The Nightmare Potion

Testing Begins

Inspired by Lil-Miss-Jay

It was early Sunday afternoon when Shining Armor’s chariot touched down in Ponyvillie town square. After taking out his bags, he thanked the two pegasi drivers and they were off and headed back to Canterlot. Shining had finally gotten some time off and was able to come visit his sister in Ponyvillie. He pulled out a folded sheet of paper with directions to the library. He had never been to Ponyvillie before and he hadn’t had much time to talk with his sister since the wedding, so this was a great opportunity for some sibling bonding.

Shining walked through town getting some “ooh’s and ahs” from the locals; he was royalty after all. After a little stumbling around he finally got his bearings and swiftly made his way to the library. Shining took a moment to marvel at the architecture. Buildings in Canterlot were all built with stone, the idea of a building made out of hollowed out tree hand never crossed his mind. Shining went up and knocked on the door. “Come in,” said Twilight from inside. Shining lifted up his bags and used his magic to open the door.

Inside, Twilight and four of her friends were sitting at a round table. There was a large glass jar with what looked to be red wine in the center. Everyone who was in looked over to him as he walked in. “Shining!” shouted Twilight as she jumped up and ran over to him.

“Hey Twilie,” said Shining as he sat his bags on the floor. He and Twilight shared a good hug, while Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Pinkie all waved hello form the table.

“I’m so glad you’re here,” said Twilight, “Sorry we can’t get to visiting right away. Something came up at the last minute but it shouldn’t take long.” Twilight thought for a second, “Maybe you can help out as well.”

“Oh,” said Shining, waling over to the table, “What’s going on?”

“We’ve been wondering that ourselves,” Rainbow Dash chimed in, “It feels like we’ve been waiting for hours for Twilight to tell us.” She crossed her arms and flopped down on the table.

“Rainbow, we’ve only been waiting three minutes,” said Applejack, “and you even showed up late.”

“Anyway,” started Twilight, “I think we are ready to begin.” Twilight’s friends all perked up and Shining sat down in an empty chair. “Thank you all for coming on such short notice. I’m sure you have questions.” Pinkie raised her hand. “Yes Pinkie.”

“Where’s Fluttershy?” asked Pinkie.

“Oh, I sort of didn’t invite her considering the topic of the meeting,” answered Twilight, hoping that would satisfy Pinkie. “I’ve called you all here to…”

“You can’t really say ‘all of you’ without Fluttershy here,” interrupted Pinkie, “Seriously Twilight, that’s just plain rude.”

“I’ll explain why in a minute,” said Twilight. “Zecora was by earlier today and…”

“I mean, how would you feel if Fluttershy invited all of us to something but not you?” asked Pinkie, interrupting again.

“Pinkie,” pleaded Twilight, “please let me finish. Zecora asked me to test a potion for her. The thing is that the…”

“The thing is that you would feel awful if Fluttershy didn’t invite you to something,” interrupted Pinkie again. “I know I would feel just awful, like the time I thought you guys were avoiding coming to my party and I got really moody and started to spy on what you were doing. Do you think Fluttershy is spying on us right now? Maybe we should…”

Rainbow Dash couldn’t take anymore. She grabbed one of the apples that had been set out on the table for a snack and shoved it into Pinkie’s mouth. Pinkie started chewing, enjoying the taste, but more importantly, she finally shut up.

Twilight waited until Rainbow Dash looked back at her. “The thing it that the potion causes nightmares.”

Twilight’s friends all when “Oh,” at the same time, realizing why Fluttershy wasn't there. “But if Zecora knows it causes nightmares, why does she need us to test it?” asked Rarity.

“The potion is supposed to stop the user from having bad dreams,” answered Twilight, “but so far Zecora has been the only one to try it. In statistics, the larger your sample size, the closer you get to the true answer. We need a larger N value to find out if the potion fills its intended purpose.” Applejack raised her hand. “Yes Applejack?”

“Yeah, um… what does that mean?”

