By the time Tinker and Ember made it out of the caves, Ember had returned to her usual body, and Tinker had finally gone soft. He'd been forced to resort to cleaning themselves off with magic, but it would have to be good enough. The view they were greeted to as they emerged into the sunlight was, well, rather terrifying.

Torch had moved off of his 'seat', for once. His hind feet were set on the ground far below, and his front feet were on the seat itself, putting his gargantuan head directly at eye-level of the tunnel they came out of. Of course, that's why Ember had gone to it, as she knew he had likely gotten up if he was yelling for her.

It still didn't make it any less frightening, which explained why her tail was wrapped just as tightly as Tinker's was, as much of it as could reach with them standing a foot or so apart. The tails were one thing, but she was not going to be holding onto him like some sort of 'scared little pony'.

Of course, plenty of other dragons had gathered, hovering in the air behind Torch, and Tinker wasn't sure which was worse, the one huge dragon, or all the eyes of those smaller dragons pointed at him. Thankfully, once Torch had view of his daughter, he leaned back enough to glare at the other dragons, saying, "Do you mind?"

Tinker wasn't sure if it was comforting, or worrying, the speed at which the other dragons rapidly dispersed. Torch let out a slow sigh, then he nodded in Tinker's direction as he spoke. His voice was faint, a deep rumble from low in his chest, but Torch had centuries to master the art of speaking without his voice carrying for miles. "You could have simply told me what you were up to, rather than making me worry that you'd been dragged off to some dismal part of these old caves and stabbed, Ember" he growled.

Thankfully, his daughter had better sense than to argue with him about what type of knife would have to be used to pierce her scales. She lowered her head, saying, "I... I know..."

Then, Tinker and Ember both felt the familiar push of another mind against their own, though they both knew it by different names. "Still, I'm glad that you've found someone that you trust..." he said, as the faintest hint of a smile tugged at his expression.

"Wait, you know mindtalk?" Tinker asked wordlessly.

"And you didn't tell me that you knew it!" Ember huffed, shooting Tinker a brief look as he weakly smiled a bit.

A soft chuckle rumbled out of Torch's chest in the real world, and he continued; "I suppose I should have expected a hybrid from you, but this is the first one I've met who seems to be able to change that part of himself".

"W-Wait, you can tell?" Ember nervously asked.

Tinker hesitated for a moment, then he shrugged, before saying "Yeah, I uh... I'm a dragonpony, and... I can change myself to either become a full dragon or a full pony, it only seemed right to become a dragon before I came here..."

Torch nodded, a tiny motion for him, but well visible for the two smaller dragons. "A wise choice, picking a mate with insight into both sides of himself... to be honest, the complaints I hear about ponykind are exhausting to listen to, ponies may seem cowardly at times, but I've lived long enough to see the entire world brought to its knees by their hooves, and even you have lived to see them save it from the brink of destruction" he said, with another small nod towards Ember.

"I'm... sorry, about not telling you, it wasn't even that he's half pony, I didn't even know you'd be able to tell, but I just..." Ember began to say, before Torch brushed off her words with his own.

Smirking enough that his teeth began to show, Torch said, "If you had been hoping to keep him a secret, then I would have chosen somewhere that didn't amplify that scream of yours out of every tunnel in this rock".

While Ember and Tinker both began to turn a hot red, Torch let out a laugh, his massive wings briefly fluttering behind himself. "I had almost been expecting you to wait for that little dragon to grow up, the one who grew up with the princess, but this one seems fine" he said, as Tinker offered a weak smile in return.

"Just know, Tinker, that you do not want to see what happens if you break my daughter's heart" Torch said, though it seemed more like a warning than an actual threat. "But it's up to you whether you consider the larger threat to be Ember, or myself".

Ember couldn't help but grin, saying, "Oooh, I haven't even begun to show off my strength yet, we've, ah, been busy".

Torch finally let the magical connection fade, swapping back to his real voice as he said "Really? You haven't thrown a single house-sized boulder over his head yet?"

"Well, no! And I don't show off like that!" she complained.

"Not even a single petrified tree snapped in half?" he asked instead, starting to grin.

It was a while before Ember and Tinker managed to escape the fatherly teasing, which left Ember's snout rather scrunchy. As they left out through a different tunnel, taking to the air, she said "I have no idea how he could tell you were a dragonpony... but I uh, let's get away from here a bit before you change back, okay?"

