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Chapter 6: Scavenging a lead

Sunfalls the regent capital of the western coast and home of the growing Lunar Militia, was soon met again with the arrival of their lost lunar princess Luna. Her earlier arrival brought joy and hope to the many ponies of the town and soon the whole coast. However her arrival came at a bad time, when strange monsters and an even stranger illness began to ravage the town, what was more worrisome was the earlier sighting of another creature spotted by a visiting beach goer.

Slowly the carriage came to a stop, its occupants hopping off, with one falling to the floor in pain, it's been hours since Luna left Canterlot, her ire for her sister ever present on her muzzle. Groaning soon caught her ears, looking down, she caught the sight of SnappShot cupping his balls, curious as to why she soon found out through his anger.

“You BUCKING BITCH, you went over that bump on purpose!” he winced after shouting in the direction of Lotus Thorn, the mare who pulled the carriage. Luna wasn't sure why a simple bump pissed Snapp off, again she was about to find out.

Lotus stuck her tongue out smiling “oh it was the perfect opportunity, besides I thought it be funny!”

Snapp looked at her even more pissed than before “funny!? FUNNY!? I was trying to straighten out my armor after it was chafing, but no you decided to go over that bump and make me sit on my own balls!”

Hard Scotch laughed clearly thinking it was funny “it may not have been funny to ye, but it was to us, who knew a stallions voice could go that high”

“Alright everypony-” Thornpoint replied walking up after having a good laugh “-let’s get back on track, Hard Scotch help Snappshot up and get him to the hotel we were at!” Scotch firmly nodded and helped the pain stallion, who slowly tried to stand, wincing as he did.

As the stallions went on ahead to the hotel, Thornpoint called ahead before they were out of earshot “and make sure you get some ice for his balls Scotch!”

“Got it las, i’ll put his balls on ice!” he called back soon going out of earshot moments later, Thorn shook her head lightly chuckling, taking the lead she went ahead of Luna and Lotus.

As the two walked alongside each other Luna took a glance and noticed Lotus being all quiet and worried, this was surprising to Luna since Lotus was mostly hard headed and likes to be outspoken. Curious she opened up “you know, Snapp has a point vox leather isn't the only thing that chaifs, this plate armor does too, its grinding my mare hood to no end!” taking another glance she noticed Lotus’s demeanor unchanged, something was clearly up and it wasn't Snapps opera singing.

Thorn, Hearing this, looked back and saw Lotus’s look and instantly grew worried, she and her have been close friends and have always told each other's secrets. As she looked at her however it became clear that Lotus was being bothered by something, slowing down as she walked besides Lotus’s right flank, Luna on the left.

“Lotus, are you okay?!” the mare in question finally stopped, the others stopping with her as she began to explain what she heard to Luna, the princess not ready for what she was about to hear.

“For the longest time I supported Celestia and the nation of Equestria, but now I have my doubts. Moments before we left, I heard a conversation between her and Cadence. I can't believe how much of a monster Celestia is!” she held her head down, her loyalty to Celestia became Questioned.

“What was this talk?” Luna was curious about what her sister said to her niece “it couldn’t have been that bad?!”

Lotus looked at her “after what i heard, it makes me want to question my loyalties to Equestria as a whole!”

“Well?!-” Thorn asked with anticipation of what her royal highness said “-what’d she say?!” She always loved gossip about the princess, even if the gossip was closely guarded.

Lotus looked at the two “she threatened to castrate Shining armor, if Cadence ever slept with him again!!”

What she said was a hard left turn for Thorn, shocked and disgusted at what she heard, Luna on the other hoof cocked her brow confused. Luna recalled back when she was freed from her grasp as Nightmare Moon, the history and new laws of Equestria. One law she was curious about was the aspect of castration, but when she was about to read up on it, the history of it was missing, in fact the pages were torn out.

“Not to be that mare-” Luna began, nervously chuckling “-but what’s castration?”

The two others looked at her, dumbfounded that she didn't know, only quick to remember Luna not too long ago was reformed. Of course dealing with a topic such as this made the two mares embarrassed, talking about a stallion's balls is one thing, but explaining to the princess what castration was, is another.

