All That Flickers is Not Hope

Countless scrunched-up bits of paper littered Daybreaker’s study floor as the fiery alicorn struggled to write a letter, her frustration growing with each failed attempt. She hated writing letters. It was something the old her did way too many times, constantly having to sign decrees about laws and laws about decrees, and even more. Thankfully, with this new superior Equestria she was building, she didn’t have to do any of those things. Her word was law, no need for bureaucratic platitudes.

But still, she had to write again now, and worst of all, to her Sister!
“I cannot believe I am doing this! Ugh!”
“Still, an alicorn by my side would be so powerful! I could reclaim Equestria with ease!”

Daybreaker then realized something, a massive flaw in her plan. If she gave Sapphire to Nightmare Moon, then what isn’t to say the Night Empress wouldn’t just use her tricks to make Sapphire obedient to only her, keeping the mare to herself. She needed a way to make sure that didn’t happen or that she could know if it did.

Then, something lit her mind!
“Oh Daybreaker you amazing being!”
“Nothing like a good old scrying spell, but more forceful!”

She paused her writing, an impish look replacing anger, as she decided to go pay her prisoner a visit, eager to test her brand new idea. Upon opening the door to her imperial chambers and entering, Daybreaker was able to get another look at Sapphire. The princess was still unconscious, keeping the same posture she was in from first being left there, though the puddle near her backside was definitely new, a result of being overstuffed by Daybreaker’s generous amount of cum. Though the other puddle near the Sapphire’s muzzle was also another discovery, but it was quite easy to deduce what that was.

Daybreaker’s smile grew upon seeing her prisoner’s state, yet she wasted no time getting closer to the sleeping mare while charging her horn with arcane power. Her magic fully concentrated, she cast her spell on her target, making Sapphire glow in Daybreaker’s reddish energy until it slowly faded away. It looked as if nothing had happened, Sapphire did not feel any tingle, any weird feeling, still fast asleep, but the Solar Empress knew it had worked, causing her to get quite giddy from the success.

She then left the room, going back to her study. “That was easy! Such a weak-willed mare!” Though her joyful demeanour soon found itself changing back to frustration, as she looked at the pile of crushed paper, all her attempts to write something.

“Ugh! Back to this again!” Daybreaker sat back in her chair, holding a phoenix feather whose tip was dipped in ink. She pondered, pondered some more but was stuck. She hated writing in general but especially so to her nemesis, not only for the obvious part of being her enemy but also because she felt weird trying to do so.

Usually, she would write brief letters filled with a touch of anger, her hatred for doing such things seeping into whatever she was writing. But for Nightmare Moon she tried to contain that anger, almost making her fight herself. She didn’t know why, except that her inner mind compelled her to do so and the more Daybreaker kept thinking about her dark counterpart, the more that hidden side won.

She continued pondering what to write for half an hour, until she heard a sound. A loud metallic scraping sound that immediately caused Daybreaker to stop her constant self-questioning. She left her seat with rapid speed, almost making it tip over, her haste fueled by anger towards whoever was making that noise.

“Whoever’s doing this, I am turning you to ash!” She yelled out, seething hatred in her voice as she headed to open the door.

Back in Daybreaker’s chambers, ten minutes earlier. Sapphire stirred awake, her limbs slowly beginning to become active and move, as her eyes half-opened. “M-My rear, f-feels so sore,” she said in a groggy voice, stating the biggest thing she felt as her consciousness returned.

With her mind back in action, she swiftly remembered what had happened before passing out, the humility, the shame she had been through, forming an unholy bond with the bliss she had also felt from Daybreaker’s unending thrusts. Even though she had just taken a little rest and recuperated some of her energy, that vigour found itself being sapped away by her memory of the events that occurred.

Sapphire felt something wet under her muzzle and backside, causing her to look down and quickly realize what the cause of the puddles below her was, making the alicorn’s cheeks flush red, motivating her enough to get back on all fours, albeit slowly. While her backside was sore, everything else was also quite weak, her stamina drained by both physical and mental strain.

After a solid minute of gaining back all her senses and looking around. Sapphire looked towards her blade but remembered she was leashed, making it impossible for her to-Wait!
She blinked a couple of times, unsure if the rough fucking had caused her sight to fail but no. There was no leash locking her in place. Yes, the collar was still there but it seems, D-Daybreaker forgot?

She was in shock, Sapphire had free reign to move! She could escape! But why would she? Where would she even go? Everyone had seen the shocking display, going back to her castle would probably bring more problems, and she felt something else spark in her mind. The bliss she had been under, constantly rutted over and over, felt… good.