"Why... why am I-" he began to ask, only to be cut off.

"You've had your fun, you big, sexy dragon..." she said, and as she began to smirk, she added "Now it's my turn to have a cute little pony plaything to toy with..."

"O-Oh, right..." Tinker sheepishly said.

Once they were far enough away that none of the dragons would be able to hear them, Ember grinned a bit as she looked to Tinker and asked, "So, heh... what do you actually think of Fizzle?"

"Fizz... uhhh, he was the white dragon, right?" Tinker asked. When she nodded, he said, "Oh, I... I mean, I am into cute guys like him, but... I have you..."

Ember snorted, saying, "it's not like there's a limit on how many mates you can have, you just have to make sure that you're actually able to handle all of the dragons whose tails you've felt wrapped around yours~".

Turning quite red, Tinker said, "W-Well, yeah..."

Ember then sighed, saying, "Teasing you is fun, but... well... I think you're the first dragon I've met that I'd trust to actually be gentle with the poor guy..."

"Oh..." Tinker softly said. "Well... yeah, I mean, if you're okay with it, and if he actually would want to... would you still call it going out? I don't think I really know how dragons would date, now that I'm thinking about it..."

Ember couldn't help but grin over at him as she brushed her wing against his, saying, "Oh, I am gonna have so much fun taking you out on dates then~".

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Tinker's wings didn't have much time to recover after the flight to the dragon lands, so he only made it halfway home before he had to resort to slowly gliding his way down to a grassy field. As he and Ember landed, he let his wings sag as he groaned a bit, saying, "Yeah, I'm out..."

Ember giggled, saying, "Well, I know what to do, but you've gotta change yourself over to a pony for it..."

"You sure...?" Tinker asked, figuring she probably meant to just carry him. When she just nodded, he gave her a sheepish grin, and he lit up his horns... just like before, he began to glow white, and Ember put her wing up to block her eyes until it had passed. When she lowered her wing, she couldn't help but smirk as she looked down at Tinker.

The most obvious difference was the sudden lack of muscles. Tinker was certainly still more bulky than someone like Fizzle, but he would fit right in with other ponies now. The next-most obvious was all the features that had changed or gone missing. His large dragon wings had become smaller batpony wings, his two horns had become one unicorn horn, and sadly, his tail had gone missing, replaced with a pony's tail that just barely avoided brushing against the ground.

As she looked to his snout, she noticed that he now possessed pony eyes, and as he smiled shyly up at her, she noted his ponyish teeth, too. "Oh, you are going to be perfect~" Ember quietly growled, smirking a little bit. Before Tinker could really say anything, he was whisked into the air by his dragoness, who only offered a giggle in response to his frightened squeak.

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As Tinker was pulled up the stairs of his own house by Ember's tight grip on his hand, he said "Y-You don't have to pull me through the whole house!"

As Ember brought him over to his bed, she hugged him for a moment, grinning as she said "That's because I just don't have the collar yet~... and this time, I'll get on the bed..."

Tinker's cheeks bloomed with a warm redness, and he could already feel himself starting to get hard... As he looked back at Ember, the dragoness was just finishing up her own transformation, and she slowly rubbed each of her boobs as he watched. Sadly, they weren't for him right now... and he found it out as she climbed onto his bed, only to sit down at one end of it. As she spread her legs open wide, she smirked over at Tinker as she commanded "Now take off your glasses...~"

Tinker's hand shook slightly as he put his glasses aside, and carefully, Tinker climbed onto the bed. By the time he got himself sitting on the bed, his cock was right back to full hardness, drooling cum down its length as the spell from earlier continued its work.

Tinker saw Ember reaching out, but it wasn't until her hand went over his head that he realized what she was doing. He squeaked as the dragon grabbed his horn, dragging his snout between her legs. "And you actually have magic that lets you breathe when you can't get air in...?" she asked, having paused before actually doing anything to him.

"Y-Yeah, I do..." Tinker said, giving her a brief glance only to shudder at the sight of the way she was looking down at him, over her boobs no less.

"Well, make your mistress cum then~" Ember growled, as she squished Tinker's snout against her pussy. Right away, Tinker dragged his tongue through Ember's wet folds as he felt shudders run through his body, before he then wormed it as deep inside of her as it could go.