Twilight sighed, “It means Zecora may have been a one-off. The potion may work just fine for everyone else but gave her a bad dream for some reason.” Applejack and everyone else looked like they were starting to understand. “So, only if more ponies try it, and it stops them from having bad dreams, then we will know if it works.”

“So you want all of Ponyvillie to try it?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“I figured we’d just start with us,” answered Twilight. “If we all get the same result, then we can be almost sure that it works or doesn’t. Although we’ll need to keep testing if it seems to work to make sure.”

“So, do we just drink it now?” asked Shining.

“Zecora isn’t sure how long the potion lasts or if daily activity may affect if it works. So I would say take some home with you and drink it a little while before you go to bed,” said Twilight. “Make note about what you did during the day and your dreams if you can remember.”

The other ponies at the table all looked around hesitantly at each other and le large jar of the potion. “Of course,” continued Twilight, “Being a scientific study, you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to.” Twilight looked a bit nervous, hoping her friends wouldn’t back out.

“I’ll do it,” Shining said confidently.

“Me too,” said Rainbow Dash, “I not scared of any bad dreams!”

“I guess I might as well,” answered Applejack, “Otherwise Rainbow won’t let me hear the end of it.”

“Well, it does have I nice color to it,” said a hesitant Rarity, “and it is for a good cause.”

“I’ll help,” said Pinkie bouncing up and down in her seat, “it is just dreams after all.”

“Thank you all so much,” said Twilight, “I really appreciate it, and I’m sure Zecora will as well.”

“Are you sure you don’t want to ask Fluttershy?” asked Pinkie again.

Twilight lowered her eyelids, “Do you want the nice answer, or the honest answer?”

Twilight then divvied up the potion for everyone. She gave the big jar to Applejack in case her siblings wanted to participate, keeping enough for here and shining in a pitcher. After saying good-bye to everyone, Twilight helped Shining take his bags up to the guest room. Shining couldn’t help but notice that something seemed to be missing. “Hey,” he asked, “Where’s Spike?”

“Oh, he left for Canterlot last night for the annual Scribe’s Union meeting,” answered Twilight. “He said that they planned for it to go a few days this time.”

“What happened last time?”

“They didn’t get anything done because they couldn’t decide who was going to take meeting minutes. He said that the fighting got so bad they had to call the police.”

Shining and Twilight spent the rest of the day walking around Ponyvillie catching up with one another. Every now and then someone would ask to be introduced to Shining and of course Mayor wanted a picture with him. Once they made it back to the library they both felt like they were about to lose their voices from talking so much. Had been dark for at least an hour by the time they got back so they decided to call it a night. The pitcher on the table instantly reminded Twilight about the experiment.

“It’s a good thing I left that out,” said Twilight, “Otherwise I would have completely forgotten.” She poured both Shining and herself a glass. Shining drank his right down while Twilight carefully jotted down notes on everything from the potion’s color and smell, to the aftertaste. Shining swore his sister would stay up all night if something interested her enough; the only thing that kept him from dragging her to her room was that for the experiment she would need to go to sleep. Shining changed and brushed his teeth. As he went to the guest room he saw that Twilight was no longer down in the library and must have finished taking her notes. Shining lay down in the unfamiliar bed. He thought he wouldn’t fall asleep because was so mentally stimulated by the events that day, but he fell asleep at once.

***

Shining Armor and Princes Cadence were settling down for bed in their home in Canterlot. They had gotten settled into a routine, although Cadence liked to keep things fresh. She would occasionally get new sexy pajamas and grill Shining with questions about how she looked in them. She loved getting him all pent up because it only made him releasing his frustration in bed all the better for both of them. “You coming to bed Cadence?” called Shining from the bedroom.

“Just a second,” she answered back. Shining sunk down into their large bed, it didn’t sound like she hand anything new tonight. Shining closed his eyes and waited for his wife to come and settle into bed with him. He heard the lights go off in the other room and waited for Cadence to get into her side of the bed. Instead, she crawled up on top of him. She didn’t have on any new pajamas, but she was wearing a sexy set that she had gotten earlier. “Sorry I don’t have anything new to show you,” she said with a twinkle in her eye, “But that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun anyway.”

