All That Flickers is Not Hope

It was late afternoon when Nightmare Moon awoke from her slumber. Even with the copious amount of rutting the previous day, she still maintained her perfect timing, waking up when she was supposed to rule, starting near the evening.

She was about to head for her throne room when she remembered her precious slave. She felt like the previous day had been a dream. After all, she was not prone to receiving immensely positive surprises, especially from the Solar Empress. Thus she went to inspect her favourite dungeon before attending to her duties, she still had time anyways.

She opened the door and, low and behold, her toy was still there and still asleep, much to Nightmare’s glee, as she then grabbed one of her ‘weapons’, a cat o’ nine tails, and slapped Sapphire’s flank with it, causing her to stir awake very quickly and loudly.

“Aaaah!”

“Good evening, slave,” Nightmare spoke upon seeing and hearing her toy’s response, putting her ‘weapon’ back onto its rack. With a flicker of magic, she cleaned up Sapphire and freed her from the breeding post.

“Now, follow me. Lest you want to experience that again in multitudes,” a devious smile rising on Nightmare Moon’s face, enjoying the thought. “I would certainly not mind~”

She pulled her slave using the leash leash, bringing her outside the room of bliss and towards the throne room.

The Night Empress enjoyed small glances at her toy whilst walking. Her dazed state and wobbling steps were very enjoyable to look at, and while she did clean her up, she still kept Sapphire’s mane in a frazzled state, as it brought Nightmare an extra dose of pleasure from seeing her fallen foe look like somewhat of a mess.

As they reached the massive room, Nightmare Moon sat on her throne, one hoof holding Sapphire’s leash as her slave stood right by her glorious seat, slowly recuperating from her dazed state.

She waited for news to be brought to her attention or for issues that she needed to resolve but for now, there was nothing, making her mind wander into those old memories again.

“Maybe, maybe if I do your task we might,” She whispered to herself, her words only caught by the pony right next to her, who didn’t understand what they meant. Nightmare reasoned with herself to keep her composure.

“Besides, this would be just an extra bit to the training, she will still serve me too.”

This time, Sapphire felt very targeted by those last words, causing her to gulp nervously, many questions rising in her mind as to what that would entail for her, though both of them stopped their thought pattern upon hearing the doors open, revealing a smiling bat pony guard holding a parchment, which Nightmare addressed with her imperious tone.

“Ah finally, my long-awaited report. Hopefully your joyful look means something good. I would be most disappointed if it doesn’t.”
A shiver ran across the guard’s spine, causing him to doubt the contents of the report and to do a quick reread before making a grave mistake, though that smile came back quickly after.

“I am indeed bringing great tidings, my Eternal Night.”

“Then by all means, I am all ears,” Nightmare Moon answered, somewhat surprised at having two positive consecutive news, an incredibly rare occurrence.

“Of course, my Empress.”
“The Harmonic resistance is no more!”

“What?!” Sapphire and Nightmare Moon exclaimed loudly at the same time, both completely shocked by the new development as Sapphire’s voice resounded with extreme horror and defeat, and Nightmare’s, with stupefied glee and excitement.

“It’s true,” the guard responded, “unlawful resistance activities have completely stopped, and many resistance holdings have either become abandoned or have surrendered, only Canterlot remains theirs.”

Nightmare took a small bit of time to process this stupendous revelation, this was really good news! This was amazing news! She cackled, finally the resistance her little captured annoyance had made was now rendered useless, cornered in their final stronghold of Canterlot.

“How pathetic! And in such little time too,” The Night Empress turned her gaze towards the still shocked prisoner, as she verbally destroyed her. “It seems they finally saw the pointlessness of their actions when word had spread of their leader, the one who the Elements had empowered with all their magic, had become nothing but a cumdump to my sister!”

She exhaled, recovering from some of the pure joy she was under, her imperious demeanour coming back to her as she addressed the guard.

“What a great day for the Empire, no more internal threats to my rule. Your Empress thanks you for the news, you may now leave.”

He bowed and did as told, his duties completed, all the while Nightmare began scheming, her mind focusing on an imminent task.

