New Legacy

Ch.53

“She has returned on the eve of the battle.” Lulu said with a somewhat conflicted tone. Surely her sister would have disapproved of such tardiness to one’s duties before Discord, but now she perhaps also felt it was suitably dramatic or somesuch.

“At least she has stabilized after being gone all of yesterday.” Celestia replied as she ran her hands over Shimmer’s eggs. She decided she wanted to visit, to see the magical entities that this continent were so obsessed with in their unborn state. She would have yesterday, but the zebra mares Zecora and Angela said they were not to be disturbed yesterday for some arbitrary reason.

Something about toads being frogs or something? Witches were always peculiar regardless of where they were-. Celestia gasped when her hand ran over a golden egg, which burst with light and she then gasped again when a whole cosmos of sensation bloomed within her breast and mind. She panted and clutched the precious creature, the precious lad who had just shown her such wonder and now nuzzled her silver-marked bosom sleepily. “Wow…”

“Well sister, it seems you’re in the same boat.” Lulu giggled and Celestia kissed the crown of the precious golden dragon hatchling in her arms.

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Nasuada awoke not to pain, pleasure, or some other blatant attempt to break her. She was clean, comfortable and in a room, not a cell. This pinged all sorts of warnings in her mind and she jumped to her hooves, staggering and groaning in pain from how sore she was from Murtagh fucking her for an entire day into the night.

Good gods where does that stallion get his stamina? It was all she could do not to break in pleasure from him railing her. Had Sombra had any real brains, he would have had Murtagh pleasuring her constantly instead of trying the traditional torture route. She didn’t think she could handle such a barrage of ecstasy, especially from Murtagh.

This soreness also was accompanied by a sloshing in her lower abdomen and Nasuada ran a hand over her rounded tummy. Then it was done. Even if she wasn’t in estrus, with this much seed in her she was certain to be pregnant. Well, she could’ve chosen much worse than Murtagh. The moment she was able to slit Sombra’s throat and free Murtagh, she was marrying that stallion, damn it!

“My gosh. You two are hopelessly in love despite everything.” Nasuada turned sharply and hissed at the pain that caused before the pink alicorn used magic to move her to her bed. “Quiet, he doesn’t know I’m here yet. I need to tell you something…”

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“Oh my gosh, Shimmer, this is awesome!” Rora squealed in my mind and I grinned proudly as I slithered through the sky above the army as they advanced. Brom had already applied the same tactic that Rora did with the siege of Gil’ead and cloaked the siege engines, both the trebuchets and the battering rams. “It’s one thing to ride on you, but to be you! This is wonderful!”

“Don’t get too used to it, my Rider. I would much rather be carrying your weight rather than splitting it.” I playfully replied before slithering through the air on my mixture of magic and wings to slide along Spike’s side, causing the drake to shiver and Rarity to puff up her cheeks adorably. “Hey Spike. I was away, what’s the plan?” I would’ve asked Saphira, but she’s on forward vanguard and I’m in the rear with Spike.

“We hang back until the first barrage is sent and Saphira spooks them with a pass. Then we wait for the weapon to show. I’ll be the bait for that since Twilight keeps my wards going.” Spike explained and I hissed in disapproval.

“But it’s an anti-magic weapon. Won’t it just ignore the wards?” I looked at Twilight who shook her head.

“That’s assuming that it outright annihilates magic instead of working around it. It’s much easier to work around a problem than to go straight through it. Even if it does, I’m not about to risk Spike’s life. He’ll bait the person wielding the weapon out, then I’ll strike. Assuming the weapon doesn’t imbue the wielder with magic nullification, then it will be easy enough to counter.” Twilight reasoned and I shared my knowledge with Rora to get her input.

“I believe you may be right, Twilight. Shimmer’s memories state that the Dauthdaert was specifically meant to counter the magic of Dragons. Perhaps it will only counter the magically-enhanced durability of a dragon’s scales, or part their flames, but not other forms of magic.” Rora suggested while I looked down to watch the elk sorcerers magically create bridges of roots and earth over the Jiet River for the army to pass.

They could only accomplish that thanks to the vast reserves of mana Rora had been storing for them everyday. That said, being a giant prismatically scaled serpent was one thing, but being a giant crystal prismatically scaled serpent that also shined with mana was quite another. Bitch, we’re fabulous~! If only I could sing or listen to music right now~!

