A shrill whistle could be heard through the Canterlot Courtyard. Immediately, a group of armored-up mares and stallions lined up and stood straight and tall.

It wasn’t long until somepony approached the group standing at attention. A white stallion in distinct purple and gold-plated armor with a sparkling shield emblem on his chestplate walked into view.

“So, you’re the new recruits, huh? You wanna be part of the royal guard?” the stallion said, looking over each of the ponies in line. “I’ll be the judge of that.”

Some of the ponies exchanged looks, staring at the stallion in awe, trying to whisper to each other without having him notice.

“I-Is that Shining Armor?”

“Yeah, that has to be.”

“He’s the one that’s going to be training us?”

“Jeez, I hope he doesn’t go too hard on us…”

Shining couldn’t hear the conversations going on, but he could still see them getting distracted and not standing at full attention. “I hope you don’t expect things to be easy. The life of a royal guard will challenge you, and it’s up to you to keep Equestria safe. I expect more than the best out of all of you, understood?”

“Y-Yes sir!” The line of recruits quickly saluted.

Shining smirked. “Good, now, I expect you’re all prepared for the intense work you have ahead of you. You’re going to be sweating and running until your hooves want to collapse!”

There were a few nervous looks from the guards in training, some of their hooves starting to tremble.

“If you want to serve under the princesses, you’re going to need to prove your worth!”

As if on cue, Princess Celestia herself landed in the courtyard. “That’s right. That’s why Shining Armor is here to make sure you meet the high standards the job requires.”

As most of the guards started gasping and clamoring, Shining Armor quickly bowed down. “Ah, P-Princess! What brings you here?” The slight amount of panic in his voice indicated that Celestia’s entrance was just as unexpected to him as the rest of the recruits.

“Well, I just wanted to oversee you training the recruits today. That won’t be a problem, will it?” Celestia smiled warmly. “After all, they’ll be important to me and my sister if they prove themselves.”

“Um, it’s no problem at all!” Shining looked back at the recruits. “So! Do you still think you’ve got what it takes?”

“Yes sir!” All the recruits shouted at once.

“Good! Now let’s see what you can do. Let’s start out with a hundred laps around the place. Let’s go!”

As he watched the recruits scramble to start running as fast as they could, Shining turned to the princess. “Alright, so what’s the real reason you came down here?”

Celestia looked down at Shining coyly. “Whatever do you mean, Shining?”

Shining squinted his eyes, slowly shaking his head. “On any other day, I’d have believed you wanted to oversee me training them. You’re up to something, I just don’t know what...”

Celestia merely giggled. “Perhaps instead of trying to find some sort of ulterior motive I have, perhaps you should be directing your focus towards them.” She pointed her hoof towards some of the trainees, sweating and panting as they galloped, clearly not used to the weight of their armor yet.

“Hey!” Shining shouted. “Are you slowing down already? We just started!”

As Shining watched the ponies try speeding up, Celestia’s horn started to faintly glow, the princess barely able to contain the grin on her face.

“Come on! I better not see any of you trotting already!” Shining chastised. His focus stuck to the recruits running around, but he definitely felt it. There was a slight tingling at his crotch, though that was probably the side effects of the Chastity Shield, probably best not to pay attention to it, especially not while training the recruits.

Shining continued to watch the Canterlot recruits run laps. Many of them eventually slowed down their pace due to fatigue until he spoke up to motivate him. All of it seemed natural, though he was starting to wonder why they always kept staring back as they passed.

At first, Shining assumed it was because of the presence of Princess Celestia. He couldn’t really blame them. Shining turned his head to see if Celestia was doing anything in particular that was catching their attention.

Celestia was just standing there in place, her long horn wrapped in a yellow magical aura.

Now Celestia had Shining’s attention as well. He looked around, trying to see if there was anything around that Celestia was controlling with her magic, finding nothing until he felt another twitching at his groin, this time, getting stronger.

Once he glanced down, Shining’s confusion quickly turned to horror as he realized what Celestia was using her magic for. The Chastity Shield was still in place, as proven by the fact that his cock was still invisible to him.