Embarrassed, Lotus began to explain, no longer worried since her shock of Luna not knowing replaced it. Okay where to start, Everymare in Equestria knows about this, the stallions are left in the dark about it by Celestia's orders. Why nopony knows? Okay, it started about Five hundred years ago, in the history books, it was said Celestia came up with the idea, but those around the guard, tell another story.-” intently Luna listened as Lotus explained, Thorn standing on the side in case clarification was needed. “-Five hundred years ago, there was a group of mares who believed in Celestias ‘Mares only Doctrine’, however these mares took it too the extreme and forbade stallions from getting jobs, made buildings specific to a sex and viewed them as nothing more than breeders. Till one day they pushed it too far and made a gelding farm, where stallions were taken off the street foalnapped and castrated, those that were gelded were used as slaves, or used as examples. Some however-” she was stopped when Luna interrupted her.

“Woah woah woah, i only asked what the term castration means, not a blow by blow on how Equestria was made!” Lotus blushed getting a little carried away on the history there, Thorn soon clarified to the princes what it meant.

“Castration, in Celestia’s terms, is the removal of the stallions' testicles, in short, the stallions' balls are cut off!” The two mares both stood, while Luna processed this information.

“Okay-” she began “-you’re telling me, my sister has been castrating stallions for five hundred years now!” Lotus and Thorn both nodded, Luna staggered, she couldn't believe it, she was segregating stallions and for what because of some mares, then it came to her. “Lotus what happened to the mares that were gelding stallions?”

Lotus, thinking for a moment, nodded “ironically enough they were caught and executed by Celestia's stallion guards, those that survived fled and most likely disbanded!”

Luna thought this through, it didn't make sense if Celestia killed the mares, then why was she gelding stallions, she shook her head, her mind was in a fog. After being reformed her mind was in a constant fog, years have flew by her, yet it only felt like hours when she was imprisoned as Nightmare Moon.yet day by day, she regained her memory of places, such as the castle of the two sisters, the Everfree forest, as well as certain landmarks. Again shaking her head she lightly moaned.

Looking at the two mares she decided to get back on track “it doesn't make sense, I'll need to think on it, but now we need to get to Sunfalls and gather that intel, that and I need to get out of this armor. All this talk about stallions and their balls makes me horny as tartarus!”

Setting off, the three mares started to catch up to the two stallions who were just outside the town, unaware of the eyes watching them from afar and the evidence they’re about to find.

Entering the town the first thing Luna noticed were the ponies greeting her again; some even came up to her and gave her offerings, such as bits, food and on occasion, themselves. Politely she turned them down, her memory of this place slowly kept coming back to her, stopping she smiled as she looked at the statue she saw earlier, past images of foals playing by the statue brought a smile to her face.

“Look out!” she looked up in time to see a multicolored ball, with her magic she levitated it before it hit her, though with how light it is, she doubted it would harm her. She looked at the ball, it was multi-colored with red, blue and yellow patterns in between the main white pattern. Lowering it in her hoof, she felt how light it was compared to most balls.

“Uh, can I have my ball back please?” She looked to see a light brown stallion with a brown and green mane, his eyes were green and he had a cutie mark resembling a coconut cup with a straw and umbrella in it.

Luna smiled “Here, what is that ball, it's light, yet colorful?” she hoofed the ball back to him, as he looked at her curiously.

The stallion looked over his beach ball. “It's a beach ball, your highness, have you never seen one before?” his reply was Luna shaking her head

“It's just a beach ball your highness, it's meant to be played with, it's more for fun than hurting ponies. Sorry it got out of control, your highness.” he looked down in shame waiting for her judgment, yet it never came.

Luna was curious, he had an accent not accustomed to the west “what's your name and where do you come from? Your accent sounds familiar?”

The pony Smiled “my names Baysick, i’m visiting here from Baltimare, i heard the beaches in the west were great so i just had to come here and so far they’re living up to their reputation. Well that is until a strange ship ran aground”

This peeked Luna's interest, so much so she ignored the arousal from her armor chafing against her marehood “shipwreck, do you know where it is? My team and I were tasked with searching for it!”