“There.” Kalameet suddenly interjected, my Third Eye focusing in on a specific tower of Belatona’s castle keep. “I sense the Dragonslayer is there.” Oo~! Spooky, but helpful! Thanks K-Meet! “I am-.” I know, don’t care, I’m married to your spiritual reincarnation you were damning to repeat the same mistakes, consider me your in-law. “Feisty.” Kalameet replied in approval before going dormant again.

Anyway, Ping! “Hey everyone! That tower, right there. My Third Eye detects a magic anomaly in that tower!” I psychically pointed out the tower and Saphira dove down towards the front line to speak with Brom, who was the de-facto general of our forces. I then chilled, just slithering around the sky and occasionally looking back at the large airship at the back where Kala and Kat were riding in safety with Celestia and Luna.

Although we had airship support, like with me, our local rebel leaders felt it would be both rude and a disservice to our troops to have foreign soldiers fight our battles. Especially since those foreign soldiers were skilled with magical combat beyond what we possessed. Whatever. It was another safe place for non-combatants to be housed and allowed more carriage space for troops and equipment.

Or at least those were the reasons provided to us. Ugh, politics. “I’m starting to think that place has really changed us. Before we’d be exhausted being fused for a long time, I’m feeling more energized instead.” Rora commented, bringing me out of my random fantasy of being my giantess self and sitting on an inflated Pinkie Pie to cause her to make a loud raspberry like a whoopie cushion.

“Huh, you’re right.” I guess it would be a really good idea...wait. Have Pinkie and our friends ever bothered to be introduced to my eggs? Well, I guess better late than never. I’ll take them to my unhatched babies after the battle. Knowing they are clearly destined for greatness, being future princesses and all, I bet they’ll find someone in my clutch. My core suddenly ached.

“Uh...Shimmer? Is this what I think it is?” Rora asked me uneasily as her own arousal began climbing and I whined. No~! No now~! We’re about to go into combat! “Unf, hold on, this is my chance for some payback!” W-wait! Rora, what are you doing?! I felt her essence seem to focus on my womb and I hissed outwardly while inwardly trying not to broadcast my dilemma. “Let’s see how you like being tormented mid-flight!”

“No fair~! I was inside you that time! Kala was the perpetrator~!” I whined and tried to ignore how my female organs were staging a revolt against me by pulsing in pleasure as Rora somehow played with me. “Unf, please, no~. Stop it~...” I whimpered and then came. Thank gosh this body has a hidden cloaca. I may have liked not having one as a standard dragon, but thank gosh this serpent form has it.

Our private mutual masturbation thankfully ended by the time Saphira flew back towards us. “Sister, Spike. New plan. I believe it is foolish, but Brom insists it is a great strategy for larger dragons. Sister, you are to fly headlong directly at the halfway point of the target tower and then retreat to recover.” Saphira informed me with disdain and hope I would reject it in her tone.

“This is the greatest plan~!” I chirped happily and wiggled about in the air, partly out of excitement for playing kamikaze without death involved and also because of the afterglow.

“I kinda object to one of us being a living projectile, but if Brom thinks it’s a good idea…” Spike reluctantly commented and the others all looked at me in concern too.

“Don’t worry, I’m here. If she gets hurt, I know my healing spells quite well. Besides, she has enough mass to topple that tower, no problem.” Rora assured them and I wiggled about to shake and show off my thicc snakey goodness. Heck yeah I’ve got the mass and then some! I’m a big girl! I’ll smash it with my thicc yams! Oo~! Candied yams! Haven’t had those in-! “Focus.”

“You’ll be the first strike. The moment you hit the tower the trebuchets will start firing.” Eragon stated and I couldn’t wait! Sure, it would hurt, it would suck, it would put me out of the rest of the battle, but I’m gonna fucking ram a castle tower with my body and win! I’m so stoked! I don’t like war, but hot damn does this scream Chaos in such a deliciously dumb way!

“So, right now?” They shook their heads and I looked down at the siege engines getting into position. “Now?’ Again they shook their heads. I waited until the trebuchets were loaded. “Now~?” Again, head shakes, I whined. I was practically writhing around in a circle in the air in anticipation before I got a mental nudge from Saphira. “Now?!”

“Yes, now.” Saphira huffed in fond exasperation and I hiss-roared in excitement as I flew full-speed directly towards the midpoint of the target tower. This is the greatest plan~ *Crunch! Crash!* Oo~! Sparkly stars~! Wee~! Come back stars~! I just wanna see if you taste like anise~! Why is my face numb? Whoa~ the water looks nice and sleepy… *Splash* Mm...all nice and cold and dark…zzz...