If I make her serve today this would be the most amazing week of my life. My revenge, fully realized! Yes, let’s see how much it takes for her to finally become mine!

“You heard what he said, your resistance has ended. There is no point in fighting against me. Besides, look at you! Leashed at my command, incapable of using magic, and your enchanted blade is gone, my sister probably keeps it as a trophy.” Nightmare paused, looking at her captive for any tell about her thoughts. To her surprise, Sapphire looked visibly angry, it had even mustered her will to speak.

“Y-You are mistaken if you th-think I will abandon my goals! I started with nothing and built hope for everyone in Equestria, and I c-can do it again! I will find a way out and I will get my blade back!” Sapphire’s adamant determination had once again come to give her strength back, a primal force always appearing to save her will from fully breaking, and once more her eyes shone with the flame of hope.

Here’s that cockroach behaviour of hers again, despite everything she can’t seem to give up, Nightmare noted, anger coursing through her, but her mood shifted to a smug look,
This ends today little pony, if you don’t want to give in to darkness, then I shall make it consume you.

“You know, I am glad you still have that fiery temper hidden inside you, as it will bring me immense joy to snuff it out. You will be ours no matter how defiant you are,” The Night Empress responded, that smug expression of hers had grown, making Sapphire flinch, but she held her ground and caught something in Nightmare’s words.

“Ours?”

“Sh-Shut up!” That remark had caught Nightmare by surprise, causing her mood to shatter into a flustered state, but she quickly remedied the situation by pulling on the leash with quite the amount of strength, choking Sapphire as a warning.

“Now, follow me unless you want to experience that again,” she said, getting off her throne and bringing Sapphire through the same path they had gone before. “You have not experienced all the room has to offer, and what I can do, let’s rectify that.”

Sapphire growled in anger but did not pull or struggle against Nightmare’s leash, deeming it a pointless endeavour since her strength had been quite low and she was currently using everything to keep her sudden spark of defiance alight.

It didn’t take long for them to reach the dungeon of bliss and when they did, Nightmare Moon grabbed Sapphire using levitation, putting her in front of the magical runes drawn across the right wall, the small pony’s struggling doing nothing to stop the magical grasp.

“Wh-What are you doing? L-Let me go!”

Nightmare did not care for Sapphire’s loud protest and as the outermost runes in the circle glowed brightly, she stopped her casting. Now, the runes were in charge of holding her pathetic slave in place.

Leaving her slave to struggle pathetically, Nightmare turned around and went to inspect her ‘arsenal’ of blissful tools. Her gaze locked to the riding crop, a very tempting implement to help with her slave’s disobedience since it was also enchanted to give shocking strikes. “Hmm, I think this will do.”

She grabbed the crop and then went back to her stuck toy while donning a sadistic grin, her eagerness for this moment was immeasurable.

She smacked Sapphire’s left flank with her riding crop just for the fun of it, causing her slave to squirm from the electricity coursing through her and from the initial heat caused by the impact. Yet, she tried to keep her mouth shut, not wanting to give Nightmare the satisfaction of a moan.

With everything ready to start, her throbbing cock, the crop and her slave bound to the runes, Nightmare’s smug grin grew as she closed her eyes, powerful magic being channelled through her horn, giving small sparks from the sheer arcane strength being summoned by the Night Empress.

Sapphire began glowing with Nightmare’s magic, similar to when she was being levitated, but she started feeling heavy, her eyes trying to close as her consciousness slowly faded away despite her attempt to stay aware. The magic was way too powerful for the small alicorn’s weakened will to resist.

“Wh-What is, what is… happening?” Sapphire slowly let out before she fell asleep.

Not long after, the middle runic circle shone with magic, copying Nightmare’s spell and giving her free reign to begin charging another, as that rune was now in charge of keeping Sapphire asleep.

Her horn sparking with even more power than before, Nightmare shot a beam of arcane power straight at Sapphire’s head, leaving no visible effect on the head but causing magic to coat Sapphire’s marehood, and for another rune to start glowing. The innermost and most intricate one. Her spellcasting now completed, Nightmare spoke to her sleeping slave.

