitable, that she would enjoy this.
Shining got to watch, for a good hour, the two mares getting dressed in some fashionable, and somewhat revealing cocktail dresses. Chrysalis wore a beautiful white getup with even a pink feather boa around her neck as Cadance wore a beautiful, strikingly hot black dress that hugged her hefty, FF-cup breasts, the same size as Chrysalis’, and her big, round, utterly spankable ass. Chrysalis’ ass exceeded that of Cadance, but not by much, and mostly due to her height difference. Still, the two ladies looked stunning, and Chrysalis showed herself as no fan of modesty, as she left a bulge in her dress, clearly outlining her sheath and balls.
“Oh come now,” Cadance chuckled as her horn lit up, casting a spell over the three of them. “There! Now… you look like Shiny!” she giggled as she pulled out a mirror from her heart-shaped purse, and handing it to Chrysalis.
Confused, Chrysalis looked into the mirror and sure enough saw Shining Armor’s face staring back at her, adopting her facial expressions and her wonderful tongue movements. “Wouldn’t want to get the crystal ponies spreading rumors now, would we?” she commented as she handed the mirror back, “Long as you can still see the real me, it is what truly matters, after all,” she expressed as her crooked horn flashed green. A black leash appeared in her hand, and a collar appeared around Shining’s neck. Though she barely paid him any mind, she still walked over and attached the leash to his collar, while putting a finger to her lips as she looked at Cadance, who giggled lightly and winked back, before giving Shiny a tiny wave and hooking arms with Chrysalis.
“Shall we depart?” she asked, exaggerating to a comical extent an overly formal tone and accent, as if they were going to the opera a hundred years ago.
Chuckling in response, Chrysalis began walking out the door, as Shiny obediently followed them, keeping pace to make sure the leash never became taut. However, as the blossoming couple walked outside into the brightly lit streets of the Crystal Empire, it became clear what kind of spell Cadance cast upon them all; nobody even noticed Shining Armor. Normally both he and Cadance got swarmed by fans, but now, nobody even noticed that he even existed. The same went for Cadance, as everybody treated both her and Chrysalis like just two normal mares walking the street. With Shiny’s collar and leash attached, he never strayed too close to the edge of the magic “dome” that Cadance created as they traversed the city. They walked through the crystal-shaped lights all around and the throngs of people that passed by for the well-respected night life scene in the Crystal Empire. Subtly, Chrysalis tugged on the leash every now and then to keep him closer to her, as they headed for a well-known lesbian bar, the “Pretty Princess,” a clear reference to a common nickname for Cadance. Lots of lesbian and bisexual mares milled a round as they drank, danced, sat at tables, and tried to woo a partner for the night. However, Cadance and Chrysalis, in their disguised forms, got themselves a booth, where they sat on the same side as each other, as if on their tenth date and going steady. Chrysalis moved Shiny underneath the table, forcing him to lay on the ground at their feet.
At the booth, Chrysalis and Cadance sat together and kept their bodies close. Glad to hide behind the cover of anonymity, Cadance felt eager to truly let loose. She felt the butterflies in her stomach already!
“So,” Cadance began, “You come here often?” she asked with a chuckle, one reciprocated by Chrysalis.
“You’ve never been with a mare before, have you?” Chrysalis asked, looking at the princess’ face. “You’re giving off the nervous vibes of a teenager on her first date! Come, lighten up,” she encouraged as she put an arm around Cadance’s shoulder. “You don’t need to perform for me. Just be yourself, sweetie! Come here,” she whispered as she hugged and leaned against Cadance’s side.
Cadance blushed but leaned into it, her magic sensing genuine affection coming from the changeling queen. “It’s just been so long since I’ve truly been close to a mare,” she said as she looked up, her hand resting on Chrysalis’ thigh. “Not since before I met Shiny.”
“Who was she?”
“A fling,” she admitted, “I just assumed it was my ‘lesbian experimentation phase’ or something, since when I met Shiny I just fell head over heels,” she said, gently reaching over a foot and caressing her lover with it, right on the shoulder. She felt the hands of her lover remove the shoe, followed by the loving touch of his lips, and the surprising sensation of his tongue, tasting her freshly cleaned foot from the front to the back, right along the bottom. She blushed and squirmed a little as she attempted to keep her composure.
“Well let me tell you something; with me, it’s all or nothing, Princess. I don’t do flings; when it comes to a partner, a true partner, changelings mate for life. Even if we aren’t always exclusive to the partner,” she expressed, “or even sticking to one, for that matter. But either way, it’s for life. So if you’re ready to go down this path with me-“
Chrysalis was interrupted by a gentle peck to her lips. Cadance smiled up at her, holding onto her thigh. “I’ve never been more ready,” she admitted, “especially since Shiny’s more than willing. Having the three of us here, I’ve never seen him so happy. Mmf… and he’s certainly enjoying himself down there,” she said as she wriggled her toes, as said stallion let them rub over his face.