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My vision was swimming...oh, that’s the water in my eyes. I blinked my nictitating membranes and found myself being levitated by a cerulean magic and turned my pounding head to find Princess Luna had fished me out of Leona Lake and was slowly levitating me back towards her airship while the battle was still underway. “Yer in dangru.” I mentally garbled at her and Rora wordlessly agreed with me in her sleep. Wow, she got knocked the fuck out.

“I will not leave my partner’s mother to languish on the lakebed when she needs medical attention. Besides, Kala and Katrina asked me to and I do not deny friends in need.” Luna replied with Discord, my precious youngest son, giving me thumbs up with the arms his noodle body had sprouted on his underside opposite the wings on his back.

“Thanks gooo.” I drawled and tried to shrink down, but instead transformed into my average-size anthro form. Still an improvement. “Gunna nap naow.”

“Do not. It was bad enough you were briefly unconscious, but if you fall asleep with a head injury you might never wake up.” Luna demanded and zapped us with a spell that made me feel like I just drank a triple-shot espresso, which also increased the vision-dimming headache and I moaned from the pain, glad that Rora was still out so she didn’t have to experience this with me.

So long as one of us is awake, then I can only assume Rora will be fine. I have to be strong for both of us. “Babe! How many fingers am I holding up?!” Kala? Why are you waving tiny penises in my face? Heh.

“Hand penises, snrk.” I snorted and tried to lick them, but Kala yanked her hand away and started rubbing her tits. Why is she rubbing-oh. She was getting something, a bottle was in my lips. “Mm?” I gulped on the cherry flavoured-whoa! I feel great! “What is that?” I asked with a blink as my pain faded and vision restored.

“Vitality Tincture. It’s still one of the most potent restorative potions since before the founding of the Empire. It does have the side-effect of-.” I gasped when my body suddenly stiffened and I squeaked when my biceps bulked up slightly, ripping the sleeves of my tunic under my armor! Well, under Rora’s armor! “Enhancing physical strength and endurance. It’s considered a performance enhancer and is part of the process of making standard super-soldiers. It was how mom became the strongest female on our homeworld before she ascended to godhood.”

“Why only bring it out now? Couldn’t we have used it to get stronger?” Katrina asked curiously and Kala blushed.

“Well, it turns anyone who drinks it to the full effect into muscular amazons or adonises. I didn’t want any of you to think I didn’t like you as you were.” Kala nervously admitted and I shared a coo with Kat as we nuzzled her cheeks. “Besides, even without super strength we’re all pretty strong, at least by this world’s standards. Also, Shimmer is already a muscular beach babe.”

“Oh, good point. I’m buff enough, I don’t want to get bulky.” I patted my arms under Rora’s armor in the hope that I didn’t get too swole and ruin my feminine figure. “Well, I think I did my job. Hopefully the Dauthdaert is either buried or will get picked up soon. It’s a surprise tool that will help us later.”

“Isn’t that for sure? Okay, I’m awake and really wishing we didn’t do that. I’m stepping out.” Rora walked out of me, taking the clothes and armor with her, leaving me naked. Huh, well, we did fuse while I was naked, that’s fair.

“It was still the greatest plan.” I huffed with my hands on my wide egg-bearing hips and perked when I heard the squeak of a baby dragon. I gasped and squealed with a sprint at Celestia, who was happily holding my precious golden son in her arms against her bosom, the boy chirping at me in excitement. “Oh~ my boy! You visited my eggs without me around and managed to Bond with one of my babies!” I pet and nuzzled my boy and Discord joined in out of nowhere.

“Yes, he is beautiful and wonderful and filled with nothing besides love and curiosity. I only hope my influence doesn’t ruin it.” Celestia nuzzled his head too and the golden boy purred. “I’ve heard that the dragon chooses the name, yes?”

“For the most part. I was different as I’m sure you’ve learned, but when Rora called me Shimmer and told me my old name wasn’t really important to who I was now, well, I agreed and wanted my new name. It’s still very appropriate.” I giggled with a gesture at my shimmering sunlit scales. I guess I’m only made of crystal when sharing a body with Rora.

“Indeed, you are quite radiant, but perhaps you should get dressed. My poor, innocent little ponies are quite distracted.” Celestia giggled and I did a pose with a wink at the nearest pony crewman, who blushed and valiantly looked away from my beauty.