“Perfect, no need to concentrate on all the casting, I can simply enjoy you while you completely break. I have to say these runes are the best addition to this room. Now, let’s help these spells.”

Aligning her massive cock to Sapphire’s marehood, Nightmare instantly thrust into her slave’s depths with intense haste, making Sapphire moan very loudly as her walls got stretched with incredible speed, causing incredible heat to hit her as her marehood made space for Nightmare’s massive shaft.

Meanwhile, Sapphire was experiencing pure chaos in her mind, all her emotions had started flaring up in intensity, the biggest clash being between her determination and lust, the latter having risen in power very quickly from Nightmare’s entrance into her core of bliss.

But there was something else in her mind, or someone else, lurking.

Weirdly though, the battle raging in her mind disappeared, like a small breeze carrying all her burdens away, replaced with a soothing quiet, serenity.

After a few minutes of peace, a single thought appeared along with but a small hint of lustful desire.

There is no point in fighting, Sapphire.

Y-Yes th-there is! I need to bring back H-Harmony!

Something felt off about her words of protest, instead of bringing back her determination they felt wrong, like a lie being told, not only that but it was confirmed by the feeling of pain she felt coursing through her, starting from her left flank.

Outside of the dream realm, Nightmare had smacked Sapphire’s cheek with her tool right as the mare resisted.

Images started appearing, all the blissful moments she had been through, from Daybreaker giving her immense pleasure from rutting her endlessly both in private and in front of all, to how amazing it felt to have Nightmare stuff her full of seed and to experience her impressive magic. Though there was a little more emphasis and enjoyment from Nightmare Moon’s events for some inexplicable reason.

You want this.
You have always desired to experience this sort of bliss.

N-No I d-don’t!

Another lie accompanied more pain, and it was stronger than last time, making her regret saying those words, yet her mood was brought up as she felt the heat in the molten core of her marehood rise fast, her mind flashing with more blissful events. She saw herself. How much of a mess she was after Nightmare Moon was done with her, and how her face expressed pure bliss, pure enjoyment, these didn’t seem like her memories but Sapphire loved them.

I-I want more.
Need more.

N-No-

Smack!
“N-Ngh-Aaah~”

Another pained moan rang across the room as Nightmare struck down Sapphire’s denial with another smack of her crop, right on the same weakened spot to put extra emphasis on how resisting brings her only pain. Nightmare was really enjoying this, every time she had mental confirmation of her slave giving in filled her with devilish glee, and the moaning brought her extra pleasure.

Yet, that was not the only thing giving her immense pleasure. The flash of images, the experiences Sapphire had with Daybreaker drove her bliss to new heights, making her mind race with both lust and… adoration.

She began closing her eyes, she was enjoying this too much for her grievances to come in and thus allowed her mind to wander into all the potential things they could do together, and that caused Nightmare to thrust into Sapphire with way, way more strength, rivalling Daybreaker’s raw carnal power without even casting her cock enchantments, making her slave moan with impressive strength and squirm in desperation.

Sapphire’s mind showed the same fantasies Nightmare was experiencing, of them fucking each other, imperial might going inside one another in many ways. Images Sapphire enjoyed even though she felt they had come up very spontaneously, at the same time she felt incredible lust permeating both mind and body, her marehood being the epicenter of it all.

Sapphire’s body and mind were on the verge of exploding from all the lust accrued, and the changing scenarios stopped to a specific one, of her getting railed by both Sun and Night, stuck being used by them. That was the last straw for Sapphire’s intense heat, as she quivered in need and then, nothing happened. She couldn’t climax! She was stuck at her peak!

Nightmare still had a bit to go before she would stuff her slave, yet kept going deeper into her inner desires, her mind locking to what Sapphire was picturing, a complete revenge, a complete union, perfection. Her drive somehow even greater than before, she rutted her slave with intense power and extreme speed, opening her eyes to enjoy the sight of a completely lust-drunk mare that was moaning, squirming and quivering from each thrust, all while still fantasizing. But those desires escaped Nightmare Moon’s mind, now too strong to be contained inside her, needing to be let out.

“Unf - Let us conquer this world together sister, united as one we will be unstoppable.”
“M-May our love destroy our foes.”