Shining smiled and hugged her. “So how do you want to start?”

“Kissing would be nice.” Shining grinned and pulled her close, their eyes closing as their lips met. Being married to royalty and being the captain of the guard was hard work, but it had its perks, and right now he was enjoying one of them. He and Cadence started going at it with a little more enthusiasm. They both dropped their jaws and let their tongues play with each other. Cadence seemed particularly skilled tonight, her tongue seemed to be able to reach and wrap around anything. Shining figured her better return the favor and took the initiative.

He recoiled and shuttered when he pricked his tongue on something sharp. Did Cadence have something stuck in her teeth? Shining opened one of his eyes. He wasn’t kissing Cadence; whoever it was had a black coat and long greenish-blue hair. Shining suddenly recognized who it was! He threw her straight up into the air. “Chrysalis!” he shouted.

Chrysalis used her wings to easily catch herself before she fell. She was wearing little more than rages fashioned into a crude dress. “Took you long enough to notice,” she chuckled, her sharp fangs showing in her grin.

“What are you doing here!?!” shouted Shining after jumping out of the bed, “Where’s Cadence!?!”

“She’s back in Canterlot, safe and sound,” answered Chrysalis sounding a bit disgusted. “After what happened, It’s not like Changelings can get in their anyway.”

“But this is Canterlot.”

Chrysalis chuckled again, “Oh is it?” Her curved horn started glowing with a fluorescent green color. Shining looked up; the colors and textures of the finely cut stone of the ceiling seemed to wash away leaving the rough, black rock surface of a cave. Chrysalis hovered down to the floor and started to change the furniture in the room to the same black, blue and green colors while making it more “Changeling” in appearance. Shining continued to stare as the walls seemed to melt around him.

As the colors of what he was now sure wasn’t his bedroom continued to give way, what had been windows opened up to be tunnels. As soon as the openings were big enough, swarms or Changelings and immediately flew in at Shining. Shining steeled himself and ignited the magic in his horn; he wasn’t captain of the guard for nothing. He unleashed a hail of magical bolts into the pack of Changelings, taking out multiple targets with one shot. The Changelings began to fight back, spitting sticky globs of green goo from their mouths. Shining dodged and used his magic to create shields to defend himself, all while continuing his barrage of magic missiles, but the Changelings just kept coming. It seemed like the battle was an even match.

One Changeling happened to catch Shining’s eye. It was bigger than the others and its horn seemed more developed. It fired up its own magic and shot a glob that was a few shades of green darker than the ammunition of its compatriots. Shining conjured up a shield of force to block it, but to Shining’s disbelief, when it met the glob it seemed to dispel and dissolve. The glob hit Shining in the center of his head, completely covering his horn. Shining felt all of his enchantments fizzle and the goo absorbing any spell he tried to cast.

The hoard of Changelings was on him in an instant. Shining did his best to keep them off of him with punches and kicks but they were too many and too fast. Within seconds they had stripped him of his nightwear, and Shining realized they wanted him alive. Using their impacts they forced him back against the wall, and used their slime to cement his wrists to the wall and his hooves to the ground as well as two globs covering his cutie marks. With their prisoner now secure, the Changelings left carrying away the scraps of his clothing and their dead and injured just as Chrysalis finished removing the illusion on the last piece of furniture in the room.

Shining swallowed hard; he was now alone, and naked, with Chrysalis, the nastiest Changeling of all. Alone with her prey Chrysalis walked over to him, taking her time as she went. “Sorry for the rough treatment,” she said jokingly. “But you have to admit, that’s a good adaptation,” she indicated his horn.

“What are you going to do to me?” asked Shining, scowling at her. “Brainwash me and send me back in to deactivate the barrier? I’ll die first!”