Baysick smiled, ever since he found the shipwreck, many ill creatures have been popping up now and again, well except a biped with pointed ears looking for this Dalish clan. Whatever that is? His smile soon turned into a frown, true he did know where it was, but the mayor closed down the beaches when the first victim, a young colt died from being exposed to toxic blood.

“Yeah , I know where it is, your highness, but the mayor closed the beaches down, he didn't want other ponies to fall ill, so he did what he thought was right.” Luna hearing this nodded, the mayor was wise to do that, now it didn't matter. The only way to stop this illness from spreading is to figure out where this ship came from and find a cure, if there is any?

“Baysick, i need you to go to the mayor and let him know i wish to speak with him, inform him i’ll be there in ten minutes, after my meeting and if it goes smoothly. I want you to lead me to the shipwreck!” Baysick nodded and went to do his task, while Luna, feeling her marehood flare up with arousal again, went to the hotel to deal with the annoyance.

After taking her armor off, which gave Snapshot the most uncomfortable erection after sitting on his balls on the ride over, Luna made her way towards the town hall. The walk over enlightened the princess, it's not often she trotted through the town she sought to build all those years ago. Out of the corner of her eye, though she caught sight of a shadowy figure standing in an alleyway, she didn't know who it was, but she saw the distinct mussel of a stallion, along with his purple coat. She veered out of the way of a temple cleric for the lunar temple, looking back to where the mysterious stallion was, to her surprise he was no longer there.She shook her head “i knew i should’ve had coffee this morning” she mumbled to herself continuing towards the town hall.

Luna sat in the mayor's office as he paced in front of her, she told him of their situation and he was damn right adamant on keeping the beaches closed. While he thought Luna painfully touched her muzzle, the receptionist Magenta Dusk gave her another slugger after waking her up. ‘Damn-’ Luna thought wincing ‘-i won't be able to smell lavender anytime soon!-’ then a positive thought came to her ‘-course I'd be spared of my sister's ass blasts, thanks to her cakey diet. Fat bitch’. She winced again touching it, however to her misfortune on how dusty the room is she felt that sudden urge ‘ugh, oh stars no’.

“I just can't permit it, your highness,” the mayor replied. This was enough to distract her from her on coming sneeze, she could see his worry and began to reassure him.

“I understand your need to protect your ponies, but whatever is causing these attacks came from that crashed ship!” she watched Crestfall stare out his room window in thought, then sighed.

“Two hours-” he said turning to her “-you have two hours to investigate, after that i’m closing the beaches again! Is that understood!?” Luna gave him a curt nod, understanding clearly. Turning back to look out his window, Luna left to inform her squad, right after she closed the door though did her sneeze come.

-AACHOOOO-

“AAAHHH, BUCKING COCK THAT HURT!!”

After gathering her team and putting her armor on, she and her team, with the help of Baysick leading them, arrived at the beached wreck and the site was all but pretty.

“Well here we are” Baysick replied, showing the ponies and Luna the wrecked ship, before heading back to town.

What lied were bodies of both creatures and to lunas surprise humans, littered the sand before them, mixed in were a few bipeds that resembled humans, but were either short and stout, or had pointed ears. However what caught the eye of Luna and her team were the hideous looking creatures and the footprints leaving into the forest. She knew it was the creatures that survived and are now causing havoc, what caught her eye though was a separate set of tracks, these ones being much earlier. Snappshot seeing them immediately got to it and began to look over the tracks, on his foreknees he began to assess them.

“The tracks belong to a light bodied individual, he was the last survivor of this ship, and he seemed to be wounded” he looked back at the mares and other stallion looked at him confused.

“How can you tell the tracks belong to a male” Lotus spoke up, of course she doesn't have Snappshots tracking abilities, she highly doubts though somepony can determine one's sex through a print.

Snapp gave a quick explanation “the depth of the print indicates the survivor is male and by the way he was traversing, he seemed to have been wounded”

Luna nodded in understanding, but they had no time to play twenty questions. “Alright everypony, as much as I like to play guessing games, we’re on the clock. Crestfall has given us two hours till he closes the beaches again, so let's hop aboard and see what we can find!”

For a half an hour she and her team searched for clues to where this ship, or these dark creatures came from and sure enough found a plethora of information, sadly it was mostly waterlogged. Fortune though favored them when Lotus found what appeared to be a map, soon after a few more items were found in an airtight chest, such as books, two amulets and what appear to be artifacts of the religious kind.