Sapphire glowed with reddish energy, mixing with Nightmare’s magical aura surrounding her for but a second after those words were spoken. It vanished too quickly for Nightmare to notice, her state of complete lustful bliss making it hard for her to spot the shift in magic. Though she definitely noticed her growing need to climax, as it made her thrust with unchained power into her slave, pounding at her cervix like a battering ram would against a castle gate, and hearing Sapphire’s thoughts strengthened her already insane resolve to rut her.

Pl-Please! So g-good!
Need to c-cum!
Sweet stars

Give in then!
Serve us! Serve Daybreaker and I!
Serve and be blessed with our cum!
Forever bound to us!

A couple of minutes had passed and finally, Nightmare Moon felt power surge in her cock. A few more thrusts and she would explode into Sapphire’s womb, filling it with copious amounts of her imperial seed. Her slave felt it too, Nightmare's cock throbbing with need for release inside her walls.

I n-need this!
I want to serve!
T-To be forever filled with your seed!

I am y-yours!
“I am y-yours!”

With those last words spoken both in mind and physically, the innermost rune glowed brightly and the magic coating Sapphire’s marehood was redirected to her head, overriding her thoughts and imposing a set of rules she had agreed on, impossible to dispel.

I belong to Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker.
To serve their every wish.
To obey them.
Forever bound to them.
I exist to serve and to please.

Hearing this was the last straw for Nightmare, pure blissful music to her ears, a final complete victory over the cockroach that was Sapphire Spark, as she made one immensely strong thrust into her slave before unloading her cum, filling every corner of Sapphire’s marehood.

Sapphire was on another plane of existence, one of pure blissful relief and joy, she could only think about how amazing it felt to receive her Empress’ blessing, a purpose fulfilled, and as her marehood was freed from the inhibitive spell, her walls immediately clenched as she climaxed with great intensity, her love juices mixing with Nightmare’s cum while her entire body quivered from the amazing release. She was so filled, cum had started to spill out from the small cracks Nightmare’s cock allowed and her moaning had become astronomically loud, a sign of her incredible pleasure.

Finished with bloating her slave, Nightmare Moon pulled out, letting all the excess cum splurt out of Sapphire’s over-stuffed marehood, both of them moaning softly as they relaxed from the intense fucking they had gone through.

With a flick of her magical horn, Nightmare dispelled the middle rune making Sapphire stay in a long slumber. Not soon after, the fallen princess opened her eyes, her gaze connecting with Nightmare Moon’s. The Night Empress saw the hallmark of her spell’s success, a heart in Sapphire’s eyes and her slave’s gaze shone with blind obedience and lust. Although the latter was mostly due to the generous amount of rutting they had gone through. Nightmare already knew her slave had changed from knowing her thoughts but having visual confirmation gave her the most victorious grin ever.

Very eager to hear her obedient slave speak, she addressed Sapphire.

“How did it feel to take my grand cock, slave?”

Drooling from the intense bliss she was still under, maintaining eye contact with her Empress, she answered with a lust-drunk tone.

“It felt a-amazing, my E-Empress.”
“Your slave l-loves to be used by her Empress.”

“Very good,” Nightmare replied, very satisfied with her slave’s words, “Now you have made quite a mess on my cock, you know what to do,” she continued, alluding to the cum still present on her shaft while she disabled the outermost rune, making Sapphire fall onto the floor, no longer levitated by magic.

Sapphire slowly got back up and moved towards her Empress’ cock with as much haste as she could, though in her current state, it was rather slow. Fortunately, her Empress was patient, enjoying Sapphire stumbling towards her, mouth open and tongue lolling out, ready to please.

As she reached Nightmare Moon’s amazing shaft, Sapphire did not hesitate, it was her purpose to serve. She began to lick and clean her Empress’s cock with passion and determination, not wanting to leave any corner of it missing her saliva.

“Ahh, good slave,” Nightmare exhaled, greatly enjoying having her cock cleaned by what used to be her nemesis.

“This has been an excellent success, I am sure Daybreaker will also enjoy the fruits of my labour, actually… Who do you serve?” She asked her slave, testing to see if her sister had not been excluded, it was part of the deal after all.