“You’re so noble,” laughed Chrysalis. “Good as that idea is, and yes I did think of that, Cadence breaking my enchantment has made you immune to it. So short of possession, there is no way I can control your actions.”

“Then why have you brought me here?”

“Sustenance. Changelings survive on love remember?”

“Without your enchantment, there is no way you’ll ever get me to love you!”

Chrysalis’s dress burnt off in a green flame, giving Shining a full view of her curvy black figure. She was a little taller than he was and her black coat was accented by her green nipples on her large breasts and the flesh of her pussy that was the same color. “That’s fine,” she grabbed Shining’s chin with one of her clawed hands, “I was just going to take it anyway.” She then kissed him. Shining tried to clench his mouth shut, but she dug her claws into his cheek to force him to open it. As soon as the gap in his teeth was wide enough, her tongue shot inside and stared feeling his. He could tell now that her tongue was forked and prehensile, like a snakes tongue, and was exploring the entirety of his mouth.

“Stop!” Shining grunted as best he could.

Chrysalis let up enough so she could speak, “Why? You were loving this a minute ago, remember?” She went right back at it, not even giving Shining a chance to catch his breath. Chrysalis finally let up on him after a while. Shining dropped his head and panted to catch his breath. Chrysalis licked her lips, “Mmm, I forgot how much I liked being with you before the wedding. So juicy.” She played with his hair a bit. “Come now, we’re nowhere near finished.”

Chrysalis ran her hands over his arms and chest feeling his muscles. She kissed the nape of his neck, nipping him a little with her fangs and chuckling when he shivered. Her tongue reached his nipples well before her mouth did, flicking and tickling them causing Shining to squirm in his bindings. She sucked on them and pricked them with her fangs, loving the groans that Shining made. “You must really hate me,” gasped Shining, “Torturing me like this. Didn’t you get enough when you had me hypnotized?”

Chrysalis looked up at him, “Actually, you were a good groom and insisted that we hold off until after the wedding. I really wanted to do this, but try as I might I couldn’t convince you.” She let Shining chew on that thought while she licked around his navel. “All I said was I didn’t love you.” She grabbed his cock, which to his horror was fully erect because of her teasing. “With a hot body like yours, how could I possibly hate you?”

“Don’t do this,” Shining pleaded, “I’m begging you!”

Chrysalis looked up at him again, “I’ve wanted this for so long.” Her tongue slid out of her mouth and wrapped around his tender pink flesh. She then used her tongue to pull his cock into her mouth, the sensation gutting Shining. Chrysalis moaned in pleasure as she sucked on him, using one hand to pump the base of his shaft. She pulled his cock out of her mouth, “I can please you in ways Cadence never could.” She dug her claws into his shaft a little, causing him to gasp and his cock to pulse. Chrysalis smiled at his reaction and used her forked tongue to probe around his cock. She flicked it all over his head and where it met the shaft, she even pushed one of the points into the opening at the tip. Shining could only squirm in a mixture of pleasure, frustration and pain as she teased him. She ran her sharp teeth over his cock, gently scratching it before starting to suck it again.

Chrysalis went at it harder than before, taking him into her mouth faster and deeper. She used one hand to grab and fondle his balls. Shining could feel himself staring to get close, but he did his best to hold back. Chrysalis could sense it as well. She stopped sucking him for a second, “It’s alright. You can come,” and started on him again. Shining didn’t want to come; he was married and Chrysalis was essentially raping him. He at least owed to Cadence to hold out. But Chrysalis had one more trick up her sleeve.

She slid he tongue out the bottom of her mouth along his shaft. It then slithered to his balls and fondled and tickled one of them while she did the same to the other with her hand. It was more than Shining could take; he just couldn’t hold out any longer. Shining threw his head back and groaned as his orgasm rocked his body. He could feel the contents of his cock emptying into Chrysalis’s mouth as she drank down all of his spunk with a pleased moan.