“That’s reasonable. I’m a bit much for a lot of people.” I retrieved another tunic and tried to pull it on, but my thicker muscles tore the sleeves and I pouted. Damn it, that tincture thickened my biceps and triceps just a bit more than my clothes can handle. Now I’ll have to feed all of my tunics to the wardrobe and have it tailor them to be bigger. I then retrieved panties and pulled them on in case the wind blew my tunic’s short skirt up and flashed someone conservative.

“Now that we are all in good health and presentable, I feel it is a good opportunity to speak of important matters.” Luna led us into the captain’s cabin of the ship and we sat in front of the desk that Luna sat behind with Celestia standing at her side. “Now, we believe it would be in the best interest of both of our nations if we could come to some preliminary agreements.”

“Um, I’m not in any official authority…” Rora nervously brought up and the sisters snorted.

“We were once in your position. You were just a farmer, living a quiet and peaceful life, perhaps eyeing someone special to marry?” Celestia knowingly looked at Katrina, who blushed, probably from realizing the talking she and Kala had been doing with the sisters is what is causing this discussion. “Then, destiny drops into your lap, rips you from your home, destroys the peaceful future you had planned for and you are thrust into a grand adventure.”

“...That is disturbingly accurate, how much did you girls tell them?” I questioned our wives and Kala rolled her eyes.

“Nothing much. Kat only managed to mention that she and Rora were sweethearts who grew up in the same village and your family’s occupations before you flew straight into that tower like a lemming.” Kala, how dare you doubt the greatest plan!

“Then, in your quest, you ascend. You’ve become an alicorn, a fledgeling goddess. What’s more, you’re an upset to this world, covering an aspect that has been neglected and in hindsight rarely considered. Innovation. You did something with tools already available in a new and fantastic way that revolutionizes magic.” Celestia continued and Luna nodded.

“Indeed. Your very existence is now causing creative thinkers to consider things they otherwise would not have. You’ve sparked an age of intellectual revolution just by being who you are. You are also the first local to become an alicorn while also being one of the first Riders of the New Order. Your dragon is already a goddess too, one of Chaos, whose aspect is key to growth and discovery.” I blinked at Luna’s continuation. So...I synergize with Rora not just because she’s my Rider?

“What they’re getting at, is they’re betting that you’re going to be the new Head Dragon Rider. You’ve got the biggest, strongest dragon. You’ve got the neatest magic tricks and then you’ve got us with me being a dragon Bonded with a dragon. The only ones I see being a risk for you not being the HDR are Eragon, Oromis and Twilight. Only since Eragon’s your brother, Oromis is the last of the Old Guard and Twilight’s got big brains and magic power out the wazoo.” Kala layed out and I mewled unhappily.

“But I don’t want to be the big kahuna! I abdicate for Saphira to be head dragon!” I insisted in my bid to escape further future responsibility. I have enough of that as it stands! I don’t want to have such a big important job after this is all over! I wanna lay around and have sex and other lazy hedonistic things! I can’t do that if I have to be a role model for other dragons!

“As flattered as I am that you think I’ll become the Head Dragon Rider, I don’t care for such power. I would much rather focus on my inventions and innovations and leave such a thing to my brother or Twilight. Not Master Oromis, however. He has no desire for power either. At best he’ll return to his role as an advisor.” Rora said, but the sisters just smiled sadly.

“Fate tends not to care. We’d like to outline future plans with you anyway like we will with Twilight and Eragon.” Celestia replied and I groaned before I got up.

“Dragons don’t care for politics as a general rule, I especially detest them. I’m going to go check on our friends, okay everyone?” I asked and got understanding nods from them before I fled the cabin and took flight, looking in the air for my friends and one particular pink pony who should be sitting in that cabin damn it. Pinkie may be feisty, but she isn’t a warrior.

By this point, the Varden’s troops were in the process of securing Belatona from remaining enemy resistance. There hadn’t been many pegasi here. I think they’ve been recalled to Dras-Leona and Urû'baen. I quickly spotted our flying friends and pinged them with my mind. Pinkie whirled around and caught me in a hug, spinning us in the air before we kissed.

Mm~, she still tastes like strawberries even though it’s her mouth. Magic rubber pony bullshit. “*smooch* Are you okay, Shimmy?” Pinkie asked with love and concern and I rubbed her back.

“Yeah, so, how about we get started on that spooky place at the bottom of the reservoir?” Better to get it over with rather than drag our hooves and feet.