Luna held the effigy in her magic “i never seen this statue before” she said holding the statue of a robed figure with a pointed crown holding what appeared to be a plate.

Lotus shook her head “not any minotaur i’ve seen before!”

Hard scotch came around the corner carrying a bottle of foreign booze “look what i’ve found in the captain's chambers, some sort of alcohol, ‘dragons piss’ it reads”

“Don't drink it Scotchy, you don't know how strong it is!?” Thorn warned, she knew it was futile to warn a alcoholic, but she at least tries

Taking a swig, Scotch exhaled as if he drank something hot “f-f-fuck me” was all he said before keeling over and passing out. The other four ponies looked at him surprised, Hard Scotch was always capable of keeping his liquor, even Luna knew this and he beat her in a drinking contest, she had such a hangover. After gathering what they needed, everypony soon returned to town, hard scotch snored on Thorns back, while Luna took a swig of dragons piss, she puckered her lips after tasting the bitter drink. ‘Buck that's stout, whoever created this drink has a strong pallet’ of the many things she and her team salvaged, they managed to find a crate of Dragons piss deciding to keep this bottle for her. She came to the decision that she’d part ways with half the crate to the militia and the other half to the royal guard, of course Celestia wouldn't agree to it. She had ways to convince her sister.

Luna was about to take another drink when she spotted the hooded stallion out of the corner of her eye, she looked at the rest of her team and called out “go on ahead, i’ll catch up!” Snappshot gave a nod and continued towards the carriage with the mares and Scotch in tow.

Heading over to the figure, who in turn moved towards an alleyway, the two finally met, out of sight from the rest of the town, Luna started demanding answers. “Spill it stallion whoever you are, why are you following me!?”

For a moment there was no reply, then he spoke “there is more than meets the eye your highness, i found him”

Luna looked at him curiously “found who!?”

Another slight pause “an important figure, i can't say more here! What I can say is the Equestrian Elite are throwing a victory party in ponyville today!”

Luna raised her brow, her interest peaked, ever since she found out about the Equestrian Elite, she was appalled at what they did: slavery, assassinations, murder, fraud, tax hikes, foalknapping, rape and many other charges. Luna made it her mission to put an end to this organization, now they’re in ponyville for some victory party, what she didn't know. Her question would give her an answer though.

“Why are they in ponyville-” she asked the stallion “-whats so important about the town?!”

The stallion began to explain “the Elite believe ponyville is blemish to Equestria, it holds one of the apple farms in the nation and holds a prominent trade of zap apple jam. Not only that, her Highness Celestia holds the town in high regard, viewing it as a town not only in diversity, but as a town of friendship. The Elite see ponyville as a threat, but recently my ‘contact’ informed me of a party, for some sort of victory. I tell you this, because my contact is planning to assault the place at night. The place is called the Ruby manor and word is high targets of the elite are supposed to be there!”

The name made Luna do a double take “the ruby manor, one of my agents is there, Turbulent spear, i tasked him to get information on the Elite in that place”

“Turbulent spear-” the stallion replied in question “-isn't he the pony who can't keep his cock in his sheath?!”

Luna nervously chuckled “(clears throat) uuuhhh yeah, he is”

She saw the stallion slowly nod, then questioned him “i never got your name? Who are you and why tell me all this”

The stallion looked around as if someone was watching “not hear you Highness, as we speak spies move against both of us! I’ll give my name in due time, in three days meet me at the castle of the two sisters-” he turns to leave “-make sure you're not followed! Until we meet again” before Luna can get a word in edgewise he disappeared into the shadows, she stood there for a moment in thought. ‘First the equestrian elite, then these dark creatures, now the possible existence of humans and other races! What in the whole wide world of equestria is going on!?’ she shook her head, preventing herself from going insane ‘one thing at a time!’ she thought, before heading out to catch up to her team.

Author's Note

Here it is chapter 6, let me know what you think, please R&R and comment below, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Who is this shady stallion and what does he know and these tracks, who do they belong to and what are these amulets found on the ship. All will be explained in due time, Please give a shout out to Baysick for allowing me to use his oc.