And serving Daybreaker’s cock wouldn’t be that-Stop!
Y-You can do th-this, y-you can escape, just do it, don’t think about anything else.
Only think of that, it's your perfect opportunity. You might not be able to redeem yourself, but imagine her face when she sees you are out of her clutches.

It seems the sudden burst of hope from her newfound freedom had reignited just a tiny bit of her determination, enough to get her planning.

Sapphire’s first decision was to try and get her blade, which shouldn’t be too hard, considering she had two ways of reaching it. Since she was already standing on the bed, she tried jumping up, but her body told her that was not a good idea, too weak to give her a burst of energy.

For her second attempt, she unfurled her wings with great sluggishness. They felt very strained too but not as much as her legs, mustering enough strength to fly up slightly. With her new altitude, she grabbed her great sword with her mouth before lowering herself back onto the ground, laying the weapon down onto the bed.

“R-Right, part two, I g-guess” Sapphire said with unease, even though this resistance compelled her forward, she didn’t know if it was the right choice, but still she pressed on as she went to the balcony and then looked down… then at her wings, remembering how much she struggled just to fly up and get her bound sword.

“I will need to change part two slightly, uhm…” She looked for another exit and did find one, the only alternate one, the main door.

“W-Well, this is better than nothing.”
“Alright Sapphire, let’s go,” She tried giving herself a little bit more energy and grabbed her weapon with magic. The latter did not happen, as she soon got reminded of the object stuck on her horn. It fizzled her magic and gave her a tingle back, proportional to the power of the spell cast.

She did not want to leave her prized possession behind, no way that would happen. So she grabbed it with her mouth, dragging it along as the tip ground against the marble floor, making a very unpleasant sound. Sapphire couldn’t complain though, if she hadn’t enchanted her blade with a rune of lightness, she wouldn’t have been able to take it off the trophy rack, nor could she have dragged it like she is doing right now.

It was still a bit heavy, which made her move even slower, but at least she was making some headway, the mare had managed to go through one corridor undisturbed.

That is, until she passed by a door and heard a familiar voice yell from the other side of it. A voice which stoked her with fear, as Sapphire suddenly decided to walk quite a bit faster, straining her body beyond its current limits, powered by fear.

“Fuckfuckfuck,” Sapphire put all her force into running as fast as possible, if she could reach a corner, she could perhaps hide from her wrath, but.

“YOU!?” Daybreaker’s vocal shock definitely caught Sapphire’s attention but she didn’t dare look behind her. Though as she looked in front of her, the small alicorn noticed she wasn’t going forward, almost as if-.

“Oh no,” Her gaze shifted to her legs and hooves, hoping it wasn’t the case. Unfortunately, she got her dreadful hypothesis confirmed as she saw her legs glowing with Daybreaker’s magic, and before Sapphire could react, could struggle, she found herself yanked and propelled backwards. The sheer force caused her to gain a small bit of air time, as she then landed with a loud thud on the not-so-soft white marble floor back first, causing a pained groan.

Daybreaker put one hoof on Sapphire’s belly, exerting enough force to keep her pinned, a small grin appearing on her face as she noticed how little effort it took to keep Sapphire immobile, but her anger swiftly erased her smile.

“You are lucky I want to keep you as my bitch, Sapphire,” Daybreaker gritted through her teeth, putting a bit more force on her hoof to make sure Sapphire knew what could happen should she continue behaving poorly.

“It seems you will need more breaking, but I am busy right now,” she removed her hoof and grabbed Sapphire with her magic, as she then dragged her somewhere.

Sapphire lost grasp on her sword, which slowly looked smaller and smaller the more she was dragged away. She could have called to her blade to blink next to her, but with no way of picking it up, it was a pointless idea.

“Don’t worry, I will put my trophy back in its place,” Daybreaker said with a smirk, noticing what Sapphire was looking at. Still, they kept going through the many corridors and hallways, passing by guards who stared at the small mare being dragged, and at her still-wet bits. All of them enjoying the sight, twisted smiles on their faces.

After a solid five minutes of unending halls, they both found themselves in another hallway but with different coloured marble. A darker white. Heavy, sturdy-looking doors had replaced the normal ones.

Daybreaker opened one of the doors as she entered the jail cell, throwing Sapphire against the wall like a sack of potatoes who then made two thuds. One from hitting the back wall and another as gravity did its thing and made her land on the floor.

“Nngh!” Sapphire slowly went back on all fours, inspecting the room, something catching her sight when she looked upwards: An array of what looked like leashes and shackles dangling from a ceiling mounting. She didn’t understand what the purpose of these things were, why would anyone put these here?