He couldn’t see what she was doing, but he could feel it. Every single bit of magical stimulation. A slow ring of magical energy wrapped around his shaft, slowly going back and forth. And it felt mind-numbingly good.

Shining’s entire body trembled as he fought the urge to let out a horny shudder. He could feel his cock twitching and throbbing with every single magical stroke.

Shining Armor looked back towards the running recruits. They definitely weren’t directing their gazes at the princess like he thought.

He looked back at Celestia again, seeing that she was sporting a noticeably smugger grin on her face. “Y-You wouldn’t.”

“Hmhm...no, I wouldn’t. Though if you’re going to be on edge the entire time, you may as well enjoy the feeling…” Celestia chuckled, stopping her magic’s movement right before Shining went past the point of no return.

Shining quickly pulled his attention back. “Y-You guys are doing great! Keep up that pace!” He shouted, trying to keep a cool head. Questions raced in the stallion’s mind. How did she break through his defenses so quickly? Did he need to go back to Sunburst to try and princess-proof the spell now? How much of his moaning did all the recruits hear?

Once enough time had passed, Celestia started up her magicjob all over again, giving Shining’s cock slow strokes with a ring of magic, always slowing down and stopping before she brought him to climax.

Shining fought to keep his tough-guard look up, but with the constant stimulation, he was breathing heavily and letting out little moans and shivers, constantly fidgeting as he tried to push past Celestia’s meddling.

Celestia had a much better poker face than Shining, keeping her head held high with only a small grin instead of a maniacal smirk as she kept the poor prince edged, speeding up her magic strokes to surprise him, and stopping just before he could climax.

Shining could feel his composure cracking, his hooves trembling underneath him, lowering his head as he tried to keep his shudders and moans as quiet as possible, and then overcompensating by trying to yell something intimidating, only showing the clear waver in his voice.

The princess made sure that Shining’s shaft didn’t get all the fun, her magic caressed and rubbed his full balls, gently stroking and tickling his sack with her magic.

“Nnngh...f-fuck…” Shining could feel his face start to burn up. Thankfully his helmet covered up a good amount of his cheeks, so the recruits didn’t notice the blush that much as they ran past.

Of course, the captain’s cheeks were far from the topic of conversation of the recruits as they ran their laps.

“...You saw it too, right?”

“H-How could I not?”

“It’s...huge…!”

“You think that’s why Cadence married him?”

“She’s incredibly lucky...cause I’d let that thing destroy my ass!”

“You know when I said I hope he didn’t go too hard on us? I take it back.”

Celestia quietly chuckled to herself. Watching her former and future guards get flustered was so much more entertaining than she hoped it’d be.

“Aaand here we are!” Trixie finally came to a stop in the middle of scenic nowhere. A large open field with a small, fenced-off cottage in the middle. Outside, two gray ponies walked with hammers in their mouths.

“Ah geez...” One of the gray mares grumbled, turning around to yell towards the cottage. “SIS! SHE’S BACK!”

Ember popped her head out of the caravan, looking around. Aside from the house, windmill, and silo, it was surprisingly barren of everything else. Everything except rocks. “Huh, already feels a little bit like home,” she smiled, nodding approvingly.

“And she brought more company too! JUST GREAT!” the pony groaned. “Like I don’t have enough shit to do…” the others could hear her growling as she walked back inside.

“Is...that how ponies usually greet others around here?” Ember asked.

“Just her. Don’t worry about it.”

As Trixie walked closer with the caravan, another pony walked out of the cottage. This one noticeably more clothed compared to the naked pair of ponies Ember saw earlier.

“Hello, Trixie. It’s nice to see you again.” The pony said, her voice dull and monotone.

“Maudie!” Trixie leapt out of her harness to hug the earth pony tightly.

Maud tilted her head to see the dragon head sticking outside. “I see you’ve brought a friend with you this time.”

“Oh! Right!” Trixie stepped aside. “This is Ember, she’s one of Trixie’s friends. Ember, this is Maud Pie and Marble Pie over there.”