The night went on for hours, with the two disguised royals making cute faces, kissing, and even fondling each other’s breasts throughout the night as the food and drinks came. Clearly the staff minded little at the lewd public displays of affection, as they saw other mares doing the same at other tables, but having a stallion secretly down under the table to worship their feet and leg, and later on, between them. Cadance lifted her skirt in secret underneath the table and used her magic to force her husband’s head between them, and crossed her legs behind his back, forcing him to stay there. Eagerly, the stallion complied, giving her some of the best cunnilingus Cadance experienced. It showed, as she failed to contain her excitement and let out a moan before Chrysalis quickly grabbed her and shut her up with a kiss to the lips, as she let out her noises into Chrysalis’ body.
“Slut,” she teased, pulling away from her face, “You couldn’t help yourself, could you? Well no matter now, sweetie; cum for me. Cum on his bitch face, and tell him you love me,” she teased, “’cause tonight, I’m taking you back home and making love to my marefriend,” she teased as she quickly reached into Cadance’s purse with her magic and paid the tab, and continued to gruffly fondle Cadance’s chest. It, combined with the pleasure from the fondling, made Cadance barely able to hold herself back anymore, and finally erupted onto Shiny’s face, drenching him in her fluids. Chrysalis kissed her deeply, dominantly as it happened, shoving her tongue into her mouth to keep the noise down, before she grabbed the leash to take both Shiny and his wife back to the castle.
With Cadance over Chrysalis’ shoulder, even disguised, they drew attention, but once they walked inside the castle walls, the spell dropped, and the spell showed Chrysalis’ erection on the verge of tearing through her fancy cocktail dress. Once inside the bedroom, Chrysalis lay her new marefriend onto the couch and immediately disrobed herself. “Ugh, it’s always so frustrating how you ponies wear clothes this tight,” she commented, “why don’t you just go out in the nude if you want to show yourselves off?” she growled as she finally simply tore the expensive cocktail dress to reveal her nude body, including those hefty breasts with glowing green nipples and an equivalently glowing cock. “You,” she commanded, looking at Shiny, “Get me a bucket, fill it with soap and water, and get a washcloth. You’re washing me before I ravage your wife. Get going!”
Eyes widened, Shiny did as told, and rushed to the restroom to procure a clean, unused bucket and filled it with water and a lot of soap from the royal showers, before grabbing a few washcloths and running back as smoothly as he could, where he discovered Cadance laying back, with Chrysalis on top of her, the two mares passionately making out and fully in the nude, the tattered remains of Cadance’s dress all around them as Chrysalis groped those pink breasts. Shiny barely stopped himself from dropping the bucket, but managed to bring it over and set it down for the two ladies, whose feet he began to wash once he removed their shoes. As he went through, making sure every square inch of all four feet he was presented with became spotless, the two mares cuddled, pretending that he was not present.
“I had a lot of fun on this date, Cadance,” Chrysalis began, “I just want you to know that if we do this, I’m going to be wearing the ‘pants’ of this relationship,” she clarified as she groped Cadance’s plush breasts, squeezing them as hard as she could to make her alicorn partner gasp and moan so sweetly. “Will you treat me like a Queen?”
“Yes!” she replied almost immediately.
“Very good,” Chrysalis chuckled as she looked to Shiny, who just finished washing and drying Chrysalis from the ankles down. Suddenly, she lifted herself up to the seated position and pointed at the floor. “Knees, now,” she directed, “both of you.”
Cadance quickly moved herself down to the floor, kneeling next to her husband as Chrysalis presented a foot to each of them. Shining went at it first, holding it close to his face, licking and kissing all over as best he could, even making sure to suckle her toes. Cadance needed a minute to do the same, but she did, tasting that freshly cleaned flesh and looking up at Chrysalis, who stroked herself to the sight of the two royals so eagerly submitting to her. “Such a good couple,” she said as she slid her thumb over her cock tip, “You two always needed a Queen, didn’t you? A Queen to serve, to listen to… to obey.”
A flash of green came from Chrysalis’ eyes, and it was repeated in the eyes of Cadance and Shining Armor. Their motions paused as their eyes flickered with green, before finally gaining a faint glow. Chrysalis grinned as she let out that distinct chuckle in her slightly distorted voice. “And obey you shall,” she declared as she waved her hand towards herself, looking at Shining, who obediently climbed atop her lap. “Oh you two… if only I’d known it was so easy to do this if I only changed my approach,” she said as she tore Shining’s pants off, revealing his bare rear, and slipping her pre-slicked cock inside of him. Shining let out a lustful cry as Cadance continued to suckle and lick on those dark black feet. “I’m sure some part of you is wondering how I got around this,” Chrysalis began to say, but you simply made me promise that I’d never usurp you or undermine Equestria! And I really don’t, honey,” she declared as Shining Armor dutifully rode Chrysalis’ green shaft. “Mmmf… damn your husband’s tight. No, I don’t seek to undermine your rule, or Equestria’s for that matter. Honestly your political games just bore me. The more I watched from afar, or in disguise in your court, the more I realized taking your place would be far more of a chore than a treat. In that spirit, I’ll let you two do whatever politicking and royal ass-kissing to those two bimbos in Canterlot you need to do for your jobs, but whenever you’re done with that, you two will exist to service me. I suppose you should have picked your words in the Geas more carefully, pink-ass!” she taunted, as Shining suddenly erupted in cum onto Chrysalis’ muscled abs and breasts. “NNgh… hah, oh Shiny, you played your part so well, even if you didn’t know it,” she said as she caressed his cheek.