But she would very soon find their use, as she was lifted by Daybreaker’s arcane power, held still in the air, as the clamps were moved. One locking itself for each of her legs, and a leash locked itself to the humiliating collar Sapphire still had since her defeat. She couldn’t flap her wings either as they found themselves bound by rope.

“It is taking every bit of my will to not rut you into oblivion, Sapphire,” Daybreaker admitted while looking at her creation: A mare completely bound and unable to move in the slightest, stuck in a rather exposed state as her legs were fully spread out, making her marehood inviting.

“I should really use this place more,” she really should, Sapphire was one of the very few to occupy the unique room. Usually, her opponents didn’t show open weakness for her cock in combat so she left them to the guards, but this was so much better.

Still, she couldn’t pound that enticing marehood, frustrating her quite a bit. “Like I said! I am busy! But with this, you won’t be going anywhere,” Daybreaker turned back and started leaving the room, until she stopped mid-way through the door.

“Actually! You still need to be punished for your stupidity! And I just thought of a way to do so without being here,” that devious grin was back in full strength as her horn lit up, making a portal appear in front of her cock and another one to spawn aiming straight for Sapphire’s marehood.

Daybreaker’s portal then moved towards her cock, slowly engulfing it as most of her glorious shaft disappeared into the magic, appearing on the other side, poking, then entering Sapphire’s inner folds. Sapphire moaned loudly and struggled against the intrusion, but was too stuck for her pitiful attempt to do anything.

“Now, back to that letter.”

She walked out and slammed the door shut, leaving Sapphire alone, then made sure to activate the enhanced magical rune on the door, acting as a locking mechanism. Daybreaker then made it all the way back to her study, stopping right outside. She looked at the battle trophy on the ground and picked it up, remembering what had happened.

“I will always remember breaking you rather fondly, whore. The squirming. The desperation as you failed. You made me remember how amazing it feels to shatter an enemy with my cock.”

“Hah! To think this will cause the war to change, that’s even better!” She decided to take a detour and bring the blade back on its rack before going back to her writing.

Interestingly enough, this had somewhat calmed her. She was able to think. Well, somewhat. It still took her a solid fifteen minutes before beginning to scribble something.

‘Nightmare Moon, I’ve captured the Harmonic resistance leader, Sapphire Spark. It was very funny. The stupid mare thought she could face my power in a duel! She felt the consequences of that dumb attempt.

I hope this brings good news, I know she has been a pain in both our asses and I made sure to shatter her will. But there is one infuriating problem. She slowly regains hope and looks aimless. All the effort I take to make her obedient vanishes the next day!

I was hoping you would know a way of giving her meaning, to make Sapphire Spark accept her role as my personal bitch and servant.

You have all those weird spells you like using so you must know a way. I only mostly know combat magic, it’s pretty useless at this.’

She paused, struggling to write two words she seldom used but felt needed, anger stopping her. Until that weird feeling pierced the cloud of hatred in her mind. She gave in but put extra force into her feather.

Thank you,
Daybreaker’

She had finished her letter, putting it inside an envelope as she then slammed her personal Imperial stamp to seal it.

Finally, she summoned a rift. One with mixed magic. Their magic. It was meant as an emergency portal to send important missives, but had quickly turned into a way to send messages of gloating, insults and posturing early on in the war. It then found itself getting used less and less.

She threw the envelope into the rift, making it disappear into the magical swirl. Daybreaker then took a minute to exhale all the emotions this had brought her.

“You know Daybreaker, for all the conquering you did, this was the most painful thing to do.”
“It’s up to her now.”

Daybreaker didn’t really expect her sister to go through with her idea, and if she did, it would most likely be to backstab her. But she shrugged, seeing as she was prepared for that scenario.

Her mind drifting away from the struggle she had been through, she remembered her little captive’s situation and the spell. She had been too focused on that letter to notice that she had been thrusting into Sapphire’s marehood all this time, thanks to her magic. Not only that, she had been squirming and moving constantly in her chair, which ought to have done some extra work and from the feeling of it, it did, as her cock felt quite lubricated, coated in what is most probably Sapphire’s mare cum.

Daybreaker put all her attention on her arcane trick. Besides, she had to wait for Nightmare Moon to answer back anyways. She began putting more power and coordination into her thrusts, not random unconscious ones, wondering if she could shatter Sapphire from a distance. Her prisoner’s walls felt amazing as her shaft stretched them out more and more.

Feeling this bliss around her rod, Daybreaker put even more strength into her spear, splitting more of Sapphire’s walls as it reached new depths, causing Daybreaker to pant as the walls rubbed against her shaft, her captive’s blissful hole quivering from her might.