Stopping her thorough licking for but a small moment, Sapphire spoke.
“I serve you and D-Daybreaker, my Empress!”

“Perfect,” Nightmare Moon said with a sense of relief, her fears of having forgotten to add her sister to the spell quashed, and then moaned softly as her slave continued working on polishing her staff.

“You may stop now, slave,” she ordered, and Sapphire immediately obeyed, stopping her immaculate licking and awaiting her Empress’s next command. “Follow me, I need to write a letter and you will service me as I do, a perfect way to de-stress.”

“Of course, my Empress.” Sapphire stayed close to her Empress as they switched rooms, though Nightmare enjoyed giving the leash a tug from time to time, enjoying her slave moaning every time she pulled on the rope.

Even though Nightmare Moon loved the room they were in before, she was compelled to write Daybreaker about her immense success, driven by both pride and desire to show her trust.

As they entered the study, Sapphire took notice of the desk, giving her a brilliant idea on how to pleasure her Empress further, immediately positioning herself under the furniture as she waited for Nightmare to take a seat.

Nightmare Moon was impressed. It was the idea she was going for, but seeing her slave take initiative, already prepared to serve her, was a good surprise.

“Well, someone’s very eager to serve, isn’t she?”

“Anything to please you, my Empress” Sapphire said, blind adoration in her voice.

Nightmare chuckled, “let’s not keep you waiting then.”

She sat on her chair and grabbed a piece of paper with her magic. Before she could say anything, Sapphire’s mouth was already covering her shaft, making her feel bliss as her slave began sucking with determination. Determination to give her Empress as much pleasure as possible.

While it was somewhat distracting, Nightmare still managed to begin writing her letter.

‘Dear Daybreaker

We have completed our end of the deal. Using my vast and powerful magical prowess, Sapphire Spark, the Harmonist leader, is now completely obedient to the two of us, forever our slave.

I have to say, it was very enjoyable to have her in our presence. Her endless moaning and squirming brought music to our ears, and as I write this, she is servicing my royal shaft with no thought but servitude in her mind.

We ask for means of completing our trade, a location to be more precise, though we do hope to experience our slave again in the future. We are growing quite attached to her.

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

Done with her letter, she looked down at her slave to relax, seeing Sapphire completely focused on taking her length made her exhale the worries away as her slave’s mouth felt phenomenal. She used her relaxed state to summon the rift and send her message.

About a minute had passed until she received a reply from Daybreaker. A letter stamped with the Solar Empress’ cutie mark, landing right on the middle of her desk which she swiftly took and ripped open to read its contents.

‘Nightmare, sister,

Thank you for helping me with that problem, I was not prepared for you to actually assist me but this is, a pleasant surprise.

Though there’s something we need to discuss. Alone. The two of us.
I think our old castle is a good neutral and hidden place where we can talk.’

Nightmare Moon struggled to process those last parts, it felt so unlike Daybreaker to ask for subtlety. She had to reread it again, only for the words to once again show confirmation of what her sister asked of her.

Whatever she might want to say has to be incredibly important. She never hides what she does, always the glory-seeker and overly assertive one.

I could use this to my advantage, ambush her with a battalion of troops, finish this conflict once and for all, but she, was grateful to me. And I am too curious to ruin whatever it is she has planned. I must know. I need to go alone.

She continued reading.

‘Oh actually, bring our slave, we can also make our exchange there.

Thank you
Daybreaker’

Oh right! I think that is an adequate place to finish our deal as well.

Grabbing another piece of paper and an inked quill, she wrote a quick letter of agreement and sent it back through the rift. But now, despite Sapphire still reducing her stress, she was more worried than ever, unable to piece together what Daybreaker wanted from her, other than her slave.

“Slave,”

Sapphire stopped throating Nightmare’s cock with endless passion, looking at her Empress while panting from accrued pleasure, as she wondered what Nightmare Moon wanted to say.

“Y-Yes, my E-Empress?”

Nightmare answered her slave’s ask, “we are going on a small trip, and I know just the perfect way to bring you with me,” she grinned, a devilishly hot idea in mind, inspired by somepony else.