After sucking the last drop from him, Chrysalis stood up to address him. “You must have really been holding back, that was quite a load. It should tide me over for a while now.” Shining head was hanging as he tried to catch his breath; he had never felt himself shoot out that much spunk before. His stomach felt hollow, from both coming and from breaking his vow to Cadence.

“Please,” he said weakly, “Please let me go.”

“Not a chance,” said Chrysalis, “It was hard enough to get you here in the first place, but your love is so good I can’t just let it go.” She kissed and licked his cheek while rubbing her breasts on his chest. “Pony love is always best when it’s given willingly, even if you have to use trickery.” She nibbled on his ear. “But, there’s just something satisfying about taking it from someone who’s unwilling. Plus, that’s when you get the physical sensation.”

Chrysalis stroked his cock, “I think you’re about ready again.” Shining was expecting her to start sucking on him again but she turned away and her horn started to glow.

“What are you doing?” asked Shining.

“Getting something more comfortable,” she answered. She levitated a lounge chair over and set it on the ground a few feet in front of him and sat down. “There’s more than one way to feed on a ponies love.”

Shining felt some of his strength returning, “You want to…”

“Well, I need to hatch more Changelings after you shot them down, don’t I? Haven’t you been trying for kids with Cadence?” Chrysalis spread her legs. Shining could smell her thick pheromones in the air. She spread her labia with two fingers; she was slick and green inside and the smell became stronger. “Come, I’ll make you a father.”

Her magic flared up again and the globs of green goo detached from their anchor points and started pulling him towards her. With his strength back, Shining fought her every step of the way. Eventually, she forced him over to her. She planted his hooves on the floor between her legs and his hands to the arms of the chair. “No!” he shouted defiantly, “I won’t give in to you!”

“I’m not asking for your love,” said a sly Chrysalis, “I’m demanding it!” The globs on his flanks flared up with magic and forced his hips forward. His cock plunged all the way to the base into Chrysalis’s folds. Shining cried in defeat while Chrysalis let out a pleased moan in triumph. She took the fingers that she had been using to hold herself open and stuck them into Shining’s mouth. His eyes opened wide as she forced him to taste her juices; it was bittersweet in both senses of the word. “Cadence was lucky to have a colt like you,” Chrysalis teased, “So passionate, yet submissive.”

Chrysalis used her magic and made Shining start thrusting in and out of her pussy. Once she got the rhythm going she started to play with her breasts and nipples with one hand while rubbing her clit with the other. Shining couldn’t believe the sensation. He felt Chrysalis’s magic waning and eventually stop, but he continued to pump into her on his own. “Why does it feel so good?” he asked. “It’s like my body has a mind of his own.”

Chrysalis chuckled, “Sin is a guilty pleasure. It always feels best when it’s wrong.” She leaned in and held his chin up so he was looking into her eyes. “You like cheating on Cadence don’t you? You love fucking me. Admit it.” Shining closed his eyes and clenched his teeth, he could feel himself getting closer and speeding up. Chrysalis’s pussy clamped down on him pushing him to the brink. “Don’t you dare pull out of me,” Chrysalis threatened, “Now COME!” Shining cried as he shot his spunk into her; why did it fell so good!?!

***

Shining gasped and sat up in the guest bed. He panted as he slowly scanned the room with his eyes. He sighed in relief realizing he was back in reality. He noticed something and looked in his pajamas. He had jizzed his boxers. Shining swallowed hard; the fact that it had happened was strange enough, but that it happened when he was dreaming about Chrysalis was disturbing.

Shining went to the bathroom to clean up and change. On his way back he looked through the crack in Twilight’s bedroom door. She was shivering and whimpering in her sleep. Shining walked in and gently shook her shoulder to wake her up. “Twilie? Are you alright?”

Twilight quickly came to. “Shining. You’re awake. Did you have a bad dream too? What do you remember?”

Shining remembered every detail in his dream, but didn’t want to tell Twilight everything. “Um, Chrysalis was there. What about you?”

“Oh Shining, it was awful! There were no books anywhere in the world. There was only this thick plastic sheet. They called it the ‘Kindle’.”