She didn’t relent in her plunges, going faster and faster, powered on by how amazing it felt and by immense speed and strength being her natural pace.

Though Daybreaker soon came to an abrupt stop, causing her to give a stronger push into Sapphire’s marehood upon seeing the rift reopen. She was quite surprised that Nightmare Moon had replied, and so soon too.

A nice boon of this abrupt end was that her little captive did not expect such a movement, as everything quivered and clenched around her cock, getting splashed with her slave’s liquid delight. Her shocked expression had now combined with satisfaction.

She still kept plowing her captive, but her attention was now solely focused on the dark blue letter that dropped onto her desk, and she took no time to tear it open and read its content.

‘Dear Daybreaker,

We are quite surprised by your message as it would be the first one you have ever sent to me that does not reek of arrogance. Nor is it just filled with constant undermining words about my rightful title as Lunar Empress of Equestria.

We would like to commend you on your capture of Sapphire Spark though. That irritating little Harmonist princess has indeed been causing me great anger, always attempting to rupture my authority with uprisings, banned speeches and damage to my army’s supplies.

On that, we can confirm that you are indeed right. It does bring us pleasure to see that her insignificant reign is over, and I am sure with the display you put her through, that her legitimacy has been completely nullified.’

“How did she-” Daybreaker paused, thinking how Nightmare knew of her event, but that was quite easy to deduce. “Right.”

‘Need I remind you we have eyes and ears everywhere? It took us little effort to find out about your grand announcement. But I don’t think it matters. The more well-known this becomes, the more fractured the Harmonists will get.

Now onto the matter you have asked of us. We accept your proposal on the condition that she also becomes our property. We have quite the list of things to do to her and it would most definitely involve reshaping her into a personal plaything. We will then give her back to you, a princess remade to serve.

Consider this an exchange for bringing one of my major foes straight into my hooves and with an already fractured mind, almost ready for training. Your grand event was also quite pleasing to look at.

Oh, and do remember that this process can take quite some time, please do curb your impatience.

Thank you,
Nightmare Moon,
Darkness Eternal,
Lunar Empress’

Daybreaker stood there, analyzing the letter to make sure she read everything right, ignoring the somewhat condescending aspect of the writing, which was unlike her to do so, while a small, tiny blush appeared on her face from the mention of her show being pleasing.

She quickly shook her head to bring her senses back and then wrote a quick letter, agreeing to Nightmare Moon’s terms, sending it through the rift with haste.

“We agreed on something?” Daybreaker asked herself, confused by the thought, all the while some weird feeling stirred within her. The same feeling she felt when stuck at her writing impasse.

Like before, that feeling found itself shoved back into the corner it came from as another thought emerged.

“It’s a temporary thing.”
“And she will backstab me, I am sure of it.”
“It is her expertise.”

Still, she would go through with the plan, escaping the study filled with all sorts of emotions and heading to her captive. She had news to bring and wanted to see the state Sapphire was under too, making sure to stimulate herself whilst heading to the proper quarter by making some extra swaying motions as she walked, satisfaction growing the more she did so.

Daybreaker removed the rune on the door and entered inside to see a massive puddle on the ground. That was already a good start. Looking up at Sapphire, she saw how much of a horny mess she had become, squirming and quivering against her bindings from the sheer bliss she was under, her marehood and everything around it completely soaked in her love, giving butterflies in the Solar Empress’ stomach while a big smile was donned on her face.

She then went around, inspecting Sapphire’s face. It was exactly as she had hoped. Sapphire’s eyes looked downwards, her expression stuck in one of pure joy whilst her mouth was open, tongue out and drooling, adding to the pool beneath.

“I really should use this room more,” Daybreaker reiterated from last time, this was definitely worth it, her opponent suspended like this, mind shattered with bliss, it was too good not to use it more.

“Now, pay attention!” She yelled, her imperious voice resonating throughout the room while she spanked Sapphire’s rear, causing her to wake up from her broken state fast with a loud moan, her gaze slowly going towards Daybreaker who continued.

“Good, you’ll be going to Nightmare Moon’s castle tomorrow, slave.”

Sapphire looked like she was unphased by the news, still basking in quite the amount of blissful lust but her eyes told another story. One of extreme shock, confusion and dread.

“But for now, you are still mine! And I will make sure to enjoy you for as long as I can,”
Daybreaker said with carnal hunger in her eyes, positioning herself behind Sapphire while dispelling her portal magic. It wasn’t going to be needed anymore.

She fucked her slave non-stop through the end of day and almost night, screams of bliss echoing through the cell and hallways.