Sadly, as a pony, Tinker had lost the ridiculously long tongue of a dragon, and yet... to Ember, it was just as hot. Sure, she still had Tinker hungrily dragging his tongue along every inch of her pussy that he could reach, but she was also getting off to her fantasies of grabbing a pony by the horn and mashing their cute little snout between her legs, which was indeed as hot as she always imagined.

Of course, since Tinker couldn't go deep, he went for something else instead. The first time he ground his tongue across Ember's clit, she gasped, and while half of her attempted to pull him back, the half that wanted more only smushed his snout against her even harder.

With a better avenue of attack, Tinker alternated between dragging his tongue through her pussy as deep as he could go and slowly dragging his tongue over her clit, making sure to pause and grind down onto it every so often so she had an even harder time trying to adapt.

When Ember began to breathe heavier, Tinker knew he was close, but she even gave him a more obvious warning. "M-Make me cum...~!" she gasped, as she put one hand behind his head, the other gripping his horn as she began to weakly hump against his snout.

Tinker noticed her legs lifting into the air, and excitement ran through him as he set to work focusing only on her clit, working the sensitive nub with his tongue to bring her to the climax she commanded from him. As she hit the peak, Tinker's most clear indicator wasn't the loud moan she let out, or the flood of slippery juices that he was forced to swallow.

No, the obvious indicator was Ember's thighs as she closed them onto his head, making him shudder as his snout was trapped in place by the two powerful legs on either side. He could barely even see from his position at Ember's pussy, but something about being trapped as she flooded his mouth with her juices just sent strong shivers through his body.

Just because she came, however, didn't mean Tinker was done. Ember kept him there for a while, even after her climax had ended, and she only released him once she had a new order to give him. "A-All right... go fetch me that leash and collar over there..." Ember said, pointing across to Tinker's dresser.

Obeying without question, Tinker slid off the bed to go grab them, but as he held the collar closer, he said, "O-Oh, uh, this is one of the enchanted ones, lemme get one that's..."

"And what kind of enchantment?"

He nervously looked back at it, reading what he'd written on the inside, and he said, "Oh, oh dear, it's... this is the one that uh, whoever wears it isn't able to cum until the pony they're in bed with does, and once that happens, they're forced to cum, and they won't stop until the other one does..."

Ember giggled, saying, "Sounds good to me, put it on...~"

Tinker struggled not to look as aroused as he did snapping the collar onto himself, then the leash onto it, but he couldn't help himself. As he walked back to the bed, handing over the other end of the leash, he said "Y-You know I'm gonna have to put you in one of these next time I'm a dragon..."

"Good luck with that, hehe..." Ember said, as she gave his leash a tug, coaxing him onto the bed. Rolling onto her side, Ember raised one of her legs, then she pulled Tinker closer again with the leash. As Tinker hooked her leg over his shoulder, Ember said, "Now, make your dragoness cum again~" as she felt his flare squish against her folds.

With a shaky, obedient nod, Tinker thrusted inside of Ember, moaning from the sensations of her squeezing his cock tightly. He thrusted as deep as he could go, but as his flare met her cervix, part of his cock was left out of her. As a pony, he had no knot, after all. Tinker decided to work with that, and as he began to thrust, he waited until he felt the softness of her cervix against his cock before he pulled back for a new thrust.

Ember held his leash tightly as he bucked into her, and while Tinker was a bit too focused to look down at her, Ember made sure to admire the view, of her pony thrusting into her with a leash and collar strapped onto him. Still, though... Ember wanted... more. Not exactly more of what Tinker was doing, though. No, she wanted... to really feel like she was 'using' him, in a way.

"Mmhhh... n-now, pull out..." Ember said, tugging the leash to get Tinker's attention. He whined a little bit, but as Ember squeezed his cock, he reluctantly pulled out of her, giving her a somewhat confused look as she rolled onto her back again. Ember scooted back until she was once more in a sitting position, then she smirked at Tinker as she said "All right, come here..."

"Oh, a uh, a position change, eheh..." Tinker said, as he scooted close again. As he nudged his flare against her, however, Ember reached forwards and grabbed on tightly to his hips.

Flashing him a smirk, she said "Now just hold on~" as she pulled his hips forwards, shoving his cock to the hilt inside of herself. She clamped down tightly around him as he popped into her womb, and she continued to let out a pleasured hiss as she pulled him back out, only to ram his cock back inside.

