The Band of Loyalty

It took a week to restore enough of Rainbow's strength that she could walk on her own. She couldn't fly yet, so Scootaloo worked to ground herself whenever they were together. She'd always wanted to fly, but a good amount of that desire was that she wanted to fly alongside her hero, Rainbow Dash. If she couldn't fly, then Scootaloo was content to stick to her scooter.

King, on the other hand, was almost back to full strength. He'd been soaking up the adoration of Sir's slaves, the exception for which was Fluttershy. He'd promised to let her timer run out, and after relaying that information to Sir, he'd taken up the order and was willing to let her go free, as long as she continued to obey orders, and didn't pose a threat to their work. At any rate, she was now allowed to do whatever she desired, with certain exceptions.

Chrysalis, now quite pleased with what she saw, had been eating her fill every night. However, as nice as it was tormenting the princess of friendship, she had a different target in mind, and all of this waiting was making her impatient. She may have been subservient to the incubi, but that didn't mean she was going to sit around all day with her thumb up her arse.

"We're stagnating," she called out, bursting into the throne room. "As much as I enjoy this buffet you've set out, you promised me that a certain empire would be mine, save for the alicorn. While I'm eating just fine, my subjects back home are starving. I'd like for them to have a meal, if we understand each other."

Sir looked up from his table. "I was just looking over the plans for doing so." He waved her over. "The quickest way is to come in from the west. However, that gives us a big disadvantage, as they'd see us approaching their front gate. Coming from the east gives us the weakest defenses to punch through, but we'd need to be up the mountain."

"You have slaves!" shouted Chrysalis. "Make them build a siege engine, or something!"

Sir raised his hands. "Calm yourself, Chrysalis. We don't plan on breaking down their front door. We plan on being escorted though it as guests."

She raised an eyebrow. "How do you plan on doing that? You want to have Twilight ask her brother to invite us to sleep in his bed?" she scoffed.

"Of course not," laughed Sir. "That would be silly." His expression slowly turned back to a serious one. "I'm going to order him to invite us to sleep in his bed."

"How do you expect to manage that?" chided Chrysalis. "Undoubtedly, Princess Twilight sent a missive to her brother about King. He'd be on his guard for you."

"Of course he would. He's no fool. That's why we're going to have to draw him out. We stage an attack right outside the gates when he's on guard, and he'll come running. Then we isolate him and break him. As well as all of the guards stupid enough to follow him into here." Sir pointed to a taiga just outside of the borders to the city. "You'll walk in right alongside him and let us in, and King will have his slave, which you will be free to torture to your hemolymph's content."

Chrysalis sneered as the accusation. "We have hearts, you know..."

"I am well aware. Just be ready to play the role of a helpless mare, running for her life. Really sell it, and I might just look the other way when you decide to play rough with Cadance."

Chrysalis, while still insulted, smiled at the thought. "You'll have the most desperate screams I can muster."

King was out in the Everfree forest with a handful of slaves. They needed to find something that could make a convincing monster. Something fast enough that running wasn't going to last against, something strong enough to tear a pony limb from limb, and preferably something menacing.

It didn't take long for his group to find something that would do all of those things and more. A whole pack of them, too. It was time for some creativity. King sent the changeling that had come along back to Ponyville. His services would best be used later. With their trap now being set up, King let out a roar, and half a dozen timber wolves looked up from what they were doing and dashed toward the group of errant ponies.

Normally, ponies were no match for Timber wolves, but with a boost from King, the select few who had accompanied him into the forest were more agile, faster, and loud enough to draw the beasts in. They all stayed together as a group, as did the timber wolves. Through the trees they ran, able to slink their way through any obstacle in front of them.

Eventually, the group saw daylight as they neared the edge of the forest, and King could sense the presence of the changelings in front of him. He lowered his head and leaped over the goo trap, and his pony slaves did the same. The wolves, however, were not clued in to what the plan was, and shortly thereafter ended up with their claws stuck, causing the beasts to fall to pieces as their claws literally went out from under them.

King dismissed all but two of the slaves. He needed the changelings to keep the wolves from moving, but he also needed to make sure the wolves stayed calm long enough for him to invoke his will upon them. He kept Pinkie and Fluttershy. As the six timber wolves reformed into just two big ones, Fluttershy was given a wide path straight between the legs of the first one. Its movement was stunted; it couldn't reach her while it was bound. She found what she was searching for easily; a knob under its belly made of a softer, smoother wood. Pressing her lips against it, the beast began to calm, and just as quickly, it was worked up again. He hunched over and began to thrust his hips forward, humping Fluttershy's mouth. She bobbed her head against him while rubbing herself. Before long, the beast pushed hard, locking his knot inside of her cheeks and blowing his load down her throat.

As the wolf panted lustily, he had his tongue sprayed by a thick rope of King's jizz. It swallowed instinctively, and was enthralled. It obediently broke itself back into three separate wolves, freeing Fluttershy's mouth. She licked her lips, smiled, and turned to the pony who'd jerked King off while he watched Fluttershy force the beast into submission.

"Pinkie, you really have to try this stuff," she said, bounding toward them. She shoved her tongue into Pinkie's mouth as soon as she was close enough.

As soon as their lips separated, Pinkie squealed with glee. "It tastes just like maple syrup!"