Ember stepped out of the caravan, waving hello. “Hey there, it’s nice to meet you!”

“It’s nice to meet you too.” Maud said, her expression unchanging.

Trixie turned her attention back to Maud. “Oh Maud, there was something Trixie needed to discuss with you, do you mind if we...?”

“Sure.” Maud nodded. “Marble, can you show Ember around the place?”

“Mmhm.”

As Maud and Trixie walked back into the cottage. Ember turned to the remaining earth pony.

“So Trixie said that you ponies find some tasty gems here sometimes?”

“Mmhm!” Marble nodded. She walked over to one of the rocks, giving it a few smacks with the hammer. The rock split in two, showing the brilliantly shining purple crystals that covered the entire interior.

“Oooh, I love this place already!” Ember grinned, already starting to drool.

Trixie and Maud walked inside the cottage, going up all the way into the Pie Sister shared bedroom.

“So, uh, Maud, Trixie hopes you don’t mind the surprise visit, but Ember really wanted to see-”

Maud suddenly pinned Trixie up against the wall, staring into her eyes. “I know why you really came here. You want me to ravage your body.”

Trixie started going into a cold sweat. “H-How would you even know such a thing?”

“Maud sense,” she replied.

“Trixie refuses to believe that’s a thing you have.”

Maud took her hooves off the wall, stepping back and holding up a notebook. “I wrote a new set of poems for you.”

Trixie could already feel some of her fur sticking up. “Y-You did?”

Maud nodded, though she put down the book. “But I know you’re still in the competition. It wouldn’t be fair of me to just take you out like that, especially when you’re so close to winning. I know you’d have a lot of fun during those few hours of the orgy.”

Trixie let out a shaky exhale, torn between two equally appealing options. She grit her teeth, she had to stay strong, she told Starlight that she’d return soon, and this was just a quick little stop on her vacation, nothing more.

“Of course, if you did want to just give up now, that means we’d have as long as you’d want to spend together. And I have an entire new book of poems to go through.”

“TAKE ME!” Trixie blurted out, gasping like she was out of breath. She looked at Maud and begged with her eyes, consequences be damned.

Maud opened up the book and cleared her throat. “Rocks. There are many types of rocks.”

“Kiiiiiiiiiii!!!” Trixie immediately collapsed to the floor as every hair on her body stood up on end.

“Some are big, some are small. Some are short, some are tall.”

Trixie’s entire body started tingling as she giggled deliriously, each word out of Maud’s mouth was like sweet honey to her eardrums.

“Rocks can be sharp, rocks can be round, some rocks can be found deep in the ground.”

“Oh Maaaauuuudiiiiieee...Keep gooooiiiiing!” Trixie grinned, rolling around on the floor in auditory bliss. Her hooves hadn’t touched her body at all, but she was already soaking wet.

“Some rocks are smooth, some rocks are rough. Some rocks are gneiss, some rocks are tuff.”

“Ah! D-Don’t stoooop! Eeheehee!” Trixie giggled, wiggling her hooves in Maud’s direction. “P-Pleeaaase!”

“All the time with rocks I’ve spent. I hope you understand my sediment.”

“Aaaah! MaaaAAAaaaaAAAauuuuUUUUuud!”

Unsurprisingly, Trixie’s designated rocket was the biggest one in the batch, finally being free to fly.

“Mmmph, you ponies are wonderful!” As Ember happily chomped down on what felt like an endless buffet of gems, the loud explosion caused her to look up in the sky. “...Does that usually happen when Trixie comes here?”

“Mmhm…”

“Heya Starlight, whatcha thinking about?”

“Oh, nothing much, Pinkie, I’m just wondering where Trixie is. She said she’d be back soon but-”

The pair drew their attention to the newly exploding firework. “Oh, she’s at the rock farm,” Pinkie stated matter-of-factly.

“How do you know that just by looking?”

Pinkie looked at Trixie’s half-lidded eyes and drunken grin. “...Just a hunch.”

Author's Note

Do I have to say apologies to Foudubulbe if I'm not really sorry?