Tinker didn't even know what to do as Ember began to roughly... fuck... herself? If he had known this was what she wanted to do, he might have offered to put on a set of panties with a portal inside, and give her a matching portal attached to a toy, and yet... having Ember use him as the toy was... hot.

As Ember shoved his hips back and forth with absolutely no signs of stopping, Tinker began to realize what her dad meant, though he wasn't able to dwell on anything for long with how good it felt. Problem was, Tinker couldn't cum... his cock began to flare, but until Ember hit her own orgasm, Tinker could only squirm and moan as his cock bucked inside of her, his balls starting to grow heavy with his pent-up seed.

Tinker let his front end collapse onto Ember as he hugged the dragoness around her neck, moaning into the air behind her as he tried to thrust along with her. It wasn't really his thrusting that set her off, it was the way he hugged her, trembling against her, his moans sounding so... submissive that finally had her caving in.

Ember shuddered as she rammed Tinker's hips against hers one last time, and with his flare trapped in her womb, she moaned as she hit orgasm, then Tinker let out a squeaky moan as the collar briefly shimmered, triggering his own orgasm as his cock bulged with cum and pumped it straight to Ember's womb.

As they rode out the orgasm, Ember took the time to massage Tinker's hips, squeezing his ass and rubbing his thighs as she steadily milked his cock dry. By the time her orgasm actually ended, Tinker could only sag in her arms with a soft wheeze, though it was followed by a quiet little giggle as he nuzzled her neck, so he was probably okay.

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Elsewhere in Ponyville, a white-furred unicorn softly hummed as she pulled her bra off, tossing it aside, climbing into bed. Then, once she was in the bed, she climbed onto her big purple lover, giggling softly as got into position.

That position being, of course, resting her head right in between two big, soft, purple princess pillows that Twilight would probably tell her were actually referred to as breasts.

"You didn't have to make that joke about drinking me, you know..." Twilight said, her stuffy tone of voice contrasting with the smile she wore as she gazed down at the mare.

"Oh, I know..." Rarity quietly hummed. "But I couldn't help myself..." she said, pouting up at the alicorn.

"....You're lucky I love you so much..."

"And you're lucky someone happened to slip up and tell me what Roselight was~".

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With a shimmer of magic, Tinker let out a soft sigh, running his hand through his chest fur. "I uh, there..." he said with a sheepish grin. "Finally fixed the uh, precum spell, and now I'm back to normal..."

"Well, come here then..." Ember quietly said, holding out her arms as she lay back on the bed. Blushing warmly, Tinker took one last look at the sunset outside, and he climbed into the bed with her. By the time he snuggled into her arms, he was already hard again, and both of them softly moaned as his cock once more sank inside of her.

This time, things were much slower. The lights were off, Ember's lust had been reduced to a campfire rather than a housefire, and both of them were growing tired. As the sun began to set, the two creatures locked lips to make out as Tinker slowly thrusted into his mate, taking them gradually to their shared orgasm rather than racing there as if in rut. Even as they eventually came, neither of them broke the kiss.

They would cuddle for a while, before Ember slowly rolled them over to put herself on top, so she could slowly ride Tinker while giving him each of her boobs so he could drink down all of the milk she'd produced since last time. To keep from pulling her nipple away, she opted to simply knot him inside of her, then slowly pull away until it slipped back out, only to sink back down, pushing his knot back inside of her.

After he'd drank his fill from both of her tits, Tinker would massage them as Ember continued to ride him, until they shared yet another climax in his bed, tails coiled together tightly as they embraced for another kiss. The next round would have them laying on their sides, and Tinker would pull his knot out of her so he could make deep, but slow thrusts into her, leaving his knot outside as he slowly pumped into her. But when he came, when they both came, he would stuff it right back inside, and their tightly wrapped tails would keep it there as they both rode out their pleasure.

Long after the sun went down, long after the two had lost count of how many rounds they had, the two creatures slowly pulled away from a shared kiss. As their tongues finally let go of each other, they smiled, Tinker and Ember both taking note of how close to falling asleep the other was.

"This was the best Hearth's Warming I've ever had, Ember...."

"Me too, Tinker..."

Author's Note

the real question is whether twi busted out the futa spell or not