“I live to serve you, my Queen,” he said groggily.
“Indeed you do! Such a perfect sleeper agent you are. Such a traitor to your own wife… not that she minds right now,” she commented as she grabbed his horn and pulled him in for a lewd kiss, slipping her tongue inside of his mouth and throat-fucking him with it as she used her magic to thrust his ass onto her cock more rapidly, spurred on by the couples’ servitude.
After a long while, Chrysalis finally came inside of Shining Armor, making him erupt in moans of pleasure and desire, as he clenched himself down onto her cock expertly from the many times he did this during Cadance’s imprisonment.
“NNnghh! Yes! Very, very good!” she said excitedly as she unceremoniously tossed him onto the couch next to her, slipping her cock out of him. “Cadance, get to cleaning. Both of us.”
Cadance, under Chrysalis’ control, obeyed immediately. “Yes… my Queen.” She said as she looked up with that green haze over her eyes, before engulfing that cock into her mouth, covered in cum and the taste of her husband. “So good to finally see you like this,” she commented as she let out her signature evil cackle, for the audience of the only two that would not reveal her true intentions.
“Ahh, just needed to get you to lower your psychological defenses, Cadance, and feed you a little taste of changeling venom to make you more susceptible, and now, here you are. Drinking more changeling venom in my seed. You’ll never go a day without it, Cadance, so I hope you enjoy your new life as a royal cock sleeve!”
. . .
The years passed, and as Chrysalis predicted, nothing ever occurred to arouse suspicion. Their lives, at least to the public, remained the same. The only thing strange that struck the populace was the lack of a foal between the loving couple, despite a widespread expectation. Not even Celestia or Luna suspected anything, and every time they came to Canterlot for extended stays, they brought a small contingent of Crystal Guards with them, one of which accompanied them at all times, even in their bedroom.
Night after night, the married couple paid service to their Secret Queen. Every night she had their mouths on each nipple, feeding them her changeling venom. Every night, one of them served as a seat, while the other either rode her cock, serviced it orally, or gave her freshly-showered feet a worshipful tongue-bath. Occasionally, both did so at once. One night, at the guest room in Canterlot, under cover of a silencing dome, Chrysalis kissed Cadance deeply, shoving her tongue down her throat as Shining held both of the Queen’s ankles in his hands, and licked over the bottoms of those perfectly clean soles. Chrysalis pulled her tongue from her lover’s throat and gave her a slap to the face. The Princess of Love reacted as if it were a pleasurable grope to her breasts, moaning loudly and gazing into her Queen’s eyes with her own, glowing bright green. Chrysalis squeezed her slave’s breasts hard and licked her lips. “Get on my cock, you slut,” she commanded, to which Cadance complied immediately.
Once on top of the changeling cock, she expertly sat down on it, taking it to the hilt as she did many times before. “Aggahhh!” she moaned, “So big! So thick! So deep!”
“You really do tighten up that sweet little pussy of yours after every session, just like it was your first time! And your husband does the same thing, isn’t that right?” she asked as he kissed her heels before looking up, in those glowing green eyes, and a dopey smile on his face, before he nodded.
“Mm, you two are the best a Queen could want,” she commented as she spanked Cadance’s rear, “Maybe it’s time I started building a new hive?” she suggested, primarily to herself, as she finally threw her head back and came deep inside of Cadance. “NNnghh! Fuck yes… I probably should,” she said as she unceremoniously pulled Cadance from her lap and set her to the side in a panting heap and gripped Shining’s horn with her magic to pull him to her cock, sliding his mouth right back on top to suck it clean. “Good boy,” she whispered, while casually fingering Cadance’s ass, “life’s just so much better like this, isn’t it?”
“Mm-hmm!”
“You know, your wife told me you two were thinking of having a foal before I came into your lives. But this is better, too, isn’t it? Taking care of a foal would just take away from the important things, don’t you think?”
Taking his mouth from her cock, he looked up at her, panting a little. “I would have less time to service you,” he replied, “and you deserve my full attention, my Queen!”
“One day you will take care of my hive when I begin to rebuild it. But until then I’m going to have a lot of fun with you two for as long as I want! Now come… have a drink, both of you.”
The two royals climbed up, getting onto either side of the couch, each of them latching onto a nipple and suckling, drinking their fill, to keep the two in their perpetual, submissive bliss towards their Queen.
Author's Note
Surprise! This kinda felt, to me anyway, like the right way to end things. I'm a lot happier with this than what I had originally planned out when I started writing it.
